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Could I talk to you about a project I'm developing? It's marketing solutions for healthcare practices, ideally connected to EMR and IT systems. Would love to hear your thoughts and advice.

Email is in my bio.
App attacks: How to stay a step ahead on this new frontier for hackers
What's really killing digital health startups: failure to do due diligence.
I don't know if it counts as horror, but Ex-machina freaked me out. The movie is so good on so many levels. I was always skeptical about AI and what it could lead to, but this movie makes you think about the morality of AI-beings.
Ask HN: API Development using Node.js versus Django, Clojure?
Looking to build a highly-available API involving a lot of data-intensive calls (currently to MongoDB) and eventually interfacing with some sort of Hadoop clustered setup. Is a python-based API something viable for a high-IO operation or are there better options?
No discussion about APIs in health care EMRs would be complete without mentioning HL7's new FHIR protocols: REST-ful web service endpoints for HL7 health data. It makes developing applications with these standards much easier.

But that's only one piece. You need business relationships to even connect to the EMR in the first place. I think the problem with breaking into this industry is:
(1) Huge incumbents with tons of cash who have shown they will spend a lot of money to smear each other, buy out smaller companies, or just implement the new feature in their own system.
(2) Excessive government regulation which makes it hard to play in this area legally and makes everyone afraid to work with you.

I had a couple friends pitch me a medical-related startup idea a few years ago and I declined. They didn't last long before some bigger player came and implemented their idea thus stealing their customers.

Also, the article mentions reinventing the wheel of integration libraries. Having open APIs will not magically solve all problems. It mentions Kareo and says they are building out their own EHR. THAT is reinventing the wheel. An EHR is mega-huge. It has tons of modules and for the main vendors takes 18 months to 2 years or so to configure it to the satisfaction of all parties. It sounds like the advocated world is to have lots of small "open platform" companies re-invent the wheel by making a new EHR module-by-module but with different startups inter-operating instead of locking each other out. You realize that all the major vendors today started like that? They were all first one module and gradually added more. Why do you think hospitals tend to buy the integrated software to replace myriads of independent legacy systems? If you can't fully understand that and articulate why your "open platform" would be better then you're going to fail.
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I think regardless of the car, you can't count on humans to always be paying attention.
Give me a fucking break. HIPAA compliance is actually an issue. Published APIs may have benefits to businesses, but what is the benefit to the patients? He claims this hurts patients when his only evidence is his company couldn't cut it. HIPAA was written in the interest of patients who don't want the entire world to know they are HIV positive or have had 5000 sex partners because they are a sex worker or whatever. Lives can be ruined by leaving that kind of info flapping in the wind. Furthermore, federal fines for not complying can be painfully high.

If you don't want to deal with HIPAA and take it very seriously, then stay out of this space. You aren't worthy.
Hexview provided their reason for believing that. Care to explain why you think otherwise?
Well, you could watch it first and see how many horror-movies are devoid of creativity ;)
When will insurance companies realize the risk reductions of self driving cars and begin lowering their rates and raising the rates of manually driven cars.
I think that this will be the biggest market driver for this technology. Eventually insurance rates will push people into self driving smart cars.
And drug users aren't all idiots that can't dose. It's possible the dealer sold a mislabeled product. Though the blame is on the end user for not doing a test shot to check potency.

Also note how the stats are intentionally skewed. They blame opiates, but then note most of the deaths are due to opiates plus other drugs as a mixture. Yet look around and try to find any safety info on mixing opiates and benzos and there seems to be little to no information.

Every day, how many patients are loaded to the eyeballs with opiates, both in and outpatient scenarios? And they don't have an overdosing "epidemic". It's not like nurses are somehow intrinsically more capable as humans of dosing properly.
You're right, the difference isn't good enough to convince me to switch yet, but that is in part because I can still use the Google products (with poor integration) on my iPhone.

So honestly if they allowed Google to better integrate on the iPhone, it may not hurt them at all since I'd keep buying their hardware.

Having actually been involved in the AI scene, I can tell you anecdotally that all the very best people refuse to work at Apple (or the NSA, to your point), because they know they can get the same budget and data access at Google, but still be part of the community. Most of them in fact do work at Google, or at other startups nearby that work closely with Google.
That's a lot of text to say nothing of interest. I really love how they question the trade offs made in the PCB design, as if these things didn't occur to the designers.
The article seems to be making a lot of assumptions. For example another explanation could be that crime is just seasonal.

People who are less well off would probably be able to survive on less during summer when they don't have heating costs. Or maybe they're just in a better mood.
Didn't they kinda address this?

"The bar is set extremely high for universities like Caltech, which are selective, close to prosperous cities and teach mainly lucrative subjects. If their students didn’t go on to extremely high-paying careers, the college would probably be doing something gravely wrong."
It's such a common fallacy that there's even a Wikipedia article about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...

I agree. Race has nothing to do with this.
Income is a poor measure of college education. The problem is that the valuable benefits of college are difficult to quantify; income has importance and is quantifiable, so I understand the temptation to use it as a metric, but it doesn't represent of the values of a college. It's like using the number of lines of code as a metric to represent the value of a piece of code - it's quantifiable, significant in some ways, but not representative of the code's value.

I much prefer the Times Higher Education model, especially their reputation survey. They survey 10,000 tenured and published academics worldwide, using what looks like well-designed methodology [1]. These are people in a position to have expert knowledge about the qualities of various universities. Yes it's imperfect and those people have bias too, but I can't think of a better model:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...

One excellent alternative is Washington Monthly's rankings. Their approach:

We rate schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country). More here:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/rankings-2015...

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[1] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-reputation-rankin...
I accidentally ran over my Yubikey with my Honda Accord, on a key ring with a fin key (1). I dusted it off and it works fine 6 months later. Seriously, if you're in a position where you're using a Yubikey, getting another Yubikey isn't that big a deal for the organization. In fact, if you're a solo practitioner using something like Yubikey, I recommend you get another one and just keep it in a lock box in the event you, say, run over the primary with your car :)

(1) http://www.amazon.com/FCS-Moulded-Steel-Fin-Key/dp/B003JCQPX...
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The precognition scene with the forward trails specifically. Makes it harder to ignore the question of free will (which is the only sane thing to do).
Lifestyle Inflation: How Following Others Will Leave You Broke
Looks nice. I'd like to hear how this compares to lighttable from anyone who's used both.
I did the same thing and pointed to a node_modules folder on a project I had. Worked fine for me.
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There is a sliding scale of time travel, but in general the idea can quickly get freaky.

Even just viewing the past can be disturbing as it breaks some privacy concepts, aka camera that can see into anyone’s homes or future crime. Going to the outer edge starts to get really freaky especially if you start getting into the head of the main character.
I don't know about about your city, but I would expect drivers to stop for pedestrians even if they are crossing in the middle of the road. The reason I never cross in front of a moving car is a matter of courtesy and not wanting to break the law, not out of fear of being run over.
Not many people would think too highly of sweet wines?

I might have a biased perspective because of my being French, but sweet wines (in all its varieties) are rather sought after here. Wines like Montbazillac, Loupiac, Pineau des Charentes, Sauternes, the wide gamut of wines from Alsace and Jura are all respected and recognized as "the good stuff".
I'm not sure if issuing himself a sufficiently large bonus to compete with the value of his shares is feasible. And giving yourself a billion dollar bonus probably does not inspire confidence in the stock markets. He'd probably end up losing as much in stock value as he gained in the bonus.
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It would blow all the money on commission fees.
There seems to be a major issue with cost-of-living adjustments as well. Several rather obscure California colleges are highly ranked, and I assume this is because both wages and costs are higher in California, where many of their graduates stay after college.
Rice is definitely on the way up - of any school that has a claim on being Harvard of the South they are the one that has made the most progress in terms of endowment and snagging promising researchers.

As a Caltech grad, I'll give my two cents. They are afflicted with the worse version of the same problem MIT has - "working for Harvard men". Who besides Adam d'Angelo has made it really independently big in the tech world from Caltech? They are turning out somewhat eggheadish very good Google engineers but without the reorientation towards entrepreneurship that MIT at least has with Sloan, the Media Lab, etc. Over the last 10 years, student life has become progressively more proscribed as the administration seeks to make campus a tamer version of Princeton. Caltech's purpose was to produce scientific leaders of the mold of Oppenheimer, Mark Wrighton, et al. - people who could both do research at a high level and manage institutions while providing a useful counterpart to the institutional drift that comprise NSF and NIH review panels. It's sad that the college that prides itself so much on the elite and supposedly self-selected nature of its student body and touts the supposed freedom and creativity offered doesn't trust its students. It may be that the faculty collectively take them less seriously than in the past, I don't know.
Restaurants do this with things like happy hours or early bird specials. The point is to help shift demand to off-peak hours.
Go with a friend who knows the ropes. They'll take you to the right spot.

I started at Sunset, just up from Santa Monica. With an experienced buddy. Good times.
> Somebody thinks pride is a sin...

OK.

> ... and the master race should purify itself from sin. To show the barbarians how much better the master race is. (Unconsciously of course but anyhow.)

That sounds a lot like pride in action...
One of the points is we saw similar factions to drugs use surges in other countries. Latin America, Africa. If it was white on minority you'd think those countries would have implemented different tools or implemented the tools differently, but they did not.

Go to Venezuela see how they treat drugs users.
Agreed. Ranking by raw dollar values means that schools in very expensive areas (or that feed into very expensive areas) will have exaggerated scores and end up either really highly ranked or really low.

Another interesting study would be to see whether a child's college attendance correlates with a better or worse standard of living from their parents'. Maybe look at Father's salary at age 30 and child's salary at age 30, and see if the attended college is significant. The question being: If you're born rich, you tend to stay rich, and if you're born poor, you tent to stay poor. Does college choice matter?
Only recently Europe has made mandatory to have an emergency communication system. I barely know the details but I guess it's something like airbag worthy event -> phone whatever safety institution. It's not even high tech, and it's also not cheap for the customer. This should have been implemented long ago and as cheap as possible (I mean profit wise) .. society is so damn slow.
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I dunno, how about pursuing careers as scientists rather than as hacks for the finance industry? Is that "gravely wrong"?

And as far as being close to a prosperous city -- that is because Caltech is near the world hub of the entertainment industry. A Caltech education is mostly irrelevant to finding employment there.
This is where PHP can really shine.

I mean, you simply upload a script to a web server and have a new API endpoint...
Don't tell me what to do – I can write poetry and jokes however I want. Stop pearl-clutching, ya nerd.
So basically, the methodology is that they do a very complex analysis of the student body to predict what their average earnings would be if they went to "college in general" and then compare that with what the graduates actually make.

There's one thing that jumps out at me when I see the actual rankings:

At least three of the eight schools that received a perfect 100 score -- W&L, Babson, and Bentley -- have a very, very high number of students who go to work for lucrative family businesses immediately upon graduation. In the case of W&L (which provides a great liberal arts education mind you) it's mostly southern good ol' boy/girl types. At Babson / Bentley (which provide great undergrad business educations), a huge chunk of the student body are the scions of the economic elite in developing countries, who are getting schooled up so they can be ready to be put in charge of something at a young age.

My hunch is that the Economist's "expected earnings" methodology wasn't granular enough to take these idiosyncratic attributes into account, and that its r-squared of .85 might not be a rigorous number.
> Can anyone point me to any resources which address and discuss this issue?

https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/631
> You won't be able to guarantee there are no cars around you without human drivers. Also, you might get prosecuted for reckless behavior.

That is true now (and obviously more so in the first case), yet people still do it. If it wasn't being done, you could suggest that automation will not change the situation enough for people to start doing it, but as there already are people doing it, then that threshold has already been crossed, and it is implausible that it will not increase in frequency as the risk of doing it is decreased.
Disappointed that they did nothing to probe the onboard MCUs to see if they could get it to leak anything, and just dismissed that with "we expect it to get high marks there." This seems an awfully low quality report from an infosec company. I was hoping to see an audit of the controllers onboard to see if (and if so, how much effort) they can extract onboard secrets, because after all that's the whole purpose of this device, to act as a secrets repository.
Well, I'm glad my shitty school beat Yale (almost last) so handily. Really, I don't think they could have come up with a worse metric. If you simply took each school's equivalent of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yale_University_people

...and just sorted it by # of entries, you'd have a far superior list.
I don't know true classic horror, but would absolutely suggest John Carpenter's Halloween and The Thing as starting points. I still view them as two of the greatest I've ever seen. I would also put Alien up there (horror/sci-fi).

For recent ones, It Follows and The Ba-ba-dook were phenomenal.

As for Blair Witch... when I saw it in theaters, people were literally laughing at it.
you know what else is a good package manager?

var object = {
thing: {},
otherthing: function() {
console.log("I need", this.thing):
}
};

Just minify all your code into one file people!
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"[The increase of the period of daylight saving time by four weeks] produced a useful natural experiment for our paper," authors Jennifer Doleac and Nicholas Sanders write at Brookings, "which helped us isolate the effect of daylight from other seasonal factors that might affect crime."
I saw it in college. With the lights on. And nobody wanted to go back to their own dorm rooms afterward.
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When some humans claim that we need to send our species to colonize Mars and beyond to preserve (Life?) mankind, while at the same time that we should be overwhelmed with fear over General AI, I find that a self-contradictory worldview. Self-replicating, self-aware robots fit this work environment best, for sure. (Life's newest friends, possibly.)

And funny enough, I find that this view overlaps with those who want to live out their dreams, like The Martian, to jump into a rocket ship... Yet, human sperm and eggs can survive a long journey in cryostasis, needing far less resources (this is a bit of a guess since I have yet to do any study on this, but intuitively it fits)... So, I highly doubt any humans with names will board any of our first few ships off this place we call Home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_space_colonization
Call me a traditionalist, but shouldn't 12pm be when the sun is directly overhead? (by definition)
That was my thought too, to make a simplistic example if a university had both say an engineering school and an art school, it might presumably do worse than a university with only an engineering school. So this metric might favor smaller, focused schools which happen to concentrate on education areas with high median salaries...
Would love to get hold of csv or api to see state wide university data.
Truly fascinating read. Thanks for posting that!
not a bad idea, I think we all suffer because of this. What's your email? Vic
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I like it. Maybe a tie in with slow food?
It's "ranked by alumni earnings above expectation"

It's not "ranked by alumni earning".
You may be interested to know that Lambda now supports scheduling: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-python-vp...

Edit: Oh, are you saying that you want to send an API call to schedule something? They say in the post that API support is coming, but I don't know if you could schedule a one-off run that way.
BTW, while I would love to improve the healthcare industry and I wish you the best of luck, I don't think software is the primary problem. Sure, it is very expensive and always 10 years out of date. But the real problem is government and the payer model.

I'm excited to see where retail clinic initiatives like CVS's go, since that's actually a real change to how I, the patient, get care. Instead of consulting my insurer's website to find out what clinics they accept then calling up to make an appointment in a busy doctor's schedule, if I could instead just walk into the store and get what I need like I could any other product that would increase the convenience by enough that I might use it to keep healthy rather than to fix myself when I'm very sick.

We need ways for companies to compete in giving the most convenient service at the best prices. We need full price transparency. We need the prices to be things people could actually pay. (Insurance was originally for catastrophic care where the cost for a major illness or surgery would get too high.) Having prices so high that only insurers can pay them means only insurers DO pay them and since hospitals and clinics know this they can charge whatever they want.

(I once went to a dentist who advertised cheap wisdom tooth removal. I found out the way he did it was send a huge bill to the insurance and whatever the insurer declined to pay he would just forgive. Basically he is kinda willing to work for free but take as much as he can possibly get from the entity that has the deep pockets.)
Wouldn't it be better to increase the timezone by one, and abolish DST, so that it wouldn't be so confusing?
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U.S. Forest Service research guiding African lion conservation