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Given the nature of the bug that was exploited, it's pretty unlikely this could have been done by accident. It would have to be deliberate.

The bug, to be specific, is to submit a form using POST in an iframe; the POST response is then able to set cookies. In this case they did the POST in a hidden iframe with no data.
Preprocessor magic is pretty much required if you want to write multiplatform code. I work on code for Solaris, Linux, and Windows, and makes life much easier to use #defines to standardize the OS calls.
The evidence suggests that 15% of medical diagnoses are incorrect. Being 2 months away from finishing my MD, I have a sense that this is not because doctors are failing to do their job, but rather, because medical diagnosis is hard.

Most people believe that their doctor gives them a diagnosis and are 100% certain of it, but in reality medicine is a highly probabilistic domain. There's a great article about a family's story with misdiagnosis in their child (http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/07/how_f...). The diagnosis was initially strep, but it soon became evident that the diagnosis was the much more rare Kawasaki disease. Symcat is an attempt to let patients know about both (ie "This is probably strep, but you should continue to monitor because Kawasaki disease can also cause this and the only way you know is if your symptoms persist").

We would love to get more docs on board and we've been working with physicians at Hopkins to make this as useful to patients as possible.

Completely agree that this lives on the quality of the data. We would like for users to contribute their data (a la patientslikeme). We also are exploring partnerships with health care providers and data stores for getting additional data.
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But for those of us who are more than happy to enjoy meat, veganism often doesn't mean either health or ethics, it means people who go without some of the best food and often feel superior about it.

Not saying that this view of veganism is correct or fair, just that that's the immediate connection.
God I hate this on About.com. They're almost always the first result when I search for something, and every link on their page goes to another About.com page. And none of them have the information I'm searching for. I've added them (along with all of gawker media) to my hosts file.
I read the blog.

The author's biggest miss seems to be the realization that the range of computational devices and their application is growing exponentially and that Microsoft doesn't necessarily need to be in every game.

The iPhone and iPad are examples of computational expansion not necessarily a complete paradigm shift.

Besides, some of the stuff MS has shipped in the past few years (Win7, Office20##, WinPhone, etc.) seems to run pretty well. They might not be quite so bleeding edge anymore but it sure looks like a bunch of people are working hard on their products.
I remember there being a lot of discussion before subreddits where most people (myself included) wanted tagging instead of subdomains. The subreddits have obviously worked well but I think they (along with self posts and image previews) also changed reddit from a news aggregator into a glorified forum.
> Real time tele-operations are very expensive and require specialized equipment.

Because this is the current state of affairs doesn't mean it has to be this way in 2 years. That's the very definition of disruption.
I've used all the popular office suites for mobile and they're all terrible. That's the elephant in the room here, not this Apple fanatic's extremely biased take on things.

When you've got so little horsepower there's only so much you can do. I can't imagine being able to provide feature parity and a usable interface for end users on a mobile device, not until these things get a lot more powerful. I constantly see end users struggling with these features which they need to do their jobs. I'm not sure if giving them a watered down experience is the big benefit this author things it is. They'll go crazy when they are told that track changes isn't supported or VB script or god knows what else.

I'm not sure if this is MS arrogance or an admission that an office replacement on your tiny phone isn't possible yet and/or end users aren't willing to deal with software with 1/100th the features. Didn't apple just do this with the newest version of Final Cut? Everyone thinks complex software is the problem, but when we take away the features "no one uses or understands" suddenly the silent majority comes out the woodwork.

The take away for the cult of apple types is that the silent majority is out there and dwarfs the walled garden/patent litigious world of Apple. Just because your sleepy intro to anthropology course at that local state u can mostly be taken with mobile tools doesn't mean everything can be. Life's different in the busienss world or when you need to get shit done with minimal fuss and don't care whether the hipster contigent is standing in line outside of the Apple store again for yet another disposable toy that does you absolutely no good.

I know its very satifsying to think you'er part of some revolution and laugh at the old guard, but I'm not seeing it. I'm seeing niche devices for residential/entertainment needs and the big "everything that is not mobile will die by 2011 at the latest" never materialized. This author is one of these guys, an Apple rapturist, and the rapture is always right around the corner.

Really HN? This is rated at the top of the site? A disposable "har har MS" essay by an extremely biased source. Frankly, we can do better.
This advice is right on the money. I've spent decades developing at a number of startups (including playing the founder at some), but I have preferred to keep a low profile. As a result I believe it has limited my opportunities.

That changed for me six months ago. I started a blog and have been speaking at conferences. All of the sudden I'm a hot commodity. Its a tough time to be introverted with your career.
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The author claims MS failed to "take seriously" the iPad, but that's simply not true. He must be confusing them with Blackberry (RIMshot!). MS created Office 365, a completely web-based build of Office that is surprisingly standards-compliant and cross-platform. Furthermore they are planning to release a native build of Office for the iPad in 2012. I'm not sure how much more you can ask from them, especially considering (as others have noted) that these devices are designed for consuming content, not creating it.

I work with people who use Excel 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. There is no competitor to that product. Google Docs doesn't even scratch the surface. And, as much as I hate Word and think it's a poor authoring tool as well as a poor document layout tool, most people want one app that is a mix of both. For them, there is no competitor to Word.

Welcome to the real world!
was all this automated or he do it by hand?
Idle thought: doesn't this patent cover the functionality Apple added in iOS 5 to be able to open the camera or play/pause music when the phone is locked?
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I didn't take that they had a bad reputation; quite the reverse, that people have left their relatively prestigious job there which would look great on a CV, and now that's going to be slightly tarnished by an apparent failure at Groupon.
Given all the scenarios, HipChat chose the right option and will hopefully capitalize on some buzz. Very classy response guys.
In an office setting (I'm not saying enterprise, as that would be asking too much), you make use of a word processor, a spreadsheet, maybe an email client, maybe a presentation thing.

iWork does okay in this sort of setting. In enterprise there is zero competition for MS Office though. The main hangups are Excel and Outlook (not email, but large group collaboration). Document writing (Word) and presentations (Powerpoint) have mostly been figured out and passed by in some cases.
Can anyone guess how much percentage of spreadsheets, documents etc. are actually created on smartphones and tablets versus PCs and Macs? I would put that in the low single digits.

How long does it take and how much does it cost them make a version of Office? Maybe they already have it in progress. They have been recently releasing apps for iOS and Android.

Interesting, people have been predicting the end of MS anytime soon since more than a decade on Slashdot. Meanwhile, they keep getting record profits. This is nothing but feel good linkbait for the Apple fans to lap up.

Meanwhile, the face that they released OneNote for Android and iOS is totally lost in the brouhaha.

After all, this is a site where Gruber and Sieger get top billing but Paul Thurrotts Winsupersite is shadowbanned totally from even appearing on the site, probably due to sensitive fans' excessive flagging.

If the tables were turned, we would be hearing endlessly about how Microsoft takes 75% of the web server profits, even if Apache and nginx are ahead in marketshare.
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DHH - if you guys keep working so hard on your custom platform one day you just might be able to reproduce the client-side JSON+JavaScript stack!

Keep up the hard work!
He is apparently the founder of the startup.
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I can't use Google Docs without thinking how much worse it is than Word 2003 was.
Somewhat wrong, there exists right a segment of folks whose only computer is either a smartphone or tablet.

By 2015 that will be bigger than the total world-wide amount of PCs..its a market MS needs to be in PERIOD!

Biggest miss would be having SB as CEO..
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Google Office suite will not be replacing Microsoft Office in the business world for a long time, until Google figures out how to make GOffice properly format and consistently display their documents. I write a lot of sheet music and guitar tablature in GDocs (so I can get to it on a tablet when I get the call that a friend's guitarist didn't show up), and it seems every few months there is an update that breaks the formatting completely.

Granted, writing music in GDocs isn't a common use case, but advanced formatting is the way of business. If Google can't get it right, they can't get business right.
We'd love to incorporate a DXPlain or QMR as a starting point, but the true value of this is in learning from additional use/data.
Actually, it's a complete paradigm shift.

http://gigaom.com/mobile/uh-oh-pc-half-of-computing-device-s...
> Instead I keep reading reports of companies replacing large numbers of laptops with iPads. Are those reports wrong?

Care to link to some of these reports? I am curious to see if desktop/laptops are being replaced and if there are companies employees in the office with a tablet as their only work device.

What I find is that companies are buying tablets as additional devices to augment, not replace desktops and laptops. Thus I am very curious about the reports you have apparently been seeing.

Side question: Does anyone on HN know anyone in their company or friends circle whose sole work device is a tablet(traveling salesmen etc. are excluded) ?

>The iPad seems quite capable of handling moderate document creation. Add a BT keyboard and it becomes very similar to a low end laptop.

And you can make an octopus by nailing more legs to a dog. Doesn't make it a very good octopus though.
You can buy a used Bobcat or 3/4-ton pickup for that much!
> If you make this parameter have a default, it would be easy to use this function (or read code that uses it) without even realizing that the function can operate in more than one "mode."

So? I don't understand what the problem is. The very act of packaging code in a function is one that hides information about what that function does. And suppose you don't provide a default for the `strict` argument. Unless you're using a language with named function arguments (or an approximation thereof like Objective-C), you won't know that the `false` you see in the argument list means "don't use strict" anyway until you read the documentation. And once you're reading the documentation, this all becomes moot.

> There is no indication at the call site what mode it is operating in, and indeed if the default value is flipped in the header file the caller could change behavior with no code change at the call site!

Yeah, and if you reorder your function parameters, or rename your function, or change the "strict" argument to "lax", or an infinite number of other changes, you would also change behavior with no change at the call site. The solution in each case is "don't do that".

Again, the act of packaging code in a function is one that makes it so that changes in behavior can happen independent of the call site. Sometimes it works to your advantage. Sometimes it doesn't. That's just life.
That or they have Office:mac like they do over here. :)
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This should be targeted toward two groups: doctors (site) and EHR vendors (API). I also think you should get some expertise involved sooner rather than later. Do a serious search and find some docs, including all the major specialties, that are both good at their jobs and sympathetic to your goals. No armchair MD's, use clinicians.

I have a side gig helping docs transition to EHRs. I started by helping an immunologist family member back in 2003. She's on her second EHR now. So far, her transitions have been the first and second most difficult of the bunch.

Right now it looks like SymCAT has the same problem as every EHR I've seen: the immunology side of allergy/immunology must be considered explicitly in your design, or the system will never work well. In immunology, you get weird sets of symptoms, you get multiple problems presenting, you get unusual systemic interactions and feedback loops.

For example, I just cruised through a few of the signs a less articulate person (not a medical pro) with common variable immunodeficiency might mention, along with a history of asthma. When I also include my "itchy scalp" (because you offered it in the "related" section) a bunch of potential diagnoses are excluded. None of them were correct, but a few were on the right track.

You're asking people to come up with their own symptoms and have a clue about which terminology will work. In practice, a big portion of the difference between a good doc and a mediocre/bad doc is the ability to construct a usable history from poor reporting. Via interview. Patients often do not have the tools to make connections (or ignore them) between symptoms.

That said, good luck. It's a great problem. If you get this right, it will be huge. Again, I'd encourage a public side for marketing and a different kind of input, but put your money on licensing.
Intel hasn't improved performance of Atom all that much in the past 4 years. They've been mostly working on lowering TDP, while in the same time ARM tried to maintain their very low TDP, while increasing performance.

Either way, these are still underclocked Cortex A9 CPU's. By the time Intel Atom hits the market in a phone or tablet, it will compete with same clock dual core or quad core Cortex A9, dual core Krait chips, and possibly even dual core Cortex A15 chips by summer.

There's no way Intel will remain competitive - not even in performance, let alone power consumption and price.
Label it as high risk loan certificates and smuggle it out in a briefcase.
Not with Rails, afaik. Assuming the routes are consistent, you simply add a 'respond' for JSON and send the relevant chunk of the model. Easy as pie.
I work with people who use Excel 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. There is no competitor to that product. Google Docs doesn't even scratch the surface.

In your experience, what are the most important things that Excel does that no one else does (or does well)?
Then, she explained, the iPhone came. There was no Office. People got things done. Then the iPad came. There was no Office. People got things done. Android came. People got things done. All of those things that they, just a couple of years ago, were convinced they needed Office to do. They got them done without it. And thus, the truth was revealed.

Bollocks. Completely. Comparing people "getting things done" in Office to "getting things done" on their iPhone is ridiculous and I now refuse to further hear any opinion the author has.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/16/apple-os-x-mountain-lion-...

"Right now, at least, the company's not ready to close the book on chapter X"

and

"This may not be the jump to OS 11 we were expecting after Lion"
The author is wrong. This is not an issued patent, but rather the 18 month publication of an application submitted by Google. There is nothing significant about this.
> Find me an office suite that does (2) that interops basically seamlessly across other businesses and old versions of my own business.

Microsoft Office basically doesn't satisfy this requirement itself.

I get frustrated with LibreOffice not importing files correctly, but then when I went to an Office 2007 to attempt to import an Office 2003 file, I found it was also failing to import correctly there.

The .doc format is such garbage that they can't even manage to import it correctly in their own software reliably.
Ahh memories. I remember ansi.sys was susceptible to ansi bombs. Keyboard remaps, dedicated print, etc.
Here's the thing, though.

Tablets won't replace the desktop/laptop. Augment, sure, but they aren't going to kill them off, especially in the workplace. They're different devices with different functions--it's like saying that the microwave will kill off the oven.

Google Docs is great for consumption, sure, but for creation it's so-so (especially compared with better, dedicated tools), and there's no guarantee it won't be sunsetted when it ceases to help funnel meat into Google's advertising maw.
>"To my clients, Microsoft Office was a “must have” no matter how much I tried to convince them otherwise. And I tried very hard for a while before even I just finally gave up. If a client told me they had to have it I just nodded along and told them what to get and where. They were as sure as the sun rises that, without Office, they would not be able to work, open attachments, write letters, anything. They had to have it."

The author's wife convinced him, not all those clients...given the different considerations entailed, I would say that the easier of the two is done.
Cannot be emphasized enough. They can get you for copying code but not for reimplementing functionality if you understood how it was implemented.
If it's not illegal, and you're on their private property, then I think there's nothing a lawsuit can do. Get the laws changed.
Is that supposed to be a slam? I've been working on "custom" platforms for the better part of a decade.
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> do not show me posts whose headlines contain the strings "X", "Y" or "Z"

The problem with that is these days there's so many "clickbait" headlines, some of which offer absolutely no insight into the content itself.

Without policing each and every submission to ensure the headlines accurately define the linked article - it would be difficult to guarantee any kind of success with basic headline filters.
> Find me an office suite that does (2) that interops basically seamlessly across other businesses and old versions of my own business.

This is the key point here: there are many other office suites out there, but no other will provide a) as much compatibility with MS Office (anybody who had to ever receive any kind of important document as a .doc or .docx, and had it inevitably not open correctly in anything but Word, will agree) and b) as much familiarity with the UI than MS Office.

I'd like to say that Office is around because everyone is too used to it, but Microsoft has, indeed, taken many right steps to make it even better (I do think the ribbon was a step in the right direction, but that's subjective), except maybe not making the Mac version look anything like its Windows counterpart.

Either way, MS has pretty well cemented its position in "work" software. IMO, there's still no good office suite on any of the mobile OS's, so I don't see how MS had missed the boat there yet. If anything, it's one area where Windows 8 could succeed: the first tablet OS which actually lets you get some work done. Time will tell.
Neat idea.

Nevertheless, I believe that a good news source, like a good community, sometimes gives you things that you might not like--things that challenge the filters we already have.

It's what flipping though a regular newspaper does, what hacker news does, what listening to a good broadcast does. The key is if you know the content is going to be so good that you're willing to take that risk despite your hesitation.

Hacker News is a bit like a firehose, but that's why I read it. The people on this site are informed, opinionated and pretty damn smart. It reminds every time I get on how little I actually know.

To be honest, a small part of me feel uncomfortable with that but that's why I read it--it's news I need to know.
Yeah, I agree.. well I have also gotten some emails (from seemingly similar types of "recruiters") who do some sketchy things such as asking me to fill out a form with SS#, etc, obviously these go right to my spam box.
No, I think he was right - "build platform specific and complementary versions of Office for every device that popped up." People moving to iPads would likely just install Office since it's what they know and less work learning something new.
Don't really get the wife's big miss - "allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not needed to get real work done." How is that a miss? They missed stopping people from realizing they don't need Office? Not sure how that would be done.
I work in the legal field and they will never, ever use Google Docs for anything. You do not put important documents on another company's computers and you especially don't do that if they are in the U.S. (They ban dropbox for the same reason).
Defaults do indeed matter. I'd say the default they've picked is the right one for anyone who thinks computers are magic.
I'm sorry if it is abusive. That was not my intention. It is not unusual for founders to post to HN.
Glad to hear it rings true for you as well. I'm not speaking at conferences yet, but my experiences have been overwhelmingly positive.
Forget Fabrice Tourre, how about John Corzine? The government isn't even going to use the law _that he created_ to go after him for stealing client money.
I wouldn't say that iStuff fills in your "missing productivity suite", more that for most people the productivity suite wasn't needed to begin with. The browsers text box goes a lot farther than people give it credit for (meta using it right now). Even within corporations once wiki's are introduced (a decade old at this point?) it feels like nearly all of the reason for "docs" to exists disappear overnight. And email is replaceable with hundreds of other solutions. After you remove those two from MS Office what is left isn't a list of applications that everyone uses all of the time. This isn't a case of early adopters either. I rarely use MS office apps and that usage pattern started more than a decade ago.
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