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Links to previous weeks' Idea Sunday posts for reference: Last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654771 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616910 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582077 4 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7541601
I personally want to make more OSS contributions, but often I find it hard to find projects where I can contribute meaningfully. Meaning specifically that they are projects that have problems that match my expertise, are actively maintained (my patches will be appreciated), and have unresolved tickets where assistance would be useful (they are looking for outside help).
I imagine there are at-least some OSS maintainers who would like to recruit more contributors as well, and a site that would help match both would be beneficial for everyone.
A service that sits between my bank account and subscription services that only accepts charges that I've preapproved. This would let me keep track of the services that I have so I don't end up with subscriptions to sites or services that I've forgotten about. It would also let me revoke permission to charge the account at any time. No need to cancel a card if one won't cancel or changes the fees--you just revoke the…
Recently I found a service like that. I haven't tested it but they claim to mask cards- https://dnt.abine.com/#premiumreg
A stackexchange like site for personal finance.
A service that sits between my bank account and subscription services that only accepts charges that I've preapproved. This would let me keep track of the services that I have so I don't end up with subscriptions to sites or services that I've forgotten about. It would also let me revoke permission to charge the account at any time. No need to cancel a card if one won't cancel or changes the fees--you just revoke the…
An MMO where all content is created by players using a wiki-like interface. Editing privilege is tied to a "creation skill" that levels up with each approved editing action.
A service combining the flexibility and ease of use of a CMS site (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) with the speed and security of a static HTML site. The CMS version would be a private site (not accessible by the general public) which is compiled into a static HTML site which is publicly accessible. There should be a way to deal with formerly dynamic elements, such as contact/comment forms, site search, etc. (possibl…
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Recently I found a service like that. I haven't tested it but they claim to mask cards- https://dnt.abine.com/#premiumreg
The features look nice, but they don't really say WHAT they do or how they do it. Could someone fill me in?
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Interesting. Sounds like it does share some ideas, but with a different goal. This blurb says it was trying to get people to complete for a spot on a leaderboard, whereas A/B testing is about helping people make every-day decisions.
I think the leaderboard was the original idea, but then they later pivoted. http://betabeat.com/2013/09/fashism-struts-off-to-startup-gr...
This takes a lot more effort than simply tapping one of two photos without reading anything. A/B responses can be given in less than a second. It's all snap judgements -- no reading is necessary.
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I'm curious: pairwise comparisons of what? It's not clear to me what your algorithm does.
If I understand correctly, this sounds like an idea that I've been thinking about for a little while. Essentially, you do binary search-insertion into a list, where the comparison function is a prompt to the user asking "Is A better than B?" (If it's too difficult to judge "betterness" between two items, you could just as easily swap in a different comparison. "Is A funnier than B?") One thing that people always ask…
What you're describing technically would work when each person compares every item (and would fall into the domain of condorcet methods).
However in practice the election becomes a graph (rather than list or x/y table) with cyclical dependencies and conflicting comparisons -- it becomes quite hard to resolve -- but it can be.