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Ask HN: Will an "EMR App Store" solve Health IT's problems? 
Background:
It's no denying that Health IT (HIT) is broken. Our gov't is putting billions of dollars into an industry which is adding only marginal (if any) value to the end user. Many argue that HIT can add value, just the current approach does not. However, as is the case with most enterprise software, legacy software dominates. This legacy software is not extensible, making it difficult for innovators to create new solutions.

SMART Platforms[1] is looking to change this. The idea is simple. First, they want to define a standard API to access medical data. So rather than having to use cryptic data formats such as HL7/CCR/CCDs, SMART defines a consistent API for ALL electronic medical record installations. The goal is then to SMART-enable EMR installations at either the vendor or customer (eg. hospital) level. By SMART-enabling the EMRs, they make the connections between the legacy dbs and their API. With this an HIT application can use the API and not require custom integration work, which is half the battle in HIT.

Do they make a compelling enough case for you to jump into Health IT? Their success is largely contingent upon innovators, such as HN, wanting to develop on their platform.

FYI - SMART is currently sponsoring a HIT App challenge [2] for their new platform. There is an all-star panel of judges including Tufte. Deadline is the end of this month.

[1] www.smartplatforms.org
[2] http://www.smartplatforms.org/challenge/
I would participate in something like this, but the question is how would we find a designer?

Otherwise pooling makes sense because a long-term relationship can then be established with the designer, vs working with whoever has time.
Well you are wrong, because you are arguing about patents on which we agree. Copyright is not related in any way, patents is the "protection of ideas" which is especially unfit in the field of software. Let me explain.

Let's say you are creating software project. You are then automatically protected by the copyright law, this means that you are the one who decides on how your work should be distributed and copied. Let's say you now decide to open source the project, as the copyright owner you can then license the software under the terms in for example GPL or BSD etc. Without this basic right that license would be worth nothing, and some one could simply take it, re-package it and take credit for it.

Related to this article, a weakened copyright law could just as well be harmful to local economy since foreign companies may just chose to not make business there, like some companies treat for example China.

Check this informative lecture by Richard Stallman on software patents, and the confusion with copyright and the so called IP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmKy_LP6JPQ&feature=relat...

(it starts about 2 min in)
How is this calculated?
A very good test. I find that even TV can fit this requirement if it's the right kind of TV: A 60-minute episode of The Wire, for example, leaves my mind in a vastly more engaged state than the same amount of time spent watching a few minutes of one show, changing channels, watching a few minutes of another, channel surfing, and finally concluding there's nothing on.
We're talking about market freedom not individual freedom. You're confusing the two. Companies owned by larger companies can still both operate in a free market. It's no different in principle for people. And my irony was about phrasing the ownership of people issue in free market terms to show how it is distorting (and it straight out is), not to argue for it or that there aren't other approaches to the same problems.
This is an interesting solution, but I wonder if it was more novelty-based, than a product of necessity. It's true that the chat bot can be decentralized, running from anyone's laptop, to serve incoming requests. However, so could a web application. Sooner or later, it would have to be run from a dedicated server anyway. As far as maintenance, how is a chat bot wrapping the script any easier to maintain than a web app?
Dissent IS crime though. For example, stealing is dissent from the accepted notion that property can be owned.

That proves crime is (in some loose sense) dissent, not that dissent is crime.

Besides, stealing generally doesn't come from a dissent about the nature of ownership. The average thief doesn't believe that property can't be owned -- he knows that you own your property, and he intends to make it his property.

Any deviation from the rules of the system is a challenge to those rules. I think the distinction between crime and dissent in your mind is actually just whether you agree with the person doing it or not.

Well no, because:

a) "Rules" != laws" -- breaking "rules" isn't a crime while breaking laws is, and

b) You can quite easily disagree with the law without breaking it. I think it should be legal to serve alcohol to eighteen-year-olds in the state of Kansas, but I've never done it.
Microsoft releases Windows Azure toolkit for Apple's iOS
I get ideas when I am sleeping.... all the time...
One place where skeuomorphism definitely comes into play is in the realm of digital audio software. If you are building systems to mix digital audio, for instance, you will not ship a single unit if it looks like anything but an old analog mixing table. It may even be an old analog mixing table, except instead of controlling voltages on line-outs it is rigged to spew numbers into a DSP to adjust the gains of various digital signals. The reason why is because there is an entire tradition built up amongst sound engineers of mixing music by listening and feeling, rather than looking. And if you present a different interface to these people, you are throwing that knowledge away.
So what?

It doesn't matter how neat or easy the development environment appears to be if no one will pay for my app because no one has a WP7 phone.

When I get on the bus, all I see are iPhones. I have an iPhone. My brother and sister have them. Around here, you either have an iPhone, or you have some other kind of weird thing probably because you want an iPhone, but can't bust out of your contract right now to get one.

In the end, making money is about making what people want, and your customers don't care how easy or hard it was to write your app.
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What about Ray Kurzweil? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
You mentioned it works in the 400MHz band.
Windows Phone: Number 1 by 2015? (this time, it's Pyramid Research)
Except its not, at least not as the term honest is strictly defined. To quote mirriam webste, honesty is being free of deception. While it is often immoral to decieve, there are definitely exceptions to this, which is precisely the point. You can be deceptive, and thus dishonest, while being highly moral, at least in cirtain circumstances.
There are plenty of people that know computer science that will do contract work.
Schneier's original point is "every cooperative system will always contain parasitic elements; while these elements can be deleterious to the correct functioning of the system, they are also a critically important source of diversity and change."

If all the reader gets out of the article is that "systems never perform at 100% efficiency" then they are ignoring the entire point of the article. As such, the root post seems to be hijacking the topic rather than talking about what Schneier actually said.
Maybe so, but this article doesn't even give us enough info to enable anyone to be rigorous. The takeaway was to "make your icons detailed enough, but not too detailed". Whether it's obvious or not, what is actionable about that advice?

Like I said, maybe a few more realistic and/or real-world examples would have made the actionable takeaway clear. As it is, it's just another blog post stating the obvious -- IMO.
Why You Work More, Enjoy It Less
It's not dead. Apple just cornered that market.
"...by the time when Qt5 is ready, all customer-facing devices will have a decent GPU."

Not by a long shot. There are stacks and stacks of legacy designs that use Qt/Embedded and will never have a GPU on them.
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I've never done this and have never understood why people think it's so important. I prefer to build stuff for paying customers. They're never bashful and are a great way to get really good really quickly

This is explicitly advice to new programmers. If you're established and have people who want to pay you money, sticking to paying customers makes sense. But do you really think that applies to people who are new? I mean, who in their right mind would want to pay Joe Justlearnedpython to build their stuff? From what I hear, even many people who actually know what they're doing but haven't had their name "out there" have a hard time finding paying work.

(I can't speak from experience. I'm not primarily a freelancer, and I pretty much only do it when somebody I know comes up to me and says, "Hey, I need X. Can you provide it?" But I don't feel like I could just magically get clients if I wanted them.)
When I say learn data structures and algorithms. I do not mean simply read up on the code. I learned programming, data structures and algorithms, under the man named Vinod Vishen. He never let us see any code or any book. He would explain the algorithm to us and provide a printed explanation on a plain piece of paper. Then we had to implement the algorithms in code ourselves. This approach worked wonders.

Initially, It took us days to implement even simplest of algorithms because we were encouraged to constantly improve our code bit by bit. Only when he was satisfied with what we had implemented would he allow us to look at the code in the book. He taught us to think independently. Independent of the book. Unfortunately this method got a bit lost as the number his students increased from 30 - 40 to hundreds.

No wonder most of the people from my batch and my seniors went on to start small but successful companies like me. Even today, most of the people I have hired are either from my batch or my seniors.

I have never met a single person who delayed learning data structures and was good at programming.
Why would you add the parenthetical statement "read: poke holes in" if you were "really interested in how they did it"? Not only does it not really make sense (how do you "poke holes" in art?), it makes you sound like a dick.
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"Honestly, never had that problem."

Most common problem with manually generated XML/HTML is broken tags (not closed correctly).

"Why would it take three times longer?"

The number 3 is just picked by me based on my own experience - I finish views way faster than the ones I've worked with, with best-pratice semantics. If you write valid semantic HTML as fast as me with no tool you are just very good, but you don't represent the majority.
We're talking edge cases though. Most of us don't live in Nazi Germany, and most of us don't need to go round lying or breaking the law in order to be good.

Besides, it's clear that the "dishonesty" he's talking about here is less about "telling lies" and more about things like theft, fraud, and other ways of illegitimately enriching yourself at the expense of others. This is the form of dishonesty in which he's interested, because it's so central in human relations... much of human nature is designed to cope with this problem. This thread has got rather off-topic with too much talk about how we classify Rosa Parks, who is fairly irrelevant to the problem at hand.
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The board is running at 4MHz, so I'm not sure if too much can be done with such hardware.
"So what exactly is not open about this? "

Presumably the non-open services that are required for "Android Compatibility" that they wield like a "club" against their partners.
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Google Chrome Hacked?
>What was the Gold Standard? It was a system in which one currency was tied directly to a finite resource. There was no choice in how one could pay, payments were made in a vacuum. All transactions had to be made in a currency backed by gold. That meant that any abuse of the Standard could affect the economy negatively and runs on banks were almost inevitable.

This completely misunderstands the point about the gold standard comparisons. The gold standard is based on the fact that the currency issuer has a certain amount of gold, and each unit of that currency can be redeemed for gold.

Bitcoin is based on the fact that there are 21 million bitcoins, period. The currency IS backed up by itself, by the fact that there are only a finite number available to you. That is exactly how the Gold Standard works. Every USD was backed up by gold, the same way each BTC is unique.

As for choice... there isn't any choice when vendors only accept one currency. If they accept multiple currencies, then there is a choice. However, Bitcoin itself does not provide that choice, because you don't have the option to pay a BTC transaction directly in USD.
Just because you can see something is wrong doesn't mean you have a solution, and not having a solution doesn't mean you shouldn't say that something is wrong.

I would agree that "here is what you are doing is wrong, and here is why" is always appropriate. But pointing out problems doesn't come with an obligation to figure out how to fix it.

Criticism is a valuable role, whether or not you can fix the thing you find broken.
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An article summarizing scalabale data stores
I'd be willing to pay good money if someone managed to hook this up with Vim.
Making changes on Webkit and copy/pasting back is a pain.

I understand it's not trivial, as a lot of html/css and even javascript may be conditionally echoed to the browser by some php, python, etc, so a quick dirty search/replace plugin hack won't do.

But still, if someone took it for himself the job of doing so, we'd finally have a decent web developing workflow for a change.
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Except I never had the pleasure of installing Ubuntu on any computer without lots of problems, either hardware-related or shitty-beta-quality related ... my current Ubuntu installation (10.10) displays my head up-side-down in Skype-video, and there's no way to fix it other than to recompile the kernel with this special-fix mentioned on some obscure forum (no kidding, I'm still perplex about what it's taking so long for them to fix it).

Also, Unity? Are you freaking kidding me?

I'm all for being bold and innovative in UI/UX, but pushing alpha-quality software in a stable release to unsuspecting users?

What the hell were they thinking? It isn't acceptable that the UI in Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups; yes, I still have the license) was more consistent / reliable than Ubuntu 11.04 -- the average user doesn't have the patience to understand UI absurdities, neither the skills / patience to go edit files in /etc or recompile their kernels, just to make their system behave normally. Even I, after several years of struggling on every update, I'm quickly losing my interest in doing that.

So I'm sorry, but 200 millions of users won't be dumb enough to switch -- at this point I consider projects like Android/Meego as the only choice for desktop-Linux (simply because tables/mobiles will merge with desktops in the future).
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Insubordinate is a much better term.
Ideo's dean Hovey's early prototypes of the Apple mouse.
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To force the issue they'd have to prove they had the right to put it there in the first place, right?

Alternatively they expect these to go missing and it's not worth the hassle to get them back.
Yeah, I had this exact issue with the Galaxy series (not Galaxy II, which as martythemaniak mentions, fixes it) and mentioned it in my review. Some people simply don't see it, though, it really amazes me. I can't NOT see it.
Sensory deprivation is also a safe way to have an intense psychedelic experience, without having to ingest chemicals. Go float in a tank for an hour or two, and you'll be astonished at some of the crazy thoughts you'll have.
Not really. You could always write a browser app for iOS or Android that uses Firefox or Chrome's user agent to have servers return the full desktop version.
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Because HN won't allow clickable links on text posts.

IIRC it has something to do with the fact that pg didn't want discussion on links posted that wasn't in the comments or something and allowing a link with a text post allows for such commentary on the link. By disallowing it, commentary is pushed to the comments where it ought to be.

This has the downside of not having a link in a text post appear as clickable, but serves the above purpose.
Amtrak.com is storing your password in plaintext
i just forgot my amtrak.com password and tried to reset it, this is what i got

Dear <your-name>,

Thank you for contacting Amtrak. The login information you requested is listed below.
Please save this information for future reference.

User ID: <youremailid@yourprovider>
Password: <yourp-passwod>

If you encounter any login difficulties, contact us online at
http://www.amtrak.com/contactus.html or call 1-800-USA-RAIL (1-800-872-7245).

Thank you for choosing Amtrak.
So of course strapping a slab of metal and electronics to your wrist is the optimal solution.

I thought wristwatches were dying, like newspapers, books, snail mail etc. Am I wrong? I can't seem to google anything on the topic.
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Merely disagreeing with a law doesn't lead to eventual change. You have to break it more and more visibly until they prosecute you, and then get enough people to rally around you and win the case, and the appeal, etc.
I think Austin is a great place for startups. Austin has kind of become a bit of a SF clone, but with a much lower cost of living.
"This code and the technical details of the underlying vulnerabilities will not be publicly disclosed. They are shared exclusively with our Government customers"

Love the capital G.
1. The pointer was "many developers was hating on it" - I didn't say everytime it is the same people. You kow that, this bullet was just waste of characters really.

2. Reference me the official definition. Another point that didn't add anything to the discussion.

3. SASS been heavily hatred on in the past, Google it. Practical utility: Inofficially 80% of Rails/Sinatra developers use HAML - why? Because it makes people productive.
It also seems very slow. Why does proofreading and typesetting take more than 2-3 days?
Oh, great. As if I don't have enough things on my to-do list. Now I have to try this "shower" thing.

(Also, I seem to be really sparse in the idea department. Or rather, in the interesting idea department. I've spent most of the last decade stumbling onto ideas that I could immediately dismiss as being too obvious to be interesting, whether or not they could be financially rewarding, or already done by someone else. There needs to be some sort of affordable R&D/think-tank outsourcing you can do if you're a one or two man job looking for ideas - heh.)
This is true and smart. There is a quote in 'Cooking for Geeks' about this phenomenon from Michael Pollan. The idea is that Americans could fix their diets by eating smaller portions, but the simplest way to get people to eat smaller portions is a smaller plate. Changing your environment is easier that changing your behavior and it works. It's a powerful idea.
Ah yes because it's impossible to spoof your user agent string be it with a 3rd party web browser on the iPhone or your desktop browser to match the iOS one.
loving the script, it is breaking the right+click 'smooth gestures' extension in Chrome though. Which is how I normally close a tab.
You know what I learned in college? That you can pass all the classes with very little studying, provided that you -learn- the material instead of thinking you can just memorize it. Some classes don't even require that.

I also learned that teaching yourself is WAY faster than having someone hold your hand. And it sticks better, too.

I learned that the only good thing for me in college was being forcibly introduced to new things that I didn't know I needed or liked, and sometimes didn't need and disliked. (But at least now I know!)

I learned that the world sometimes grades on knowledge that isn't actually relevant to the matter at hand. At the time, I thought it was just college, but now I know it actually applies in business, too.

I learned that the right paperwork (homework/degree) means more than actually knowing things and being able to use them. At least, for some people. There are a rare few (bosses and teachers both) that know how to assess people properly.

And I learned that the next time I want to learn something, it will cost me 10s of thousands of dollars less to buy the equipment/supplies and some books and just start doing it myself. (Along with a healthy helping of internet, of course.)
Maybe I shouldn't read my email first then ^^.
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Big fan Andrew, keep up the good work
Movies going the way of the airlines.
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Not everyone showers in the morning, and those of us who don't also get ideas in the shower.
Don't forget the Khan Academy, Bill Gates recognized it as one of his favorite sites on the internet
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Stop versus Done - Part 1 of 2
As someone who has had research written about in popular media, I would bet an enormous amount of money at very unfavorable odds that the words "it couldn't be done" were not uttered by the CS researchers but instead are the voice of the New Yorker author.
I would agree but lots of Steve-wannabe CEOs adopt the cargo cult and think that being belligerent is key to getting stuff done.

This is exactly not the case. Steve gets away with it because he's maniacally focused on improving Apple.

It's not that he gets annoyed and spouts expletives, but WHY he does it, and FOR WHAT REASON.