Dirt cheap, stylish, recyclable clothing.
I really like this idea.
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
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#502API for sports data. If you want to build a great product based on sporting data, it is crazy hard to get. I think someone that made the pipes to all sports data (stats, schedules, lines, etc) could facilitate a lot of good innovation and build a solid business. Not sure if this is a VC scale business, but I think it should exist and I'd love to be a user if someone built it.
The incumbent sports organizations will fight you all the way. I wouldn't count on getting the express written consent of Major League Baseball, put it that way. Probably the best strategy is to give people an incentive -- even if only a social one -- to enter and maintain the data. WikiSports, basically.
Stats aren't copyrightable. You can build one without goodwill.
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#5031. A worthy Google search competitor. Preferably open, open-source, federated, respecting privacy. 2. A platform where scientists can discuss publications. It should be a "home" for every paper. Of course, also open, run by a nonprofit organization, or perhaps even federated. 3. A good open (xkcd-927-defying) standard for chat that everybody will use. (Why can we have this for email, but not for chat?)
3. We had, it was called IRC and Pidgin.
But then the "normies" had to ruin everything.
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#504Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
One would need the entire dataset from the social website for this and that's not something any platform would ever make public.
The extension can P2P with other instances of itself in other browsers and share data.
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SO, is your issue with a decent windows manager? I work on RHEL systems daily, and under the hood (sysd arguments not withstanding) its no more or less clunky than any other 'distro' out there. I guess I'm just trying to figure out what exactly you're looking to buy?
Yes it could be summarized as a window manager if it takes over all aspects of managing the computer through a GUI. I develop with Mac OS and deploy my cloud services on Debian. I don't know much about Linux beyond apt-get upgrade, nginx, Ansible and Java apps. I know when I install Mac OS X that the progress bar is gray with no text on the screen, which means I don't need to dive into the technical details at any po…
Have you seen Elementary OS? It will suit you if you are a mac person who doesn't really like the no-frills of other linux distros.
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#506Simple, user-serviceable appliances. Not a fridge with an UHD screen, not a washer with Bluetooth support, not a toaster that talks to the cloud. Just functional appliances with a level of efficiency that existed 25-30 years ago and can be repaired, rather than thrown away because subcomponents are sealed black boxes with little regard to durability. And after that, the really hard work: doing the same with printers.
For the most part, I think this is already the case today with a lot of products. Most people just have no idea a compressor works on a fridge or how to diagnose the problem. There's really nothing you could do to make a compressor less complicated to work with. Washers are driers don't exactly have embedded computers. They're straight forward to fix, too. Plenty of dishwashers available that are non-electronically c…
I agree with you here. I used to believe that all the appliances are not fixable due to all the comments people make like "they are not like they were 30 years ago".
In reality when I opened up some of my appliances for DIY repair I found them to be incredibly simple and easy to repair after some youtube videos. I am sure there are some examples where an appliance is not fixable but all the appliances I have owned in my life have been.
Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
#507Waterproof hearing aids.
Hey, a man can dream.
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#508Earlier quoted context omitted.
I truly think this is a great idea. Literally the only advantage imo of OSx over Ubuntu to me is beautiful UX. Theres so many little tweaks and customizations. Everything else in Ubuntu is superior imo so I still use it. Or maybe even an 'easy to use' theming system? I know you can change window managers but thats technical and dense. It would be nice to have a way for designers and front end devs to mess with the UX…
> I know you can change window managers but thats technical and dense. It would be nice to have a way for designers and front end devs to mess with the UX. Not really, you're a few clicks a way from installing KDE, Gnome or XFCE on any Linux and you can start hacking on it after some looks at the docs. Nowadays there should be plenty of HTML & CSS inside both Gnome and KDE themes... you just need the free time to was…
I see what you're saying and agree. Just a system that makes everything compatible on the desktop so I can focus on my work without having to go through a major hassle to accomplish things.
Just a minimal bug desktop user experience with a reason amount of configurability for power users and if you want to go deeper there's always the command line.
Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
#509A slim, networked, pocked sized computer with a physical keyboard, running android or Linux. These used to exist - albeit disguised as phones - but the marketing department decided we don't need no friggin keyboards, and remove everything but the touchscreen and call it a tablet. The result is a consume-only device, on which it is all but impossible to input large amounts of text. Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 3/4, HTC…
I totally agree. I used a NEC MobilePro 780 & 790 for a few years in the early/mid-2000s and it was awesome. It was small enough to slide into my pants pocket, yet still had a quite usable keyboard.
http://www.pencomputing.com/frames/nec_mobilepro790.html
I'd love to have something like this running Android or even a very stripped-down Chrome-like OS.
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"Bitten enough", for Windows 10, is: - the forced upgrade to everyone who didn't agree with the upgrade, - the telemetry - the OEM "drivers" that display ads/change 404 pages/install a CA certificate/slow down an otherwise good the computer/install the OEM's wallpaper/break the trust between the customer and their computer. For Android it's having coarse-grained permissions, the fact that "Ok Google" means the mic is…
I said "normal people", not techies. Normal, average users don't even know these things exist. They can't agree or disagree with an update because they have no idea what a given update does and have no expectation to compare it to. "people do realize that they're providers don't care about them" Again, I can just suggest talking to average users. They don't even think about this sort of thing. They are annoyed if the…
My sister doesn't know much, but asks me all the time "Do you think my employer can bug my personal phone?" My parents asked me whether it's safe to enter their credit card numbers on their computer. My parents asked me how to get rid of notifications of their OEM antivirus. People who don't understand technology, but they do understand security, privacy and malware.
You're reminding me that my parents (63 years old) and my sister might belong to a bubble made of 10% of the people. I'm highlighting that those 10% still make above 100 million people. There's definitely concern for privacy all across the board, but people won't switch to Linux because open-source software is ugly and dense today.
I'm not saying we'll sell a paid Linux to everyone. But good UX + respect for the user is still a huge market. The market will grow as the image of Linux improves and people will end up switching "because it just works better".