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by quant18 17y ago
Yeah, I was mildly confused too by the fact that the articles you've upvoted are called "saved" articles in your profile. Anyway after once having upvoted w/o reading an "advanced data structures" article which turned out to be extremely fa
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by quant18 17y ago
And not just the libraries --- the documentation and the forums filled with people asking questions. But maybe Chinese will have the critical mass to overcome this problem. Not good enough for corporate usage, but maybe sufficient for teena
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by quant18 17y ago
There's already at least two Chinese Python-based languages --- Zhongmeng and ZhPy. I played around with the former a bit after working with a guy who was relentlessly evangelising for it. Obviously since I both speak enough English and am
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by quant18 17y ago
Yeah, seems these days there is more of a backlash in Asia against using scantily-clad female models this way for promotional purposes of unrelated products ... few months back there was similar noise in HK about female models at book fairs
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by quant18 17y ago
Beijing's been doing this for a while too, though they're typically aiming at drought or hailstorm prevention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_Of...
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by quant18 17y ago
"One possibility is choosing your own noise,” said Nathalie Bauters, a spokeswoman for BMW’s Mini division. I sooo look forward to hearing hybrids rolling down the street broadcasting horrible pop tunes in the form of simulated engine noi
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by quant18 17y ago
Hey, it's not just internet and fast food --- they've even got outsourcing (run by a Dutch company)! http://www.nkeconwatch.com/nk-uploads/nosotek-pricelist.pdf Of course, there's a 40 to 60 euro per DAY markup if you'd like a programmer
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by quant18 17y ago
Original paper may be found at: http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/jessehoey/papers/zut... "Who's Counting?: Real-Time Blackjack Monitoring for Card Counting Detection" presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision Sys
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by quant18 17y ago
The better Chinese input methods achieve ~3 keystrokes per character on handheld devices. [1] IIRC average word length in English is around 5 or 6, vs. around 2 for Chinese. So the input time should be about the same. The real bottleneck is
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by quant18 17y ago
For almost a year, Yahoo stopped accepting new e-mail registrations from Iran [1], but I'm told they didn't touch existing accounts. Last August they started accepting new registrations again [2]. I think sanctions wouldn't be any issue bec
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by quant18 17y ago
The title is misleading. The article gives a very basic overview of stacks, queues, and deques. Nothing "advanced" about it.
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by quant18 17y ago
Given that it's Wikipedia, it's more of a random sample of programmers who have got enough media attention to avoid deletion. Though to be fair, the deletionists generally trust that the the community of editors who write articles about pro
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by quant18 17y ago
In my previous job they usually advised us to use an acronym/initialism derived from some phrase which would be memorable to us. I dunno how secure it was. For one thing I'd bet 90% of the people had the substring "wtf" in there somewhere.
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by quant18 17y ago
So in which (human) languages do programmers (a) entirely use their own languages with its own native technical terms; (b) drop English terminology into sentences in their own languages; (c) switch entirely to English when talking about pro
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by quant18 17y ago
Well yes, probably everyone on HN is computer-savvy enough that when they type some input into a general consumer application, they damn well mean what they said, not what the application thinks they meant. I wonder if there's cases where t
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by quant18 17y ago
Well, there's multiple flash traders. If you're trying to buy at $21 and sell at $21.01 you have two trades you need to make and you run the same risk as a regular old non-flashing market maker: that you get one leg of the opportunity and y
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by quant18 17y ago
"Then we divide all the incoming orders into discrete time chunks called quantums. All the orders in one quantum will be processed independently of the rest of the world and before the next quantum is processed." Taiwan's stock and futures
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by quant18 17y ago
Thanks. So the exchange really are messing with price-time priority in exchange for cash? Wow ... But then why would any non-flasher ever place a single order on these exchanges? Couldn't a boycott could solve this problem without any legis
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by quant18 17y ago
"When buy and sell orders come into an exchange, they are first flashed to those paying to see them for 30 milliseconds — 0.03 seconds — before they are available to everyone else." One thing I don't understand about "flash trading", and wh
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by quant18 17y ago
Good point. And a third benefit I didn't think of in the first place: third-world governments not only often misprice water, but also can't effectively enforce water access rights --- which often leads to violent conflict (between tribes wi
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by quant18 17y ago
Wouldn't animals without a pain response just stand there quietly while farmers poked them with cattle prods trying to get them to move off the railroad tracks, hailstones pelted them bloody, predatory birds pecked them to death, etc.? Anyw
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by quant18 17y ago
Both of those are resource-extraction economies: Karamay (oil) and Ordos (coal+natural gas).
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by quant18 17y ago
As a guy living in one of the small countries which does reasonably well on internet speed rankings, let me tell you --- high domestic speed is useless if your country only has a tiny pipe to the places that have all the content you'd actua
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by quant18 17y ago
You can try filling out their form there if you want to look at the actual text of the free report, rather than what the headline-writers spun it as. (I tried, but didn't get anything yet from them yet). http://www.strandconsult.dk/sw3871.
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by quant18 17y ago
http://www.textmygf.com/ was doing something sorta similar --- sending text messages to a person and making it look like it was from your own number ... I always wondered whether the guy behind it was actually making money.
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by quant18 17y ago
Interesting ... yet another example of convergence between Chinese and South Korean Internet cultures?
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by quant18 17y ago
Hedge funds, proprietary trading desks in i-banks, etc. have been using automated trading strategies for decades. But on the the agency equity trading side (the guys who move institutional investors in/out of larger long-term stock position
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by quant18 17y ago
Earlier discussion on same news item from the BBC here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799725
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by quant18 17y ago
Coincidentally it's just past the three-year anniversary of the first attempt to delete the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion... Back then it could still be saved by tons of people saying WP:ILIKEIT. Bu
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by quant18 17y ago
The real trick is to learn to communicate entirely in phrases which are present in the kinds of bilingual corpora that the machine translation folks feed to their engines.

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