I got a few: - Teleportation - Time Machine - Dream Recorder (as in record our dreams as we see them) - Mind Reader (as in Mel Gibson in What Women Want :))
Is there a way to contact you?
sure but what do you want to discuss ?
Ask HN: Name one product/service that you personally need but doesn't yet exist
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#32A smart meta-OS, a computer butler a la Jarvis. I want a ultra-light weight daemon that sits on my network and learns what I use, when and where. Then, after getting a fair amount of data it starts to subtly suggest my next step.
Say, I use Itunes every morning at 6 am for my morning run, except on Sundays or holidays. My Jarvis would see that I'm up and going outside and it's a Tuesday and get my regular playlist ready as a little icon on an unobtrusive toolbar. Or whatever it finds and figures out. Sure it would be a little clunky at first, but people tend to be regular and predictable. Also, people tend to externalize their bodily functions, fire is an external step of digestion and clothing is an external form of fur.
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#33A personal life assistant at a good price. Is it realistic to get something like a 20hrs/mth retainer for like $10/hr to sort out things for me. Something that was a longer term relationship so they get to know your personality plus build trust ideally. Possibly share this assistant with friends/family. The role would be to create a 1) one stop shop that 2) gets to know you and 3) can remove small distraction tasks;…
> for like $10/hr
Hey, big spender !
Re: Ask HN: Name one product/service that you personally need but doesn't yet exist
#34Telomere lengthener thingy.
I've been waiting for this too. It would be better if somehow only the best performers received this update. The problem is determining which performers are doing their jobs correctly.
Re: Ask HN: Name one product/service that you personally need but doesn't yet exist
#35A way to sort or filter Web searches (sites, articles, posts, comments) by the IQ and or age of the person who wrote it. This would help people to minimise low-quality content. Even if the person were unknown, heuristic methods could be devised to estimate the level of intellect in a given article or post. There are various obstacles and abuses to be resolved, but it would still be nice to have a feature like this available. At the same time, I imagine that society would not currently accept such a proposition.
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#36switch-for-me. I don't care who my household energy supplier is, I just want to pay the least each month without the hassle of monitoring my usage, comparing prices and administrating the transfer. You do it for me and you can keep a percentage of the saving.
Re: Ask HN: Name one product/service that you personally need but doesn't yet exist
#37A way to sort or filter Web searches (sites, articles, posts, comments) by the IQ and or age of the person who wrote it. This would help people to minimise low-quality content. Even if the person were unknown, heuristic methods could be devised to estimate the level of intellect in a given article or post. There are various obstacles and abuses to be resolved, but it would still be nice to have a feature like this av…
I would take a system that told me the reading level of the article before I click through.
Re: Ask HN: Name one product/service that you personally need but doesn't yet exist
#38A way to sort or filter Web searches (sites, articles, posts, comments) by the IQ and or age of the person who wrote it. This would help people to minimise low-quality content. Even if the person were unknown, heuristic methods could be devised to estimate the level of intellect in a given article or post. There are various obstacles and abuses to be resolved, but it would still be nice to have a feature like this av…
I would take a system that told me the reading level of the article before I click through.
It's surprising the big search engines don't already do something this simple. Maybe a browser plugin could perform this analysis on blocks of text and append a small div at the upper right/left showing the score for each block. Perhaps it could even use things like misspellings and grammar errors as indicators of poor quality control.
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#39A todo list that helps me figure out WTF to do, maybe by generating checklists from a corpus of facts, sources trusted via web of trust, social collaboration, etc. I'd input "trip to Thailand" and the service would break that down into: 1 check your vaccines 1.1 hepatitis A most important 1.2 try local clinic X, click here to dial 2 check your insurance 2.1 click here if you have home insurance 2.2 click here to purc…
I'm there too. A crowd sourced and trained machine learning travel agent would be phenomenal. Quite expensive too.