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noseon A 13-Year-Old Has Been Cured of DIPG, the Deadliest Childhood Brain Cancer

Why is a randomized controlled study needed for these scenarios in a clinical trial. If the patient is known to have a fatal disease in the study, why not give them the proposed treatment? The alternative is much worse.

noseon Gloomberb

I find it interesting that nobody from the finance community is directly speaking about their experience in this thread.

What's the equivalent of hacker news for financial folk?

noseon The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work

How is everyone purchasing Retatrutide at this moment? It's still in phase 3 trials, and I keep hearing of people being on it. Not really seeing safe options with proper lab testing.

Other pharmaceuticals at the phase 3 stage (such as Buntanetap for Parkinson's disease) are super difficult to get, even with the right to try exemption in the US.

noseon UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)

Could this treatment also help with other neurodegenerative diseases?

noseon The Upper Middle Class Trap

How do they pickup their kids towards the end of the workday?

Commute times are a real factor in deciding where to live, and which schools to pick. In the Bay Area, the only real solution is living closer to work, which requires over bidding & selecting private schools if they picked the wrong area.

noseon The Upper Middle Class Trap

I'm not really sure what to make of this. The article is conflating tradeoffs people make. People typically overbid on housing for access to good public schools. Folks sending their kids to private school live in a cheaper home with a better commute. They're optimizing for commute time, perceived safety, education, and access to child care.

The real way for everyone to escape this perceived hedonic treadmill is to build more housing, invest in public transit infrastructure, and have affordable childcare.

noseon TSA introducing self-service screening technology in Las Vegas

This introduces an additional X-ray scan for TSA precheck members compared to the current metal detector.

noseon India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates

I'm not seeing Canada listed under "Countries/Nationalities who are eligible to avail eVisa"

noseon Geneticists develop novel gene therapy for glaucoma

Do you take a B complex vitamin or exclusively B3?

noseon Toyota to spend 1.5T yen on EV battery development

This also indirectly signals an exit from the consumer hydrogen fuel cell cars.

noseon Extreme Ironing

A hot shower can achieve similar results: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShowerScience/comments/302aqp/showe...

noseon Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat

Could this be used in California as an additional fire extinguishing method?

noseon The humble water heater could be the savior of our energy infrastructure woes

I'm able to turn my water heater off twice a week without a noticable difference in the water temperature. I wish there was an easier way other than flipping the circuit breaker.

noseon An Unremarkable Event in the Tenderloin

I think http://currywithoutworry.org is an excellent solution to the problem. I think it makes a huge difference in the community. People in need are able to interact, and help each other without worrying about dinner once a week.

noseon Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words

This is probably why: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109412257237874861202/posts/NAWu...

the webspam team has taken manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome for at least 60 days. After that, someone on the Chrome side can submit a reconsideration request documenting their clean-up just like any other company would.

noseon Face detection jQuery Plugin

This looks like a fork of Liu Liu's javascript library.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/face-detection-html...

noseon Getting Started on the Google+ API

There's also a PHP sample app here: http://code.google.com/p/google-plus-php-starter/

noseon Are you a Facebook employee?

Make sure you're logged into facebook. Signed out users always get a 0.

noseon AT&T's Rube Golbergian Web Form

Now: Would DropBox do something this silly?

Yeah. DropBox installs Growl without the user's permission. http://growl.info/thirdpartyinstallations.php

noseon Google humans.txt

http://humanstxt.org/

noseon Pick a number from 1 to 10

I'd like to see a heatmap for the website. I think you can do it with google analytics.

noseon Throw 1; < don't be evil

See line 122 to see how it is used http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/shindig/trunk/features/src/main...

noseon Ask HN: People doing open-source development full-time

I used to work on an Apache project full-time at Yahoo!

noseon Computer Scientists Make Progress on Math Puzzle

I also had him in 2007 for Automata Theory

noseon Google's Demo Slam - What is it?

google store also runs on asp. http://www.googlestore.com/googlesearch.aspx

  curl -v "http://googlestore.com
  < Cache-Control: private
  < Content-Length: 0
  < Location: http://www.googlestore.com/default.aspx
  < Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
  < X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
  < X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
  < Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:07:08 GMT

whois says it's owned by google.

noseon What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

It also prevents the user's id from being leaked in the http referrer header

noseon Google-Caja: source-to-source translator for securing Javascript-based content

It's opt-in for orkut app developers.

It's enabled by default, and enforced on yahoo.com/my.yahoo.com http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/homepage/

noseon Google-Caja: source-to-source translator for securing Javascript-based content

Their list of typical attack vectors in ES3 is very eye opening: http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/wiki/AttackVectors http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/w/list?q=label:Attack-V...

You can also easily play with the Valija and ES5/3 dialect here http://caja.appspot.com

noseon What Happened to Yahoo

Here are a few examples:

  http://trafficserver.apache.org/
  http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
  http://github.com/yahoo
  http://yuilibrary.com
  http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/guide/caja-support.html
  http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
  http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
  http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/

noseon Actually KIN Sold More Than 503 Devices

8,810 is the number of monthly active users, so I would venture to guess that they've sold much more.