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I made it about halfway past Saturn before I gave up scrolling. Nice work.

One comment: If you're using km for the distance units, you might as well stick with it (metric) for all the other examples like 75 mi/hr and 475 ft to be more consistent. Better yet, an option to switch the units between imperial and metric would be pretty cool.

What a douchey thing to do. If you were really interested in helping the HN community you'd just put in the direct link instead of this affiliate shit. I felt dirty just reading your post.

I ordered one not just to stick it to BCBS, but also because it's great knowing all of this is going directly to the patients at Watsi. Well played.

Just downloaded onto my iPhone and it's pretty cool... however, I don't think I'm the right audience. My life isn't nearly as interesting as Mike Matas and co. It just makes all the shitty pics that everyone posts on my newsfeed look that much worse.

I can't help but LOL at anyone who thought this was going to be the next Bitcoin and were going to "get rich" with this.

Seems smart to keep more doge in play, but it'll also kill a lot of the interest in it as well from the people who were buying to "get in" on it. Funny every time.

This is awesome. Really nice implementation and so useful for many different applications. Just signed up and looking forward to trying this out.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. Seems like a Tinder'd UI for answering questions on a modernized Yahoo Answers/Ask Jeeves with a Quora effect.

Congrats on shipping your apps! That's great.

Not sure if it's just me, but the "Do Something" app icon [1] looks a bit too heavily inspired by the Apple Trailers app icon [2], with gloss removed for iOS 7 (on iOS 7 itself there is no gloss although it's there in the iTunes link), no film roll in the middle, rotated 45º, and used round rects on the corners of the ticket.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/do-something-find-things-to/...

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id4719...

Seems pretty cool! Would this work with Sublime Text 3 too?

Nice, is this on github or similar?

Neat, would be cool to add a link or hover over feature too for additional info on a particular event. I'll try to work on it if I have time, but hopefully someone else more capable is on it already!

Welcome to the future. This is incredible, although it looks like a page Google would put up for April Fools.

This is awesome. I'd like to see more companies and startups work with Watsi to bring awareness to doing social good (especially when you don't have to lift a finger to do any of the hard stuff, these collaborations are making it easy for normal people to do good). Not to mention the desserts look amazing. Kudos.

It's not about avoiding the truth, it's about looking for the truth in a specified area but finding something that's not really a truth but appears as such. I think it's important to weigh the pros and cons of something like this. You're likely to gain information that would likely help you improve your quality of life and make informed decisions for possible next steps, but what happens when this information is available to others you don't want to see yet [1]?

It's not just solving a problem of which one is unaware, but it's the possibility of not being able to solve this problem or prevent its occurrence. [Climate change on the other hand is actionable.]

What about the fact that now there's a giant database that's probably not as anonymized as we'd like it to be, which has the potential to be accessed by many government/national/security agencies and hackers that can use the information against us?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796539

Thanks!

Wow, that's insane. You make a great point about it being useful for persons who are adopted. I agree that it's useful to know more about yourself that way. However, the manner in which your data is handled BEFORE you even get it is FUBAR to me. Sorry you have to go through this, and I'm sure it'd bother me a lot too if I were in your shoes.

I'd never want to get my DNA tested by a service like this. It may be cool, but there's too many things at play here.

    - privacy
    - security of data
    - wrongful use of data
    - spread of misinformation
    - mind fucking that ensues after reading your results
    - probably a lot more

The only benefit is for those who are so curious about what genes they carry, what mutations they have, and who they may or may not be related to. Really, why risk having your mind potentially fucked by knowing something about yourself that you're not ready to handle yet?

Sorry if I seem overly critical about a service like this, but it just doesn't seem worth it to me.

This is badass. I wish there were something like this or Seaborn [1] for Matlab. Anyone know of anything similar that can make the ugly default Matlab plots turn into beauties like these?

[1] http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/index.html

It's been down intermittently for the last hour or so and was working for a few minutes... It's down again though.

Just dropped $200 and I can't do anything about it.

Just received 0.0007 BTC (0.54 USD). I'll take it.

Holding onto mine until I see a dip; this is shooting straight to the moon right now.

I was in the Bay Area a few weeks ago and was able to try out the Xfinity WiFi. It was actually really convenient being able to work from the small coffee shops in Berkeley and in the city. The speeds were awesome too, around 27Mbps down and 10Mbps up. Most places require you to pay for WiFi or the speeds are just throttled way too much (1.5Mbps/0.5Mbps). As long as your own service isn't being hindered by the Xfinity hotspot and your own network isn't vulnerable due to the additional piggybacking, I don't see anything wrong with it.

This is true. I think it would require working directly with SolidWorks to make it happen since everything of theirs is so proprietary.

This is so great! I'm always working with STL's and always asking myself, "what's different in these models?" I'd love to see meta data and other 3D file types like VRMLs or SolidWorks parts included in the future as well.

This is great! Very cool project. The fact that it's open source makes it all the better. Definitely a tool I wish I had while I was learning how to code.

Seems like you can port this to almost anything, not just a Raspberry Pi.

I think it's pretty clear that this whole thing could've been avoided if you went through the normal security screening process that everyone else normally obliges to do. On the other hand, what happened to you is sick and disturbing. I really found the way they treated you disgusting and I'm sorry you had to go through that.

I also think that your title is misleading and mildly offensive. Ramadan is a holy month, and more so a time of peace (although it's a time of peace every part of the year). I doubt this wouldn't have happened to you if it had been a few weeks earlier or later. I don't think it's right of you to say this only happened because it was during Ramadan that you coincidentally decided to fly.

The problem with BME is that there are way too many regulatory hurdles to clear, making the barrier to entry very high.

Great list. Some awesome companies on that list, and I know some of the co-founders as well. I think it's clear that GT has a startup culture, but they're coming from highly motivated people who are passionate about what they're working on. Having openly available resources to any student openly would be a great start. If something like this were around while I was at Tech, it would have made things a lot easier in terms of networking and connecting with like-minded individuals.

I was at Tech from 2006-2010 in BME. So many senior design projects were being spun out as startups. Inventure also came out while I was there and was a big hit. If you had a good idea or executed on something well, it was probably going to be spun with the help of professors (you had to ask). The pace is definitely different at Tech, and for a major like BME, it was hard to come by free electives let alone free time (especially if you were doing pre-med). I do agree I would have loved to see more of a startup culture, but I think it was already brewing while I was there. I'd have loved to see more programming options offered for BME and other engineering majors beyond CS 1371, so we didn't have to get overrides and permits. CS 1371 basically made everyone shit their pants and left a sour taste of programming, although we needed to use the skills we had learned for future classes.