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by ig1 13y ago
The difference between watching someone using it and using it is huge, using it is literally unbelievable. One of the few things that shifted my perception of what is actually possible with technology.
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by ig1 13y ago
$2 CPM seems high these days, I'd assume $0.50 for a transactional website and $0.10 for a social one.
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by ig1 13y ago
He misses a key point: References You should speak to former coworkers, friends, customers and investors before joining an early stage startup. Don't ask the company for references, but rather use your own network to find these people
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by ig1 13y ago
There's a kickstarter for that: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uchek-universal-the-medica...
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by ig1 13y ago
I've been involved with running events so I appreciate that things like venues, staffing, speaker expenses, etc can build up to a considerable amount and that those costs have to be met somehow. If it's a case of the event not bei
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by ig1 13y ago
It's a shame BoS have started selling the videos of talks when most conferences are going in the other direction and releasing videos for free. Given that many speakers are doing so to contribute back to the community and build their o
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by ig1 13y ago
Many people feel uncomfortable having to talk to strangers on the phone. Plus the hassle of having to repeatedly spell out the details of your reservation when the person at the other end is in a busy and noisy restaurant.
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by ig1 13y ago
Trade secret violations can be prosecuted under criminal law, any company can request a criminal investigation in such a case. In the last decade there have been around 100 criminal convictions for theft of trade secrets.
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by ig1 13y ago
Pricing algorithms are different from trading strategies (although they're obviously related). In any case that's purely a matter of evidence, he either copied a piece of code or he didn't.
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by ig1 13y ago
According to the indictment the source code included Goldman's propriety stock option pricing algos.
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by ig1 13y ago
From the indictment the source code contained "the trading algorithms that determined the value of stock options" and was "hundreds of thousands of lines of source code". Source: http://online.wsj.com/pub
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by ig1 13y ago
Tor exit nodes have been banned from HN since at least 2011 due to abuse, although they used to be IP blocked rather than hell-banned.
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by ig1 13y ago
Any company can ask for a criminal referral on a corporate espionage case (United States v. Nosal is a major one), and while it's becoming more common it's still pretty unusual for companies of all sizes because it's often ex
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by ig1 13y ago
Because the government can't turn around and unilaterally ban something instantly. This is a good thing. Building a body of research evidence, drafting legislation, putting it out for review, getting it passed into law, etc. all these
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by ig1 13y ago
It's more environmentally friendly if you use your current supply and not buy any more than if you just throw it away where it'll end up in the water supply in any case.
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by ig1 13y ago
With the vast majority of open source software licences (including the GPL) you're perfectly entitled to integrated it into your propriety code without releasing it if you're not distributing it externally. The only exception of a
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by ig1 13y ago
The exact details (which aren't disputed) are covered in: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/021110aleyn... Basically he'd written a backup program which was specifically designed to c
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by ig1 13y ago
My understanding is he copied a bunch of confidential code off company servers and then deleted the audit trail from the servers. He claimed that the confidential code copied was accidental and that he only meant to copy some open source co
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by ig1 13y ago
As far as I can tell, that's not Outbrain, Outbrain is the "More from Slate" / "From Around the Web" section. The "SPONSORED FROM AROUND THE WEB" section appears to be a standard ad panel from Content
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by ig1 13y ago
Presumably L1Bs
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by ig1 13y ago
You seem to be confusing a few different things here. One of the fundamental purpose of a market maker is ensuring that both the supply and demand sides are capable of transacting when they want to, even if the supply and demand side don&#x
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by ig1 13y ago
Yes, the standard way of doing this is via offering a localized version (with translations, local currency pricing, etc.)
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by ig1 13y ago
Those milliseconds being shaved off forex trading are the reason that commercial and retail spreads are much tighter than they were a decade ago. When currencies were priced every second market makers had to set a spread that would protect
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by ig1 13y ago
I'm surprised this passed peer review. The underlying studies seem pretty iffy, for example in a few of the studies that made the assumption that "nice car" == "upper class" and in others they had students self-asse
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by ig1 13y ago
Front-office investment banking. Quant dev, risk, algo trading, low latency, etc. Lead dev can make 100-130k base + substantial bonus. At small hedge funds it's possible to get carry which obviously means the sky is the limit. Contract
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by ig1 13y ago
Sedo is where a lot of better names are sold
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by ig1 13y ago
It's not clear if you're suggesting a PR agency aimed at startups or some more automated system ?
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by ig1 13y ago
Based on the numbers given on that page 16% of female CS grads are black, but given the US population is only 12% black doesn't that mean that black female CS grads are over-represented compared to non-black females ? Seems to be a pre
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by ig1 13y ago
I personally wouldn't do it unless they were also willing to put money on the table. The amount of equity seems very high and makes me doubt how competent they actually are. Also I'm not familiar with SBIR grants, but frankly I&#x
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by ig1 13y ago
One big problem is that it's hitting event emails which tend to use similar email services for distribution. If an event has to be cancelled last minute or if there is some major changes and the announcement email gets missed it could

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