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What was the experience like?

Better than staying put!

What were you able to do?

Everything. Importantly, lose my introverted character. Literally went INTP->ENTP (ENTP-A). All the travel stuff, learn languages, cycle-touring, paragliding, caving, exploring, plus try other types of work, start a company, learn a lot of computer stuff, learn a lot of history/culture/geography, etc.

How did you choose to budget?

Variously. Some periods pushing red or even red, other periods (after 7+ years) back to the salary-snatch. Had a scholarship for awhile, free accommodation to boot. Initially working wasn't necessary, as $50 bought me a month's rent in 2001 in China and I left with $15k. Made it through Laos, Thailand and Taiwan on those funds. Later, I tried English teaching but found it wasn't for me.

What moved you to this decision?

Exposed to travel a little bit at a young age. Bored of the commuter 9-5 lifestyle by age 18 or 19 after only 1.5 years exposure.

How was the process of finding work again after your travels, if applicable?

Surprisingly easy. I left Australia having been on a salary of 60k AUD at age 18. 7 or 8 years later I rocked up in London with effectively no western work on my CV for that period (I had actually started a company in China, kept up many interests in programming, etc.). Once I'd taken a permanent/salaried position (at GBP 40k, which moved to 60k within 3 months) I was surpried to realise that people in 'normal' career coding positions rarely get the ability to go deep in their learning the same way living cheap in some random country being your own boss lets you. I'd done diskless systems, clustering, VOIP, digital fax, replicated databases, SMS, lots of mapping, business process automation, and all of that in 6 human languages. I'd also learned Chinese. Thus, I was in some ways more broadly employable than if I had never spent time away. After two years of salary (one in London, one in LA) I found a remote position, then moved back to China. My wife and I have since had our first child, lived a year in Thailand, and traveled broadly in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and currently Europe, where we are looking to resettle.

If you were to do it all again, what would you do differently?

If I did the entrepreneurial thing for the first time while in a foreign country again (a real learning experience!), I would pay or beg an experienced CEO back in my home country - one with some nous - to give me a strong education in business accounting up front. What's critical, what different parties look for, how they evaluate, how to present, how you can usefully evaluate numbers yourself, etc. I would try to meet and involve skilled mentors in my businesses from day one. Other than that, nothing. Maybe buy bitcoins early on ;)
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I live in NYC.

A couple months, I applied to all NYC HN ads, including the ones that said "You don't need experience in our tech stack." I got zero onsite interviews. I know that I know my stuff very well.
I have a slight fascination with sweeteners. About five years ago I imported a kilo of "Neotame" sweetener from a chem factory in Shanghai. It was claimed to be 10,000-12,000 times sweeter than sugar. It's a white powder and came in a metal can with a crimped lid and typically plain chemical labeling. Supposedly it is FDA-approved and a distant derivative of aspartame.

US customs held it for two weeks before sending it on to Colorado with no explanation. When received, the box was covered in "inspected" tape and they had put the canister in a clear plastic bag. The crimped lid looked like a rottweiler chewed it open and white powder was all over the inside of the bag. I unwisely opened this in my kitchen with no respirator as advised by the MSDS which I read after the fact (I am not a smart man).

Despite careful handling of the bag, it is so fine in composition that a small cloud of powder erupted in front of me and a hazy layer of the stuff settled over the kitchen. Eyes burning and some mild choking from inhaling the cloud, I instantly marveled at how unbelievably sweet the air tasted, and it was delicious. For several hours I could still taste it on my lips. The poor customs inspector will have had a lasting memory of that container I'm pretty sure.

Even after a thorough wipe-down, to this day I encounter items in my kitchen with visually imperceptible amounts of residue. After touching it and getting even microscopic quantities of the stuff on a utensil or cup, bowl, plate, whatever, it adds an intense element of sweetness to the food being prepared, sometimes to our delight. I still have more than 900g even after giving away multiple baggies to friends and family (with proper safety precautions).

We have been hooked on it since that first encounter. I keep a 100mL bottle of solution in the fridge which is used to fill smaller dropper bottles. I've prepared that 100mL bottle three times over five years, and that works out to about 12g of personal (somewhat heavy) usage for two people in that time. Probably nowhere near the LD50.

I carry a tiny 30mL dropper bottle of the solution for sweetening the nasty office coffee and anything else as appropriate. Four drops to a normal cup of coffee. We sweeten home-carbonated beverages, oatmeal, baked goods (it is heat stable), use it in marinades, and countless other applications.

I don't know if it's safe. The actual quantity used is so incredibly tiny that it seems irrelevant. I'd sweeten my coffee with polonium-210 if it could be done in Neotame-like quantities. Between this, a salt shaker loaded with MSG and a Darwin fish on my car, I'm doomed anyway.
Mathematica greatly expanded the space of things I can efficiently prototype. It's my starting point for almost any problem. If you find yourself saying "I don't want to waste my time coding that" or you resort to gut-feelings when data is available, Mathematica is an awesome tool to have in your problem-solving toolkit.
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Given the description I would probably have the program queue up what it would buy based on the story and push the 'go' button. Except I believe the reason the options trader doesn't believe that is happening is that to do this you would just be sitting there watching all the possible 'go' buttons go by and clicking only the "right" one.
This feels a lot more plausible to me than the idea that someone made sentiment analysis not suck.

If you can respond faster than everybody else, you don't need sentiment analysis. Just bet on volatility increasing (aka. buy options on both sides) whenever a news story appears about a company.
The obvious contender for doing this would be IBM's Watson.
Most diet beverages I've tried I hated, but ended up acquiring a taste for once I pretty much had to go diet (diabetes)
Slight correction:

Diet Coke preceded and persisted after "New Coke", so New Coke was Diet Coke with sugar (HFCS) instead of artificial sweetener.
I am still traveling. It's definitely not for everyone, but I would recommend traveling to anyone because of what you might learn along the way. If you haven't traveled much, or at all, it is definitely harsh at times, but like a challenge it is rewarding -- and life changing. I would say take it slow to start. Travel around your neighborhood. Take different routes to work. Take different modalities: bus, metro, train, ferry, cycle, sail, walk.
Makes sense -- kind of a market "upvote". I could actually see that UI working. The great thing about reacting to rumours is that you can profit off everyone else who skim reads and clicks "buy". So often the initial impression is good enough.
Is there a mandatory third-party review of, for example, the mechanical design of a car? Serious question.
If they prevail what are the odds that the troll can actually pay up?
It's also possible that an insider knew the news was about to break and waited for the announcement with the trade queued up.
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My bet is insider trading with someone writing a simple bot to make the trade once they see the trigger words made public.
As in this case, and many others, Intellectual Ventures are the world's leading patent scumbags. One of the financial backers of the said company is Bill Gates; for all the good he purportedly does he really never believed in innovation (and has always hampered it -add).
The problem is I don't know anyone who wouldn't just use Yelp for recommendations, my wife being the closest example.

Personally, I have no use for recommendations, but enjoy seeing my friends pictures and comments as they check in, so Foursquare as it is now is useless to me whereas before it had some interest and I caught some tech events I would have otherwise missed.
Try Limbo.
I agree with you (that's a great idea), but if you're going to bet 100k+ you could afford humans in the loop. I guess you could tell the difference by looking at what options get bought.
You lost me at "accurate satellite data shows very little if any warming in the last 18 years".

If you have to cherry pick data to make your point, you've already lost the argument.
Step 1: Spend time implementing a monitoring solution.

Step 2: Realise what you actually need is security and availability monitoring, plus well tested automated resolution strategies for various classes of events.

Step 3: Go back to step 1, and include broader requirements. Simultaneously realise that your strategy for resolution (or indeed containerization) is not universally applicable, so you actually need to build an abstract system that enables the appropriate use of multiple architectures if you don't want the problem again in future. Scope creep!
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If the type of trading discussed in the article becomes more common, would market makers stop making markets for these deep out of the money options? Presumably this would be bad for those attempting to use the options as a hedge.
I think those are two separate issues.

Big corporations thrive with complex standards being imposed by governments, because it increases the barrier to competition. $50m in compliance costs might hurt Toyota a bit, but make the next Tesla unfeasible to get off the ground.

Therefore, they'd most likely see it as a positive, even if some government employees got to see their trade secrets and the potential for leaks.

On the other hand, there's no upside to aftermarket hacking of your product, and plenty of downside (from the corporate perspective).
i didn't get whether they were able to show an actual path of how UA could have occurred (like for example in case of Arian 5 or that Canadian radiation machine - that is what makes those cases useful and supports all the good recommendations produced as result), nevertheless the slant seems to be clear ... Google self-driving car has just become significantly more expensive and several years more further into the future. And Toyota i guess is going to have much more people hired into its engineering department who isn't going to do actual engineering (Senior rule 62 compliance engineer) and produce a lot more and better TPS reports NASA-style instead :)
I was expelled from the California Institute of Technology for sleeping on a couch after the Master of Student Housing told me not to.
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There's a meme that Diet Coke "tastes like robot sweat". (I don't know the source, but the earliest online reference I found was an anime forum from 2003.) btw, I prefer Diet Coke, too. :)
"The trade occurred 19 seconds before the tweet, and one second after a headline appeared on the Dow Jones Newswire."

I don't understand the mystery here. It would be trivial to write a bot that could interpret a headline and make a trade on it in under a second, and that's without any special high-speed links. With API documentation for a brokerage house, I could write such a bot in probably half a day. Given the astronomical sums of money involved, I have a hard time believing that this isn't occurring on a daily basis.
From the second paragraph:

"This analysis takes most of its material from the first playthrough of the game by my friend Rufus, which I had the pleasure of observing from beginning to end. Watching him, a complete newcomer to the genre, still find his way around Zebes in pretty much the same way I'd do, almost never once getting lost or stuck for any considerable amount of time, made me question how that could be. This analysis is my answer."

I presume this happened recently, with a gamer of "today".
https://stripe.com/connect is heavy on javascript (without javascript you see nothing). Scrolling in firefox is a pain.
In chrome I cant even access it (Your connection is not private message with red https)
I wish Octopress was this easy to use.
I believe there is a spectrum with individuality on one end and community at opposite end. The closer we get to one the further we are from the other. I assume that leaving your culture has brought you closer to your self and many of the securities that lie within the pack have disappeared. Perhaps by getting comfortable with the discomfort(easier said than done) new experiences await you??
Probably because you've never bet a lot of money on natural language processing before. Backtest and check alpha. cpercival's idea is pretty good though. I'm reminded of: https://xkcd.com/793/
Interesting article... but maybe the author should have taken a cue from programming and refactored/edited it to be more clear, concise and structured.

I found it a bit rambling without clear premise or pay off. He sounds like someone who talks about programming from the outside while never having been deeply immersed in it himself.

Clarity of writing follows clarity of thought.
Plus automation and computers, perhaps.
They aren't allowed to stop making markets, at least in the options market. (This is not true of market makers generally. You or I could, if we had a lot of money, start making markets in any stock we desired to, just by getting a brokerage account and sending the right orders to the exchange. A market maker is a participant like any other and may not be a formal role.)

What would probably happen is tweaking their risk exposure: be less willing to play large resting bids/asks for large positions close to the NBBO, and instead either resize them or layer them over several price points.

My feeling with regards to the fairness of this is that one should not offer to sell 4,000 PUTS for e.g. Zynga at $1 in May 2015 unless one is prepared to accept delivery of 400k shares of Zynga in return for $400k. Some options market participant is signaling their willingness to do that, or something close to it. They are theoretically responsible adults who know the risks. If that trade blows up in their face, and they take to the Internet to decry the unfairness of it all, I will not be maximally sympathetic. (Full disclosure: I was probably their counterparty a time or two buying the option on "Zynga blows up in next short-increment-of-time" and did poorly.)
the cup shaped one was first developed for a a thumb based handle we made for flight traffic controllers. In those days (1991) we thought a cup in a keyboard would be too big.
Actually the new placement bellow not between the g and h key (long before it was a product) made the space for it... but we were to timid for the big style tops for years. the first ones were a chloroniated butyl that replace the awful protoypes that were slippery santoprene%$&$#,,,, but the very sticky butyl (that saved the product from sure death) were actually formulated by my father as the last consulting gig of his life...
unfortunately they absorbed oil over a few months from fingers ... I tried everything and the bumpy one is nylon trying to mimic the amazingly gripy fish skin we found in Japan... the larger cup and domes of today are better still!
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the smaller the bowl* the more beautiful the code

* up to a point
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How much code reuse is there between the firmware in a manufacturer's different car models? I'm surprised there isn't a consortium (like Symbian was) to create a standard firmware kernel to share the benefits (and costs) of testing and auditing the code.

I'm also surprised C is still so commonly used for mission critical software. I understand that C is familiar, has many static analysis tools (to make up for the language's deficiencies), and has a straight-forward translation from C to object code (though only when using simple optimizations). For example, if MISRA-C's coding guidelines disallow recursion, why not design a language that only supports DAG function dependencies?
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The organizers making sure it has some real world relevance is what I would equate with problems being "typical". In practice, you may find ill-characterized "Typical problems" and solve them, but as I said, a truly "Black box optimization" would not make sense; hence I dislike the term (and the general problem statement).
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I've had a go at writing something similar in the past. It was against the Australian news on the ASX. Suffice to say I wasn't successful.

Even with a clear understanding of the situation, the reaction from the market was mild compared to the swings of the global tides. When it worked, it worked well. But you had to have the wind in your back to get decent moves.

If I were in the industry with low cost access, and I were on the US market, I think things might have been different. But in my experience, you don't get rich searching for gold, you get rich selling the buckets and the shovels.
Agreed. I don't really understand the surprise in article and wince at the "My friend reckons....." style.

This is indeed occurring on a daily basis. A number of funds trade automatically based on fully automated analysis of the news wire and other sources.

I believe most use in house analytics but there are 3rd party solutions:

http://www.ravenpack.com/

I think people outside the industry don't appreciate the depth and breath of automatic trading that is going on. Understandable given that it's in the interest of insiders to stay out of the spotlight, and the public mostly only sees the HFT headlines.
If the government wants to get into the actual harms of online drug sales, then the defense should go into the benefits to society of the Silk Road.

Ulbricht and the defense should get people from the Spanish drug testing lab to testify:
https://medium.com/backchannel/inside-the-deep-web-drug-lab-...

Their results show that drug quality is much higher from darknet sales and has fewer impurities that cause health risks. Given that the original Silk Road did $1.2 Billion in drug trades, the total number of people who died from their drugs is substantially lower than if those people had bought their drugs from the streets (e.g. if cocaine in Spain is only 30% pure, and the other chemicals raise the probability of overdose by 5% per use compared to purer cocaine, then 5% increase times the expected amount of cocaine sales from the SR should amount to a decent estimate on how many fewer people were actually harmed).

Similarly, how many fewer people were robbed or killed due to SR vs traditional gang based drug sales?
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Cambridge is all but stuck with Comcast and their ever rising rates for degrading service...meanwhile Arlington just north of the city/Cambridge is still serviced by Fios fiber.
I believe that when the recalls occurred, at least several models of Toyota/Lexus cars were affected.

Ultimately, it's impossible to know without being inside. I would imagine there's a fair bit of reuse within each manufacturer and very little sharing between manufacturers
Don't forget Faxanadu for the NES, a similar semi-linear side-scrolling quest for power-ups.
Hey, can we test your blood? We are making blood tests more accessible. No, we won't tell you what we are doing with your blood or how we are doing it or even if it works. What do you mean how does this make blood tests more accessible? Look, don't worry, just trust us, after all we have Henry Kissinger on the board, so we must be on the level.
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First, its true!, we showed Apple that the trackpoint is at least 20% faster than the trackpad for text editing,,, they said... "yeah but its ibm not apple's branded input device"... apple is still a marketing company

At first the trackpoint catapulted IBM into a new and important market, moving them from not being able to sell even a few thousand laptops a year, to selling billions of dollars of them a year... SO THEY WOULDN'T LET US SELL THE POINTING DEVICE TO ANYONE, EVEN THOUGH THEY WANTED IT... FOR TWO YEARS.
by then their were 5 copycats ... that sucked... sullying the TrackPoint luster... so they let us sell it.... but it was a bit late and the price IBM charged was a bit tough to pay...
still: at least HP, Zenith, TI, SONY, used the real thing for a while
Dell did licence it for some of their machines BUT,,,, they put these really stiff buttons on them that were like 5 times as stiff in the front as in the back... bad buttons can completely negate all productivity gains... Dell was told,,, and i would be happy ... even now ... to help ,,, some have conjectured that Dell put the TrackPoint in to get people to move away from the ThinkPad, and when it didn't work, they would "get used to the pad" and not pay the premium for ThinkPad again...
While the game may feel linear from a casual play through, the speed running community have developed many sequence breaks (intended or not), to finish the game faster. With these you can grab items early, out of order, or not at all. If you were curious, you should look up a super metroid speedrun on youtube. Some of them even have a running commentary of glitches, techniques, or general information while they are being played.
Taking along a friend is good advice in general. It can become a little bit exhausting to constantly have somewhat shallow interactions meeting only meet new people. Sometimes you just want to lay back and enjoy the deeper relation of someone that know you well.

Having a friend as an anchor and fixed point for discussions and sharing experiences can make it much more rewarding. Unfortunately it's pretty rare to have a friend with as much freedom as oneself at the same point in time.

Also I must say that if you travel and stay for 3+ months in a place you face a different problem: You've gone past some kind of threshold and started to create a new life with friends, favorite places and habits.

Leaving can then feel a little bit like you're leaving shards of yourself behind, and the physical disconnection of all those new relationships can be quite sad too.
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Security isn't the only concern. What about correctness? Tests could help there.

I'm sure I'll manage to write a secure file(1) implementation, if it's not required to produce correct output.
I agree, the solution in R seems by far the most simple and intelligible. But then R is specifically designed to do this kind of thing, so that's not too surprising.
> i didn't get whether they were able to show an actual path of how UA could have occurred

I think the answer is no -- there was never a clear demonstration of an extant buggy execution trace. Just a preponderance of evidence that such a trace could exist.
It says "look up" with a carrot symbol over it. I understand that's supposed to be a roof? But I swear the site was telling me to look up to the address bar. Actually waited a few seconds for it to do something I was supposed to be looking at.