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Re: Ask HN: What business would you start in 2018?

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Post by zeptomu »

Faaak wrote: post #33
text_exch wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with the USGS or Landsat data portals?

Resolution is the main factor. Landsat is ~15m, DigitalGlobe is ~0.5m

Landsat is 30m.

There is also Sentinel2 (which is 10m) that can be used commercially.

Obviously DigitalGlobe (and recently Planet) do better with <1m resolution but it seems to be more expensive and (sub)licensing might be non-trivial (at least they are vague in pricing details).

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Post by Ashcroft001 »

elephant0xffff wrote: post #40
gonehome wrote: post #25

Something around video verification. Convincing fake video and audio is coming soon - it isn't a major problem yet, but it will be more challenging to determine if recorded evidence can actually be relied on. Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos I think is a an idea that was until recently probably bad, but has now became good. It'd be similar to what digicert does for websites. You c…

> Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos. I don't think that is even possible. You might want to succeed with amateur efforts, but I would guess there will be a point where it is impossible to tell if a video is fake or not.

Use private-public key cryptography and just sign the video.

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Post by tvanantwerp »

codegeek wrote: post #28

In the US, I will start a company that would partner with Doctors/Clinics/Hospitals where they would agree to transparent pricing for simple and routine services (like wellness checkup, simple procedure etc.). In return, the consumers will purchase a service from us (sort of insurance but I hate that word) for a much lower premium/fee per year (say something like 500 a year) where they pay the routine services out of…

Is this legal in the US anymore? What you're describing in practice isn't so dissimilar from a high-deductible catastrophic insurance plan. I bought one for myself out of college, and it was--at the time--both affordable and helpful. I haven't seen anything like it in practice in years. I'd heard that the ACA effectively phased them out.

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Post by monk_e_boy »

Teacher collaboration tool to open source lesson plans.

Create a platform like facebook or github for teachers to collaborate on planning an entire unit. At the moment each teacher does it alone or maybe a department may get together and create some content.

But there are thousands of schools tens of thousands of teachers, all of them building lessons and delivering them.

Build in testing. assignments. progress. etc.

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