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Launch HN: SafetyWing (YC W18) Global health insurance for digital nomads
You can get our insurance here: www.safetywing.com

When we quit our jobs to become digital nomads, we discovered that if you are not a full-time employee, you're pretty much on your own. You lose stable income and most benefits when you earn money as a freelancer or entrepreneur, and lose the rest of your safety nets by being abroad. We decided to do something about this, and the result is SafetyWing.

We're three Norwegians: @srasch is also founder of freelancer platform Konsus.com (YC W16). @LOLTITTIES is CTO, former lead engineer of ad-network Tapdaq & she’s also a musician. @hkjellby is lawyer and former head of legal at Auka, which is like white-label Venmo.

Our first product is $37 / month. (4 weeks) for worldwide travel+medical insurance ($30 add-on for US, since US healthcare is much more expensive.) It only works when you’re outside your home-country (although there is 30 days home country coverage every 3 months so you can visit home, 15 for U.S. residents). Covers hospital, doctor, prescription, etc.

The hardest thing about making the product is licencing and getting trust from an insurer. To do that we hired two senior insurance experts who has been in the industry for 30 years. They helped us design it, and get the deal with insurance giant Tokio Marine.

Why is it so cheap? 1. Three major exclusions: preventive care, long-term cancer treatment and pre-existing conditions (accute onset of pre-existing conditions is covered though). 2. The price is for ages 18-39 (other ages can buy though at higher prices. Sorry it’s the way this industry works). 3. Lower comissions compared to insurance sold via agents.

This is the first step in a plan to build a global safety net for online freelancers and entrepreneurs.

Look forward to getting feedback and hearing ideas from HN. We know there are digital nomads frequenting here, and we’d also be really interested in hearing about your experiences with health care or safety nets in general.
I'm sorry that became a mess instantly. I hope you remake it on a different platform (csv on github.) It looked useful for a moment there.
Waste of time and money if the goal was to stop drug trade. If on the other hand the goal was to see what law enforcement can do/utilize new tools for cybercrime, that's just dandy, I guess.

I would like to see their productive interventions on child porn and sex trafficking. Instead we get this tedious and unhelpful war on drugs that ultimately is futile.
whaaaaaat? wow. i was totally off.
It was nice when they were doing queen in the title.
If you work at a desk all day and are interested in being more active, take a look at Desk Cycle:

https://deskcycle.com/

I got one a few months ago after reading a testimonial in a similar thread here on hacker news. Mine sits permanently under my desk. I have nothing but positive comments to say about it. Fit's nicely under the desk, works wonderfully.
The BMJ Christmas issue traditionally is for (somewhat) serious science, presented funnily. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320319.php has some examples.
Been using PIA for a few years now and it's pretty fantastic. I leave it on 24/7 and only sometimes notice peak hour speed drops.
I live in Santa Cruz CA and and deal with terribly potholed roads. The air temperature here rarely gets below freezing, and I've never seen any ice on the roads to indicate that the ground temperature has been below freezing. Clearly something besides the freeze/thaw cycle is causing potholes.
Of course -- it's unreasonable to think that all miners would exit at the same time. Different miners have different margins. Miners exit when it's no longer profitable for them. I don't quite see what the problem is.
The spirit of this sounds great on paper, but are we not recognizing the reality that technology innovation necessitates an inability to repair?

It happened in the car world when emissions regulations hit the scene and vacuum hoses and check engine lights became the norm. Can’t imagine anyone repairing their own Tesla.

If the answer is to make devices thicker so they can be more easily serviced, I couldn’t be more against.
Please note the channels you pick up on the Baofeng are VHF which are generally very close. As such the quality of the conversations will vary greatly from region to region.

Overall the HAM community is like any other in that it is varied and diverse. To truly enjoy HAM radio you will need to get a general license so you can get on 80,40, 15, and 10 meter bands. You will then get to find people all over the world, often times broadcasting from very remote or interesting places.
Yev here after seeing Bat-signal, I'll respond in-line.

EDIT -> I can't recommend the above for security reasons :P

EDIT -> Hey, if they're up for it...have at it :P
It warms my heart to hear Google despises the AGPL. I switched to licensing everything I make under the AGPLv3 a few years back, let me tell you: every passing day further enshrines my conviction that this is the only fair license for Freedom Software in the new age. MIT and BSD were fun when e-mail was a good protocol. When there were no bad actors and everything was jolly fair and cooperations and bulltetin board rainbows and unicorns (it's before my time but I imagine that's what it must have been like). GPL was fun when computers were computers, not dumb terminals calling APIs on private clouds. But today, the only weapon we have to protect our liberty in a digitising age, is the AGPL. It is a breath of fresh air, and my second favourite four-letter acronym of the decade, just after GDPR.

I would like to take a moment to urge anyone starting new software projects: please use the AGPLv3. The proof is in the pudding: this very article. Corporations will suddenly have to do the unthinkable: pay you for your software if they want to limit their users' freedom! Remember, you can always license AGPLv3 by default, and offer less freedom licenses for payment. The Qt model. Win win.

Richard Stallman was right. A prophet. Like Snowden, much maligned. Unlike Snowden, oft maligned by the very people who should know better :( but that's the life of a radical.

Less flippantly: with every wave of freedom erosion, through cloud computing, DRM, etc, I am surprised at how, yet again, RMS turned out to be less and less ridiculous. I remember thinking him so obscene and extreme, but no: on bloody point. Much respect, and I thank him dearly for the weapons he gave us, for a fight we didn't even know we were about to have.
Redis supports at least two forms of persistence: (1) periodic checkpoints; (2) writing an append-only log which can be periodically compacted to save space.
"Starve the drama of attention". Love it.
While Cisco's market share has been slipping steadily, they still have more that 50% of the traditional big metal box market for routers and switches.
The videos are only of interest to family and friends.

That said, I've seen a few stats of top-page HN links generating 10,000 or more unexpected visitors, and a 1TB cap with a 20MB video would easily handle that.

But if that weren't the case, if I were making professional videos intended for a mass audience, then I would just add more servers with appropriate bandwidth. Scaling for your own content is vastly different and easier than scaling for everyone's a la Youtube or imgur.
Just because you get a vote doesn’t mean that you get the outcome you want. If companies don’t think it’s worth the trouble to support the tiny minority of users who care about repairability, the shouldn’t have to. The government certainly shouldn’t foist that minority view on everyone through right to repair laws.
Put water inside the hole, run over it with a car that will put some pressure on it, and it'll fill all those small cracks inside the asphalt. Repeat many times.

Also, asphalt isn't solid, it get thinner when the sun is high, deforming every time a car runs over it in the summer.

South of south America, more or less equivalent to Florida: no freezing during winter and not that hot during summer, but everytime there's many rainy days, holes will appear. Get few days of hot sun and the roads will deform a bit, specially where trucks and buses run over.
Show HN: Persist Redux in Flutter
My understanding is that most of it is due to overuse of antibiotics in livestock, due to the sheer scale.
If the story, or viewpoint, is simply not available in the sources because of their common bias then reading multiple sources and making your own opinion won't help.

It's difficult to form an opinion about issues that are not presented to you.
After trying a few different approaches I've found an optimal method that works really well for myself.

1) Memrise (paid). This gives you a solid vocabulary and a decent intuition on grammer/sentence structure.

2) Pimsleur (torrented, one 30min lesson every day). This is crucial to actually put all your knowledge from Memrise to use and make it instinctual. This also helps develop a very natural accent.

I did this for 45 days (~2 hours a day) before going to visit family in Italy with zero prior knowledge. My italian wasn't pretty but I could hold a wide range of conversations

I've been doing this for about 4 months for Spanish with just as much success. YMMV.
Thanks for that! Great demo, and using strong UV shows the effect in spades (I'd guess in this case you wouldn't want the radioactivity, so the illumination effect from the photons is more pronounced).
I've always wondered why we still have such crappy roads, given that roads are possibly the oldest technology there is, and every civilized place on earth has paved roads, thus making an enormous potential market for a better solution. Either:

1) Most people don't care as much as I do about the bone-jarring, car-ruining potholes that are ubiquitous in every cold climate on earth, and thus aren't willing to spend their tax money on fixing it, or

2) Engineering a better road is simply too hard of an engineering problem, so what we have is the best we can do at the moment. Or equivalently, any better roads we do know how to make are too cost-prohibitive.

Maybe I'll forward this article to my local representatives.
Also, in TLS 1.2, even with Forward Secrecy the focus is on protecting the application data, in TLS 1.3 literally the only things going plaintext are the initial ClientHello and the ServerHello finishing up the key exchange.

Because in TLS 1.3 we know we want DH, they do it right up front. The client is like "OK, here's my DH parameters, also I want to talk to www.yahoo.com" and then the server is like "OK, here are my DH parameters" and here's the trick: The server knows that as soon as the client reads that part it has a working DH key agreement, so without waiting the server switches on encryption and continues (encrypted) with its certificate, the signed transcript (proving it owns the certificate) and any other parameters e.g. "please send me a client X.509 certificate with the following policy OIDs set".

Because the DH happens up front, everything else is opaque, and that means less chance for crappy middleboxes to break it. Middleboxes are how ordinary people became Crypto Zealots, absolutely any harmless parameter, setting, or whatever is another opportunity for idiot middlebox vendors to break things, if we encrypt everything they can't do that, hooray. The Internet works better if we encrypt everything, that shouldn't be true, but because middlebox vendors are universally incompetent morons it is.
Understanding token velocity
If there is the need for a global CDN and there is some left-over development capacity, just look at local providers for dedicated servers and build your own. The bandwidth prices are often insanely low. For example Hetzner in Germany has 20 TB egress traffic included for their 3€/month cloud servers. The same would cost $1,800 on AWS.
It seems like giving criminals a free college education is the very definition of a perverse incentive.
According to their FAQ, they're still running primarily out of the single DC [1]. However they did post on the blog that the new DC was online as of June 2017 [2].

I run Backblaze (backup) for Desktop but also have a local NAS that stores copies of critical items. That NAS also serves bulk storage (like old Premier Pro projects) which is backed up to B2. So critical data follows 3-2-1 backups [3]. Desktop, NAS, Backblaze. Less critical bulk data is only 2 copies, NAS & Backblaze B2.

That's a really long way of saying that 1 remote datacenter is enough for me. My data is important to me, I'm a digital packrat, but the likelyhood of something taking out my home (SF Bay Area) and Sacramento (Backblaze DC) ... likely means TEOTWAWKI [4] - and my data will be of very little concern then.

Caveat. I'm just a person. Not a business. If you're a business using B2 for backup... you probably want to worry more about multiple AZ/Region storage.

[1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217667468-B2-Se...
[2] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-center-design/
[3] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism#Survivalist_termin...
The main reason to dislike it is because it's pointless. There are all sorts of pointless-but-not-too-onerous activities that we could have the government impose on society, but that doesn't mean we should.

The ritual of DST mostly seems to survive because people are convinced it must be good for something. Otherwise, surely we wouldn't be doing it...
EU police have led several large-scale onionland raids focusing on child trafficking in the last few years, and more recently have been making simultaneous international arrests of producers and distributors. The problem is the same with the drug war unfortunately, these sites are basically a hydra.
What it means to have an IQ less than 83 (video)
There is no dollar amount attached to bitcoin. The moment a fraction of the coins are being sold, the exchange rate will drop dramatically.

Not to mention that a vast portion of the coins are probably lost in forgotten wallets, while the rest is in the hands of the early investors who will never sell it to not drop their value.
What are you trying to say with those links?
Yev from Backblaze -> We don't currently have a seeding open for Backblaze Online Backup (we do for B2, it's called Fireball, but is quite expensive for just that little bit of data). If you think you can actually upload all 4TBs in one month (might be able to w/ Maximum Throttle + some threading), we've had some of our users contact their ISP and received a "pardon" for a month. Not saying that's the norm, but some folks did manage to get their data caps lifted for a short time!
Mere existence can't be eradicated. There are multiple issues. The existence of them (forgone), the frequency of their appearance and growth lifecycle. Changing any of those things, affects the maintenance problems.
I too would like a clear answer to this, I've made numerous attempts to learn vim and emacs and can find my way around in both, but I never broke my habit of the old school CUA keybindings and arrow keys so always found myself gravitating back, especially when more full fledged IDEs and such were an option. ReSharper C++ is a major time-saver on a daily basis for me and I have a hard time thinking that would be easily replaced.
The omission does seem strange, especially because it's a defense industry site and usually talks about the companies who manufacture the goods.

I think the focus of the article has much to do with the author, who is more of an in-action writer. He's a Marine writing about Marines.

Thank you for the deeper information on the technology and reference to BAE. I will look it up today. Exciting stuff.
> It's supposedly great, otoh, if you're working on a CRUD app with minimal requirements, you're not that big into TDD, or if all the complex stuff in your app actually lives on another service

Rails is also great at being a big monolith with complex requirements, complete testing, and doing it all in one codebase.

> especially when Devise or email is involved.

Devise, and some other libraries out there, do things in their own wackadoo way. Sometimes this is fine or even good. Other times, it can be a real WTF. Devise is kinda like that. But once you learn to work with it, it can be effective. and if/when it becomes a pain point, you can bring authentication in-app.
Hehe, I'm glad you're feeling positive about it. It took a lot of blood and tears to reach this point, honestly.

> I mean, at the end of the day it'll only save me a `mv` command

Yeah, as you say, it feels minor, but hopefully, a lot of tiny ergonomic changes will end up feeling significantly better. It's also why the epoch concept is important; it gives us a way to talk about how all these little changes every six weeks build into something much bigger and nicer.
Help blogger Jeff Barr rebuild his beloved robot Ozz
This has to have been the greatest marketing ploy of all time.

They created an engagement ring tradition so strong & embedded people assume that it's traditional... Out of thin air. They were able to create a "suggested price" of 3 months salary! Can you think of anything else like that? They got Marilyn Monroe to sing their jingle, one of the most iconic pop songs ever. They were able to label all competition as "fake," or fraud. Truly amazing.
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So then maybe give everyone and inmates free college education.
Radio can be a lifesaving tool in these kind of emergencies. A friend in PR told me that even the non hams were able to utilize radio when the power was down, by using CB units hooked to car batteries.
It is to say that money is in principle something only quantitatively different from a loan.

In fact, you can see money as a credit towards an extremely trustworthy debtor.

So trustworthy that everybody will accept that credit on its face value in exchange for any sort of goods.

What's the characteristic of a risky loan, it comes with a very high interest rate right?

So what happened when the risk is the lowest possible? The interest rates goes to zero or even negative.

That's money, a government-bond of a very stable country with little debt is quasi-money. The difference is only quantitative, makes sense?
So does Steam, but the metrics filter back to the mothership eventually.
Unfairly, in my opinion. SQL92 is not Turing complete, yes. SQL92 is pretty old, and implementations have definitely added features since then. The more-upvoted response immediately above the one provided in that StackOverflow question provides examples of Turing completeness in SQL.
We already have plenty of perverse incentives with prison, but on the supply side.

Are you seriously suggesting that people would commit crimes to "get a free education"?
Speaking from my experience of only living in places that don't use DST (Thailand), it was very disorientating to me this year (now living in California). The act of changing the clocks itself isn't difficult (mostly besides the oven everything does it automatically). It's that all of a sudden my perception of the day didn't match the external, agreed upon reality. I'd rather just adjust my personal schedule relative to a fixed time rather than have the time schedule change somewhat arbitrarily.
An analogy that is used in the YouTube debate linked from the article is that of a scorekeeper and players of a game. The government is the scorekeeper, and operates according to rules we collectively agree on. Those rules can incentivize certain kinds of behavior. The points that the scorekeeper tracks are "money."

If I, as the scorekeeper, decide to award 100 points to the person who accomplishes X task, I don't "lose" 100 points, nor do I have to "get them" from anywhere. I don't "have" a fixed number of points to give out. I create them by awarding them, and I destroy them by collecting them or allowing you to trade them for things. Privately, you (the players) may also trade points among each other; in this, you are constrained by traditional "budget" thinking (how many points am I getting, and how many can I afford to spend).

For your "society of 10 people," imagine a group of 10 roommates who institute a point system to incentivize good behavior at home. Every month, each roommate has to "pay taxes" of some number of points. When we collectively choose to "pay for public services" with points, what we're doing is setting up rules like "whoever cleans the bathroom gets two points" and "taking out the trash is worth one point". Some people don't want to do chores; perhaps you prefer to create some piece of software for your roommate in exchange for some of his points. If there's ever unemployment--people who can't make enough points, because all the chores are already being done and no one wants to give up their (scarce) points for private services--this indicates that we could have a better "point policy," either by paying for more chores (public services), which the "unemployed" roommates can use to earn their points (all while providing useful services for the entire apartment), or by cutting taxes for those who just barely have enough points now, so that it becomes more reasonable to pay some points to the unemployed for non-essential goods/services.
Okay, I'm going to try one more time, despite your belligerence.

From my link on heritability:

> Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population.

As best as I can tell, you are pointing out that children often speak the same language as their parents, therefore the language spoken is heritable. But that is an exceedingly naive interpretation, because the result is confounded by the fact that children inhabit a very similar environment to their parents. Somehow you need to remove the environmental confound.

What I am saying is that there are natural experiments where this has happened, as I outlined above. Black Americans who are descended from slaves have very similar genetics to their African ancestors (despite some admixture with Europeans and Native Americans). Yet the prevalence of African languages among black Americans who are descended from slaves is 0. Therefore the heritability of African languages is 0, since African genetics has zero relationship to African languages once you control for environmental confounds.

Now lets look at the German language. According to this[0] Wikipedia article, there are 44 million American who trace their ancestry to German immigrants. Yet, according to the link you shared on languages in the United States, there are 0.91 million fluent German speakers, just 2% of those descended from Germans. In this case, again, it is clear that genetics play an exceedingly small role, if they play any at all, in the prevalence of spoken German. For Polish, there are 9.5 million Americans descended from Polish immigrants[1], but only 0.54 million fluent speakers of Polish. Again, that points to, at best, extremely low heritability of the Polish language.

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

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Americans
Best Cities for Jobs – 2018
Performance in Ruby has improved. What people are using Ruby for seems to be constrained to "Rails" and Chef. At least going off the job ads in my area.

Meanwhile, Python, JS, Go, Java jobs run the gamut from webdev, ML, to game programming, and custom BI.

Not saying people aren't using Ruby out there, but 5-6 years ago it was all the rage. Couldn't turn around w/o bumping into a Ruby shop.

It seems to have settled into a Niche of "Rails devs" and Ruby fans using it.