mkopinsky

So the government shouldn't only be deciding who can or can't lobby on a particular issue, but which side of the debate each respective party can or can't be on? "I'm sorry sir, but given your circumstances you may only support these Approved Beliefs."

Yes. There is one "canonical" address - if you try to log in as myem.ail@gmail.com it will fail.

I complete a Google 2FA much less than once a month. I think the 2FA cookie must live for a month, but my login cookie lasts for much more than that.

On a new device, I do of course need the 2FA token.

He didn't assume such a thing. He stated how he personally would feel in such a situation. And yes, generalizing from one's own experiences and emotions is one valid way of interpolating how others would react in a similar situation.

From that standpoint, frequent releases can also make things harder, depending on the tightness your feedback loop. If it takes you two days for user reports to percolate to you, it doesn't help if there've been 16 releases since then to examine. For the work I do, error reports are usually "A patient called us to report that their daily email had some wrong info", so for that, multiple-times-per-day releases would not make things any easier to debug.

I'm doing that this semester with a Tabata timer app - I'd seen my wife workout with one and thought it would be good for textbook skimming. I have the timer ding every 60 seconds, and at that point I'm on the next page (unless I make an exception, which I do at times). It gives me a 10-second break between every page, which I use to finish a sentence, or just redirect my gaze in a new direction. With that kind of intensity you can only do so many pages at a time, so I typically set it to 15 "reps" of this before I take a break.

I have alias foo='bar;tput bel' in my .bash_profile which does the same thing.

Way to Health, University of Pennsylvania Health System | Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite | www.waytohealth.org

Looking for a software developer in Philly. Way to Health is a connected research platform that's been used to advance health outcomes in thousands of patients, through (so far) 38 studies and millions of dollars of NIH funding. We are poised to take it into the clinical realm as well as to facilitate many more studies - there is a lot to be done, and we need your help. This position entails a lot of autonomy in shaping our product and our processes, and has a lot of room for impact.

Our platform is built on symfony/PHP/MySQL for the admin interface, and a newer node/mongo app for the patient-facing site.

Email me at mkopinsky@waytohealth.org with any questions; visit https://goo.gl/Rlgpna to apply or for the detailed job description.

Bug report: 61 words. Your ignorant comment making assumptions about what the bug report: 138 words. Sometimes people need to listen before they talk.

Way to Health, University of Pennsylvania Health System | Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite | www.waytohealth.org

Chronic illness and the decisions people make and actions they take everyday – from their activity level to taking medications or smoking – drive the vast majority of the $3 Trillion in US healthcare costs. Our team has achieved breakthrough results in changing the behaviors that determine health outcomes, such as doubling adherence to medications that keep people healthy and out of the hospital, establishing new insights into patient engagement.

These results were enabled by the Way To Health platform, a unique technology asset now poised to move beyond research into broader clinical applications. The role we’re looking to fill is critical to expanding our impact. We need someone who can not only work with our team of internationally recognized thought leaders to identify and implement functionality and designs making interventions more effective, but also has the ability to evolve Way to Health into a scalable clinical platform that can be deployed efficiently in larger populations.

This role also affords the right candidate a great deal of autonomy in both how you do your work and in crafting a vision for the technology. We’re looking for team members who love problem solving and finding better ways to get things done.

Email me at mkopinsky@waytohealth.org for more info.

I guess part of this is that I'd prefer the concierge to hand me a list of restaurants than have to have a whole conversation about what the options are. I don't want expertise, I want curated information.

Those are all dev kits, rather than consumer devices. I don't have hardware experience, and have no interest (in my current professional context) in ordering casings, mechanical buttons, or anything else. I just want to feed it a webhook URL and mail it out.

Here at Penn we have a research platform where we try to motivate (among other things) medication adherence. We have integrated with various devices in the past that automatically track when the meds are taken, but for some reason the vendors of these devices always seem to flake out. We've been thinking lately that a simpler approach where people just push a button when they take their meds might be more sustainable, especially as a simpler device may reduce our dependence on those outside vendors.

What we're looking for: A simple, preferably small device, that we can program to make HTTP calls home to our server. Participants in our studies are scattered geographically and not all of them have wifi, so cellular is crucial. We have done studies with anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand+ participants, and hope to scale up beyond that as well, so cost at scale is a big factor. Today I came across bt.tn, and I love the UI simplicity of their product, but their prices are high, and it seems they don't include SIM cards with their buttons. Particle.io's prices are more in line with what we're looking for (especially the $3/month data fee), but my concern is that (at least from their website) the devices still look like hobbyist electronics with PCBs still visible, rather than like simple consumer devices.

Does anyone have suggestions for something with the UI simplicity of Amazon Dash or bttn but without bttn's price point? (Or feel like making us 500 or 1000 such things? The economics can totally be worth it.)

Does that have a cellular modem/wifi module? Seems like you'd need to connect it to a Photon or Electron to get connectivity.

Medication is one tool. (This includes other stimulants such as caffeine which some ADHD people self-medicate with.) No tool is sufficient in isolation, though - different people need different sets of tools. Here's a book I've found helpful in presenting a bunch of different tools: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415815894

Social support, using todo lists, lots and lots of effort to establish habits, so you can stop spending so much daily effort (CPU) on things that most people can handle with GPU.

What happened here? Why was the title changed back to NPR's more clickbaity version?

It's not about making a collective threat, it's letting management know that the new conditions are making you consider options "up to and including departure", and that you think the other devs may be in the same boat.

They have a resilient, stable API. We use it for a number of clinical trials evaluating incentives for walking, and it works fairly well. Better than most of their competitors.

Step counts are fairly accurate. From the Flex less so than their other devices, but still not too bad. Nike Fuelband is pretty bad. Pretty good figures at the link below.

Case MA, Burwick HA, Volpp KG, Patel MS. Accuracy of Smartphone Applications and Wearable Devices for Tracking Physical Activity Data. JAMA. 2015;313(6):625-626. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.17841. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2108876

There's a big difference between a court filing and lawyerly nastygram. By sending inappropriate nastygrams you're not wasting the court's time.

How about Ctrl-W to just close the Gmail tab?

How do you keep track of the technical debt? Ticket system?

FYI your linkedin profile has very little for regular linkedin users - might want to open your permissions up a bit.

Way to Health, University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA Chronic illness and the decisions people make and act upon – from their activity level to taking medications or smoking – drive the vast majority of the $3 Trillion in US healthcare costs. Our team has achieved breakthrough results in changing the behaviors that determine health outcomes, such as doubling adherence to medications that keep people healthy and out of the hospital, and establishing new insights into patient engagement. These results were enabled by the Way To Health platform, a unique technology asset now poised to move beyond research into broader clinical applications. The role we’re looking to fill is critical to expanding our impact. We need someone who can not only work with our team of internationally recognized thought leaders to identify and implement functionality and designs making interventions more effective, but also has the ability to evolve Way to Health into a scalable clinical platform that can be deployed efficiently in larger populations. The Way to Health developer role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in patients’ lives and their health outcomes. This role also affords the right candidate a great deal of autonomy in both how you do your work and in crafting a vision for the technology. We’re looking for team members who love problem solving and finding better ways to get things done. Specific responsibilities include: * Collaborating with faculty to translate cutting edge research protocols into functionality for patient engagement and behavior change * Developing new features for individual interventions and for the platform * Working with the development team to iteratively determine the best way to meet project goals in a timely, robust and scalable manner * Crafting architectural approaches to drive down the cost of feature development and deployment * Designing new methods of information delivery and display for increased patient comprehension and response * Diagnosing reported issues, identifying the source of problems, determining the best path to resolution and implementing fixes * Evolving and supporting QA processes, writing automated unit and functional tests for new features, documenting work clearly, and finding ways to continuously improve quality * Participating in an agile development process (we use a modified version of Scrum) * Working with infrastructure providers to plan for future needs and ensure timely, efficient and reliable delivery Older tech stack is symfony/PHP/mysql, but we're migrating more and more to our node/mongo stack. More info and application at https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_pennmedicin... Feel free to email me at myHNusername at waytohealth.org with questions. (No recruiting agencies, please.)

Right. Because there's no US law that covers storage of personal data by health providers. And there's no legal penalties for things like this.

(Hint: http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=9e10f619aa05225aef1... Subpart C—Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information)

Way to Health, University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

Chronic illness and the decisions people make and act upon – from their activity level to taking medications or smoking – drive the vast majority of the $3 Trillion in US healthcare costs. Our team has achieved breakthrough results in changing the behaviors that determine health outcomes, such as doubling adherence to medications that keep people healthy and out of the hospital, and establishing new insights into patient engagement.

These results were enabled by the Way To Health platform, a unique technology asset now poised to move beyond research into broader clinical applications. The role we’re looking to fill is critical to expanding our impact. We need someone who can not only work with our team of internationally recognized thought leaders to identify and implement functionality and designs making interventions more effective, but also has the ability to evolve Way to Health into a scalable clinical platform that can be deployed efficiently in larger populations. The Way to Health developer role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in patients’ lives and their health outcomes.

This role also affords the right candidate a great deal of autonomy in both how you do your work and in crafting a vision for the technology. We’re looking for team members who love problem solving and finding better ways to get things done.

Specific responsibilities include: * Collaborating with faculty to translate cutting edge research protocols into functionality for patient engagement and behavior change * Developing new features for individual interventions and for the platform * Working with the development team to iteratively determine the best way to meet project goals in a timely, robust and scalable manner * Crafting architectural approaches to drive down the cost of feature development and deployment * Designing new methods of information delivery and display for increased patient comprehension and response * Diagnosing reported issues, identifying the source of problems, determining the best path to resolution and implementing fixes * Evolving and supporting QA processes, writing automated unit and functional tests for new features, documenting work clearly, and finding ways to continuously improve quality * Participating in an agile development process (we use a modified version of Scrum) * Working with infrastructure providers to plan for future needs and ensure timely, efficient and reliable delivery

Older tech stack is symfony/PHP/mysql, but we're migrating more and more to our node/mongo stack.

More info and application at https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_pennmedicin...

Feel free to email me at myHNusername at waytohealth.org with questions.

My bank prints a check once a month and snail mails it to my landlord. As far as I'm concerned it's an e-check, and I think with certain vendors my bank will actually send it electronically rather than by snail mail.

The numbers above are an exaggeration. I lived in the north end of manhattan (the part furthest from JFK) and an hour to get to JFK was on the long side - typical is probably 40-80 minutes. It doesn't take two hours to clear security at an airport either - typical is anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes.

He is a progressive politician, is he not?

He drew a square on a screen? "I'd like to introduce you to a fast-paced global-initiative multipowered startup looking for a full-stack Rails on Ruby rockstar."

(I actually had a guy yesterday try to recruit me for this company, working on "dot JS node".)