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by vecter 10y ago
What gives you that impression? When Newton alive, no one knew calculus. He had to invent it (along with Leibniz). Now we learn calculus in high school.
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by vecter 10y ago
I did [0]. The first result is an article explaining how HFT can't front run [1]. How about instead of making vague arguments about how HFT does front running, provide a specific example of how HFT actually does front running as you cl
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by vecter 10y ago
This comment is ignorant and wrong on every single point. As another person commented elsewhere, front running is a specific term with a clear definition and is illegal. HFT firms do not do front running.
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by vecter 10y ago
Google is "just advertising". What's your point?
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by vecter 10y ago
I strongly beg to differ. That's just every startup in general. The dotcom days were way more debaucherous and perverse than what's going on today with startups.
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by vecter 10y ago
That's a great deal for your mom, I'm glad she was able to get such an amazing deal. On the other hand, Zenefits is an unprofitable startup with huge internal problems. Clearly, expecting them to provide such sorts of benefits wou
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by vecter 10y ago
If the only math you know is up to trig, you're probably multiple years away from getting caught up on the math. You need to first learn calculus and linear algebra, and learn them very well. I would also recommend having a good unders
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by vecter 10y ago
I have a great personal story that highlights how long the journey of understanding mathematics is. I took linear algebra my freshman year of college. It was the non-math major course, so it didn't require proofs. I got an A+ in the cl
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by vecter 10y ago
Irrelevant nitpick: NP-complete problems aren't "waiting" to be solved by anybody. In a strict theoretical sense, if a problem is NP-complete, there does not exist a polynomial time solution (assuming P!=NP). That having been
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by vecter 10y ago
I learned this from reading the original paper [0], which is only two pages and is easily accessible to anyone with a high school level understanding of math. [0] http://cs.jhu.edu/~sdoshi/crypto/papers/shamir
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by vecter 10y ago
The first version of our socket service was called, unsurprisingly, "socket" service. We had to deprecate it for various reasons and build a new one. Our engineers have a sense of humor, so the product is what you see before you t
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Redfoo from LMFAO helping with our launch. He’s streaming Tinder live(kamcord.com)
12 points by vecter 11y ago|1 comments
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by vecter 11y ago
What specifically are fads? Mobile app install ads or mobile video ads? Extremely unlikely. That market will only continue to grow as consumption on mobile continues growing. Ad money goes where the eyeballs are, and the eyeballs are moving
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by vecter 11y ago
Instagram was one of Facebook's best investments ever. People think that Instagram is worth between $10-30B now. Their ARR is already exceeding half a billion and still growing. If Zuck saw this coming, he was a genius. If not, he just
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by vecter 11y ago
Have you actually done the math to show this works out in the long run?
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by vecter 11y ago
How could MIT sustainably afford to make tuition free? Genuine question. That's a pretty bold assertion.
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by vecter 11y ago
Sam would be doing YC a huge disservice if he told YC founders that their employees were applying to YC. First of all, it doesn't even mean that the applicant is necessarily leaving. Getting in is pretty hard to begin with. Secondly, h
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by vecter 11y ago
The community (other founders) is amazing. We interact with them all the time via YC forums, which is extremely useful. We just don't have much interaction with the partners anymore since their focus is better spent on the recent batch
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by vecter 11y ago
YC is so big and has so many (1) existing portfolio companies and (2) applicants to go through that they simply don't have the time to even care about this. We graduated YC in S12 and, outside of fundraising, talk with partners on aver
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by vecter 11y ago
Waterloo is considered top tier by people in tech, which is the industry that YC is in.
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by vecter 11y ago
He can't, because he's wrong.
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by vecter 11y ago
No one is entitled to be able to enter a market. It would be practically infeasible for me to compete against Amazon by writing code at home. That doesn't mean the ecommerce market is a bad thing.
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by vecter 11y ago
I see you making sarcastic comments about all the silly noise that's being added to the thread. This is exactly the kind of noise we want to avoid on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10933288 .
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by vecter 11y ago
Could you elaborate on why he was a terrible leader and how he screwed everyone? Genuinely curious.
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by vecter 11y ago
1. You made a throwaway account just to say this? 2. You obviously missed the lesson of this story, which I won't repeat b/c other commentors here have done a great job explaining it. There is actually a valuable lesson to be lear
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by vecter 11y ago
You ... must be trolling.
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by vecter 11y ago
Who do you want to talk to then? Unless you're a big customer, the founder or VP of the company selling to you is probably (understandably) too busy to talk to you. If they really want your business, the sales person will escalate it a
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by vecter 11y ago
It's not often that companies nail one thing really well ... and then nail a second and third thing. Dropbox is amazing at cloud storage and syncing. Why do people expect them to develop great products beyond that?
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by vecter 11y ago
Really? If I want to discuss pricing, a sales guy is exactly who I want to talk to.
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by vecter 11y ago
I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me how dangerous it is to use multiple parachutes instead of one. It sounds like it provides more reliability in case the one parachute fails, but it also seems there would be a risk of the

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