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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hueving » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:06 PM UTC

drcross wrote: post #226

quaunaut wrote: post #47

This is less an idea, more something for someone to think about. We need to figure out how to defeat the internet echo chamber effect. Notice how often, when a community gets started between a small group of people(such as early Reddit or HN), it's a place of intelligent, productive discussion, where people measure what they say instead of just spouting extreme rhetoric? Yet, once these communities grow, you inevitab…

I think I have a solution to this, something I called Reddit150. You have divisions, like in soccer or american foot ball leagues, where the highest rated members can be promoted to the "higher" league and also demoted if their contributions are not good enough. People from a lower division cannot comment on a higher division, but everyone can view all divisions, this would result in situation where the media would a…

That doesn't solve the problem of the comment with the lowest common denominator being the one that gets promoted the most.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by glenstein » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:07 PM UTC

I would like to see something like PhotoSynth applied to video. PhotoSynth is a program that infers three dimensional objects from two dimensional photographs.

In particular I'd like to see this applied to public events, like sports. I'd love to re-create, say, a music show or a live football game in 3D based on livestream video coming from people's phones.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sakunthala » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:09 PM UTC

A more accessible desktop client program for "Bitcoin IPOs". Useful for crowdfunding. Kind of like this but less messy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133147.0

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by tehwebguy » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:09 PM UTC

raldi wrote: post #44

A way for employees to push back against their coworkers when they email too much crap to too wide an audience. In other words, I wish my Inbox had a little voting widget next to each message: +------------------------------------+ | 4,376 people received this message | | | | [Cool, it was ] [It was a waste] | | [important and] [of my time to ] | | [worthy of our] [ read this ] | | [ time ] [ message ] | | | +-------…

It might be cool to make it like a neutered spam button. Instead of actually training your mail app to reject it as spam or notify any spam registries it could just function like clicking the "waste" button and cut out the "worthy" button since it is sort of default.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by adamzerner » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:09 PM UTC

sunir wrote: post #38

adamzerner wrote: post #8

TaskRabbit for businesses

Intriguing. I have some immediate questions. What is wrong with using taskrabbit itself? What tasks do you envision? What about virtual assistants like Zirtual.com?

1) Businesses have tasks that they need to get done. Many of which are probably too low-skill to make it worthwhile to give to a talented employee. 2) There are prospective employees trying to build their resumes, who would do the task to a) get experience, b) explore a field, and/or c) display their talents.

I don't know enough about businesses to know what sorts of tasks would be good for this.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by 616c » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:11 PM UTC

d0m wrote: post #206

gfosco wrote: post #162

I want to search for furniture, and other products, based on dimensions. My girlfriend and I furnished a new apartment recently, and had to be space conscious.. This spot next to the couch could fit a 10" wide table. It's not easy to search for that, yet the information is there. My original plan was going to use the Amazon API and take a search term and page through looking for dimensions that fit. I still think it'…

Taking a pic of your room and seeing nice furniture virtually added so you can easily test different styles.

People are referencing Ikea higher up. I live abroad and was surprised to see Ikea marketing Android/iPhone apps with this ability, and I said audibly to the dismay of people "now that is fucking slick, good for them!"

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by netcan » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:13 PM UTC

namanyayg wrote: post #239

rokhayakebe wrote: post #2

Keep Writing. I, sometimes, would like to write on a subject but I fear no one will read the material. If I had X people simply suggest to "keep writing" I would be more willing. Keep writing is something like Medium but it allows someone to post text (news, fiction, stories, anything) that is not complete. Writers set a (hidden) number of votes they should reach before they keep going then they publish what they cur…

I'm interested, but where would an author get people to vote on the piece? While a fiction story could get votes from various communities, I imagine it would fail for specific posts? Feel free to email, mail at namanyayg dot com

Maybe you could nominate the minimum number of reviews or votes you want and then "owe" that number of reviews to the community.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:16 PM UTC

postsantum wrote: post #21

A notepad that can send my handwritten notes to the cloud. It should have a mini-scaner embedded into the top cover so when I want to backup a note, I just close the notepad, push the cover, remove the first page, close, push again. None of these ipad apps can substitute the good old pencil drawings

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by mrlase » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:16 PM UTC

sparkie wrote: post #235

wwwwwwwwww wrote: post #90

A way for me to organize hundreds of gb of porn. Seriously, porn organization is the 1 thing I haven't been able to master over the years. A way to detect what your current preferences are and map them to a video or image set would be revolutionary.

A way to organize anything at all would be a nice start. The real problem is people trying to force arbitrary relationships into hierarchical models always results in mediocre solutions. When are we going to start taking graph databases seriously? (+ Graph filesystems)

I'm really interested in this idea as I suffer from the same problem on my local disk in addition to having years worth of documents across a DropBox account, SkyDrive, and two Google Drive accounts.

What are your biggest gripes? What model would you like to see? A tag based filesystem? Arbitrary graph?

Would love to talk to people such as yourself who have this problem.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by PanMan » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:18 PM UTC

d0m wrote: post #269

Idea: Airbnb for food. An app where you buy meals cooked by your neighbors. I see two big trends these days. 1) People seems more willing to connect back with their neighbors and community. 2) People have less time but want to eat more healthy. Imagine this scenario: While going back home, a student could check on the app what's available to eat for tonight. Next to his place, there's a family willing to sell the ext…

In the Netherlands, this exists. Thuisafgehaald.nl