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There are 2 things that bother me about this article.

1. They say US has the best (most advanced) health care technology but not the most affordable or even effective (in that Americans don't have the longest life expectancy). They should at least mention that it raises the question: what good is having this technology if most people can't afford it or it's not more effective than technology available elsewhere? Shouldn't we care more about making existing technology more affordable and effective rather than chase the latest technology gizmos?

2. They say that the problem is that health care technology development is halted due to less VC investments that are diverted to web startups. At the same time they claim that medical tourism is on the rise because people can get more advanced treatment outside U.S. That squarely contradicts their claim that U.S. health care technology is most advanced and hints that the problem is primarily regulatory (i.e. FDA approval process takes longer than such processes in other countries) and not just lack of funding.
Slightly different issue. Entering equations quickly and accurately is very hard with a virtual keyboard. I'd like to use my phone rather than a calculator in situations when i dont have a full pc handy. I've used Maple extensively and it's a great tool. But I'm not looking for a pc replacement, I'm looking for a calculator replacement. The app side could certainly work like Maple or Mathmatica.
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That's actually accept_filter(9). The man page for freebsd has a interesting info:

The accept filter concept was pioneered by David Filo at Yahoo! and
refined to be a loadable module system by Alfred Perlstein.

The closest you can get by using kqueue is to set a low water mark, so that a read event is only returned when there's enough data ready.
The API seems geared toward getting data for an existing Yahoo fantasy league/team/players, but can you get arbitrary sports game stats and player statuses out of it, or is it only useful if your application's users are Yahoo Fantasy Sports users?
True, that would be a great feature to have as I mentioned in another thread post, you can _at least_ set any public posts you made to friends only. In privacy settings > Limit the Audience for Past Posts http://cl.ly/AMpv
I have been using a themeforest theme for the first version of http://www.kodesk.com and it gets very cumbersome to update very quickly. Too many jQuery plugins I don't know about, to many dependencies and you end up not really understanding how some CSS classes work too. And support is clearly lacking.

Now I'm completely rewriting the site using Bootstrap because 1) its documentation is simply awesome and 2) being an open source project, the support is likely to be much better.
It's not creepy to me, because Facebook is where I share only the Facebook part of my life. Occasional jocular insights and unusual occurrences, mobile photos of things I thought people I know might be amused by – it's not the story of my life by any means.

What is creepy, and perhaps more depressing than anything, is the idea of a Facebook timeline actually passing for the story of your life. When used to the extent pitched at F8, it becomes Cliff's Notes for a human relationship – instead of having known someone for seven years, you can just read their timeline and call it catching up.

I suppose a lot of people don't see this as a bad thing. I can't help but see it as a gradual cheapening and trivialization of the human experience.
You can plug a variety of USB gear to the "camera connection kit" on iPad and it just works, from USB headsets (audio + mic) to keyboards.
I don't understand why people think teens are all okay with a lack of privacy. One of my businesses deals with hundreds of high school athletes every year. I can tell you that about half of them post EVERYTHING online. The other half is very careful about what they post. Some of the teenagers we deal with are very careful - a lot of them are, in fact.
I agree, I don't see why it'd be unreasonable to type a passphrase on boot.
I've been looking for this for nearly a decade with no luck. Around 2007 I found a daisywheel typewriter with a floppy drive, but the carriage was broken.

If you find something, let me know!
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Maybe my cynicism wasn't clear :)

No, I don't.
Very cool. I love that it's not an established work flow but you're willing to play with it. I sent an email and signed up but stopped short of where I'd have to pay (I don't have a real card to send atm).

Considering the flow starts with an email and ends up on the web (odd!) ... it was as smooth as I could expect!

Best of luck and congrats on launching!
It's quite ironic how he says "Our VPN service and VPN services in general are not designed to be used to commit illegal activity", and then "there are many other legitimate uses such as the ability to unblock GEO-restricted websites."

Hello, why do you think most of those sites are geo-restricted? Because of copyright laws. Circumventing those blocks in most cases means you're breaking those laws -- at the very minimum, you're breaking contractual obligations that you and the service are supposed to obey under penalty, and at worst you're committing fraud by claiming you come from a different country. By caving to the court order without a fight, HMA's owner opened the gates to every copyright troll under the sun to come knocking for logs, court order in hand.

I'm the first to admit I've used HMA's webproxy to get around some stupid company firewall; I knew perfectly well I was breaking company policy and could have been sanctioned. I clearly relied on HMA not to spill the beans. It's called HIDE MY ASS, for g*d's sake. Nice to see I was wrong.

A privacy service lives or dies on its reputation, and HMA's reputation is now gone forever.
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Like Boeing engineers sign off their own work when they're building aircraft. The test problem is well known in electronics manufacturing. When ISO900x and TQM etc is done right test & inspection are useful.
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Looks like there's not enough news these days, so tech journalists dissing other tech journalists (Arrington-Swisher or Marco-BI) is what keeps the news sites going.
I use it all the time. Very useful.
So you are willing to carry around a full mechanical keyboard to attach to your phone and type complex equations, but you can't carry around a netbook or something for that purpose?

I have to say, I'm a little baffled. Phones are for phoning. Computers are for computing.
Here's a fairly concise explanation of what Shen is:

http://www.lambdassociates.org/shen.htm

TL;DR: Shen is the successor to Qi, a functional programming language in the Lisp family.
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The karma may be important if you ask a question (I suppose it works like when you submit a link) : if you ask a question, and if you get lost because you have no "early" upvotes, the question will disappear in the depths of HN.
Yeah, that's probably the first thing you learn when you start writing code in the corporate world - no matter how thoroughly you think you've tested your app, QA will break it almost immediately.

Very humbling.
I guess you could say it's innovative for Facebook to try to continue to push the boundaries of social media and online identities, but I tend to agree with the majority: this is pushing it a little too hard.

Facebook is what you make of it. Just as I choose to almost never view my 'News Feed,' I'll similarly opt out wherever possible from using these new timeline features.
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Damn good point. Even one kinect and a rotating platform could work. It could plausibly be built for around $200.00.

Makes me suspect someone has already hacked one into existence ...
"You can't go making a claim like "there was no empirical evidence to support his view" about nearly any of Einstein's physics papers and then not want to debate it."

You're taking a statement I made about a particular view in a set of topics that were chosen for the purposes of debating where he might be wrong, and applying it to the entirety of his "papers".

"In any case, your assertion is false - there is a great deal of empirical evidence for all of Einstein's important theories."

I never asserted there was no empirical evidence for Einstein's theories.

The fact that you didn't address the point I was trying to make, and instead are giving me what seems to be an unsophisticated laymen view of "einstein couldn't have been wrong about anything!!!" is exactly why I'm not interested in debating physics here. Plus, its irrelevant to the actual topic.
Personally I prefer to have a MVP before taking anyone else's money. I don't think its good to takes a friend's money so you can do some more 'exploring' - especially with the track record of not being able to find a MVP with your own money.

- Imho I would go back to part time work, and use only your own money until you've got a nice MVP, then perhaps you'll end up finding out you don't need others money.

- and when you do go back for money - make sure to have a answer to what you'll use it for (that should be the pitch for the money) .. along with # of users, Rev, Profit and some basic projections (Both good projections and worst case)
Eh, there's a difference between testing code you just wrote, and actual QA

That's what I'm challenging. I think the whole "developers can't test their own code" business is a myth.

There really is something to the idea of the "curse of knowledge" and there really is a different mindset when you're trying to make something work and trying to make something break, but isn't switching between contexts and mindsets and levels of abstraction a core part of being a developer?

Developers can get lazy and don't bother testing their own code. Developers can get sloppy and don't bother thinking through corner cases. Developers can be short-sighted and write poorly-encapsulated code that is brittle and creates side-effects.
when something is specifically promoted as protection against oppressive laws/regulations, and then caves at the first opportunity to do so, that's problematic. The service clearly never intended to fight such orders, only to use such claims as marketing tools. I dont care if he is a "guy just like me" thats a scummy, shitty thing to do.
Edit: Their site is not down. The site completely breaks if you are using the facebook disconnect (extension on chrome.)

My bad...
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Sweet. I've used iconfinder.com over the years. Its now a default stop when searching an icon. Seems to be getting better everytime i visit too. Keep up the good work!
He's one of the guys who thinks Valve should have given the German guy a job, and is still upset at Valve over it.
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I have been brainstorming something similar for a different country and vertical, and I am seeking for some ideas. Do do have an email?
I question how much good QA did for his project (Delta Graph), because it was so buggy it was nearly unusable.
Build Quality In isn't just something you do when you don't have the luxury of a QA department. It's something that you can do to prevent having to have a distinct QA department at all.
The WebSockets standard is not finalized. Everybody deploying today is deploying a draft which is subject to change.

There is no single version of WebSockets which all browsers support. Firefox is not currently shipping WebSockets, but MozWebSocket, which is subtly different and also named differently to discourage usage. They don't want people doing WebSockets. (Aside: Try finding a Moz employee willing to talk about WebSockets. None are listed on the work page in their wiki.) Chrome ships the supposedly-insecure Hixie-76. Which is also HyBi-00. Which leads to...

WebSocket's versioning is somewhere between misleading and nonexistent. Many deployed versions predate the versioning header, so they have to be detected ad-hoc. The version in the protocol isn't always bumped with every new draft that comes out.

The protocol tries so very hard to be HTTP, but can't always cross proxies. This is really only important because (a) long-polling and Comet can easily cross proxies and (b) WebSockets aren't HTTP. It's less code to write a non-HTTP WebSockets server than to bolt one onto an existing HTTP server.

WebSockets security is non-existent. There is no WebSockets protection against proxy attacks, and there is no same-origin policy, so there is nothing stopping an attacker from opening a WebSocket to an unfriendly domain. No security advantage over boring plain sockets. (To their credit, WebSockets do specify SSL/TLS interaction.)

There are more issues, but that's what comes to me from memory after spending the better part of a year caring about these damn things.
If you're looking to Google for a solution then I think you're looking in the wrong direction. Just look at the latest crop of anti-competitive complaints against them -- like Yelp for one.
that's an awesome way to streamline the onboarding workflow of ubiquitous email-as-identity.
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I've never been one to seek funding, and I probably will never seek funding for any project that I start in the future. I built my current business with $1200 initially in 2009, and I've made over $100,000 in the past 2 years being the only founder and employee. You truly can build a business with no outside funding and without $XXX,XXX if you know where and where not to spend it. I've seen startups who get their first round of XXX,XXX and they think it's wise to blow $50-75k on an explanation video or $100k on adwords to try and get as many people as possible to their service as fast as possible. Truth is, these things take time to grow, and throwing large sums of money at it won't make it the next big thing overnight.

I also have another take on this -- those who want XXX,XXX in funding and say they will be killing it RIGHT NOW if they had the money don't even have what it takes to really get deep in there and grind it out -- putting in years of work and development. You can't just throw money at everything and it will become the next big thing -- Color is a prime example of that.
I'm the sole founder of http://www.fused.com -- a hosting provider based out of Toronto. Up until recently I managed 100% of my company while on persistent road trips & traveling :)

We host ~5,000+ sites at last count, and are quickly working our way towards $1mm per annum. We hit $1mm earned total as of a few months ago.

My most recent feat was the birt of my first adorable little gal, and the wife & I are extremely happy to settle down for a few years until she's at a ripe age to show the world. In the meantime we'll make sure we settle somewhere warm :)
All those critics, saying he hasn't created any jobs...
Wasn't the issue they were knowingly advertising illegal goods, which happened to be what you wrote, but the important part was illegal?
Who was that "Princeton computer graphics intern" and what did he build afterwards?
I'm puppeted down to the nanosecond. It gets better -- so are you!

Watch...

God says...
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hope meh Oy it_gets_better chill_out sixty_four_bit duck_the_shoe
sloth class__class__shutup completely bassackward dance
take_your_pick computers don't_have_a_cow I'm_busy that's_no_fun
do_over heathen handyman zoot look_on_the_brightside church
boink not_in_my_wildest_dreams not guilty service_sector
you_think_I'm_joking listen_buddy silly_human how's_the_weather
happy_happy_joy_joy happy_happy_joy_joy Ivy_league lighten_up
adultery kludge a_screw_loose atrocious employee later
Bush I_hate_when_that_happens
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It's only for Yahoo Fantasy Sports users. It does not have sports data in general. You'd have to find another stat provider like STATS Inc for something like that.
I wonder what facebook will do when a significant portion (let's say 10%) of it's user base has passed away.

Is the data of a past life still worth something to them? Will they spend the money to keep it? I bet that anthropologists and sociologists would love to get their hands on historical data.

Also, I suppose the data of a famous person might be worth a lot in 50 years, like the publishing of a president's diary.

I can see it now "See the hidden facebook messages of Lady Gaga"
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Congratulations!

I'm waiting for sendwrite 2.0 in which I can email you a photo and a message and you print a postcard with my message on the back and drop it in the mail for me.

Also, I dig the workflow of sending and email to signup. It seems to work well for tripit.com. If you commonly interact with your users through email, I don't see any reason against it.

Good luck!
A more realistic discussion takes into account the fact that a lot of software isn't anything like Windows. You don't get a single shot to release to manufacturing to press images onto media to shove into boxes to put onto store shelves.

So much of our thinking about roles and teams and efforts and project management is still in last century's approach to monolithic one-shot releases.
well, would just really simplify your front page - I get info overload looking at the top 30% of the first screen - two menu bars and an adwords advert. I would also take the adwords off when you start, just to reduce clutter and because you wont make much on adwords in the beginning anyhow.

If you're interested in stories, try to create a clear vertical work flow for your user on the homepage - my type of front page would have your slider showing some stories posted by other users along with their photo, and a "post your story" button. I would move your category list off to the side of the page.

Also, it would be better to focus on one type of category when you start, because it'll be easier to get a critical mass of stories to interest users who want to learn about that topic. Your current cat list might be spread too thin. Goodluck!
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Switching to V8 seems like a red herring. Sounds like the current issues are with the architecture, not with the interpreter performance.
Healthcare products can generally fall into two categories (1) the game-changing technology and (2) everything else.

#1 above will sell itself (think implantable glucose monitor).

#2 will sell well if it solves one of the top three problems the organization is facing.
You're right on that point, sorry I missed that.
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I wholeheartedly agree, having bootstrapped myself, but can't stress enough the importance of having the right team members on from the start. When pay is minimal and launch stress is high, one sour grape can easily spoil the bunch.
Anyone who can access the site mind posting the article for those of us stuck behind work proxies? Much obliged.
we know our govt lacks moral authority when a perfectly legitimate health care product, that just happens to be cheaper, is consider "illegal". i mean it's not like they were advertising magical horse testicles as a cure for male pattern baldness, purely on the claims of one Mr. Xaio Bo Tong, of China, who unfortunately cannot be reached for further comment at this time, etc.
Does that mean US court order got executed in UK, on UK citizen, just like that? Asking because I can't get any company information out of their site, nor from whois data to confirm if that's indeed UK company and/or individual.
Many of the slashdot comments state what is obvious. Contractor billing rates != government salaries.

Once you account for government benefits, like sick time, vacation time, health insurance and retirement, then you can make better comparisons.
That's an interesting point. I've always thought of contracts as being the mechanism by which two honest parties clarify the terms of their agreement, such that the main value was getting the details written down, and agreed on, where they might otherwise be missed.

It depends on the business, of course, but while I won't sign something I disagree with, I'd never trust that a court would have my back in a dispute. I'm more more concerned with whether the other party has integrity, and has interests aligned with mine, than specific terms of an agreement.

In large part, I think of contracts as unenforceable, though maybe this comes from working at startups so much where you sign contracts, but you know that at your current size you couldn't afford the court case to enforce the contract, if it came to that.

Mediation makes them more viable, though, since it lowers the barrier for getting a dispute heard.

I think you and I don't live in Silicon Valley for very similar reasons. Plus, I just find the high risk focus a distraction from building a scalable business.
No-one serious minds that a business complies with correctly formed legal requests. (And it's tricky for people in the UK facing the might of US law.)

What's annoying is the disconnect between saying "We help you avoid censorship" and "we comply with correctly formed law enforcement documents".
Which thankfully, does not apply to criminal charges in America. Where an intent element of "knowledgeable" must be proved, it must be proved that the specific individual knew, or should have known X. "Should have known" is a catch-some for people who willfully ignore what's going on right in front of them, but it does not encompass what a reasonable person would have suspected.

You're confusing the standards applicable to tort law (another person sues you for damages) or regulatory infractions (government sues you for money) with criminal law (government tries to send you to jail/prison).
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We are still using the 1.x branch of Sproutcore.

The widgets are really useful. Your apps will not be very different if you use them with the same theme every time but I think it's ok for a demo to show customers during the Problem Interview phase.

I agree that the state model is a bit overly complex but if you go past the learning curve it can work well. Also there are ways to kind of bypass it and use an approach more similar to what Backbone/Spine does. There is a recent blog post by the SC team that shows you you can do that with 2.0 branch: http://blog.sproutcore.com/sproutcore-2-and-ajax/
Congratulations - Posts like this are inspiring, I'll be working hard this weekend to finish my own project and launch early next week - will keep you updated.

Brilliant concept by the way!
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Are the factors that the author describes serving to concentrate innovation in large pharma and large device manufacturers?
This is intriguing.

How do you pay for it? (Do we, the users?)
Some market participants are already able to execute trades at FTL speeds.

http://www.nanex.net/Research/fantaseconds/fantaseconds.html

I'd like to use their hardware so that my parallel code can receive messages before they are sent.
its going to be fun watching this back and forth.
thanks for the ideas. they make perfect sense. i basically purchased that template from a site and plugged in my code since i'm not the best with graphics!

any ideas what other sites i can use to purchase simple templates based on what you recommended?
Yep, the problem is that SChannel is part of Windows, so that it will take a new version of Windows to support it. Hopefully they are planning to implement support in Win8.
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I believe that Google treats their "QA" people well. Of course their "QA" people are probably better developers than most developers at other companies.

(I put QA in quotes because their testing structure does not seem to be at all similar to most companies.)
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