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Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

#41

good question, going through these ideas I keep in mind: "The winds of change originate in the unconscious minds of domain experts. If you're sufficiently expert in a field, any weird idea or apparently irrelevant question that occurs to you is ipso facto worth exploring." [0] 1/ So the idea I haven't done is build a hacker search engine. I'm not sure what this would look like, but I'd bet being able to search throug…

something like sourcegraph?

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

#42

A mood indicator for every person within a nation. Takes into account technical know how and intent to thwart. Think of everyone from people who dont even use phones to a SF techie. The goal is to share in parseable data what is important to you on a daily basis (or as often as you like) so that sentiment is not a surprise to fellow countrymen or governments, advertisers, entertainers etc.

Sounds like an origin story for the series Psychopass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass) Just tune for mood=disruptive/angry.

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

#46

iPlantTrees - kind of tree sharing. You want a plant, post location. You know how to plant or have money, go there and plant a real tree. 8 billion people and counting. If every 8th person plants 1 tree, we can have a billion trees.

"iPlantTrees - kind of tree sharing. You want a plant, post location."

the secondary market here is you search by tree and find fruit/seeds/nuts. A more generic, iPlant would also show vegetables/crops and hook this up to seasonal sales.

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

#47

good question, going through these ideas I keep in mind: "The winds of change originate in the unconscious minds of domain experts. If you're sufficiently expert in a field, any weird idea or apparently irrelevant question that occurs to you is ipso facto worth exploring." [0] 1/ So the idea I haven't done is build a hacker search engine. I'm not sure what this would look like, but I'd bet being able to search throug…

something like sourcegraph?

"sourcegraph"

dunno, haven't looked at this, will do. Having access to any public source code would be interesting to find ^canonical^ examples. I know where this does't happen, cough stack overflow cough

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

#50
Yesterday I got myself enthused for personalized intelligent agents, user-controlled systems that would be a generalized filtering and mediation point for communications. A concrete example is to take a user's Facebook feed and automatically detox it: scrub it of the ads, content marketing, and fake news, and reprioritize the remaining content in a way heuristically believed to aid user well-being, rather than engagement metrics.

A polished, credible implementation of that would mark the beginning of a new marketplace centered on agent services that prey on existing Web companies and tear open their data silos and adtech, one user at a time.

But what ultimately stops me from further consideration is that the level of AI know-how needed to do this is not a commodity at this time - you'd need a full team of top talent, and it probably wouldn't be cheap/fast/customizable/secure enough for users if done now. I think it will happen though, the signs of it happening are gradually emerging, and when it does, watch out!

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