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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.

What's different about email?

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A 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

You mean getting the benefits of functional programming without learning functional programming? ;)

Once you find a way into it you really see its all "Lego's". You'll get there!

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A 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…

Honest question: what's wrong with email? Not in the sense of "you should just email rather than IM and stop complaining". In the sense of "Why doesn't someone build a dead-simple overlay that exploits the email protocol?" I'm thinking a simple tag at the beginning of the subject line that causes it to be auto-archieved in gmail. Is the latency too large?

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An 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. :)

You can approximate this with VMs and PCI passthrough, e.g. GPU for UI VM, NIC for network VM.

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#157

A good vive vr game

The mini golf game is the only one I play on my roommate's vive. Highly recommended.

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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A 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.

That sounds interesting, have you thought about what functionalities it needs to have?

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#159

I 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.

See Neal Stephenson, the diamond Age. Yes we need a tutor.

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!

Also, and perhaps less US focused, Opta.

http://www.optasports.com

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