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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by zodiac »

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…

Lots of what lawyers and judges do involve interpreting and arguing for a certain interpretation of laws - eg, whether Aero is merely renting an antenna to individual consumers or performing a work publicly to all of them as a whole. Case law also sets all sorts of legal "tests" that involve human judgement (eg proportionate force in response, what a reasonable person would believe). How will your search engine deal with this?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by elij »

A site to discover content using an algorithm that ignores metrics we have begun to game (likes and viewings) and instead builds rankings based on pairwise comparisons.

Would allow discovery of new good content that hasn't employed growth hacks and will also differentiate between equally rated content.

https://aeolipyle.co (algorithm complete -- need to find good use for it.)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by alagu »

zercool wrote: post #7

A site with free, open, community driven practice problems and solutions. Sort of like a wikipedia for questions. I could imagine this being a key ingredient in the future of OER. Would be cool to see something like this integrated with http://metacademy.org

You could try http://www.hackerrank.com/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by mjnaus »

mjnaus wrote: post #2

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…

These solutions seem to, kinda, take a stab at the concept, but what we're really after is something way simpler. Think a simple text field into which you type a URL. Then this service would visit, crawl and compile the entire site into a static HTML site (with options to enhance the final version of the static site).

This would have to work independently of the platform used to build the original site and ideally the service would also provide a means of getting the newly created static site onto it's hosting platform (be it Dropbox, Digital Ocean or whatever other platform you want to host the static site).

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by minimaxir »

doubt_me wrote: post #4

Hacker news 2.0 An actual tech news column with reporters and a sleek website and or maybe a podcast here and there I mean seriously why hasn't that happened yet

The reason it hasn't happened yet is because that's a full time job, the initial costs are high for AV, the profit margins are razor-thin. (or, at the least, the money a person with the skills to write quality tech journalism would always be far less than the money they could earn by applying the tech skills for technical tasks)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Fizzer »

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 and tapping the one that they like more.

The number of use cases is endless. You could be shopping for eyeglasses and trying to figure out which look better - just try on both right there in the store and get a response from the A/B app.

It's not limited to fashion, as people could use it for any subjective comparison.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by blazespin »

Hack Raid - world of warcraft raids meet hackathon. Visual raid management tools allows raid leader to manage teams on quick projects to prove out interesting hacks that could form the basis of real companies. Contributors pick from raids they want to join based on the merit the leadership and idea. Time period for raid is compressed but very focused.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by blazespin »

GavinB wrote: post #20

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…

Or sits between any charge, sends you alerts and genuinely manages fraud risk better than banks. Also provides community information on chargebacks. Basically, a service that works for the consumer rather than the companies paying the fees. Uses contextual advertising based on what you are buying.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by michaelmior »

elij wrote: post #22

A site to discover content using an algorithm that ignores metrics we have begun to game (likes and viewings) and instead builds rankings based on pairwise comparisons. Would allow discovery of new good content that hasn't employed growth hacks and will also differentiate between equally rated content. https://aeolipyle.co (algorithm complete -- need to find good use for it.)

I'm curious: pairwise comparisons of what? It's not clear to me what your algorithm does.
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