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Show HN: Encycla – like GitHub for knowledge(encycla.com)
44 points by philipn 5y ago|9 comments
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by philipn 5y ago
Me and my cofounder Chris have been quietly working on Encycla for a while now. Previously, I started LocalWiki[1] and DavisWiki[2]. What I couldn't stop thinking about was: is Wikipedia really "it" in terms of web-wide knowl
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Show HN: Encycla, Git-based collaborative encyclopedia(encycla.com)
13 points by philipn 5y ago|4 comments
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by philipn 6y ago
Aaron Swartz actually built the original version of the Open Library site.
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by philipn 6y ago
Yes, this is one reason why an approach using a form of soluble ACE2 is so promising; mutations that would normally cause e.g. monoclonal antibodies to stop working (as detailed with the mink mutation) would in theory not stop the 'd
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by philipn 6y ago
The spike protein downregulates ACE2[1], which may make an otherwise benign respiratory infection severe[2]. 1. SARS1 spike protein itself, without any virus, causes ACE2 downregulation which leads to severe lung damage: https://
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by philipn 6y ago
It was not blinded. It was open-label and the outcomes were subjective (ICU admission). The doctors involved with the trial knew who got what and may have biased their actions based on that. Given the subjective outcome and small number of
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Complexity Is the Enemy(neugierig.org)
10 points by philipn 6y ago|0 comments
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by philipn 7y ago
I think the table in that paper is just confusing. The parenthesized numbers are for portion of the total number of people, rather than the portion of that category. For instance, there are 137 current smokers. 108 are listed as non-severe
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by philipn 7y ago
Please see my twitter account for lots on this. I'm in contact with a bunch of top researchers on this topic (renin-angiotensin system; ACE2/Ang 1-7/Mas axis; ARB usage for viral diseases) and will be posting a summary update
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by philipn 7y ago
List of repurposed drugs (not comprehensive) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-020-00003-1 Review of small molecule therapies (not comprehensive): https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archive
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by philipn 7y ago
It is related, but it's pretty complicated. For some information on this and the potential relationship, see my twitter account: https://twitter.com/__philipn__
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by philipn 7y ago
Edit: contact made, thank you! If anyone is reading this with connections to the Gates Foundation: Please contact Dr. Robert Kruse at John Hopkins. https://twitter.com/RobertLKruse . I have been trying to get in touch with
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by philipn 7y ago
Are registries allowed to charge different prices for different domain names? E.g. can they ask google.com for $1B to renew and mygrandmascookiecompany.com for $20 to renew?
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by philipn 7y ago
One reason is constitutionality. The "One man, one vote" principal likely has to be upheld for a voting system used in the US to be ruled as constitutional. https://www.fairvote.org/how_ranked_choice_voting_surviv
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by philipn 7y ago
Ranked Choice Voting is sometimes called Instant Runoff Voting when used in a single-winner election. But it can be used in multi-winner elections. If it's used for a multi-winner election, it gives results that are proportional in re
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by philipn 8y ago
I loved this passage! -- "..There was zero overlap between the provers and the bulldogs. I was expecting at least some overlap: somebody who mocked me but also provided a valid solution, or even tried but failed. But that didn’t happen
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by philipn 9y ago
It's worth noting that this technique only works if the target user is using a mobile app (not web) that's been granted persistent location sharing permissions. The app also has to support one of the ad networks allowing the targ
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by philipn 9y ago
I believe a native mobile app would be able to make the request and scrap the data, regardless of CORS. Because basically no suspicious information is transmitted, it'd be pretty easy to squeeze past an app store review. Of course, yo
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by philipn 10y ago
At least in the current discussion, Linus says that eventually moving away from SHA1 in Git is a "no brainer," but that this announcement isn't a "sky is falling" moment. (e.g. https://public-inbox.org&#
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by philipn 10y ago
You can check out the git developer mailing list discussion here: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170223164306.spg2avxzukkggrpb... My rough summary: given there is no known second-preimage attack on SHA1, this is not an
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Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc.(devever.net)
194 points by philipn 10y ago|132 comments
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by philipn 10y ago
San Francisco has started the process of creating just that kind of end-to-end open source voting system (using the existing paper ballots, optical scanning and manual recount process that exists here). Here's some more information:
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by philipn 10y ago
FYI, this isn't actually git, this is something entirely different that also has `git` in the name.
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by philipn 11y ago
The Sanders campaign very quickly withdrew their request: http://boingboing.net/2016/01/15/bernie-sanders-campaign-wit...
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by philipn 11y ago
Thanks for sharing this! Why not include the cost of your time to maintain and improve the service? Without including the cost of your own time it seems hard to make budget decisions (e.g. the tradeoff between a PaaS and using a provisione
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by philipn 11y ago
Random manual recounts are done on a statistically significant portion of paper ballots. Additionally, paper ballots allow for manual recounts in contested contests (e.g. a legal challenge). E.g. see https://twitter.com/SFE
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by philipn 11y ago
Please see my comment below. The author of the piece mis-captioned the photo. This is not an electronic voting proposal. It's simply making the existing multi-step process that San Francisco uses open-source. For instance, we curr
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by philipn 11y ago
The caption on the image ("If San Francisco moves forward in developing an open source voting system, paper ballots could be a thing of the past") is incorrect. The open-source voting plan has nothing to do with getting rid of p
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by philipn 11y ago
I think what they mean is that the previous Standard map style, which is produced by Mapnik, was rendered in such a way that the rendering process didn't have access to all of the possible OSM tags. But in the future they can use Mapn

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