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jerryhuang100on Why bad-tempered people earn more and live longer

this basically contradicts to many other studies about the mind-body connections, such as hapiness-immunity connections.

that 2010 study of patients of CAD and their follow-ups of 5-10 years of 'angry' levels is kind of flawed as what should actually be studied should be the "anger" levels as the causal effects of the CAD 5-10 years prior to the onset of CAD. it's more likely beyond certain points of the progression of CAD the change of mood does not mean anything to the prognosis.

jerryhuang100on I don't think the Port Authority would like it if you looked at this photo

The PATH employees / police did yell at tourists taking pictures of the PATH trains or tunnels a while back ago (esp right around 2002) and treated them like some public threats or so. But right now they seem care less about those growing numbers of tourists.

jerryhuang100on 7-Elevens Are Becoming Lifelines for Japan's Elderly

i think i saw this in the tv series of homeland s05 ;)

jerryhuang100on 7-Elevens Are Becoming Lifelines for Japan's Elderly

The convenient stores in Taiwan are also super convenient by not only offering free WiFi, ticket buying, or bill payying,, but also like a mini-Staples + mini-Shoprite + mini-Starbucks where you could just print PDF or photos, picking up your online orderings, buying groceries, and even artisan latte. And their density in Taiwan is much higher than Starbucks you could find in Manhattan.

jerryhuang100on Looking back on the Great Leap Forward

that's because the previous commentator posted something against the known human history (read: wikipedia) from a unverified, biased source, and with a hn comment history of misogyny, antisemitic and racial comments, sir. i would rather show my frustration this way rather than other explicit words. sorry for the inconvenience.

jerryhuang100on Firefox 48 ships, bringing Rust mainstream and multiprocess for some

my only problem with this post is that it's showing a red panda as a fox.

jerryhuang100on Looking back on the Great Leap Forward

I found most horror stories retold here are very familiar to what I heard throughout the school years way back in Taiwan.

jerryhuang100on When tenure never comes

one or two publications without repeatable results might be acceptable - maybe he or she is just out of luck or some how choose the wrong hypothesis. but if there are five or six non-repeatable papers in the publication laundry list, esp some used for degrees, promotions to tenured positions, or grant applications, this makes him or her looks like fraud with a track record of publishing "personal opinions."

jerryhuang100on When tenure never comes

"increasing the size of (pie)"

this is relatively vague as if u do read the article, there are more and more adjunct and temp faculty positions at universities, not more tenure-track positions. besides, the pie of r&d grants in term of nih or nsf budgets did not grow much in the past decade. also i dont see there is major possibility for anothe UC system or ivy league to be duplicated in the next decade or so - it takes much longer time to build an oven for a bigger pie.

jerryhuang100on When tenure never comes

I concur this with a proposition of a system named as repeatability evaluation and digital tracking, or r.e.d.d.i.t., with the crowd-sourcing efforts.

jerryhuang100on When tenure never comes

It's interesting to see this story on the front page at the same time with another one titled "We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated". It's easy to solve both problems (killing two birds with one stone?) by implementing protocols of purging scientists with track records of non-repeatable results from "personal opinions" and fraudulent scholars gaming publishing systems, including titles, positions, degrees and/or grant money ever awarded. This should at least release some vacancy in the academia (given a 11% repeatable rate from the Amgen study).

jerryhuang100on The Parasite Underground

u will be surprised how often large outbreak of parasites infections there are in "developed world's" public water supply: Sweden [1], US [2]. CDC even has a web page set up for Drinking Water-associated Disease Surveillance.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966397/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_supply&sect...

jerryhuang100on The Parasite Underground

autoimmune diseases and immunodeficiency are two pretty different things. also the infections you listed here pretty much could be prevented or with specific treatments available. MS & celiac disease don't.

jerryhuang100on The Parasite Underground

So maybe we should start to coin the word "parasitOME" as microbiome? I guess the interaction between [ human host <-> parasiitOME (parasites population) <-> parasites' microbiome <-> microbiome ] through immune responses would be the next frontier to be explored

> Two years’ worth of hookworms cost $2,500.

But at the same time I think that whole home-brew therapeutic parasites thing is kind of an overshoot (or scam?) Maybe just live in a third-world country for 2 weeks or 2 months, eating local street food, raw fruits, drinking local water would be easier and more effective to acquire 'necessary' parasites (along with parasites' cultivation conditions) to subdue such immune system 'imbalance'?

Also I don't believe those those home-brew parasites incubators discard or disinfect their extra batch of larvae / embryos or utensils by autoclave or other means - more likely it's just dumped in the toilets and circle to public sewage system. I would not be surprised to see some parasites outbreak in the near future if this is going to be a trend and some home-brew parasites incubators just happen to live near some water treatment plants or upstream some major dams.

jerryhuang100on Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries

> " We showed specifically that we can identify 5% to 15% of cases, while preserving extremely low false-positive rates (0.00001 to 0.0001)."

Back several years ago Google Flu Trend also claimed to have 97% accuracy compared to CDC data. But later on it just found to be way off to the real data. Did the author compare their study to the Google Trend.

Also it's not clear how they achieve the conclusion of low FP. Did they randomize their sample pool and run their predictability model several round?

jerryhuang100on Panama Papers Reveal How Wealthy Americans Hid Millions Overseas

The IRS and DOT should start scrutinizing the foreign shell companies buying up properties in major US cities (NYC, SF, LA...), which contribute to the pushing up the real estate price. Otherwise those shell companies would still be popular among international tax evaders of ultra riches while average citizens paying the prices such as high housing costs.

For some reason the quote "The chamber (of secrets) has been opened. Enemies of the heir ... beware" fro Harry Potter just came up to me.

jerryhuang100on No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted

i'm surprised chobani is not listed here as it's one of the most successful story of entrepreneurship with personal funding (+ small business loan) lately.

jerryhuang100on According to Forbes, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes now has a Net Worth of Zero

i would say that valuing Theranos' IP at $76M is very generous as their portfolio of non-core patents has nothing to cover their proprietary Edison or whatsoever.

Given such generous valuation and multiple does that means Theranos' revenue is just somewhere between $8M (100x as Uber) or $800K (less fund ever raised)? That would be pathetic.

jerryhuang100on Ggplot2 docs remade in D3.js

totally agree. JS heavy lib just make the whole UX suffers, even it does look nice. maybe there's some html5 solution?

jerryhuang100on Peter Thiel, Comic Book Hero

I'm not sure why Gawker wants to pick a fight in public against a chess master with a Stanford JD with huge cache of ammunition in the form of cash.

Gawker did it in the name of free speech by digging up privacy and slandering? Unfortunately being a digital gossip site does not mean it will be exempt from being sued like traditional gossip media such as national enquirer.

And both ancient and modern law codes are on the side of privacy against slandering, rather than on the side of abusing media power in the name of free speech, dated all the way back to the Code of Hammurabi. And suing Gawker is like an high ROI of no-brainer and an act of public service as there are so many precedents of like Hulk Hogan's case.

jerryhuang100on Could Alzheimer’s Stem from Infections?

it looks like IMMUNOLOGY is going to rule them all (well, most) of the medicine: cardiovascular diseases, cancers, allergies, diabetes, and now Alzheimer's.

jerryhuang100on Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods

this is the same as the 35% tariff suggested by donald trump for all nafta products, just in another form and many steps back from global trades. does that mean apple can finally open its own produce market by selling locally sourced apples, apple pies, apple cider? or it's even better that apple could just place some automatic packaging factories next to its warehouses in india and by volume i believe it's more than 75% of apple's main product.

jerryhuang100on The Secret of Billions

maybe that's what Lara's vegan farm (for her farm-fresh restaurant) is based on??

jerryhuang100on The Secret of Billions

Showtime "Billions" is probably the smartest show so far this year (maybe before Mr.Robot S2).

Fun background info: even though the author denies it, the show is loosely based on Steve Cohen of SAC Capital (now family office Point72, after insider trading charges from US Attorney), who the author had a short encounter with. And the "career coach" psychiatrist in the show played by gorgeous Maggie Siff bears resemblance of the famous psychiatrist Ari Kiev floating on the SAC floor.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-14/showtime-s...

[2] http://nypost.com/2015/08/14/embattled-hedgie-inspires-showt...

jerryhuang100on Why do we have allergies?

The view of hypersensitive allergic reactions as a hypersensitive home alarm system is very similar to the view in Chinese traditional medicine. In CT medicine, to fundamentally treat constitutions of such hypersensitive conditions, the treatment is more focus on long-term tuning / taming immune system, rather than just blocking the allergic defenses.

jerryhuang100on We Only Hire the Best

just like when you see signs "best pizza/hero in town" or "we use best ingredients" at eateries

jerryhuang100on Deoptimizing a C++ program

cue last week's hbo silicon valley for gilfoyle's efforts to 'deoptimize' his pre-processor for their box @ 200MB/s...

also several days ago there was a joke floating on my fb from a taiwanese programmer about how he gets raises every year by removing multiple loops in his programs to show efficiency improvement.

jerryhuang100on Avoiding BlackBerry’s fate

Apple's acquisitions in AI: Emotient (Jan 2016), VocalIQ & Perceptio (Oct 2015); hiring: 86-100+ PhD level positions [1,2]; Apple's jobs board about "machine learning" (keywords): 109 [3].

I'm not sure which part of these spells "Apple’s apparent inaction" in AI field stated in the article?

[1] https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-apple-ups-hiring...

[2] http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/15/09/07/apple-finds...

[3] https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#specs&ss=machine%20learnin...

jerryhuang100on Stealth Research and Theranos: Reflections and Update 1 Year Later

> Theranos does stand for well thought-out and useful therapy and diagnosis and does not represent the harms suggested by another similar Greek word, thanatos (death).

This is gold. Yesterday Theranos just voided its two years of testing results by its Edison.

jerryhuang100on Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago

I guess this eco-mobiilty all depends on the social structures and political environments. There is a Chinese proverb "富不過三代", or, fortune won't last three generations. The Chinese genealogy is relatively complete and you can actually trace Confucius' offspring to this date. But you'll be surprised to find big names today rarely also have some big name ancestors 500 years ago. One reason is that the Chinese social and political are constantly changing. In China the longest dynasty Ching lasted 268 yrs. Basically every 70-150 years there is a game-of-thrones type of revolutions going on, and the entire soc-pol systems flopped. Another reason is that a common used punishment by the emperor in the past is collective punishment, i.e. if someone is sentenced to death, all his/her relatives up to three upstream and three downstream, sometimes even all cousins, are also sentenced to death. If someone did escaped they would just change their surnames (and Chinese people change surnames relatively more frequently than we would think.) That's probably why a big-shot in the history book might have no offspring to be found nowadays.