Fix copyright and/or copyright for streaming radio...
Ask YC/HN: What's a problem you'd like to see someone solve?
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#182A solution between owning and renting. I don't want to purchase a home because the cost is too high and I have no interest in being "invested" into the real estate market. However, renting has limitations imposed by the owner: - pet/smoking/# residents preferences - can't realistically make significant improvements to the property
I'd rather make the system of home buying more efficient.
I want to own my home, but I want the act of moving from home to home to be as easy as moving from apartment to apartment.
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#183Something I thought of when I was studying engineering at Uni (I dropped out) was to fit a small device onto the accelerator cable of a car that can apply varying degrees of tension to the pedal. This device would be moderated by the computer in the car to "condition" the driver to adopt a more fuel-efficient driving style. If you drive in a non-fuel efficient manner, there would be more "drag" on the pedal, thus req…
This is being implemented, http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=130108 From the article: The [Nissan] Eco Pedal is designed to provide a "counter push-back control mechanism" if it senses "excess pressure" on the accelerator. In other words, it does not like lead foots. The premise of this new technology, which Nissan says is a "world first," is to help the driver get an immediate sense that he or she…
Its good to see these kind of improvements make it through to production cars. Personally, I would be more aware of my fuel efficiency while driving if I had instant feedback. I suppose this is the constant guilt factor.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you've been flamed for this recently, then you have probably been informed of the idea's utter bankruptcy. Why post it again?
The tendency of an idea to be met with knee-jerk flames says more about the responders than about the idea's merit.
Which doesn't mean it has no correlation to the idea's merit.
Actually, I'd be curious about what makes the best flamebait -- is it totally dishonest stuff, mostly controversial stuff, or ideas that people suspect are true but want to think (or what to be heard saying) are false and deplorable?
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recommended configuration for Opera 9: Pentium II class system with 64 MB of RAM and at least 50 MB of free disk space
Fair enough. I'm just saying that a kneejerk "use firefox!" doesn't necessarily help: it isn't that simple. Whether you should really need so much computing power just run a web browser is a different matter entirely. My cell phone probably has more processing power (and definitely has far more memory and storage) than my desktop computer did when I was in high school.
For the vast majority of people, Firefox will work on their system.
I wish Mozilla lowered the requirements for systems or only installed a 'light' version on older systems.
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#186Re: Ask YC/HN: What's a problem you'd like to see someone solve?
#187Working AI--scalable and capable of getting smarter.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody starts somewhere.
Some people should never start. It's hard enough to tell the good programmers from the ridiculously bad programmers as it is.
I have mixed feelings about the sentiment, but mostly I feel like making setting up a development environment confusing probably isn't the best way to weed people out. Besides, a recent CS graduate who can't install Eclipse on their own is one thing, but a bright kid with books about programming from the public library that wants to move from QBASIC to C is another thing entirely.
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#189You silly people. Emacs has fixes for most of these problems built in since v22.
No one thinks the above is funny or worthy of upmodding? I think it's hilarious ... but I wrote it.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tendency of an idea to be met with knee-jerk flames says more about the responders than about the idea's merit.
Which doesn't mean it has no correlation to the idea's merit. Actually, I'd be curious about what makes the best flamebait -- is it totally dishonest stuff, mostly controversial stuff, or ideas that people suspect are true but want to think (or what to be heard saying) are false and deplorable?
In spite of being textual, I think most flaming really happens at an emotional level. The best flamebait pushes people's buttons (perhaps unintentionally).