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by minimax 13y ago
Memory Allocators 102: The jemalloc paper. http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemall...
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by minimax 13y ago
Beyond all the concerns about destroying other peoples property, discharging a firearm in a residential area can carry pretty stiff penalties depending on the local laws.
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by minimax 13y ago
Bitcoin crosses borders more easily than CHF. Try this: Money in Saudi Arabia -> mt gox -> bitcoin -> mt gox -> terrorists inside the USA
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by minimax 13y ago
Using bitcoin as a way to launder dollars requires the ability to turn USD into bitcoin and back again, which, incidentally, is exactly what Mt Gox does. dirty money -> mt gox -> bitcoin -> mt gox -> clean money I'm o
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by minimax 13y ago
It's not based on the Inc 500. It says it's based on data from Bloomberg and Capital IQ, which is probably why he isn't releasing it. I tried Googling around for a free stock screener that would let you filter by revenue and founding year b
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by minimax 13y ago
Don’t scribble data all over memory via pointers. Each time you follow a pointer it will be a cache miss: [hash pointer] -> [Task Control Block] -> [Socket] -> [App]. That’s four cache misses. Incidentally, game programmers ha
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by minimax 13y ago
The US government is a special case again. Since most of the companies mentioned here are headquartered in the US, the US government can resort to the no-tech solution of just asking for the data and presenting a subpoena (or so was my expe
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by minimax 13y ago
Like Moxie says, money buys technology, and they will eventually find someone to rig up a workable solution for what they're trying to do. Governments are in a unique position here. They can always just move up the stack. Can't break the
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What Bloomberg employees can see when they snoop on customers(qz.com)
1 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
This is actually how most of the European equities markets start and end the trading day. During the auction period, anyone can submit an order at a given size at price. When the auction ends, the exchange matches at the price that maximize
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by minimax 13y ago
Why are there multiple exchanges for the same papers to begin with? Because it allows the exchanges to compete on features (latency, order types) and pricing (transaction fees, connectivity costs). In the case of stocks, for example, the
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by minimax 13y ago
If there was a similar video showing all of the electronic sensors of a modern airliner flowing into the central flight control computer would it would engender the same sort of trepidation about air travel? Should we be afraid of something
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by minimax 13y ago
I get that you would want all that stuff in a router, but the article is mostly about a new type of top-of-rack switch. My understanding (based on experience that is now a few years old) is that a top-of-rack switch basically only handles l
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by minimax 13y ago
What is the advantage you get from having a sophisticated software stack on a top of rack switch? I was under the impression that you only really configured vlans and maybe a span port every now and again. Someone care to enlighten me?
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by minimax 13y ago
I am not the OP, but I recently posted a hobby project of mine to the Mac App Store and went through a similar experience. The app was waiting for review for about 9 days (7 business days) then got rejected because the reviewer found a smal
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by minimax 14y ago
People surprised by this probably ought to revisit the trap and trace requirements that the telcos have had in place for decades . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...
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by minimax 14y ago
I don't think you need 'cl for dolist†. Unfortunately elisp doesn't have TCO, so what you would normally do with recursion in other lisps you have to do with loops in Emacs lisp. † http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_no
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by minimax 14y ago
I think the best way to get a tech job in finance is to live in a city where finance is a big industry (New York, Boston, Chicago, London). If you punch "C++" into Indeed for Chicago, IL, half the listings that come back are for positions a
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by minimax 14y ago
"It drains talent by offering smart people salaries that other industries can't afford." Bullshit. The difference is that in finance (trading, at least), good technology is seen as a competitive advantage that makes a meaningful impact on P
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by minimax 14y ago
Another endorsement of the Harris Book here. The technology is all out of date (hello SuperDot), but otherwise it's a great introduction to modern financial markets.
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by minimax 14y ago
Neat! Wish I could select by just domain name (i.e. just nytimes.com rather than dozen or so whatever.nytimes.com subdomains).
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by minimax 14y ago
True enough! Is it complex numbers you're considering? Now I feel like I'm playing one of those puzzles where there is puddle of water and a dead man and you're supposed to figure out what happened. edit: Puzzles like this: http://kith.org
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by minimax 14y ago
Do you frequently find yourself dealing with arrays of unsortable numbers? ;-)
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by minimax 14y ago
"Your coworkers are your friends. It’s so much closer to a life style than a job that taking a vacation from your startup doesn’t have the same connotation." This guy does not get what vacations are about. I know what it feels like to work
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by minimax 14y ago
"In fact, I would guess that the majority of people hurt by this volatility spike were market making or algorithmic traders." I think it's the other way around. I guess it depends on the volume on either leg of the spike, but the market mak
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by minimax 14y ago
HN has a pretty broad audience and a pretty big chunk of it doesn't know $language. These types of beginner posts for $language pop up from time to time. It's nothing to worry about.
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by minimax 14y ago
You don't need to time it, do you? If you have resting buy orders the market is going to come down and hit you at a favorable (to you) price. You can close the position when the market rebounds.
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by minimax 14y ago
"The simplest being to short a basket of stocks that are going to be affected and cover the shorts with buy orders." Don't even worry about the basket thing. You would just use SPY (S&P 500 ETF) or ES (e-mini S&P futures). If you c
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Bloomberg Black: Coming to Disrupt the Financial Disruptors(thereformedbroker.com)
1 points by minimax 14y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 14y ago
"The bullshit part is trying to apply a geographic model of governance and taxation onto a technology that is location-independent." What kind of government is not "location based"? People who live in a place are bound by the laws of that p

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