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While this sort of policy has its place, like for stopping people overriding their morphine machine to skip its limit, I honestly don't see the problem for things like this, primarily diagnostic based equipment.

I wonder if there might be a market for open source medical hardware with open source software to go with it. This could provide people with a very inexpensive option to look after themselves and also by perhaps uploading their data anonymously to an open database, help others too in diagnosing their problems too.

Obviously you when you get into things like this people get a bit scared because the medical industry is proprietary by nature which makes it scary because you don't want to mess with something you are told to go to a professional about, I think ubiuiquity might solve the problem. The more information out there, the more people are educated and the less scared they are.
Ah crap, hadn’t tested video player too. Will note that, thanks.
I haven't watched this particular video, but that information is in another of his talks, "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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My startup (WellnessFX) is one of those with healthier perks. Granted, we're a health company, so it'd be a little hypocritical if we were snacking on Doritos all day...

Most of our snack cabinet consists of bulk nuts and dried fruits - probably not much more expensive (if at all) than the usual junk. We've also replaced the soda with coconut water, kombucha, and a water filter on the sink.

Coming from a previous job with weekly Mountain Dew and Costco snack pack shipments, the transition was a bit jarring. I still hate kombucha. But I've found most of the snacking I do while working is fairly mindless, anyway - might as well snack on pistachios instead of popcorn.

Anyways, enough shilling from me - just wanted to let people know there are alternatives!
Thanks for the tip, but I've had much success using this method on teams of 5+ developers and a full-time designer.
What about personal responsibility?

The answer to "society hasn't provided me with a convenient way to get around without a significant risk of killing someone" is not "oh wells! bad luck pedestrians!"

Where it comes to a situation where they might kill someone, I do expect people to behave responsibly.
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There must be a better way than folders in Chrome...
I watched that for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It's quite a difficult discipline to practice, especially when it seems that every waking hour is spent completely plugged in. I aspire to do it, but so far it's been a struggle.
I think open source medical hardware is an industry ripe for exploding, which is helped by 3D printers becoming more common and affordable. Need a new prosthetic leg? Let's print you a specifically custom fit one for next to nothing compared with getting one made the traditional way.
Bulletins from the police. Eg, "a man attempted to force an 8 year old girl into his car, she broke free. Police are looking for..."

Then there are high profile cases like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Daniel_Morcombe

Yes, family abuse is more common. Yes, I believe in free range kids. No, I don't believe in carebear rainbow land, stranger danger is very real.
I agree. I would of been very interested in a startup that offered ketogenic meal options and treadmill desks. Right now a treadmill desk would be too disturbing to my coworkers, and I got to do the meals myself since they're so specific.

Instead of sugary drinks, you can try creamy drinks and butter coffee/tea (it sounds gross, but is actually very tasty). That and a sparkling water dispenser would satisfy most my desire for drinks to be honest.

http://www.bulletproofexec.com/how-to-make-your-coffee-bulle...
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2011/12/brilliantly-si...
I like the idea, but I don't see any reason why I should have to register before playing around with the app a bit. Let the user submit ideas and only require registration when they want to create their own private "bin".
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congrats Michael, doing an awesome job!
Non-swipe link - http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/04/getting-president-ob...
Prepare for the unexpected. A good startup trait.
TEDMED: Here's to the future of health and medicine
Lustig's premise (from this and other sources) is essentially: (translated for a techie audience)

1. There is a clean pathway and dirty pathway for converting fructose to glycogen in the liver. The clean pathway is easily overloaded by consuming a lot of fructose at once. ("A lot" being more than 12 oz of soda, roughly.) The key bit is that the bad effects are non-linear.

2. The dirty pathway produces metabolites that cause the body's metabolism to switch to an imbalanced state, which if not corrected, leads to metabolic syndrome and type-II diabetes.

3. The dirty pathway is similar to alcohol consumption, with similar long-term effects. This is why he calls fructose a poison.

4. Dietary fiber slows down absorbtion of fructose, thus giving the liver more time to process fructose using the clean pathway. So an apple (fiber!) causes less of a fructose overload problem than a similar quantity of apple juice.

From this, Lustig hypothesises that metabolic syndrome is primarily caused by overconsumption of fructose, and that a diet that has low or zero fructose and high in fiber will correct metabolic syndrome. This is a testable hypothesis, and should be relatively easy to test, even by individuals.

My added notes:

1. There's lots of talk about "sugar", which is dumb, because "sugar" means different things to different people. Lustig means "fructose", which is present in sugar, HFCS, agave nectar, honey, all sweet fruits, fruit juices, etc.

2. Everyone's body, lifestyle, eating habits, exercise habits, and metabolic syndrome level is different, thus everyone will respond to fructose (and indeed any food) differently. If you care, learn how food works in your body and create a diet that fits your needs. And especially, don't extrapolate from your own experience to all people.

3. Several fad diets of recent years fit rather neatly into Lustig's recommendation, including Atkins, South Beach, mediterranean, raw vegan. If you care, find one that works for you.
Ah. I see where the disagreement lies. Your position is that they're still geniuses even if they "only" figure out how to fix cars on their own. I agree, they're still geniuses, but I would also agree that it is a waste.

If the genius had lived outside poverty, they might be inventing nanotech or getting us into space or performing on Broadway.

The opportunity of "genius" is to make an impact on the world, and that is why genius is wasted in poverty.
Steam is notable to me as a rare DRM environment that gives something back. After witnessing numerous failed single-platform DRM schemes, and even working in the area for video on mobile, I bought a Mac last year, installed Steam, and was really amazed to have instant access to the portion of my existing games catalog that runs on OSX. Win. You can even back up save games to the cloud, which is useful when you are an occasional gamer like I suspect many of us are or are becoming.

What Steam doesn't do right: gifting (lots of people just never get them, in my experience), support for people in non-western places (I am in China and bought a game for which single player does not exist and ZERO playable servers exist (ping 250, anyone?); I asked to change it for another and received no response, not even an acknowledgement).

Despite the above issues they do remove barriers to product discovery, payment, update, and mobility (including across platforms). Adding Linux to their portfolio is a great way to leverage this strength to the benefit of both Steam and Linux.

It's about time. Go Valve!
It's really boring to write appendChild again and again..
Here's my idea(as a begginer), just converts json(in CoffeeScript) to html string.
http://docview.cnodejs.net/projects/json2page/show.html?html
I think this is a perfect opportunity for businesses from other countries to step in. Say, some company in a less regulated country starts selling ones. Would it be actually cheaper to hop on a plain and get yourself one, instead of taking a couple of $2000 sleep studies? I bet it would.

To generalize, basically any kind of business could profit from less regulation. You just have to find the market big and desperate enough to travel far for that.
Please no need to be so rude. Thank you.
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One of the common jokes between my wife and I is to setup a "home surgery kit" for some point in some horrible dystopian future.

However, we were thinking it out and were moved to wonder why there isn't more straightforward "how-tos" as far as medicine is concerned: how-to relocate joints, how-to suture, how-to collect appropriate equipment, how-to operate in a sane and sanitary manner.

This is, of course as lay people... for all we know all the information is available to whoever is willing to look for it and take the risks involved with amateur medicine.

However, I wonder if what trained people think about the ethics of making professional medical techniques and equipment available to lay folks.
How about a treadmill desk where you walk constantly at a slow pace?

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2011/12/brilliantly-si...
I think I take your point, but we should only put up with having to learn necessarily complicated things. So to the extent that the Git interface reflects a powerful and flexible internal model, I'm with you. But Git is also unnecessarily complicated. The commands are inconsistent and hard to remember until you have them by rote. That's a failure of software design.
I blame lawyers more than doctors for this situation we've gotten ourselves into.
Meh. I generally assume people have good motives, unless proven otherwise. Lustig is screaming "the sky is falling!" Feinman is responding in a perfectly natural fashion, "If they sky were falling, we would have noticed by now."
If you want evidence for how much adoption it has, download it and see how many followers you get.

More evidence: it's the #2 free app on the app store.
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Thanks for the feedback. People create a view of the world based on where they came from, what they have experienced, what they've been taught and many other factors (for example, religious indoctrination). This is a fact.

Regrettably the governing class in a country like the US knows this very well and has learned how to pander and manipulate the masses in their favor. This is also a fact.

Then you have the media. Most people will subscribe to one ideology and set forth to consume media that aligns with this ideology as closely as possible. This is comfortable and easy to chew on. No gag reflex involved. This is another fact.

The media know this, and feed that need. They report with overblown outrage about mostly unimportant stories. They go on and on all day long beating the same dumb story to death until they can't flatten it any more. They cater to the audience that, due to ideology, will stay with them. It's SEO, TV style. This is also a fact.

All of this leads to great levels of polarization. How else would you have huge chunks of the population self-identify with one party or another? They buy into a "tribe" and stick with it, no matter what. Tribal behavior is a most fundamental human trait. This, also, is fact.

Those in the middle of all of this, a group of which I consider myself a member, are willing to stop and think for a moment and not rattle off what others are saying without some thought and consideration. This is hard. This requires work. This requires rejecting years of unintentional indoctrination and trying to see the world for what it is. This is about the Allegory of the Cave in more ways than one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave). It requires consciously refraining from the most fundamental human impulse to be tribal and believe what has been pounded into your brain. This is hard (I repeat) and this is why most people don't do it.

At home we make it a point to learn about multiple points of view. We watch CNN and FOX. We also watch Al Jazeera and LinkTV. We are also fortunate enough to speak more than a couple of languages, so we consume international news from more than one perspective as well. It's amazing what you can learn this way.

I don't know where I am going with this except to say that there are a lot of voting groups that, just like Plato's cave, have been living and looking at the shadows in their own caves. And virtually nothing more than that. Government workers, Politicians and Unionized workers (to be brutal in my generalization) are examples of such groups. Individually none of them are bad people. As a voting and acting block they can be absolute morons, but only because all they've been willing to consider are the shadows.

I don't know how to fix it.
I don't know if it's even possible.
Regarding the pots example, you could divide the cost of pots by your burn rate then figure out how much time getting the pots would buy before you ran out of money.
I think oddly enough Taubes' earlier book is briefly mentioned in Fat Head :)

Thanks for the recommendation!
It's nice to know you can depend on Wired to be 5-8 years behind the curve.
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"IdeaBin was designed and developed by Alex Greene, a 16 yr. old student at The Bronx High School of Science."

Keep up the good work, you've got some real talent for your age. Congratulations on releasing!
The Hole Hawg is quite real, actually:

http://www.milwaukeetool.com/tools/drills/hole-hawgs
> should be relatively easy to test, even by individuals.

I did this. I cut my fructose consumption to the equivalent of two pieces of fruit a day and easily lost weight after years of struggling. My cholesterol fell from 255 to 160 mg/dl with an inprovement in the good/bad cholesterol ratios and a fall in triglycerides and uric acid. Also my inflammatory markers fell dramatically in some cases to unmeasurably low levels.

Lustig is spot on. A lot of people are heavily invested in the old orthodoxy and react accordingly. Fructose is a carbohydrate, but in any but small quantities it is metabolically a fat.
Why did this article so carefully not mention EC2 in the positive or negative?
Obviously you should do whatever works for your team, and I'm not commenting on the quality or necessity of your framework. In my opinion, it's just much easier to edit well formatted markup, verbose as it may be, than wading through a forest of $el and appendTo and such. Not to mention, hiring a talented visual designer that knows html & css is much easier than finding one that knows their way around a client-side MVC framework. Unicorns and all that. To each his own.
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Here's a start:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342192419/pulse-sensor-...

CPAPs aren't exactly super hi-tech either, and since they are fairly noninvasive as medical tech goes I can easily imagine some people experimenting with homebrews...
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I am planning a tradeshow exhibit and am looking for show stopping ideas that will draw a crowd of prospects, create a memorable experience, and get everyone talking about it.<p>What are the best ideas you've seen or have.
(feel free to share promotional item ideas as well.)
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I have tried umpteen billion times to install Apache. I have wasted several full days trying and failing. I have a Mac. I must be retarded.
S/He'll be chasing the release dragon for years now. :|
It's worth noting that the meaning of the very word "supernatural" precludes the possibility of solid evidence.
Actually, I take that back. You're right, there were fees for the applications. And I didn't send out 200-300 applications. I just received >200 info packages (not even sure anymore of the estimate, but it was a lot). Out of those info packages, I applied to several schools (probably five or so), which clearly stated their criteria for qualifying for a full-ride scholarship (usually GPA + test score combination).

Sorry for the unintentional lie, I wish I could edit the original post. I guess so many years do weird things with memory.
Thanks, I really appreciate it. However, I'd rather receive criticism as if my age were not there. If I changed the 16 to a '35', would you still say the same thing?
Similar approach to what we took.

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/02/20/building-the-new-ajax-mai...

Used the CSS syntax to easily set class/id on a newly created tag.

Benchmarks included to show it's just as fast as innerHTML on modern browsers.
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The point of the app is to list your ideas. The user must register in order for the app to know which ideas belong to them.
I'll go ahead and make some suggestions:
like dlf said, it would be nice to be able to play with it before registering. Furthermore, you should allow the user to login with OpenID services such as Google or Facebook, anything you can do to reduce the time it takes for a user to get started.

You should add an easy way to edit the idea once it has been made. I frequently want to revise or add some resources that go along with an idea I may have.

It's a good start, but lacking some features that would prevent me from using it as a way to store my ideas primarily. I'd be interested in hearing about your progress, it's going to make for a great learning experience.
"That's a failure of software design."

Or the evidence of a differing opinion on what amount of complexity is necessary.
We noticed a problem with it after deploying- just working out a few kinks with it before we ship it again.
The show is for commercial real estate investors, and the exhibit is for a commercial mortgage brokerage.

Here are my ideas so far:

1. Cash Grab Machine
and other ideas from this site http://www.trade-show-attractions.com/

But I am worried it will be too unappealing to large real estate investors.

Another idea I have no idea how practical is...
a 3d printer, printing out promotional items on the spot for people who get a quote on site. (this will force them to stick around for 10-15 minutes, and it could appeal to their ego with either a model of their building or even of their face, or just their name...)

I know massage therapists are a big hit at other shows.

Any other ideas that can appeal to egos, and really be show stopping?
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The government would quickly outlaw that behaviour if it became popular. For your own safety, of course.
If I could get a dependable distro-managed version of Steam on Ubuntu, I would _certainly_ buy and play more games. I've stopped playing games (mostly) because I've switched to Linux as my primary desktop, and what I play is limited to my time (in general, and to fiddle with things to get them _working_ on Linux, e.g., EVE Online in Wine).
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There is a big difference between what a bill says it does and what it will actually do. In this case, I am very confident that this bill will not improve the security problem you describe. I'm not even sure it's possible to write such a bill even with the best of intentions and the brightest people.
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Side note:

Ezra (of Ruby/Rails fame) announced his new company at RailsConf today, called TrinityLabs.

The website is still a bit sparse, but he's launching a new company for the 3D printer scene with machines around 1k that can make large, high resolution objections, with dual ink heads and a type of plastic that dissolves in water (making for easily removed support structures).

The website is http://trinitylabs.com/

He's got a JS-based 3D modeler with plans for an upcoming open source repository of models and lots of other cool stuff. I'm very excited to see what he comes up with.
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Thanks for the feedback! I chose to do a standard registration/login solely because it's my first php project- I want to learn how to handle forms and interact with databases.

As per the editing, it seems that is something I should really implement.
I love this. It shows how important it is to keep your ear to the ground to look for opportunities like this.

More importantly, it shows what happens when you have the confidence to go out and ask someone to do something. I argue that most would not have the confidence to go up to President Obama and ask him to try out their app. It is essential to be willing to get out there and hustle.
I've never been happy with the way I manage bookmarks.

Right now, I use the bookmark bar in chrome only for sites I access frequently, I have nowhere to store links that 'might be useful in the future'.

For very frequently visited sites (GMail, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, HN, etc) I have icons only (no text)

Then I have some folders with more organised links for other sites I access semi-frequently (hosting accounts, control panels, bank websites, documentation, etc)

This works well when I know where I want to go. The problem is when I find a link (say from a HN post) that I want to come back to later, but bookmarking it is next to useless because I'll forget I have it and end up searching google for a solution instead, wasting time.

The only way I've found is to simply leave the tab open, but when I can't even see the favicons in my tab bar, that becomes a problem!

I've often thought about developing an app, browser extension or web service to fix this problem, but haven't found the time to do so yet. I've tried many of the bookmarking services out there in the past and none of them really hit the spot. I have solved the 'web design inspiration' bookmark problem using LittleSnapper for mac, that works a treat for that particular type of bookmark.

Now I need something for everything else!
Very good article.

There is a huge cultural blindfold that Unix/C have formed indirectly formed on everybody's thinking about computers. Most of us have never used computers outside the Unix sphere of influence.

The point about hardware (in this case instruction set) adapting to Unix/C strings is also a recurring pattern,
and makes it hader to climb out of the pit of local optimum /path dependence.

Fun thought experiment to think how things might have
turned out if ideas from Burroughs mainframes, Transputer, Lisp machines or Intel i432 type of things had taken off.

But Unix was easy to port because of simplicity, kinda-open-source for universities, etc. even though those properties soon disappeared after it became popular. And we know the rest.
Customers already deal with such billing from other companies and it's not difficult.

Ever had a cell phone? During the day counts against an allotment, after a certain time at night, calls are free. For a home internet connection it would probably be reversed, as peak usage is right after work lets out.

Some power companies also do the same thing.