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No, I'm saying that Microsoft believes that by bringing the best developers to their side, good apps will be made, and then users will follow. That's why he was screaming that.

Now, you may disagree with the way that they're going about doing that, but from what I understand, tools like Visual Studio really are best of breed. I don't use IDEs or Windows, so I wouldn't know, but that's just what I hear.
The "Speakers Notes" have the bulk of the information content, but AFAICT don't show up in that Google Docs rendition.
Slightly off-topic: It annoys me when I have to scroll both up and down while reading an article to read it sequentially (see Idea 1 and Idea 2 for an example infringement).
I don't think inflicting sleep deprivation on yourself is a good idea for a healthy person. It's an even worse idea for someone with a medical condition that causes tons of fatigue. Polyphasic sleep is quite frankly a crank theory[1]--I'm sure people can function on it, but people can function on untreated severe sleep apnea for years as well and in both cases you have chronic sleep deprivation. (And, obviously, anyone committed enough to polyphasic sleep to actually continue doing it for very long would have a pretty strong confirmation bias, so there's no trusting personal anecdotes.)

[1] Steve Pavlina's already a crank--his business partner and ex-wife is a telephone psychic who claims to contact your dead relatives.
> example.com/bingo-cards/holidays/halloween is superior in just about every conceivable way.

...ever A/B-tested that hypothesis? ;)
"And I thought deeply about this, and I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and we get a little bit more influence in the world is if we change our core values" -Jobs

As they get big?
I second the "let it go" idea, unless you know for a fact that people are getting confused (AND, it's a large enough N that your most important next task is to recapture those people). Most of the time, it's a wiser use of your time to go and get new customers as opposed to worrying about folks who mistype the domain.

Also, most (consumers) find websites through google. Focus your efforts on SEO there -- I bet your ROI is MUCH higher in optimizing google cmp to worrying about bottom feeders like these squatters.
"Parking should be free" is an interesting discussion point. Leaving out the issue of promoting turnover, it seems reasonable to me that a municipality should be able to charge rent for storage of private property (i.e. my car) on public property (i.e. the street).

On the other hand, I also grew up in an area with ample free parking, so I certainly understand the visceral annoyance. To me, the convenience of being able to pay with credit/debit cards (rather than having to hunt the seat cushions for loose change) might go a long way toward mitigating that effect, though.
Maybe try a DNA chip? I got a bunch of information from my 23andme results, but perhaps you can find a service out there that's a bit more diagnostic?
It's an ask-me-anything where you can ask him anything except the one thing you really want to know: what app is it and what does it do?

As such the top question at the moment is "What do you do with the money?" which seems like a pretty dull question. What does anyone with $120K a year do with the money? The usual stuff, no doubt.
If it makes you feel any better you're beating me :-)

I'm pulling in about $22/month...
$200-300 is not bad if the scale is small, and for sure you'll get a discount for the non-business nature of the event. I'd offer $250 and mention it could be a quarterly thing, as well as the name of the college. Who knows, you might find someone who went there to learn video production and ended up here too!
> I'd go so far as to argue that asking people to write code during interviews is pointless; we should be asking them to read it.

An excellent idea.

> [3] Well, until Python 3. Again, that's another show.

This doesn't seem to be referenced in the body of your comment. What are you referring to?
Great find, thank you.
> I'm interested in improvements, hit me with them.

Don't let the text in your colored boxes go all the way to the right-hand edge.
Yep. This has been a standard interview question for probably at least 15 years.
High iron can also cause many of the same symptoms. It's actually fairly easy for doctors to miss.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hemochromatosis/ds00455/dse...
If it was me, I'd get in touch with a good endocrinologist.

You may also wish to read these pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthyroidism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidism

In truth, there could be many things that could be causing these symptoms, or multiple things.

Also I am not a Doctor.

Edit: Also I feel I can relate a little bit, as I was hit by Acute Pancreatitis recently, and still experimenting to see what the cause is. Of course the disturbing thing is there is no clear answer, and there may never be. Wish you the best of luck.
Alternate subtitle: How to get pageviews by asking a stupid and provocative question in the headline.
A digital camera is still "electronic"
Microsoft has a long history of bending over backwards for developers, even going so far as to put one-off patches in its own libraries to fix bugs in 3rd party applications.
Maybe I've only ever lived in secondary markets, but in my experience, job listings on Craigslist aren't worth my time even to look at. None of the companies there impress me or make me want to contact them. Extrapolating from my experience, it would seem that in all but a few markets, Craigslist job ads are already scraping the bottom of the barrel, at least when it comes to technical talent.
> What is the existing metaphor for "picture frame that shows the time, weather, and some other useful info"?

A desktop with a customizable background and widgets. Seriously, if you take a screenshot of that app and go around showing it to your friends, do you think their first impression is going to be, oh, it's a picture frame with widgets?

> For that matter, where does it say anything about desktops?

The "desktop" is a metaphor. You don't have an actual, literal desktop on your computer.
For about $20 a day all inclusive (shared dorm + 3 square meals) you can volunteer in their national parks for pretty much as long as you want. I did this two summers ago and it was fantastic. At night you pretty much have the whole place to yourself. Highlight was sitting on a bench watching the moonlit Pacific ocean and having an ocelot walk right by me.
If I'm reading the current status graphs correctly they're regularly seeing 1.5-2.5 second queries and 400ms direct fetches. That seems unbearably bad. Can anyone running mission critical apps on the platform comment?
Test for Pernicious Anemia that prevents the digestive system from absorbing Vitamin B12:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernicious_anemia

I had a friend go through something very similar a few years ago - almost exact same symptoms, steady relentless degeneration, multiple ineffectual doctors and most of the incorrect diagnoses you list above.

Finally one doctor figured it out - Pernicious Anemia. It prevents stomach from absorbing much needed Vitamin B12, which was the cause of most of the degenerative, incapacitating symptoms.

She started taking daily B12 shots to compensate, since there was no other way to get B12 into one's body. That completely solved the problem, cured the symptoms, within a few weeks she was back to her normal 110% self.

The doctor that finally figured it out noticed neuropathy in her extremeties - muted or complete lack of feeling in her hands and feet, and that clued her into the possibility of PA.
In conjunction with the symptoms and the background you give (18 years of this), it sounds a lot like an autoimmune disease. Which isn't saying much, I know, and I'm sorry for that.

I've got an autoimmune disease (Crohn's Disease) which has a lot of similar symptoms when left untreated. In fact, many autoimmune diseases have similar symptoms and and hard to track down–I too spent far too much money and time going from doctor to doctor and diagnosis to diagnosis until they discovered what I had.

Other peoples' suggestions to test your vitamin K and A levels (because of your reaction to more vit D) sounds like a very good step towards treating the symptoms. Please do, too, go out in the sun as much as possible, as this both aids in the processing of vit D and helps to coordinate your circadian rhythm.

Good luck.
"Frankly, what a lot of startups should do is spend the money not on another developer to build more stuff, but on a kick ass product manager to eliminate features (especially the ones that get requested after you launch) and focus the offering."

Has anyone EVER worked with a product manager that eliminated features? I feel like every conversation with every product manager I have has gone like this.

PM: "We want to do A and B by the end of Q2."

Me: "Well they're both 8 week projects so which do you want first?"

PM: "It's not possible to do both?"
It makes me feel better (somehow) that someone with this many sales has the same cancel rate as me. I don't really think people are pirating anymore, I think they just uninstall the later when they realize they may not want to replay my game over and over again.

My puzzle game gets WAY LESS returns than my sports app. I think people see more repeat play value in the puzzle game though the puzzle game sees less sales than the sports game.
It can do things that paper textbooks don't; it isn't competing just on price.

For instance, how about you mark stuff as important which not only lets you flip through just those bits later but it also puts that chunk of information in your automated "review-stuff" queue. Give that queue a "which things to pop-up when" scheduler based on measurements of your retrieval success rate fall-off over time and some memory science, i.e. it can be a textbook that reinforces the important bits just before your brain was about to forget them. You could even reward a regimen of shoving information through the student's attention... "rewrite these notes for extra points."

The size, sure it can be streamlined some, but this isn't for mostly passive content consumption and casual gaming so it should never be iPad sized.
I'm going to add another vote for Celiac/Gluten sensitivity.

Useful people are Loren Cordain[1] and Robb Wolf[2].

[1] http://www.thepaleodiet.com/
[2] http://www.robbwolf.com/
Have a recommendation for finding a place to stay? Is it best to just go down there and figure it out? I have heard the internet is very good down there, do you know? I have been thinking about this for a long time, thanks for the post.
Ask HN: How to proceed with smartphone ideas that are too low-level to be apps?
I have a few ideas on how to enhance the UI/UX of smartphones, but most of them are too low-level to be made into apps.

To get an idea of the sort of things I'm thinking about, take a feature that is now in many phones: personalized ringtones for different people in your address book. The first person who had that idea could not turn it into an app, since almost no phone I know of gives access to such low-level API to developers (i.e. trigger event when phone call comes in, inform the app of the number calling, and allow overriding the default ringtone)

These things are quite straightforward for the device/OS makers (iPhone, Android, etc) to implement but that functionality is not usually exposed in the public API.

So, given an idea like the above, is there a way to capitalize on it?

For example, one could:

a) Patent the idea and wait, hoping that some company will one day implement it.

b) Patent the idea and approach companies to add to their mobile device / OS

c) Other?

Any thoughts? Are such things even patentable (e.g. the personalized ringtone mentioned above) ? Any other ways to capitalize on these sorts of ideas?
Oh yes, I certainly wouldn't defend "parking should be free" as a moral or political point, I just harbour a strong and possibly irrational dislike towards paying for it.
People can't solve problems like this one without experience in the medical field, which you're unlikely to find here.

Can I stress this? This person doesn't need medical advice from HN. What he needs is to keep seeing specialist doctors until he can find one that can diagnose him correctly. Dealing with the medical profession, especially in the US, takes a lot of energy that a person in this state does not have.

So instead of trying to guess at his disease, why don't people brainstorm the issue of how to get access to more doctors?

Here's one to start the ball rolling: hire a part-time personal assistance and make it their job to get you medical appointments. Okay, that's a possibly unrealistically expensive suggestion, and I am sure others can do better.
My Lisp of choice is Clojure, which also uses first, second and rest.
the "Mail Client not being an official part of Windows 7" bit can be attributed to the lawsuits and antitrust litigations...

As far as falling victims for the near future, according to a CNet article (amongst others):

Ninety percent of critical Microsoft Windows 7 vulnerabilities can be mitigated by configuring the operating system for standard user rather than administrator, according to a new report released on Monday.

On the other hand, it was recently reported that free apps and screensavers on Mac contained embedded malware .

My point is: doesn't matter what platform you use, the weakest link is the user especially if one keeps clicking on any link or attachment without being sensible + cautious ..
If you want to crowdsource, obtain all your lab results that have ever been done, scan them, and post them.

The other effect of doing this might be some media attention; this is a case where this could actually be a good thing, as you are going to get more doctors listening in to mainstream media rather than a narrow internet forum not even aimed at them.
One interesting point he makes in the comments is that he does NOT offer a free version of his app.
Why is that? Are they still going to be able to get free parking? Can they currently get free parking?
Oh, my bad. Thanks for the clarification.
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Later in the thread he mentioned the actual piracy rates (computed from number of instances that access his server vs number of units sold):

35% android, 13% apple.

Looks like, even if all of the pirated Android versions were paid for, he'd still be making about twice as much on the Apple version.
What app?
> it seems that the overhead here is poor use of shared memory or threading semantics

Worth noting on the graphs - even though CPUs aren't maxed out, they add up to (roughly) just above 100%. That just shouts "lock contention / thread switching".
Very neat, thanks for sharing that. If data from other application could be integrated like that, would that get it kicked off the iPad under the new "no new 'desktop' environments" rule?
I'm very sorry to hear about your problem. I hope you keep investigating and find out what it is.

If you haven't read it yet, maybe "The Medical Detectives" could inspire you. Jon Bentley said that it was the best debugging book he ever read.

http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Detectives-Truman-Talley/dp/04...
I do not believe that the committee has proper authority to approve posting here, we should refer all comments to PG and let him decide whether or not to approve each post.
Will raising the price really make people give up looking for parking and go home?

I've actually done this before, on account of parking being too much of a pain or too expensive. It is, however, a "fool me once" scenario, since I'll now only go to the city for business, not pleasure (nor business-pleasure, like company holiday parties).
I second this. I had a close relative suffer from this. The doctors didn't catch it for years, but once they diagnosed it, and she started taking the B12 shots, it made a huge difference.
One of the suggestions is that this was intended as an insult to a rival, Hooke, who was short and hunchbacked. Although popular, this suggestion has been disputed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Fame
Have they checked your vitamin B12 levels?
Your folic acid levels?
And RPR for syphilis?

Could be neurosyphilis.
There's a city planner who believes parking should never be free - http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking/dp/1884829988 - I believe he's involved with this project.
It's the pirates, they continue using his web server part of the app
Shop It To Me?
Thinness is not an issue, since sugar is not off limits.

A week won't do it on the diet change, I had to go nearly 3 months before my system got back to normal. Amd Vivtek is right if you want to test this just read every label and do some research for example soy sauce is out, but it just isn't obvious.

As far as this being a possibility, it doesn't sound right, but since it is pretty easy to test for the next tiem you have a blood test you can have them check it if you want.
I agree. I first learned to program in Python and then started learning about other languages with more options enabled. Coming from a Lisp to Python would have felt strange. Maybe worth it to use a nice library or program?
"in its day", it was in a way. It enabled primary school teachers to create interesting software, something that Flash doesn't.

Flash needs a specialized editor. Most HyperCard stacks were editable directly, pretty much like plain html files, so it was very easy for non-programmers to learn to modify/create HyperCard stacks.

HyperCard had a huge number of extensions for doing even the weirdest stuff on the Mac. In Flash, you can access the camera and microphone, but you can't access the serial port. With HC extension you could, and the extension could be embedded inside the stack.

I don't think Flash sells computers. HyperCard did in schools, because the teachers were able to create education material with it. (The users who want Flash thinks everybody does, but the number of Flash wanting geeks is dwarfed by the number of people who doesn't care.)
That would be a Celiac.

That suggestion is posted a bit higher, but it's interesting that you noticed it as well.
If a tree falls in a forest, it kills Schrödinger’s cat
Wow, that's really quite interesting that we both did initially better, then worse when on D. How did you get the viral/bacterial infection diagnosis? Was this lymne-related?
This is a relatively static image that the browsers should be able to cache after the initial upload. Search results aren't static resources.
I don't know what's worse--meta-posts about how HN is dying, or self-congratulatory meta-posts like this. But if you have one, it helps to balance it out with the other.
Occasionally, you will have an outlier who has vast holes in their understanding of programming and writes large amounts of jaw-dropping bad code and can do this even in simple elegant languages.

One interesting quirk of Python is that such code superficially resembles good code in everything except the length of functions and methods.
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Really? That's the only point of information that you'd find valuable?

And the top comment is this:

What are you doing with the money?
How old are you?
Do you have a college degree?
How hard it is for a new comer to achieve your level of success?

There's hardly grounds for assuming that the first question was the only one people cared about.
HTML5 Apps: Positioning with Geolocation (Tutorial)
Do you mean decorators? How about metaclasses?
>But generally they are the healthy ones- Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine, etc. Well, as healthy as a box of frozen food can be, anyway.

You mean foods that are stuffed full of chemical enhancers of one form or another?
Ah, and this gets to the crux of what bothers me about this: I suspect that it's being motivated largely by people who have an ideological objection to cars. They're not interested in enabling me to park more efficiently, they're interested in (eventually) forcing me not to drive at all.
You don't mention your height and weight or BMI. You also don't mention exercise. Sleep apnea is common among people who are overweight as are many of the other symptoms you describe. Are you? Your symptoms started when you were 20 which is when many people start gaining weight.

You also seem to have had massive exposure to a wide array of chemicals. "...but after a year of treatment with every antibiotic imaginable...". Please remember that FDA approval does not make a substance safe and the FDA does not do drug interaction testing.

I'm assuming you're American. I moved to the USA in 2005 when I was 31. After a lifetime of perfect health my digestive system played havoc for a few years. Only after paying careful attention to my diet did I regain my physical well-being. Remember: Gatorade is not water, Corn fed beef is 10 times fattier than grass fed, 90% of bread contains a huge amount of sugar and has very little fiber etc. Take an interest in your diet and it will change your life for the better.

The American medical system can be the worst thing for your health. This is the only country where I've seen post-operative pain medication used for pain maintenance, teenage boys prescribed prozac due to exam stress and so on. It is designed to extract every last penny from you while keeping you healthy enough to perceive benefits and avoid lawsuits. Understand that you will always find a sympathetic ear and an easy prescription.

One last thing: Have you moved house since you were 20? Or did you stay in one place for a long time? Chemical exposure through air, water, diet or skin contact could be a cause. Radioactivity through radon exposure or another source is also a possibility you should consider.

Best of luck!
On another note, the concept of a 'crowdsourced diagnosis' product is an interesting one.

You'd post anonymously your malady, and have only verified MDs or med students / professionals register and offer up things to test for. They vote up / down (a la HN) and the most common suggestions rise to the top. Patient gets relevant tests, posts the test results for each suggestion. As they go down the list and cancel out each one, eventually you'd get the correct diagnosis, right?

It would help to keep comments & speculation to a minimum, do things very scientific. After a while any doctor could come in and use the scenario as a reference or framework. Kind of like an open source diagnosis.

Does this exist? Someone seriously needs to make this if not
If someone mentioned it already, sorry - missed it. Another HN-er had some strange health problems for a long time. Here's the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868325 He wrote that in the end he found a diagnostician "Dr. House without the 'tude'" :) who at least finally diagnosed correctly what was really wrong. You might want to contact him.
Funny, but lots of other dynamic langs interface with C without such a badly designed GIL. The GIL actually proves my point. The fact that people will excuse such poor performance in a dynamic lang is a matter of misplaced expectation. This was a clever hack in the beginning, but proved to be a major design flaw going forward. A performance hit of over 3 orders of magnitude is not excusable for any language, "scripting" or otherwise.