There's a lot of parallel conversations on Reddit / HN / etc. for various articles.
Would about pulling high rated, top-level conversations from multiple sources for a quick digest? Sort of like Google News for commentary.
Ask HN: Idea Sunday
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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#92A meetings clock that counts UP the price of a meeting based on the the salaries of the people in the room.
so if you want to know how much someone makes, schedule a one on one meeting.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#93A bit lame maybe but here it goes: The "Ready for Battle alarm clock". An alarm clock that wakes you up with your favourite quotes from video games or movies such as: - Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. Rise and... shine. Not that I... wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has.…
that would be cool, but wearing glasses while sleeping is not recommended.
Contacts and cochlear implants.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#94Unlike "Who is hiring?" posts, which are ephemeral, "Idea Sunday" posts continue being useful for a long time. Therefore, consider posting a link at the end of each one allowing readers to jump to the previous one.
Linking to a search might do!
https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/0/%22ask%20hn%2...
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#95Sell anything in a snap. 1. Find something you want to sell 2. Snap a picture (or a short video) 3. Tap "list for sale" 4. Let mechanical turk + computer vision identify the object 5. Let the system pick a value (based on sales history, location, demand) 6. Contact the seller when a serious buyer made a deposit 7. Proceed to demo + sale I shouldn't have to write down any spec when selling something as ubiquitous as a…
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#96Sell anything in a snap. 1. Find something you want to sell 2. Snap a picture (or a short video) 3. Tap "list for sale" 4. Let mechanical turk + computer vision identify the object 5. Let the system pick a value (based on sales history, location, demand) 6. Contact the seller when a serious buyer made a deposit 7. Proceed to demo + sale I shouldn't have to write down any spec when selling something as ubiquitous as a…
It is a nice idea, but in your two simple cases the photo would be of a "ubiquitous" Xbox 360 and a iPhone 4S. But it could be of an iPhone 4 and in the case of the Xbox the date of manufacture really matters. The older model that _will_ one day die on the owner are worth less. And then there isn't any mention of how much space you have on them. But above all a photo might not indicate if the device actually works...
Would you be mad if your barely used unlocked 64GB iPhone 4S was sold as a non-working locked 8GB iPhone 4 and they send you a check for $10?
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#97Idea: StackOverflow for comebacks I've always had a hard time coming up with a good comeback in conversations. It would be great to have a site where I could post a situation and have the community suggest and upvote/downvote insults and comebacks. Maybe introduce a real-time element so I could use it in an actual conversation.
Real time? Good comebacks are immediate. Taking just 5s to consult your phone and deliver the comeback is just going to give the other guy more ammunition
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#98Just going to throw this one out there. I live in Lisbon, it's tourist-central (I'm from SF and I've never seen so many tourists). Since I see a ton of lost people every single day there should be a way to digitally leave comments on things and places and a free one-stop shop to find such info (like Wikitravel). This info, although having a central repository, should be pushed out to an app that connects to one's pho…
Have it work offline to avoid massive roaming charges.
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#99An anonymous and representative group discussion and voting system Practical example: Attending a conf as a woman - You want to ask questions during the talks but you are afraid that because you are a woman your answer will be "dumbed-down" or just different - Also, the guy doing the talk would like to answer the best possible question (or a random one) So, there can be a lot of solutions to this problem, here is min…
This does exactly that and you don't even create an account, so it's really anonymous: http://www.gosoapbox.com/ . All you have to get is a shared url for the dicussion. Their primary use case is for classroom discussion, but functionality is what you described.
Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday
#100Registered agents as a service. Right now hiring people out of state is a pain, despite how popular remote working is getting. There are a lot of random rules in each state, and you have to have a registered agent in a state in order to hire in that one. There are a few services that do this, but they do it poorly and not in the typical startup fashion we've come to expect.