skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it targeting digital nomads? I know they are underserved in this area (and many others), but I would trust more a normal insurance, with a strong foot in my country, but offers an extended plan to digital nomad.

Off-topic: Would you mind to share who made the illustrations of your website? I really love it!
I find myself using JOE (Joe's Own Editor) more and more. I changed to it as a mental exercise to force myself to use it, but the movement keys make a lot of sense to me (I use Jstar mode, so it's the W-S-D-X cross) and it's friendly, stable, and deals with huge files really well. That said, I switch around lots of editors. I'm a plain text kind of person, so the ecosystem of Unix text editors means I'm permanently in my playground and will never get old.
Time to understand the digital thread
Martin Shkreli sentenced to seven years
Well, for those crimes that result in life sentences or the death penalty, background checks don't really come into play.

There's a wide range of felonies that don't automatically make someone an animal.
A Tiny `ls` Clone Written in Rust
The ISP in question is in Turkey, so it should probably be noted that the Turkish government has a root cert trusted by both Mozilla and Microsoft.

https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/IncludedCACert...

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...
And I'm still searching for the good Python and PHP IDE that implements it. I'm hoping that Jetbrains will, as I use IdeaVIM in a few if their products, but right now I always have to switch between the IDE for general editing and VIM 8 or NeoVim for terrific macros or some hardcore surgery. Having that power right in PyCharm or any other decent IDE would be a dream.
Thanx, very nice!
People don't want to go to prison the first time, either.
Having JavaScript enabled when buying drugs over the internet isn't exactly the smartest idea anyway.
This. There's a bigger problem we need to deal with. The system. The laws. The government. The banks. The Federal Reserve. If there was a Statist 101 course, this entire 300-year project would get a D, maybe a C. It's atrocious, and we all accept it because we are sheep who need protection from the big bad wolves of the world. Eventually, it will become clear that there is one big bad wolf we should really fear.
Well that doesn't copy. That closes Emacs. No wonder you're having trouble! Use M-w.

You can do what you need using Emacs. Instead of context menus, you search for a less used command using M-x. It helps if you have ido-mode or helm. The latter, in my opinion, makes it a beautiful experience.

I tried moving over to JetBrains IDEs. It was too painful. I can see its value in a language where it can write most of the code for you. Otherwise, Emacs all the way.
In short, org-mode was the gateway drug for me, and since I don't have any religious feelings towards any editor I found it easier to switch entirely, rather than keep using vim for code.

Although emacs is my main editor I still use vim and try to keep the memory of keybindings alive.
In many countries antibiotics (intended for human use) are sold over the counter.

I think in general the stuff that is resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics has mostly arisen from use that was not under a prescription (be it in countries with OTC sales, livestock or illicit use).
> Another takeaway is that Uber can be beaten, when a few years ago they seemed unbeatable. Frankly I personally think Uber is gonna lose SEA as well.

I wonder if he was privy to this deal while writing this post.
Week 10 in Information Security, 2018
NASA Juno Findings – Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly
It was meeeeee (the guy who illustrated it)
Imagine having this much conviction in a personal fantasy despite the opposite being legally documented.
Usually it's badly designed road bed underneath. Many roads don't have a proper foundation underneath, so unless that is fixed, just repaving them is a stopgap measure, and it just starts cracking and subsiding in the same places it was bad before.
I use duplicity + B2 on my Fedora laptop. It works very well. I even proved out the restore when I accidentally borked my .profile file the other day ;)
> I get the feeling they move often because that's about how long it takes their team and management to conclude they aren't worth investing any more patience in.

Why would it take you 2 years to understand it about someone? In my experience, real figure is closer to something about 2 weeks.
It's easy to forget that most people are just starting out (by definition; most people quit or stop), most people just want to make something, and for that, there's nothing better than rails. I'm in this boat. I just want this thing I thought of and designed to be real, and now after doing Hardtl's tutorial and reading/coding for two days, my thing's basic MVP is real. I've never really done a web app before except for some experiments in Clojure. But I'm not programming it in clojure, a language I like better than Ruby and know a lot better than Ruby, because there's no opinionated framework, there are no models, there's nothing even close to rails and activemodel and all that. I just want to make the thing. That's what most infant-sized things are: babies. And to make the baby you make it in rails and deploy it on heroku. If it sticks, remake it in something else if it really does have scaling problems. But most things don't succeed, and if they do, they probably won't succeed at the scale where it matters at all that they were written in rails. (This is a statistical argument.)
I wish, but after 40 years on this planet I've come to the conclusion that certain systemic forms of irrationality are incredibly difficult to "educate out" of the population. I suspect that we fall for these things over and over because our central nervous systems just haven't evolved to be very good at certain kinds of reasoning. Maintaining rationality in these areas is effortful and as soon as we slack off we slip back into familiar shortcuts.

I'll be more optimistic about this when I see sales of lottery tickets start dropping dramatically and when stuff like this stops happening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcwn6bGUtU

Gambling and silly financial schemes are driven by the same sorts of logical fallacies as those I discussed up top.
I found this incredibly soothing, maybe even therapeutic.

Bravo. Wonderful execution by the creator.
Targeting digital nomads because we are that ourselves, so we know what isn't working, and so can make a better product. We aren't innovating on the financing though. We have a Japanese giant as insurance partner, and it's underwritten at Lloyd's.

We are planning to target freelancers and entrepreneurs more generally, with our coming series of products. They will all be global though. This is just the first step.

The illustrations is made by Sean MacIsaac, our genius designer/frontend/illustrator who is on the founding team.
Ask HN: The cost of incorporating and drafting safe notes, $15k?
Hello,

We have an early startup and we need to incorporate as a C-corp and draft safe notes to raise a sum of $1M in funding. We came across a law firm that is willing to defer payments but they say all of that will cost some $15k.

Does anyone know how much it costs to create an investors-ready C-Corp and draft a safe note?
:) The TS-990S looks to be a smidgen better than my old Kenwood.

It took me a few minutes to remember: Mine was the TS 520, which listed at $600 according to eham. So even more of a bargain than I remember. (not like I paid for it. Thanks Dad. (But then again, it sent me down the giant rabbit hole of analog circuits and devices. Thanks for nothing Dad.) :)

https://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5430

https://www.ebay.com/p/Kenwood-TS-520-Radio-Transceiver/1296...

Edit: Wow, just spent some time on the TS-990S site. The state of the art is really something to behold for someone who has not been very active in the past couple of decades.
Yev from Backblaze here -> All data currently has to cross the Atlantic as we have data centers in California and Arizona, but we do hope to add European data centers in the near future!
...and we've come full circle for WHY the Maker-Hacker movement / Internet / Silicon valley.

Given that morals and ethics are weighed against economic decisions at the personal level. It is our responsibility as self-actualized individuals aware of this, and posseing the skills to do something about it to help create economic conditions to alleviate the dissonance that comes with choice.

As a crust punk friend turned very successful investment banker said to me when asked about their career trajectory "you can do more damage from the inside than the out."
Without going into too much detail, it's men's apparel and accessories - primarily accessories.

Yes, P&G isn't SV. I meant more that the founding team was already pre-connected to the VC world, possibly through law school connections. They had already raised prior to P&G noticing them in the first place, and very likely leveraged those connections for an introduction to P&G.

DNVB businesses whose founding or management teams have no such connections is not in a position to even meet such people, let alone attract interest from them. Hence, we quietly bootstrap and slowly build our businesses away from any serious equity funding opportunities.
It might well not have enough contemporary flare and flash for young kids used to modern computers, tablets, phones. But there are "classic Mac" emulators. I imagine they do Hypercard just fine.
> Well if it's any consolation he'll probably be out in 3.

The US federal criminal justice system has no parole; other than Presidential pardon or commutation, or the sentence being overturned judicially, you stay in prison for the full term of your sentence, reduced by a maximum of 54 days per year of sentence by good conduct credits. So, best case for a seven year sentence is just under six years.
The best explanation of the drug price phenomenon: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...

Shkreli was the just the lowest hanging fruit who a) didn't have the backing of a major pharma company to mask him and b) he also happened to enjoy the attention he get from playing the "villain" character, ironically or not, in an outrage driven (social) media culture.

I also don't think it's possible to separate his identity within pharma nor his politics with the Clinton drama, from his sentencing in this case.

Nearly every single headline has started with "Pharmabro" and judges always consider external factors and personal behaviour during sentencing.
He really screwed himself over while he was on bail. He probably could have gotten off with what his attorneys wanted (around a year) if he just shut up until after the sentencing was over. But he kept trolling on livestream and twitter and acting like it was a given that he would get off easy. Obviously he was joking around with the Clinton "threat" but he should not have given prosecutors anything to use against him. I like the guy overall, his educational streams were pretty good, but trolling very powerful people while you are facing potential 20 years in prison is insane.
This drives me crazy.

I'm a pretty good 3d artist, so it's very easy to find people who want to work with me on game projects. Sadly, I've yet to meet one who actually kept the enthusiasm the whole way through - even when I've literally made all the art!

It's literally maddening to see so many games made with programmer art - and I just can't find anybody reliable to work with on any project. And, before you ask, I've tried contacting the makers of programmer art games - and it's almost always the case that they've moved on or got a job.

I just want to work on a project where I can see stuff through to the end without relocating to get a job at a studio. But if I post an ad, I just get a ton of replies from people who will drop the project after I've invested hours of work into it - no matter what I do.
How much is it worth?
Ask HN: Founders, how did you get your startup idea?
Shkreli has repeatedly flaunted his wealth, privilege and false sense of superiority. Although not illegal, it's offensive. Offending the public, whether right or wrong, has consequences. Shkreli is getting a taste of mob justice, or just what he asked for.
Punitive justice sounds great in theory but in practice it has not prevented crime from occurring and reoccurring.

There is a lot of research on punishment showing that it only works to increase the motivation to not get caught. It in no way influences the reasons behind criminal/illegal behavior. Otherwise no one would ever get a second parking or speeding ticket or a dui.

Having prisons be run as colleges is better for society than having prisons run as plantations.

In 2018, high quality online education is close to free. Coursera, edux, udemy are just some of the examples.
Thanks for clarifying. I hadn't realized that. Might motivate me to learn it!
> modify the JS code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16554286
"... an exciting galactic collision is underway." Seriously? Think about the civilizations that are about to be wiped out, the life forms that no one will ever know about, the ginormous black hole that will just get bigger.

Ok, so I'm only kind of serious. In the scheme of things all things change. I expect time is limited to less than a megayear for the systems on the edges of the arms like ours is on the Milky Way.
If I give you money to invest in Alphabet stock and you instead invest it in lottery tickets, that seems like theft to me regardless of whether the lottery tickets pay off or not.
PHP on Lambda
I remember watching a video on YouTube a few years ago that there are many different structures of ice, and when you cool it down to a specific temperature, it makes a loud cracking noise as it transitions from one form to the other. I can't remember the details exactly sadly.
This is absolutely correct. There are shelves and shelves of laws that no one really knows. If someone wants to go after you, it won't take much research.
Natural art?
You only go to jail for being offensive in authoritarian-ruled governments. If we're not better than mob justice, please install decent people in NYC's legal system.
Generate training datasets for chatbots in a breeze
you should really get legal advice from YOUR lawyer(not the companies).

just go watch "the social network"
Do you still plan to write that article?
5 seconds into my first ever stream, I alt-tabbed to a text file containing a bunch of secret api keys... so uh... don't do that!
Education is really the key to more balanced equality. Giving "prisoners" more opportunities and options is a must.
I second that. As I ended up as a sort of DevOps for the family, I recently realized that dedicated servers became so much cheaper than VPS. Of cause with a dedicated server you need to worry about hard disk failures etc, but the price difference is just too big to ignore. Plus on a dedicated server one needs to worry less about Spectre.
> South of south America, more or less equivalent to Florida

Are you calling North America "America", and then go on and call Florida "south America", as if there isn't such a place in the world as South America? I do not approve of this North America-centric view of the world at all.
Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda?

What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?
I'd be very careful reading about how laws in asian countries work in theory (on paper) without experience of what real life enforcement looks like.
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In addition, I noticed that our system punished him for defrauding the wealthy and not for jacking up drug prices, which harms the average American.
Nothing at all, and CAA doesn't help solve the problem either unfortunately.

Even when it comes to CAs that voluntarily adopted CAA, their implementations have silently failed on occasion. See https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/pape...
I don’t imagine anybody shedding a tear for him. Though I (to some extent at least) can ‘understand’, in very broad and theoretical terms his (unrelated) totally heartless and despicable move to increase a pharmaceutical’s price by fifty times, the man is, by most intents and purposes, an absolute disaster of a human being.

Related: he was so notorious and unlikable that there was a “struggle for jurors”, as evidenced by the transcript of the selection process: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/martin-shkre...
> the cartels aren't significantly worse than buying from Apple

I am warning everyone, this is not a joke — this is a video of a 14-year-old girl working for one cartel being dismembered and decapitated by a rival cartel: http://dump.bitcheese.net/files/syjukod/VID_20180306_225243_...

Please link the video of Tim Cook doing this.
The question is whether we as a law based society should be ok with this.
In our system of law being offensive is not illegal and we are be wise to remind everyone of this.
Role models. He was a rock star at being an asshole. This encourages others who were maybe unsure of their assholeness to feel free to be more assholish.

The world need more good role models and less bad ones.
> ...Offending the public, whether right or wrong, has consequences. Shkreli is getting a taste of mob justice, or just what he asked for.

Isn't that exactly what the justice system is in place to prevent?
Designing Better Take-Homes
You might be surprised to learn this, but incarceration isn't just about punishment.

For some people it is. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the phrase "lock him up and throw away the key." For some people, all they care about is that society provides a mechanism to obviate their need to seek retribution personally.
Yes it is.

What do you mean by Microsoft-specific stuff? I run a bunch of stuff there. When I started using these things their PaaS offerings were much more mature than the AWS counterpart (since they focused more on IaaS).
Don't forget 3b) had to go through hundreds of jurors while the news/twitter laughed about people saying they could not be impartial because he "had a punchable face" and "disrespected the Wu Tang Clan". Better hope you don't say anything too mean on Twitter and ever end up in court :(
They've a lot of catching up to do, per web-search [asia opium export]
That got him kicked off Twitter but had nothing to do with the legality of this case.
I was literally wondering about this question the other day. It's 2018; we can make CPUs with 12nm features but we can't make a long lasting asphalt?

Fascinating:

Nichols said the AMIR “has great potential” to extend
the life of roads, and “save significant taxpayer
dollars.” In 2016, an MTO analysis found that the
province would save $50 million annually if roads on the
MTOs highways could last even one year longer.

"The MTO is not planning on buying or specifying the use
of AMIR asphalt rollers..."

Might be of interest, too: http://www.dykespaving.com/blog/why-use-asphalt-instead-of-c...
This is madness (in a good way ;))

If you're in a neutral country where will you be evacuated to?

Say for instance, I'm from Syria and I get ill in Venezuela, where will I have the option of being treated?
Since when? You can always get yourself in trouble by pissing off the public, regardless of government structure.
> But how many startups fail due to lack of a security team?

Crypto exchange startups, for a big, glaring example. They’re an exception in a lot of ways, though.
why is personal use OK but selling for personal use bad?
Couldn't the same have been said about Microsoft say pre-Vista?

Of course taking security seriously doesn't magically make you have competent staff and eliminate embarrassing vulns, Windows has still had its share post-Vista. A lot of "taking security seriously" can just turn into security theater cheerleading and focusing too much on certain processes (especially response over prevention[0]) without ever doing effective threat modeling.

[0] You fixed a reported admin-attacking-admin XSS bug within the SLA, good job! You're also letting admins upload binary blobs you then parse, has anyone run a fuzzer on this to help uncover any potential code execution bugs? Does anyone even know what a fuzzer is? No? Carry on... Until something gets reported.
Beorg for iOS solved this problem for me.
Why should they go after that money? Those look like normal startup grants to stimulate the local economy, and given that the TunnelBear team will keep expanding this seems to have worked just fine.

Sure, you might not like the ethics of their behaviour, but that has nothing to do with those grants.
You don't go to jail for 7 years for it. (Supposedly) not in first world countries.
Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payment card details
Thank you for being so open about the operations at Backblaze. It's really refreshing to see some considerations that go into making decisions like this.

It's very easy for people who have little to no expertise in a domain go on about how X company should do Y and it wouldn't be a big deal, when lots of times it would be.
Etsy Announces Pricing of $300M Convertible Senior Notes Offering
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> dirty secret for the big 3 cloud providers. Their egress charges have huge margins.

I don't know about the other providers, but Backblaze buys bandwidth at about 2/10ths of 1 cent per GByte right now, and it drops by maybe 10% per year. We look around hard for inexpensive bandwidth, and then make sure we always have redundant network providers and redundant paths. That's all blended into the 2/10ths of 1 cent per GByte cost basis.

Part of this is complicated by any "spikiness" in network traffic. Network providers sell bandwidth based on things like "95% of peak traffic". So the 2/10ths of 1 cent per GByte is based on an assumption that overall the outbound traffic is perfectly flat. It would be more expensive to Backblaze if "most days" the outbound traffic was 200 Gbits/sec but once every 7 days it spiked to 400 Gbits/sec for 25 hours then dropped again. In that case Backblaze is hit with a bill for 400 Gbits/sec sustained for the entire billing period (a month), but customers did not use it up in a "flat" fashion so it eats into our margin.

Luckily, since Backblaze supports hundreds of thousands of different individual customers, it appears mostly "flat" to us in aggregate. The five week days tend to be about 10% higher network use than the weekends, but other than that it is all super flat and regular (so far).
Yea, creating this environment for these people is just a start, but it goes into a positive direction. I agree that punishing these people doesn't do any good in the long term.
No, it’s what the justice system is in place to formalize.
> 3. Prosecutors, needing to do something got him on fraud charges where he misstated information on an investment but still tripled their money.

I don't think the outcome should matter. Lying to investors should land you in jail. It shouldn't become okay "if investors still made money"
Is there no way to find the pricing for over 39 without creating an account? I don't see it in the faq.
What do the page response times look like, since it seems like the included php opcache wouldn’t function, nor would user data caches like apcu?
That was his argument. The judge decided that payback after the loss was mostly irrelevant, and loss is loss, even if never realized.
i got tired of livecoding.tv after a while. perhaps i may get interested again later. at the end of the day, i did not get the desired benefit of either watching others code, or streaming your coding session.