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sandaru1

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Co-Founder of Medical Joyworks http://www.medicaljoyworks.com/

sandaruwan [at] gunathilake [dot] com

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vetter.monsoonyeti.com 6y ago

Show HN: Vetter – check if your emails will be spammed

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blog.airbnb.com 9y ago

AirBnB: Fighting Discrimination

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medium.com 11y ago

When Facebook’s advertising team takes political correctness a bit too far

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hackaday.io 11y ago

The Hackaday Prize – 2015

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www.prognosismoms.com 14y ago

Show HN : iPad app for learning about pregnancy via stories

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code.google.com 15y ago

Google Codejam - Qualification round is today

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thenextweb.com 15y ago

Bing Now Powers 30% of US Searches

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www.eattobeat.com 15y ago

Review HN : EatToBeat, iPhone app for learning healthy food choices

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gtresearchnews.gatech.edu 15y ago

Researchers Control Brain and Muscles of Tiny Organisms Such as Worms

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www.guardian.co.uk 15y ago

USB is forbidden to Evangelical Christians because symbol is the mark of Satan

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blog.chromium.org 15y ago

Security improvements and registration updates for Chrome Extensions Gallery

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blog.medicaljoyworks.com 15y ago

Please beta test our iPhone medical app (improved based on HN feedback)

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www.prognosisapp.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What do you think about our medical iphone app?

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www.engadget.com 15y ago

Controlling iPhone using your brain waves

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www.businessinsider.com 15y ago

4Chan Founder Moot's Weird Testimony In Sarah Palin Email Hacking Trial

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: We realised one of our pet projects. How to market this?

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blog.techtestnow.com 15y ago

Show HN : Review our product for conducting online coding tests

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Tell HN: TechTestNow, an app to help you hire the best coders

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www.soundation.com 16y ago

Soundation - Create music on the web

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ipsc.ksp.sk 16y ago

Internet Problem Solving Contest

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: How many of you are doing algorithmic programming competitions?

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www.producteev.com 16y ago

Producteev : A nicely designed task management tool

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www.chrisbrogan.com 16y ago

When Google Owns You

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www.kesiev.com 16y ago

HTML5 Game Engine

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techcrunch.com 16y ago

Opera Submits Browser App For iPhone

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Is there a tumblr like self-hosting open source blogging platform?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Tell HN : Wordpress.com exploit

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www.eff.org 16y ago

EFF : use of social networking sites for investigations (criminal or otherwise)

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aruiz.synaptia.net 16y ago

EU decision on IE (If I was Microsoft..)

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www.groklaw.net 16y ago

Day 2 of the SCO v. Novell Trial - Opening arguments

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How would this affect you if you are using Github as a OAuth provider? Does Github mention under what conditions they are going to take away someone's username? No code? No OAuth? No activity?

But the religious groups are a protected class. Religion is something you choose. By that logic, it would be possible to discriminate against "Christians", "Muslims", etc.

One of the reasons I'm using Uber is that it's quite safe. Otherwise, most of the times you try to get into a cab, they try to rip you off. There are rigged meters, long routes, switching bills when you are paying, etc.

I posted about our small medical app about 6 years ago. So far we've been,

1. Started a company around the medical apps (http://www.medicaljoyworks.com)

2. Managed to create a revenue stream and released more than 12 apps in the medical education field (Some completely new apps and some sub specialty apps of the original app idea)

3. Employed several full time people through out the years - in four different countries.

4. Our apps have been downloaded more than ~4 million times and been in the top ten medical apps around the world continuously.

5. Have been featured in many prominent blogs and medical college study guides (Also few research papers on medical education using gamification and pilot programs from universities)

6. Released more than 600 case studies in English and Spanish. (We are on the process of translating everything into French, Italian and Portuguese).

7. Doing quite good on revenue/profit and about ~200 content creators are working for us on contract basis right now.

In any case, there is one question remains. How do facebook defines a "million dollar" bug if the security team is not aware of the damage it can do. Since this is not the first time this bug was reported, did they actually give a big bounty to the first person who did the initial report(Given that it can lead to this much damage)? Or just another small bounty saying that it's not a very important security flaw.

Just make sure that if there are any launch daemons plist files, those should be root:wheel. Otherwise "launchctl" won't load those daemons.

During the Presidential Election of Sri Lanka (2015, January), there was a huge Volunteer supporter base on social media for Maithreepala Sirisena (The candidate who won the election defeating the previous president). This was mainly due to the fact there was no media freedom and the traditional media was hugely biased towards one side.

It was quite interesting since the official tech teams of the candidates are there as nominal roles. They were just using online advertising and maintaining FB pages, etc - nothing more.

This blog explains in more detail : http://groundviews.org/2015/01/13/was-prespollsl-2015-sri-la...

The xkcd survey 11 years ago

Correlated.org is quite brilliant. Is there a way to see the most popular posts?

Ten years of Ubuntu 12 years ago

One of the main reasons Ubuntu got popular (compared to other distros) on Sri Lanka because they shipped free CDs. Lots of people in Sri Lanka didn't have Cable or DSL internet connections by that time. It was limited to a smaller area of the country - even when people had it, it was 512kbps.

No one was going to bother download a huge distro DVD to try out a new OS. However, when you get a CD, you tend to try it out. The smooth installation process certainly helped a lot.

I funded MicroView on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-ch...). I think they also ran into problems with manufacturing a large quantity of devices. However, I got the device in a reasonable time frame and I'm very happy with the quality of the product. I'm not sure whether they are the rule or the exception.

In the end, it's unfair to assume that this project will fail to deliver shipments based on unrelated failed crowdfunded projects.

App-pocalypse Now 12 years ago

One of the main reasons companies want people to download their free app is that it's a great marketing channel. Once enough people download the app, it goes up in the App Store rankings. When you are up in the rankings, you get free marketing for your product. Thousands/millions of users are seeing the app and by extension the product.

Tried on v0.3.5 - works fine after I added a "partials" parameter to boil config on maptail.js line 39.

Otherwise boil.js fails to normalize the path because it's passing an undefined value and path.normalize tries to access "charAt" function of the string.

>> You want to apply gaming mechanics to exercise? Good! Do it and tell me about it! That sounds awesome! Make an iPhone app for it, make a facebook app for it, let me pick random strangers across the internet to challenge at it. Make leaderboards and lots of badgers, and blog about it. If you fail, write more blog posts about why you failed.

We just did that for Medical field - "Prognosis", currently at 5th position on iPhone medical apps (after 15 days).

http://www.prognosisapp.com/ http://blog.medicaljoyworks.com/