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agreed. thats' the goal with #2 the shopping assistant. web crawlers are currently all GET, it's about time we start POSTing data

Building a product search engine (https://percht.com) Percht has a few goals:

1) give you the lowest price for any product online 2) develop an assistant that’ll buy you whatever at x price automatically 3) build an unbiased gameified community around shopping

What do you think are the biggest issues with the approach many other shopping search engines have taken that have prevented them from beating entrenched monopolies like amzn and goog which dont have complete results or 100% consumer alignment.

I left my job at a big consulting firm 6 months after i finished college. It was one of the best decisions I made. I left only after i had another job offer in hand.

I started http://percht.com recently. I'm tired of searching multiple sites to find the lowest price for what I want. Percht aggregates top retailers and finds the same products across them using neural networks. You can also get price alerts and filter products by specifications.

It's still early so i only have cameras listed, and things may break. I'm adding tvs next. Let me know if you have any requests.

This is great. I always thought an advanced et would want to build something like a dyson hemisphere around its star.

> If they are no longer the "Everything Store" then they won't be where I go to for everything...

I'm working on it: http://percht.com , its still under heavy development and im not done crawling everything, but its coming. yeah you cant order on percht either, but i have to start somewhere... There's cool stuff behind the scenes including react / nlp / and neural nets in case anyone would like to collaborate.

The real solution here is to change the laws protecting gigantic swaths of ugly "historic" districts like the mission. Unfortunately no politician or home owner wants to vote for this because it would dramatically devalue their homes if SF is finally allowed to build vertically. Then the tiny increase in housing costs due to Airbnb is no big deal.

No state / municipal income tax in nashville probably and much cheaper cost of living probably means that the actual relative wealth of those employees will increase tremendously. I'd love to see a tech hub grow in the southeast. Having lived in the bay area and in TN, it's definitely not a feeling of being stranded. There's a lot of outdoorsy activities (caving was my personal favorite), though the city life ist as great.

and they only started displaying the product ads in the last 3-4 years. What happened to other shopping site traffic in that period?

5 yrs of driving been hit 2x (knocked off my bike) both times because the driver didnt see me beside his car. 2 other times hit by doors opening into the bike lane (nyc at nighttime). At night, i always have front and rear blinking lights. Although lifepaint seems awesome, none of my accidents would have been prevented either

I'm all for subsidizing new ventures. Maybe the government shouldnt give away the subsidy for free, but in exchange for some % of the company. At least that way, we could repay some of the debts when things like spacex/tesla/solarcity succeed.

Cool stuff. I tweet my dreams @rickydreams I'd love to follow anyone else who @namedreams too. Tweeting dreams is so easy if you're into tracking them. The good thing is, you can keep it anonymous(ish) too if you want.

the extortion part is heightened by the registrar for .sucks where it is asking organizations who own the trademark to pay 2500/yr to get a domain name

We are building our app on FHIR (NavHealth.com) it's great to see so much interest on hn

after legalizing gay marriage/sex, the next big hurdle will be the legality of robosexuals

I used to think about this: Would it be possible to find a configuration of galaxies with enough mass to bend light from one point on earth back to another point on earth? If we could do that, we actually look at an older timestamp of earth.

Yes, we'd need a reeeeally powerful telescope, but maybe we could find that in another configuration of galaxies as well.

What are your thoughts on AI? Poll: AI Possible or Not, Friend or Foe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9140132

agreed, they should have looked at other moths (similar shape) without tails + these moths normal + these moths without tails.

This is why i never started using it. They've been using these tactics since day one. Spam.

NavHealth | Washington DC We're building the app store experience for healthcare using open apis. http://navhealth.com/jobs

The model isnt that great. I'd kill some of those variables and run it again to find something more significant and with fewer confounding factors that drive down the explanatory power (R2)

I made http://bankofamericaroutingnumber.com It took less than a day and makes about $150/month. Not quite the 1k but not bad for minimal work.

This is nothing new. Lizards reproduce asexually in deserts often when the conditions become extremely stable--no new genetic info is needed. One day the whole world, once we've learned how to control it, will become female, or at least ones that can change into male if they wish. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexual-lizards/

Maybe all this intelligence is actually the manifestation of dark energy and dark matter, or the ever expanding space between galaxies. And once we discover how to manipulate that realm, we'll find that we're late to the party.

i stopped using uber and started using lyft for these reasons.

The study isnt correct in its conclusions: People writing stuff down to be used in a card game, arent going to commit info to their memory. They should tell people they will take the paper away at the beginning then do the same study

I've been thinking about this recently. A developer could do so much better (he's still copying from spreadsheets). Who wants to put this guy out of business with me?

Completely agree. I learned a lot more working at a startup for the last few years after working at google for about 3 years.

or when aquifers run out of freshwater used to irrigate fields

This doesnt make sense. You are paying for renting the antenna. You're not paying for the content.