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jermaink··on Sales of George Orwell’s ’1984′ up 69 percent on Amazon
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=George+Orwell+1984#q...
jermaink··on Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN
Hi everyone, if you like, you can checkout the social graph among the characters of some movies at our page http://moviegalaxies.com . Enjoy :)
jermaink··on The Handshake Deal Protocol
pilots call this cockpit-tower protocol a "closed-loop communication".
jermaink··on Microsoft fined $731m by European Commission over web browser choice
For now, it´s "just" browser applications.
jermaink··on Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows
May it be remarked, that the text on the starting page still has shadow ;) ?
jermaink··on Ask HN: Know of a hacker in Cambridge or Boston who wants a bookstore?
I think that Trident Booksellers gives a very good idea how you can run and think a bookstore above a bookstore. Try that in a different way - some ideas here are a good start.
jermaink··on You can do it alone
Let's ignite a candle and hug each other. And then let's watch Bob Ross painting a sunset lake.
jermaink··on Why I’m not backing you on Kickstarter
Oh no, not another 'Why I' article. This is at least the 5th on the frontpage today. I'm getting tired of these stories... HN starts to feel like being in Groundhog Day.
jermaink··on Show HN: Crowdsourced Object Recognition
good luck, mate! Loving to be behind the scenes :)
jermaink··on Collected Talks from MIT Collective Intelligence 2012 Conference
Exactly :) Anyone having questions on that can contact me.
jermaink··on JFK's Application to Harvard
P. 23 'please accept my thanks for your help ?'
jermaink··on Healthy Labs (YC S12) Wants To Be Go-To Site For People With Chronic Illness
There are a lot of health startups out there. But only a few thats founders convey an impression of personality and authenticity.

Knowing Sean and Will at least via Skype conversations, I always had the feeling they are a perfect team and make a difference to a lot of products as they try to tackle a problem. I mean a real problem.

Some initiatives do their best to improve the lives of patients with IBD. But the more empathy you have for the patients with his needs and the less you think about the market size or exit opportunities of your product, the better you might perform. While social proof in medical communities is the far biggest challenge of all, I´m convinced, they are the right people at the right time.

Maybe, the chances for patient driven innovation and exchange have never been better. Sean, Will and team - you know that our team is trying to contribute to that movement with a different idea and approach. Let´s build a beehive and feed the honeycombs with new solutions ;)

jermaink··on Social Networks in Movies
Dear HN community,

we´ve been working on this project for a while now and happy to get your feedback and questions for this very first version.

Thanks, Michael & Jermain

jermaink··on DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
Even if I would never like to visit a museum via iPad screen, the concept looks really great!
jermaink··on Wikipedia Redefined
Add a share button to your site :)
jermaink··on Interactive Images
I´d like to highlight that this is not intended as a nude-pic discussion ;)
jermaink··on AirBnb's new site design
Dear Airbnb team and design crew, you did a great job! The landing page is great and I´ve always been waiting for the infinite scroll solution for your service you implemented right now. Especially I really like the Picks and Collections which have their own style and a cool font. Is your designer featured on dribbble? For sure, these images are becoming the "Google Doodles" of airbnb.

I think the whole website looks nice & furnished right now and underlines the community culture. Maybe you can still tune the city listings page a little? They grey containers right here http://www.airbnb.com/s/San-Francisco--CA could be improved.

@airbnb: do you plan to offer the "Wish List" in combination with a gifting function, so that a user can gift his girlfriend or whomever with X nights in Wish List place younameit? I think if you integrate that into Facebook "X just gifted Y with Z nights in this beautiful room (link) in City Awesome", it would be nice.

jermaink··on Orbitz shows costlier hotel options to Mac users
OS discrimination
jermaink··on Why I'm Doing It All Wrong
In my past I worked in a small racing team in Germany. Still young, there were two things I learned from my co-pilot who was a known race driver in the late 80s:

1. 'It's not the speed that kills you, it's the sudden stop.'

2. 'always better, never perfect.'

It took some while until I understood that the petrol head was a better philosopher as I thought.

Might be that you discover tour own thoughts in these two quotes too?

jermaink··on Two New YC Partners: Kirsty Nathoo and Carolynn Levy
Kirsty is a very nice person who always had an open ear and fast feedback for yc applicants. Thank you for that and congratulations!
jermaink··on Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies
I'm sure the Facebook IPO will hit seed/early stage funding less than the SF housing market :)
jermaink··on nReduce: an alliance of hackers
@nReduce I think this is a really nice approach and I´m pretty sure I will join the demo day. It´s a nice experiment and taking "self curing" patient communities into account, an evolutionary and self organized community can work really good.

Hint: The more you want to be like YC, the less you will be like YC. nR is nR, give it it´s own shape in the communication.

and... thank you for integrating the "Follow Discussion" Button. I just updated the git right here. https://github.com/jermaink/hnfollowbutton

Renamed from "Follow Discussion" from "View Discussion" which makes more sense. Also some compatibility issues solved.

jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
updated the git.

- renamed from "Follow Discussion" to "View Discussion" - improved code, thx to @TazeTSchnitzel - tested with Chrome 19.0.1084.52, Safari 5.1.3, Firefox 9.0.1

just discovered that http://nreduce.com/ is using the button

jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
no, he refers to the did you know... part on the page :) Quite interesting research approach. Maybe its time to contest the longest left hand written sentence.
jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
exactly this is what I´m working on right now. I´ll release it tomorrow. As mentioned above, creating cross browser compatible buttons is really like opening a can of worms sometimes, especially downwards compatible solutions. Surely Firefox problems are a no-go.
jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
thx for the feedback! I´m currently summing up the forks and your info to create a better update until tomorrow. A 100% cross-browser compatibility is a challenge and I have to admit that I used Chrome ;)
jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
sbashyal, I really liked your work, which is comprising much more than my few lines of css. Also, I think displaying the current HN score is way better than the (indirect) external possibility to upvote items via linking. Last feature caused big discussions as you know :)
jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
Thanks hovertruck - will take that into account for the next update. I have to say I´m not a trained/professional web developer, but I know which parts can be fixed soon.
jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
Totally Agree! Maybe this thread will lead to some new idea. "Watch Discussion" could also be good, but anyway it shouldn´t be too long.
jermaink··on Show HN: The HackerNews Follow Discussion Button
Hey Michael, I think that already exists via the hnlike.com Button. However, transferring the Facebook Like logics to the self-selected HN Community had been critically discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934178

That´s why I thought about embedding a button as a link only.

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