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by siculars 11y ago
I worked in this space for a very long time. Here are my thoughts on health data integration [0]. In a nutshell: "At it's core the government need only do one thing to encourage innovation in the interoperability space and it is t
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by siculars 11y ago
You know, ElasticSearch and its cousin, Solr, both wrap Lucene. Lucene is not a database, it is an index.
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by siculars 11y ago
"disintermediation" How about a business model that takes that into account.
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Note Google's investment in Flatiron Health [0], they are in the oncology tech space. [0] http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/07/google-ventures-leads-130m-...
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Closed systems strike again? This "feature" may well have been found sooner in open, transparent software. Oh, and, who goes to jail for this? Willful I ntent to defraud the public and the government. Criminal?
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Volkswagen falls over 20%, to halt US diesel car sales(cnbc.com)
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by siculars 11y ago
Basho Technologies - Remote | Seattle | Herndon | Tokyo | London Hey gang, I'm a Solutions Architect with Basho. We make the non-relational, nosql, distributed database Riak. We're a remote friendly company so if you're comfo
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Not really. Drones will only get cheaper. Oh, and terrorists have virtually unlimited money. DIY drone kits with oss nav software. Cheap, untraceable, highly disruptive.
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So what happens when someone(s) decide to automate a drone protest over a runway. Just set it and forget it. They fly till they drop and block airspace by just flying 100 ft above a runway and fly back and forth. They would be able to shut
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by siculars 11y ago
Nice "in the beginning..." hebrew string: בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ
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Sandstorm[0] and projects like it are the future of the internet and the digitally connected world. Data silos, privacy, inability to interoperate, data ownership will all collude to bring down the wall. At the same time, virtual compute pr
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by siculars 11y ago
Yet another example of why you simply can't trust or do any internet related business with Chinese firms. Even if these firms wanted to be above board they legally couldn't with Chinese cyber monitors breathing down your neck - li
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China plans security offices inside Internet firms to stop 'illegal behaviour'(theguardian.com)
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McDonalds paired with Lime-Rita's for John Oliver. The most powerful or prescient talking head on TV? Quite possibly.
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The value add on riak is riak_core[0][1][2] which handles data distribution/replication and the like. [0] https://github.com/basho/riak_core [1] http://basho.com/understanding-riak_core-handoff&#x2
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by siculars 11y ago
Think data model capabilities like k/v (original riak) and document (riak 2.x integration with solr) soon to include redis and spark capabilities. But you run this in your own datacenter or cloud like aws or containers like docker. We
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What @rch said. (I work for basho)
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Pull the source from github[0]... [0] https://github.com/basho/riak (I work for basho)
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The bottom line is that government can play a tremendous role in leveling the playing field. Gov't can incentivize behavior any number of ways (taxes, certifications are two that come to mind) towards cooperation. As it stands there ca
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Electronic Medical Record Sharing Is Hurt by Business Rivalries(nytimes.com)
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Your Contribution to the California Drought(nytimes.com)
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by siculars 11y ago
I've worked with the founder of caserails.com. Great guy. If you're a lawyer, check them out.
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by siculars 12y ago
We now offer a strong consistency option. I'm this username in the usual places online if you wanna talk about it. Disclaimer: I work for Basho
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by siculars 12y ago
Riak Search in v1.x and Riak Search in v2.x are completely different. Riak 2.x tightly integrats Solr. If you wanna talk about it I'm this username at all the usual online places. Disclaimer: I work for Basho
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by siculars 12y ago
The drama has died down. Drama is generally isolated to pitched battles amongst engineers for feature implementations ;) Contact info in profile, this username at all the usual suspects. Disclaimer: I work for Basho.
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Ya, you have to handle siblings if you don't use LWW. If you would rather Riak execute a pre-defined merge strategy, use Riak's CRDT features. The original Riak Search in vs 1.x was replaced with integrated Solr in Riak 2.x, and i
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by siculars 12y ago
seconded. memory = fast is not the point. the point is that it gives you specific data types that do specific things and since it's in memory it does those things very quickly. that said, you need to implement your own clustering or sh
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by siculars 12y ago
I donn't think that is actually the case. You may think, and I might have agreed with you, that at first blush building yet another insipid shopping mall does not necessarily yield any enhancement to society but after further thought I
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by siculars 12y ago
Doesn't the relative flipflop between Meerkat and Periscope have more to do with Twitter cutting Meerkat out of the social graph and Periscope having insider trading knowledge of the Twitter platform? How is this not like Microsoft pus
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Seconded. I may or may not have left a similar medtech job but this job may or may not have been in the belly of the beast.... a very well known teaching hospital. Politics may or may not have run rampant and the leaders charged with modern

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