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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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fragsworth wrote: post #53

DNS for the Post Office. When you move to a new home or office, you can keep the same "Postal Domain Name", but change the address associated to it. Once . Not sure how to convince all the big entities to use it, but it could catch on if you could convince some smaller companies to allow users to use it in their account settings.

I've seen similar ideas to this (central location to change/update all your addresses on file) over the years. I decided to just hack my own solution to the problem since I move and travel a lot and it became a pain point long ago rather than wait around for a viable solution to come forward.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by dannyking »

A Google-reader like service for your YouTube channels subscriptions. I'd like to have a list of videos from my subscriptions I can turn into a video magazine I can e.g. watch each Sunday.

It's super annoying that to keep up with your subscriptions on YouTube you have to click on each channel and manually work out which videos you've seen and which you haven't.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hashtag »

A single site that aggregates and live demo or video demo of open source projects...

Skimming through and reading each open source project to figure out exactly what it does or having to read code, install it, or run it in some form just to get a better idea is a pain in the ass (personal opinion). It would be awesome to have a way to go through projects fast and _see_ what they're about before starring at their repo. Reading descriptions is not as awesome as seeing the product when possible.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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dannyking wrote: post #162

A Google-reader like service for your YouTube channels subscriptions. I'd like to have a list of videos from my subscriptions I can turn into a video magazine I can e.g. watch each Sunday. It's super annoying that to keep up with your subscriptions on YouTube you have to click on each channel and manually work out which videos you've seen and which you haven't.

You can subscribe to Youtube feeds with any RSS reader. I've been doing it for a long time now. The built-in Youtube subscription blows hardcore.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DanBC »

dang wrote: post #147

Ok, when people start racing to post these at midnight, and beg for upvotes, this experiment has jumped the shark. I'm going to bury this post and ask you all not to post more of them. Only one account (whoishiring) is allowed to make regular feature posts that we don't kill as duplicates. (That's to prevent race conditions.) Should we make this "Idea" thread a regular feature? I've thought about it. I think the answ…

I agree about the frustration of having multiple threads posted by different people. These threads should be killed.

A once per month thread would be useful to me. Would it be possible to accommodate that?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by DanBC »

eurleif wrote: post #150
Fizzer wrote: post #27

A/B testing for the masses. Here's an example: Say a someone is deciding which shirt to wear. They whip out their smartphone, launch the A/B app, takes a picture of themselves wearing each of two shirts. Within 30 seconds, they have an answer of which shirt hundreds of people liked better. While they're waiting for the reply, they're prompted to rate other people's pictures. This is as simple as seeing two pictures a…

It's limited to pictures of people, but MyBestFace sounds like what you're describing. https://www.okcupid.com/mybestface

Mybestface uses a really small number of responses.

I'd pay to use something that gave me a sample of 500 or 1000 responses.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rafamvc »

hashtag wrote: post #161
fragsworth wrote: post #53

DNS for the Post Office. When you move to a new home or office, you can keep the same "Postal Domain Name", but change the address associated to it. Once . Not sure how to convince all the big entities to use it, but it could catch on if you could convince some smaller companies to allow users to use it in their account settings.

I've seen similar ideas to this (central location to change/update all your addresses on file) over the years. I decided to just hack my own solution to the problem since I move and travel a lot and it became a pain point long ago rather than wait around for a viable solution to come forward.

Can you explain What was your solution/hack?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rahij »

blazespin wrote: post #106

Collapse this for HN. I know this is redditty, but I sorely need it when I see an idea that spans a conversation longer than the page. Can't even tell by indent if I have got to the next idea. Sort by new would be nice as well so I can look for new ideas posted.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

It does the job (and some more nice features) pretty well.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by anewhnaccount »

icebraining wrote: post #159
wingerlang wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd wager that ANY person who actually uses CLI tools to do things does not want, nor need, to write full sentences to do these things. Everyone that uses CLI tools always says they do so because it is the fastest way possible to do X. That point becomes moot once you have to write sentences.

I don't know - I live in the terminal, and I definitively wouldn't use it for regular commands (sed, grep, tar, etc), but if it was smart enough, I could see myself using it for software that I rarely use and which has complicated options. For example, I'd rather type please convert movie.avi to h264 at 720p with subtitles from movie.srt than having to read the man page of avconv each time. Bonus points if it could p…

Or even if it'd only output the translate command line. Like a better apropos. A nice idea for sure.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by bkamapantula »

neilxdsouza wrote: post #17

A search engine for the legal system. I had sent this idea to YC 2013 and they asked me to submit a video, but I felt I don't have the creds to apply. Take each section of a country's law and convert it into prolog clauses. Queries can then be run on the legal engine. For defendants it gives you insights on how to build a case and for prosecution it identifies relevant sections and evidence that needs to be provided…

An existing solution that solves some of the issues, like searching cases, you raised: Indian Kanoon [1]

[1] http://indiankanoon.org/

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