Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

831–840 of 960 posts

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#831

Post by coreyp_1 »

I'm late to the party, but I'll add mine:

1. A scripting language, designed to be embedded in other programs, emphasis on web templating. C++20, Flex, Bison, Unicode, Unit Tests, Doxygen, Github, Docker compilation, and a YouTube series over its development and explaining how everything fits together. I'm almost done with my 1st draft of the language (6k lines of code, 3k lines of comments), after which I'll begin recording.

2. I record hymns in congregational style, as the traditional pianists used to play for church services. I'm focusing on public-domain hymns, re-typesetting them using Lilypond, and including the choral music as an overlay with an overhead shot of my hands playing. I don't care if I make money. I believe that this playing technique (improvisation based on 4-part vocal music) must be preserved, and I'm trying to do so.

3. I am planning on recording an instructional course (available for free) to teach how to play in the evangelistic church pianist style. Using my approach, I have had adult students go from "never touched a piano or read music" to "can play a hymn for church with the big, full sound of the evangelistic style" in 3 months. Again, I believe that this style needs to be preserved, and I've seen a lot of the existing materials (and even bought them myself to evaluate, to the tune of thousands of $$$ spent), and I'm greatly disappointed in what is available. I teach technique and theory (I have a BMus in piano performance from a state university), and I really don't care to teach classical piano. I would rather teach church musicians.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#833

Post by xigoi »

dimitar wrote: post #677
xigoi wrote: post #598

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, how is this technically possible?

I think this is the question. I think they either probably generate links that change once clicked once.

The link is not the problem, but how do you charge someone money without their knowledge?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#834

Post by midjji »

bladegash wrote: post #828
midjji wrote: post #631

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Providing someone a nasty choice isnt neccesarily blackmail or wrong. Imagine you work as a prosecutor. Someone submits fairly strong, and actionable evidence, that your wife has commited a crime your office is required to prosecute. You are legally compelled to excuse yourself, and let someone prosecute, preferably someone not independent of you. If you do, you know your wife will go to prison, and in the process of…

I think the flaw in your logic is the assumption it was an either/or situation. There are a whole lot of options between “resign or face the consequences”, and let’s face it, is destroying someone’s career one way or the other (via by choice or otherwise) really a choice at all? If you think it is, I’d be curious what your choice would be given the same scenario and whether you felt a bit coerced into your position.

Blackmail to me implies that the blackmailer requires something of the blackmailed, in exchange for the blackmailer to not take a specific action. In my example, the sender has already taken their action and given no indication that they are willing to accept a bribe to retract it. If they had required payment to retract it, it would have been blackmail. Meaning no blackmail. The ops story is confusing, so I wont say anything about it. Not sure what you mean about choice there?

In my case? If I was roleplaying the example as the judge, probably call a press conference and loudly condemn my wife for her heinous actions, and promise to vindictively prosecute her to the full extent of the law. Then I would start doing that, knowing full well that her lawyer will argue I committed a procedural errors in managing the evidence(as people cannot prosecute their close relatives, or manage evidence thereof) which then precludes its use in court, letting her go free by technicality... While I win the next election for being the righteous crusader against corruption no matter how much it hurts... Well assuming I actually love her, if I didn't, or wanted to upgrade to a younger model, now is a perfect opportunity to get out of that pesky prenup...

I would not feel coerced, but I would feel threatened. I would like to think that I would chose my wife over my career any day, I hope I never need to find out.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#835

Post by byecancer21 »

bladegash wrote: post #825
bakuninsbart wrote: post #811

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of genocide, torture and war, since this topic is about german politics, it might be good to remember a certain time in that countries history, when the law was in support of all of these things. Breaking the law cannot be equated with ethical behavior. Social engineering is indeed a method, wether it is morally objectable needs to be argued and not assumed out of the gate.

I don’t think I made that argument, in fact, my comment was made specifically without the qualifier of it being legal vs. illegal. Manipulation (which let’s face it, social engineering is a fancy way of saying) is a pretty solid example of an unethical behavior depending on your ethical world view. Utilitarian? Great, you must also think torture is acceptable so long as it saves lives. Deontological ethical world vie…

Note I did nothing to manipulate the top court. The application was phrased politely and only hinted at a crime background.

Severe procedural errors including denial of access to court files alone justified a reversal, besides the blatant misinterpretation of the law. There was no need to argue beyond this point or label anyone an offender at the time.

(Ordinarily one would have filed to have the decision voided locally instead of applying to the top court, but that court had unlawfully denied access to the assignment rules and does to this day.)

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#836

Post by ngburke »

https://fortunesrise.com

I have been working on this investment tracker for the past 3+ years. What started as a set of spreadsheets and python scripts has slowly evolved as my daily driver for keeping tabs on my investments across many asset classes.

Of course, I took the time to productize it, but at the end of the day whether I find people who resonate with the product or not, I'm happy to continue refining it. My ultimate goal is to never have to go to other sites or use other means (notes, financial news sites, watchlists, etc.) for keeping tabs on my stocks, crypto, real estate - the total picture.

Feel free to pop on over and give the free trial a spin, love to hear any and all feedback from those who resonate!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#837

Post by yellow24 »

I am working on a project called VoterScore where we are collecting all state legislation and allowing people to vote on Bills similar to legislators. Users can then compare how their votes align with legislators in their state.

You can view it at voterscore.org but the front end needs some cleaning up.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#838

Post by tpoacher »

shakezula wrote: post #297
tpoacher wrote: post #55

A nice terminal-based ticketing system. https://github.com/tpapastylianou/bashtickets v2 on master is as simple as it gets, but still incredibly functional; my team is dogfooding the hell out of it at work. v3 on the "commandbased" branch is a total rehaul on the works, hoping to make this a more traditional/complete package, with a command-based interface (i.e. similar to how git works)

This is amazing. I’ve wanted a system like this for so long.

glad to hear it!

this is giving me the motivation to keep going with the command based version :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#840

Post by szajbus »

I wrote Elasticsearch CLI just to scratch my own itch, as for certain tasks I just prefer to stay in the terminal. It's written in bash, uses curl under the hood and provides zsh completions for index and alias names.

https://github.com/szajbus/elastic-cli

Post reply on HN