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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by neil_s »

teemo_cute wrote: post #4

A while ago I was reading a blog post and I spotted a grammar error. The post was good but it made me a little uncomfortable. So I decided to make it right. I used chrome developer tools's edit html feature... I edited the html and behold the grammar error was gone. I read the paragraph again with pure delight. I love technology. Idea Generated: There are lots of blog posts out there that have good content, but somet…

Yes. I imagine this as a javascript/jquery plugin with a backend service that website/blog owners can integrate into their website. It would work something like Medium comments - you highlight the erroneous text, click the 'report typo' button, and then optionally suggest a corrected version.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by gfosco »

alexmic wrote: post #243

I'd like a service that allows me to write internet-connected scripts that can be scheduled or executed on demand via webhooks. I have a bunch of things I want to do (like monitor a site for example) without messing around with servers. To take it even further these scripts can come with their own store (just a simple key-value will do the trick), exposed over an API with a private key.

You can probably do this with several different existing services. Parse.com Cloud Code (either express endpoints, or cloud functions) can definitely handle this.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by whitef0x »

I always thought a DNA analyzer for potential dates would be a good idea. I know it sounds crazy but you want to know if the your date has any good bad genes or not so you can make a full gene ARRAY so you can see their store gene structure and see if they are eatable. This would also translate into better offspring for maximum efficient.

/s before anyone jumps on me for posting this, know that this was posted as sarcasm

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by cr4zy »

bshimmin wrote: post #131
cr4zy wrote: post #18

cron as a service...but unlike setcronjob.com and easycron.com, allow more than a few thousand jobs and in general support advanced job scheduling features. So actually more like quartz as a service , i.e. hosted http://quartz-scheduler.org/

Doesn't IronWorker do all of that, and well, already?

Most expensive plan only allows 1,000 concurrent tasks for $3250. This wouldn't work if I wanted to have a custom schedule for each user of most apps for example.

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Post by jjoonathan »

bazzargh wrote: post #251
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…

(inserts tongue firmly in cheek) I think there would be more money for a site that helps you argue your position from available data, the truth be damned. I'm thinking "How to Lie With Statistics"[1] as a service - tell it you want to, say, show that guns are becoming safer, or that higher taxation causes obesity, and it will produce a nicely manipulated graph containing only real figures from readily available datas…

> I think there would be more money for a site that helps you argue your position

Let me toss in some anecdotal evidence in support of your suspicion. The only "debate" site to hold my attention for more than a first visit is one that focuses on curating data to support arguments about certain issues (the curation is manual AFAIK). I initially stumbled across it when debating health care reform:

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...

Pay particular attention to to "Projects" sidebar on the left. It's a goldmine of relevant quantitative information and the arguments surrounding their interpretation. I actually don't think it's cynical to expect that this is the right way to approach the "debate market." Discovering data in relevant "digested" forms is a huge friction point. It should be central to the political debate process, it isn't, and anyone who can reduce the friction will be doing a huge service to humanity.

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Post by sborsje »

nobrains wrote: post #147
carlio wrote: post #114

I'd love a "profiling firewall", so to speak. I hate it when tethering when iTunes downloads a 500mb update without telling me. In general, your Laptop has no idea that it's tethered and therefore data is more scarce than normal. Something that flips between "ok go for it" and "restrict these apps" would be nice, especially if it were automatic.

Yes. I haven't thought about laptops/desktops OSes yet, but atleast in phones I should be able to mark a WIFI connection as "treat-as-data-connection" so that the OS obeys the background data rules for the OS and the applications.

Android uses a DHCP option for this: http://www.lorier.net/docs/android-metered

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by moubarak »

hershel wrote: post #144

Lack of eye contact in video chats greatly hurts the experience and is probably the source of the difference between it and face to face chat. Using something based on [1] but a bit better(for example , let's you cover maximum screen area) could be a decent solution for this. [1] http://hacknmod.com/hack/laptop-mod-eye-contact-video-chat/

i like this idea. i'm gonna officially work on it for iOS.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by bequanna »

nandreev wrote: post #228

"Who's in town" app - it's difficult to keep track of where all my friends are at any given time, and many times I miss out on catching up with friends because I don't realize they're in the same city that I'm traveling to. One could say something like the "location" field in chat programs deals with this, but hardly anyone keeps that current. In the past, I would blast a Facebook status of my new location and hope t…

Or, would it be possible to extract location information from existing Instagram/Facebook/etc friends via their posts?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by k8si »

thess24 wrote: post #248
k8si wrote: post #230

Social graph app for tracking gang activity on Twitter, with the intention of predicting potential violence before it happens on the streets. According to Vice/other sources, it's becoming increasingly popular for gangs to communicate publicly via Twitter and other social media sources. It's an interesting NLP problem because Twitter language is crazy and an interesting "computational social science" problem because…

I was listening to NPR a few months ago and they actually had a bit on tracking Twitter for gang activity and the ethics behind scanning twitter. Here's a link to the story [1]. One of the products they outline is called BlueJay [2] and scans for key words and locations. I guess NPR isn't popular among gang members or they would probably stop. [1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/28/284131... [2] ht…

thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by k8si »

allworknoplay wrote: post #255
k8si wrote: post #230

Social graph app for tracking gang activity on Twitter, with the intention of predicting potential violence before it happens on the streets. According to Vice/other sources, it's becoming increasingly popular for gangs to communicate publicly via Twitter and other social media sources. It's an interesting NLP problem because Twitter language is crazy and an interesting "computational social science" problem because…

oh cool, pre-crime. worked for tom cruise, why not poor people in disadvantaged communities?

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