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For what it's worth, I've been following your project here and on Instagram for a year or two, keeping an eye out for the day there is local API support. I haven't bothered to even request it until now, since I see at least one person request it in what feels like every thread. Inkplate seems to be the only thing close to competition right now.


How are you measuring those levels? I haven't come across a great sensor for CO2 that isn't expensive and needs weekly calibration.


I use airthings wave. Seems to be fairly accurate as far as I can tell. Whenever I open the windows the CO2 level drops down fairly close to the atmospheric CO2.


Maybe in apartments, but in recently built single family homes throughout the south, a gas furnace is very common. I haven't known anyone that has anything else in the several southern states I have lived in, other than those people who tried to get away with heat pumps. Electric heating is significantly more expensive than gas.


I've lived in numerous houses and apartments in Georgia built in the 50s, 60s, 80s, and 00s. Every single one used a gas furnace. Every heat pump system I've seen had a propane or natural gas backup furnace. The only times I've ever seen electric were in water heaters and stoves.


I would like to know how the new report compares to the old one.

Also of note, the price has gone up from $99 (as of earlier this week) to $199.

edit: This NYTimes article has more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/23andme-will-resu...

Now, after nearly two years, 23andMe is announcing on Wednesday that it will begin providing customers with health information again, though much less than before and with F.D.A. approval.

The new health-related information 23andMe will provide is called carrier status. That relates to whether people have genetic mutations that could lead to a disease in their offspring, presuming the other parent has a mutation in the same gene and the child inherits both mutated genes. There will be information on 36 diseases, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and Tay-Sachs.


I'm preparing a blog post on the differences between the old and new 23andMe reports, and how they compare to a raw data analysis with Enlis Genome Personal.

Here are the headline numbers-

Number of health-related traits reported: Old: 201 New: 36 RawData: 2109

Number of health-related variants reported: Old: 1283 New: 100 RawData: 13,537

I will also note that while they increased the price, they are still using the same genotyping chip that they released in December 2013


Not speaking to the price, this makes sense. To achieve FDA approval, their reporting is much more conservative. That's probably for the best.


I'm not saying you're wrong but would you mind explaining why you think that's for the best?


Statistics and risk are meaningless when your name is attached to the report.

To go to the extreme, a 0.001% chance of genetic disease can drive a person to make emotional decisions.


Can you check if they still report tongue rolling as a Mendelian trait?


I don't know anything about this particular filing, but the FDA is primarily concerned with you having demonstrated safety and efficacy.

For this reason, I would suspect the new reports will not include anything that they could not provide scientific evidence for effective differentiation, as well as anything without convincing argument that a report would not increase workup rates, etc. with some inherent risk.


I just like knowing I have the trait for smelling asparagus in urine.


This doesn't seem like something you'd need a genetic test to determine.


I guess that was the point of the joke. All the interesting pieces of information, and more, can't be released by order of the FDA.


Hahah agreed with @kej. Jokes aside, I've held off getting 23andMe because of this reason. Does anyone know?


There have always been partners you can get the entire suite of results from.[1] I don't know how they haven't been restricted, but my guess is the FDA can't ban telling you what a SNP does, but the FDA can ban 23 and me selling it as a service connected somehow? Anyways, you can find out everything you wanted to know and a million other things you probably will have trouble of fully understanding.

[1] https://promethease.com/ and athletigen are two I've used that were pretty cool


Wait; I thought you didn't...


The international version that only covers heritage still is priced 99$. The local versions outside of the US that provided health coverage already were priced higher before.


The price in Europe is 99% and 20% off for additional kits. Shipping cost would be 42.99/62.99 for std/express shipping that takes weeks.


It's been $199 CAD for at least a year or more now. I got mine when it was on a sale for $99.

I guess the US version has been priced differently?


Yes, they reduced the price to $99 in the US back in 2012.


When you use real money, things are cheaper.


I have been (unscientifically) tracking the prices of consumer level SSDs that are on sale for a few years now, there isn't any massive drop: http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2015/may/ssdgraph....


A logarithmic scale would give a better image of the situation.


This only appears to be working for me (Windows) if the file has been opened once via the Media -> Open File menu. Opening a file by double clicking means that it doesn't appear, unless it has already been opened once with the menu.


Charter's lowest tier has been 30 or 60 down (depending on your market) for a long time now. Were you on some old plan or something?


It isn't really Forbes, just a guy with a blog that happens to be on their site.


That's not fair, it really is Forbes publishing it, they just happen to be fine spending their brand on random blogs.



I'm not sure where they got the idea that it has 4GB of RAM or an Atom CPU. The press release (http://www.linksys.com/en-us/press/releases/2014-01-06_Links...) says it has 256MB of RAM, and every other site says the CPU is ARM based.


The press release itself even says "1.2GHz dual-core ARM-based processor"


I guess directly from the linked article: "[..] RAM is a generous 4Gb so it shouldn’t choke on lots of open sockets like lesser devices. [..]"


It doesn't take GBs of RAM to handle boatloads of open sockets. My 54GS with 32MB of RAM would handle multiple wired machines running torrent clients without any slowdown (when running a 2.4.x kernel).


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