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The FDA also tests for effectiveness so if a drug isn't effective enough then it doesn't get through.
And how do you objectively decide which ones are safe and which have been tested sufficiently to your requirements?

As an individual deciding a drug is safe to use should not require you to read all the relevant research etc. - you need a safe, objective marker. i.e. law and regulation.
Awesome site! Some hilarious stuff. Definitely not all peaches & cream in our igloos up here.
Build for free software platforms like Linux or the Web and these issues go away. Being outraged at Apple policies when the web is free is like being outraged at your employer when you are free to start your own business.
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Out of curiosity what are costs of unlimited plans in USA and how hard is it to get those in more rural areas?

Just want to compare it to my current connection which is unlimited traffic, 460KBs down /~60KBs up for €19.99/month. (It also includes a landline which isn't in use - it's the only provider in my area and cheapest offer they have)

Edit: Wording
Does anyone know if Amazon's tech has been developing at 3x the speed that most competent people think possible?
"Conservatives" don't necessarily believe that's a good idea to tax people with lower incomes more aggressively than those with higher incomes. So, whatever the point you're trying to make here is, it's orthogonal to my comment.
I have posted on their mailing list.

However, I guess that if you dont distribute a copy of the Neo4J package with your code, they basically have no say?
You seem to discount the number of people that think homeopathics are an effective medicine.
fwiw - there is the Kilim framework focusing on the actor model.
(http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-javadev2-7....)
Ok, I've gone through and randomly selected the order. I'm not going to list the usernames right now in case someone lives out of country, can't be contacted etc, but with permission I'll list them upon shipment.
Theme and fonts are not good. This is important.
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No because they didn't lose.
It's a standard technique for corps suing individuals, you string the person along for years as they rack up $100,000 in legal fees while your costs are for your own internal lawyers - and wait for them to go bust.
You drop the case before it goes to court so there is never any chance of you losing.
> perhaps more people would die from the effects of new drugs

I'd argue this is almost certainly a given. But the problem is not those who die now - but those who are taken ill much later down the line. Ten years or whatever.

> but you could choose to only use drugs that have been stable and well studied while those who have nothing left to lose could use medicine directly off the chemists work bench.

I entirely agree with the sentiment there (it would be great to see the wider liberalisation and faster iteration of new drug trials for example). but (and I feel this is a big caveat) how do people decide which drug is stable and well studied. It is not necessarily sufficient to trust the pamphlet or advertising the company gives you.

I don't know. Maybe it is cynicism but I suspect that if drug research were deregulated the standard of drugs produced would decline rapidly.

And finally; I am not so sure drugs research would explode with innovation. We would get drugs to market faster, sure, but there is a standard of entry into drug research that still requires funding, education and resources.
This is just the beginning of a reality check for social media.
That would work just as well if they were part of the standard library, wouldn't it?
This article reminds me once again why I am determined never to donate any money to the school I went to.
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Only very tangentially related, my scrappy, not-too-well capitalized (from Founder's Co-op: http://www.founderscoop.com) Seattle start-up (AppStoreHQ: http://www.appstorehq.com) is also seeking developers:

http://blog.appstorehq.com/post/482789903/appstorehq-is-look...

EDIT: Err, why the downvotes?
If Ning networks had exploded as they had hoped there wouldn't be any emphasis on paid today. The plan was to have a billion people participating in 10 million different networks. That didn't pan out. If it had worked DHH would have simply said that they're one of the lottery winners.
Am I the only one that doesn't see the point in LinkedIn groups besides the ability to have more direct contacts?
I've been pleasantly surprised with the number of education posts on HN. Good luck, I just sent this to my teacher friends :)
Even if these things are mostly "obvious", it's good to hear them said and it's good that it's in something other than, say, the Chronicle of Higher Ed. But he draws some odd conclusions from his supply-and-demand argument. People grumble about the high cost as if it's greedy, overpaid professors (sometimes explicitly blaming tenure), but many if not most could make a lot more money elsewhere. I hold a PhD in computer science, have been teaching computer science at a four-year college (non-US read: "small undergraduate university") for 7 years, and my salary is $52,000 a year. I don't need to tell anyone here that I could make a lot more than that working in industry.

It's plenty to live by and I have no complaints, because I'm certainly not in it for the money; I'm stating an actual number because I want to be quite clear that tuition rates that have gone up faster than inflation for most of my lifetime are not due to professorial salaries. In fact, it's hard to get a clear answer on what they are going to, although my money's on ballooning administrations that perform tasks once performed by members of the faculty but are much better-paid.
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Android also has the MemoryFile class, which can be set "purgeable".

"MemoryFile is a wrapper for the Linux ashmem driver. MemoryFiles are backed by shared memory, which can be optionally set to be purgeable. Purgeable files may have their contents reclaimed by the kernel in low memory conditions (only if allowPurging is set to true). After a file is purged, attempts to read or write the file will cause an IOException to be thrown."
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True, although the parent post could be read as follows:

Ning Free had too much branding to attract the kind of sites that would later upgrade to pay plans. It could be that the Ning branding interfered with the Freemium model.

I'm not speaking for the parent post, of course, just pointing out that there may be something interesting to consider...
I second Python+Matplotlib and toss in another notion: animation. With Matplotlib you can generate a plot, save it as a .png file, step to the next plot, save it, etc. all unattended. Then combine your plots into a movie file using one of many programs designed to do just that and presto! your own movie.

I've done this on occasion and with success. When it fits, animation works wonders. And when it doesn't, look for "duck" in Tufte.
Heh.. I was actually job-hunting about that time. Wish I'd seen it....
Everyone who is invested in patents has massive incentive to fund such research, especially in cases like the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. Is the patent office really going to fund or support research to the effect that the patent office should be abolished?
yeah, only issue is it might skew towards the egomaniacs. some of the best hackers are very humble
Intel demos Meego 1.0 on a variety of devices
This is from today (Apr 15). The linked article doesn't have a date but the list of press releases does.
I love stuff like this. I get so inspired when I see "Pirates of Silicon Valley" or "Revenge of the nerds" or any other movie/documentary about computer history. Please tell me if there's any other good computer history movies/documentaries!
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so, we always say this... but doesn't the success of amazon, and other "degree" driven companies mean we are wrong??

maybe having a degree does matter?
At the time, e-commerce pretty much didn't exist, so it would at least be a novel and unsolved problem if nothing else.
Summary: Orion wasn't going to work, so it's good Obama canceled it. He's looking forward to private industry solving all the problems while NASA works on interplanetary stuff. He thinks the president's upcoming speech about space is going to be important, so to stay tuned for it.
Smartphones made up 14% of all phones sold last year [1]. There is a huge market for people who want a smarter phone but don't need a true smartphone because they don't scratch the surface of what the smartphones can do at the cost they are provided (eg iPhone at ~$80/month). If Kin is priced low and the monthly rate is equally low there is huge potential IMO.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/23/smartphone-iphone-sales-200...
Yes, he would have, but he'd also be right, since there are so few that succeed with that model.
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Would he be wrong, though?
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What's next, the "Truth in RFC822 From: Field Act" and the "Truth in HTTP Referer Header Act"?
Cool, thanks for doing that! We're doing the official launch on Monday but wanted to release it to HN early to get the feedback (see some of the comments about theme, fonts, etc)

And please feel free to contribute edu links there, awesome.
The death of the OS?
hahaha... :)
There is a web browser, near the end of this article is it mentioned: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362514,00.asp
You can limit the number of signups without making it invite-only. You just make it first-come-first-served, and accept no more than X signups.

I'm assuming you've done a closed trial first, among yourselves (using it to develop itself, I hope!) and any dev friends you can gather. You definitely want to go through this stage before you open it up.
So I imagine Apple will soon be taking down the Secret of Money Island and the Sim games, since I know for a fact both of these use interpreters.

No, of course they won't. Because those titles bring in big bucks and are from the types of developer Apple wants to develop for their device.

It the capricious and selective enforcement of the SDKs T&Cs that is the biggest problem for developers. It's not that Apple are against interpreters, they are just against interpreters when it is not financially beneficial to them.
Way to at least attempt to seek the actual data instead of an "educated guessing" that is used all to often in revenue projections.

I think the 35% is a fair estimate, but believe it could actually be higher.
My friends make fun of me for paying $120/month for 6M Speakeasy broadband.

But guess who never gets letters saying that he's using too much bandwidth or to shut off his SSH server.
Big Content's dystopian wish-list for the US gov't: spyware, censorship and more
There's a reason the Hippocratic Oath has "First, do no harm" in it. You don't go around experimenting on human subjects on the off chance that it might be good. The Nazis did that and it's not exactly been upheld as a standard to follow (though that was of course involuntary.) One can argue over the morals involved, but society generally doesn't accept the argument that killing individual people is justified by some uncertain potential to save others (except maybe when it comes to national security...)
This part is cute:

"Familiarity with web servers and HTML would be
helpful but is not necessary."

Shows just how new the web was in '94.
It's pretty amazing to see how much can get done in just 48 hours.
Here is a Lisp game design challenge that allows for a week:

http://dto.github.com/notebook/lgdc.html
If you don't like the one-off sale model, make a free basic iPhone app that has an in-app subscription available to your premium features.
People are a little too worried about read/write cycles for flash. They hear "limited" and think it means "you can't update a bandwidth counter every so often", when in reality it means, "you will need new flash after 10 years of writing to it at its full bandwidth".

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Playing around in Firebug, I think it's a bit easier on the eyes without the bold title and the title size a bit smaller. Also, I love the arrow in HN - very simple and unobtrusive. Yours might be fine with a little bit more margin to the right.

Perhaps maybe a bit more white space as well. With those adjustments I think it looks great
I think you'll find http://www.typetester.org helpful
Notes on the Synthesis of Form, by Christopher Alexander, can't be recommended enough for seeing a teapot as an elegant system / understanding the parallels between physical & software design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Synthesis_of_Form
I find it even more amusing that his one other newsgroup posting is on finding a good dog obedience school in the Seattle area: http://groups.google.com/group/seattle.general/browse_thread...
TonkaToys used to be made in Mound! (Very important tidbit, I know...)
I agree, IVE talks about spending a lot of time designing "fixtures" to hold parts during the various CNC operations. That is completely analogous to spending time creating macros, scripts, development tools, etc. Essentially creating tools that will help create tools.
Or you could call it "price segmentation" like Joel does:

"All from the power of segmentation: separating your customers into different groups according to how much they are willing to pay, and extracting the maximal consumer surplus from each customer."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
How much does Lean startup have in common with Customer Development (percentage-wise) and how does it diverge? What are the main differences?
"Less is more... especially in your first few iterations."

I can see how this would lead to 'holes' in a platform or generally ambiguous application boundaries.
Clicking on the left side of the header (not the Login/Register portion) doesn't bring me to the homepage. It wasn't immediately clear to me that the Popular link brings me there. This is important if folks arrive at your site via a link directly to an item.

I like the styling better than HN -- CSS is always better than nested tables IMHO.
The name change from 'uLocate Communications' to 'Where' was sideways at best. 'Where' is hard to google, prone to confusion in spoken communication, and very generic. For example, a conference for their market is already called "Where 2.0".

I'm wary of 'Where' as a name. Will 'Where' wear well, if whereever it's discussed we're also hearing competitors' wares emphasizing 'where' features? Where, with all these word collisions, will Where find the werewithal to forge a brand image where we're likely to see 'Where' as meaning what Where wants 'Where' to mean?
Awesome suggestions. OK we're going to play around with some of this and tweak... one follow up though: do you think the white space is a suggestion that "the mainstream" will like or is that more for the HN community coming over to news.learnboost.com ?
That's a good definition. And one that actually matters for open source - where, after all, the goal is for other people to be able to modify your source code.

But it's completely irrelevant here. If nobody is going to modify your code but you, and if you can produce apps that work great on the iPhone, why should they care whether you write it by editing Objective C or by singing Hungarian love songs into an electric toothbrush?
Your second point illustrates the difference between a latent need and an active need. It's difficult enough to gain attention for active needs, yet alone latent needs.
Oh yeah, CSS is more fun too :)

Good catch on the header link going back to the homepage. Iterating, iterating, iterating...
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I got hired there in '97 without one, so it wasn't a hard and fast requirement.
I will agree that the sample is skewed, but I wasn't trying to make the point that the particular 100k people in question constitute a representative sample of the world. I was replying to the sentiment that because the world doesn't consist of 100k people, you can't call 100k people's goals the world's goals. I may not have expressed that as clearly as I could have.

I agree; this represents only a certain type of person in the world, but again, conclusions about the world have been drawn from more specific types.

I just feel it's petty to focus on the title of the article, when the word "world" is consistently applied in narrower senses.
Yes we should be doing a closed trial beginning early next month. We also use everything we develop.

We intend to keep the product free for open-source and startup with 3 users or less. Do you think its a good idea allow signups for startups only - as a way of limiting signups?
More direct contacts among people that you consider your peer group is a worthwhile enough purpose.
Actually they fully allow interpreters as long as it doesn't allow users to run arbitrary code. They allowed the Commodore 64 emulator once direct access to the BASIC interpreter was removed:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/10/iphone-commodore-64-emulat...

Of course, all these products were put into the app store before rule 3.3.1.
Sadly, the logo no longer contains capitals.
Correlation does not imply causation. That said, I won't say that a degree is worthless. I will say that too often we think of a degree as a bullet point on a resume or a job listing rather than thinking of it as a means to actually learn something.
If you have to ask then maybe it's not worth. I think that wherever you go you have the chance to make something meaningful if you really want to.

Edit: I didn't realize the date at first, so the downvotes are in order. I still believed in what I said tough.
Twitter and Facebook now allowed within Dod firewall
The fine line between risking operational security and allowing soldiers to remain more connected to loved ones.
Free is not a business model. Within 12-18 months expect Facebook and Twitter to go the same route. Their burn rate is starting to catch up to them and Twitter's search deals will shrink.
I might disagree that it's a poor use of Mark's time. The only product that Facebook has is software and a large portion, I'm guessing, comprises of internal APIs. So, what better way to test their quality than by writing some code against them? I don't know if this is what he's doing or not, but it seems like a logical guess.

I would expect the captain of a ship to make sure the engine is running correctly, even if that means a personal inspection.

Plus, from what I've read, a lot of internal discussions at Facebook are settled by writing demo code/applications showing a concrete implementation of an idea.
It is clear from the context that he is talking about private-market research, not NSF funded university research, etc.
It also might be part of the reason why they're desperate to get funds from VCs in the first place. The whole "pay us out of the money we just gave you" model doesn't make sense unless the funding is coming from an external source.

My impression from reading all of this is that Bootup Labs is a scam. At best, they have a significant conflict of interest at the heart of their business model.
Why am I reminded of the passage from Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky where one of the characters says (approximately) "Any ubiquitous computing network where every local node has to run government code inevitably devolves into absolute tyranny."
It should be possible to create a Scratch execution environment on top of Javascript/Safari. A cross compiler done correctly might run faster than the "native" Squeak VM.
Lest you undervalue people who hire people, someone comes along and makes recruiters look like tact artists.
Ask HN: Any Enterprise Rails application you know of?
Thank you everyone,

I've been preparing a value-of-Rails presentation to an enterprise audience. Does anyone happen to know enterprise Rails apps for demo/reference purpose?
My personal opinion is that while it may not be something that the "mainstream" notices, it's a bit more comforting on the eyes and appears less cluttered.

Keep in mind, it's just one person's opinion, and I work with a guy who's pretty hardcore about padding and white space so I've grown into his style a bit ;)
And why are people willing to pay for it? Because universities have marketed said prestige as something that is absolutely essential to success in the modern world. So of course people will buy it.
Thing that always bothered me about Ning was there no way to browse networks. At least I never saw such a thing, just featured networks and search.
Jeeze, never saw this coming.
Why would the combination of "being short" and "well written" surprise you? "Long" virtually guarantees "crappy", due to the effectively 100% chance of bad interactions.
You still assume they collaborate to sell. My point is that people develop things not to sell them.

If you just want to develop something to solve some problem you have, and the choices are either putting in the full resources yourself or to collaborate with someone else who has complementary expertise, then you have no reason to not collaborate. You put in a fraction of the resources but still get the full benefits of having your problem solved.

Only in some extremely paranoid view of the world where every piece of knowledge you have should be leveraged does what you say make general sense. If you are Apple, for example, say you compete on design and functionality of your apps. How would it not benefit you to collaborate with other companies to develop some library or parts of the OS or whatever? Your competitive position is not damaged because you help Microsoft or whoever get the same functionality, because you're not competing on that.
I'm stupid, but still not seeing how billion people would have translated into any $ for them...
Do you really want the market flooded with new software, whose effects aren't well understood?

You can find effective software despite almost no government regulation, why do you think it won't work for drugs? I'm sure a lot of private rating agencies evolve in the such free market of drugs.
For one, it was partially a joke. Canadians apologize too much and for anything.

Let me be clear, I'm not sorry this happened to Bootup. I'm sorry because I don't want anyone to think bad of our city because of an event like this.

Bootup can close down tomorrow for all I care. I take it personally when a fellow entrepreneur (and HN user) gets screwed over, and especially when it happened in my city.
Free can work, if you can keep you overhead low. They clearly failed at that.
They built it on top of Squeak. That thing is one of the most straightforward VMs to port. The runtimes execute bit-identical. Years ago they were on 40 different platforms, and I've lost track. It's an incredibly elegant architecture.
I really am glad that SpaceX exists, and I want them to be successful. To me, it represents a grand intersection of my technical interests, the dream of space travel that was instilled in me since I was a child, and my moral belief that government has no place in this (nor in many other things).

SpaceX is making progress toward real commercial access to orbit. But is there any work being done by business farther out than that?
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