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by minimax 12y ago
I live in a 3 flat and most of my Amazon packages sit just outside our building in plain sight. If the UPS guy had the skeleton key that the USPS has, I'd probably feel differently.
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by minimax 12y ago
I don't know as much about NYC geography, but if they put one of these somewhere in the loop in Chicago I would definitely use it. I would much rather spend my lunch break walking down to the Amazon pickup depot than let a package sit
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by minimax 12y ago
Other reports have said it's in the ballpark of $20M. http://online.wsj.com/articles/yahoo-nears-investment-in-sna...
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by minimax 12y ago
Maersk actually has a pretty solid instagram account where they post those kinds of pictures. http://instagram.com/maerskline
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by minimax 12y ago
This kind of functionality is available in most commercial wirless controller hardware. See e.g. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless/4400-seri... So it's not clear whether M
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by minimax 12y ago
The most important thing here is to measure. Always measure. It doesn't matter what you think is going to be fast or not. The combination of super smart (or not so smart) compilers, multi-level hierarchal caches, pipelining, branch (mi
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BitCon: The book(ftalphaville.ft.com)
2 points by minimax 12y ago|1 comments
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by minimax 12y ago
The problem with every allegation of quote stuffing I have ever seen is that it always looks like this: 1) Blast quotes 2) ??? 3) Profit Same problem in this thread. It would be a much more convincing argument if you could spell out the act
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by minimax 12y ago
I think you are oversimplifying. In the US you can compete on price at a subpenny level by posting at an exchange with inverted (taker/maker) pricing. Shares posted at BYX are really $0.004/share cheaper than BZX, and most smart o
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Mystery Man Who Moves Japanese Markets Made More Than 1M Trades(bloomberg.com)
1 points by minimax 12y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 12y ago
Throwing off the exchange generated timestamps doesn't mess with any HFTs. The exchanges themselves don't synchronize against one another so the timestamps are basically useless to begin with.
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by minimax 12y ago
You are being overly pessimistic about access to these microwave paths. In some cases in the U.S. you can purchase wireless market data directly from the exchanges†. I am less familiar with the Canadian markets so I can't speak to what
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by minimax 12y ago
I have not heard of anyone intentionally interfering with microwave links, but generally speaking these RF lines are not reliable and you get gaps from time to time due to weather and whatnot. There are a couple of ways to deal with this. I
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by minimax 12y ago
When you are profiling code that's been generated by an optimizing compiler, you often have to manually reverse-translate from the compiler generated assembler back into the C/C++ source to understand the profile results. The reas
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by minimax 12y ago
It does use floating point. I think the slide was misleading. http://www.netlib.org/blas/blast-forum/cblas.h
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by minimax 12y ago
But FIX _is_ going away in US equities as all of the major exchanges have adopted native binary protocols. We still have to deal with it in other asset classes, but I (as a developer) am not really happy about it. FIX/FAST is a massive
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by minimax 12y ago
The IEX order entry delay is 350 microseconds (one way). Considerably less than even a millisecond.
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by minimax 12y ago
Stocks in the US are quoted to 2 decimal places because of reg NMS rule 612 (the subpenny rule). Any displayed quotes above $1.00 are priced in pennies and below $1 you can quote in increments of $0.0001. Trades can however happen in subpen
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by minimax 12y ago
What do you use for temperature?
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by minimax 12y ago
TWTR traded like 27M shares in the first hour after the close today, which is roughly equivalent to the average _daily_ volume. This was not prices getting pushed around in a thin market.
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by minimax 12y ago
In a world without statistics you have none of the risk models that underpin the insurance industry and the financial system. No health insurance. No car insurance. No life insurance. No mortgages. No credit at all, really. It would not be
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by minimax 12y ago
I think the "constraints" he had in mind were more like what we would call "implementation details." What if someone told you, "sort this list of a million words as fast as you can, but the constraint is you have to
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by minimax 12y ago
You are wrong. I dug out the documentation associated with the 2008 $220M issuance when I was looking at this yesterday. It is a muni bond issued by the city of Chattanooga "payable solely from the revenues of the electric system"
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by minimax 12y ago
Do you understand the significance of being able to borrow against the revenue of the local electric utility? This is what that means: EPB goes to the market and says "hey guys, I need like $200M to make some internet and I can raise t
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by minimax 12y ago
Like a publicly traded corporation, the utility issued bonds to raise resources to invest in the new broadband project. Similarly, just as many private corporations ended up receiving federal stimulus dollars, so did EPB, which put those m
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by minimax 12y ago
In case you are at the office or just want to get through it in less that four minutes: http://idlewords.com/audio-manifesto.txt
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by minimax 12y ago
The bit of the video where he talks about writing the order to the wire and then flubbing the checksum if he doesn't actually want to send the order was nuts. I work in the industry and I had heard of people using FPGAs on switches but
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by minimax 12y ago
The article is notable because the author is a former CFTC commissioner. The CFTC regulates futures trading in the US.
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No Need to Demonize High-Frequency Trading(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by minimax 12y ago|1 comments
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IEX Pricing Aims to Drain 'Dark Pools'(online.wsj.com)
2 points by minimax 12y ago|0 comments

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