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Yes, that's why I said "needs trials and replication". That small clinical study is useless for insurance companies and standard medical practice today. But it is very useful to po…

For anyone generally curious about the ME/CFS patient experience and state of medicine, there are a couple good articles in The Atlantic[0][1]. For those interested in latest resea…

Excellent article - still I can't resist a rather large quibble. The commonly stated assertion that spectrum is a limited resource is not quite accurate. Spectrum is technically de…

There's no straightforward fix because this behavior is something that emerges from mass psychology, like war. In a sense this is war, with new platforms to amplify and direct weap…

Disclosure: I'm an engineer with the Advanced Protection Program. Thanks for your work securing campaigns! I forwarded your post to my team because a major goal of ours is to be us…

It's a common part of human nature. Assigning bad moral character on the basis of group identity, rather than on individual actions, is the essence of tribalism and bigotry. Sure, …

Hyper-aggressive lawyering by a powerful entity can be an early indicator of how they treat people and use power. The important thing is to actually read and understand the agreeme…

Since the target audience is mostly non-hackers, I'd make these points instead: - For people not using a library or framework, use one! - For people who build libraries and framewo…

LivingSocial didn't skip server-side validation - they delayed it. Now they can identify cheaters who were suckered by false reports of a loophole. Doesn't look so dumb to me.

This is a protocol flaw. The design assumes that proximity (signal) implies authorization, but the researcher proved this isn't always the case. The protocol should at least provid…

I avoid this by keeping my core apps in Chrome/Chromium and by browsing everything else with Firefox+NoScript+ABP.

"The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." - Thomas J. Watson "A problem well-defined is half solved." - John Dewey

It's a basic function of leadership to communicate a sense of purpose and to convince a team to buy in. It amazes me how often supposed leaders neglect this.

Strong idea and well executed so far. I know the pain point well. Not so sure you're appealing to the right target market. It's hard to see this within the HN echo chamber but your…

Knowledge is useful only as an input to action. Otherwise it's a dead end or it might have non-useful value such as entertainment.