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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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As some of the other responses mention, this is an insanely complex problem...as evidenced by the large number of businesses in this space. In your eyes, what are the best flight search engines at the moment? Aside from https://www.beatthatflight.com.au of course ;)

Kayak?

I'm a big kayak fan for their flexible search, and am sad hipmunk is shutting down this month :/ Grabaseat.co.nz is brilliant for NZ specific deals.

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I'm working on a personal project that allows you to add notes to youtube videos, and be able to skip quickly to specific sections. I started this because I'm learning guitar mostly from YouTube, and I find myself constantly seeking videos to specific sections. I'll probably launch the site on ShowHN soon. Feel free to DM me if you can think of other uses for this, or if you're interested to know when this launches.

interested in beta if you don't open it up to all, my email is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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This problem will only apply to very few people. But over the past 2.5 years I've been tracking everything and deriving insights on my activities. This produced some astounding results. e.g. Chewing gum makes me more comfortable in a conversation. Recently I've found a community of robot-like people on reddit who also do this. So I decided to build a platform. It's still in its early stages but feel free to check it…

The challenge for me has been habit when I try to do this. If I have to manually break context and focus to log then I don't wish to. I want to monitor everything but passively without having to do any work.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Symbolic AI with common sense and explanation built on top of NNs. Here’s a talk I gave last year though I’m no longer with that company and am working on the tech elsewhere. https://youtu.be/thmkaYOayCM

I'll try and watch your talk by weekend, I'm interested in this too! :-)

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We're (team of 2) rewriting an old enterprise ERP system made of ~1M of C89 non-portable loc, tens of thousands of handwritten PLSQL loc, thousands of business rules carefully abstracted in sql data, tens of complex screen designed and scripted on a no-name RAD software that was the current fad back in the days, and some companion pieces in VB6 because, you known, 'C89, not anybody can do it'. That's fun . The new sy…

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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Here are some reasons why someone might choose to use us: - We're super developer friendly - you don't even need an access token to make up to 1,000 requests per day. We have a clean / simple JSON response, and official SDKs for most popular libraries - We have a quick, reliable API. We obsess over latency and availability, and handle over 20 billion API requests a month. (here's a technical overview of how we reduce…

Thanks! Do you have a work email I can contact you on? We currently lookup >1 million IPs per second and are in the middle of evaluating IP-geo solutions.

Sure, would love to be part of your evaluation! ben@ipinfo.io

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Persisting your OS state as a "context" - saving and loading your open applications, their windows, tabs, open files/documents and so on. Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources. Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates. https://cleave.app

I didn't know I wanted this until now, and now I really want it. I often open a ton of related applications, and then avoid restarting my computer because it's incovenient to reopen everything. I'm on Linux, so I won't be able to use your app, but great idea and good luck!

You can explore running everything in a Linux Container, LXD. Then freeze the LXD if you wish to shutdown, and unfreeze when you're ready to restart, it's how container workloads can be moved from one system to another.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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I'm leading a startup nonprofit exploring policy solutions for America's 100 largest cities. Of course, there are plenty of national and state-level policy organizations; some even dip their toes in the municipal policy scene. But in the cities, most gropus are self-interested or focused on a single issue. We're trying to fill the gap with original research and projects that operationalize the research of others -- t…

Do you have a website? Public policy is an area that seems almost ridiculously unoptimized, so I'm really interested in any organizations that are trying to fix that. This is the first time I've heard of doing research with the express goal of creating actionable plans, but now that you've brought it up, it seems like that's exactly how policy-focused research should be.

Better Cities Project -- better-cities.org

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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I'm leading a startup nonprofit exploring policy solutions for America's 100 largest cities. Of course, there are plenty of national and state-level policy organizations; some even dip their toes in the municipal policy scene. But in the cities, most gropus are self-interested or focused on a single issue. We're trying to fill the gap with original research and projects that operationalize the research of others -- t…

What is it called?

Better Cities Project

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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I'm leading a startup nonprofit exploring policy solutions for America's 100 largest cities. Of course, there are plenty of national and state-level policy organizations; some even dip their toes in the municipal policy scene. But in the cities, most gropus are self-interested or focused on a single issue. We're trying to fill the gap with original research and projects that operationalize the research of others -- t…

Do you have a website? Public policy is an area that seems almost ridiculously unoptimized, so I'm really interested in any organizations that are trying to fix that. This is the first time I've heard of doing research with the express goal of creating actionable plans, but now that you've brought it up, it seems like that's exactly how policy-focused research should be.

It's not so much laziness or lack of vision as it is different skill sets. Additionally, the big university-based research players (Brookings, Hoover, Mercatus) are all prevented from anything that looks too much like advocacy, so they stay away from things like model ordinances out of an abundance of caution.
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