skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets assume no fundamental issues with the economy, e.g. we're only worried about companies competing with eachother not a financial crisis.

The expectation of a startup is typically that it will disrupt an existing industry or fail to do so. If it disrupts an existing industry, existing market participants will lose marketshare.

Knowing who the competitors are in a given space, and how they contribute to the overall market, allows the hedge fund to model what the long-term revenue streams of a startup could look like. More importantly, they model how much money competitors and contributors to the space will make or lose due to the market change. Having these expectations they can then acquire futures contracts (contracts that allow them to fix the price and date they pay or receive for a publicly traded security) opportunistically during normal market fluctuations.

If the hedge is working perfectly they will make money back regardless of whether the company succeeds or fails. Trains vs. Buses vs. Cars with inputs of fuel is a classic hedge model example (although rather simplistic).

Lately hedge funds (and other early investors) are building their hedges into the investment itself with liquidity preferences which are creating their own sets of problems. Basically, liquidity preferences can be thought of as a hedge on their investment but they lose a lot of hedge value when they don't know when the liquidity event will occur.

Sorry if that isn't ELI5 enough, hedges are a pretty complex animal and it's hard not to jump down every rabbit hole detail.
Traffic is awful because road owners aren't charging for access.

From an Economics standpoint, congested traffic is the same phenomenon as the old Soviet bread lines. A underpriced good is inaccessible in practice, since supply is way lower than demand at that price.

The solution is "Road Pricing", where drivers pay to drive. The price varies depending on what road, time of day etc. Maximum revenue should coincide with maximum throughput, giving everyone (ready to pay) a smooth and fast commute. It also provides incentives to build more roads where they are mostly needed.
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Beside everything else, i can't get a dog or cat on public transit here. Thus i have to have a car. In Russia, when i wasn't able to afford car, my cat rode bus, train, subway with me when we had to get him somewhere. Of course, i'd get a car there too the moment i could afford it, yet public transit was a feasible alternative when i didn't have a car.
A lot of the value in these remarks is that they are coming from the author of Flask, the most popular microframework for Python, which itself has a massive extension tree that also does suffer a lot of the same problems as NPM - trying to update or maintain a Flask project often involves navigating a tremendous amount of dependency hell on all kinds of modules, from flask-sqlalchemy to flask-wtforms to flask-bootstrap to flask-oauth.. etc. The worst part is tons of these modules and extensions are dead projects that code rot for years, but when you implement everything independently in its own git tree it gets many fewer eyes upon it, as Armin mentions in the OP regarding one liner Node packages.

But it does not spiral out of control nearly as bad as any attempt at frameworks on NPM, because unlike Node almost every Flask extension depends on three things - Flask, the external package the extension attaches to( ex: WTForms) and Python's standard library.

A similar Node package would depend on possibly hundreds of tiny one liners to replace the absence of standard library.

Which gets to the heart of the problem, right? The reason I've never even considered Node is because Javascript is like PHP - a mutant language born of need rather than intent, that kind of just grew over time to fill use cases constrained by its unique position in the ecosystem rather than as what someone considered the "best answer to the job". Python (3) is almost entirely anthesis to that. Writing Python is a joy because it is designed ground up to be a paradigm to solve problems, not a problem that breeds a paradigm.

There is no way for Node to fix this as long as it tries to be browser compatible. We will never see ECMAScript standards adopt an ISOC++ stance of maturing the language with a comprehensive standard library to meet the needs of the language in the day and age it is being used, because there are very disparate interests involved in Javascripts language design going forward. That is its blessing and curse - Javascript will never grow into a Java-scale monstrosity of standard library bloat because a tremendous number of people involved in Javascript also have to implement Javascript and thus don't want a larger surface area of work to do. But it is important to remember that Javascript was never meant to be anything. It was made for dynamic HTML pages in Netscape. The fact that two decades later it is being shoehorned into web server dev and desktop applications should be scary.
"Good schools" mostly means "wealthy students".

If rich people move into the cities, and form little neighborhood clusters to exclude poor families, the schools will become more attractive by all standard measures.

Now, the trick is that it's much easier to build out segregated wealthy communities in the suburbs, than it is in cities, since tight geography works against the informal segregation of suburban development projects.
I'd agree that not everyone likes the same kind of game. But people are being 'trained' to like these types of games, so you are going to find skewed results.
Actually the first time I've seen production data successfully restored from backup without a hitch. In my experience, something along the lines of "what do you mean the last six months of backups are corrupted due to a problem in the backup process nobody noticed?" is usually heard emanating from a conference room.

So this actually weirdly kind of increases my confidence in the company. Once they figure out how to use sudo they'll be good to go.
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I like that "Choosing Languages" is considered advanced.
You just came up with a great idea, I think there's only two or three casino game manufacturers in the world, one of them may want to pursue this. (Better than Big Bang Theory and Sex in the City)
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Easy -- for an "imperfect hedge", find a comparable company and sell an opposite instrument. If you are holding illiquid stock in VenMo for example, buy puts on either a the NASDAQ or PAYPAL. As the value of one goes up, the value of the other generally goes down, you are generally even.

For a "perfect hedge", find a counterparty willing to bet on the price of what you own (perhaps they have an opposite exposure) and have them take the opposite side of a forward or swap for your illiquid stock.
I believe the RES extension does do this for Reddit, actually.
> Follow him on Snapchat

What's his username?
Nootropics—it's part of the meaning of the name—are supposed to be used when you're already perfectly healthy, to optimize further. If you're using them to compensate for a problem, you're using them as medicine, and that's outside their "tested configuration." You should see a doctor if you need medicine.
Even in inland CA you have perfect walking weather for around 9 months a year. It's more of a cultural thing in my opnion.
Reason number 259 why I love HN, invariable there is someone who knows the technical reason behind something like this. I love it :)
"If you have been doing programming in excel for the past 20 years then you are simply a fool - sorry."

You've got to be kidding! Excel programmers rarely worry about the next paycheck. Programming in Excel may not be the most invigorating intellectual pursuit but it's a helluva steady job - there's always something that needs fixing!
My school had closer to 400 students per grade than 1000, but it still had pretty defined cliques that people categorized into nerd/jock/popular kids/whatever. Additionally, bullying was still common, it was just mostly non-physical.

Regardless, even in this thread there are people who claim to be from small schools and have not experienced physical violence. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I do think it's far, far less common than Hollywood would have you believe.
I'm assuming you're from the US... The problem isn't a lack of taxes, it's where you guys spend it all.
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The ability to take a taxi or uber home also prevents drunk driving. Responsible drinking or having a designated driver also prevents drunk driving.

Even if you were to insist the government subsidizes "get home late from a bar without driving", Empty night trains are probably one of the least cost effective ways of doing that.

Personally, I just walk home from a bar. That prevents drunk driving since I don't need cars, taxis or trains just to get a beer.

2. Density indeed helps increase walk-ability. But it's also about mixed used development. Jane Jacobs talks a lot about this in "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". If zoning laws divide the city into a "business area", a "living area" and "an entertainment area", Density isn't going to save you from having to drive between those areas.
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Congratulations to Justin Kan.

It is interesting that Snapchat is developing in a direction where people are promoting it for use in communicating with them in a business context. When calling people to follow someone on Snapchat you should include their username or QR code though.
I'll bite. You can have multiple NS records but only a single SOA. The .com registry minimum TTL for SOA is a day.

How in the world would "multiple providers" help you in a 6 hour outage?
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Well, I can't say I agree with your position on the AGPL. But as a side note, Odoo has recently been re-licensed as LGPL, so one can now distribute proprietary modules for it (and even sell them on the official Store).
The suburban/urban school divide is less potent than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For example, this program on a school district that's 99% african american and has huge rates of poverty with terrible failing schools is about a decidedly suburban school: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t...

In many cities, poverty is highly concentrated not only in urban areas but also in some of the surrounding suburbs. So the suburban schools -- or at least some of them -- end up as bad or worse than the worst of the urban schools.

So the old surburb/urban school quality divide is slowly breaking down. As a result, affluent urban areas often have high quality schools while impoverished suburbs often have terrible schools.

That said, it's generally true that living in the "good" suburbs is cheaper than living in the "good" parts of urban areas.
Let's be clear, it was the actions of the police officers that pulled the trigger that got him shot. I'm glad to live in a country where the police don't routinely carry firearms, and when they do evey instance of them even firing a round is investigated, never mind shooting someone dead.
Let's not forget that BART also made bad engineering choices, like non-standard tracks and trains that probably cost a lot of taxpayer money...
Is this using the normal VirtualBox "shared folders" functionality? For Vagrant we had to drop VirtualBox in favour of VMware Fusion because VirtualBox suffered cache corruption almost every day. You would write a file on the host, and the file would be corrupt inside the VM. Last I checked, this bug was still open, but I'm not certain (on my phone right now), but it still makes me wary of using VirtualBox again. Have you dealt with this issue at all?

Edit: Or is this not using any VirtualBox code at all?
Tell me the languages and package managers you're talking about.

Don't worry, we ain't going nowhere. Think hard and take as much time as you want.
I'm not going to venture into whether things were better now or before but our media is toothless and more interested in acting as a stenographer for powerful people and institutions than challenging them.
A lot of those tweets could get you sent to prison in the UK. I wonder what the British Police would do with complaints about a bot like this based in the UK - would the engineers be held responsible?
How do you fail over your SOA on .com when the minimum TTL is 1 day?
Are you also on AWS? Apparently you're not on DO...
Because it is new. Maybe not new in age, but new in being a big city. Founded in 1800s, became second biggest city in 1980, third biggest in 1960, fourth in 1950: http://www.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/historical-timeline-l...

Big cities on the east coast are older, so didn't develop in the age of the automobile and have to conform to its needs. Except cities in the SE, which again, grew due to modern appliances like the air conditioner.
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Can we just come out and admit something ?

Buses are terrible. They are terrible functionally, they are terrible aesthetically, and they are terrible logistically.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that across a broad spectrum of preferences, you would be very hard pressed to find anything worse in the urban, built environment than some big, loud, lumbering, clumsy (and usually) sooty bus bungling about the place.

I love good public transit. I love light rail. I love the subway. I will do anything not to ride a bus. I am reminded of that quote from steve jobs about the touchscreen phones and the stylus:

"if you see a (bus), they blew it."
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It doesn't hit those receptors, so no, hence its ending with "other psychotropic drugs", the latter explicitly excludes Lexapro from being in that class of drugs.
Probably not. Not everyone needs to be an expert in every conceivable topic. I think society would be better if people had at least a basic understanding of current events so it weren't so easy to mislead the general public.
fully agree with this (US native)
I'm curious about the sparse places that have good transit... Where do you mean?
The biggest problems exist in areas that don't have any pre-car infrastructure. Our density is fine (if not ideal) in the older east-coast cities, but anything that was build up in (or after) the 20th century is a disaster.

The challenge is that the most walkable areas I've been to are the ones that are thoroughly inaccessible by cars. Building a city to be accessible by cars (and trucks) inherently sacrifices walkability due to the lost density created by larger roads.

I'm curious what a modern city would look like where we were willing to drop the hard requirement of being navigable by Land Rover -- if we were to build something akin to historic Rome or Barcelona using modern technology.
I think using the word "intuition" does the concept an injustice. There are many different types of intuition - and they are unrelated. I've known some people who have an uncanny ability to predict outcomes or complexities. On the other hand, I've known people who blabber about feeling, refining their intuition, and incorporating intuition with their judgment - and they might as well just guess using a dartboard to make their decisions.
I'd hardly call it desolate, it's about 2 miles from the edge of Albuquerque and pretty busy most times.

Neat, though.
> One cannot put a monitory value on services like that

You sure as shit can. Budgets are fixed. Budget consumption is zero sum. Maybe in fantasy land we could spend unlimited resources on trains and unicorns, but in the real world we have to measure the cost-benefit of all expenditures.
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>The SF transit situation is the direct consequence of a failing tax base. The wealth of the local tech industry is not "trickling down" to improve city infrastructure, in proportion to the industry's growth.

I'm not sure this is true.
The city budget has grown substantially, now ~$9B [1].

The problem is we don't spend it on transit infrastructure, and when we do invest, we get financially mismanaged projects like the central subway [2].

[1] http://modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/san-franciscos-i...
[2] http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/covering-their-tracks-t...
It makes it far less plausible as a thought experiment than the standard model, and also means you can't do it in secret, which brings legal and practical issues into play.
The money that funds mass transit [...] comes from a mix of four sources: [...] On the federal side, most of that money comes from the federal gas tax: 18.4 cents on a gallon of regular gas 24.3 cents on the gallon for diesel, [...] 19 percent going to mass transit. That’s right—mass transit depends on people driving cars for a significant portion of its federal funding.

I don't find this counterintuitive: the more people use their car, the more the mass transit system is strengthened and more capable to ease car traffic. Maybe it's far fetched, but it's like tax on cigarettes to finance lung cancer research.
Until implemented on https://news.ycombinator.com/, try https://hn.premii.com/ which has collapsible comments. The web and mobile apps are open source[1].

1 : https://github.com/premii/hn
My only gripe is that he's only used vertebrates in his dataset (based on http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....). It's "only human" to include close members on the phylogenetic tree, but I see it as a flaw.

What if our imaginary aliens are plant-like, squid-like, or something we can't even begin to fathom, like symbiotic unicellulars? Sentient, self-replicating machine clusters the size of planets? Take a minute to think about this.

I think his conclusion should then have been worded like: the random alien planet will have fewer and larger VERTEBRATES than us. And that's a probably very meaningless conclusion.

I'm not saying his intuition is wrong, though. In fact I quite like it. But in this scenario, I don't think "whatever remains, however unlikely" lifeforms can even begin to be imagined by our tiny little human brains.
Misspelling Dan Bricklin's name within the first four words gives me low expectations…
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Of course. Because no one likes to mention that there are countries with far better infrastructure, free education and health care, better quality of life thanks to higher taxes.

Anything that suggests higher taxes are necessary seems to get ignored in the US.
And "banned", in the case of blackjack.
You're back online from your perspective. What about all the name servers that have your SOA cached still looking at DO? You're still down for them.
Most people I've introduced to Maven have asked "OMG, why do you have a file called 'porn.xml'?!"
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Thanks! We'll be in touch soon! => That's what I get too.
No problem. I love your tool!
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People defending the freemium model are detestable IMHO. I don't agree with the notion that companies are justified in doing "anything" if it is going to make them money. Unethical practices should be publicly shamed as much as, and as often as possible.
There's The Lost Monos. May or may not be a masterpiece, but give it a try.
I think this was related with a kernel bug which was fixed with the latest release from OSX (released yesterday).

I personally discovered this bug while using dlite, which uses xhyve behind the scenes.
Well the reason light rail and subways are so good isn't because they're on rails, but because they get their own track. If you put a bus on its own street, suddenly they're not as bad anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit
It can also be about personal trauma of various kinds. Like abortion come about because of pregnancy brought about by rape. Or abortion gone wrong. Late abortion. Abortion come about after difficult decisions. Forced abortion. Wanted abortion but could not get one. It just goes on.
OK, one more of my dopey stories.. I live on the shores of Lake Washington and some years back (when I was a lot younger) I was into wind surfing and I had a pretty nice rig. I was moving to a new place and I had long since drifted away from the hobby of wind surfing to I list my board and rig to sell, but I didn't get any responses so for a fun experiment I carried it across the street and rigged it up and just left it there and went back to my place and sat back to see how long before someone would steal it. It was there for a day and a half and a nice young man called and said he wanted to buy it. He seemed nice so I told him where it was and that he could just go get it and it would be his for free (he could barely believe it). About 30 minutes later I saw a young guy packing it up and taking it away. I felt kinda good about it I guess, hoping he would have fun with it. A few hours later he called sounding very anxious and apparently his parents did not believe the story. So I told them to come by, which they did. His father insisted that they pay me something for it, I relented and told them I would give the money to charity. Sometimes something like that happens, and it just renews your faith in people.
>So carbon wins over silicon.

Hortas disagree with you.
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Somehow this makes me really uncomfortable. I know it seems very reasonable, inviting people to choose what they want to censor for themselves... but it just feels wrong. I'd much rather someone didn't watch my film at all than watch a butchered version. As a separate point, I think it's often more traumatic/damaging to cut away from a scene just as it's getting distressing, and then cut back after the bad thing has happened. I often had this kind of viewing experience imposed on me as a child, and I honestly think it screwed me up a little, sitting there speculating about whatever I'm missing, and generally being taught that when things are getting unpleasant you just skip that part. Not a good attitude for life. It's true there are films that are inappropriate for a young kid, but in that case, choose a different film.
Well going to work is probably 90% of your moving needs.

So if you live 45 minutes by train from where you're working and there is an actual train there, public transit helps you a lot.
I used the bus for 2 years. I tried very hard to stick with it.

It was so bad that I went and purchased a car.

The seats in bus are too small, the bus are too noisy (try riding one hour next to a very noisy engine and not get to work with a big headache), they get late, etc.

Long distance bus are okay, but public transit bus are so bad it's not even funny. I would pay double the fare to have access to a bus that is comfortable to ride and is never late.
For anybody who finds ideas like this to be thought-provoking I highly recommend reading the novels & short stories of Greg Egan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan
Some Americans have driveways 1/2 mile long. And longer...
Docker does not use LXC. It's a separate project. LXC is similar, but has gone in a different direction.
I'd bet it has to do with criticizing the Docker developers for a bug which is actually in one of two independent projects, and doing so in reaction to an announcement of something explicitly billed as a way to avoid that problem.

I doubt it would be getting downvotes if the comment was just a statement of fact without the somewhat random slam against the Docker developers.
Of course we learned how to create good programming languages which deal with this problem. A very good and thorough approach was introduced with Modula-2, which, as the name hints to, had modules as a main focus point. Building Modula programs was an easy and quick process. The module system lives on today in the form of Golang - one of the founders was a student or Wirth.