Private blockchains: everything there could be built before Bitcoin. It can be just replaced with fintech in general. Other technologies like VR are easy to understand even if they fall short.
Ask HN: Most overhyped technology of 2016?
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#12"Deep learning" and virtually any other kind of "data science". I teach classes in analytics and I think ninety percent of what people really need is better understanding and visualization of the simplest statistics: sums, averages, counts, time series. Fancy statistical algorithms have some applications for example in fraud detection, but for most business people I think a great dashboard that lets them visualize patterns with their own two eyes is much more robust and useful.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a massive amount of hype for something we've been doing for 50 years.
"We" haven't, the governments of the world have. Hyped or not, the privatization and commoditization of space travel is new and interesting.
I'm biased on the matter, but I believe it would be interesting if we had more focus on open sourcing space technologies too.
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#14I'm too old... 1. Microsoft awesome way cheaper than apple 2. Amazon .. None of my friends will ever buy anything over the internet... 3. Google Cool..but nobody will click on those tiny ads. 4. Facebook kinda dumb why not use email. 5. Twitter the dumbest thing I've ever heard of 6. Uber seem useful but I'd never used it. 7. AirBnb just plain creepy... 8. snapchat, Instagram, tinder ... don't you already have facebo…
> 6. Uber seem useful but I'd never used it.
> 7. AirBnb just plain creepy...
AirBnB is at least as useful as Uber if you travel. I've used it for multiple trips in five countries now and always had a good experience - the accommodation is always what was advertised, the user interface is easy to use (especially when in a country with a foreign language), and the pricing has always been competitive. I do have concerns about the impact of it on locals but I'm also not sure that AirBnB is exerting more pressure than many places have always had from other factors (tourist towns always have a balance between tourist prices and locals trying to make a living - more often than not that balance tips in favour of the tourists).
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#15I'm too old... 1. Microsoft awesome way cheaper than apple 2. Amazon .. None of my friends will ever buy anything over the internet... 3. Google Cool..but nobody will click on those tiny ads. 4. Facebook kinda dumb why not use email. 5. Twitter the dumbest thing I've ever heard of 6. Uber seem useful but I'd never used it. 7. AirBnb just plain creepy... 8. snapchat, Instagram, tinder ... don't you already have facebo…
> 6. Uber seem useful but I'd never used it. > 7. AirBnb just plain creepy... AirBnB is at least as useful as Uber if you travel. I've used it for multiple trips in five countries now and always had a good experience - the accommodation is always what was advertised, the user interface is easy to use (especially when in a country with a foreign language), and the pricing has always been competitive. I do have concern…
He might be referring to the thought of sharing the home of a person while they're in it.
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Except for the landing and reusing part, no? (Yes, they recaptured and reused the Shuttle's SRBs, but it's a different scale and the economics are very different.)
The landing part was cool, but considering the extra fuel/weight required to do it then it seems to be more hype than practicalness too. I'm not saying he doesn't do some cool stuff, but everything he does gets talked up like it's the second coming.
SpaceX produces rockets capable of carrying heavier payloads than the competition, and for a fraction of the cost.
EV's would not be a thing right now if it weren't for Tesla, and the other co-founders would've failed if it weren't for Elon.
The hype is real.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 6. Uber seem useful but I'd never used it. > 7. AirBnb just plain creepy... AirBnB is at least as useful as Uber if you travel. I've used it for multiple trips in five countries now and always had a good experience - the accommodation is always what was advertised, the user interface is easy to use (especially when in a country with a foreign language), and the pricing has always been competitive. I do have concern…
He might be referring to the thought of sharing the home of a person while they're in it.
Ah. We've only ever booked a whole unit for that reason .
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#18Everything Elon Musk. Even the good stuff (power wall) is over hyped, he's a walking hype machine.
I agree. E.g. the hyperloop, the concept and technology has been around for 50 years or more, and suddenly he is the inventor of the thing?
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#19Virtual reality (and augmented reality), self-driving cars, bots, internet of things, assistants (Siri, Cortana, etc), Apple Watch, bitcoin..
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#20From a web dev perspective, I've heard a lot about React lately, so I learned it. I'm not saying it's bad, but I expected it to do a lot more.