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#12The recent election should have made it clear to everyone that many communities, centered around industries like manufacturing or fossil fuel energy, have been decimated in the last few decades or so. These are obviously large trends, but in our technological and economic progress we should figure out how to make sure these communities are not left behind.
I would like to see a larger effort for the SV community to expand into some of these communities and help give some of these communities a much-needed economic jolt.
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#13Reputational Review Network - A review network where users can rate local restaurants, services, goods and other reviewers' credibility. Ratings are personalized based on your own reviews and who you find credible - this gives a user an incentive to keep their reviews honest.
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#14I don't think these ideas would take over communities neither the world, but they are awesome: 1) Some kind of crawler that goes through YouTube videos indexing them and its subtitles and then when a user searches a word or idiom the web app would show some part of a video that speaks exactly that search term. I know there are other services that does that, but I want something more natural since these services use s…
I researched building this a few years ago. YouTube has this data indexed but didnt seem to expose a reasonable programmatic search interface for it. Indexing and providing the search myself seemed far beyond scope (would YouTube even allow harvesting all that?).
Use a chrome extension that piggybacks off of existing YouTube users to crawl YT (similar to RECAP for PACER), push to S3, process with Lambda to build your index and throw away the raw data after processing.
Bonus if you can finagle all of this with free AWS credits from their startup incubator offers.
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#15I would want to have something like Wikipedia that takes account of the user's context and knowledge to present transformed text that is customized for the user so it's easier to digest.
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#16iPlantTrees - 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.
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#17One JavaScript framework to rule them all
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927
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#18A self-hosting static Linux distro, with pacman. It's bloody hard to bootstrap a Linux userspace from scratch in general, but when you add that you want everything to be static it just gets stupidly difficult. I'll try again at some point with another strategy, it'll be the fourth such attempt.
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#19SimVillage - A building simulation game of of a village of up to say 1,000 villagers. Like Simcity/Skylines, but with the emphasis on detailed human simulation rather than on large scale.
So dwarf fortress with human village setting?
Perhaps Banished is more in line with what he's describing.
Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
#20SimVillage - A building simulation game of of a village of up to say 1,000 villagers. Like Simcity/Skylines, but with the emphasis on detailed human simulation rather than on large scale.
So dwarf fortress with human village setting?
I was thinking a contemporary village where villagers have cell phones, cars, social network accounts, hobbies, errands, illnesses, social functions etc. Human simulation at the level of The Sims, but community size of up to 1000.