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by nohuck13 13y ago
Klout: "To opt out of Klout, please verify the you are the owner ... Note that we request only the bare minimum information provided by Twitter or Facebook for authentication." Facebook: "Klout Opt-Out would like to access yo
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For Snowden, a Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout(nytimes.com)
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"The idea that in order to reach the judicial branch, I must ask the executive branch to process my request is antithetical to the separation of powers required by our constitution." Well that pretty much sums it up.
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So, there's a correlation between HFT and volatility. Yup. Causation is hard though. "Trading volumes in U.S. equities are around 6 billion shares a day, roughly where they were in 2006. Volatility, a measure of the extent to which a share
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How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall(businessweek.com)
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Two things I take away from this 1) Cool use of infographic :) 2) The little dots represent price changes, not trades. FWIW, some more context around this would be- All the major exchanges stream their best prices to all the other exchanges
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Saying Goodbye to Titles, Hello to Responsibility(nytimes.com)
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by nohuck13 14y ago
Here is the ginourmous confounding issue the presentation in the article: > Why would any company pay a computer programmer with out-of-date skills a salary of say $150,000, when it can hire a fresh graduate — who has no skills — for
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by nohuck13 14y ago
What would bank regulation would have done to stop Cooper Union's getting a loan and blowing it? If you own the land under the Chrysler building, someone is going to be willing to lend you money. It seems to me this is the bank functioni
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Unmanned Drones May Have Their Greatest Impact on Agriculture(thedailybeast.com)
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IBM, Google join Nasdaq among bidders for SEC audit trail project(wraltechwire.com)
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Agreed. Long form ad copy, just not done anymore.
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Nice. > I despise widescreen displays, but I had gotten resigned to them. Until now. 3:2, baby! Who knew.
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by nohuck13 14y ago
I remember reading the Reddit AMA with Linus Torvalds where someone asked him what his home computer setup was and Linus said MacBook Air. Running Linux of course, but I thought that was interesting. Good hardware can make a huge differenc
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by nohuck13 14y ago
NFC = Near Field Communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication Maybe I'm behind the curve on this one :)
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> The programming part is nothing more than a hammer to a builder or a scalpel to a surgeon. We need to remember that not all "tools" are equal. "Tools" like math, science, and philosophy provide leverage for future understanding/inter
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by nohuck13 14y ago
I've started using make for production data generation (not building software) instead of pure Python. Mostly to tie together Python scripts doing the real work. Pro -dependency management for free -well-known paradigm makes it easy for so