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RE: FDA:

It's a lot worse than pacemakers. Desktop medical image viewing software is also regulated under FDA-510k procedures. Our iPhone viewer has been tied up in the FDA morass for more than two years now. We're submitting a 510k for our cloud image sharing service, just in case.

Basically, if you market your product with the intent for it to be in any way involved with medical procedures, you fall under the purview of the FDA. Which is much, much harder to deal with than the iso equivalents. To the extent that we, as a small american company, have been launching things first in europe.
>Doctors are being paid less and less

BS, medical inflation doesn't support that. In the US we pay roughly twice as much as any comparable industrial country in:

-prescription drug costs
-doctor salaries
-insurance/bureaucratic overhead

All three are consistently increasing faster than the rate of general inflation.

>The AMA keeps supply of specialists low to keep salaries high.

Yes.
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Is that "down in <cityname>" some kind of meme or do all those commenters think that's helpful?
Just my opinion, and I certainly don't speak for everyone, but as an engineer, it's frustrating to see a talented group of devs and boatloads of funding behind a great site, yet almost zero transparency about downtime. When was the last time they used the staff blog or Twitter account to do anything besides promote popular users? I'm fine with unscheduled downtime — it happens — but when there are few/no announcements, and barely any post-mortems, that's when (at least for me) it gets very frustrating.
Because there's just as big a group on the other side of the fence. The question really comes down to "why didn't Amazon go to bat for my beliefs?", and that does appear to be a silly question.

I think this whole thing is blown way out of proportion. As a business, Amazon was going to get a boycott either way - either from the pro-WikiLeaks side for failing to host WikiLeaks, or the anti-WikiLeaks side for doing the opposite.

It seems silly to use a business as a battleground of ideologies, especially when as far as anyone knows Amazon acted out of self preservation, not political prejudice.

[edit] And for God's sake, can we stop posting about this already unless something actually happens? The level of WikiLeaks moral outrage posts that don't shed any new light on anything is rivaling Reddit. With Reddit at least I can filter stories out for certain keywords, please don't make me do the same to HN. We've already discussed the known information to death, to keep hammering at this dead horse on a forum that is highly liberal and has mostly-aligned opinions on a subject is known as a circlejerk.

HN signal-to-noise ratio--;
> Julian Assange has a history of, well, exaggerating about the threats against him.

Do you care to substantiate that?

Assange, who has not been charged with any crime, is currently the subject of an international arrest warrant which oddly (to put it mildly) specifies that he be held incommunicado without access to legal counsel or any other contact with the outside world.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8175255/...
I was speaking in the theoretical. Honestly I think Google would be overjoyed if other browsers decided to make themselves reliant on Google's server farm to function. I think that's why the issue isn't really addressed in the proposed standard...

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dcfg79pz_5dhnp23f5
If the number of arsenic atoms incorporated are as few as the molarity calculations indicate (i.e. ~1 per 5kb), I doubt that x-ray experiments would be definitive. And they're hard to do.

At any rate, you'd have to extract and crystallize a fragment of DNA that was particularly enriched for As, which would necessitate most of the other controls that people are suggesting anyway. You'd probably have a pretty good confirmation/refutation of the paper's claims by the time you were set up to shoot x-rays at a crystal.
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My guess is that we'll eventually see what's in that encrypted "INSURANCE" file when Assange is taken away. Could be fun.
There's a very good reason for medical insurance beyond catastrophic events. Preventative medicine is much, much cheaper. Insurance makes routine checkups cheap/free, which means they're more likely to be taken advantage of.

Medicare has a much larger say in what sorts of procedures will be used (the ever widening--yet still not wide enough--umbrella of PET imaging is a great example).
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Since a lot of people are suggesting freelancing, a couple of previous posts and accompanying discussions on getting started with that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1763634

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767620
The amount of money could be discussed in more detail on http://savingcaptaincrunch.com/

There is already a paragraph towards the bottom that discusses how the money will be used. It could also say that you are still researching treatment options. $10,000 is an optimistic estimate for what it will cost to save your arms, and you're collecting up to $30,000 which will help you to get the best medical care possible. Any money not spent on medical care will be returned.

Just throwing out an idea. I've never run a charity campaign and don't know what works. Just make sure to get those links on webcrunchers so everyone knows that it's really you who's asking for help and not some scammer. ;-)
Same argument I see others posted. I downloaded my data ONLY to get my friends contact information. They don't give you that. The wall posts, photos, and friends names have zero value to me.
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Informants save lives. Many terrorist plots that have been stopped since 9/11 were due to some insider alerting authorities. If people think they're identity is not safe with the government, they will not come forward and we will see people die as terrorist plots succeed.
I have no direct knowledge of the cost breakdown for organizations that publish journals, but I could see how the journal could be the money maker for the organization that then allowed them to perform other duties (lobbying, education, etc... ).

My only point is that a print publication could still have the purpose of being a "money maker" and the publisher still be a non-profit.
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He didn't say no.
>It strikes me that they try to invoke American law when it's convenient to them, and claim they're outside of the scope of American law when it's convenient to them.

Are you talking about Americans or the lawyers here?

(Plus, I believe she mentioned "UN's Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers", not "America's Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers".)
i don't think it's a conspiracy -- activists of all political persuasions have been complaining about this general phenomenon for quite a while

it does reveal a lot about Twitter's trending topics algorithm, and the discussions on Student Activism have been quite good
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Surely any kind meaningful of dissemination of free speech in the modern world is going to involve business in some way, and in the US, businesses are recognized as legal persons. How can their actions be considered neutral?
No, people are fragile. They can have underlying health problems no matter what their age. Broken bones, recent surgeries etc.

If you're going to go up to someone and grab hold of them you have a responsibility to make sure you won't hurt them. It is my opinion that you should just never do this to someone you don't know.
if there's really a big group on the other side of the fence, they should be organizing pro-Amazon and pro-Paypal actions

Amazon was in a situation where they had to take a political action. why is it surprising or wrong that they now need to face the consequences?
Absurd. You have no proof that his lawyers are encouraging anyone to break the law. You're trying to have it both ways by saying "If the State Department believes..." immediately followed by "They are..."

They are defending a client, which, if I am not mistaken, is perfectly within their rights and is part of their job description. It is not the role of the American government to spy on innocent lawyers. And if you believe the American government is not bound by their own rules, you are mistaken.
It seems like these two really earned what they got. They got ahead of a trend and developed a useful and popular real product.And that they know that their developers are responsible for the success of the site speak highly of them as quality entrepreneur in the best sense
Opera is also fast. Has a built in RSS reader, ad blocker, Html,css,js inspector and many other built in features. The newest (not out yet) has stacked tabs.
Why so much money? It's obviously not in Equifax et al.'s best interests to have incorrect information in their databases. One would think they'd be glad to fix the records, at least for a reasonable fee.
And now watch as big companies find a way to funnel their own money back into themselves as "small business investments."
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I wondered that as well. There was some snark, but also a lot of interesting comments and observations on personal IP and company contracts.
Good point.

This could be easily use for spying.

Next up wikileaks will use this when government IPs are discovered on the site ;p
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not sure how much to read into this, but the comments on the Facebook discussion are overwhelmingly negative
I’m fascinated by the goal of making websites easier to create (most existing solutions are just crummy). Please post details of your app when you have something to show!
Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
My choice: Delivering Happiness because Ton Shieh outlines a phase he went through after selling his first company. It really made you think about startups, goals and life.
I find the most important aspect to make Twitter 'work' is to stay on topic - at least when you are starting out and trying to attract followers. If you run your twitter account as a 'stream of consciousness', I find that attracts much less followers.
The self-entitled brats flailing their arms is to be expected with someone like this, but with Tumblr, it puts things in a different perspective considering the demographic. I see blogs with thousands of pages and an activity upwards of 50 posts a day. I know I had a lot of time in high school (that I more or less wasted), but it just boggles the mind how much time some people devote to Tumblr and its community culture.

I guess it jives with the anecdotes of people sending scrupulous amounts of text messages every day, but in this case, I feel that I have a better grasp of why someone would react so vociferously to something so seemingly inane.
>I also find the 'if you study, you have no life' argument something of a cop out.

I think it's more of a pre-emptive excuse, as in : "I don't have time to study outside the office, since I have a life."
FORTRAN's system of giving default types based on the first letter of a variable name gives rise to the old joke, "God is real... unless declared integer".
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Totally agree. Look at the responses on the Github blog after they explain outages. Transparency builds loyalty instead of frustration.
I agree, this is something that should be addressed far more often, especially after this prolonged outage.

To be completely fair, they did make a twitter post a couple of hours ago: http://twitter.com/#!/tumblr/status/11570891053862912
I picked up the LG Optimus 7 phone last week and really am impressed with it. The screen is just the right size - I almost feel it is too big but it sits comfortably in the hand. A 4" screen would be too much.

The LG apps they added actually do feel useful - I haven't tried the voice-to-SMS thing yet but the "play-to" app is great fun. The scansearch feels like it could be useful when travelling but so far I haven't had any need for it.

Oh, and the voice quality is better than any phone I've had before including the BlackBerry Bold and Storm. (oh, and it is superior in everyway to my old LG Chocolate - though that isn't saying much.)
I think he means the $3k one, it's listed as a "related product" on the page of the $10k one:

http://www.amazon.com/Cole-Parmer-Rotary-Evaporator-System-V...

Looks like smaller "bath capacity" and smaller temperature range (5C-90C)
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I wouldn't be surprised if people really think it's location-specific.
We should perhaps not be surprised, but we must never forget to be outraged; otherwise, these kinds of actions will end up being acceptable as we are "desensitized" to them.
There's a follow up being worked on to Foundations of Programming (a book that came up a few times in the list). Though it's listed there as language agnostic, its more targeted at C#/Java devs. Should be out in early Jan.
Thanks for the link, I've went ahead and made it work on any input field and text area that isn't in the not allowed list.
Well, yes, I was talking about people in both domains that are good.

There are many bad doctors too, trust me (my parents rant all the time).
I vaguely recall the Twitter account before the Iraq Diaries sounding like they were basically trying to get as viral as possible and trying to paint as much of a conspiracy as possible, before there was any proof of it.

I don't think there's any reason to doubt that Assange is in some serious trouble now, though.

However, I wouldn't put it past anyone to call him melodramatic a couple of months ago
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"I am flagging any new posts I see"

I agree with you that this particular story is somewhat inappropriate. The Swedish prosecution obviously have done a terrible job, but "who did what and when" is pure gossip.

On the other hand this is the one of the biggest technology related stories of the year. Of the Swedish cables only 1% have been released publicly and newspapers have been running "front page" stories about the leaks for a week [1]. A majority of which is about the actual content of the leaks and not meta. Swedish national television also ran a program about the content of the leaks earlier tonight. I would imagine it's the same in many other countries. In short: This story is huge.

What I don't get is why you have to post so many comments on a subject you don't like or are interested in. You've been here long enough to know that this is a community driven site and the posting guidelines are very loose. Sometimes events like this creates a snowballing of votes. You yourself posted a political story about the TSA just weeks ago for instance. I personally not very interested or affected by the whole TSA deal. But guess what, I just ignore those stories and read the other ones instead. Because if everyone would start commenting on stories they didn't like or didn't feel was suited for HN, almost every story would feature that kind of complaint.

So if you feel it's truly inappropriate for HN then flag it. If you disagree, are not interested or feel you have read to many similar stories; then just ignore it and maybe someone will return the favor when something you are interested in goes into a vote "snowball".

[1] Biggest newspapers: http://www.svd.se/ http://www.dn.se/ http://aftonbladet.se/ http://www.expressen.se/
What's trended on Twitter has changed quite a bit over the past few years. It used to be that we could get a random video that we'd make at Podcamp trending in a few hours easily, and now it seems to be flooded by silly populist memes that are rarely intelligent conversation, or any significance, or anything that matters to me. Unfortunately, this is a decent reflection of the real world, where few people actually care about things that matter and don't integrate such things into their daily conversation.

Instead Justin Bieber, #noonelikesyoubecause , #thingsimiss ,and #rappersthatmightbehomeless rule the conversational airwaves.

No conspiracy here at all.
In this case, I disagree. The reasons for the right and wrong of it are better expressed by The Atlantic than I'm able.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/the...
He didn't say no, because the question backs him into a corner where answering either yes or no implies things he doesn't want to imply.
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Am I the only one that finds the reaction on this board very strange, almost funny?

Ok. So let's review: third-party organization dumps entire trove of state department secret cables, and anybody is surprised that their lawyers are being watched?

It's like living in a strange world where all reason is lost. Look guys, even if wikileaks is totally awesomely great, they are also an enemy of the United States. Their mission, according to Assange, is to attack the nodes of government in a way to keep them from communicating with each other. No matter how nice and reasonable those folks are, they are declaring war on my government. I sure hope we (and others) are watching them.

So what the heck do you expect? Something like a TV courtroom drama? This is an act of war by a non-state actor (which is about the most interesting part of the whole story, really). Going on about how terrible it is that their lawyers are being watched is like trying to figure out baseball by studying yodeling. You have the wrong model for the thing you are talking about. Your model will never match up with the reality.

Wikileaks looks like it has tapped into a deep paranoia and need to create these huge international spy dramas for many people. If you are getting all emotional about things so far because it's not working like you think it should, I imagine it's only going to get worse for you in the days to come.

People are wondrous things.
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As others have written: I've been there, I survived, I learned a lot.

Carefully look at the debts and your resources and prioritize. (Secured debts and bills on active accounts (like current utilities that could get shut off) have to be paid first.) Then do what you can to whittle away the debt. Read up on debt collection tactics and law so you can tell who can really hurt you and who is just bluffing.

Then just hang on for a long ride. Eventually you will have deals with all the creditors and hopefully no new surprises will show up. [The possibility of new surprises showing up was a lingering fear for me - one extra unknown "debt" showed up almost a year later, but fortunately I was able to convince them that I was no longer guaranteeing the account when the charges were made. Which was true.]

As a backup, I had looked into bankruptcy options and positioned myself to protect myself (as much as is possible) while going through it.

IMPORTANT: set up an extra bank account at a different bank and use it to pay debts. You do not want the creditors to know where your money is. When you are negotiating a deal and/or a payment plan and then following it, you do not want them to be able to see if you have more money (even though it is not legal, it is still easy to find out how much money someone has in their bank account.)
If the creditors have already been paid from your current accounts, then open new accounts at a new bank for your personal use and use the old one for debt paying.
Only load the debt paying account with what is needed.

[Important - make sure the account does not have ANY overdraft protection - any overdraft should be rejected. Many creditors will accelerate the payments (and claim you agreed to it) to try to grab more before other creditors get it - this happened to a friend of mine; they agreed to a series of payments and the creditor simply submitted the whole batch each month to see how many would clear.]

When negotiating, make your starting "debt" for negotiation the actual amount owed. The creditors will use an inflated amount (including a LOT of interest and penalties) as the starting point so you will have to get 25 to 50% reduction just to get the the original debt amount.
Agreed. This teeters on slacktivism.
Interesting to contemplate a government with no secrets. Is complete transparency a total pipe dream? One wonders whether a government committed to complete transparency would be even more effective, as people would be more willing to trust it, less cynical about it, and politicians and bureaucrats would know that what they did was public and therefore be less likely to descend into the gutter. And that transparent government would be immune to Wikileaks. Just a thought....