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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hackinthebochs »

nathan_f77 wrote: post #310
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…

Argh, my idea! I really need to start working on this, it's been bouncing around in my head for too long

Ha, same here. Too many other things that take priority at the moment though.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DeanWormer »

dsschnau wrote: post #402

A central hub for home improvement. I just bought a house and I don't know a damn thing about maintaining it. I can't find a good central resource on the internet. I'm stuck with random YouTube videos and Google searches. I want a sort of wiki with examples for different home maintenance jobs. It must have good, reputable information and high-quality videos. I would pay a monthly sub for this kind of service.

What about Lowe's Home Improvement YouTube channel? A friend and I were considering starting a similar site and selling the parts to complete the project, but we found Lowe's did a pretty good job of covering any routine project we thought of.

I'd be interested to hear what projects you couldn't find helpful information for.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by yid »

staticfish wrote: post #196
yid wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google maps will cache the current map view at the highest detail resolution if you type "ok maps" into the search bar and hit go. You don't even need an active SIM to use gps and zooming. I cached all of central London and used it from my otherwise non-functional Verizon CDMA iphone for months.

Unfortunately, Google maps caching works as view-only. There's no offline navigation at all, I imagine that's all done serverside. Only the tiles (or now vectors) are downloaded.

That's not completely true--if you load your route on wifi and start turn by turn navigation, you can be completely offline.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by zimbatm »

lukeholder wrote: post #389
zimbatm wrote: post #84

A subscription service for open source projects. As a company I would pay you monthly and get access to bug and features development for all the open source dependencies that I am using. The more I pay the more things I can get done in a month. If a feature is too big for my budget I can accumulate month to month value on a ticket or get other companies to participate.

is this what you are meaning? https://deps.io/

This is a good start. Once you have all the customer's dependencies it becomes easier to offer value-added services like maintenance and feature development.

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Post by VonGuard »

swanson wrote: post #164
VonGuard wrote: post #103

MOBA sports. That means DOTA or League of Legends style Soccer, Football, baseball, any team sport, really. Baseball probably wouldn't work, but soccer would be fabulous. - 5 on 5 with 10 minute halves, every player on the field is a real person. - Pay to unlock famous players and skins - Just bring FIFA controls over to a multiplayer game. - Players can form their own teams and play on ladders. - Start it in Brazil,…

You can do this in FIFA already (since FIFA 11 I believe) - it's 11 vs 11 multiplayer. You start in a lobby and then pick your position.

Do people actually play this mode? Is it popular?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by tizzdogg »

dan335 wrote: post #334

Someone please fix 3d software. Autodesk owns 3 of the top 4 3d software programs. They are about to stop developing Softimage. There other two have little innovation and lots of bugs. Their biggest competition Modo is not a complete enough package to be used by major studios. Someone please bring a fresh pair of eyes and create an innovative killer 3d program.

Okay give me a minute, I'll just hack something together for you. :)

Seriously though, this is a good request, but the graphics market is really difficult to do business in. It takes a ton of development effort to make a full-featured 3d package, and the market of high-end studios is very small. If you create a graphics software company, your best exit opportunity is probably to be bought out by autodesk eventually anyway. Houdini has been gaining some ground recently though, and I think is the best alternative at the moment to the autodesk products.

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Post by 31reasons »

enos_feedler wrote: post #245
31reasons wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it allow you to create Calendar as a data object whenever you want to create one or is it just one calendar associated with one google account ? Because what if I don't want to create google account for my users , just get the calendar functionality.

You can create multiple calendars but they are always associated with a user's google account. You don't want Stripe for calendars, but rather Balanced for calendars. A whitelabel calendar API where you user's dont have to sign up for another service in order to use yours. Correct?

Correct!

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Jemaclus »

krolley wrote: post #370
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.

Nah, something like this: http://www.roachman.com/thermic/

I'm not really sure if that's legit or not, but I've read several articles about teams creating watches that can run and/or charge off body heat.

One of the biggest parts of the hearing aid is the part that holds the battery. If you could somehow eliminate that, then hearing aids could be super, super, super tiny, in addition to saving me the hassle of having to buy batteries -- or worse, being in a situation (like the middle of a date) where it dies on me and I don't have a replacement!

I'm sure this is a pipe dream, but it would be awesome if someone could make it happen.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by dsschnau »

DeanWormer wrote: post #412
dsschnau wrote: post #402

A central hub for home improvement. I just bought a house and I don't know a damn thing about maintaining it. I can't find a good central resource on the internet. I'm stuck with random YouTube videos and Google searches. I want a sort of wiki with examples for different home maintenance jobs. It must have good, reputable information and high-quality videos. I would pay a monthly sub for this kind of service.

What about Lowe's Home Improvement YouTube channel? A friend and I were considering starting a similar site and selling the parts to complete the project, but we found Lowe's did a pretty good job of covering any routine project we thought of. I'd be interested to hear what projects you couldn't find helpful information for.

Sure. Here's the first specific issue I've encountered.

I want to find out how to install a deadbolt on my door which only has a keyed knob. I'd like to install one on two of the three exterior doors. The doors are steel, and I with my zero-knowledge of home improvement, don't know how, or if I even could, drill holes through them. Because I needed to change the locks right away, I just bought some new doorknobs and changed them all out.

Of course, I didn't realize I got locks that have different keys for each of the three exterior doors. Ugh. They will only have to be temporary.

I _really_ don't want to replace the door from messing up a drilling job. I've spent 20 minutes now researching and only now I'm kind of confident that have the resources to figure out exactly what I need to do.

The best one-stop-shop site for learning I've found is doityourself.com. It has basically all the features I'm looking for - howtos, forums, user-submitted projects, but the site is bloated(just open up dev tools and watch the ocean of requests on pageload). The site is also not responsive.

I already feel overwhelmed at how much I'm going to have to learn to keep my house in good shape for my family. The lack of a good web resource is frustrating. I'm considering attacking this problem as well. Feel free to email me.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by grogs »

tpae wrote: post #285

Debugging as a service: parse out the error logs and find a better way to traverse/debug application-level problems. Automatically create tests with few clicks, automate debugging/testing process. Create standards for error handling, and create application scores to determine quality of the application.

Takipi may be of interest. It's only for JVM languages though - I'm not sure if equivalents exist for other languages.

Otherwise, look at building (or find existing) tooling on top of Log stash.

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