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by jt2190 7y ago
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard University has a series of tweets that are a good introduction to epidemic modeling: https://twitter.com/CCDD_HSPH/status/1222257431230631936 The tweet threa
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by jt2190 7y ago
This HN thread gathered a few links to some data and graphs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22642370
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Ask HN: How are we modeling the outbreak?
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Actual (and better, IMHO,) title: > The untold origin story of eBay that I lived...
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I think software collections for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS may do this too. https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ Edit: No, I’m wrong. /opt/<provider name>/... https://www.softwarec
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Epidemiological modeling: A basic SIR model for the epidemic(arguablywrong.home.blog)
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> Having to "tweak your language" just sounds like a cop-out to me. Totally agree. But even Google is nowhere near perfection here, so we’re left with the same two strategies we all use when searching: * try over and over * con
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> A lot of DDG fans on HN blame the user or social conditioning and use that as a crutch. The tools are different, though, so searching the same way on DDG and Google will lead to different outcomes. This is no different than adapting
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by jt2190 7y ago
Counter-point, from the article: > Natalie Nagele, co-founder and CEO of Wildbit, has heard from other leaders who say it didn't work for them. She says it fails when employees aren't motivated and where managers don't tru
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by jt2190 7y ago
(1983) Reading this, I feel like there’s some historical context that’s implied but probably easily missed if you’re unaware: In the U.S. this was the end of the era of managers working at one company for their entire career, of showing und
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... [P]eople are usually more or less capable at a given task... True. But few if any “jobs” held by knowledge workers are just a single, repetitive task, over and over, like Demming was observing when he studied productivity on assembly li
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by jt2190 7y ago
> It’s unfortunate that a well-known project had soundness issues. It’s unfortunate that the maintainer wasn’t receptive to fixing them. At the same time, I’ve been there: being a maintainer is tough. It’s also unfortunate that there’s t
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by jt2190 7y ago
It would really help to have more details, like what country you're in and what industry, e.g. Banking, Defense, etc.
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I have a friend here in U.S. who runs their practice like this. They don't make any money at all at this kind of price. They should be charing each patient more like USD 200 per month.
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> Independents (a majority of physicians)... Is this still true? It seems like the days of the independent physician are drawing to a close. Many independent practices have become physician groups which in turn have been bought by hosp
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by jt2190 7y ago
> There's no way to codify concrete requirements for handling every possible way code can be improved. If the change can’t be codified, then it calls into question why the change needs to happen at all. Assuming that there is some i
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by jt2190 7y ago
> You should not take issue of your work being reverted (for good reasons), like other people should not take issue of "their" code being modified. Better ask for forgiveness than permission. Changing one developers _working co
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> I'm working on an app where the main value is that it calculates actionable numeric values that users typically calculate in spreadsheets. Even this sentence is a perfect tool for validating the market: I have no idea if the prod
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by jt2190 7y ago
Take a peek in the user's profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spodek
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by jt2190 7y ago
One possible source: > New swarming drone technology could help find lost hikers, study wildlife CU Boulder Today, Sept 16, 2017 https://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/09/06/new-swarming-drone... Edit: R
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by jt2190 7y ago
I remembered that this is essentially Joel Spolsky’s thinking, as well: Equity for Startups https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078
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by jt2190 7y ago
This is a wrong-headed way of thinking about it in the early stage, IMHO, because it gets everyone into the mindset of I do x, and you _only_ do y , instead of the mindset of what I bring has no value by itself and what you bring has no v
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom
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> The study was small, just 19 people. All the participants were overweight and had a cluster of risk factors (elevated blood sugar, elevated cholesterol levels and high blood pressure) that put them at higher risk for Type 2 diabetes an
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by jt2190 7y ago
> I hope the evolution towards "browser as OS" doesn't hurt the content vs interactivity separation. What, exactly, is "content"? Are binary formats content? (Audio, Video, etc?) Are textual comments and notes on
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by jt2190 7y ago
Not the commenter, and I understood what you were getting at, however, your original post doesn’t specify who is being asked the questions. It’s implied you’re asking the CTO, but it’s never clearly stated. That said, this is a good remin
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by jt2190 7y ago
You say: > Each of [Bing’s search partners] have to show bing ads, forward the users' IPs as per Bing's terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc). But DuckDuckGo says: > [W]e never share any personal information with any of o
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> * SQL and Java are the top two tech skills employers want, according to millions of US job postings on Indeed.com between 2014 and 2019. > * Python is the third most common skill, posting strong growth driven partly by data science
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> in English, words like “twelve” or “eleven” don’t give many clues as to the structure of the number itself... Contrast this with Mandarin Chinese, where the relationship between the tens and the units is very clear. Here, 92 is written
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by jt2190 7y ago
How to ask better questions. Before asking any question, I now ask myself : * Is this the right person to ask? How likely are they to know the answer? Should I trust their answer? * Would knowing the answer change my next step? * Have I sp

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