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mw63214

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    Comment #36806557

    Is it possible to incorporate a personalized "context" into the generator? Weather, market/news sentiments, calendar events, etc... to style the end result.

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    Comment #4844974

    Killer feature(idea): Work with a Kinect sensor on a feedback loop to update the playlist based on number of people, size of the room, acoustics, aggregate playlist taste of people…

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    Comment #4780034

    "From H, with L" maybe?

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    Comment #4637397

    One thing I could foresee happening with the increased use of furniture/concepts like this (the UrbanDesk, as well as some of the other products from other companies) is that a use…

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    Comment #4633192

    I wonder if also using a sandboxed localstorage as a memcached would be useful? I guess you would have to account for bandwidth, response time, and available memory. Also account f…

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    Comment #4367916

    Agile Education. Is that a thing? If not, why? If yes, how? Edit: serious question.

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    Comment #4335919

    I've always thought it would be cool to have employers offer "MAKEation" days instead of vacation days. This would be time accumulated to take a month, a quarter, or even a year of…

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    Comment #4297341

    I think you just clearly stated a problem and a solution in the same comment.

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    Comment #4042747

    I think I've posted this before on an older thread, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Markup_Language

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    Comment #3623314

    You might enjoy this broadcast that we (the radio show I work for) did last year on aging, the feeling of a lack of purpose, and what to do about it. It's mainly geared towards tho…

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    Comment #3555169

    " because it was not technology related, at all. The only link it had to anything technology related was where the author worked." I find articles like this interesting, regardless…

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    Comment #3553243

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Markup_Language

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    Comment #3548533

    It would be cool to see a breakdown by age/race/occupation/etc... of feedback from Emotiv Epoc ( http://emotiv.com/developers/ ) and Affectiva Affdex ( http://www.affectiva.com/aff…

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    Comment #3547769

    from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2715066 "If someone integrated a contextual playlist generator into a web-IDE and changed the music based on length of current session, de…

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    Comment #3533192

    Payment could be tied to a semi-annual or quarterly code contest where students compete in different "events". This could all be live-code-streamed. Judges are a collection of ____…

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    Comment #3504772

    what about a political triple bottom line? Cost, Constitutionality, Efficiency.

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    Comment #3406323

    3 downvotes? really? How are TurboTax and TaxSlayer doing? I would guess they make a bit of profit.

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    Comment #3405325

    What I hear you saying is: "There could/should be a better way to do it". Adding ", hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...." to the end of that statement may be of some use to you or others, financiall…

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    Comment #3390150

    I found this after a quick search. http://givecamp.org/ . Not exactly the same idea, but it's on a good track.

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    Comment #3389770

    Instead of donating that 4 hours of time to one specific project in need, why not create a platform for others to donate time? Think of a kickstarter, but for man-hours.

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    Comment #3372168

    Slightly off-topic, but I've always thought that the first wave of HCI to hit the market and gain traction would be the integration of Affective sensing tech. products and API's in…

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    Comment #3277092

    kind of like... https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:yTNyEk0hQd8J:...

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    Comment #3239438

    why not make a "one vote, one cause, one day" type of widget that can be easily added to any website( configurable to square, horizontal rectangle, vertical rectangle, etc...). Sim…

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    Comment #3010265

    Just an idea: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-18-10-1076... + http://www.khanacademy.org/ + www.classmetric.com