skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skype for Business is not Skype. It's just a rebranding of Lync that happened after Skype acquisition.

There is a half-baked link between Skype and Lync to make it seem like it's the same product. This link is all shitty mainly because Lync and Skype work completely differently, and even simple things like call signaling have to deal with years of legacy Microsoft SIP extensions that were punched into Lync.

I remember the first time we received access to the Lync code repository. That stuff was a multi-GB (!!!) repository that contained files, promo videos, PDFs, code, etc. That tells you much about the development practices behind Lync.
Which it is!

You seem to be assuming, without prompt, that nit-picking punctuation comes at the expense of a thorough overall review.

Code review on punctuation is absolutely an important part of readability. Consistency makes understanding and scanning (for human readability) and potentially parsing and modifying (for machine readability) much easier.

As someone who both reviews a lot of code and reads a lot of code, consistent documentation with good grammar and punctuation is enormously helpful.
It's not being hidden, but it's not being discussed in the open because it seems to put people's lives second to wealth.

This is a novel situation. I'm not sure anybody can make a good prediction about the public health and the economic consequence of this pandemic. Society's answer to this crisis could well result in minor recession followed by a boom of economic progress, fruit of innovations made in response to it.
I think people should be allowed to wear masks, but I think that a lot of this information, including a very full vision about what's going to happen in the next 6 months to 1 year, needs to come from CDC and other major institutions.

Everyone on the ground having little ad hoc debates doesn't seem like it will converge onto a nationally organized solution. The fact that this is happening is symptomatic of the lack of leadership IMO, and so instead we're getting a disorganized cascade of businesses, institutions, mayors, and governors making ad hoc calls.
Chinese bats carry viruses primed to cause the next deadly pandemic (2013)
How easy is it to get Kindle books onto your Remarkable? Is there a solution to automatically fetch a DRM-free version of each Kindle book you buy and automatically push it to the Remarkable?
These sorts of dumb fuck cry for attention comments is my biggest gripe with reddit.
The late Joe Armstrong described the similarly minimal Erlang issue tracking system in this excellent post about MVPs

https://joearms.github.io/published/2014-06-25-minimal-viabl...
The problem is not so much the health risk but the overwhelming of healthcare systems and lack of supplies. This isn't a theory, we already know the outcome of not slowing down infection rates fast enough (China, Italy, etc).
Show HN: Aussie Shopper, a service to find specials in Australia
Patents are government-granted monopolies. Hardly a free market. Same with land ownership, hence my Georgism.
Surgeons wear it so that their breath/mouth droplets don't end up in patient's intenstines while performing a surgery, causing an infection. For that purpose a single surgical mask can last hours (i.e. it keeps droplets on the inner surface of the mask). If they have to perform surgery on highly dangerous patients, they use hazmat suits instead:

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9bd2e88c4296be54e7f845...
It doesn't say that the e-Paper requires 1.4 Watts. The board that can be used as an alternative to a mobile device provides 1.4 Watts.
> What Raymond's article does not mention (or at least I don't think he does, I have only skimmed the article) is that at MS each team had _its own_ bug database. As a result, even filing a bug in another product was an ordeal, let alone fixing bugs across products. What this friction means in practice is nobody would bother unless they really couldn't live without a fix. I think you can easily see the results of that in Microsoft products today.

Filing a bug in another Microsoft product has been technically easy for a long time. It's true that each product team has their own Product Studio database or Azure DevOps organization, but Product Studio gives you a listing of all PS databases company-wide, and I think you can get the same thing with AzDO. And in both, you can open a bug in any work item tracking database you have write access to.

To the extent that you cannot/could not touch bugs or sources for other Microsoft products than the one you work/worked on, that was more a feature of Microsoft's confidentiality policies and corporate culture than of our tools. That is, people in the Windows organizations had access to Office's Product Studio DB or master source repos only if they were specifically delivering features for Office, and vice versa.

That attitude is mostly gone now. Since 2013, everyone working on product R&D has had access to most other products' resources, and (IMO) almost no one tries to jealously guard their code against "outsiders". There are still different bug databases for each Microsoft product, but you have permissions to read all of them by default.

Exceptions to this general openness and transparency are largely limited to consumer hardware products (Surface, Xbox) which remain very tightly controlled against leaks.

(Above is based on my personal experience working for Microsoft in the start and end of the last decade, with a gap in the middle.)
Yes I believe they use Akismet:

https://akismet.com/
The Supreme People’s Court said that suppressing the information hampered responding to the virus.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3048042/chin...
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I think there should be and probably are laws that give the. Executive the ability to shut off these rules in a time of crisis. Not sure it should be or needs to be automatic.
I was wondering about that myself.
There's a limited amount of masks and they should be reserved for medical personnel and the most vulnerable. It's not full protection - people can still touch something tainted and rub their eyes. Or eat food served by someone infected. Gloves? That just puts the germs on the gloves and not the hands.

As far as throwing money at the problem goes, the most cost effective might be to test everyone periodically, and not fight blind. But that's impractical too.
Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment [pdf]
One thing you could do if you’re really worried is toss the food in the oven for a little while (works best with Thai or Chinese food, think currys or rice/noodle dishes) and chuck all of the packaging

Wash your hands before you touch anything else and then when you grab the food out of the oven you should be in the clear
As I said before, I want to see which jury will convict them for counterfeiting!

The manufacturer may threaten, huff and puff, but juries are filled with human, who will feel same same wrongness we do.

In theory, everybody cares about FDA certification and all the legal details like HIPPA and stuff.

In practice, when SHTF ie in a situation like 9/11, most humans beings seem to do the best they can with what they have.

No one should refuse to act just by fear of being sued for doing something, when inaction will guarantee the death of other human beings.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22590069
Or that the situation was absolutely ridiculous to begin with and goes way beyond what was ever intended by patent laws.

I find it hard to believe that $11k was a justifiable price or that the valve design was novel or sophisticated enough that someone reproduced the geometry from scratch so trivially (without even using sophisticated 3D scanning techniques I might add, as I understand it).

A lot of businesses strategically buy and sell patents in processes to prevent others from implementing the full process and to force royalties on single pieces. Patents have really got out of hand and in my opinion, stifle innovation more than secure and foster it the way they're currently being abused.

IP protections do need to exist but there's a lot in terms of protection that is just garbage.
when I looked it up I was finding listings for at least $150, what sellers are you getting the $75 estimate from?
Corona panic isn’t going to kill more people than the virus. Also, it certainly will kill far less people than if we didn’t react at all.
Complex Analysis (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Plane) by Ian Stewart and David Tall was a particular favorite of mine as an undergrad
I had a similar idea, but doesn't this mean they store and can view the content of form submissions?
You haven't suffered worse tools. Have you ever heard of Lotus Notes / Lotus Sametime?

It's not great, but in the corporate space, Teams does an OK job, and MS is a reputable company for B2B.
Conveniently they already have a system that can track associations N hops from any given person.
I’ve wondered if a screen separating driver and passenger could work (like in London black cabs).

Curious about positive air pressure though... in which direction? Seems like it can only go two ways: toward driver space or toward passenger space.
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Ah thanks a bunch. Back to my grammar book.
I believe that microwaving a used mask could also be an effective way to sterilize the mask. (0)

I found this information by following links from the CDC website a few weeks ago when I was exploring the possibility of buying masks for my family and found that they were already being hawked online at ridiculous prices.

Perhaps steam and/or use of a pressure cooker could also be effective. Many people who do home canning of food goods have a pressure cooker and are already familiar with usage and cleaning.

The article posted suggests that this could be a viable method of home decontamination of used masks if I read it right. I also found an article that touched on use of a steamer to accomplish similar results. I can't find that article right now but if I do I will post it for review. Microwaving alone, without adding water to generate the steam should kill most water-based organisms. The article I read stated that microwave times from 30 seconds to 5 minutes were used. I need to find that article...

What does everyone else think? I'd be interested in hearing.

(0) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3078131/
Hello all. This is my side project that I've been working on for a few years and have revamped recently. It's a Telegram bot that offers a service to help you find specials in Australia and send them straight to your phone.

I wrote it because I needed it.And figured it might be useful to others.

I have a few ideas of where I want to take this but I'd like some feedback from other potential users would there. Specifically, the web side of the project - mostly being the statistics page - has a lot of potential since I've been collecting data for the past 3 years. All feedback is welcome.

In the backend, it uses django and bulma and Vue. That's my current favorite stack. The code is open source(released recently) and on my github if you'd like to take a look.

The matching can make use of some clever ML techniques but for now, it does simple keyword matching. I wanted to get the content and page done before I deep dived into the fun stuff.
Then maybe they can help them setup a way to license the 3D model so hospitals can print it themselves, but still pay. Whatever the price components are, clearly some innovation is needed here if there are not enough of these in hospitals.
Right. I'm wondering the same. Enough bad pr and this will change quickly.
Japan 336 people per square kilometer

PRC 145 people per square kilometer

ROC 649 people per square kilometer

South Korea 503 people per square kilometer
Who has used the mentioned Amazon Workspaces? It looks cool I'd like to try it. Any good for this sort of thing?
I should proofread and given examples. Lack of caffeine from WFH isn't helping me.

There are many types of automation. Grocery workers (cashiers, stockers) are replaced with robotics and self-checkout (which automates pricing and theft detection) that removes them from the equation. Automobile machinists and doctors are supplemented with robotics that let them do higher-precision work and avoid mundane and/or stressful tasks.

The gig economy is driven by automation (customer discovery, billing, payroll, etc.), but the industry is set up in a way that happens to produce negative externalities and push risks and costs onto workers.

We need the type of automation that reduces mindless repetition and extends human capability. Not the kind geared at removing people.
You'd think that some sort of control against obvious price gouging might also be doable. Yet, here we are.
Really? 3M says to replace if they become too hard to breath through or are soiled.

http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/447121O/filter-change-out...
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That's only true if most of your clients aren't mobile devices. That's why Google pushed for ChaCha20-Poly1305 standardisation and usage with TLS several years ago.
Claim the patents under eminent domain. Easy peasy.
Here's a paper that shows that "homemade masks" made from tea cloths were reasonably effective

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/

I'm using a homemade mask made from hepa filter material between two layers of dish towel material when I go out. I tie it around so it completely covers my nose and mouth and extents It will probably help if a person a few feet away coughs at me, as happened in the store today. And if I should cough, I may not infect someone else, if I am carrying.

And it may keep me from accidentally touching my face
What if the pizza cardboard is contaminated by the delivery guy?
Do you place it on the table anyway?
What if someone infected coughed on the pizza itself?
Or simply touched the edges to place it there?

At the moment studies prove the virus stays in the air for a while but I couldn't find out whether it stays on surfaces or moving stuff makes it fly.

I stopped even buying bread a month ago in my country when there were zero official cases for fear of contamination.

Any info or procedure to make life easier is most welcome.
Let's say there's 10 people on Instagram and 5 are ugly and 5 are non-ugly people

Suppose 10 users on average interact with 2 non-ugly persons and 1 ugly person. People like commenting on the non-ugly people's content with "wow so pretty!" and "that's awesome! ", etc, etc while ugly people don't get as many comments and maybe even receive neutral to non-positive comments.

Now a new person signs up. They get recommend non-ugly people in their feed since that's more popular based on views and interactions.

Another new person signs up and they get the same recommendation, and so on.

After 100 new sign ups, the recommendation engine has 'learned' that majority of people prefer interacting with non-ugly people.

Another new user signs up and all they see in non-ugly people recommendations.

The end result is pretty much the same. Ugly people will get pushed out enough either by the programmatic learning engine that becomes over trained and biased, or by manual reviewers that filter content based on data that shows that non-ugly people bring in more users, otherwise they'd promote ugly people content if that was driving more interactions.
"Corona panic isn’t going to kill more people than the virus"

I wish I could bet you on that. I could get rich fast
I don't agree with the Trump administration's tone, but factually, the virus is from China, specifically Wuhan. Many viruses, bacteria, and other diseases are named for their place of origin.

Even if you don't believe that the virus came from the Wuhan lab, the other reasonable explanation is that it came from the human consumption of either a bat or a pangolin. The consumption of these animals was implicated in the outbreak of SARS, and China did not put a stop to the practice. Either way, the Chinese government bears significant responsibility for the situation we're in.

So the Chinese response to referring to the virus by its place of origin is to threaten to withhold pharmaceuticals that potentially millions of lives depend on in the U.S.

If "The Chinese people's feelings are hurt", we can no longer rely on them to do anything. In fact, if their feelings are hurt, they are prepared to kill millions of Americans as revenge.

Obviously this is not a trading partner that can be relied on to provide anything more important than cheap plastic crap we buy at Wal-Mart.
I can't direct your life but you can navigate such temporary setbacks. Many, if not most, people will understand your situation, and in life it's more valuable to work with people who understand you than with people who have lots of money but don't care.
Acting without reliable data reminds me of war. And that got me thinking: is this the closest exposure to "Total War" that any living generation (except the greatest generation) has experienced? It's not like recent wars that can be ignored by shutting off the TV. This captivates all of us and is becoming impossible to ignore.
Your analogy makes no sense. Modern medicine didn't create, or even encourage the creation of, the coronavirus. Price gouging is very much an obvious consequence of unbridled capitalism.
The main goal is minimizing leaks and making sure air flows through material. While a bandana would not be totally ineffective, there's room for innovation:

> A Hanes Heavyweight 100% preshrunk cotton T-shirt (made in Honduras) [...] was boiled for 10 minutes and air-dried

> A commercially available N95 respirator requires a fit factor of 100

> The prototype mask achieved a fit factor of 67

> We showed that a hand-fashioned mask can provide a good fit and a measurable level of protection from a challenge aerosol. [...] When made by naive users, this mask may be less effective because of variations in material, assembly, facial structure, cultural practices, and handling

From "Simple Respiratory Mask" (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1206.051468

edit: formatting
U.S. Government Covid-19 Response Plan
Presumably the archive projects are read-only and therefore once a bug goes into the archive project it never moves again.
Their Google status is irrelevant. The nature of their comment is that there's a propensity to emulate big tech when it's not needed. Off the top of my head: Kubernetes, microservices. My citation is news.ycombinator.com.
I think you answered your own question. If the client/partner/customer supports SAML, now you do, too.
This should've happened a long time ago. I really think there should be more cooperation between governments and tech companies so they can come up with solutions like this much faster like they did in China
Generally good quote about Chinese manufacturing:

> China can be all over the place. Sometimes you think you're in a Western factory. Others are kind of like a dirt floor sort of shanty trying to pass their stuff off as good as the other guys. And maybe it is.
Visualizing the Effects of Social Distancing
No, the compiler doesn't optimize out proper null-checks.

Eg the compiler leaves this one in:

if(ptr) *ptr = 2;

But if you do something like this:

int* next = ptr + 1;
if(ptr) {
*ptr = 2;
ptr = next;
}

Then the compiler 'knows' that you must have already checked the ptr for null, and can elide the redundant check.
It's a multidimensional landscape, and although people can see it differently, consistent patterns arise within the population.

I wonder how much is genetic and how much is learned or conditioned.
Wouldn't it make more sense to work with the cell service providers? Surely at least some people turn off location permissions? I would think the cell service providers have much more reliable data.
The UI was old and crufty and it was a pain in many ways to work with. But I really miss it because it’s still better than any other issue tracking system I’ve ever used.
Who defines what's applicable on HN? This article discusses Chinese supply chains and a manufacturing shortage for a specific need the result of which is decreased national security.

If there is another country (USA) which has relatively significantly diminished supply chains and manufacturing capacity and therefore has an even greater national security risk, why is that not applicable to be discussed? If, further, there is an opportunity and process by which that country (USA) could close that gap, why is it not applicable to be discussed?
The Story of How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II’s Memory Limitations
Not really though. There is plenty of state. Configure files, databases, blob storage. These are all part of the serverless ecosystem.
The question about liability isn't that relevant here. Maybe it would be if this could be brought up to an European court.
Technically that data is anonimized, and although its not hard to deanonomize, its not easy to scale
Well, in fairness there are real problems, but they're not unsolvable ones nor reasons to abandon capitalism, we just need to fix the IP laws in various ways and make other tweaks.

The real problem is that some people want to make shortages like this permanent by going full communism.
Do we even have to do nanofiltering? What about a breathing mask/apparatus like firefighters use? In theory they should be quite reusable.
There’s a couple Dune themed usernames getting around.

Have you seen the latest episode of Star Trek: Picard?
I think you are bang on with capabilities vs capacity. We should have one factory for anything critical so that in case we can’t get as much as we need on the free market we can ramp up capacity by building more of the machine that makes the product. If you don’t have all of the know how that is in that machine or plant design already in your one factory making the product you are starting from zero. Hence why all of China’s cheap labour deals had technology transfer riders.
Learn to touch type. Don't look at the keyboard, just read what you are typing. Some touch typing tutors are good for the exercises. Just like learning the scales on a piano.

I do a lot of sysadmin work so I stick with QWERTY layout because it is everywhere.
I did try Dvorak and split keyboards, didn't find any speed gain. Probably due to the fact that I learnt to touch type QWERTY on typewriters without white-out.
Except the company isn’t named anywhere, as far as I can tell. So at the moment it’s not any kind of PR.
This article fails to make a single mention of Italy's case-load and its effect on Italy's healthcare system.
Facebook Acknowledges an Anti-Spam Bug Is Blocking Coronavirus News
But if the star's visible on one side, it's close enough that it hasn't been redshifted into oblivion, right? The effects of cosmic inflation would only raise that minimum.
Blockchain: Use Case – Healthcare