YC/HN: Name a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve.

Here are a few political problems. I want:<p>* Journalists to be able to make a living doing the hard work of journalism.<p>* Formal education to be conducted in a way that facilitates learning rather than bureaucratic hoop-jumping.<p>* Manual laborers to be able to earn a comfortable living.<p>* More American cities to be beautiful and walkable.

I'd like to be able to enter a URL and see every place on the internet that people have talked about it.

I want to be able to travel across europe (or the world if you are really bored) with my laptop and mobile phone and be able to stay online. I dont want to have a different data tariff for every country and I always want the fastest internet I can get - i.e. I don't want to have a different contract for WiMax, Wifi, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G,... - I want to use the one which is available.<p>I think that would be the only product that could be really called Mobile Internet.

Some technological problems. I want:<p>* Sysadmin work out of my way, or at least reasonably simple, and real information available when I run into a problem.<p>* Ad-heavy, information-poor web sites to stop showing up so high in SERPs.

I want a programming language which is as effortless as thought.

I'd like to see all this technology, knowledge, and power put to use to feed, clothe, and house every person on the planet. There's no non-political reason we can't do this, but our current cultures won't allow for it.<p>I'd like to be able to pursue my passions and hobbies without having to waste the vast majority of my life in a day job just to survive. Life is to goddamned short for this madness.

You know the information you're searching for is readily available, but you don't know the unique string to get you there.

A unified transportation system - encompassing everything (including but not limited to walking, rental bikes/cars, car pooling, trains, planes). One machine that I tell my starting and ending points (down to the house number), and will make me a number of possible schedules and ways to get there using mixed modes of movement, and lets me pay for it/track it with one card.<p>A clean and plentiful energy source that is widely distributed.

i want a solution to this country's health problems...specifically: obesity / bad diet/ lack of desire to exercise<p>i actually think a real business could be built around this. if the governemnt paid me X dollars to make Y over-weight people fit, it might be a win-win

I want my cell phone to automatically switch between vibrate and ring based upon my location (vibrate at work, ring at home). I keep forgetting to switch.<p>I also want a land based bell in my house to ring if my cell phone is within 50 feet of the house (in another room, in the car).

I'd like a way to filter cold calls to my business. Companies which have researched my needs, and have a legitimate product that might fill them get through; script-based telemarketers, scammers and the like, get dumped.

A better battery.

I want a razor that doesn't grow dull.

Immortality. With that we can solve lots of other problems. Efficiency, see?

i need to change the layout of the physical keyboard (as opposed to the on-screen keyboard) on my palm centro.

I would like a truly programmable computer.

I want a search engine that tries to find me what I want, as opposed to inundating me with thousands of products for sale, that might <i>remotely</i> resemble something I said.<p>Here is an example. I am looking for an outdoor security camera. So it needs to be weatherproof. It needs to provide at least 1024 (preferably 1200) horizontal lines. It must have a 100+ Mbit Ethernet connection for data transport and it would be nice to support POE (Power Over Ethernet), but in any event needs to run continuously -- so no battery-powered cams. I don't care either way about pan / tilt / zoom, but might use hardware motion detection.<p>Try asking your favorite search engine and see the plethora of useless results thrown your way. Lenses. Weatherproof housings. Tons and tons of indoor cameras with 480 lines of resolution. But nothing that meets my needs, regardless of how I phrase my search query.<p>Maybe what I really want is a search engine that I can interact with and say "I don't like this result because ..." and have the engine filter out all similar results. Google squared is such an approach but it doesn't work, at least for this task.

I want a solution to a^3 + b^3 = c^3 where a,b,c are positive integers.