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dawson··on Ask HN: What is your domain name purchasing experience?
I've purchased two £30-50k domain names through Sedo and one £300k two-letter domain name through a domainer – all experiences were pleasant and I felt the negotiations and price were fair.

More recently I purchased a .com for £7.5k for a new startup and the general consensus is the domain is worth a lot more than I paid for it - I have already had three speculative offers but I'm keeping it :) I also purchased the .co.uk for a very low price from the original owner who replied immediately and was very pleasant.

I tend to use an alias or third-party to purchase the .co.uk/TLD if I already own the .com as the seller will often bump the price.

I've had a couple of bad experiences, for example trying to purchase nihil.com and the seller wanted $65k – which it isn't worth imo, this was five years ago. I enquired again using a different alias a few months ago and they're now asking for $132k – meh.

There are some obvious techniques to not over paying, but all in all, it's timing and luck I feel.

dawson··on Ask HN: What do you use to access HN on your phone?
I use http://newsyc.me/ (it's open source too, iOS only though)
dawson··on Ask HN: Online Therapy?
I've met and worked with the founders of http://www.psychologyonline.co.uk/ and can recommend their service. It's the leading provider of online CBT in the UK and for the NHS, however, they also offer an international private service called Thinkwell http://www.thinkwell.co.uk/
dawson··on Flat UI Colors
I've been using this for a couple of months now, great work and thank you!
dawson··on Terry Gilliam on His Epic New Dystopian Film the Zero Theorem
HD version http://youtu.be/RyMSRRNHRos
dawson··on There’s Something Rotten in the State of Social Media
It's worth noting that the API you referenced is only available to Facebook games, and not other types of applications.
dawson··on There’s Something Rotten in the State of Social Media
This has now been resolved in v2.0 of the Graph API, whereby calling /me/friends only returns the person's friends who are using the same app, i.e. you can no longer access a list of non-app-using friends.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading#upgradin...

dawson··on TermsFeed – Privacy Policy Generator
It looks like a useful service and it says their legal documents are prepared by professional lawyers, however, the footer, contact page and terms of their website do not state their company's registered address, or number – in fact I can't find this information anywhere?
dawson··on DigitalOcean or Linode? What Do You Guys Recommend?
I have used both slicehost in the past and linode and can't complain about either as both were great experiences.

However, last month I moved several of my websites from LayerShift, NearlyFreeSpeech and WebFaction to DO (over the years I had collected family websites and side projects on different hosts). It took just over an hour to configure the droplet and transfer everything. I'm using a $10pm instance, saving me literally $100s a year compared to what I was previously paying. Admittedly most of the websites receive little traffic, however, I also have planet-tolkien.com on the drop which receives 20-60,000 uniques a day – the droplet barely notices. Thumbs up for DO.

dawson··on PicnicHealth (YC S14) Stores Your Medical Records In One Place
FHIR is a step in the right direction http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/
dawson··on Total darkness at night key to success of breast cancer therapy
Ditto! I've been taking 5mg Melatonin Fruit Gummies for almost two years now – Love them :)
dawson··on Ask HN: Coworking Space London (31/7, 1/8)
My friends developed this website http://www.tower10.com/ which aggregates coworking spaces and offices in Shoreditch.
dawson··on Healthkit
Feel free to email me too, I know a bit about this space :)
dawson··on Healthkit
There's nothing stopping you, or the developer of your chosen application exporting/downloading/synchronising the information from HealthKit's APIs.
dawson··on Healthkit
There are quite a few solutions out there that do, but none of them have the consumer or vendor reach that Apple does.
dawson··on Healthkit
Well, I'm excited!

Interoperability, standards, security, governance, (PAS) integration, health professionals mindset change are all required too – however, if EHR/EMR/PHR [clinical/enterprise] innovation is ever going to happen, it's going to be driven by consumers. I'm sure all the integration/interface engine vendors will be working over time for the next few months.

I especially liked this line :P ...

“How are you?” now has a really accurate answer http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/health/

dawson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
Stealth Startup in the Social Video Space, London, UK

(I'm posting this on behalf of a friend)

His start-up is venture funded, and has a very famous actor/presenter co-founder.

They're looking for a full-stack developer (backbone, ruby etc.) to be based in their London offices.

They're offering competitive salary + options.

The site is already live, infrastructure in place – you'll be joining an existing remote team, with the intention that you'll help set-up and move it to a London office.

Email me and I'll make the introduction.

dawson··on When two-factor authentication is not enough
Yes, agreed. The domains in question are .com TLD
dawson··on When two-factor authentication is not enough
Can anyone recommend a registrar who takes domain security seriously? (think, £ six digit value domain names)
dawson··on Disney Accelerator
Yes https://twitter.com/disneyaccel/status/434040445593608192
dawson··on The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf]
It's [NHS] England only (currently).
dawson··on The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf]
Will data be made available outside the NHS?* (PDF) [england.nhs.uk] http://goo.gl/CxqFVa

* FAQ 39.

dawson··on Show HN: Redditpoll.com – A simple polling application I made for Reddit
http://redditpoll.com/
dawson··on Ask HN: How do you come back from a failed acquisition?
Please contact me, details in profile.
dawson··on Chrome Extension Programming: Illustrating a Basic Survival Skill
OT You're not from Shoreditch, by chance?
dawson··on Peak - keep track of what everyone is working on
I wouldn't want to use this to monitor other people, but I would love to use it as a tool for quantified self.
dawson··on Show HN: real-time eye tracking web analytics
Opengazer, is an open-source gaze tracker for ordinary webcams http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/

p.s. not affiliated, but have met with the team several times at the lab

dawson··on In light of HealthCare.gov struggles, here are the UK's design principles.
Government Digital Service (GDS) covers this and more, see their service manual https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
dawson··on Ask HN: board control after series A?
I think it depends on what you mean by keep control? I'm still the majority shareholder, however, much of it will come down to the terms in the shareholder agreement (such as [investor] consent matters etc.).
dawson··on How to secure health data? Cryptography and security models
We're implementing the Summary (Emergency) Care Record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_Care_Record
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