skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't plan ahead

Don't take this too far though. Otherwise you might end up at some dude's house in Kilkenny trying to determine if he's going to let you crash in on couch or if he wants you to sleep in his bed. Or you might end up walking from Juno to Omaha beach hoping that you can hitch a ride with some Canadians back to Caen.
Next step, make a bot to tweet out (fake) news to trigger this bot and place itself on the winning side of the trade.
I'm also interested if it's possible to say so with certainty.
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> it's not for everyone.

True, it's heavily dependent on whether that person is into 'adventuring', i.e. enjoys stepping out of their comfort zone, enjoys changing up their lifestyle, and seeks out those challenges.

I have had a blast, met up with developers in the cities I stayed in, advanced my career by finishing projects for my portfolio (also worked remotely), went on constant dates via online dating in the local countries (many of which turned into at least people to hang out with), and just overall made many new friends, locals and xpats alike who I still keep in touch with, not to mention cultural immersion which broadens minds (depends on the country you pick). I've done this in major cities in South America, Spain, Japan, China, and Vietnam. 3 months abroad, 9 months at home, repeat.

People should read your post and assess what kind of person they are, but I would be afraid that you might discourage people who would succeed in having an incredible experience. Your response seems like a lot was your personality and hangups which got in the way - and you are right, it won't just automatically work for everyone, it takes a type of person.
I can't quite tell if you are being satirical, but some folks wouldn't be okay with having their parents live in Ecuador and never seeing them.
By and large, yes. NHSTA testing could be considered one aspect of review. There are all sorts of other DoT reviews of various aspects of car design to ensure that various safety lessons learned through the years are applied to cars. Standards like the gas tank is in front of the rear axle to help prevent it from being punctured, the placement and configuration of the gear shifter -- it's why chryslers no longer have push button gear selectors and why no one has column mounted manual shifters any more. Auto ECUs really are an outlier in terms of auditing and examination.
Why would you, at all, stay in a place where you're checked out? True, it might work at Intel or Microsoft, but most companies are 200 people or less.
That's called "pump and dump", and I believe it is illegal.
Right, the interesting story was toshiba, who constantly would come buy to pretend to buy TrackPoints... then try to learn enough to "fix thiers" ... even though I had published much of the secrets, others never made copies that were good enough to matter.
From the beginning, I encouraged people to use mice for constant pointing, and TrackPoint for mixed typing and pointing... one reduction in stress came with the (won over 4 years) introduction of the wrist wrest in the thinkpads of the 770 time frame... notebooks from most companies before that (like the 750, 755, etc) promoted that the notebook should be the size of an A4 piece of paper and that moving the keyboard towards the display was somehow evil... (even though apple had wrist wrests)...
consider using buttons from one hand for buttons and the other for pointing , it helps.
I was a center manager at Kaplan test prep. I was also a teacher for SAT, GRE, GMAT, and LSAT classes. The plan was to continue to teach part time after I left my management position.
Oh yup, how come they're an analytics provider and not a fund? ;-p
The middle button was added to placate my obsession with a second pointing device. We showed that you could use the middle button to accomplish what all my two TrackPoint prototypes did... they went for it... but ... i am sorry to say ... the scrolling consistency and control somehow (still) gets hijacked by Windows in some ways ... it should be revisited.
I last played it probably about 5-7 years ago (along with the primes and zero missions, was on a metroid bender). Re-reading it as an adult with little spare time, it was like playing the game but in a fraction of the time.

Thank you, poster, for preventing further loss of productivity.
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Toyota's 'killer firmware' is the same thing as the Audi's 'killer pedal', a cute plot to protect the domestic US auto makers.
yes, I don't know why our friends at Lenovo took it out of their lower priced models and , too, please pester Lenovo, there is still so many ways the TrackPoint can be improved, it is worth the small development effort it would take!
I don't know Javascript but I'm learning it on my own, by reading books and writing code.

However I know a whole bunch of other languages, tools and platforms.

I have a Physics degree.

But I cannot get a job because I am 51 years old - my grey hair is plainly apparent - and because I am quite open about being mentally ill.

The reason I went public with my illness was to benefit other mentally ill people.

In the US, it it flatly illegal to discriminate for reasons of employment against the mentally ill, or those who are 40 years of age or older.

A close friend advised me to remove the links to my essays about my condition from my website. No doubt it would be easier to find a job if I did; but the reason I leave those links there is that I feel it is more important that others read my writing than that I get a job:

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

Even so, it sucks to be poor.

It is also a tremendous waste of my expertise that I am not permitted to contribute. There is so much that I could teach the young people, that I am eager to teach, were I only to get a job offer.

Michael David Crawford, Senior Software Engineer
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/resume/
Don't work illegally. It may seem easy (and is) but you never know the nightmare it can unleash.

Travel is what you make it. You can travel without moving - interact with different people locally. You can travel by changing career. It is simply a process of changing environment. Join a hiking group, a cooking club, even learn a new skill, 'push your bubble' - that is travel.

Travel the world... Take the decision carefully, but if travelling physically it is easy to not travel. Everywhere has a Starbucks to grab a coffee, apart from the places that don't, but if travelling to places that don't, is choice made simply because they don't have Starbucks and if that is in the decision chain, when why not travel to somewhere that does and not go to Starbucks? Is 9 months backpacking 'travel' when it is done with a group of similarly minded people with a half-hearted effort to learn a language?

Home is where the heart is. If you feel your heart is somewhere else, then travel to find it, it is simply a change in lifestyle, physical travel is often the opposite - a preservation of lifestyle in different conditions; without recognizing that, no change is gained.
Linux, 2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzAdeySo0Xk

I miss Motor City Online.
Fascinating, you've done an absolutely amazing job at not just your travel but also your 'inner journey' about how the travelling changed you. Thank you!
Check out Ori and the Blind Forest. It came out a month ago and is one of the best 2D metroidvania games I've ever played:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ori_and_the_Blind_Forest
I wouldn't know I never use that kind of login.

That is, if a site doesn't permit me to log in on just that one site then I don't sign in at all. It is for that reason that I never comment on Medium, as it only permits Twitter or Facebook sign in.
While a standard base might be bigger, it does make it easier to cache when you use it in most images. A lot of smaller specific images will mostly be unique.
'A web-reading bot lost millions on the options market' also happens too.
I like the landing page for Precursor (https://precursorapp.com/home) because it shows off the app's collaborative features in the background (only on desktop) and goes straight from landing page to app without even a page refresh.

It also has a few fancy animated svg illustrations and a well-done effect when you hover over the main cta.
This isn't terribly profound, but I think I just like to read books in different places.

I enjoy it; it feels satisfying. The volume on that seems to edge up when I'm in a really different location, like another country.

That's not a counterpoint to what you said. It's just what hit me, and I thought it was funny.
If you want to have a company name listed for your app on the App Store instead of your personal name, you'll need to create an LLC and register it for free with Dunn & Bradstreet, then create your developer account using that.
Also, it's very easy to use a whitelist of twitter accounts.
Well, it only takes one credible paper that blames it on something major to warrant serious concerns ...
you mean what Timehop does?
Very cool. That's exactly what TypeProviders are for: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156509.aspx
Is that the green labelled one? We have it in Japan and I can't for the life of me figure out what its deal is. It taste quite bad.
That was my first thought too. Since sometimes these are sub-second trades, it'd be interesting to look at whether they're physically possible (i.e. whether speed of light is respected.) Would explain stuff like [0].

[0]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/24/t...
Second one sounds awesome. I hitchhiked with two German girls back to Jerusalem from the dead sea in some Russian dude's car. Fascinating guy. Highlight of the trip. YDIMA (your disaster is my adventure)
"Caret" but I agree -- it's like I landed on a page that said LOOK BEHIND YOU. Would be rather alarming.
I don't understand why this is even considered news. Bots have been monitoring and trading on realtime news information for years.
Being able to afford the money which humans cost is easy. Being able to afford the time which humans cost is not so easy. The optimal strategy might be to trade within a few microseconds based on "something happened to this company, so something is likely to happen to its stock price", then trade a bit more a few milliseconds later based on "a computer thinks that this sounds like good news", and then make a third trade a few seconds later based on "a human pushed the (green|red) button when they saw the headline".
Developer of @justlanded here :) Thanks for appreciating our landing page – @partlysean did a great job on it. We also recently released Patchmania which has a neat landing page you might like: http://getpatchmania.com

Honestly, because we're an app company rather than an e-commerce or SaaS company, a lot of the effort we put into these pages is largely for the benefit of the press (who often research apps on desktop). The vast majority of end users discover our apps through the App Stores themselves, so we put even more effort into our icon, screenshots, app preview, description, keywords etc.

As for conversion rates, sadly Apple hasn't opened up any analytics to developers for their actual App Store product pages (even though they announced they would a year ago at WWDC), so what users are doing when browsing the actual stores is largely a black box - we have no idea how many people view our app store previews or screenshots etc. or even where they came from (many deep-linking schemes we've looked at are pretty brittle or don't work at all).

Conversion rates on the website landing pages are pretty good - there's not much else to do on those pages than download the app, and chances are you came there with that goal.
Have a fast NLP engine looking at the queue, and when it spits out a >80% certainty for a buy or sell action flash the news item up on the screen with a green or red background accordingly. Double-click to confirm, order only goes out if the reaction is quick enough to make it worthwhile. You could even flash it up on several traders' screens and do it by majority vote.
Having read this I'm substantially more convinced that Dennis Crowley knows what he's doing. The only bit Foursquare has really messed up was the split into two apps, but it's not something that they can't fix. Swarm being an app that feeds data into the main Foursquare app is a hard setup to make work (users might use one or the other, and not both), but Facebook has made it work with Messenger and the main Facebook app.

Foursquare has a lot of data. As a bonus, they've also realised that the company is very likely viable just living off other people wanting that data. If they can use that data well, I wouldn't be surprised if Foursquare turns into a serious competitor for Yelp (or even TripAdvisor, etc). If anyone wanted to try and usurp Yelp, it'll be Foursquare, not Facebook or Google or Apple.
There are many times a news story appears about a company that have absolutely no impact on the stock. In fact, the anticipation of a news story that turns out to be nothing note worthy will lead to a drop in volatility and make your trade a losing one.

See every time a company announces earnings in line with expectations for example. "x company made 1 billion in profit" could fail to move the stock at all.

Betting that news is market moving requires a decent amount of analysis of the news and the credibility of its source.
This reminds me of the recent Tesla April Fools press release for a new watch called the 'Model W'. Clearly there were bots written to monitor Tesla feeds and other companies for new products and trade automatically as the stock price jumped $2, before returning back to normal by the end of the day.
Well if it doesn't respect the speed of light then they didn't wait for it to become public. What your parent was inferring was waiting for the news to actually hit the wire so it does look legitimate.
It isn't shown in the video, but you have to put the whole car together from parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0TxB9rspI

Btw, the developer is the same guy who is known from the sports documentary (enable subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOjmGxK5EQ
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Betting that news is market moving requires a decent amount of analysis of the news and the credibility of its source.

You don't need to be right every time in order to make a profit in the long run.
Is Caltrain F*d today? [1]

http://iscaltrainfucked.com/
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> At this point, CVS is almost their barrier to entry: if you're (royal you, not rhapsodyv) going to complain a bunch about the version control tool, you're probably not going to be an active member of their developer community.

CVS is frankly hideous. Saying "git is way too complicated" is another way of saying "CVS is way underpowered". However, a good reason to cling to this relic of a bygone age is that, as far as I know, they have everything in CVS, and it must be a lot more convenient to be able to checkout an arbitrary part of their dev tree than messing around with git submodules.

That said, if their attitude is really "if you complain about CVS, you are not worthy", that is bound to turn off many people, and for good reason.
Thanks for helping to improve HN! We need all the help we can get.

There has never been a rule against downvoting for disagreement on HN. (Perhaps the people who think this are mistakenly applying the rule from Reddit, a much better-known site.) But that doesn't mean just any kind of downvoting is ok. For example, downvoting a comment that says 2+2=5 is ok (unless it was quoting Dostoevsky!) But downvoting a substantive comment merely because you don't like the same things as the author is not ok. We see this a lot, for example, in programming language debates.

Some users want us to formalize the downvote policy in a precise rule, but we don't have a precise rule. Here's what we do say about downvotes. First, when you see a comment unfairly in the grey, be a good community member and provide a corrective upvote. Most comments that unfairly dip into grey get corrected this way.

Second, when you get downvoted, resist the temptation to strike back. Getting downvoted excites emotion. It stings a little, and the mind recoils from the idea that one might have deserved it. The way to respond as an HN user is to take the hit, review your comment to see what might have evoked it, adjust future comments when you see anything, and shrug it off when you don't.

If you want more clarification of community norms around downvoting, I've been impressed by brudgers' recent few comments on it and by dragonwriter's comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916. They both did a better job of articulating the function of downvoting on HN than anything we've written ourselves. There is a body of community practice around this, and if you pay attention with the intent of learning it, you will.
"I'll take my business _elsewhere, thank you!" can be quite empowering.

However if you dislike companies that be evil, you're going to be in for quite a disappointment with the iPhone. As for me, the best phone I ever owned was a Motorola Razr.

Put this in your hosts file while you're at it:

127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com

I'd like to get entirely out of the software industry if I could. I'd like to work with people somehow.

I may join the Peace Corps.
What's probably happening is they have a "bot" that does the sentiment analysis, readies the trade, then pops a big message up in front of the trader:

New WSJ Headline: Intel in Talks to Buy Altera

ALTR Stock: Trading within 30-day range

{ALTR 30-day stock graph}

March 2015 Call Options available

..and a live-updating, clickable GUI displaying, in a linear manner (i.e. low risk, small bet at one end; high risk, large bet at the other), the call option market depth at each strike price, annotated with the implied volatility and the % delta to the current stock price.

The trader reads the info, decides how much he wants to bet, then clicks the appropriate spot on the GUI to execute the trade.
The headline of that news was "Intel in Talks to Buy Altera". You are acting like it would be difficult to write software that would be able to figure out what that means. It's not. These headlines also seem to follow a very specific pattern [1].

So if WSJ has a headline that X is in talks to buy Y, that's pretty much that. Also you could eliminate most of your risk by placing a limit order based upon the last trade prior to the news coming out. The market will either a) confirm that you are one of the first people to understand what has happened by filling your order at a price that doesn't reflect the news, locking in profits, or b) your limit order won't be filled because the price already is already above your limit, in which case you have assumed no risk.

[1] https://www.google.com/#q=site:wsj.com+%22in+talks+to+buy%22
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I was talking with someone who's applying for YC just recently and thought how the questions I was hitting with (many almost verbatim from this list) are essentially a checklist for gut checking most companies. YC interviews seem like a really good place to create a really solid foundation.
let us know how it works out, then. :)
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The problem with comparing it to the Arianne 5 or Therac-25 is that those were situations where there was a single bug that you could blame. Toyota's software had so many bugs that it was impossible /to/ tell what paths would lead to UA, just that there was no accountability and quality assurance.

Regarding your second point, similar complaints were made about other safety features, like mandatory turn signals or airbags. Yes, there will be additional time spent ensuring that they are compliant with safety standards. But in this case, a lot of that time should have already been taking place. Some code needs more review time, a second or third or even fourth set of eyes on it. When people can die because of a bug, then the bar for what is acceptable code can and should be higher.
As a completely anecdotal fact with zero scientific value, I think i am among the people that can taste aspartame.

It also gives me headaches, to the point the rare occasions I drink soda, I rather have HFCS than aspartame.
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Let us not disregard the intelligence value the NSA or another other government entity gathers by doing a low resolution DNA sequencing all of the blood that goes through these machines for future reference. This covert use wouldn't be outside the bounds of proper skepticism with the involvement of ex-DoD members on the board.

Without proper auditing and disclosure of development processes and the new implementation of the diagnostic tests on chips (rather than disposable test media) it raises the question of how can anyone be sure exactly what and what not the machines are testing and recording? Slot machines in Las Vegas have their code more closely audited and monitored than this technology.

This situation just yells out for government regulation, peer review and reverse engineering.
You could do some very simple keyword analysis to filter that out, though. When words like "the deal", "in talks to buy", "to acquire", etc. appear, it's a pretty good bet that it has something to do with an acquisition, and also a good bet that volatility will spike.

A lot of people here are saying "I wouldn't bet $2.4M on that false positive rate", but that's not how traders think. You only have to be right more often than you're wrong (or alternatively, very right to offset being wrong a lot more often) - "betting" is exactly what they do for a living. It's pretty much the perfect application for statistical machine learning - users never see how bad your algorithms are, and so it doesn't matter if the quality is worse than a human as long as the speed is better.
This one isn't true, it has been studied to death.
> it's a long road of several failed startups and well over a decade before they find success

How is that not compressing your career into a few short years? Most people start working at about 20 and retire at about 65. That's 45 years of a career.

A decade sounds like "a few short years" compared to four or five decades if you ask me.
Really want to use one to scratch my own back and have an OOBE.
I really enjoy https://readme.io and https://pexe.so
This is the basis of 'jury nullification'. You can't hold a jury responsible for returning a 'wrong' verdict - that's why they're there in the first place.
Git is pretty easy to learn, mostly you'll only ever use about 5 commands. There's the ninja voodoo stuff, but you can look the up on stack overflow.
What stops the skeptics from doing their own tests by walking into a service center and having their blood analyzed for all tests possible and doing the same with their blood for conventional tests? Or an even large scale test?

If their concern is genuine (rather than a way to get a look under the hood of a competitor for the current sellers of such services) there are multiple ways in which they could get their verification without inside information on how Theranos does its thing.