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I hear this is what the creators of Pokemon Go used before they launched their product.

Pay for full time, beat-walking emergency medical technicians in shitty neighborhoods. This would prevent a lot of unneeded hospital visits and offer basic health services. A lot cheaper than 911 calls. I imagine having people on the ground would prevent a lot of problems.

I'd really like to see something like this for the anatomy of a cell! Nice work!

I was shocked when I came from NY to SF. The streets are incredibly dirty and some of the homeless are in really bad shape. Someone posted this link on Twitter (I saw it here on HN a bit later), and I got some insight as to why this is the case.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...

This is hilarious because I was just about to go the the art supply store and buy materials to make blinds for my windows. I am constraining my materials to paper and string.

This is very great!

I was considering doing something like this in the terminal, possibly using an adaptation of gtypist. However, I the more I thought about it, I realized that I would be better off writing a module for my everyday text editor, since I would have access to completion, copy/paste, indention, macros, etc.

I don't want to 'talk down' all the work you did with this. I'm really glad you made it and I am going to use it, for sure.

Keep up the great work!

The book `Programming iOS5` by Neuburg is probably amazing. I read a good amount of his last book `Programming iOS4` and it was, by far, the most comprehensive book I found on the subject. I hope it is fair that I am recommending a book I have not read yet, based on his last book with the same subject :).

I'm reading a negative tone to your comment (ie "to hell with them", "throw money at them", "sexist garbage").

Do you think it's possible that rather than having negative, sexist motives for offering scholarships, they are simply going out of their way to be _supportive_ to minorities in the field?

This is a really good idea to create much needed employment opportunities. I know they won't the best jobs available but it's something people needing a job would be happy to have. I am sure there are plenty of people that lost their jobs in the last 4 years and would jump at the chance to work for this company.

Best luck Cherry. I won't be using this service, since I don't wash my car until it rains.

What about publishers of non-text?

- images

- datasets ( think scientists )

- music/video

Find a specific genre of publishers to target as your primary users. Talk with them and solve their problems. You will make your service more compelling to those users by solving their biggest problems and building the ideal product for them.

It seems that comment contribution dissipates after a thread leaves the front page. There are valuable comments hidden from weeks and years ago only in that they are out of sight to us. The only way to check if someone has replied to a thread you are interested in, is to check that thread for updates ( or actively search for a topic ).

I propose thread subscription. If I want to watch a thread for new comments it would be convenient to get a digit on my nav bar regarding how many threads I am watching that have new comments.

I believe this would keep threads more active. Perhaps it would encourage quality posts, rather than quantity ( people might submit often in attempts to get on the front page ( even if for an hour ) ).

For instance, this is a great topic and I would like to subscribe to this thread-

Ideally, they would be a hub for innovative researchers on a shoestring-budget that could end up working together on even more ambitious projects. Or a good leader might be able to recruit from the applicant pool to break up a larger project into small groups that could focus on specific parts of the research.

There have been some great results in the news recently regarding CAR T cells in the treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. I think this one might be a winner.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873604

http://penncancer.org/cart-19

From what I understand about this treatment, blood is removed from the patient and 'infected' with a harmless HIV virus that has been modified to attach a molecule to T cells. This molecule binds to a receptor (CD19) on the cancer cell, thereby creating T cells that attack the cancer cells. The treated blood is injected back to the patient and the patients body creates more of these cells on it's own- effectively creating an immune response to the cancer cells.

Do you think a subset of HN readers could somehow facilitate a project that could help the labs researching ( or planning on researching ) methods for expanding this method of treating cancer? I would like to ( and inspire people here to ):

1) find the available labs that can best perform the _steps_ required for this treatment _process_. Basically, get a list of labs.

2) help expedite iterative methods for techniques that: a) speed the development time of the specific _step(s)_, and/or b) broaden the efficacy of the overall treatment _process_ ( ie. treat other cancers ). Basically, list the _steps_ in the _process_ and see if there is a way to make them faster, better.

3) create tools that allow the people and labs working on this _process_ to communicate as efficiently as possible. Basically, learn how the different labs work and write tools that streamline their collaborative workflow.

I have a feeling there are many smart people on this site with free time ( ie. visiting this site often ), technical resources, and organizing skills that could make this happen- fast. Shoot me an email with questions/comments/complaints if you don't want to comment on this thread; I want to help.

There is beeswithmachineguns on github and that will cost some EC2 bucks.

Captcha is not working on the page's comment engine. So I'll post here:

Have you considered an automated toll free number for businesses to opt in and opt out? You know, to make it easy. Good Luck!

Nice work! I am interested in collective intelligence. This is a cool starting point for quickly sharing an idea.

It seems like the reverse of a Question/Answer site; it is almost a Answer/Question site, where someone posts a solution ( or a solution to a question they were asking themselves ) and others ask them about more about what they found- great!

Concerning functionality: 1)How about being able to up-vote comments? Some insights and comments are more valuable to your core community; and it would be convenient for them to be able to see that reflected, as well as allowing them to encourage it.

2)How about being able to merge similar or duplicate posts; so instead of duplicated posts in a subject you would see all the duplicated posts under the most popular/valuable post, as chosen by the users' up-votes.

It is a general-knowledge based site right now. I wonder if you could port it to existing, active sites so that you could get feedback from the wild. Have you considered enabling it as a web service?

It might be cool if there was an API such that I could link the # of "aha"'s that users had attached to my website- similar to the Face Book 'like' and Google '+1' button. Though this would be more valuable, since I don't really want to see all the people that liked a page who I am 'friends' with; rather, I really want to read valuable insight ( hopefully :) ) from strangers!

Nice work. Could you highlight queries?

giberson said: """-When walking leaving my office and entering the hallway, how close should a person be entering the hallway from the opposite direction be before I wave or say hello. If I wait to long, they think I ignore them. If I do it to early, then theres a great length of time that we are both still walking down the hall and having used my throw-away "Hey" I have nothing left to offer them. It's awkward."""

1) I would recommend playing music. Playing music of any kind can allow you to become a better listener and help with timing your response or initial request/comment/gesture.

2) Be sincere; be empathetic.

3) Have fun.

Some people emailed me back.

Not one person emailed me back to say I was not following etiquette standards.

Feedback and traction are 2 different things. For feedback: directly contact people in the sector which your product is intended to serve. Send people whom you respect in the industry an email and ask them for their thoughts.

Getting 'initial traction' is likely about not losing interest while waiting for 'real traction', and being confident that your product/service accomplishes it's core function/value very well. Someone correct me if I am wrong: traction is measured in gaining popularity ( increasing users, or sales at an increasing rate ).

Does this mean that 'tags' can now to be used for more objective sorting of data, such as a multi-dimensional Dewey Decimal System? If so, I hope these tags are appropriately applied to each work- I would hate to miss out on content simply because it was tagged haphazardly.

I imagined tags to be useful for classifying content in a subjective manner. Tags are to content as blogs are to events.

What about a tab for each Path share group indicating which friends you share photos with? If you want to share photos with "work: medium-good friends" you can and insure that the "work: ok friends" or "family: mom's side" don't get the same post. I feel like the hard problem is not to keep groups separate, but to re-factor existing infrastructure to support separation and making it 'easy' for users.

Vinod Kholsa seems to agree in that regard. He is investing in profitable ventures that have great potential to solve large problems. According to a NYT article, he wants to show that for-profit businesses can be more effective at achieving goals than most non-profit organizations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/global/06khosla.h...

So you are defining 'social components' as within the user space of the Internet proper. The author seems to be defining the user space as a single branded site.

One difference is this: Google creates products that are designed to be shared via URLs. Other companies are really good at keeping their users logged in to their domains while users share with each other.

Scraping bird poo from the inside of large outdoor bird cages. While the birds scream and flap from above, I wear a rain jacket and scrap the cement floors with a putty knife. This was my first job and lowest paying job when I was 10. It was also only 3-4 hours a week.

Obviously, I like what I do now more than that job. But I am not currently working in tech.

Can I have an eraser please?

Wikis are designed to share information. Collaborating with others in your case seems to be about solving problems and accomplishing tasks. I would use tools that are best for each purpose in the collaborative process, rather than lean towards sacrificing functionality for 'all-in-one'-ness.

I would recommend a shared blog so each person can share current notes/ideas/links- for ideas and brainstorming. This is the place for peer comments and discussions. I can edit a blog post easier than a sent email.

A wiki would be great for separating known and unknown answers to the questions that arise during the project. This is the place to show what has been done and what needs to be done. Discuss these topics on the blog, not on the wiki 'discussion' page; post the _results_ on the wiki.

org-mode or something that simulated it would be great for prioritizing tasks. For those that are not familiar, it is an emacs mode that, among other things, allows you to create and move nested lists ( lists of lists ). This is the place to micro-manage the order of steps so that they are done most efficiently and keep people on track.

+1 for short description of what your app/website does on the front page:

"If you don’t tell people what to say about your app, they’ll come up with it themselves and sometimes it’s inaccurate or crappy."

I temporarily fell victim to not telling visitors what my site was about and (un)surprisingly they did not understand it from the interface. This happened early on when I was sharing it with people; probably what happened is that they arrived at the site and promptly left because they could not figure out what it did.

do you know what type of BOP they are using? And why it might not be working?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_preventer

Wikipedia says there are 2 types. Could be there is some sediment somewhere causing a mechanical failure? Or maybe some hydraulic fluids need to be heated up?

If it is going to take months to fix it using methods that have never been tried at those depths, it seems that spending some time trying to make that device work would be a good investment.

Also, can we get a temporary stackoverflow ( no pun intended ) for engineers working to solve this problem?