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Ask HN: Where do you store your health data?
I'm currently tracking down my health records across 3 hospitals and a primary care office. But I realized I have no where to put the data once I get it. Does anyone know of any options online or offline?
It's bigger because it requires more than your own efforts. One person can draw, paint, make music all they want and never have to interact with others at all, and these were the sorts of things you were saying you'd do in retirement.

But you couldn't move to Malta and make a next-generation VR platform. You'd need funding, facilities, people to take care of managing these things. That's what I meant by bigger.
FIrst of all, thanks everyone for chipping in, great insights here.

It seems to me that the majority of people here have defined "seniority" with professionalism and a large repository of social skills acquired over the years.

I guess independent from that issue, the reason why I originally asked the question is when it comes to job postings. When companies advertise positions marked as senior, do they then actually mean it in the above definition?

Call me naive and unexperienced, but I'm somewhat surprised by the heavy emphasis on experience over knowledge. Is someone with more domain-knowledge but less experience more junior than someone with little to zero domain-knowledge but more experience?
The design is a bit more polished than the one from macrumors but I like how they include an average and the recent rumours about the product.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
There's no reason. The problem with the acquisition is that FB could have been just one virtual experience among thousands for OVR, now it's likely to be the only one.
Thank you for the answer.

Sorry for the post; I had quickly checked the guidelines before I posted, but I (think I) missed

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."

(I thought this missing post was some kind of bug in HN but, for some reason, I didn't think of it then as "a thing I would want to tell you".)
I disagree. It's incredibly difficult to hit the tiny buttons on mobile & I occasionally end up downvoting when I intended to upvote (or vice versa).
Not really:
http://www.techendo.co/posts/3d-printed-running-shoes
First of all, I don't have a job. I run my own consulting business that does very well. I don't think I could ever have a job working for someone else ever again.

That is my entire point, that I keep getting downvoted on like it even matters. That what I do today is the same thing that I would do if I had a billion dollars. That is I'd be working in technology (specifically software). I might use that money to build ideas faster but it really is what I am the most passionate about.

I feel it is the same for the Occulus Rift guys at the moment.

Because if you aren't passionate about what you spend your daily life doing (and consider it a grind) what is the point?
Thus, DNSSEC doesn't protect against censorship.

It's hilarious that people are saying DNSSEC can be used in Turkey (or anywhere else) to defend against censorship. Either they don't know what they're talking about or don't care about having an honest discussion. Or both.
Daniel Gackle ('gruseom) is an absurdly great choice as moderator.

Hear. Hear.

His submission list

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gruseom

is a fine example of articles that "gratify intellectual curiosity." This leadership adjustment bodes well for the future of HN as a community for thoughtful discussion.
I saw the link in the meteor tech talk but figured it was not for public distribution. However now that it is in the wild, for the curious I have been de-minifying the paper example to try and learn how to use famo.us.

https://github.com/jperl/paper

Also I am not sure why there are all these haters. In the few days I have been using it, I can see it is going to change mobile web app development entirely. Really excited for the launch!
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"Why I'm Boycotting Mozilla Products"

Because you need to invent BS crusades and then inform anyone about them in order to get attention?

Just a guess, it could just be because you cannot toleate someone holding an opinion counter to yours in an issue, and have to retaliate on him not by democratic procedures or exchange of ideas, but by causing him to lose his job.
The anti-cryptocurrency contingent you are talking about is probably more of an anti-cryptocurrency stories contingent. There were a lot of fluff Bitcoin stories in the past, much of which was harmful "drama".
Technically, the situation is similar to the two Koreas, it's two Chinas at war, at least the mainland has never given up of uniting China, or conquering Taiwan.

Since the 60s though, after realizing military action against Taiwan was too risky due to US protection, the issue has been left alone. But some voices have raised since the 90s to unite Taiwan through political/economic means, like Hong Kong and Macau. Uniting Taiwan is a national pride issue for a lot of Chinese people, so there is political capital to be gained.

On the Taiwan side, it is a rich country, and people in general prefer their current lives, thus see no reason to be "united". There are some business people/politicians who benefit from closer ties with mainland, but they are the minority.
> Caring about the 'boring stuff': release management. configuration management. proper continuous integration. simplifying your build steps. cleaning up hairy code or removing redundant files and gunk from older projects.

This. This this this. I just took a senior-level gig as a devops/productivity engineer where pretty much my entire job is figuring this stuff out. It is not stuff that juniors often think about, but it can take up a ton of management and seniors' time to get right so they don't have to.
Well, now that you're outed and running the place, let me tell you exactly what I think you should do:

1. Click over to whatever textbox allows you to edit the site guidelines.

2. Clarify the "what's on topic" clause.

3. Add a "criticisms must be constructive", perhaps deriving it from Paul Graham's "colleagues working together to uncover the truth" wording from the Pending Comments announcement.

Start by spelling out the norms you want to see here, and we can all work to move the site in that direction without having to nail down the statutory language or figure out what 100 lines of lisp will best implement them.
I have another hypothesis: "benevolent dictator" leadership leads to higher variance of outcomes -- more huge successes and more huge failures. And you usually don't notice the companies that have been driven into the ground. You notice the ones whose benevolent dictators were exceptionally competent, because those are the ones that stick around and make headlines.
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler has a language pragma for running CPP before compilation. I've seen it used a few times, for #ifdef compatibility between Windows and Linux for low-level stuff. I don't think anyone would ever want to use #include or macros, so the issue of speed is not very interesting in that context.

example: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/system-filepath-0.4.10/do...
So, the way I look at it (paradoxical as it sounds):

If somebody is not replaceable (and hence a potential bottleneck), they are by definition a risk. Therefore, it is in everyone's best interest to replace them and the system that enabled them, in order to harden everything against bad luck.

The cowboy coder who wrote most of the MVP in PHP in a month, for example, should be replaced forthwith if she can't document her work and get the rest of the team up to speed--if for no other reason than that she is a liability as the team grows and more things depend on her not failing.

It's kind of a counter-intuitive way of looking at it, but it makes sense.
PG: '... the fact that we get roughly equal grief for HN comments being bad and for being too quick to ban people is a sign he's been doing a good job so far.'

- Not in all cases, some times honest opinions and straight talk might come across as rude but it's not meant that way.
Strict Policing should also provide a way for sincere members to Voice their concern or Appeal if they get 'removed' or 'shadow banned' which happens quite often. Let me know your thoughts please.
If you had a 3D printer that could print objects up to the size of a car in an instant, what would you make?

I'm thinking the best application for me might be furniture. It would be really cool to flip my apartment every year by melting down my old stuff and printing new.

Maybe a bike but it'd have to be one of those chainless designs.[0]

But past that, I'm at a loss for what I'd make even with a magical instant printer. There are very few things that I use or want that could be made entirely of plastic.

I've wanted to get a 3D printer but I feel like it'll end up going unused like my Raspberry Pi. Once in a while it'd come in handy but its not going to change my world.

[0]-http://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/chainless-bicycle-nu...
This topic just irks me, it's sounds clever at first, but anyone who has just a little education in print publishing (anyone who knows what CMYK stands for) should be aware that there are way better ways make an impact on the amount of ink used (not to say, saving money).

- If they would use something like InDesign they could print everything in 50% Black
and could instantly save 50% no matter what.

- Even worse is Rich Black[1] printing which wastes 3 times the amount of ink/toner namely CMY instead of K (black).

- That the costs of getting something printed by an actual print service company by printing press are surprisingly low given digital print ready delivery and break even pretty fast, especially for colored prints, where the quality is also vastly superior.

- any school or organization of similar or bigger size should use professional office grade black only laser printers for all default print jobs, which should keep cost way below 5 cents/page. At all costs stay away from consumer grade inkjet printers. And get only one! office grade Inkjet printer with big and per color replaceable cartridges which pretty fast compensates for it's initial cost and is also superior to color laser printing.‡

Here is the actual study:
http://emerginginvestigators.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/...

This study completely omits to differentiate between text and graphic type printing yet makes this quite thoughtful remark:

In addition, fonts may be chosen with a specific purpose in mind (e.g. aesthetics), but posters and other graphical design in which font type could have meaningful impact would usually be printed on a color printer. Color toner ink costs for printing were not tested in this study.
Another related way of saving ink is the following: when an assignment is photocopied from a book, a black border in the periphery is sometimes printed. This black border gets copied, leading to a large wastage of ink. “Whiting out” the black periphery would further reduce
the ink usage in the school district. This impact would be in addition to what was investigated in this study

Let the kids have Comic Sans if they want to, but let them know what it cost what it needs to print their essays on inkjet printers on a rainbow colored background. Normal text covers only between 2.8%[2] to 5% of a page. In other ways a page with fully colored background can easily use more than 60 times (100/5 * 3 Colors) the amount of ink than a simple text page.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_black

[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.-Grauert-Brief [German DIN Standard Test Letter]

‡ http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/24/hps-new-enterprise-ink-bas... (ballpark figure for original HP colored inks here is $100/100ml compared to up to above $500/100ml for consumer grade ink portions)
And the downvotes are for?
I think these would have been a huge hit in the 90s.

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/03/3D-printed-shoes-by...
Everyone says this when the subject comes up and it's ridiculous. Many countries have government subsidized healthcare. Additionally patents only last for 20 years or so. And there is no reason to think it would inherently cost a lot. Do only rich people have iphones?

And anyways, who cares? Better that some people live longer than none do.
We have more choices than just "dismissive/negative" and "highly-sanitized/feel-good", though.

For example-

"This is broken as it exists, for reasons A-E. However, if you did things X-Z, it would work much better and be much more interesting."

Sure, that takes more time. But honestly, if your main priority with your post is that you can write it quickly, you're probably not making a meaningful post anyway.

I wonder if an "are you sure" type button could help improve posts. Maybe it could say "Does this contribute to the conversation?", just to remind people what the point of posting really is.
Ask HN: How old were you when you started working?
I am still an engineering student (freshman) and though I am to be a software engineer, I still think I am wasting time with all the additional courses I am taking. I want to know whether was it CS full time for you guys or was it a mixture of many courses that helped you pick a career? I just feel I am running out of time.
I don't think the education<=>wealth assumption plays out as well in Finland as in the US. There is much greater access to high quality education in Finland, and it's cheaper, too.
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The difference between kids' learning and adult learning is the timeframe of the events that can be stored into long-term memory. Kids can learn very short term things, adults cannot.

Our brains work by modelling the future, then picking a desirable choice of actions to change that future. What changes when we get older is how far out we model the future. In babies it's tenths of a second up to less than half a minute (in foetuses it's a few milliseconds up to dozens of milliseconds). In adults it's a few minutes to a few months. Everything that gets bypassed by the short time horizon is frozen in place (and is critical for survival, e.g. making your heart beat is one such frozen circuit)

For example, walking (and especially running) requires very short feedback loops in your brain. If you don't learn how to do it as a kid (yes, sadly that does happen) you will never be able to do it well. Language is another example where you need to learn short feedback loops. This means that language learning in kids is fundamentally different from adult language learning.

Kids learn a language. Meaning they learn to express their thoughts in that language. There is no level below that language, and they start thinking like that language thinks. Adults learn how to express one language by using another language and express their thoughts and thinking in the original language, and then translate. This can become really fast, but for example you notice the difference in the number of nuances someone can express if they learnt a language as kids versus if they learnt the language as an adult. For example, what is the difference in certainty of "I think I heard him say that X" versus "I thought I heard him say that X". You will notice that native speakers are sure to have an opinion on the matter.

This has reverse consequences as well. Kids' brains only take a very limited future time frame into account, meaning they will never really understand why you do something that will take weeks or months to produce a reward, or why you avoid doing something because it means bad things will happen in a months time. A kid will have a very tough time getting a feel for why buildings don't collapse, or generally to work on long term efforts.

In short you can switch expertise to longer term things (e.g. music -> painting is probably fine, but the reverse would be VERY hard indeed).

It also means that you will very likely blow up your life if you ever manage to reset this particular ageing process. If you're married, for example, that will mean nothing to you any more if you manage to reset your time horizon back to minutes to hours. I would expect you to have problems maintaining a bank account balance similar to when you were 6 years old.
This place is one that really seems to "get" their community and what we really want out of this place. I think not relying on it as a revenue source gives the powers that be the freedom to really serve the community. They're lucky to be in that spot and they're using it wisely.

Nice choices and it'll be cool to how it's going to move forward.
The defect rate in cameras on iphones and ipads is just through the roof. We have like 4 ipads in this office and at least 2 of them have one camera that puts out garbage quality pictures. Ditto on one of our iphones. Our old iphone 4 had serious reception issues, the 4s doesn't connect to wifi since iOS 7. Our Mac has a line of dead pixels and of course the monitor is also the desktop because that makes sense. Oh and I've gone through 1 power adapter that cost like $80 for some reason. I have lost track of how many mini display(whatever the macs use?) to hdmi cables have failed. Of course all of this stuff costs way above what it should....
>When is it okay to publicly bash people because of their public actions?

Trying to get someone fired from his job is not "publicly bash".

The author could have written an essay like "Brandan Eich's views on matter X are bad". He could also have tried to outvote people with Brendan's ideas in actual voting.

Asking for a boycott in a company that chose to elect him as a CEO not because of some professional action of Brendan or his company, but because of his private action, is crossing the line.

It is bullying. "You have to not be against X or else...". Now it's gay marriage, it could just as well be the 99% or OWS, or gun laws or whatever..
No .dlls, just rewriting everything in Javascript. Because that's so much less invasive than a dll to let you use existing mature solutions
And yet lots of people use crocs everyday.
Agreed - I dislike MS as much as the next HN reader does, but you're bang on here.

Every company makes mistakes and, at face value, this looks like a good measure to avoid the same mistake in the future.

Credit where its due and all that...
Nice list. One thing I would add I noticed is that good senior engineers have an eye for, and a healthy fear of complexity. This usually comes from (painful) experience. Junior people on the other hand like to go and create more moving parts than necessary using the very latest tech/library versions.

A good senior person is not afraid to solve something using a short shell script running from cron. A junior person might be insecure about using something so antique and come up with a Ruby or Node or what have you solution instead.
The difference is how much they want to pay you, and how much scope and accountability you get.

The same person could be reasonably senior at one place, and reasonably junior at a different place.
Every pessimist imagines their negativity to be extremely constructive and the "best" possible response. See the comment I just replied to above :)
> When companies advertise positions marked as senior, do they then actually mean it in the above definition?

It entirely depends on the company. Ones that talk about X years with tool Y are probably using a time-based definition that they hope will translate into "this person has to have enough experience to come onboard and not break everything...right?" (In my experience, this is rarely effective.)

> Is someone with more domain-knowledge but less experience more junior than someone with little to zero domain-knowledge but more experience?

I generally will trust the latter more for one big reason: they (usually) have a better grasp of their known unknowns. Every project is a backyard full of rakes to step on and while someone with more domain knowledge with regards to, say, the tech stack will definitely have valuable contributions, I personally trust more experienced folks to ask better questions and to be able to leverage the folks with domain knowledge in the formulation of a plan of action.

(This obviously is flexible. A "senior" who can't do this and a "junior" who can may very quickly swap positions in my estimation and in how I do things.)
For a bit about how the U-2 flight regime is ... delicate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_corner_(aviation)
Working to do something about aging in advance of full understanding of aging is absolutely the pragmatic approach. It is engineering. It is the building of fine bridges by Romans and Victorians in advance of material science and computer simulation.

To pick one example from the SENS portfolio - by which I mean the list of techniques developed in the scientific community for other reasons and adopted as useful by the SENS proponents - allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes is absolutely a way to fix protein expression issues. It is the delivery of proteins to rescue mitochondrial function. It has been demonstrated to work in mice with no side effects for a gene associated with LHON by two separate research groups now, neither of which were affiliated with the SENS Research Foundation when they started out.

This is serious science. You might not like it or be familiar with it, but you're missing out.

SENS is supported by a number of noted figures in the life sciences, including George Church, Anthony Atala, Judith Campisi, and so forth:

http://sens.org/about/leadership/research-advisory-board

There are detailed proposals for the development of therapies involved in SENS. These can be critiqued on their details. For example, allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes can be critiqued based on what has been done, the plans for the other genes, and how it is going so far.

You are behind the times on calorie restriction research. It works very well on all measures of health in primates except for longevity. That is the big puzzle in calorie restriction: how to explain this disparity, which ties in to explaining why humans live for an unusually long time. See this paper by Fontana:

http://impactaging.com/papers/v5/n7/full/100581.html

In general calorie restriction seems better than exercise if you are going to pick one or the other, which would be foolish of course. Do both. But don't expect it will help you be one of the 25% who survive past age 90, because the only thing likely to get you there is an early implementation of SENS. Unless the programmed aging camp is right, in which case there is nothing that can be produced in time to greatly help us. But given that implementing SENS is cheap in comparison to drug development - $1 billion and 20 years to get it working in mice - what's there to lose?
Yes, we need more detailed guidelines. I was talking about this over in one of the pending comments threads (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304), but "be civil", no name calling, and "no classic flamewar topics" are also way too vague. They're not a clear and enforceable code of conduct.
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>Humans are complicated

Except Eich, who is some kind of one-dimensional figure, and should lose his CEO position because people don't agree with his personal opinions.
"Kat Manalac (katm) and Garry Tan (garry) will be the voice of YC on HN. They'll be the ones who respond to most "Ask YC" posts and individual comments related to YC."

but the guidelines say:

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."

Should they be updated?