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I'd love to talk with you offline about drchrono to go through all of your issues in detail. You can email support@drchrono.com to get a 1-1 conversation.

For security and data issues the government Meaningful Use guidelines have very specific security and encryption standards we follow and are getting certified by a 3rd party government approved lab.

drchrono is a professional service for doctors and we only generate revenue by having doctors pay us for premium services (e-prescribing, medical billing, clinical realtime speech to text.) So we never sell any data (even anonymized data) to any 3rd party like some other companies do.
I've got Google Apps for Business, and when all of our mailboxes were unavailable I contacted Google at the number listed on their website, talked to a human, got it resolved in about 30 minutes.
This could be very useful! One to watch
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Curious to see what folks have developed.
No, the CEO made a bad deal with banks and is now using PR to shift the blame from himself to his bankers.

If everyone intrinsically knew that ZipCar was worth $30 then why did he sign a contract with the banks that allowed them to sell it for $18? Banks can't just a your company public on their own, they need the consent of the CEO and/or the board, when you sign this contract it outlines how the bank will take your company public.

If he didn't like that option he could always buy a shell listed on the exchange and do a reverse-merger. There are plenty of ways to take a company public and very few of them involve trusting GS to sell your company at whatever price they determine. If as CEO he allowed his company to be swindled out of $50 million he should resign in disgrace. He's so ingrained in the sausage making process he himself has been banned from trading.

As an aside after how badly GS and JPM fucked over the entire world it should give one pause as to whether you'd sign a contract with any entity who had demonstrated such moral hazard. They're called banksters for a reason.

Also, if you take IPO stock there is a gentleman's agreement that you won't sell it for 90 days, so it remains to be seen how well these investors actually did.
Very hesitant to get involved in this but to quote Frank Shaw's tweet at https://twitter.com/fxshaw/status/58672412950138880 - "just pointing out we never said we had the certification. Google did. DOJ said they didn't."

There's also this post http://www.geekwire.com/2011/blog-fight-google-calls-microso... which highlights both sides of the story so far.
Why only 1-1 ? All of these questions seem reasonable and should be answered in your public materials.
Do you imply that services that sell anonymyzed patient data are unprofessional?

Medicine has progressed because of sharing of information, and I dont see any harm in anonymyzed information being shared, as long as its a fair and open market.
There was a comparison about a year ago that tested performance over a week span. Linode performed better than Rackspace Cloud and that fits my experiences. No Windows so not helpful to Dave but worth looking at.

http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison/
This article actually introduced me to a useful phrase that doesn't seem to be used much according to my cursory Google search: "Tool worshipers" [though he misspelled it].

I think Tool Worship is an appropriately ridiculous phrase for when people become overly fanatical about supporting some language, operating system, text editor, screwdriver head etc. over others to the point of becoming derogatory toward those who hold different opinions.
It is worth noting that the Department of the Interior and the Department of Indian Affairs have lost a series of major lawsuits due to corruption and mismanagement. For instance Indian tribes sued it over the loss of $10 billion in Indian trust money, its own employees successfully sued it 4 times over violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, individual agents such as Duane Garvais have their own lawsuits against it.

In short in virtually any dispute where there are allegations of corruption, lying, unfair practices, and the like, past history inclines me against believing whatever version of facts the Department of the Interior chooses to put forth.

The fact that in this case they are on Microsoft's side in a Microsoft vs Google fight does not help their credibility.
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That could be huge. When you have a conversation with your doctor about anything, they're dropping a ton of information on you, usually just in summary. If they could give you access to complete information in real time, it could save a lot of time, while also increasing accuracy later.

Think of it as a curated WebMD or such, where you only see information your physician has marked as relevant to your particular diagnosis.
You can even use string interpolation in them :)

i.e.:

:textile
Hi, my name is *#{@user.name}*!
I know Cloud Servers originally started as a direct copy of slicehost with hourly rates and end of the month billing instead of monthly prepaid billing (prorated per day). A few things have changed since then and I don't know if slicehost and rackspace are still offering the same system any more.

I do know that the vm environments are the same. I'm just not sure about some of the other bits.
And when a Voyager crosses the heliopause in another ten or so years time, entering deep space, that'll be another new generation inspired by this incredible feat of humankind.
Quite simply, Google appears to be in material breach of your SLA. Where is your lawyer?
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+1 for DynDNS - very geek friendly and gimmick-free.
I'm considering a server provider for a new startup I'm working on, but the recent EBS issues of Amazon have put me off it entirely. Would you suggest I reconsider? What are your experiences with AWS?
All of these questions are answered in our privacy policy public pages. I could just tell people to RTFM, but doctors and potential customers often appreciate conversations that can address their specific concerns.
Analog tracks the rawest, sure, but Visitors and others, for all their relative flaws, do track crawlers and related. They seem to me to track enough noise that the discrepancy isn't so easily attributable.
Note that you can only get up to 7 usable members in a RS (then you need to shard), see http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets+Limits

I'm curious if you happen to use any monitoring to notice when load on your mongo servers gets too high (eg is about to start swapping to disk instead of using RAM etc)?

Cheers
Okay, so there's no problem. Aurora isn't the name for a crashier-than-alpha beta. Beta is still beta, and it is more stable than aurora (the alpha).
Yes, companies that sell data about their doctors and patients are doing something dishonest in my view and we will never do it.
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tablets/RIM/PlayBook/IMG...

Back to 80's! Seriously though I just hope they have a good, defensive multitasking system that unloads apps from memory automatically and do save/restore state as required. Otherwise it's going to have a bad rap - users are just not used to seeing out of memory messages on mobile phones while starting apps.
Whether displayed or not, the points never really contained any useful information about the quality of a post. The ability to dispassionately evaluate an argument solely on the basis of whether it is logically consistent, based upon a reasonable interpretation of fact, and skillfully written without letting your personal biases enter into the evaluation is a skill that most people (sadly) do not possess. The reality is that most people will upvote posts that agree with their own worldview or appeal to their sense of humor and relentlessly downvote any viewpoint they personally disagree with, even when well-presented and logically consistent. Comment points only provide information about what is popular. Groupthink virtually guarantees that the point system is incapable of distinguishing between useless garbage and expressions that are both heretical and true.
Older technologies don’t get much love, and PHP especially has a bad reputation

Actually, Python is older than PHP.
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I haven't done any mobile stuff but I have made a bunch of Flash games:

- http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/556426

- http://www.addictinggames.com/trickochet-game.html

- http://www.kongregate.com/games/5minutesoff/pathillogical

- http://www.kongregate.com/games/5minutesoff/kaleid

- http://www.armorgames.com/play/3943/hold-the-line-zombie-inv...

- http://www.andkon.com/arcade/tetris/squarethere/ (rabble from here actually ported this one to iOS for me but we didn't do that great)

- http://www.freeonlinegames.com/game/21458-retromash.html

- http://www.kongregate.com/games/5minutesoff/great-game-1-5

- http://www.maxgames.com/play/the-horde-2.html

- http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/538095

- http://www.agame.com/game/cannon-plunder.html
https://www.amia.org/files/workforthesecondaryuseofhealthdat... provides a good discussion about the subject.

Then what are your thoughts about http://www.practicefusion.com/pages/pr/practice-fusion-teams... ?
Somehow this feels like the uncanny valley of human reality. Along the lines of renting a family for the afternoon, or a puppy for a walk, only on a massive scale.

I once had a dream that I was the king of the city, and they marched in parade to honor my name. No wait, that was last weekend in Leichtenstein at SuperBlingFest2012.
Actually #7 works. When I travel to a new timezone and log in to gCal, it asks me if I want to change my timezone to the newly detected one. Pretty nice :D
Ask HN: What do you use to gather your stats?
Like many web pros, I use a raft of services that gather stats: Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Campaign Monitor, Feedburner etc etc I have a problem though: they're all over the place!

I mean I have to log-in to all these different services (or use different apps) to see the latest figures for each package/metric. This makes it very difficult to make quick comparisons.

So what do you use to make this stat overload less distressing?
As far as PHP frameworks go, I've been using Yii when I do a PHP project and have found it simple and clean and Yii's documentation is pretty superb.
For some reason I feel pretty sleepy after reading this.
Tragic, but necessary, we all knew where they were heading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hB9NTYD0E&feature=playe...
I think EC2 and Rackspace Cloud serve two different groups. EC2 is the only provider on which I've actually been able to boot 50 nodes, have them come up in a few minutes, use them for an hour, and kill them all off. That sort of thing would be a giant pain on Rackspace Cloud, since they e-mail you the root password when you boot an instance. Also, Rackspace Cloud accounts are limited to 50GB of RAM usage unless you contact them to increase the cap. (Rackspace only mentions this in their API docs: http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/servers/api/v1.0/cs-devguide-... See section 3.8.2: Absolute Limits.)

Still, most small and medium-sized companies would do best to go with Rackspace, Linode, or something similar. You'll get better support from them and it's not often that a 10 person company needs a ton of servers for a short period of time. Even then, you could use both: short-lived instances on EC2 and stable, well-supported, long-lived stuff on Rackspace.
Oh, great! Mentioning that they are in TFM while inviting a conversation would have been useful for us on-lookers.

In general, I think that responding to a public request for information with an invitation to communicate privately raises concerns unless it also includes notice that the information is already available publicly (or soon will be made so.)
You're making a category error against SSH with examples like knives, which have a lot of variation. Let's see you write as much about having used a "really nice chopstick" or typing an especially round period at the end of a sentence.

There's a paradox here where ssh is already a good, simple tool, so how do you improve on that? Make it easier to type on an iPad? I don't think that's going to happen, so let's take a step back: putty, SecureCRT? Those can certainly have some improvements to their interfaces made. So, we move from ssh client to SSH Application.

Now, we get to the meat: given that you can hook an iPad to one of those keyboard docks, does this make a compelling thin client? Anybody?
Yep. I'm wondering why Google, in this case, wouldn't encrypt the value stored in its cookie. Is there any technical reason other than laziness?
Ads are blurbs that are asking for your attention. If they are asking you to go somewhere (link), think about something (statement) or buy something, they are still ads.

Given that twitter is a one-to-many medium, unless your friends (real ones that you hang out with) are directly communicating with you over twitter, its pretty much a given that they are ads.

Assume that you follow P-Diddy. You read his tweets. You have never, nor shall never actually hang out with this person in real life. Every time you read anything he produces, you're consuming his ad. His comments which you receive via twitter are veiled PR/marketing - even if he is providing tangential commentary on events unrelated to himself such as the earthquake in Japan... you are consuming his content.

He is a media icon. Anything he says is designed to drive attention to his brand.

While you may not be purchasing anything he produces with your money -- you are spending your attention on anything you read.

This is the nature of programming (content/media programming, not computer programming) -- You are rewarding media content producers with your attention, eventually that will translate to an expenditure of your money -- which is really a proxy for attention/thought anyway...

EDIT: Given that your handle is 'Technomancy' I would have thought you to understand this much -- unless you dont know the meaning of your own handle...
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I'm kind of curious why, if they were profitable as this seems to imply, they wouldn't just spin it off as a subsidiary. If it wasn't profitable, perhaps they tried to sell it and failed.

One of the theories for shutting this down that I've heard is that having consumer electronics companies lumped in with the rest of the company lowers the margins, which is a bad thing in the eyes of Wall Street analysts. Cisco stock price took a huge beating (20%) this past quarter when their margins dropped by a couple percentage points, and I believe they're scrambling to get those numbers back up. Seems they're "reorganizing" Linksys as well, probably to get margins up there as well.
We're on Rackspace, and getting murdered by a couple of things:

1. Not being able to idle a system, or to restore from a system image (some persistent bug on their side w/r/t setting netmasks on external interfaces, of all things);

2. Not being able to buy disk independently of RAM.

We were moved from DFW to ORD and since then, we haven't seen the random weird outages that had me pulling out my hair. It hasn't been bad enough to make me want to move to EC2/some other hosting company, but I do look longingly at, say, spot instances, which would be a perfect tool for some of our problems. I'd love it if FreeBSD worked correctly, but I'd also like a pony, so what the hell.
My internist's hospital group uses Epic, and while I'm sure it cost a pretty penny to license the feature, you can download an iOS app to view your test results, request appointments, send a secure message to the doc, etc.

I could really see a downmarket version of this as valuable for the type of physician who isn't associated with a huge hospital group and can't afford and doesn't need anything like what you'd get from Epic, Cerner, or the like.
That's interesting. I would have no idea what someone meant if they said "top-drawer". In bars, "top-shelf" means the expensive booze, usually contrasted with "well", which means the cheap stuff.
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I chose the cheapest option on Rackspace, a 1GB 32-bit Windows 2003 server that costs $0.08 per hour, which works out to $59 per month. Significantly less than the $90 a mini-server costs on Amazon.

Is that supposed to be cheap? I used EC2 for some compute tasks a week ago; it was 23 cents per hour for an x86_64 8-core 2.16Ghz i7 system with 8 gigabytes of RAM -- which sounds way more than 3 times as powerful as the system they mention.

Running on "burst CPU" doesn't sound like a very useful strategy when I need to load a few dozen cores for a few days.
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How do you differentiate between undervaluation and over-exuberant, illogical investors? Neither is a good situation.
This article is spot on. An excellent description of the way traffic flows through airspace and the role of ATC in movement of aircraft. I can add that as a pilot is would be a bit disconcerting and unusual to be on an instrument approach into an airport and be handed off to the tower only to receive no response. This would likely happen with only a couple of minutes of the flight left and at a time when workload is high (assuming IMC conditions). There would probably be a little confusion before deciding to switch back to the previous frequency.

Not particularly dangerous - but the pilot does have to be prepared for handling some atypical tasks on an otherwise routine approach

Edit to note: VFR (visual flight - night or day) would be a non-event (from the pilot's perspective) with a sleeping controller so long as traffic is relatively light, as it would be at night most places
I'd love to see Nintendo take a real chance and jump into another space — be it mobile phones or even making their version of a desktop computer.
Don't forget, the cost to replace you is not your salary + search time. It includes benefits, lost productivity, putting a roof over your head, providing a phone etc. See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/loadedcost.html
They will cease publishing as soon as companies PJ likes stop going to court with companies she doesn't.

In this case Google is pro-open source because they give away complements to their business model while keeping things that make them money closed source whilst Microsoft gives away complements to their business model while keeping things that make them money closed source which clearly distinguishes Google as good and Microsoft as evil.
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It's really the difference between peer to peer and token ring.

One is done on a general channel which approaches failure the more traffic.

The other uses a "token" to signify communication and passes the token to whom they wish to speak to.
I've conducted extensive benchmarking of rackspace cloud, ec2 and about 38 other iaas providers. Rackspace cloud is definitely not faster than ec2 by a long shot. Rackspace cloud utilizes homogonous infrastructure, AMD 2374 to be exact. All instance sizes are burstable, so you typically get about the same CPU resources on a 1GB instance as you do on a 16GB instance according to our benchmark results. Ec2 on the other hand scales CPU much better all the way to dedicated dual quad X5570s with the cc1.4xlarge. Both this and the rackspace sponsored bitsource study compared an ec2 m1.small. Any study that does this should be immediately discounted as that is about the worst possible performing ec2 instance size. Adrian cockroft from Netflix refers to these types of studies as benchmarketing. They do not accurately depict the performance capabilities of ec2.

http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/05/what-is-ecu-cpu-benchma...
> Even in your preferred case, you're typing your passwords into a closed source browser on a closed source OS.

One could argue that iOS / Mobile Safari are both under incomparably more pressure to remain secure compared to any individual app, but you're totally right on a fundamental level. The truly paranoid should demand openness at all layers.

> You have to trust someone at some point.

Whole 'nother debate. ;)

> Panic also seems to be a quite reputable company. They've been in the Mac software business for a long time.

No doubt about that. I wasn't insinuating anything about their intentions (this didn't even occur to me until your comment). Just that an SSH client is a pretty complex piece of software, and there are plenty of ways to make mistakes. We've come a long way since the days of telnet and scrutiny / skepticism has played a big part in that.
Thanks! :)

I'm working on getting us a "Team" page to showcase all our talent with pictures, Twitter links, etc...
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Yeh, this is weird. A "50% increase" is clearly "in addition to", whereas "threefold" reads as "in comparison to". I have no idea how to interpret a "onefold increase".
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The 1604 was a great device, along with the PDP-1. The PDP was certainly smaller and cheaper (1/4 the price), but the CDC was faster. Both were among the first (maybe the first two?) transistorized computers.
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I remembered correct that Snoop tried this before:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2010/07/snoop-d...

This can mean that renting a stadium might be around the same price.
What type of startups are you looking for (tech b2b, consumer web, etc.)?
This would help put you in touch with the right type of investors.
Wouldn't it be cool to rent this in the name of Hacker News for 2-3 days? With 150 people, it's not that expensive.
CodeIgniter is bloated? It doesn't even include an ORM! There are some many things missing from it that other frameworks include that I can't even fathom what the author is talking about.

Having switched from PHP to Ruby a year ago, I now find Ruby's syntax beautiful and incredibly powerful. If you don't like the implied parentheses, it turns out, you can go ahead and add them!

Edit: because I didn't proofread the first time...
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I just got working my Twitter game weekend project: Can you guess who tweeted this? http://who.saidth.at

One thing I haven't realized before I started is how difficult it is to find "quality" tweets. I use celebrities' messages, people who I can reasonably assume that some people would care to know what they have said. But at least half of them just post links and retweets all the time.... Fortunately there are some really good ones as well, so anyways.... :)
Lithium is a really great option. It forces you into a good set of rules to develop your app rapidly while not sacrificing quality. It integrates really well with both MongoDB and CouchDB out of the box and provides a solid set of testing and analysis tools. As frameworks go, it can do as much or as little as you want it to.

The CTO of Totsy gave a talk describing their no-nonsense usage of Lithium and MongoDB http://www.10gen.com/video/mongoboston2010/totsy
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Lumping CodeIgniter and Symphony together as parallel examples of bloated and get-in-your-way frameworks seems like a stretch.

CodeIgniter is modular, so you can just use the MVC capability it provides and leave the rest alone. Symphony seems to require a substantial amount of prep and up-front learning in order to use it. I couldn't see the set up time between the two frameworks being much further apart.

I'm curious what aspects of CodeIgniter the author found to be bloated and crippling.