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by davidmr 13y ago
I've read this a few times over the last year, and I still don't know how I feel about it. He's obviously a savvy businessman who knows his way around the equity markets a bit, but I can't shake the feeling that he'
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by davidmr 13y ago
Out of curiosity, did you consult with attorneys before launch? I'm completely unqualified to answer the question, but I would think there's a possibility you could land yourself in a bit of a pickle if you shipped one that was la
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by davidmr 13y ago
It wouldn't be unprecedented for him to be held in contempt for refusing to reveal a source, but the article doesn't make clear that it is not illegal for a journalist to leak classified information as long as they're not the
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by davidmr 13y ago
As in most things of this nature, I think a good deal is to be learned by who are the most vocal informed opponents. The most vocal market participants against HFT are usually large, institutional market makers who used to grow fat on $1/
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by davidmr 13y ago
> The video is clearly meant to be less than totally serious - it seems unlikely that Ohanian, himself a prominent figure in the tech world, would need to resort to trying to talk his way to Page through Google's public phone number...
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by davidmr 14y ago
Were I to have more patience and a digital copy of a Hemingway novel, I would be very curious to see the results. It's an interesting idea, but were you to enable it in practice, you'd lose a lot of quality content and have an HN even more
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by davidmr 14y ago
This seems like a bit of a stretch to me, absent other information. Why do you suspect mtgox has been manipulating the exchange rate (or at least providing an exchange on which to do so).
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by davidmr 14y ago
That is, of course, true. Were I unable to afford a lawyer, I would politely decline the request. If I could't afford an attorney, I feel like I couldn't afford to get mixed up in something like this either.
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by davidmr 14y ago
> I'm guessing he complied with the summons because he didnt know what it was about and therefor saw no reason not to. I'm not sure if this is a cultural difference between France and the states or if I'm overly paranoid, but if I were
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by davidmr 14y ago
This brings a bit of a tear to the old eye. I worked on Mira's predecessor and a bit on the acquisition of Mira itself (literally rooms and rooms of Gantt charts, floor to ceiling, wall to wall), and it's very cool to see it get put in. A f
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Time-Lapse Video Shrinks Birth of a Supercomputer to 3 Minutes(wired.com)
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by davidmr 14y ago
Titan is for open science, not classified research as roadrunner was. Sequoia is the new classified nuclear supercomputer.
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by davidmr 14y ago
Disclaimer: while I worked for a DOE supercomputing lab, it wasn't one of the NNSA (nuke) labs, so I don't have all the info. (And even if I did, I certainly wouldn't be allowed to comment on it.) You're a bit right in that it's more compli
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by davidmr 14y ago
Very much agreed. Whether or not I agree with it, it's very nuanced and avoids the kind of "laying blame for the purpose of laying blame"-type of argument that has dominated any discussion of this absurd series of events. This is a great ar
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by davidmr 14y ago
When did Iceland become a "tax haven" intentionally or otherwise? If you're thinking of the recent banking crisis, a "high-interest rate account haven" would be a more accurate term.
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by davidmr 14y ago
I just bought a house and never signed one piece of paper in the process (up to the closing, of course. Then I signed several hundred pieces of paper.) All of the contractual agreements until then were signed digitally through DocuSign and
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by davidmr 14y ago
Maybe this is why the people I interview almost never send us thank you notes. Here I thought it was just a general decline in etiquette, but they're really just being respectful of our time! Seriously though, I'm curious how many people se
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by davidmr 14y ago
As you read this, keep my background in mind: I'm a large-scale linux HPC admin/architect/etc., whose previous experience is in gov't supercomputing labs and whose current company is running many, many thousands of ubuntu LTS servers. I can
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by davidmr 14y ago
The problem sounds not dissimilar to hydrodynamic simulations, for which people have been using MPI for >20 years. I'm curious why you didn't use it. Can you speak to this?
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by davidmr 14y ago
I'm not sure you and I read it in the same way: And what do terms like “automatic” and “autopilot” mean, anyway? Autopilot is simply a tool, along with many other tools available to the crew. You still need to tell it what to do, how to do
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by davidmr 14y ago
While your last sentence may be true-ish (I'm not really qualified to answer with authority), your first sentence is very much not. This relevant link gets posted a lot, but is worth posting again: http://www.salon.com/2011/08/04/can_jetli
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by davidmr 14y ago
This is such a weird comment I wonder if you were being serious or even read the article. Are you seriously responding to an article about a research consortium (using a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist as an outreach person) by suggestin
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by davidmr 14y ago
This is fascinating. In a previous life, my job was building/running supers at a DOE lab, and while the work done on the machines were quite interesting, the really grandiose projects were all physics related (supernova simulation, liquid s
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Chicago's Excelerate Labs to merge with TechStars(chicagotribune.com)
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by davidmr 14y ago
I'd be shocked if anybody big was doing that. There are news agencies (Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.) that get the reports early and sell exchange-quality news feeds. People subscribe to those news feeds, and at the appointed time, messages go o
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by davidmr 14y ago
Excellent point. While any possibility of an onboard fire is extremely serious, a fan blade escaping engine housing containment and puncturing the wing is also extremely serious. It was only a combination of luck, skilled piloting, and soun
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by davidmr 14y ago
This kind of sanctimony is tiring. Every time one of these threads comes up here, it inevitably devolves to a point where someone brings up something like the above. There are those of us who actually enjoy these kinds of problems in and of
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by davidmr 14y ago
I'm sure that you're aware of this (and is why you used the word "many"), but the fundamental problem with this is the assumption that you're saving when young for what you need when old. There are those of us who aren't particularly health
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by davidmr 14y ago
This happened once to my father on a flight. He's an orthopedic surgeon (the woman in this story really hit the jackpot with an a anesthesiologist--the only thing better would be an ER doc, I think), and someone was having chest pains. He d
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by davidmr 14y ago
Location: Chicago, IL OR New York City OR London Firm: Jump Trading Wanted: C++ hackers with a side of Python Marketing Blurb: Our firm grew out of the knowledge and experience of its founders to become a globally-positioned financial techn

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