skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife has T1D and uses a continuous glucose monitor from Dexcom to keep track of her levels.

The current state of the technology is probably best described as "finicky": the sensor skin patch needs to be replaced every week or two, at which point it's much less accurate for a couple days. It also needs calibration inputs from a finger prick at least every 12 hours. In general if the sensor is reporting a high or low condition her first action is to double-check with a finger prick. More often than not the sensor is simply wrong.

With all that said, it's better to have the sensor than not. She is able to use an app [0] to track her glucose levels over both the short term and long term trends. She's been able to use that data to make dietary decisions which allow her to keep her glucose within range and she had very good A1c levels (5.4, vs a goal of "under 7" for many diabetics) at her last checkup.

I think the long term data collection ability means that a more connected sensor (as opposed to the linked tattoo) will continue to be beneficial for diabetics. The next steps in the useful technological development will be to integrate with insulin pumps (this technology is already in trials) and to integrate with diet tracking data e.g. from MyFitnessPal to assist with meal decisions.

0: https://github.com/StephenBlackWasAlreadyTaken/xDrip
I like the one that makes the top bar transparent. The weather applet is a must, as well as the battery time left indicator.
The number of people who want to do that, that are not doing so now, is approximately the population of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Apple is nearly a trillion dollar company. People want cloud backup, consistent and beautiful UI, and usable, "just works" tools. They're doing something correctly.

Sincerely,

Someone who owns a Windows PC, an Ubuntu laptop, a Fedora server, an Android personal phone, and an iPhone work phone.
They tried to add routing to to docs/tutorials. react-router devs hijacked the effort, ground it to a halt with claims of copyright to their code, and the pull request to docs got rejected in the end
Gatbsy supports RSS (and Atom?) as a plugin. Probably not enabled for this site.
Is there an example of solved upstream security? Perhaps CPAN, Homebrew, pip, OPAM, some Linux distribution, pkgsrc or some other BSD thing?
If the front-page is any indication, the latest JS framework.
> What about capitalism America where you don't deserve healthcare if you can't afford it?

Well if you're going to be sensationalist about it. What about Socialism, where your material needs are provided for through extreme violence, via theft; using guns to take from one person against their will, to give to another. The entire foundation of all forms of Socialism, require extreme violence as a means to redistribute and at no time can that violence be relaxed, for it works at all times against human nature and self-interest. It's also why every nation that has ever attempted Socialism has collapsed into perpetual barbaric violence against its people, holding them as State slaves with few rights: Cuba, Cambodia, North Korea, Soviet Russia, East Germany, Mao's China, Venezuela, North Vietnam, National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, the numerous Soviet satellites, Socialist Ba'athist Iraq, and so on.
They can add this Gatsby plugin https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-plugin-feed/
Trouble is, you don't tend to write a big program in two languages the exact same way. The rewrite nearly always wins because of algorithm improvements and cleaning cruft. So it's hard to benchmark.

If two small programs are about the same speed in C vs JITlang, then the theory says the JITted one should take over as the program gets bigger.
Oh man, this describes me to the T. WTF do I do?
Doctors are overwhelmed with paperwork, often with institutionally-mandated EHR systems that are slower and worse than traditional paper notes for medical purposes. They are spending more time on administrative tasks that could otherwise be spent on actual patients, just like professors are spending more time on grant acquisition that could otherwise be spent on teaching and research.
It's largely an American thing.
For those working at IBM, how do you feel about your job in general? I have a couple friends working for IBM now or before, from what I gathered, unless you work in the research division or in the smart city project, the rest felt unimportant. These negative sentiments perhaps just edge cases...
That is not what socialism used to mean. European countries are capitalist with a welfare state. This was first set up in Germany by Bismarck, and the socialists were opposed to it. Socialism used to mean that the means of production were in the hands of the government, and by that standard Europe is certainly not socialist. The capital is privately owned and the decisions about how to use that capital are made by those owners. The wealth that is redistributed in Europe is created by capitalism. Europe does not differ significantly from the US in this regard; the government expenditure as a percentage of GDP in "socialist" Europe is not very different than "capitalist" United States. The US spends 42% whereas France and Sweden (usually considered the two most socialist countries in Europe) it is 56% and 51%, respectively. In Germany it's 45% and in Switzerland 35%.
Sounds like it. From the About page:

>As befits a home computer you can also plug in a standard USB PC keyboard and use as a classic C64 to type in those old BASIC computer listings or program new games.

It doesn't seem like they'd phrase it that way unless you were required to plug in a USB keyboard in order to type.
Show HN: RelaSharp: Lock and wait free C# with (a little more) confidence
I don't even think you need a VM, really. Just have this particular computer equipped with some soft-core that handles IP from the outside. The memory mapping, since it's just IPv6, can determine whether you are dealing with information from the outside world (non-localhost ips) or your own system (local ips). Because logically they are already different blocks in memory, they're already isolated.

With something like that you might be able to have "pure objects" floating around the internet. Of course your computer's interpretation of a network object is something it has to realize inside of itself (kind of like the way you interpret the words coming from someone else's mouth in your own head, realizing them internally), but you will always be able to tell that "this object inside my system came from elsewhere" for its whole lifecycle.

Maybe you could even have another soft-core (FPGA like) that deals with brokering these remote objects, so you can communicate changes to an incoming object that you want to send a message to. This is much more like communication between people, I think.
Taboo and forbidden words apparently exist in all human cultures. There are a few other things, too, and some things that you could expect to be there are missing :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal
perhaps, but why did they let the 'bills' get so high?
Big Falcon Rocket?
And if it becomes that common, in 150 years time, New York will be under water.

If it becomes that common, it will be well within the major power's ability to block 1.5% of the sunlight that hits the Earth by posting sunshades at L1.

Surely burning a country's worth of rocket fuel every time you want to travel long distance is not sustainable?

It doesn't take that many airliner flights to match that power output.
Yes, I think different companies invested that over the years. But perhaps more importantly it’s been 20+ years of development.
haha wow. How dismissive... This is an absurd reply.
Not sure about the funding, but it has been around for 20+ years. Maybe not tens of millions in VC funding, but it definitely has tens of millions of dollars worth of devs spending time on it.
Innovative Bangaloreans and Madrasis (Madras is the old name of Chennai and Madrasis refers to people who live there). IBM has huge presence (8-10 Offices) in Chennai.
It's not if you cease to care about the outcome. It's a numbers game. Apply for everything and everywhere that looks like you could get interested and track everyone you talk to. Recruiters use communication management software for this why shouldn't you.
And double unfortunately, approving a medical technology is vastly more expensive and slower than it needs to or should be. Existing medical approval policies are strongly motivated by political concerns (we're still reeling from thalidomide) rather than any rational social optimization policy. It's very easy to scare people into excessive conservatism (in the literal sense). http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php
From the article:

As strange as it may sound, you should
not be expecting an increase in intelligibility.

I thought one of the reasons hearing aids were so bad was that they pick up noise equally. Wouldn't this method have a direct impact on making hearing aids better?

I also have a real hard time differentiating people talking in Google hangouts, say, especially if they're using silverware on porcelain. Wouldn't this type of noise suppression help in this case as well?

Seems like pretty awesome stuff.
I'm partial to the Venus airships idea, but that's probably mostly sci-fantasy.
If you assume an average 10 person years of development effort over the 20 year history of Postgres, absolutely.

20 years * LoadedLaborCost (USD$150k/personyr) * 10 people

=>USD$30m.
It helps a hell of a lot, once you're in orbit!
I'd assume the amount of work contributed to PostgreSQL by people while being paid by companies to do so is substantial.

I think you could relate that to funding?
Amazing post @xtina_starr
Same experience here
Likely through supporting organizations:

EnterpriseDB: $64.92M in 6 Rounds from 7 Investors
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/enterprisedb#/entity

Plus it is much more under development than 5-7 years.
C64 BASIC is pretty terrible -- to do anything with graphics or sound, you really have to use PEEK/POKE and do it in 6502 assembly. Aside from that, 6502 assembly is your best bet. There are lots of tutorials online for the C64 specifically, and there are good cross-assembler toolchains available.
It's received tens of millions of dollars of value in contributions, yes. Probably in large excess of that.
>Basically there were no programs, only modules (strong typed dynamic libraries).
>Any procedure/function that had a special type signature could be called from the CLI environment, UI action, or after selecting an UI element, depending on the way the mouse buttons were used.
>Also the environment was focused on graphics not plain text.

Pretty cool. Thanks for mentioning it.

>You can find tons of screenshots on my site.

I googled for your HN username + " site"; is it this one:

http://www.progtools.org/blog.php ?
I don't understand why people are so quick to dismiss SpaceX's ambitions as unrealistic.

They were the first to achieve re-usability of the first stage of an orbital class rocket, the first to prove out supersonic retro-propulsion and the first private company to re-fly a spacecraft (the Dragon Capsule). Given that, it seems like they should be given the benefit of the doubt when they say they are going to do something.
> How easy would it be to write games on this that use the joy stick

Easy peasy, just read the bits from $DC00.
By "relative to supply", I mean that if there are far more than enough doctors in a given region or scenario or specialty, the price could go down and it would be fair.

If you don't think that doctoring should earn especially high incomes, then you have not seen a doctor work, and perhaps you've never been gravely injured.
Anything can be trivialized if you detest social norms enough.

Fake examples:

> It took me forever to find a good font for my webcomic that wasn't comic sans.

I'm astounded that apparently we can't use a perfects good font, lest some bogeyman jump out and make you regret it.

It's a font! For Microsoft Bob's sake. How bad can it really be and why do we need to penalize the usage so?

> John Smith, 56, was arrested for indecent exposure in a playground while laughing maniacally.

I'm astounded that apparently we can't show our entire bodies in public lest some bogeyman jump out and make you regret it.

It's a body part. I mean, it's how all other animals live - how bad can it really be and why do we need to penalize the usage so?

> Riots ensue as it is leaked that all Burger King meat has been human meat, this whole time.

I'm astounded that apparently we can't eat human meat lest some bogeyman jump out and make you regret it.

It's meat! For meat's sake. I mean, at the point where a human is dead, why can't we eat the meat? How bad can it really be and why do we need to penalize the usage so?
Bayes rule explained
The marketing tagline: BFR are the bomb!
I'd say worse. IBM employees in India get paid around 500,000 rupees in India. A non-cramped 2 bedroom apartment in a decent area in the big cities (Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi ) will set you back 10,000,000 rupees easily.

That is 20 times their salary. I'd say that's a higher multiplier per unit salary, than for the US.
Also note that living just outside the city (as people in the US do) isn't always an option, unless you are up for a 2+2 hour commute daily.
No, the margin interest will eat you alive.

It's a decline, nowhere near a collapse. IBM still has a tremendous amount of good will.
They presumably call it the Big Fucking Rocket at SpaceX.

But if Musk says "Big Fucking Rocket" on stage, TV news can't quote him. That's counterproductive to his goals, but using a heavy implication both allows him a broader audience and lets every adult know they've got the 'cheeky' name for it.
Likely. Last year the foundation they're a part of received $25,000 in earmarked donations for Postgres which you can extrapolate over the 30 years it's been around to be a million-ish [1]. They've also received several million dollars in subsidies by starting as an academic project at Berkley in the 80s.

[1]http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/
This is very timely for me - I was just looking for a new static site generator and so far I've tried out Hugo, Hexo and Jekyll but I didn't like any of them because they're so configuration dependent. I'd rather write my static pages using tools that I already know how to use.

Searching for a static site generator that uses React, I found Phenomic first then Gatsby. I was already leaning towards Gatsby since Phenomic is still in alpha. Now that Facebook is using it, my decision is easy. Phenomic looks like it can do a lot more than Gatsby, so maybe I'll give it a second chance in the future.
Valid points. We could debate this, but I am already sick of this subthread; the point is I never said sales does not add value or that the value it adds is small, which the GP accused me of, in a rather passive-aggressive tone.
As someone who owned a C64, the games list leaves a lot to be desired.

Some make sense, but the absence of Pirates!, The Bard's Tale series, AD&D Gold Box and Carmen Sandiago games is noticeable. I imagine the licensing is too hard. Then the missed gems like Cauldron I & II, Ultimate Wizard, etc.

I guess I'll stick to VICE.
Also, a Ponzi scheme involves outright fraud, giving your investors fake accounts.
Not sure that much, but Ingres was a sponsored research project and many people who now work on Postgres are employed by a consultancy.
>Capitalism is inseparable from a free market system.

No, it's not; there exists market Socialism, for example. There also exists mutualism. I don't know where you're getting this from other than the idea that authors in favour of capitalism also tend to prefer free market economics.

>Whether we're talking rudimentary Socialism or its derivatives, including Fascism and Communism.

Communism is actually the complete lack of state control but also the lack of commodity production and therefore the market.

>Regulation is antithesis to Capitalism because it imposes State control over the economy.

You have still failed to explain why lack of regulation is central to capitalism other than to name Hayek, Mises and Friedman who were in favour of free-market capitalism. Other authors who sought to describe capitalism prior to them didn't include "free market" as a core principle of capitalism.

There is no denying that the epitome of capitalist production is completely unencumbered by a State, but there is also no denying that the state must intervene in a capitalist economy to protect property rights on a large scale. There is also the idea that the the State itself cannot be a capitalist actor which is totally false; we see the State engaging in the employment of wage-labour and selling on the national and international market. This makes the state as capitalist as Microsoft or Google.
There are quite a few European consultancy companies that are actually owned by Indian multi-nationals.

They don't poach devs, rather acquire a full development unit.
Why would the practice of updating a product eliminate the concept of ownership? We can own a product and get updates as part of a warranty, or a program to purchase new upgrades.

The expectation of updating also seems to be making the software industry even more slipshod and crappy, with a just ship it now ans fix it later attitude.

I'd much rather see properly designed products and software infrastructure, built right the first time, and delivered once. But that would require competence and forethought.
Well, working with your assumption, $20,000 loan 10% interest over FIVE years is $424.94 a month.

Somehow I doubt all the Cuba-defenders here are going to accept your assumption, though, as it makes the outrageousness of the whole thing much more explicit.
Ikea Enters ‘Gig Economy’ by Acquiring TaskRabbit
It is a simulacrum. Adding a real, custom tiny keyboard (which 99% of buyers won't use anyway) would probably double the price.
My version is: Never attribute to malice what could be attributed to profit motive.
MySQL is faster. There are people that will argue against it but they probably don't understand how the vacuum works. Also if you only read HN yeah you're bias on Postgres vs MySQL. On the end Postgres is "better" but MySQL is already pretty good, it's not like you're comparing a good product to a bad one, both of them are good.
Could you fill me in? Why do SEO pages suck users time? I'm a newbie.
The proposal does nothing to remove the awkward binding everywhere, unless I'm mistaken. Here's the verbatim quote from the proposal:

--- quote ---

With the ESnext field declarations proposal, the above example can be written as

class Counter extends HTMLElement {
x = 0;

clicked() {
this.x++;
window.requestAnimationFrame(this.render.bind(this));
}

constructor() {
super();
this.onclick = this.clicked.bind(this);
}

connectedCallback() { this.render(); }

render() {
this.textContent = this.x.toString();
}
}
window.customElements.define('num-counter', Counter);

--- end quote ---

this.onclick = this.clicked.bind(this); etc. are all still there
In college I failed to gain intuition about Bayes rule and since then I faced it a lot in every where I go, This links explain the intuition remarkably well.
This is amazing. Now I'm swinging around a virtual sword every time I type.
Collect a U. S. salary while shipping the actual work to a less expensive worker elsewhere. Just like companies do, only on an individual basis. I believe it has actually been done (then the person got caught and fired, IIRC).
> The current climate of companies needing to continually push down cost to compete is the new normal

In which reality is that a "new normal"? Companies have always been about profit maximization. The only thing that's changed is that we let them get away with more than we used to.
I moved to Minneapolis a few years ago from Boston.

I felt a good deal safer biking in Boston, where the infrastructure is terrible, drivers are generally much more aggressive, and yet, I felt, more accepting of cyclists.

In Minneapolis cars seem to be frightened, angry, or just not paying attention with regard to cyclists.
In what way, shape, or form does slavery have nothing to do with capitalism?

The millions of American Indians that were murdered because they wouldn't give up their valuable land?

How is throwing away good food because no one pays for it, and thereby letting poor people starve, not capitalist? How is it the "antithesis of free enterprise"?
On the site it suggests £69.99/$69.99
My biggest gripe (aside from the flood of stupid bullshit in my newsfeed which isn't directly Facebook's fault) is that the search bar at the top no longer lets me go straight to people's profiles.

It'll go as far as giving autocompelte suggestions of people's full names, but then you click on the person you want and it gives you search results for them.

I think they did this so that when you search for a name they can show you all the other shit that the person is tagged in, but all I wanted was to get to their wall and post something.

Less charitably, by dumping you to an intermediate page and making you click again for their profile, FB gets to serve another batch of ads. And depending on what metric you measure it "increases engagement!!!" because it took me twice as long to get what I wanted.
Before even finishing your comment, in my head I was saying "compared to vue.js where the tutorials instantly clicked for me". I'm no master js guru, and agree completely with you.
I love bitcoin articles. It's like ringing the bell for the cows to come home.

I'll let you fine folks tell us all why the risks are no big deal and this is just another piece of the conspiracy against BTC.
at least here in the US we have a fetish for older guys in business casual with a little bit of a beer gut that knock off early to put in a quick 9. as long as one of those guys is taking a cut, we're happy.

thats the way it seems
Are you saying the ZX Spectrum is higher end? It's certainly far below the C64 in graphics, sound, etc.
You can use class properties instead
I'd love to see the demoscene do something cool with it :)
Comparing Emacs with ed is a point in ed's favor, sure.

Ditto Emacs and Notepad, or nano.

Comparing Emacs with anything else is more likely to look favorable to Emacs.
Me too. Especially after the beginning of the talk, when he mentioned

1) he became spaceX lead because no serious engineer would join beside the team he assembled

2) falcon1 failed 3 times, 4th attempt was their last one before folding

I'm not fond of everything Musk, but he achieved something deep and qualitative.

Also, even if the end smelled like fund-me marketing, the first half was genuinely simple and factual (of course considering it's hindsight).
thaaaaaaaaat's a great point. I use it very often. Daily for probably 4 years? more? It's likely that I am misjudging the usability given that it's basically a small extension of my life.
There aren't any real swear words in Japanese. So no it's not just an American thing.
The hydration one could be very useful. I don't know how many youth athlete's I've heard of having heat stroke in the Summer from not being well hydrated enough. Not that I think we should tattoo all the children, but it could help people realize that thirst isn't always the best determinate of hydration.

Personally, I'd like a tattoo of a glass of water. The glass with regular ink, and the water with hydration sensing ink. If the glass is empty, I need more water!
Its a little NSFW
SpaceShipTwo is a very much suborbital craft that would only have a range of a few hundred (maybe a thousand?) miles if used for travel. You'd have to build something much bigger to do antipodal travel like this.

The capability you need to go suborbital from one side of the Earth to the other is essentially the same as what's needed to go into orbit. (Thus all the ICBMs that got repurposed as orbital launchers.) Any vehicle that can't reach orbit probably can't do what BFR could do.