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acveilleux commented on The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google   gizmodo.com/exclusive-her... · Posted by u/akalin
brooklyn_ashey · 9 years ago
Can you clarify what you mean here? (not trying to be cheeky, but I'm just not grasping) What is the difference between a difficult task and a task that sees high growth in accumulation of knowledge? In terms of the classical orchestral musician/swe analogy I don't see what you are driving at.

>In high growth areas its not easy to make it big without working insane hours.

In classical music (and jazz etc.), you can't succeed at even a prosaic task such as winning an orchestra audition without working life-destroying hours. From age 10(or earlier, really) to age 40+, most classical musicians who "succeed" practice alone at least 4hrs a day, and rehearse, perform (and teach, when they are older) another another 4-6 hrs per day. There really isn't room for anything but this in their lives. That is the info I can offer to help w understanding this half of what you are saying. I think I didn't realize that this was not widely known. Coming from this life, it is easy to lose perspective on what is generally understood.

acveilleux · 9 years ago
There's a level of navel gazing in large swathes of the startup community that assumes that no one else works as hard or needs as much knowledge.
acveilleux commented on I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program   reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur... · Posted by u/danso
rdslw · 9 years ago
For me, number one takeaway is, "he has a worker paid 600/700 usd per month (superstar)" who I suppose is generating much more value than 7% (700 of 10000).
acveilleux · 9 years ago
In the beginning, his copywriter made the same 0.05$/word and the poster was making 0$/month.

So the copywriter has shouldered no risk either. He's also free to try and get more per word but he might be in a place where 0.05USD/word is actually pretty decent income.

acveilleux commented on Amazon images broken by Photobucket's change of terms   bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/callumlocke
WillKirkby · 9 years ago
why not AWS?
acveilleux · 9 years ago
I think that was sarcasm but maybe a little too dry.
acveilleux commented on Amazon images broken by Photobucket's change of terms   bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/callumlocke
toomuchtodo · 9 years ago
Goodwill doesn't pay the server bills.

Backup your Gmail account. Backup your Flickr account. Backup any free service you're using. Otherwise, you have no one to blame but yourself when the rug gets pulled out.

Edit: or start paying for them, as a sibling comment said.

acveilleux · 9 years ago
It doesn't but the method they used might hurt their conversion ratio from free to paid accounts.
acveilleux commented on Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1   opensourceforu.com/2017/0... · Posted by u/efyjag
danirod · 9 years ago
As others are saying, the new Electron-based app is so bad on so many levels. Recently it has been failing to deliver incoming messages. They don't even appear, it just causes confusion to anyone trying to have a text conversation. Plus the lack of features that versions for other platforms have.

At this point it's just better to use web.skype.com on a browser tab. I find that more reliable than the Electron client.

And I'm just talking about the Linux version here. It's like if Skype had different bugs on each platform. Windows version also has its own glitches too.

* The classic, full version of Skype for Windows sometimes flips the order of a few messages, so that if you send two messages, the first one appears below the second one.

* The new UWP app seems to disconnect every time the window gets minimized. When the window is restored, for a few seconds I see all my contacts offline while it's trying to reconnect.

acveilleux · 9 years ago
That's still true with web.skype.com being down for 3 days ealier this year for me (wouldn't render in chrome.)
acveilleux commented on Ask HN: What medical datasets do you need?    · Posted by u/danicgross
jszymborski · 9 years ago
(Breast) Cancer biopsies, with histology and outcome reports.

While it isn't my research project, I've been trying to use computer vision and some naive AI to identify early breast cancer lesions in images from mouse tissue with mixed success, but it's something that can be very much accelerated with a large human dataset with outcomes.

(If you work in the field and what to help/hire me with/for something like this, kindly send a message to hn AT naj-p.com)

There are understandably some ethical guidelines that need to be worked for this sort of thing, but seeing as their are public repositories of not-so-dissimilar information (e.g. mammograms), it should be workable.

acveilleux · 9 years ago
You're probably aware, but CAD is a staple of modern mammo interpretation workflows. Products like Hologic ImageChecker CAD.
acveilleux commented on Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies   reuters.com/article/us-ca... · Posted by u/mpatobin
acveilleux · 9 years ago
Using the small supplier exemption seems really doubtful to me. That pushes the tax collection liability on the driver (who can't collect taxes, since payment is through Uber app) and the limit for that is 30k$ so a lot of drivers should probably have charged taxes since they may have earned more.

In addition, my understanding (not a tax/law person) is that the 30k$ would be for the whole fare, not the driver's cut.

GST rate is 5%... But provincial sales tax could apply, at least in provinces where there is HST (Harmonized Sales Tax, administered by fed gov, divided with province.) HST varies from 13% to 15%. I wonder if we'll see provinces going after the drivers for back taxes. Revenue Quebec is notoriously aggressive in going after people for sales tax.

acveilleux commented on OpenEMR: Electronic Medical Records and Medical Practice Management Software   open-emr.org/... · Posted by u/mabynogy
nradov · 9 years ago
You haven't been paying attention. I've been working on products which exchange HL7 messages between organizations for 20 years. It's very common now. Some configuration work is usually needed on each interface but that's mostly a solved problem.
acveilleux · 9 years ago
My experience is that "some configuration" translates to 6 months and 50k$. Especially when the really big vendors are involved and when those vendors have competing products.
acveilleux commented on OpenEMR: Electronic Medical Records and Medical Practice Management Software   open-emr.org/... · Posted by u/mabynogy
JusticeJuice · 9 years ago
> In New Zealand, the market is different at this point, but how long can they resist the network effects of the big vendors?

Good point, here all hospitals use software from Orion Health, which is an NZ company - They have a really good hold on the market and I don't see that changing.

> You have mentioned in another post that you are concentrating just on records, … With all due respect, I think you are being naïve.

That thought has definitely crossed my mind. It's a tricky puzzle - part of the reason I think healthcare software is so hard, is that current systems are so monolithic - they do it all. To compete, you need to do it all as well. This impedes improvement, if you know how to build a fantastic appointment system, why should you have to also build invoicing systems? You have to bite off more than you can chew.

I don't really have an answer to this problem, but my approach is to break up the problem as much as possible into smaller parts.

acveilleux · 9 years ago
It's kind of funny cause I'm in the imaging side and there's a buzz now about "deconstructed PACS" where centers will mix and match different vendors to provide radiologist workflow, image storage, DMWL worklist, Diagnostics Viewer, VR, distribution and analytics.

Right now, that's quite niche and arguably the DICOM space is the most open part of Health IT, but perhaps that will eventually percolate up to EMRs. Maybe once FHIR catches on or whatever will replace FHIR. I'm frankly still using HL7 2.x and mostly 2.2/2.3 level features.

acveilleux commented on OpenEMR: Electronic Medical Records and Medical Practice Management Software   open-emr.org/... · Posted by u/mabynogy
fredsmith42 · 9 years ago
Um, what? I've spent 20 years implementing EHRs. You seem to be implying that hospitals were using paper until 2009. I've implemented lab systems with electronic charts in VMS. The systems weren't, and aren't, interoperable, but they were definitely recognizable as EMRs.
acveilleux · 9 years ago
He's probably limiting the definition to the kind of overarching EMR that fully replaces paper charts for all departments and provide a single view of the patients.

I've also done migrations (I'm in radiology systems, PACS and RIS) where clients had reports going back to the early 1980s. Not very common mind you, especially in private practices (which we get a lot of) and rural hospitals (the kind of places with CPSI/Evident or, god forbid, Healthland.)

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