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Why don't you use Julia for #2?
For the re-write? Simply for the experience. C++ is more in demand right now, as far as I can tell, sorry to say.
nothing to be ashamed of!
Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
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#262Flight search. I hunt deals for Aussie travellers ( https://www.beatthatflight.com.au ), but an inordinate amount of my searching for deals is manual. - initially, all manual - secondly, timers - I know when some airlines do deals, so I go look - thirdly, I found other sites indexing unusually cheap flights, but they're not always the same price on my site - fourth, built a script to search my own site for a route, b…
As some of the other responses mention, this is an insanely complex problem...as evidenced by the large number of businesses in this space. In your eyes, what are the best flight search engines at the moment? Aside from https://www.beatthatflight.com.au of course ;)
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#263I'm working on a personal project that allows you to add notes to youtube videos, and be able to skip quickly to specific sections. I started this because I'm learning guitar mostly from YouTube, and I find myself constantly seeking videos to specific sections. I'll probably launch the site on ShowHN soon. Feel free to DM me if you can think of other uses for this, or if you're interested to know when this launches.
I want this for annotating drone footage that our customers post to YT so that I can have slack conversations with support and engineering more precisely.
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#264Helping car salespeople sell more vehicles. Lots of webscraping.
Do you need to deal a lot with captchas?
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#265IDE 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.
I'm the lead author of Ardour, a cross-platform open source DAW. Just last night, I was helping out a user who was having issues (eventually traced to their AMD graphics stack). Their session wasn't particularly large - about 1 hour of recorded spoken word and some backing music. The whole data set came to 6.5GB ... non-trivial for "cloud-based" anything, even today.
Yes, there are ways to be clever about this stuff, but for "real music making" the typical size of the data involved makes cloud-based collaboration less immediately appealling than you might imagine.
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#266Building a modern headless commerce platform with the focus of developers, and making it fast, and easy to get started.
It might not be as impressive as some of the comments, but it does seem like something the market is needing.
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#267I working on a personal project which tries to solve Traffic congestion problems using live feed cameras.
Feel free to connect with me on linkedIn if you are interested.
https://bit.ly/2RE3omt
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#268I’m working on Newsy.
I have quite a few domain names that I have purchased over the years that I am not doing anything with at the moment.
I wanted minimal amount of work to make a good use out of these domains.
So I built Newsy. It turns your idle domain into a news aggregator.
I’m nearly there. You can sign up and I’ll invite you to check it out!
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#269Working on https://LightSheets.app, a spreadsheet application allowing high performance data science type tasks like cleaning big chunks of data. I'm also doing a lot of exploratory coding around how far the spreadsheet concept can be pushed to "augment human intelligence", which has led me to read a lot of papers about this area. One thing I'm very interested in is how we can allow machine intelligence to "take the initiative" during the course of human work.
Hopefully in 2020 this means more than simply resurrecting a clone of MS Office's Clippy...
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#270Dental treatments, besides being very expensive, are often (up to 28%) unnecessary. This happens because no-one keeps dentists in check. I am trying to make dental treatment and diagnosis reviews easy, cheap, reliable and fast.
What kind of treatments make that 28% "unnecessary?" Regular cleanings too frequently?
This is anecdotal, but I remember reading an article about a dentist who was convicted of doing expensive and completely unnecessary surgeries on many of his patients, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient in some cases. I can't find the article, unfortunately.