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I think you're missing the point. Bots now use ML and other forms of weak A.I. Facebook is building something closer to artificial general intelligence with Facebook M. The early forms of bots we'll see will do basic tasks but in the future they'll be as smart or smarter than us. This is a great long term play Durov took by incentivizing bot developers. Besides, Telegram doesn't have the same scale as Facebook (FB Messenger) and Microsoft (Skype) so they sorta need to do this to remain competitive in their hyper competitive market.

If I had any gripes about Telegram it's their lack of audio and video calling but I'm not going to complain about an excellent free product.

Sam's a leader. Reminds me of one of the recent Hubspot founders LinkedIn post. We need more leaders like Sam!

You can but FB has the most MAU's. I believe after FB Skype is the biggest. Is it easy to build bots on multiple platforms?

Personally I'm staying away from Kik. Their MAU is low and I really dislike their constant spam.

Do you honestly think employers care? They provide jobs and expect results. That's it. If you're not happy with your job, go work somewhere else but don't post online how "surprised" you were about it. Go complain on Glassdoor if you want some people to read it but don't expect your life to change. When you delude yourself about reality what do you expect?

This is spot on. I don't believe the hype with Medium. The news will always be junk. You can centralize it and make it prettier on medium - but it's still centralized pretty junk.

Chris you're right Dan misconstrues your ideas and that's disappointing.

The real issue with his article is that he was lying to himself before he even joined Hubspot. I'm really surprised how shocked people are when they join startups and aren't happy. What did you expect?

Hubspot is not Salesforce. Uber is not Google. DoorDash is not Groupon. The maturity of companies at different stages varies significantly.

I read articles on HN every month about people who are bamboozled about startups after they start working there. These same people delude themselves about how awesome startups are. Startups are the birth of companies.In the beginning and up until you reach a certain point of market dominance, it's always hard. It's been this way for years and yet people continue to write articles about this nonsense every month...I'm really tired of it.

Reddit for iOS sends shared links to the desktop version of Reddit instead of the mobile version ==

What if Google acquired Groupon and Evernote?

I think Seattle is better off allocating $50B towards self driving projects. Seattle isn't Tokyo but that's what its trying to be here.

I'm sticking with Pocket. Google Saves is the equivalent of Google Keep. (I also use Evernote)

I remember hearing about a startup that tried to crowd fund the news. I don't think it worked but it's a cool idea.

LOL

Telegram secret chats are device specific which means you can't recover them if you get a new phone. How can Whatsapp recover encrypted chats on iCloud?

He never said that ;)

I feel like Postmates will be acquired by Amazon or Google. Then again DoorDash intended to do more than food in the beginning, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them challenge Postmates soon.

Misleading title - it's a Japanese owned Israeli company.

Makes me think ABC omitted that on purpose :(

I'm glad I have an iPhone 6. Anything without touchID is now insecure thanks to the FBI. It sounds like Apple knew this would happen which is why they recently hired a Signal developer:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/25/apple-hires-developer-behin...

In my case it doesn't make sense. Fremont to San Jose is $10 per ride or $400 per month. This cost more than what I pay in gas, insurance and maintenance. ($240 in gas on avg)

The only thing this title tells me is that the iPhone 5C is not secure anymore. Thoughts?

History repeats itself. Did South Korea learn anything from Japan?

To create AGI you need more than money.

2016 reminds me of Eminem's song "Lose Yourself" when he says, "Snap back to reality. Oh, there goes gravity..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksfnZaZ0A4

Ironically UberEATS launched today. The founders have no one to blame but themselves.

Excellent points. Honestly it's the founders fault why this happened. They ignored these obvious signs and shouldn't be surprised. It's easy to order unhealthy food. It's a pain to make healthy food.

Ironically UberEATS launched officially today.

Yelp sucks. They deleted my review and I found out the business owner was paying them money. I'm switching to foursquare.

And a PR move from Apple.

I'm not projecting. You just think you're right because you're Chinese.

You know honestly I didn't have an issue with your feedback except that you overreached when you said my comments were "LOL", "naive" and "laughable." That's offensive and arrogant. But you don't stop there, you keep attacking me!

"Your view is in the minority, even here on HN. If you were to take this view to more China-centric online communities, you'll find even fewer supporters."

You don't think I have Chinese friends? You're assuming once again.

And my view is the minority according to YOU! You don't have census data of the world, just your network, so stop attacking every response I have to prove your point!

Wait five years and we'll see who's right about Uber in China. You don't need to keep attacking me every time. It's rude.

I never said Travis and his team has any control in China. I said I believe in them and that they partnered with strong local investors like Baidu.

My statements aren't "laughable" or "totally naive." You just want to be right huh?

I agree to disagree. It's impossible to predict the future but if I was forecasting Uber's future in China, I believe they have a good chance of succeeding. That's just my opinion.

I respect that you have a different opinion but you shouldn't assume so easily.

I recently worked for a Chinese software company for over three years. I helped them IPO in China last year before the Chinese stock market collapsed. I know how hard it is to breakthrough in China because my last company had more success in North America and EMEA than APAC. Chinese regulation is hard but I'll side with Uber any day because I believe in Travis and his team, even if you don't.

Sure why not? Microsoft is the leading computer operating system in China. Android and iOS are the top mobile operating systems. All are U.S. led/managed/owned companies.

To address your second point about regulation, Didi Kuaidi doesn't escape regulation any more than Uber does.

http://qz.com/522056/the-chinese-government-just-issued-a-dr...

Uber raised $2B from Chinese investors and is partnered with Baidu. I never said Uber will win the taxi market in China, because that's incredibly hard, but to "LOL" and call my statement "laughable" I believe is a little off considering their strategy.