skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to two separate dental practices that are under the exact same HIPAA scrutiny as doctor's offices and they have a printout of exactly who they are seeing at what time and in what operatory taped on the wall when you enter.

Somehow I doubt an iPad being clutched in the doctor's bosom as they read it is anymore a violation than that.
I have nearly a thousand relatives on Relative Finder. After connecting with a few of my "closer" cousins, I came to find out that we have Ashkenazi jewish origins.

According to one of my cousins, the relative finder is quite a bit different/better for her family members that don't have Ashkenazi heritage.
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Surprisingly close to something I've been thinking about, and working on a bit in my spare time, for me:

:table(id=1) => SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = 1

Hadn't thought about mutation, only selecting though.
Am I wrong, or is Google basically making a progressively more tailored and non-standard browser in the hope of enticing web app developers to make apps that only run properly in chrome?
At the risk of being pedantic, and because I know a large percentage of folks do not understand what you are saying, by "amazing" do you mean something with a lot of users and proof of traction? Not something that looks cool, is an incredible program, or most programmers would think is awesome? Because the average user of HN's opinion of "awesome" and yours might be very far apart.
Presumably Salesforce can find something else useful for him to do for the one year term of the non-compete agreement. It doesn't prohibit him from working at a Microsoft competitor. It only prohibits him from working in a role directly competing with what he did at Microsoft.
Back turned? :/ Over here (UK) there's a desk, in a corner, with a chair next to it. The doc sits at the desk, using the computer, facing you sitting on the chair to the side.

Works pretty well for doctors surgeries anyway.

But I have no idea how things work in the US so maybe it's completely different.
Ask HN: Is Pay Per Check-In a Viable Business Model?
My business partner and I were discussing some potential viable business models. He came up with an idea and dubbed it "Pay Per Check-In" (unlikely the first to use this terminology).

The concept is really simple: for every person that you can convince to go to a B&M (brick and mortar) such as a restaurant or store, if that person checks-in, you would charge the store. It'd work like Adsense, but in the real-world. If your B&M has a valuable offering, consumers win. B&M's win because there is no upfront cost like sending mass mailings of coupons.

What's your take on this? Would this be a good way for Foursquare to monetize? Is it a viable business model for a small startup?

He wrote a more in-depth blog post here: http://techneur.com/post/3462048907/pay-per-check-in-adsense-in-the-real-world
Seems to me they should have chosen harder questions.

They should try to pick questions such that the contestants only know about 1/3 of them.

Then lets see how the computer does.

This is (should be) a contest of knowledge not buzzing.
While the discussion in that thread may or may not apply to OS X, be very careful when saying "X is true about Mach therefore X is probably true about Darwin". A friend of mine put it very well:

OS X was Mach once in the same way that orcs were elves once.
One could make the argument that since Watson is trained with English information and English Jeopardy! clues, English is Watson's native language. Sure, there's Java down to Assembly beneath Watson's understand of English, but the same goes for native English-speaking humans. English speakers aren't biologically any different than, say, French speakers.
Most US private practice healthcare providers (roughly 80%) practice in small groups of 1-5 physicians. That is our target market and still the way that the majority of personal healthcare is delivered in the US!

There is a multi-billion dollar per year market in selling EHR services to the private practice doctors we all see everyday.

Large hospital level systems are designed for hospital admins 1st, doctors 2nd; they are widely hated even in hospitals and unusable in a small practice.

We are launching a speech to text integrated product in the coming few weeks that will remove the need for most typing on the iPad.
I can't see the comments on that site (maybe adblock is killing them?), so this may be a duplicate, but I would suggest reading Date's "SQL and Relational Theory" and looking at Tutorial D (an alternative to SQL) before implementing this. At the very least it would clarify how you might use sets and where you need to worry about things like ordering if you are going to reproduce SQL faithfully.
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I just did a quick google search, and picked the first few items from prior years.

Here is the Cato archive, form your own opinion: http://www.cato.org/pubarchives/index.php?type=opeds#year=20...

For the one month I bothered to look at, most of it seemed pretty anti-bush (with the exception of one article advocating for looser immigration rules).
Is it just me or does this feel really slow?
The idea of doctors using iPads scares me; I know plenty of people who make casual typos with numbers on the iPhone or iPad as it is -- the last place I want someone doing that is in a hospital or doctor's office.
Few reasons...

* I don't think the tech is mature enough to be 100% reliable
* It'll probably just worry people more than anything.
* Doctors are trained. Some guy getting this thing isn't.

I think it's a hypercondriacs dream.
Goot points. On this particular example, and in my experience, Google Chrome runs it quite smoothly on Linux. Firefox 3.6 has no hope of running it though.
Alas, my somewhat-skeptical question came in late and got little support:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fnfg3/by_request_we_ar...

What determined the use of exactly 10 racks of 9 maxed-out (32-core, 512GB RAM) 4U Power750 servers? For example, would Watson have done better with more hardware? Or could it have made-do with far less, after all the bulk pre-processing of, and training on, source material was finished?

(My intuitions about the necessary amount of reference data and topical associations – written up at http://redd.it/fnixm – made me think way less hardware should have been required, at least at the very end during the match.)
So basically the role that he is most qualified for. Would Salesforce have hired him if they knew that he could not perform the job for a year?
Nice, a HN Meetup in SFL! I won't be able to make it unfortunately, but definitely looking forward to the next one, specially if it's down in Miami.
The author forgot that in order to be successful in business environment SQL must be readable by advanced business users (with help of developers).
"Awesome new SQL syntax" is clearly for developers only and is not not suitable for business users.
You can still clickjack it, can't you?
thank you for your feedback! we definitely need not only to improve documentation but also figure out how to concisely communicate what it is all about.

very valuable advice, that is exactly what we aimed for :)
A lot of people on my list have completely preposterous names that are clearly not real. I've changed mine many times to many stupid things and never had a problem.
Please, drop the "awesome" from the title.
A while ago I submitted a link to a blog post( http://bit.ly/igJeRB ) I did that goes into the system in a bit more depth, based on a paper IBM published - there's a link to the paper (open access) there too.

For your cases, from what I got from reading papers:

(1) You could spend two weeks only reading papers on noun-compound semantics. Try a google scholar search just to get an idea of the volume of research. A simple technique to test how idiomatic a phrase is would be a Bayesian type test to see how many times "Treasure Island" occurs in a corpus divided by how many times "Treasure X" and "X Island" occurs. In this case the capitalization probably cues it to look up Treasure Island in Freebase. Interesting thought actually - do the contestants also get the question as text? I think they do, so they get capitalization.

(2)I would be pretty sure these are not Java methods, I'd say they are logical predicates representing the fact that 'Treasure Island' is returned as being a member of the set of things indicated by the predicate, as returned either by syntactic processing (island) or from the knowledge bases (WordNet, Yago, Freebase, dbpedia)

(3) there isn't a worked example in the paper, but my idea of this is that it's basically Watson's way of figuring out what queries to type into it's unstructured text corpus (they have a corpus of web snippets indexed with lucene)
Several clinical studies have shown that patients will have better healthcare outcomes if their doctors make eye contact with them. One of the reasons I co-founded drchrono was because I went to a lot of doctor visits with my Father when he was ill and sat through countless appointments where the doctor spent 10 minutes talking to us over their shoulder.

Computers are always an afterthought in most Doctor office setups, that is why they seem to be universally built into walls or tucked away into corners.
I don't see a lot of barriers against others implementing the same. The vast majority of the legwork seems to be carried by HTML5 (+CSS3 +ECMAScript +...), after all.
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> Sometimes when I switch to a tab that has been idle for over a hour, I notice it takes chrome some time to render it again.

That sounds like paging in effect, which is decades old. Maybe you just notice it more now!
It's been done, and pretty well: http://htsql.org/
I agree, to an extent. This navel-gazing tends to precede a noticeable and rapid decline in quality, as the community becomes too focussed on itself, and less upon content and discussion. I've only been on reddit for just over a year but have noticed a marked decline in quality just in that time. Around this time last year, there were many discussions about reddit's declining quality and what's to be done about it. Now, about half the posts on even my heavily-culled front page are talking about reddit itself, half of the rest are using absurdly editorialized headlines, and there's a smattering of good content here and there. Heavy moderation seems to be key, as the mods quite simply don't seem to care anymore.
I really have a problem with the labeling "Greatest Generation". It seems misplaced given the entire history of the USA and the constant struggle to be better. It also shows a pretty horrible sense of history about the founders, and it forgets that the whole point is to make sure the next generation is greater than the current.

If the next generation isn't "greater", then the USA is in decline and the one who didn't enable their children to be greater shouldn't be held up as greatest.
There's clearly a myriad of nonconflicting roles that match someone qualified to be the GM of one of the world's largest companies, including "full-time Maserati-driving beach bum".
Parts of the game were eliminated to give Watson a chance: audio/video clues, and categories that required extra explanation.

If the exact timing of buzzing in – and not 'first' but 'first after a light goes on'– gave an overwhelming advantage to Watson, that could be eliminated, too. For example, why not just 'first to buzz in'? (That is, no penalty for being early?) Let Watson's parsing of the question text race the humans' sight-reading.

It looked to me like the humans usually won the buzzer on short questions, which strongly suggests it was the slowness of reading long questions that put it on par with the humans in knowledge, and then it crushed them on buzzing-after-the-light precision.
I'm a doctor. I failed to use a special character in my password during signup so my domain/username got reserved but it wasn't obvious until I was informed of failure, tried again, and was told not once but twice that my username was already taken. I decided to try reseting my password, and then found two emails in my inbox, one to confirm, and one to reset my password. All on my iPad, but through the website. Very confusing.

Frankly, with a full-size keyboard I can't type fast enough or click fast enough to keep up with my mouth and ears and fingers and eyes, so dictation would be awesome, but I don't see how to get that started in the iPad app.

I still haven't figured out the forms...
Here's the awesome new SQL syntax that I use: http://sequel.rubyforge.org/

Examples: http://sequel.rubyforge.org/rdoc/files/doc/querying_rdoc.htm...
The author seems to be mistaking "simpler" with "terse." There are a lot of people that actually like a certain level of verbosity as it can help with comprehension.
Hospitals and private practice healthcare offices are two entirely different worlds. In a small healthcare practice the doctor will be paying each staff member as an employee.
The same person can be Polish,Russian,Ukrainian or Belorussian depending on which years he lived in.
Appetizers tend to be good snack food, and by 2 AM most people are hungry again and need something to sober up with... so actually your analogy works better than you probably intended.
Probably not, because pages inside Facebook proper don't display inside frames. Despite some terrible failings with providing support to the human beings who use their services, they've got good engineers doing security. :)
thank you for your question.

you have a point. I still see that it is very valuable to provide tooling, documentation and conventions for this toolchain since more and more people use it but every project you see on HN/github/… looks a bit different.

I believe these kinds of opinionated conventions you know from other frameworks really add benefit. So I think there are quite some backbone users who intentionally chose backbone because it does not dictate as much as other client side frameworks do, but there are also many people who want to use backbone and coffeescript and would love to have an easer getting started experience :)

interesting topic.
> Many, many companies are completely dependent on the Microsoft framework or the Oracle/Sun framework, yet there is not an issue with that.

The difference is that if Microsoft of Oracle/Sun disappear, the framework does not.

There is another rather unhealthy (IMHO) trend in the market today for DRM to be applied to everything. That can mean that products consumers have paid good money for can effectively just be switched off arbitrarily, and that's why I don't personally buy things that are DRM'd in such a way.

Developing for mobile platforms can be similarly risky. For example, my startup has no current plans to build an iPhone app, even though our users might appreciate it. We simply don't trust that Apple will not just arbitrarily squish us and not even notice/care based on their track record to date, and we would rather invest our money in safe platforms like the web. Apple aren't going to stop shipping a browser that can view modern web sites, it would kill their products.
But that's true for normal Jeopardy too. The best buzzer person (Ken Jennings or Brad Rutter) wins because of their reflexes and timing. Watson just took that edge off the table and flipped it back at them.
This is ACM Queue rather than CACM, which is more software-engineering/practitioner oriented rather than CS-oriented.

On the other hand, CACM isn't really that CS-oriented anymore, either: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/3. Partly it's because "CS" is so big a field that it's not clear what a technical yet completely general CS journal would look like. So it writes more about computing as a field, with a few articles on emerging areas thrown in, while the technical articles go to more specialized venues (like a PLs, systems, or AI journal).
There's no mention of it being "simpler"...
there is massive amount of value added when you are a part of "the scene"

I won't spam you with a link to our new startup that lets do you exactly that (just check my profile), but I can't stress enough how important the network is. The number one mistake I have seen technical founders (like myself) make is to code one more line of code, rather than talk to a real user or an influencer. There is always one more line of code to write.
I really don't like your UI, but on another note, Jay Parkinson is the guy you should seek out and ask for advice. He's probably the go-to guy in innovating health sector tech.

http://jayparkinsonmd.com/
Tony Pearson wrote a bunch of stuff about Watson.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/In...
Had a bunch of details including some performance details...

Single core -- 1 -- 2 hours

Single IBM Power750 server -- 32 -- < 4 minutes

Single rack (10 servers) -- 320 -- < 30 seconds

IBM Watson (90 servers) -- 2,880 -- < 3 seconds

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/In...
Had details on the data/storage/ram:

When Watson is booted up, the 15TB of total RAM are loaded up, and thereafter the DeepQA processing is all done from memory. According to IBM Research, "The actual size of the data (analyzed and indexed text, knowledge bases, etc.) used for candidate answer generation and evidence evaluation is under 1TB." For performance reasons, various subsets of the data are replicated in RAM on different functional groups of cluster nodes. The entire system is self-contained, Watson is NOT going to the internet searching for answers.
That's ORM and whole load of other sweetness... This is just SQL syntax... only shorter
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My wife is an ER physician and I went down the path of a similar idea as well, because I saw how awful her life was in trying to maintain meaningful records for her patients. #1 is very true - especially when you take into account all the various medical specialties in the industry.

As I did my research, I reasoned that a Dragon Dictation-esque solution may be best. However, such a solution already exists. And built by Dragon Dictation too, coincidentally.

It's a very efficient solution for doctors in case #2. They can just dictate their patient notes to an audio recorder, and the software is intelligent enough to sort it out appropriately, with perhaps 80-90% accuracy. However, for patient records, you need to have it at 100% accuracy, otherwise you could face medical malpractice. So the current products require doctors to review their notes on a confirmation screen on their handheld tablet devices (yup, it's on a tablet device much like an iPad). The result? Most busy doctors just hit SUBMIT without reviewing their notes, and their 80-90% accurate patient notes get recorded. Medical groups saw this behavior and have been moving away from these types of products.

I'm gleaming over a lot of details, but this is the gist of what I found. This is definitely a problem begging for a solution, so I wish DrChrono a ton of luck in solving it.
You bring up a really good point. Moving to electronic systems has both huge benefits and some risks that have to be mitigated.

An example of a huge electronic benefit you can't get on paper charts is drug interactions. drchrono can automatically check drug interactions and warn the Doctor in realtime based on latest available clinical information and drug warnings. My parents take 20+ prescription and non-prescription drugs each, there is no way even a genius Physician would be able to process that number of associations at first glance of a paper chart.

The risk of misentered information being accepted as factual because the computer presents all information in the same way is a very real risk that has to be addressed and have safety nets put in place to scrub and check for these errors. One cool way we are tackling this problem is launching an industry leading speech to text processing system in the coming weeks. Letting Doctors record their notes and have an automated transcription can give a safety net for errors.
I'm a physician. I would love to hear about you implemented HIPAA compliance for both the iOS app and for the web service. I think it is a huge problem for any healthcare startup with potentially serious penalties (even criminal!) for mis-implementation. It is a serious third rail.
We are definitely aiming to provide ways to integrate other templating frameworks. Keep us updated on your progress! Haml combined with CoffeeScript would be awesome.
thank you for your feedback. npm support was a big win for us since we tried to get the dependencies (especially on languages and package managers) simple.

we definitely will keep sass/scss in mind since it is very popular in the rails community. once the core components work well together we will look into customization (also for the templating component).

that said, I believe there is value in a recommended set of components to have consistent documentation, code examples and a straightforward getting-started experience. but for people who know what to do it should be easy to switch components (comparable to replacing activerecord in rails). easy things should be easy, hard things should be possible :)
Exactly. And given what excessive leverage did to the world's financial markets not so very long ago, I think relying on that kind of leverage again in this market is crazy.
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I'm aware that sql was originally intended to be used by non technical business users but I've never known a single one that did. Have you had experience with people that do?
"The percentage of U.S. physicians who own their own practice has been declining at an annual rate of approximately 2% for at least the past 25 years."

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0808076

Most numbers I have see range from 50-60% in small to solo practice, while I would argue that this is a lagging indicator - a lot of older physicians are in solo practice and seeking to pass on their patient panel. It might be more interesting to see where current residents are going after graduation. That said, there is still a large market and I think it's definitely something that should be pursued. Good luck!
Speech to text is one cool feature we are integrating now, but is still just one feature.

Hospitals and doctor offices are two completely different markets with very different needs and scales. Speech to text doesn't address managing a doctors appointment book, communicating with patients, giving drug-drug interaction checking, etc.
iPad is not the best. Massive, rapid text entry on an iPad sucks. I took an iPad and a cr48 to the a big orthopaedics conference last week, and the cr48 was the hands down winner, using nothing but qemacs. Fundamentally, on the ipad, character recognition or dictation would be best, but I can barely read my own writing sometimes! The iPad would be a lot better if the input precision was as good as the output resolution. If you've tried any drawing apps on these things, you know what I mean. Wacom tablets have much better input precision, or at least they seem to. I want Pilot G-2 0.5 mm black speed, precision, and reliability. Right now only a keyboard comes close.
I think the most difficult part after selling your company is walking away with loads of money and still have some employees not have much.

I fundamentally believe that companies should be created to bring like minded people together and solve problems they find interesting. Along with that founders should make it a responsibility to create wealth for all employees. Imagine what it would mean, when you joined a company to be 100% sure it will pay off your mortgage in 5 years.
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A simple split-screen would be a good start. If that's not enough, have a tiling window manager.
Fits right in with jquery. Then in the next version they can announce it's 2000% faster.
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The 320M is usually considered an IGP and it's roughly the same performance as the Sandy Bridge IGP.
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