Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Post by DanBC » Sun, Apr 20, 2014, 9:53 PM UTC

qw wrote: post #317

manish_gill wrote: post #140

This might be fairly simple, but I can't find a good solution - A replacement for Google Groups. More specifically, a better UI to use Mailing Lists. Perhaps like vBulletin or other advance forum software. Maybe even built-in support in my email client? For the life of me, I can't find a good way to use Mailing Lists. I don't like receiving 40+ messages every day, but I don't find digest mode good enough either. Goog…

In my opinion, discussions were handled better in the old Usenet days. How about running a private NNTP server and use one of the programs that forwards the mailing list to the NNTP server? There are still lots of good NNTP clients out there like XNews

Post by miguelrochefort » Sun, Apr 20, 2014, 9:55 PM UTC

flylib wrote: post #264

miguelrochefort wrote: post #250

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Really? Do you have any example?

this is the best one I seen - https://10s.ec a few others http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/ https://paytagz.com (Member of http://boost.vc )

Post by miguelrochefort » Sun, Apr 20, 2014, 9:59 PM UTC

icefox wrote: post #96

miguelrochefort wrote: post #90

Sell anything in a snap. 1. Find something you want to sell 2. Snap a picture (or a short video) 3. Tap "list for sale" 4. Let mechanical turk + computer vision identify the object 5. Let the system pick a value (based on sales history, location, demand) 6. Contact the seller when a serious buyer made a deposit 7. Proceed to demo + sale I shouldn't have to write down any spec when selling something as ubiquitous as a…

It is a nice idea, but in your two simple cases the photo would be of a "ubiquitous" Xbox 360 and a iPhone 4S. But it could be of an iPhone 4 and in the case of the Xbox the date of manufacture really matters. The older model that _will_ one day die on the owner are worth less. And then there isn't any mention of how much space you have on them. But above all a photo might not indicate if the device actually works...…

Post by miguelrochefort » Sun, Apr 20, 2014, 10:01 PM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #262

miguelrochefort wrote: post #175

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"Thought" might be a better term than "ideas". The purpose of such a tool is not to brainstorm, but to communicate. We communicate using natural languages. If you check Twitter, you'll see people write down all kind of thoughts and information. But this information is not semantic, and only a human (or NLP) can make sense of what is said. When people communicate, it's either to make a statement about the past ("I ate…

I see it doing reverse stemming so that the nouns and verbs in the AST are more simple, like annotating verbs and nouns with a temporal tag. You type in english, and it generates an AST on the fly. This would allow conversations to line up and be searchable by content rather than just text. If the software isn't continually improved I could see it dumbing down the grammar that the group uses. It could enforce a defac…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 20, 2014, 10:03 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #239

basicallydan wrote: post #181

I've been sitting on this gem for a while. I present to you: The Bruce Wayne Gap Year. Wealthy people with desires to become Batman can more-or-less do so. First they sign a waiver and an NDA, removing any liability from the Bruce Wayne Gap Year company. Then they'll pay the company tens of thousands of dollars to pay for what is to come. They'll be put into a real criminal gang [1], and taken around the world gettin…

Wealthy people who are in a physical condition to do this, don't have time. Wealthy people who have time, don't have health. And those who have both, won't even talk to you.