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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by soupsranjan »

azinman2 wrote: post #337

Blackbox web security SAAS. There are some services out there that will scan you for vulnerabilities, but I have yet to find a really slick way to integrate security "for free" into your own servers/services. This would mean at minimum: 1. apt-get install X. Automatically decent kernel/network/firewall configuration occurs, removes cleartext passwords from ssh and changes the port, etc etc. This is just a base starti…

So this would be similar to Impermium (now acquired by Google) meets Sift Science meets Cloud Flare - have you checked them out?

I have thought of building such a security as a service for websites for sometime. My PhD thesis was on building a reverse proxy server (kind of like nginx) to detect attackers (via machine learning) and starve them of CPU/network resources disproportionately (using admission control + WFQ) during a DDoS attack. After that I've spent a decade building systems to detect cyber security threats, click fraud, Twitter spammers, etc.

What do you think is lacking in existing security as a service offerings that prompted your post? Would love to chat more.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by A_COMPUTER »

Spittie wrote: post #89

Okay, a bunch of ideas. Probably nothing as good as my last one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542610 ), which was meh to begin with (but I'm happy to see that it sparkled a bit of interest). #1) An anonymous blogging platform. A site that obviously doesn't log you, and that allow you to publish posts without having them attached to an username. Since many would like to somehow post under the same handle, bu…

I'd like to see something like #1 where not even the site hosting the content can impersonate an anonymous blogger. I suppose this would require some kind of key signature system. The problem with tripcodes is that while they offer a persistent identity across every site that implements the tripcode algorithm, you're giving up your secret password for the trip to every site you post on.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hoffcoder »

zarriak wrote: post #158

I'd like someone to implement a wrapper for youtube that makes using the website better. There are lots of things you could do, from watching all of the videos since the one you last viewed, to a better way of editing playlists than the current one. They should also make a way to preview videos, like hovering over the image of the video and you see a 15 or 30 second preview that you can choose from a part of the vide…

I agree that youtube can be much more useful. But writing a wrapper does not sound legal, does it?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by beaglebone »

It's common that many people go for a decent restaurant and have their meal alone which turns out that it's expensive and boring. Idea is why don't we have an mobile/web application which will list out nearby restaurants and users who posted that they want a company to share their lunch bill. With this advantage is that they can try out different dishes and still with lesser expense as you would share with your stranger partner.

To be more specific about the application: 1)Any one wants to share their lunch bill, they open the application and check the near by hotels. 2)If anyone has posted already that they need a partner to share lunch, you could join them (probably their taste also mentioned in the app) 3)If you don't find any one who's open for sharing, you can post one.

This will work out for people those who travel, single, students,group of strangers.,

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by akg_67 »

Jemaclus wrote: post #351

* Hearing aids that run off body heat. They have watches that do it, why not hearing aids? Or at least helps recharge the batteries... I dunno. I spend a lot of money on hearing aid batteries... * A better credit rating system. The current one kinda sucks, no offense to Transunion, Experian, and whatever that other one is. Just because Joe Schmoe was unemployed 18 months ago and struggled to pay the rent, much less p…

A better credit rating system. The current one kinda sucks, no offense to Transunion, Experian, and whatever that other one is. Just because Joe Schmoe was unemployed 18 months ago and struggled to pay the rent, much less pay the bills, does not mean that Joe Schmoe is currently unable to do so. A creditor can claim a debt from Sally Schmoe, and Sally has little recourse in fighting it -- it's ridiculously complicated to combat something you know nothing about. Usually she winds up just paying the bogus bill to get it off her credit report. The whole thing is a racket.

I have been working in consumer credit modeling for last three years and currently consult in this area. Despite the deficiencies, the credit scoring model (introduced in 1950s) is still the most effective model. Banks and lending institutions do overlay behavioral scoring models to achieve somewhat better results. But including social knowledge is still in infancy and mostly at research stage. If you have any specific thoughts, I will love to hear them.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by meric »

ggchappell wrote: post #289
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 appreciate the idea, but it needs some reworking. In particular, I see two big flaws. (1) The essence of the use of this site would be that one chooses a position, and then finds arguments to support it. In other words, "I've made up my mind; now show me why I'm right." Now suppose I'm the person discussing an issue with you. Why should I pay any attention to some page chosen based largely on the assumption that I'…

Perhaps an implementation of the idea could reduce arguments of a political thought into an axiom, e.g. (this is probably wrong) abortion should be legal......., assuming individual liberty is the most important quality of a society, vs abortion should be illegal......., assuming maximising human life being the most important quality of society.

In that case you could see where you fundamentally disagree with a political idea, and accept the difference quickly without rehashing past arguments.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by callmeed »

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…

Have you checked out Intercom.io? It does a lot of what you are asking ...

https://www.intercom.io/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by xerophtye »

hashtag wrote: post #327
conorgil145 wrote: post #312

I don't expect this would be a company, but rather more of an open source project. I have been thinking about this for a while, so I'll throw it up to see if there is any interest. I would really like someone to create a website full of information and resources for first time startup employees regarding stock options. It would be great if there was a calculator which would allow you to experiment with different liqu…

Contrary to your statement about how it could be __surprisingly accurate__, it would in fact be the opposite. There is no accurate way to build a calculator to show different liquidity outcomes because there are way too many unknown variables if you understand how stocks actually work in a given company. Everything would have to be a complete guess in the dark for the employee punching in those numbers making it near…

On the contrary, "How much does the company need to be worth for my options to be worth $X?" can be answered with a surprising amount of accuracy. Because isn't that basic mathematics with the variables "Exercise Price" and "Stock price"? I am talking about value of options for EXERCISE here, not selling them off. The selling part is what gets a little complicated, but we have ways to price them as well so a calculator for that could be built as well.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by krolley »

Jemaclus wrote: post #351

* Hearing aids that run off body heat. They have watches that do it, why not hearing aids? Or at least helps recharge the batteries... I dunno. I spend a lot of money on hearing aid batteries... * A better credit rating system. The current one kinda sucks, no offense to Transunion, Experian, and whatever that other one is. Just because Joe Schmoe was unemployed 18 months ago and struggled to pay the rent, much less p…

Watches that run on body heat? If you're referring to mechanical watches, I think they use motion to wind a torsion spring to store energy.
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