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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by awshepard »

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…

Someone just recently sent me a low-tech version of this - http://imgur.com/gallery/MekVijC

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Post by gromy »

gamegoblin wrote: post #9

A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in. Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick cha…

https://gitter.im/ ?

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Post by stretchwithme »

hooande wrote: post #72

A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI lay…

It would be great if each tab belonged to a project and I could add new tabs to a project when I open the tab.

If I could, all at once, close all tabs that aren't part of the project I'm working on, that would free up resources for the things that currently matter.

And if the browser could keep track of how much time I browse for a specific project, I could use that to track how much time I spent on each project.

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Post by Madsn »

tgandrews wrote: post #161
mattmanser wrote: post #34

Baby near me Amenities near by with baby facilities, possibly with user ratings. All of my recently baby-ied friends complain about finding places to go, especially groups of recent mothers meeting up in the middle of the day.

There is Wow dad, and there is mum version called Wow Mum (maybe Wow Mom). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.wowdad.ui

It really bugs me that this is restricted to ireland, UK and USA. :(

If anybody is interested in working on something like this let me know :)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by dome82 »

An easy way for mole mapping at home and having an personal electronic journal about it. It should be possible to share a link with your dermatologist containing your mole mapping.

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Post by d0m »

gfosco wrote: post #162

I want to search for furniture, and other products, based on dimensions. My girlfriend and I furnished a new apartment recently, and had to be space conscious.. This spot next to the couch could fit a 10" wide table. It's not easy to search for that, yet the information is there. My original plan was going to use the Amazon API and take a search term and page through looking for dimensions that fit. I still think it'…

Taking a pic of your room and seeing nice furniture virtually added so you can easily test different styles.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sparkie »

nemo1618 wrote: post #58

I have a strange fascination with knowing exactly how I discovered a particular artist, film, website, etc. I'd really love a browser extension that could keep track of how the user reached a given site. Then they could go back later and input, say, a YouTube URL, and it would show exactly what lead them to that song. I started writing such an extension myself, but I was clearly out of my element. So when Mozilla shu…

I've seen this a few times, once as a firefox addon which is no longer available by the looks of it.[1]

I'm pretty sure Mosaic tried a similar thing about 20 years ago.

The other time I saw it was in the form of a DAG which appeared in a panel above the address bar which could be selectively hidden. The graphics were crude as I think it was rendered in GraphViz. I can't for the life of me remember where I saw this - tried searching for it again with no look. Pretty sure it was in a video demonstrating an experimental browser, but I'm lost as to which. (Maybe I dreamt it)

I just found another while searching too.[2]

[1]:http://www.technotraits.com/2009/09/browse-firefox-history-i...

[2]:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fromwheretowh...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by netcan »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #2

Keep Writing. I, sometimes, would like to write on a subject but I fear no one will read the material. If I had X people simply suggest to "keep writing" I would be more willing. Keep writing is something like Medium but it allows someone to post text (news, fiction, stories, anything) that is not complete. Writers set a (hidden) number of votes they should reach before they keep going then they publish what they cur…

That's a fantastic idea. It might be tricky to find a balanced reader/writer dynamic but it if it worked it would be very cool.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by lucb1e »

adam419 wrote: post #140
lucb1e wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> "Have you had any customers?"

No, no, it's nothing like that. It's just a small Javascript thingy that tries to convert legal nonsense into sense. I got a contract in Dutch that I found took way longer to read than it should (like, really read and understand all implications), made this script and threw it online. It's in a directory with dozens of unfinished scripts that I wrote.

So yes, summaries are generated programmatically. They have no legal value but provide a much better read of what is written in the contract.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by tothrowaway »

rkuykendall-com wrote: post #12

Just for developers: Something that allowed you to change the IP your request resolves to with a modified URL instead of editing the hosts file, like this: 127.0.0.1:: http://mysite.com/ Benefits: Not as much work, not as permanent, you can use multiple at once, you can easily see where you are connecting. I think this is something web developers would pay a few bucks for. I know I would.

nip.io and xip.io can do this:

mysite.com.127.0.0.1.nip.io mysite.com.127.0.0.1.xip.io

Your server must route the request to the appropriate vhost though (e.g. ServerAlias mysite.com.*.xip.io).

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