skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A growing number of traders IS betting Snap’s stock price will fall"

Pointless pedanty on my part, no doubt, but I believe there are lots of people here trying to improve their English. The verb is "is" because the subject of the sentence is "number" (not "traders").
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Back in 2013 we originally launched with the domain name "Sync.us" (we didn't have a choice, the .com was taken). Instant regret, as it made branding difficult, and our marketing efforts simply drove traffic to the many, more recognizable sync branded TLDs.

Then a few months later, one of our team members inadvertently visited Sync.com (a common Freudian domain name slip for all of us), and discovered the domain was up for auction. Instead of subsidizing our storage, like most of our competition was doing at the time, we diverted a substantial portion of our marketing budget towards winning the auction ;-)

It wasn't cheap.
If you removed all barriers on agricultural products being sold to developing countries, their local agriculture would be pancaked by cheap wheat, corn, and rice grown in more agriculturally productive regions.
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This is too simplistic. There is another reason - options incentivise people in a different way from cash. Say I have an option which is struck at the fair market value of the company on the day I join. When I exercise that option, the value will be the appreciation in the value of the company up to that point (ie the value I have had a role in creating). So options (when the plan is set up well) incentivise employees to maximise the value of the company for shareholders. More broadly you could say that options tend to incentivise long-term value creation ("dividend-seeking") over short-term value extraction ("rent-seeking") behaviours.

Secondly, options incentivise people to stay around (until their options vest). The company also gets to cancel unvested options if a person leaves and even claw back vested but unexercised options in the case of misconduct by the employee. These are all things that are valuable for the company and more difficult to achieve using cash.

Thirdly, there is a big difference to most startups between "value" and "cash". I may well want to pay someone in a cash-equivalent that has equal value to cash (or even greater) because I want to manage my cashflow. After all, I can pay my employees (some of their comp) in options but I have to pay my bills in actual cash, which may be hard to come by until I hit net positive cashflow. In the case of an option, when you exercise and sell, you turn your option into cash, but the cash doesn't come from the company, it comes from whoever buys. This may be more efficient for the company than raising the equivalent cash and paying people directly in cash (because of transaction costs around fundraising).
no shit! a multibillion dollar valuation on almost no revenue and no growth in the foreseeable future, with competition from Instagram and FB.
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If true, a nice defensive move -but a frought one which could raise the eyebrows of anti-competition watchdogs. That's some potentially thin ice.
2.50 for a starbucks coffee - Canadian dollars go far - its US$ 4.50 in my town
It's not surprising that people get into debts like the ones described in the article. Credit card companies want you to be terribly indebted to them.

I had an uncle who suffered brain damage from an aneurism that left him unable to handle money- memory issues, disorganization, etc. He was never going to be able to pay back credit cards and my mother (his PoA and lawyer) informed the credit card companies of this. They sent the cards anyways. They wanted him to go into debt, hoping that his family would bail him out.

There's more profit in taking advantage of people than there is in being a decent person. Unregulated free markets cannot account for that reality. We in Canada have some regulations, but clearly not strong enough ones to prevent this kind of predatory lending.
Anecdotally my one Snap user data point has been wooed by Instagram Stories.

Insta seems to be the juggernaut in the media stream space. It's not clear to me how Snap competes since Insta isn't some crufty Suite like Facebook or Microsoft. They can radically change the UI just as easily as Snap to keep up with needs. The underlying tech is all known concepts.

Maybe Snap can differentiate in some kind of AR features, but they're really just scraping by there with a fairly minimal offering. Still, that's where I guess I would focus if I were them: great creator authoring UIs, and advanced psuedo-authoring (filter long tail) for end users.

Hard to argue you're going to beat Insta on filters tho.

Edit: oh yeah, Snap can win a segment on privacy. Although Facebook seems like a more natural place for friends-only stuff. Snap has to fight network effects there.
I've lived in a 400sqft loft for two years with my SO. Anyone who finds this style of living romantic is either foolish or doesn't mind throwing their money at problems that can be fixed simply by adding more space.

When you shrink down your living environment WITHOUT an optimally designed environment, there's nothing romantic about it.

It just sucks.
That would be true if law would actually be used to prosecute anyone. But it won't.

The criteria are nebulous "must pick the best product". The advisor will just say "I believed this one was the best".

How are you going to prove that? On top of that, victims don't typically even know if the advisor was wrong!

So they'll never even take him to court.

Plus it's a civil matter, meaning it costs the clients lots of money to bring a case.

It will not have the effect you describe.

Are there are requirements for review of advisors? That their advice goes to some panel for review? That the panel would have the power to actually arrest them if they disagree? It does not. It's a pointless law.
All decisions are life decisions
I think that if businesses can build their organiations on top of the Dropbox platform then they should do well. For individual consumers I'd love easy family/share services. You can probably already do this but nothing is really compelling.
Yes, thats precisely my point. Dropbox is only relevant because the OS vendors are no longer servicing their end-users needs.
Totally agree. The winner takes it all system is the real problem. You can start a third party and get 30 percent of the vote and still end up with zero representation.
Unreadable unless you login to FB. They are deliberately breaking the web, making things into their own little (or not so little) walled garden. Inaccessible, unsearchable, unless you drink the Facebook kool-aid.
Japan is by far the world leader in one of the most important tech revolutions in the coming decade, the robotics revolution.
Pamela from Woebot here. That's a great point. We actually plan to detect when users have not improved their mental state enough over time (based on a brief clinical screen every few weeks plus the daily moods), and in that case, we will suggest that we are not effective for them and point out other options. It would be up to the user to consider the options and act on them, of course.
> Would that change the calculation?

Yes, it would. As Imm says, this is actually conceptually similar to shifting out of stocks into bonds as you get older: lower returns, less risk. And of course some people do interest-only mortgages and whatnot, just like some people invest all their money in risky stocks...

I agree that if one were actually approaching this as a personal financial decision one would need to do some careful calculation, as well as modeling of different inflation expectations and so forth. And that no one does this in practice.
It is a speculation I drew from observing behavior of people I know.
Developing world wages wouldn't be so bad if we had correspondingly developing world prices.
I have no criticism of Citus at all. Seems like a great project.

I don't think systems of large scope can necessarily be replaced by small scope ones. Just that the large project is probably suffering if smaller, more stable parts aren't sloughing off of it as part of your device process.
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>They would receive assets valued at 208,000$ at current (arguably inflated) prices, most of it not being cash. You might expect the biggest expropriation in US history to be somewhat upsetting to the markets.

Technically true, but the path of this redistribution would be in the form of taxation and offered public services, which is extracted purely as cash.

According to the Obamacare website, poverty levels are around $11,000 per person, scaling sublinearly with the number of people in a single household. If we use that as a baseline, we'd need to tax the top 10% about 5% more per year and redistribute that in cash or an equivalent value of provided services (education, healthcare, etc.) to create a buffer that effectively nullifies the concept of a poverty level. In reality this would likely be applied more as a progressive tax, so the top earners would be taxed more and more benefits would go to the people who are actually poor.
Is there any reason not to simply put the Slack invite link here directly?
Get a new job.

If this is happening regularly then it's an indication of a hostile workplace.

Work should be a pleasant experience. It's not a vacation, but it shouldn't drive you to anger on a daily basis.
"Overall, organic farms tend to store more soil carbon, have better soil quality, and reduce soil erosion. Organic agriculture also creates less soil and water pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions."

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-agriculture-key-world-sustaina...
Because there is much less reason to strategically vote for your second choice in order to prevent a candidate you definitely don't want. A friend of mine who is very active in this area also claims there are studies about this. But I've honestly never read them. It seems intuitively true to me. Which I acknowledge is not ideal.
That is from the US, Canadian universities are much more affordable.
haven't really set anything up yet
I think the word you are actually searching for is employee-owned
they couldn't completely eradicate piracy

I understand that fighting piracy was a political problem. Pirates were mobile, and while any commander could suppress piracy in any area those not caught would move elsewhere and return when the commander's imperium was over and he had to return to Rome to give account.

It was feared that an admiral who was given an imperium for the whole of the Mediterranean would have such power that he would use it for political ands and upturn the system. So piracy grew with Roman hegemony, and when the seas had become so unsafe that the security of the grain supply was a political issue something had to be done. It turned out that the fears were well-founded, Pompeius was given his imperium maius over all the Mediterranean and 50 miles inland, he squashed piracy, and the First Triumvirate followed.
I doubt most people are comfortable with deception around root access, in order to have a better user experience.

This is evidenced by the fact that Dropbox felt the need to apologize and alter their behavior. Largely through HN activism BTW https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/09/dropbox-responds-to-accusa...
I haven't read the book either (yet) - but I agree with you for the most part. I disagree, though, with the lumping together of all health care as something that cannot be negotiated.

Preventative care, elective care, and other voluntary work could, in theory, be negotiated. I could choose where to get a physical, flu shot, dental cleaning, or glasses/contacts/lasic, choose whether or not to have a child (currently dealing with the outrageous costs of that right now...). A wrinkle in this idea is that while it sounds nice for people to be able to choose between a nice doctors' office with an espresso machine in the lobby and a doctor available 24/7, or a more frugal office with a drinking fountain and third-party call center doctors after hours, a likely outcome is that some will be stuck with a choice between making rent and getting preventative care at all.

But you're right for some kinds of care, though: Even if care for an emergency was going to be relatively inexpensive, I don't have the time or mobility to negotiate when an ambulance arrives or when I get to the ER. And if that happens, my ability to pay should not matter in a modern, civilized society.

And more obviously, I do need health insurance in case I fall victim to a rare, unlikely, expensive disease or accident and need care worth more than my net worth. For this reason, I would gladly put a bit of money into a fund to mitigate this risk; that's the point of insurance. I'd be a little annoyed if others who are likely to take more from the fund (smokers, obese people) got to pay the same amount in but were statistically likely to draw more out of it - but not so annoyed or so petty that I would want to exclude them from the group. That fund can be private insurance, or government insurance, but insurance of some kind is needed.
The middle class is not doing so well in some developing nations either. In my own country it's been shrinking for years.
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Exactly. Seems nobody cares to take the time to watch it.

Besides, Jim Holt appeared to bring her into the conversation beforehand in other parts of the video. All other male scientist jump into the conversation on their own. Jim Holt brings her into conversation 2 times proactively.

What an age we are living in...
He means diminishing _marginal_ utility. Extra income always gives increasing utility on an absolute basis.

An extra dollar of income gives a dollar of utility to everyone, but an extra dollar to Bill Gates gives less marginal utility than it gives to me because it's a much smaller proportion of his net worth and therefore will make less difference to his life than it would to mine.
Modern economies depend heavily on a middle class. Any currency not based on a fixed supply depends on the middle class to launder money for it.
The blast was far safer than you believe.
What are your goals ? Everybody makes mistakes, you don't have to feel so bad for the $40k. I see that you didn't expect it from yourself, right ?

Why do you think you'll lose your wife ? Any bad habits (gamble, smoke, no exercise) ?
One generation builds wealth, the next does everything they can to tear it down. Seems like the way of the world. I stopped worrying about the middle class when I realized that they are the architects of their own ruin.
Hubic is quite slow at around 1-3 MB/s and that's from a server in OVH's datacenter.
Ask HN: How would Uber or Airbnb fare against subscription model?
Assume there is a new competitor (a company, gov, union).

And it's business model is below:

A constant X% of what they make in each transaction until a max of $100 is paid per month.

And after $100 is paid, a small percentage to cover card payment expenses(like stripe) from customers.

Think of it like a mix of 'Pay-as-you-go + SaaS' model.

Why this ?

Sure companies like Uber-Airbnb empower a lot of individuals. But for the technology they offer (producer-consumer of service match, reviews, few fields of text and pictures) the cut in profit is huge! I understand there is much more 'science' involved than I have mentioned. But yet, I am comparing tech behind these companies with say a search engine like Google. Or even comparing it with Amazon which atleast owns warehouses. Uber/Airbnb don't own any of physical assets and I fail to see why its 'partners or service providers' would hesitate to migrate.

Some numbers:

Number of taxis in US : ~234000

Subscription revenue / year : 234000 x 12 months x ~70 = ~196 Million.

Number of uber drivers in US : ~160000

Subscription revenue / year : 160000 x 12 months x ~50 = ~96 Million.

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Basically, I am kind of against companies which help producer-consumer meet and then take share from every transaction. Why cannot it be like service provider rents a place in 'cloud' for a price/month and do his business.

edit: formatting and clarification on pricing.
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Small spiders meet a bigger spider.
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I used a similar script for a long time but I'm using now rnsapshot.
True, many people are ignorant, but also we've been target of massive, decentralized, decades-long pysops campaigns (aka marketing and public relations) that have steered us in this direction.
Update: edited for clarity.
Large jusrisdictions with multiple representatives has its own set of problems too. In the current system, people, at least, know who their representative is, and there is more accountability.
"Around Christmas, they decided to take the children to Mauritius to visit with family. That trip cost them $12,000, ­shaving their nest egg down to $9,000. Kervin wasn’t worried."

Just starting the article but... It seems like this is a pretty big issue. I couldn't imagine taking a 12K vacation. Especially if it was going to bring the total savings for my family down to 9K. That's just poor financial planning.
Nice to see another St Andrews person on HN - I took that course too! I only wrote two essays during my four year degree, one for this class! (I wrote about Alexander Aitken, a gifted mental arithmetician)
Yet iphone and MacBook sales are higher than ever.
Pamela from Woebot here! We plan to develop non-FB options in the future, and they could involve entirely client-side stored data with no internet relay. There's a mailing list here if you'd like to find out when those are offered:
https://www.woebot.io/#besides-facebook
"This should surprise absolutely nobody"

It surprises me, because I've never been up there. I do accept that we have issues, and that people have been getting hit by harsher bills, like Hydro recently.

The article doesn't want to seem to load for me, but what is the source of cost issues in that part of the country? Cost of living vs what jobs pay out there? Or is it more deep than that?

I primarily have been wanting to see an increase on taxes on the higher earning bracket. Also we should probably have more brackets on the high end 250k+ all paying the same tax rate doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Anyways, my hope is that we can use that to reduce costs of services this way. Not sure if it would solve the issues you speak of not.
Disagree. Services compete all the time, and most healthcare procedures are not life-and-death emergencies. The problem really is that the customer of healthcare in the US is not the entity paying for the service, and hospitals have a huge incentive to price their services differently to individuals than to insurance companies and not to price services transparently.

There was a time in the past when US healthcare was not considered costly. That era (before the 1970s) was different in three ways:

1. Most people paid for healthcare out of their own pocket.

2. Most healthcare providers were non-profit (hospitals) or small businesses (independent doctors' offices).

3. Prices for services rendered were the same for every customer of a given provider and available in advance.
"The paid version will contain some great features, and will probably be a couple of dollars per month."

Forgive my ignorance, but with the code under the GPL license, how can you offer exclusive features?
Actually, the verb should be plural and the title "A growing number of traders are betting..." is correct. See the Oxford Dictionaries website for reference:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/number-of-people-i...
I couldn't find any concept of "saving", whether that be a local file or a paste-bucket or a "connect your github account". Just the idea that I could have more than one named script would make this great.

If that could be taken a step farther, such as allowing `require('axios')` and `require('./local_library')`, that would be next level.
Unlimited is a disaster because of media horders, but 1TB is slightly too small for me (I'm a serious photographer off hours and work from RAW files). I would love a metered plan, a la S3 but for consumers, that comes out to about $60/y for 2TB for moderate data transfer rates. Then, at the very least, Amazon can do power law scaling for higher users (3TB meters out to $70/y, but 20TB with high transfer comes out to $5000+/year). Then they can slide the metering as storage gets incrementally cheaper. In fact, I would pay $120-$200/y for 2TB if they had a well-supported Linux client.
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I don't quite get the reference to "magic"... It's quite easy to get what this does, and surely not every function call can be considered "magic"?
FreeNAS gets fairly close to this out of the box. My home server runs ZFS with RAIDZ2. By default, I think, there's a weekly cronjob to scrub the ZFS pool (integrity check everything, as I understand it), and then the results of that scrub are emailed to me.

I don't believe it has a web interface with historical checks, although I could be wrong. That said, it might be stored in a log file somewhere.

I also don't have an external service that would send me an email if it failed to run. That said, I would get an email if cronjobs had a mysterious error; otherwise, if the server itself was dead, my data would not be accessible on my home network, so I'd notice.

If the home server dies tragically, well, I hope Google Cloud Storage is doing similar integrity checks -- that's where my offsite backups are.
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"If someone can't be bothered to go to the polls, what makes you think they'll be bothered to inform themselves of the issues and candidates?"

My explanation for why someone might rationally decide not to vote did not reference or depend upon the extent to which the person was informed or how much they would exert effort to be better informed. Some of the people who don't vote now are well-informed. They don't vote because their individual vote won't change the outcome. You want more of those folks to vote.

There are other people (who you're talking about) who aren't well-informed, but would be forced to vote in any case.

Your assertion "Mandatory voting just results in on-average less informed voters" would be true if the two groups I mentioned were, on average, less well informed than the people who normally vote.

That might be true, and it might not be true. Do you have strong evidence either way? Or just a hunch that if someone bothers to vote they are more likely to be well-informed?
I originally built it as a gem because the company I worked at used it across several projects, I almost think it was my first Ruby gem back in 2013.

I also hoped others would find it useful, and they did! The people from Semaphore showed interest in maintaining my 30 lines of Ruby code, and now they even wrote a blogpost about it :)
Be stoic.

It's not emotion you are bringing back.

It's gossip, complaining and bad behaviour that you are bringing back
> have there ever been any advances in this field to make the process go faster

Speed Archaeology! https://youtu.be/m11VH-dUPEk ;)
I kid you not that there are such things as "proposal schools" and proposal-preparation companies that teach you how to win as low bidder by being "minimally compliant." Then, when the customer finally understands what they are (not) getting, you can hit them up for "change orders" that have to be negotiated. Bottom line strategy is be the low bidder at all costs, and recover your buy-in costs and and also make profits from change orders.

The real villain is letting CPFF (cost plus fixed fee) contracts rather the fixed-price contracts.
Getting a full night's sleep is better than stimulants, but well-played nonetheless.