jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd like to point out the obvious but those links are written about flus.

Here is the advice that replaces that 2007 CDC paper (from 2017):

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/rr/rr6601a1.htm

> NPIs can be phased in, or layered, on the basis of pandemic severity and local transmission patterns over time.

It goes on to explain that it may suggest "lockdowns" if the pandemic is severe enough.

Here are the two actual papers that other link is based on (the 2nd of these is more applicable):

- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-1370_article

- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-1371_article (see phase 6)

Some quotes:

> A 1959 WHO consultation concluded, "In the Northern hemisphere at least, the opening of schools after the summer holidays seems to have played an important role in initiating the main epidemic phase" (13). Despite the propensity of influenza epidemics to be amplified in primary schools (14), data on the effectiveness of school closures are limited. Apparently no data or analyses exist for recommending illness thresholds or rates of change that should lead to considering closing or reopening schools.

> Apparently no controlled studies assess the efficacy of mask use in preventing transmission of influenza viruses.

> As noted above, influenza virus isolation rates decreased, but since multiple measures were implemented, the contribution of mask use, if any, is uncertain (20). In case-control studies conducted in Beijing and Hong Kong, wearing masks in public was independently associated with protection from SARS in a multivariate analysis.

These papers are from 2006. They are also very clear that the circumstances matter. Regarding international travel, it seems they suggest that restricting travel would be difficult, if not impossible. They suggest closing schools if a link is unknown or found between schools and transmission.
Of course not. But "this city is unsafe because something bad happened to me" is useless data to anyone other than you 5 minutes prior to when that thing happened.

I mean if someone said "would you rather move to a city with a 1% violent crime rate where you know someone who's part of that 1% or a different city with a 7% violent crime rate but nobody you know has been affected", you can do whatever you want but I'll take the first option.

(inb4 "different neighborhoods", "crime rates aren't the same across all demographics", etc)
Because I've got this 3080 sitting around since I don't game as much as I thought I would, and I feel bad about it.
A major concern of data validation can be successfully fulfilled using Foreign Data Wrappers.
> Yeah; I'm pretty sure this isn't anything you can take advantage of.

You probably can but should not rely on it:

* it was a very official part of the Python 2.4 release notes

* it's unlikely the devs would remove it as they know how implementation details tend to leak into the software (see: dict ordering)

* but it is an optimisation so there's no guarantee, a simple trace function could break it

* and obviously there's no guarantee (and likely no way) other implementations can implement it
It's still a perfectly valid question, how will this system work in the snow? Even flat featureless highways get covered in snow and ice.
AS Numbers are how you announce the prefixes where content C resides e.g. 1.0.0.0/24 to the Internet, and you (through your provider announcing your prefix to the Internet) find your path to the content C for the services.

http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS15169&view...

Complexities aside - this is how your Internet works.
Imagine a world in which only third party app stores are allowed on iPhone. Now imagine Apple having to compete with all the other Maps, Mail, and Web Browsers.

Do you think their native apps would be chosen over the others in a fair competition ?
I certainly hope so, because that's the plan I have for my life too (the secret to happiness is not money, but being happy. That is also why people don't, generally, become happy over the long term when they get a lot of money). Here is to the assumption that it will work.
Here is the source: http://boingboing.net/2010/06/20/was-alleged-wikileak.html

We know that the military knew he was LGBT and he was waiting to be discharged, although the timeline and causation isn't entirely clear. That is, it's possible that he already leaked the documents first and then it was Lamo who outed him after the fact. My bad, I should have qualified my original comment further, though flyt's quote shows that it's a complex issue.
Sure (btw, reworded it a bit, hope it's less inflammatory).

A good example is the Iraq war: the pro-war side just assumed that, given the option, Iraqis will be happy to adopt the Western liberal democracy model. On the other hand, the anti-war side uses the "illegal war" argument, as if it has any meaning - the world isn't a modern nation with the UN as supreme court, determining the legality of various wars.

Another example: Afghanistan. First we go in. Then we realize Taliban not only has a completely different notion of values, but of time itself - they are perfectly happy to continue fighting for 20 more years if need be. Now we're thinking, "let's just pull out and forget about it" - as if it's possible to just start off of a clean slate, no consequence.

Another example, Iran in the Middle East. The documents "reveal" what anyone should have known - Arab regimes are horrified of the option of a nuclear Iran. This is because the deepest rivalry in the Middle East, that shed the most blood, is the Sunni-Shiite (and Arab-Farsi) - see the >1m dead in the Iraq-Iran war - rather then the Israeli-Arab obsessively covered by Fox/CNN/Reddit/Beck/Stewart.

Finally, a personal favorite of mine: my wife often tells me how her (expensive Ivy League) university professors bring up various UN treaties nearly all nations but the US have signed. They seem to actually believe the various dictatorships that signed these documents will not ignore them completely the second they become inconvenient.

I'm not claiming to have a good idea on what to do with Iraq/Afghanistan/Iran/etc. Just that I think the level of discussion is ridiculous.
Nope, that's how you do it. In the case I'm thinking of, I only needed one character (but it needed to be the last byte).
And to save everyone the trouble, his "new found" way of investing is:

The book asks readers to make just five decisions.

First, will you go it alone? The two authors suggest hiring an adviser who earns fees only from you and not from mutual funds or insurance companies, which is how Mr. Goldie now runs his business.

Second, divide your money among stocks and bonds, big and small, and value and growth. The pair notes that a less volatile portfolio may earn more over time than one with higher volatility and identical average returns. “If you don’t have big drops, the portfolio can compound at a greater rate,” Mr. Goldie said.

Then, further subdivide between foreign and domestic. Keep in mind that putting anything less than about half of your stock money in foreign securities is a bet in and of itself, given that American stocks’ share of the overall global equities market keeps falling.

Fourth, decide whether you will be investing in active or passively managed mutual funds. No one can predict the future with any regularity, the pair note, so why would you think that active managers can beat their respective indexes over time?

Finally, rebalance, by selling your winners and buying more of the losers. Most people can’t bring themselves to do this, even though it improves returns over the long run.

If you think the article is full of filler, wait 'til you see how filler-chocked the book is!
Let's say you're a Politburo member who has developed serious moral qualms about what your regime is doing. You have three options:

1) Stick with business as usual. Go along to get along.

2) Quietly retire to "spend more time with your family" or for "health reasons."

3) Use your position to betray your country as a spy, working for what is arguably a greater good.

Option 3) is what this Politburo member went with. Just like delivering pizzas, installing roof shingles, or maintaining power lines, espionage and treason comes with certain risks. This is true whether you're working for the good guys or the bad guys. This is one of those risks. He knew, or could reasonably have been expected to know, what he was doing.

I agree with the comment from the other thread: Wikileaks is putting the whole US government through a full-body scanner. Frankly, I'm tired of governments having all the illegal search-and-seizure fun. Now we get to play, too.
Great Books (getting real & rework), I like the kick-ass, cut the crap style of focusing what is important.
I'm sorry you feel that way. What about that example makes you think I don't understand Ruby? Composing functions (and currying in arguments one at a time) is probably one of the more powerful things you can do with the language.

I wasn't saying that is how I would implement filters. Just that that is the DRYest way to do so--and it's easy in Ruby.
There's always a worse thing. We can fight multiple injustices/wrongs at once. I don't like it when people say we've been duped into paying attention to the wrong wrong.

Don't let all this leaked stuff cause us to forget about the TSA and their (and the government at large's) ridiculousness.
In other news: "Don't use a spoon as a knife", "Don't use a hat as a rowing boat", "Don't use a bicycle as a flying machine". Etc...
Mirror: http://www.piratpartiet.se/cables-us-driving-swedish-data-re...
Tangentially, this reminds me of some contest where you had to write "I smoke crack rocks" in a scientific paper that got published. Some redditor brilliantly worked that phrase into a legitimate sentence, I loved it.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
With the writeup, at least...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_En...
Thanks for this perspective, I appreciate it.

However, you noted that the IT department (assuming IT and engineering are separate at Netflix) was overboard with firing. If the manager on Glassdoor worked there, do you think his review is more justified?

Netflix's pronounced strategy is great if you have judicious and fair managers all the way up the ranks in your department, but it seems that it only takes one bad manager to spoil a large bunch of good apples; overall performance is a pretty subjective metric after all, and if you get a particularly closed-minded or prejudiced manager (and such people are plentiful in the IT and engineering sectors; those of us who work with absolutist machines all the time seem to inherit a bit more of their habits than might be desirable) and he gets annoyed at something about you or your work, I doubt it's a very long walk from "awesome excellent performer" to "adequate performer" and a severance package for your average employee.

Does Netflix have guards in place to protect against that? Do you think that the situation the reviewer described could have occurred in the same company because his department had a more difficult manager on the loop? Do you think that you've stuck around because you share the views or preferred styles of the other managers, which thereby makes you "super great performer"? Do you think that the Netflix policies have a tendency to create a useless feedback loop of yes-men and groupthink?

The problem with running a programming team like a sports team is the difference in transparent metrics. There's a few simple measurements for the value of an athlete, depending on perspective: if he has good name recognition, he is a valuable business asset, even if he's not really a high-scorer; if he scores a lot of points and puts your team over the top often, he's a good asset because he increases the value of your franchise by making it win more often, and so on.

The metrics in engineering, especially the day-to-day engineering of going into work, working on programs, and then coming home, are much less clear.
Nice catch. And reminded me of Netflix's chief product officer summing up all his split testings as "simple trumps complete": http://www.quora.com/What-types-of-things-does-Netflix-A-B-t...

I think we're seeing a pattern here.
Is there something similar for OpenOffice?
Hmm... I'm not sure where you are seeing that claim that 10% of DNS requests are signed with DNSSEC. I've certainly promoted the statistic that 10-12% of DNS requests are performing DNSSEC validation - and that is based on Geoff Huston's DNSSEC validation metrics out of APNIC - see: http://stats.labs.apnic.net/dnssec/XA?c=XA&x=1&g=1&r=1&w=7&g... (although the measurement seems broken for the past few days)
I think DVD sales are affected by the fact that people watch films on computes and not TVs, to attribute that to piracy is just wrong.
The fact that people download something proves only that there is a demand at cost 0, how this translates into a demand for a physical item at a cost >0 is hard to tell and sure not linear.
Or sending a small meaningless body? On the other hand, he got to play with C which is often fun.
A classic. There's a new version which just focuses on current Linux OSs, which the OP may find more practical. AIX and HPUX are fairly rare these days and the most popular version of Solaris (8) is in legacy support.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Administration-Handbook-Evi-Ne...
I assume this was posted for the comedy value.

Phil Plaits debunking of it is much more entertaining though:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/27/gi...

(update: I see the pravda version has lots of extra stuff added like the HAARP bit. Would be interesting to track this story through the nutter sites to see if its just chinese whispers or if people are just manufacturing detail to make it sound more exciting)
Having a large mindshare in a specific niche is neither an idea nor is it easy to replicate.
Just curious: what troubles you about nym security?
A friend had what I think was a Telstar Marksman in the late 70s. It was a console that had the usual Pong-like games built-in, and also came with a light gun for a target shooting game. It didn't take long to figure out you could "shoot" the ball in all the games, even the supposedly non-shooting ones. It was a fun way to annoy your friends.
I disagree.

"Venn diagrams or set diagrams are diagrams that show all hypothetically possible logical relations between a finite collection of sets" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram

There is nothing wrong with showing Venn diagrams of property's of something. It's really just another set.

PS: Numbers are abstract ideas not physical objects. So, Venn diagrams where really designed to show relationships between ideas.
I'm 25. My first year or two of college, Wikipedia was around, but I knew more than Wikipedia about maybe half the subjects I looked up.
Although I am the son of an immigrant, am married to an immigrant and am a hiring manager who regularly hires migrant workers, I have no problem understanding anti-immigration sentiments when it comes to people with your attitude.
First define useful? I have an undergrad technical degree and yes it was useful to me. I do however have an appreciation of the arts and, if time and funds permitted, would gladly study multiple undergrad and masters courses in philosophy, economics (art or science, depends on where you go), history and linguistics.

There is a technical snobbery that demeans all 'art' as useless and elevates all technical degrees to, IMO, an unworthy height.

Your definition of useful seems to be 'produces economic value to the graduate'. Another person could have a very different definition of useful.

Taking the point back on-topic, if your view of education is something that allows you to earn more during your working life, then I can understand some people questioning it.

I enjoy learning for its own sake, not for some bauble held out in front of me - maybe that's because I'm wealthy enough (relatively speaking) to have been able to study what I like without worrying about practical issues.

I live in a country where people see education (typically business degrees and technical subjects) as a means to an end - quite rightly as often their families have sold everything they own to be able to afford to send one child to get a 'good education' and then expect that child to be able to support the family in the future.

I teach undergrad IT, so I do have a dog in this particular 'education isn't worth it' fight. /rant off
Yes, I think this is exactly right. The key can be in some sort of 'escrow' where it is not accessible to DropBox employees, but accessible to the government upon subpoena.
>I hope it's obvious to most people that Dropbox wouldn't be able to do stuff like reset your password if they didn't have access to the contents of your files at some level

Those are pretty damn high hopes even for the average user from the generation that grew up with computers.
Of course it's a bubble. Just like the housing crisis, there's been a huge amount of speculation when it comes to higher education. The belief is that if we give out cheap and easy loans to as many students as we can they will not only be able to easily pay those loans back but also become much more valuable in the long term, just like all the McMansions in the housing market. The Universities respond to all this easy cash by raising their prices to try to distinguish themselves from other Universities and the students respond to this by accepting an ever increasing debt load because of their undying faith that they will land a high paying job when they graduate.

The Universities aren't on the hook for these loans, which makes it even worse than the housing crisis. The students are on the hook, but they won't be able to pay them back, which means it will fall on the US taxpayer's shoulders to bail everybody out. The solution would be to stop issuing these cheap loans to all but the most qualified students entering into the most useful fields (science/engineering and not art-history/sports medicine). Once the money party stops, Universities will be forced to lower their prices, and cheaper education will become more prevalent as smaller institutions scramble to fill the huge increase in demand for cheap, effective education.

But no, we have a "right to education." Sigh.
What is the typical circumstance where you tell the founders to quit?
all I could think of watching that, was "where can I get me a laser CNC machine"

oh, and how do I justify the cost to my wife?
The batched log approach mentioned in the comments is also interesting. Possibly not directly applicable to cache page eviction policy where I expect the pressure to free up an old page to make space for data is more time-critical, but a useful model to keep in mind, alongside the probabilistic list sharding described in the article.
"Unfortunately for now, we will not be able to provide web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations."

And even if they could, I'd doubt that they'd make Facebook wait 5 days for their app to be aproved.
Same. I can't use Safari without Ublock Origin. The web is a horrible place without it.

[1] https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
What happened to the 'master main' comment thread? It was just silently deleted from this thread. Massive censorship going on, I am moving to a new website. Good riddance hackernews, take your censorship and stick it!
I'll buy our whole company these macs in a heartbeat if this becomes good enough
Wouldn't the sponsorship page be this: https://www.patreon.com/marcan
> This doesn't really make sense.

That's entirely possible. We're playing a game of telephone between a software developer and a civil/environmental engineer.
Absolutely. Living in Alberta which is very far north, I've seen what can happen if you don't take proper vitamin d supplements regularly. Almost everyone I know is on a very high regular dosage of vitamin d over the winter and a lighter regimen over the summer.

With regards to covis I'd believe that vitamin d deficiency would likely lead to a pathway response that is significantly weaker. However I would not expect someone who OD's on vitamin d pills to be suddenly healthy.

More I'd expect people who don't have a decent vitamin d level to have a weaker immune system and thus naturally succumb to it more.
How about StackExchangeQL? Write your data as comments on StackExchange questions. To update the data, reply to your comment. It's like NoSQL because somebody else is hosting it for you and there's no schema.
thanks for the downvote you spineless user;)
I don't have the numbers to hand, but when marques like BMW and Mercedes offer higher trim levels with bigger engines and more performance, they seem to sell better than you'd expect given how much you're paying for a slight performance boost.
That doesn't jive with Ubers legal argument.

>it argued, its drivers had the status of contractors rather than employees

That's not likely to change contract or not...
This makes it really easy to retrieve all previous tweets for certain accounts just by accessing this URL:

https://web.archive.org/web/%2A/https://twitter.com/colorofb...

What's kind of worrying is also that most people who retrieve the artifacts are bots, so clearly becomes an important data source for others.
The 'original Terry Gilliam movie' was inspired by a French short, La Jetée [1962].
Did I write that it's impossible? Of course you can always reimplement code with C extensions. The fallacy I was talking about is the assumption that it will be limited to a few hotspots. For non-trivial work it's either not true or if it's true it can hardly be shown before starting the implementation with high certainty - meaning that you don't know whether the faster time to get a working prototype won't be offset by a longer period of optimization (and possibly less maintainable code, because you now have two layers interacting with each other, with the interface being boundaries between performant and non-performant code, instead of logical ones). All I'm saying is that one should think a bit further ahead when choosing the implementation language / frameworks / persistency layer - how important is performance (e.g. how many requests per seconds do you want to serve per node)? How important is it to have a working prototype quickly? How important is fault tolerance? How much computation are you doing anyway, rather than doing I/O bound ops? Depending on these answers, the solution could be python/ruby, or Erlang, but it could also be java/scala or even C/Fortran. Always going the dynamic language route first might hold up in 95% of cases, but the remaining 5% could hurt a lot (or be a big missed opportunity of doing something with high impact, because these 5% of cases are often not touched by most programmers).
For time-tracking and task-management:

- Personal Hourly timesheet.

- Outlook Tasks.

- Old-school post-it notes.

This works extremely well for me as i get new tasks from:

- Emails

- Meetings

More important is generating metrics about what you did with your time. I rely on a timesheet(xls with 24slots a day). Basically filling the slots upfront with task-ids when i need to plan for a few upcoming tasks, estimate effort etc. Also everyday i fill any empty timeslots in the sheet with what i did then.

2Months of this and i have:

- A better idea on my actual burn-down rate.

- Improved schedule estimates.

- No feeling of constantly being pushed to the limit.

- Not missed any important deadlines.
Having the word 'secure' as part of the domain name is the same type of nonsense as putting a GIF image of a padlock in the page content. Guarantees nothing and promotes ignorance about how things actually work.
What are your 'best practices', particularly with #2 and #6?