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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by maoyang »

suresk wrote: post #282

I've been slowly working on a few things, and hopefully can finish them during the winter: 1) Shared Places The idea is that you can have public or private lists of locations that can be shared with other people, and would be integrated with mapping software on your phone so it is easy to navigate to them. Some private lists that may be useful: a) A family one that keeps track of extended relatives, friends houses, s…

I've implemented most those features in your description, Please refer to http://www.golater.me , GoLater integrated with Evernote , You could create note then add a GeoTag for place , You will see this note's map location in your iPhone after sync to GoLater iOS App. So With GoLater , Evernote become your Places content management system, The places content is fully controlled by yourself.

The most cool thing is GoLater's note could be search by Map region, Drag your map and see your interesting places collection, Especially GoLater's map function also implement 'filter by Notebook', you could collect places related to US Civil war history in a Notebook named "US Civil war", Open the map in GoLater then switch to "US Civil war", Drag the map region and all information related with "US Civil war" will show up around map region

GoLater also implement Places Sharing by way of Evernote share notebook , Your places is private list in your notebook, but you could share your places notebook to your family , Your family could pick up which place is interesting then save to their own map

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by trey_swann »

chasb wrote: post #443
trey_swann wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another use case: apps/sites/devices that offer tools to help people track various health-related statistics. Consumer-originated data, even though it is health data, is not protected health information (PHI) as covered by HIPAA. But, when that health data is shared with a Covered Entity (a doctor, hospital, insurance plan, or other HIPAA-defined CE) then it becomes PHI. And, the app handling the PHI needs to be HIPA…

You said that TrueVault will "handle HIPAA" and that "using TrueVault makes you HIPAA compliant." I don't see how those claims are true. If the developer is a business associate, they're still required to have a risk analysis, policies, and training. If they're not a business associate, they don't need to be compliant. So I guess I'm not seeing how TrueVault helps a developer avoid becoming a business associate. jph'…

The steps you will need to take to comply with HIPAA when using TrueVault will vary based on your implementation.

If you use our JavaScript widgets so that you never actually touch PHI, then you may be able to avoid the Administrative Safeguards. But, if you handle PHI and then send it to TrueVault you will need to comply with the Administrative components of HIPAA.

The HIPAA Security Rule requires appropriate Administrative, Physical, and Technical Safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic protected health information.

HIPAA compliant hosting handles the Physical Safeguards, a set of rules and guidelines that focus on the physical access to protected health information (PHI).

TrueVault handles both the Physical and Technical Safeguards (Encryption and Decryption, Key Management, Key Rotation, Access Control, Unique User Identification, Emergency Access, Automatic Logoff, Audit Controls, Mechanism to Authenticate Electronic PHI, Person or Entity Authentication, Transmission Security, and Integrity Controls). This is all stuff that you would have to build yourself if you use AWS, FireHost, or Rackspace.

You’re right; Administrative Safeguards should not be ignored. The administrative components are really important when implementing a HIPAA compliance program; you are required to assign a Privacy Officer, complete a risk assessment, implement employee training, review policies and procedures, and execute Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with partners you share protected health information (PHI) with. I think that Accountable does a great job with the Administrative Safeguards. Accountable offers HIPAA compliance management tools that keep your business legal. Checkout -- http://www.accountablehq.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by kranner »

mercuryrising wrote: post #230
kranner wrote: post #175

An iOS speed-reading app ( http://velocireaderapp.com ) for ebooks. I have a day job so this is an after-hours side project. It's cool to me because it's something I use myself, almost every day. It's so effective I even get ePubs for any book I've just bought in paperback, just so I can read it in my app. I've got an endless list of planned features to experiment with, so it's fun in more than one way. And I like to…

That's pretty cool. When you're reading, at any point did you feel 'choppiness' of what you were reading, or do you get used to it? When looking at the trailer, I was finding my inner voice was more robotic than reading normally.

I find that the subjective choppiness goes away when I speed it up. For me the sweet spot is about 500 words per minute, with up to 3 words at a time (I say 'up to' because sentences are chopped up based on punctuation marks, and then smoothed out to leave about an equal number of words in every segment. This is a rough description). The sweet spot also depends on the sort of book being read.

I guess it's like watching a movie on a suboptimal screen, or at an suboptimal angle, etc. After a while you're mindful only of the movie, not of the viewing experience.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by orthecreedence »

Turtl! (https://turtl.it)

It's a client-side encrypted Evernote replacement (with a much easier interface). The goal is to eventually provide easy note-taking, bookmarking/clipping, and file storage (ala Dropbox) with a cloud service that's surveillance/hacker resistant by only storing encrypted data. The kicker is you can still share with others.

Right now it's a pretty small alpha, but we're hoping to get some of the internals cleaned up and push out a new version with file storage in the next few weeks.

Of course, it's open source (if it's not open source, it's not encrypted). We're avoiding the word "secure" until we get some eyes besides our own reviewing the code.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by fudged71 »

mercuryrising wrote: post #352
fudged71 wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've used Octoprint in the past and it just didn't meet our needs. We believe in designing for the novice and giving configuration options for the professionals; Octoprint just isn't user-friendly enough. Out of the box, we support Makerbots (as well as ReRaps). Multiple printers are managed from the same interface. You don't need to wrestle with firewall settings to be secure. We offer multiple slicers in the cloud…

I have not used Octoprint. I actually use a homemade printer with LinuxCNC and a HobbyCNC driver. It's a bit more fiddly than an off the shelf printer that's fully scriptable, but I really like looking at something I made drive around and make more things [0]. The way it sounds, at least from glancing at your website, is that the printer becomes web connected (your printtopeer.com link on the tablet and printer inter…

Yes, we are building in these protections. I will check if we support Linux CNC, do you know what type of GCode it takes?

And thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by fudged71 »

lyricalpolymath wrote: post #430
fudged71 wrote: post #165

Everyone is working on new 3D printing hardware but the software is still years behind. PrintToPeer ( http://www.printtopeer.com ) is connecting 3D printers to the internet for remote control and analytics. We have a web dashboard with a real-time connection to your 3D printer(s) for queueing and monitoring, and we've built a printer driver that works on the majority of current desktop 3D printers. A hardware-agnosti…

very cool! - is it just a monitoring app or can you actually launch printings like in octoprint? - Is there a way to encrypt the code sent so that the owner of the printer couldn't grab not even the G-code and reproduce the file once it's on his printer?

More than just monitoring! You can upload an STL to print, choose the slicer, and send to a queue that multiple printers can print from. All remotely via the web.

We can encrypt the transmission, but technically you could read the GCode straight from the serial input at the printer.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by capnrefsmmat »

scaphandre wrote: post #463
capnrefsmmat wrote: post #409

I'm writing a book about the many ways well-intentioned scientists can (and usually do) screw up statistics: http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/ I started when I was an undergraduate physics major. My entire statistics education consisted of thirty minutes being told not to use R^2. I started reading about statistical abuses and realized that I would probably have committed most of them had I published research -- my…

Looks interesting. I don't see a prominent link to a full pdf version of the draft of the website. Any reason why not?

At the time the website was done, I hadn't sufficiently hacked Sphinx to make good PDFs. My current draft has a nice PDF but it's still incomplete -- a couple half-finished chapters and such.

I am also wondering whether I should release the PDF at all, if I could publish or self-publish it later.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by sunspeck »

rossj wrote: post #328
sunspeck wrote: post #30

A biodiverse, edible forest garden in the center of an public high school. We are breaking ground with a team of students in about an hour. This is (very) cool because it will expose adolescents to a variety of concepts, perspectives, and phenomena that are severely lacking from most urbanized places.

Sounds great. Would love to hear more. Is there a blog/project-page anywhere?

I just slapped together http://growquad.tumblr.com/ with some photos from today's first work day. Will be posting more updates about design, implementation, and progress.
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