skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m exploring digital nomading from the US. I take it that there are other (perhaps more expensive ) providers that offer preventative care?

From stories online and experiences of others, it also seems that a lot of it is about maintaining emotional health when away from home for a while. I wonder if you’ve thought through providing access to counseling services, etc. In other words, safety net in terms of well being?
Like it or hate it, this is what the SEC does. You think Martha Stewart deserved jail time for making 50k in an insider trading scheme she didn't really care about?

The SEC finds very public cases and then brings the hammer down in order to act a deterrent. Martin Shkreli broke the law, something he didn't have to do. It isn't like it was mob justice and some hugely biased jury convicted him of all the crimes he was committed of without thought. The jury by all accounts fairly deliberated his actions and convicted him of crimes that he did, while letting him off for crimes he didn't do.

Then all Shkreli had to do was show some remorese and kiss the ring a little bit, but he continued to be a troll and mock the justice system. He downplayed his crimes literally minutes after being convicted of them, which showed a lack of remorse (and maybe honestly so, but the justice system doesn't like that). He continued to be a troll, including the whole Hillary Clinton incident, many of these statements used against him in sentencing.

This isn't a case of the tall blades of grass getting cut first. It's a case where we have a subjective justice system that doesn't want to be mocked while it is doing it's job. Shkreli went out of his way to mock it, he went out of his way to mock the SEC, all the while he actually did commit a crime. Yes, it is a witch hunt in that the SEC will throw the book at some people while letting other people who committed worse crimes off the hook (Phil Mickelson vs Martha Stewart), but that how any limited investigative body works. If you don't want to be a target of a witch hunt, don't break the law. And if you do, kiss the ring. I'm not convinced it is a huge indictment of our society that people who break the law all the while trolling everybody get unfairly harsh punishments, though I admit it is unfair in the sense that life as a whole is unfair.
So I've never really used emacs... but I'm not really sure I understand why a text editor would need all these things? Like, why do you want an HTTP client in your text editor when you already have wget, curl, nc, etc available in your shell? It kind of sounds like emacs was incorporating anything remotely related to it before systemd came along and made it cool.
You're discussing the latest chapter, I'm discussing the whole book.

I'm including all the "Pharmabro" chapters over the last couple of years. Google his name. He isn't famous for fraud.
Funny, I grew up there.

At scale, Emilia co-ops are the same as any other business: they want to make money, screw workers. The veneer of social conscience is pretension, these days. A lot of jobs (most?) higher in the food chain are assigned through old-boys’ networks and political patronage (which is common even in the private sector, in Italy). Most large coop groups are struggling and surviving only with mergers. As the political system that allowed them to get established (stable 50-year left-wing governments across the whole region) slowly crumbled, their markets were blown open to competition, and they reacted by turning into more and more traditional businesses - or going bankrupt under clouds of political scandal.

A lot of people in the area think this type of development has fundamentally betrayed its origins and should be reformed at the very least.

EDIT: re-reading, I might have been a bit unfair. Coops had a tremendous social impact, until around the early 1980s. They were part and parcel of a development model that had little to envy to Scandinavian social democracy. It's just that they eventually changed, as all institutions do, prioritizing self-preservation and enrichment over their social role. This is particularly true for larger ones (generally in construction, food distribution, maintenance services, banking, and insurance).
How can a currency function that can only process 200 transactions per minute globally? And if you think the lightning network is going to work, I have some snake oil to sell you
I upgraded to the Kenwood TH-D74 from the Baofeng for the simple reason that i wanted the ability to actually specify a frequency that i hadn't pre-programmed when out in the field. Doing that on a baofeng is nigh-impossible. the APRS, GPS, and D-Star are just icing on the cake.

the Baofengs are cheap but absolutely suck when it comes to usability. With the Kenwood i can deploy to help our local CERT team, and not worry if they say "oh we changed the band plan... use this frequency" With the baofeng it was... "um... er.... well that sucks..."

Admittedly the Kenwood doesn't have a beginner friendly price but I don't know of any handheld that lets you type in a random frequency without wanting to kill yourself that IS cheap. I'd love to hear about it if anyone knows of one.
I'm asking half-seriously here: assuming the fentanyl pill guy could demonstrate Good Manufacturing Practice, i.e. dose constant and as advertised and equally distributed throughout the pill, would he be sentenced more leniently?
Technical Committee 39 of ECMA [1] is the governing board for the living ECMAScript standards documents, which influence the direction of the language we more often call JavaScript.

There's a current TC39 proposal [2] (at Stage 3, which is the discovery stage to gauge feasibility in browsers) to add officially to the language standard `Array.prototype.flatten()` (to flatten an array like `[[1, 2], 3, [4, 5]]` to `[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]`) and `Array.prototype.flatMap` (to `flatten().map()` as a single operation).

Because browser vendors discovered some libraries in the wild (8+ year old versions of MooTools) install their own incompatible to the new spec version of `Array.prototype.flatten` that does something different from the array flattening above, there is a discussion (as PR) [3] to avoid breaking ancient websites by choosing a new name for the proposed `Array.prototype.flatten`, in the case of the PR `Array.prototype.smoosh`. (For consistency it then renames `Array.prototype.flatMap` to `Array.prototype.smooshMap`.)

Other names are being discussed as well in the PR, and the TC39 committee has not yet actually met on the subject at this time, so nothing is quite set in stone.

[1] https://github.com/tc39
[2] https://tc39.github.io/proposal-flatMap/
[3] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-flatMap/pull/56
I get a similar vibe from this as I did from the "Solar (FREAKIN) Roadways" project. It seems like in order to make a crypto-heater, the end result is both a poor miner and a poor, expensive heater.
Salary range. Critical info that most job listings don’t have. I’m much more likely to consider a job if I know it has an appropriate salary range.
Judges take into account the "impact" of the crime all the time in sentencing. As they should.

In this case, his crime had no negative impact on anyone, and the unduly harsh sentence sure looks like a sentence for the unlikable (but perfectly legal) price hikes he did.
Out of curiosity, why do you take colistin regularly?
Leap Smear (2017)
Company - Address - (Remote Allowed?)

Job Title - Department

Description of Company

Description of Job

Tech Stack

Requirements

How Interview Works

Salary Range

Benefits

[Click to Apply without having to retype your whole resume]
> Having “intrinsic motivations”, sometimes a true passion, for what the social service worker does is the best prerequisite to have a satisfactory relation with clients.

This. Doesn't this hold for so many professions or just so many things we do in life?

What an excellent interview and what good to see such a positive insight on (a part) of Italy's economy. In the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008 a lot of Italy bashing (together with basically all Southern European EU countries) has been going on, most of it completely based on stereotypes.

Also makes me wonder if cooperations like these are one of the reasons why (Northern) Italian design is so damn good.
Thank you for your reply. I am now in "stationary" mode, but I suffered in the past when I was in nomad-mode. I think there are a lot of things to be done in this space. I wish all the best for your startup. I will be following.
Reaction to Super Smash Bros on Switch in NYC Store
+1 to “rockstar”, “guru”, etc being a dead giveaway of a terrible company.
I don't think the outrage was ever about Shkreli not saving someone's life. It was about Shkreli making lots of money from people's suffering, after artificially inflating the price of a drug that he controlled. In other words, getting rich from increasing the amount of misery in this world.
Extensions get exploited from inside the browser too. If you're going to be buying contraband online, one would hope that you have at least enough commitment to move your mouse over to another window on your desktop and do the cryptography there.
Shkreli did not "make a mistake". He purposefully defrauded investors.
You can work at your introversion. Introversion is about energy loss, you can develop a tolerance for interaction. It's like a muscle, the more you practice the more stamina you have. Horrific and all as it might sound, look for a local toastmasters club, go a couple of times, give some speeches. After a few months you'll be amazed at what you've achieved, and how much more easy it'll be to be a more social person. It just takes practice and effort.

Edit: I made that sound very straight forward, it isn't. But toastmasters clubs exist for you to practice interaction. It's very empowering. Go a few times, listen to others, start small, give a 1 minute speech, when you're comfortable, develop some more, talk a bit more. Force yourself to make progress, build that social muscle, gain stamina.
Interview Style. Are you going to whiteboard me or do something else?
> Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process.

Polywater wasn't the "source" for Cat's Cradle. The book was published in 1963 and (per Wikipedia) the West didn't take notice of polywater until 1966 at the earliest.
I use firefox as my main browser, it's a shame I need to switch to chrome to get scout functionality
Testing and Debugging in Production with Distributed Tracing
>And if you take away any prospect of bad consequences, more people will become predators.

This premise is false. People have gotten along without the present distorted system of mass incarceration, not having a system of punishment doesn't itself produce predators. Social norms are quite powerful by themselves. The present system needs to be wholesale re-evaluated for its fairness and effectiveness at producing people that don't reoffend.

At the moment it exists, structurally, to create a labor force that can be forced to work for free, effectively continuing the practice of slavery in this country. This systematized role disproportionately affects communities of color, unsurprisingly, in line with the historical victims of the practice.

>What do you do with the 20 year old man who robs someone at gunpoint, or drags a woman into an alley and rapes her?

Well, at the moment we let them out after 90 days if they're on the swim team at Stanford.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/02/us/brock-turner-release-jail/...
Sex and death in the classical world
If you have a movie or TV series which you watched so many times that you remember most of it, then try watching it dubbed in Spanish.
"Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School" -- awesome band name, if I were to name it after myself it would be the "Wang Chick Sexting School"
I suspect that will be an unpopular fact although true.

He was made an example of by Insurance companies and politicians. You have to remember Shkreli is very connected on Wall St and can call Soros et al friends.

I am of the opinion that the Judge was also biased in this case. She had a disdain for him from the beginning.

Junk away ...LOL....
I use minio for this. I then use the minio node library to access minio, B2 and S3.
That was enjoyable.
You're totally right, but there are also a lot of 'real' and 'human/animal' traditions that we've collectively decided aren't worth continuing. I'd argue this should be one of them, but I'm not bullish on my preference vs. diamond advertising budget and a culture of perpetual consumerism.
Can't upvote this enough. Even if it's a really wide range, it rules out companies with unrealistically low pay scales.

It also makes it slightly more equitable, since employees are no longer reliant on playing salary poker in order to determine their pay rate. This tends to reduce the salary gap.
It wasn't meant to be a personal attack against him, it was more of an observation that the citizenry are now quelled from being (rightfully) pissed about companies cornering a drug and hiking up prices.

Shkrelli is a scapegoat in reagards to the drug price hiking. It's still going on; it's still perfectly legal; and it seems the politicians are getting paid to keep it that way.

It's more of a thought of how the citizenry can get manipulated. Shkrelli was the face of this practice; Shkrelli is in jail; justice served. Or so the narrative seems to be.
Even absent government regulation, I still don't see consumers being terribly concerned about the source of their apple. Why? Because the quality of it is reflected by the reputation of the seller. But even if I were to concede the argument for the particular case of food, that does not mean that knowledge of provenance is a prerequisite for a free market.

>You need the other things to move away from the necessity of government regulation

I guess this is the crux of the matter. You are suggesting that transparency must pre-exist a free market, I am suggesting that a free market pre-exists transparency, and when necessary transparency will be demanded by the consumers.
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I've been using similar project called Streisand: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

It's easy to set up on Azure and has Wireguard built-in.
Excellent list. I'd just add a brief overview of the interview process to be totally complete.
Hey everyone --- I work with defects in diamond for my PhD! While they are completely different from the chunks of ice described here, let me know if there is something I can help with.
And please allow me to refer to real and actual scientific studies.

The critical period for language acquisition

Snow, C. and Hoefnagel-Hoehle, M. (1982) -
http://grammar.ucsd.edu/courses/00-OLD/lign179/snow.hh.82.pd...

On the precise point of learning a L2 language, teenagers and adults learn faster and better than children:
"The crucial findings of relevance for the CPH were that the 3- to 5-year olds scored consistently worse than the older groups on all the tests and that the 12- to 15-year-olds showed the most rapid acquisition of all the skills tested. These findings are basis for rejecting the hypothesis that the period 2 to 12 years constitutes an optimal time for language acquisition."

And a second one:

Maturational Constraints on Language Learning

Newport, 1990 - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1207/s15516709cog1401_...

Different rates of L2 may reflect psychological and social factors that favor child learners, instead of mere brain chemistry:
"The evidence from several studies of both first and second language acquisition suggests that normal language learning occurs only when exposure to the language begins early in life."
> Sentencing guidelines for his crime was 0-12 months.

There's obviously plenty of dispute between where particular situations fall on the guidelines, but his own lawyers argued that he should get 12-18 months (plus other penalties), as a downward deviation from 27 years calculated under the guidelines. [0]

So, I'm curious how you arrived at a guideline sentence of 0-12 months. That would seem to imply Shkreli’s lawyers were grossly incompetent.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/pharma-...
The judge forced him to actively troll people, including goading his large audience into physically harassing a presidential candidate? I don't have a position either which way, but judges can consider whether the defendant shows a measure of responsibility and understanding [0] (e.g. remorse). Shkreli was bragging post-conviction on livestreams [1] and interviews that he wouldn't be spending time in prison. Whether people like Skilling deserved more punishment or not is orthogonal to Shkreli giving the court plenty of room to doubt he had recognized what he had been found guilty of.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_of_responsibility

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/martin-shkrelis-lawyers-fa...
Insurance premiums are pricing more and more people out of the market and that trend is driven by this sort of behavior.

I'm glad that Shkreli felt obligated to help the people who could directly attribute their suffering to him, but he's still a jerk who extorts sick people.
Im from that region. Coop are anti-meritocracy. Many times the coops is a way to bypass tax and rules and do unfair concurrency. Coops give low pay to workers and they can because workers are considered company members. Coops are very politically connected and many time implied in corruption cases.
So he lied in order to start the company in the first place and managed to exploit the lie into a profit.

This is still fraud. The fact that it paid off isn't relevant to the fact that it's fraud.
How much longer than normal were investor funds locked up for?
We could start a GoFundMe to purchase the album and release it.
Hence why companies rarely include it.
I'm reminded of the C++ exploding error competition: https://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370/results-of-the-gr...
I realize the actual charges are for different things, but I find myself comparing Shkreli's actions of hiking up daraprim prices to John Kapoor's fraud charges to sell opioids ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/doj-billionaire-... ). So far one of the doctors involved in the latter case got four years ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/ivy-leagu... ). More light needs to be shined on Kapoor's case (and the practices in Big Pharma in general) if it's impacting more lives.

I don't like Shkreli's obnoxiousness, yet tried listening to his reasoning in why he raised the daraprim price versus other drugs. His talk last year at Harvard ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3bpXHMP4ww ) dives a bit into the thought process.
REAMDE was his first book that I read. I was totally captivated by the book, but I hated the ending. That's one of his good endings?
Hi folks. We built this with about 40 Lambda functions on the backend. We use headless Chrome and puppeteer. It was a little tricky getting everything working on Lambda, including re-use of cookies/local storage.
So, you would argue that directly profiting from raising the price of a necessary life-saving medication is equivalent to making charitable donations to foreign countries?

That seems to be a stretch to me...
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This is great feedback, thank you!
That's why the joke "Emacs is a great OS, if only it had a good text editor," lives on and has a kernel of truth. It's really not a text editor, it's a LISP VM. It also does actually have a pretty good text editor out-of-the-box.

It's why the vim vs. Emacs "war" isn't really a fight over text editing, but an ideological battle of "one tool that does one thing well" vs. "one tool that has everything I ever need."

Personally, I find integration a huge selling point, and the Unix pipe interface leaves a lot to be desired. Writing some elisp code, or (preferably) installing a well-documented layer/package, is preferable to me. The specific tools I need also happen to be well supported in the Emacs ecosystem.
“Member” is a very light concept: if you open a savings account with them, or a fidelity store card, you become a member, even if you work in a completely different field and for a regular company. So the coop sector as a whole produce 30% of gdp, but this is not related to the gdp output of members.
Jesus! What a bizarre statement. Didn't he just say that regardless of what the police do, drug transactions will continue? Why they hell do you both going after them then?
This time. Because he paid those investors with proceeds from his other company. But letting him off here means he'll likely do it again, and those investors might not be so lucky.
Why not make "frozen" credit the default?
It's not true that U.S. libertarians don't "care about foreign conflict of any type".
Nowhere in that article does it describe an actual crime that went unprosecuted.

Shkreli broke the law. The financiers causing the financial collapse did not. Perhaps the laws should be changed.
> Can you link to the US sentencing guidelines please?

https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines
Fix There are no more BitLocker recovery options on your PC
Aaron Swartz did not make a mistake. He purposely obtained unauthorized access to JSTOR and exfiltrated data for public consumption [1].

Poor judgment with minimal damage should not cost you a tenth of your life, or in Aaron's case, his entire life.

[1] https://archive.org/details/JSTORSwartzEvidenceAllDocs
Depends on the industry. In some heavily-regulated industries, there are huge fines at stake for leaking information.

Look at healthcare. If information leaks, it has to be reported to the feds within 24 hours of initial discovery. Not C-level finding out, but whatever low-level employee finds it. Even if it's one person. If it's more than around 10 people, there's a federal requirement to report it to the local media.
Yes going "fuck you judge" whilst on trial does tend to have that effect.

Its also why contempt of court and malfeasance in public office has such harsh panties
Direct link to github repo: https://github.com/anderm/voronoi-selection-in-3d
How is it "inherently problematic" to write a comment on a forum for technologists in the context that its readers will be technologists?

I mean, you might as well choose any arbitrary thread about a programming language and complain that the only implementation(s) require a computer, which requires non-universally-possessed resources to obtain/upkeep, and furthermore not everybody has time to program!

Also, asserting that "99 percent" are straight up unable to choose a new email provider is preposterous.
His legal team said that, but of course that doesn't mean he didn't commit fraud. As I understand it, he took money from his pharmaceutical company to cover up trading losses in his fund. The fact that investors all made money doesn't change a)that this is almost certainly criminal in and of itself if you don't 100% own both the fund and the company b)pharma investors would have made more money had he not taken some of their cash and given it to investors in his fund.

Edit: And of course reporting requirements. If you're investing with other people's money, you don't get to make a huge loss just disappear and not tell people about it. There are a bunch of laws about that sort of thing.
The Language Instinct is a book he wrote 25 years ago, back when he bothered writing about stuff he actually had a clue about.

Jared Diamond, with all his faults, is head and shoulders above Pinker. He, too, provides an overarching, overconfident narrative, but at least he more-or-less knows what he's talking about and, most importantly, has something interesting to say. It is not surprising that historians at least consider his thesis something to think about, while Pinker is considered a sad joke, and is more talked-about as a phenomenon (of the uneducated popular intellectual) than for the inanities he spews.
As the saying goes, if you want to make an omelette, you have to sex a lot of chickens.