skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No preventative coverage seems nonsensical.

I understand where you're coming from, but consider this: for things you know you are going to do, a subscription is the right product - not an insurance. Insurance is better for unforseen large costs, instead of predictable small costs. And we are in fact planning to add a global primary care subscription to address that. In the Nordic countries where we're from, most of healthcare is delivered (by the government) in something closer to a subscription than insurance.

> random bold words

I agree with this being unnecessary formatting, we will look into and fix this.

> lost checked luggage coverage excludes literally everything of value

It is true that our lost checked luggage coverage has too many exclusions and is not good enough. This is something we are working on improving, and will release and add-on that fixes it, and give people the option of a genuine stuff-insurance.

We'll work on getting this better, would appreciate if you have time for a call with us at one point. Would really appreciate getting feedback on how we can not just remove the bad, but also maybe add some good.

(If you want to, in addition to helping us build something useful, we can like throw in a $25 airbnb gift card, my email is sondre@safetywing.com)
> Not really sure why downvotes

The HN rules ask that you don't discuss these, even if they are cowardly. Corrective upvotes will occur (and have occurred here).
What a great list! I’d recommend adding “secure” too.
The Internet of Space Shit is coming and it's going to ruin your children's chances of space travel.
Friend List can be made private through your privacy settings.
Sure you can. And I'll free to call out when you are making factual assertions that aren't facts. In the same vein, you're free to ignore my comment.

I'll concede my original comment might have come across as a bit more harsh than intended, but I think the point stands. If you're trying to prove a point or provide information in a discussion, don't use loose and hyperbolic terminology without expecting to be called out on it.
Make crimes worth it. Gotcha.
Yes it is. It wasn't for the first couple years but they turned it on a few yrs back. Last time I used Tor browser JS was disabled by default... I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case.
Elon Musk shares his updated plans for The Boring Company
Make prison a good place to go with perks. Gotcha.
So the fcc can’t mandate title II because it lacks specific authority, but space debris is totally reasonable? Sigh.
It's not that good to inhale...
Price gouging laws are generally applied only during emergencies, and ones that aren't are not, to my knowledge, well-enforced or constitutionally tested.
For what is worth, it appears that the TLEs are known and they have NORAD IDs: https://www.n2yo.com/database/?name=spacebee#results
It looks like this technique could work for most any old-school CGI language, like Perl too.
Turns out he didn't unplug at all: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/farhad-manjoo-nyt-unplug.php
Robotic Wood Shop Has Ambitions to Challenge IKEA
Wow, that was quick.
Pharma bro Martin Shkreli is going to prison
In the US federal justice system, the US Sentencing Guidelines are officially advisory as of several years ago. Judges have to consult them and are expected to explain any deviation they adopt, but they can impose any sentence allowed by the statute which was violated.

I guess the statute text has embedded minimum and maximum sentencing guidelines in a sense, but the term Sentencing Guidelines in the US federal judicial context means something specific.
the thing that he was sentenced for was a white collar crime with no monetary damages. If it were a white collar crime with damage done then sure, prison time might have been appropriate. 7 years seems too harsh, and was most likely the byproduct of Martin behaving like an asshole and the general public being "upset" about the drug price hike
If you use subtitles, make sure they are also in Spanish. Also as petecox points out, Spanish varies wildly from country to country, so TV may not be the best, but I wouldn't avoid it entirely -- it's also a good source of cultural knowledge.

I'm personally very distrustful of language learning apps. Some may be better than others, but reading / translation based systems should come after you have a pretty solid conversational fluency.

What you really want is immersion. You need to form relationships in the target language. I'd look for immersion classes or just general meetups in hobbies of your choice. For example, Friday night magic :)

When in doubt listen to as much Spanish as possible.
I care about music a lot, but I don't really listen to classical music. I don't actively dislike it, but there are other music genres I like more.

Even as a total uneducated outsider, I can tell there is something special about Bach. Especially the pieces for a small number of instruments like the harpsichord. It captures something deep about the human spirit.
have you thought of using "ma1ware"?
Successful Companies Use Erlang and Elixir
as sreque mentions, Python is a bit faster than node. Though both are much faster than the other options.
This whole "morning commute, evening commute" pattern runs a bit counter to the fluffy hip "floating" pool imagery I had in my head so far. Seems that people mostly fit car pools to their established life patterns. Makes sense I guess, but does that make the car pool all the more efficient than all those people having their own car? Intuitively it wouldn't seem to relax the parking situation in Mitte, and there is probably less of a problem with that in the outer parts where the cars "sleep" anyhow, no?
I'd really like to see more of this. Like, if half of the cars seem to be used mostly for daily commutes, are they being used by the same people over and over again?
> We have always had systems of punishment and retribution.

We have, but the system that the article is critiquing is, in fact, the one we presently live under.

You can, in fact, punish people without prisons. You said it yourself, we've done it with other means in the past. The article addresses incarceration specifically.

The whole article intends to convince us that incarceration should not be punitive, but restorative.

You directly missed my point. The carceral threat is only one stick, and judging by recidivism data, not one that is working particularly well. Perhaps we should examine another set of sticks, or even maybe, perhaps consider another set of carrots. Dismantling the prison industrial complex will not itself create predators, which is the claim I responded to.
Gosh I wonder if a replacement was made for Daraprim..

>Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company that creates compounded drugs, released a $1 a pill alternative to , a toxoplasmosis treatment whose price skyrocketed by over 5,000% in recent months.

>While the new pill is a boon for patients in need of treatment for the food-borne illness, especially those with weak immune systems like HIV/AIDS and cancer patients, the alternative drug is not an exact copy of Daraprim.

>Imprimis’ pill is a combination of pyrimethamine—the sole ingredient in Daraprim—and leucovorin, a medicine that helps reverse the negative effects on bone marrow caused by the way pyrimethamine works in the body. The two medicines work synergistically and are recommended to be taken in tandem by the Centers for Disease Control. Leucovorin is often prescribed alongside Daraprim.

Not only was the replacement cheaper, it was daraprim coupled with another drug to fight side effects of daraprim.

The judge in this case has a history of using her bench as a bully pulpit. She claims that outside factors had 0 influence on her decision. I find that pretty hard to believe especially with her history.

As for the cost increase I believe they were funding a non side effect version of the drug, which would probably be nice for alot of people. Bone marrow is something thats hard to live without.

This will be overturned. So what if he's a trolling douchebag.
Windex sells lactic acid cleaner readily available in stores. It's the yellow stuff, it looks like pee but it does the job.
I think that's correct (this comment does not constitute legal advice, etc.). However, international telecommunications treaties would still apply and they'd have to deal with export restrictions (ITAR and EAR).
Unless you're in California, in which case you pick and choose what laws you pursue and prosecute even though as a state body you fall under federal laws.
Regardless of whether a privacy policy makes you feel comfortable, their ability to observe all of your browser activities is difficult to ignore.

A rogue employee spying on people (happens a lot, we read), or the company accidentally saving your data and then being hacked, or any number of other potential privacy issues... probably isn't worth the small amount of money you might be able to save sometimes. At least for me it's not.

On the other hand, all but the most careful internet users are probably giving away nearly all of their personal information and records of their activities anyway, so maybe it's a moot point.
I'm a little baffled here. They don't appear to be street legal. These look like electric "Razer" type scooters.

"riders of motorized scooters must be at least 16 years old, licensed drivers, wearing a helmet and not riding the scooters on sidewalks"

$100M ?
Python, JS/Node, or ASP.Net/C# would be my suggestions. Each have their pluses and minuses.
"It’s hard to think of a more refined brain than Albert Einstein’s,"

What an absolutely silly remark. There were things Einstein was good at, and things he was not. This silly popular image of Einstein as the genius among geniuses is just that: silly and popular. And this appeal to his supposed authority (more like piggybacking off his popular reputation) is just tawdry.

"“writing about music is like dancing about architecture”."

Nothing but obscurantism. If Bach is the quintessential or the best classical composer, then in principle it is possible to explain exactly why, even if you personally may be unable to.

"Living from 1685 to 1750, he had no choice but to write music to the glory of God"

Yes, because, as the sophisticated writers at the BBC insinuate, a composer of Bach's greatness could only have written "to the glory of God" if forced to do so in some way. "Such were the times" they think to themselves. Had he the choice, had he been freed from the backwardness of his culture, surely he would have been outwardly as sophisticated as us!

"Bach’s music was made through faith, but it transcends faith. He humanises the Lutheran theology of his time and makes it approachable. [...] This earthy element to Bach’s epic spirituality is “a wonderful paradox"

A very odd thing to say, and somewhat nonsensical. Transcends faith? And besides, didn't God become Man in the figure of Jesus? Isn't that at the very heart of Christianity? If there is paradox, then it is the paradox of the Incarnation. He may have given a new voice to this mystery, but he did not invent the mystery.

"“So there’s Bach, drenched in grief, sleeping with groupies in the organ loft; a duelling, fighting, hard-drinking rock star with a work ethic that makes Obama look like a bum"

??? If there's anyone hitting the sauce, it's this James Rhodes guy. James, if you're playing is as bad as your vacuous blather, I am gravely afraid for my ears.
Better not to use cleaning sprays at all...
Why don’t we approach his sentence from the opposite direction: the prosecution proposed a 15-year sentence, which is less than a reported max of ~25 years under federal guidelines. 7 years is a fraction of what Shkreli could face, so why don’t we accuse her of being emotionally swayed to be lenient?

I agree that feelings are inextricably involved when human judges and juries make decisions. And all initiatives to correct for this — such as the 3-strikes law and mandatory sentencing guidelines — are likewise imperfect. I’m personally surprised at the severity of Shkreli’s sentence, but that’s because I don’t know this area of law or its precedent. And in the arguments I’ve seen asserting the sentence is too severe, I haven’t seen citations and evidence that contradict the precedent she used in her judgment.

Yes, much of Shkreli’s situation has no precedent. But we should consider that judges can act cautiously in extremely publicized trials, especially ones involving defendants who are rich enough to mount an appeal. You think the judge faces no risk if she decides to draw up a sentence without defensible legal basis?

I agree that we should worry if justice is meted out by judges who aren’t aware or empathetic toward defendants who are socially incompetent or otherwise social/psychological outliers. But just because popular media/opinion seems to hate Shkreli doesn’t necessarily mean we can ascribe such bias to the judge without empirical evidence.
Not sure exactly what you're asking, that sounds pretty much like what that is. See in particular https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android/blob...
Some other possibilities as to why off the top of my head:

Github has been served with a confidential court order, warrant etc that requires this.

Github has a confidential contract with a large company or government entity and they are requiring this as part of that contract.

A piece of existing malware in the wild points to this address for a possible command and control server or verification that it's in a VM or whatever, and they want to deal with it, like that guy that registered those nonsense urls.
Something like House of Cards would never get produced in China.
i assumed it would be literal holes in literal pots...
I use a Kärcher SC3 steam cleaner. It's cheap (~€100) and pretty good. Even the SC2 is decent. As an alternative, Polti high-end ones are excellent. They invented domestic steamers, and I've seen some used at hospitals. The have accessories for e.g. steaming your mattress to get rid of dust mites.

I use a Miele C3 Silence vacuum cleaner. It's the cheapest (~€220) Miele vacuum cleaner that has top (A class in EU) filtration. More expensive models just buy you more accessories. Sadly, Mieles are super expensive in the US, and you can't do arbitrage due to different voltage. Nilfisk made in Denmark used to be extraordinary, but now they are pretty mediocre. /u/touchmyfuckingcoffee is a very famous vacuum technician in Reddit, and he recommends Miele and Riccar. He doesn't like bagless. Neither do i. Worse filtration and a mess to dispose if you are allergic.

I use a Coway 1008 DH air filter. It's cheap (€400), efficient, and uses low energy. IQAir has great reputation, but in some tests it has shown mediocre performance [1]. Perhaps these tests are not measuring particles in the smallest range, where IQAir claims to excel. I've seen some guys from IQAir at HN, perhaps they can clarify.

For house cleaning I use stuff from Sonett. Bio-D is also good, cheaper and easier to find. I also use probiotics from Chrisal. In the US, these might not be easy to find. I'm sure there are equivalent brands there. Check their ingredient lists. Bio-D cleaning stuff is so safe their hand soap is basically the same formula as their countertop cleaner. Many items are certified by Allergy UK.

I'm happy to hear any other recommendations from fellow allergics. I also found a two-stage filter for my shower (Sprite + Vitamin C Sonaki) did wonders to avoid spraying chlorine into my airways and reduce inflammation and itchiness.

[1] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/
Did Network Solutions conspire to allow our domain name be stolen?
Great, litter space more with IOT satellites..
Yeah, ProtonMail's really a closed garden unfortunately.
Our bodies are 4-billion-year-old spaghetti code that gets added to every time it runs. They have been evolving all this time for exposure to a very particular range of chemicals. Every time you introduce a new chemical into the mix that has only been in our environment for less than 100 years, you are testing your body's ability to deal with them for the first time.
No, it isn't. I just downloaded the latest version of the Tor Browser, 7.5, and while it comes with NoScript installed, it's turned off by default: https://i.imgur.com/7pb7nvI.png
I'm a felon. Trafficking Marijuana. I considered the consequences, and knew it was very unlikely I would get sentenced to jail time, so for me the consequences played a role in the amount of marijuana I was willing to traffic(i.e. not enough to be likely jail time) What I vastly underestimated is the long term reduction in earning potential, and the level of instantly shut doors/disrespect that comes along with being a felon.

Anyways, I moved to tech bc it seemed like the easiest place to get a decent paying job w/ said conviction. I'm a white, well-spoken, intelligent and motivated male with a great family and support structure, connections, etc. and for me it is/was/will be incredibly difficult to overcome, so I can just imagine what it's like for less (attractive?) candidates. I will work my way into the position where I can take the extra risk involved in hiring people with criminal records if they are otherwise good cantidates, bc I've been through it.

Providing prison education is pivotal to helping the recidivism rate, as is promoting attitude changes toward hiring criminals.
(the ones who got caught)
I mean, we all want our taxes to go to things, but being part of a democratic society means we don't get to dictate to that degree. Sometimes we do things to help people other than ourselves.
I'm all for this train, but if it costs this much to build and even more to maintain, and it's not even the newest train technologies, then it's probably just doomed to fail.
Him being a chronic and flaming asshole throughout the whole thing makes it clear that if he isn't somehow taught a lesson, he will keep doing this stuff.

Like a lot of sociopaths, he has figured out that most people are nicer than him and he can get away with a lot of outrageous behavior because most people are simply better behaved than him, so he is unlikely to be crapped on to the degree that he is all too happy to crap on others.

Hopefully the long sentence will clue him that betting that way stops working if you push it far enough. No, you don't get to disregard social norms in how you treat others, then bank on them protecting you. Life is a two way street. Social contracts involve two parts. You don't get to endlessly abuse social norms because your wiring is outside the norm and being mean is perfectly comfortable to you.
How self driving car accidents will be handled?
> Unless you're in California, in which case you pick and choose what laws you pursue and prosecute even though as a state body you fall under federal laws.

“State bodies” are not required to pursue and assist with enforcing federal laws, and are generally prohibited from prosecuting under then except when states have been granted special power to do so in federal law. These are fundamental features of the “dual sovereignty” federal system in the US (and the freedom of states to decline to enforce federal law was noted as far back as in cases related to the Fugitive Slave Act prior to the Civil War.)

If the federal government wants to make laws, then it is also responsible for figuring out how to enforce them. Within certain bounds, it can bribe states to do it, but it can't command them to.
I vividly remember my first summer job, working at a grocery store deli when I was in high school. My job was basically to spray down surfaces with some kind of industrial version of Windex. Within a week I had developed a scratchy cough, and after two weeks I had completely lost my voice! I was in the privileged position of being able to quit the job and go on to college, but if I'd kept working with those chemicals for years I don't doubt there'd have been lasting damage.

Does anyone know specifically what cleaning chemicals the study is talking about though? Always annoyed by the absence of what seems like basic information in reports like this.
Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> HyperSciences is developing a novel drilling system that fires concrete projectiles at over 2 kilometers per second in advance of a drill bit. It claims that its system can drill deep wells up to 10 times faster than existing systems, enabling geothermal energy “anywhere in the world.”

That sounds quite exciting!
This effect is partially muted by the fact that one can only see the vote status of one’s own post. There is still a tendency toward conformity, but at least the suggestion to vote with other readers isn’t apparent like it is on many content aggregators/discussion media.
I first should admit that I'm a 100% self taught appreciator of classical music. I don't have any formal musical education. Nor any formal history of music education. I'm the only person of my family and friends that seeks out and listens to classical music. So, my knowledge is very uneven and I'm a total pedestrian in this realm. Over the years, I've found music by references from fiction, films and criticism. I've run down many a list of "great composers". Usually, some little reference throws me down a rabbit hole of all kind of new compositions I like but every time I get to Bach, I stop short. I just can't stand the music. I've spent hours picking different recordings of the Brandenburg's, the Toccatas and Fantasias to no avail. I understand the music is important historically and that it has a technical beauty but it just doesn't move me in any way. Maybe some day it will click but until then I'm just going to have to take the critic's word for it.
Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been?
I've been thinking about trying out AWS Lambda for my next project and would just like to survey the community: how are you currently using Lambda (i.e. current setup, the product, etc)? How has the cost, performance, and scalability been? Any issues or deal-breakers? Would you use Lambda for your next project?

Thanks!
What were the specific laws that you believe the 2008 crash bankers broke?
For anyone looking to recreate this apparently successful combination: 100mg of THC is enough to reduce most people to a state of fearful catatonia or induce an acute nervous breakdown. Combine that with loads of caffeine and you'll likely feel very bad for a very long time.
Yes, social media definitely plays a huge role here. At the same time, the average person has next to no power at all. They have virtually no influence on mass opinion, little chances of having any influence on it, and even if they could, mass opinion typically doesn't have much influence on public policy unless its of the 'Manufactured Consent' variety. Perhaps we should be talking less about Russian Twitter bots 'hacking' our democracy and more about the fact that our democracy was barely working long before the 2016 election.
> It has nothing to say whatsoever about whether the satellite can be there in orbit.

I'm not an expert in space law, but I did work in the space industry for a while. A few things:

The US government in general does have a say in whether certain technology can be in orbit. If you are making an Earth observing satellite, for instance, you need to get a permit. If my memory serves me right, I think it is the Department of Commerce. If you want to point above a certain accuracy, image above a certain resolution, etc. you are controlled by ITAR. Export that to India or discuss the technology with a non-US person? You are personally liable and can go to jail. That gets nailed in your head during ITAR training.

There's nothing new about the FCC asking for orbital debris mitigation reports. It has been this way for at least a decade.

And the ITU has regulated geo for a long time. I believe they defer to national agencies, which in this case is the FCC.