A meetings clock that counts UP the price of a meeting based on the the salaries of the people in the room.
My basic Windows 8 (and WP) app, Meeting Money, does this.
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/meeting-money/83826295...
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#242Sell 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…
I like the idea, but would love to see it taken a couple steps further. To me, the biggest issue with selling things online is dealing with the people who are interested in purchasing them. I have had less than stellar experiences with both eBay and Craigslist. I would love something like an expanded Gazelle that was not just electronics. Perhaps even with physical locations for things like furniture, exercise equipment etc. The company could then either sell on consignment, charge storage, or more riskily buy and try to sell at a higher price point. I have a spare bedroom filled with crap I would love to be rid of but dread dealing with.
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#243Sell 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…
sounds similar to offerup (http://www.offerupnow.com)
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#244GitHub for mathematicians. For every theory, define its axioms and valid logical steps. Let anyone build theorems based on these (validate them automatically), and allow people to fork others theorems to create their own. It's probably possible to get a lot of proofs from projects like Mizar and Metamath to start with, then let the community build on top of it. Maybe even a crowd sourced bounty program for unproven t…
One day, perhaps. Automatic checking of proofs is nowhere near there yet for most serious mathematics.
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#245This might be fairly simple, but I can't find a good solution - A replacement for Google Groups. More specifically, a better UI to use Mailing Lists. Perhaps like vBulletin or other advance forum software. Maybe even built-in support in my email client? For the life of me, I can't find a good way to use Mailing Lists. I don't like receiving 40+ messages every day, but I don't find digest mode good enough either. Goog…
Take a peek at http://groupbuzz.com , developed by one of my students for just that problem. Its best use case is for paid communities of one kind or another.
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#246A peer to peer mortgage marketplace.
Basically, qualified investors own pieces of mortgage in their communities.
I've seen variations of this for student loans - why not mortgages?
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#247A 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.
I confess, I'm one of those people who believes all salaries should be public within a company—compensation should be based on real worth rather than negotiation skill.
That said, for it to work properly, the staff would need to watching the clock too so it couldn't just be a managerial thing.
All staff would need to at least know the wage bands of each other's salaries.
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#248Idea: Tree of knowledge Ever been interested in a topic that once you google you end up with explanations(quite often on wikipedia) that rely on foundational knowledge you didn't even know you should have? And then you started working your way back by googling things you didn't know until you hit something you do know and from that point you try to inch your way forward to the original topic just to get discouraged a…
Had this very probably on Friday - wanted to learn more about what was new with the SpaceX launch and ended up spending a couple hours on Wikipedia.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this. I've often had a similar issue in computational physics when handling lots of different calculation input/output files with variations in parameters. I've tended to automatically generate directory hierarchies, e.g. rc=1.0/ecut=60/kp=4,4,4/ rc=1.0/ecut=80/kp=4,4,4/ rc=2.0/ecut=60/kp=4,4,4/ rc=2.0/ecut=80/kp=4,4,4/ but some standard way of expressing it in the file name would be great, and nicer to parse…
Take a look at hdf5.
Thanks, I'll take a look, but it seems like I'd have to change the format of the files, right? Unfortunately that's not really feasible, since their format is determined by the scientific codes I use -- that's why I was attracted to the idea of using the file name. I can, however, have a go at HDF5 for code that I write myself.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I built a prototype too: thingsy.co It finds all the pictures on Instagram with the hashtag #forsale, post them on Craigslist, and contact the seller through Instagram when a buyer emails the Craigslist contact info. Craigslist killed it.
there is a lot of activity in this sector right now, including some VC funded startups, the approach they are taking is to grab instagram #forsale pics then post it on their own storefront site
Really? Do you have any example?