skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair to Mr. McCarron, having muddled my way through his accusations against ASRG and life history, the basic idea of his scheme¹ is simple and appears sound; when DKIM was later standardized it would achieve the same result (albeit by cryptography rather than a simple token check).

Unfortunately, he seems to have missed the idea of just adding a new envelope header and SMTP command, and instead gone the route of throwing the baby out with the bathwater and reinventing not only the wheel, but quite possibly the concept of circularity itself. Not only was GEIS to have replaced SMTP (in an entirely incompatible way), but he even went so far as to declare that “all 'GIEIS' servers will run on a separate transmission protocol (not TCP/IP).”

Add to that protocol megalomania some impenetrable architecture diagrams, a curious bit of Egyptology, self-admitted arrogance, and a very suspicious bit of sock-puppetry, and it's no wonder that the Register gave him such a send-up.

¹(include a nonce when sending an email, which the recipient can check with the originating server to confirm that the email is genuine)
Serious question: don’t we pass a threshold where it’s not practical to cancel travel or events because of covid-19? It’s just going to spread anyway?

For example, once, say, Olympics roll around, is there really any value in canceling them if it’s going to be everywhere anyway?

Is containment even possible and, if not, is the disruption to the economy worth it?
If your account get hacked, then the one includes hacker's phone. The whole point of totp is gone. Hackers no longer need to stole your phone physically. Hack your account is enough.
> People write user interfaces in Java so clearly it’s users care about latency.

GUIs in Java are notoriously bad, and tend to only be used for internal tools (where good UX is not a priority), complex professional tools where functionality was a higher priority than UX, or open-source programs where the same thing is true. Another example is that Java is still an unpopular language for command-line tools that can be used from the shell, whereas OCaml is pretty popular in that use space.

Any reasonably popular language will have someone using it for any given thing, sure - I'm sure there are people out there writing webapp backends in C or numerical batch processes in Ruby - but the core constituency can differ a lot between different languages, and that can (and should!) affect that language's priorities.
From what I've read, apparently most trip insurance doesn't cover a decision to not travel due to the corona virus.

"Most travel insurance plans don't offer coverage for pandemics like the coronavirus,"
Do many places do this? PDX / Portland is the only example I can think of offhand
> try telling drivers to go 30km/h so they share with cyclists going 15-30 km/h

It's certainly possible for traffic moving at different speeds to share the road since there's a set of rules drivers of vehicle follow. On multi-lane highways/motorways, faster traffic passes/overtakes slower traffic by moving closer to the center of the road. The same principle works when faster traffic wants to pass/overtake a cyclist.

On the other hand, this won't work when a cyclist is riding amongst pedestrians because pedestrians do not follow the rules of the road while walking.
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If the virus can survive in an object for 9 days, the patient zero will never be found. Can live in the other coin of the planet.

And as we did not test normally all people for common colds, the virus could be spreading around, much before the chinese discovered it. It acts like a crypto species. Maybe we would find a surprise if we start screening for antibodies in a sample of people.
There's some historical motivation not to touch it. The summer games haven't been cancelled since World War 2. In fact, the only times it has been cancelled were in the middle of the World Wars (1916, 1940, 1944).
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A Javascript Front-Stack engineer opened in our Paris office at Gorgias! See job description below and if interested please contact me directly:
victoria@gorgias.com
https://www.gorgias.com/

Is getting your hands dirty, in a real-world application that touches the lives of millions, your thing? Then yeah, Gorgias is for you.

Gorgias helps e-commerce companies deliver excellent customer service at scale. We integrate email, messenger, chat, SMS with Shopify and Magento.

Our product creates a unified profile of customers by combining emails, live-chat, and social-media messages with e-commerce data such as purchase and delivery info.

Combining all this data in a single application makes customer service more efficient and just better. Another fortunate side-effect is that some requests are completely automated using machine learning.

# What You'll Do

- Making our React and React Native applications gorgeous and progressively improving them
- Scaling and maintaining our chat application that serves millions of concurrent users
- Fixing bugs, updating/refactoring the existing apps
- There's still lots of stuff to improve

# About You

- 1+ years of experience developing web applications
- 3+ years of experience doing back-end development with Python
- 3+ years of experience doing front-end development with JavaScript
- You are eager to solve unique e-commerce problems
- You are passionate about learning, and want to help us learn too
- You care about working on applications that are putting the customer needs first
- You are comfortable communicating with other technical teams and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, demo work in progress and provide project updates
- You have the drive and focus to get challenging projects over the finish line, and you are comfortable advocating for what you need to do your best work
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment
They've gotta just be working on retooling it to a webinar before the announcement or something. SV in general is very on the ball about the virus - I doubt even their speakers would show up if they tried to hold it.
What did your build/release pipeline look like? I'm imagining a lot of that would have had to be custom, just because I've never heard of this being done with VBA.
As you mention effort/value can be converted to dollar value, so I don't think we actually disagree that strongly - the missing word from my critique would be "fixed" dollar amount - using the hypothetical $10M lifetime worth.

There's more to it, but the point I was trying to make is that the amount of time/effort/money you spend worrying about coronavirus should (rationally) be relative to what you spend for other similar risks.

For your last example, I think that what you pay to save time or effort saving services might be on a different calculus since there's a guarantee of how much time or bother it might save you, vs a potential downside calculation.
The quote they use is so decontextualized I had to go find another source to figure out what he actually said. It's pretty clear he's saying the Democrats' criticisms of his administrations response to coronavirus is "the new hoax", not the virus threat itself.

I had to watch the actual rally where he said the words. Article after article uses the decontextualized "the new hoax", or simply "hoax", and most even editorialize that he's claiming there's no threat from the virus.

This sort of thing is what gives Trump credibility when he accuses the media of "fake news".
Would be a nice comeback: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_(rail)
I don't think that's going to prevent confusion. I'd have assumed they were phases of the same project at a casual glance.
This seems to be a natural result of the fact that the language's creators and implementors work at the same company as the target demographic.
it looks less like airbourne influenza and more like airbourne HIV, at least from the fact that people are testing positive weeks after treatment [0]...

[0] https://www.todayonline.com/world/covid-19-far-more-likely-s...
Yep, that is exactly the architecture that I use to watch over 600k Github repo changelogs for https://changelogs.md

Lambda generates static HTML in the background, puts it in S3, and the static HTML get served via CloudFront

The Lambda costs are a whopping 26 cents per month, for over 2 million Lambda invocations per month. If anyone is interested in the architecture, I've developed this website as an open source project here, for people to learn from: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-changelogs-demo
> That means it would be most likely affect employees at later-stage startups, where the strike prices are higher.

Putting aside whether or not this is a good idea (I'm sure most of us think it is not), it surely ought to be measured on fair value MINUS strike price?
Aren’t there others similarly profitable? Doubt they can all raise funds. Or would want to.
This sounds like my super fast nosql data store, /dev/null
> In 2016, Germany unveiled the Coradia iLint, the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, which can run for 600 miles on a single tank of fuel – on par with the distances that traditional trains achieve on a tank of diesel

> The train’s hydrogen power system produces sufficient power to take the train 50 to 75 miles. The train, called Hydroflex, is the UK’s first to be powered by hydrogen

The iLint seems to be much further advanced. In this Industry, what does a Team in the Hydroflex's position normally do next in this position?
Where have you read about a lot of mild cases?
Genuinely curious, information about this whole thing is super sparse and evolving too fast...
Are you qualified to make these claims and assumptions though, do you study viruses ? You’re a scientist who understand these things well?

Ok it’s fine to speculate, but you’re throwing up some big figures in what’s already a panicked situation and pretty much everything you’re saying is based purely on speculation and anecdotal evidence.

I just find it odd health organisations have already done studies, published numbers yet people all cover the internet (on HN of all places) seem to feel like they want to exaggerate the issue, refute the science and don’t trust the existing numbers. Why ?
Back in the 90s I remember taking a course that used Simple ML. I was pretty amazed by it's elegant syntax, and If I remember it correctly, it was either based on, or related to Miranda. I haven't really used a functional language since university. But would love to try one again.
Whats worth checking out? I know nothing. Anything I can use to make a website or an interesting project within a week of learning.
This is hilarious. The hardest part of creating a competitor is the regulation.
There are many different ways to do it.

You can simply whitelist the IP addresses of the CDN (many of them provide them in their documentation or provide an API for it) in your bucket policy. It’s important to schedule a Lambda to run every now and then to check whether there are changes to the IP addresses and update the policy accordingly.

Another way would be to set a custom header with a token on the CDN to be sent in requests to the origin, which you can, again, whitelist in your bucket policy.
That's what it was originally for. It was so that you could distinguish a celebritie's real account, from the many fake accounts using that same name for fun/satire/just because.

But then, Twitter realised it could make money from the increased engagement blue check marked accounts generate. So it became exclusive. And then when they realised they'd be publicly/socially liable when celebrities said things Twitter the company didn't like, Twitter threatened removal of the check mark. So the check mark became Twitters stamp of approval to use, and be popular on, their platform.

The blue check mark should only ever have been a way to say "the name and identity I claim to have on their profile has been verified". That should be open to Leonardo DeCaprio, and John Smith down the street.
I thought it was a play on "quicklime".
Can you give some examples of said stupid ideas?
The big nugget to me from my own experience is pricing. Early or inexperienced business founders charge too little. They charge just enough to make some money but not offend the wallet of the customer. This is all wrong - if your solution provides a real ROI then companies will pay a lot for it. Of your solution costs $1000 to solve a $1000000 problem then you are an idiot and priced too low by an order of magnitude.
> And yet, even more will discover than riding a bike is more pleasant than driving a car once the city has been designed that way.

Most people aren't going to find cycling more pleasant than driving in inclement weather, cold weather, hot weather, low traction conditions, uphill, or carrying cargo.
Even if they have no direct medical vulnerabilities, anti-vaxxers are prone to rejecting or subverting public health recommendations, eg voluntarily bringing their kids to measles parties to 'get it over with'. As recently as 2 days ago Rush Limbaugh (a conservative talk radio host) was saying that Covid-19 is essentially just the common cold and the health scare was misplaced.
I'm not saying I don't believe something was cut, but I can't find an official CDC reference to something called "pandemic response unit"

Edit: I found reference to various leadership positions that would help respond to a pandemic be eliminated or left vacant [0], though I think that says something a bit different (still bad though) than the entire US pandemic response capability, or "unit", being axed.

[0]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
That solves the problem for one computer, but I can't see how it would solve it for networks and databases, given a computing environment that will continue to evolve and foil compatibility.

But a time protocol that recieves the wide adoption of TCP/IP might suffice.
Sure, but keep in mind the prerequisites for using that leaked data. You have to either place yourself in between the sensor and the rest of the device or physically recreate the biometric with enough fidelity to fool the sensor. These are both possible, yes, but they’re significantly less trivial than using a password.

This, by the way, still also requires physical access to the device if used for local authentication. And in the event biometrics are used in a physical location (which I’m not personally a fan of, but let’s consider it anyway), there’s often also a human there as well. Your clever mask may fool the sensor, but it probably also still looks like a mask to the guard behind the desk.
GPU tech conference at the end of March
Because when you are escaping/trekking across bridges and 10ish miles of road on foot in a suit and fancy shoes — you don’t really want to be encumbered carrying weight.

Also remember this is 2001. We did not have VPN in our project office, though I know it existed. We had a modem dial in for remote access and none of our work was on network drives. HOme DSL/CableModem had only recently become popular amongst professionals.

Regardless, I continue to remember the burden of carrying those gigantic binders as I ran across the 59th street bridge and through Queens and Brooklyn...all while wearing wingtip shoes. Awful.
The CDC had issues with quality control on the test kits that must be distributed before labs outside of CDC Atlanta can begin doing their own testing.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/testing.html

The plan was always to expand testing, but you need a working test kit first.

>Six public health labs in the US plan to start monitoring the general population for the new coronavirus this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the risk of the virus still remains low for the general population. But activating the disease surveillance network will allow the CDC and other public health officials to find any undetected virus circulating through the country.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/24/21147157/coronavirus-lab-...

Edited to add that according to Pro Publica the problem stems from the CDC trying to get a little too fancy.

>The federal agency shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-...
Use electronic boards, yes, but not for ranked play.
Actually in any science. He was surrounded by knowledgeable people pointing the flaws in his work and he didn't learn anything from it. Maybe it’s one form of lunacy.
A couple of years ago I got interested in an old paper of his, "Continuous Functions Defined on Spheres", where he proves that for any continuous function defined on the sphere, there are four points forming an equatorial square (ie four points equally spaced along some great circle) on which the function takes equal values.

Interestingly, this theorem can be used to prove the Wobbly Table theorem, that any square table can be rotated on a (possibly bumpy) floor so that all four legs touch the ground simultaneously.

I found the theorem interesting, and it has the flavor of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem (commonly explained as "there are always a pair of antipodal points on the Earth that have the same temperature and pressure"), but it bugged me that the proof was not at all similar to the standard proofs of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem.

So I found my own proof of Dyson's theorem, in the spirit of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem. Wrote it up but didn't publish traditionally — it's at https://haggainuchi.com/wobblytable2.html — but it never occurred to me to send it to Dyson or that he might be interested.

Too late now, sadly.
If you get bored or tired you could hop over to the compression groups and have some of the same arguments, but with easier counter examples.
I thought it would be a link to the infamous ECB image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tux_ecb.jpg
Hospitals are not part of the Executive Branch of government which means they're not required to channel comms through the White House. They might be violating patient privacy / HIPAA by speaking out, but that's a different issue.
There’s now a third case of unknown origin in Oregon, so it’s confirmed:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/28/coronavirus-...
You mean the Rust language that has dozens of cross platform implementations of coreutils binaries? Go might be larger, but I hardly think Rust qualifies as sitting on the sidelines.

That's a fair opinion. I think the article is richer for having shown what a better API can look like for contrast.
I don't think people even know what they mean when they talk about startup ideas generally.

If the Bitcoin paper is an implementation, then what is the idea? You could argue that the "idea" would be something like "a distributed trustless transaction protocol" or something.

But then you could as easily argue that that's not an idea. That's a goal.

Inversely, you could argue that the Bitcoin paper is not an implementation, that the implementation is the actual software that... implements the content of the paper.

The problem with "idea" and "implementation" is that they're relative concepts that can be used to separate arbitrary parts of complex systems into two buckets, but where that separation doesn't always provide any insight.

Is general relativity an idea or an implementation (of the idea "a better theory of gravitation than Newtonian mechanics")? Is a winning trading strategy an idea or an implementation (of the idea "something that makes money on the stock market")? Etc.

The whole concept of a "startup idea" itself is fraught with imprecisions. Not to mention the assumption that startups are to be based on one singular idea, which is highly debatable.
Why would you feel sorry for everyone living in countries without free healthcare? As you mentioned wealth status would allow the wealthier to get care plus the fear of the spread will provide emergency funding to the poor (only for this). Plus can take supplies from global market by overpaying reducing supplies to other countries.

I feel sorry for smaller nations who rely on bigger countries for medical supplies/medicine as supplies reduce and become a national issue.
Where does it say that?

2018:

> Lichess Bots cannot:

> Participate in tournament or simuls

> Use lobby seeks or pools

> Appear in leaderboards

It says bots can play, but have a modified rating points system, so you couldn't use a bot/board for your human account.
Wow, I imagine it takes a lot of work for your ban to get a 49-page PDF report written about it:

> In response, Harry Wood of the Communications Working Group tries to reason with Mr. Acela (Appendix A.3), and Sorin continues his rude replies, claiming that the redaction process was STUPID and that the community members [...] are terrorists (Appendix A.4).

> [...]

> It never came to a Skype session because mediation requires a certain base level of respect and understanding between the parties.
It gets so frustrating when people with obviously crazy ideas get upset if you don't engage with them and tell them why they are wrong. Some ideas are just so crazy they aren't worth wasting time engaging on them.
Was that part of the CDC or part of the NSC?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22447592
Suburban teenagers also haven't been exposed to the realities of life. In my case, there simply isn't enough time to go to all the places I need to go on weekday mornings and get to work given the among of distance I have to cover if I were to ride my bike with the trailer and child seat as opposed to driving my car.
Above, there is a link to a report from Harvard Medical School, that claims otherwise.

Maybe they are wrong, but a post on HN is not exactly a credible refutation.
You would still want to slow the spread as much as possible to ease the load on hospitals and make sure you can take care of as many of the serious cases as you can.
> Is containment even possible and, if not, is the disruption to the economy worth it?

Economy over lives probably isn’t going to fly..
JavaScript has some FP parts, and is kind of the goto language for websites. But is not strictly functional.