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Post by iambateman »

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #316
IsaacL wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've explored similar ideas in the past. One possibility I explored was breaking down claims like 'Guantanamo Bay should close' into moral claims plus factual claims, eg 'Guantanamo Bay practices torture' plus 'torture is wrong'. This could be further broken down until you had a set of moral axioms and a set of basic pieces of factual evidence, and a set of syllogisms linking them together. Different people would ind…

I agree. Breaking down a debate into arguments which have moral and factual premises will be useful. The logical validity of the argument can be automatically enforced. The system wouldn't allow you to make an invalid argument. Showing people exactly where they disagree would be a huge advancement. I think there are plenty of people who care about the truth and also care to have a consistent worldview in terms of mor…

For me and you, this is true. Unfortunately, INSERT_MAJOR_NEWS_NETWORK is proof that the vast majority of people don't give a shit about logical validity.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by iambateman »

netcan wrote: post #119
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…

I like the train of thought. "Voting" on the internet definitely added a lot but it created a bunch of hurdles: majoritarian thought, bubbles and averaged opinions. Review sites like rotten tomatoes are a good example of the last one. The average opinion about a movie is nowhere near as good as asking a single person who shares my tastes in movies. A bubble would be much more useful here. I'm not sure where I'm going…

I'm kind of waiting on Facebook to do this. Create a voting engine based on people similar to me for services like Rotten Tomatoes and Netflix. The "other people similar to you liked.." should be far more ubiquitous.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ccallebs »

callmeed wrote: post #76

Calendars & Events as a Service (aka "Stripe for Calendars") I'm sick of dealing with scheduled events, timezones, future background jobs, etc. in almost every app I build. I want a service with an elegant API and nice libraries that would let me: * Create multiple calendars (it would have an ID I could then save with my user model or whatever) * Add events to a calendar by just passing it a timestamp and other metad…

I'm working on this (a subset of these features at least) right now. It was going to be an internal tool for my company, but having seen this interest makes me think I might try and go the SaaS route...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by siavosh »

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…

You might be interested in this http://www.procon.org/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Jemaclus »

d0m wrote: post #297

Google map that can show me parking? I'm driving to a coffee place, great, but then it's 10min turning around the place looking for parking. Ideally it should drive me in real-time to a place where I can park.

I was thinking the other day about this. They have cars that can park themselves already. I think Audi has been advertising them. They obviously use some sort of sensor to detect empty parking spaces. What would be brilliant is if they did two things:

1) Used GPS coordinates to figure out if you are in a high-demand area for parking and, if so:

2) Passively scan for parking spots as you drive by, then upload them to the cloud.

You don't actually have to be looking for a parking spot -- but your driving by an empty one could help someone else.

A more YC-focused idea is to design a small device that does exactly that for any car and is as simple as dropping something onto your antenna or sticking it on a passenger-side window.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by prattbhatt »

d0m wrote: post #299

I have a hard time explaining this idea, so please bear with me. As a founder and hacker, I want to know how my users use my web and mobile apps. But I haven't found an intuitive and dead-simple way to do it. Mixpanel and google analytic are way more complex than what I have in mind. What I would like to have is more similar to Facebook, but instead of looking at my friends activity, I'd like to see what's happening…

I faced the same problem while I was building a SaaS product. It became difficult to understand what users were doing on the app and then easily reach out to them with help/feedback emails. We realized that there are other people building SaaS products who are facing the same problems. So, we have pivoted to building an analytics + messaging tool for SaaS products.

These are the problems that we are working on:

- quickly check out the feed of any user's actions on your product

- click on a action and see the recent / most-frequent users for that action

- segment users by their 'journey', e.g. case: how many users have integrated their Google Analytics account but have never seen the generated reports? (user 'hasdone' and 'hasnotdone' queries)

- auto segmenting users based on their engagement/frequency/plan (by assigning a karma score to each user)

- lifecycle emails / notifications : send emails to your users based on where they got stuck while using the product etc

You can check out more on the landing page:

http://www.dodatado.com/landing

My email: prateek [AT] dodatado [DOT] com

Links:

Website - http://www.dodatado.com/landing

Beta Sign Up - https://dodatado.wufoo.com/forms/dodatado-account-registrati...

SaaS product I was working on - http://www.dodatado.com

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by anupshinde »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #178
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…

Have you tried RescueTime?

Thanks, looks promising - I have seen couple of other desktop time-tracking apps and this looks much better than those.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nanidin »

throwaway_yy2Di wrote: post #55

Offline navigation map for mobile. Small thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171919 The entire OpenStreetMap dataset is 23 GiB with moderate compression. With some optimization/truncuation the whole world should fit comfortably on most phones. This is very useful, for the times you're lost with a slow connection, no connection, in a foreign country, or with roaming charges. Also it's a fun algorithm-he…

MapsWithMe[0] lacks routing, but it is an iOS app that provides fast, detailed offline maps with POI's. Data is downloaded by region (for the US, it's by state, for most of the rest of the world, it's by country) and the data is updated pretty frequently. When I was trekking in Nepal, even obscure trails were marked on the maps, which was terrific!

[0] http://mapswith.me/en/home

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