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Can anyone explain what these IPs refer to? YouTube CDNs? Some commercial service?

New York - Full time or intern Rails devs

Aidin's mission is to bring transparency to the healthcare system and empower patients with data to make more informed decisions on where they receive care. We're backed by the best institutional investors in both consumer internet http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/aidin-seed-round/. Aidin was born out of Blueprint Health (3% acceptance rate), a Techstars affiliated healthcare IT accelerator. We're surrounded by amazing talent as we currently reside in Dogpatch Labs (http://dogpatchlabs.com/), a highly selective co-working space housing the best startups in New York.

As a software engineer on a small team, you'll touch on every aspect of the technology related to the company. It’s a broad job description and we’re looking for someone who loves being part of a fast-paced, constantly evolving work environment where your opinions and decisions will seriously affect our technical direction. We’re looking for a technology generalist with interest in specializing as necessary - It's more important that you love learning and can adopt new languages/frameworks/APIs very quickly.

There are few companies poised to actually make an impact on people's lives, but Aidin is one of them. Join a team of people committed to leave a lasting impression on a part of healthcare that one day, we too will rely on. We couldn't be any more excited about what we're doing, and so is the tech community! http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/meet-the-three-most-fund-ab...

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Likewise - I haven't the slightest idea what "unicorns" are in this context.

oftentimes when i'm searching through large datasets it's not for a particular reason - if i have a very large dataset whose contents is fairly ambiguous, my first step is to get acquainted with it. i like to do that by just check random rows, seeing if there are any patterns in the data, or something else that might spark my mind towards how i want to use the data

This doesn't work quite well - if I scroll fast enough, my browser (Chrome) thinks I've finished scrolling and goes back to scrolling the screen. As a fan of scanning through data extremely quickly, it's a very annoying interface.

New York - Full time or intern Rails devs

Aidin's mission is to bring transparency to the healthcare system and empower patients with data to make more informed decisions on where they receive care. We're backed by the best institutional investors in both consumer internet http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/aidin-seed-round/. Aidin was born out of Blueprint Health (3% acceptance rate), a Techstars affiliated healthcare IT accelerator. We're surrounded by amazing talent as we currently reside in Dogpatch Labs (http://dogpatchlabs.com/), a highly selective co-working space housing the best startups in New York.

As a software engineer on a small team, you'll touch on every aspect of the technology related to the company. It’s a broad job description and we’re looking for someone who loves being part of a fast-paced, constantly evolving work environment where your opinions and decisions will seriously affect our technical direction. We’re looking for a technology generalist with interest in specializing as necessary - It's more important that you love learning and can adopt new languages/frameworks/APIs very quickly.

There are few companies poised to actually make an impact on people's lives, but Aidin is one of them. Join a team of people committed to leave a lasting impression on a part of healthcare that one day, we too will rely on. We couldn't be any more excited about what we're doing, and so is the tech community! http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/meet-the-three-most-fund-ab...

For more info email mike@myAidin.com, or feel free to contact me (info in profile)

I remember one call I did in the middle of winter a few years ago - cardiac arrest, on the side of the road. Got there and the guy was frozen and long dead.

He was across the street from the hospital. The ER entrance was about 40 yards away, just up a little hill.

I'm in the US and I get the same thing. No update available for me for OS X or for iOS. I'm guessing they do a rolling update...?

You present an excellent argument! Integration of software/computing with healthcare/medicine is what I hope to focus the rest of my life on, so I surely hope we can make significant progress in that area.

I know you were just giving an example, but any practitioner who relies on a computer to interpret an EKG is not one I would trust. Many times my own EKG interpretations are far, far more accurate than whatever the monitor thinks is wrong

I look forward to the day that machines can practice art the way doctors do. One of the most underrated/underappreciated aspects of being in medicine is realizing it is a true amalgamation of art and science, relying heavily on both education, experience, wisdom, and instincts.

Interestingly enough, depression is a comorbidity of ADHD.

Videogames can evoke the same physiological responses from your mind and your body as the high of many drugs. Most anything is capable of being an addiction for biological creatures such as ourselves - it's simply in the chemistry of our minds that defines what gets us "high".

post hoc ergo propter hoc

Yes and no - the faster you can get them to the hospital, the better the chance. But complete occlusion of one of many arteries or veins will lead to sudden death, and each minute that passes means death of the heart muscle. Heart muscle death means less likelihood of being able to restart the heart. Most commonly found in inferior MIs, whereby the blood pressure will plummet.

Truth is, there's still a lot about the heart we don't know, even in the areas of preventive medicine. It's possible a preliminary screening for cholesterol and high blood pressure would've caught it. It's also possible for his cholesterol and blood pressure and other markers to be normal.

I was in the exact situation a year or so ago. Everything I wanted to build, I always went straight to PHP.

I stopped myself from, unfortunately, not building things. I've spent the last year learning Ruby, Python, Rails, Django, and a half dozen javascript frameworks to get myself acquainted with it all. Only recently I took a position where I'll be working with Rails full-time. It's a tough addiction to break, but it's so liberating once you learn what else is out there and what you can do with it!

So currently what we didn't make clear (and will fix soon) is that you need to be signed in with LinkedIn in order for it to populate. Our apologies!

It seems to be quite a bit more stable.... found and fixed the main bug that was causing it to crash.

We have a rare bug that pops up from time to time that I'm trying to catch, so bare with us through this

Two things about Bloomberg: The "taxpayers" pay him $1 a year (granted that doesn't mean he shouldn't do the job of Mayor, but just saying). And two: He OWNS a technology company. If I owned one and wasn't on the technical side, I'd be interested in picking it up as well

I got a little bored and wanted to play around in various languages, so I'm writing a scraper for this: https://github.com/pcragone/anurandom

Many people will assume it's a joke, and not take you seriously - of course, at their own risk.

I would agree with some of the other posters here - it depends on the work you do. I use two 28" monitors at home, and very rarely do they have distractions on them. A webpage I'm referencing, an IDE, another browser for testing, at least two or three terminals for various testing, editing and configuring, perhaps another tool for debugging. When I have to work on my macbook pro I find I'm much slower, because I constantly need to change between all these windows, and some can be very, very frustrating to switch between without setting up intricate keyboard commands.

Not at all. I'm just pointing out how screwed up the system is that the government requires practitioners to treat people but doesn't provide the financial resources to pay for it. I've worked in systems that basically were bankrupt repeatedly because they kept providing the services they couldn't afford.

My point isn't that the providers shouldn't be legally required to provide the care (the truth is we would and do anyway); rather, something needs to be done about how costs are distributed in order to prevent hospitals, clinics, urgent cares and 911 services from going out of business.

The one item missing here is a hot-topic of mine: emergency care. Not only are emergency services as expensive as the rest of medicine, but worse than that is the providers have a legal responsibility to care for the individual, who in turn has zero responsibility to actually pay the bill.

The other missing factor is that in a lot of cases, medicare/medicaid don't actually cover the actual cost of the procedure/service being provided; this leads providers and practitioners to charge more for those with better insurance in order to keep their businesses afloat.

neato! thanks

Also for those interested, I've found the wakemate to be pretty useful and pretty accurate, especially for someone like me who has an enormous period of time I might fall asleep in. It works as an actigraph to capture your sleep patterns and determine the ideal point to wake you, in a given time range you specify. Of course, the solution presented here is a bit cheaper =)

Interesting thought. Pretty useless for people like me - it takes me 2-4 hours to fall asleep usually. It would be helpful if you could include an option for setting how long it usually takes one to fall asleep, and adjust the calculations accordingly.

Doesn't work in Chrome, OS X Snow Leopard

theclay is right - the benefit is to make physicians more efficient and to allow them access to tools that benefit the public as a whole. They shouldn't have to spend the majority of their time trying to negotiate insurances and medicare/medicaid (which, by the way, rarely pay the amount it can cost the physician) - they should be focusing on practicing medicine. Using EMRs/EHRs allows physicians to automate part of that process, as well as giving them more analysis of patients.