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Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by throwaway2016a »

_pmf_ wrote: post #42
throwaway2016a wrote: post #3

I may be reading between the lines too much and I apologize if I am... But every few months (weeks?) I see a post by a founder-type essentially trying to mine the Hacker News collective brains for startup ideas. It doesn't work that way. The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced. The idea of a savior who comes in and solving the major problems of an industry they have never work…

> The idea of a savior who comes in and solving the major problems of an industry they have never worked in is not a myth but close to one. I think Bezos would be a much better example than Musk. Musk is in the process of nudging the car industry a bit (or so SV tends to want to make the rest of the world believe); Bezos basically obliterated small-scale retail as we knew it.

Thank you for the example. I do not know Bazos' background so I couldn't comment on if he had prior retail and logistics experience.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by cdiamand »

vijayr wrote: post #37

There are some resources that might be of interest to you (no affiliation) Ideas: http://www.oppsdaily.com/ https://nugget.one/ Already done successfully https://sidehustleschool.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses

Thanks for the mention Vijayr!

I'd also add https://flippa.com to this list.

It's interesting to see which businesses are being put up for sale.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by egypturnash »

benzor wrote: post #10

I work in the games industry. There are plenty of problems to go around, but I'll pick just one: Discoverability In the "good old days" where 2 people could make a video game, odds are that just shipping something guaranteed you'd make money. But that's no the case anymore now that 1000+ apps come out every day on iOS / Google Play. Of course most of those are crap. But you could be making a great game that caters we…

I make comics, put 'em on the web for free, and occasionally print books. I was gonna say I have pretty much the same problem as you do.

And hell, you and I are competing for the same resource: people's time and attention to give to our little package of artistic effort.

So far the solution in comics seems to be "oh i know i'll make another damn portal, or another damn hosting site", which I'm pretty meh on.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by HockeyPlayer »

I run a quant/hft trading group. We need to know what the margin impact of our position will be. We use a tool from CME called PC-SPAN. The various factors that impact margin change during the day as prices change. I'd pay for a SAAS where I upload a position and get lots of useful margin reports back. We have built some of this but it is a distraction.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by petermonsson »

1. Electronics/semiconductors 2. Moore's law is loosing stream and complexity is exploding. Turn around times are increasing in everything. This includes runtime for all of our software tools as well as physical processes such as getting chips back from the fab. Vendors are not keeping up. Productivity is suffering.

3. SystemVerilog is not really at the right abstraction level and still has many of the problems that face Verilog. It is sort of what C++ is to C and what I need is more the equivalent to rust.

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Post by roymurdock »

Jtsummers wrote: post #48

1. Embedded (safety and criitical systems) 2. Knowledge sharing within companies/organizations. Formal methods (primarily their absence). Effective use of simulations in design, development, and V&V efforts. Requirements traceability (this is mundane and seems bureaucratic, but it's critical here). 3. Yes, to everything. For the first, break down information silos and project fiefdoms. Allow for greater flexibility f…

Surprised not to see the classic IoT security/connectivity combo here. Perhaps you're working on systems that are too deeply embedded to make use of (or allow for) connectivity.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by cyanoacry »

1. Rockets

2. Cost of launch locks out potential customers and limits R&D uses. Global launch cadence is slow; getting into orbit is a multi-year adventure.

3. Yes, we're working on reusable rockets.

However, this only goes so far. Personally, I think that more money needs to be put into non-rocket modes of space travel, so that there's some competition. The fundamental problem is that it takes so much energy (and, with rockets, so much mass fraction optimization) to get to space, so it's difficult to engineer things with physical margin.

If you could build a rocket like a car (just toss some more steel in the frame and call it a day, with no need for the obsessive mass savings), getting to space would be a bit easier. If you had a power source that doesn't shake and bake its surroundings, getting to space would be a lot easier.

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Post by BoorishBears »

HockeyPlayer wrote: post #64

I run a quant/hft trading group. We need to know what the margin impact of our position will be. We use a tool from CME called PC-SPAN. The various factors that impact margin change during the day as prices change. I'd pay for a SAAS where I upload a position and get lots of useful margin reports back. We have built some of this but it is a distraction.

Would you mind if I got in contact with you about this?

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Post by sdflkd »

bsvalley wrote: post #52

1. Software 2. Hiring Process 3. Replace meaningless whiteboarding interviews AND silly notepad algorithm questions, with a live coding interview on a laptop and a real development environment. Companies would be surprised how fast and efficient the hiring process would be. They would stop eliminating a bunch of great candidates by running relevant technical interviews and not silly CS academic stuff. I can spend 3 m…

If your company doesn't ask system design questions they deserve their fate. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by DanBC »

1) Patient safety

2) Massive underfunding from central and local government; entrenched ways of working; incorrectly defensive working; dysfunctional cheerleading of incorrect approaches

3) Yes. Improve efficiency. Move to better ways of serious incident analysis. Challenge people who cheerlead incorrect approaches. Push for more funding, especially using Spend-to-Save data.

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