jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nuanced, but different products.

AWS is a cloud product, with pros and cons -- instances can die at any time and data (RAM and disk) won't persist, network is slightly strange with their NAT IPs but in return you get a setup that lets you connect with big storage (S3), potentially large clusters (the new GPU core product) etc.

Linode is a VPS which is just presenting you with an abstracted server. If the instance or the hypervisor gets bounced anything on disk is preserved. Networking is normal (standard IP address) and everything runs as if it is a bare metal server (more true for XEN based VPS's like Linode rather than SolusVM)
Well, what about the notion of a fixed earth around which other things rotate? Granted, this gets fuzzy about how wrong it is when you consider that there's no absolute reference frame, but if you read history, you'll find out that the reason they couldn't believe that the earth was moving was that they could not measure the stellar parallax. In other words, they knew that the stars should appear to shift a little if the earth was moving. Yes, they do in fact shift, but they're so many light years away that it took a long time before anyone came up with anything that could measure it.
If you like a nice deep green tea, but want a really good bang for your buck, then try http://www.tealife.co.jp/drink/32.html which is what a lot of Japanese inns use. $15 for 100 5g tea bags (yes, it's not for purists). Grown in Japan and 95% as good as a much more expensive loose tea. 1 tea bag is good for about a litre of tea.
I've tried a lot of different brands and grades of tea, and while I can certainly appreciate the difference in some of the more expensive ones, I have not found any that are anywhere near the value proposition of this for a daily-drinking tea.
That would only make sense if he did that for all his tests.

As a one-off stunt to punish the students in his class, that clearly wasn't his intent (or any plausable effect).
I guess you are blind to how your comment comes across:

> which gives you and them the opportunity to make billions in profits while everybody else is suffering.

Strikes me as shitty attitude, "here's how you can profit from everyone's dire situation".
I understand the tingling of the fingers to be caused by a reduction of calcium ionization:

"Low levels of carbon dioxide cause tetany by altering the albumin binding of calcium such that the ionized (physiologically influencing) fraction of calcium is reduced; one common reason for low carbon dioxide levels is hyperventilation."
Right.

You cannot stop this virus unless you somehow tag who is "clean" and who is "infected"

I.e. a solution to this issue would require:

1) Massive testing of everyone. This can be done via a mobile lab or "at home" kit.

2) Issue a clean certificate

3) Division of all areas to "clean" (you can prove that you have been tested) and "infected". For example, you can board a flight or a train only if you are "clean".

In general, the initial test should be done in parallel and hopefully at the same time.

Once this test is done, all the "clean" certificate can be issued and the quarantine can end.

I personally cannot see any other way. I.e. even if you end the quartine after X weeks, the virus will start again.

So the race is either to massive testing or to a vaccine. I think that reaching massive testing is easier.
Is the fed going to buy up the BBB- debt from firms about to be downgraded?
Mass testing, and quarantine is very simple.

Tell me why what some countries in Africa managed to do to reverse trends in their countries early, cannot be done in the West.

Instead, the West went to listen to bizarre "management" theories, over something clear, and obvious.
You’re absolutely right. We need to act fast.
The Imperial College report[1] found suppression to be effective even with much less compliance. Here are the different measures they modeled and the assumed compliance, taken from the table on page 6 of the report and edited out the info about assumed impact on transmission, for brevity.

> Case isolation in the home — Assume 70% compliance — Symptomatic cases stay at home for 7 days. Household contacts remain unchanged.

> Voluntary home quarantine — Assume 50% compliance — Following identification of a symptomaticcase in the household, all household members remain at home for 14 days.

> Social distancing of those over 70 years of age — Assume 75% compliance

> Social distancing of entire population — Assume 75% reduced contact outside household, school or workplace (the wording here is different, does not mention "compliance")

> Closure of schools and universities — 100% of schools, 75% of universities

I would recommend reading the report. Unlike certain summaries, the report itself is very clear about all the assumptions baked in, and so you won't get a false sense of "This is 100% how it will be". (That said, I'm not questioning their numbers since I think they're likely more accurate than any I could come up with myself).

[1]: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
> Which experts are proposing the way forward is actually a total lockdown?

The Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, for example:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

In Germany, the Society for Epidemiology has a similar analysis with similar conclusions:
https://www.dgepi.de/assets/Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme2020...
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This is the best takeaway for me, which I've been thinking about a lot recently:

Don’t worry if someone else is already working on your idea. I’m certain they are, but they are decidedly not you and it’s the you that makes your idea unique.

Giving your creations a character of your own is a great way to differentiate and keep going.
First, you have to remember that Brin and Page had done a fair bit of work before incorporating. But I think your statement kind of proves my point. In hindsight it seems obvious, right? But for Brin and Page, who were there at the time, they were willing to sell the company for $750k -- and their offer was turned down. Clearly they didn't see the company would be worth billions in just a few years.

So there was a period of time they viewed the company as a mediocre investment. And at this point they were just Ramen profitable. But they powered through it, and legend has it, that it was one of the Yahoo co-founders that helped convince them to really make a run of it.

My point, what others may look at and call "mediocrity" and say they won't pay $750k for today, may end up in a few years being the fastest growing company in the history of the world.
In my personal experience behavioral interviews are very hit or miss. Take I-banking interviews. A ton of potential bankers are amazing at responding to behavioral questions, but when asked to do relatively simple things like discounted cash flow, they fail pretty miserably.

Which makes me wonder whether it's OK if they don't know something they can easily learn or if their responses to the behavioral questions are premeditated.

That isn't to say I don't use behavioral questions; I'm just worried that because behavioral questions are the standard in interviews these days, many people come prepared with the fluffy answers you want to hear.

Which brings me to my next question:

What are some cool, novel behavioral questions?
Microsoft did something similar to promote the .NET framework in it's early days. They launched the Terrarium competition http://terrarium2.codeplex.com/ where you would code your creature's AI in C# or Managed C++ and ship it as a DLL that would compete against other peoples creatures.
This will be an invaluable guide in the future but I think it needs more work. Hello World has been covered everywhere so it's utility as an intro is pointless if you are already a programmer or are familiar with programming.

The guides I find most useful, in addition to references, are the ones that have you build an application from the ground up. So that you start to understand the pros and cons of the language you are trying to learn. I already know how to do Hello World, I already know how to create a node server, what I want is a bit more context, like building a simple messaging server, how to create and use simple frameworks, whats even more appreciated is tutorials and samples about the stuff already built-in.

This is one of the reason why I like working with Apple and Microsoft. They give you tons and tons of sample code that compiles and work. Want access to process information? Here's how. Want to use the camera? Here's how.

It would be great to have a simple CRUD node app that connects to MySQL. That usually gets me 75% of the way there.
>(Preface: Coder at a major financial company, first job out of university)
I've done that, just not the first job.

I've quit every job I've ever had. Six were without written notice, though they were prefaced with talks with managers over several months indicating that I wasn't happy and why -- so I don't think in any situation it ever came as a surprise. In no instance did I ever have another job lined up. This is because I knew exactly what I wanted in a change, so I was ready to act on it.

Reading further down in the thread, it seems that you're not working on things you like. Tell a manager this, tell them what you'd like to work on, and see if there's opportunity within the company to do that, or if they're willing to make that happen.

Your feeling of "atrophy" seems to be that you're falling behind current trends. This happens in most organizations. Don't let anyone - even here - tell you otherwise. Places working with newer technologies that are better tailored to specific needs are in the minority due to politics, shortsightedness and a myriad of other reasons. The only way around this is to find these organizations that are absolutely exceptions -- The places that want to always use the best tool for the job, even if they have to spend the time to evaluate the new tools and learn it up front. Cardboard Box Co., BigOl Wholesaler Inc., or J. Random Fund-of-Funds are rarely those kinds of organizations. Why? No one wants to put their neck on the line politically in case they made a mistake. People are too busy looking out for themselves rather than the organization as a whole.

You will probably need to change jobs, but see if the current employer is willing to make things work for you. If no, it's a matter of when. I'd say at least come up with a big list of places you're going to apply to if you're going to quit. And if you've come up with the list, start applying.

Unless you want something else. Regardless, you're not going to act until you know what you want. So figure that out, and then you'll find you make progress rather quickly.
I would think that if one enters into an academic research position, it is for the explicit benefit of that person's chosen field, or humanity at large. If that person wants to privately benefit from their hard work, than I would think they would either work in an R&D department, such as one for Big Pharma, or start their own business.

Side note: again in this example, there seems to be an underlying issue in believing that Big Pharma is the only enabler of distributing the benefits discovered.

I understand that knowledge is power, and I grant that I don't know alot about the policies behind public institutions and funding resources, but there seems to be a rather problematic conflict in what you're saying.
See also the recent discussion of another article about the paper[0]. I'm also predicting this thread will have a meta-discussion about whether mathematics is invented or discovered.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26044640
Ahh, yeah. But I wouldn't be surprised if many printers skipped client side validation.
The overall feeling of this truck's design transports me back to when I was a small boy dreaming up my ideal adventure vehicle and drawing it out in my school notebooks.

It makes me want one just to satisfy my inner child. :)
The article essentially reads as "we payed lots of monies for a mediocre scanner, and then we discovered that the FOSS nmap did everything we needed. So we took nmap and added a little bit of extra, a web interface, and gave it the name Flan Scanner."

. . .

The corporate world is so facepalm sometimes
Your assertion could be correct 49.9% of the time and still not invalidate the proposition.
Having had to deal with heavy duty, expensive, vendor-supplied scans in a previous life (Qualys, yuck) this seems a very nice breath of fresh air.
Cooking your own configuration in the cloud
http://blog.abiquolabs.com/cooking-your-own-configuration-in-the-cloud/
Although configuration is one of the most important aspects of cloud deployment, it is often neglected. There are several automation tools and platforms available, such as Opscode Chef or Puppet, but a minimal infrastructure is usually required to be able to use them. They are really good at automating configuration in large environments, but this is not always the use case in the cloud.

People want to create services in the cloud quickly and easily, without having to worry about infrastructure apart from the services that they are deploying. So how could service configuration be automated? SSH or command-line scripts are often very complex to build and maintain, and making them work on multiple operating systems can be painful. How could this be resolved quickly and easily? The answer is to team up Jclouds and Chef Solo. They’re a perfect match!
Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/reddit-bans-five-communities-in-new-anti-harassment-campaign/
Most notable is /r/fatpeoplehate, which had become an extremely popular "fat-shaming" community.
Relaunch of morguefile.com
http://www.morguefile.com
Just relaunched a new version of morguefile.com
Microfront end looks like the trend in web these days huh
But are we sure we're not over-engineering/over-thinking things?
Ask HN: The coronavirus antigen detection mask?
An idea came to mind -- the coronavirus antigen detection mask. The color of the mask is white when not in use. After wearing it, it turns blue if it is negative, and it turns red if it is positive. I'm not a professional, don't know if it's theoretically possible?
Show HN: Online Events as a Service
http://whenzo.com
Online events need a home, this is my interpretation of it. Let me know what you think and if there is anything I should change? Also what do you think the best market is for something like this.

Thanks,
Matthew
Stubhub founder on being inventory free
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0EEC713670B81F5D
Great interview. Almost zero tech talk, but awesome insights.
Resize and Style Google Chrome Scroll bar without Extension
http://www.gtricks.com/google-chrome-tricks/scroll-bar-without-extension/
Thanks to this guide now I have scrollbar looking like Plan9 Acme's one. The default scrollbar colors are very hard to see especially when your eyes are tired. With this settings I never miss the position in document.

::-webkit-scrollbar-track-piece{
background-color:#99994c;
-webkit-border-radius:0;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar{
width:12px;
height:8px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb{
height:50px;
background-color:#ffffea;
-webkit-border-radius:0;
outline:1px solid #99994c;
outline-offset:-1px;
border: 1px solid #99994c;
}
Canadian banks commonly restrict passwords to 6 characters in length
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/why-canadas-banks-have-weaker-passwords-than-twitter-or-google/article18325257/
example: http://imgur.com/BiURTED
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Avatar 193
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Tải Avatar 193 hot nhất về điện thoại và máy tính. Game Avatar 193 trò chơi trên điện thoại hot nhất hiện nay đã chính thức cập nhật phiên bản game mới 1.9.3 thay thế cho phiên bản 1.92 bị lỗi trước
Seek and Destroy: How to Make the Most of Conferences & Panels
http://ryanborn.net/power-networking-tips/
Seek and Destroy: How to Make the Most of Conferences & Panels - Networking Tips For Startup Founders
Top ways Cloud communications can help your business
http://leadsrain.com/top-10-ways-cloud-communications-business/
Last week, we did a comprehensive overview of what is cloud computing technology, as well as some commonly used terms.
A reddit image viewer I hacked together over the weekend
http://reddit-slider.herokuapp.com
So, I was annoyed with clicking back and forth between reddit and things like imgur and quickmeme, so I hacked this together in about a day.

Its built on a couple of php scripts on a free heroku instance, backed by a mecachier cache (also free) and still maintaining reasonable response times despite increasing traffic.
America Has More Trained STEM Graduates than STEM Job Openings 
http://cis.org/more-us-stem-grads-than-jobs
The debate revolves around two sets of initials: STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) graduates and workers and the H-1B temporary worker program that floods our labor markets with low-cost, docile, high-tech nonimmigrant graduates, mostly working in computer-related industries.
New iOS Tutorial Post: Audio Recording and Playback
http://nscookbook.com/2013/05/ios-programming-recipe-23-audio-recording-and-playback/
A simple App for recording and playback of Audio.
Man Builds Tool for Hacking Comic Strips
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/xkcd-style-comic-generator/
It’s a tool that lets you use computer code to build comic strips about the kind of people who use computer code to build comic strips. In other words, it’s a hacker idea of fun — in more ways than one.
Radoopacquired by Rapidminer
http://rapidminer.com/rapidminer-acquires-radoop/
Radoop,a leading big data analytics solution for Hadoop acquired by Rapidminer
Happy customer cocktail recipe
http://rdafbn.blogspot.fr/2014/05/happy-customer-cocktail-recipe.html
Happy customer cocktail recipe
Why Your Business Needs a Blog
http://blog.taskwise.com/2011/08/why-your-business-needs-a-blog/
Today’s technology-based economy means businesses must rely on websites and customer-oriented social media to reach a wider audience. More businesses have begun to use blogs as a way to connect with their industry...
Why Windows Vista (SP1+) is Better Than Windows 7
http://variableghz.com/2012/01/why-windows-vista-sp1-is-better-than-windows-7/
Discovered this old post after some late-night browsing. The post highlights some interesting points on how Windows Vista with SP2 and its subsequent updates is actually far superior than Windows 7 (possibly 8) despite the bad press it receives. He also challenges anyone to list 7 reasons why Windows 7 is better than Windows Vista. Love to hear the community of HN's thoughts on this.
Ask: Why does Pandora have to be such a bandwidth HOG?
My pandora eats a whopping 860kbps!!! Is THIS really NECESSARY?!
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Stylized difficult platformer
http://www.kongregate.com/games/tliu/bun-pen
bun/pen: Bun uses his jetpack to save the girl of his dreams (in record time)
Expono: Flickr, Picassa and the Kitchen Sink
http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/07/04/04readwriteweb-expono-flickr-picassa-and-the-kitchen-sink-6134.html
You can't swing a stick on the Web these days without hitting a photo or media sharing service. Some of the most popular ones like Flickr and Photobucket have become an indispensable part of our online lives.
Hydrogen Powered 24 Hours of Le Mans entry Withdraws
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/le-mans-greengt-withdraws-from-lm24/
disappointing there will not be an advanced technologies garage 56 entry this year at Le Mans.
Fred Trotter On Preventing An Anti-FOSS Policy In Health IT
http://www.opensourcereleasefeed.com/interview/show/fred-trotter-on-preventing-an-anti-foss-policy-in-health-it
With the US government releasing their pro-FOSS stimulus package one would think all is good. However, there is a possible spanner being thrown in the works regarding the medical industry and open source. To find out more about the situation and learn how the community can help influence the situation I hooked up with Fred Trotter, Chief Architect at HealthQuilt, about the situation.
Nature.com blogs:Learn more of the world around you
http://blogs.nature.com/blogs
You get to explore blogs from Physicists,Astronomers,Computational biologists
Some of them seem to be very popular/commented,some are just baits to get traffic..but nevertheless,this sure does give a different perspective of the world around us.. from startup acquisitions, Facebook/Twitter outages, and alleged press leaks!
Integrate Google Drive Storage & Manipulate Many File Formats in Cloud
http://saaspose.com/blog/announcements/archive/2012/10/11/google-drive-storage-integration-with-saaspose-file-format-rest-api.html
Whether it’s features of the APIs or support for 3rd party platforms, Saaspose has always put efforts to meet its user’s requirements. Previously, we had introduced Amazon S3 Storage and DropBox Storage to add flexibility of using these storage options. We are pleased to announce that Google Drive Storage is now integrated with Saaspose File Format REST APIs. You can integrate your current Google Drive account with Saaspose cloud API. You can configure the Google Drive storage with Saaspose through our web interface in no time. Firstly, you need to create an application at Google Drive and get the “Cilent ID” and “Client secret”. Then sign in at Saaspose and open “My Storage”, select “Google Drive Storage” from “Create New Storage” list on Saaspose.
Grouper is looking for a Lead iOS Engineer
https://www.joingrouper.com/jobs
We believe that actually getting together with great people it what makes life worth living, and that technology should make it happen and make it awesome, not get in the way. So far, with our desktop web app we've gotten people together over more than half a million drinks, and we're just getting started. You can help us write the next chapter.

We're building a new iOS app, and we're looking for an extraordinary iOS developer to help us build it.

We're a small team of world class designers and engineers. We believe in crafting beautiful and meaningful experiences that feel like magic. You should be as passionate and opinionated about intuitive apps that delight users as you are about writing great code.

You will help shape our engineering and company culture and enjoy a high degree of autonomy.

Create the future with us.

Required

- 3+ years of production Objective-C experience
- Expert skill level in iOS Development
- Has built a beautiful, intuitive app that is in the app store

Preferred

- Passionate about open source (check out some of ours https://github.com/Grouper/FlatUIKit)
- Worked at or (even better) founded a startup
- Strong foundation in Computer Science

To apply email jobs@joingrouper.com.
New app lanuched - Audio transcription by speech recognition in your iPhone 
https://downrighttranscript.appspot.com/
This is the first app on iPhone which can dictate the audio file into text by speech recognition.
In addition, the app can record your voice by 1 hour that help to improve the speed to input .