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Find engineers that you think would know how to approach the unknowns of your idea. Ask them about components of the parts that you don't understand.

If you don't have time to build it: find someone who might want to use it and tell them about it.

Cool hardware. I want one to detect the genetic makeup of the cold and flu viruses that I acquire.

The physicist thinks it would be great to install in public places to detect the virus. I think it would be better to detect if a person had the virus and not let them in the plane or to work at the hospital.

I have had an idea for a while about making ultraviolet light air filters and installing them in high risk airborne virus transmission prone buildings ( such as airplanes, airports, subways, hospitals, etc. ). The idea is that the air returned to the environment will be airborne virus free ( and perhaps smell minty ).

Anyone know of plans for non-profit or educational use? I imagine the folks trying to cure diseases or solve environmental problems could use a tool like this.

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Can you please make the comment textarea larger?

Thank you.

I am under the impression that once a virus binds to a site, it attempts to push itself into the cell.

Would it be possible or practical to make a filter media, or throat spray using sialic acid to catch H1N1 viruses and fool them into 'thinking' they have reached a target location? The goal being to selectively trap or destroy as the virus attempts to enter a fake target cell. Could something like this help prevent infection or help to quell severe infections?

Would this be the computer analogous metaphor for a 'honey pot'.

Joel, can I help you build a stackoverflow for virologists, please? I want to call it antigenoverflow.

Amazing x 10. Where do I sign up to learn more about molecular biology?

I was thinking of simply adding a link at the top of the main page between 'new' and 'threads' that was 'peers' and I could subscribe to multiple HN users' tagged links. I believe it would allow a closer connection between the members of the community that have interests in common. Seemingly, there is a sub-culture of people interested in mostly programming news; so, instead of moving them to a new site altogether, allow them to maintain a connection to this site, at the same time as giving them a tool to build community.

If I could subscribe to other HN members' posts and upmodded links, I could, in theory be able to preemptively sort the posts that I liked in common with those users. All it would take is a new menu item at the top of the page- called 'peers'. When a HN user posts a link I find most appropriate to my lifestyle, I have the option to subscribe to future links posted by that HN user; all of the links ( or even comments ) of the peers I subscribe to would be listed in chronological order on the 'peers' page.

If a similar functionality was enabled and the link posting member was able to tag the submitted link, I think it would make it more efficient for the subscribing member to get the appropriate content listed first- that is, if the subscriber could choose to subscribe to the links that were relevantly tagged by each peer.

Simply put: if you ( yes you ) submitted a link that was tagged 'emacs', and I had subscribed to your links tagged as such, I would see it listed on my peers page ( likely near the top, even if I missed a few days ). If you submitted a link tagged 'founder inspiration' and I did not subscribe to that tag of yours, I would only see that link on the front page ( if it made it; and I saw it in time ).

Sorta like a collective intelligent RSS feed, hosted on HN!

I was at the Maker Faire last Saturday and there was a company that had a true multi-touch screen that was very large ( something like 20" ). I can see how this would be useful when using a touch interface: I would not want to tap the screen. Great work!

M-g M-g runs goto-line as well ( on my default installation ).

Good question. Because I thought of it first ( then Italy ).

What is it about the Ukraine that is curbing population growth? Also, what seems to increase population growth inside countries?

What is it about Japan that is curbing population growth?

http://www31.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+growth+in+...

There are many unique combinations of the alphabet.

26 factorial = 4.03291461e26

pick your favorite.

Would it help to make a orthogonal persistence infrastructure using Git? Or should I say 'can anyone rationalize making an orthogonal persistence infrastructure using Git?'

Perhaps the folks at etherpad could use some incarnation of something like this ( if I understand these things correctly )

O'reilly Safari Library costs money but you get unlimited access to many current programming books to read online. There are several books available on iPhone development and Objective C programming. It helped me immensely when learning Javascript. Also, you can often search for functions and text within the books using the website. Going back and forth from a paper book to the monitor is not as efficient for me; so it worked great, in my case, to switch virtual desktops and browser tabs while working out ideas and learning about syntax and functions.

Code, from what is understand, is written in Objective C which is a superset of C. So take a look at some online tutorials regarding Objective C. Syntacticly, it looks different than other popular languages ( to me ).

Allow users to subscribe to other HN users' synopses, such that I would only see my favorite commenter's synopsis. Simply place it to the right of the link, taking up all that space that is not being used yet; put the synopsis in a more transparent color than the other text- like the <0 down-modded comments.

We ( as synopsis authors ) would invent shortcuts for rating and summarizing the content that would fit to the right or be truncated. And when a user clicks on comments, the full synopsis is always at the top of the comments.

And maybe the descriptors that different users would implement ( like their own tags/ratings for the content ) would become unique to that user, eventually, and have contextual meaning to that author. Each synopsis author would have their own tags that they could reuse. Only people who subscribed to that author could see their synopsis so authors' silly or cryptic or worthless synopsis descriptors would not clutter HN readers' experience unless they subscribed to a particular s-author ( synopsis author ).

So each user could have a customized right-hand HN site by subscribing to other synopsis authors and each synopsis author would have their own ways ( tags, most likely to start ) for communicating concise summaries/likes/dislikes of the content posted on HN.

This is the thread that started this suggestion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503983

I wanted to move this thread here, since it is more appropriate.

> I would prefer her not to be spending time transcribing her notes from one system to another.

Ok. But data needs to be entered in the system somehow and patients need care and attention; and it makes sense to me to focus on one thing at a time, especially with a mission critical field such as health care.

> You could employ someone else to transcribe her notes at a salary more reasonable for the work but it is still, or at least should be, an unnecessary overhead.

People differ philosophically concerning what is important in health care. Some want quality and some want cheap ( most probably want both ). I don't work in the health care industry but I am curious how doctors would want to have their jobs structured at HMOs; do doctors want less patients and more time spent with them or do they want less time and the ability to see more patients?

Quality care takes time. I am not going to dictate how people do their jobs. If they need more time then they can take more time; if this allows them to see less patients per day but spend more quality time doing their job, less prone to errors, and more comfortably, I don't see a problem. If there happens to be a shortage of doctors' time that is perhaps another issue unrelated to the quality of care they are giving.

her gripes :)

Uncomfortable using computers in the examination room to enter patient data in realtime?

How about simply entering in the notes that you write on paper during the exam into your records database when you are done and alone. You can even scan images that you draw; however, I would take a high resolution digital photograph instead ( that would save even more time ).

And you might as well scan the whole page of notes into the system as well.

Ok. So the space is too short ( for a full synopsis ). But we ( as synopsis authors ) would invent shortcuts for rating and summarizing the content that would fit to the right or be truncated. And when a user clicks on comments, the full synopsis is always at the top of the comments.

And maybe the descriptors that different users would implement ( like their own tags/ratings for the content ) would become unique to that user, eventually, and have contextual meaning to that author. Each synopsis author would have their own tags that they could reuse. Only people who subscribed to that author could see their synopsis so their silly or cryptic or worthless synopsis descriptors would not clutter HN readers' experience unless they subscribed to a particular s-author ( synopsis author ).

So each user could have a customized right-hand HN site by subscribing to other synopsis authors and each synopsis author would have their own ways ( tags, most likely to start ) for communicating concise summaries/likes/dislikes of the content posted on HN.

But wouldn't a feature such as this take all the mystery out of HN headlines? Or would it add more mystery :) ?

Or would it add too much sub-culture HN? How much would be just enough? ( I hope I am not too off-topic by now )

@m_eiman: and/or allow users to subscribe to other HN users' synopses, such that I would only see my favorite commenters synopsis. And why use mouse over? Simply place it to the right of the link, taking up all that space that is not being used yet; put the synopsis in a more transparent color than the other text- like the <0 down-modded comments.

Well, Google does not explain what their search is for; why should you have to? Considering it is a niche market for folks that want to solve crossword puzzles, and you had enough people talk about it with each other, you could keep the front page non-descriptive. It is a destination site that people will visit when they know about what it does.

I wouldn't want to see a slogan every time I visited the site, anyways.

Change the tip word daily to mix it up a bit.

I agree. I might, if I were king of HN, create a playground of sites I thought ( or the community thought ) were irrelevant or 'least likely to succeed' ( they do this in high school year books! ( they imply it by having 'most likely to succeed')). Another thing, don't down vote comments; if a comment is bad then it will be on the lower end of the page and that should speak for itself. Down voting comments, I am fairly sure, will discourage hackers that have cool ideas to contribute but that may have been inspired to write a one liner 'Beavis and Butthead' style sentence. This is merely people having fun. I think this type of fun is being discouraged. If comments are offensive then remove the user. . .. Why is there a need to punish, in front of the public HN community, people that would like to say things that they thought was witty ( or for that matter share a link that they thought was witty at the time ). By down voting input that is not 'bannable' ( I don't think that was a word ) you are simply discouraging contribution ( either links or comments )( even if that contribution is below your threshold of content you would idealize on this site ) and that is 1) a method to shape the landscape of the of the site in the way you see appropriate 2) discouraging hackers ( they will either leave or comment less ) and shaping the content that they feel comfortable contributing. I have a feeling pg would say something like 'you can make your own site and create the rules how you see fit', and I would agree with that as well.

If you ever want to help the most people per dollar spent, take a look at micro-nutrient need in developing countries. Several smart economists ran the numbers and found this is the most cost effective way to help the most people. Check it out:

http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/

I have a feeling: since Android is porting it's software to many hardware manufacturers, it will have long term wide-spread consumer adoption ( ala Microsoft Windows, back in the day ).

Forgive me if this was as obvious as 'water is wet'.

I'll take two 16 ounce Mystical Fairy Juices and a two cookies, please.