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by hendzen 8y ago
This sounds like a great way to get murdered.
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by hendzen 8y ago
Through this scandal and others, society will learn just how harmful the dual-share class structures that allow founders to reap the economic benefits of public markets while shirking the oversight aspects and keeping all control are.
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by hendzen 8y ago
Data cleaning/transformation ends up being a huge percentage of the work in pretty much any real-world ML context I'm familiar with. Not unique to finance at all.
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by hendzen 8y ago
Asana was founded by Dustin Moskovitz. He has enough money to personally fund them for many years. It's not going anywhere.
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by hendzen 8y ago
Amazon taking more open source and selling it with no value created for the developers. Maybe Kafka should switch to the SSPL [0]. [0] - https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license
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by hendzen 8y ago
the slower generated code is an academic concern. Show me a realistic/non-contrived benchmark where not keeping the stack unwindable actually helps give a useful performance increase. Error codes force people to litter the code with br
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by hendzen 8y ago
it really isn't that hard if you practice RAII properly. I've used C++ exceptions on several large C++ codebases and not run in to major issues.
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hendzen 8y ago
"people have seen the future and they want more" Citation needed. The impression I get is that other than a get rich quick/MLM scheme, there isn't really anything there of interest to the general population. And I say th
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by hendzen 8y ago
They "reduced" the cost by stealing Velodyne's Lidar technology and filing a false patent on it. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-wa...
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by hendzen 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_process
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by hendzen 8y ago
HFT ain’t what it used to be.
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by hendzen 8y ago
No real HFT system is doing a * database transaction * in the critical trading path. HFT systems are not built like web applications. They are typically built as a tight event loop, reading market data packets directly from the network
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by hendzen 8y ago
Wow, this team just continues to eat DataStax' lunch.
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by hendzen 8y ago
Ironic that he (or she) worked on a project called Eros.
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by hendzen 8y ago
At the end of the day, open source projects need developers... and developers need to eat. These license changes have been forced by the business reality of larger cloud companies capturing all the value created by open source communities a
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by hendzen 8y ago
There is a massive value. It means that all SP500 tracking ETFs ($SPY, $VOO etc) have to buy your shares. It's a huge boost to your share price, especially with the rise of passive investing.
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by hendzen 8y ago
You want to raise money without voting rights? Sell bonds.
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by hendzen 8y ago
SNAP IPO should herald the death of dual share class listings. They sold billions in equity to the public, but gave the shares 0 voting rights. So now investors have no recourse to push for changes at the board level.
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by hendzen 8y ago
Rates will rise, but that doesn't affect the interest rate for bonds already issued, of course. No disagreement on opportunity cost - I was responding to the prior posters assertion that the government "took on gargantuan debts to
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by hendzen 8y ago
" it is in fact using less electricity than the major credit card networks." - citation needed
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by hendzen 8y ago
1) The 700B in assets distributed via the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) have all been sold by the government, earning 15.3B in profit in the process [0]. 2) The federal funds overnight rate has been raised 4 times in the last year wi
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by hendzen 8y ago
Blockchain-based stablecoins seem like a really convoluted and environmentally wasteful way to implement centralized, cryptographically secure USD based account transfers. Why not just use Chaumian ecash [0] - which is perfectly suitable fo
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by hendzen 8y ago
Disclaimer: IANAL. From MongoDB, Inc's POV, its fine to run MongoDB in-house for the purposes of supporting some user-facing application. Coinbase would be a good example, they make a consumer product that uses MongoDB as the storage b
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by hendzen 8y ago
Yandex is one example: https://cloud.yandex.ru/docs/mdb/ Probably the big public cloud providers in China (Alibaba etc) as well.
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by hendzen 8y ago
turntable.fm. Amazing product/community. Better for music discovery than anything else I have ever used.
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by hendzen 8y ago
A downround wrecks the cap table. Earlier investors and employees get diluted like crazy. So now your investors hate you and your employees are pissed. The options of recently hired employees go underwater - so they start getting poached. I
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by hendzen 8y ago
ETrade actually had an in-house proprietary trading unit that was making so much money that they sold it off because the regulators were asking questions. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-23/e-t
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by hendzen 8y ago
reposting my comment on this issue from 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182423#16183604
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by hendzen 8y ago
$45 billion (soon to be 90) in Saudi money sloshing around in SV via SoftBank. Everyone is complicit.

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