skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantitative finance is a field that takes from many different topics and combines them, so one way to start instead of studying the field directly it helps to learn a handful of different subjects slowly over time.

Most people start with basic programming and basic stock market indicators. Many people start by hacking together some python scripts using some framework and then backtesting to see if their assumptions are correct.

On the more advanced level there is C++, CUDA, and Rust, and similar tech that needs to be fast. When developing a custom algo for an NP problem, you need a lot of speed. On this front, auditing MIT's old Artificial Intelligence class might be a good place to start, which goes over how to optimize NP algorithms and builds up the thought process of how to automate difficult problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjZBTDzGeGg&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

Writing a bot that plays the stock market when boiled down is either 1) pattern matching the market, having a hypothesis, and then writing some code to test that hypothesis or 2) writing a machine that pattern matches for you, finding meta-patterns of sorts. Is closer to Data Science and machine learning.

Quantitative finance can be as simple as what is often done in Data Science work. That is, hacking together some python scripts and testing your assumption, or it can be as complex as being an expert C++ programmer and building up a custom system, combining Software Engineering and Data Science.

Furthermore, in the DS world there is a lot of research at places like https://arxiv.org/ like an existing path of half-solutions that can be applied, tested, and verified. In the Quant world, information is private, so you don't get that luxury. Likewise, most models in the DS world don't work in the Quant world, for at least two reasons: 1) Most machine learning today isn't timeseries based. Eg, a self driving car may frame by frame identify what is in each picture, but it doesn't do a good job retaining data in the larger scene making it difficult to use standard machine learning to solve problems in the financial market. and 2) Most machine learning algos are based on floating point numbers and approximations. When dealing with money you need perfect precision, so even if there is the perfect machine learning library, you might end up writing your own version.

Eh, I'm probably rambling a bit too much here. Either way, quant finance is tons of fun! Also, I've only done projects independently, so I have no idea how different my approaches are to the industry.

Also, another field that might help is DSP, though I admit it's something I don't know enough about, so I can't say with absolute certainty how much it would help.

And of course, there is understanding how the market works itself. This often involves getting your feet wet, usually by paper trading. For many this means learning option trading.
Death to big ISPs.
Maybe old school friends and in-laws don't really matter that much. I see my brother in law a few times a year; i see old school friends once every couple years. Is this not sufficient? On the other hand i could legit be a hermit...
The system isn't rigged if it's slightly harder (if even that!) to get into 1 school with a 4.7% acceptance rate.

It's rigged if a hard working daughter of an immigrant has limited paths to social mobility because their community college is underfunded or because their Cal State school has too few slots for her major. That's when I'll say it's "rigged".
Some imagined 'futuristic' threat perhaps, more along the lines of the first boy's answer (which doesn't really carry any judgement, but could) about the robot court and computer funeral.

He didn't really explain why or much about it, but another was concerned about large ugly areas of the country sectioned off for recreation.
Without wanting to dive into the politics cesspool, In general I'd favour sharing IPR on RAND terms, rather than locking it up as special secret sauce. I think if Comac is struggling to learn how to make safe aircraft, then helping them is "build a better world" more than fighting them at the firewall.
Fortune 100 company cuts off employees from their fantasy football fix
> A rare few of you who want the challenge to build something unique.

> Spotify for Wine
> Other editors and IDEs have macro functionality, but without the composable structural editing commands in vim (these are also in emacs) you don't quite have the same kind of power.

That's the other way around. Modern IDEs don't work on text like vim does, they understand the language. Using e.g. JetBrains IDEs you can do refactoring across an entire code base in a few clicks. Something you can't possibly do because vim (unless you use plugins) doesn't understand the semantics or even the syntax of the language, it's just text.
The difference is that automation is now targeting skilled, social, and technical work. Traditionally they've been aspirational fields of work due to their resilience. Limiting capacity to enter these fields is only going accelerate the destruction of the middle class.
We have robotic baristas here in SF, but no one uses them. Why? People want to have their food prepared and served by a real human being, in most cases. The food tastes better when it's served to you by a real person.
I don’t think this is so much to make your commit messages better, as it is to make sure that all of them can be automatically processed into changelog and semver updates.
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't under employed often also refer to when you have part time / casual work but want full time employment? You might not be able to survive of what your earning but your not part of the Unemployment statistics?
That's the thing, if you tell a manager you can replace 5%, they might be okay, but say 50% and they might get scared they're on the chopping block...
This is golden. (And for those who aren't familiar with rust, it can leak memory and it tends to crash intead of exhibiting undefined behavior... but you could write it to listen to a 2 minute song at a faster pace :)
>Now you're saying that if faced with the choice of having fewer or no mass shootings, and being able to stop a small fraction of them (or worse, stop a large fraction but even the small one still causes thousands of victims) while the rest cause hundreds of deaths and thousands injured you'd pick the second?

First, I don't believe banning guns will stop mass shootings any more than banning drugs stopped mass drug use. There are millions out there and a well kept gun can last a couple hundred of years (and still work).

Second, how will you accomplish the confiscation? You know there are people who will resist. How many police (and bystanders for that matter) will die trying to follow that order? I have no idea, but probably a lot more than zero.

Third, based on how our federal, state and local governments are treating our population, or world for that matter, I don't think removing that sort of deterrent would be advantageous to stopping it. Broken justice system, militarized police, surveillance state, corrupt politicians selling out our livelihoods. Those things aren't naturally going to get better and we can't seem to vote it away very effectively. I don't know what our options are anymore, but these things are likely going to get a lot worse for us.

Fourth, we are living in a surprisingly, unnatural time of peace and prosperity. WWI went from the assassination to full mobilization in a month, followed by depression in Germany, followed by a world depression, resulting in the Nazi's coming to power, resulting in the holocaust and 80+ million dead; all within 30 years. That's peace to holocaust to Cold War between 1989 and now. Drastic change happens fast, and the world is due. Just because a gun ban formula looks attractive now, it very well may not in the near future.

For a starting solution, I think rebuilding our mental health infrastructure would help, but I don't see our generation's politicians doing that. It was before my time, but apparently we had a much better one in the 70s. I can tell you we certainly have a under treated mental health problem today. Do you think Sandy Hook would have happened if Adam Lanza had a facility to live in and be taken care of? There is no way to know, but I think it's unlikely.

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/trauma-and-violence/guns-vi...
The point is - I've seen plenty thrown around, most very clearly manipulated. What's more - some small amount of them made me doubt in Stallman a bit, like the "knight for ladies" thing, but after a while it turned out it was manipulated as well, so... it feels like standing on rms side here might be a pretty safe bet after all.

If you're too lazy to do the research yourself, I've even found a page that collects it and does proper justice to objectively present them in full context: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ (although this text could do just as well with a few less "paid to write, not to read" repetitions...)
I often felt my university studies were something to overcome rather than a process of education. As in, I taught myself to overcome a series of obstacles.
My experience is that usual reason for RPC-over-SFTP is that it is the only thing that corporate IT security does not control and thus cannot make inflexible. Adding another SOAP/JSON/whatever endpoint tends to be multiyear project, while creating new directory on shared SFTP server is a way to implement the functionality in few hours.
I think you have just perfectly described what makes FB et al walled gardens.
> I want vim with default Intellisense of VS Code.

Your best bet is probably CLion (it's proprietary) with IdeaVim plugin.
It's not perfect but it's probably easier to implement vim-mode into any IDE than turn vim into an IDE.
Would it be safe to say that CIA (and NSA and other parts of the intelligence community) is the actual "State within the State" (i.e., the so-called "Deep State")?

"National security", almost at any cost, became the paramount prerogative of US intelligence agencies. However, they seem to be using a military criteria in a civil environment, which was supposed to be transparent enough for accountability.
Are you arguing that Asians inherently make worse leaders than people of other races? To me, Harvard keeping Asians out would create a negative feedback loop where Asians are not perceived as leader materials.
> These kinds of stats are basically impossible to produce while children of alumni get to skip the queue and get in much more easily

Only some schools take into account legacy status, so wouldn't it be possible to do comparisons between schools that do and schools that do not to get those kind of stats? Many students apply to the same school their parents went to even if being the child of alumni does not give them a boost.

Of the top 10 universities in the world, according to US News & World Reports 2018 list, 4 take into account legacy status (Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Stanford) [1].

6 do not (MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Caltech, Cambridge, University of Washington).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/16/top-universities-that-do-not...
Every group but whites and Hispanics are over represented at Harvard. Whites are the most under represented group.

Whatever their goal, it’s not matching the demographics of the US and constitutes purposeful racism to accomplish a social agenda.

See other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21130080
A nice course to get started in quant finance is Udacity's AI for Trading[1]. It covers factor models, with a specific focus on equities.

[1]https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-for-trading--nd880
Basecamp HQ is in Chicago so $1 is worth whatever it is worth in Chicago.
They were a thing in the 50s, 60s, 70s. Maybe more of an urban or hippie thing.

I know the term "coffeehouse" was a cultural touchstone in the US because it was used in titles of books published before the 80s. Sorry I don't remember specifically, but this "nothing existed until Starbucks" is ridiculous. Starbucks came out of somewhere. Coffeehouses came from Europe to the US, before and after the American revolution.
Some much truth to this. Those that think Linus or RMS are abrassive have obviously never met Drepper.

I once had the (dis)pleasure of meeting him once at a former company when he came onsite and he came across as every bit the condescending asshole as he does on bigzilla. Didn't really get the chance to get to know him as a person, but as they say, first impressions... I get that he's in a tough spot maintaining glibc, but a bit of tack in correspondence would go a long way.
Have you ever seen an application where Jewish is a racial option?

I have not, yet comments here assert that it is.

It makes me question the legitimacy of their data sources.
Enterprise software just as useful for students
It seems like it was made by someone who accidentally spilt coffee on their keyboard which made their 'U' key sticky.

I like my "Feature" much more than "feat". This is my default commit message that I edit to contain what I want:

<Type>: <Description>

# Type can be:

# - Feature: A new feature

# - Bugfix: A bug fix

# - Docs: Documentation only changes

# - Styling: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)

# - Refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature

# - Performance: A code change that improves performance

# - Tests: Adding missing tests

# - Chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
No, we are not interested in the total averages of the SSA nations, which obviously will not compare to America: we are interested in the elite high schools of the SSA nations. We are comparing economically disadvantaged African Americans to the economic elite of SSA.
> Do we even need people to move to physical buildings? If we improve our internet infrastructure we can offer 24/7 education to everyone anywhere in the country. The idea of forcing students to move to a specific place and attend classes at a specific time every day seems somewhat dated.

Lambda School would like to say hello.

(no affiliation... just a fan)
Bosch Hopes Triggering Explosions Will Make Electric Cars Safer When They Crash
I'm lumping all the selection criteria except legacy and football under the banner academic. Obviously those who just pass exams make poor doctors, but I didn't think we were arguing about that.
Hm, I didn't bucket flag-brigading into the astroturfing bucket (specifically because they're quite different - one suppresses speech whereas the other purports to be grassroots speech). Your point is well taken, but going forward dang, there's value in adding the "or similar manipulation" qualifier to the current iteration of guidelines:

> Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data.

Hopefully this comment is viewed as both the acknowledgement as well as the constructive feedback it's intended to be.
This seems to be turning into a thing so let me explain. My comment is obviously satirical, but with any satire there's a grain of truth. Personally I never got into them but when they 1st came out I didn't have a negative opinion about them either. It's more about what they turned into. They found a formula and just stuck with it because it pays. Now I'm not saying that punk bands can't be successful but there's a difference between just making good music and making something that just generates sales. Billy Jo is almost 50 years old now. I was born in 75 and he's older than me but Green Day is still making the same played out, radio frindly, teen angst driven music after 20 years. They've just become a sad parody of themselves.
> It’s sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean with the black population of the US.

So 1 billion in subsaharan africa vs 42 million african americans - still on totally different scales.

Subsaharan Africa has plenty of educational institutions of sufficient quality to prepare motivated (and likely more well off) students for admission vs relatively small number of seats at Harvard.

That doesn't in any way contradict with the possibility that general education systems in subsaharan africa aren't great.

Foreign undergrads at elite US universities are likely themselves to be privileged in their countries of origin, not the least because the ability to understand English and pass tests administered in English is a huge filter for privilege in many developing countries.
I don't think you will ever convince someone they're wrong.

I'm reminded of the beginning of "How to Win Friends and Influnce People" by Dale Carnegie. It spoke of a man who murdered a policeman when he asked to see his driver's license. He went through a trial and ended up in the electric chair. I think the point was the guy didn't say "This is what I get for killing someone" instead he said "This is what I get for defending myself"

You should not let people like this torment you so.

Instead, become a zen master. Develop openness, curiosity and a sort of lighthearted kindness. No scowling or taking things personally from unenlightened troglodytes. You live in the clouds!
Ads are a much smaller threat than unscrupulous ISPs. They have access to ALL your traffic.
I'm sure by then there'll be brainwave controlled programming and the idea of using a keyboard with defined syntaxes will be as silly as punching cards sound to us today haha
Yeah am I the only one who thinks less is more when it comes to sausage on pizza? And smaller crispy bits not big grey chunks that are barely warm in the middle please. This pizza looks gross.
I am talking about people working inside Google, not customers, as should be apparent from context.
check out ungoogled chromium if you'd like to trade a very small amount of convenience for full privacy
This Judge was confirmed by the Senate which has been in Republican hands for some time.

You should go start your own Harvard and you can exclude or admit anyone you want.
There are controls. I believe they're selective about who they let in, and let present.
I'm like you. White and use to think the same. Love him or hate him, the last chapter, A Jamaican Story, in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers really pierced my heart. I can't fathom what it must be like. I think those that despise affirmative action take things personally. They are right, sometimes it's not fair since they busted their butt, paid their dues, etc but lose out possibly because the color of their skin. It sucks and I'm sorry.
Cruise: Self-Driving Engineering with Mo Elshenawy
Location: London / Paris

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: unlikely

Suitable roles : Lead DevOps/SRE, Head of Infrastructure, Systems architect, CTO/co-founder, advisor/consultant/mentor

Technologies: Kubernetes/"cloud native" ecosystem, AWS, Google Cloud, Linux/Unix, OS + networking fundamentals, Python, Bash, C... many others, all the way down to Assembly.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudguerin

Email: jobs at renaudguerin.net

I'm a senior technologist and engineer with a breadth of experience (15+ years as SRE / DevOps / Systems architect, 20+ years Linux user, even longer as a programmer !).
My core technical skillet is in infra/DevOps, but over time I've been involved in most aspects of architecting, building, running and scaling online services. Very interested in the business / product areas as well.

I was one of the first 5-6 Facebook SRE hires in Europe (2010-2011), have experience at numerous startups and before that in larger orgs in the ISP/hosting world.

Happy to provide both technical vision/leadership and hands-on engineering contributions.

Available mainly as a contractor/consultant (part time or short term projects welcome)

I will consider full time employment for exciting principal roles (co-founder / CTO / VP Eng / Head of Infrastructure) at early stage startups.

No generic vanilla DevOps roles from recruiters please (I get plenty of those on LinkedIn already) !

First time posting here, I'm curious to connect with fellow HNers in London and beyond !
No he didn’t, anywhere actually. He ended up spending a few years doing tangentially medical related stuff (research, not sure if he did grad school) before reapplying and getting in.
I saw Jello spinning recently at a fetish party at a gay bar. Punk enough for me.
I prefer the weaker version:

"If one person tells you you're drunk, and you feel fine, ignore him. If ten people tell you you're drunk, go and have a lie down."
In many economies, ISPs have legal immunity from acts done by users (customers) because of laws associated with 'common carrier' status.

But that status is fragile. The ISP has to act like it knows its obligations in law, and there are things ISPs have been doing to work with LEA for a long long time, which they won't be able to do as simply, or as well, or in some cases at all.

As a customer its easy to assume the only answer is "good" but in fact, its more complex. Society depends on law, and the application of law around what people do online is not trivial, and does not reduce down to 'all snooping is always bad all the time' -Warrants exist to do things, and warrant canaries are a reaction to them but not one which says warrants don't exist: they say silent warrants should not be obligated on the receiver of the interception: They're a position on secret law, not a position on law in itself.

TL;DR DoH and DoT are challenging established law in telecoms and big ISPs who have common-carrier defence depend on interception in DNS and DPI and the like, to perform their role facing LEA demands from the state which in many cases are entirely normal and justified

Not all DoH and DoT stories are good stories for society at large.

Please don't reduce this to a libertarian vs everyone else debate, I would invite you to think about what an ISP is, and what we want from ISPs as a whole, not just as customers seeking pirate bay, but as a society investing in a telecommunications-rich future.

The first casualty of war is the truth. The second (in WWI and WWII) was the deep sea telecommunications cables.
Precog: PREdiction Conditioned on Goals in Visual Multi-Agent Settings
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Common Lisp, Python, Linux, git (some knowledge of rust, and C)

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Resume: see LinkedIn, and message me their, or email me for a copy.

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I WILL BE IN THE BAY AREA the 21st - 25th, and have interviews scheduled on the 22nd and 24th, but am looking to interview on the 21st, 23rd, and 25th.

I passed the triplebyte interview.

Physics major (Bachelors of Science) turned software developer. Closing one year as a backend developer at a common lisp shop. Looking to move to a linux based company. (macOS as workstation computer/laptops is great too!). Avid learner, currently finish up Designing Data Intensive applications.

Would be glad to work at a company that uses a functional language, such as Haskell, especially if they don't expect new employees to come in already knowing the language.

Ambitious: only been at the company a year and spent a significant amount of time this summer directing an intern, overhauled the build system the company uses internally (set up jenkins over previous system).
Seems like you're still studying. Are you looking for full time opportunities or internship..??
What are you talking about "surviving for a decade?"

Python 2 was released in 2000 -- part of why Python 3 was called Python 3000, I believe.
I really love sites full of gorgeous, detailed images that block my browser's zoom feature. /s
I always thought that it was illegal for private organizations to racially discriminate. I know it is illegal for them to racially discriminate for employment. Is discriminating against customers/users (students in this case) fair game?