skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my defense, I still eschew html as far as possible. Even when I use html the messages are multipart, and the text versions usually are complete. I do this thing when I reply where I open the gmail menu, switch to plain text and then switch back to html. This has the effect of stripping out all styling from the message I am replying to, replacing html block quotes with conventional '>'s, and so on. That makes it easier for me to quote passages and so on.

I think of it as 99%[1] text/html with format=flowed, and if gmail ever added format=flowed to text mode[2] I'd switch back in a heartbeat.

[1] The remaining 1% of the time I'm composing something long enough that it has more in common with publishing than 1-1 communication.

[2] I wouldn't hold my breath: http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/gmail/Z42NibAOzjc/di.... More likely I'll stop using gmail one of these years..
That's true. Thankfully, Google has a pretty solid security team (the Chinese breach notwithstanding...).

I agree that's the biggest risk.
Always check out the dev bootcamp reviews on Techendo first. http://schools.techendo.com/
I havent read the patent but I can say this is an exceedingly common (I'd probably say standard) strategy. I can only assume the atomic clock bit is what's novel.
It is a far bigger waste of my time to fly across the country to scribble answers on a piece of plastic while someone stares over my shoulder.
patio11's posts? Could you share the link of the post?

Thank you.
I haven't seen this anywhere , but don't we already have UBI for a large number of people in the US? We call it social security, but it's just cash payments to people . That program is constantly talked about being shrunk, not expanded.

What about an expanded UBI would be different than social security? Just the fact that people are younger or not-disabled?

For the non Americans, social security provides cash payments to those over 65 and those with long term disabilities.
Abuse and subjugation isn't the only possibility for people to engage.
You should add your review to Techendo (http://schools.techendo.com/) and give others looking for dev bootcamps your experience/advice.
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Nice!

You might be alyso interested to know that PyPI download stats are also available in BigQuery:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-May/028...

(project recently unveiled by Donald Stufft)

I also added your article to the compilation at https://medium.com/@hoffa/github-on-bigquery-analyze-all-the..., thanks for your prolific series of analysis!
> The co-located servers sync their transactions so HFT firms won’t have enough time to identify an order on one exchange and then race to another to trade against it.

That sort of sounds like DDOS to me. They patented a DDOS botnet.
I wonder the same thing. I am not saying disagree. I think the YC experiment is interesting and I really want to see the results. On the other hand I wonder what they stand to gain from it?
It does seem to make sense logistically in terms of why they'd do it. Linux Journal isn't a large website, so it's not hard to just bulk add everyone to a list or whatever.

It seems they're just trying to bulk sweep up anyone that might be using TAILS.
Sorry, no. Giving people more options (as in, unrestricted money to spend) is the opposite of coercion. Even if it's not enough to live off by itself, everything helps.

For example, like unemployment benefits, it gives breathing room to hold out for a better job. Or if they're in a union, it's something to live on during a strike. Or maybe they will take the casual job.

Who knows? How people choose to use their freedom can be hard to predict. That can be a little scary. But the point is it's their choice, not ours.
It might fix it, but I think not directly. UBI alone won't fix the productivity-wage gap because giving everyone a flat grant isn't going to stop employers from paying low wages. However, it will remove one bit of leverage employers have when negotiating low wages, that being threat of destitution, which hopefully would help get wages tracking with productivity again, as they should.
The notion that anyone can just call what they teach a "degree" is why I learned before I ever stepped foot in a college to never sign up or pay for a course that isn't accredited. (Aka, transferable as credit to other reputable colleges.)
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I would think a restriction in the US compared to e.g. Europe is that many people in the US hold on to a particular job due to the health insurance they have at that particular job. A second issue is mortgages. While that is a problem in many European countries as well, some countries like Germany have a much higher portion of the population renting. Moving is thus much less of an economic risk, as you don't have the potential problem of moving from an area with economic depression where you can't sell your house without a big loss.
> Hack Reactor only teaches javascript. And a lot of veteran programmers, however wrong they might be, regard it as a lesser language

That's right, it's because they are "veterans" therefore old and don't know what's good so they still belive other languages might be needed to solve problems.

> These very people will now take up to 6 month to find a full stack job with this pseudo degree.

Is the "full stack" the new cool. Welp I guess I am a hopeless half-stack veteran.

Of maybe if they focused on half or third stack, they could manager a more in depth curriculum and provide more instructor-student one-on-one time.

Are there any good stories? It sounds to me like this is a scam to get money out of people, a step above Phoenix University and other such places.
Aren't most houses "used?" I actually prefer houses built before 1970 to modern houses. The architecture tends to be nicer, in my opinion.
The way many patents are structured begins with "a method of..."

So, in that sense, "a method of coordinating orders across exchanges to minimize analysis time available to other traders" seems perfectly in line.

(I agree that from various computing-centric backgrounds, this might be trivial, but not all problem domains are well-saturated with computing expertise, and this might well be sufficiently novel to warrant a patent in the domain.)
Mediocre might have been too harsh, but it's not significantly better than other cities I've lived in.

My biggest issue with the nightlife? The people. I'm tired of being surrounded by loud, drunk techies talking about apps, tech companies, coworkers, Ivy League schools, and venture capital. Maybe I'm going to the wrong places, and this doesn't describe everyone in tech, obviously, but it's in high enough concentration to consistently be noticeable and unpleasant.
The National Association Of Realtors is one of the largest spenders on lobbying every year in the US. They spend tens of millions of dollars every year lobbying members of congress. This is an industry prime for disruption. As Millenials begin to garner a larger share of the housing market I would not be surprised to see the involvement of realtors waining

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYea...

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000062...
No its not at all like that. Its a synchronization strategy so that orders hit all exchanges at the same time.
This is what I was wondering. The top 50% certainly don't need UBI. If everyone got it wouldn't sellers immediately increase prices and we'd be right where we started? A loaf of bread for $50.
"Mr. Furman also said a universal basic income would exacerbate income inequality, already a rising concern in the U.S. "

What am I not understanding? Wealthy persons will fund this. Sure, they may get the $12,000 per year UBI, but their taxes will go up by much more than that.
All they're saying is that with absolute synchronicity among all of the clocks at all of their co-located servers, all pieces of the order are executed at multiple exchanges at precisely the same time. Even very small differences among the clocks at each one can create opportunity for others to step in front of the trade, and this helps them avoid that. While this may sound obvious, they wouldn't be doing it if it hadn't been a problem for them in the past.
Novelty and obviousness are more related to whether something has been patented already or not.
A few weird things stand out to me: (1) Renaissance is super secretive. If they want to use this strategy to make money, a patent reveals to competitors what they're doing and creates more issues than it seems to resolve. (2) Renaissance is an HFT firm. Why are they interested in thwarting HFT? (3) This really isn't that fancy an idea. It's fairly general: send orders ahead to co-located servers to be executed at specific times.

I wonder if what they're really trying to do is prevent banks or others from creating anti-HFT infrastructure, and then providing it as a service to market participants that want to place large orders. The patent would perhaps provide some protection in that case.
Seeking a correct answer is trivially easy, though; you can always find the rule "any of the six shapes on the left", just as you can always fit a function to any arbitrary sequence.
Reading up on decoherence, the phenomenon itself doesn't lead to a many worlds hypothesis but allows for the conjecture of many worlds. Information becoming immeasurable/irretrievable is not proof in and of itself of a multiverse.

I have some modest undergraduate work in modern Physics, I think you may be taking the dominant voice on the physicsforums.com at face value when there's a high potential for self-selection bias in online forums. Going back to the experiment evidence and underlying mathematics there just hasn't been a breakthrough of any sorts.
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(my guess / personal opinion, I don't claim to speak for everyone)

Because so many here believe so strongly in the power of automation. Almost all software engineers are in the business of putting people out of jobs - eg. replacing a secretary with a mail and calendar app, replacing a business middleman with an online marketplace, or replacing a sysadmin with cluster management tools.

A way to resolve this cognitive dissonance of us doing a thing we think is right (automating the world) with causing a thing we think is bad (unemployment) is to turn unemployment into not a bad thing, which is the promise UBI makes.

This doesn't mean we don't honestly believe it can work. But it makes us more likely to WANT to believe it. Brains are funny things.
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My point was more that there is a huge genetic selection event ongoing in the developed world. The genetic fitness landscape has changed as a result of modernity and people who somehow manage to have a bunch of kids despite living in developed countries carry the genes that are currently being selected for.

Regarding religious people though: religiosity is a heritable trait. Not perfectly heritable, but heritable nonetheless. So if religious people have above replacement fertility and secular people don't, then the religiosity of the population as a whole should shift upward over time. It might take a long time, but that would seem to be the implication.
One explanation can be expanding criteria and/or earlier diagnosis. Earlier diagnosis, even with the same treatment efficacy, will lead to records of improved survival, and expanding criteria of particular diagnoses will often identify borderline cases that likely don't have the same morbidity and mortality.
I work with a co-worker who went through Hack Reactor, and the current job being her first in tech - she ended up alright, and learns at a pretty solid clip. On the flip side, at a previous employer, apparently there was an employee who went through Hack Reactor and was laid off just before I joined due to being an outright bad developer who had trouble getting basic work done.

I suspect that the quality of skills from people going through it is hit or miss. I personally think it probably is a raw deal for many, but some people need structure in their learning. I also think that it at least signals that the people care enough to invest that chunk of $ for a shot at a lucrative & well-rewarding career.
I created an email course (also available in book form) about this exact thing! [0]

But a few things I've found really useful are:

The Momentum app, which lets you quickly check off habits in the iOS notification centre widget. [1]

Starting small until the behaviour of a habit is ingrained, then increasing the time and effort. Eg. start with a 15 minute run until you're used to running 3x/week, then increase your time gradually until you're running 45 minutes every time, rather than jumping in the deep end. It's easier to keep up a habit that's small and easy, and to increase the activity once you've made it habitual. [2]

Only work on one new habit at a time, because it will take focus and discipline at first. [3]

Once your habit is solid, develop others by stacking them together. [4]

[0]: https://habits.bellebethcooper.com/
[1]: http://momentum.cc/
[2]: http://blog.bellebethcooper.com/french-habit.html
[3]: https://exist.io/blog/keeping-up-habits/
[4]: http://blog.bellebethcooper.com/pushups.html
UBI lets you ignore requests to do jobs that suck for low pay. It also lets you accept jobs that are awesome for low pay. Like maybe librarian, or craftsperson, or zookeeper, stuff that really wouldn't pay the rent too well on its own. Is this exploitation? I personally think not.
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I don't understand why someone would pay for one of these when there's free options like www.freecodecamp.com and www.theodinproject.com.
The U.S. defence budget is ~$700 billion / year and the U.S. population is ~320 million.

Gutting the entire defence budget would be worth just over $2000 / year per person. Not exactly enough for UBI.
if there were a good way to keep people engaged, you could probably accomplish a lot through an apprenticeship/development program at a company. It isn't possible for the earliest stages of a startup (unless someone's doing one job well, while learning another), but for a more stable stage of the company, hiring someone smart/willing to learn and teaching him or her what's needed to do a job well would seem like a good return.

If you were in a place other than SFBA where people 1) wanted to live but 2) wouldn't easily go to other jobs locally, this could work really well.
I've heard Germany brought up as an example for free tertiary education, so this might be applicable.

For Germany, secondary education splits into three tracks, with the upper third choosing between a traditional University track, a more vocational Fachhochschule, or a dual work/study arrangement in the form of a "Duale Hochschule". These all offer bachelor degrees, but AFAIK only the University track offers masters and doctoral programs.

German universities are also sparser in regards to amenities and faculty/student ratios than US or UK universities, at least from what I've heard, which brings costs down further.

Graduates from lower secondary tiers also have several options.

There's the Ausbildung, where businesses train hires internally to meet requirements for certain positions. A bank may train an "Azubi" from Teller to Account Manager to Branch Manager.

Then there's the Meisterwesen, which is still reminiscent of the guilds, and mostly prevalent in the trades (e.g., Carpentry, Baking, etc.). Levels go from apprentices, to journeymen, to masters, where masters are licensed to open their own workshops/stores. My personal perception is that socially, a master carpenter is on the level of a masters graduate, but still below that of a PhD, but that's still a fair bit of social mobility considering that this route is open to anyone with any secondary school degree.

So whilst less people get a college degree, business and industry do provide routes to livable work without one.
After I switched to Ubuntu a couple years ago, I gave Unity a whirl (it being the default desktop environment), and I use it to this day.

Unity is simple and it doesn't try to be the be-all and end-all of my computer use. Unity seems to be designed by people who understand that the purpose of a desktop environment is to facilitate launching other programs and perhaps moving their windows across the screen a little bit, and that's it.

I am a former KDE user, and I used to spend hours and hours on end tweaking my KDE configuration. Finding that perfect equilibrium was a quest without end, but the abundant opportunities for shaping the DE to my liking didn't make me any more productive.

Switching to Unity was a liberating experience. Suddenly, I could not do any of the things that KDE allowed me to do...and I didn't suffer any ill consequence as a result of that. Rather, I discovered that all I ever needed from the desktop environment was to let me run Emacs and Firefox. Everything else was, and always has been, superfluous.
Exponential growth has a way of catching up with negative growth...
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I have a feeling a lot of people will move to a more creative career, which probably won't be entrepreneurial. A great many novels will be written, films produced, etc.
Interesting that you mentioned Foursquare. I considered them a has been for such a long time and only recently realized that they are still around being the geolocation API provider for a bunch of products. Successful pivot, I think.
I am friends with some academic researchers that recently completed a study with 23andMe. My friends designed the experiment, 24andMe researches applied their design to the data and reported the statistical outcome. For their field, the results had the most significance seen yet for the phenotype studied. The genetic variants identified in the study will now go into further testing to understand the mechanisms by which they are acting, which will take time. Nonetheless, this will be a substantial step forward for the field.
> the creative and subtle ways that humans come up with to coerce other humans into doing their bidding without realizing that they are being coerced

I think you've just described government in general (and the propaganda that propagates among it's Stockholm syndrome-esque sufferers).
To me that sounds like an upside, not a problem. With UBI, workers have more bargaining power, so employers can no longer get away with treating them like they're disposable.
Furman is making a political statement, not an economic one. He'd providing a glimpse of the current administration's position on UBI.
What helps with procrastination is Adrafinil (precursor to Modafinil that doesn't require a prescription), Memantine, PhenylPiracetam Hydrazide, working on things that are interesting, and filing away (or having someone/something else do) whatever you don't like doing.
Stalking critics works, too.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/19/uber-inve...
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In general, most companies look at any bootcamp as a red flag. However, I have seen much better results from students from Hack Reactor over others like General Assembly.
Ted comments on this post in the article that it critiques. I do know that rust has important tools for writing secure programmes but using them is not really enforced (ie unsafe {}), thus it's possible to write exploitable bug in it. I want to note that I never used it though.
The problem with training is that the government are in charge of bursaries (or other forms of payment to learn or train) not the market. So you can get money to get a degree or become a doctor or teacher, not to learn AI or VR or cloud computing etc...
That very much depends on the context of the ad business in question. What stage it's at in terms of expansion and so on. Google zoomed right through the great recession, growing its advertising business while most businesses were struggling. As far as Google's business was concerned, the great recession hardly happened at all.
former hack reactor student here. glad the author wrote this. i do think hack reactor is an incredible learning experience if you can avoid the sweet sugary kool-aid that the entire bootcamp industry feeds people (probably out of the necessity for a crazy idea to be social-proofed).

but many people who go into these bootcamps, a bit naive about what it takes to gain deep technical expertise, either learn to gulp down the kool-aid (cultish) or bitterly reject it (jaded).

the third way (indifference towards the marketing) will probably lead to a stronger view of the industry itself, and will yield better programs + better mental model for those attending these programs.

hack reactor does an incredible job all things considered -- it takes BEGINNERS (which is different from entirely clueless "ive never coded before" types) and puts them on a path where, if they realize the depth of their ignorance, now have the tools to whittle away at it. they do this job much better than i think almost every bootcamp out there (based on extensive personal research)

bootcamps make these people employable, and considering many of these people are career switchers, that's pretty awesome for a 12-wk program. but we can't mistake "employable" with "good". the companies hiring bootcamp grads need to have the resources available to guide/mentor them. there are certain things bootcamp grads are great at, and others they are absolutely miserable at (see TripleByte's post: http://blog.triplebyte.com/bootcamps-vs-college)

my prediction is that the bootcamp industry is going to end up looking a lot like coursera writ large. you'll have "bootcamp prep" courses which, with another name, is just Intro to Web Programming. The next step up is the "web development bootcamp", which is Web Development 101. The next step up above that would maybe be different sets of intensives like "Python and Machine Learning" or a guided SICP/NandTetris course or Blockchain 101 or Functional Data Structures or something.

The idea being that in the grand scheme, if you are interested in programming and need structure, you can start with Codecademy, then attend a $1k bootcamp prep course, then attend a $5-20k online web dev course (depending on your goals), then a $5-20k deeper dive course (again, depending on your goals).

this path possibly lowers risk for people interested in programming -- at any stage of the path, you can drop out, and your time + $$ expenditure is lowered. the alternative is to pursue a CS degree and then realize halfway through you don't want it (at which point your stuck). or maybe it inspires you to go get a CS degree. or maybe inspires you to be ballsier and more self-directed and learn all this stuff yourself (which is tough but doable)
So one of the most famous HFTs is now going to offer a way to block the damage done by HFTs?

Despite the hilarity of such a thing, is this a sign that HFT is not nearly as profitable as it once was?
Nanosecond differences are too small to take advantage of, that's only 30cm. My guess is that you'd be at least in (or close to) the microsecond range before you'd worry about HFT stepping in front of your orders.

If you're hitting multiple exchanges, then you can take milliseconds and still be fine.
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Not at all. People will still want to work. Everyone wants better than they currently have. so you can afford food and rent. you may not need it but you still want a cell phone, Internet, a car, etc etc. the point is to ensure a basic quality of life. The rest is up to the individual. Plus after UBI people will be much more open to working fewer hours or with no benefits. It's a very strong positive externality on labor flexibility.