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Looking for technical co-founder
I'm looking for a full-time frontend/backend developer for a social networking and comparative health startup for chronically-ill patients. Without going into too much detail, we are using a proprietary algorithm for connecting patients based on a combination of medical and interpersonal criteria. The comparative health element is a simulation of the actual health product development cycle into a fully interactive experience for patients. The purpose of this component is empowering into a voting bloc that influences health-product companies' decisions while making the process fun and rewarding for them.

My personal background is in business: marketing, strategy, legal dispute analysis, financial analysis. I am a chronically-ill patient myself, so this is a service I've experienced a critical and deeply personal need for, for the last 4 years. I do not have back-end programming knowledge, but I do have experience collaborating with developers in both site planning and development.

Business plan including in-depth target market and competitive analysis, product/revenue/marketing/target audience milestones, cash flow projections by each milestone are available for review.

I have secured angel funding sources when required. This project has piqued the interest of several developers with startup experience, but so far none of the potential long-term candidates can commit full-time.

Only looking for local US developers. Although programming skill set is obviously important, I consider personality compatibility to be more important in a startup environment so just for starters here are some of the basic traits I'm looking for:

- Someone with a balanced lifestyle: wants to work on a startup full-time (8 hrs/day) but understands the need to decompress. I am very ambitious and entrepreneurial by nature but because of my health concerns I do not fit the 20-something, staying up on caffeine all night startup mold.

- Impeccable communication skills are needed, so that we don't waste time passing emails back and forth clearing up misinterpretations.

- Someone that has personal reasons for working on a health 2.0 startup: when you contact me, tell me precisely why (personal experience? lifestyle change? moral compass?)you're willing to dedicate a good chunk of your life to a website for very sick patients. I do not want to work with someone that is looking purely for profit or purely an entrepreneurial "rush", regardless of the startup's future income prospects.

- Someone that also has a strong viewpoint (and thus will participate in strategy-shaping) but is also is consistently open-minded.

- Level-headed, deeply analytic types that don't settle for quick and convenient answers. I am not a contentious person but I will discuss anything to death if it merits discussing.

I look forward to hearing from any developers that fit that description.

Please email me at m0joey83@gmail.com
Orange has 'warning' and 'slow down' associated with it here in the US though (think of every traffic warning/construction sign and highway equipment you've seen).

It couldn't hurt to A/B test though!
Crowd funding campaign for web service. Would love feedback.
How serious is the threat to the Fukushima nuclear plant?
Are you hearing about their bullishness from him or them? And are they prominent investors, or noobs?
Let Facebook “Like” button pick the right image
You don't even need to root it, just one tweak to your settings and you can download an apk from anywhere you like. If you get your apks this way they aren't market-managed and have no magic kill switch.

Market isn't so much a walled garden but a preferred vendor, in the same way that a Debian repository is.
Dude, I want one of these sweatshirts :)
How not to build a private cloud
What is this x% which will make the deal sweet?
The conclusion of the original study is that it isn't an allergic reaction that is causing the symptoms, but that somehow restricted diets still work.

Their "few-foods diet" was rice, meat, vegetables, pears and water. Then, based on the needs of the individual kids, likes and dislikes (and maybe their known susceptibility to various allergens?), etc, potatoes, fruit and wheat were added.

You could try just sticking with the reduced few-foods diet for a month and see if symptoms improve.
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I had a look. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to find of interest there? Some printer drivers on a page that looks like it was built in 1996?
What’s wrong with the hiring process
From him. Yes they are prominent.
I was referring to an explosion that contained nuclear/radioactive material, not a nuclear explosion.
You say that you are the first hire. How many people are there besides you and the founder? If it's just the two of you, 2% is on the low side, but I wouldn't necessarily walk away from it. If there are others who were there pre-funding, then 2% sounds about right.

Other things to consider:

- What do you think of the product you're building? Are there others like it? What is unique about this one? Would you use it? Is there a voice in the back of your head telling you saying that this is great, or that this is dumb, or that it has fatal problems? Listen to it and think about what it's telling you.

- Similarly, what is your instinctual reaction to the founder? Is he focused, or does he have shiny object syndrome? What value does he bring to the venture, other than having convinced someone to fund it? Does his background and track record suggest that he can make this work? Or that he's worth betting on?

Good luck.
Interactive Map: Where Americans Are Moving
Former nuclear reactor operator on Fukushima risks
But it will still belong to oracle, right? Otherwise it will be a available to the market again.
So they basically hypothesized ADHD is often a symptom of a food allergy, tested that premise and found some strong evidence for it. Just the kind of straightforward and useful study that somehow never seems to get funding.

Have a glance at the charts in the Lancet PDF (that erikpukinskis helpfully linked) to see the improvements versus the control group and the way that reintroducing high-sensitivity foods caused a regression:

http://marrym.web-log.nl/files/adhd-and-elimination-diet-rct...

Wow. If I was a NYTimes health reporter, I would start researching a story on how up-and-coming young families are requesting food allergy tests for their seemingly asymptomatic kids as a matter of course, because that's clearly going to be the trend now.
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This is a pretty cool computer simulation
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I will be the first hire in absolute terms. Nobody before me i.e. pre-funding
Explaining the need for deep concentration
I think I am like most programmers when it comes to the need to get into a mental "groove" and stay there for a while. I seem to like to work in blocks of four hours if I am going to get anything non-trivial done.

I recently ran aground when trying to explain this to my wife. She is in the medical field, where tasks are presented and dealt with pretty much as they come. Her world has never had a need for the kind of deep, problem-solving type of concentration so common in programming and engineering.

In sharp contrast to her life experience, mine has always had this sort of reality. From playing chess, to electrical engineering and software engineering.

I was floored when she explained that she could not comprehend why I couldn't just get things done and insist that it is impossible to get anything done when the kids interrupt every 2, 5, 15 or 30 minutes. She also can't understand how it is that an interruption can cost your hours, as you find your way back into this mental "groove" and, if you are lucky, remember where you left off.

We are not fighting, I am just trying to explain because I have been working from home a whole lot more and I need cooperation in setting up a suitable work environment. For the most part the kids are at school and I am alone, so no big deal...but come crunch time I need the extra hours and it is hard to get them.

What I am hoping someone here can help with is a link or links to articles that explain and explore the type or mental state and concentration common in these types of occupations. She understands research papers and, of course, articles from an authority such as a cognitive science researcher would be fantastic.

What is your own experience? How do you explain these kinds of things to someone who really doesn't have a frame of reference to understand from and all that is left is for them to take your word for it?

Thanks!
Higher prices mean that demand has been growing faster than supply.

But that's not the cause of our higher prices. Listen, I can't keep arguing this. Do me a big favor and just read the first 3 paragraphs here:

http://useconomy.about.com/od/commoditiesmarketfaq/p/high_oi...

As a consequence, suppliers now want to supply more and consumers want to consume less.

Suppliers want to supply more. So, if you're some Saudi Arabian sheik witnessing these astronomical oil prices you really want increase oil production and supply more? What will that do to oil prices? Think about what you're saying.
Reminds me of AMPLE - a forth based system from 1984, which was notably used by Vince Clarke of Erasure.

( http://www.colinfraser.com/m5000/m5000.htm )

Take a look at the AMPLE nucleus programmers guide - this thing was incredibly powerful and would be good even now with decent synthesis hardware.
Thankfully, the original study (linked to below) gives a summary.

The diet was composed for each kid individually, but the basic "few-foods" diet was rice, meat, vegetables, pears, and water. Potatoes, fruits and wheat were added for some kids, at prescribed intervals.

They were following this protocol: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k7444741381w544k/fulltex...
Android is ‘open’ and Google can’t figure out how to leverage that
Nothing ever wins, pendulums just swing.
Filed under "no shit Sherlock".
They are rational in this case. They are getting others to cover the expense of their lifestyle. If someone is going to bail you out why would you bother not living as you'd like.
Despite the fact it's one of the nicer countries to live in the region and reasonably well-governed, certain groups of people love to bash Dubai.

Never mind that there's mass atrocities, neglect, decay, rampant corruption and idiocy and day to day violence in a lot of the countries of the world.

Laos is run by bandits? Who gives a shit, and where's Laos anyways? No, let's talk about how Dubai is missing the mystical "culture" element. Class, yeah man, dude, you can't buy class.

If you want to point out the problems in Dubai, go for it. There's problems there, sure. But it's definitely one of the least problematic places in the Middle East, it's got a lot going for it, and they'll be fine.

It's funny, because the people who don't like Dubai are the same who champion for third world revolutions, but then don't want to point out how bad things get a few decades later. I'm in Vietnam right now. If the South Vietnam/United States/South Korea coalition had beaten the North Vietnam/Soviet Union/Red China/North Korea coalition, it would be a much nicer, safer place to live.

Instead, it's a backward wasteland ruled by bandits that's barely - barely - starting to get its shit together.

Do people want to cover that?

No, let's talk about how Dubai is missing culture. Yeah, screw Dubai.

Edit: Downvoting isn't good. Take a moment away from the hatefest here and think critically on these three points - First, Dubai is indisputably one of the best-governed countries in the Middle East. Second, there's a lot of places a lot worse than Dubai that could use the negative attention first. Third, people that love to trumpet the failure of Dubai also refuse to draw basic cause-and-effect relationships, like the fact that Vietnam is more like North Korea than South Korea since the Southern side lost to the North in that war - and it's ruined the country. Those are important points.
The part you left out for joining a startup that is also important is the learning experience. Besides getting rich and changing the world, the experience itself is valuable. You can go on to find riches and change the world later. I wouldn't come into a startup expecting either/or.
There's a difference between moving fast and doing sloppy work. IMO, this post is a recipe for mediocre design (at best). Don't confuse movement for work - when you approach a design with the a rushed attitude it slows you down in the long run, because you have to clean up your mistakes and possibly start over again when you realize that your first attempt just didn't work at all.

I'm not so much arguing with the specific suggestions in the post as I am the general approach and worldview. There are some useful ideas in there, but they're weakened by being presented in "recepie" format. Sometimes they make sense, sometimes they don't. It depends on the context. Better to learn principles than methods. It's quicker in the long run.
Here's a better summary article:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/diet-cha...
You wrote a long post but could you perhaps expand it even more? Perhaps in an article?

I don't see how "more order means more economic activity": if anything, I associate "more order" with more bureaucracy and higher barrier to entry for new economic agents.
I would expect robots in Japan in 2011 to be able to withstand a bit more than robots in the USSR in 1986.
We also don't see the iPad marketed as an industrial device.
Ask HN: First impressions on website - do they help?
So, i am currently writing something up for a college class. Problem is everything is hypothetical. I need some proof. I believe a first impression on a website is imperative so that people actually use it and in my case, buy your product or services as well.

Basically I'm wondering has there been any studies that shows how a better web design will increase revenue for any kind of services? I don't just mean selling products like a T-shirt, but labor services as well.

If someone wanted their computer fixed and searched for companies that can do so, will a first impression on the website help them make their decision to use your company? Are there any studies like this? White papers maybe?

Only thing i really found was this:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/blink/

Thanks!
Personally I would expect to get a salary much closer to market-rate than "lodging and food plus some" from a company with $1m funding - especially if I was to be the lead developer and first employee.

I would then consider 1-2% equity to be a not-unexpected bonus/incentive above-and-beyond.

Difficult to be sure without knowing the full circumstances, but it sounds like a poor deal from what you've said.
The researchers did a food allergy panel to determine what foods were individually eliminated according to the subjects' Immunoglobulin G (IgG) response.

Interestingly, IgG is the longer-term response compared to the more immediate Immunoglobulin E response which causes the most dramatic allergy reactions such as rapid airway constriction.

The implication is that IgG type sensitivities are under-diagnosed because the symptoms are elusive and subtle, and ADHD often happens to be one of them.
Intel's Sandy Bridge enhancements include remote kill for stolen devices
are you worried that the internet will run dry of ink to write articles?
Keep it civil.
Ask HN: Please review my startup: OpenNow
Hey guys -

My friend and I have been reading Hacker News for a long time and we recently decided to launch our own thing: OpenNow. It’s all about finding nearby restaurants that are open right now.

We still have a long way to go and would really appreciate any feedback or ideas you have around how to improve OpenNow.

http://www.opennowsf.com

Thank you!
Pwn2Own 2011: Google offers $20K to hack Chrome; hackers pass
This reads like something straight out of Neuromancer, veracious or no.
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so you should not provide subjective commentary on the internet because one day it might not be true?
No, I'm worried about ignorance - where one of the more liberal and prosperous places in a misgoverned region gets negative press and lots of places deserving of negative press do not. This creates skewed views of the world for people who don't travel.
But I don;t want consistent experience. I dislike the experience and want it done my own way!
I think what they mean is closely related to the idea of trust as a kind of social capital. Economists have studied this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(social_sciences)#Economi...

Essentially, "social trust benefits the economy and a low level of trust inhibits economic growth".

You're not going to open a store if you're pretty sure it's going to get robbed. Order doesn't have to mean bureaucracy.
Exactly. If I'm an owner of an oil field I prefer to sell at higher prices and if prices are high I invest more in exploration.

Of course prices are not just influenced by supply and demand. They are also influenced by speculation. I never denied that. What I'm saying is that speculation changes the timing and increases the volatility, but it cannot decouple from supply and demand indefinitely.

So if we're running out of easily accessible oil in, say 20 years, and speculation increases today's prices in expectation of that, that's a good thing. Of course it is a double edged sword. Sometimes future expectations never materialize and speculation ends up destroying value.
'Businesses' make money for the business owners, 'tools' make money for Twitter.
Chicken mcnuggets, tobacco smoke, and sedentery lifestyles are not members of the set of "things that can cause arable land to become permanently uninhabitable". Nuclear accidents are in that set and that is why the public is (rightly) concerned about them.
I think Yahoo Answers are quite useful. I hate Experts Exchange, however.
How do I learn to write apps for a living?
I'm 53 and unemployed. I have a background in the hard sciences but have little experience in computer programing. I'd like to learn how to write Android/iPad/other apps for a living essentially from scratch. What steps do I take? What sites have the best instructions? Where do I find the best examples?
I think they were attempting to pursue a bait-and-switch strategy but ended up backing off. H.264 originally came with a "free for 5 years" license for certain kinds of non-subscription online video, which was renewed for a second 5 years in 2010. It was widely assumed that the intent was to start charging once everyone had been lured into being reliant on it.

But partly in response to competitors like WebM, they made the royalty-free license permanent in August 2010: http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/08/mpeg-la-counters-g...
http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

http://developer.android.com/index.html
user:	tastybites
created: 60 days ago

Things aren't looking good :/
Is Vanity Fair really the best place to air this kind of grievance against wealth and decadence?
I've been here for years, they kept deadbanning my original accounts because I say things people disagree with. I imagine it'll happen again fairly soon.

By the way, your average karma is kind of low, you might want to try bringing that up. You've had over a year with this account!
I hope Captain Nemo's flag is still there.
Fukushima nuclear plant blast puts Japan on high alert
I have been watching the ins and outs of China and the EU in relation to the U.S. for some time. My take is that we are essentially involved in currency wars. Developed nation vs. an 'undeveloped' nation threats of war, sanctions, etc, but developed nation vs. developed nation is an economic fight.

I think the EU and the U.S. are in cahoots to use and prevent a possible china emergence. The U.S. has the reserve currency, with the RMB tied to it. The U.S. gets to determine the rules of the game, which makes their success all the more likely. The economic size and military weight of the U.S. gives it an additional huge advantage.

Inside the U.S., laws have been re-wrote or ignored in a way that they can prevent, delay, or hide problems that would make the economy seriously unstable. They can essentially print money as needed, even if they call it by another name, determine how much and how fast deflationary factors such as housing can proceed, and use their international advantage to help prevent it from getting out of control.

What the FED is doing does not make sense in terms of just U.S. economics, but if you see the global game, it makes a lot of sense.
Liberal ? Asians in most Gulf countries including Dubai are treated like dirt and the labourers are almost modern day slaves. A lot of them have their passports taken away by the employer forcing them to stay in dubai.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/middleeast.const...

Edit:
Excerpt: "Once they arrive in the United Arab Emirates, migrant workers are treated little better than cattle, with no access to healthcare and many other basic rights. The company that sponsors them holds on to their passports - and often a month or two of their wages to make sure that they keep working. And for this some will earn just 400 dirhams (£62) a month."

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4249223.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6171909.stm
You wrote a long post but could you perhaps expand it even more? Perhaps in an article?

Actually, I'm thinking of doing exactly that.

I don't see how "more order means more economic activity": if anything, I associate "more order" with more bureaucracy and higher barrier to entry for new economic agents.

It's contextual, actually. I presume you are commenting from an industrialized nation. For you, more order is going to mean more bureaucracy, more friction, and less economic activity.

For someone living somewhere, where the rule of law doesn't even apply, to the point where it's hard to maintain basic infrastructure, there isn't enough order yet. In that case, more order = more economic activity.

I'm saying, in the context of digital security, the Internet as a whole still suffers from a poverty of infrastructure that inhibits many kinds of transactions. There is tremendous risk and opportunity here for those daring enough to do something about it.
Cripes. After the fourth "small penis" joke and the phrase "head-towel in hand" I had to stop reading. And I will make a point not to read Vanity Fair in the future.

I am interested in the future of Dubai, but this is not how I want to read about it.
Looks good but doesn't work for wikipedia.

Get it working there and you will have a lot more consumers.
Just because other countries have problems doesn't mean that Dubai doesn't also have problems. This article is pretty good: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-har...
Uhm I think the point he's making is that Dubai is run by a bunch of bandits just bandits with a lot more money than the average.
"Opinion" is the keyword here.
Love the concept and that you already have an API. Plug me in please!
Sun: we were the dot in .com
Technically, in the days when programs were written directly in machine code, weren't they all "open source"?
Unfortunately, I don't think that an article about Vietnam would generate as much traffic or eyeballs for Vanity Fair. I agree with you - there are much bigger issues going on in the world than Dubai's lack of culture, but it sounds like you should be reading The Economist instead of Vanity Fair.

Reading about Dubai is interesting to some people; I don't see the point in bashing it. At the end of the day, Vanity Fair is a business and they're trying to make something people want.
Long-only commodity ETFs are to blame here.
People shouldn't funnel their savings / pension funds into them.
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