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by bachback 13y ago
sent an email to the address in your profile
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by bachback 13y ago
hackers at the billion $ HF's are the best in the world and there is no tech here that is really of any value to them. not to be too mean, but this is basically a nice webpage with a couple of scripts. If somebody would build a FIX eng
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by bachback 13y ago
What problem you are actually wanting to solve? I don't see why I would use a slower system. waiting can be very costly if the price is moving against you. you need quick traders to provide liquidity. which is what you will find if you
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by bachback 13y ago
Having worked for a 700M$ quant investment fund, I'd say, uhem no. It's pretty simple: algo investing doesn't work well or at all. algo trading does. nobody publishes very good algorithms. there are perhaps only 20 very good
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by bachback 13y ago
The NYSE processes millions of orders per second, MtGox hundreds per second. So you have machines which work over a protocol (FIX) to establish the price mechanism. In a exchange system there are limit orders and the limit orderbook. You ba
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by bachback 13y ago
Well, a chosen price is a limit order, which can go unfilled. If I order 1000 BTC for 0.01$ am I going to get filled? At current market prices no, because currently there is no supply of BTC at that price. A market determines the price. If
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by bachback 13y ago
An exchange is not just a transfer, it is a transfer at a price. Sure, you can transfer 1 BTC to 100$, but how do you determine a price? If A wants to buy 1 BTC from B, what is the transaction? 1$,5$,1000$? You need to integrate with the fi
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ICANN: rights protection mechanism published for new gTLDs(newgtlds.icann.org)
1 points by bachback 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: new TLDs?
4 points by bachback 13y ago|3 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
Couple of missing data points: * the number of connected internet clients. compare the years 2008 and 2000. In the year 2000 the idea of Bitcoin would have been pie in the sky (although it would be an interesting thought experiment of alter
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by bachback 13y ago
I would suggest rather John Law's 1705 essay "Money and trade considered: with a proposal for supplying the nation with money". Interestingly enough Graeber's history of debt overlooks this crucial step, namely the estab
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by bachback 13y ago
Interesting. At the same time it took Ford to build cars. But perhaps we will have new types of collectives instead of corporations. I think there could be new types of systems of laws. So Bitcoin in the end could become something like a pr
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by bachback 13y ago
I find it fascinating that this invention is still not understood and when then only through layers of tech. BTC allows transactions in a network without a central party. that is it. the real question is why we haven't seen any real ma
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Ask HN: domain price data?
1 points by bachback 13y ago|0 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
The people who will admire LISP skills are a very elect group of people even among "programmers". Getting stuff done in Clojure takes a lot of effort at first and finding help is much more difficult. There are ~5000 questions on S
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by bachback 13y ago
Meteor JS is the really cool thing right now IMO. Traditionally that would be rails or django. If you do python checkout Flask. I find Vagrant on the backend very useful for managing servers and pushing them to AWS or Digitialocean.
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by bachback 13y ago
ouch
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Ask HN: map temporary subdomain?
1 points by bachback 13y ago|2 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
RenTech assembled some of the brightest technical minds in the world to trade purely quantitively. They did pretty well for themselves. Jim Simons, famous mathematician, former MIT professor and DIA code cracker, earned the following amount
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by bachback 13y ago
no
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by bachback 13y ago
Yeah, for 100k$ or more a year. So you need a lot of capital to get started on your won. Getting started with a private account is hard to impossible in my experience. Lime Brokerage offers good stuff for HFT. You need about 12 months to ge
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by bachback 13y ago
tom_b, basically every shop cooks their own solution for just about everything. if you do mid- to low-frequency a Bloomberg will suffice. if you do high-frequency you are in the infrastructure game. you co-locate to the exchanges and battle
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by bachback 13y ago
Gödel is so overrated. How is this actually science? "This work has been supported by the German Research Foundation under grant BE2501/9-1."
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Ask HN: message board projects?
1 points by bachback 13y ago|1 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
how about building a website that solves this problem? I would say do something for Bitcoin to improve the world. drop me a line if you want nfx9@hush.com
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by bachback 13y ago
I wonder why he doesn't start 10 side companies run by other people. Say a CAD software company. It's a bit strange format to put out a 3:49 minute video.
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by bachback 13y ago
Amazing. What do the docker guys think of coreOS?
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by bachback 13y ago
Very interesting, but I can't quite rap my head around the idea. Aren't the protocols and the execution engine the plattform on which a browser is built? I find it very interesting to think about it what the minimal executable cod
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by bachback 13y ago
oh, I thought this about nyan cat :(
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by bachback 13y ago
good point! If it's just one person it is much more likely that he/she is not realistic.

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