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by iav 6y ago
Dude! This is super helpful. I run a website with millions of huge text PDFs and thousands of users, and being able to implement this will literally save my users man years of time.
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by iav 6y ago
Interactive Brokers offers a cost plus commission structure, where your trades pay the exchange commission (or collect the rebate, if you are providing liquidity) and they just take on a ~$1 fee per trade on top. Very few "regular Joes
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by iav 6y ago
I've looked into the XBRL data - it's closer to an XML version of each company's 10-K rather than a unified accounting/reporting system for all public companies. If one company reports their income statement using 20 lin
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by iav 6y ago
No market anywhere can offer that
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by iav 6y ago
How did you get google to index that many pages? For me Google only crawls about 1000 pages per day, no matter how many I show in the index
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by iav 6y ago
I run a similar free site and was looking at add ads. Google Adsense rejected it for not complying with their program policies. My data is on large US federal bankruptcies, so I really couldn’t pin point why but just a heads up that it migh
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by iav 6y ago
I do a Bootstrap modal and blur the background for sign up forms. The right hand drawer looks great but what about mobile devices? A bootstrap modal appears centered on all screens
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by iav 6y ago
Carriers pay to port numbers to a neutral third party that maintains the Number Portability service. In the US, that used to be $6 per number port (which is basically just a DB row update operation) but a new vendor has reduced it by more t
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by iav 6y ago
Chargebacks are way harder in real life than people think. It took me multiple calls, emailing evidence/screenshots, and months to get a $300 charge back processed. That was for a completely fraudulent charge at a bar. The way it was e
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by iav 6y ago
This doesn’t count the people who read the newsletter online or on the Bloomberg terminal (where I typically read it). I didn’t even know there was a newsletter till recently.
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by iav 6y ago
Or the publicly traded private equity / credit investor? Or the parent company of University of Phoenix Online? PS the private equity firm actually owns the education company since 2016... think about that confusion
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by iav 6y ago
There is a Donald J Trump State Park in New York...
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by iav 6y ago
I’ve found Tika’s PDF to HTML parser to be pretty good. My only complaint is that in a double spaced document where there is equal amount of space between paragraphs and normal lines, it labels every line as a separate paragraph.
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by iav 6y ago
Thanks - I cannot get Camelot to run in parallel (I use celery workers to process PDFs), there is some bug in Ghostscript that SEGFAULTS. I’ll try using PDFPlumber instead! By the way Apache Tika has been the best for basic text extraction
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by iav 6y ago
Not a bad idea!
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by iav 6y ago
I have a very similar project where I’ve extracted text and tables from over 1mm PDF filings in large bankruptcy cases - bankrupt11.com I still haven’t found a good way of paragraph detection. Court filings are double spaced, and the white
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by iav 6y ago
I love used tabula and recommend Camelot over it. The Camelot folks even put together a head to head comparison page (on their website) that shows their results consistently coming out ahead of Tabula. My other complaint with Tabula is tota
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by iav 6y ago
Does the code have any factor investing features at all right now? I was just reading about alpha lens, another project focused on performance attribution of factors. To avoid reinventing the wheel, are there any other libraries that can be
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by iav 6y ago
I wonder why they decided to start from scratch in Kotlin rather than just add the interactivity feature to plotnine. Now we have two competing projects...
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by iav 6y ago
How is it different from plotnine? https://projectcodeed.blogspot.com/2020/07/ggplot-grammar-of...
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by iav 6y ago
True, and if I recall Apple is even a “small” LP in the Vision Fund. So Tim Cook could have bought his own stock but instead thought giving a few billion to Masa was a better trade! But hindsight is 20/20 and we don’t know what the fun
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by iav 6y ago
Unlike VC funds, SoftBank releases full accounting of the Vision fund quarterly, so this question is entirely answered here: https://group.softbank/system/files/pdf/ir/presentations/202... They had
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by iav 6y ago
Thanks. There is one aspect of SPACs that is completely unmentioned in this write up that’s actually the most important - valuation. While it reads like Bill believes the goal of a “SPAC-off” is to negotiate the sponsor take, that’s not the
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by iav 6y ago
SPACs traditionally don’t have any guaranteed primary capital. 100% of their investors can redeem. So you are guaranteeing the sponsor their rake but they are not guaranteeing that you’ll get any money from the listing. Plus this article do
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by iav 6y ago
You can’t calculate sharpe for a portfolio that includes private investments (PE or VC). Even if you trust the marks - big if - the returns are reported quarterly or at best monthly, and the marks are often unchanged creating a fake effect
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by iav 6y ago
I live in NY and created my own version of the case-Schiller price index just for Manhattan. The July 2020 index shows a 10% YoY decline in condo prices, which is worse than a 6% decline in Q2. Please see my analysis for backup: https:&#x2
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by iav 6y ago
There are many other claimants in the Purdue bankruptcy other than the Multistate Group mentioned here. Each of those claimants is incentivized to make their claim as large as possible to reduce the amount left over for the hospitals, Nativ
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by iav 6y ago
The fees are ridiculous. Google Scholar is free but it’s very difficult to use if you just want records for a particular case. In my attempt to solve the problem, I created the website bankrupt11.com which offers free access to federal bank
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by iav 6y ago
Here is the [link to the investment]( https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/provo/ancestr... ). The way they justified it to investors is that this removed the threat of FS ever competing with the
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by iav 6y ago
They are definitely still operational but they no longer compete with Ancestry for content like they used to. In fact they rely on Ancestry to digitize their own archives

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