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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by bambax »

A device that would let people sleep in public while letting other people around them think they're awake (business meetings, boring lectures, etc.)

This could either be glasses with realistic eyes painted on them, or opaque contact lenses (that would then require the bearer to be able to sleep with their eyes opened -- but if no light enters the eye it should be quite possible).

There are many situations when you can't really leave the room to take a nap and yet you feel as though you'll die if you resist sleep a minute more.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by covercash »

donohoe wrote: post #107
covercash wrote: post #16

Popcorn Time for quality children's programming - Bill Nye, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Avatar. Shows that are entertaining AND educational, none of that advertising filled, sassy attitude, Disney Channel crap. edit: Seems like there is some interest in this. If anyone wants to discuss this more, email my username at me.com

1 million more... Given the source is open, it may be more like curating a list of children's programming torrents and providing a delivery system for people to add their own child appropriate work. I wouldn't be opposed to ads but not the sort you currently find on kids tv hawking toys

What if it was a Spotify-like model. ~$4.99/mo unlimited streaming, money is pooled and then pay out a % to content owners based on # of plays each video gets? The more popular episodes earn more of the money.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by guscost »

psycr wrote: post #54

A web API that consumes phone camera captured photos of nutritional labels, and spits back a structured JSON response of the data. Primary consumers would be developers who're building products that depend on the user inputting this type of data - or warehouse logistics companies who could catalog this sort of data and middleman it to everyone else.

This would make my idea for a mobile app that renders pictures of the sugar/salt/fat content in foods by OCRing the label a trivial problem, and it could lead to many other applications like a shopping assistant for diabetics, athletes, etc.

https://assemblymade.com/golden-fleece

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by karangoeluw »

psycr wrote: post #54

A web API that consumes phone camera captured photos of nutritional labels, and spits back a structured JSON response of the data. Primary consumers would be developers who're building products that depend on the user inputting this type of data - or warehouse logistics companies who could catalog this sort of data and middleman it to everyone else.

Dibs. I'll start working on it. If anyone wants to help out, message me or email me karan[at]goel.im

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Eleutheria »

karangoeluw wrote: post #132
Eleutheria wrote: post #105

Open University. A massive repository of all books needed for any career. No teachers, no videos, no homework, nothing, just the books, free, forever.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ ?

Nop. Not a single Law School, Medicine, Computer Science, Civil engineer book in that listing.

It should be organized like an university with all the programs by semester and their respective books.

Btw, I don't care about diplomas, I care about knowledge.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] »

bambax wrote: post #131

A device that would let people sleep in public while letting other people around them think they're awake (business meetings, boring lectures, etc.) This could either be glasses with realistic eyes painted on them, or opaque contact lenses (that would then require the bearer to be able to sleep with their eyes opened -- but if no light enters the eye it should be quite possible). There are many situations when you ca…

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by flusensieb »

timdorr wrote: post #127
joshmn wrote: post #89

A demo mode for browsers. Incognito / private mode kind of solves this, but form autocompletes, and browser history when I enter a URL doesn't always contain stuff I want to show in front of my clients.

If you're using Chrome (and I believe Firefox can do this too), if you go to the settings, there is a section for Users. You can add a new user to the browser and use that account for demo purposes. Our sales guys do the exact same thing.

You can use Firefox Profile Manager and create a new profile for demonstration purposes. ($ firefox -ProfileManager)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] »

quaunaut wrote: post #47

This is less an idea, more something for someone to think about. We need to figure out how to defeat the internet echo chamber effect. Notice how often, when a community gets started between a small group of people(such as early Reddit or HN), it's a place of intelligent, productive discussion, where people measure what they say instead of just spouting extreme rhetoric? Yet, once these communities grow, you inevitab…

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#140

Post by adam419 »

lucb1e wrote: post #130
adam419 wrote: post #73

A way to submit any legal document, and for a fee have it returned but explained in plain english. What do you guys think about this? And what do you think are the most common use cases/legal documents?

I've actually been working on this. Dutch, unfortunately, but here you go: http://lucb1e.com/rp/js/en%20dan%20nu%20in%20het%20Nederland... Quick translation of the text on the page: Title: And now in plain Dutch Intro paragraph: Contracts are always written in a very cryptic manner. So what do they say in short, plain old Dutch? Status of the project: beta. I've "translated" 2 out of 38 paragraphs from one contract I…

Couple questions. Have you had any customers? What type of legal docs do you think are best to target?

Are you trying to generate summaries programmatically?

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