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by 16bytes 6y ago
But to deploy this at scale, you need to 1. Prove it works (is there data that provides lasting immunity to all other strains?) 2. Prove it is safe (e.g. is it mild/asymptomatic across all populations?) Both of those things take time t
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by 16bytes 7y ago
Their data is of higher quality than upstream sources like the Johns Hopkins CSSE set. Notably, it's in long-form (one record per day per area) instead of wide-form and the schema is consistent. This takes some know-how and a bunch of
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by 16bytes 7y ago
> It's interesting. She sounds like a pro writer. I wonder if her four years were really research for a planned book. That kind of thing is very common. If so, it's paid off. She's hot news, right now. Being exec producer
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by 16bytes 7y ago
The original argument was that it is uncharitable to claim that Damore was "exactly" fired for pointing out pipeline problems has an impact on closing the gender gap. That's not what he claimed, and it's not why he was
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by 16bytes 7y ago
Damore wasn't fired because he argued that the pipeline shortages largely explain gender disparity, he was fired because he made women felt excluded and othered. He wasn't fired because he argued against diversity, he was fired b
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by 16bytes 7y ago
> Google has defended its contributions, saying that its “collaboration” with organisations such as CEI “does not mean we endorse the organisations’ entire agenda”. So, in your opinion, you should never engage with anybody that you disag
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by 16bytes 7y ago
I found it curious that you felt a lot of material was anachronistic. Perhaps that's because I was around as a professional before it was the normal and have recommended this book so many times. When I review the list of tips--which f
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by 16bytes 7y ago
I don't your comment a controversial stance. I don't think the "sunsetting python 2" is controversial either. If there is demand for python2 maintenance, there will be people--like you--working on it and companies selli
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by 16bytes 8y ago
It's great to see innovation in the space of open data. There have recently been a number of assertions that better quality ML data will outperform better ML algorithms, and this has certainly been true in my experience as well, especi
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by 16bytes 8y ago
I'm not quite sure why this is controversial. "Undeletable" applications is as old as keeping factory-reset images on devices. Would people prefer that you could "remove" apps even if that meant they were still par
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by 16bytes 8y ago
My experience with patents extends beyond Google. I've never heard "It's a necessary evil" uttered anywhere here. Aside from that, I'm not saying that there's not hypocrisy but I am saying that the real story
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by 16bytes 8y ago
Disclaimer: I am a Google employee, who isn't listed as inventor on any patents here. I don't speak for Google and all the usual blah blah. In my experience outside of Google, typically how this works is that you will get a visit
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by 16bytes 8y ago
You need to judge them by the recovery in the context of what happened. GitHub has a world class engineering team, but major outages still happen. Even in the context of a major outage, they have best-in-class status pages and frequent ar
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by 16bytes 8y ago
"Further, You may not: - use the Programs for any data processing or any commercial, production, or internal business purposes other than developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating your Application;" To me this reads a
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by 16bytes 8y ago
Yubikeys are about the same cost: https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/ What makes you think that the cost to produce the hardware is less than $10? And what reason would companies have to offer keys b
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by 16bytes 8y ago
Not TV, but this has existed for radio for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock So yeah, it's possible to have a clock you never have to set that's always correct just by having an antenna.
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by 16bytes 8y ago
"Step 1: Assume a square San Francisco" yields 49 as you say, but actual area of the actual non-square city is 46.87 sq miles.
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by 16bytes 8y ago
Entering the country illegally is a misdemeanor. Is it reasonable to separate children for a few hours to process the adults? Sure. This is what border control does before handing people over to ICE. But there are 2000 kids that ICE has sep
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by 16bytes 8y ago
Well, from the post from G Suite support person [1], there's https://support.google.com/a/contact/admin_no_access [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17120223
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by 16bytes 8y ago
Looks like a pretty big "if" at this point. The user didn't respond to any DMs from Google and the story sounds very suspect. They won't make a blanket statement like you want because there are bad actors out there th
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by 16bytes 8y ago
Because the vast majority of news consumers online are ad-supported non-paying customers. I'm not going to pay $20/mo each to WaPo, NYTimes and WSJ. But I would pay $20/mo for "entry" level subscriptions to all of
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by 16bytes 9y ago
Can you outline the approach how this would work? It was my understanding that in order to use Let's Encrypt you needed a public facing server to verify ownership.
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by 16bytes 9y ago
Hopefully it's not permanent. Hckrnews is my main interface for HN anymore. Does anybody know if the source is out anywhere in case hckrnews.com doesn't come back up?
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by 16bytes 9y ago
Care to elaborate on the first point?
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by 16bytes 9y ago
I this this is a particularly insightful stance and it immediately reminded me of an application that already does this. The thick-client MS Outlook will let you know when you have new mail, but there's also a "send/receive&q
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by 16bytes 9y ago
It looks like you've received a lot of good advice and established at least a couple of conversations from this post. A nice way to give back to the HN community would be to write up what you decide and what happens next. I, for one, t
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by 16bytes 9y ago
While your link raises a number of interesting arguments, that statistic doesn't stand by itself. By and large, the vast majority of people that appear before the courts are guilty. If the guilty/not-guilty split were 50/5
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by 16bytes 9y ago
Speaking a software developer, I think this technique can be quite powerful. You'll often hear people talk about the Pomodoro Technique[1]. I don't always organize my day around promodoros, but when I'm under the gun, it&#x
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by 16bytes 9y ago
I think I'd miss pattern matching the most. The first time I saw how pattern matching with regular expressions automatically extracted the matching bits I was sold. I'd also miss block expressions. I keep wanting to write if-expr
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by 16bytes 9y ago
Actually, I work in analytics well inside the commercial sector. 10 digits of accuracy works most of the time, and when it doesn't there are other alternatives. As with anything there are trade-offs. I wish more languages would do th

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