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by ddeck 11y ago
Singapore has been recycling sewage into potable water for some time now. Although the majority is used in industrial applications requiring very pure water (e.g wafer fabs), some is added to the tap water: NEWater is mainly used for indus
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by ddeck 11y ago
since the upstream project seems to be left to die at Brocade Indeed, Brocade closed sourced the main product in 2012 and left the community edition to die. Thankfully the Vyatta core was forked in 2013 (renamed VyOS) and is under active
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by ddeck 11y ago
MS' main thesis is a gradual transition to what it terms "Tesla Mobility, an app-based, on-demand mobility service." From the article: Tesla is uniquely positioned, in our view, to solve the biggest flaw in the auto industry
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MS Massively Hikes Price Target on Tesla, Says Stock Could Almost Double(bloomberg.com)
5 points by ddeck 11y ago|2 comments
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by ddeck 11y ago
Although not a personal recommendation site, instantwatcher.com allows you to filter Netflix titles by rating and sort by a lot of other useful criteria such as production year, rotten tomato rating etc.
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by ddeck 11y ago
It's also likely easier to move faster when the public is more forgiving of worker deaths. No idea on cumulative statistics, but the following headlines are illustrative: SHANGHAI: Two men were killed and six others were injured here
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by ddeck 11y ago
From the NY Times: "A trader on the floor of the exchange in lower Manhattan, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that after the suspension began, traders were told that the problem was related to updated software that was r
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by ddeck 11y ago
Press release: https://news.microsoft.com/2015/07/08/microsoft-announces-re... CEO Email: https://news.microsoft.com/2015/07/08/satya-nadella-email-to...
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Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown(bloomberg.com)
201 points by ddeck 11y ago|232 comments
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Prior discussion of same data (statically presented) from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771997
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by ddeck 11y ago
For the curious, in financial markets ticks are datapoints that represent every order (price, size, conditions etc.) placed (or modified) in the market for a particular security by a buyer or seller, as well as trades. In liquid equity mark
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by ddeck 11y ago
Interesting talk by one of the researchers on the techniques including recovery of audio from video of passive object vibrations: http://www.ted.com/talks/abe_davis_new_video_technology_that...
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‘We Assume the Bad Thing Has Already Happened’(bloomberg.com)
25 points by ddeck 11y ago|5 comments
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It's interesting to note that China's capital controls make it illegal for any Chinese national to purchase greater than $50,000 in foreign currency per year without explicit government approval, and thus many of these purchases r
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by ddeck 11y ago
Let me try: Imagine an empty company loans 100 companies $1 each. To get the $100 to loan, that company sells bonds to 2 investors for $50 each. One investor is senior and one is junior. What this means is that if any of those 100 companies
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by ddeck 11y ago
>Why is Wall Street spending all this time and energy in creating all these different securities? The primary purpose of these trades is to offload super senior risk from DB's balance sheet. Super senior risk is the risk that DB r
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by ddeck 11y ago
I use IQFeed[1] for data. Despite their website, I've always found their product and developer support to be excellent given the price point. [1] https://www.iqfeed.net/
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by ddeck 11y ago
The issue is strategy capacity. There are many more strategies that will generate consistent returns on a few million dollars than there are that will generate the same return on a hundred million dollars. This is a key advantage of being
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by ddeck 11y ago
Not sure what you mean by portal, but I wrote my own execution system that I run on a server located close to my broker and the exchanges. Market data is via a consolidated feed and execution via my broker to a variety of venues. I don&#x27
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by ddeck 11y ago
Definitely not common, but I run my own quant strategies for my own portfolio on a fully automated basis and have done so for several years. Every other quant develper/trader I've met works at a fund or sell-side firm.
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by ddeck 11y ago
>In fact, the proliferation of air conditioners has increased to such a degree that it has slowly begun to modify humans, lowering our species’ threshold for heat. What fact would that be? The linked article to support this bold claim
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by ddeck 11y ago
>IMO, noobs might think HN community is hostile & leave. I believe the parent was referring to downvoting comments that are hostile in tone, not using downvoting as an outlet for his own hostility.
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As I understood it, as of 2015 EU digital goods VAT must be paid based on the VAT in the customers country, regardless of whether the sellers business is located inside or outside the EU. If so, what's the downside of having your busin
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by ddeck 11y ago
>Those tax rates - 20% VAT and 33% social taxes I would expect that VAT is only relevant for products sold to Estonian residents and income/social tax only relevant if you employ residents of Estonia. Income tax is typically based
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There are definitely a lot of drivers, but the numbers that led to that claim are a little misleading [1]. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-mo...
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by ddeck 11y ago
Agreed. I don't really understand the surprise in article and wince at the "My friend reckons....." style. This is indeed occurring on a daily basis. A number of funds trade automatically based on fully automated analysis of
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by ddeck 11y ago
Indeed. It will be interesting to see how the government responds to non compliance with the terms. The government appointment monitor at HSBC has apparently been highly critical of the firm in his first annual report: The critical, 1,000-
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by ddeck 12y ago
FIX is for execution, market data is still via their API and client software.
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>Interactive Brokers has a very robust API IB's API is anything but robust. It is inconsistent, poorly documented, and IB have a history of changing it without notice. It also requires all communication runs through their client s
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by ddeck 12y ago
>quotes ranging in the $10,000's a month range for real-time data. That sounds excessive. You basically either subscribe to individual exchanges or a consolidated feed from a 3rd party that typically incorporates multiple venues.

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