A peer to peer encrypted datastore that everyone can use to store their own metadata. Facebook knows what movies I like and interests I have, Spotify knows what songs I listen to, Amazon knows what books I like to read. All of these pieces of data are currently silo'd and controlled by private corporations many of which can do whatever they like with that data. I want a private encrypted datastore that does this inst…
Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
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#102>Go wild, dream big. I want a DNS replacement that allows you to "subscribe" to TLDs, each with their own policies and practices. Domains are identified by a tuple of a public key and the domain name, so that if someone wants to share a domain, the browser can let them select the host they want. It should have 3 (or more) distinct modes of operation: Gossip, where popular portions of the zone are continually shared b…
Could you explain this syncthing desire more?
I developed SyncthingFUSE [0] for something that possibly sounds similar to your desire. I've let the project languish, but planning to pick it back up.
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#103FPGAs in desktop/laptop computers. That would open all kinds of interesting possibilities. Energy from nuclear fusion. Highly dense electrical energy source. I want to see electric planes, phones that last for months, drones that stay in the air for days, etc. Some kind of magical security system so we could return to native code instead of putting VMs on top of VMs. No idea if this one is feasible or how it might be…
http://www.alteraboards.com/products/ http://www.nallatech.com/solutions/fpga-cards/
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#104A peer to peer encrypted datastore that everyone can use to store their own metadata. Facebook knows what movies I like and interests I have, Spotify knows what songs I listen to, Amazon knows what books I like to read. All of these pieces of data are currently silo'd and controlled by private corporations many of which can do whatever they like with that data. I want a private encrypted datastore that does this inst…
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#105I want a backend service I can call from my statically generated (i.e. jekyll) websites, to implement things like blog comments, analytics, etc. A true cloud platform where I don't have to mess with admining and provisioning servers and containers. I want to just upload my code and pay for the cycles and bandwidth I use. Aws lambda for http basically.
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#1062. An event sourcing database that's not a gargantuan Java EE thing, something like the Redis or SQLite of event sourcing. I just want to store a bunch of events and build indexes in the form of update functions. And then easily access the cached indexes and live event streams through HTTP.
3. Something like Emacs but built on a React-like screen update model and engineered to be fast on something like a Raspberry Pi. We have a common room computer in our collective house that we use as a chat, todo, clock, etc, and right now it runs Emacs in xterm which is pretty good but the programming model is somewhat antiquated. (I tried making a React app but Chromium on the Raspberry Pi 2 is laggy, and besides Emacs is much nicer as an interactive environment.)
4. A tiny laptop with no trackpad and an e-ink display.
5. A scriptable bank account and a common metadata format for bills and invoices.
6. A low cost global roaming SIM card and a flourishing web of minimal bandwidth text services.
7. An accurate ebook parser generating semantic markup and a nice variety of innovative reading interfaces, for example showing one paragraph at a time, some kind of interactive mind mapping reader, etc.
8. A collaborative text editor that works more like a chat than a word processor.
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#107I want a successor to Haskell which follows the Elm mantra.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#108A peer to peer encrypted datastore that everyone can use to store their own metadata. Facebook knows what movies I like and interests I have, Spotify knows what songs I listen to, Amazon knows what books I like to read. All of these pieces of data are currently silo'd and controlled by private corporations many of which can do whatever they like with that data. I want a private encrypted datastore that does this inst…
As of now there is no automatic mirroring, because nodes only store the data they request, but in the future one will use filecoin (http://filecoin.io/) to incentivize mirroring.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#109A peer to peer encrypted datastore that everyone can use to store their own metadata. Facebook knows what movies I like and interests I have, Spotify knows what songs I listen to, Amazon knows what books I like to read. All of these pieces of data are currently silo'd and controlled by private corporations many of which can do whatever they like with that data. I want a private encrypted datastore that does this inst…
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of like the rememberance agents the early wearable computing people used? http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wear-ra.html
Something like that would be wonderful, yeah. Far as I can tell, it's not a real existing thing, right? Just an idea that there was a prototype of?
Would you use it if you had to manually log it?