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by ejain 12y ago
> Some countries are far below the threshold of implementing any of the pervasive monitoring and analysis programs the NSA has got. They don't need to implement their own, they can just subscribe to the Monitoring as a Service progr
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by ejain 12y ago
Being able to access the history is nice; could be useful when combined with data from other sources... The API appears to be well thought out--except for the epoch timestamps without time zone offsets :-(
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by ejain 12y ago
> I think dogpiling Intellectual Ventures is striking at the branches, and not at the root. Unfortunately the branches are protecting the roots with millions of dollars in lobbying [1]... [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F
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by ejain 12y ago
Agree, but "identity" and "unique ID for a person" are two different concepts.
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by ejain 12y ago
A person can have multiple identities, and not all identities are associated with specific people.
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by ejain 12y ago
I don't recall seeing sugar being marketed as "better than fat". Companies just upped the sugar when fat fell out of favor, because junk food that's neither fat nor sweet won't sell...
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by ejain 12y ago
It's weird how the term "tribe" is now used to describe just about any set of people that has at least one thing or interest in common, even just temporarily...
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by ejain 12y ago
One of the things that keeps me out of the healthcare space is that you could build the most amazing tool, yet it wouldn't catch on because no one has enough time or incentives to start using it (and you're not playing golf with t
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by ejain 12y ago
So if you forget to open the windows often enough, you suffocate? :-)
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by ejain 12y ago
The limiting factor right now isn't the lack of clever algorithms or computational power, but the lack of data that covers enough people over enough time with enough depth and quality. Also, more of former can't make up for a lack
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by ejain 12y ago
There's a lot of data that can be collected without much knowledge of experiment design, consider e.g. all the sequencing projects. The problem is that if the data ends up in inconsistently formatted spreadsheets or poorly conceived cu
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by ejain 12y ago
Lost me at "we've requested funds to employ a bioinformatician for the lifetime of the project". More realistic is "I'll have a grad student deal with the data". One of the local institutes just dissolved their
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by ejain 12y ago
If you feel the need to ask for better evidence that you wouldn't be wasting your money, then this product isn't for you--you're clearly already smart enough ;-)
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by ejain 12y ago
Having control over your data and paying someone to host the data are not mutually exclusive.
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by ejain 12y ago
InsideTracker and WellnessFX are two companies that offer direct-to-consumer blood testing at somewhat reasonable prices. Another company called Cue [ https://cue.me/ ] is working on a device that would let you do certain blo
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by ejain 12y ago
It would be easy to have your "cover" blown, e.g. by a friend (who sees your real name) innocently mentioning your real name in the reply to one of your posts that's visible to a larger circle...
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by ejain 12y ago
Don't forget the "vibrant" colors...
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by ejain 12y ago
Vessyl's reluctance to answer questions about the sensor they are using is a big red flag for me. I'm guessing it's some kind of photospectrometer? It's hard enough to build consumer gadgets even when using off-the-shelf
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by ejain 12y ago
See https://zenobase.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/360890... for a list of services that aggregate health and fitness data. The screencasts at https://www.youtube.com/user/zenobase sho
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by ejain 12y ago
Incidentally, this would also change the balance in the senate...
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by ejain 12y ago
There are several existing services that aggregate and visualize fitness and health data, for people who are too lazy to build their own site :-) I'll plug mine here: https://zenobase.com/
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by ejain 12y ago
Don't know about enterprise gamification in general, but in the context of health, gamification is just taking off (especially in places with employer-based health insurance).
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by ejain 12y ago
Pomodoros, sprints and CrossFit are not games, just structure (that many people find useful).
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by ejain 12y ago
To be fair, Goggle's motto isn't "be a force for the good", but "don't be evil".
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by ejain 12y ago
You can have an accurate step counter at a low price. The problem is that the step counter is being sold as a device that knows how well you sleep and how many calories you burn.
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by ejain 12y ago
Here's another company going after the last mile, i.e. blood testing at home: https://cue.me/
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by ejain 12y ago
This could be really useful for anyone working in this space; I'm hoping Google Fit will have a Web API as well, so it's not just an Android lock-in scheme.
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Google unveils Google Fit, a fitness platform for developers(mobihealthnews.com)
2 points by ejain 12y ago|1 comments
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by ejain 12y ago
Granularity is the key here. I run a small self-tracking service (zenobase.com), and would love to let my users pull in some "metadata" from their email (e.g. the number of messages in the inbox, or the number of messages sent by
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by ejain 12y ago
Nice, but I'm very reluctant to give any third-party access to my mailbox. Most sites I use let me reset my password by email, so this is like handing over the keys to the castle.

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