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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Sure... and 3 guys in China control 50%+ of the Bitcoin network, and ETH mining will eventually centralize as well. What's your point? I'd rather have Janet Yellen controlling my currency than Jihan Wu/Barry Silbert/Bria
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   We have "speculative vendor financing" - normally in the form of OTC stocks, i.e. pink sheets. This seems like an even less regulated way of trading pink sheets, except funded by a bunch of software people with a lot of disposable
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Wow. So people should treat it not as a pyramid scheme, but as a legitimate asset, because it can be used for money laundering! That is truly hilarious!
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Someone should start WebVanCoin.
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Here's the issues I have with Numerai - 1) Bullshit marketing where they advertise the usage of "homomorphic encryption". If you've looked at their datasets they are most likely taking some fundamental and pricing factor
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Good chance of it being Arianna Huffington.
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Lots of downtime. Probably 3-4 serious incidents within a 6 month period. We also had a high number of transient errors that AWS Support considered 'expected'.
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Pipelines randomly failing with inscrutable error messages. High error rates.
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   by hendzen 9y ago

   Not all AWS services are created equal... Some are rock solid and others ( cough Data Pipeline cough Kinesis Firehose cough ) must have been written by interns.
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    Why would they buy Whole Foods as opposed to Grubhub/Seamless. Seems like a better fit...
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    In the business world, people typically cite profit/employee or revenue/employee. It's only in SV that people cite valuation/employee..
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    If you want to build a real algorithmic trading strategy.. please pick up a real textbook such as Qian's Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management. You should understand the following concepts at a minimum: - Markowitz portfolio optimiz
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    Thanks - this is great. I stand corrected!
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    I was simplifying the example.
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    When I tried to use SWI prolog for a toy-task, it failed miserably when dealing with facts that contained numeric expressions. I think if a variant of Prolog was paired with an SMT solver (e.g. Z3) it would be much more relevant today. For
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    There are plenty of highly capable people who are quite unproductive once settled in to a job.
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    What if the upward price pressure is actually people buying massive amounts of bitcoin to pay off new ShadowBrokers-based ransomware? And the corresponding rise in alts is the perpetrators using the alts to launder the ransom?
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    I'm writing less C++ than I used to recently, but here's the basic setup I use: 1) Emacs prelude w/ helm enabled everywhere - https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude 2) Irony-mode for auto completion. Since yo
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    If you think perf is impressive you should try Intel vTune. Has support for finding hot mutexes, all perf counters, and even generates neat graphs that show diagrams of synchronization points between multiple threads.
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    Probably a space equivalent of the USS Jimmy Carter - i.e. hacking/surveilling unfriendly satellites.
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    by hendzen 9y ago

    How much of Twilio's revenue comes from unprofitable VC-funded companies?
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    Yes, screw the people who allocate capital and make purchasing decisions. Who would ever need their favor to found a successful enterprise software company...
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    What makes you think that?
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    North Korean retaliation for us hacking their missile launch last week?
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    Wrong. There is actually a niche of financial engineering used to work around this problem known as aircraft securitization. Airlines don't buy the planes directly, they set up separate corporate entities (SPVs) that purchase the plane
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    + The army of SREs monitoring it...
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    Computer stock pickers generally don't view balance sheets, P/L statements and other fundamentals data in isolation - they match them up temporally to historical market data and try to model what the effect of future financials re
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    So what you're saying is that if the market starts behaving significantly different than it has throughout history, people will be screwed. How exactly does backtesting help you in this scenario? By definition, basing a strategy off a
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    You can do even better by going directly through Vanguard and getting Admiral Shares of the corresponding mutual fund, which have much lower fees than the ETFs.
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    by hendzen 10y ago

    CMU has been conducting research in this area for a few years now. http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/NVM/index.shtml