skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am. The weights are also in the data. Initially at the doctor's, I was 320. And that was 2 weeks ago.

Now I'm at 314.

And also, watch out about the a1c. They are not reliable readings to use in diagnosis. Studies from last year show a very skewed weighted average from the last 3 months that generate the a1c. Also, if you have any sort of hemoglobin-modifying illness (sickle cell, others), a1c is completely inaccurate.

140mg/dL is scientifically known to kill nerve cells. Every minute above this kills stuff. The ideal healthy human's response is between 85-100mg/dL. A resting rate away from this shows dysfunction.

However, an OGTT shows if you have problems. You take a reading prior to drinking 75g glucose. One big drink. Then you test every 30 minutes until you're back to normal, which is usually 2-2.5 hours. A doc won't say it, but every minute over 140 causes cell death, and most likely lower.

For example, this is what 12 carbs did to me:

18:20 12/09/2015	test	143
18:35 12/09/2015	eat	15m
19:15 12/09/2015	test	182
19:30 12/09/2015	test	172
19:45 12/09/2015	test	168
20:00 12/09/2015	test	150
20:15 12/09/2015	test	144
20:30 12/09/2015	test	123
That's pretty unusual, debugging for the most part just works. If you want help investigating that let me know, but if you're happy with Emacs that's cool too - lots of good options for Clojure.
This is just one, relatively small experiment. For comparison, the construction cost of ITER (which is still unfinished) are $14 billion so far.

The US Fusion Energy Sciences program is over $400m a year (source: http://science.energy.gov/~/media/budget/pdf/sc-budget-reque...).
Disliking deserters or freeing Taliban prisoners really isn't a partisan issue. Where I take issue was the immediate media firestorm created not 24 hours after his release was announced. We were bombarded with stories describing soldier deaths (that are now thought to be incorrect) attributed to his desertion and reminders that we "used to shoot" them. We're talking about a man that, either through mental illness or a legitimate desire to try and improve the operations of the army, walked away from the (relative) safety of his comrades and was held for FIVE years by the enemy. Yes he endangered his fellow soldiers lives, yes he may have deserted his post, and yes he may have been disillusioned with the army at the time. Is that worth throwing his life away and spitting on his grave? If I'm a prospective soldier, I'd like to think the military has my back in these situations.

Why do you think the rush to destroy this soldiers reputation before the facts were known happened? Why do you think nearly two years after his release today is the first time we've ever heard his voice? It's certainly interesting to consider.
At the risk of sounding too cynical, have you considered that Amazon is likely paying YC as much or more for the opportunity to offer this credit? And that maybe this whole deal is at least partially because Amazon wants to acquire new customers?
"Arguably the laws Uber is breaking are themselves immoral.
"

By whose standards/judgments?
Not to mention, that the parking meter box is across the street, not on the corner, so to get to it legally you'd have to walk half a block down, cross with the light, walk half a block, put your money in, get the slip of paper, walk back half a block to the corner, wait for the light again, walk back to your car to put the paper on the dashboard (hoping you didn't get a parking ticket in the mean while), then go to your destination. Repeat every 2 hours.

This is Chicago's parking meter system.
From a reader's point of view it is. On the production side, HN differs greatly as newspapers have traditionally had direct relationships with their content contributors
> I don't know what this statement means. The Go scheduler certainly runs on different threads. So what.

It means that some of the data structures the scheduler examines on every run are shared data, with locking. That makes it effectively single threaded, even if it technically runs on different CPUs (at different times). Put another way it means that it'll never run faster than a single-threaded scheduler would.

> Actually it's not purely cooperative, it does voluntary preemption, very similar to voluntary preemption in the Linux kernel.

You mean preemption inside the linux kernel, in some kernel-space threads ? Because it sounds very different to preemption of applications.

> The check happens in every function prolog.

So it's cooperative. The standard that is normally used is simple : does "for {}" crash("block" if you prefer) some part of the system ? On the linux scheduler the answer is no. In Erlang the answer is no. On the Go scheduler, the answer is yes.

On the linux scheduler with proper ulimits it's bloody hard to crash the system, for instance, forkbombs, memory bombs, ... won't do it. I hope we'll get a language where you can do that too (and the JVM comes quite close to this ideal, some JVMs actually have it even).
Oh, another mystery-meat menu.
> The enslavement of an entire race of people goes quite a ways beyond "unpleasant."

Absolutely. But what we're talking about isn't racial. The last time I worked on a master/slave setup (I forget whether we used those terms), the "master" and "slave" were of the same race. In fact, the slave could become the master, and the master could become the slave.

You may tell me that we're talking about the words, and I suppose that's true. But the words are also used for same-race slavery, so the words are not inherently about a racially-charged situation either.
> but you're still giving up 2-3 hours of free/unconstrained time

It'd actually be 4+ hours a day since it's 2-3 hours each way.. sounds crazy to me
This looks like a really cool utility! What other tools out there provide the same service, and how do they compare to this?
First, that's not a great comparison since drugs are more on the active side of the spectrum. Second, the vast majority of substances do not need FDA approval before people can choose to consume.
Confirming the accuracy and precision of a medical device isn't as simple as running a test in an afternoon. Interestingly, Jean-Louis Gassée did almost the same experiment[1] which was discussed earlier this fall[2].

1. http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/10/18/theranos-trouble-a-firs...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408811
Perhaps there were contracts with manufacturers that would have been more expensive to back out of at the last minute. It's also hugely demoralizing to a team to work on something for a couple years and then see it never ship because of mismanagement many levels above them. They probably ran the numbers and saw it was cheaper to pay X million to ship a shoddy device vs. a greater Y million to back out of contracts, perhaps lose team members in frustration, etc.

See also: Microsoft's Kin phone that actually shipped and was discontinued 48 days later.
> I think they still have to be counted as relatively uncommon in modern times, unless you or others can think of more than those two notorious long lived examples. Does the PRC count?

The Soviet and PRI regimes are convenient because they started earlier than the DPRK regime, they've ended and their lifespan is, for that reason, known. The PRC, Castro's Cuba, and a number of other one-party (mostly, that I can think of, Communist; the PRI regime is an outlier there) revolutionary states that are a bit younger than the DPRK and are still functioning exist, as well.

I think that such regimes become naturally less stable when the whatever misery existed in the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary period (including any major international war on the territory of the country around its formation) and was relieved -- even if replaced new miseries -- by the institutionalization of the revolution has passed from living memory.

> Even then, the DPRK is coming right up to that rough max lifetime

Sure, I wouldn't be surprised if the next couple decades saw the collapse (as one-party states) of most of the remaining early-cold-war era regimes, the DPRK particularly included; the DPRK is the one I'd expect to collapse most messily, too.
This would be problematic legally, even when what you're linking to offers a permissive license of some sort.
You bring up a good point, but Japan could beef up its military defenses without also shutting down the press. You'd think that the USA of all countries could be clear about that distinction and urge our ally to maintain a free press while also endorsing their participation in military operations.
No, what they did was not reasonable. You're assuming he died because of the fight... In reality he died because of how he was positioned after the fight (on his stomach, arms behind his back). We have known for years that this is a dangerous thing to do (it makes it _much_ harder to breath, at a time when he was already working harder than normal to breath). The NYPD actually has a policy against exactly this sort of positioning...
I understand that this is not meant to ever be a power-generating device. It is meant merely to demonstrate that it's possible to sustain a hydrogen plasma for 30+ minutes.

Is there any idea what scale of power generation we'd eventually be able to make with a system of similar size in the future?
So really it's just a matter of how sophisticated the hackers are. Add keylogger to get PINs. Add thug to get cards. Win.

There's no way around trusting the machine itself.
Startup Weekend regularly hands out $100 AWS credits to all attendees. I don't think I've ever seen anyone (or groups of people) go to SW just for that credit. $5000 is a bit more, but that -that- much more.
Well, they sort of showed early on that the prosecutions theory was wrong. But that doesn't mean he wasn't guilty. And when presenting his story, they spent considerably time debating wether it was true or not. It seemed pretty balanced to me.
Thank you for your perspective as a fighterfighter.

There is a huge difference between giving ones life to save others, and taking "reckless" chances and dying.

One comparison would be when a fighter pilot ejects out. No fighter pilot wants to eject out. Pulling the handles and ejecting is the last ditch attempt to save their lives, but in certain situations, its the only way to save their lives.

The problem is that police training doesn't seem to teach that use of deadly force should be the last option to save lives. It shouldn't be the first choice for police.
I don't know that it is universal, but placing self-protection first is normal in all the training I've had, or have heard about. It is the same principle as the patter you hear on planes about putting oxygen masks on yourself first, then assisting others.

Dead/injured/incapacitated first responders don't respond, they require assistance, which just make the situation worse.

Before you go imputing others' motives in a topic you don't know about, mayhap give some thought to learning a little first. I promise you that anyone who has any sort of first-responder training just wrote that post off as clueless.
Pretty much every cloud platform offers a deal like this to pretty much every tech incubator so the actual value of the deal isn't that high, certainly not $5000.
Most good founders realize $5,000 in hosting credits in terms of their time and effort is not a compelling reason to do office hours. Office hours provides way more insightful and long term value than some free server hours.

Developers who think in terms of over-optimizing costs probably wouldn't even be picked anyway.
>I think there's quite a bit of inflation in startup job offers.

I think you're living in a willfully ignorant echo chamber
I was actually suggesting that the Rust devs delay the release until next week because all the release orchestrators are fully occupied with the bi-annual Mozilla workweek, but it seems that they've managed to pull it off without a hitch. :)
It might comfort you to hear:
That almost everyone hits a steep learning curve when moving to new technologies.
That teams expect new members to take time getting to know how everything works (they have been there).
and that in time you may actually find yourself craving that feeling of having so much to learn.

Ultimately the times you are learning/improving the most are when you are facing many new challenges.

If you are anything like me, you may find trying to find ways to enjoy this time more helpful than trying to bypass or speedup this phase.
Also faster.

Double-tap watch or iPhone button, wave device near register, done. Fast.

That vs Walmart Pay tap iPhone button, [swipe to find icon,] tap icon, wait for app, tap scan button, position camera for QR code, wait for focus & recognize, done. Too long.

I tried Walmart's Scan-and-Go app. Idea was you could scan all your stuff before reaching the register, scan one QR code, pay, and leave. Took an inordinately long time. Walmart dumped it.

Edit: actually there has been a "tap to pay" available at many places. All too often it was turned off, and mildly confusing which cards had it (I had one that did, then its replacement card didn't, so there I was waving a non-tap card at a tap reader). The whole tech fizzled.
I wholeheartedly agree.

When I asked my doctor about what kind of exercises to do, and whom to ask about that for safe weight loss via exercise, he said "Oh just do exercises".

I also have an existing shoulder injury, and meeting with an orthopedic surgeon. His answer was "Don't do these 2 exercises because of exacerbating the condition, but the rest are safe. And These will help."

I'm still kind of in the research phase on what I can do that will cause a good amount of change. But my research also shows that a safe amount to lose is 1lb/week.
I was tasked with building a WPF project with no prior experience. I jumped on pluralsight for a lecture on wpf and mvvm, then started building the app. I realized I could use a framework for mvvm but I've learned a lot by doing everything from scratch. At one point I realized I needed some plugins for help (INotifyPropertyChanged, I'm looking at you) and started using them, which has made my life considerably easier. Build the project, use what tools are necessary. Don't let tools dictate your project. I've been down that hole a lot with JS. Gulp, Webpack, Grunt, Node, Express, Babel, ClojureScript, TypeScript, and it goes on and on and on.
Great, so to produce the fuel you can use energy from reactor, so it is self serving, right? I cannot find any simplified information on how dirty this is, what it takes to produce energy and what is the waste. It just says its clean and revolutionary.
Yeah, ok, fair enough. First, I was conflating Tokyo with Japan. Second, by normal I meant "culturally accepted" so maybe I shoulda just said that. But you know, normal kinda also means "within 3 sigma" as well as "mean". These data for Tokyo are interesting:

http://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/20/124942

and this one for Japan paints a more vague but differently interesting picture:

http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html

Really, it's not unusual to meet a salaryman with a 2-hour commute.
Well, given that the company literally wouldn't exist without a founder, the answer to your question can only ever be 'yes'.
The coverage of Theranos just makes me think of the media as vultures trying to keep a story stirred up until somethingm anything, happens.

They do the same thing with politicians all the time.
I'm totally ok with that use too, but that's not what's going on here. The GP's point, one that I agree with, is that we need to match data collection with focus on actually using the data for something. There's no practical point of having pretty dashboards with graphs if you're going to just look at it and smile if a line goes up instead of down. We need to follow with ways to get decisions out of data, and pick our visual tools to facilitate this process in the best way possible.
Here's a startup idea that I'd been holding close to my heart, but now that my teammate's working for a BigCorp, earning beyond her dreams, it's time for it to go public. Steal this idea!

Link rot is only going to get bad from now. It's real, and it's awful.

It's not even random websites. NYT will post a link to a popular Youtube video, two days later the video gets pulled, and one week into the article, the links are already stale.

As Wiki gets more 'reputable', newspapers will posts links to it. Wiki being what it is, the reference to the page will go stale.

So here's an idea for a service: hash all the outgoing/inside pages on a website. If they change, either 1) give options for users to review, 2) update the link 3) delete the reference. If the original website 404's, change the link to the archive page. If a video link is outdated, provide tools to search for similar videos to link, from inside the dashboard. For Wikipedia, automatically link to a certain version of history of a page, not the general page. This is different from the idea posted below because it integrates with existing publishing systems, so it'd be more b2b, and one would start cashflow right away.

For links to social media, use a 'photo snippet' tool that looks to check if the link is valid, and goes to the image version of the link if validity is dead.

I'm certain people would pay GOOD MONEY for this service. I know I would if I were running a publication.

Give me some spare change if it succeeds. : )
what will YC Research address?
Can German HN readers can explain this to me. My interpretation of German culture was that rule breaking was looked down upon. My own experience traveling in Germany was that rules were deliberately followed, for example, no one ever crossed the street until the Walk sign was present, regardless of it being busy. Honking your horn by an irritated driver happened only once in my 3 weeks there (and the cyclists took the driver to task for it).

The name escapes me, but an expat friend of mine living in Germany mentioned there is a government group that is in charge of making sure posted signs follow strict laws (can't find this on Google).

German engineering culture is known for high precision and quality.

Made in Germany has the same brand power that Made in Japan, and Made in the US have.

Given these stereotypes of German culture, to me, it seems out of sorts that VW (arguably one of the most public of German Companies) would have a culture of rule breaking.
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In many places in USA, chip cards take significantly longer than swiping - like 10-30 seconds.
I'd argue that a 50x increase (literally 5000%) is significantly more.
IIRC, couldn't throw it but you could kick it.
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My guess is he is either a very young firefighter or a gung-ho, but fairly inexperienced, volunteer.

He uses some firefighting 'slang' (referring to a call as 'a job', etc).
Yes, and much more recently we had the IRS stifling political groups that oppose the current administration.

But there's a difference between government stifling of speech illegally and government stifling of speech legally. At least with the former there are legal avenues that can be pursued to correct the situation.
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I'm guessing a bit, but it sounds like you're suffering from trying to find the 'right' way to do something.

I've been in situations where I've spent weeks or even months re-writing things because I read one more article about how some given approach is better than the one I was considering. Ultimately it doesn't matter enough to make a difference in the real world - your application will not be appreciably better because you used gulp instead of grunt or React + Redux instead of Backbone.

That doesn't mean that there isn't a difference between those things, or that some aren't better than others (I like React and would recommend it) but the choice of tooling is not your main problem[1]. This is going to sound very dull, but your best bet is to make some simple choices, stick with them for a while, and see how far you get. Try to avoid questioning things for a while, even if that feels really unnatural.

I think there's a kind of tooling FOMO that afflicts developers, where we get worried that if only we were using a particular tool or technique then our jobs would be, say, an order of magnitude easier, more successful etc. This is hardly ever true, and if it is true then you will be unlikely to be able to identify the choice you need to make until you've spent a good while building version 1 of your application anyway.

[1] https://xkcd.com/309/
> Do the site owners get paid for the 'eyeballs' from the subscribers?

Google contributor basically puts you in the same position advertisers are, you bid to advertise to yourself, and if you win, you don't see any ads :)
As someone who got those kind of ISOs, it doesn't take much stock to trigger that AMT tax. In practice, ISOs do not have their tax benefits in the majority of cases because of AMT.
Yes I am in the JavaScript ecosystem. I feel like I'm trying to escape from an Amazonian jungle of errors and things that don't work, trying to find a path that appears and disappears and sometimes is trodden by others and sometimes grown over, always with thorns and strangle vines, dead ends, thousand foot waterfall roadblocks. My food is running out and my feet hurt and by day the sun burns and at night there are the eyes of the beasts watching and waiting for me to fall.
You have a considerable chip on your shoulder, and are projecting things onto the article that aren't there. The article spends a lot of time discussing how things are from the departing employee's point of view, and not (as you suggest) looking down from an ivory tower.
"but they were fine with using brutal violence against anyone who didn't accept their doctrine of nonviolence -- especially those from different cultures, and followers of different religions (or different Protestant denominations; they were particularly cruel towards the Presbyterian Scotch-Irish). This is why they get under my skin."

If you don't defend your culture you'll go extinct, the same way you don't want to be contaminated by outside ideas an ways of life that you worked hard to protect. Hypocrisy isn't quite the word I think you'd want to use. People get violent because they passionately want to protect something from what they deem as evil. They can be misguided in that sense but, ultimately they do have a point - those who do not defend themselves find commitments to their principles/ways of life and doctrines waning and their communities will suffer death by mixing and mediocrity.

Think of it like cultural entropy, they are trying to resist things that corrode their way of life.
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Sounds like someone should make more "mentorship" startups.
And the headline should read, "Can Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes fend off the critical media critics (us) long enough to achieve something"
ha! reminds me of this https://twitter.com/internetofshit
"Apple (AAPL, Tech30) gets just 15 cents for every $100 in Apple Pay transactions, according to Gillis."[1]

In addition to the minor surcharge, there is the (opportunity) cost of Apple's hardware, the costs to vendors of supporting (yet) another platform, the consumer provides value to Apple in the form of consumer information, the consumer now has their fingerprint tied to payments, and then there is everything that goes along with the terms and conditions. Regarding the security, I'm not sure what the details are, but it seems that the attack surface is increased substantially. I'd personally prefer to have Visa, AmEx, etc reviewing and resolving fraud and other claims, seeing as how they've been doing it for decades and their bottom line depends on it, whereas Apple is relatively new to the game and Apple's bottom line does not depend on it.

Apple Pay might be awesome. Idk. But it's not "just a nice frontend for Visa, AmEx, etc., with better security".

[1]http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/26/technology/apple-pay/
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