skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difficulty with faxing something is that it's even more out of date than printing something. I don't have a printer, but at least I know a store where I can buy one. I've got no idea where the fuck I'd go to buy a fax machine.
yep that's similiar. many things changed though. the first thing I can see is that I work with multifile input, filereader and blobs.
Love this, and have been thinking about it for a while (after having moved literally 10 times in 10 years). I picture something similar to OAuth permissions, where at any point I can revoke access to all or specific pieces of information to anyone.

As an extension (and this is potentially where the money is), I can think of an intermediary service (a-la Google Voice call widgets) that allows entities to contact me without ever giving away my phone/address/etc.
College Soccer recruiting software
As a lifelong footballer, and recent graduate of a 4 year college soccer program at Stevens Institute of Technology, I've come up with an idea for what I think could be an excellent, scalable kind of software that does not currently exist. The market of high school aged soccer players in the United States looking for their ideal college program is immense. The best of the best however are known to many of the top coaches nationwide, but what about the majority? the good players, who are serious about finding a 4 year program to play at which will also meet their academic needs? The number of these players is immense, and only getting bigger each year, boys and girls. Trust me, as someone that can remember being a sophopmore, or junior in high school and traveling the country playing in so many different tournaments to be noticed by a small amount of coaches, I always wondered why there didn't exist some sort of software which would create profiles for individual players based on their club teams, which would contain specific academic information, and athletic information as well. Perhaps a video introduction and some other attributes too. Coaches, and school programs would have their own profiles as well containing valuable information about the school, team, facilities, location, job placement upon graduation, size of team, reputation of the coach etc. The software would offer suggestions of programs to the players and also offer coaches suggestions of players based on the previously mentioned attributes. I think the whole process of coaches courting players, and players looking for schools could be streamlined, and made far smoother than it currently is. I'm looking for someone to help develop this with me, if you played college soccer it'd be an awesome bonus but if not, that's cool too.

feel free to contact me with thoughts, ideas, feelings, and opinions

All the best!
Big problem righ here: Restrictions part 2, #15: You may not use these images as part of a trademark or logo... http://www.shutterstock.com/licensing.mhtml
Interesting. I'd have thought the few things that needed to be printed would also need some sort of physical signature as well. Do you not find that to be the case? What situations do you find yourself in that would call for such a service?

Would it make sense more for mass physical mailings via an API?
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I like the idea, except the only time I need to print something is when I need to sign it.
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You and I both know that the most WTF results are not published precisely because you can't write them up in any way that would be reproducible.

But what I am really interested in is reading any and all political stuff in those emails. Global Warming is too hot a political tropic to allow a few percent insiders to stir the pot to take away what little freedom we have left.
Sourceforge has very aggressive ads, think video, with decent targeting of a high value market.

Slashdot also has the high value market, less aggressive ads, but tons of pageviews per visit.

Altogether the numbers to do not appear absurd.
Here's a simple idea I've been kicking around. I might just build it for fun.

I call it notifyme.when. Users put in things they want to be notified about e.g., new book by Steven King released, Sequel to District 9 announced, Mortgage rates fall below 3.5%, etc.

Then other users log in and review the requests and post updates to any of the event they know have happened. You get points (like Stack Overflow) if you legitimacy update someone else's request.
I've been posting on Slashdot since the early 2000s and have stayed on the site primarily for its community; the higher-modded comments tend to come from some pretty intelligent people. Unfortunately it seems like the current staff don't really understand why the community that is there remains and have been trying out a shotgun blast of different strategies recently: Slashdot TV, SlashBI, SlashCloud, SlashDataCenter... I just want to discuss IT with intelligent people. If they only got that the community is their power, they might be able to make the site more relevant again. It seems like when Rob Malda knew something was going on behind the scenes when he quit last year. (For more, read his AMA: http://www.topiama.com/r/137/iam-rob-cmdrtaco-malda-founder-... )

At least there's HN if this latest sale makes /. go south completely.
I expect it's just luck. I submitted the same story and it also sank. Sometimes the gods of HN are kind to you, and sometimes they're cruel. Don't sweat it!
I remember that wonderful day in 2007 when I noticed that there was a little news aggregator bodged onto the back end of Paul Graham's essay blog and I thought to myself "wow, this is like /. only it doesn't suck so much".
Thanks for the link to Yehuda's post - it was a great read. I love how he compared Javascript and Ruby, and it's intriguing what he said at the bottom about how JS might include "block lambdas" similar to Ruby in the future. Fascinating!
Don't you think that the advantage of being more "clean" compared to email is something that will change once spammers and others start abusing Facebook?
I sign everything using Preview.app on OS X: http://www.cultofmac.com/100237/you-can-now-sign-pdfs-using-...

As an aside, in the EU a printed signature (i.e. printed text in a signature input field) is just as valid as a "real" signature.
It looks to me like his scheme would remove the real-time requirement. With Google Docs you'll get unresolvable conflicts when one of the users is editing offline or from a slow network. Recording edits in the described way enables asynchronous conflict resolution, and changes don't have to be submitted in real-time for everyone to get the same document.
I'd hit some snags then the project I was doing this on didn't need it anymore, so... it's sitting in limbo.
I'm not sure what the 'efficiency' of a refinery is. In terms of energy consumed per energy produced? How about equipment/installation costs, costs to the environment, man-hours etc. All different units, hard to avoid apples/oranges issues.
So this is an interactive bootstrap builder?
> "If you look at all Instagram apps in the store, you'll find there are many Instagram apps designed with a 'camera' icon. We're definitely not the first one."

And this is supposed to mean something? The fact that there are other people in the App Store capitalizing off of brand confusion and design mimicry excuses... what exactly?
I pretty much never submit XKCD - I figure pretty much everyone ehre reads it - but on this occasion I have because this is something I really would use.

I'm off now to create my own low-tech version, but if this were produced (note the use of the subjunctive - I have zero expectation of this actually happening) then I would buy one.
Oh man, look at the awful sites currently maintained by Dice Holdings...

> http://www.dice.com/ (recruiting and career development)

> http://www.efinancialcareers.com/ (finance recruiting and career development, UK)

> http://www.clearancejobs.com/ (U.S. government security clearance career development)

> http://www.rigzone.com/ (oil and gas industry content/advertising)

> http://www.allhealthcarejobs.com/ (healthcare career development)

> http://www.targetedjobfairs.com/ (IT and security related career fairs and open houses)
If they want people to not care about their emails, stop using Global Warming to take away our freedoms (I can't get a decent light bulb anymore because of this shit) and make 21 century living unreasonably expensive (yeah, we need gasoline).

Don't get me wrong, the environment is important but maintaining it as is should not be a priority. Nature is not holy, but it is useful.
Yes, the procedure is quite annoying, but I think the BBC is well worth that money (if you DO watch their programmes, of course!). You might have got used to it over the years, but spend some time in other countries and you'll really come to appreciate it. I know I do.
> older languages such as C or Java.

Ruby and Java saw their first public releases within a month of each other.
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I agree with the "haters gonna hate" part, but he's got a point regarding the price point. It seems a bit high given the CPU power you get.
I guess you could make more impacting decisions if you stopped "betting what happens on user side". Anyway thanks for lessons learned post. These are always inspiring.
Absolutely. Currently I have zero control over who has what contact details. I have good friends that still email me on an eight year old gmail address that I don't use. I need to be able to pull addresses, push new ones, have certain details only available to certain friends and maybe, like you say, have ways of letting people get in touch with me once without actually giving out my details.
But isn't the essential difference (and what makes the QM effect seem like spooky action-at-a-distance) that it's been proven that it isn't like the envelope example? Namely, there's no definite "redness" or "greenness" to the entangled particle before you examine it (unlike the envelope, which contains a red or green card the whole time). Whether you have a "red" or a "green" quantum part isn't decided until you look, at which point the wave function collapses in both parts simultaneously, no matter how far apart they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem
Flag it and move on. It's an unprofessional article from an unprofessional site. ZDNet and ExtremeTech are the TMZ of the tech world. They exist only to grab attention, and nothing grabs attention like lowest-common-denominator filth and garbage.

I enjoy reading articles with valid points on why the author holds an opinion. This is not one of those articles.
And then there is baklava code[1], with too many thin, fragile, porous layers.

[1] http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/07/27/baklav-code/
The had millions of users using it for photos when Facebook, who had lots of money, was worried.
DOn't imagine the reasons languages are different from List is that nobody knew any better.

Programming in Lisp is like programming in assembler. Reading it is worse. The learning curve is tremendous.

Languages serve lots of demographics, not just comp-sci wonks.
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What if you simply create APNG using this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/apngasm/

And then convert APNG to GIF using this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/apng2gif/

It would be interesting to compare the results...
For the modern professional, 1 month would be long.
A github-like service for musicians that would allow:

1. Version control of compositions;
2. Forks of other musicians' "repositories" / compositions;
3. Contributions to other musicians' songs;
4. Possibly play the songs online;
5. Private / public repos;
6. Individual / band / group / organization repos.
7. ???
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Fred Wilson asked for it a long time ago in this post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/moneyball-for-startups-1.htm.... I think Noam hit it.
Yes you're right! I stand corrected; will update the post when I have a chance.
> aren't ruby's blocks taken pretty much verbatim from smalltalk

Yes, with some crippling to fit them in a different syntax (Ruby's blocks are not first-class, so using more than one of them or methods on the blocks themselves isn't very nice)

And amongst the important similarities are return being nonlocal from within blocks.
Ok, I have no idea how to do this startup but it seems very profitable. Have you ever noticed how anyone under 40 believes with 100% certainty that social security won't be around for them when they retire.

Well I think it probably will be around. Most big (popular?) government programs aren't going away no matter what the media says.

So how about selling social security insurance. Buyers pay a premium each month to buy the insurance. And if social security isn't around when they retire the insurance pays out what they would have gotten from social security.

---- Edit ---

People don't think the insurance idea is viable so let's turn this idea on its head. The company goes out and buys the future social security benefits (or some portion thereof) from individuals ands pays them say 10 cents on the dollar. People who don't think SS will be around think they're getting free money, and the company makes a bundle if SS stays around.

Heck, could the US government could be doing this to fix social security?
You seem to be arguing that making e-mails public in the future would be good. Maybe. But making e-mails written in the past with the expectation of privacy public? That seems ill-advised to me.

Update response: The employer is the university, certainly not the public. (I’m also not sure why you are so quick to dismiss the importance of private communication channels. To me it seems important that people who work together can talk together privately, without the public knowing.)
[Background note: I'm a physics professor with a background in string theory and relativity.]

You're raising a sensible point, and most of the objections raised here are invalid. But it nevertheless turns out (surprisingly, to me!) that your argument doesn't work. This topic came up a lot during the short-lived superluminal neutrino excitement last year, and one good discussion of it by Sean Carroll can be found at:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/09/24/...

That post includes a link to a paper by Bob Geroch that goes into the topic in detail. The very short summary is that there is no mathematical necessity for "causality" to be defined just by relativity: the union of the relativistic definition and some other well-defined causal theory can work just as well, even if that theory involved faster-than-light travel.

So thank you for raising a very good point about this topic, even if it wasn't quite accurate. And to those who've objected here: unless your objection explicitly quoted Geroch, odds are very good that they're wrong.
For some extra reference:

http://lab.arc90.com/2012/09/18/sassme

http://blog.arc90.com/2012/09/18/announcing-sassme
Large chains like FedEx could implement this really efficiently since they already have offices all over the world. They can just print off at the nearest location to the target and minimize their expense. Getting a printed document hand delivered in an envelope can have a lot more impact over simply sending an email or fax.
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It is fairly common to pluralize period-less abbreviations with apostrophes. The New York Times, for example, follows that standard. It is more common still for abbreviations with periods to take an apostrophe.

The New York Times doesn't do a great job of following that standard if indeed they try to. Searching for CDs gives me many more examples of "CDs" than "CD's" -- the only one I saw was a blog post, which is probably copy-edited less strictly than an article in the paper. Similarly, searching for ATMs gives "ATMs" and "A.T.M.'s", but not "ATM's". Others I found: both "GTOs" and "GTO's", "LCDs", "TVs", both "B&Bs" and "B&B's". The phrase "A's and B's", referring to grades, was always written with apostrophes, as was the phrase "P's and Q's".

One of the fun thing of doing these searches is that really old articles are mixed in with the results. Searching for LPs shows that it has been written "LPs" since at least 1955 and also yields this intriguing headline: "DIGITAL COMPACT DISKS - REPLACEMENT FOR LPs?" from 1983.
Even worse when the code uses labelled breaks and continues.
Lawyers everywhere are nodding.
Really cool stuff guys. Love the idea.
Thanks @digitalengineer for this meaningful discussion. Yes we absolutely should build up our own design team. Blindly keep trying woundn't work either.

It's still the art of balancing. Trying various ways in the beginning, and at some time point, we should tight up all kinds of resources and build up our own for key resources. Design is resources with key value.

Compared with criticism about copycat or intentional confusion, I like your constructive suggestion. We're a young startup and Padgram is our baby. We might not be doing well but we've tried the best. And we're sharing what we learned.
Kickstarter is not an investment. You're buying the rewards for the tier that you choose.

In the Kickstarter TOS, there is the following line:

Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaigns or refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill.
This is part of her continuing campaign to remove bureaucracy from the corporation. This is a dramatic, symbolic image.
Would be really interested in a blog about this. Please drop me a mail if you ever get around to posting one?
This article is quite bias. The author doesn't talk about the 300$ version when he criticises the price.
Then he says the version with a keyboard is just a laptop or netbook but with a bigger price, ignoring the fact they have touchscreens and that the keyboard isn't attached which is their interest.
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Kind of already happening. Many gps units warn you if you're over the speed limit, and limits are set with upcoming curves factored in.
Your reasoning is flawed. The argument against the Alcubierre drive cannot stem from special relativity as it would only apply if there were a violation of local causality.

The problem is that using an Alcubierre drive, one could construct closed timelike curves, which are impossible in a 3+1-dimensional, asymptotically flat and singularity-free spacetime where the weak energy condition holds.

Also keep in mind that FTL is less problematic than many physicists think, even in special relativity - see eg 'Tachyon Kinematics and Causality: A Systematic Thorough Analysis of the Tachyon Causal Paradoxes' by Recami.
> Just because you CAN do something in CoffeeScript doesn't mean you SHOULD, or should ALL of the time.

In 1948, Edward Murphy, Jr. an aerospace engineer, was working for the Air Force to install sensors to test g-forces on humans during deceleration. There were two ways to wire each sensor, and one of them was wrong. Someone had methodically installed every single sensor backwards. Murphy quipped something -- no one is exactly sure what it was -- which was cited in the Aviation Mechanics Bulletin as "Murphy's Law: if an aircraft part can be installed incorrectly, someone will install it that way." A few mutations later and this became the famous "Murphy's Law".

I think the original Murphy's law applies with great force to the world of programming languages. If there are multiple ways of doing something, and some of them are stupid, you still have to know all of those stupid methods because some idiot on your team will do it. The probability of this happening increases as the size of your team increases.

The proper course of action as a language designer is to make sure that foolish methods are not built into your language. What you do not do is design foolish methods into your programming language, and then put up a big sign on Hacker News saying "don't do that".

The Original Murphy's Law is so critical to the design of systems -- languages, APIs, libraries, etc., that after your post I feel compelled to ask you to put down your Programmer's Card and step away from the keyboard at this time.
You're at Hacker News, just about every startup is obsessed by growth because that's all they have on their side.

To your analogy, it's more like selling a horse to the petting zoo for kiddie rides because it no longer has enough stamina for long hard rides in the mountains. It's a good deal for the seller, the buyer, and the horse.
I like this except for the crowdsourcing part. I'd rather have it done as a paid-for service somehow. I realize that it's hard because you'd have to constantly check, but still.
Same applies to me 99% of the time. I sign everything digitally using Preview.app in OS X.

I also like to print and send things when it's an old person's birthday (used Apple's Cards app recently and it was brilliant, although a relative was baffled and believed me to be in Prague since it was posted from there).
There's something to be said for setting a (reasonable) goal for a day, a theme if you will, and sticking to it. It's also interesting to note that this might be the best way to train/practice. I think it was an article linked off of HN to that 10,000 hours website about performers who practiced in three (or more) hour chunks who made the most progress.

As an anti-anecdote, I've been trying to burn through my todo lists without really organizing the items on them, just letting them come as they may, and it always seems demoralizing at the end of the day because even though I may have checked off a lot of items, there was no "big" coherent thing I accomplished, and I didn't check off as many items as I wanted to.
This. Instead of having a timeout after n-number of passwords, have a random timeout after each one (between 1 and 3 seconds). Not really a big deal for a user (you can hold the connection open, so the browser looks like it's waiting for a response, or put up a loading spinner) but makes brute forcing infeasible.
You sort of answered your own question. Those obsessed with growth see not growing as failing. There is no other success then growth. Under that mindset having a stable, profitable business is 'riding it down.'
Find someone who's not into that whole thing. Not everyone is the same. There are highly ethical people, vegans, "occupy" people, hairy feminists, eco-warriors, punks, goths, nerds, socialists, anarchists. There are loads of people who will pride themselves on not having a diamond. There are people who don't fit in these common moulds.
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Shipping isn't a small task, and since it will only begins in a month, it's a fair assumption to think that they still have much to do.

If the shipping was 50% done, I would agree but this isn't the case here