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I get the impression that this is more the next generation of Google Now than it is the next generation of Gmail. (Google Now is all about plucking out information from larger sources of data and bringing the most important stuff to the front as it's needed.)

I suppose I could see how this would be useful if you're using your smart watch or your phone and only want the most important facts, boiled down to their essence. (But then, doesn't Google Now already do that?)

Outside of that context, it doesn't seem like you'll ordinarily have both Inbox and Gmail open at the same time, because (as far as I can see) Inbox is just a way of better organizing and presenting the underlying data, whereas Gmail is more like the raw feed.
Looks interesting; is this coming to iOS and Android or just Android? Also curious if this will make an appearance in web form as the Gmail and its suite of apps are woefully outdated (Gmail, Contacts, Tasks and Calendar have had some bugs for years and are simply behind on the good UX front).
I'm not sure what this 'inbox' does, but from judging from the video it's about a bunch of twenty-something hipsters from California high-fiving each other.
Are you serious? Are you saying Google, which has revolutionized webmail and is one of the largest and most popular email providers, doesn't "get" email?
Congrats to Google on shipping!

Side question: am I the only person fully satisfied by my email workflow? I practice inbox 0- if an email is in my inbox, it means something needs to be done about it (whether it's replying, filing a bug report, writing a patch, etc). Once it's done, it gets archived. I star the stuff that I'll need to refer to later, like tickets for a flight or concert. I then have a few server side rules to do things like mark certain classes of emails as read (eg build logs, mailing lists), so as to not flood my phone with notifications. And... that's it.

(edit: oh and yes, I am also very diligent about unsubscribing from the stuff I know will never be relevant, rather than just archiving it and forgetting about it until another email from the same source comes up a week later. After a few weeks of consistently practicing this, your inbox gets much better)

I get probably a few hundred emails a day at most (work+personal), and this system works great for me. I know people like Paul Graham think email is utterly broken, but when you're at their level I'm not sure ~any~ tool will be satisfying - they're absolutely outliers.

So HNers, do you really have a problem with your email workflow, or is everyone just repeating "email is broken" because some smart people with an ungodly amount of email said so?
Another possible big difference between WOTC and a typical tech company is that there weren't as many professional financiers involved in WOTC's fundraising. Every round of "institutional" funding taken by a tech company revalues all the previously issued shares, and companies planning to go this route are structured to make that process as frictionless for the company as possible.
You can pay for it, though.

http://www.google.com/work/apps/business/
Sam, would it be possible for YC to publish an example of a clean term sheet?

Thanks for this great lecture series, it is very helpful!!
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Google says "it’s a completely different type of inbox, designed to focus on what really matters."

I thought that things like having a text editor that allows me to reliably do complex things like typing and pasting without losing my place, or perhaps a compose window that can be resized, really mattered. Since Gmail doesn't have either of those, maybe Inbox will add them :)
Here's a nice and working (on 64-bit Win7) emulator of the 1949-51 EDSAC, by the way: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/ It comes with a good tutorial and lots of code written in 1949-51 for the real EDSAC.
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I'm a serial computer and browser abuser, and on OS X, I can easily crash my browser, and sometimes even the whole OS, if I'm not careful what I load up in a new browser tab. So I'd rather have the simpler abstract page too.
I am not saying one is better over the other, I am saying, the general public do not want a phone running Windows Phone OS nor want to learn it. The tech crowd that frequent this site are a whole different subset of people, we are not the general public, we make informed decisions mostly on our technology purchases based on more reasons other than, "it has the apps I need". Most people buy phones running operating systems that have the same apps and games that their friends do.

The issue with Microsoft's strategy is that Windows Phone OS has a market share of around 3%, compared to that of Android which is sitting somewhere close to 80%. Does it not make sense to release a Microsoft Lumia phone running Android and Windows Phone OS? Let us be honest here, Microsoft Windows phones do not come anywhere near the amount of applications and games that Android and iOS have and when you are selling to the uninformed buyer which is comprised of teenagers with a fear of missing out and people that fall somewhere in the middle, being on the same level as your competitors is essential.
>> Why is it so hard to believe that the mind controls the body at a cellular level?

Because modern medicine (and science) does not like to believe anything that it has no explanation for. You can show not only correlations, but causative action and a lot of people will reject the finding if it is unintuitive and has no known mechanism. IMHO this has become a problem.

Even though we claim science starts with observation, people still don't believe what is in front of them unless they have something conceptual to hang it on.
Have you ever noticed that it's really hard to replace the IP stack in Linux with the one from FreeBSD? Clearly that proves that Linux never followed the UNIX philosophy in the first place and we should never have switched away from MINIX.
Nokia got lazy. They saw the iPhone and didn't change course until it was too late. If anything, Microsoft kept them above ground.
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Think of it this way.

What do you think would have more effect on the world: Increasing processing power 100-fold, or increasing desktop usage by 1% of the entire world population? How about 10-fold and 5%? I can guarantee you it's the former.
Snoozing emails, and turning emails into tasks, is the one feature that is important to me and gmail has been missing. I have tried some hacks like "mailbox" by dropbox, and "taskforce", etc, and they worked well, but it didn't work across all platforms.

I am looking forward to trying this out.
Also, "Enterprise" was only very indirectly named for a "Victorian virtue". It was directly named from scifi -- specifically, the petition campaign for the shuttle to be named "Enterprise" (the original planned name was "Constitution") was driven by Star Trek fandom.
I am sad that this seems to be Gmail only. Why have developers lost touch with standard IMAP protocols so we can use these new fancy apps with any email provider...
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Jagdish Mehra's The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman is even more technical than Krauss and is worth checking out if you really want to understand his scientific contributions.
Not only do I agree with the other replies, it should also be noted that Verizon has gone out of their way to badmouth, undersell and not update the Nokia line. It is well known that the Verizon sales people push Android and even the iPhone over the Lumia in the USA . The love for the Nokia/MS phone is still really strong despite all these roadblocks.

" They have some of the best phones on the market, but they go relatively unnoticed because they're running an operating system most people are not interested in using or dislike"

Actually this is incorrect. Many love the Windows 8.1 phone and would not use another mobile os. They have a really loyal group of fans which is really unusual for a Microsoft product.
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Kendo is indeed a "fork" of many things. Knockout, Backbone, underscore templates with different delimiters, bootstrap, many existing ui widgets (chosen comes to mind). About the only thing they didn't fork was jQuery itself. But at least you get all of the above in a single product. I guess that's a bonus?

I have personally fought to work around their widgets more times than I've worked with them. And have dropped integrating their widgets into new projects, to avoid the bloat/overhead.
It's been $19/yr for over a year now vs. the $25 one time cost to get into the Play Store. Also free for students and MSDN members.

I believe the fee is there to prevent a malware propagation problem like we have on Android.
London manages surprisingly well on that score, including a yew estimated at 2000 years old. https://foursquare.com/kevan/list/the-great-trees-of-london
Slightly off-topic, but can we talk about that video?
I would love it if Google could just sell me on the idea of their products for once, instead of trying to sell me on a twentysomething Brooklyn lifestyle.

When I get hit in the face with these cheap emotional ploys that feel like an early 2000s Microsoft Zune ad, I get distracted from the actual product being touted. My resistance goes up.

Does this approach work for anyone? If you really are a Williamsburg hipster, I'd expect this kind of pandering would feel off-putting. If you're not, it's alienating.

There's certainly a place for emotion in ads. But how about a bit more product, and respect for our intelligence?
There's a whole mess of exceptions to the rule you're referring to, but equally importantly, it's not so much "illegal" as "unlawful". For instance, many of the bad things that happen if you flout this rule only happen if you have disgruntled (or ruthless) shareholders.

It's a very bad idea to ignore the "reg D" type rules, but it's not the kind of thing where random people are likely to be able to report you to the SEC and get you fined.
Yeah, it sounds like this is talking about (effectively) a variant on the placebo effect.
I'm with you. Inbox never should have more than 15 items. Everything else is unlikely to be looked at again and gets thrown into an archive folder (Business/Orders/Correspondence). If I get mail I don't want, then I unsubscribe.

I'm also on the lighter side of email load/work, but I don't see how a simple/efficient/clean workflow like this could be improved.
You're definitely not the only one. I think these 'email is broken' changes are aimed at people who use smartphones and tablets that didn't use PCs before, trying to make it more chat client like. I think this might be a market force, but it definitely tramples traditional email, which is long form, non-instant, textual (not visual) communication medium.
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I practice inbox 0

Yeah. And with a few (well, 119) filters, it's actually pretty rare that an e-mail hits my inbox. Rare enough to have notifications on my phone enabled.
Nokia X phones do not possess the same great specs and hardware as the Lumia line of phones. I was referring to the lack of Lumia phone running Android. If the Lumia 930 ran Android, I would buy it in a heartbeat. I know a lot of people would.
I don't understand why people want some algorithm to sort your email for you. IMO email should always be sorted chronologically, and if it's too much, then used rules and folders/labels. Your inbox is not the place to add reminders. With the Google strategy you will have reminders everywhere seperately: calendar, email, phone, IM, texts, etc.

Inbox by Gmail: the Facebook of email.
my graduate advisor had studied CS from Harvard. She never mentioned it. I got to know one day when I was going through her Bio. I mentioned it in the next meeting and all she did was smile faintly.

People with substance don't need to flash their Ivy League emblem everywhere.
Is Inbox going to be broken on GApps accounts like Now is?
I'd love to know this as well. That was one of my reasons for backing this project.
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Hi! I'm the founder and I'd really appreciate your feedback. How could the site be improved?

PaleoClaims is a new way for people to investigate health issues. There currently isn't a single place where evidence for health claims accumulates and can be easily viewed, which is why I built the site. The point isn't to prove or disprove the Paleo Diet per se (the Paleo focus is just a starting point).

Oh, and please add papers to claims!

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I have to imagine that this relies on an enormous amount of backend processing - and that it is a lot easier to do this with one Gmail backend.
That's not how google makes money.
I like the snooze feature but it would be sufficient if they just added it to the gmail interface for me.
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Oddly, I agree. GMail is nice, but every time they try and remake email they completely mess up. Remember, Wave was supposed to be the next email, as well. Heck, they even had some odd push to get me to "plus" messages to people instead of emailing them.

And really, I can't remember any feature that pulled me to gmail other than a) free, b) lots of space, and c) google's name. The non-threaded messages was actually something I disliked at the beginning. I put up with it now.
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I thought android emulator performance was not good because of qemu.. how is this different??
This would be quite awesome, not for confusing tracking, but messing with advertisers. Imagine hundreds of people visiting a site and clicking on all the ads. Sites would go crazy.
...And Google Now and Lollipop's new Smart Notifications.
Cool, but: I dont want to be the product. Give me a price or FOSS it - otherwise GTFO.
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"So HNers, do you really have a problem with your email workflow, or is everyone just repeating "email is broken" because some smart people with an ungodly amount of email said so?"

I did :)
I found my personal email a mess. I have a lot of mailing lists i need to "semi" pay attention to, and get about 1000+ emails a day all told.

This was pretty messy to manage, even with foldering/labeling/etc and such.

Inbox is pretty nice for my workflow (i'm sure there are some it is good for, and some it is bad for). I have it figure out the importance of various mailing list messages, and then show them to me once a day per mailing list. I mark the ones i care about with pins or reminders, and it takes care of reminding me.

On the work side, i get even more email, and i don't have a great workflow there. But i'm completely an outlier. I essentially have two distinct jobs I do for the company.

Practicing inbox zero in either case is unlikely to work for various reasons (among other things, most of my job is not predicated on making quick decisions but on thoughtful ones I could just move everything to task lists, but it would just create another place with the same info and often a worse interface)
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I'm with you, we use gmail on our work email now and I just use the google app sync so I can keep using outlook. I think regular old email from the 90's works fantastic.
> Is the sync feature only available via Pocket or could you also use Dropbox?

The sync feature is only available via Pocket

> If I want to save a page to archeeve from my browser, would I have to do it via the Pocket browser extension?

Yes, you can use Pocket browser extension.

> When I clicked on the screenshots, it took me a moment to find how to close the modal. The close link is kinda hard to see because it's not near the image and it's quite dark (it almost seems greyed out).

There is no the close button/link (I think you mentioned about the remove button) :) You can use 'escape' key on your keyboard or click on the bookmark once again.
The libertarian panic is amusing. There's nothing inherently wrong with taxing internet traffic, unless you believe tax itself is wrong. Virtually everything that goes into providing internet services gets taxed, so why should internet traffic itself be sacred?

Of course it is still a Very Bad Idea(TM) in terms of economic and social impact versus benefits. And of course in the context of a totally corrupt country like Hungary there is a distasteful hidden agenda behind it.

But besides being counterproductive, tax on internet traffic is just "meh". We just don't want to pay tax on our stuff.
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Perhaps cool. I honestly wish they'd change their approach to quality & bug reporting, though. I get the impression that all of their developers are so busy making new & shiny that the tools that we rely on everyday are just languishing. I've never had any bug that I've reported via their product forums fixed.
You seem to be more concerned with features of the outbox than features of the inbox.
A lot of people use their email as a place for reminders.
I agree with most of what you said, although I wouldn't call Stallman a "strategist". He is an idealist who is unwilling to do moral compromises (which has positives and negatives).

As an aside, his "political notes" are a great news aggregator for anyone who cares about the world.
this is actually understandable, Nokia is a well respected brand in Europe. Price/Performance was/is very good ( most of the phones were actually build in EU, which made them somewhat cheaper ).

Almost every one in Eurupe owned at some time a Nokia phone, and will tell good things about it.
I too practice "inbox 0," and making sure I am very diligent about unsubscribing from mailing lists and creating the occasional filter. I am completely content with email, and I feel like this is more for people who never hit the "archive" button. This is why I use stock gmail over Dropbox's Mailbox. And I am afraid that if I start using Google's Inbox, my inbox will just get cluttered and I won't be able to go back.
The difference is that qemu is an emulation software, while Ravello are using full (nested) virtualization, so there's hardware acceleration here. You can see some more details on how to run it there at http://www.ravellosystems.com/blog/android-emulator-on-amazo... .
So they try new things... if those things fail, it doesn't mean they don't "get" email, it means the idea was not the right one. It's not like they turned gmail into Wave, much less Inbox. I'm glad someone out there in the big providers is trying new things.

If anything, to me, it shows they get email more than anyone else: They realize that it's deeply flawed for a lot of today's workflows and that a solution, in order to have a chance, needs to be built on top of the open standards of email and be backwards compatible with them.
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The vast majority of my Gmail access is through IMAP, and I'm quite happy for Google to leave that alone. Their tastes are very different from mine, and change more frequently. I would not be happy to wake up one day to find that Google had shuffled my messages, created new folders, and randomly labeled my messages to look like the flag of the world cup-winning soccer team.
Agreed. Was left less enthused and more suspicious of the product because they couldn't/wouldn't tell me what it was in the prmo video.
Apple has in the past sued other accessory makers that reused recycled Apple parts for patent infringement.

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I set aside time every Monday for getting to "inbox zero." That's when I go through every email in my inbox -- including those I've let linger for the past week -- and do one of the following:

- If it requires a task and I can do it within 2 minutes, then I just do it.
- If it requires a task that'll take more than 2 minutes, I schedule the task on my calendar and archive the email.
- If it's just for future reference (eg, flight confirmation), I add an appropriate label ("Travel") and archive it.
- If it's none of the above, then it either gets archived or just deleted.

So I don't have the problem that Inbox is trying to solve. What I'm wondering is will this eventually be forced onto all users, whether we need it or not?
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An unfortunate reality is that IMAP is a really bad protocol. I encourage you to try implementing a client to get a feel for how difficult and quirky the protocol is. (Be sure to try implementing IDLE)

I'd love to see a better base protocol with a clean extension mechanism and a culture of documenting and publishing such extenstions. One can dream :)
When you then say you mean to be "within the bounds of scientific discourse,"

I said no such thing. I am not the person who used the word "evolve". I merely am capable of understanding that sometimes pedantry doesn't actually help anything.
Having HN as the only source of information is not a good thing. I didn't know who Progress Corp were, and I would not know Telerik if my brother, who works in big corporate, had not told me sometime ago.
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What I would like to see is Gmail becoming more like Zendesk/Desk.com. So I can effectively manage responses, contacts, etc, with a single click and pre-defined responses.
I had the same question and went with Elasticsearch. Also check this re: postgres... http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-...
I wonder what is this good for? Why not just running it locally or on a device?
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I have tried all kinds of intelligent note taking apps, GMail workflows, and so on. At the moment I think that the Unix philosophy works here as well: I use simple but working tools and I build my workflow on/with them instead of using a complex, big app/infrastructure that tries to find out what I'm interested in. So I'm stuck with an email provider that follows standards, and I feel good about being able to move to another provider, etc. in case I want to do so.

In most cases, I know what I want, and I am OK with opening the app that can do the job for me. However, I want that app work properly and always. That's why I don't find Google Now too appealing: I don't want a personal assistant who tries to figure out what I want. I want a personal assistant that can do what I want when I ask for it. I don't need an app that scrapes my email for airline tickets -- I need an app that makes me easy to look up delays and departure times. I don't want an app that sets an alarm clock automatically when I have a meeting because there are two cases: 1) I need an alarm, but then I need to be 100% sure that it's set (and I don't want to double check whether magical AI figured it out properly) 2) I don't need an alarm (so I don't want my personal assistant to set up one). I cannot risk missing somethink: if it's not important, I'll try to unsubscribe.

But that's only my use case.

Ah, and +1: I don't want to keep emails. If I don't want to retain some information, then I just delete it -- there's no search algorithm in sight thats accuracy is independent of the search space. More emails, items -> less effective search.
I get a postcard whenever they use my donated blood. I wonder how that works, does everyone in a given pool get the postcard?