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I entered "lump on testicle".

I was surprised at the results. I was disappointed that there wasn't some gentle friendly persuasive advice about going to see a real doctor quickly. Yes, I know there's a disclaimer on the front page, but I feel this is a missed opportunity.

You're going to tap into that hard to reach market of people who might have a serious problem but who are reluctant to see someone. You have a great opportunity to educate them; to let them know that there's probably nothing to worry about but that early intervention is crucial; and that this is what happens at these types of examinations.

But: It's a really cool tool, and I look forward to seeing how it develops!
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Of course it's not a serious problem that a group of people are being paid less if you're in the group that's being paid more than them.

Maybe it's easier to understand the issue if you replace women with another group of people. Imagine if black people, jewish people or LGBT as a group were paid 90% of their counterparts. Does that make it easier to grasp why this is a serious problem.

Lets make it even easier. Would you still feel that it's not a serious problem if white men as a group were discriminated against, were getting less promotions and were paid less than their colleges.

Coding and programming is not a vacuum that exists outside of society.
Still he could be done on theft of trade secrets & breach of contract and Teza could see what GS had tried what wored what didnt which is worth a lot.
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pretty neat -- way to step up 'team behind lazyweb-request#53'

tested it out with whatever I had handy: Mother Effing Mountain Lion http://i.imgur.com/oRFRA.gif
That's because we started the site before Bootstrap was released, but as we iterated, we ported much of the site over.

And you're spot-on about Gemfury's purpose
Here's a tip from agile development:

Give your tasks estimates (1, 2, 3,...). They wouldn't directly represent time spent, but relative complexity of the task.

You'll be able to see how many points you've finished in a day and your average velocity per day. You'll be able to plan your day, and resist working on something that won't give you points.
Here is the relevant thread
http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25724
We started working on this during our ER rotation and were surprised how many people were showing up concerned about things that were ultimately minor complaints (eg cough, sore throat). Many of them had no primary care doctor or just didn't know there were alternatives to the ER. Very little info on the Internet helps these people so we're trying to fill that gap.
To keep me from advocating an unpopular, but entirely rational, position – all while other people freely misrepresent the First Amendment in response to my comments.
The community is very important. But there's something to be said for the ability to filter properly - there was a blog post on HN recently discussing how aggregate sites end up with the lowest common denominator. What ends up on the first page is only a small % of the submissions that are actually interesting. I probably miss half of the stories that I would like just because they fall off before I even see them.

The question is, how do you figure out what's interesting to who? Joel is attempting to answer this for himself. A site that could answer it for everyone while still somehow maintaining social bonds would do very well I think.
This got me thinking on the topic of custom UI elements. The problem with those elements is that the programmer ends up rewriting the component, hoping that every little detail matches.
I'm not sure about JS, but in some other languages you can make a new element inherit from the UI element class, and then modify its graphics - which effectively solves this problem. With all its flaws, if I recall correctly Flash let you do this - is there a way to do the same thing with JS?
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The downside being a "drive-by" comment, user posting, legitimate download (and one that later turns out to have some subtly questionable copyright parentage) or other detail that triggers a take-down your primary domain.

This matter is a mess all the way 'round.
This is just name dropping. Warren Buffet's "opinion" was not opposing Thiel or specific
I like the content well enough but grey text on black? Rather difficult to read.
Since you've asked, Steko, I'll continue as if you're actually interested in exploring this topic with me. I promise I was trying to contribute to my argument and not change the subject. Please calm your fury.

First, what is this open market for iOS apps you mentioned? I haven't heard of it.

Of course Apple locks down the app store on their iDevices for profit. I think we're in agreement on that. If they didn't limit software delivery in that way, their app store would have to compete with other software delivery channels including the open web.

What I'm trying to express is my surprise that developers in the desktop world would opt in to a market like this. I had assumed that iDevice developers only used the app store because they had no choice.
Ask HN: How can I make $50k per year working full-time from my laptop?
I'm heading into a transition period and I'd like to try and get into a digital nomad work situation.

- I can't program but I can code html/css and manipulate php (working with wordpress themes, etc...)

- My entire work background is in accounting/finance

- I have about four months left at my current job but I can get started on a project working nights and weekends.

Any ideas? Any suggestions for remote work web apps or tools?
That is what I imagined in the first place. How cool it would be to have your garden or diy proyect being taken care by small autonomous machines like that. No danger of being smashed if something goes wrong, cheaper parts, if one has a mechanical problems not everything is stoped, just a fraction of the work force...
Last year I was attacked by three policemen at a demonstration who thought I was filming them. I told them I was listening to colours, but they thought I was mocking them and tried to pull the camera off my head.

For some reason, this strikes me as particularly awful. Not that police don't want to be filmed, that's predictably repugnant for its own clear reasons. Its that they had no problem ripping a prosthesis off someone before even bothering to try to understand it because it looked different. What's next, wrestling old folk to the ground and ripping out their hearing aids because they might be recording devices? Will there be an unwritten "normalcy code" that disabled people will have to follow to avoid assault?
Of course I say why-combinator. He was talking about interpretation of names beginning with `Y`, rather than pronunciation.
This is what I was wondering as well. Is there a way to deploy DNSCrypt into our own servers (Bind9, tinydns, MS DNS, etc). Any information would be welcomed if somebody knows.
How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
"Why ratpoison on this day and age?"

There's no expiry date on a productive workflow.

Why not ratpoison?
Not to mention iTunes, the move to DRM-free, Spotify, etc, etc.
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it's man logic to promote denigrating terms against men in an effort to better the plight of women.
UM research paper, covertly tracking cell phone locations w/ only a cheap phone.
Meaningless question without an idea of how many of the top 100,000 sites are adult sites.
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"The issue is over how he should be punished."

Eh, no, that's not what the issue is about. The article states explicitly that no reason for the reversal was given (yet), but it seems to be about the extent of 'interstate commerce'. I.e., a purely technical legal point, having nothing to do with the material matters in the case.
If you read his blog, I don't know how you could possibly classify Gruber as someone who does "reporting". It's quite clear that he is not your traditional reporter nor does he ever claim to be one. His pieces are personal opinion pieces with a personal voice. Whether his opinions jibe with Apple or with the anti-Apple crowd is besides the point. What matters is that his voice is authentic and provides unique insight into the world of Apple (not always but often enough) - which is more than what you could say for many other blogs covering Apple or any other technology company.
I'm curious if for blind people the back stimulation system for seeing things would start to produce visuals in a way similar to normal sight. Similar to the possiblity that ultrasound used by bats might allow them to "see."

Also, I really want to get one of those compass-belts. It seems like an incredible experiencee. I wonder how it feels to not have it on though. Losing a sense mustn't be the nicest experience.
While I am not entirely surprised, this still makes me so happy to see, and makes me even more positive about a more efficient future of computing through the ARM core and its ISA. That Atom chip was even clocked 33% higher, and if my memory serves me right the Atom Diamondville also has a higher IPC than the current ARMv7.
Because nginx is really good at streaming, on a huge number of connections, simultaneously.
Yeah, we have about 1000 symptoms, but that is an example of one we haven't incorporated yet. We'll add it, thanks for your help!

That's exactly where we're going. We want to direct patients to the right doctor/level of care and are incorporating triage guidelines towards that end.

Thanks!
And it can be running 24/7 while you're sleeping/playing skyrim/etc./etc. which would be indescribably awesome :)
Agreed. The data is likely to be skewed when the majority of the internet is porn.
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Sexists/racists/homophobes are typically perfectly nice people; they just don't notice they're doing anything wrong.

Like the guy who calls everything "gay" when he finds something insufficiently male or good. And the last time I invited a female into my workplace, my male coworkers thought it was perfectly normal and funny to put down women's achievements. (And by mainstream standards, I guess it was.) She was fuming afterwards.

To be not-quite-so-sexist takes active work, because we are embedded in a sexist society. Being sexist is the neutral default. I think I'm sexist. Maybe every man I've met is.
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Punitive damages maybe, plus maybe contractual obligations on damages in case of breach. If they didn't use it, and if a civil case was purely based on damage caused (two big ifs), I don't think there would be much of a (civil) case, no, because there needs to be causality between the breach and the damages, which then there wouldn't be.
Did we read the same article? I didn't see this as an attack on jQuery at all. Furthermore, he didn't even blame any tools! He blamed the platform because as usual, the web platform itself is indeed the problem.

"...developers coming from the backend who don't take web development seriously."

That's because client side web development is a joke. It's a really bad one too compared to a nice native kit. The people who come up with all the silly ways of turning a fracking Hyper-TEXT system into an applications platform should be shot. I'm kidding about shooting anyone, but honestly - it's horrible how many hoops you have to jump through. HTML is the worst thing that's ever happened to software development. The Internet is TCP/IP, it's not HTML and personally, I want for something better every day and I know you do to because all you web developers are always, always, always complaining about something.

"self-righteousness attack on a very important tool is very misleading and ungrateful"

Once again, self-righteous? Sorry, I just don't see it. He wasn't even blaming the jQuery guys for one single thing. This kind of problem could happen with any large Javascript library that runs in the browser.

The proposed solution is not insane if you don't want to make your server framework do more work. There's absolutely nothing wrong with making code run in the browser so that you don't have to do something on the server. You need to get off your high horse buddy.
Don't be ridiculous. Mad Men, Justified, Breaking Bad, 30 Rock, Community, Boardwalk Empire, Treme, etc. etc. there's tons of really good stuff on TV these days.
Who doesn't store files in "the cloud" nowadays? You could as well call this "Gmail for Hackers"... it would make as much sense as your "Dropbox" analogy.

Why don't you call it by name (i.e. "hosted RubyGems server") instead of confusing people and trying to piggyback on the "Dropbox" brand? Or do you think that your product isn't good enough?
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I wish they used some sort of evidence to support the claim.

Even if the evidence was: "here's how I know I got more done on days without to-do lists," that would be more convincing than "to-do lists don't work, because I say they don't."
I keep todo lists of various sorts. But recently, I added what it effectively a done list. I bought a spiral-bound monthly planner and a pack of colored felt-tip pens. At the bottom of each month's page, I create a legend for the different categories of tasks (e.g. different projects, personal goals), and each time I complete a Pomodoro (25 minute block) in a category, I fill in a corresponding circle for that day. I also summarize the achievements of the day in writing.

It's surprisingly motivating to look down and see all the progress that's been made.
Can we please please stop being hypersensitive about "sexist language", which pronoun to use, etc and leave this to English majors. The words "boy" and "girl" are usually used for endearment, as they are here. Many female hacker
groups have the word "girl"are in their title. Of course these terms terms have been used in a deragotary sense until recently, e.g. watch any episode of Mad Men. That doesn't mean that they should ne banned.
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The Battelle link is a horrible explanation. His position is that user tracking for ads is a normal function of the web people want and therefore it is Apple's fault for blocking it by default. Unreal.
Is there anyway to turn that off? To turn it back to just scaling the text rather than the whole document?

Why is zooming the whole document the preferred method? It feels sub-optimal to me, but maybe I'm missing something.
"easy" for one person might be another's nightmare. Remember Tyson's knockouts? A few million dollars for less than a minute in the ring!!! Sounds so easy and lucrative, doesn't it?
However, I'm all ears for biz models that are repeatable and "easy" in today's environment.
At least journalists have (mostly) stopped using him to get the "open source" view on patents, just because he's got "FOSS" in his blog's name.
It depends on context, but when we are talking about the competence of people to do a professional's job, then yes, girl might suggest that any competence they have is precocity, they are not mature and well-rounded, and they are not generally what you want the pay grade above where they are.

And girl/boy are not quite analogous. "Boy" can be used in a belittling way, but it more often used in phrases like "one of the boys" to mean easy-going and fun: a positive statement about someone's ability to work in groups.

It's not an easy point: there's a few women I know who think that not using "girl" means that you think they are too old to be attractive. I think that often holds in both the US and the UK; it used to be true here in Germany, but I think calling a woman "Maedchen" in her workplace today is positively offensive.

I advise you not to call female colleagues girls in the office, and be sensitive outside the office. It's a good topic to raise in conversation.
This is also why cabals are so destructive. They cause homogeneity on what would normally be a diverse set of topics. I wonder if you could train your classifier to reject topics that are similar or are being promoted by the same set of people?
In defense of sloppily composed news websites: they're not run like normal sites. Despite the obvious benefit of optimizing and cleaning up the site markup, it's quite normal and it's even encouraged to sacrifice optimization -- so that something would just work.

Two main differences from normal sites are:

(1) The sheer size of moving parts: number of hands that have a say in the site's daily operation

Before anyone says "duh, well, get a handle on your site" you have to understand that news world is chaotic for the right reason: content flexibility and innovation. You can't put hundreds of ongoing creative and newsworthy projects on small development teams. That kind of open exploration belongs in hands of editors who specialize in their particular beats and are willing to pursue newsworthy projects (vendor or agency partnership, special reports, etc.)

These people only understand rudimentary HTML but they have access to be dangerous.

That's a good thing.

More people that do this sort of thing is good for any news agency: it gives us a collective chance for any random project to be naturally selected by audience for success. Problem is how to corral various implementations, bandaids, and so forth to where it all works flawlessly.

However, cutting off editors from being able to write markup is not the solution - and post-optimization regression testing is impossible due to sheer volume of content and creative projects. As long as something works within acceptable limits, it's fine.

(2) Politics of how technology intersects with editorial and operations.

There are invisible lines of power that outsiders don't see with news. Bureaucracy alone is tough to navigate, but, compartmentalization of editorial, technology, operations teams contributes to the problem. Most news agencies have been transformed over the decades (in some cases, centuries) and are pretty set in their ways.

Explosion of internet technology has dramatically sped up this transformation process and it'll take some time to iron out. Good news? Rise of devops in the news biz is happening.

Though I'm a fairly adept developer working for a news agency, I cannot update or fix our favicon file or optimize JS on the main page: for one, template control belongs to a different department that will prioritize their projects differently than I. Communication overhead is too large for small matters. In their defense, their lean team is supporting 50 languages, 1000-persons worth of editors and producers at this point.

Secondly, even if something is simple to fix and done for the right reasons, navigating this field of artificial obstructions just to reduce page weight or load time doesn't justify me taking time off from working on my latest editorial project: there is a fast approaching relevance deadline on it.
Cleaning viruses off computers for a flat rate. People will pay any amount of money to have their computer cleaned and you will seem like a god.
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> or just getting lucky.

Not sure about "lucky", but death of a parent landed me with tens of thousands of £.
quite an expensive hobby

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the dump truck is 5000$
I think it needs a lot of work. The interface is nice but it's missing a lot of symptoms and rules. I think it is repeating expert system work that has probably already been done.

In it's final result it should make a mention of urgency in seeking healthcare and what to do in the meantime.
When folks link to a regurgitated version of an original piece of journalism, they are rewarding someone for doing a lazy copy/paste job rather than the person who took weeks (if not more) to produce original information. The Forbes article doesn't even add much insight to the discussion and takes such a substantial portion of the article that it removes a great deal of the incentive to click through.
wow! how did you get people to find you then? You wouldn't have been the only one.
I'm very confused... why aren't the scripts in the footer? Because of inline javascript? What problem is this solving? What does this have to do with jQuery in particular? I'm very confused...
Netflix: Most mainstream Hollywood content is still only available on disk.

As I understand it (perhaps incorrectly), Hulu is busy trying to sell itself before the studios / content owners cut its legs out from under it.
I am sorry you had such bad experience at work :( Let's both hope situations improve as time moves on :)
While I understand that a highly customized vim could reduce the number of keystrokes, I think it also makes some tasks more difficult. If using several different computers you must make sure all your cusomizations are copied to the relevant vim installations. Otherwise, your optimized solutions might end up being counterproductive when you use an installation that doesn't have all your newest customizations. Also not that everything in vimrc should work in all the operating systems you are using, including Windows.

Another issue to note is that there is a solution to many of these things hidden somewhere inside vims huge and flexible command set. You just have to learn it:-) Every time I look in to a vim tutorial, I learn something new that can save a lot of keystrokes.
I'm afraid I'm not sure what your point is (is it objecting to the word "misogyny"?)--could you elaborate?
Absolutely. Well, as a male, if someone calls me a boy I consider it belittling. I'm pushing 30 now, so it doesn't bother me so much, but when I was in my early 20's it definitely seemed like code for "inexperienced idiot".
Big numbers are always astounding, but this isn't really about Macs or Apple so much as it's about price points. Lower price, more sales. No need to fetishize the numbers.
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The disagreement, from what I can tell in this brief summary with no opinion out yet, doesn't seem to be over the "interstate" part so much as the "product" part. The federal government's Constitutional commerce-clause power almost certainly includes the ability to regulate platforms like this Goldman platform, since it's heavily tied up in interstate (and international) commerce. But the wording of this particular criminal law, the Economic Espionage Act, arguably applies only to "products" sold in interstate commerce, not internal software that isn't for sale anywhere, even if used internally for purposes closely tied up with interstate commerce. At least, that's what his lawyers appear to have successfully argued.
Ok, fixed that. The results still need some work, but it should be much better than what you were getting before.
I agree, but there still is a qualitative difference between an active an a passive activity.
As I recall, Steve Jobs basically rammed DRM-free down the studios' throats, after he / iTunes had developed the clout to do so, and also somewhat in the face of mounting pressure from iTunes customers -- including needing to compete with DRM-free P2P downloads.
This will make a great class action suit against Target. After all, when did you give them permission to start tracking your purchases when you use a credit card? We worry about online privacy at Google or other companies this is worse. It is not as if you are using one of those cards at the grocery store where you agree to allow them to track your buying habits.