Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | br-g's comments login

I also received my payout via PayPal but did not receive a notification so it sat in my account for several weeks. Was this intentional? I typically always receive notification when money hits my PP account...


I received an alert, so it may not be intentional that you didn't see anything (or an accident that I did). Paid for 1.25 months of GitHub since I don't tend to use PayPal for much else.


Interesting - yeah I just happened to log in to my account and see it there, I basically only use PP for receiving settlement checks at this point :)


I didn’t get any notification for the plaid payout, probably an exclusive service for the courthouse clients to keep the payout out of the news cycle?


I’m curious to know what 95% identical means in this context. How similar is Covid to HIV, for example?

Chimp DNA is 99% identical to human, for reference.


Let me give you the scope of the problem.

The genetic code is a redudant code, small difference in the code can still yield the same information. There are 64 triplets, start is one and stop are 2 and there are 20 coded amino acids coded with the rest. So 22 out of 64.

There is a direct similarity and a similarity of information. For redudant code the former is useless. You can have a direct similarity of 30% and a similarity of information of 100%. (Considering a 1:3 redundant code at its worst, DNA performs much better)

There is also a third layer of redundancy, that is still under investigation, where certain sequences of triplets can be permuted and still yield the same result. The order of assembly is redundant for some big projects also, allowing for the code to be permuted in chunks as well.

So we are looking for the similarity of a redundant code that allows for permutations on two scales.

Without considering how the measure of similarity is taken, something being X percent identical means absolute BUNK. It can not be a direct comparison of the code.

SARS COV2 ~ 30000 pairs HIV ~ 10000 pairs Spike ~ 4000 pairs

The SARS COV 2 virus has 3 times the code of HIV. You are also dealing with different sizes.

But one can cut everything between start and stop, translate it to amino acids and permute the result into oblivion. Whatever is left can be compared by a huge variety of measures.

But when working with it, you just sequence your stuff, feed it into the commerical software and click compare.


Excellent question. For viruses, 95% is VERY similar. To give you some calibration, SARS-COV-1 and SARS-COV-2 are like 79% similar.


Posting because I recently had this happen to me with a rental we booked through Airbnb. Our negative review was scrubbed after two weeks and the entire reservation history has been removed from our account.


"beginning 12:06 a.m., and commencing at 4:54 p.m."

Wow..


They meant 12:06 PM, actually, but still


They also meant concluding.


I had an EE20N HW set due at 12am when I was at Berkeley. I was the only person to get that wrong. The prof laughed and let it slide.


This is why the 12-hour clock system, with its inherent ambiguities mustn't be used when noting the time actually matters. If someone's going to use the 12-hour notation they should use the verbose "noon" and "midnight" terms instead of "12".


Even worse, this is ambiguous as well. When is "midnight" on a given day, is that the earlier or the later time?

Best-practice is to specify a non-midnight time, i.e. "must be turned in by 23:59 Friday evening"


I get your point, but your example should have been "must be turned in by 23:59" or "must be turned in by 11:59 Friday evening".

If you're going to use both, I might as well say "midnight Friday evening," or even the worse "12:00 Friday evening" as both of those are still straightforward.


It was conducted in an aircraft traveling west to east near the arctic.



It would be hilarous if that was a honeypot that led to a completely useless, sandboxed admin panel..


I think you are far too confident about the usual business approaches to security.


I never said I thought it was likely. But for a Wordpress site it would be funny.


Security by obscurity. Yeah, that's a valid strategy.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: