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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by javiramos »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #85

Rapid generation of high quality 3D models of existing objects. Process should be independent of object size eg. a coke can should use the same process as a car and process time should scale with object size. Think somewhere on the order of 10,000 models per day throughput. There's $BNs waiting for you. It's ridiculously hard.

Beyond just the 3D: Do you think that capturing the full appearance properties (BRDF etc.) of the object would be useful? This would allow users to very accurately render objects.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

itsyogesh wrote: post #155
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #85

Rapid generation of high quality 3D models of existing objects. Process should be independent of object size eg. a coke can should use the same process as a car and process time should scale with object size. Think somewhere on the order of 10,000 models per day throughput. There's $BNs waiting for you. It's ridiculously hard.

I think Intel has been trying to do this for a while with their realsense technology and accompanying cameras. http://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/architecture-and-techn...

Mapillary has also been moving quickly in this space, not for objects per se, but entire environments.

https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by itsthewrongway »

kevinskii wrote: post #106

Curing congestive heart failure. We're not even close. The space is ripe for disruption by a team of Growth Hackers with a foosball table.

Not suggesting this is an end all solution, since CHF can also stem from non diet related issues, but eating a whole food plant based diet can start to reverse heart disease in as little as a few weeks. It can also prevent and reverse many other diet caused/related diseases.

I think part of the issue has mainly been a lack of education on what a poor diet consists of.

If anyone is interested, Dr. Gregor is a great resource of knowledge on this subject. He did a talk at google https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ which is based on his book "How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease" https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250066115/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_bEXs...

His website is http://nutritionfacts.org

All not for profit.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by dharma1 »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #142
dharma1 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My friend's working on this, for generating 3d floor plans from point cloud data. It's a pretty complex problem.

That's a different problem set all together actually. But yea, there are a lot of us working on that.

What are the best approaches you've found? Specifically for generating clean, useful NURBS/poly mesh models from lidar or SfM dense point cloud data

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by weaksauce »

contingencies wrote: post #13

Normally I live in China, and rarely eat western breakfast. Recently I returned to Australia to spend some Christmas time with my extended family. A few mornings ago, I put some real bread I cut from a sourdough loaf in a toaster. Due to its irregular size, when it popped it didn't pop out completely, resulting in a sort of "toaster is too hot to insert fingers, toast is too hot to hold, toast is ready, find metallic…

To be fair there shouldn't be any voltage inside the toaster basket area when the toast has popped up. Unless they did something stupid when designing the toaster. And you can always unplug it before sticking utensils in there.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

javiramos wrote: post #171
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #85

Rapid generation of high quality 3D models of existing objects. Process should be independent of object size eg. a coke can should use the same process as a car and process time should scale with object size. Think somewhere on the order of 10,000 models per day throughput. There's $BNs waiting for you. It's ridiculously hard.

Beyond just the 3D: Do you think that capturing the full appearance properties (BRDF etc.) of the object would be useful? This would allow users to very accurately render objects.

Definitely, though UV mapping from that data takes it to another level of difficulty.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by jakub_g »

Email parsing and extracting data from it, (input data in multiple languages), that is not strictly depending on predefined templates but being able to adjust itself. Think parsing emails from multiple providers of certain kind of service and exposing common data model. Looks like perfect usage of machine learning.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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Post by nsm »

Immigration.

Every time I change jobs as an H1-B employee, I've to fill in the same ridiculous data with every law firms weird interface. I wish the US Digital Services would focus on streamlining forms and having auto-import from all the data they already have about me (e.g. automatically translate I-94 records to how much time I actually spent in the US, infer my past I-797 records automatically, have a one time education related upload since that obviously never changes). I realize there are certain valid reasons the agencies don't share data, but I find that hard to believe in an era of infinite surveillance, they can't use the surveilled data to at least make my life easier. I can see how the immigration law industry would never allow this, but I can hope.

The green card process is another minefield.

Also for Schengen countries, I've to apply for a visa every time I travel, and they make me list every time I visited the Schengen zone in the past 5 years, fill out the same application form across different countries, and get the same paystubs and letters from employers. Even a tool that could just machine read all the documentation a particular country requires for a specific visa, and just goes and pulls everything that can be pulled (bank statements, pay stubs, fill in travel dates based on the flight ticket emails in my inbox, hotel reservations and so on.) Just make it convenient for me to travel :)

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