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

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Post by gluggymug »

ramuta wrote: post #635

Not a problem in industry, but rather in society: people rapidly losing jobs due to automation We all know why this is happening. One way to try to "solve" this problem is fighting the change (Luddites), but this doesn't work. Also if people don't have enough income, they stop spending - who's going to buy products and services anymore? Another possible solution would be that companies which automate most of it's wor…

My joke solution is everyone tries to get into politics as a profession. You can't automate politics. It will either achieve UBI or create a hell on earth.

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

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Post by gesman »

chollida1 wrote: post #27

Data management. 1) Cleaning the data as it comes in rather than in batches so we can use it sooner, invalid data is discarded, outlier detection, normalizing inputs etc.... 2) Warehousing of the data with proper indexes so you can perform some advanced queries on unstructured data 3) Some data is sent in bulk at the end of day, some of the data is streamed in fire hose style. How can we preprocess the fire hose data…

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

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Post by unethical_ban »

tbrooks wrote: post #601
systemtrigger wrote: post #593

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There are marketplaces for speakers: espeakers.com, orate.me, bigspeak.com, kepplerspeakers.com, speakermatch.com, eaglestalent.com, celebrityspeakersbureau.com, among others. The speaker profiles include prices, areas of expertise, and a way to inquire and book. What they don't show, that you're asking for, is speaker availability and popularity. The problems I see with disclosing the schedules of speakers: 1) celeb…

No, none of the sites you mentioned solve the problem I posed. Bigspeak, Keppler, Eagles Talent, and Celebrity are bureaus and function in a traditional way. Espeakers and SpeakerMatch are essentially speaker directories -- they make money from speaker's paying them a monthly fee or in a lead gen style. Orate.me is new to me, I haven't seen it before. In a cursory look at their site, it looks like their speaker list…

It seems like the bureaus are the marketplaces; you just don't like their model for pricing and acquiring talent.

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

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Post by gluggymug »

agentgt wrote: post #548

I'm not in the industry but I would really love a better way of growing your own food indoors while minimizing as much space but growing enough to support two people a day. Basically it is either build your own large messy setup or buy a complete novel piece of crap that will barely support a single meal... aka aerogarden. It would be nice to have basically a large self contained opaque cabinet with drawers of growin…

Lentils sprouts can grow in a bowl. No electricity needed. I have grown a few batches over the past week or so. Tastes pretty good.

https://sproutpeople.org/growing-green-lentil-sprouts/

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

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Post by bobosha »

gentleteblor wrote: post #629
bobosha wrote: post #613

Enterprise passwords/keys sharing with an audit trail, non-repudiation, expiration and all that jazz. Most (all?) companies I know, including ours have challenges sharing such info. Current solution is mostly to use google drive or dropbox in most businesses I know.

Are these passwords for individual use (in SaaS apps for example) or are they passwords to enterprise assets (databases, document stores etc). I've used Azure Key Vault quite a bit and it might be a good solution to the latter scenario.

Those seem MS specific, something lightweight, dropbox-ish/slack-ish easy-to-use app for enterprise security sharing.

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Post by paraplegic »

protomyth wrote: post #150

Not my industry, but in my area. I'm still looking for a good modular house that can be setup reasonably quickly, low cost, and can survive North Dakota winter and summer. Something suitable for a single person or a couple.

These guys sell full size or tiny model geodesic domes, which go up pretty quickly on a poured platform. They are supposed to be able to withstand hurricane force winds ...

http://aidomes.com/tiny-homes/

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

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Post by throwaway729 »

ggcdn wrote: post #632
nsoonhui wrote: post #390

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> I was more leaning towards member design software, such as spColumn and S-Concrete. The utility of your software tools will be very limited if you are restricting yourself to only member design instead of total structure solutions like ETABS. Why should engineer pay you at all if they can use spreadsheet for free to do what you do with your SaaS? > No one I know is using the automated concrete design built into ana…

> Why should engineer pay you at all if they can use spreadsheet for free to do what you do with your SaaS? Why do businesses invest in new tech? Why pay for excel when I can use a pen and calculator? The answer is because it makes them more efficient. We have excel sheets to do the same thing, matlab code to do the same thing, and yet here we are paying for these member design tools because they are the most efficie…

> It is foolhardy to trust the automated RC design in these software

Do you mind if I ask why? I'm working on a sort of general approach toward designing trustworthy engineering software, and I'm trying to collect as many reasons as possible for "can't trust the software".

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

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Post by ninjamayo »

noonespecial wrote: post #586
ninjamayo wrote: post #325

Bret Victor-style dashboard and visualisation systems. I 've been using Qlikview, Tableau and Excel for years and they are all very limited in what they can do. New dashboard solutions come out every hour but everyone is copying each other. I want something that I can mould to my problem, that I can touch and fully interact with. Hard, hard problem but worth spending time on this. Make it work in real-time scenarios…

Wish this jumped higher in the thread. I mounted a cheap digital projector and a web cam pointed down over a white melamine table in my workshop thanks to Bret's "Seeing Spaces" talk. Just being able to record and play back what happened on the table has changed the way I work on things. A commercial version of this project would be huge.

Wish more people were thinking like Bret Victor. I 've been working with visualisation systems for more than 16 years and never seen anything like his software. The tool that he uses to easily construct charting within a few minutes is genius

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

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Post by andrewl »

protomyth wrote: post #394
andrewl wrote: post #369

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I wonder if shipping containers could be the basis for a solution in this space.

They would seriously have to be cleaned given how toxic the paint on those things is. Plus, I would rather have something not prone to giving the local inspector a fit.

I have no experience with them myself, but I know there's a good bit of interest in them for non-traditional uses. A Google search for shipping container homes will turn up a lot of interesting results. It still might give your inspector a fit, but there are resources out there. You wouldn't be blazing completely new ground.

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Post by tajen »

pastullo wrote: post #610
terrib1e wrote: post #589

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I completely agree. I think that one of the big problems, aside from someone cooking a family recipe while also modifying it slightly so its diet appropriate, is somehow going beyond just making and delivering this food. My grandfather is 89, his wife is 17 years younger than him so she still cooks for him and makes sure hes eating. On the flipside, once my grandfather died on the other side of the family, my grandmo…

Same exact story on my grandparents. Once the healty one is gone, the other one sees a drastic reduction in quality of life as well as life expectancy. The cost incourred for at-home help with a dedicated easter european colf were huge. Might still be a couple of decades away but i can totally see a model where you rent a house robot that takes care of cooking, personal cleaning and limited interaction (no need to ha…

I know I speak to a computer 99% of the day (programming, games, movies, sms, maps, etc), but please kill me before my future son gives me an AI to talk to. I agree with the cooking and showing me movies, but our jobs as sons can't be replaced.

On the other hand, if the robot makes snapchats with the elderly, that would be a way to bring our parents back into our lives.

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