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This. It's baffling; we've "solved" email – anyone can have an account with any provider and is able to mail anyone else – why haven't been able to do the same with instant messaging already?
Because of the spam threat. Controlling identity (for example by knowing for sure the sender's phone number) allows for a huge mitigation of spam.
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#152A programming language with the easyness of dealing with state and effects of a mainstream language and with the guarantees you get from a pure functional language
Once you find a way into it you really see its all "Lego's". You'll get there!
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#153A single IM platform through which everyone can talk to everyone regardless of their IM service, and I mean I wanna be able to send a message to someone's iMessage from my Battle.net account, and then receive someone's Facebook message on my Slack or something. Obviously IDK how this would be possible, but IM is now broken beyond repair by companies that tried to "fix" it. The list of IM apps on my iPhone keeps growi…
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#154An operating system which is a mix of OSX UI, Linux flexibility, FreeBSD network stack, and OpenBSD security. It doesn't need NetBSD compatibility nor anything from Windows. :)
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#156Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
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#157A good vive vr game
There may be some confirmation bias here though because before the vive came out I declared that a VR zany golf would be the only VR game I would play.
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#158A fully open source business workflow engine, pre-built with a great UI for the users to execute the workflow. Mobile friendly is a definite plus. Almost all government software are essentially workflow engines. This would instantaneously solve loads of problems.
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#159I wish someone would build an interactive teaching AI, (perhaps in a mathematical context at first). For example, the user might start with a goal such as, "I'd like to understand singular value decomposition." The AI would interactively assess the user's level of background and begin instruction at the appropriate level, leading to the desired goal.
Furthermore many times this topic was discussed here on hackernews, with good insights and further links. Now how to find those?
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http://sportradar.us/ they are not cheap though
OH hai! Maybe this is it. Checking it out Edit: no gambling data. Maybe that's ok, but I'd want that too. Still looks pretty interesting thanks!