skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all meters allow you to extract data over USB, but the data usually comes out in an obfuscated proprietary format. Do you know which format this exports to? Scott Hanselman had a blog post about this a few years ago (can't seem to find the link).

IMO, every meter should be required to export to CSV at a bare minimum. I will look into the one you linked, but for most users, they really need something that can be easily converted to an xls. The current state of things is that they only export to some supremely terrible proprietary program that is really only meant for an endocrinologist to use with the help of an IT team.

I should be able to easily view my health data and crunch it how I see fit. Decent analytics around my glucose data would be extremely valuable, but the current state of affairs is abysmal.
There's no "maybe" about it, I don't think.
I don't know at what point in the lifecycle your app is but I often have these breaks in development when anxiety about what I am building subconsciously creeps in. This often happens over vacation breaks when I've had time to process and suddenly start doubting the idea, the execution, the potential etc. It's as if by not completing it, I won't have to face the failure of it not selling.

As an engineer, I also find myself less interest in a project when its main technical difficulty has been solved. It's as if my brain says: "great, we've built it, it works...was fun...I am bored with it now". Reaping any financial reward from the work doesn't really seem sufficiently motivating to keep my brain interested.

However...both of the above scenarios are often solved by the slightest hint of a challenge. I.e. Could I squeeze 10% more performance out of module X by Y...or...how many signups will I get from a tweet...?

Simply posing myself some challenge to which I truly don't know the outcome often gets me right back in.
This definition of value ignores ancillary departments such as marketing, office management, HR, and legal. These are sometimes known as "cost centers" in a business organization, but in that they support the engineers/artists/makers, they most definitely are creating value. Sometimes the chain can be long, but it's usually present.
This is California we're talking about. Public services are like black holes for money. The SFMTA (which is only one of many bay area transit agencies) has almost a billion dollar annual operating budget, and "usable" would be a generous term for their service.
Sn^H^Ha former employee/contractor?
I'm wondering the same -- I had just switched from the $9.99 plan to the $4.99, because I only listen to Rdio on my computers (at home or work). Maybe I'll start streaming vinyl over MPD, or some fool thing.
As a San Franciscan, mass transit really sucks. Busses are irregular, BART closes shortly after midnight and its connections are limited. MUNI trains were faster a century ago, and are often blocked in traffic as they share roads with cars?

Being a pedestrian isn't any safer as we had a record number of car vs pedestrian deaths this year.

We are massively under served.
How many sitting congressmen have ever lost their security clearance? It seems like the decision reached in Gravel v. United States totally contradicts what you say.
But not to charge cards.
During the tutorial, it seems like the memory dump goes blank for me (it loses its scroll bars, and loses its contents) -- http://i.imgur.com/ta9iykd.png

This is Firefox 25.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, on Ubuntu 12.04. I'll try it on something more modern when I get home.

Looking forward to it!
This is the most interesting question. And failsafe. You couldn't rely on this, unless there was a way to ensure it is working or had a fixed lifespan.

I believe the thermoelectric converter works by exploiting a temperature gradient, which I suspect would not be sufficient at this scale and location.
Every announced Google X project has been rolled out to some capacity. Self-driving cars, Glass, Loon are all actively being tested in the real world.
> single-threaded, evented

Those are drawbacks. Fatal ones, in fact. They are distinguishing characteristics of microcomputer OSes of the 80s.
One possible interpretation: Things that are valuable (be it artistic creations or useful tools) will overshadow their inventors. If you want your work to be recognized, then you should care more about your work than about being recognized for it.
I just launched a successful Kickstarter campaign back in November, so I'll share what feedback that I can:

* The copy focuses too much on the product features, rather than on how you, the backer, will improve as a person for using it.

* The video sounds and feels too corporate. Many Kickstarter backers seem to seek out interesting people as much if not more so than interesting projects. I only watched more than 10 seconds of it for the sake of offering feedback.

* This particular input will hurt to read: the example website's just plain ugly as sin. All those buttons and fields contradict the "one place" promise central to the whole offering, too.

* The service tries to do too do much, straining my imagination rather than exciting it.

* Online services seem to have hard a hard time of it on Kickstarter. Services as a deliverable are also hard to picture (in contrast to the concrete images of books, gourmet chocolate, etc.).

* Millions of dollars couldn't fix web portals for Yahoo and other corporate giants. The offering is a 1990s-style web portal, as far as I can tell.

My actionable advice:

* Start with something much smaller, ideally something you could complete or attempt out of your own pocket. A single-purpose, single-platform app, for example.

* Tim Ferris blogged about running a Kickstarter campaign. Treat that as your bible (scaling your efforts accordingly). I'm including the advice to hire a virtual assistant in this. You will have no free time for mundane tasks while running the Kickstarter.

* Shut down the current Kickstarter. Kicktraq will confirm that it has no chance of succeeding. Keeping the "sunk cost" fallacy in mind, better to devote your time and limited mental energy to starting again.

* Keep trying. I might have succeeded on my own first Kickstarter, but with years of creative effort and outreach preceding that.

Good luck!
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The link stage is pretty huge. It currently won't compile with emscripten with debug symbols, in-fact the entire obj-pre-link stage is 8.9GB of "bytecode".

There really isn't a layout algorithm but it does seem like overtime they began to contain it as to make it not platform dependent (thank god).

I think that the major achievement of webkit wasn't in the code they took from KHTML ;) but in the unit tests that were created and the robust amounts of work that went in to focus on making things pixel perfect. Prior to webkit a margin meant whatever the hell the damn implementers felt like. If it worked at all.

I should say much of the code in WebKit is no-mans-land, or essentially greatest common denominator work to make webkit portable to multiple architectures. That's why the linking takes so long and you can go from >1/2 GB of source code, 4GB of linker memory down to a 20MB object file.
I'm on the "Web only" plan. The free tier will have ads.
i'm tired of your faggy spam..
I don't believe money is 1:1 with value. Consider for example a "Craigslist Flipper" - someone who finds items for sale on Craigslist, buys them, and turns around and sells them for a profit. Did this person create value? Not at all; I would argue they created negative wealth in the world. See also: people who run window installation companies and go around breaking people's windows at night.
Did you never get cash for birthdays or Christmas? I had a sizable number of friends growing up who claimed to "get no allowance", but they spent a shocking amount on frivolities. Turns out their annual gifts-received line item was significantly more than the pittance I received for allowance, annualized.

Not saying that was your situation, just remembering my annoyance at my friends dishonesty/innumeracy.
I really feel your pain. The reason why I love this meter so much is that it doesn't require a £50 USB cable (The usb is built into the meter) the proprietry software is a standalone jar on the USB device which is amazingly quite good. But best of all when you plug the USB device in it mounts as removable storage with a db.sqlite file which is easily accessible and a simple .dump reveals the sensible DB schema. It's really refreshing to be able to get my data and do what I want with it.
Then why not make it 40, or 50, or 60 dollars?
Type 1 diabetic here too.

I too would pay $10k+ for one of these for precisely the reason you mentioned above: adding years to my life.
I'm expecting sensor tech to explode in the coming years, including noninvasive cgm. Imagine high level endurance athletes on a full biometrics panel during a race, including glycose and blood pressure (among other things).
The title of this piece really sums up my frustration. You're trying to come up with a label for a group of diverse people? Why? So you can judge, belittle, and intimidate them without feeling guilty?

Why not judge newcomers as individuals? They're people first. Some of them are assholes. Others are awesome people who are positive for the community. Same as any group.

Rents are going up. It sucks, and something should be done about it. The city should permit more construction. The Ellis act should be repealed.

One thing I'm pretty certain won't make rents go down: labeling a group of people and pressuring them to leave.
They do: http://www.rdio.com/apps/ (unless you are looking for a Linux desktop client)
PSA for people like me who aren't security specialists: "shellcode" (in the survey) does not mean "a shell script", it means this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode
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Oh, Panic Room.

The movie in which a child has a severe low blood sugar, on the edge of death, and her mother administers here a large shot of... insulin! I could not believe it when I saw it. The treatment given in the movie would have killed her in no time.

For future reference, in case anyone comes across a diabetic experiencing a seizure. Do not give insulin in this case. This will lower blood sugar further. What they need is to consume anything with sugar, if conscious. If not, they need a glucagon injection. These typically come in a clunky red container, containing a large needle filled with saline and a vile containing a white powder. Shoot the saline into the vile, shake up the vile, extract the solution, then shoot the solution into the affected person's leg ASAP. Do not give anyone insulin under any circumstances. If you give someone glucagon with a high blood sugar, they will probably be ok. If you give someone insulin with a low blood sugar, they will likely be dead. /PSA
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And thus the inequality divide will continue to grow. The haves will build bigger walls with more guns surrounding expanding exclusive spaces. They will enact police harrasment laws to keep out those that don't belong. They will make it more and more expensive to even visit the city to keep the have-nots out, except those that need to come and keep their city clean.

Money is power. Power gets what it wants. The fight for San Fransisco is one-sided. The winners have been pre-determined.
We don't collect interest on customer funds and -- if you run the numbers -- it wouldn't be of any significant value if we did.
In Javascript, it's UTF16.
Also Java.

Can't speak for other of the top.
This one is actually powered by RF transfer, so the power is all external.

This link explains it better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6g581tJ7bM#t=10m15s
Additionally -- on the first "Yay!", I don't get the nextlevelbutton (which seems to be what it wants me to do next); gray_bg and youwin_outer remain display_none. I have to go manually put them in place in order to proceed on.

This looks like it will be a lot of fun, though.
Apparently commissaries regularly raise prices on the inmates, so it may reach that price in the future.
Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down
There's two next steps:

A good build system/toolchain with GYP that generates Xcode, VS C++, and ninja project files. That would be mega awesome. QtWebkit already has some gyp files, probably could repurpose those.

Also, you can read up on embind on emscripten's website, you can use c++filterjs and the derived object WebCore.exp on the build to create javascript API's from the C++ export symbol table.

I just need to actually have a few days free to finish that and hopefully can have SOME functional demos from the API (that and hopefully I can throw away 90% of the symbols being exposed in the current version and cut the code size down :/)
This is why I disdain webmail and stick to IMAP. It requires less network overload (to download the ton of JavaScript and such that webmail depends on) and actually lets you handle your mail better -- of course that last bit depends on if you are using a good mail client.
If pro athletes are where the demand lies, I am fine with that. Unfortunately, most education around diabetes has conflated type I with type II, which has caused and overemphasis on high blood sugar control, rather than low blood sugar management. Pro athletes might have the same problem as type I diabetics, which could lead to a converging need.
Whoa, this is huge.
It's not the sort of route that a mass transit system runs. This isn't going a few miles and stopping every few blocks. It's an express-style route, 1-way-at-a-time, to a location 40 miles away which nobody has any reason to go to unless they work there.

To make a 40 mile run in an hour, a bus needs to do very few pickup stops in SF, drive nonstop to destination, then do very few drop off stops in Silicon Valley; then return empty to repeat. Same thing other direction for the evening trip. It's the sort of trip that only makes sense for a chartered coach, not a public bus.

If the route was provided by the local muni bus, people would protest that too - that tech employees were getting special treatment, that a SF tax funded agency was serving geographic areas well outside of SF, that stops should be added at all the intermediate cities (doubling the length of the trip), the system would be more wasteful as buses would run empty on company holidays, and that the companies should directly provide those routes themselves since they only benefit them.

The system presently in place actually makes far more sense than trying to expand muni because it's a very specific purpose and specific route.
_Mona Lisa Overdrive_ and _Neuromancer_ are the book titles, "zaibatsu" are a feature within the plot.
Most likely, the companies that make this decision are the publishers.
Thanks for this. We're looking into it now. You can also mail us at support@microcorruption.com.
Is it actually all that widespread if you consider the full set of all apps on all platforms? The impression I get is that the majority of apps don't use any cross-platform GUI framework and instead use the native API of the platform - Win32 for pre-XP Windows, .NET for Vista+ Windows, Cocoa for Macintosh, GTK or KDE for Linux, HTML/CSS/JS for the Web, native Android for Android, native iOS for iOS, etc.
Check out the solve for X video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6g581tJ7bM#t=3m

Babak explains why the surface of the eye is such a good area to measure various health indicators.
I will definitely use this. Kudos for using Bower, first time I've seen it in the wild.
The nerds come to live in the vibrant and cool city so that they could have some of its "coolness" reflected on them.
Little they know the (fairly new) pretentious residents are everything but cool, SPECIFICALLY in the mission area, where large percentage live their lives believing they are unique & progressive, while in reality they are prisoners of their conceptions - the ones that got seeded in their heads by the companies the nerds are working for.

the truth is that this city is:
dead at nights.
have a lame hipster wanna-be community.
too expensive.

p.s
older san francisco residents are extremely nice!
Jim, this is a really fantastic breakdown. thanks. The part I still don't understand is - how can I threatening W other than by violating their terms with C? Doesn't C, the party who pays I, ultimately pay for a service spec? Is the spec too loose such that it allows I to throttle specific W's?
4 states: bad work+not recognised, bw+r, good work+nr, gw+r. you cannot control recognition. pointless to aim for bad work. always aim for good work and let recognition happen or not. ideally, be happy with doing good work and indifferent to recognition.

i think it was one of th US' ex-presidents who said "it's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't mind who gets the credit"

having said that, it takes a special person to do good work and see someelse get the credit and still be indifferent...
I assume that's probably against the ToS. If I have to break the law to access it, I don't consider it very open.
The async library (https://github.com/caolan/async) offers many excellent tools for staying out of callback hell. After using it one project, I can't imagine trying to write heavily async javascript without it.
Thanks for the tip. I will buy this and try it out, open sourcing any scripts I can write that will assist in the extraction. Do you know of any existing tools?
In terms of functional languages for data science, surprised that Julia (http://julialang.org/) was not mentioned.

In terms of the R discussion, "Evaluating the Design of the R Language" seems to put the functional aspects in relief (http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12.pdf)

In terms of where things are headed, I just came across Spivak and Wisnesky's work on Functional Query Language (FQL), http://wisnesky.net/fql.html. The introductory slides
http://www.categoricaldata.net/doc/introSlides.pdf call to be read seriously.
> Wouldn't it have been better to explore a way which either works for all code or, if that doesn't work out, just embrace instance methods?

I suppose the answer to that question ultimately depends on one's preferences. I like F#'s way of doing things because I like functional programming and idioms, but I also like being able to play nice with a rich pre-existing ecosystem, and don't want to have to do it through a (probably) leaky abstraction.

When I instead want a primarily object-oriented language with some extra support for functional programming slapped on top, I just use C#.
Clear is probably a requirement so that the guards can see inside and be reasonably sure it hasn't been tampered with, for example, to communicate back to the outside world.
Pretty sure the answer is yes and it has a lot more to do with what Apple and Google were able to do. They didn't gain share in any PC OS or PC apps markets where microsoft was dominant, they just made those markets less relevant.
> And there are basic hygiene problems wearing contacts while you're asleep, which is when monitoring would be most useful. If google has the technology to make contact lenses that you can wear 24/7 without getting ulcerative keratitis, that's more revolutionary than another way to monitor blood sugar

overnight and extended-wear contacts (for up to a month, I believe) have been available for many years now.
Yes, and that was valid from his POV, and from what I understand, consistent with his past behaviour regarding minor grammatical/spelling mistakes.

And I get that - for some projects, the sheer overhead of every single person arguing their grammatical opinion on internal docs just wouldn't be worth it.

And yes, I know, for some people this was a major travesty on our social fabric, and the social justice warriors came out in full force about how it was apparently incredibly sexist on Ben's part.

However, that was basically just bike-shedding.

This entire debacle should have sorted out graciously between the parties involved - there was no need to turn it into a public freakshow that it became.

Look, yes, it would be nice if we used non-gender specific pronouns everywhere. Let's change the doc standards to reflect that. But going on a retroactive witch-hunt hurts nobody.

In fact, I'd venture that this little crusade probably did more to hurt getting females into technology, when they see how incredibly immature and petty we "boys" are, and how they'll always be seen in terms of their gender and "protected" rather that just being another geek.

Finally, the fact that the damn guy volunteers and mentors aspiring developers - including gasp females - makes the lynch mob look even worse.
The morale is: if you want to be recognised for your works, attach your name to them, and promote yourself and your works.
California already has crazy high state taxes, which these companies pay. That money was supposed to be funding things like mass transit. It gets wasted and public transit is still crap, but we're supposed to believe that if Google only paid even more, everything would suddenly get better?
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So are you saying you think no legislation can help here, or do you think there is something that can enforce e2e but it just wouldn't get through in practice without dinging certain use cases?
... and when they stop, we can swoon over the tech advances of the new player. The fact that Bell Labs no longer puts out tech hardly detracts from their contributions.
According to the article, UTF-8 sorts lexicographically the same as UTF-32, implying that there is no need to know the length or character boundaries for ordering/sorting.

The others would be good reasons though.
Working on reinstating the domain name. I let it lapse, and it went into redemption status.

If you'd like, you can shoot me an email (address is in my profile) and I'll email you when it's back up and running.
The lock (fake) manual is available here:

https://microcorruption.com/manual.pdf
Ask HN: What companies are fighting for Internet privacy (and hiring)?
I'd like to stop wasting my life building frivolous apps and start working for an organization that is fighting for internet privacy like the EFF, Mozilla or Tor Foundation. What other companies out there are working for similar causes and, ideally, are hiring? Thanks.
The master then showed the programmer the statue's revision history.
Similar but more general advice I got early in my career, was to not try to leave work with everything in a tidy state. If you are hunting a bug, for example, you'll be tempted to stay until you've fixed it, or at least understand it. Don't do that. Go home. Your mind will continue to work on the problem subconsciously and you may very well wake up the next morning with new insights.
Is very hard to trust anyone over pervasive suveillance. That is partly why it is so poisonous. Public political figures are obvious intelligence targets, if only for budget protection.
Totally off-topic, but I remember those days. At some point, I got a copy of my customer record and saw "MCS bailers" in the referral field. Got a good chuckle over that. I don't even remember what KD did, but I remember choosing EnterAct because you were one of the last ISPs in the area that offered a dial-up shell. That was in the days when I had a Commodore 128 set up in my home office to mess around on.
The current solutions I am aware of are invasive (put a big needle into your gut and redo it again every few days), and do not allow for real time feedback. Useful in that you can analyze the data later, but hardly helps when you are currently experiencing an issue (which could be life threatening).
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