skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roche upped production so that's your claim that they "sat on it"?

Production is dependent on demand, which is dependent on how bad the flu season is and how many are treated with Tamiflu. Otherwise a company produces a ton of product that just expires.

Predicting what the next flu season will be like is hard as hell. I haven't seen anyone do a decent job of it. Even Google tried and failed miserably.

I don't see that as "sitting on it". Also, the drug was already approved. Why would Roche not just sell more Tamiflu, it's easy money? What benefit is there to "sitting on it"?
Oh, if only there was an alternative to Google Chrome...
Elm is the better language but the influence of Facebook has given ReasonML the momentum that Elm never had.

Even just Dr Rauschmayer's blog and now this book blow away anything I've ever found in the Elm ecosystem.
> Recently, I came down with the flu (I had the vaccine), I took 4 pills over 2 days and it was turned into a slight cold.

A couple months ago, I came down with the flu. I, too, had a flu shot. I didn't take antivirals. 18 hours later, I was fine.

Anecdotes aren't terribly useful in medicine.

P.S. If you look up the latest studies and CDC guidance, you may learn that (a) the flu shot seems to cause a decent fraction of people who subsequently get the flu to get over it very quickly and (b) Tamiflu, while probably effective in the "statistically determinable to be better than nothing" sense is only very slightly better than nothing.
There are plenty of rides happening with Uber/Lyft now that just wouldn't have happened at all previously, not just gone to a taxi.
TLDR: Obama is responsible for the housing bubble.

Which is absurd.
> Ad blocking is much more difficult with https and requires an ordinary user inject a certificate of dubious origin/security.

What do you mean? I can see how this might apply if you're trying to MITM your https requests and ad block them that way, but a browser (or its plugin) can simply choose not to display an element on the page without doing that.. right?
It varies from state to state, but the two main protections that employees get but contractors don't are unemployment and minimum wage.

There are others as well, which stems from the fact that for the most part the law considers contractors to be entities negotiating on equal footing with their customers (i.e. those who would otherwise be considered employers), whereas employees are required to have certain protections.
Author and submitter here, happy to answer questions :)
Then an increase in the other costs will affect jobs, if the manufacturing part isn't labor heavy.
It's not a big problem if the traffic is inconsequential.

If I'm passively browsing I don't really care too much. If I'm submitting forms, or working in a authenticated session, that's a different matter of course.

And as easy as it is to get a certificate these days, what does it really prove? It stops 3rd party snooping, but then again so does a self-signed certificate.
As a side note to the article, I used to wonder why China tried so hold to keep possession of Xinjiang and Tibet. Surely the regions might be more trouble than they were worth?

I eventually found a map of China showing state borders. Xinjiang and Tibet are a massive portion of China, and also give China border access to many countries. Normal state imperatives to keep territory aside, these are comparatively important territories for China's global influence.
A list of suicide hotlines are available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/hotlines

Here are the numbers for the United States:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) Veterans press 1 to reach specialised support.

Online Chat: http://chat.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineCh...

Crisis Text Line: Text "START" to 741-741

Youth-Specific services (voice/text/chat/email) from the Boys' Town National Hotline: http://www.yourlifeyourvoice.org/Pages/ways-to-get-help.aspx

Spanish: 1-800-SUICIDA
Have you never been on call?
And if I am a user of that website and am willing to accept the risks, why does Google force me to live with their opinion? HSTS should be bypassable with user consent.
You can locate radio signal sources fairly accurately. You could get around that with the cell phone network although, which is partly why many countries have stringent ID requirements behind them.

You can also get around that with some sort of hardwired control laptop that you leave somewhere, but that has a SPOF issue like the cell networks do.

You can also get around that with self programmed drones, but they are more limited in adaptability.
Assuming that Uber is either more convenient of cheaper than a cab, one would assume that the number of cab rides goes up.
In these parts of Europe from where I’m from “the Anglo-Saxon world” is used as a (apparently not so good) metaphor for the United States and Britain, because that’s where most of the “intellectual” books written in English are published (the big universities’ publishing houses in US + NYC, OxBridge+London+maybe Edinburgh). It probably sucks for some people who are from Cornwall or the Isle of Man, but in the end it’s just an expression.
The articles are user sourced.
Don't stop now! The English are too busy with tea and crumpets, the Irish with folk dancing, the Finns with sliding cars around on slippery roads, and the Norwegians with jumping off mountains in squirrel suits.
Same, I follow other programmers and chess players/chess organisations and for that its very good, I carefully curate the people I do follow to maximise the signal/minimise the noise and for that I haven't found anything better.

It's sorta like a poor mans RSS.
Fun fact about cardinal directions in Italy: they don't really exist and people will give you confused looks. They talk about going in the direction of whatever city or landmark lies that way - "towards Milano, towards Bassano, follow the canal" and so on.
OK, we've taken 'new' out of the title above.
The grandparent post isn't making a value judgment, it's just pointing out that the two cases should be approached and marketed differently. (And should avoid deluding yourself into thinking you have ice skates when you actually have something nobody actually wants.)
> Labor organization with the express aim of putting an end to Surveillance Capitalism.

The article is talking about the extensive surveillance of an authoritarian government that heads a planned economy. What does it have to do with capitalism?
The author is incorrect - his shoe is a Vapor Glove 2, not a 3 - as evidenced by the design and clearly visibly label.

And the Vapor Glove is definitely not a follow-up to the Trail Glove, it's a different shoe. Merrell still makes Trail Gloves (though yes, the design has changed both for better and worse). I'm currently considering the Trail Glove 4.
Physicist.
Some people don't run adblockers on their client, they do it at centralized location, like with pihole to block at the DNS level. https can impact pihole. See this...

> Since Pi-hole only knows about the domain being requested and not the protocols being used to access it, Pi-hole will intercept HTTPS advertisements and since the Pi-hole does not have the certificate of the actual server being queried, you may see slow loading times waiting for the request to time out.

https://pi-hole.net/2018/02/02/why-some-pages-load-slow-when...
One I've heard is that when you move to an all meat diet is that you actually require less vitamin c. I've got no source but it's what I'd heard
The effect size isn't large, and the potential cofounding correlations are infinite. This doesn't seem like a good study.
Recessions are also normal, healthy things. Until the business cycle stops being a cycle, and debt cycles stop being cycles...people should expect....cycles. Its ok. With the fed not renewing QE, and unemployment and private debt where it is....expect a recession to come in the relatively near future. It has to happen, as sure as we need seasons.
Technically, HSTS is the website's opinion that you should not accept the risk, not Google's.
That's simply not true. 99% of the time I could care less if a middle man sniffs my traffic. HTTPS is for that other 1% of the time.

The hypocrisy here is amazing, too, because while pushing HTTPS, Google itself is actively following everybody around, tracking everything they do online.
> Would a self-signed (I'm not sure this is the right terminology) cert be sufficient for this?

Yes, but browsers make that MUCH more scary than surfing insecure (not https) sites.
This isn't inevitable. People do quit high-paying jobs to do something else. Early retirement happens.
> google started Calico because you can't show ads to dead people

good one.

I am not sure why people view it as cynical to assume that for-profit corporations act out of self interest.

Have you ever gotten a company you worked for to authorize spending for something where you didn't justify it in terms of its benefit to the company? Was it millions of dollars like Google has spent on this HTTPS thing?

To assume that Google is not doing this for profit would be to assume that they are incompetent or derelict in their professional duties, and that seems unlikely to me in this case.
Isn’t Whatsapp huge everywhere except for primarily the US and obviously China? Also Japan and South Korea as they have Line and Kakao. But the US is mostly an anomaly with not using Whatsapp.

Instagram is also a behemoth compared to Snapchat. Same with Whatsapp and FBM.
Use any, really.
If you want "best in 2018," in Node, my recommendation is Next ( https://github.com/zeit/next.js/ ) - it is extremely good if you want to kick something up fast, and get it out as an MVP. And can be extended upon to have a rich application, with a variety of other frameworks.
If you're talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16319505, that's so far from true that I can't even find the comments you're talking about.
Um... did you say billion? You want to go back to the interface between the Hadean and Eoarchean periods?

At least you waited until the Earth started to have a solid, rather than molten crust. Maybe you’d like to set a date after the emergence of atmospheric O2?
To expand a little -- the process is known as light-by-light scattering.

Searching will turn up plenty of good references, like this one: https://home.cern/about/updates/2017/08/atlas-observes-direc...
What Cross-Country Skiing Reveals About the Human Condition
Exactly. 10^21 W/cm^2 is actually a little below the threshold of where we expected RR (which is what the second Gemini beam shot at), and hitting 0.5 GeV electrons head-on helped alleviate that restriction. With a host of planned laser systems exceeding 10^22 W/cm^2, we can imagine more statistically significant divergences between QRR and Landau-Lifshitz (the "classical" RR model).
It’s been years. Why has nothing else come up yet. It feels like people have been talking about FB massively shrinking or being overthrown since 2010.
So how exactly is the gig economy harming them? Would you rather see these people unemployed?
Regarding Edge, all credit goes to the work the Edge team has put into the browser. I just made sure I was building to spec, and it seemed to work!
Right -- so the security of a "Let's Encrypt" certificate is very minimal. It prevents MITM shenanigans and that's about it.
Yova – a new collective procurement application for businesses
Texan here. This seems pretty overthought yet incomplete. For example you might here "We're going on out to Fredericksburg" from any distance except in Fredericksburg.
I think you're confusing authentication vs encryption. If you were MITMing someone and using a self signed cert for example.com that connection can be encrypted (if the user clicks through the warnings) but says nothing about your trust for the site.
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The beautiful part is that your purchase requests is aggregated with other businesses without you having to expose any competitive information to your peers. The entire platform is designed around what we call transactional group buying. Essentially, a group deal/promotion is created not based on location or region of the buyers but instead the actual product itself. Once a deal is unlocked through a predefined discount tier set by the seller, the entire procurement process is handled at an individual business level. In other words, we procure our requests together to unlock a discount but we actually order the products individually! So shipping, handling, tax, etc. is handled separately for each business giving you your own personal order but for a cheaper price!

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There's a big difference in issuing new credit and issuing new dollars.

Printing Money (aka: New US Dollars) means you have no intent on paying the money back or closing the account.

QE was the creation of a credit-line. Just like how a credit-card eventually needs to become $0, the US Fed is winding down QE and reducing its account back to zero.

Reversal of QE is accomplished through the inverse of its actions. Instead of buying bonds, the Fed will sell bonds (causing interest rates to rise WHILE closing out the QE credit). The Fed will NOT receive money (ie: M0) for those bonds, it will instead pay off the QE Credit Card account.

There's a HUGE difference between QE and Printing Money. And this difference (paying it back, which negates the effects of QE over the long term) is why QE is okay.
> 1) something they really want to do or 2) something egregiously stupid.

Those really aren't two separate conditions.
That same year, the AAP and Elsevier also supported and lobbied in favor of a bill that would have prevented the government from requiring agencies to make research published through a journal Open Access at any point

I realize I shouldn't be surprised, but that shocked me. God forbid taxpayers should have access to the research they paid for. How these organizations expect any public sympathy is beyond me.
Can somebody explain to me what racial profiling necessarily has to do with "what it's like to live in a surveillance state," or am I correct in my evaluation that this article is doing PR for our own surveillance state by conflating two forms of oppression?
They totally should on those sweet less-than-minimum contract wages.

The lives of a high-flying contractor doing skilled work are very, very different than someone who faces a the "gig" contracts.
I really wonder how the Bay Area housing market is going to fare when borrowing money becomes a lot more expensive than it is now. Right now the low interest rates are baked into the prices — Piled onto the lowered deductions in the new tax bill, and something's gotta give.
Yes and no -- SpaceX has the greatest scale in the space industry, and Tesla has small scale in the car industry. That's mainly a statement that cars are a huge industry, and rocket launchers is a small one.
Have you seen https://butterchurnviz.com ?
They're not a myth, but they're also just reserved for the top performers within niche specialties, which by definition does not include most people.
Valid, but the premise still stands. The driver can sit there on both apps, and just take the first one that pops up. They aren't "working" for either company until they voluntarily choose to take a "contract" (maybe not actually a contract, almost definitely not legally a contract in some technical sense I would understand, but colloquially).

I do support worker's rights heavily in most cases, I just really feel like these rideshare cases (and other similar industries, carefully curated) should be exceptional. It is hard for me to feel like the lack of structure that the driver's operate under is enough to demand full employment rights.

I'm sure that somewhere in their algorithms, there is a way (or a potential way) to discriminate/penalize less active or lapsed drivers when they return to business. But that relatively minor power being said, Uber/Lyft can literally only control their worker's schedules and availability and hours using positive profit reinforcement. Like, are you really an "employee" if you can, without warning or consequence, just not work for a months and then return just as suddenly? I don't know if "contractor" is the right word, maybe this should be considered something new like "micro-contractor" or something, but it operates in a way that is economically and operationally fundamentally different from traditional employers, including taxi companies.
> Like, can you actually read, or are you trolling?

This sort of thing will get you banned here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.
Wait a sec... you cited this case. If it doesn't actually address your main point then why reference it?

You're making pretty strong claims but are providing links to back it up that don't actually back it up. I don't see why anyone would take what you're saying seriously.
> Oh hey you are back for more trolling.

This sort of thing will get you banned here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.
You're right. I also either didn't read the end of the original comment correctly, or it was changed later. The end of it seems to be making some of the same argument I was trying to, so my comment doesn't make a lot of sense.

Eh, I should know better than to comment when I'm that worked up about something. It's too easy to get tunnel vision. :/
Google fined Rs 136 crore for anti-trust conduct
Blackmail, economic exploitation, political repercussions including imprisonment are all real consequences of surveillence.
Effective Multithreading in Befunge
>They're "choosing the 'gig economy'" 'cause there's no real jobs. The choice being made is between that and unemployment, not that and full-time work.

This may very well be the more common case but it's not responsible to generalize either way. If you have evidence to support your claim please share.
It seems like they don’t like that answer very much either. In my experience, it’s really hard to get that out of most libertarians.
Possibly of interest:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/you-can-retire-early-witho...
That’s an impassioned argument against something no one else in this particular thread is discussing, but ok.
It takes capital and the capacity to take on risk to start your own business. Many younger people nowadays start their careers with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. It's suspected that this is what is causing the declining startup rates[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...
Technology that Apple is exploring could be the answer to healthy eating
> Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't most scientific studies of our evolutionary process revealed the opposite of this?

"Human beings evolved to eat X" sounds wrong to me from the get go, because people all across the planet eat so many different diets and do that while being healthy.

The only assumption I can make is that we have evolved to eat cooked food (based on our jaw size), but beyond that human beings evolved to eat pretty much anything and live on.

The most significant difference I notice about living in the first world is the absence of hunger.

Going hungry is probably a big part of our common evolutionary adaptations, more than the actual food that fills us back up (not malnutrition, just hunger, get food while hungry and eat well when you have it).
If Google Docs provides featureset A,B,C and Office 365 provides features A,B,D; you can never have both C and D at the same time.
Fine, as long as they don't eventually make it difficult or impossible to ignore the warnings (as they've done with SSL sites with invalid certs). I have numerous devices with web interfaces that are 100% internal to my network and not reachable from the open Internet, but Chrome still refuses to let me access them (side note: thanks, Firefox, for respecting my decision as a user!). I can envision a near future where Chrome treats HTTP sites the same way.
The traffic is only inconsequential until it's not. It's a privacy matter, not strictly a security matter.
Firefox: test.currentTimeOffsetSeconds

Chrome: type badidea
UNIX tools can focus on solving a single problem well because they interoperate between themselves, so you can join tools that solve different problems and make something useful out of it.

SaaS has no such option. It either does every little thing you need, or it doesn't solve the problem.
I'd like to point out that the difference between contractor and employee is even larger in Europe since more rights have been fought through to the same "Everyone will become unemployed!" cries of capital during the whole 20th century.
The thing about these reusable boosters that’s surprising to me when I think about is; they really don’t need very many of them. Like 10 or 50?
I'm sure the situation is the same for these people.
Even if they aren't picking rides that are the most profitable, the fact that a driver can serve an Uber customer and then a Lyft customer an hour later indicates that these drivers aren't traditional employees.

Now you could classify them as freelancers taking contracts at will, or you could classify them as employees working out with their manager which shifts they will work so they can get to their second job. It's just that the shifts are a few minutes long and spread out throughout the day. To most people the freelance classification probably makes more sense.
Don't worry, KDE for Windows is still a thing - although the "whole shell" replacement currently isn't working with KDE Plasma 5, but only KDE 4
> Visit customers that have self signed certificates on their guest network, hello LTE to be able to do anything.

Visit customers that try to MITM you, get protected. That is, in fact, the point.
> Elm community is more mature which means there is more documentation and libraries available

There's some excellent libraries but the Elm documentation is terrible compared to Reason.
Bruce Perens wants Grsecurity's Brad Spengler to pay $670K in legal bills
That's not in the HN FAQ. Downvoting for disagreement has always been allowed here. Some historical links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314.

Commenting about downvotes in arguments isn't ok, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Netflix’s Altered Carbon gave me what Blade Runner 2049 couldn’t
There are not enough elevators in that building, especially on the 9th avenue side.
> The whole point of Google's https crusade is to secure users from ISPs profiling their browsing activity, which for them is about eliminating the competition because they still monitor and track everyone and so if they knock the ISPs out they solidify their monopoly position.

Even if that's Google's motivation, I'm OK with the end result. I already use a VPN on my iPhone when on LTE because Verizon's been caught sniffing and manipulating traffic a few too many times. At least I can (and generally) do opt out of using Google's services, so I genuinely appreciate them helping me out of out Verizon's unwelcome inspections.
Boulder doesn't 'want things' as an entity. The people that will be hurt by Google moving in were not the people clamoring for large employers for well-off people in the first place.

So it's not a case of wanting things both ways, it's a case of the city choosing economic expansion over the subset of people that want to keep things affordable and uncrowded.