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The article is mentioning the antiviral facet of ivermectin though. Acting against HIV, dengue and encephalitis for example. I'm very skeptical about this drug, but I'm not even close from being someone that knows this stuff.


During peak Ivermectin I read a few of the papers. Most of them that are not statistically significant, and I'm just ignoring them. Reading the ones that are statistically significant, most are horrible, very horrible. They don't have a control group, or the control group is an unrelated bunch of guys in another city, or they have weird exclusion rules, or weird calculation that make no sense.

From the list in one of the meta sites, I found only one that is not horrible. There were like 30 studies, so if Ivermectin has no effect, the flukes would produce like 2 or 3 "lucky" studies with a p<.05. So I'm not impressed.

And that's with Covid-19, that was under the spot and I expect studies to be more careful. So... can you post your favorite study that shows that Ivermectin is a good medicine against HIV, dengue or encephalitis. I'll try to take a look and post me comment about it. I didn't read any of them, but my guess is that they are horrible or not statistically significant.


HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.


Does this site also use Firebase, or do they only feed Firebase's Database so that other developers can build upon it?


Any source for that? Last information I have is that it's written in Arc Lisp and uses files rather than a database for storage.

There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.


TIL. What for?


The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API


In 2008 I was consuming as much entrepenuriship content I could (while building my first company). For obvious reasons I ended up watching a Tony's presentation. He was sharing a lot of stories about Zappos and in the end he talked about their Culture Book (a book entirely written by Zappos employees, with no editing).

Immediately after watch it I sent an email directly for him (at the time a CEO of a company that would be sold to Amazon for 1.2B 8 months after) asking if I could have a digital version of the book since I was living in Brazil. For my complete surprise I received a response in less than 1 hour just asking for my address. One day after I received a physical copy of the book, signed by the very own Tony Hsieh. He even invited me to visit Zappos offices if I ever were in Las Vegas!

Today I woke up with this sad news. Definitely, a huge loss to the world. I'm sure you'll always be an inspiration to many.

Rest in peace Tony Hsieh, A big fan


Beautiful words. Thanks for sharing.


+1


WHat a great story.

Would you mind sharing a link (or just a title) of that video?



Interesting that he would start the talk by sharing a story about a Zappos employee pulling up the billing history for the wife of someone on an office tour. That would be a fireable offense at every place I've worked and would certainly not be condoned by any C level.


Not GP, but it might have been this one of Tony presenting:

at Startup School 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlop3TwaMJM (poor AV quality, unfortunately)

but seems most likely to be this one (which includes the offer for the culture book) Web 2.0 Summit 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2DmNk3YjQ (good AV)


Wow, obrigado por compartilhar. Thanks for sharing


great story


It's odd (or funny) that in the explanatory video about a high advanced AI model for translations it has a misspelling: Portugese




How Chromium did not get prior word from Google?


Chromium should not have been vulnerable to the bug, since it does not use openssl (last i looked, it used NSS).

Given that Adam Langley works with the chrome folks, i suspect it did not end up needing it in the end :)


I suspect, given the email gave no details, they had no knowledge of whether it was the same bug or not.


They should add a Signup for Private Beta on the website http://www.piedpiper.com/ :)


Maybe OP hired/interviewed others teammates. In my experience in small teams, when I've interviewed candidates, I knew the salary range for that position.


The money transmission license aren't necessary for firms dealing less than 1000 USD per person per day, as the article says, and they are offering only 20 dollars one time ever.

To me it's just an attempt to create a large database with people interested in bitcoin (with their credit cards).

TryBTC.com introduces bitcoin to new users more effectively.


I don't think it's a scam. According to kevin-buttercoin comment a month ago, they are working on Scala based version, and it will be opensourced.

Source: https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin/issues/65


I've actually talked with Kevin before, they do seem to care about open-source & security & scalability. I mean, from what we talked about, I got the sense they do. But for them, I think things are moving fast, and it's hard to please everyone, all the time, especially when you need to prioritize the business. It seems they care about open-source as a reassurance to security. And I think they do want to give back to the community.


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