skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you mean "in practice it will vary by location because it won't be everywhere provided by the same organization, and thus likely won't be provided everywhere under the same rules," then I agree with your expectation.

If you mean "a basic income, offered by the same organization in multiple places, should be adjusted for cost of living", I disagree. Moving some "extra" funds towards lower cost-of-living areas winds up being a feature - resources are shifted (slightly) away from concentrations of wealth and toward concentrations of people, where those disagree.
Obviously that depends on whether training and schooling is easily and cheaply available or not. In the US this might surely create a problem for the poor, but in e.g. Nordic countries (I am from Norway) there is usually massive economic support available for retraining, school, university etc, so this isn't really an issue. As long as getting into a school isn't a high barrier, licensing could be positive in that it keeps a certain quality in a profession.

Quite to the contrary I think many problems in American society is caused by too lax standards. E.g. Prison guards and police in Norway receive years of training compared to weeks or months in the US. A lot of that is about deescalating situations, understanding mental illnesses, negotiating etc. E.g. a Norwegian prison guard is more like a social worker than a gorilla with a big stick.

A lot of issues are connected and can't be solved in isolation. E.g. why are health care so expensive in the US? One factor is that many health care professionals have a high wage. Why do they have such a high wage in the US compare to many other countries? A common tradeoff is that higher risks require higher rewards. You don't buy high risk stocks with low potential for return. Nobody will risk getting into massive debt for medical school in the US without the potential for a big reward. Thus the lack of cheap/free college education in the US also helps drive up health care costs.

So when it comes to poor people, licensing, education, you have to look at the whole "ecosystem".
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This idea is so much better than a bootcamp. Paying ~$100/hr a few times a week to chat about projects and direction with someone in industry is going to be way more effective.
> "We should not advance a policy that is premised on giving up on the possibility of workers’ remaining employed"

Yeah, this makes about as much sense as, say, "We should not advance a policy that is premised on giving up on the possibility of stamping out marijuana use."
> It might fix it, but I think not directly

Cool, let's see it then ;)
How is that any different than EITC?
We have data: aristocrats, trust-fund babies, the idle rich, even to Roman times. Most do nothing but follow courtly fashion; but some became politians, scientists etc.

A huge difference is being at the bottom rather at the top. Status is a motivator.

But AI may "solve" thishttp://partiallyclips.com/comic/dome-house/
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Profits in HFT have always been oversold. These days the margins are brutally competitive.

That said I have no idea why they would patent this. I can't see how they can make money from it.
You are right that DB is private, nevertheless the bank is deeply intertwined with financing the Deutschland AG. Without them Daimler, BMW, Bosch, etc all would have to find new partners for financing their day to day operations.
Renaissance is not that type of hft firm. Renaissance uses algorithms to predict price movements before they happen. The type of hft this system is designed to prevent is front-running. Which is me seeing your order on exchange A and buying ahead of you on exchange B before your order arrives.

Those types of hft firms are surely eating into Renaissance's profits in a big way.
>Of course we didn't do a second scan, that would be silly... I don't know half of my ancestry, we simply wanted to confirm that I was negative for them

Oh god I hope you are not serious. These services are not clinical diagnostic tests and shouldn't be used as such for a thousand different reasons.

Genetic counseling is serious business. It should be administered by a trained professional in a medical setting. The results of any genetic tests should be interpreted by a trained professional.
In New Zealand we get interest-free student loans for up to 6 years of tertiary education with the possibility to get living costs with a weekly sum being part of this loan. Although you will be living marginally without an outside source for something like pocket money (A day a week is a pretty good compromise if you don't have savings).

Effectively, anyone that wants to get a degree can. There is no barrier outside the academic. And this loan stays interest free until we leave the country long-term. A small percentage is taken automatically out of your pay when you finally start earning. It all works pretty well for us.
That makes sense.

In a situation where people are given a base amount of money that covers their cost of living expenses but provides no extra money to obtain physical resources they will turn to the creation of intellectual property.

This endeavor is low cost in material but high cost in terms of time.
> A basic income is a massive threat to the liberal welfare state.

You are confused. Basic income is the "liberal welfare state." The people who want UBI are the same people who want a higher minimum wage and universal medical coverage.
YHC, Hugs, and nhc all discontinued development.

The former is now virtually uncompilable (and was never complete), Hugs is officially unmaintained, nhc hasn't seen a release since 2010 so is not under new development.

While there was discussion over this, it doesn't at all resemble the set of arguments more recently.
Agreed. Combining the self-paced freecodecamp.com with codementor.io seems like the cheaper and more effective path.
Peter Thiel – You Are Not a Lottery Ticket [video] (2013)
That was actually not my intent at all. The government is not exactly subtle. And the example that I cited -- Donald Trump -- is not (yet) part of the government.

What I'm referring to is the kinds of phenomena that the parent poster was describing, ideas like, "Work hard and play by the rules" which seems like a good idea except that it actually turns out to be a way for people who are willing and able (usually by virtue of their membership in some privileged social class) to bend or break the rules to manipulate those who are unwilling or unable to do the same.
That didn't sound like a Sarah Palin speech, not even remotely. What it sounded to me like was Richard Nixon, who proposed a similar thing for similar reasons, but couldn't get the proposal past the Senate:

http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-richard-nixon-almost-gav...

Why didn't it happen, in the words of Canadian Professor Eveyln Forget (of the University of Manitoba, Canada) “The political right is afraid people will stop working and the left doesn't trust them to make their own choices.”
Yeah, but not coastal cities. (We probably also need to specifiy coastal cites with restricted building area as well, since Houston is a major port.)
Speak for yourself. As someone who has gone to a "bad school" and a "good school" just by the school district rezoning I'd take the "good school" every time. Poverty is a major contributing problem but it's not something a 10 year old can fix nor ignore. I'm talking about the daily disruptions in learning such as not enough books, bullying, lesson interruptions because of disruptive students, drug dealing, and etc. These are problems no amount of ethics can overcome.
You keep making statements referring to _me_ that are inaccurate, but would be correct if you scoped them to "the average consumer" or "an untrained individual." First, I've got more than enough biology training to interpret it - a bachelors + a small amount of graduate study looking at analysis of chip-based genetic and protein assays. (Not my day job. I certainly wouldn't claim to be qualified to do this for anyone else.)

Second, I certainly do have high confidence that the results are mine. That's actually one of the cool things about a larger assay: I spotted a second cousin in the ancestry components of the list, and the maternal components match exactly with what I know.

The remaining issue is simply knowing what their false positive & negative rate is on the carrier status reports. I don't know, but given that we have a pretty good prior that I wasn't likely to be a carrier, it was sufficient for our purposes. (And, in fairness to 23andme, that's one part the FDA is letting them continue to provide.)

All of the concerns you've expressed make sense in general. I absolutely wouldn't encourage anyone to do this without talking to their doctor.
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I've seen advisors taking a fixed stock option package and/or regular fees in exchange for being available. You'd be a technical advisor just like their lawyer is their legal advisor so I'd structure it like a retainer plus hourly cost.
Aim high if they want to add you to their about-us page, investor presentation or press release (http://blog.mapjam.com/openstreetmap-founder-steve-coast-joi...)
+1

I want to know the answer to this one as well.
Mincome is not compatible with businesses and political parties that rely on an endless stream of low-skilled immigration.
What are others?
It's worth nothing that eating into Renaissance's profits in this way is good for everyone else because it means that accurate prices are reaching the market faster.
An externality impacts the market through a means other than the immediate price point of a good. As Milton Friedman put it, the market only affords one communication method between supplier and demander: price. That, alone is meant to encapsulate all input costs. If to employ someone to make or render a good or service the employer relies on an external factor such as the state of the world then the employer is exploiting a market externality.
Aw, see, this is me showing what I don't know :) I was thinking it would be something similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-carrying_code except at compile time.
> Giving people more options (as in, unrestricted money to spend) is the opposite of coercion.

The context is important. Are these "options" given willingly or taken by force? The distinction is pretty important. It's the difference between making love (a voluntary interaction) and rape (an involuntary one). If this "unrestricted money" is to be collected by force (or the threat of it), it is most certainly coercive.
Depends on what. With youtube it's just youtube account. But with Android Dev or Google Drive it's pretty much everything.

My colleague had all his accounts terminated because he was using paypal and not wallet (back when Google was aggressively pushing wallet). It's a lifetime ban and he cannot access any of the google's walled garden either personally or even with his official business accounts
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It's more plausible that Europe is going to go through a much harsher next ten years than the last ten years have been (a time during which the EU and Eurozone both saw essentially zero net GDP growth). They've only added to their debt situation since the great recession, nothing has actually been fixed, and they will be unable to raise interest rates for the next decade at least - that combination will continue to suffocate all GDP growth, by locking up trillions in capital that will no longer be productive and will be stuck in a blackhole yielding a negative return for decades.

Italy for example is imploding on $300 billion in bad debts, which is likely to send their economy into a Spanish style depression. That's going to sink a lot of European banks. Deutsche Bank's lead economist is already calling for a $150 billion EU bank bailout. They're going to need something more like $500 billion as the financial picture gets worse in Europe in the next few years.

Finland as another example is in a nearly decade long soft-depression, and is likely to abandon the Eurozone as their situation will continue to drift and erode.

Countries like Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway, now have among the most indebted households on earth based on debt to income ratios. The mortgage debt accumulation going on there can't continue indefinitely.

Spain and Portugal have barely begun to pull out of the last recession, when a new one is inbound. Greece is still a hobbled mess.

Countries like France and Germany that are center to Europe's economy, have had zero growth for nearly a decade. Germany's ability to continue to bail out other parts of Europe, is now at an end.

It's far more likely Deutsche Bank will be quasi-nationalized, than not at this point. The next few years will be worse, rather than better.
Do you often read blog posts? I think the only way I would manage to read 42 books in 6 months is if I stopped reading blog posts and programming resources. I'd like to know how you've manage to read 42 books
What do you mean by structural simplifications?
Most colleges cost far, far more, and yet many many people find a way to pay for them.
Yes, while mostly also referring to the period immediately prior to the Global Financial Crisis as the "Great Moderation".
Remember that Palo Alto is a suburb for tech folks. If you're interested in technology, it's about as good as it gets in suburbia. It's more about schools, parks and libraries for families than clubbing and nightlife.

You can still find good beer at almost every bar in town, from Anonio's Nutbar to Sliderbar to Rose and Crown and everything in-between. The presence of Stanford makes for a good restaurant and bar scene.

But... It's still a suburb.
ACA dated back to 1990, GINA acted as clarification in terms of genetic predisposition to developing a disease in the future (potential problems) and specifically excluded life, disability, or long-term care insurance. Which arguably made the situation worse.

Obamacare prevented insurance companies from treating active genetic disorders as preexisting conditions.
Ask HN: Any open AR library out there for mobile like Pokemon, Ingress, etc?
Social Security is funded by the money workers pay as a portion of their income over the lifetime of their employment. The elderly on Social Security paid into this system. Unfortunately many have ended up paying in less than they have received over the course of their retirement due to people living longer than the actuarial tables had accounted for. Over the course of SS 80 year history it has taken in $19.0 trillion in taxes and paid out $16.1 trillion. At the moment Social Security takes in more than it pays out, but that changes in two years when it will start running a combined deficit, it has roughly 18 years until the combined funds are depleted, *A rosey prediction as this is relying on data which includes a Labor Force Participation not dropping much more than it is now, which is tough as we're already more than a decade a head of where we should be if only Demographics were considered, and economic growth more than we've averaged since the Recession.

UBI is the exact opposite of Social Security
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/

If we assume automation results in more job-losses where does the money come to pay for it?
hmmh... I don't believe word2vec or item2vec would be considered neural network algorithms.

you come up with a model where a numerical vector represents the attributes of the word or item, you predict the likelihood of a match between words/items by multiplying vectors together, and then you use numerical optimization, i.e. an iterative gradient descent algorithm starting from randomly initialized vectors, to estimate the vectors that work best.
First time you don't underestimate, you simply don't have a choice. Our first place that we bought we had a budget. The banks approved us for a loan based on our income. And even with that we were looking for fixer uppers in specific areas because that is all we could afford.

Now we are older, have a bit of equity, more liquidity, and overall more savvy. A fixer-upper is no longer in the cards. But it was an experience.
> "is so totally ingrained into the American psyche that it isn't even worth mentioning."

It's hard to appreciate something you're surrounded by (to use an analogy, it's hard to appreciate the air if you're constantly surrounded by it, would be the same for a fish with regards to water).

With that in mind, it can be useful to point out the ingrained parts of a culture. If nothing else it allows us to re-examine deeply held beliefs to see if they stand up to scrutiny.
Very true - and as well as freeing you from bad jobs, UBI frees you from bad marriages. According to a recent Freakonomics podcast, a trial of UBI in a Canadian town lead to a rise in divorces. It was therefore shut down with extreme prejudice by socially conservative politicians.

On the bad job front, I think a UBI could resolve an imbalance that has always perturbed me. When I was travelling, I once got a job in a laundry - I hadn't realised that laundries have dirty and clean ends, and guess where new employees start! It was disgusting, and the only positive was the space everyone gave me on the crowded bus home. Then a contract job came through compiling a report that an overseas company had promised to carry out if they got some contract. I went from a horrible job on minimum wage to a plush office job at ten times the rate, and at the time it seemed crazy that I was paid more, not less.

A UBI would seriously shake this up. Society would have to pay more to incentivise people to do the the less-glamorous jobs, which to my mind would be fairer.
That... seems wrong, but I don't know enough about this to dispute what you're saying. :|
Awesome post, thank you so much! I'll get started on the crawler soon :)
Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067696
UBI gives people the ability to follow their dreams without risk of homelessness and starvation. Some of those dreams will be blockchain-enabled blah blah, some will be writing novels, or starting bands, or making community gardens, or teaching, or whatever.

Perhaps there are VCs who advocate UBI only because they think they can make money on the small subset of people whose dream is to start a venture-funded company and take it public. But UBI helps people follow whatever dream they have, so you'd have to hate VCs an awful lot to oppose UBI for that reason.
They are totally different approaches to achieving some of the same goals. A lot of support for the UBI is coming from libertarian-minded folks like Charles Murray. The idea is replace all or almost all welfare programs with the UBI.
In Chile there is an interesting concept called colectivo. It's a system that takes the fixed nature of a bus route and the readily available nature of Uber.

Basically, they are cars/vans that drive along a designated route. You can flag them down anywhere along that route and exit anywhere along the route.

I loved it.
There's a heroin shooting gallery here staffed by nurses and it proves keeping narcotics illegal is a complete farce. Out front at any given time of the day is a row of dealers openly selling junk to the junkies. Once in a while a new group of dealers will try to violently jack this lucrative business by causing a massive street gang war where countless people end up shot in the crossfire. Should just sell and distribute the drugs legally.
Isn't front-running big trades just a subset of algorithms that predict price movements? i.e. They're not mutually exclusive.

Admittedly I have zero special knowledge of Renaissance and what particular strategies they use.
> human irrationality

Dunno, this seems perfectly sensible to me. If a patient doesn't have much other information or expertise to go on, the decision they're making is as much "do I trust this doctor?" as it is "should I have surgery?". And setting aside the latter question, I don't think it's irrational for hearing a disclosure to influence the former.
Maybe the idea is by now so commonly known that they simply try to license the tech?
By and large "more capital per person" is good. People will live better. Perhaps at 100 million we won't be able to keep everything that 10 billion can keep in their heads, but computers and AI will make up the difference. (Once it's out of your head, does it matter whose it is in?)

The planet will be much more survivable with smaller populations too.
So, in theory, you get perfectly timed execution.

This assumes you're willing to trust their software and hardware.

I suspect they're right that this is a far more effective and comprehensive approach than IEX.

I think IEX is going to nail them to the wall because their target market understands and trusts a giant ball of cables having a particular length, but can achieve neither when faced with a giant ball of computer science.

Other than the first sentence, this comment was about potential customer response; I don't have an educated opinion about how trustworthy and/or effective any given exchange software is.
Highly recommend reading Flash Boys [1] and it explains why time is so important and HFT firms. Great book for filling in the picture of what HFT is and I found it pretty entertaining too.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Flash-Boys-Michael-Lewis/dp/0393244660
When I visited Atlanta 20 years ago, staying in a downtown hotel, I was surprised by how empty the city got after 5pm. It was a huge contrast to NYC where people actually live. It sounds like this is actually changing now.
That's a bit harsh. In case it wasn't clear from my posts or the website I am not a native English speaker nor is my friend or the woman in question. She is my sister and just wanted to help when we were starting. I didn't hire anyone to do anything in the website :)
If no ones working then no ones providing anything. At that point either everything's being made by a robot or we're all dead. I'm pretty sure society is going to find a way around that problem.
I guess there are probably several issues involved, including the "no one got fired for buying IBM" problem.
Good information, none of which I was aware of, thanks for the link!
They're NNs because you learn the representation using RNNs. Everything afterwards is trivial since you're in a hilbert space. But getting the representations is the hard part.
Small scale experiments are useless in the case of UBI, because introduction of UBI in small scale will not trigger inflation.

So small scale experiments are gonna to show that UBI works well, without negative inflationary consequences, but full scale introduction will be a disaster.
Frankly, I don't care what you think is ideal user behaviour. Users on reddit are by-and-large such feral pieces of garbage that deleting one's account and starting over every couple of months is a necessity anyway.

Once the trolls there start stalking you simply for making comments, you'll understand.
Highly recommend reading Flash Boys: Not So Fast [1] and it explains how Flash Boys gets it almost entirely wrong.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-...
Exclusive homosexuality analogous to human homosexual relationships is rare in nature. There are animals that are extremely promiscuous and have sex with anything else regardless of its sex, and there are animals that form homosexual relationships in the absence of enough sexual partners, and revert to heterosexual behavior when partners become available.