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Show HN: Instawell, an anonymous community for our health + New API
My co-founder & I wanted to log our health ups and downs, with each other, with strangers dealing with similar problems & maybe even with medical professionals. We are very proud to share our brand new service - Instawell.

Instawell is an anonymous public network for sharing health issues and connecting with doctors.

You post an issue, track it, update it, and get simple feedback. You can invite a friend to share the issue, so you can both track something while remaining anonymous to everyone else. People can discover others dealing with the same issues and around them.

Instawell is offered as a service at https://api.instawell.com and as a web app at http://instawell.com. We are working to release our mobile web version next week, alongwith a private beta for our iOS + Android versions.

Get started with Instawell right away:

1: Create an identity

$ curl -ssl3 -k --data "email=your@emailhere.com&password=yourpass" https://api.instawell.com/v1/users

2: Share your symptoms

$ curl -ssl3 -k --data "mysymptoms=Feel Tired, Aching Head" --header "X-instawell-token: YOURTOKENHERE" https://api.instawell.com/v1/sets/

3: Track your sets

$ curl -ssl3 -k --header "X-instawell-token: YOURTOKENHERE" "https://api.instawell.com/v1/sets/"

4: Do more on the web app.

There's a lot of fun stuff we are working and very excited to hear back from the HN community. We <3 Terminal but there are other sample code on the Docs link as well.

Web - http://instawell.com
Docs - http://docs.instawellapiv1.apiary.io/
Blog - http://blog.instawell.com/post/53509254012/public-api

Share how you are feeling today :)
It could even be a little smaller if the max-width and margin were placed on the body tag. You don't even need the wrapper!
Dont forget northern light. It was a great search engine targeted at researchers and academics that grouped results in folders of topic areas. They made the unfortunate business decision to transition to a paid service right as google was becoming popular.
I do love SO, but the moderation can be really hard to deal with when you aren't sure how to articulate your question.
My only issue with that is that you have to trust google to do it. The info is still transmitted (even if only in the form of the initial request to download ga.js) so we only have their word on the matter.
The Ultimate Productivity Killer
Yeah. That people can now be put in prison forever on tax payer money, instead of "having" to find cheap ways to kill them, is not exactly progress. Sure, it's still "better", but it's nowhere near good.

Things change. We should measure the poor and powerless of today against the rich and powerful of today, not against the poor and powerless of yesterday.
Thats actually difficult, eg Lua has coroutines, a function can be a hash table key and other incompatibilities. There are some but they are fairly limited by this. This is the main implementation https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js
Simple, the point is to boost the interviewers ego, nothing more. This example is the kind of mean-spirited bullshit that leads me to loathe brain-teasers.
> At its heart, web design should be about words.

The Web is for sure a place to communicate with words. But can you imagine what will it look like if every web page will have only words? I can't. I wouldn't enjoy it anymore.

As a UI designer, I always try to create an interface as intuitive as possible, and sometimes words do work better than icons and images. But sometimes it will break the concept. Let's take Airbnb as an example.

If we'll remove all those attractive images and UI elements, which create its particular universe, Airbnb will look like Craigslist (though some apts have pictures today). And it won't be fun!

Both words and images play important roles in the web design. The role of the words is to communicate an idea. The role of the images is to illustrate the idea and to bring an additional value to the content.
Wow, thanks for the link, I was close to buying a X1 Carbon or MBA - but this looks too good to pass up!
So where exactly does the "10x productivity boost" come from in this case?

It's the same C and/or C++ code being compiled in both cases. It doesn't become any easier to write said code, just because it's compiled down to a mangled form of JavaScript rather than a native binary.
I love Stack Overflow.

I'm interested in fragmentation. Reddit has it, and Stack Overflow has it too. I have no idea how they'll fix it.

If you want to ask a question you need to ask the right SE site. Some are obvious, but others have overlapping sites and it's confusing for the target audience.

What's worse is that some of these sites have made agreements with each other to funnel the "wrong questions" to the right site - that's great, but a bit confusing; while others have just decided independently that some particular style of question is "off topic" and they'll shunt you off to another site, and that other site will close your question.

I love SE, but I understand the frustration that some people have with it.

They have the Main sites, and the Meta sites, and the chat stuff. I think they could also have a branch off "discussion site". Any questions deemed as wrong questions go to that discussion site. You re-brand it, so as not to dilute the strict question only format of the main sites.

And, for all the "META IS DEATH" (true) sentiment there's a heck of a lot of meta going on over there.

But I do like SE.
Links -
Web - http://instawell.com

Docs - http://docs.instawellapiv1.apiary.io/

Blog - http://blog.instawell.com/post/53509254012/public-api
I'd be surprised if it ever happens. I'm sure the batteries are configured to be useless in the wrong car.
Very tight focus and strict rules.

Some people don't like that, and they kind of have a point, but Stack Overflow has a mission and they stick to it.
A bizarre number considering that the total number of contributors on the Firefox OS frontend is currently 249 (https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia). No clue on which part they're gonna put these people on.
California Gov. Jerry Brown backs down on attempt to weaken open records law
Im assuming this will work on all the Model S's that have already been produced? Was that mentioned?
Chisel: a scala based HDL using layered domain-specific hardware languages
I can ;-) (having enough reputation helps)

But agreed, some limitations are a bit stupid and annoying at times. E.g. you downvote an answer based on the belief that it is wrong, further discussion reveals that it is in fact correct, but since more than five minutes have passed you cannot remove the downvote or turn it into an upvote unless the question is edited again. Which leaves to bogus edits just for being able to change a vote again.
In a free country on the other hands, every last (healthy adult) citizen would be able to think without employing sophistry, and to see woods despite the trees.
I just told the department librarian to buy a copy, even though I don't do category theory, so you're not alone :)
Author mentions following some .net people for good insights, are there any rails users on stackoverflow that stick out as must reads?
Apparently, I didn't know what reactionary meant. In case I'm not the only one, I'll link to the wikipedia page and hope it does a better job explaining the term than the 15,000 word article posted by Jach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary
Once you've earned the 2000 reputation to edit without peer-review, you can edit as little as you like. But until then, your edits are reviewed by other users before they're applied, and there has to be a certain threshold so these (volunteer!) reviewers don't just waste time by reviewing tons of mini-edits.
Part of that 7% are people who choose not to upgrade, they aren’t neglected. iOS 6 runs on devices as old as 4 years. Meanwhile, every day new Android models are launched that come with years old system software and will never see an update.
It just becomes part of the cost of doing business. We still have credit cards, even though credit card fraud exists, it's just factored into interest rates.

If 1% of batteries get stolen (which is probably way higher than it'll actually be), then the price of batteries will increase by 1% to factor it in.

If that causes battery swaps to be uneconomical, so be it, the we'll figure out something else.
This is the key reason you'd want to do this in the first place. It not only solves the problem of quickly charging the battery, it solves the problem of battery quality over time!

The mere fact that you have batteries being swapped in and out of cars means you can systematically track battery health and refurbish batteries that are getting low, without ever having to bother the customer or affect the driveability of the car.

The $40 (or so) battery swap fee is not for the electricity or the infrastructure, it is an insurance payment on the battery itself. You're paying for the collective maintenance of all Tesla batteries, and in turn ensuring the health and ease of your own.

The last remaining argument against electric has always been the charge time, and "oh, but the battery costs $15,000 when it finally dies out"—I always knew a system of battery swap was the answer to basically everything, and I thought Tesla was doing it wrong by coming out with a fixed-battery car.

Turns out I was wrong. They're doing everything exactly right.
Maybe it's just me, or the type of questions I ask, but I've found SO to be a little elitist.

I love it for the fact I very often find answers there, but almost every time I've asked a question, the responses or lack thereof have been pretty brutal.
Very good question! The general theme of web archiving is still not adequately addressed (imho), in order to fight bit rot of hyperlinks and preserve digital online web sources. I find it amusing that usually nobody seems to think about or care for "who conserves the web for future generations".

Coming from academia, I myself primarily use The Wayback Machine. In research literature I also encounter some use of WebCite (http://www.webcitation.org) in references.

Anyone interested in web archiving, might have a look at introduction to web archiving at wikipedia, including an overview of web archiving services: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_archiving

If the past version of the page you are looking for is <3 months old, you could also try cache:URL in google search (or equivalent function in other search engine).
Seemed normal to me. I think my wife's BMW SUV thingie fits like 90 liters.
The rise of micro storytelling: Twitter vs Instagram vs Vine...
Interest rates is why there is always more debt in the system than money, and why capitalism as a whole can be more likened to cancer than anything else. But don't take my word for it, wait until the host dies.
Really very informative information about DUCKDUCKGO sees
I really hope that by 2030, we are utilizing Graphite Super capacitors....with everything I remember reading, it sounds like a miracle material.
These people are probably not working on the OS, but creating Apps and UI customization.
One property of the DCT that makes it quite suitable for compression is its high degree of "spectral compaction;" at a qualitative level, a signal's DCT representation tends to have more of its energy concentrated in a small number of coefficients when compared to other transforms like the DFT. This is desirable for a compression algorithm.
Everything seems to indicate that this is in reference to all Model S's.
At 10 gallons per minute, that's still just 2 minutes pumping time. (23 gallons)

Edit: I checked again, he pumps for 2.5 minutes and gets exactly 23 gallons. So I guess the pump isn't as fast as Elon says on stage. But it still surprised me because, well, that's about twice as long as what I'm used to :)
Electric aircraft is a genuinely bad idea. Converting the electricity to fuel and burning it is vastly more efficient than having to lift and land with both sides of the chemical equation.
Dude, we Brits know you Aussies love your beer, like we do, but hey, don't openly prove the stereo type!!!!

Although, I am "pissed" too. No, non Americans are subhuman and have no rights in US law and seemingly to most Americans, even if we are customers of US businesses making them money, while these US business avoids tax like its AIDS. The US government also happily sweeps aside international law and convention when it suits them. Hence drone strikes, gitmo and rendition, or as the rest of us sub-humans call it, kidnap, murder and false imprisonment. Or the refusal to submit US citizens to international courts.

That is the problem with the US attitude to the rest of the planet, we are seen as both customers to be exploited, and the enemy. Real shame the US is so paranoid, the vast majority of us aren't evil.

I really fail to understand why the US believes it can behave in a way no one else does, why it thinks it has the right to do what it likes and over ride every one else. It really does feel like the US only recognizes American citizens as fully human. America and Americans are some how special and of more worth than every one else.

Yet, while I disapprove of this, worse is the way US allies lay down and accept it. So, partly, I think, "sod it, if my government cant be arsed to challenge them, then why am I bothering?". A bit like thinking the US citizens clearly want this, they voted for it, so they deserve it.

Its sad because all this stuff, IMHO, tarnishes everything good the US does. And it really does do some brilliant, awesome stuff. Is this superiority complex really the price the rest of us have to pay?

It funny, just a the simple addition of equality and humility, and the US could be the most loved country on the planet.
Agreed. I never could have bought an electric knowing how batteries die. This eliminates that problem. Now if only my MacBook had battery swap capability...
3D Jump'n'Run browser game, pure JavaScript/WebGL
Why assume the thief will want to use it? The scrap value of the copper and aluminium alone could make it worthwhile
3000 are many people, I believe that not even google has all those people working on Android.
Yes it is a pain to bake your AMI that much, but the upside is you autoscale faster. When you can scale faster you can set your thresholds higher because you know a new instance will be ready to serve traffic through ELB faster.

Granted node and nginx don't take long to run an update on. But the more you keep piling on updates the slower your true "time to ready" increases. And that can take a while from ec2 launch to ELB registration.

Why not have best of both and use puppet/chef to create your AMI anytime they require a security update?
It's a little messy sometimes. Trivial beginner questions are usually answered within a minute and you get about three correct answers immediately.

But there are those nagging questions where you pondered two days and researched and then pour everything you know into a long, elaborate question, asking for help. And then, nothing. 16 views, no votes, no answers. Can be very frustrating.

If you have mostly questions of the latter kind then there's a bit of luck involved whether the right person sees your question or whether it just goes unnoticed and dies.
Did you watch the video? Not all of the time at the gas station is spent pumping.
This is really splitting hairs. They made a fun demo, and their whole position is to surpass the total experience of the gasoline car. I think they've shown that they're at least equal, which is an incredible accomplishment.
I strongly think that expertsexchange is a poor name for a website.
Theft should never hinder innovation, and when you factor in the ambition of Tesla, I am very sure they will dedicate as much time and effort into theft deterrence as they do to ease of use.
Likewise, I get 700 miles (~1100km) from a 10 imperial gallon (45l) tank.

With that said, it's not sensible to compare a modern european small car with the average US car. Particularly the class of car that the Model S is competing with (which are typically expensive, have a high capacity and relatively inefficient engine, and luxury interior).
In my experience reviewing tiny edits creates little to no burden on the reviewers. The backlog of ~500 flagged posts (where you often have to read the question, the answer and then decide whether the flag was really warranted) is much worse.

And then there is the other problem where edit reviewers have no clue of what they are rejecting and instead alienating the person who suggested the edit (rightfully). But that's a completely different point, admittedly.

Still, I don't think less-than-six-character edits would be a particular problem to handle as the edit review queue is often enough empty or very short.
Palm founder Jeff Hawkins on neurology, big data, and the future of AI
Well, now i certainly think its achievable.
This is a ridiculous discussion.

It takes about 3-5 minutes to fill up a large-tank performance car, similar in features and trim to the Model S. It takes about 2-4 minutes to fill up a smaller car. It takes less than 2 minutes to "fill up" a Model S.

It takes about 10 minutes if you also use the restroom. Are we going to start factoring that into the comparison? If not, I'm out.
If they'd offer a couple of private repos I'd jump over to GitHub in a heartbeat. I use BitBucket for private stuff, and then port over to GitHub when I want to make the code public.

At work we use BitBucket because of the unlimited private repos, and we've got a fairly good setup built on it. Every office I know either keeps their repo hosted, or uses BitBucket. I've only known one office that uses GitHub, and due to the nature of their work they keep their stuff public.

It's not even up for debate anywhere I work. BitBucket, or a private hosted repo is the only choice to make.
Kevin Systrom: no-one at Facebook is telling us what to do
I wouldn't under-estimate the value of this as an experience for kids. I discovered a copy of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" by Alan Sillitoe in a pile of old books my parent had. It was like discovering a small nugget of gold.
only true if money they had actually represents real work that somebody created then transferred as money to them.

The current status quo is that a bank creates money out of thin air, which they can then profit off. This money they create _might_ represent value, but only after the loanee does some work for the debt. Therefore, all interest payment on such created money are essentially a "tax" the banks leeches off the people who did the real work.
Discussed and dismissed as too slow in the article.
I'm more concerned over people buying this data from disgruntled or otherwise compromised NSA employees or anyone else they hand the data to (like contractors) to use for blackmail or other criminal enterprises.
Cost of Hunger in Egypt - Implications of Child Undernutrition
I think this also answers the question wether the US needs a pirate party (or several).
Apple WWDC 2013 - What It Means For App Developers?
While I agree with the sentiment, will this actually change anything? I have yet to see anybody anywhere making any difference ...
Well it does seem that most of the time saved when filling up the Model S comes from not having to get out of the car in the first place. And I guess the credit card gets used from within the car?
Used to work at Patagonia, who installed a large-scale solar array in their parking lot in Southern California. Over a few years, at least 4 panels were stolen (of about 150 I believe).

These things are all valuable, just have to account for that and protect accordingly. I'm sure everything is entirely automated and secure, and I'm sure there are going to start being attendants watching over everything.
I think the greatest thing to take out of the presentation is...

1. The Tesla driver does NOT need to get out of the car (screw rain and bugs).

2. It IS a reasonable time (no need to sit in a diner and wait)

3. The mileage limitation is becoming less limiting (no different than making sure a long trip has a gas station on the way).
Show me a smart person disagreeing with actual arguments, and in the meantime know that even a million zeroes add up to exactly zero.
I switched smartphones, from iPhone to the BlackBerry Z10 which has built in encryption. A friend was teasing me that drug users use BlackBerry (for said reason), but according to the US government we're all guilty until proven innocent anyway.

I also got the hell off of all Google products and Skype.

Has the switch been a hassle? Somewhat, but I'm unable to ignore the fact my communications are being read, recorded and stored to be later used against me.
So, $40 times 375 == $15000. That, what, 37500 miles? Sounds worse, not better.
6% is 36 million devices. There are less than a million iOS developers.
Even Mozilla added support for H.264, albeit for Windows users.
One week with the Geeksphone Peak
Google Drive for Linux is here (3rd party app)
It's all speculations at that point but if the only reason to go to BitBucket is price then Atlassian is creating a community of poor/cheap people. The scenario for up-sell seems quite compromised in that regard.

Another thing is that if you're using open source products then they're likely on github. I agree that both platforms have a general feature parity but if you're going to interact with these projects often enough then it's better to stay on a single platform and avoid the context switch. Personally this only is already worth the $50-100 that our company is paying.

You can see that I am biased but something I would also like to point out: on more than one occasion github has prompted me to open-source things. When you reach your repo limit you're faced with a choice that you don't have with unlimited repos. There's a case where you don't want to think about it and just want to keep working as usual but for me space constraint is what keeps my home tidy.
It is often quite useless for questions that go beyond the basics.

In such cases, a complete lack of attention is almost better than getting the responses that incorrectly suggest that the wrong question is being asked, or a moderator rewriting the question to ask something completely irrelevant, or comments that give blatantly wrong information.

For any moderately complex question regarding open source software, for instance, you're generally better off asking on the project's mailing list or IRC channel, or even contacting the main developer(s) directly.

When dealing with commercial software, you're often better off using whatever support the provider offers, even if it comes at a monetary cost. Some of the more established online communities are also helpful here, especially for older products.

Unless the Stack Overflow question/answer page shows up in a search engine's search results, I've not found Stack Overflow to be worth the time and effort to use it.
If the respective pirate parties put in enough of an effort, informing the public, organizing protests, petitioning local and EU authorities and so forth they might get some of this through. I still think that even then it would be unlikely…
"Battery pack swap works with all Tesla Model S cars, past and present. It was always there."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/347082201596321794
I have owned several Macbook[Pros|Airs] over the years and consistently the biggest issue has been poor wifi. Either dropping or just being generally crappy performance wise compared to other systems right next to me on the same next work. It is annoying that it is still an issue several years later.
They have your serial number. I'm sure it's just billed directly to your card on file.
Stackoverflow has made my life a lot easier. They've saved me an immense amount of time over the years, and for that I have to say a big thank you. I remember what it was like hunting for answers before they existed. Almost reminds me of what it was like switching to Google from AltaVista.

The site has some flaws of course, as others have pointed out, but it's leaps and bounds above every other Q&A site in their segment.