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agree, not sure what the difference from a wizard was but I think hes trying to say , links changed by context of position within steps ???
http://keynotopia.com/ is ftw. Super cheap, works on most devices, and when exported to PDF... the links (aka interaction) is maintained.
It's not just the quality of the library, compressing data isn't likely to be tightly coupled to your internal data structures and program logic.
iPad's are better for interacting with patients because they force the applications to require less typing. Laptops and keyboards engross users more than touch screens. (Imagine someone using an iPad vs. a laptop even in a social setting like watching TV or having a cup of coffee.) Doctors looking at paper charts are fast becoming an anachronism and the government policies are speeding this along.

drchrono takes security really seriously! The Doctor is our only customer and we always use encryption and security standards to make sure no data is ever compromised and never shared with any 3rd party. Healthcare information is even more important to keep private than financial information.

In addition to following HIPAA standards, we are in the process of getting certified for Meaningful Use criteria by a 3rd party government certified laboratory for security and encryption standards.

All of the data put into drchrono belongs 100% to the physician! We host and secure the data for the doctor and can provide encrypted backup files with all of the doctors information for their own use and backups.

We are licensing our clinical data (like the list of drug-drug interactions) from industry leading data companies (the same ones that all vendors in the healthcare space are using.) There is very little difference across vendors in this regard (the challenge lies in presenting this information to doctors conveniently and providing an integrated solution so the tools are with the doctor when they need them.)
While I don't think that making Mac developers feel comfortable was the Cappuccino team's primary motivation, the knowledge reuse that this enables is one tremendous advantage.

Developers well versed in Mac development have years of accreted knowlege of design patterns, common mistakes, and best practices, a great swath of which apply also to Cappuccino development.

I'm not talking about trivial things like how buttons clicks trigger functionality, or how to show a dialog; those can be learned in a short time in just about any language/framework.

I mean things such as: how to do robust undo/redo involving complex object graphs, how to build performant UIs that manipulate tens or hundreds of thousands of data records, or how to design complex interfaces with dozens of windows and model-view-conroller sets that avoid tight coupling and remain reasonable to refactor and maintain over time.

Building up this type of knowledge really does tend to take months, if not years, in just about any development environment you care to name. So the fact that Cappuccino leverages the experience that you or your team already has--in addition to doing the work of providing a framework and toolkit for UI and app logic, and abstracting away the DOM--is a tremendous advantage.

This is true only for some people, obviously; it's not a benefit if you don't already have that kind of experience (although IMO cap should still be on your short list of things to evaluate for new web apps). But if you do have significant Mac development experience, and especially if you're working on a short 8 or 12 month development cycle (say some company's internal HR admin app, or something like that), it can be the difference between hitting your deadline or being months late because of an accumulation of unforeseen issues and learning experiences along the way.

So I, for one, am heartily thankful to the Cappuccino team.
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Before the iPad, the "state of the art" touchscreen was an 11 pound laptop with 2 hours of battery life and a reversible top-cover/"touch" screen that required a stylus to use. The iPad is a REVOLUTION in tablet computing for physicians.
Right. Most of the actions required you to do things in real world - such as pay a fee, bring some photos / documents / printouts somewhere, etc. Also the steps you should take depended on who you are, whether are you continuing studies or coming for the first time, etc. So you did those things and then returned to recruitment site, say, next day.

Technically it is a wizard, but it doesn't show you the "state of the process" and the point of it you're in right now. Also, it is persistent and updated based on real-world actions :).

The reason why I like it is that the other, "obvious" option would be to write a document that tries to describe every action that should be taken in more-less sequential way - those documens tend to be hard to follow because of their length and branching (ie. "do X, unless you're Y - then do Z").
It saddens me that a large majority of the "Web Apps" in the Chrome Web Store are just basically bookmarks to existing sites, or as Google calls them, "hosted apps". I was hoping that more people would develop "packaged apps" instead. I'm debating on whether this latest addition to the Chrome API with have any impact in that regard.

I can imagine something like Gmail, where I can install it as a hosted app, but not have to keep a tab open and pinned on mail.google.com. Instead of the favicon trick to see new messages or an extension which adds a button to my toolbar, I can close out of Chrome and the installed app's background window would allow it to still send me desktop notifications of new email. I think that would be a good use for this sort of thing.

On the flip side... for a packaged app like TweetDeck, it could pull down your timelines, mentions, etc as soon as you boot up and they'd be ready to view whenever you actually launched the app. Another good use, perhaps?
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Imagine what it would mean, when you joined a company to be 100% sure it will pay off your mortgage in 5 years.

Unfortunately in a reasonably efficient market that's fundamentally impossible, in the same way as perpetual motion machines are impossible. The reason why employees get equity in the first place is because they undertake risk - opportunity cost because of lower salary, lack of job security, etc. If employees knew that the startup will pay off their mortgage with 100% certainty, everyone else would know too. That means the startup's valuation would skyrocket, cheap capital would become trivially obtainable, and all of the risk associated with joining a company would go away. This is essentially exactly equivalent to joining a large, stable company today.

It sounds nice, but unfortunately the economics don't work out.
drchrono started working in the medical billing space 2.5 years ago, the surprising thing is that all of this information is already out there. Medical billing condition/procedure codes that are electronically reported by 90% of doctor's offices already disclose all of this information across secure channels to insurance companies and government payers.

drchrono takes security really seriously! The Doctor is our only customer and we always use encryption and security standards to make sure no data is ever compromised and never shared with any 3rd party.

Healthcare information is even more important to keep private than financial information. If you were bankrupt 5 years ago, nobody cares (you could be a millionaire today.) But if you had a serious medical condition 5 years ago, that still affects you for the rest of your life and could be used to unfairly discriminate against a patient.)

In addition to following HIPAA standards, we are in the
process of getting certified for Meaningful Use criteria by a 3rd party government certified laboratory for security and encryption standards.
For more on (2), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order_logic
Has it gotten better over the past three months?

I used to use Workflowy every day, but moved back to Freemind a few months ago and can't imagine going back to workflowy. I'm generally on machines where I can freely install software, and I don't use a smartphone for viewing todo lists, so freemind fits my needs. It's also much more flexible and can export in a few nice ways (pdf and html, for instance).
That's because you weren't scrolling.

Mobile Safari parses websites as a big canvas and then pretends the screen is a window through which you're looking at the canvas. What you think of as scrolling, the browser thinks of as moving the canvas around (or the window depending on point of view).

Because of that, no scroll events ever get fired. Even :fixed doesn't behave as expected.
The "just jailbreak your phone" argument isn't useful in my opinion. It's an easy way to avoid the actually difficult questions that arise from what Apple has done with the App Store.

Would "just jailbreak your phone" be acceptable advice to give to your mother, who is always rolled out as the beneficiary of Apple's tight control over the App Store ecosystem, if she were to want to obtain the recently banned Readability app? If not, then we shouldn't be using it as a way to sweep these discussions under the rug.
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There are Bachelor of Arts/Sciences (3-year General) that can be earned completely online (I'm sure you've heard of Open University in the UK but there's also University of Waterloo in Canada - http://de.uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate.html). For UW, I know they offer certificates too (you just need to complete X number of specific courses but definitely less than what you need in a 3 or 4 year degree).

Unfortunately though, they do charge tuition.
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Interesting, indeed.

> But it's odd that someone that feels the need to write about how people should do this hasn't done it in his own project yet.

I'm afraid it's not that odd at all. When I hear people talk about code reuse these days it means something about how they design things, not about whether they actually reuse the code or make it available for reuse by someone else. This detachment from actual reuse has also allowed some drift in the design principles, so that "reusable code" may not be. Sigh.
Fixing their very buggy iPhone app should be priority number one over new features. I'd like to see a histogram of how recently all their users have checked in. My guess is they have a significant portion of abandoners.
> and eventually, another systems programming language will catch on and start to slowly-but-surely replace C.

My personal impression from Linus Torwalds' posts (manifests :) over the years - it wouldn't happen until he is conscious ...

For me it looks like there is a Catch-22 - whenever a language fixes a "deficiency" of C it makes the language unsuitable for systems programming. It is similar to multiplication table - 99% of people can rely on calculators (very trustworthy, much safer, no side-effects on the brain tissue :), except for the people who design the calculators.
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Correct. All of the Giffords shooting in Tucson articles from last month got flagged off.
i dont think thats relevant in this situation. your facebook profile is browser independent.

and to think, i clicked on this link hopeful of a way to permanently delete my facebook account instead of just "deactivating" it...
Good advice; Do you have other startup advice? I'd love to read all about it!

Isn't irony great; momentum and actually doing work is super important. Really good post.
Bhahaha. I bursted out laughing when I saw Milton.

I agree with most of the points, but one thing I've learned in my years doing web startups is making sure their is a need for your product. Lots of Lean Startup principles are unbelievably useful at showing your idea has legs before investing any time or money into it.
Has nothing to do with looking forward or doing ambitious projects - it has to do with your view of the private sector vs. the government.

Most of the libertarians I know would argue that the government has no business being involved in creating innovation - regardless of how it is funded. They would argue that government can't innovate and the private sector is where the market can decide what innovations will succeed.

And yes, Peter Thiel is a huge libertarian. I find it comical that he would then list off an entire list of government projects as examples of driving innovation.
Depending on your specific requirements, I recommend HTTP Scoop (http://www.tuffcode.com/) for Mac OS X ($15). Not as feature packed, but it's been more than enough for my needs. It also does not require one to change the global network settings.
But it's silly to have to tie one particular browser to one application in this way. You might conceivably want to switch browsers for some other purpose, especially if you're developing and testing an online application.

Mozilla profiles (do they still have those?) might work, though.
I somehow cannot give up daydreaming wistfully about a personal CM-5. From a previous discussion on HN it seems it still is going to be an expensive thing to build as a toy project. Particularly because of the hyper-cube inter-connection. Not sure if the source code for star-Lisp is available. But I think an emulator lives on at Sourceforge.

Edit 1: Here it is http://sourceforge.net/projects/starsim/

Edit 2: Just doubled checked, the Sourceforge repository has no code !! But I found it here http://examples.franz.com/category/Application/ParallelProgr...
@dhess Thanks a lot for that link. I just ordered a copy :)
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How do we detect the astroturfers and shills? It's pretty obvious that sites likeZDnet.com, techdirt.com and groklaw.net are targeted by some fairly well-heeled trolls, but what about the more subtle shills? How can we detect and banish them?
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I'm looking to build out some ideas I have for FF and/or Chrome extensions. I'm looking for way to eventually build a business around these and I was wondering if there were any of you that knew of ways to monetize (reoccurring monthly payments, single purchase, or freemium is what I'm mostly looking at, though I'm open to others). I'm currently clueless on how to bill or set up "pro" versions of extensions.

Any links to where I could research more would also be of help. Also, any general advice about this space would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
This will date me but it's a familiar cycle. Back in the 80's there were crews coming up with graphics demos and pushing the tech to its limits. Your 286/386 would melt down but it was cool to 'fly' through a pseudo 3D 256 colour tunnel.

http://www.demoscene.tv/
True, although categorizing libertarians is about as easy as herding cats. But this whole sub-thread is already, IMO, way off-topic, so I'm not going to say anything more to perpetuate this whole discussion. I probably shouldn't have chimed in to begin with. <sigh />
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Clever idea -- human engineering can get past any kind of software security.

But I don't want fix this problem for myself by dragging more people into the pain. Thanks for trying to help, though.
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I can't wait till all the flash adverts on every web page are replaced with even slower HTML5 adverts.
This is so sycophantic as to cause nausea. I'm honestly not sure if this is meant to be satire or not.

"He denied paternity {snip} Raising kids is hard {snip} enormous energy and creativity you have for the world is going to get misdirected into a … little baby". Wait. So, he's TOO AWESOME to be tied down looking after another human, even though he could've chosen not to create that human? 'I'm TOO CREATIVE to be RESPONSIBLE!'

"Jobs is probably the most charitable guy on the planet. {snip} massively improving quality of life." Yeah, they're fun. But they don't make anyone live longer. They don't prevent wars and cure disease and make people fundamentally happier in ways they couldn't have been otherwise. Oh, and 'giving back' by working? I think he did that to become fabulously wealthy. That's not really giving, that's... getting.

Drugs... Yeah, this is all too easy. Reading this article is like when interview candidates answer "What is your biggest weakness" with "I'm too dedicated to work!". It just makes you queasy and comes off as being full of shite.

I think there's a great danger of your fanboy-projected image becoming conflated with your real image. I'll admit I avoid Apple when possible because I don't want to deal with either the pro or anti fanboys related to it. Some things are too emotional to be totally logical about. Like having children. FFS.
I've considered that. The problem is that if they ever find out that the account is not a "real" account, they will disable it. And, unless you have other people as admins, all your apps will also be deleted.
What would be nice is a _fully_ featured blogging engine written in Django.
People often point to monoculture as a security problem: "Clones are vulnerable. Computers need sex!" I'm not endorsing this argument, but it's curious how neither side seems to mention the other when they're making their points.

I once reimplemented much of SNMP because the standard library for it seemed too crufty; a year or two later a whole lot of programs were hit by the announcement of vulnerabilities in that library. (Unfortunately the employer who was going to open-source my code never got around to it.)
Good idea. If the issue doesn't get resolved quickly I will. Thanks!
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Plugin author here, I can help clarify that. The scrolling is throttled so that all the checks aren't run with every single scroll event, as that would choke everything. So the small delay you see there is some 0-100 millisecond value while it hasn't triggered the event yet.

You can change the throttle by setting $.waypoints.settings.scrollThrottle = 50, or whatever number you like, to try to reduce flickers in cases like these. Just be aware its a balance you'll be striking with executing more scroll checks. But all the selectors and offset values are cached so the performance should still hold up should you choose to lower this value.
You are pigeonholing and you are uninformed. Ron Paul just won the straw poll at the biggest conservative conference in part because of his opposition to the endless wars. Nixon pulled out of Vietnam, a war that Democratic presidents started and expanded. There is a long tradition in the American conservative movement that opposes foreign wars and entanglements. This wing is ascendent at the moment.

In the last 60 years China fought wars of aggression in Tibet, Vietnam, North Korea, and the Indian border. China constantly threatens Taiwan and to some degree Japan as well. I don't understand your Nixon/China comment-- you need to learn some facts, Nixon began America's slow detente with China. (They're friends now!)
Naturally, because Microsoft is the largest tech employer in Washington, and they hire from out-of-state a lot. My guess is the only other WA-based company that would bother suing MS over non-compete is Amazon.
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Every GP I've ever been to in Australia has a computer on their desk and uses it for prescriptions and patient history, in that sense an iPad may be less impersonal than being behind a screen or turning away to look at a screen. Hospitals tend to be different though as they are on the go - though there is no way any Doctor in a hospital is going to be allowed to bring in their own system of medical records. Every surgery is going to have at least those other questions you've mentioned though.
I bet this would work amazing if you had a celebrity or two at the event. You could also attach prizes to various seats to get some bidding wars.
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Truth. Theory and practice are not separate, they are one. I am learning this myself right now. I finally realized the only way to change the fruits (results) is to the change the roots (actions). Consuming empty information are like consuming empty calories. It adds nothing but confusion and wastes nothing but time and energy.

BTW: Favorite HN post of the month. :)
And how would they look if, as the original poster surmised, it were possible for a competitor to produce something similar to Watson on today's laptop? IBM would've spent millions of dollars making themselves look very silly.

It's a similar situation to moon-landing skepticism. If it didn't happen, it would be trivial for the Soviet Union to disgrace and discredit the achievement by faking their own.
Not in the screenshot TechCrunch is using to illustrate their article there's not.
Didn't Jobs say they don't consider SaaS apps to be affected by that?
this is the worst comment for so many reasons
the shotgun sequencing (specifically the assembly stage) directly relies on the advances of the original Moore's Law
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Also worth mentioning is BSDDB. Sometimes you don't want to bother with SQL and BSDDB is always there for you :).
Gotta wonder if this is an "adaptation" in the same sense as the "tiger mom" piece.
This is similar to how many private BitTorrent trackers work. If someone you invited gets banned, so do you.
Not something I want to know much about. I figure I'm in this life for however long it's going to last, based mostly on factors I can't change. I don't want to know that I'm predisposed to get ALS, or Parkinsons, or cancer, or whatever else they might tell me.
Each Cousin will go back typically (there area always exception) go back no more than 50 years. In my family, the separation in age between youngest and oldest cousin is 35 years. So, A fifth cousin speaks to a common ancestor no more than 250 years ago.

I have 472 Predicted Relatives on 23andMe, 382 of which are 5th cousin or closer. It's pretty awesome seeing all these "Percent DNA Shared" at 0.09% to 0.86% (My previous High) and then seeing my mother/brother/niece/nephew pop out at 49.98%, 43.77%, 21.92%, 21.11%

I do wish that my "3rd" cousin would respond to me - they are the only ones I think I have a chance of tracking down.
How far are you from Genghis Khan? Or was it some other startup who determines it?
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I think you're confusing web apps with extensions for Chrome. Chrome extensions are used to modify the behavior of the browser, not for implementing a web app.
They are already lawyered up. It would cost her about the same 5 figure amount to sue that he is asking for.
I'd be happy to hear at least one.
Lucky. It took me about half an hour to figure out how to delete my account. On purpose.
When I say to investors that something is good, I mean good from their point of view. Which means that users do or will love it, and the market is big.
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