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by minimax 13y ago
"It's mathematically impossible for Chicago and Baltimore and a couple others not to join Detroit in the near future in bankruptcy court." I don't know about Baltimore, but Chicago's fiscal problems are fixable with
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by minimax 13y ago
The confidentiality applies to the SEC. If Twitter hadn't filed confidentially the S-1 would be public (on Edgar) and everyone would be talking about Twitter's actual revenue numbers.
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by minimax 13y ago
"I also pay for bugs people find in Tarsnap, as well as scrypt, kivaloo, and spiped, right down to the level of typographical errors in comments." I think these bug bounties are interesting. Is there something like a market price
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by minimax 13y ago
In the U.S. most of the outstanding student loan debt is held directly by the government. Pension funds and mutual funds don't really have exposure to student loans.
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by minimax 13y ago
You're going to have to get used to it. These kind of self congratulatory "I left great job X to start my own company" stories have been staples of HN since forever.
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by minimax 13y ago
shared_ptr: 1) It might be helpful to show an example with a bare pointer and then show the improved version with shared_ptr. 2) One good way to illustrate object lifetimes in RAII demos is to create a class that prints a message in the des
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by minimax 13y ago
Does Julia do any of the copy-on-write tricks that other numerical packages do? I.e. when I make a copy of an array does it immediately need space for a full copy of the original?
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by minimax 13y ago
I have a 2008 MacBook (5,1) which I upgraded to 8GB RAM and an SSD. It runs Mountain Lion just fine. I use it for all sorts of things including Xcode. No idea what you're talking about here.
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by minimax 13y ago
It's interesting to see Birmingham in 8th place given that it's the 2nd largest city in the United Kingdom. It would be weird if you saw a similar list of American cities and Los Angeles came that far down.
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by minimax 13y ago
Does this dilute existing LinkedIn shareholders?
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by minimax 13y ago
I'm a little bit surprised the HN software doesn't have rules to automatically scrub the links. Also there's no evidence the OP meant to post the affiliate link. He could have just got it off Twitter (or wherever) and pasted
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by minimax 13y ago
I think the bit from the letter about "billed as campus, community, accelerator, and more" will probably narrow it down. That seems like a pretty distinctive way to brand your accelerator.
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by minimax 13y ago
This is probably a stupid question, but how does a crowd funded equity round actually work? If I'm trying to raise $1MM for a 10% equity stake (picking number out of the air), is it a first come first served thing (as soon as we reach
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by minimax 13y ago
Go back to Reddit.
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by minimax 13y ago
So now we're suggesting the United Kingdom in 2013 is like Nazi Germany in 1933? Snowden-era Hacker News has gotten completely ridiculous.
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by minimax 13y ago
Not really though. I regularly travel 1000 - 1500 km on US domestic flights for business on Embraers and CRJs. It's way too long a trip to do by car and high speed passenger rail isn't really a thing that exists here in the US.
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by minimax 13y ago
We really are the same. I keep a journal in org-mode and in my .emacs I have cron-like periodic function that switches to my journal in the middle of the night so that it's the first thing I see when I unlock my computer in the morning
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by minimax 13y ago
"1) What are the advantages of getting separate feeds from BATS/EDGEX etc. instead of using the consolidated then? ... But how can you get a competitive advantage if RegNMS forces exchanges to execute you at NBBO anyways." Th
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by minimax 13y ago
Attempting to decipher those nanex charts without a detailed explanation of what they purport to show is a waste of time. I'm guessing here he's trying to show a stale quote (in red) at one of the exchanges after trading resumed i
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by minimax 13y ago
This is a good description. I just have a couple of issues. "you must buy all shares available on all open markets (13 of them at the moment) at all prices better than X" This is almost correct, but not quite. The protected quote
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by minimax 13y ago
Yes I probably shouldn't have made such a broad claim. Do you think any of these lower volume participants are dependent on the CQS/UQDF consolidated feeds though? I bet Bloomberg, Thompson Reuters, and co are connecting to each e
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by minimax 13y ago
It sounds like NASDAQ is having a problem with the Tape C consolidated feed (which they administer). Here's some good places to watch for updates: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=MarketSystemStatu... http:&
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by minimax 13y ago
For me the most important thing is to start working on something first thing in the morning before I start poking around on the Internet. If I spend an hour checking up on Twitter, HN, Reddit, or whatever it totally kills my productivity fo
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by minimax 13y ago
That cringing sensation you got when you saw the scare quotes around "subversion repository" is the same feeling people in trading get when journalists write about HFT and algorithmic trading. You can see an obvious example in the
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by minimax 13y ago
If you see something suspicious taking place then report that behavior or activity to local law enforcement or in the case of emergency call 9-1-1. http://www.dhs.gov/if-you-see-something-say-something These types of repo
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by minimax 13y ago
It's sounding more and more like the cops were just following up on a "see something, say something" report from the public.
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by minimax 13y ago
Do you really think Starbucks would give up its captive portal? Have you seen it? It's full of Starbucks branding and content. I don't see that aspect disappearing with the new provider.
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by minimax 13y ago
What I'm saying is that I think they are using Level 3 for the whole stack, not just circuits. I think L3 is doing the captive portal and everything else. I could be wrong though.
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by minimax 13y ago
If you were nervous about Google knowing all of your search history, e-mail, and youtube activity, how do you feel about them being able to snoop on literally every packet you send and receive? Also as a bonus they can now track you by your
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by minimax 13y ago
It sounds like Google is outsourcing the connectivity to Level 3. Essentially you'll have Google branded L3 wifi.

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