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Any site that cares about SEO should definitely use one.


May I ask why?


Yes


Wordpress on a subfolder (not subdomain).


Why is a subfolder better than a subdomain?


I'm a big fan of HN's moderation - stopping flamewars, rules against clickbait titles, ect


In the book, it explains that the pre-ipo stock he was granted at FB was approximately equivalent to what he would have gotten from the Twitter acquisition.


The emails work, it's how business gets done. Live with it or don't use email.


Do you not worry that people who are not researchers, who are providing essentially the "TL;DR" of a disease, will provide incomplete or potentially misleading advice?


In addition to what rf1331 said, to what extent is hdphealth liable for a case where e.g. someone reads that treatment X is beneficial for their case, but in fact someone got the facts slightly wrong and it made their case much worse?


https://www.hdphealth.com/2016/02/16/the-research-on-biopsie...

Notice the disclaimer at the bottom.

As well, we link to the research article itself in every scenario.

At some point we should try to add a "Share with your doctor" button.

Thanks for the feedback.


I think a niche certainly exists for your product...

If you could manage to land an ad in AARP-The Magazine for instance, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at the response...that demographic is of an age where many common ailments begin to show up...

I'd caution you to give the idea of adding a "Share with your doctor" option very careful thought before implementing it...

Some physicians don't mind patients that attempt to research their ailments online prior to an appointment...others dread seeing patients arrive with printouts from the internet...

This is anecdotal from my wife's side of the family, which includes 2 physicians, a dentist, and a physical therapist...

Having said that, times are changing...

Good luck!


Thanks. We've had an overwhelming response even from just the tech community submitting articles on all sorts of things ranging from hypopharangeal cancer and beyond.


Of course we do.

This is we try to adhere to common translational research guidelines. The focus is not on opinions but understanding and characterization of the research out there.

Over time, we'll publish these guidelines. As well, in each summary there's a disclaimer that states this is not medical advice. Any action should be discussed with an experienced medical licensed professional.


I would rather have incomplete knowledge of a topic than none. The toughest part of learning something, like so many other cases, is in getting started.

Also, I can't be sure pending research into this, but I would be surprised if these reports ended up worse than the typical news story attempting to cover such things.


I think the more important part of that sentence is "or misleading".

"We don't know what happens if you drink cyanide." is different than "You should drink cyanide."


I think I've addressed your concern below.


Computer Science alongside other subjects is a hell of a lot more impactful than most liberal arts classes. I rarely meet non-engineers (or people with some sort of technical training) who know how to think analytically worth a damn. Introducing CS would certainly help this.

And this argument is basically decrying the semantics of "Learn to code". Yes, the term is ambiguous. That's not the point. I believe it's called using layman's terms.


I'm interested in this as I have never heard of developer bootcamps. What was your experience like? How does it differ from a CS curriculum?


I cannot speak to how it differs from a CS curriculum, as I do not have a CS degree, but I vouch for the fact that a bootcamp can teach you way more than you would imagine you could learn in such a short amount of time (usually 10-12 weeks). I am currently enrolled at TheMakerSquare in Austin TX, and knew virtually no programming when I applied. I didn't even know HTML or CSS and now, just a month and a half later, I'm spending my evenings generating rails apps and fiddling with code. It's a pretty impressive change that I most likely wouldn't have been able to do alone, or even with a good mentor.


aren't we overthinking this a little much?


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