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Aptible (YC S14) Is Hiring Devops Platform Engineers(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by chasb 12y ago
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by chasb 12y ago
Whoa yikes, the main page says "What's your struggle?" and then includes "General Anxiety" and "Panic Attacks." o_O I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but I strongly suggest you talk t
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by chasb 12y ago
Fred Wilson's posts on this are still excellent, and relevant.[0] At Aptible (S14), we convert equity stakes and benefits to dollar values and offer a few different equity/salary options to each prospect. One big question is what
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by chasb 12y ago
You pay corporate tax on profits. You're not going to have any recognizable, taxable profits if you're bootstrapping a company that will take VC at some point.
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by chasb 12y ago
You are not likely to have any tax liability anyways, so it would be easier and probably cheaper to incorporate first. Reformation is a headache.
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by chasb 12y ago
How often do startups actually claw back equity? The handful of stock plans I've seen only interrupt vesting when the employee maintains the absence of any interruption or termination of service as an employee. Do companies take the le
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Unbabel – Translation for Zendesk(medium.com)
6 points by chasb 12y ago|2 comments
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by chasb 12y ago
Congrats to Daniel and the team!
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by chasb 12y ago
I'm a lawyer, but not your lawyer. This is not legal advice. :) The HIPAA Security Rule requires that you take "reasonable and appropriate" measures to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electroni
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by chasb 12y ago
Life is good, just hanging out on a Sunday afternoon, geeking out about HIPAA. What could be better? Pretty much normal for us :)
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by chasb 12y ago
(Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Aptible.) As noted in other comments, most of HIPAA is not technical. Most of the requirements relate to risk assessment, policies, training, incident response, etc. With that in mind, I'm going to
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by chasb 12y ago
I'm the co-founder of Aptible, a HIPAA-compliant PaaS that just went through YC. I'd be really happy to talk to you and help figure out what kinds of resources we could publish, for free, that would help CTOs in your position figu
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by chasb 12y ago
+1 - we used this when prepping for our YC interview (Aptible, S14)
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by chasb 12y ago
Thanks kyro. We'll get some blog posts back up!
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by chasb 12y ago
Great explanation. (I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice!) I would just add that HIPAA does limit what constitutes a permissible disclosure. Without a written authorization, PHI sharing is usually limited to disclosures necessary to
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Parenthoods (YC S14) Launches a Mobile Network Just for Parents(techcrunch.com)
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by chasb 12y ago
That depends on what you mean. Few of the implementation steps are difficult on their own. The difficulty is more in the number of requirements, their complexity, the judgment calls involved, and keeping track of it all.
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by chasb 12y ago
We're exclusively Linux at the moment, sorry.
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by chasb 12y ago
Hey everyone! We did a Show HN last week [0], and are happy to answer any questions you have here. We're also on the Olark widget if you want to chat directly. - Chas [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086431
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by chasb 12y ago
Hi Matthjis, thanks for your questions! The EU's data sovereignty laws present a special set of restrictions, and specific countries like the Netherlands add more. But challenging problems can be valuable problems to solve, so yes, the
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by chasb 12y ago
We are constantly improving how much we automate, but the major goal is to make sure that if manual work needs to be done, Aptible is doing it, not our customers. Preparing training materials is a good example. Each of our customers get thr
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by chasb 12y ago
Yes, we agree. Most of what turns HIPAA compliance into a murky time-suck is in the administrative requirements and documentation. We'll have a separate page on the site explaining this next week, but we break compliance management dow
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by chasb 12y ago
We're up[0]. CloudFront requires a browser that supports SNI indication for SSL, which may not work if you're on Windows XP. We'll spring for the dedicated option soon. Our current operational status is available at http:&#x
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by chasb 12y ago
Great question! We audit customers against an adapted version of HHS's pilot audit protocol for covered entities[0], tailored for cloud-based software business associates. HHS is starting the permanent audit program and we expect them
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by chasb 12y ago
Great question! Our customers think of it in terms of how many employees they'd have to hire to get the same functionality. They say we replace at least one engineer and at least one compliance manager. So $42k/yr for that is a go
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by chasb 12y ago
Thanks, we're finalizing how researchers will get access right now. The program should be up and paying rewards in a few days. We're focused on HIPAA only right now, but are built to support other frameworks and reporting standard
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by chasb 12y ago
Hey everyone, I'm Chas, one of the founders of Aptible. Frank (fancyremarker) and I have been working on this for a while. We're excited to see what you think. We have a development tier (read: not HIPAA-compliant) for playing
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Show HN: Aptible – Deployment platform to automate HIPAA compliance(aptible.com)
109 points by chasb 12y ago|58 comments
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by chasb 12y ago
This is a great point. Competitive advantages come from many places. Working in 1) an unsexy area, 2) a complex area, or 3) a regulated area can all be great advantages if you can manage it.
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by chasb 12y ago
When I first shadowed on a post-op floor in Detroit, I was shocked to see how much information nurses had to copy by hand during a shift change. Even new medicine orders and drug administration schedules were being penciled into the margins

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