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A ride in an autonomous vehicle should be far less expensive than a ride in a manually driven Uber vehicle. If the end goal for both is a fleet of autonomous vehicles and a strong …

The revenue thing is addressing a conflict in LinkedIn's approach. The value in the platform is the users but their monetization of that platform tends to drive off users (due to b…

I can see where you're coming from but I think you're oversimplifying it. Spending money and showing up ARE ways that you CAN get good at things. They might not be the only ways or…

I'd kind of like to see an actual post before I sign up. Your first post is short and just telling me what to expect - why not just give me a real post so I can see what I'd be get…

When I worked as a dev I hated having people walking around behind me. I worked at a place where my desk was near a relatively high traffic area so there was a constant stream of p…

Every customer of mine pays through a bank transfer. Some pay monthly, some pay the full contract upfront. We offer a discount for those that pay upfront so it's the customer's cho…

I just hate sites that won't accept spaces and restrict how long a password can be (usually to something relatively short like 8 or 12 characters). Also, many require you to use mi…

I definitely think gamification is in a hype stage right now. Some people seem to think it fix anything and others are happy to take their money. Gamification is young and no one h…

Talking and sharing things with friends wasn't new before "social". Gamification is about better feedback for the end user in real time. Yes, people have been doing it for a long t…

Yes, they mentioned that was the best centralized place to do it from.

Google also recently removed Facebook contacts from Android with the Gingerbread 2.3.3 update. Facebook had an exemption up to that point where they played by different rules with …

The problem is that even answering that question just leads to another question. It ends up the way conversations go with inquisitive children - an endless stream of "why"s with no…

There's a difference between visual design and architectural design.

Yeah, I might like to be notified when it is actually shipped out, or maybe even when it changes locations. Often time you might have a date range so it could also be useful to kno…

I can understand that - to be honest we're still trying to work all of that out. I'm going to try to write up some more details to address this concern. The short answer is it will…

Heh, yeah I think we're the first officially funded startup by Neumont alums. Glad to see some people from there reading Hacker News.

This actually has been an issue for the App Store recently, primarily concerning VLC. See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples...

Yeah, seems to be working now, although he had seen my previous comment so he just gave me a dirty look when his phone started ringing. He did answer though, and I heard him mutter…

Seems like it might be down. I tried sending an example to my cofounder because I wanted him to answer the phone and have a rooster scream into his ear but so far all I've got is a…

I was at the lunch he mentioned - we have a good startup community here in Utah but it was surprising to see the number of people that showed up to hear him. I hope to see the numb…

I don't play WoW currently and haven't for over a year now but I did enjoy my time playing. I was accused of being an addict although I don't think I was - I just enjoyed playing a…

The problem is not many people would play that game. Of those that do, not many would play for very long. These games are formulaic because the formula works. I've thought of numer…

Many developers have the initial gut reaction to build instead of buy. I've found that many people don't really fully understand the ramifications though. Even if some of these pla…