skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to crowdsource, obtain all your lab results that have ever been done, scan them, and post them. Those medical records belong to you. Black out your name if it worries you. (Edit on afterthought: if you're considering doing more tests and if your insurance situation is poor and if you're American, look at personalabs.com, who will order your labs from LabCorp nearly anywhere in America at just a little above cost - the difference is almost certainly going to be huge, and if the doctor isn't helping you, it's good to know you're not locked into getting the doctor to order labs for you.)

That said, it's pretty clear there's something funky immune going on - the IgA thing, the initial response to Vitamin D (and I second or third the recommendation to get sunlight - go for a walk every day; it'll do you general good anyway). You've got some weird digestive stuff going on, and so my personal red flag goes up, which is intestinal flora.

(Note also: tracking this stuff down is going to be a personal struggle, it'll take years, and there is a truly immense amount of bullshit in the world, so take nothing I say, or anybody else, without a large helping of skepticism.)

My daughter has Crohn's Disease and my son has minimal change disease (a kidney inflammation). After my daughter was hospitalized, we did a lot of research and found out what amazingly bad things can happen as a result of poorly managed intestinal ecology, and after making changes to our diet - some of them pretty profound - she's been symptom-free for three years, our son is improving, and I've lost weight as well.

So here's what I recommend: go to your pharmacy and purchase some sachets of "VSL #3", a probiotic mix. Don't follow the instructions on it; use it as yogurt starter. Yogurt is dead easy to make; get one half-gallon of organic whole milk, one quart of organic half-and-half creamer, mix a cup of plain Dannon yogurt and one sachet of VSL #3 into them as a starter, put it into a gallon glass jar (available from Walmart) and put the whole thing onto a candle warmer for 24 hours wrapped in a towel.

After 24 hours, you'll have three quarts of the most electrically sour yogurt you've ever tasted. Eat that twice a day for a while. If you want to get serious about this cure, take a couple of weeks and don't eat any complex carbs (that's way harder than it sounds). If you've really got an intestinal flora imbalance (you're presumably American, so you do, trust me) and if that's your root cause, you'll feel better in a week. You'll probably feel somewhat better in a week anyway, but there might be more going on.

That's my two bits. I applaud your effort to take your health in your own hands, and if there's anything I can help with, get in touch (email's in my profile).
That you received partial or temporary benefit makes me wonder if one of those conditions was the culprit and you just needed to attack it differently.

Alternately, perhaps the benefit was from suggestion and your condition is psychosomatic. This doesn't mean it's not real or not out of your control, it means that you have something in the wiring of your brain that is causing your body to wig out.

It sounds like what you need to do is to engage with a team of experts and stick with them. You need someone or multiple someones tracking all of your various treatments and responses long-term.
The initial improvement I saw was on a 1000 IU 2x daily over-the-counter dosage from the doc. This was encouraging, so he gave me a 50K IU weekly prescription. I started to feel worse when taking this. Thought it was perhaps too much. Doc had me go back to the 2x daily 1000 IU. Unfortunately I never got back to that initial level of improvement. My bloodwork now shows that the Vit D level is within normal range (25-OH, Total: 47, D2: 35, D2: 12)
It looks unwieldy, but it does need large pages. I can't tell for sure, but the active area of the screen seems to be comparable in size to my larger textbooks.
I assume the parent runs Windows, so I don't know how to do it with that, but with a Linux box running Gnome it's really easy, just change some values with gconftool. http://github.com/Jach/cycle_gnome_background/blob/master/ch...

You could probably change the script a bit to wget Bing's image into /tmp or somewhere and use that.
The animations need some work. Here's a cool one, that I'm working on modifying. http://jasonlbaptiste.com/jqtouch.html I wanted to add a swipe to go to the next article function to my blog.

Check out some Boxee apps to see how I feel things should look like.
No and no.
"Slightly high" means it probably doesn't mean a lot. Frustrating.
The previous plans were not unlimited--they were capped at 5GB, IIRC.

That is reasonable. I think even your local internet cable connection has a max. 250GB transfer limit. Thing is, these are rarely enforced and present for worst case scenerios.

AT&T said that 98% of its customers will save money by switching to these plans.

I am more concerned about the future consequences. High bandwidth content over mobile is in its infancy right so usage is no where what it will be a few years from now. That is when AT&T will be making a killing because by then, use would go up and people would be used to this notion of paying by the GB.

I know this because I saw this in action in India. Initially, in the 90s, the ISPs had few gb limits. It didn't matter because all you used the net for was email. Then came broadband, napster, and torrents and guess what? The concept of buying by the GB carried over.
There is a way to test if it's an autoimmune disease which involves taking medication for a week that depresses the immune system temporarily. If the symptoms subside then you know it's an autoimmune disease and you can dig deeper from there. You'll need to talk to a neurologist to get that done. My advice is to find a good neurologist and stay with him/her for a long while rather than switching doctors too often.
This article was ridiculous. Maybe the people who would apply figured your job wasn't worth a $1 when they are unemployed?
A lot of people have mentioned this already, and I see that you're aware, but try to take another look at Lyme disease as a possible candidate. There's a huge controversy over it that I'm sure you're aware of.

If you haven't seen the movie "Under Our Skin", go see it now. It's all about the insanity surrounding Lyme disease, and basically the conclusion is that you need to find yourself a real expert on Lyme disease, and unfortunately they're not easy to find.
Steve Jobs says Gizmodo tried to extort Apple
You could perhaps try and internationalise it a bit. e.g. Hulu replaced with BBC iPlayer etc.
There should seriously be a graduate class devoted to watching Steve Jobs speak. I'm watching this and I know he's full of it.

Hypercard was as big as Flash? Come on!

But as I watch him I'm totally buying it. Even though I know he's full of it. I KNOW IT. Yet I watch him and I'm shaking my head going "Yeah, I can see your point". Amazing
Right. For me, it's not that they're instituting restrictive policies (which I can sort of understand in some cases). The problem is that it seems to be a moving target. If I was an iPhone developer I would feel like I was being toyed with.
How to avoid Information Silo
IgA is immunoglobulin A, which is likely directly related to your nasal congestion. The elevated levels could either be causing the congestion, or a result of the congestion.

Do they give you actual numbers, or just "normal"? I'm always more interested in the actual numbers, rather than someone's interpretation of them. (Even when the someone is a trusted expert in their field.)

According to the AARDA, there's no such thing as a test for all autoimmune diseases [1], which is surprising to me. You're probably going to have to submit to a very long series of tests, ruling out one possibility after another, unfortunately. A kind of reverse lottery.

And just FYI, I settled on an autoimmune disease for the following reasons: fatigue (common symptom for a heightened immune response); muscle pain (i.e., flu-like symptoms); numbness / loss of dexterity (nerve damage); nasal congestion (classic immune response).

Medical diagnosis can further be complicated by co-diseases, or other situations where something causes another series of symptoms as an unrelated side effect. i.e., you start with an infection of some kind, which presents a certain set of symptoms, but then you develop a rotten gut as a side-effect of your body's response to the infection, and then you get distracted looking for IBS, and assume that the IBS-like symptoms are causing the rest of the symptoms.

You might try focusing on the possibility of Lyme disease for a while, only because you did test positive for it, and AFAIK it's not a very well understood disease. There are a wide range of symptoms and other problems associated with it, and they can surface years after the initial infection. I think the majority of its effects are incurable but treatable, but I'm not terribly certain about this. The only reason I know anything about it at all is because it's endemic in my area, and there was a possibility that I was infected a few years ago.

Good luck.

[1]: http://www.aarda.org/infocus_article.php?ID=15
Yeah, you are, because accents are often left off of capital letters in French.
When I read your list of symptoms before reading on to the list of stuff you've been tested for my first reaction was Lyme disease, my ex-wifes brother has it (he's a forester in Poland and got it through tick bites which are something of an occupational hazard).

And you list in your later writing that you test positive for it, now, one thing about Lyme disease is that if it is untreated it is steadily progressing, he's under a pretty strict regime which basically puts him in hospital periodically for blood treatments.

Please re-consider this option because it rings all too familiar.

Have you had any (infected) tick bites when you were in your 20's (probably hard to remember from that long ago...) ?
Monster, RedBull, Rockstar, etc these things are pure evil. I honestly attribute a lot of my own medical maladies to a few years where I was sucking them down once a day. And I've experienced a lot of the symptoms in his article too. I'm no doctor but a detox from the energy drinks is a logical first step
International Number ones
Wordpress.com adds social-networking features to blogging, causes uproar
This is like Facebook changing their original platform idea. Wordpress introduces quick and easy reblog feature (along with the dreaded Like button) and it causes uproar among the community.
This would've been really awesome when I lived in DFW.
Yes, definitely seconded, it is a very tricky disease. Too many of the symptoms match, especially the heat sensitivity is a strong one.
Also, it's free if you bought the iPhone version.
I'm wrong on neither count. The likelihood that anyone's disk encryption is going to be broken by a brute force attack on an RSA key of any size is nil. There remain attacks on Bitlocker regardless of whether it boots from a static trusted root. And, again: the whole notion of "evil maid" attacks does miss the point of disk encryption; if you lose control of your computer, it's no longer trustworthy no matter what.
"Why the hell would you want to waste an iPad on using it as a picture frame?"

Camouflage, perhaps - if thieves enter the house, they might leave the "crappy picture frame" behind.
A lot of this was already available: http://bulk.resource.org/patent/
You keep saying "Google does a much better job". But I'm specifically rebutting that point. I gave specific reasons why I think that. You keep offering no specific responses. Why do you think this is an effective way to make a point?

I'm sorry you feel like this is getting ridiculous, but what I think is happening is that you've once again bumped into someone on Hacker News that isn't simply going to concede the point to the person with the greater zeal for the issue. I get it. You like OpenBSD. You prefer open source. You prefer Google to Microsoft. This is all understandable. Unfortunately, your ideology doesn't change the facts on the ground.
It's easy. Run 10km each day directly before dinner for 2 weeks with someone else. Perhaps 10km is too much, but set a fixed distance up front (definitely not less than 5km).

The advantages are:

1) Doing something every day is easier. This eliminates the decision "will I run today?". Deciding yes requires more self control than doing it every day by default, because the choice has already been made.

2) Doing it for 2 weeks is low commitment, and sets a goal.

3) Doing it with someone else gives you outside pressure. This is good because you don't have to pressure yourself.

4) Running before dinner is good for two reasons. First you really don't want to run after you've eaten (hurts). Second, you don't have to remember it: your body will remind you (hunger: you want to eat so better get running).

Contrast this with: To lose weight I'm going to start running.

This is almost certainly going to fail. Now you have ask yourself the question "will I go running now?" at some point during the day. If this happens what will you tell yourself?

- I'm busy now; I will run later this day.

- My life is long; I will run tomorrow.

- The weather is bad now.

- I don't feel good today.

- During the run at 2km: I'm tired so I'm going to stop now.

Contrast this with: It's an hour before dinner. You don't even have to ask yourself whether you want to go running, because you already decided that you will. What are the excuses you can make up?

- You're not busy because you planned to run.

- You're only going to run for 2 weeks, you can do that.

- You don't want to lose the 2 week goal or the 3 days that you've been running already will have been for nothing.

- The other guy is ringing your doorbell/waiting for you, you can't say no to him.

- You don't stop after 2km because you said 10km. And the other guy is running next to you.

Eliminate decisions (do it every day, and 10km). Set a goal (2 weeks). Get pressure from other people so that you don't have to use up your own self control.

I think the key is not that you have to have good self control. The key is to avoid using it, and if you do have to use it try to make the right decision more preferable.

Oh, and two things specific to running/losing weight: you have a lower appetite after running (at least I do), and if you run you have another reason not to eat sweets/cookies/etc: you don't want to undo the hard work!
How iTunes Genius really works
Are peoples' levels of gullibility also exhaustible, or do we have to define a whole swathe of human characteristics based on some students, radishes, and cookies?
On the other hand, what if mobile data is more like "unlimited" web hosting than dial-up or long distance?
One of my fondest memories is arriving at a border crossing in mid-afternoon from the US to Canada and having to wake up the customs guy. Pre 9/11 of course.
Yeah, IANAL but my guess this is pretty illegal in most states. If it wasn't you'd be seeing a lot more companies doing it.
You can be marked as spam/fraud 95 percent of the time by behaving exactly like a spammer/fraudster.
Vivtek, thanks for the thoughtful reply. That's great that your daughter has shown such an amazing improvement. I actually tried the pro-biotic, anti-candida route about 10 years ago. I remember eating lots of Stonyfield Farms unsweetened yogurt. :-) Was great for losing weight, but not much else in my case.

You're right that logging and tracking is very hard. It seems cruelly unfair that brain fog is such a factor, since that makes it impossibly hard to figure out what might be wrong, and what to do to fix it. I've tried so hard to find a pattern.

Owing to my fatigue, I must admit that eat a lot of prepared foods. But generally they are the healthy ones- Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine, etc. Well, as healthy as a box of frozen food can be, anyway.

I do try to get sunlight, but it seems to have a paradoxical negative effect on my now- I feel even sleepier if I take an noon walk.
There are 13 slides with not a lot of information content, but bulky due to graphics (~ 7 MB).

One can avoid running PowerPoint by viewing them through the Google Docs Viewer:

https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottaaro...
Backed up with my own weight loss and fitness.

Anyone who thinks dieting is a temporary state is doomed; it's easy to categorize that as a delusion.

Your mind has a natural anxiety about breaking habits (it's rather superstitious) and also a natural aversion to putting effort into anything. That's why it's so easy to do something when you have enthusiasm for it and so hard once the enthusiasm wears off: enthusiasm is essentially excitement based on the belief that something will generate positive results. I don't know why enthusiasm seems to peak quickly and then die off, but I treat it as an opportunity to form new habits and to educate myself through experiences that would be difficult to bring about otherwise because of my natural laziness. Most long-lasting changes in my life are the residual effects of waves of enthusiasm that carried me for a while and then subsided. I've never been able to make changes strictly incrementally; it's always three steps forward and one step back (which I guess is that .5 stone you're talking about.)
Actually just tested Bespin today and it needs a lot more work before it becomes an IDE.

Right now it's just a browser-based text editor with some syntax highlighting for Javascript and HTML (XML doesn't work btw).

It needs a few more languages, code completion, code folding just to be a good editor.

Being an IDE implies also talking to some tools to compile stuff, deploy, debug, etc.

Let's say I want to code a Java application for Google AppEngine. Could I use Bespin (or anything else) to do this ? Not right now, and not soon.
What is old is new again

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443
Was Jobs saying that, in terms of market-share of like platforms (as in other frameworks that filled the same niche), that Hypercard was as big as Flash?
Make you own Kno. You will need:

- 2 x Apple iPad

- 1 x Hinge
Are you of any particular racial/ethnic background? Some forms of some diseases are prevalent in only certain races/ethnicities; you might try to find a neurologist or immunologist that's the same race/ethnicity as you, or one that specializes in your race/ethnicity. Sometimes they will know about things that aren't even on the radar of people looking at the general population.

Also, there are some TV shows about "Mystery Diagnosis" stuff; maybe you can get yourself on one?

Good luck!
(a) Funny you should ask. In the past year, there's one published advisory (kingcope's DOS) on IIS7, and 3 on Apache.

(b) In neither IIS 6 nor IIS 7 have any of those published advisories granted attackers kernel access of any sort. In fact: find me the last IIS vulnerability that did give up the kernel. I bet you can't.
I am not a doctor. However: My friend was suffering some similar symptoms to what you're describing and after years of tests and trials, one doctor decided to give her some adderall and she's be glowing ever since.

Best of luck tracking this down.
Yeah, there's no way to test for all allergies, either - and autoimmunity is just an allergy to a protein you make yourself. I was shocked to discover this, but there are on the order of 100,000 different proteins in blood, and electrophoresis is the most general test for them. However, electrophoresis can only sort them by weight. So it's useless for antibodies, which are mostly of similar size.

To check for allergy to a specific allergen, they take the allergen, attach it to a radioactive particle, glue your antibodies to a plate, and see how radioactive the plate gets when you wash it in the tagged allergen.

Repeat for every allergen.

Really.

Somebody will come up with what I expect to be a nanotechnology-based antibody assay or inventory method and will make a freaking mint someday. It could be you! It could be me! But it's definitely an opportunity that's out there.
(This'll be here waiting for you in the morning.)

Heh! Well, there was the time that I fell asleep -- complete with snoring -- while looking into a microscope at an electronics job.

Oh wait. That wasn't just one time.

On a more serious note: I also experienced a totally remarkable car wreck years ago, as a result of not sleeping. I fell asleep at the wheel, woke up in the center divider of northern highway 101, steered the car out, hit the concrete bumper with my front driver's tire while trying to shoot for an exit, went ass-backwards into a large drainage ditch, cartwheeled the car (!), flipped it, and finally rolled it up against a couple of massive redwoods. Somehow, I not only survived, but was almost completely unscathed.

It is a fucking miracle I didn't kill myself or hit anyone else on the road, and ever since then, I've taken my sleepiness a little more seriously.

And, a lot of overweight people don't sleep well, either for similar or unrelated reasons. But, either way, human bodies can be remarkably different machines.
I'd suggest food allergies / intolerances. Unfortunately the tests for those are very unreliable. The thing to do is try cutting a few things out and see what happens. I'd start with dairy or maybe wheat or both. Good luck.
The products I mentioned are all hard once cured, with various surface textures.

Depending what you want silicone sealent (the kind you can buy in a hardware store for a few dollars for a large tube) may do what you want.

I just object strongly to buying a product whose main strength appears to be their marketing campaign, with no real information on the actual product being given out beyond how awesome it is.
Never mind the fact that Apple, nor any software company should ever be in the position of censoring the content of any software that runs on their machines.

In what sense is this "a fact"?
Thanks rksprst. Aren't Celiac Disease sufferers usually thin, unable to gain weight? That's not me.
Demand pricing. It's "frequently" going to cost less. Now. But since everyone is going to get acclimated to variable pricing, you can bet that it's going to cost a whole lot more in the near future.

This is neither here nor there, since street parking in SF is probably much too cheap now. But doublespeak is doublespeak.
I think CS and robotics will become in greater demand in the future but I think the demand for traditional university CS education will decrease. It is still mostly a "results-only" field, and the Internet has made it even easier to self-educate, quickly and cheaply.
For the typical programmer, maybe. But that is like saying mathematics is a means, not an end. Which is true, but that does not mean there is no value in studying and advancing the field of mathematics!
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Low iron can definitely cause a lot of the fatigue symptoms he's describing...but if the doctors missed that, it's scary.
I have the DVD. :-) I was on antibiotics for a year.
Try taking a noon walk and a nap, then. That's what I'd do.

The problem with the dietary approach is it's nearly impossible to do unless somebody in the family is basically working exclusively on food preparation. The healthy food can't hurt, but probably isn't helping that much.

Well, if you can't think of anything else, do try making your own yogurt; they don't let storebought ferment completely because norms don't like sour yogurt - and a true lactic acid bacteria yogurt is like putting your tongue on a battery.

Good luck. I hope you figure it out.