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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by cabalamat »

poppingtonic wrote: post #359
cabalamat wrote: post #354

Something like Wordpress but including a wiki as well as a group blog. The blog entries would also be viewable based on recentness/score (like on reddit or HN) or by topic (like on forum software). It would be possible to have a local mirror of the site on one's PC which would automatically sync with the live site; this mirror could also be used to set up other live sites. Thgis would be an anti-censorship measure if…

Look at the blog lesswrong.com. It's a community blog built from reddit's code. It has a wiki as well. https://github.com/tricycle/lesswrong‎

Thnaks. Here's the correct URL btw: https://github.com/tricycle/lesswrong

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by notduncansmith »

neilsharma wrote: post #289

Problem: Completion rates for online courses are dismal and engagement with other students and faculty is low. Idea: Weekly online, live discussion sections to accompany self-paced video lectures. Discussion sections have 5-10 students and are facilitated by Teaching Assistants How it works: Students taking a MOOC course sign up each week for a discussion section. There can be multiple discussion sections to accommod…

This isn't a bad idea at all. I'd be very interested in discussing it further. Hit me up on Skype (same username) or email (http://notduncansmith.github.io/#contact)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Egregore »

cabalamat wrote: post #354

Something like Wordpress but including a wiki as well as a group blog. The blog entries would also be viewable based on recentness/score (like on reddit or HN) or by topic (like on forum software). It would be possible to have a local mirror of the site on one's PC which would automatically sync with the live site; this mirror could also be used to set up other live sites. Thgis would be an anti-censorship measure if…

For anti-censorship I would suggest considering technologies like: Ethereum, Storj, MaidSafe which are also for now just ideas.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by notduncansmith »

conroy wrote: post #143
mudil wrote: post #138

WP plugin to charge for guest posts. As a blogger for last 10 years, I think someone should consider providing WP blogs with ability to charge for guest posts. That can be done either as a single time purchase (for a single guest post) or as a recurring payment (i.e. monthly charge for unlimited or predetermined number of guest posts per month). The purchaser makes a payment and opens an account, and then is redirect…

Matt Cutts has said recently[0] that guest blogging should be avoided. [0]: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/

I don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. I feel like it's relevant to the discussion (and was about to post it myself).

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nkzednan »

slater wrote: post #126

A sortable, queryable list of movies. A site that would retrieve a resulting (and sortable!) list of queries such as "Show me all science-fiction movies made in the last ten years", or "All Arnold Schwarzenegger movies that have won an Oscar" (trick question!) - Yes, IMDB exists. And has some of the functionality I'd like. But it is a slow site, replete with ads, upsells, 2003-esque "only show 10 results per page!",…

Sort of in this vein there's: http://5000best.com/movies/ has a few filters and lets you search by title, director, year, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nicklovescode »

whatevsbro wrote: post #209
egypturnash wrote: post #190

Basically Yelp for transgender surgeons. I've been working on making the decision as to who I'll get to sculpt new genitals for me, and researching this on the web is a mess - every site comparing them is out of date, triggers my mental sketchy spam site detectors, or both. It'd be great to be able to go to a nice-looking site and say "all I'm interested in right now is MtF genital surgery", then see doctors who do t…

Consider going to Thailand for this. They've probably got the most experienced MtF genital surgeons in the world.

Why is this comment downvoted? Is it because of the in probably? I've never researched this personally but have heard evidence supporting this from people who have.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by zealon »

Ok, here is mine: Prototyper. - Create a webapp that allows the users to choose their phone model. - Based on that, generate and allow downloading of a custom app (Android, iOS) for that model. - The user should be able to customize the software modules for that app and interconnect them, IFTTT-like.

HTH ;-)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by greggman »

Buetol wrote: post #17

An anonymous and representative group discussion and voting system Practical example: Attending a conf as a woman - You want to ask questions during the talks but you are afraid that because you are a woman your answer will be "dumbed-down" or just different - Also, the guy doing the talk would like to answer the best possible question (or a random one) So, there can be a lot of solutions to this problem, here is min…

I'm not sure this fits but there's google moderator.

You make a topic, people submit questions, people can vote up the questions, people giving talk can answer the top questions. There's a space for some discussion below each question.

Google uses this both internally at company wide meetings and at Google I/O

https://www.google.com/moderator/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ld00d »

A system of homeless charity. I never have cash. What if I could scan a QR code to donate? What if that donation was better distributed through a central agency instead of directly to the person on the street corner? The guy on the corner gets a bigger piece as an incentive.

A distributed peer to peer encrypted chat system. No dependencies on Google or whoever for hosting. No middle channel holding private keys. Threaded conversations. Synced across devices.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by basicallydan »

biggerfisch wrote: post #282
basicallydan wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good idea. The Matrix is definitely on the list of available experiences. EDIT: If you take the red pill, you get to live Neo's life when he was still Thomas Anderson, go to his job and do all the stuff he would do. It'd be hilariously boring.

I think you mean the blue pill? If I remember correctly, the blue pill was the return to normal while the red pill was the "trace program"

Yep, right you are. I looked it up on Google and read the summary, and I guess I must've mis-read it. When I went to the Wikipedia page [0] it in fact says:

The blue pill would allow him to remain in the fabricated reality of the Matrix, therefore living the "illusion of ignorance", while the red pill would lead to his escape from the Matrix and into the real world, therefore living the "truth of reality".

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

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