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by sithu 11y ago
What a sad and terrible loss, my heartfelt condolences to Sheryl and her family.. I wanted to add my thoughts about false positives and executive health checkups, which fall under the larger umbrella of screening . I conduct executive chec
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by sithu 11y ago
There should also be some discussion about why the US uses more prescription narcotics than any other country. Some interesting data and charts here on global consumption and how it's changed over time. http://www.painpolicy
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by sithu 11y ago
For text/charts, a JPEG set at 100% is 2-4 times the size of a PNG and approaches lossless quality, but still isn't.
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by sithu 11y ago
Patients who know their conditions to the extent that they're able to have a well informed discussion with you at the visit are still quite uncommon. Most people google their diagnoses and glance at the top 2-3 hits, but very very few
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by sithu 11y ago
Great advice, thank you- will make a note of these things for when we start deploying. At the moment, I think we will only need one EC2 instance attached to an encrypted EBS volume with the database on it. We're not using RDS. When you
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by sithu 11y ago
Thanks for your reply! Very helpful. Got your email, and will be reaching out to you.
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by sithu 11y ago
Interesting, any recommendations for companies selling insurance for this? Affordable insurance for small companies?
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by sithu 11y ago
HIPAA is surprisingly vague about the minimum standards for compliance, calling encryption "addressable" instead of "required"[1]. I believe this goes for both data in transit(HTTPS), and data at rest. I've seen som
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Ask HN: Best security practices for startups
13 points by sithu 11y ago|14 comments
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Fan-made short anime film Tie Fighter, based on 1994 game(boingboing.net)
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Continuous liquid interface production for 3D printing(sciencemag.org)
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by sithu 12y ago
My wife is co-authoring a review paper on this topic with the group from Zhongshan. The rise in myopia prevalence is really quite staggering, especially among asians. It's a long article, but the essential point is that insufficient ti
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by sithu 12y ago
Yes, if you purchase the item using the card. It's an extended warranty. Quote from benefits section of the gold card: Extended Warranty can extend the terms of the original manufacturer's warranty on warranties of five years or
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by sithu 12y ago
Generally he means addressing the problems "heavy car usage, not enough walking, and no safety for humans". Optimizing city design for people, and not for vehicles. This is generally done by increasing density, and requiring mixed
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by sithu 12y ago
It would be great to have the note kept in sync with the comments section on a file/folder when you Get Info on it so it's easily passed along to others. But i'm not sure if that supports formatting/bullets, etc. Current
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by sithu 12y ago
I'm by no means a physicist but find topics on the nature of universe deeply fascinating. One thing i've always found frustratingly difficult to grasp though, is the expansion of the universe - but just found this article to be a
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Space Nutrients Station – Food in a bottle; add water(old.spacenutrientsstation.com)
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by sithu 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. Star Trek, and Spock form an indelible part of my childhood that's shaped my early personality more than I probably realize. Truly a sad day. Rest in peace, friend.
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by sithu 12y ago
I would be very interested in seeing a list of diagnoses from cases that were solved correctly. It seems to me that once someone with a difficult to characterize condition has gone through 5-7 physicians, any 'diagnosis' that come
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by sithu 12y ago
Hi there, great images! I'm curious about how West Kendall Baptist Hospital was chosen for the clinical trial? Is this a single-center study? Lots of angiography in the sample images, so is the trial comparing this to cath?
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by sithu 12y ago
I've been giving your idea some thought, and would be happy to discuss further over email if you like (in my profile). I don't think HIPAA is the main problem you have. The biggest obstacle is whether any healthcare provider would
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by sithu 12y ago
Don't doubt yourself so much. While talent is undeniably an advantage, in the long term, someone who is persistent, overcomes obstacles, and has real interest in the work will win over raw talent 9/10 times [grit,1]. The fact that
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by sithu 12y ago
"All these logos are sized to fit in 16 x 16 pixels." - I was surprised how crisp these look for 16 pixels, then noticed the file was actually 32 x 32 and shows up as such on a retina display. It's a fair point that only the
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by sithu 12y ago
Always enjoy reading your posts 7Figures. I'm in this exact situation, and decided to go the agency route for the same reasons Alex did for Groove. It's hard in some occupations to have technical friends in your circle, creating s
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by sithu 12y ago
Very helpful- thank you. I'm ok with actionable negative feedback, but apathy I don't know how to interpret. This person is a peer- and the target users will be my peers. I've talked to several peers (some friends, and others
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Ask HN: Non-specific negative feedback on product ideas.
4 points by sithu 12y ago|5 comments
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by sithu 12y ago
Contact in profile. How I Can Help: I'm a semi-technical internal medicine physician in fellowship specializing in cardiology at a large academic institution. I have experience on the clinical side, taking care of patients, work flows
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Ask HN: Domain buying and valuation
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by sithu 12y ago
Hi, thanks for sharing your experience. I think when proposing anything, it helps to be able to clearly express your idea in such a way that anyone including non-technical people like myself can understand and relate to. I think this aspect
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by sithu 12y ago
I agree with most of what you've said, except that I think the recent enthusiasm for doing systematic reviews + meta-analysis is way overblown. What really needs funding is novel high-risk/high-reward research that isn't nece

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