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by rgarcia 16y ago
I completely agree. I'm surprised at the level of negativity towards CL here. I would expect a community of hackers to recognize a highly generic solution like CL when they see one. The only critique I would give is that if CL were really t
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by rgarcia 16y ago
Consider a hypothetical stock currently trading at 34.05 bid, 34.06 ask. Trader A puts in a bid for 100 @ 34.06, matching Trader B's ask of 34.06. Normally, B would then sell to A, but thanks to HFT, institute C has the unique and intrinsi
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by rgarcia 16y ago
certain exchanges are starting to standardize access to colocation(for example: http://www.cmegroup.com/globex/trading-cme-group-products/co... ), but there is nothing that is exchange-agnostic that I know of.
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by rgarcia 16y ago
From what I can tell after signing up, it seems like it lets you essentially seed ("share" in non-hacker speak) your photos to a selected group of peers ("family/friends"). Pretty cool idea if those peers also become seeds, a la BitTorrent.
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by rgarcia 16y ago
For the uninitiated: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html I think you meant DH1...?
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by rgarcia 16y ago
you might be part of the problem Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all u
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by rgarcia 16y ago
I think you can make the argument that in order to have a "free market" of ideas (when it comes to building the best search engine) you shouldn't cannibalize the ideas of your competitor. If Bing's signal consisted of some generic method fo
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by rgarcia 16y ago
according to OKCupid's response ( http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/okcupid-we-didnt-censor-ou... ) something has changed: OKCupid's CEO "got to know" match.com a little better (through access to more accurate statistics, etc.) and has ba
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by rgarcia 16y ago
http://tldr.it/ does this automatically
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by rgarcia 16y ago
back in college the first problem set in my intro AI class was something very similar to this, except instead of maximizing the points scored on the current throw, it looked ahead and solved for the best "path" to get to zero points given y
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by rgarcia 16y ago
> Offer multiple skill levels. You could also start with easy questions and have it slowly adapt to harder/easier questions as you get questions right or wrong (maybe accounting for speed as well).
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by rgarcia 16y ago
As a fellow HFT programmer I sort of think of HFT as another asset class: eventually (as more divers go for the gold) the returns will be on par with alternative asset classes. This is the beauty of capital investment and the free market--
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by rgarcia 16y ago
I don't know enough about the regulations that apply here, but aren't all VCs and private equity funds subject to the same criticism? i.e. they pool private money into non-public companies?
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by rgarcia 16y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting somethin
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by rgarcia 16y ago
It's pretty remarkable to see something non-technical (e.g. broadly-appealing/humorous marketing) put into a framework like this. I just wonder if it dilutes the value a little bit. I've always enjoyed the jokes in their emails, but now tha
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by rgarcia 16y ago
These results are potentially biased by the fact that starter packages were originally only available for C++, Java, and Python (at least when I took a look at it back when the competition started)
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by rgarcia 16y ago
original post: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face... although still no y-axis :(
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by rgarcia 16y ago
that's for the internet to decide
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by rgarcia 16y ago
I'm curious--what does the backend setup look like?
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by rgarcia 16y ago
I'm no web designer, but this looks very similar to 960.gs: http://960.gs/demo.html
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by rgarcia 16y ago
i've run into this issue after upgrading--cpu usage is high and graphics rendering is slow. after disabling the proprietary nvidia driver everything went back to normal. there's a beta nvidia driver that claims to fix some of the problems,
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by rgarcia 16y ago
free: http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/ i think this is what stackoverflow uses
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by rgarcia 16y ago
already submitted earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767830
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by rgarcia 16y ago
So when the HFTs got hold of the futures contracts that the Waddell & Reed algorithm was selling, they would've first looked for legit buyers to flip them too. And, not finding any legit buyers, they just started rapidly buying and sel
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by rgarcia 16y ago
Map caps lock to ctrl. I did this about 2 years ago and I've never turned back.
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by rgarcia 16y ago
I should have been clearer when I said "something like HN": something with a good deal of intellectual curiosity, and something without dick/fart jokes. Perhaps you can recommend a subreddit?
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Ask HN: HN for non-programmers?
3 points by rgarcia 16y ago|5 comments
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by rgarcia 16y ago
I don't understand...isn't Skywriter (previously Bespin) supposed to support real time collaboration on its own? http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2009/08/13/collaborating-with...
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by rgarcia 16y ago
Is there any reason why google has made this a web service rather than an open-source API? I can see them wanting to keep some of these things close to their chest, but when it comes to most applications of ML it seems like the devil is in
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by rgarcia 16y ago
"Every time markets crater, there is never a lack of liquidity." To me this just reeks of misunderstanding of what happened last Thursday. The 20 minute nosedive was largely due to a lack of liquidity--bids just disappeared in most markets

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