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If your friend is in the United States it's worth reaching out to the following places to see what options might be available for clinical trials or treatment options. If these places are out of reach, at the very least, it's worth looking for a nationally designated comprehensive cancer center with a specialized brain tumor program where they'll have access to the newest treatment options.

UCLA Brain Tumor Center: https://www.uclahealth.org/braintumor/default.cfm

Duke Tisch Brain Tumor Center: https://tischbraintumorcenter.duke.edu/

UCSF Brain Tumor Center: http://neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/index.php/brain_tumor_center.ht...

MD Anderson Brain and Spine Center: https://www.mdanderson.org/cancer-types/brain-tumor.html

Atul Gawande, who's written extensively on end of life issues, had an excellent one hour Frontline special that covered the same topic. I highly recommend watching it if you're interested at all in how terminal illness and dying are handled in the United States today: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/being-mortal/

As far as I can tell that's actually what they did say:

"We are delighted to announce that the six General Partners of Andreessen Horowitz, with our families, are all committing to donate at least half of all income from our venture capital careers to philanthropic causes during our lifetimes."

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/04/25/our-philanthropic-commitment...

I think it's an extremely positive statement for them to make.

Great idea - thanks for the feedback!

Hey peripitea - the page is a permanent space to ask questions so you can keep contributing whenever you'd like.

(1) We reached out directly to a handful of people that we admired and a number of them were nice enough to take the time to sign up. (2) Not as yet, although a number of people use the same handle for their Askolo reserved name. This is something we'll definitely look into.

Hey bhousel - thanks for the feedback! Right now questions are sorted by most recent so you can see new questions at the top of a page, but we're looking at rolling out timestamps as well.

Thanks Omar!

Hey sgdesign - thanks for the comments! We wanted to take a different focus and offer a more conversational format for users vs. an iAmA style site.

We talked to the guys behind AnyAsq a while back and they're working on some other cool things not in Q&A - we're big fans of the team.

Good feedback. We have a feature to connect with FB after the fact, but it's a bit hidden so we'll make that more prominent.

Hey zeantsoi - thanks for the feedback. Right now questions are automatically sorted by recency. We left out timestamps to try to create a more permanent space for answers, but this might be a useful thing to display since we've gotten a few requests for it today.

Thanks - we'll get that fixed up.

Hey all - thanks for all the comments. This is clearly something we can improve a lot on and we'll work on getting something pushed out. I appreciate everyone taking the time to let us know.

Hey jfarmer, thanks for checking out the site. That looks like a bug - you should automatically be following them if you used Facebook. We'll look into it right away.

Hey flavio - we're using node.js, mongodb, and redis.

Great suggestions. You can actually share an individual Q&A using the "share" link right below the answer.

Hey rednum, thanks for the feedback. You can do some basic filtering on both the newsfeed and the individual page if you look right above the questions section. It's set to show all by default, but I think we can probably do a better job of making that more prominent.

Thanks eps. We wanted to limit who could ask questions primarily to keep quality high and to alert users when their question is answered, but this is something that we might open up if people prefer it.

Thanks for the feedback!

That's a good suggestion. You can click on a users profile image right now to see their current questions and answers, but the homepage could definitely use some improvement to show more information.

Thanks we'll fix that.

Thanks for the feedback - we're interested in not just Q&A, but really the idea of people search. We see Q&A as just the medium through which users can find out more about other people.

We actually have an option to login without Facebook right below the FB login button, so you don't need it to sign up.

Thanks for checking it out. The key difference isn't so much what you can't do with Quora, but rather what you don't do. People don't use Quora as a place to ask specific people questions.

We're interested in optimizing Q&A around thought leaders and experts. Quora works well for finding the right answer to a question - we're interested in finding out a diversity of opinions.

We wanted to a create an interesting space where people can find out about other users on Hacker News. Let us know your thoughts!