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by anton_tarasenko 9y ago
The SEC uses quite a mild language here. Issuers often avoid mentioning even what they sell: revenue flow, profit, or just hashes. White papers has no traces of legal entities involved, dispute resolution jurisdiction, financial statements.
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by anton_tarasenko 9y ago
LyX[1] can be a better intro to LaTeX. It was posted on HN before. But really, it's the most powerful WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX, and it still provides access to the .tex source of the document. You can use the interface and learn the la
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The world our grandchildren will inherit: the rights revolution and beyond [pdf](economics.mit.edu)
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
In response, Berkeley is planning to release new and compliant content. Their official statement[1]: "[W]e have determined that instead of focusing on legacy content that is 3-10 years old, much of which sees very limited use, we will
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
I found many must-see movies on these lists: 1. Directors Guild of America's The 80 Best-Directed Films: http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1602-Spring-2016/... 2. TSPDT's The 1,000 Gre
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Any reason for the blind to use this over earbuds paired with Siri, Alexa, or any other voice-based interface?
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Previous thread (featuring Ben Horowitz on 21.co): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13485488 Two takeaways: 1. A response looks like this: https://monosnap.com/file/CbRNrj7TUUhaLolVTLYJhrPxUdsYOK 2
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
BigQuery also has the public dataset of Wikipedia page views. Handy for quick SQL and sampling. An intro by Felipe Hoffa (Google): https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3dg9le/analyzing_...
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Ask HN: Can we set apart upvote and downvote buttons?
18 points by anton_tarasenko 10y ago|2 comments
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
The tone of tech companies does not resonate with the electorate. The Bay Area basically says to America: We have foreigners here who founded some companies and got rich, so we don't want your visa restrictions. How do tech executives
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
I tried to do the opposite once: to rank GitHub repos by effectiveness of contributions, where effectiveness is measured as stars divided by the number of contributions. Sort of, best things done quickly. With all cons and pros of this metr
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
That would work for most employees. Founders know much more about their company and don't offer equity if things go well. Equity is a good bargain right before the next funding round — when cash balance is low and founders pay with sha
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
A polite reminder: some people predict population dynamics for living. For example, the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/population-projection... If you look for dinosaurs, the WB also have a 1984 rep
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Lending Club almost went broke in the late 2000s when it experimented with real P2P lending. Defaults on the loans chosen by lenders went up, so Lending Club had to improve its underwriting model and effectively exclude the lender from the
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
China's saving rate remains at 45% of GDP. Most other countries have it around 10-15%. Savings have to go somewhere, and this is why China accumulates debt. Every yuan of savings turns into one-plus yuan of debt. The current debt ratio
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Transforming World Atlas [pdf](bofaml.com)
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Slightly relevant: - MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies Top (2002-2016): https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2016/ - Gartner Hype Cycle history since (2000-2016): http://im
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
My take: Economics, economic growth and development.
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Ask HN: Do an AMA (December 2016)
7 points by anton_tarasenko 10y ago|2 comments
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
It's funny that automation is under attack. Any conventional measure says that productivity growth declines and the number of jobs grows. First, the rise of unemployment is not supported by facts. The widely cited unemployment rate wen
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Target research-intensive jobs. Job descriptions are clear about what sort of machine learning professionals the company is looking for. In most cases, they want data engineers and developers who can make big, scalable production. Not resea
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The Influence of Innovations(graphics.wsj.com)
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Professors don't care about high prices. Universities pay for subscriptions. The pricing is political in Europe where education is funded by the public. US universities pass high prices over to students. Students pay with debt since go
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Yahoo controls 8% of search traffic and costs $4bn. Google controls 64% of search traffic and costs $558bn. That's a 17-fold difference in the price for 1% of the traffic. Even more if you take US search traffic only (to exclude Yahoo
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
Yahoo's press release with details: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161214006239/en/Impo...
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
$10 is the "willingness to pay" (the number is in the article). There's no good estimate of drone delivery costs since the interested parties cherrypick locations and distance.
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
That's a last mile solution. Comparing to human costs of Amazon's preferred shipping method: USPS's subsidized parcel injection. The last mile belongs to USPS. In the urban environment, that's about 15 minute per parcel
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Every Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Since 2000(imgur.com)
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Challenges for Online Lending Marketplaces(antontarasenko.com)
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by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
To those who want to know more about quant jobs, Mark Joshi has a cheat sheet intro to the profession: http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf Joshi co-authored the standard reference for quant interview preps ca

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