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   by akg_67 11y ago

   For $5K, my wife and I recently did a 4-week road trip, a combination of staying in hotels, cabins, and camping. We visited: - Spokane WA, - Glacier National Park MT, - Waterton National Park AB, - Banff National Park AB, - Jasper National
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   by akg_67 11y ago

   Are your interested in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) or Algorithmic Trading? As /u/RogerL mentioned, the infrastructure speed and access time are critical factors in succeeding with HFT. It is a costly endeavor outside the reach of
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   by akg_67 11y ago

   What are the issues people mention about Mail.app? Are these issues the 'real' pain points, solution to which users are willing to pay? How much? I use Mail.app and feel there is no "painful" issue for which I will be wi
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   by akg_67 11y ago

   India -> Texas, USA -> Ontario, Canada -> Seattle, USA -> TBD among Japan, Vancouver BC Canada, New Zealand, Australia Came to US as grad student, stayed, worked, ran out of 6 yr H1B, moved to Canada, worked, started company (fl
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   Marketplace Lenders Are a Systemic Risk(americanbanker.com)

   2 points by akg_67 11y ago|0 comments
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   by akg_67 11y ago

   Based on the books mentioned in your post, I assume you are looking for light readings on statistics and probability. You might enjoy following books. * Darrell Huff, Irving Geis How to Lie With Statistics * Ian Ayres Super Crunchers Why Th
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   by akg_67 11y ago

   I am intrigued too but for different reasons - seeing the world from a different perspective. But if I was looking for mostly solitude, I will pick couple of weeks of camping in a national park or somewhere remote. Recently I did two weeks
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   Greece: What Went Wrong? [video](wsj.com)

   1 points by akg_67 11y ago|0 comments
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   The Rise of the Gig Worker in the Sharing Economy(techcrunch.com)

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    by akg_67 11y ago

    security and usability auditing Do you know who your prospective customers are? Can you profile them to a very narrow group? Small companies as a group is a big segment. You need to narrow your prospective customer base to a very small gr
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    I will suggest picking option 2. Executive position and title at an established company (assuming relatively well known company in segment) will go a long way in your future executive career growth. I wouldn't be surprised that after s
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    Well said. I believe most programmers overlook the business utility of the product. You can have the product with the best quality code but users are not going to adopt it unless it solves their business problems. Code quality has nothing t
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    When you start to complain about things because you are set in your ways and start to expect things to always happen the way they used to, like my wife tells me, your are getting old!! This is all part of evolution, accept it and worry abou
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    ASR will not help improve efficiency unless you don't care about the mistakes made by ASR (for example, close captioning of real-time audio). Why? Because transcribers will need to listen to audio again to be able to correct the mistak
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    My own impression taking Uber is that same trips would have cost me more than twice if I were to take a regular cab. The reported $470M operating loss on $410 revenue seems to be somewhat in same ballpark. I don't believe current prici
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    What were the issues you encountered? I know a few people who developed side projects by reading through oDesk and elance jobs. I read them time to time to stimulate brain to come up some relevant features to my own projects. Definitely you
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    If you want to know how to capture and handle automotive test data, look into process automation systems for manufacturing industry. I used to work at petrochemical facilities in 90s as process control engineer, we not only received data fr
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    If you are individual to corp 1099 contractor, let the YC startup know that if you are not paid within certain time, you will be filing a report to State Dept. of Labor and State Attorney General. Labor claims get much higher priority durin
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    This program might appeal to digital nomads. It is a good way to work on your projects for 6 months in a country and then move on to someplace else. I am guessing the program may have some restrictions in this aspect. Nevertheless, interest
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    This is the main problem. Greece can't get out of the problem without printing money, devaluing currency, that result in cheaper export and increasing revenue through increased export and getting out of the trouble. Euro experiment is
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    IIRC, SEC is not very kind to such arrangements.
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    Due to restrictions on maximum number of shareholders while private to avoid SEC filing requirements, Airbnb can't issue equity to all their hosts. But there is no reason, they can't do the same if and when they IPO to go public.
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    What are the chances of having 12 new users comment on same thread? What are the chances of almost 50% of comments on a thread from new users? This post reeks of spam and mod should consider reviewing and if appropriate delete it so that it
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    If you know algorithms well, create a visual simulator for algorithms. Take a user input and then display the results from each step of algorithm visually to people who want to learn algorithm. Most algorithm books show the steps with boxes
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    Migrating to new email service doesn't take days/weeks, at best a few hours as long as you were prepared with existing email aliases (catch all can help minimize the missing aliases) and configuration and access. In the short term
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    Email is a critical communication channel. Don't put up with this sort of crap from any company. If you control your domain and have capability to modify records. Buy mail service from another provider and redirect MX record to new ser
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    I work in data analysis and I decline any "test" requests for a job or project. If you don't value my time before hiring, you definitely are not going to value my time after hiring. Also, if you are incapable of judging a fit
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    If you are looking for startup ecosystem, there is no city, including Seattle, that come even close to SF Bay Area. Seattle startup ecosystem is very small, lacks diversity in ideas, people, and connections and primarily Amazon and Microsof
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    Personally, when I am toying with an idea, I try to create a list of relevant short words/keywords. I also use name generator sites. I always go for .com domain name as majority of my target audience is typically US based. If .com doma
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    by akg_67 11y ago

    CK is much more than just lead referral program as Mint is. CK gets access to your FICO and credit report when you check your credit score at CK. These "qualified" leads are sold to financial services companies for several hundred