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Show HN: (Re)Search the medical research with Medrill
Medrill ( http://www.medrill.com ) is a medical search engine that indexes and ranks medical research paper abstracts based on a subtle blend of known metrics (citations count, journal and authors impact factor..)

This is still work in progress (like any search engine...), I plan to integrate medical ontologies to get better results, and I'll also integrate soon some specific filters aimed at physicians (like systematic review, clinical papers).

The stack is quite simple: Java, DropWizard, PostgreSQL, Lucene

Next step is the harder: get physicians/specialists use the search engine.

Any comment/suggestion is welcome.
Thank you. I'll definitely consider all of this feedback for sure.

You are right, people really do like to make decisions about this stuff. I'll see what I can do.

But do I like Future Bold in caps. Just love it :) The underdog font as Aaron Draplin would say.
Very nice - although I'm not too sure what it's trying to communicate to me.

Btw, did you have to pay for your stats?
I would look at board games for a reference. I think almost every board game is essentially a turn-based strategy game, but there are some that involve a turn in which everyone moves at the same time.

One that comes to mind is Diplomacy. TBH I think Diplomacy is a great game, but it actually takes way longer than a normal board game (probably because everyone spends a long time negotiating during every turn to optimize each move) and usually ends with some group of winners rather than playing the game out.

I think designing a strong game of this type is extremely hard.
I'd like to see how more traditional websites (i.e., not web apps but more like company web sites) are being/could be transformed by meteor. I'd like an excuse to work with it at my company (a creative agency) but we don't build web apps and it seems like meteor.js would be overkill for such a thing (also, what is the state of CMS' built with meteor?)
Palm: I'm ready to wallow now (Palm PDA retrospective)
No, it depends on who you can blame (and sue) if someone steals your car.
Jailbait (because FBI visits, also banned on reddit), ponies (because it's in /mlp/ to allow space for other stuff in /b/), javascript viruses (because they're viruses), and doxxing (also banned on reddit)?
It is a huge amount of CPU and memory and wasted resources to correct a problem sometimes and only for some edge cases.
Nope, but it's available in plain text if you root the phone. That's why we only suggest you share with people you trust.

There are a bunch of stuff we could do to prevent even that.
I'm surprised that it can't be self-hosted, since the product is explicitly directed at enterprise. Any company with a large or important codebase is likely to want completely secure control over their VCS. Anecdotally, at least, external hosting would never fly at my company.
I don't understand the problem here, it signifies a subculture. Maybe the issue is that it's not a good advertising vehicle?
When have you stopped that and what happened to the existing customers? Did you ever announce that? I have noticed that FogBugz is now in very fine print in the version for your own servers, so it looks like you want to kill that off, soon. How long do I have until I have to find something else for bugs? I'm very concerned about this!
It seems like that mentality would make building a community of any kind difficult, as programming communities (companies, shared libraries, etc) are all about being able to read and improve one another's code.
Thanks Scott. To be honest, I really debated that. I have a blog post or two on this topic specifically. I've gotten a lot of advice from smart people that goes both ways on this. I personally like a guest user experience and no sign up. But from a lot of a/b testing with previous products, I've seen requiring registers to have a great effect on being able to increase signups, but more importantly create valuable conversations. Namely to discuss problems and feedback, which helps me make something much more valuable for people.
We'd love to build an API. It's on a long list of things we want to build. The Automatic Link supports OTA updates (through the phone). So, our users can expect improvements. In fact, we think of ourselves as a software company. We built a hardware device because that was the only way we could achieve the user experience we wanted to deliver.
Anyone who hasn't looked at HipChat yet I encourage you to give them a try. Great product. Way way better than Skype for group chat.
I'm curious about the psychedelics, can you share more? What drugs? How often?
We used Teespring recently for a campaign for Roll20 t-shirts, sold around 200, and we've already gotten tweets coming in from people who have gotten their shirt and love it! So if, like us, you'd rather keep focusing on your product/customers rather than filling t-shirt orders, give Teespring a shot.
What's your workflow like? Is there a reason the browser/OS spellcheck won't do?
I totally understand. One thing to watch out for though is "premature optimization" as I've heard it called here on HN.

It may very well be that you need that order of magnitude, but if you don't then you might be missing out something you might have really enjoyed otherwise.
From what I've seen of the design and know of the CMS I would say this can be done without minimal changes on the backend (though you never know - simple things can have complex repercussions....

The big change is that the embedded Video is traditionally off to the left-side of the page. In this redesign the question is how to determine where within the text they're spread out.

Compare the design to the original article to see what I mean.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/marketing/prototypeSignUp/media...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/magazine/hollywoods-year-o...

The big question in my mind is where the ads will go?
No, I'm pretty sure that I'd fall into one to the exclusion of all else if I did. So I forgot about them. They are pretty much the only genre that actually offers female options on a regular, equal basis.

I was mostly thinking about solo experiences. Which are... well, how many solo games can YOU think of that only offer a male character versus ones that only offer a female character or offer a selection to choose from? And how many that offer a selection have a lot more guys than gals?
And yet, at the bottom of this very page, "Why not email me and we’ll find a time to talk? I promise it’ll be worth it."

How can you personally promise that when it is a fixed message that everyone sees?
Good, but to be fair to every other Mike Ashes, they aren't bad either. I just never know of them :)

Thank you for the time and effort put into NSBlog. It's awesome. Had no idea you write for Android now. Will there ever be an NSBlog equivalent for Android?
I think your critique is using a major false equivalence. I don't see any suggestion in the article that keeping someone from working from home is on par with forcing them to take Adderall. Instead, both were being held up as examples when discussing the question of what changes employers ask you to make in your life to create productivity. I agree that the Adderall example was hyperbolic and the article would probably be stronger without it, but I don't think any moral equivalence was being asserted.

As to your last point, you don't get paid to be productive (necessarily). You're paid to provide work, and different jobs have different metrics for that. There are for instance substantial differences between salary, hourly wage, and commission work - someone being paid a flat fee for a project has no obligation to be efficient or productive, only to fulfill their stated terms. Diminishing efficiency in favor of happiness is a perfectly reasonable aim, particularly in certain jobs.
Alright. The product seems pretty good, especially the marketing and the spin. But I would have to place it in the category of "cool gadgets that you don't really need". For $20-30, this might be a cool thing to try. But I am not going to shell out $70 for a little tool that will tell me how efficient I am or where I parked my car. People have been parking cars without GPS systems for years just fine. And oh, want to help me be more efficient on the road? I think that people who are serious about saving money already know to now accelerate fast, drive over 65, etc.
911 is free, but you foot the bill for services rendered and face a fine for false 911 calls.
Certainly in the UK there is no base benefit, no right to an amount to support continued life.
I can set that up for you - shoot me an email at walker@teespring.com!
> At this point the author knows definitely that Alexis never planned on attending

How so? Farhad is not Rebecca. She may be, as we speak, still completely unaware of Farhad's e-mail exchange with Alexis.
Show HN: 3D model hosting tool for your stl files
at www.supercuber.com. I have just started learning about 3D printing mostly reading a variety of blogs but have been working with CAD (hobby) for a while. It seemed strange to me that the blog posts would talk about designs and show pictures but there were no embedded 3D models. I made this tool to change that, as I think it could make design descriptions more effective. Obviously it could be used in other way such as sharing designs with your friends, ect.
We have very different definitions of "huge hammer", in any decent modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE9) it takes less than 10ms to apply the mentioned code in 20 texts (using the linked 10 Google results as an example).
I don't get it. It's just a page with markdown that lets you hire a pro for some editing help. I don't think the export feature is that exciting either, even though it's 'good', for example it lacks the option to export as pdf or any other popular file format that people might want the document in. When I tried to download my document to my computer I got a .txt-file... Now that's helpful.
It also uses -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; which means you can't zoom in to make the text bigger (I've emailed them about this)
Good points, but it seems the common failure is ignoring them and focusing entirely on the next quarterly results.

Having shareholders seems to be a magnifier of shortsightedness.
Of course nuclear deterrent doesn't apply in all cases and Red will definitely try to neutralize as many targets as they can and if they can sink all ships they will (that's what Japan tried to do in Pearl Harbor after all).

However, where I feel we disagree is that how Red does it is important as they don't want to allow Blue to gain allies or to give the possibility to Blue to react in a way that would otherwise been politically impossible (ie nuclear weapons).
I kind of wish this were the top comment. It would be humorously appropriate if the top comment on the thread about the official HN t-shirt were the traditional nitpicking/point-missing type that is so commonly the top comment when people launch new technology here.
Does anyone think that licence issues may be important? The comments in the original article about the CLA licence that Canonical use were interesting.
Canadian Government Ends Investigations of UFOs
Georgify, the Hacker News theme, now works over https (Please update)
Reading other Clojure code is weird. I agree that it can be hard to get an eye for other peoples code, but the flip side is that everything is just functions and data. When I decided to go look at ring or compojure it was incredible how simple the code really is. I've looked at plenty of other clojure libraries and I have this revelation every time. Its awesome.

This is in comparison to reading an OO library in a language I'm much more familiar with but where inheritance / mixins mean you have to dig through many files (often not obvious which ones) to understand a piece of code.
Doh. For some reason the orange tag on the android one made me expect to see one for the iOS so my eye didn't even read the text. It's right there, haha. My bad.
I just peeked at the source, and it says it's MIT licensed, but without the BDFL[1], would we see progress in the spirit its intended?

I worry about this with Angular too, but given that Google has obvious areas of synergy, I'm way less concerned about its doom.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life
I agree, I use git and have never tried mercurial but I doubt that it is so bad that I would seek to look for a way to continue to use git on a project that was already on mercurial (CVS might be different of course).

I imagine that understanding how this tool deals with whatever the idiosyncrasies are between the two systems would be higher friction in the long run than just reading the mercurial manual.
Why do companies find it so hard to get social media right?
It's good to see FogCreek being practical and adding in Git support, based on how strong they were pushing for Mercurial before (Joel even had an online training[0]) I wouldn't have guessed they would ever switch to Git, but as Joel said "Religious war: averted." I wish more software would mitigate these debates with solutions like this, but its often not that easy.

This seems like a cool solution, I don't know if any of the other big providers are doing synchronized repos, do other similar solutions exist?

[0]http://hginit.com/
Also take a peek at:

http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/#/Top+News
A couple more interesting points:

(1) You can also make much more profit per copy as a self-publisher.
(2) As a self-publisher, you can afford to produce small niche books that a publisher wouldn't touch. The increased profit per copy makes it worth your while even at very low sales volumes.
I like the design of the app and the idea of hacking cars ODB data. However I see plenty of things that make me raise (an) eyebrow(s).

1. It relies on the amount and quality of ODB data your car provides. The data is worth as much as the precision of the car sensors (fuel consumption on my 5 year old car is very unreliable).

2. "Upgrade your cars' capabilities" is just fluff. Your car doesn't gain any abilities.

3. I like the idea of making people aware of fuel economy but the quality of feedback is directly depended on 1. Bad sensors will give bad readings. If, however your car has state of the art fuel consumption sensors, chances are pretty high it's a nice car already showing that data right on the dashboard.

4. The emergency services will be contacted after a crash is detected by the accelerations sensors in your smartphone. A device that is loosely lying around somewhere in your car. In the assumption it survives a crash and isn't catapulted through the windshield landing 30 meters outside the range of bluetooth. Upon which it will give an auditive cue informing abrupt braking is bad for fuel economy and your social driving score will be negatively impacted.

The idea is great and has good uses. But for now it looks like a gadget bringing little new to the table. For the features it does have, only time will tell on how fail proof they are implemented.
Lots of negativity here, but I love the design. I wouldn't buy a shirt if it said hackernews on it. I would get to many questions for too many people, and I don't really want to explain what I'm wearing.

This is perfect. People who know, know. People who don't, won't care.
I went from hg -> git in the last couple of years. I'd say they are "almost identical". The key difference is a slightly different mindset on merging and branching IMHO. It can be non-trivial for some of my more hard headed dev brethren to change their way of thinking once they've chosen a method and gotten in the correct mindset.
I wrote my first book for a traditional publisher and unlike the norm, my book earned out its advance and gave me several royalty checks.

If you take into account the confs I traveled to giving talks, it's probably a wash.

I think the problem with his case is that he did it somewhat backwards. He already had the brand identity and market to not necessitate needing O'Reilly.

My publisher didn't do anything other than sending out some promo copies I asked for and sponsoring a giveaway or two. Going through a traditional publisher is a good way to learn the rules. I tried to soak up as much as I could from my editors so when I tried to do it on my own (as I'm doing now with an experimental project), I wasn't so lost.

Too many people look at O'Reilly as the brass ring that will suddenly make them tech-famous. The hustle is the same whether you are self-pub or trad-pub. The only difference is your royalty and control.
Mars rover Curiosity sees key water indicator
Meh, I have a yellow lab that sheds quite a lot, and gets really excited when I see her, resulting in her jumping up and down and rubbing up against me.

Just keep a lint roller around.
> In summary: anyone who has a pressing need for this product has their priorities wrong.

That's just silly. Both Git and Mercurial take a fair amount of effort to learn to use fluently, and if someone is already an expert in one, they are likely to feel that being forced to learn something else that's completely different and yet exactly the same will take a lot of useless effort and distract them from more important things. Something that solves this problem and lets programmers focus on their real work is certainly useful!
You could argue that the device costs $70, but the service is "free". What seems to be the plea is to have the device cost something and have the service cost an amount of money, rather than an amount of information.
> yes, it is much easier to start from _something_ than from nothing

I disagree. I have worked on multiple projects where the code base needed to be nuked from orbit and redone. You use the old code as a guide (which is what I'm assuming they're doing with Mir), but by the time you're done it's an entirely different codebase. It gets especially fun when you run into code that is almost certainly buggy; without tests to tell you what the old developer was looking for, you have to make an educated guess about fixing it.

This kind of rewrite is far beyond a typical project fork. I don't know enough about Wayland or Weston to competently state if that's necessary here. I can just tell you I have done something like this before.

Perhaps you're lucky enough to work with only disciplined, competent programmers. I have not had such luck in the past.
The interesting parts of O'Reilly left with the Maker Media spin-off.
Me too. I found out the lack of support for Canada as I was filling in my credit card details on their purchase page.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it! iOS is unfortunately a bit restricted on the Wi-Fi front. Hopefully Apple will open it up in the future.
ZukerBerg would be getting more money for getting hits for this bullshit too....why would he want to debug it???
If the cost of electricity is more than the value of the awarded coins, miners will drop off because they're losing money, and the difficulty will decrease.

Therefore the total electricity usage per ten minutes cannot sustainably be worth more than the value of the new coins generated in that ten minutes. Meanwhile the number of coins awarded each time is cut in half every four years. If, in 20 years, bitcoins are worth 32 times as much as they are right now, the total electricity usage will be the same as it is now.

The amount of electricity used is surprisingly low; for details see my comment above.

Edit: with further thought, I wonder whether this is a long-term security flaw. Previously I calculated that if bitcoin were to reach the market cap of the dollar in 20 years, it would consume a gigawatt of power. An attacker with a nuclear reactor could conceivably control a blockchain with over a trillion dollars of market value.

Transaction fees would make it more expensive (by increasing the power usage sustainable by honest miners) but the hope is to keep fees fairly low.

However, a 51% attack still doesn't allow the attacker to steal all the money, only to double spend. So the attack may not be worthwhile, unless you already have very large bitcoin holdings...in which case, you may be more interested in maintaining the soundness of the currency.
Maybe because some friendly contributor such as yourself hadn't added it yet! I have no idea, really, but apparently the Ruby index method drops down to C so it's fairly fast:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7436155/rubyindex-method-...

That being said, binary search is a welcome addition.
The iD editor for OpenStreetMap, now way easier to use
Sounds good when you know nothing but Java and never heard of CL - knew nothing about, say (disassemble #'foo) or what is FFI etc.

This is also very telling - lets you deploy your Clojure Web app to a JBoss server and take advantage of JBoss’s scalability without any XML configuration. You get a mature enterprise-ready Java server without the pain of Java or of configuration.

I wonder how many orders of magnitude difference in "scalability" we would see with a simple nginx -> fastcgi -> sbcl setup.)

Memory usage under long periods of time with pending storage/back-end calls is also interesting topic - how JVM blows up just after few hours in "production".)
[meteor founder]

One of the reasons we raised a large series A (and from Andreessen in particular, who are incredibly skilled and patient) was to create certainty and confidence in the platform.

The round ensures that we can work on Meteor for several years without having worry about building a product or finding another line of revenue to stay alive. It lets us build a core engineering focused on the platform, so we can get to 1.0 as fast as possible. And it takes the risk of an acquihire right off the table -- the round was too big for that to make sense anymore.

We talk about some of this on our blog: http://meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-million-de...
> Find me any set of online materials that is maybe 1/2 as good as SICP (not including the online edition of the book itself). I mean that seriously.

To the extent that's your standard, I'm not sure that that says anything about the quality of online vs. print materials. I mean, find any set of print materials that is 1/2 as good as SICP, not including the print version of SICP?
The screenshot of the chart shows 217 conversions from 184 visitors, which isn't right... is it?
So can this $20 scanner: http://www.amazon.com/OBDII-Engine-Scanner-Trouble-Reader/dp...

Basic OBDII stuff is very cheap these days
Twitter is down.
Not to mention the fact that in many offices, even high-end ones, there just aren't any comfortable places to sit or just be for eight hours, including you're own "ergonomic" chair. It's hard to overstate how fatiguing this can be. Home is everyone's most comfortable place, and if you can leave the computer for a few minutes to ruminate on the sofa, or do the dishes, or walk around the block, it can substantially extend your hours of effectiveness and alertness.
I like the idea, but I'm wondering how you get past the installation barrier.

I'd rather use my phone than a credit card to pay, but finding Google/Square Wallet, opening the app, authorizing the payment, and (for Google) tapping the device are way more work than fishing out my credit card and swiping it. Needing someone to download the app to get on my WiFi vs typing in a 10 digit number feels similar. You're trying to alleviate a minor pain with technology, but at least for the first use, your way is more painful.

I'd like to see you succeed, because I like the idea of community-distributed WEPs and not having to ask people to get on WiFi, but I don't know how you get past the installation barrier to build that community.

Also, how does the tablet aspect work? If I need to get my tablet on WiFi, I probably don't have a cell connection for it to make the call to lookup the WEP. Do you send it from my phone over Bluetooth? Do you periodically sync the list of known-WEPs between devices when they both have signal?