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by sjbase 10y ago
Is a no-return mission something worth considering, on a purely technical & logistical level? Has anyone seen a really good analysis of this? My sense is that the social, political, and psychological barriers could be overcome for such
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by sjbase 10y ago
“Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.” It might be a stretch, but this seems like a small glimpse of the concept of a time differential ('dt'), a thous
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by sjbase 10y ago
I read your comment before the article. I decided that if this had some "it was a dark and stormy night" opening I wasn't gonna bother. Made it 1 sentence into the piece.
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by sjbase 10y ago
Not remotely what I expected to read based on the title... but interesting nonetheless. I gather we're supposed to be repulsed by the conversation between the two characters (I certainly was). A reminder that no profession, no matter h
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by sjbase 10y ago
It's effective in getting these companies to clear your data. But do you actually get fewer unsolicited calls/emails, etc.? The do-not-call has been fantastically ineffective for me. I imagine this could be the same. It's als
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by sjbase 10y ago
It's refreshing to see a mainstream news article with a neutral-ish tone on China. Usually any mention of China - regardless of political bias - is wrapped in fear or degradation. Kudos to NYT.
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by sjbase 10y ago
To continue the speculation, the hard-copy + pay wall approach would have culled a lot of the lowest quality newspapers. Bad for the broader industry, but great for the reader.
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by sjbase 10y ago
I agree that total value is a good ideal, but it's really hard to measure in some cases. Forgetting the inaccuracy of things like LoC, # of bugs fixed, etc. How do you measure the performance of someone who isn't directly on the p
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by sjbase 10y ago
Do you mind expanding on that last point? I'm interested in your take on how/why a batch auction's advantage is eliminated by the rest of the world trading around them.
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by sjbase 10y ago
Yep, therein lies the classic problem: if you want something of value, you can either spend your time or spend your money.
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by sjbase 10y ago
Most professionals I've known use Capital IQ, which is expensive. It's surprisingly tough to get broad, machine-readable market data for free but there are some cheaper options. Check this thread: https://www.reddit.com
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by sjbase 10y ago
Agreed, HFT has become a catch-all term for anyone trying to make a marketing/political statement about trading. Like the term "big data" - it's been used to describe so many things that it no longer describes anything.
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by sjbase 10y ago
Zipline (from OP's article) was created by a company that does something like that: https://www.quantopian.com/faq
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by sjbase 10y ago
Hey, that's exactly the sentence where I stopped reading! High five
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SolarCity, Tesla Ties Spurring Questions on Board’s Independence(bloomberg.com)
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by sjbase 10y ago
Ignoring for a moment that the script makes zero sense... I expected the writing to feel more sci-fi-esque: space, aliens, computers, physics, etc. Maybe the conclusion to draw is that sci-fi writing is 99% like any other storytelling in te
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by sjbase 10y ago
As far as the "40% premium" goes: > This price represents a premium of 40% to the Company’s unaffected 10 day average stock price prior to March 3, 2016 of $21.83 Basically they took at 10-day average around a (somewhat) arbitr
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by sjbase 11y ago
There could be a couple of problems at work here: 1: Google is only banning developer accounts, not the violating developer themselves (policy problem). 2: Google is trying to ban the actual developer, but failing at identity assertion (tec
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by sjbase 11y ago
There's a bunch of features we want to include in future releases. I can imagine a few summary points that would be interesting (net avg scores, deviation from overall HN scores, etc.) What did you have in mind for a summary? And thank
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by sjbase 11y ago
I have an interesting dilemma. On one hand, I want to commend you for not using the author's clickbait title. On the other hand, I don't want to give the author more exposure (because of the clickbait title) by increasing this pos
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by sjbase 11y ago
Very cool. I wish stuff like this was more common & easier to find for other emerging domains. On the topic of completeness & accuracy: have you considered open-sourcing the content?
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by sjbase 11y ago
Like most here I always liked math and science. Nonetheless, growing up, I never felt like I was given a meaningful answer on "why do I need to learn math?" I think we can do better with programming. The anecdote the OP gives, &qu
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by sjbase 11y ago
Yeah, it does seem like an "out of the air, into the groundwater" solution. But sometimes you have to stop the bleeding before the injury can heal, and China is making progress [1] on the root cause also. [1]: https://e
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by sjbase 11y ago
I had the same question. I could only find info from 2013, but it seems like the content protocol for Netflix ("DASH") is heavily synchronous [1] where "the client requests one chunk [of video] at a time via HTTP." Reall
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by sjbase 11y ago
You're definitely asking the right question, and IMO the answer is "sortof." It's not that impressive in the grand scheme of DDoS, given major attacks will sustain 100 gigabit traffic[1] sometimes for days on end. But 20
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by sjbase 11y ago
In a sense the name says it all: HIPAA's about Portability and Accountability, less about security. I worked on a few security consulting projects in healthcare. The HIPAA security rule is way more vague about actual controls than a ra
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by sjbase 11y ago
This has been around for a couple of years unofficially. If you typed "ok maps" into the search bar in maps, it would offline the area currently onscreen. http://www.wired.com/2014/02/offline-google-maps&
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by sjbase 11y ago
To me it makes sense that post-IPO market cap would be lower than private valuation. Investors in public companies are well known for having short-term interest: "we want growth in every metric, and we want it next quarter." Anyon
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by sjbase 11y ago
Criticism is useful for bloggers, because it always sounds more sophisticated than optimism or praise.
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by sjbase 11y ago
I always find it soothing when a study supports what seems empirically true about the human body. So much research into the brain (especially where it intersects with the rest of the body, e.g. sleep) seems paradoxical & contradictory.

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