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The existing electronic health records landscape is incredibly fragmented. I read a post somewhere recently that listed 400 different EHR businesses. The interoperability problems are the same ones that the internet experienced in the early days. Little standards, different platforms, siloed data. I think the interesting opportunities are in developing applications that help medical practices fulfill the "meaningful use" criteria. Each individual module can be fulfilled using specific technology, that doesnt necessarily need to be certified. For example, a practice can use one technology to fulfill their CPOE requirement while using a completely different vendor to do Clinical Decision support. You can be the go to player for a specific module.
It looks like some complex animations are easier to do in Messiah. At least in the pro edition, it seems to support dynamic hair, and motion capture.
I think what Matt is trying to say is that your memory of what Google was like in 2000 could be inaccurate. So he's demonstrating what Google was actually like in 2000.

Of course you were impressed and satisfied with Google back then — it was so much better than the alternatives. I'm sure you would have been just as (perhaps more) satisfied if 2011 Google existed in 2000. We've had 11 years to pinpoint the deficiencies of Google. Couple that with 11 years of rapid progress on the internet — we just expect more now.

What's confounding to me is that there's an obvious solution to Google's biggest problem (spammers and scammers):

1. Allow users to individually block URLs and domains on a permanent basis.
2. Accumulate massive amounts of data regarding blocked URLs/domains (a good quality indicator)
3. Integrate this data into the PageRank algorithm

I'm not sure why it's taking Google so long to do this, at least step 1.
Why?

Normal people don’t buy a new phone every year.
Only Roth IRA is limited to $5k a year.
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Updates that vary in features and have a history of crippling devices. Trust me, every tech company is on the same page. Most obvious recent Apple example: cameraless iPad. Of course, Apple does a remarkable job of positioning themselves as customer friendly, so that helps lower the blowback.
Doesn't fit with the popular belief that "if you just apply yourself enough, you too are going to succeed".

It's a rather common delusion :)
lol. All of those arguments, or variations of them, have been talked about before. And all of them are rather easy to debunk. It's always amusing to watch people try to make the Bible say what they want it to.
Today's Groupon deal for my area is a $40 oil change for $20.

Whoop-de-freaking do. Every third day or so, I get a flyer with that coupon and about a hundred other offers, which pile up in my recycling pile.

When Groupon was younger, they ran more 90% deals, if I recall correctly. One way or another now Groupon is a company that offers me a small number of utterly pedestrian coupons a day, while I'm barraged with them in my snail mail. Presumably the 90% off approach where the offers were actually special doesn't scale. If the offers scaled, the businesses would already have been offering them through the existing coupon channels.

Oh, and I'm about 50 miles from the closest Groupon hub; my physical mailbox offers me coupons for things way closer than that, some of which I can walk to.

How does offering me an inferior selection of time-bound coupons that is beaten by my physical mailbox most every day make 6 billion dollars worth of sense‽ Groupon didn't create the idea of coupons themselves!
Give it a few days, that was literally only released last night, and they're still waiting for the ad supported version to be approved. Up until then it was in open beta.
If we only have to consider two dimensions for something to be credit card sized, then I suppose these beams of lumber are "credit card sized" as well: http://bit.ly/fN3tns
You mean the Samsung Galaxy Tab? It has the Market. Perhaps the upcoming Motorola XOOM? Yep, it has the Market.

The only two exceptions I can think of are the Archos tablets and Notion Ink: Archos doesn't fulfill Google requirements, and I don't know what the problem with the Adam is. (Obviously, no-name Chinese tablets also don't get the Market, but that's not a huge surprise.)
It might be "the size of a credit card", but not a phone I'd personally want.

- Surely the selling point of something sized like a credit card disappears as soon as you remember that, errr, it's about ten times thicker than a credit card.

- I've never looked at my Blackberry and thought "man, I wish this could be shorter and thinner so that it leaves more space above and next to it in my pocket".

- I have thought "I wish this could be thinner deph-wise, so that it doesn't stick out of my pocket as much". This phone actually looks deeper than Blackberry Bold, iPhone and quite a few Android devices, I think?

- It looks... kinda weird. Maybe that's just because of it's unusual dimensions, and I would get used to it if it was my phone. But right now, it looks like a novelty phone designed with teenagers in mind - to me, at least.
Sort of like Tim Ferris!

edit: There's nothing shameful about spending more than 4 hours on your thing. The other thing is that this also looks like Sprezzatura [0] (someone else made this analogy on HN before, although I can't recall who.) in that it probably took lots of experience to achieve the state in which you can recognize a good idea, decide to go for it, design a great landing page, set up payments and analytics, know how to advertise and encourage viralness etc. in such a short period of time.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura
i was excited about webOS when it first came out, but the crappy palm pre devices prevented me from adopting it. from everything they've shown during their event today, i'm pretty excited about this new tablet.

i like the integration with the palm pre and being able to transfer calls, text messages, and web pages between the two. i'm glad hp is focusing on integration with existing web services and presenting them all together rather than trying to reinvent the wheel and push customers towards their own services like apple does with mobileme, itunes, ibooks, and facetime, and google does with just about every app they make for android.
Here is what I've commented on matt's blog :

Well, you're Google is better, but, expectations are higher as is the number of Google employees. So when we see the same content farm again and again during weeks without any action being taken, it annoys. So when blaming "Google when the information just doesn’t appear to be on the web at all" is clearly too high an expectation, fixing SPAM issues, be it case buy case, in matter of days instead of weeks is reasonable to me giving the resources you're _supposed_ to have.

So, HNers, my wondering is, is the search spam team under-staffed ? or is the problem elsewhere ?
I think the accusation is that it is somehow a "low brow" startup.

See NY Mag's approval matrix:
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/71237/

All I can say is wow, they scaled super fast (scaled real people), and thats not easy
I look at the picture of the hand holding this device, and I wonder how the hand model could select those icons, much less a big-fingered guy like myself.
It does leave money on the table. I wasn't necessarily giving advice, just telling what I do.

Also, I find the concept of taking a loan on my own money detestable.
Somalia isn't anarchy.

even the link you provide begins with:

Could anarchy be good for Somalia’s development?

yet you still would argue to the contrary - that lawless warlords-dominated failed state isn't anarchy?
Actually, a lawyer who fails to blow the whistle about a potential murder can face severe penalties. Privilege only extends to information or facts about past actions, it doesn't apply to future or ongoing circumstances, and definitely not if you're complicit in the crime.

The banking analogy would be a banker who can't reveal how much money you used to have. Current balance would not be privileged.
In many ways, I think that's already what it is. HN was created to, and still does, serve the purposes of YC. I don't know where the money comes from to keep it up and running, but I would imagine it's part of the YC operating budget.

In short, I'm sure the value it represents now is far greater than what one could garner from trying to directly monetize it. Just look at any of pgs posts - people upvote the bejeezus out of them: he can instantly and effortlessly access thousands of high quality eyeballs.

There are surely people that would pay egregious sums of money to have this kind of community in any vertical, and tech startups are pretty hot - I struggle to even fathom what could possibly constitute a fair price for jeopardizing that.

[edit: Google says it's spelled 'bejeezus']
Sorry if it was a bit harsh. You definitely wrote a more entertaining post. I was just pointing out that he was specifically requesting information that wasn't related to doing a startup.
You know, every day I look at websites on my iPhone, and I think to myself, "You know what would make this phone better? If the screen were smaller! Yeah!"
with twitter I feel like I'm confined to my "online social circle". Convore seems to get a better mix of people together, oriented around a topic.
Native app development is not only difficult, it’s expensive.

These days, if you’re going to do native apps, you at least have to support iOS and Android. That means at least two developers for each different language, and preferably more.

Cocos2D may well be shaping up as a good cross-platform environment supporting both iOS and Android. Add some more GUI libraries, and it would be dandy for non-game apps. (Javascript)

The Unity 3D engine could be leveraged like this as well.
Doh, I just realize Jacques won't be replying, since he retired from HN last week...
I think this is a great idea. Combining the best features of traditional online forums with topic based threads and the easyness of IM communication. Instead of defining the chat by the people in it, Convore define it by the threads topic. Definitely an interesting take on group IM/chat. Also - easy to use, clean design. Me like.
I'm guessing another perk of actually owning the building is you can have a look at the storage shed before you decide to hold an auction. Sounds like the owners of that particular facility probably only keep the assembled cars...
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I have been using the app since it was in early beta and it was and definitely is: flat-out awesome. I was a little surprised by their original price point (25), but at 10 dollars? No brainer.
No of course not. But that's not the question. The question is, suppose you've got a lump sum. Would you rather take a risk free 4.x% return by paying off your house, or take on some level of risk -- still far from high risk -- to earn quite a bit more than that.

The OP made the "risk-free 4%" one of his top must-do's. My point is, that's not always the case. Paying off debt is not always the best choice in the current times of very cheap borrowing.

YOU have no appetite for risk (judging only by this comment). That's not true of everybody.
It's small yes and I will not be surprise that the audience for that phone will be leaning toward the feminine crowd: I can see such small phone being a backup phone to put in a small purse.
But as usual we just need to wait a couple months to see if the Veer will get some traction.
Implosion, followed by a singularity.
>highly client-accessible Rails i18n solution

Great idea. I can see it now:

./config/locales/en-dev.yml
./config/locales/en-client.yml

Slap on a controller and some views to edit it and you're away. Gonna have to think carefully about security though.
Seriously, the headline should be "House Succeeds at Discontinuing Patriot Act Spy Powers"
And that explains some of the comments I saw about this service. I don't mean to belittle their efforts or YC linked developers, but hearing opinions from developers and users from the inside has somewhat lost its meaning.

Keeping the debate honest and true is key when selling a product by echoing each others consensus.

In fact, I would like to hear a polarized and detailed opposite opinion ( if it exists ) of any service that is summarized as 'amazing'. Just saying.
I'm not sure how many posts it's going to take to tell you I did hold on, and that's why I didn't go broke and had the money to investment into my own biz.

I think at this point you're just trolling me now, so I'll end it with one more point:

If you know anything about Warren Buffett, you'd know his main thesis is to invest in only the things you understand. That's the advice I ultimately followed to end up in a better place.

Holding onto investments that you don't understand is not his advice at all - that's just a shitty platitude.
It's hard to say exactly why, but Sparrow seems to make it way easier for me to get to and stay at Inbox Zero. That's worth like a million dollars right there.
Jacques is in for a world of hurt when he next travels abroad.

To my knowledge, it's ONLY the U.S. that finger-prints foreigners. Jacques is Dutch, and all he has to do to avoid "a world of hurt" is to not come to the U.S.
If the "Kill Switch" bill passes, the legal question will be answered. As no-one's optimistic the bill will fail [1] commentary has moved on to: can it actually be implemented?

Personally, I don't see that being a very interesting question either. Once it's law, "Kill Switch"-Compliance will get built into the big switches and routers. It would only be a technical challenge to implement in the near term. And I don't think you can be paranoid-enough to think the government plans on hitting this switch in the near term, yet be rational enough to believe the government would wait for legal authority to do so.

So whether it's feasible in the next 5 years is pretty academic.

[1] If people aren't going to take issue with standing constitution-free-zones covering 80% of the population, the growing surveillance state, increasingly-intrusive security theatre at the airport and greenlit assassinations of suspected terrorist US citizens, an argument about internet access during hypothetical 'states of emergency' has a snowball's chance in hell.
The Dropbox API supports the standard OAuth web flow which just requires you to have an active session on dropbox.com. I put in a feature request so hopefully soon the extension wont ask for passwords anymore.
I bought a kindle for the exact same reason. I already lent half of my books a couple of weeks after the kindle arrived, and here, to lend a book its to lose it.
There is no "absolute fashion" of avoiding bad conditions in any discipline of engineering. There are just different modes of failure that need to be considered.

In the case of software, you would start with a Hazard Analysis. Designs/code that have high hazard (failure may mean serious injury or death for example) get more scrutiny and better protection. A simple example might be you that have to make a complex calculation that could be catastrophic if it is buggy. That might be mitigated by breaking up the calculation into segments and error checking each segment (e.g., protection against divide by zero deep inside the equation if the wrong set of parameters are input), or by having an additional sanity check on the value that's about to be output to an actuator given current conditions. The point here is to acknowledge that an unseen defect may be lurking in the code, and to try to add protection against it.

There are also predictive techniques that a lot of groups use to estimate defect density. If you expect (based mainly on history) that there will be 1 defect/kLoC found in final test and the test team is only finding 0.1 or they're finding 10, then you need to go back and figure out if the estimates are wrong, the design is screwed up, or the testers are slacking off. In any case, the process should be adjusted.

I don't know when software development will get to the statistically predictable state of modern manufacturing, but it will happen eventually. At least in the bits that are important enough.
I have a bilingual friend who claims after spending few weeks in Australia or Japan his dreams switch to the local vocabulary.
I'm pretty sure you don't have to install Dropbox; the app is just using it as local storage 'in the cloud'. It'd be nice if there were an interface to swap it out for other things, like Microsoft, Google, EC2 or Rackspace storage.

Hmm - new project idea...
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That is Mitch Kapor shown sitting in the front row of the demo audience.
"Windows has some particular flaws that ultimately brought it down..."

Not sure what you're talking about here. Has Windows been "brought down"? I'm pretty sure that most businesses out there are running Windows desktops and Windows in their back office.
Made my comment, and mentioned all the groups who were affected by UBB in general.

I made sure to place an emphasis on how anti-competitive this was for everyone outside of the big ISPs.
A million! Imagine how much bandwidth HN could save if each comment didn't use nested font tags and inline styles ;)
People had been doing some pretty nifty stuff even before the native SDK for webOS came out so I'm not sure what you mean by open sourcing it. Among the various platforms they are probably the most open and their developer tools are light years ahead of anything the competition has to offer.
it is seriously _not bad_. the web gmail interface has a lot more to offer though: integrated voice & video chat, google voice integration, calendar gadget/integration, and any 1 of the 30 or so labs i have enabled, to name a few.

still, it is very solid as _just_ an email client for gmail, and only $10.
Regardless of your intentions, you should be aware in the future that that speech pattern will come off as insufferably condescending to a number of people, including myself.

If your aim is indeed to start a productive dialogue, I'd consider something more like, "That's a noble thought, but aren't you worried about the copyright implications?"
Cause not developing for Android cause of non-Market accessing devices and the fact that some 10% of devices are below 2.1 is like not developing for Apple cause a certain number of people never update their phones and the looming app rejection. It is a real problem, but it is really kinda something you have to handwave away if you are going to be realistic about doing business on a platform.
It's a lot easier to guess where the user clicked when you have clickable regions defined.

An on-screen keyboard would be nasty at this size, but it has a Centro-sized (surprisingly comfortable, IMHO) keyboard.
Most commericial web sites already deal with this issue - they have new/beta features that are initially only visible or available to a subset of users. Google Apps lets you choose if you want the new or old version... it's not impossible to let users stay with a static implementation, but it's just generally not worth the trouble.

Conversely, native apps suffer from the problem that once you deploy a package out the store, you have to support it (unupgraded) for the foreseeable future. That creates its own bucket of issues.
I personally prefer Postbox: http://www.postbox-inc.com/

But I tried Sparrow when it was in beta a while ago. Perhaps I should give it a shot agian.
This sounds like a Robert Scoble rave review from 2007!
Ask HN: Review my startup, sharedstatus.com
Our site URL: http://sharedstatus.com

First off, a couple of data points: I originally launched SharedStatus in 2009. The product wasn’t ready, had a complex feature set and a pricing and trial model that got me several hundred users but few paying customers. I acquired a new partner, we rebuilt the application from the ground up and I’ve embraced the freemium model. We just launched it at the beginning of February.

From a funding standpoint we are self-funded and hope to keep it that way. I’ve had success in the past as a startup founder, hit an equity event and have the luxury of pursuing this on my own terms.

I recognize that people look at our product and say “Oh, so you’re like Basecamp / Yammer / etc”—this is just where we landed. There are others doing what we are doing but we all have a slightly different take on it. I suffer no delusions of grandeur of becoming “Facebook for IT” or anything like that; I just want to have a product that solves a defined need that my partner and I are passionate about, acquire as many customers as I can to build a sustainable business and have a valuable service.

Other than general feedback on the site and/or product, I would love to hear some HN feedback on our freemium offering. I really want to encourage people to start out—and in some cases continue to use—the free version. The goal is to market (without being obnoxious) our paid models to them with increased capacities and features.

Thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide on SharedStatus.
Sleep deprivation will kill us all?
A very large number of people -- those with kids -- have no trouble getting past the standard deduction
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Oh, we're firing her, all right, and going with an oncologist who comes highly recommended. Some kind soul like you can tolerate her incompetence.
Isn't this the liar that had to walk java source code showing up in android claims way back just last month?

edit: to be clear: not grellas, for whom I have the highest respect, but the fosspatents dude
When HN goes to 10 million page views, HN will no longer be HN. It will be another digg.
I often look at my iPhone and wish that it were narrower and shorter. It's a great phone but sometimes I wish that it were just a bit less bulky. I have to switch my SIM card to my old Sony/Ericsson phone so that I can have a phone with me when I go running as my iPhone just won't fit into the pocket on my sports clothes. I'd really rather not do it and instead have a smart phone that was a centimeter shorter and half a centimeter narrower.
Gizmodo RSS feed full of porn this morning?
to the downvoters, please, go here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=2&q=typ...
and count how many top voted, old, issues, have official google comments.

second, we have cases like: http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-patches-911-glitch-rogers-...
... there's also an old history about one dialer replacement app that prevent one guy from dialing 911 while he was witnessing a robbery.
Those are all extreme examples. but since android allows an app to mess with core functionality, how do you deal with supporting something that should be extremely well tested, such as a dialer, that isn't even easy to be well tested by google or operators?

Third, there are several of the bugs i mention on step 1, such as some devices fails to connect to hidden wifi networks, that affects one or more app... what if you write an app that facilitates wifi connection for people on the go, and the user starts to waste your support teams time with requests for that platform bug?

All that said, i'm still an Android user and developer. I really think IOS is a worse platform because it tries to avoid most problems instead of solving, and that's just too delusional to be good. And Maemo is too closed to solve the problems in a sane manner.
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Definitely missed that. 1) Is that US centric? 2) If no, why doesn't everyone do that?
It's going to run Flash.

On a 2.6" touchscreen.

Flash sites, by and large, are designed for precise pointing devices on fairly decent-sized screens. There are going to be a lot of frustrated Veer users fat-fingering their way through Hulu.
You know there are people who don't look at websites on their phones and who don't find that feature particularly compelling. I am also happy with the size of my phone and really don't need a larger one.
Message of the movie to me is that $1B is the new $1million, and you can build a $1B company without being a genius.