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Hey HN, I know some of you have been down this road already. My dad is 86, my mum is 79 and my dad refuses to leave his house until he dies. It's our family home from when I was growing up, 2 stories and my dad…

Hypothetically, if you could only choose one news publication that's offline (print) to read about world events, what would you choose?

Didn't think I'd ever be posting this on HN, but here goes. When I was a kid, my parents used to share babysitting responsibilities with other parents in our class so they could go out every couple of weeks. I was…

I'm sure many other parents are in this situation - we have an only child (5) who is getting a little sick of only hanging out with his parents and is starting to miss his school friends. We've had few video chats with…

Someone has come along to my site seeking assistance in refining how the protein folding comp at Stanford is organized. I thought some mathematically minded hackers might like to have a crack at it, there's $180 cash…

My city has opened its first shared working space for freelancers. They're wondering what the best way to track people's time is, as each freelancer is allocated a certain number of hours to use the office space per…

I've got a site running that links scientists up with freelance work. Occasionally math requests come up that go unanswered. The guy in the link below is looking for someone to prove properties of an algorithm for $500.…

Has anyone done chemistry freelancing before? I realise that there are a couple of open labs available in the US, such as Biocurious and Genspace. Is anyone aware of other facilities or labs that allow trained chemistry…

On iPhone, safari is painful, ihackernews constantly has problems with comments. I've tried most of the free apps but the threading isn't great. What do you guys recommend?

I've created a site that allows people to post math and science problems for money, the problem is I don't have enough mathematicians to solve the problems. Here is an example of a question for $500 -…

What are the major things that need to be rethought if this is in fact possible?

I switched to chrome a while back but I noticed that 4 new versions will be released this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Version_6.0. Prior to that a new version came out every 2+ years.

I've found a few places in the US that allow people to come in and use their equipment to conduct experiments, for example Genspace in NY - http://genspace.org/. Is anyone aware of other places with a similar setup? The…

As my business starts to build up I'm finding it more difficult to keep track of everyone. I have people I talk to primarily over the phone, some email only correspondence, others via linkedin or another network. What…