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persona··on Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?
OP is talking about the NCCN Guidelines, which doesn't seem to be available in other formats or API. From their website:

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®): The NCCN Guidelines® document evidence-based, consensus-driven management to ensure that all patients receive preventive, diagnostic, treatment, and supportive services that are most likely to lead to optimal outcomes.

Format(s) Available for Licensing: PDF API not available

persona··on Putting Ideas into Words
> Putting ideas into words doesn't have to mean writing, of course. You can also do it the old way, by talking. But in my experience, writing is the stricter test.

As pg brings it up, writing is one of the many ways to shape ideas and even change them. But I wouldn’t go so far to say it’s the stricter test.

Each way of expressing and sharing ideas will test it in different ways. Writing may look for conciseness, flow and completeness while talking about it can validate ideas for collaborative building.

Going a step forward, I’d suggest that putting Ideas into Action IS the stricter test.

persona··on Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong
These are early symptoms of a Truth-Market-Fit approach[1] where "fact-checking" is defined by the financial benefits in keeping a following or customer base. The "Fact checkers" have become Trust Providers. Different groups of people will choose to 'believe' different Trust Providers according to their own views.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/truth-market-fit-unbundling-t...

persona··on Collection of real world database schemas from open-source packages
Perhaps this one: http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/
persona··on No Hello (2013)
There is a strong counter-argument though, based on the increase of online meetings and screen sharing scenarios... Not everybody always remembers to silence screen notifications while sharing screens.

Which leads to more-than-once-a-week situations of "Hi - full question or comment notification that probably shouldn't be seen by co-worker/boss/client" popping up during the share.

A simple "hello" --wait for answer-- protocol makes it a quick way of checking if it's a good time.

persona··on Show HN: Categorised Twitter Threads (400+)
Finding good threads are hard. :) A quick “unroll” or “thread” search will uncover thousands of threads every day...
persona··on Ask HN: When do you think?
Trying to tell / explain to somebody (or even an imaginary someone) what I’ve read or studied. Most good insights or opinions happen at that moment for me.
persona··on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
In complex systems, it's tempting to look for a silver bullet: If we only did "this".

This Capitalism 2.0 would also need to be a system of things that enables a new direction - whatever that may be - based on the fragile regression to the mean of what an expected aggregated view of that looks like.

UBI can or cannot be part of that system, but by itself it can quickly become irrelevant.

Most economic theories of capitalism are based on (mostly) rational behaviors of the majority of market participants. Social studies will show that in topics related to finances/money, behaviors are all over the place.

Want to drive towards Capitalism 2.0? Start with financial education, support systems, relevant incentives (maybe UBI is one of them) and a good shared vision of what that 2.0 is.

persona··on Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
I'd argue that this makes more sense in the real world than in a diagram, after being burnt in multiple real life experiences :)

The assumption both you and AnyList are making is that an email is "THE obvious choice". From a user experience perspective perhaps this "global sharing identifier" should be defined by them.

You'll notice that different generations have different online behaviors. For some, email is their main id. For others, it's their phone number (they don't know most of their friends' e-mail, but know their phone). For others, it's either online handles or nothing at all - think about the device set up for grandma with her daily To Do list.

Of course, having this approach would add some upfront dev work to them but allow them to navigate this much easier later on. And for anyone starting to develop their new app/site/product thinking about this early on can reduce a lot of future headaches.

persona··on Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
This seems to be a common problem, made more visible when using third-party authentication, that your application has taken the concepts of "Account" and "Authentication Method" as if they were the same thing.

It appears that the "account ID", "preferred contact method+address" and "authentication ID" are all the same here - which then creates the "account management code into a rat’s nest" scenario they describe in the post.

If an Account is, by design, it's own entity - you should be able to have 100 different authentication methods linked to that same account without impacting any other flow or part of the application.

Turn on and off authentication methods would also allow for seamless transition for users, without worrying about when one method is about to be killed.

persona··on Htmx – high power tools for HTML
On docs fix reporting, there is also a typo on

https://htmx.org/extensions/client-side-templates/

any element below it in the DOM can use one of three attributes named <template-engine>-temlpate

persona··on Show HN: ClickLock – Lock your screen with one click on the menubar
Do you know that Hot Corners allow you to do the same thing, easier (no aim or app needed) right? https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchlp3000/mac
persona··on Donald Knuth was framed
Title is a little (?) clickbait... Promoting a YOW talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATobswwFwQA

-- The other day I was talking with a friend about structured editing and literate programming came up. LP was one of Donald Knuth's ideas, to structure programs as readable documents instead of just machine docs. He was interested in it, I was cautiously skeptical. We both knew the famous story about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

"In 1986, Jon Bentley asked Knuth to demonstrate the concept of literate programming by writing a program in WEB. Knuth came up with an 8-pages long monolithic listing that was published together with a critique by Douglas McIlroy of Bell Labs. McIlroy praised intricacy of Knuth's solution, his choice of a data structure (Frank M. Liang's hash trie), but noted that more practical, much faster to implement, debug and modify solution of the problem takes only six lines of shell script by reusing standard Unix utilities. McIlroy concluded: >>Knuth has shown us here how to program intelligibly, but not wisely. I buy the discipline. I do not buy the result. He has fashioned a sort of industrial-strength Faberge egg—intricate, wonderfully worked, refined beyond all ordinary desires, a museum piece from the start."

The program was print out the top K most-used words in a text. (and so it goes on...) ---

persona··on Being a Noob
Is there an inverse correlation between curiosity and the aversion of feeling like a noob? Exploring unknown areas/subjects/places may be a bigger driver than overcoming the ‘noob feeling aversion’
persona··on Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site
congratulations on the launch! are there any checks done on the backend to guarantee that the website using the "init(appId)" call is the right one? The attack vector here is a fake website - say "userbose dot com" - where the login would be validated by the backend and can now access all data for that user.
persona··on Ask HN: I need advice on my first B2B SaaS startup
> 5 signed pilot agreements (to start once we finish a couple of features)

Just a word of caution here. It would be important for you and the client to already be aligned on financial terms / paid pilot when based on feature development. When dealing with larger organizations, it’s not unusual do see B2B postmortems caused by ‘death by a thousand features’ where the deal never happens. Until the organization has to pay anything you may not have a deal at all (didn’t go through procurement, legal, etc).

persona··on Show HN: A tool to help you charge customers at the right price
...and how much do YOU charge? :) If it’s only a lead gen tool for you, it’s hard to gauge expertise or why would someone get your advice on how to price it. If it’s a tool, then I’ve missed how it exactly works and what it does.
persona··on Show HN: Tennis Grand Slams Visualization
Players’ names not clickable on iOS/Safari
persona··on How I encrypt my data in the cloud
>I’m curious to hear your thoughts on my personal data security strategy

security tools = 10 opsec = 0

persona··on Ask HN: Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?
You may wanna look at what Alipay is doing with their Ant Forest, which is a behavior gamification turning into planting trees. https://www.alizila.com/how-alipay-users-planted-100m-trees-...
persona··on Ask HN: Do you take photos of slides during presentations?
Some questions I've put together to better understand how people are dealing with this: https://goo.gl/forms/oBAxUZ0nTMTrEdPH2
persona··on New fossils from Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens
previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15218030
persona··on Federal court finds ToS agreements binding, even if customers don't read them
This could start the arms race between customers demanding more clear and accessible terms and companies trying to bury it further and further (for example, ToS for a mobile app on a page very hard to read on mobile). Expect blog posts on "ToS Growth Hacker" or "ToS Black Hat" soon...
persona··on Snapchat launches self-serve ad manager
Snapchat is getting itself into tricky waters. As Facebook increases competition (feature cloning), Snapchat can try to focus on monetization and advertisement more aggressively, alienating their own customer base.
persona··on Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika
It's amazing that neither the article nor the 100+ comments take into account that the Olympics will occur in August, which is winter in Brazil. Truly Rio doesn't freeze but historical numbers of dengue infections for example are the lowest during that month. By a factor of 300 in some data. Of course 1 infection is one too much, but if weather comes in as it usually does, August won't see many mosquitoes attending the olympics.
persona··on How big is the Google Earth database?
You are right - it took me a few secs to realize that. Better title should be: How big I estimate to be the Google Earth database?
persona··on Ask HN: Is it worth starting a SaaS in a niche that already has a clear leader?
Not sure if you'd consider StatusPage.io as a "clear leader". They claim to have around 2000 customers ( http://blog.statuspage.io/introducing-private-status-pages ) which I consider a small number of a potential target group. From some other posts, their revenue is around $3M/annually.

So if this is a $5M potential market, probably there is a clear winner. If this is a $100M potential market, things are just starting.

persona··on Show HN: DataFire Interactive Tutorial – Build and Share Dataflows
Like this? https://zapier.com/multi-step-zaps/
persona··on Ask HN: $50 to the first person who can.?
Had a quick look but you have too many stuff... email address nirio https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tern*** https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ni*** https://twitter.com/NichBarry https://twitter.com/wa******ll (not used anymore) https://twitter.com/ib***um https://twitter.com/Ba****61 https://twitter.com/nc***as http://google.com/+ni*****as https://plus.google.com/111*...*198/posts https://www.facebook.com/ib****m https://www.instagram.com/ib****m/ https://klout.com/NichBarry http://www.minimalreality.com/ https://www.mixcloud.com/ni*****ry/ https://github.com/ni*****ry http://github.com/ni*****as https://hackaday.io/n***e https://hackaday.io/hacker/33*... https://splice.com/ni*****ry https://soundcloud.com/nichola-solstice https://www.elance.com/s/ni******s/ multiple domains registered…
persona··on Change Your Name
Someone from Google, er, Alphabet didn't read PG's essay: https://abc.xyz
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