skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, the distinction needs to be made between type 1 and type 2, these are two different things.

If you respect Ray Kurzweil's ideas, which I think a fair number of people here do, then I would suggest anyone with diabetes concerns (at risk, got it, etc) read his book "Transcend."

Direct quote:

"Largely because of excessive consumption of simple carbohydrates and sugary foods, the number of people with type 2 diabetes in the United States has increased tenfold in the past 35 years, and as of 2008, type 2 diabetes affected over 21 million Americans. In just the 10 years between 1997 and 2007, the incidence of type 2 diabetes nearly doubled in the United States, from 4.8 to 9.1 per 1,000 people."

The reason why Paleo is recommended is because high glycemic index carbohydrates are virtually eliminated. That certainly is not the only diet that accomplishes this. In Transcend, a low calorie somewhat Japanese diet is encouraged. That is something that is extremely difficult, behaviorally, for Westerners to strictly adapt. In my own experience it took about 3-4 years of behavior modification to do that, and I ended up medically underweight. "Paleo", at least for males from what I've seen, is fairly easy.

If you disagree with Kurzweil, well then I can't say much else, he certainly knows more about this than I do.
The only possible incentive is money?

I think you're selling humanity short. There are plenty of ways to have society prioritize researching drug therapies for different diseases that don't hinge on reaping massive profit on the sales of the drug. See: public funding. I don't necessarily mean that through government/taxes, but it should certainly be an option.
cost to invent drugs = identifying compounds (90%, say) + determining manufacturing process (10%)

^ Where are you getting these numbers from? They seem way too simplistic, and your argument essentially falls apart without them.

Real 'invention cost' would be determined by far more factors
- cost of raw materials

- labour cost (I bet it's cheaper for pharmaceutical companies to pay workers much lesser in India too.),

- whether your competitors are targeting the same market (if these companies stopped researching said drugs, Cipla would come up with a cheaper way to do the R&D required, and then make a killing, even with their low rates, since they would have cornered the market.)

Plus the goodwill of Govts of developing countries that are offered these medicines at low rates may lead to fruitful collaboration with national research institutes in those countries, thereby lessening the need for enormous profit margins anyway.

As someone said below, the fact that there is more money to be made selling iPads rather than bread does not mean that everyone switches to making iPads.
Best quote ever: 'In his most recent writings, Ehman resists "drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data"'.
I can't see the analytics of my fan page. The error I'm getting is: "We cannot find a Facebook page with this link.".
Because monocultures have always been good for development and progress.
Yes, it made a daily commute in a well-padded backpack. I drove in the winter and rode my bicycle when the weather was suitable. It also flew across the country at least once per month.
Are the papers here [1] relevant? I sat in on this conference session as a student, and don't have access to the full papers to check my recollection. As I recall, most of the papers revolved about the theme of closed loop control of blood sugar.

At the time this was presented, the results were billed as the biggest advance in Intensive Care in recent history. The authors claimed to have hard numbers, showing that closed loop control of blood sugar for ICU patients was delivering (something like 40% if memory serves me???) fewer deaths for ICU patients. I'm not in the ICU area, so I don't know if the techniques outlined in the paper made it into clinical practice or real products. If so, you'd think it would trickle down into diabetes management. As a non-diabetic, am I completely misunderstanding the problem?

The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) is the peak body for control research, so there's a good chance you will read about any new closed loop system there.

[1] http://www.sysid2006.org/Wednesday.html#web4

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Edit: A couple more links from my poking around. Might provide some reading if closed loop control of diabetes is of interest.

http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/paediatrics/pages/wilinska.html

Closed Loop Insulin Infusion for Critically Ill Patients (with pictures of an actual device):

http://www.clinicip.org/

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Edit: Found the actual numbers here: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.doc...

42% reduction in mortality, compared to the old insulin control method, which I presume is open-loop?
I remember reading a wikipedia article on the Bloop about half a year ago, and none of these other unexplained sounds were on it. Seems like NOAA fanboys dug up and wrote the others.

That being said NOAA fanboys are far more preferable to Apple fanboys. :)
I was looking for something like this to share our car costs. Unfortunately it lacks some stuff I really need:

- Exclude people from cost (only 4 of 5 people do the road trip)

- Fully claim some cost (someone needs the car for a day to move some stuff for himself)

Are there other apps like this with a nice iPhone client?
None of their shipping products work with iOS, but you are correct that they demoed a product 6 months ago.
Thanks, I'd like to add a deeper analysis of post content and determine the tipping point for posts that go viral.
The problem with this is the people buying premium accounts are precisely the people advertisers are trying to target.
I don't get the comparison to commodity markets or markets for commonplace things like bread. There aren't any high barriers to entry in bread business, it doesn't require a lot of specialized skill or R&D, and consequently there is not a lot of room for profit.

Pharmaceuticals involve high liability, high costs, and highly skilled workers at least in the R&D area. I'm not sure whether the "net income" (it doesn't say profit) listed on that wikipedia page is net of R&D and net of taxes. Actual profit might be much smaller than it appears; if R&D is not included then the top firm has a profit of 8% and that may not include taxes. If they are only able to make bread-bakers profits they might as well just make bread and avoid all the hassle.
We all can take a lesson or two from Dr. Jonas Salk.
Philosophy of Science is an extremely broad field. And like any academic field it's easy enough to find crazy stuff at the edges.

I do think far more scientists would benefit from a bit more of a look at some of the more established philosophers of the last century. It seems that most gained some knowledge of Popper but nowhere near enough people are really familiar with Kuhn's work(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/). Taking the time to think critically about what you're doing and what it would really take to change your views is critical to actually being open to broad possibilities.
Why Zynga bought Draw Something for $183 million
The NSF funds a LOT of public university research in medicine. So do the drug companies.
> I then asked the lady washing my hair about whether they consciously ask for feedback from clients, and mentioned how surprised and amazed I was that they had actually listened, discussed it and made a decision about how to improve the experience.

This is so the exception.

My experience has been that unless I'm speaking to a founder or very senior manager all suggestions and ideas for improvements disappear down a black hole.

The employee will nod and say things like "oh, that's a good idea", but will almost never pass it along to a decision maker.

If you are the decision maker in a small company, you have to create the culture for employees to speak up.

In a big company, the culture is impossible to change. A decision maker in a big company has to "spy" on the employee/customer interactions (record customer service calls for example) to find out what customers are suggesting.
– MPlayerX (http://mplayerx.org/) Great standalone video player

- Perian (http://perian.org) Perian lets quicktime run almost any video format. Unfortunately it's not under active development. Still useful to have installed regardless.

– Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome) Don't install Flash unless you have to. Chrome has it built in. I use Safari for most of my browsing and switch to Chrome when I want to use flash.

– If you aren't going to install Flash, then install YouTube5 (http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/) It's a Safari extension that lets you watch YouTube videos natively without Flash.

- Day-O (http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2011/10/20/day_o_mac_menu_...) Adds a drop down calendar to the menubar.

- Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) Another vote for Alfred. Much quicker and more powerful than Spotlight.

- 1Password (https://agilebits.com/onepassword) Remembers passwords/logins and makes it super easy to auto login to sites.
We have a similar app, Flatmin (http://flatmin.com) that's targeted more specifically at shared living situations.

We built it a few years ago, and h(ave|ad) big plans to expand into household chores and shopping lists. It's an interesting problem from a couple of perspectives. We've found the more Facebook integration we can do, the better as the target market are very comfortable with Facebook.

It's also a difficult one to make money from - we have some ads on there, but I think to really make it work you'd need integration with another app or some kind of freemium offering (daily deals?)

Yours looks nice - if I could make a suggestion, it would be great to enter email addresses of people to invite, as sending them a hex string is less common and more likely to get lost!
https://www.facebook.com/JB.HiFi.Official is not working for me.
A scam that depends on Search working Right
Most people are averse to the idea using human beings as guinea pigs, even if they are poor.
Can we please have a blockquote markup? And improve the code block markup so that the line width is wider and doesn't require horizontal scrolling?

This is a code markup example. The problem I'm seeing is that, lacking a clear blockquote text citing markup, it's also used for citing text. Which, in the case of long lines, leads to the example I'm trying to replicate here: a single line of long, horizontally scrolling text.
Just sayin'.
Well, the second version here is better for the following reasons:

- 9 less lines of code.

- Easier to see that it's correct. Partly because it's less lines, but partly because those lines are more meaningful and less bland. It would be hard to see a typo in the repetitive inner loop of the first version.

- Two obvious independent pieces of code instead of one big piece of code. That means if you're reading it, you know how to go about understanding it; understand each piece in turn. Somewhat trivial when there are 25 lines, but serious if there are 200 lines.

- Easier to test and debug. At a REPL, it's trivial to see what the stack is going to look like five hops into the functional version; you just apply the processing function five times. To do the same to the imperative version, you need to either write some debug logic into the middle of the function or set a breakpoint and hit 'continue' in your debugger while you count on your fingers.

Those reasons are typical consequences of writing your code as a collection of data and pure functions.

Also, the semantics are not completely inherently serial for most possible stacks. The sequence of operations forms a tree of computation, and the branches of the tree could be computed in parallel. If you actually wanted to do that (say, if the operations took a long time individually) then the way you would go about it is to construct the tree explicitly up front, take this functional version, replace fold with a version of fold that knows how to fold over trees in parallel, and fold it over the tree. Ta-da -- it would just work.
Not really sure a guy whose exposure to "philosophy" apparently consists of awareness of a single writer is prepared to weigh in on the legitimacy of a field as old as civilization. But admittedly I haven't done a RCT to confirm this.
South Korea bans online game item trading
In my (limited) experience, ZDNet has always been very friendly of Microsoft. The fact that even they are throwing around words like "disaster" doesn't bode well in my mind.
I live in Calgary, AB and used to hear something similar to the Hum approximately 4 years ago. At the time I was in a basement suite and would occasionally wake up and would hear a humming noise (unsure if I was waking due to the hum or not.) Eventually, the conclusion that I came to was that because I was "underground" the low frequency of a train yard not far from my house was the cause of the noise.

My wife frequently tells me that I have sensitive ears. And I've had to leave rooms because of feedback in a sound system that no one seems to be able to hear.
Have you read the book?

I was put off by title for a long time, before I was finally convinced that it was worth reading. How to win friends & influence people is one of the most influential books I've ever read. I try and go back and re-read it about once a year. It's just a good handbook on how to improve the quality of life for yourself and people around you.
And hopefully it's not RTMPS!
Quick bugfix: It only seems to work if you include the "www." in the URL of the page. Why not just ask for the page-slug instead of the full URL?

EDIT: I can see this being really useful in a "opposition research" sort of way. It would be great to be able to view/compare multiple pages at the same time, and then try to highlight where one is going better than the other.

For pages that you manage, it's really not that useful when compared to the powerful analytics Facebook already provides through the insights tool.
New DVD Giftcard Start-up Service
Review my new DVD/Gift-card startup.
I do think there's a bit of a glass-house problem: finding scientists doing not-great philosophy is not hard. (It's perfectly fine, of course, for one to be ignorant of the other if they aren't trying to do the other one; nobody can do everything.)

Theoretical physicists are particularly prone to lapsing, in later career, into armchair philosophy without bothering to actually read anything in philosophy of the past 100 years. That tends, unfortunately, to result in them producing philosophy that has flashes of insight mixed with stuff that could be a lot better if only they had read some of the existing literature, and addressed the obvious problems with some of the standard positions (which too often they reinvent).

Of course, philosophers could understand more science too, but I actually think there is more effort being made in that direction: philosophy of science programs are increasingly requiring substantial amounts of technical coursework, and it's a huge plus, for advancement, if you publish at least a few articles in technical journals, too. But in the other direction, there might actually be less philosophy instruction in science programs than there was 100 years ago now (surface-level understandings of Popperian falsificationism seem to be about as far as anyone gets, including my own formal education it must be said). This seems like a recent affliction, too: the early-20th-c scientists (Einstein, Bohr, etc.) were actually quite well-read in the relevant parts of philosophy. Heck, folks like Alan Turing published in peer-reviewed philosophy journals.
My bad. I'll fix the regexp next time I'm at a computer and let you know.
I don't "get" Vice's articles.
In order to comply with Godwin's law I just want to recommend the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
WebGeek Community Goes Mobile with Free iPhone, Android & Windows Phone App
Great idea, looks like, but I do hope you're aware there are many of these around.

http://www.buxfer.com/

http://www.splitwise.com/

https://wesplit.it/

http://www.billsarein.com/

https://www.paydivvy.com/

https://www.billmonk.com/

https://splitabill.com/

http://flatmin.com/

http://expensure.com/

I personally use the first two, in my roommate / office situation respectively. They work great, frankly. I have very few complaints about either.

If you can do it better, more power to you, but as with any crowded space, I have to ask, because I'm genuinely interested—why did you choose to start from scratch?
> I’m going to avoid commenting on Metro on touch-based systems for now because Windows 8 is too far off in the future to know what the hardware is going to be like. Instead, I’m going to limit my discussion to using the operating system on desktop and notebook systems.

I think he roundly missed the point.

Yes you scan over the screen and it might be hard to find the things you want on day one. That's how it was with our iPhone and Androids too on the first day we got them.

You all know what happens. People rearrange to their taste or memorize the locations of the less-than-five applications that they commonly use. It's not as if the "where's waldo" game goes on indefinitely.

I think he's being intentionally obtuse about this. Windows is trying to unify their UI among the XBox, Phones, Tablets and Desktops and he wants to focus on the one where it will be less useful than the others by complaining about a problem that literally every smartphone user has already solved by day three.

Typing the name of the app you want is clumsy, you say? More clumsy than eyeballing a list that gets rather large?

http://i.imgur.com/Z0pCc.png

If you know what you want, typing is vastly easier than scanning a long startmenu list of items.
> It's reasonable for work and unreasonable for entertainment.

If you limit yourself to what the Internet could do in the days of 56k modems, 3GB works just fine. However, I wouldn't exclusively call that "entertainment".

It seems fairly unreasonable for heavyweight web applications as well, with piles of JavaScript and various rich content that includes more than just text and markup. It also won't nearly suffice for the purposes of pushing and pulling code via version control, which I do regularly for work.

More to the point, it just seems unreasonable by the standards of non-cell Internet connections, and unreasonable even by the standards of cell Internet connections back when every provider offered "unlimited" plans.

> If you just need to send emails and be able to restart your server then 3GB will basically last forever, not so if you want to torrent 1080p copies of Game of Thrones.

There exists some middle ground there. If you want to view pages with heavyweight content, including the occasional video or large image, 3GB might last a couple of weeks at most.

If you regularly do OS upgrades, download software packages, clone version control repositories, perform backups, and otherwise use it like any other computer professional would even without including entertainment, 3GB might last a few days. (This does not represent an off-the-cuff guess; I've measured this.)

In any case, I intended my original comment simply to express astonishment that we've gone from "how dare 'unlimited' not mean 'unlimited'" to "3GB/£15 (3GB/~$25) seems pretty reasonable" so quickly. Apparently that sentiment did not go over well.
This is unrelated but your comment made me think of it and you may find it interesting.

At age 13 I moved from San Diego CA to Brooklyn Park MN. Shortly after the move I spent a summer helping my stepfather's grandfather build an addition on his house. He lived in Park Rapids MN which in a very isolated, rural area 4 hours north of Minneapolis. After the first few weeks there I started to feel like I was going crazy. I had no history of mental illness but I was suddenly feeling increasingly anxious and agitated with each new day...then I put a hat on.

After I put on the hat, I felt normal again. I had always lived in cities and never had an unobstructed view for more than a mile or so. Out in the country I could see for many miles and it had an effect on me. The bill of the hat blocked my view.
My read on this is not that he is claiming those things, but that he is examining those claims to see if they are true.

To be honest, not getting another breathless reiteration of the Functional Programming Dogma is a breath of fresh air. I actually like FP in the general sense, think interesting things are happening there, and am keeping an eye on it (as well as using it in selected places in my job where it makes sense, so I've actually put some cash down on the thing), but I'm really tired of people who have just barely learned enough FP to implement something of, say, this exact level of complexity making wild boasts about how good it is. I suppose it's a specific case of the general problem of seeing someone argue something you agree with, but badly.

This particular "integer stack VM implementation" is so trivial that you can't make arguments based on it. Both the imperative and functional implementations are too tiny to make pronouncements.
It would be cool if this could overlay charts from different brands.
Thank you, fortunately I was able to find an economy edition of both books (Linear Algebra and its applications by Strang though) after reading your post, so I have lots of work to do now. Also I don't know how I missed probability in my original post. That has been one of my weak areas and definitely needs fixing.
"Are You a Good Roommate?" Quiz from 1947 Men's Magazine
Give this test to your roommate.
Vice occasionally has some good stuff, but this is pretty vapid. Most of the art world is crap. Most of anything is crap. Not a recent development.
Show HN: AliceToBob - share files/text securely with friends
Does anyone have recommendations for similar hardware with 5 or 6 drives?

On a different note, the number of possible distributions is a tad confusing. Can someone recommend (say FreeNAS or Illumos) the distribution with the most up to date support of ZFS along with ongoing updates? I'm primarily looking for something that is hassle free to maintain and update. FreeBSD or Solaris based is okay.
I thought the full URL was easiest since you can copy and paste. For pages that are already being watched, the slug will take you to the page. However, some fb pages don't have vanity urls.

Edit: thanks for the feedback. Adding the ability to compare your page to competitors would be pretty nice.
I don't know if Windows 8 is good or bad, but I do know the perception of it is bad. Perception is reality. If Microsoft doesn't get control of Windows 8 image ASAP then it's going to bomb.
Funny to see how this quiz (1947) compares to roommates in 2012.
Freebsd it is
Challenge: Why would users trust you with sensitive information?

I don't believe "Hilla Zino" really said "Now I can keep my affair secret" to you.

Why separate "contact" and "feedback" links?

Typo: "More Securiry Options" on page https://www.alicetobob.com/create

Love the domain name.
This sounds like the Courtier's Reply. How is it different from it?

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Courtier%27s_Reply
It sounds like it's going to be the "Ribbon" debacle part deux.

The debut of the Ribbon UI in Office 2007 was the tipping point where I started to look at other platforms and other productivity suites. It made no sense at all to me to switch from literally decades of convention in the UI to something that to this day leaves me frustrated every time I use it (probably because it's not often).

The Ribbon is why I now use a Mac, and don't use Outlook or any Office products.

Windows 8/Metro is going to be another such pivotal moment. It's so different, I wonder how many people are going to say "wow, maybe I ought to look at a Mac / Linux if I have to relearn everything anyway."
Agreed, but the point was that there are very very few legitimate reason in 2012 to use ed unless you just happen to like it.