skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the gist, in simplified terms. I assume you understand what stock and stock brokers are...

You can 'short' a stock that you think is going to lose value (e.g. you expect a major earnings miss to be reported).

Shorting a stock means you borrow a share from (generally) your broker at todays price. You then sell that share to someone else for market price. At a determined date, you have to buy another share at market rate and give it back to your broker (this is called 'covering' your short).

If you bet right, you borrowed a share, and sold it for $N. Then, at a future date, when the price fell, you bought for $N-X, and gave the share back to your broker. You just made $X, the price difference from the value of the stock falling.

If you bet incorrectly, you borrowed a share, and sold it for $N. Then, at the future date, the price is actually higher, and you have to buy a share at $N+X, AND give the share back to your broker. You just lost $X, the price difference from the value of the stock rising.

If you bet REALLY wrong, the $+X factor can get really high - your broker may 'call' and force you to give them cash, pending your future purchase of the share to return (your 'cover').

Now, to MOST people, shares are effectively unlimited - with tens of millions or more shares on the market for most traded firms, liquidity isn't an issue. If you want a share or a few shares in a company, it's pretty easy to get them.
What may or may not be happening here, is that a TON of folks are currently 'short' on Tesla's stock, meaning millions of folks are going to HAVE to buy shares of the stock to 'return to their broker' and cover their short. The problem is that Tesla DIDNT go down.

Normally, lots of folks are short on lots of stocks, and the market just moves. Occasionally, you get a confluence of events which leads to there being a high demand for a stock that a large number of shares are shorted on, which has a self-feeding pain cycle:
the stock price is based mostly on demand and liquidity - as more and more folks HAVE to buy the shares to cover their shorts, the demand for the stock is going to go up, and thus the price is going to go up as well. This increase in price increases the pain, and triggers many brokers to 'call' those margins, requiring MORE people to buy the stock to cover, driving the demand up even higher. The end result is a big spike in the price of the stock, and a TON of people losing money on their bad bets.
He's unlikely to comment now that it's in progress, but here's a comment on the topic from the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5308013
Doctors only have this control because regulation says so. But as long as there are such steep price differences across state borders, it seems that there are, in fact, lower hanging fruit than busting the doctors' monopoly.
Ask HN: When will we have US govt disclosure of extraterrestrials?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connie-willis/ufos-congress_b_3040819.html
Ask HN: Tech events in the Seattle area summer 2013?
I was semi-joking. I would not have been surprised in the least if he had invented them at some point. Between him and Alan Kay, you've got about 90% of everything covered. :-)
It's not a supercar, but a guy in my neighborhood (in Los Angeles) parks his Bentley on the street.

Me, I'd clean out my garage if I had a Bentley.
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edit to add: http://www.candogo.com/search/insight?i=1044

OK. Try Zig:

http://www.candogo.com/search/insight?i=130

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlpzlqzrRE

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cold-calling-techniques-step...

"A sale is made on every call", so sell the value you can bring. Have a minimum viable personality.

http://blog.icyball.com/2011/10/20/minimum-viable-personalit...
A heads up, I think your pricing page is broken. The quote remains forever at $3.32.
Hey everyone, I'd love any feedback for the site that you can provide. We had our soft launch last month and have been working to grow out user base. Any feedback or marketing ideas are appreciated!
If I ever get one, I totally want it to sound like the car on the Jetsons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdWswvLPdE0
Where does it work well? A small country with a homogenous population can pull it off but there isn't a single large country where it works. They keep their costs down by rationing coverage with wait-lists. I know a few people from the UK where their family members lived in daily pain and had to wait YEARS for their number to be called. They also limit the availability to the best medications and procedures to keep costs down. Also the quality is also quite poor, hundreds of people in the UK have died of dehydration in the hospital because the staff forgot to give them water.
Perhaps, but it seems to be down to your negotiating ability.
On the list USV, a dwolla investor is missing.
Great explanation - I (sheepishly) have invested a lot of money in $TSLA and have heard about the short squeeze but don't necessarily understand it, and this explains the movement - thanks!
It's just a larger, older model with less storage capacity! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/8-inch_fl...
healthcare is something that should be like water.
Right, and (most) C compilers let you fall back on assembly if you absolutely must. So my point still holds, even if you do something silly like employ hyperbole on it.
This doesn't make sense. Innovation CAN drive prices down lowering costs. Lower prices lead to increased sales and market share. When prices reach near zero there is certainly a disincentive to innovate, and that is not a "problem". The fact that some consumers don't take advantage if innovation - broadband Internet for the same price as their old dial up - is the problem here. This has nothing to do with any fundamental flaw in capitalism.
I've driven one. They're fun, they tilt to the curve. And they're more practical for a single city-dweller.

Also, whoever downvoted me... can we keep this civil please?

That HACKER news is becoming a place where people downvote mentions of upstart disruptive competitors in an attempt to curry the favor of well funded established companies. Is just kind of, sad.
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>You're equating forced labor to slavery. I agree!

You don't have to agree. That's the definition of slavery.

>I also agree taxation is a way of extracting labor via the use of force. So the question is, why do you support slavery so much?

Well, I never agreed that "taxation is a way of extracting labor via the use of force", so I don't know who you "also agree with" there.

Taxation, in my books, is the voluntary (as decided via the democratic process), transfer of private wealth to the government for use in public works, maintenance of the military defence and such.

>So no, I don't support forced labor in any shape or form. Furthermore, I don't support any relationship that comes from force or the threat of violence.

Agreed. But isn't the dire need to eat and put a roof above you a kind of violence too? For people threatened with that violence (which can be even more dire and hard than a few slaps or kicks), it's common to be forced to accept unfavourable and backwards working conditions, just because their job is a "buyer's market". Child labor is a blatant case of this, but most sweatshop jobs in the third world also are.

As western countries we have set up our standards higher (than, say, Dicken's London, or J.D Rockfeller's miners, paid in company scrip) , we should demand that they are held higher in the third world too, instead of lowering ours to compete with them.
nobody likes a pedant.
You can get the free market back in health care once you can convince society in general that it's acceptable to let poor people die of treatable diseases. Until then, it's simply a question of how it'll be heavily regulated, not if.
Back when YC had demo days at YC's office, rather than at a nearby museum with a parking lot, there were a lot of amazing cars street parked for blocks. And at least one highly lulzy incident involving an SL65 and an asshole machinist dragging it with a forklift into the middle of a street.
You can still sue a doctor or hospital for malpractice.

EDIT (answering the responses):

- Overseas you can buy a cheap insurance policy to cover the cost of a lawsuit. The underwriter determines your likelihood of success and charges accordingly.

- You really think regulations stop that from happening now? People still get the wrong limbs operated on and amputated.
My company is a Hong Kong registered entity and there is no tax because no work is being performed in Hong Kong. Personal income tax in HK is like 15%, but only of you earned that income in HK.

Some people I know who have setup a similar thing only pay themselves 50k USD a year and the company pays for the rest as expenses. It's a little more complicated then that, but that is the gist of it.

Hong Kong and Singapore are set up to work like this. It's how all the mainland Chinese hide their money from the communists.
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But NI covers other stuff such as unemployment. Also, I'm pretty sure it's still cheaper than US health insurance in total.
Why not a capped pay per use?
I'm one of the parties to this: I founded ActBlue back in Cambridge before coming to SF and building Meteor.

The funny thing is it came to my house yesterday as a single cover sheet plus a CD-ROM full of files, and I literally don't have a way to read a CD-ROM anymore.
If you're still alive, yes. And even then, if you were paralysed from the neck down (for example), would you really be able to enjoy the millions you got in court? Financial compensation for crippling illness always struck me as quite strange.
Read the second paragraph of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. (http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transc...) It seems indeed that he has the right, nay, the duty, to do exactly that. I quote from the above: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
At what point do we recognize a disorder in a child
who is unnaturally compliant and obedient?
No answer so far.

I think this is a great question. And I am not surprised there is no answer.
You buy a passport or you go to a country where you can get permanent residency and they you stay long enough to qualify for citizenship. Or yeah. Marriage. :-)
Stripe is backed by Wells-Fargo, aren't they?
I'm not a citizen, but have a friend that has dual US/Canadian citizenship. If he renounces the US side, will they harass or prohibit him from entering the US again?

What are the downsides?
I live in San Francisco, I rent a small apartment in a fairly nice neighborhood. Without fail, every night parked on the street are 2 Audi S5s[1], a Tesla Model S[2], an E63 AMG Wagon[3], and a smattering of Porsches (new Boxters to oldish 911's).

[1]http://www.motortrend.com/cars/2013/audi/s5/pricing/ (~$60k)
[2]http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options (~$80k)
[3]http://buyersguide.caranddriver.com/mercedes-benz/e-class/20... (~$100k)
Aren't all laws ultimately enforced by the threat of violence? Including the ones that forbid violence?
In England the treatment is free at the point of delivery to almost everyone[1]

Any meds will be about £8 per item per month. Discounts are available if you need to buy lots of meds. And many people are covered by various exemptions and won't have to pay anything. (EG: People taking thyroxine will get a medical exemption certificate and not have to pay for any prescription medication at all).

You don't need to use NHS hospitals. You can go to private health care any time you like. You don't get to opt-out of the national insurance payments. I'm not sure if there are any private emergency rooms. And there's a recent "protective" change where some cancer patients have to pay for all of their care if they buy a few specific (not effective, not efficient, very expensive) meds. Some pharma groups have been unscrupulous in targetting very ill people with bad, and expensive, meds. They funded patient advocacy groups to agitate for changes to prescribing rules to allow for these ineffective meds to be available on the NHS.

I've been careful to say "at the point of delivery" because I recognise that there is a tax burden that needs to be paid.

[1] In theory only emergency stuff is available unless you're entitled or you have equivalent national insurance or you have private insurance, but in practice "health tourism" is said to be a problem here.
I agree, it isn't a person suing corporations, it's a corporation suing corporations. Can we have the title changed to "Think Corp"?
On page 35, in order to represent his own company as a non-lawyer, Greenspan appeals for an exception to the rule that his corporation, as the plaintiff, must retain legal counsel. He bases this request on (among other reasoning) the Citizens United decision.

Like Greenspan, IANAL, but I suspect his complaint will die quickly on that basis alone.
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The United States is the most charitable country in the world. On top of that I never said to deny coverage to those that can't afford it. There are other ways. How about the giving them an annual voucher for $X, whatever they don't spend gets rolled over into the next year. Just like a HSA.
> But for a game your state needs to update at specific time intervals, otherwise you walk too slow or too fast. How can that ever be purely expressed?

In this case you want ot have a system that reacts to an event that fires on a regular interval (as well as other sorts of input events). If you search for Functional Rdeactive Programming you will find some example libraries out there that try to do this in a pure manner (although I would personally have to say that this is all still a bit on the experimental side of things).

That said, Haskell still lets you do things the imperative way if you want! All you need to do is put the impure code in the IO monad, where it belongs.

You are only forced to be purely functional if you want to or if whoever is calling you must be a pure function. So basically, the idea is that your `main` function is impure code in the IO monad and it can call either more impure code or pure "helper" functions. Increasing the percentage of your code that is pure is a nice thing but its not mandatory.
You realize that every single thing you enumerated could easily be applied to for-profit insurance companies in America, right? Just checking.
"What exactly Greenspan is attempting to prove here is beyond me"

Not seeing that this has been date stamped by the court...yet. Typically you scribd the stamped copy so you know it has been filed.
There is something to be said about how in the US it's often best not to contact regulators at all, and to simply fly under the radar for as long as possible.

That said, this guy is seriously toxic. Just by responding to his emails in a friendly manner can get you named in a lawsuit... and to blame competitors instead of regulators... Seems like someone to be avoided at all costs.
>I know a few people from the UK where their family members lived in daily pain and had to wait YEARS for their number to be called.

What about people "the market" doesn't find it profitable to treat? I'd rather be on a waiting list for pain medication than told it costs more than I make in a year.
Looks a lot like the other thousands of other startup and agency websites out there. I stopped listening 2 minutes in when he tried for the grid layout gotcha.
Lawsuits aren't free.
Trying to create political pressure against these "thugs" isn't necessarily a bad move. Let's say you want to start a company which bypasses Taxi medallions. It's in your interest to create a PR storm over the unfairness of the medallion system. It's not OK to be surprised when the entrenched powers try to bite you (though it may not hurt to act surprised). Of course, if you don't have the stomach for it, you shouldn't be getting into the space.
What is your opinion of the "economic citizenship" programs in countries such as Nevis & St. Kitts, Dominica, etc?
Pretty much all [good] current MOOCs are free as in beer, but the content is not open source in any way.

They have (yet) to monetize, and they most likely will do so. I'd seriously expect that they won't stay free as in beer, but either paid (though orders of magnitude cheaper than 'classic' courses) or freemium. Coursera Signature track (verification & official certification/uni credits for some courses) already can be considered as a freemium experiment.
Wonder how many filtering proxies got triggered by the NSFW words in that list. Would be funny if Intel.com got temporarily black listed.
LinkedIn is full of embarrassments. I have no idea why it continually begs me to scrape my gmail inbox for contacts? There is no way my inbox represents business associations that I want shared with anyone let alone LinkedIn.
No, they really don't. Many people are resisting reform because they don't see why we should change a system that they see as working well already.
> there isn't a single large country where it works

The healthcare system in Canada seems to be working a lot better than the one here. Is that large enough?
Woah, stop that zero-emissions hyperbole engine before it runs away from you.

Seriously, it's "safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, more convenient, etc," than "any other car on the market?" Really?

Some of that is true. But there's also a lot of opinion there and a few total inventions. The Model S is the safest car on the market? My Mercedes stops itself if I don't see traffic in front of me hit its brakes. It gives me night vision. It will nudge me back into my lane if I drift. There's about 100 more cool safety features I can talk about, and all this in a car that costs less than the 80kwh Model S. And there's even more safety tech on the S Class which is just another 10-15k on the top Model S price tag. And of course BMW and other manufacturers have similar.
...a populace can be populous; a pompous people perhaps?
Wouldn't a free-market system have to ration coverage in some way as well, unless infinite resources were put into medical treatment? The disagreement seems to be over how to ration it, e.g. do you do it based on wait-lists, or do you do it more auction-style, or some hybrid (like France), or something else entirely?
I'm swimming in endorsements from people who aren't qualified to do so. I've told this story on here before, but my co-worker was endorsed by one of our colleagues for something he never set as a skill to begin with; it was just some random acronym she thought "sounded technical!"

They really need to figure that business out. Even a simple, "How do you know this person?" would suffice, allowing people to determine the weight of that endorsement on the relationship we have.
It's a way to set the precedent with a court decision in hand.

The most memorable twist on enforcement is Veoh suing Universal Music Group over the threats from UMG in hopes to be found not guilty, essentially asking the court to pretend Universal was suing them http://mashable.com/2007/08/09/veoh-universal/
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Encrypted is not the same as hashed. An encrypted password could be secure as long as the means to decrypt the password, for example the key used to encrypt, is not leaked. Sending you passwords over email however is horrible.

If your password is hashed, which it usually should be, then the service would not be able to give it to you. The reason services sometimes instead opt to encrypt instead of hash is for support reasons. Encrypting a password could be ok, as long as they never expose the password over something like email.
Surprisingly it usually works out fine to park a totally empty $100k car on the street in SF, but if you leave $0.25 on the seat of a $500 toyota, some crackhead homeless fucker will break your window ($100-300 to fix it) to steal it.
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought--a money issue. I have no idea whether Aaron Greenspan has money to burn on something like this. The fact that he was bringing suit on behalf of his computer company made me immediately imagine a monied plaintiff. But that could be a false assumption.

I agree that the PR could be beneficial to the industry as a whole. Let's hope this doesn't mess up a bunch of legitimate businesses in the process.
I would never make a personal health care decision based on price.

I don't want to live in a society where we would let people suffer or die if they can not afford health care.

Given these two conditions, free-market forces aren't very helpful.
For those who are so inclined you are not permitted to possess or purchase a firearm if you have renounced US citizenship.
Not the number, more like the form, but in general the difference between poetry and, uh, prose is something I do not quite understand.
Who in their right mind would pay incredible amounts of money (or labour) to go to Mars? The only reason to go to Mars is for the sense of adventure (mining could get boring fast, unless you count the potential danger of it) and getting a place in the history books as one of the pioneers. Earth is a paradise compared to Mars.
Even drinking water is subject to regulations, though. Nothing is ever that simple. :)
The court replied on 5/8 that he has until 5/22 to retain qualified counsel or it will be dismissed without prejudice.
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Question: do you already have medical professionals giving qualified medical treatments via your service?
People with serious diseases will outspend their voucher, and then many of them will die unnecessarily.

Give me a proposal that stops poor people from dying of treatable diseases (or at least gives the appearance of legitimately attempting to, as is the current state of things) while preserving market forces, and I'll change my mind. I've yet to see one, though. Not being allowed to refuse treatment screws up too much.
Isn't that just rationing in a different form? If someone has $X to spend on treatment, and the best treatment costs 10*$X, then they will not be able to receive that treatment.
Hospitals generally won't deny life-saving treatment. But they would deny anything less. Even, paradoxically, providing cheaper preventive care to avoid expensive emergencies later.
Funny! After reading the first few pages, I said, "What lawyer is willing to put his name on this garbage?" and paged around in the document. Only to find no lawyer's name at the bottom, just his own. And now you confirm it.

Is there some way that this isn't idiotic? I have seen a federal judge in full-on "this case is a waste of my time" mode, and it is fearsome. I would never file a document with a federal court without having a very experienced lawyer involved.

Of course, I also wouldn't step to all of those rich and powerful people without a clear and sensible plan of action. If Greenspan has one, I can't extract it from this document. Is he a total loon?
There's a number, here's one of the better ones: http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/password-security-checker/

I always remember this site for their Falso prover suite: http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/falso/
I am unclear on why you see low-effort resume and reference services as a bad thing.
Not sure what charity really has to do with it. Americans aren't going to willingly give money to "help the poor" to the extent that medicare does.

I would imagine that the US is also among the greediest countries in the world.

Odd how it can work out that way with percentages.

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> though likely very geographically localized

I live a bit outside Philadelphia (but visit the city proper often), and haven't seen a Tesla here yet.
Speaking of, which editors are people viewing the .csv in?

I don't get the best performance in Sublime Text 2 on a pretty decent desktop.