Ask HN: What is a problem you want to see solved?
What is a problem that you want to see solved? Whether it's one you have or not.
Who knows, maybe some ideas could spawn a few startups.
Who knows, maybe some ideas could spawn a few startups.
- Subtitles / Closed Captioning - some sort of HUD (Google Glass-esque) that shows subtitles only to me, and not to those around me. Especially useful in movies or when watching Game of Thrones with friends that don't like subtitles.
- Better door buzzing - I don't have a landline, and my landlord won't connect the buzzer to my phone. I have to have friends call or text me, and then I have to run down to the front door and open them up. Totally inconvenient during parties. There's gotta be some way to get around my landlord's dumb rules and have the buzzer send a text to my phone, where I can reply with a code and it'll open the door.
- Auditioning -- there's gotta be a better way to find out whether an actor or musician is good enough for a role other than a 60 second monologue. This also applies to job screening in general. If you can cut out the middleman (casting directors, recruiters), you'll make a fortune.
I can probably think of some more later.
(disclaimer - I work on this stuff)
There's also a list of other things that could be built with FUSE.[2]
[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/wiki/FileSystems/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/wiki/Filesystem_Suggestions/
Could you go into more detail about what you mean here?
SQLite does basically the same thing using a virtual file system layer that SQLite explicitly uses.[1] With a FUSE module, any application could receive the same level of testing without needing its own VFS.
Excluding these atempted solutions: Driverless car, Uber
I'm not sure why you're excluding driverless cars. It seems like a clever solution to me. And it leaves the door open to a car monoculture, which I think would help things a lot.
But I'm highly skeptical and think it'll never fly because people love THEIR cars. Even though they sit on the street 95% of the time. The fact is Henry Ford and the rest of the car-world founders never designed their systems to be sustainable. They were designed to make their makers money.
-make Immigration more Easy 'cause many tech people living in developing world want to work in Europe or US(developed world)
(I quibble using "middle" because at the bottom you have to go "unsafe".)
The problem entails complex issues like climate change, over-consumption, wastage, unplanned urban growth,food security, excessive industrial development, geo-politics and pollution.
Let's hope mankind can figure this one out.
I am not convinced that the bigger problems to the world have answers which can be provided by a 'start up', and feel that the tendency toward "X-is-broken" type start up pitches tend to suggest techno-fixes to problems of social structure.
only the organised struggle of the disenfranchised of the world can end class society, eliminating both the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, providing a ground on which these problems can be usefully approached. No venture capitalist is likely to invest in this, unfortunately.
In direct answer to your question: voluntary associations of the toiling masses
> voluntary associations of the toiling masses
With the mighty overhead of just-plain-survival (the main reason that the poor tend to stay poor), I'm sad to say that's never going to happen.
I think what humans as a species really needs is a planet wide support system that takes care of the food/shelter/clothing/sewage problem. But we're so deeply wired for paranoia, group think, and solipsism that that's impossible too.