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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by JimDabell »

akdas wrote: post #170

1. Trying to make hiring in tech a better experience by sharing my knowledge and experience with both job seekers and those doing the hiring. The really hard part about this is influencing some change in how hiring is done, because I strongly believe the current hiring process selects for the wrong skillset. I'm publicly committing to write about this topic weekly with a newsletter that I just launched: https://hirin…

Is it possible for you to add an Atom feed for #1? I try to reserve email for real communication and use feeds for reading periodicals. I would subscribe to it as a feed, but it doesn't belong in my email.

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Post by dublinben »

pxue wrote: post #57

sustainability in fashion. there's a lot of "greenwashing" in the industry driven by opaqueness and lack of measurable data. step #1 is to get more brands on board. step #2 make it easier to monitor supply-chain and have actionable and measurable KPIs built around data.

This is an interesting challenge, because reducing consumption is the most effective way to increase sustainability. This is antithetical to selling more clothing though, so you won't find much traction with fashion brands.

That being said, Poshmark does have a $600m valuation, so there is a market here.

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Post by diveintothe9 »

markk wrote: post #93

Reimagining what a phone interface could look like. If you have an interest in this too, send me a note. (markkinsey@gmail.com) I just like reimagining things, trying to elucidate first principles and go from there.

Amateur product designer here, I'm really interested in what you would consider to be first principles when it comes to expected appearance/behavior/functionality of a phone, especially nowadays when the "phone" part of such a device/interface is almost an afterthought.

I'm also interested to hear what you think are the shortcomings or limitations of our current idea of a (smart)phone interface.

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Post by zaphodX »

MCompeau wrote: post #84

Alleviating homelessness using technology and data. I recently learned that homelessness is not just about the people you see on the street every day, but that homelessness is in fact a funnel that people fall deeper into as their situation becomes increasingly desperate. At the bottom of the funnel are the aforementioned group known as the "chronically homeless". The top of the funnel however, looks a lot different,…

Cool stuff and looks like using tech for right purposes. Is the code open-source? I can imagine the data would be strictly confidential as it involves real people.

Any cities south of the border?

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Post by tylerrobinson »

benologist wrote: post #112

I am working on software that makes building web apps faster, easier and more secure. You host a copy of my web application, and it handles all your user account stuff with modules that add organizations, Stripe Subscriptions and marketplaces powered by Stripe Connect. You write your application with its own web server in whatever language and the two servers form one site. At the moment I am trying to finish automat…

I’m interested in this type of idea and would be willing to help test your flows and give feedback. Email me at my username @ gmail!

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Post by dublinben »

brenden2 wrote: post #32
buzzert wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems like something everybody wants but I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. What are some of the (assumingly non-technical) challenges in such an enterprise?

The biggest problem I'm facing right now is credit card processing costs. The restaurant business is a high revenue, low margin industry. The fees are higher for online transactions (no card present) vs. in person transactions (card present), on the order of 1-2%. I think this is the biggest reason it hasn't happened yet. However, I have a workaround which I think will work.

Shouldn't an in-restaurant ordering solution be processing card-present transactions as opposed to card-not-present?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by mister_hn »

Make security authentication in Government and Public services more secure.

At the Moment, I'm fighting with a monolithic, untouched Java 8 / JavaEE6 service which has lots of old dependencies and that uses old cryptographic ciphers, some of them classified as unsafe (e.g. brainpool512p1).

None knows how to make a reproducible build, since everyone gets a different and working or not-working package and some modules are not even released (using the infamous -SNAPSHOT) in maven and there's no documentation. Unfortunately, there's little testing, so everything can be broken easily and none can know it.

Some developers are also really undisciplined, touching code but not running end-to-end (manual) testing, not even running the installer.

If I had the decision power, I would throw this thing away and start from scratch, probably without Java too or, if Java, at least the latest one and maybe Spring, not JavaEE: Wildfly moves too fast and each release breaks compatibility with the previous one, concerning settings (RedHat: why do you do this??)

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Post by diveintothe9 »

adamnemecek wrote: post #64

IDE for music composition http://ngrid.io Launching soon.

I'm guessing this is different from a DAW? Also, cloud-based music making applications is an area I'm generally interested in, and I find it somewhat crazy that a lot of mainstream music software companies haven't stuck a foot in. I'm aware of some, like Cubase having cloud collaboration, but it's mostly blue ocean.
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