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I agree with almost everything you just said, with one exception: while sites often need to have a notion of identity for their users, that identity should not correlate with the identity used on any other site, or with other alternate identities on the same site, unless the user wants that correlation.

A system based on pseudonyms allows anonymity through the creation of arbitrary new identities. With care, such a system can also support reputations for a given identity.
He forgot to mention checking HN!
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Who? And, already? Doesn't registration for new TLDs not open until next year?

I've been following this project:

http://dotappapp.com/

It would be sad to learn they've been pipped.
I'm curious as well. While I haven't upgraded any older projects, I started a new project on 3.1.rc4 several weeks ago and (besides deprecation warnings for some testing tools) have had very few problems that grabbing a newer gem couldn't fix.
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Well, may be article is sensationalized and doesn't reflect the reality, but wasn't it obvious that they they had to go to the hospital on the second day when symptoms got worse despite the amoxicillin? "Eyes swelled shut" and you still talking to your Facebook friends?
Looks great. Is there any way for analytics ignore clicks from the creator? Just got an inflated click count while testing out different templates.
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If we could diagnose w/ 100% accuracy then it would be easy. If our medications had no side effects and resistance to antibiotics didn't then it would be easy. But once you put those two things together, even throwing economics aside, you have to be careful that you're not harming more people than helping, net.

Well, in my last paragraph, I said it probably wouldn't be easy. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try. I admit, I have a bias towards personal choice - I suppose it's possible society would be worse off with more freedom in this case.
Your right, companies should just be able to throw whatever they want on the road. How dare the government create rules to interfere in the safety of other people. After all, aren't we living in a post-apocalypse mad-max type world.

The fact is it takes a long time to decide how safe something is, especially on the roads. I know it is fun in the US to rail against the government, and forget about the wonderful world we live in, that is incredibly safe, thanks to these regulations.
Very interesting idea, and an even more interesting domain name.

One thing though: how can a user download the app itself? Must he/she be on an iPhone or are you just advertising the apps themselves and expecting the user to visit the App Store to get them?
Her strategy is quite reasonable for someone with a rare or hard to diagnose disease which most doctors have never seen or even know about. There is a decent chance that there is someone out there who has the disease and give useful disease.

Case in point, my GF. She has been suffering for 10 years with a broad spectrum of symptoms: pain that moves around, extreme skin sensitivity, migraines, chemical sensitivity so severe that a whiff of perfume can make her sick for days. The usual recommended treatment from doctors was antidepressants or anti psychotics which make things much worse. Or go see a psychiatrist. Or maybe its fibromyalgia or some other disease du jour. Finally two doctors independently ordered MRIs that covered her from head to butt, her complete spine. They discovered a syrinx in her spine that caused arachnoiditis[1]. There is no cure, although Thalidomide(!!) may be a possible treatment. The point: persistence on the internet allowed her to educate herself about the manifestations of her problem to find the specialists that found the problem. Sadly, her problem was probably caused by an injury from having received spinal anesthesia some time back.

Another story for another time is how I had to beat the doctors at Stanford Hospital into a diagnose of malaria for my daughters even though it was well beyond the 30 day incubation period.

[1] no spiders involved at all.
Good point. That would probably be a way to filter out specific IP addresses, right?
The title is not sensationalist enough. It should read: "How Facebook Cured Kawasaki's Disease"
Well is Google is making more money, then Microsoft should be making more money as well, since people are spending more on online advertising. This is not stopping anytime soon, so why would Microsoft give up just as they are starting to make some gains (albeit by buying Yahoo search).
thanks for troll, anthony :p
Drupal achieved this by requiring modules that get hosted on Drupal.org (the most popular site to find modules) be reviewed before they're published. Part of the review process requires verifying that the module (a) doesn't duplicate other modules and (b) doesn't belong as extra features added to another module. If your module doesn't work with the other modules on drupal.org, it will never be published. You're required to collaborate.

It works fairly well, although the review queue is long and you get people whining about how their module really deserves to be published.
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Ask HN: Are there any CS students that would do a project for $500?
Hi everyone. I'm working on a startup with a team that was formed at Startup Weekend, and we're looking for a student that would build a functional prototype or our MVP for $500. What we're working on would involve Facebook Places and PayPal integration, as well as a way for people to broadcast to others near them with the native app or mobile web app that they are looking to buy or sell something, and then once something was bought or sold, people would be able to broadcast the transactions to Facebook or twitter. If interested, contact me at selfey.sw@gmail.com. I'm in high school, so my funds are limited. Thanks for your time!
Isn't it just for medical professionals?
A two minute video showing the history of spacewalking.
Thank you very much.

I spent quite a bit of time before we launched talking to app developers across the spectrum of size of company, and types of app.
It's possible that MS is prepared to spend money in "inefficient" ways if that means that they're preventing money going into their competitors' pockets.
Really depends on the location, even within the United States, much more so abroad.
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Wow! I'd completely forgotten about this game. Thanks for the reminder :-)
I just think that no matter how high the expected growth is, it's not high enough.

Edit: Like the predictions made about cell phones in the 90s
This is very thought-provoking. One observation:

I don't completely understand all this yet, but it appears that what distinguishes the system from one that is entirely trusting of client-side JS code, is the fact that the e-mail provider signs user's key. That means that we must be able to get the e-mail provider's public key somehow. There is supposed to be no central authority, so we must get it directly from the e-mail provider.

Your link includes this line:

> 4. Public key(s) for gmail.com are attained from a well-known location on their servers (specifics TBD).

This service is absolutely necessary to get BrowserID working, but they haven't figured out the specifics yet. I think they need to get beyond that "TBD" pretty darned quick.
There's a big "Get this app" button on the app's page, which opens up a widget with a link to the app store listing as well as a form to have it sent to your phone directly by SMS.
FF5 has a back button and a home button.
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Yes yes yes! This is what drives me CRAZY about the job postings from Y Combinator companies here on Hacker News. I would NEVER apply for a job without knowing what the company does and who is behind it. "Stealth mode" is a lame excuse. We've all learned that execution trumps ideas alone, and is a surprise launch really the cornerstone of your execution?

Before applying for a job, I would want to check out the company's home page and see "do they look competent? Do they look like they're building a product that they're proud of? Is it something that I want to be a part of?" I'd also want to check out the company on LinkedIn or other social networks, to see if they're actually thought leaders in their community, and to see if I know anyone who can give some more color on the people involved.

It's a job seeker's market out there. You may be special, but if you don't tell me who you are, I'm unable to determine whether you're really special or not.
Anyone planning on one for San Francisco?
We are building tools to help app developers gain insight and drive engagement. There are myriad issues around creating alternate app stores, so we are very intentionally trying to build on top of existing atores.

In terms of how a user that hits one of the pages and actually get the app on their phone, we have a couple of novel approaches (in addition to the standard iTunes link): click "get the app" and you will see a place to SMS a link to the phone, email a link, etc.
And cookies too.
Hey, if you guys want to compare salaries, how about doing it via salaryshare.me?

Here is the pool I created for HN: http://salaryshare.me/1bc4550900b5d2c5f667783e3cc05818
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I'm not so sure about that.

Firstly, making the service I am describing available to customers like me doesn't mean that everyone is going to abandon the traditional delivery methods. Such a service would likely require some level of technical sophistication (i.e. plugging in an ethernet cable) where most TV users just want to turn on the TV. Traditional delivery methods, and revenue streams, would not be immediately damaged by such a solution.

Secondly, using your example of ER, there is marginal revenue per viewer. For every viewer that the new service draws from the old service, it becomes necessary to make a certain amount of money per viewer. ER's lowest rating was about 9 million viewers. At 13 million an episode, the marginal revenue per viewer (again, on the low end) would need to be around $3/viewer/episode to earn $14 million in net income per episode (that's 9M viewers x $3.00 = $27mm - $13mm cost per ep = $14mm). At 22 episodes a season, that's $66/yr for each viewer. Compare that to a digital cable service that can cost you well over $1200 dollars a year. You could buy 18 shows on the magnitude of ER for that price, and who could possibly have the emotional fortitude for that? Let alone the free time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER_%28TV_series%29#Ratings
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/06/news/companies/cable_bill_co...

The cable television business model is a value suck. Albeit, a value suck that's not going anywhere, but I sure as heck am not going to pay for it. I'll stick to free TV, Netflix, and my BD player.

The numbers work for the sort of service I want, and I would bet that Reed Hastings would love to give it to me for $30.00/mo if he could get around the content providers who are clinging to their 20th century business model.
Thanks, I spent an embarrassing amount of time domaining over the past couple of years. At last it finally paid off :)
Especially given the recent guidance that subdomains are less prone to penalty by the Google Panda update.

Might want to retool or at least offer the option for appname.app.net
Not nearly enough, but that is what I get for joining a young startup.
This seems like a case where recognition matters more than memorization. On occasion, it can come in handy to memorize that on most modern 32-bit systems, INT_MAX == 2147483647. More often, it can come in handy to see that number or something close to it pop out in an unexpected place and immediately think "huh, that's (close to) INT_MAX". The same thing applies to 4294967295, 1048576, 65536, and the ASCII codes of various common characters.
.tar.gz is not that uncommon, I would say. And once you have .tar.gz, support for .tar.bz2 is trivial to add.
http://tld.name/register-your-tld.php

"* PRIVATE REGISTRATION *"

How ironic that a TLD gets squatted (as it looks like.)

Domaining to the top.

And what do you do for a living?

Eyes glistening: "I'm a top level domainer."
I am drawing this from the semiconductor, telecommunications, automotive, healthcare technology, and travel domains. It doesn't really seem that relevant though as software developers are not tied to domains like say hardware engineers, or I guess non-programming domain specialists. Although now that I think about it, software developers do tend to pigeon-hole themselves a bit. I have heard of people calling themselves ".NET developers in the real estate branch", which I suppose is a psychological blocker to jumping to a better-paying job.
The font on that page makes it so hard to read. Instant bounce.
Cars might be cheaper here, and gas certainly is, but we use a lot more of both than Europeans because we tend to be spread out a lot more. That's another factor raising our cost of living, which drives up the salaries we demand.

I swear I'm not picking on you but I see this line all the time when US-EU gas price comparisons are made and I just can't buy it from a logical POV. So I thought I'd get all anal and play with the stats :-)

The average US driver does about 13,500 miles per year: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm

The number I keep finding again and again for UK driver is 9,628 miles a year (which sounds very low to me but I'll roll with it). That's almost a spot on 40% extra for the US driver (for a country with 42x the surface area, to be fair). OK, cool.

Given a US gallon of gas in the UK is about $8.25 compared to the current Californian average of $3.77 and the US driver is only driving 40% more miles on average, the US driver is still spending way less money on gas and would need to drive significantly further distances to make up the difference.
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The idea is that you would use this in situations where you currently would offer a "reset password via email" option - since this means you already treats control of the email address as identity.
Well there are certainly tradeoffs. We do have more apps that can fail. Then again, when one does start to choke, as will happen, the others don't die. So if Baroque locks up, or starts to churn, or I do the ol rm -rf / all that is impacted it our ability to press frontpages until Chef can mint us another Baroque.

Also, there's not, so much, another layer between frontend and backend as there is a multiplication of frontends. It certainly may get us into trouble. Luckily, we already were in trouble and, worse case scenario, we all learn a lot from the experience.

The hell-road blacktop is something we are trying to tear us by substituting the abstract relation of CMS to site for a closer isomorphy of app to function. Who knows? Might work.
In C, it still applies when you use the stdint.h sized types, such as uint32_t and uint64_t.
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The topic here is biotechnologies for enhancing longevity, but the lessons and model for thinking about the strategic impact of documentation are generally applicable to any technical field - such as software engineering, for example.
As they say, the ones making money during the gold rush, are the one selling picks.
aka add a level of indirection, just like the solution to every other problem in computer science. :)
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Her network didnt produce this, a friend who had a kid with the same disease produced this. Stop mis-attributing individual connections as being performed by the collective. Those Nazi photographs that made the rounds recently? At the time they were heralded as a "wisdom of the crowds" moment, some great network shifting in to gear to crunch a hard problem. The case here & there are the same; it's not about the network, the collective knowledge, it's connecting to the right individuals.[1]

[1] http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/world-war-ii-myster...
Yes, some places more than others, though. It's not highly generally highly publicized.

That is, other than the "offical" April Fool's jokes. Googlers LOVE April Fool's day, and there's generally a solid handful of nonpublic April Fool's day jokes on campus.

But there's also just random pranks. Some I'm aware of:

- Everyone's photos on the internal people database (available on an internal website) showed up with either crazy sunglasses or mustaches. Someone, probably a vision researcher, used facial recognition to do in bulk.

- Eric's picture had a photo on the wall behind him, and the photo was very subtly swapped with a picture of Bill Gates.

- There was a long series of pranks having to do with pink plastic flamingos and the T-Rex skeleton in Mountain View that were quite funny, though I forgot the full sequence. It had to do with T-Rex being surrounded by pink flamingos, then someone changed it to flamingos attacking T-Rex, then someone else brought a giant can of "flamingo bait", and all the flamingos were lying dead around T-Rex. It unfolded over a week or two, with it changing every few days.

- I was on a team that pranked each other whenever someone went on vacation. The most memorable of which involved filling a 12'x12'x8' glass walled office from floor to ceiling with pink balloons: http://www.menalto.com/photos/miscellaneous/google/Pranks/20...
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Why is everything about gamification nowadays? Do I really care about some badge telling me or others how "well versed" or "well read" I am about a particular topic? Shouldn't that knowledge be attained through conversation, instead?
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>three of her FB friends knew about a rare immune disorder.

sounds like not that rare. Or is it rare just because doctor couldn't diagnose it?

Just an experiment - googled "Face swelling" and the first page of the first organic result has

"If you experience facial swelling accompanied by difficulty breathing, hives, intense distress, fever, redness, or warmth, seek immediate medical care (call 911)."

I see how the following logic also may be applied - they went to ER on the 3rd something day as a result of FB suggestions, while the search on Google directs to 911 immediately. So did the FB help? Or may be wasting time on FB diverted the time and attention from the more effective information search activities?
That's a registration under an alternative DNS root, run by INAIC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#Public-Roo...

It has nothing to do with ICANN's new TLD system, since registration hasn't opened.
do a mouseover on the headline of the site...that was my alternative headline first :)
I don't disagree with any of this, but would like to add that just because a module get published on drupal.org does not mean that (a) it works or (b) it's well-written.

The mainstream modules... the common ones used on thousands of sites, tend to be solid. There's a lot of half-baked crud once you get into the smaller or lesser-used ones.
I'm somewhat wary of jumping into an issue that is obviously extremely personal and emotional for people, but this remark struck me as odd:

You can’t even resort to just hitting the home button
blindly a bunch of times, because if you hit it too
rapidly, the iPhone will interpret it as a double-tap.

What I find odd is that double-tap is the number one way that I launch apps. The author mentions the double-tap as if its a bad thing (in the context of finding an app to launch) and yet double-tap is the way to get to the recently-used apps to display.

I can't fault him on the other points, but this seemed like a blind-spot.
Actually, as a former homemaker who was routinely made to feel like an idiot by doctors and often felt like showing up at the hospital with a list of my academic credentials stapled to my lapel, my read on it is a little different. It looks to me like one of the big things was not the diagnosis per se but shoring up her confidence to stand up for her child and insist on being taken seriously. In addition to the excerpt below, earlier in the article she indicates her spouse was dismissing it as nothing.

I called my family doctor and told him I was heading to the hospital. "I just have a Spidey sense," I said, "that he's really sick." Not a lie, but not the whole truth, either, though what was I going to say? Three of my Facebook friends think my kid has an extremely rare childhood auto-immune disorder which I just read about on Wikipedia, and since they all contacted me after I posted a photo of him on my wall, I'm going? It seemed … wrong! Reactionary. And yet as much as I wanted to be my usual mellow self, the immediacy of the Facebook feedback was enough to push me out the door.
Pretty impressive in that case! Great app idea.
Developers need company name and salary range offerred for that position.
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I'm not so worried about the present - I am 34 years old and expect the web to be around for the rest of my career. Consequently, if I can't recall facts today, who cares? From a professional point of view, I'm worth much more if I can think critically about facts than if I can remember them.

However, I am very worried about the future. If we don't practice information retrieval, our ability to retrieve information should theoretically dim. When I am in my 60s/70s, am I going to be at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (or Alzheimer's -esque symptoms)?
Personally I only use one home screen on Android. I have my app draw available on a down swipe, and can scroll through the app draw (ie. not pages). I find it far eaiser to use the app draw even for things I use occasionally, as it is just a swipe and scroll away.
In terms of automated vehicles, I think Google is in the same place as Xerox was 40 years ago with the Xerox Alto. Like Xerox at that time, they have a business that is absurdly profitable that funds interesting research that is well ahead of its time, but there is little motivation to make something commercially viable. I haven't worked at google, but I image the employees are motivated to do things that make a huge splash, rather than build businesses incrementally, because any business they could build within Google would be completely dwarfed by ad revenue, much like 1973 PC business compared to the 1973 copying machine business. If google were really interested in automated vehicles, they would be selling radar assisted braking software, pedestrian alert systems, lane control systems, etc.
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=Albany,%20OR returns the answer I'd expect. Wild!
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