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by T_S_ 16y ago
There is definitely style of negative comment that attracts downvotes on HN. If you care about karma, it is usually easy to avoid as many comments in this thread point out. Unfortunately there is always a temptation with karma systems to us
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You, sir, have ruined my dinner with your "spigot of feces" imagery. Upvoting since I need drop a few pounds.
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The financial crisis was largely perpetrated by people who were simply doing their jobs within an absurd system. The main flaw of our system of financial oversight is its opacity. We should focus more on how to fix this and less on creating
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Revenge is satisfying, but misguided, because most people assume that is enough. Criminalizing business will mean that only crooks will want to run businesses. Instead, most problems of this sort can be prevented in the first place by full
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Attic Iron Molehill
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You are nuts. Wait until your forties, like I did.
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Excellent point. Instead we trust the regulators to make sure banks are a-ok. We would do well to "crowdsource" bank regulation by requiring banks to stream their positions to the public.
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You are right that predicting trends is not that hard. When it comes to financial prices the issue is that you are effectively predicting small changes in trends, plus a lot of noise added on by trading activity itself. Much harder.
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They didn't ignore him. Fat tails and jumps are just really hard to estimate in finance. More interesting is that the unstated premise for these link-bait titles (aka great headlines) is "If only they had listened to Mandelbrot, we could ha
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I don't use python much anymore, but I am often surprised when talking to python programmers, that if I mention ipython and introspection (e.g. dir() ) they look at me funny. They are missing half the niceness!
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Man Bites Dog: NY Times Objects to Revenue for its Blogs(kachingle.com)
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Google can buy companies, much like Berkshire Hathaway, and does, so they don't really need to be a hedge fund for that purpose. If you think they want to trade securities and futures, they wouldn't need to be a hedge fund to do that either
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Since about 40% of the CPI is housing, and that component is calculated in a way that reduces the volatility of CPI, and essentially ignored the entire housing bubble, then any alternative to government statistics is welcome. It is as if th
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Interesting example. In Mathematica, they opted for fully spelled out function names with caps to indicate new words for minimal ambiguity. For example LinearSolve is not linsolve or lnsolve or lsolve or even ls as it is in other languages
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Underpromise, overdeliver.
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The best way to tell a good recruiter from a clueless (normal) one is whether they have an exclusive arrangement with the employer. This is as rare as good recruiters are. It is more common in hiring for senior jobs in big companies.
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The only real story here is whether the sentence would hint at criminal culpability by bank. It didn't, but they weren't actually on trial. The bank already got fined for lax controls by the regulator--a civil matter, but they were not left
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Thank you. I was going to ask what's up with IMAP support. I won't even try an application that won't support multiple IMAP accounts. Instead I'll ask: am I being too demanding?. As a former corporate goon, I always assume that it's IMAP or
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Two reasons: Reading is (or can be) a form of entertainment, so it doesn't matter. Recall and recognition are two different things. For example, you can learn to recognize a face and still be terrible at describing it. The same applies to o
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"For important calls, I use a land line that serves as my fax line. If I receive a call on my cellphone, I try to keep it short, or I call back from my fax line." Why aren't faxes obsolete? Over 10 years since President Clinton e-signed the
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I consider myself to be an underzealot. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't already know how to get in and out of nano or vi. My main motivation came from noticing the extensive support for haskell packages. I would have been hap
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Not sure neural net expert Yann LeCun (yann.lecun.com) would agree with your neural networks comment. Neural nets have taken on a life of their own since the time they were originated and actually have little direct connection with neurosci
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No argument. I made the comment for the benefit of distro shoppers. They won't see it as off-topic even if it is.
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I'm using Arch now for two reasons. It is surprisingly easy to install and maintain. The documentation and wiki are the real reason behind this. I guess that's the surprise: docs beat guis, at least in linux distros. Also I can keep a bleed
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The article refers to the max flow problem. About all this article does is imply that the new method involves the adjacency matrix of the graph and provides little else in the way of details. A better article is needed, not this oversimplif
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A good test of journalism is how it reads when you are an expert in the the topic. It usually comes off sounding a little awkward. If there are no outrageous mistakes, then count it as a good article. After all, it is written by people who
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This is how industries wind up getting regulated.
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This is a financial event, not an operational one. The debt holders will now own the company and operations will continue on whatever trend is set. There is no new technology trend in this story. The businesses lesson is that Blockbuster wa
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The idea is that people can help you eliminate insecure methods--if the code available. "Security through obscurity" leaves you with no assistance and engenders a false sense of security where determined attackers are concerned. That said,
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Got it. Good on ya mate.

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