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by incision 14y ago
> How did we end up using such easy to manipulate sources of information to have so much influence in our high frequency trading algorithms? 1) That game is about being fast and first. 2) The finance world loves to try and predict the
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by incision 14y ago
Some interesting context/speculation from my submission on this yesterday [1]. "The Twitter data stream has been available to high frequency traders since at least 2009. That's when a company called StreamBase began to incorporate Twitter
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Robot Traders Aren't Very Good At Detecting Lies(businessinsider.com)
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by incision 14y ago
I certainly don't agree with the way the doc has chosen to handle this, but I sympathize to a degree. There's no shortage of ignorance about how the Internet works among otherwise educated people. Also, the author seems a bit disingenuous.
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by incision 14y ago
I remember being a young man and searching for a word to generally describe this. I settled on predilection. Anecdotally, I'd say it's extremely common. I've confronted a few people about it and heard the same arguments in each case. It see
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by incision 14y ago
> We did this too. Not even close. I didn't [1][2] and generally don't agree with such discussion, but equating what went on here with Reddit is ridiculous. The thread you linked on HN is primarily a discussion of the history and poten
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by incision 14y ago
>It should be pretty obvious why there were only 500K downloads- it's only available on around three devices. Good point. I was a bit surprised to see that it isn't available to any of my half dozen devices.
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by incision 14y ago
Yep. At least you're required to install (Sort of, just hit install. Even if you cancel immediately, the option to review remains available) an app before being able to post a review on Play, it's surely a small deterrent, but the effect wo
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by incision 14y ago
My experience is the opposite and I use both services regularly. At least one fairly recent event corroborates this [1]. 1: http://gigaom.com/2012/12/25/christmas-eve-aws-outage-stings...
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by incision 14y ago
> How fucked up is an industry where saying "I don't want to work on [X]" makes you unemployable? While I don't agree with the mentality, having your work dictated to some degree by your industry isn't terribly unusual. How far would a
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by incision 14y ago
> I suppose I think there's something pretty "off" with both the gaming industry and the community it serves. Wish I had a constructive solution in mind, but for the time being I simply avoid both. I have much the same conclusion drawn
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by incision 14y ago
I was hoping this would be a commentary on the genre being - with the rarest exceptions - a mess of utterly derivative, barely distinguishable dreck.
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by incision 14y ago
>I hope that soon it will sink with the masses that DMCA takedowns are mostly censorship. I'd wager "the masses" don't understand the concept of censorship and certainly don't care about universal protections against it.
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by incision 14y ago
If I had to guess... The information you're interested probably can't be easily/cost-effectively collected, validated or maintained. Just ask yourself, where accurate, up-to-date, consistent information on 100M+ apartments and houses going
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by incision 14y ago
> To me he's saying not that we won't learn anything from evildoers, but that it's important that we really try. I read it the same way. Though, I don't think it's about literally learning from any individual, but to attempt to underst
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by incision 14y ago
I think you've asked an interesting, reasonable question here, but you should have looked for a way to avoid any suggestion of sympathy if you hoped to see answers to the former as opposed to reactions to the latter.
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by incision 14y ago
> Not something I'd want on my personal system, but it's exactly the sort of thing that I think every NOC/Secure environment should have for post-mortem assessments. Tools of that sort [1][2] are pretty standard in call center environm
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by incision 14y ago
The proof can be quite generic. It doesn't have to specify what the condition is, just something demonstrating that a physician has validated your need to take leave for a condition protected by FMLA. In any case, providing a medical certif
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by incision 14y ago
Bullseye. I think I've learned to work through this brand of bullshit without being consumed by it, but I've earned myself a pair of golden shackles in the process. My recent focus has been devising an escape route. I believe it starts with
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by incision 14y ago
> I know about FMLA leaves of absence, but that requires you (!) to disclose your illness to your employee; given the massive stigma around mental illness, I really, really dislike that option. Not true. You don't have to disclose the
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by incision 14y ago
I had the same thought. You'd think that knowing accurate dimensions and features of something so nearby could be used to gauge distortion on the face. Likewise, perhaps some kind of computer vision could quickly search for the distinctive
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by incision 14y ago
>labeled their work as speculation AKA the "No offense, but..." of Internet witch-hunts.
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by incision 14y ago
>I've been closely watching this subreddit from the beginning, and have not seen anything of non-negligible prominence (including the comments you link to) accusing anyone of anything other than being worthy of a closer look. Either you
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by incision 14y ago
Comments like this one [1] in this thread [2] didn't just appear out of nowhere. There was plenty of wild speculation (the worst of which has since been edited or deleted) in that thread in the hours following the event. This widely circula
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by incision 14y ago
I generally agree. For everything done right with G+ there's something else which I'd say is plainly wrong or a huge oversight. For example, Communities do a good job of facilitating limited sharing beyond your circles but they were impleme
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by incision 14y ago
>"high end apparel/fashion" x 4 Everbody wants clothes that fit. I don't know the first thing about fashion, and my wardrobe is anything but high-end. However, I'm well-paid and ready to be a lifetime customer for anyone who can sell me
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by incision 14y ago
>Anyway, these are my notes to send back to 2009. A 25 year-old lamenting the mistakes of his youth... Seriously now, these are some good points that too many never learn, particularly being afraid to say “I don’t know” and understand
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by incision 14y ago
Here's the thing... I'd never heard of any of those sites, I checked them out none made me want to sign up right now. I clicked through on okcofounder here wanting and expecting to be able to sign up only to be disappointed. Ideas are ess
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by incision 14y ago
I'm a bit disappointed. I was hoping for a full-blown site for entrepreneurial individuals to find and connect with each other.
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by incision 14y ago
I have 3 or 4 people I would consider very close friends meaning I can openly talk to and depend on them for nearly everything. At least one would qualify as a best friend, effectively family. How I talk to them depends on their distance. C

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