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by ryporter 11y ago
Though it will surely be a (very) long process, I'm excited about the ways in which blockchain technology can improve the efficiency of the financial system. There's an amazing disconnect between the speeds with which we can exec
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by ryporter 11y ago
I agree with your last remark. Regardless of the letter of the law, any ML researcher who could possibly win such competition should clearly understand its spirit. They had to know that they were training on the test data, a cardinal sin
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by ryporter 11y ago
I don't think that, strictly speaking, Palantir "needs" more cash. However, it puts them in a more secure position grow aggressively, even if markets take a hit in 2016. Contrasting them to Atlassian, Palantir is much more a
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by ryporter 11y ago
This raise is relatively small because it is a continuation of the previous raise. To me, it actually sounds more like a bullish sign that they were able to raise more than their target amount at such a high valuation. The investors had a
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by ryporter 11y ago
This site has promise, but I think the training section needs to become smarter. I worked through about 20 problems. None of them were challenging for me, but that's because I'm not in the target market (I'm about the same st
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by ryporter 11y ago
This is an interesting concept, but I don't see the point of the lack of a board. The key elements appear to me to be the drawing of and placement of pieces. The lack of a board just seems like it will lead to confusion in practice.
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by ryporter 11y ago
Another possible source of purchase order financing is existing investors. For example, I am a major investor in (and a board observer of) a young startup that is just ramping up production. I've indicated to them that, should the ne
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by ryporter 11y ago
Playing in the NBA a very, very hard thing to do. As a player, you look around and all you see are highly paid athletes in the media. On the other hand, trying to secure a lucrative contract extension can lead to rejection. The passion a
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by ryporter 11y ago
At the time he attempted to sell his shares, Twitch had raised $42 million, and had been valued at around $100 million several months earlier [1]. He is complaining about the gall of VCs not to buy his shares at a price that would imply a
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by ryporter 11y ago
The idea makes a lot of sense, but why can't Yahoo! simply spin off their core business? They ran into troubles spinning out the Alibaba stake, but spinning themselves out would split their valuable Asian assets from their core busine
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by ryporter 11y ago
Quickly. Obviously don't initiate the conversation right after an argument, but do not drag this out. Realistically, the value of the company is very low, so you're not fighting over a huge amount. Moving on with your life is
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by ryporter 11y ago
Again, if you really think that there is a significant chance that you will get screwed over by the founders, then don't join the startup. Joining a startup is, in no small part, a bet on the founders, and it requires that you take so
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by ryporter 11y ago
I'm really surprised at how dismissive people are about the value of equity on Hacker News. Would you never start your own company, because then your compensation would certainly be tied to the value of the equity? If you really thin
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by ryporter 11y ago
Entrepreneurs need to be very careful when developing self-belief in their idea. As Sam points out, the people telling you that you are crazy "may be right." I've started angel investing, and it really pains me to see peopl
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by ryporter 11y ago
They may still actually have an real innovation (we need more evidence), but I do agree that this is a massive failure for such a valuable company. After the huge setback that 23AndMe suffered from their run-in with the FDA, every well-fun
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by ryporter 11y ago
As some feedback to the author, the following sentence doesn't make sense: "Artificial intelligence sits at the extreme end of machine learning..." Machine Learning is a subfield of AI.
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by ryporter 11y ago
I loved his critique of the recent hyperventilation about AI taking over the world-- "I don't work on preventing AI from turning evil for the same reason that I don't work on combating overpopulation on the planet Mars."
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by ryporter 11y ago
I, too, have thought about conducting a pseudo-double-blind experiment on myself. I think I could pull it off, but I'd also be willing to pay a third party to help me. For example, DoubleBlinded could partner with a respect supplemen
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by ryporter 11y ago
People seem to be focusing on the fact that the two operations should have been linked, but I think they actually should have been further separated. The old index presumably could have been left around for days, at the cost of some perfor
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by ryporter 11y ago
We were indeed on the buy-side, but we traded with the banks on the sell-side, which we observed becoming increasingly automated.
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by ryporter 11y ago
I worked for 5 years as a software engineer at a forex hedge fund, contributing to the development of their algorithmic trading system. This shift started long before the forex scandal broke. Many different financial markets are becoming
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by ryporter 11y ago
While I'm loathe to agree with the conspiracy theorists out there, the only way this whole ordeal makes sense to me is if he (or an associate) had a massive short position on biotech. Shkreli is far too smart, and his actions were far
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by ryporter 11y ago
I completely agree on the importance of providing supporting evidence. To test out this site, I looked into Micron and Greenlight Capital, because the founder, David Einhorn, has very publicly embraced this stock. Under Greenlight, Micron
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by ryporter 12y ago
Why was this comment voted down? It challenged an uninformed speculation based on the title of a speculation.
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by ryporter 13y ago
On point 1, have you considered innovating in the commission structure as well? If we've agreed on a fair market price, then I'd rather structure the commission along the lines of, for example, 25% of (sale price - 80% of fair ma
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading st
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading st
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading st
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading st
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading st

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