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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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

Considering this is Idea Sunday, would anybody be interested in validating my idea?

It was originally posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7519592

The idea is simple:

+++Create an invite-only jobs mailing list similar to HN-standards+++

Companies want the best and talented workers wants to find the most rewarding work, so why not keep the 2 well-maintained with the best firms and the best workers?

If you're interested, read my thread above or simply go here and help me validate the idea:

https://www.surveymoz.com/s/109791NPJFT

All feedback welcome and I will reply to anyone that has any feedback (good or bad) on the idea.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by guru1206 » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:19 PM UTC

Eleutheria wrote: post #105

Open University. A massive repository of all books needed for any career. No teachers, no videos, no homework, nothing, just the books, free, forever.

http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by kybernetikos » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:21 PM UTC

A service for blind/partially sighted people where they can use a smart phone to connect to a service where volunteers (if any are connected) describe what they can see from the video streamed from the smart phone.

The volunteers are given ratings afterwards, and their video streams checked against their descriptions by other volunteers.

Monetized later via a paid service where the person is reliably connected to trained describers rather than volunteers.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by nonsens3 » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:23 PM UTC

manuelflara wrote: post #230

A place where developers can post their already launched projects, and business/marketing/sales people can get in touch with them if they're interested in becoming a cofounder . I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets all excited about building and launching new stuff, but after that, I'm kind of clueless about what to do, so I move on to the next.

Same problem here. Sideprojectors tries to solve this, but hasn't worked for me so far.

http://www.sideprojectors.com

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by lucb1e » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:23 PM UTC

adam419 wrote: post #259

lucb1e wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Have you had any customers?" No, no, it's nothing like that. It's just a small Javascript thingy that tries to convert legal nonsense into sense. I got a contract in Dutch that I found took way longer to read than it should (like, really read and understand all implications), made this script and threw it online. It's in a directory with dozens of unfinished scripts that I wrote. So yes, summaries are generated pr…

How does it translate any legal writing into a simpler form? That sounds like a damn nearly impossible language processing feat.

Simple text replacement. I'm sorry if I just shattered the mental picture of some high-tech language processing, but this pretty crude method that just gets the job done :P

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Spittie » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:25 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #250

Spittie wrote: post #158

I've been having this in my mind for a while: A nice way to organize & share my knowledge. I know that lots of people have a self-hosted wiki or similar where they write nice tricks, something that they learned about and might be useful in the future, nice ideas... Well, I'd like something like this, but more "social". Pages could be shared (or public), anyone could write a comments on something (I'd love to see comm…

This falls under the "Why didn't anyone think/built of this yet?" Where is the global knowledge base? I am sorry, but it is not wikipedia. Wikipedia is what all us know/think to be XYZ? What you are describing is a place for you to share everything you know about a subject, and I can use to find what 200 other people know about it. This is simple and extremely powerful.

I'm happy you're liking it. I've posted this over HN exactly because I like it, and hope someone will pick it up (I might think about doing it myself, but I'm not exactly a good coder, so who knows if I'd manage).

I know this thread is old, but if anyone is interested and want to talk about it a bit, my email is in my profile :) (also spittie over freenode)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by icebraining » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:28 PM UTC

stretchwithme wrote: post #203

hooande wrote: post #72

A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI lay…

It would be great if each tab belonged to a project and I could add new tabs to a project when I open the tab. If I could, all at once, close all tabs that aren't part of the project I'm working on, that would free up resources for the things that currently matter. And if the browser could keep track of how much time I browse for a specific project, I could use that to track how much time I spent on each project.

Firefox has tab groups, have you tried them?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ams6110 » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:29 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 ] | | | +-------…

:) reminds me of the "warning" message that used to appear in "rn" before you posted a message to a usenet group:

This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. You message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.

Ah the old days.....

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by ilaksh » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:29 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #84

- When will the next bus/train be at this spot? - a non-DRM ebook reader with Project Gutenburg installed - auto convert from client/server to webapp or phoneapp - grocery delivery for us not in SV,Seattle,etc - reservation-only restaurants that have tables avail now - auto turn cell phone to vibrate in certain locations - auto forward cell phone to close land line (work/home) - old Google maps - a no wifi or cell Pa…

One thing I have noticed is that if I look at my phone while driving but hold it lower out of sight no one reacts. But if I hold the phone up so I can actually see where I am driving while glancing at the phone, people honk and act like they want to kill me. So I often just try to hide it, even though I feel much safer holding it up so that it is in the same field of view as the road. So this is an example where people think they are helping righteously but they are actually making the road more dangerous.

Anyway I think that cars should come with heads up displays that overlay information on or in front of the windshield in front of you without obscuring the road.

Also I should get a hands-free setup.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by jonathanberger » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 10:29 PM UTC

Spittie wrote: post #158

I've been having this in my mind for a while: A nice way to organize & share my knowledge. I know that lots of people have a self-hosted wiki or similar where they write nice tricks, something that they learned about and might be useful in the future, nice ideas... Well, I'd like something like this, but more "social". Pages could be shared (or public), anyone could write a comments on something (I'd love to see comm…

One key component would be SEO juice. The knowledge should be easily findable by others, even if people use different words to describe what they're looking for.

An open question would be how to make the site sustainable monetarily. About.com is this idea (but non-wiki editable) and they've plastered so many ads on the pages that it's become nearly unusable.

I like the idea a lot, and have started the most barebones version of this at http://aboutfact.com . If anyone else is interested in chatting more about this, let me know.