skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So what has gone wrong? Why aren’t agile techniques scaling? Takes no genius to diagnose that problem: agile, trying to scale up from the bottom, collides with the top-down-imposed conventional corporate habits of death marches, rigid hierarchy, and waterfall planning. And loses, because the imperatives behind all that sludge are wired too deep into the culture of most corporations to be displaced by mere productivity improvements, however dramatic. "

This is related to last week's discussion of scrum and its weaknesses, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510943
If someone has a domain of my name that's very low value (I'd a domain I used to use for a blog). Is it likely they'll let it go after a year with little traffic? If not how much would you expect them to want? How do you get in touch if they've used an anonymous registrar?
You may find this interesting: http://www.kompoz.com
Doesn't you local DNS server have to query other DNS servers to resolve requests anyway?
I think his point is that there shouldn't have been an expectation of privacy in the first place.
Messy GOTO code is alive and well in the form of abusing exception handling.
A lot of opportunity is going to arrive in the next 20 years disguised as loss
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I agree in the sense that I always feel a sense of rage every time my TV license is due for renewal.

On the other hand, I don't actually mind paying money to support the BBC. As far as I can tell the system is mostly voluntary anyway since you have to actually use your TV to watch live broadcasts and I'm not sure exactly how they would prove this. So I guess scary letters might be the most effective strategy.

Ironically though, I technically don't have to pay the TV license since I literally never watch broadcast TV. All the BBC stuff I consume is via their website and iPlayer.
Well you can jump the shark and sometimes the shark eats you. Too bad.
Have you checked out Priceonomics? They're a YC startup that gives you analytics on the market price of a product and send you notifications when the item is available for a good price.
Sell them?
Are you familiar with Timeshare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeshare)? It usually refers to property ownership, but can apply to pretty much anything. Most people consider the middlemen in timeshare situations to be scammers, so it would be tough to market.
Bye Bye Slashdot. Was nice while you lasted. How long before its destroyed? 1 Year? 6 months?
Just because that's the only email address they use doesn't mean it's their personal account. It's the only account they use that's provided by a third party. If they quit their job and they lose the account, it wasn't their account in the first place.
A service that allows me get all my snail mail by email, I get a virtual address, they scan / OCR etc (and spam filter)
I believe a startup called LaunchGram is working on this http://launchgram.com
BTW, I agree. I lived in the Boston area (mostly across the river in Cambridge) for over a decade and still miss it somewhat.

OTOH, I do not miss winter in Boston. When they paved over the cowpaths, they didn't leave room for snow removal.
You don't do security by picking specific cases and guarding against them.

Either do it properly or not at all.
Which is unfortunate if you have a TV but don't pay the fee because you don't have to.

You only have to pay if you watch "live TV." (Any live TV at all that is, streaming content as it is aired from the us still requires a TV license.)
However, owning a TV in itself does not require a license. Games consoles, Netflix and DVDs do not mean that you require a license because none of these are you watching TV as it is broadcast.

Edit: As a note, I have a TV, I do watch live TV and I do have a license. However, when I first moved into my own place I did get some of the letters demanding payment unless I wanted legal proceedings to begin. But they stopped once I phoned up and told them I didn't have a TV, didn't intend to get one soon and wouldn't be paying.
> The alternative is a system like they have in Australia where the state broadcasting company is a mouthpiece for the party in power

What? I live in Australia and this just isn't true. The only thing even coming close to this I can think of is that the government runs (paid) ads at times (but they also do on commercial stations). The ABC is certainly not a 'mouthpiece'...
> Smalltalk stands in stark disproval of this assertion.

I stand corrected. Although Smalltalk solves it by introducing a special method call syntax (which is perfectly fine). I was mostly thinking about C-style-method-call-syntax when I wrote this (Perl, Python, JS).

> They do, if you define a variable within the block it'll be local to the block. Ruby 1.9 even allowed shadowing variables from the parent method (which isn't possible in 1.8)

I did mention explicitly that I wasn't talking about variable scope, so yeah, we're both correct :)
A real media browser in the browser. I think current browsers have horrible interface to the local filesystem and it should be easy to improve.
I had this exact same idea last week but it'd be a tough one to crack. The devil's in the details of the operation.

You'd have to solve at least the following problems: Print/sorting/packaging/mailing, privacy (most of the stuff you "need" to print is confidential), timeliness (usually when I print I need it NOW, like when closing a sale on a house)

But if you can solve them, or at least start to, I think it'd be a great opportunity.
Kind of like this? http://www.beatlab.com/
Funny.

The same problem exists with OLAP databases.

People trying to do MOLAP without building ROLAP. They are thinking that MS SASS, ESSBASE, Cognos or Qlikview will do some "magic" that eliminate the need to carefully think about data
Can you explain a little more about how this system works? You have to pay for TV?
Ship in bulk to poor countries for use as bricks. There's clearly no other profit to be had for them.
Thanks for the invitation. I'm glad to have the chance to try it today. It works great and definitely will be my first choice for mockup when starting a new web app. Thanks again!
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Interesting. Can you share a link to the 300$ product?
The issue is that they will keep sending you very aggressive letters if you don't pay. Regardless of whether you own a TV or not.

I remember receiving one letter that said something to the effect of: "Right now, we're off to the magistrates to get an order for the police to come to your house, interview you under caution and potentially arrest you".

This was a house that I had only just moved into and didn't have a TV.
What a great idea for an API that's connected to an existing app/programming like Evernote/Notability/Office and linked to an established network of "member" vendors like UPS/FedexKinkos/USPS/colleges.
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Presumably, that $20m/yr in revenue comes with a decent chunk of costs too.
Fedex already provides this service
fedex.com/office
A really interesting project – I do hope this makes the front page. Injection would be the icing on the cake.
They've been offering this service for several years:

http://www.fedex.com/us/office/online-printing.html
We have electronics on the surface of Mars, we certainly can fit one inside a microwave.
It seems very in line with an approach that appeals to large companies and advertising goals
The French Post Office has this: https://lettreenligne.laposte.fr/

(And its invaluable companion service, online registered mail, for documents with legal significance.)
Insurance can't work if either all or none of your customers are going to file a claim, because the premise of insurance is that those who don't file claims pay for those who do. This insurance would have to charge a premium that would cover the "everyone files a claim" case, which means people would be paying N dollars in order to have a chance of getting their N dollars back. Not a good deal ;-)
Home 3D Printer for clothing and textiles.

Textile knitting machines have been digital for close to 100 years (old ones used chains with risers that would change the gears of the machines to change the knit). For simple garments, there's a completely automatable step that makes the majority of the piece, but then there is often hand-sewing to assemble the final product (e.g. sewing sleeves into T-shirts, seams into toes of socks, etc…). Trick is developing the robotics to manipulate it so this can be automated. It doesn't have to be fast (like a factory needs) if you're making stuff for yourself. There's a whole ecosystem you could build around downloadable designs, consumables, etc...
Here's an app idea. Show notifications when the device is within a certain distance from the location of a past historical event. ...or past Crime ...or a message another app user has left.
>the nature of science is that, at the very least, all results, data, and methodological information should be wide open

The request for his e-mails had nothing to do with the scholarly process. When a professor wants to disprove another's research, he doesn't ask him to forward all his e-mails over. That's just not the way it works.

I've read a bit into the case, the original request for e-mails was from an attorney general with an anti-climate change agenda. He lost, so a private conservative organization with the same agenda filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the e-mails. They lost. This shouldn't be a surprise, the request was unorthodox.
OK. I think the lack of an agitator might be the reason for the poor performance, rather than energy or water conservation (unless your washing machine is a top-loaded rotating drum type, since they work the same way as front loaders).
i thought old (original) lisp was dynamically scoped?
Show HN: Flipboard-like Hacker News web viewer
Yet another Hacker News web viewer, tried to mimic Flipboard experience.
Hacked for my own use. Primary use - iPad for 15 min before sleep. Secondary: iPhone 4 or workstation, depends, whenever got 5 min of time
Key features: 1. mobile friendly CSS and 2. Back end extracts text teaser and a pic for context. Got the only logo done entirely in CSS I know about :)
Status: a prototype - slow, scraping is only 70% good, Google App Engine might not be optimal for such an app, tested only on screens I use.
Goal: to find if such an app is appreciated by anyone but me. If yes - will be quickly improving. If no - will be slowly improving.
Motivation: I read HN a lot but not contribute articles, votes or comments. This is my way of paying back.

Full description:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1C5IFWLEeYaHL3lefJLF1YakXGuT4YuOOGjhGDJdFxbk
But how much does it cost them when these problems arise?
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http://news.middle-east.ps/?p=1016
http://www.l-mail.com — but it does only text I assume
Probably. In terms of features, Ruby is pretty much an unholy mix of Smalltalk, Perl, Awk with a dash of Lisp thrown in and a parser that's a monstrosity of epic proportions put on top (the MRI 1.8.x series had a Bison parser with 6k-7k lines of C to implement context-sensitive tweaks...) to make the whole thing have a syntax palatable for those of us who'd otherwise complain loudly about square brackets or parentheses...

And I write this as someone who loves Ruby - there's much to love about Ruby, but a clean design is not it.
Any iPhone App, £99/$159
A service that aggregate, index and archive all the content you produce on the web. Aggregation could be done manually with ifttt.com but the storage part do not seem to exist yet.
You obviously never had to fire anyone, had a customer who refused to pay you or had to sign an important deal with a large company.
This already exists. I actually used one of these when I was out of the country and had to deliver a physical copy.

http://www.snailmailme.com/

http://www.postalmethods.com/

http://www.postful.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=send+snail+mail+online
I have no doubt that research into warp will also inspire idea on how to blow stuff up.
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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.

Here's a startup idea, but not for the faint of heart:

1. The authorities put a QR code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code) on all the speed-limit signs, a label that can be read from a great distance, and one specially coded to be unambiguously a speed limit notification.

2. An enterprising startup designs an Android app that (a) reads QR codes through the windshield of a car, (b) compares the speed limit to the GPS-derived velocity, and (c) alerts the driver that he's exceeding the locally posted limit.

3. Drivers plant their Android devices on the dashboard of their car and run the app. The dashboard of a modern car happens to be a great place to get a GPS fix.

This isn't meant to force people to drive the speed limit, but only to let them know when they aren't.
You're getting software as well, including Office...
Well, I had this one specifically in mind when I declared them haters: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/09/12/1723204/apple-annou... -- it's all sarcasm, actual basement dwelling hate, 3rd grade humour, and very little sanity.

Your point about the system being subtly broken is spot-on. Sane people have moved on because of the subtle breakages. The site ends up full of older people who either a.) haven't realized the world is bigger and better things exist or b.) started using /. when it was new and somehow developed a perverse loyalty to "the first tech discussion site" and they refuse to move on. People stuck in their ways don't make the best conversational partners.

Obviously not everybody there is bad, but the baddies shift the tone of the discussion towards lunacy.
Hardware product idea: ~7 inch screen with keyboard for administration of headless servers. It's very annoying to use large monitor and full keyboard when all you need is change line in BIOS or press few buttons when OS stopped to boot.
A service that syncs your resume with companies' Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

The problem: you're applying for jobs at three different companies. Each company uses their own Applicant Tracking System (eg. Taleo, Kenexa, PeopleAdmin). That means you get to fill out your resume three different times, which is tedious and error prone. It would be nice to have a service where you input your resume once and then it just automagically syncs your resume to the ATS of the companies you're interested in.

I know that LinkedIn and Indeed have "Apply with LinkedIn/Indeed" to address this pain point. But I can tell you as someone who's working on a job search engine as a side project, there are many, many jobs where the only way to apply is to fill out an ATS. And if you want to apply to multiple jobs you have to go through the same process again and again.
Scientists don't set policy, obviously.

Re. your second paragraph, what do you expect the alternative to maintaining the environment "as is" to look like and why do you assume we (in the developed world, not to mention the rest) can cope with it?
Crowd-sourced solar data.

Collect solar irradiance data (used to compute solar panel effectiveness) via consumer devices (iphones or andoids that have light sensors).

Combine the collected data into an always updated, hyper local dataset, give (sell?) data to solar development companies and municipalities.

This could greatly reduce time to research feasibility of solar farms in cities.
From the researcher's facebook page:

>Judge issues final order. Affirms the university’s right to withhold scholarly communications and finds that the documents & personal emails of mine demanded by ATI were indeed protected as the university had contended.

So, he was probably using that e-mail for personal communication. Plenty of people do it (including most of my professors when I was in grad school), even if it's not totally good practice.
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The naming of Benford's Law has long bothered me. It feels to me like it should be Benford's Observation. Awesome catch, though! I love it.
http://www.ohmstudio.com/
Insurance works because the probability, eg of death, is spread out over many buyers; not everyone will die young. If social security goes away, the payout is 100% and your company goes bust.
The principle behind their operation is reasonable, basically just regular old Van Eck phreaking.

However I thought the general consensus is that they do not actually do this, and that it is simply a rather useful myth.
Here's another app idea. Create a catalog of map data based on years and let a user see what their location looked like in years past. Users could see what stores used to be there, how fast their city has sprawled, and could show their kids what their house looked like before it became a strip mall.
In the UK, if you watch any broadcast TV at all including cable or satellite you have to pay a TV license fee.
This is a completely separate fee to whatever your cable/satellite service provider charges.

This license fee is paid to the BBC and used to support their programming regardless of whether or not you consume their content.

Basically this means that sometimes you can be forced to pay for stuff you simply don't want.

On the other hand , BBC programmes do not carry any advertising and are not funded by central government, so in theory at least they are impartial when it comes to coverage of politics etc.
It also means they are not supported by corporate interests either, so won't scew programmes to avoid upsetting advertisers.

Whether or not they really are impartial is largely a matter of opinion, but I would personally say that they are at least less biased that other channels.
to fax them form with their credit card number on it. (!)

and expiration date, and cvv (not joking)
Doesn't have a built-in grinder (whatever that is) but Fisher-Paykel dishwashers actually work. Before using a Fisher-Paykel I had same belief as OP: That dishwasher's just didn't work. Every dish washer I had used before was a piece of shit; ineffective and flimsy.

F&P is built sturdy (e.g. feel difference in the rack). Unit is built as two drawers that are operated separately, so you can start the washer with smaller loads. No multi-level racks.
Has 3-4 duration-of-wash settings (up to 2+ hours), but for normal dishes I never had to use anything but fast (20 min).

They are pricey but in my opinion you should get a similar quality dishwasher or not get a dishwasher at all.

http://www.fisherpaykel.com/product/dishwashing/
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Perhaps he is interested in spreading knowledge. His post is basically identical to this one, but this one got selected. It's natural to want to understand why, rather than simply giving up. Indeed, if he comes to understand why, then knowledge has spread.
A few problems:
1. The subject property breaks, who pays? Insurance is clearly necessary, but who will go through the time to process a claim? What if it breaks in transit between owners?
2. Theft. What's to keep an owner from disappearing with the item?
Tachyons do not necessarily violate causality if you actually take the time to derive the laws of tachyonic kinematics consistent with special relativity.

Sure, tachyons will be strange (different observes won't agree on direction of travel or charge of a tachyonic particle - if we are even able to localize the particle at all; there will be frames of reference where a tachyon won't have energy but will still have momentum, ...), but not really any stranger that what we deal with in quantum mechanics and field theory, and the laws of physics will still hold in all frames of reference.
I think you're looking for either 720p or 1080p.
You're arguing vague semantics. He used it for personal e-mail, that's what is relevant here.
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Wicked app and calculator. Very nice design guys!
I think there needs to be a new rule of the internet, something along the lines of "the worst, troll-y content of any news aggregation site will always be found in a story about Apple".

There are few companies out there more polarising in internet discussion these days.
Or New Delhi for that matter.
A service that enables you to never have to attach a file to an email again. (Or at least one that teaches my parents how to retain this information.)
... Slashdot sold out in 1999 (to Andover.net).
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"Dynamic extent" might be close to what you're talking about. That's what Common Lisp calls the hint that an object may be stack allocated because it's unused after the call.
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I've been looking into this.

Just as a rough idea: what monthly price would you find bearable?
I'd pay for this. In fact, I end up paying friends to do that for me, while I'm outside the US & have to send docs (such as tax forms, etc.)
> In this post I wanted to go back as far in time as I could :)

Then you might want to look at Simula as well. As much as the term "object oriented" was invented in conjunction with Smalltalk, a lot of the basic concepts (classes, objects...) came from Simula (but not closures).
this is something similar: http://www.ohmstudio.com/
Interesting that the tagline is Interface Builder for web sites. One of the big powers of IB is that it ties back into your code so directly. This seems somewhat separated from whatever underlying code I'm creating.

I think the killer app is really an IB-for-the-web that plugs into Rails/Django/Symphony/etc so you can start building a web app visually, without sacrificing code quality.
Lol - very funny. I have to agree you; as a Rubyist studying MRI internals there's a lot of very confusing code in there. And FYI Ruby 1.9/2.0 retains the confusing Bison grammar file.

One of my goals with the eBook is to allow readers to get an understanding of how Ruby works without having to struggle through the confusing implementation themselves.
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If you don't mind, I have a lot of questions about this.

* The idea is to get x unknown people to pool in for an object, correct? Imo, you're relying a lot on people being honest. What's to stop a person from never passing on the object? Furthermore, what about the time slice for which each person gets to keep an object?

* Where does a company coming in to all of this? What else do they do other than facilitate the transfer of the object?

Sorry if that's too many questions. I like the idea and it seems like something that could be beneficial in theory, but I have my doubts about it working in practice.
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Right, unless the insurance company can hedge their bets. At it's simplest they could insure themselves with a re-insurance company.

They could also figure out financial consequences of social security going away and place long term bets on that. If they are able to hedge properly, they're basically reselling that hedge.
There is another meaning: culture is what a cultivated man has. I think this meaning is continental, French and German. It is something one person gains with time by broadening his familiarity with the best products of the human mind, like classic books, paintings, etc.
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How would the notation be setup?
And maybe throw in some modifiers if it's raining (or has recently rained) and if it's dark or foggy.