jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The antiviral treatments undergoing trial are (for the most part) very inexpensive drugs that have been known for years or even decades so they don't need additional testing once they're proven to work and can be manufactured at scale almost immediately (since the production chains already exist).
You are right, I edited it out. The mutation remains a potential issue though.
I think it comes down to equipment. A good racing wheel can already give you a feeling of understeering. I just got started with entry-level stuff, but supposedly a Fanatec wheel + good seat + buttkicker (vibration generator) can get you a long way. Then you have motion platforms at €3k+ to get to the next level :)
They could find an effective cure that would make managing the disease a lot easier. We could let the disease spread if we had a reliable way of curing people and reducing the death rate to an acceptable level. After all we don't go on lockdown every year during flu season.

Maybe you put that in the "miracle" bullet point but I think that's a bit pessimistic.
That study was done in China which is pretty notorious for its air quality. Probably best not to run outside when the AQI is high though. https://airnow.gov/
I don't think preventing the almost guaranteed deaths of thousands is qualified as a "little" safety.
Back in time ( end of January ) when I heard the news about Wuhan and what happened there I was a bit worried, but always positive. When the virus spread in Italy ( I live in Berlin ) I was daily asking "Why don't they stop people from / to Italy?", "Why don't they go and help Italy?", "Where is a plan for handling the situation?", "Why nobody knows >how< to handle the situation, don't they see how China managed?"

All in all the answers were : "They don't want to kill the economy, that's why no restrictions.", "We are democracy, that's why no restrictions."

Look at the situation now. Killed economy, unstoppable virus and nobody knows for how long. They can't contain it anymore. What we do is flattening the curve, not eliminating the thread.

Come on. These politicians, IMO should be investigated for committing crime agains humanity. I can't believe that in 2020 there is no such thing as emergency procedure / plan in case of ... well ... emergency. I tend to think that all government decision makers make a "daily" for what should happen today and then wait for tomorrow, with no further planning.

That's just irresponsible.
How does injecting money solve a problem that’s not caused by lack of money? This market downturn isn’t a lack of liquidity, or a lack of money, or toxic assets like the mortgage backed securities.

People aren’t going to stores, restaurants, and airlines because of SARS-CoV-2, not a lack of credit or money.

Printing money isn’t going to create customers for businesses effected by this pandemic.
I've had T-Mobile for several years and I like them. They're innovative in their billing practices: If you don't want subsidized phones you can save $20/month and they don't interfere with tethering. This merger is bad news.
Several questions spring to mind:

1) What kind of impact is had by running first a Groupon, then a LivingSocial deal in rapid succession?

2) Is it possible that the merchant just got a bad Groupon representative (ie, is that service representative of Groupon's interactions)?

3) Are the customers of QSR (ie, fastfood) group-deals different than those of higher end services (ie, day spa, hotel)?
If myArray is large (maybe >10), you should use a StringBuilder. But optimization is tricky and YMMV.

Some article about this (for a few strings)
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/01/the-sad-tragedy-of-...

And a simmilar question in SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21078/whats-the-best-stri...

I think that StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com) is a better site to get answers to this kind of questions
Cool hack; but if these kinds of things bother you, consider using a more powerful text editor.
How is that labeled as low quality ?

Sorry, don't get it.

Could you explain please?
Because we need to identity directory markings. Its as simple as that, we could use *, but then you couldn't put that in a Linux file name. Whatever character is used to separate Directories, is going to have to be disallowed in file names, understanding that basic concept and why it can never be fixed, will take you a few hows of research in bassic operating system file manipulation.
AT&T are scum. (But all the carriers are)
The corollary is: ignore the AZ feature entirely. You may be right, but that's a big hit to the attractiveness of AWS.
"One Telling Ten Thousand (by Isabella T. Rivera)"

Ten thousand what?

Man, I hate it when that happens...
> the way we write apps with React has drastically changed multiple times with the only real constant being JSX

I don't really agree with this. Sure, we went through createClass -> class -> functions + hooks, but the core is still props, state, and lifecycle.
Probably an investor, who decided to do their DD after the company failed instead of before investing.
I believe keychain can cover a lot.

What about identity information or other documents you would not want to store unencrypted, but also need ready access to?

What about shared vault behavior in 1pw? Even if Apple offered this, it seems unlikely to be built for share outside their ecosystem.
Still, without any specific alleged falsehood, a libel defense need not be very expensive.

And lawsuits bring more attention to the allegations.

If you were preparing a suit for pure harassment/SLAPP purposes, what sections of this reporting would you highlight in your filing? Keep in mind, the court document will be pored over & commented-on by libel experts, & turn up in future searches about the company and its principals.
> Federal Reserve can increase and decrease effective money supply as it pleases. Money supply does not determine the prices as we have learned over last two decades.

That's assuming, contrary to the motivation for loose monetary policy, that there wouldn't have been deflation without it. It's not loose money produces low velocity but loose money as a reaction to low velocity.
China would be pressured internationally to "foot the bill" for their fuck up...
Google is no different than Facebook in this regard, just a horse of a different color.
From what i've heard in the news about this trial, not until 6 weeks minimum
Right! I use to think people were logic driven creatures.. until it struck me that that is just something i like to believe.

So they told everyone the earth is a ball and because they told everyone this therefore it is true? Why cant we mock this?
The context that should be included here:

Many virology labs historically or currently perform this sort of work.

It's controversial (for risk reasons if not isolated), but incredibly useful.

By generating chimeric or enhanced viral strains, they can be more fully studied before they circulate in the general population.
Megavideo can charge you to use their site. That they may be infringing upon copyrights is a separate matter.

There is no right to view copyrighted material. Copyright provides an author with monopoly over the rights to copy, distribute and make derivative works. Viewing is not copying, distributing or making derivative works (in the case of streaming).

It's MegaUpload that needs permission from the copyright holder to copy and distribute the work. Even if MegaUpload somehow automatically paid the copyright holders every time someone paid them to view something, it'd still be illegal.
> the established ethics of that profession

a.k.a. access journalism.
You can also transmit usable amounts of electrical power using the ground as part of the circuit: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3696.en.h...
What about Richard Branson? He's done _exactly_ that. Throughout his career he has frequently started new businesses in totally new markets. Now his empire includes trains, planes, spaceships(!), record shops, music publishing, banking, telecommunications etc etc. In fact I would argue that people that have that business "spark" could pretty much make a success of any market if they were minded to.

Whilst of course it's sub-optimal to discard or under-utilise what knowledge or experience you currently have, it's probably even worse to not keep learning new things. And more often than not, business experiences are transferable. OK you may not know the technicalities of a new field, but these can be learnt.

Basically: a gigolo for tourists is probably not the best source for business wisdom.
Compere this: (from http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/yelp-and-the-business-...)

"During interviews with dozens of business owners over a span of several months, six people told this newspaper that Yelp sales representatives promised to move or remove negative reviews if their business would advertise. In another six instances, positive reviews disappeared — or negative ones appeared — after owners declined to advertise."

... with this answer from Stoppelman:

"So, a typical case history might go like this, 'OK, I got a call from Yelp advertising' — because we call pretty much all the local businesses, so everybody gets a call — and so that business owner declines advertising that time, looks at the site and then sends out lots of e-mails to their friends and family members and preferred customers, and they say, 'Hey I found out about this Yelp thing; it's great; review me.' And it's a success, they get 15 reviews up on their page. But that's also extremely biased, and if every business could do that, the site wouldn't be useful. And so what happens? Well, all those reviews get filtered. And so then they are convinced that if they had paid, those 13 reviews would have stayed up."

No, they are convinced that if they had paid, the already existing good reviews would have stayed up.
You have to own all of one color before you can put houses/hotels on them.
>I would love if life were a pure meritocracy filled with lollipops, puppy dogs and mediocre metaphors... but it isn't. There isn't a great way to determine the difference between honest, skill or anything else -- but if one person is willing to put on a suit and the other wants to opine about his irrelevant ethics... well we know who usually gets the job.

I don't remember the last time I saw an experienced SysAdmin or Programmer interview in a suit and get the job. No, wait, I do. It was shortly after the .com crash. the applicant was mostly a visual basic programmer. Really old guy who was missing his index finger. He got the job, too, and was pretty good (he was doing something for our accounting systems, if I remember right) As I recall, I recommended the guy (It wasn't my decision, but being one of the other programmers, I got to make a recommendation) because he brought actual code to the interview, which is something else that is at least moderately unusual (not as unusual as the suit, but certainly not common.)

A nice shirt? sure. A tie? well, maybe. but a full on suit, from what I've seen, is pretty rare for technical positions, even during the interview.

Now, i've probably only participated in maybe 50 interviews for 'real companies' so my sample size isn't huge. it's possible that I just haven't seen the suits.
That's not the statistic I was referring to, which is is (or includes) the people who don't make it long enough to get admitted, i.e. those who are DOA.
I don't know so much about screws and washers but certainly there are any number of components that we don't have the tools to make the tools any longer--and we probably wouldn't want to use those components even if we could. Would be want to use the Apollo guidance computer? Raytheon had better gear back up to make core memory in that case.

The whole "Saturn V plans are lost" meme seems to be an urban legend but it's a red herring in any case. We couldn't easily build a 100% authentic 1965 Corvette either but that doesn't mean that we've somehow lost the technology to do so.
Same I use it every day ... perfect plugin :)
I think if this kicks out good and will have plenty of plugins sublime will be dead in a matter of months.
SQLite.

I wonder how many in the "Other" category are SQLite as well.
A college saving fund: "Pay us $x/month for the duration of your child's high school education, and we'll fund them throughout their college degree."

You just have to make x low enough that people will sign up, but high enough that you make money. Of course, if the bubble doesn't burst, you get it "in the shorts"...
It was HIPAA compliance and apparently you are working on it but I'm in LA County where there's already a pilot program.
And for the record you did not lose my personal business for what it's worth.

On the point I clearly hope Zoho continues to thrive but if you do I think it will be because of a lack of skill on the side of your competitors. Because while I have no doubt a privately funded company can beat a badly run competitor my point is just to say if you take two equally skilled competitors than the one with more money is going to win out in the end.

So if Zoho is managed better than Google Docs or Microsoft's Office than you'll win but it will be because you had so much skill that you managed to overcome the fact that they have more money.
You're right, not much of anything. I can't even pinpoint what I thought was or was not ironic. But in my defense I was trying to stop the silly recursion jokes with a "halt" or risk a halting problem since every following joke would be unfunny. And since the theme seemed to be "jokes that weren't funny," I had to add a "hammertime" from the infamous meme.

Anyway. Lame lame lame. I hereby disown my involvement.
Despite being alpha (and now beta), CouchDB's been in production at a number of installations for years without issue.

Because the #1 goal is reliability, we've hesitated to recommend production use, until the most recent release (0.11). CouchDB 1.0 ships this summer, and is definitely a safe place to put your data.
Erm. Can it not be both?
Most web security systems don't even give you the option. You sends your data off and you trusts your server. You can't read the code at all because it lives on a box you don't have access to.

Any security system you didn't code yourself does rely on someone you trust having read it at some point.

Is it more secure than some audited local code you compiled months ago and haven't touched and don't have to re-download? No, of course not. Is it more secure than chatting on Facebook? Potentially, yes. The necessary transparency is there.

This is not an innovation in protecting your data from network snoops. In that sense it's no improvement on SSL and it's not trying or claiming to be.

What it does do better than other web apps is protect your conversations from the middleman you can't avoid -- the web server itself.
Fully agree.

I wonder if the McDonald's Vs. the local restaurant model applies here. To me it seems like quite a few local restaurateurs are wealthy and they don't have to scale massively to become millionaires. If you are just interested in running a small business and to serve a small section of the society you could still become wealthy, no? And the Web 2.0 (and the accompanying lower barrier of entry) brings perfect opportunities to follow this scheme. I know at least one friend who has a regular income from the App store following this model. But he is not a millionaire by any means. I am curious if there are really people out there who are wealthy simply by serving 20-50K people on the web with no potential/plan to scale.

PS: This is not to say zoho follows this model by any means.
The people in this video gushing how they can't believe video chat REALLY exists!!! should try Skype.

I mean, yeah, it's cool that it's on a phone and everything but they are acting like Apple invented it.
I created such a site here: http://gamingpeak.com/

The trouble is, most people are perfectly happy with Pogo/Yahoo/MSN game sites. They don't want to move.
Nightwatch by Terrence Dickinson is a good book to get started with.
I think the biggest problem is we are getting e-books that are just digital representations of physical books. I'm learning music theory right now and it would be great if the book I'm following was an app with animated examples to re-enforce the concepts.

I'm also imagining the time I first saw the animated unit circle gif (years after trig class):

http://i.stack.imgur.com/1oSJw.gif

If that was in my "e-textbook", I think some concepts would be easier to explain. I think we are sitting at just the cusp of what "e-books" in school should be. They shouldn't just be for words, but for conceptual learning in a school setting.
Try reading Infinite Jest on a Kindle. Half of the book is in the end notes.
On top of that, withdrawing from the country after breaking the law and being fined is like fleeing the country after being convicted of a crime. It's not a legal cover.

The first move is usually to legally object to the fine if it's more than the cost of doing business, leading to years of back and forth. Look at the fine the EU imposed on Intel in 2009 which keeps getting contested and reexamined. Increasing the cost and friction for the ones trying to recoup the fine makes them more willing to negotiate a faster settlement (usually better deal for the company). It's a good bargaining chip for the company if they have very few assets under that jurisdiction or it's a market they can afford to lose. So the company pays some of the fine and then sees much stricter controls applied to them in particular, not via law but via the settlement.

Finally the company is represented by a CEO and/or board and those are the people ultimately responsible for disregarding a court decision. There could be attempts to hold them responsible but the US is famous for protecting any CEO from prison time (inside or outside of US borders). The US has a history of refusing to extradite CEOs convicted simply because they can purchase their way out of any trouble, it's only a matter of price. So this last step is mostly symbolic, the CEO is convicted because justice has to be served in the accusing jurisdiction.
R is ratio or risk. It is directly computed from C and F just as it is directly computed from I and F.

I don't seen any quotes in your comment.
This is the correct mode of thinking.

Rationally consider what conditions could be creating the current scenario, and keep all of them in mind when considering any news/claims that Japan is an outlier.

Also agree that COVID-19 will be fertile ground for dissertations in the future.
It's similar in some ways except Loki went all out in abandoning indexing of the log lines themselves, a quote from the homepage:

> It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.

This system is different because not only does it index the contents of your log messages it accelerates regex queries which are great for structured messages produced by machines.

Similar to Loki though it does index data by "labels", though not quite in the same way. Instead every field of a log is treated the same (except for time, it's special). Nested structures are flattened by path, i.e '{"message: "a", "structure": {"nest1": "b"}' is flattened to "message" and "structure.nest1". Under the hood it also stores column per type so if you later send a number at the same field you previously sent text it doesn't coerce like Elasticsearch. Instead depending on your query it will either search "structure.nest1"(text) or "structure.nest1"(number), i.e if you use a regex it will infer you are searching the textual version, if you attempt a range query it will infer number as the type.

Loki is definitely an interesting system and looks like it could handle great ingest volume but I don't think it could match my targets for sub-second queries on ~10TB of logs.
I'm hacking on https://bankhooks.com

The premise is simple - define arbitrary conditions on transactions or balances, and get webhooks or emails when those conditions fire on any of your bank accounts.

I have >10 bank accounts and was having trouble monitoring them. I use this to alert me of any activity, on any of my accounts, that is unexpected. I no longer need to log into banks. I also use it to alert me if my balance gets too low or too high in any account.

I've also deployed Lambda functions to e.g. post my utilities bill to Splitwise to automatically split with my roommates, or pipe all transactions into a Google sheet so I can analyze my spending over time.

It started out as a simple hobby project but has grown into an immensely useful tool in my day-to-day life.
I became much more comfortable with the Unix environment by completing the Bandit game [0]. It teaches you various Unix tools and forces you to learn the command line. There are about 30 parts, each can be completed in a timespan ranging from a couple of minutes to an hour. It is mighty fun and I highly recommend it.

[0] https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
i've been pulling out my max cash withdrawal limit from cash machines every day since we hit 10% down in the markets. of course cash is probably useless when a bank run does happen, but it does give you a sense of safety and is something you can simply redeposit.
If history is not something to care about, then what is the point of importing WhatsApp history?
> I'm not going to change my decision, but I'm wondering how that will influence on my future salary.

You can say no. They can give you a smaller raise for it. Honestly, I don't see this as a problem - you get to choose between maximizing raises vs. setting boundaries in your work. It is great that they give you that choice, as most places I know would enforce being on-call as part of your base salary.
Tesla seem to do a lot of running changes, are they certifying each one?
Would you be willing to explain how you can justify offering this for free? I’ve subbed to the patreon, but that’s less than a drop in the bucket compared to the ~$10k you say this month will cost.
In 2002, a company I interviewed with did just that. They tore my code apart, asking me to justify myself, and I felt like I completely bombed it.

In the end they said "Okay, you pass." When I asked why, the answer was "While we don't agree with all the choices, it's basically well-written and does something interesting. We just wanted to know if you were the one who wrote it."
Note that this is not news. It just happens to be a blog post about the change. The actual news about switching to jQuery was over a month ago.
The real thing I can't get my head around with BitCoin is that, at least in theory, real-world currencies are backed by force of arms. I know they're kind of a consensual hallucination, but it's one backed by hegemonic power: the pound coin I've got here is guaranteed to be good to settle debts I have with the UK government.

So why is a BitCoin worth anything? It's scarce, but what utility does that scarcity have without some entity who guarantees to convert it into goods or services?
Gmail as a product was innovative in many ways (large storage, convenient search). It was much better than competitors, I switched immediately. Not sure if the same can be said about Google Offers.