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Can't recommend Zero enough. It's a really thoughtful piece of software with great abstractions. As well as the obvious performance benefits arising from having data synced and available in the client, I've been blown away by how much it simplifies React code. With a sync engine in place, most client-side state seems to evaporate, you get to think synchronously in most component code, etc.

Hey, OP here. I’ve really enjoyed your work on AI agent definitions. So thank you for reading!

I don’t actually claim that ours is necessarily the correct answer for everyone – it’s our own. But I believe it is at least _an_ objective definition. Other definitions I’ve seen have been murky and subject to interpretation.

Ah, thanks for pointing that out! We've updated the docs to avoid referencing that deprecated repository.

FYI self-hosted is usually something that customers in highly regulated industries opt for – the vast majority of our customers are on our managed cloud.

(I work at Tines)

We're flattered by the mention & imitation ;-)

But seriously, congrats on shipping, and for bringing some new ideas into the fold.

One point of clarification: Tines is certainly not only for the Fortune 10. We have a forever free, generous Community Edition [1] with tens of thousands of happy users, as well as a massively-discounted startup program [2] for early stage companies. Reliable workflow automation matters for teams of all sizes, and we're proud to welcome them all.

1: https://tines.com/community-edition

2: https://www.tines.com/pricing#startup-program

It is recognized by https://www.acep.org/. Hopefully not for long.

Yep, we should definitely add this. Thanks!

We hear this a lot, and it's something I'm personally interested in. There are also a few tradeoffs and downsides involved in building it… but it's something we’re actively considering.

Hey HN! I'm one of the founders of Consider.

We just shipped Groups. I'd love to hear what you think. We've been using it in our company for several months, and it's greatly improved our communication culture.

Read a bit more about its origin here: https://medium.com/the-consider-blog/the-next-piece-of-the-p....

Finally, if you're hearing about Consider for the first time – it's also an email client you can adopt just for yourself (although it works even better when multiple folks on a team use together!). Overall, we've tried to design for focus and flow throughout, and almost all features apply to your own private mail just as much as shared/team-level stuff. See more at https://consider.co/.

Happy to answer any questions.

(I work at Consider)

Two main things I'd call out.

First, it's easy to find history. With a Consider group, you can see all of the history of all groups you're in, right there in the email client. So – a new engineer, say, on their first day in the company, can browse engineering@. (And they can see all the conversations the team have pinned there, almost like a super lightweight wiki.)

Second, it's easy to browse groups you're _not_ a member of. So, that engineer can stop by design@, and take a sneak peak of what the design team are working on now and then, without having their inbox fill up with stuff they're not interested in.

Some companies (notably Stripe) have built cool internal tools to approximate these benefits on top of Gmail and Google Groups. With Consider + Groups, you get everything combined in one place by default.

Yes. Rails has by now certainly crossed into boring software territory – arguably a [positive thing](http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology) anyway – but it remains an excellent choice coming into 2018:

- Out of the box, Rails has close to unbeatable developer ergonomics, tooling, stability, and ease of use

- Lots of high quality, large companies use it (GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Square, Twitch) and have by now figured out how to scale it, often sharing and open sourcing their efforts, e.g. https://github.com/Shopify/identity_cache

- If your product front end is simple, Turbolinks can be an excellent choice (find me a faster, more bug free product than Basecamp)

- If you prefer to use a more modern JavaScript solution on the front end like Ember or React, Rails API is a perfect fit

- The Ruby ecosystem and community are both very high quality

Intercom ● Onsite ● San Francisco ● Product Engineers

I’m looking for great software engineers who are highly opinionated about the products they work on.

Intercom [1] is growing exceptionally quickly [2], as we build out the customer communication platform. At the highest level, we’re trying to make Internet business authentic and personal for everyboddy.

Email me directly at stephen@intercom.com and let’s chat.

[1] https://intercom.com [2] https://breakoutlist.com/

Source article: http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/08/mixpanel-starts-2016-with-...

- Altoid mentions Silk Road: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175.msg42670#msg4267...

- Altoid identifies as Ross Ulbricht: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg5...

(Looks like the NYT got mixed up about which post was deleted)

Awesome, that's really clear. Thanks.

Thanks for the information. I like the sound of your 'better test'.

(This is not intended in a particularly serious way – but I do notice pixellation in type from time to time on my Retina MacBook Pro.)

Very interesting – thanks.

Thanks – this should be fixed now.

I quoted Apple's Retina claim on the site: ‘The Retina display’s pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels’. (They have many variations on this).

So for me a real retina display would make a single white pixel on black background invisible at normal viewing distances to a normal eye.

I love my retina displays, but Apple's marketing annoys me as I can still see pixellation at times. This is a quick game to see if you can dispute the marketing claim.

Looking forward to a real retina display soon :-)

This doesn't seem to be about feminism specifically (although your classification of an equality movement as an infection would certainly demand extraordinary evidence).

It seems to be more about gender, and gender roles. There's a really big question here that I find interesting as a hacker: how much of what we call gender is biologically constructed, and how much is socially constructed? Obviously, say, having a penis is a direct function of biology, but what about something like girls' supposed preference for pink? This is almost certainly a social construct, and one that only arose in the early twentieth century [0]. And yet dressing little girls in pink has certainly influenced generations of us - do you know many guys who would be comfortable using a pink wallet?

The big question becomes important when we look at an issue like girls being the minority in engineering/technology/business leadership/etc: how much of this is due to some inherent biology, and how much is due to a lack of role models or social expectation for young girls to show interest in these areas?

[0]: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2831/was-pink-origi...

While I'm a massive fan of pedantry, unfortunately the Wikipedia article you link to includes references to him as "Abe".

capta360.com has (very blatantly) copied the background image.

I like Dustin, and I love what he's doing with Svbtle, but he has this – as I see it – irrational need to own and experience "the best". Maybe there is such a thing as the best cutlery, and maybe the cutlery he bought is it...but it seems like such an empty, odd, materialistic goal. 'First world problems' writ large.

I first noticed it from this tweet (http://twitter.com/dcurtis/statuses/246843440179056640) where he asks about "the best ramen in Tokyo". Anybody with any cultural, historical, or indeed culinary understanding of ramen can see that this is totally missing the point.

My question is, why continuously talk about and seek "the best" as opposed to, say, "really good"? There's a kind of arrogance entrained in such a mode of thought.

Perhaps I'm niggling, but even adaptations which evolve by sexual selection have everything to do with survival.

One of the nicest things about Apple products is the simplicity of the underlying business model: you get hardware (most generally, also some software and services like AppleCare) from them, and you give them money in return. I think Gruber is a fan of this approach.

Apple's brand and future success then depends on you loving the product, which means they spend a lot of the money you've given them on hiring smart and dedicated people to build more loveable products. It's a virtuous cycle.

But most web-era companies (like Google and Facebook) have adopted a different business model: you get their product for free, with the trade-off being that you have to look at a few ads here and there.

The problem with this approach is that they end up hiring more smart and dedicated people to work on advertising techniques, sales, UI, algorithms, &c. than those who actually work on building ever more loveable product. (And they might even IPO at a high valuation, putting even more pressure on the company to deliver advertising revenue growth.)

App.net is trying to get back to the virtuous cycle of people paying for nice products – that has been the standard in commerce since the beginning – so that they can concentrate on making a great, benign product as opposed to spending the future fretting about 'monetization' (think about how awkward that word really is!) or advertising.

It's a trend I'd love to see more of, and I hope that everybody here gives backing a second thought.

EDIT 1: Gruber obviously carries some sway, the total grew by $1850 in the last 10 minutes.

EDIT 2: To continue the above, the total grew by $15000 in the last 2 hours.

I backed this almost immediately, and expected them to be a lot closer to the goal than they are now (still more than $300,000 off with only seven days to go). I'm very surprised with the apparent lack of resonance with the idea from people around here.

So what are some of the reasons you aren't backing?

Absolutely. Both the quality of submission (it's an aggregator like HN or Reddit) and of discussion are unparalleled in my experience of web communities. Three things possibly related to its success:

- Lack of an upvoting mechanism, which can lead to problems

- Incredibly fair and considered moderation

- MetaTalk, an area of the site where no rules apply, and where arguments/vendettas/in-jokes can carry on out of the way

Slightly off-topic, but isn't it interesting how often news like this is broken with MIT as the subject of the headline: "MIT builds…", "MIT discovers…", etc?

In general, reports originating from universities tend to be billed as "Scientists discover…, "A report from Harvard suggests…", and the like.

Its indicative of, and certainly amplifies, the MIT brand.

Appreciate the input—interesting ideas.

Thanks! Possibilities include: - Payable invoice URLS (include small charge) - Branding/templates - Edit in place beyond invoices

For now though, I'm concentrating on iron out the UI and then building a back end.