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by dia80 13y ago
Not sure if ship sinking and 10 crew dying and 1 one barely surviving is good news... :(
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by dia80 13y ago
I had a pair of viewsonic VX922 that both failed with in 6 months of each other. Quick youtube how to and a visit to maplin (uk electronics store) got them back on their feet.
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by dia80 13y ago
I have to agree. It's not that he 'failed' in many respects he was wildly successful. You can do a whole lot of things right but if their is something rotten at the core that undermines everything. Groupon was rotten. The accounting was sha
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by dia80 13y ago
I'm apt to agree. I have used .net before in a large desktop app and it was brilliant but I'm sure I will never use it again - deskwhat? Only thing I can think of that might save the day is if MS properly open sourced it. Chances of that ha
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by dia80 13y ago
Nonsense, flagged.
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by dia80 13y ago
Why learn C++? It's used because of A) history or B) it's speed is useful in HFT that isn't UHFT yet with microwave links and ASICs. I work in python. I'm staggered by the range and quality of the libraries. Numpy/Scipy + Pandas + ipython =
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by dia80 13y ago
Is 4 million breakeven? This is a business with lots of mouths to feed (3 founders and sweat equity engineer) and high variable costs...
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by dia80 14y ago
I feel for the poor sods thrashing away trying to make this right. Do developers in mission critical areas earn a premium? This could knock a couple of years off your life in stress.
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by dia80 14y ago
I would rather take the view that if you were brave enough to oppose the Taliban you are a patriot considering what the Taliban want for your country.
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by dia80 14y ago
Sorry, this doesn't add up. Lean doesn't mean your product breaks or is pushed out functionally incomplete. If no one wants it it's not viable. The article says give your customers what they want. Unfortunately they thought the customers wa
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by dia80 14y ago
It's very difficult to receive and enjoy the proceeds with traditional assets. Not so bitcoin.
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by dia80 14y ago
Why do you think I'm paranoid? It's my best guess. Despite my tender years I have seen many speculative bubbles in lots of asset classes and have traded them on a private and professional basis. I agree there are plenty of people in bitcoin
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by dia80 14y ago
Will a press release from the target suffice? https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130404.html
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by dia80 14y ago
On the contrary this is just the most pronounced in a series of recent coordinated DDOS / aggressive selling attacks designed to (successfully) inspire panic. The attackers unload their bitcoin before the price gets smashed and presumably b
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by dia80 14y ago
> cryptobarons it will have created from its inner circle, through shameless hoarding. This isn't 1941 England and bitcoins aren't sugar. Early adopters in the right thing often make money. Usually on HN they are called investors and co
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by dia80 14y ago
Taxi drivers, grandmas etc; necessary but not sufficient for a bubble. There are sustained run ups in assets values that can seem crazy but don't reverse. Consider the bane of my life, london house prices. If bitcoin catches on as a means o
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by dia80 14y ago
Isn't this guy opening himself up to prosecution?
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by dia80 14y ago
I often discuss this with friends. It often comes down to: Big technology disruptions have happened before. The market adjusted and something new came along for people to do. I like to argue: There were about one million working horses in t
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by dia80 14y ago
Leadership isn't always easy. Plaudits for doing what they felt bad to be done.
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by dia80 14y ago
I was thinking about ASIC? Here is a bitcoin mining solution: http://www.butterflylabs.com/
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by dia80 14y ago
In fact almost the opposite! Unsupervised pre-training learns the statistical invariants in the inputs and these become the features. This is in contrast to hand engineering features for your particular domain which, unsurprisingly, doesn't
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by dia80 14y ago
I think we are at a tipping point for machine learning. Deep learning is just getting ramped up and the results are extremely impressive. [1] How far this could go is hard to say right now but things like this [2] (10 million images, 1 week
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by dia80 14y ago
It's a little brash to dismiss published evidence as a conspiracy theory. You may think it flawed but then please at least make an intelligent criticism. Who gets to decide what is "feeling sad" with a cause and what is idiopathic "chemical
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by dia80 14y ago
That's a false dichotomy. Ultimately all thoughts / brain function rely on "chemicals". The idea of purely "chemical" mental distress is also severely strained - consider "there is a 0% chance your current feelings are influenced by your en
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by dia80 14y ago
Yikes! I live about 2 miles away and I can make out the garden tools on my balcony.
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by dia80 14y ago
First request and got the paper already!
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by dia80 14y ago
That's what they want you to say! See?
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by dia80 14y ago
Why not use http://appfog.com ? Save a lot of time and effort and it's free and ready to scale.
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by dia80 14y ago
Well meaning people inadvertently lie to you. "Sure, that looks great! I'd buy one" So you go off and make it only to be greeted by tumble weed when it comes time to sell. Cure: retrospective questioning. What steps have you taken to solve
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by dia80 14y ago
Warning: Prospective questions are bad for your (business) health.

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