skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent idea, great concept!!!

It's not everyday medicine where you work on simple problems following a statistical approach - an appendicitis is more likely than a Meckel diverticulum, and a simple overeating is even more likely than both.

But there are complicated cases - not very often, but that's the one I like, and that most of the passionated doctors do too. Hell - I love such cases.

A quick story - I once had the chance to make a one-in-a-million diagnosis while working in the ER of a small hospital, around 2004.

A patient presented with a psychiatric history and a psychiatric diagnosis, but somehow it didn't feel right. I had this odd feeling when talking to the patient - no psychiatric symptoms of no kind. It seemed wrong. I ordered basic blood tests (checking for hyponatremia, etc), X-rays - all normal.

It was a bit late so I asked for the patient to be served a lunch before being discharged, deeply unsatisfied. Around 10 minutes later, the patient had a new episode - but this time it was in an hospital and I did not have to rely on eyewitnesses - it looked a lot like neurological problem, not a psychiatric problem.

After another round of blood tests (I don't like it when I don't know what's happening), brain scan, etc. everything was normal. I noticed the glucose was normal - it should not be, since the patient had had an hospital lunch (in my hospital it included marmelade, and all kind of sweet things!)

So I ordered a test to check for insulinoma (I'm weird, I know - its incidence is like one-in-a-million) because it made sense - and the test was negative.

At this time, I was just a medical resident - the seniors were a bit mad at me for having spent so much time (and costly diagnostic procedures) on what was proven wrong, and what should be wrong in the first place - because it is so unfrequent. And that's not what one is expected to do in the ER (fortunately, it was late at night)

Yet I wasn't satisfied, so I asked the patient to be transferred in the university hospital neurological department for further tests. Something was happening, we didn't know what, someone had labelled the patient "crazy" (not politically correct, but truth is psychiatric patient issues are usually less investigated) but there was something.

Guess what- weeks later I got a letter, they found it was a rare variant of insulinoma that our basic test did not detect.

That's one of my best moment in life !! That day I made a difference - I removed a wrongful psychiatric diagnosis and gave the proper diagnosis. Patients with insulinoma should not get institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital.

That's the medicine I love. Fixing basic problems is the job a mechanic.

The kind of medicine I love is unfortunately not possible with the current healthcare setup - and even with usual patients, because most people don't care. They want a quick fix.

This startup idea is just great, to take care of people who want the real deal. I wish you luck!!

I'm sure you will find great clinicians who will take going as deep as the rabbit hole goes to give excellent care.
I was not unfunded, I just wasn't funded by VCs. And I was not one guy.
A person with allergies, migraines, etc. is almost certainly better served by going to their general practitioner for a $20 copay.
It's not her tweet. It's a tweet from a parody account. Her actual account is @alexia.
"These things have nothing to do with each other."

The entire article is about women getting more control over the dating process. Valerie Brennan was the one who made the link to leadership in the workplace, not me.

I wasn't really making a moral point. Just practically speaking, if women want to expand their pool of potential dates, they have to proactively take control of the process of meeting guys.
It would hope the UX would be completely optimized for a heads up display.

For example, I would love a virtual pace car that I could just follow. I would slow down when its virtual brake lights went on, I would switch lanes when it did, and I would prepare to turn when it put in it blinkers.

This would require Google Glass to be completely integrated with the car's radar-based collision avoidance system.
The website (now loading) lists many health researchers on your team, but it doesn't say say much about their credentials and/or experience in biology/medicine. Can you give us some more details?
> Comments about legality or western perspectives on privacy are off base.

If you want to participate in Western society, you need to be able to interact with people who will observe you in public. My parent poster does not accept the basic implications of being observed in public. It's not at all off base to point out that his fundamental understanding of privacy is in conflict with the world around him.
You are agreeing with my point, which is that there's no way to form a business that isn't extremely stressful. That's unfortunate, because there are plenty of people out there who have the talent and ability but don't want to take on the pain.
Gad, can we keep vacuous Dilbert-grade business babble out of here please? "The future of business lies in the shift from a culture of management to that of leadership and it begins with you." Thanks! Happy to know that!
As I said: I think it's a great idea and I wish you all the success in the world. If only this wasn't necessary... I also hope that you don't encounter too much resistance from practitioners.
Please enlighten me: what is this easy unbroken way of moving money to which you allude?
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitcoin-price-breaks-all-time-hig...
According to our research, more than 3% of the American population reports their health to be "good" or "excellent", and spends more than $40,000 annually on medical care. Our service won't be useful for every sniffle (unless you're Bill Gates), but there's a huge amount of opportunity for products in the medical field.
It's usually a safe assumption that rules that apply to employees don't apply to C level management.
The hn crowd are of course a very tech minded group and more tolerant technology in their lives. My friends who watch the google glass video seem to come away thinking "what does it do?" - this is normal people, not geeks. They all laugh when I say you wear them and talk to them. Do we really want to start talking to our clothing. I immediately switched off Siri for much the same reason (other than it doesn't work at all except for canned demos) - People use their smartphones in the elevators, on buses, etc, they don't want to look like dorks saying "ok, glass, show me my schedule for tomorrow", instead they silently and discretely click on the app.

A walking still camera and video camera will immediately put people into a defensive frame, knowing that anything they say or do can end up on twitter/facebook etc within moments. Especially when google enable retroactive videoing, by keeping the camera looping until told to record, then it keeps the last X seconds of the video loop. The obvious use case for google is to collect more data about you to sell more ads, and guess where those ads will end up.

Of course this is ignoring the legal issues of recording in courtrooms, corporations, photography on private property, what happens when someone's reading their email while driving and crashes into the self-driving car in front of them.

I applaud google for trying to invent the future, and maybe in 100 years society will be a different place with new zero-privacy expectations and laws have caught up with the world, but until then, my prediction is this is the new segway.
I've received similar emails. I've also been tempted to charge a fee for removal. I just ignore the emails.
I posited a similar question on a previous BitCoin post and received this response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5189994 "but odds are that the vast majority of Bitcoin usage still isn't on the Silk Road."
Wearable computing, in general, is unlikely to be as successful as a tablet with a great capacitive, finger-friendly touchscreen and a UI designed for fingers.

The modern tablet is a true breakthrough. Wearables are potential new market, and there is some excitement around the fact that both Google and Apple will enter that market soon. But wearables are far from a sure thing.

For one thing, Google Glass has a voice user interface. Google's speech recognition is the best there is, but on alternate days it still veers from astounding to laughable.

The most compelling application, face recognition, has a high creepiness factor, and Google probably won't touch it even though I would be first in line to buy if I could pick everyone in my contact list out of a crowd.
I've really enjoyed the PyCoders Weekly newsletter curated by Mahdi, so I'm looking forward to trying this out.
While the WFH ban is getting some criticism here for being a tactical response and not fixing the problem, I can see how it fits into a larger house cleaning. It sounds like Yahoo is in a serious spot both economically and culturally, and I can imagine Mayer saying that Yahoo needs to be rebuilt, right here (on campus), by people who really want to make it work. The ban addresses both parts. It gets people back together, in person, and it weeds out those aren't going to make that sacrifice for the company.

And to those who claim that they are as effective working at home, let me challenge you in this way: how do you really teach, inspire, and build morale if not in person? Someone may be a great coder, but they might also be an incredibly motivating person who lifts up those around them to much higher levels. I've never seen that occur remotely. Yahoo needs help badly, and they need their best people on site, walking the halls, building a culture that means making Yahoo great again. I don't see how said people can do that over VPN.
The virtue of the method detailed in the article using crouton is that Ubuntu runs alongside Chrome OS without sucking up memory like a dehydrated sponge.
Yeah...sure... Because all those unproductive work from home employees are going to be super productive once they get in the office. No way they'll slack off there, browsing the web or come up with meetins and excuses.
Thanks for the questions. We're working to update the FAQ and site to make all of this more clear. My personal belief is that there's more to commerce than just payments (order management, inventory management, analytics, supporting web and native mobile/tablet apps, etc). It may look simple now, but these are the types of challenges we're in the process of tackling.
If that's her plan they would need to be careful to avoid running afoul of the concept of "constructive dismissal". If you make the work environment so intolerable as to make someone quit the law generally treats it as if you had simply fired the employee.

Can most claim that actually having to go to work is "intolerable" if they've not so much as logged into the VPN? Probably not. But the stay-at-home moms who can demonstrate they've been producing while teleworking might have a leg to stand on there.
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I have the $200 Asus. I like it. I installed Ubuntu on it. I basically just use it for a portable/travel computer that I could also program on. I can easily pick it up and go skype or browse HN since I don't have an iPad.
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Here's some amusing trivia: the source on this article, Communitech, rejected Thalmic from their "Hyperdrive" accelerator program shortly before the company was accepted by YC. Something about "we don't think people will like it".

Suffice is to say they've been kicking themselves ever since.
I wish this project had a different name; just another way to tell women that they don't belong as programmers.
How to find a co-founder (slideshare) 
Introducing the MVT (minimum viable team) + a definition of founder that complement Steve Blank's Startup Definition... #enjoy
Superfast Spinning Black Hole Tearing Up Space at Nearly the Speed of Light
Same, chrome 25.0.1364.97.
Not "pulling", detecting. Vuln is not severe but it is still fun!
Looks like they tried not to make this the focus of the site.

(ette) is there for a reason.

https://www.neckbeardrepublic.com/faqs/
Here’s what an actual “Six Strikes” copyright alert looks like
Even if this was true, does it matter? At the end of the day, value is value. I know there's a lot of fatigue on HN about bitcoin stories from the initial spam when it first broke into the mainstream (well, the tech mainstream at least) but it really is a game changer IMO.

By the way, I have never owned any bitcoin. I just find it fascinating.
I'd guess that Yahoo has some talented people and some deadweight, but that seems obvious. No idea what the proportions are.

How would you fix the problem?

Abstractly, I support the idea of firing the untalented, lazy, or parasitic people who drain the company. In practice, very few companies can execute this, because figuring out who those people are, without the process getting corrupted and political, is a rarely accomplished feat. Project-by-project layoffs, while more unfair, I think are often better than most "low performer initiatives" that devolve into witch hunts.

Certainly, if she implements Google's HR/performance review process, she'll only make the company worse and probably kill it.
this happens when facebook is "down" or when u set bad timeout /https.
Can you trace urls you get ? Https enforcement?
Kevin,

It seems that the Singularity Institute also reads James Altucher: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/what-is-the-quickest-way-to-mak....

My guess is that your "productize step" is to also use your researchers to train a specialized medical search engine you'll keep on the back-end (sort of a Mahalo+Watson).

If that isn't what you're doing, let me know. Maybe I can help get you there.
Did the cache expire or is that a incorrect link.
When you, alone, have the power to turn a company around, you get more or less anything necessary to ensure your success.

Let's be real.

This isn't CEO camp. Not everyone gets a turn.

Mayer is special. She's got a kid on the way. I'm sure the shareholders would prefer she not have to choose between saving Yahoo and raising her kid. If employees were able to deliver similar levels of value, I'm sure they'd be first in line for their own special accommodations.
> Just describe the user experience

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN

> There are plenty of people here who know plenty about cryptography, payments and getting service usage

I've explained this to you before: not all of the people who read my blog are engineers.

> Note: here's all you have to tell us related to cryptography: the service is as secure as a mag-stripe.

Apparently I have to explain more than that because that makes no sense whatsoever.

Hm, if it quacks like a troll...
I think blhack is playing semantics with 'consumer'. They are skiwear consumers that bought them. I think it was pretty clear that you meant something like widespread public use.
> who discovered the mass assignment bug

IMO mass assignment was discovered not last year. 2006 maybe?
http://bgr.com/2012/07/18/ipad-prototype-photos-court-docume...

“My recollection of first seeing it is very hazy, but it was, I’m guessing, some time between 2002 and 2004,” Ive testified. “I remember seeing this and perhaps models similar to this when we were first exploring tablet designs that ultimately became the iPad.”
What is the best way to buy Bitcoin, assuming one wanted to maximise their anonymity?
Hit the text-only up the top.
StartitUp is Your To-Do List For Starting a Company
Beautiful Gestures: How devices like the MYO will impact design
Yep.

Dude's been on a pretty solid streak for the past year.
woosh

They're not going to go to the office. They're going to quit.

That's the brilliance of the move.
Prices are currently listed as $5,000 (Core), $10,000 (Expanded), and Call For Quote (Concierge).

"Concierge" for medical service feels a little cheesy to me, but I'm not in that income demo so I could be completely wrong.

The sample Surface report looks kinda thin to me for $5,000. http://www.metamed.com/static/Meta_Sleep.pdf

The Expanded report is a little better.
http://www.metamed.com/static/Meta_H_Pylori.pdf

The Sample Concierge report is interesting. Though from an admittedly quick skim I'm not sure how much of it is truly personalized. There's a lot statistics in there, which I guess is unavoidable.
http://www.metamed.com/static/Meta_Gout.pdf

In any case, I like the basic idea of this a LOT. It's an interesting direction to go in, bringing this kind of thing to semi-mass market.

By the way, the line "Our doctors are here to listen" in the call-or-chat box is brilliant. The couple of people I know who have problems they would need to take to this level are completely fed up with doctors that they feel aren't listening to them. This is the market. People who are in strong need of personal level attention.
How is it related to being a CEO, though? Fact is, Mayer had a child. She realised that in order to be effective in the office, she needed a nursery, so that she could be close to her child while also working.

Why does the same not apply to Yahoo employees with young children? Mayer may be CEO, but the logic she used to install a nursery would apply to all employees.
Native code is just too expensive to write/maintain and is not justified unless you need the extra constant factor performance it gives you, which is quite unrelated to scalability.

In this case, at least, industry seems to be doing it right. C++ is reserved for the industries that really need it (gaming, embedded) and enterprise work focuses more on programmer productivity instead.
Agreed, but if the manager took responsibility for this he or she probably would be fired. Still, it is the only way to be; otherwise, you're not a real leader.
This guy really hates RoR
I am on Azure as well for my startup (sharpplm.com). We are a document/quality management system for small mfg companies. The app was built as a straight .NET web app with sql server backend, so I went the VM path for now. Since its bootstrapped, Bizspark really has helped cut the startup costs. So far I've been really happy, also all the other software is a nice added bonus.
ctags - http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
should give you "go to definition", no matter what you use emacs or vim

here is something with a bit more detail - http://tartley.com/?p=1277
Wires, ACH, credit cards, cash, checks, etc. If there are specific situations where you feel the options are poor and are actually holding back the situation, would love to hear them. The only one I can think of that is truly poorly served is micropayments but I'm not really sure that's much of an opportunity anyway.
So stop pouting and work around it: update your code, set up a web page, give that page a descriptive title so search engines will pick it up, and post a link to it here. Problem solved! (Google "text/plain" to see an example of how Gilles Durys did it.)

(Oh, and it's spelled "losing," not "loosing," comrade.)
They do that by staying in the trenches and mowing down the enemy with machine guns, not by getting mowed down. The latter didn't work. In the period 1915-1917 neither the Allies nor the Germans had made any significant tactical or strategic gains in the West, though the Allies had much higher casualties because they made a greater number of failed attacks. Indeed, such attacks almost weakened the Allies so much that they could have lost the war in 1916. And in 1917 20,000 French soldiers deserted, it took replacing the General in command and ending the practice of mass frontal attacks to prevent the army from dissolving away or rebelling.

You don't win a war by trading human lives for bullets, it's necessary to gain some average net advantage if you lose lives, otherwise you will lose.

Suicide attacks didn't win the war for the Allies, it was patience, attrition (through naval blockades), new tactics, new allies, and new technology which led to victory.
That's what confused me. I'm wary of armchair-CEOing, given that I have no experience at that level whatsoever. However, it seems like there would be an easier solution to "people who WFH and don't do anything": deal with people who _don't do anything_ (whether at home or in the office). Try as I might, I can't see the benefit to this blunter approach that would justify the cost to recruitment and legitimate remote workers.
There are a good deal of misdiagnoses that cause more months of suffering, especially with diseases like Crohn's disease. Maybe a service like this could prevent that with the help of a more accurate up front diagnosis. Diseases aren't as rare as people tend to think (~1.5 million with a digestive disease in the U.S. alone).

That said, here are a couple things which make me skeptical about this:

1) They make claims involving rounded numbers without sources, such as "50% of second opinions contradict the original diagnosis." That's a red flag for me. Would be nice for me to see some sources for claims like that on a site wishing to sell medical research services.

2) Several of the medical researchers do not have a background in anything medical. In fact, one of the senior health researchers' area of expertise includes herbal medicine and Naturopathy (which is a bit anti-vaccination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturopathy). I would not be happy If I got suggested any alternative medicine remedies for my disease at the cost of $5,000.
Not necessarily. I think there's a better solution for that. You just have to consider what it's like to be the typical woman on a dating website and try to mitigate the problem.

So... my take on this:

How about a group dating website? When you and friends get a date, there's a notification prompting you to set a group date.
I think women would be far more likely to meet strangers if they can bring friends along. As a bonus, you'd see what he's like around his friends. And if it turns out he's not exactly your type, maybe one of his friends seems a better fit.

Because she can bring her friends along, she'd be much less hesitant to initiate contact with a stranger and much more likely to meet in person.

And because she won't go alone, she doesn't have to worry that others will think of her as a slut when they see her meeting a lot of men. It will look to others as just a bunch of friends hanging out.

She'll probably still get a ton of messages in her mailbox, but this wouldn't be much of an issue anymore since she's more likely to initiate contact with who she wants.

Would be lots more fun than a plain old date too :)

What do you think? Seems like a win-win to both men and women, regardless of sexual orientation!

Honestly, I can see this making women initiate contact even more than I initially thought when you consider that if a friend got a date, WHOA!, now she wants to find a date too so she can go with her friend!
And I can definitely see girlfriends bugging each other to find a date so they don't have to go alone.

Start-up idea, anyone? Do I get a free membership?