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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sarthakk »

anupshinde wrote: post #173

Tracking browsing habits. I would like to see how much time I spent on what "kind or type" of browsing. And I can define these as a hierarchy (type->subtype). And define productive/unproductive/lessproductive segments. Example: "stackoverflow or localhost:8081" would be "Development" kind of work. "news.ycombinator.com" --> "Reading" "gmail.com/outlook.com" --> "Commmunication" "facebook.com" -- "Unnecessary waste of…

You might want to check out BeLimitless (http://belimitless.co/): It's a Chrome extension that uses your browsing activity to tell you how productive you are/ have been.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by akshatpradhan »

maguirre wrote: post #155
mhp wrote: post #95

Open source US tax filing application. Basically TurboTax but free.

I love this idea and I'd be interested in backing something like this. However I do worry about the liability of something that is constantly in flux like the US tax code

I agree that I love this idea. Maybe this can be one of the first products in open sourcing the government. People care greatly about taxes.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by lettergram »

crusso wrote: post #102

I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…

http://lesswrong.com/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by akshatpradhan »

AbhishekBiswal wrote: post #14
ethnomusicolog wrote: post #6

Every sunday: Product Idea: a gmail app that shows me a graph with the number of mail I sent/receive a day , by person, group,...

Here you go, http://gmailmeter.com/ :D

Getting an error: https://gist.github.com/akshatpradhan/10603374

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by whatupdave »

Spittie wrote: post #89

Okay, a bunch of ideas. Probably nothing as good as my last one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542610 ), which was meh to begin with (but I'm happy to see that it sparkled a bit of interest). #1) An anonymous blogging platform. A site that obviously doesn't log you, and that allow you to publish posts without having them attached to an username. Since many would like to somehow post under the same handle, bu…

If you want to share ownership with a community of builders you can post up ideas to https://assemblymade.com

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Detrus »

crusso wrote: post #102

I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…

This is along the lines of structured arguments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_map

Doug Engelbart the creator of NLS and famous for Mother of All Demos talks about such systems http://youtu.be/xQx-tuW9A4Q and http://youtu.be/VeSgaJt27PM etc.

The general principle is we won't make much progress discussing complex issues by simply recreating the print world with increased convenience of a computer like we do now. The discussions have to take a fundamentally different form, possible only on computers, such as semantic argument maps, etc.

Of course his perspective comes from 1950's when educated people had civil discussions that solved problems, or at least that's the modern nostalgia. He imagined a new class of "knowledge workers" moderating information. Instead we have voting rings and content farms.

If anything, a structured argument map could shut down much of the attention seeking drivel surrounding every political/complex system issue.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by MichaelDickens »

lettergram wrote: post #183
crusso wrote: post #102

I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…

http://lesswrong.com/

Less Wrong explicitly doesn't talk about politics (or at least tries not to), so it's not the right venue for the sort of thing OP wants.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by patrickmay »

crusso wrote: post #102

I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…

The talk.origins archive (http://www.talkorigins.org) attempts to do this for all of the arguments posed by creationists against modern evolutionary theory.

Unfortunately, there are still creationists. Even when there is overwhelming scientific evidence in support of one position, people will still hold another.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by yitchelle »

tizzdogg wrote: post #180
yitchelle wrote: post #42

A translation service - A photo of the document to be translated is emailed into the service. In 1 or 2 days time, the email is replied with an translated document. The photo can be taken with mobile phone photos and emailed.

You should check out gengo.com. Sounds like that's exactly what you're looking for, or at least they have an API that could be used to build the app you want.

Thanks for the heads up on gengo.com. I shall checked them out. Have you dealt with them before?
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