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Jab at this... right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

leovanderon Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys

Some of the permission comments reminded me of deno[0].

leovanderon Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)

> All MRNs should be unique and everything else can be a duplicate.

> Every system should support name changes and merges. John Does come in all the time, and then you figure out their existing MRN, or their real name.

In theory yes, I’d hope to see that across the board, but fat fingering happens way too often on top of the reuse of mrn’s. I work in the IHE space, so I can point fingers at most of the big guys as we accept their HL7/CDA feeds and not even ids from the same system are consistent between the formats. I don’t want to get too off topic with that last line, but yeah we try to consolidate records that are received by leveraging Fellegi-Sunter[0].

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage

leovanderon Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)

Typically entered as “Baby Surname”, “Baby Boy Surname”, “Baby Girl Surname”. For twins, yeah I don’t think I’ve seen and index appended to their name. I feel like even if the EHR system had the birth time, I would normally get their birthdate starting at midnight. Let’s hope the EHR system keeps a unique MRN for those twins, because down stream systems are totally going to commingle their records. Same applies to Jrs living in the same house as the parent, since their demographics match the parent’s other than birthdate.

leovanderon PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk

We recently had a power outage at the 10 story building we are in. No idea how long it was in the works, but a week later they installed a giant array of Tesla of Tesla Powerpacks.

leovanderon Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Rat_Things

leovanderon US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits

They bill in 6 minute increments, right?

leovanderon San Francisco Wants to Require Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology'

I've lost count of the times I've had to move one or more of the things out of the way to get where I was going, where's my check?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/san-diego-startup-imp...

leovanderon HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image

I remember learning the bloods sign in middle school, but are gang signs thrown around often that they need identifying?

Maybe this can be a pitch to MLB teams to learn the opposing team's catcher's pitch signs? If it wasn't only hands, not sure if this could offer anything to analyzing third base coach signs as well.

leovanderon Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball

Don't let the folks over on deskthority, geekhack or r/mechanicalkeyboards catch a whiff of this reasoning.

leovanderon Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball

I usually get people to start with the Logitech M570[0]. If they like it they usually stick with it and since its small they tend to set it perpendicular to their body in front of their keyboard. So far only one convert has upgraded to a larger Logitech one with a wrist guard.

I am rocking CST2545W(GL) BLUE[1] now-a-days. With plenty of other track balls you can see over on r/trackballs[2].

[0] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-trackball-m5...

[1] https://www.clearlysuperiortech.com/cst2545w-gl-b

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/top/?t=all

leovanderon Dark mode in a website with CSS

@dang Do you think this is something that can be added.

leovanderon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

There's a lot of money to make for the freight forwarding companies.

A lot of container owners charge you fully knowing that your product may get caught up in customs and they make their money on late fees.

As a user of this product, I think you probably get better visibility of where your contents are in the overall process and access to customs agents, which that in itself would help cut your overall costs down if you know that your items were categorized correctly on your customs forms, preventing the above from happening.

The founder talking about it at startup school. https://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=1169

leovanderon New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat

Thanks for the tip. That worked for me using 69.0.1 (64-bit) on macOS Mojave (10.14.6).

leovanderon The Spinner

I think I have seen this link[0] posted a few times in related posts (I might have shared it as well).

[0] http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

leovanderon Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

Interesting there was a small Help link[0] next to the text areas for a quick minute, but they have since been removed. This was definitely there in the past month.

dang, was that something you were testing?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

leovanderon Iterating over objects and arrays: frequent errors (2017)

So what were the errors? All I caught was the index thing at the end, but I would think it would be more about going out of bounds since the topic is iterating over objects and arrays.

I also thought that looping over object keys using for in, although it does work you should also be checking to see if it object has it as its own property that you declared, or is that overkill in checking keys?

leovanderon Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

Should only be one line, I didn't see the problem this time around because I had installed this plugin the other day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020162

https://github.com/corollari/fixedHackerNews/blob/master/ext...

leovanderon Tech Interview Handbook

I went to a Cal State, and I recall in the last few years Google has taken professors to their campus and pretty much preach Cracking the Code Interview. So it looks like schools are already making that their standard. I have yet to see what classes look like but I could see there being a required technical interview course you have to take in order to increase school’s numbers on where their alumni work.

leovanderon Tech Interview Handbook

Nest for loop for the technical interview? Where do I apply?

leovanderon Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

You’ll get a kick out of this then. Sort by top, all time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea/

leovanderon RegExr

Although it's overkill when I could have a reference sheet on my computer or on the wall, but I always remember that regexr has its cheat sheet on the side that I can easily get to. I use their cheat sheet more than the actual editor on their page.

It looks like regex101 has it as well, but the regexr one is straight to the point (at least for me). https://i.imgur.com/Hg9jGOa.png

leovanderon H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

Yup, a handful of EAD renewals.

leovanderon H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

After a year since we married, we are finally going in for our interview for conditional residency for my spouse.

You would have to have already been on a different visa to have been here in the first place and like nraynaud said, it takes time.

leovanderon Netflix drops 10% after missing on global paid subscribers

I didn't watch Marco Polo, so I hope it didn't leave you on a cliff hanger, but I would look at it as a good thing.

I feel like a majority of shows in the U.K. tend to only go for a few seasons then stop. Compare that to typical shows in the U.S. getting beaten to death, having most viewers think the show might have gone one season too long.

That could mean the stories are written to wrap up mostly nicely, instead of leaving cliff hangers to lead to the potential next season.

Compare Weeds (8 Seasons) to Breaking Bad (5 Seasons), B.B was written to not drag on forever. The recent GoT season finale, where lots of fans went a bit overboard with their reactions when the show runners ran out of their own original ideas. LOST, anyone?

My best example is looking at Black Mirror. When that was mainly for a U.K. audience the first two seasons could have ended and that would have been the best two season show. Netflix did swoop in and that gave us White Christmas(?), but the show has definitely been tailored to American audiences and maybe the premise is being drawn out too much at this point. Don't get me wrong, I love me some more Black Mirror or any of the other shows listed above, but sometimes a story needs to end even if it means its shorter than you expected.

leovanderon What It Takes to Build a Marketplace: The Poshmark Story

Someone described Poshmark as competitor to StitchFix or Rent the Runway, and that completely missed the mark on all the products.

Comparing StitchFix to Rent the Runway doesn't seem right either, as StitchFix doesn't loan you the clothes, you buy them. I have purchased three fixes from them so far. From what we can tell, its their own brands they sell.

Agreed, Poshmark doesn't have a clear statement of what it actually is on the landing page. My wife sells her old clothes on there, so I liken it to eBay as some have mentioned.

TL;DR - Poshmark: eBay/Craigslist/OfferUp/LetGo for used clothes - StitchFix: curated clothes (hand picked), subscription based - Rent the Runway: rent clothes, allows for clothes to not collect dust in a closet

leovanderon User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

Reminds me of the Impossible Quiz[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzGSHbr5CQ

leovanderon PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services

>GAFAM

Never seen it listed out like that, I thought it was FAANG. Or is FAANG only used in reference to top salaries in the Bay Area?

leovanderon The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care

I remember a house in Orange County got done up in the first season of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition but they definitely pivoted towards families with greater needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Makeover:_Home_Edition

leovanderon Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

>Since it’s not going to be a speculative currency like bitcoin, how will they pay or it?

https://youtu.be/HnXKE0nfAjI?t=41

But seriously, an even more direct connection between ads and what you buy.