skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not HyperCard, or intended to be, but Twine captures some of the spirit, I think.

http://twinery.org/
This man is not an entrepreneur, and to try and say so is to insult and demean actual entrepreneurs everywhere.

His investors got lucky that he had the funds to repay them due to his other company. Had he gotten away with this, he likely would have done it again, and those investors might not have been so lucky.
And a bond villain, according to the article. Flagged it for being asinine.
They're also leveraging the very thing that was intended to keep pharmaceuticals a legitimate industry; the FDA. The drug he (and many companies) target are drugs where the patent has expired but there is no FDA approved generic. I believe FDA approval can take up to 5 years, so that's 5 years it takes for the market to react. Of course in a free market, this would never happen because 10 other companies would start making the drug, but the FDA safeguards are being leveraged against fair competition.

Not only are these companies jacking up prices with monopolistic practices, but they are eroding the legitimacy of the FDA (also to their benefit).
@ng-user The "cat food" couple video (linked to from the Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-listening-smartphone-m... ...) is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SOxb_Lfps
He was also obnoxious and crude in a manner that made it near impossible for the judge to be generous in mitigating his sentence with regards to acceptance of responsibility. He couldn't even wait for an hour after being convicted before going on YouTube and bragging about how he thought he wouldn't face any prison time: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/martin-shkrelis-lawyers-fa...
>>I honestly have no idea how someone collects 4 TB of data that is worthy enough to back up.

All data is worthy of Backup. I have about 40TB of Home Storage that is backup;ed on a set of encrypted disks offline. (Total RAW Capacity of all my storage in my home lab last a checked was about 150TB)

I do not go Full 3-2-1 with it, but I do have a duplicate copy of all my data with about 2TB in a Full 3-2-1 Backup, I would say about 750GB to 1TB has 1 copy of the 3-2-1 in a "cloud" vendor of some kind
Jerobeam Fenderson – Planets
Textbook.

As in: an exemplar of how these sorts of things ought to proceed
concurrency = I think you mean "competition".

source: My native language is also Italian
I have slowly come to the conclusion that punishing people for crimes is barbaric. What we should do is incarcerate them for the purpose of preventing them from harming others further. (Simple withdrawal of freedom and isolation from society is enough punishment and deterrence. Heaping punishment on top of that is pointless and barbarous.)
This is great. I just flew out of the States and wished I saw this option. Currently bought IMG patriot travel insurance. Cheaper than world nomads but not for the adventurous.
Code Phonology
Yes there are country-specific ones that do at least, for expats, like Cigna global.

Yes the second biggest problems nomads cited in our surveys was loneliness / being disconnected from relationships when moving often. One thing we are doing to address this now is to build a community, with social events for our users. I think it sounds like an interesting idea to consider adding counseling services though. We haven't considered it before, but we will take a look at it. Thanks.
Comcast gets FCC’s help in $3.5M battle against small cable company
> Wouldn't a more complete explanation mention constitution or code of laws or some such as well?

Constitutions and codes of laws in a republic are intermediate tools to the effect discussed.

> Maybe some ex post Latin?

You mean, more than “republic” is ex post Latin?
The quality is bad, but Mike Rowe and his Dirty Jobs show highlighted Chicken Sexers if you want to see more of what it entails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gTddabBi5A
Lol! You can self incorporate for about 500 (plus ~500-1k/yr in taxes), and the SAFE note is available free online just fill in the blanks yourself.

If you already have people willing to shell out $1M then I guess it’s no biggie to waste 15k on a lawyer. Not sure what the market is like today but a $1M raise used to be priced round material, seems a bit much for a SAFE.

If you don’t have the $1M yet, don’t waste your time and money.
Contempt of court is though
AFAIK, only the insurance companies paid his exorbitant prices.
In our current prison system, people go in broken and come out worse. As a practical consideration, and taken in the short view, discrimination against felons makes sense.

If we had a legal system that resulted in prisoners improving themselves during incarceration, it'd be much harder to justify that. But if a business has a choice between two candidate employees, one who's been in prison for a couple of years, and another who hasn't, then (all else being equal), which candidate do you think they're more likely to hire?

Taken another way, how would you improve prison to make prison time seem like less of a risk factor, or even as a positive thing?
In case anyone that doesn't follow the development of the library closely missed it, the main improvement in this version is the introduction of ECC support. ECC tends to be able to provide equivalent levels of security as traditional "big prime" cryptography (like RSA) with less computationally intensive operations. This is especially important in a library like OpenPGPjs that is primarily meant for in browser based web usage because it should make things, like sending and receiving mail, faster when ECC is used over older PGP public key encryption systems. For people that use ProtonMail's web based crypto on mobile or tablet devices, a switch to ECC would result not just in similar performance improvements but also in lower battery usage.

Currently, ProtonMail uses RSA keys, but this addition of ECC support to their web encryption library may mean that they are about to start switching users to ECC keys. Because using "larger" (when compared with equivalent theoretical strength RSA keys, for example) ECC keys is less resource intensive than using higher security keys in some other forms of cryptosystems (like RSA) it may also be an indication that ProtonMail is preparing to upgrade users to higher security/stronger keys.

Many cryptographers and organizations, including the US Government, have recommended for a long time that people migrate from older "big prime cryptography" based cryptosystems to ECC based cryptosystems for increased security.
Tell me what the job actually is.

And salary, salary, salary!

Vacation policies.
The SEC, DOJ, et al also have limited amounts of resources. They just can't go after everyone.
As a non-ham can you explain 7.255Mhz? I saw some youtube recordings of 7.255Mhz and it seemed like wacky people talking. What is the reason that frequency has a bad reputation?
Wait, why would facebook have CC info? I have never paid facebook for anything (except in terms of ad views), and I'm not even sure what I could pay them for? Posting ads I guess? But that's gonna be not a lot of people.

So if somehow their graph api has pulled up my credit card number into their database, that's the disturbing thing...
There is no one best way.

I needed the structure of class. I live in Norway, and folks are quick to speak English with me until I got firmly into an intermediate level... and it still happens. Oh well :)

But even without classes, I suggest getting a few language learning books designed for adults learning Spanish as a second language. Work through the workbooks. Many come with web support as well. The ones I used covered basic everyday situations, helped with sounds, and covered grammer slowly.

Around here, there are language cafes that help folks get speaking practice.

Childrens shows helped me, as the speech is simple and clear. The TV station has transcripts as well - I found this very helpful. Watch once, view transcript and translate, and watch again. Listen to television/radio as much as possible. Play this stuff as background sound when you are working on things. The exposure trains your ear.

Speak when you can, even if you are repeating after the children's shows you are watching. Try to speak every time you go to the store, for example.

Read. Children's books at first, perhaps. Harry Potter is also a good: You are probably familiar with the story and it repeats words quite often. Move to novels once you tire of children's books but before you feel you are "ready" for them. They'll be hard at first, but at least you can pick things up you are interested in. Newspapers are handy as they introduce information that you might not be interested in. You might be able to find news for children online or something like that as well. Or one that is easy to read (I found that in Norwegian). Write down words you don't know - and their translations - even if you never look at the list again.

Write, especially if you have a local that can read it and correct things for you. Rewrite with corrections. Copy newspaper articles. I suggest writing by hand instead of typing at first, but eventually you'll want to type as well. When typing, make sure you have a spell check on your computer that can spell check spanish.

Apps are helpful for building vocabulary.

After you get a good vocabulary base, make sure you start studying idioms. These color the language.

Google translate isn't always spot-on, but still very helpful. You might have to type more than one word to get a proper translation - it is like this in Norwegian because some words might mean one thing yet when combined mean something completely different.
Thanks. Good rebuttal.
Sure, it's https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android . You probably want the "webaudio" branch.
How involved are you with building the product?
If self-driving cars start to catch on, it seems that the standards for roads must improve. There are some roads in my area that could be an excellent Turing test. If you follow what the lane markers are telling you to do, you die and are probably a robot. If you ignore the markers and survive, you are probably human.

I'd rather increase road standards and accelerate the evolution of self-driving technology than require the development of technology that is capable of driving on today's terrible roads. I know this is not a binary choice -- realistically, both would happen. But I don't think anyone's even talking about better roads for self-driving cars. If even just major roads had to be maintained to a minimally machine-readable standard, it would be a good thing for drivers -- whether human or machine.
20%, not 30%.

As always, for Uber, you have to understand their moves in the context of their valuation. Uber has raised money at a $70B valuation (although their most recent fundraising was at a mere $50B). They did that on the promise that they would get big, somehow raise unit margin, and become a business that would eventually turn not just profits, but profits commensurate with their valuation.

Profits commensurate with their valuation are probably somewhere in the $5B to $10B per year range, once they're no longer growing that much. If all of SE Asia contributes only a couple hundred million to those profits -- even if those profits are nearly risk-free -- then that's not wonderful for Uber (or at least to Uber's investors).

And more so, signals that say "We will not be able to establish stable high market share alongside stable high profit in many markets" are really bad for Uber's prospects for raising money.
Damn You Autocorrect.
Not everyone cares about patents. I think Chinese factories do not care and who cares whether the result product was patent-free or not.
Cool, thanks. Well, next time! Would be cool if you find something specific we can avoid/improve if you do end up having to use it.
Requiring they deliver content to a certain percentage of customer even if they don’t want it seems completely wrong. Almost like Comcast was hoping they’d either package it and have to raise prices or pay for breach. Either way the little guy looses.
Is he getting a comfy white collar prison sentence?

Also, not to be that guy, but I hope he gets beat daily by other inmates.

Edit: jk, totally being that guy.
There's zero rationality in allowing a critical drug (which the Epi-pen became) to have the price jacked up several hundred fold "just because".
Nothing is significantly different if you go up enough layers of abstraction. I think it's pretty obvious there's a difference between collateral damage caused by a drunken riot, and the sober specific targeting of an economic rival by torturing a child, you know, to an empathetic human.
It doesn't seem relevant to the thread, where he knowingly and willingly engaged in a massive theft-related offence against large numbers of people.

That's not "the government is out to get you", that's "the government punishes crooks".
You mistakenly compare a failure to act ("save someone from malaria") with a clear purposeful action ("extorted sick poor people").

And there's no particular "higher purpose" of the law here that prevents us from making Shkreli's behavior illegal. Price gouging is illegal under other circumstances [1]; as far as I can tell his actions were legal just because nobody thought someone would be this awful.

If you'd like to defend this sociopath, please at least try to make your argument relate to the actual situation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the internet. Except he didn’t
The original Myst game was written in Hypercard. With this knowledge, I wrote a Hunt the Wumpus 3D dungeon crawler in my high school CS class when everyone else was stuck with plain ol' text versions.
They offer a cash transfer service via Messenger (similar to Apple Pay Cash or Snap Cash where you hand over a debit card and then you can send money to friends).

I believe they also used to have a system (maybe they still do?) where you could buy "Facebook Credits" to use on Facebook platform games, essentially microtransactions.
Schools and some other public places were also required to keep Epi-pens on hand, by law. Some of them did pay the exorbitant prices.
BizSpark has discontinued
Discussion on the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16537718
From Failure to Product-Market Fit Selling Online Jewelry
> Cornering a drug and hiking the price simply for profit and no other legitimate reason (supply chain issue, newer/more effective version, etc...) should be illegal.

This is how all patents work. Are you against patents?
Better product, cheaper, with less people exploitation, is a win for everybody on Earth.

Except the old cartel. (Which, btw, artificially limits supply of mined diamonds)

There were attempts to do the same in the US fifteen years ago -- see for example "Apollo Diamonds." Maybe this time it'll stick?
Regulating the price of medication isn't a slippery slope to outlawing MacBook pros. What a preposterous thing to say.

The law is whatever society decides it should be. There is nothing inherently rational about it. You'd have to accept some pretty messed up things as rational if you actually believed that.
I can't speak for rootusrootus, but I suspect it may go like this: You figure out they aren't worth investing any more in, but they aren't worth the hassle and risk of firing. So you give them garbage raises. After a couple of years, they find greener grass somewhere, and move on.
The majority of comments here being sad about Shkreli kinda reaffirms my views about HN, I have to say.

Shkreli always seemed like a personified 4chan teenager "memelord" with money. Good to see that playing out your delusions of grandeur and arrogance toward the justice system is met with consequences.

Maybe in prison he will mature a bit.
GitHub is very very far from a monolithic Rails app built "the Rails way". I would doubt that Shopify is either, but I can't say for certain. And Hulu's asset pipelines are very unlikely to be Rails, making it a relatively simple "display a catalogue and take payments" app.
American authorities have primarily focused on the exploitation/trafficking side of the dark web. In some cases, I would expect that mention of pursuing "darknet markets" is a more media-friendly euphemism for real operations that are focused on the trafficking of guns and/or people.

Hundreds were arrested in the FBI's Operation Pacifier [0], and their cases are still actively working through the courts. We don't hear much about Operation Pacifier, and I assume that's by design.

For security-aware technologists, however, there is an important detail: the feds have some heretofore-undisclosed exploit that is used to de-anonymize Tor users, which gets referred to as "the malware".

They're so interested in keeping the details of this secret that they dropped all charges on one of Operation Pacifier's biggest offenders, because he had a skilled lawyer who convinced the judge that the government would have to disclose more details about how it unmasked him to ensure that his constitutional rights had not been violated.

It's interesting that the tool used gets referred to as "the malware". Is this a real-world use of the Intel ME or just your run-of-the-mill trojan? Is there a backdoor in the Tor Browser Bundle, and that's why the government still allows such easy access to it? Is the claim of "malware" just a diversion to prevent people from learning that they have a crack for the Tor network itself? Dunno. Would be interesting to find out though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pacifier
GitHub: A more connected universe (2017)
It's breaking the laws of the country who are indirectly created by the "public," it has nothing to do with mob mentality. We are a nation of laws. In fact, republics are a safeguard against mob mentality which can happen in direct democracy.

Until being offensive is illegal, it should hold no bearing in a just trial. Fortunately, we have the first amendment, which makes being an obnoxious asshole in and of itself perfectly legal.
Feeling concerned about newly discovered correlations isn't going to help you live longer.

Maybe this will help you:
http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
That’s silly and bad strategy though, hoping you can “trick” someone into taking a lower salary by getting them to the end of an interview process. Just biases your pool for the least valuable candidates.
Yes, sorry, "is aware that harm is caused but continues to use".

BTW if people are drinking alcohol and regularly (once a month) getting hangovers they're absuing alcohol.
In comparison, here's what it cost me in September to place a credit freeze in a state that does not regulate its cost (Pennsylvania):

TransUnion: $10
Experian: $10.70
Equifax: free (they made it free after they were hacked - until June 30th)
Innovis: free (always free as far as I can tell)

And it worked really, really well. I had to apply for a corporate Amex at work soon afterwards. I was rejected because my credit was frozen and was asked to call. I temporarily unfroze my credit while on the phone (on Equifax, because it was free) and Amex ran my credit right then and approved me.

Having that kind of control was amazing. If I need to allow a credit check, I can do a 24 hour or 7 day unfreeze. It's such a minor inconvenience for completely blocking credit thieves.
One of the main reasons I always go through recruiters. They won't waste my time or theirs submitting me to jobs where the salary is not what I want.
Genuine ROTFL I think I will leave that typo in :_)
Wow. That is extremely impressive that such a large company is able to get a fix out that quickly.
Iphone defects
> Sending email is one of the things rails does out of the box. ActionMailer is builtin.

Yep. ActionMailer is great at sending email... to one person. Where the logic goes in Rails for sending email to multiple people, nobody has a good answer.
Well put. Just because O.J. was found not guilty and no big bankers went to jail in 2008 doesn't mean judges in other courtrooms are going to relax their standards when you flip them off

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Penelope-Soto-Woman-Who-...
Shkreli did not increase epipen prices.
After the leak last year I’ve spent a few hundred bucks freezing my wife and my credit.

While the cost is annoying, the process is even more annoying.

The entire idea/industry needs to be changed. It’s absurd all Americans are opted into this system.

How is credit reporting handled in other countries?

Edit: my wife’s credit. ;)
Got it, so they've figured out how to deal with lattice constant mismatches?
U.S. appeals court in San Francisco will hear net neutrality appeals
U.S. Coast Guard’s $67M EHR Fiasco
Mercedes-Maybach S-Class: Digital Light: the light of the future hits the road
I hope this gets done away with sooner rather than later. While I enjoy the extra one hour in the weekend before the holiday season, the spring forward generally causes me a headache lasting about a week.
This video is a must-share twice a year, especially for people who have moved to Arizona to free themselves from the madness.

https://youtu.be/k4EUTMPuvHo
You are completely wrong, and the above people, about steem doubling every year for the total amount, it only increases by something like less than 10% per year.You or someone above you linked an article from 2016 that has very outdated information.

I figured people here might actually do any amount of research instead of just saying vague statements like "resting on your laurels". You have no idea what you are commenting on because it is 2 year old information, but you are acting like an expert. Pathetic.
So do Health Care insurance companies. People don't realize how broken that system is until they or someone they know gets really sick.
If you're going to complain, offer a solution. What should be illegal? Patents? Transferring patents?
That's a license play not a "I'm going to start a paving business" play.
Yeah, no. I'm rejecting your argument. The two are nowhere near the same. Shkreli purposefully did what he did, and more so, he showed no remorse in doing it, and he insulted the court.
Chicken Sexing = Identifying a Chicken as Male or Female
Stephenson is terrible at endings.
You could just always tell it to re-fetch, effectively disabling caching.

> Almost like you're mirroring your db on the client.

Well that was the goal of mini-mongo in Meteor, before they ramped down development to work on Apollo. I think mirroring the db on the client is sort of the goal.
>Perhaps we'll accuse Georgia Pacific of being a beneficiary of the "collegiate-industrial complex" as well as the "prison-industrial complex" because they supply paper products.

If and when they donate to candidates for harsher sentences, then yes, they are.

Most businesses and people that work for said businesses tend to vote in a matter that leads to their continued employment.

>Ask yourself, is it likely that our politicians are completely beholden to an industry that makes up a fraction of a fraction of a percent of our economy?

Absolutely. You're thinking of the wrong economy. The economy that matters the most to a politician is the one that gives the most donations during the election.
You do realize that insurance companies have to charge people more money than they spend in order to be profitable, right? Exorbitant drug costs is just another one of the factors that price poor people out of insurance, which is actually a much worse outcome than simply denying access to that specific drug.
How is it "inherently problematic"

It promotes an echo chamber and is de facto exclusionary.

Minorities frequently complain that most people "bet" you will be one of the majority. If 90 percent of the time, X is true, they assume X is true in all cases rather than hedging their bet that maybe this is that 10 percent case where a woman is the boss or a person of color is the boss or the person you are speaking to is gay or whatever. It helps create an atmosphere hostile to minorities and other disempowered people.