skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hoping that this goes all the way to the federal supreme court and gets settled once and for all.
I was thinking of a 2D printer which builds pixel-mosaics out of Lego blocks. That would probably be a lot easier than the 3D Lego printer.
And then who watches the police? This is how police states are finalized.
It's not lupus! It's never lupus!

Now where is my vicodin?
It becomes increasingly difficult to follow the narrative when the underlying text changes before I've even responded to it.
A lot of this sounds like what my wife's been going through for the last 3 years. Dozens and dozens of tests from the most mundane to the most exotic of disorders have turned up nothing. Her last physician told her to go to the Mayo Clinic. It's frustrating for her, and painful for me to see her this way.

She has a new physician now, but I'm not sure how much that'll help. She also has an E/N/T Specialist, chiropractor, neurologist, psychologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, electrophysiologist, endocrinologist and other specialists on tap. She's stumped them all.
Have you ruled out Lupus and other autoimmune disorders? A relative of mine has some of the same symptoms and has determined it is an autoimmune disease. One of the few things I know is that they can be very hard to diagnose. I will get their advice and pass it along. They have flown all over the country visiting a myriad of doctors and finally found a good one at the Cleveland Clinic, so at least you are close to good medical care.
Neuro/Chronic-lyme disease. Unfortunately that is such a weird catch-all with no obvious and agreed upon treatment at all. Definitely talk to someone who is an expert in the field.
Try: http://searchyc.com/
Cool idea. I'd love to see more of this happen, compared to events like the NY Tech Meetup.
I'm a programmer. Yes, 8 hours a day. I take daily walks, but nothing vigorous at the moment, as it seems to make me feel worse. In the past I did a twice-daily 2.5 mile run. Seemed to help a bit mood-wise, and perhaps mildly with the brain-fog, but lately it seems to make things worse.
The whole notion of Less is More has to do with the end result, at the consumption/interaction level. Of course there's complexity behind the minimalism, and that's the true art of it.

This article isn't touching on anything new, I was expecting definitive contradictions.
It is likely that the team from San Jose State University will use this vehicle to answer that very question during the next academic year, but it will involve a bit more work than just transmission changes.

While it is true that with only ratio changes the vehicle can be made to drive directly upwind, it would not be all that efficient as the airfoils currently on the vehicle are propeller blades and not turbine blades. A set of properly cambered blades will need to be fabricated and installed and then the test could be done.

One thing to remember is that when traveling upwind, the apparent wind over the chassis will be higher for any given multiple of wind speed. Upwind at 1x WS gives the same apparent wind as going 3x downwind.

The current 'record' for directly upwind is ~64% of wind speed.

http://www.gizmag.com/the-first-race-for-wind-powered-vehicl...
What about your iron, magnesium and potassium levels? I've read you've tried antidepressants, but has psychosomatics been ruled out completely?
Not a doctor, but just reasoning based on what you said:

The Vitamin D sounds promising. My guess is that Vitamin D is part of the solution but you may have depleted something else that Vitamin D is supposed to work in conjunction with when you took the super high dosage Vitamin D so that it no longer had any effect. I've read that Vitamin D depletes Vitamin A, Vitamin K2, and Vitamin E.
He asked for a security deposit? Yeah, just a little bit fishy. There's no way in hell I would apply for a job that wanted me to pay to apply. Totally bogus.
Really? How did you do that?
It will also end up being questionable considering USSC rulings on reasonable expectations of privacy in public settings. That is what surprises me considering this seems to fall squarely as 1st, 4th, 5th, 14th amendment issues.
Bingo!

Here it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868325 - So.. what the hell's wrong with you shooter?

It is a long text post but it lists symptoms that are remarkably similar to the OP's.

Shooter said:

Basically I had multiple infections (both viral and bacterial) that were slowly eating me alive.

and

Anyway, I tested positive for at least a dozen viral and bacterial infections, but they could have potentially all come from one tick bite. I think the estimate is that 30% of all infected ticks carry at least one other co-infection. So, theoretically, I could have been bitten by just one really 'sick tick.' Or I could have picked up other infections once my immune system was compromised by an initial infection.
Yes definitely try Reddit, remember a post a few months back where someone needed medical help and Reddit made a big difference
"[...] what evidence is there that the Boston area has ever been a sustainable place for startups to fluorish?"

His thesis is that Boston has an advantage for doing particularly difficult things and the situation there gets ugly when they become easy or at least easier.
It's never lupus.
This all sounds very much like a pituitary problem: this gland in your brain may be damaged and responsible for all of your drastic symptoms. If you remember from bio, the pituitary gland is the "master gland" of all of your other endocrine systems.

I'm only basing this on what you mention on your blog; I see that you haven't had any serious brain-imaging (avoid a CAT scan and go straight to an MRI/MEG if this is an option).

I imagine your Hashimoto's Thyroiditis may be directly related to a pitutary problem as well.

What really sets me off are your reports of incipient-response prevention: the "flinging" of objects may be due to a loss of inhibitory neurons.

Any brain-damage would be related to your other sensory symptoms (intermittent deafness, motor coordination, working-memory-loss).

I am not a doctor, just a cognitive science student, but your case reminds me of a lot of neuroendocrinpathology case studies. If you or your close friends have noticed an extreme personality change, then I would consider this a silver-bullet for getting your head checked.

Best of luck to you — I hope the prognosis is more optimistic than whatever diagnosis this ailment turns out to be.
I've move several times (originally east coast, Europe, midwest.) I did try getting a bit of sun, yes (15 mins daily is supposed to be enough). White, no genetic peculiarities that I know of. Had chicken pox as a kid, but not Herpes. 160lbs.
Can you elaborate on what python limitations really frustrate you?
Detecting a crime before it happens
Yes - two summers ago I was gymming 5/6 days per week. It may or may not have helped short-term (hard to tell as I was mentally switched off plus I could have long lie-ins in the mornings). Long-term it certainly didn't help.

Incidentally, I'm forcing myself to start gymming regularly in my new workplace so hopefully this will help.

To answer your question, yes, I've tried regular exercise, especially walking, and it hasn't helped noticeably. But I am going to persist with it. Thanks for the suggestion.
No Debian yet, all I've done so far is put in a serial console to watch it boot (only had it 3 days.)

There's a photo of it running debian here, and some details for running debian on another device with the same SoC architecture (WM8505):
http://slatedroid.com/index.php?topic=152.0

The easy way is undoubtedly to use debootstrap and keep the current kernel it's running. I think that's more or less an easy and given possibility, because once you have the serial port connected you have a root console (or presumably you can unlock root access in software via Android.)

Building a kernel as well may be harder. From what I can tell, and it's hard to tell because most people (including Eken) aren't releasing source at the moment (sigh), this may be hard because of a bunch of proprietary M8505 modules in the current kernel. Not sure yet, though.
I'd have to agree with you there. I also remember the last time I was out of work, any job listings without contact info was removed pretty quickly as spam. The job I did end up taking didn't list the company name, which actually kept me from applying for the job for two weeks. I did end up applying in the end (mostly because I wasn't seeing very many jobs that appealed to me, and the job description for this one did look good.) Prospective employees need to learn how to properly apply for jobs, but by the same token, employers need to learn how to properly post their job openings.
This is really interesting, care to share more info?
Reminds me of this competition for brand names worse than Knol:

http://voltagecreative.com/blog/2008/08/50-for-worse-brand-n...
Free download: 10 terabytes of patents and trademarks
Even on House people have gotten Lupus. "It's never Lupus" is what made it so hard for Dr. House to diagnose. ;)
People can't solve problems like this one without experience in the medical field, which you're unlikely to find here.

That said: your description of symptoms has all of the hallmarks for an autoimmune disease. So, I assume you've had extensive blood workups done? What are your antibody results from them? Your lymphocyte counts? How's the iron content in your blood?

You also mention sensitivity to heat. What's your average body temperature like? Is your urine clear, yellow, dark? (signs of dehydration)

You're missing many of the specifics that I would expect from a post like this, targeted out a community like this one.
Diet could be a huge factor. I would keep a food log along with notes on how you are feeling. Therevan sometimes be a lag between consumption and effect, but you may notice patterns.

I would also try the above diet (look into a paleo low carb diet).

And, look into Crossfit (Crossfit.com) in your area. Good affiliates will slowly scale you up based on your ability. That an diet might be a huge help, though it'll take a good month of clean eating to know If it helps.

Good luck, please post a followup on your plan of attack.
I know next to nothing about medicine, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was my only guess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome
Take a look at jqtouch. It gets everything setup for the touch based web. The layout size, touch interactions,etc. Do what jqtouch is doing for the mobile web, but for the tv. Hope this clarifies things.

Pixel and aspect ratio is actually fairly doable. I'd say 16:9 is commonplace enough, along with 1080p resolution (1920x1080). Sure there are still 720p TVs, but I think if were building for the future it's a good bet to say 1080 is the way to go.

Re:ads. It certainly is pie in the sky thinking, but it's worth aiming for. Though I don't enjoy commercials, I don't feel they are as horrendous as horrible web ads.
I think that's the distinction that a lot of people miss (your post included). These are frameworks that work with apple's official dev environment, so if apple introduces a new feature, and if oolong or cocos2d or whatever is dragging their feet in incorporating it, a developer could just call directly into the SDK for it, no hoops to jump thru. Whereas if they were using Flash or Unity or something they'd have to wait for the middleware to support it.

Not that I approve of apple's stance on "original language" but I understand where they're coming from,
I'd recommend x-posting to http://hackermed.com/

also - I feel like it could be something spinal - but I am not a doctor.
This may not sound very useful or relevant but just my two cents of contribution:

I have seen one episode of Grey's Anatomy in which there was very similar case. And they found that the guy had a non terminal tumor in his head and the tumor was pressing some nerves, which in turn was causing all the symptoms that he had. Talk to your doctor if they have not already done your head CT.
Over the BeagleBoard (and like), the appeal for me (given I'm ditching the screen) is that I don't live in the US. The price of the BeagleBoard plus shipping to Australia makes a big difference.

The M001 is $99 including shipping anywhere in the world.
Here are the slides (the speakers notes have some of the text of the talk): http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/futurecs.ppt

And the blog post (no transcript): http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=442
What about the Lyme disease, I think you can't easily get rid of it with antibiotics. So it might still be there, even after the year on antibiotics.

Not a doctor, but the absence of allergies reminds me of the hook worms that are used to treat allergies. Not saying it might be hook worms (they don't seem to have many "side effects"), but maybe some parasite is messing with your immune system (not sure what lyme disease does, but I think it is a parasite?)?
My initial suggestion would be to sleep 3-4 hours twice a day, you could be continually waking in your deep sleep instead of light/rem, which can ironically make you feel more tired. If sleeping 4 hours in a night is overall better, it might be worth trying to see if you can get your total of 8 hours by only sleeping 4 at a time.

I regularly feel more awake and alert if I only sleep 6 hours, in fact I've regularly been asleep just after midnight, up for work at 6:30 and not started to feel tired until 2-3am.

Another thing I've learnt is that exercise is very beneficial to your quality of sleep. I work construction and not only do I feel alert for longer periods, but when I do sleep I usually sleep great.

A few things I've noticed that hurt my sleeping: warm room (my bedroom is like 10C right now); lights in room (even little LED lights are killer; I used to live in a rural area and the suburbs still kill me some nights); noise again is a major sleep disturber for me, however I actually found having a fish tank in my room (with the filter going) did amazing for my sleep.

As an aside: My diet features ridiculous quantities of dairy, which has many vitamins (like D) which could be of benefit if you have problems sleeping.

I'd also recommend against ever taking sleeping pills, they actually disturb good sleep by keeping you in light sleep rather than letting you get into deep/rem.
Nope, Microsoft has been trying to do the opposite. Remember "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS?"
In case you haven't already noticed,fibromyalgia seems to be a catch all diagnosis. It's a set of symptoms, but they aren't often tied to anything.

A few of the systems seem to remind me of my mother whom has recently been diagnosed with a pinched nerve in combination with known severe TMJ and migraines. (She apparently had a continuous migraine for about 15 years).

My main advice would be to seek out the experts, and try to find the ones who are able to admit what they don't know. UPenn is the first place that properly addressed my Mom's TMJ, and that in itself has made a huge difference. She's ended up helping them modify some of the textbooks.

Just as general advice, I'd highly focus on neurologists at first. You could also consider sleep centers, as the good ones do extensive tests and collect information that is harder to gather at any other location. I wish you luck.
I can see how this could be convincingly better than the analogue equivalent, and worth buying an iPad for (if I still had a piano):

* Is page-turning easy? With paper you have to carefully dog-ear the sheet music so that you can grab the corner and turn the page without breaking flow. A simple one-finger swipe or tap would be less disruptive to playing.

* On-demand sheet music purchase is a great idea, if the catalogue is comprehensive enough. It would be great to be able to go from hearing a great piece on the radio to having the score in front of you in minutes.

I assume you need music to be converted so that you can support the synthesiser and simulated keyboard. To bootstrap, can you take existing sheet music unconverted (just scanned, say) and display it without those features? TBH I'm not sure I see the utility of watching the keypresses anyway (maybe because I haven't tried it).

* As well as hearing a synthesised version of the piece, what about a link from the score to world-renowned recordings, to stream or purchase? I'd often struggle to learn some passages that seemed boring or repetitive, but to hear the same passage played with fluency and passion would be very motivating.
Maybe Google was hoping some other "market app" would take over and get adopted by handset makers or carriers. It's not googles core business to sell apps worldwide. There are a lot of other market apps out there.
Have you been tested for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? Many of the symptoms you describe seem to be possible matches, and it's frequently a very hard disease to diagnose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disea...

Two more questions.

1. Have you ever been a drug user?

2. Have you ever received a blood transfusion?
You said one doctor hinted at an IgA monoclonal gammopathy. Did you ever get that worked up (especially serum PEP and urine PEP, where PEP=protein electrophoresis)?

Do you have a CBC (blood count) and CMP (metabolic panel, things like calcium)?
I feel you on the signal:noise - I'd love your take on how I'm trying to solve that very problem: http://slipstre.am/
It is not fair, but it is also different. For one thing, there are many of "us" and very, very few of "them". I believe the test cases mentioned in this article were actually contrived cases intended to embarrass the police, and were probably perceived as an attack by them. And when they get attacked, they tend to close ranks - police, judges etc.
You're correct, I believe 2.1 will run on the same kernel it currently has, albeit sans graphical acceleration.

IIRC, 2.2 will at minimum require someone to build a newer kernel, which AFAIK noone has worked out how to do (see my post above about proprietary WM8505 modules.)

It's hard for a noob like me to work it all out though, because almost noone is releasing any source or doing their development work in public (I intend to post anything useful that I figure out.)
Most of the pieces do have affilliate links to recordings on the iTunes Music Store, but not all.
How The Bootstrapped Super Rewards Reached Profitability In 5 Months
They are not robots. They behave differently on camera, just as you and I do. They can be embarrassed, clutch, and act out. Just watch an episode of a real crime show on cable for any number of examples.
I can't say that I've been tested for Lupus, but I've had a battery of tests from an endocrinologist (well, a few of them, actually). He found only Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, which supposedly is under control according to my bloodwork, and an "elevated IgA", whatever that means. A difficult aspect of this is being so brain-fogged that I have a hard time even remembering what I've been tested for, or what any of it means.

I can practically walk to the Cleveland Clinic from here, so I'd very much appreciate getting a reference to a good doc if you know of one (the one I saw there wasn't that helpful).

Thank you, jmintz.
Walking doesn't count, unfortunately. Gymming is kind of OK, but a lot of people seem to develop a regular routine -- a particular set of exercises -- that their body adapts to after a while.

You're going for serious exercise here, the endorphin rushes from prolonged all-out physical activity. i.e., soccer, two-person volleyball, basketball, tennis, racquetball, ultimate frisbee, etc.

It's definitely a short term fix that only works for as long as you're doing it.

Or, you just reconcile yourself to not sleeping, and adapt. :-) (I'm a chronic insomniac also.)
If there is an severe underlying cause, I have no idea.

But you might try getting as much sunlight during the day as possible (during lunch, right after work, etc.). I don't have anything scientific to back me up -- but I think sunlight does encourage diurnal biorhythms at different levels/feedback loops.

I only mention it because you mention you responded favorably to Vitamin D for a while. And that you're a programmer (indoors most of time) like me, and that there was an onset in college (first time spent indoors a lot potentially). At any rate, maybe it would alleviate it a little. Just an idea.
Ask Metafilter can be a good source of advice too.
I think what he can hope for is somebody with similar problems or somebody knowing somebody with similar problems. If doctors who can treat this (or at least diagnose it) are rare, finding the right one could become difficult, and crowd sourcing might be worth a try.

Also, maybe the hacker mentality would be to somehow find what is going on by oneself (debugging the body). While I have nowhere as severe symptoms, I have also often suffered from fatigue and sleeplessness. I keep thinking I should keep track of my condition more rigorously to maybe identify the problem. For starters, keep detailed logs (things like foods eaten, exercise, mood, sleep cycles etc) - maybe a pattern might emerge? In fact I hope to write "an app for that" soon.
Could anyone tell me the problem here? The iPad is not bound to AT&T, so just pop out your current SIM, get a new one from a different provider and you are good to go.
thanks - no i just like to find relevant pictures - breaks up the text and helps me think visually
The Kno... revolutionizing digital textbooks with a 5.5 pound, original xbox size, dual screen tablet device that starts just under $1,000.

Shoot me in the face.
I've heard about Etude several times on HN, but only in reference to iP* - does anyone know if there are plans for an Android app?
Also, it bugs me that it's Etude and not Étude, but I'm probably alone in that :)
Mostly, yes, though I can also see downsides. Juries might become overly dependent on this form of evidence, to the detriment of their ability to weigh evidence.

For instance, suppose that man A punches man B, and a policeman sees it. But suppose his camera just happened to be turned the wrong way or momentarily obscured at the time so the video footage doesn't actually show the moment where man A punches man B. With this ambiguous footage available, juries might be hesitant to convict, even though multiple witnesses saw it happen, because the jury expected to be able to see it with their own eyes.
And why Android will likely take over the medical market, because one doesn't have to deal with this nonsense.
Ditto on: Have you moved? Especially -- to a place with radically different climate, vegetation, humidity, sun-times?

Have you changed careers?
I think the fact that my comment didnt get downmodded out of existence shows how cool HN is. Nonetheless, the forum shouldnt (routinely?) engage in self-congradulatory homages to PG.
If you're looking for an experience similar to the concept of a "cloud desktop," you should try out Favetop. It has icon shortcuts, which you described above, along with media management and social sharing capabilities. We currently do not have a customizable wallpaper option as of right now, but we are planning on offering this feature in the near future.
> I've thought about a Lego-building robot made of Lego before, but mostly in the context of an illustration of why atomic assembly by nanobots is probably impossible.

Bacteria are proof that nano-assembly is possible, if you define assembly broadly enough.
Chronic fatigue doesn't give you Hashimoto, and it doesn't give you a gammopathy. My point is simply that if there is a unifying diagnosis to be had, CFS is not it. (Though I am absolutely aware of Saint's Triad, so if that's what you're going for, I understand.) If you really suspect chronic fatigue, consider talking to someone at the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, NV. (Disclosure: Am friends with one of the authors on their paper that identified that a high proportion of those with CFS harbor a novel virus. This research is not in my field.) NYT write-up: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/health/research/09virus.ht...

But truly, I am discussing this because I find it interesting per se, though I feel it is a bit of a side track.