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by veyron 15y ago
"If you're making a profit it means you bought inventory when the price was below fair value (your customers didn't need it and wanted to sell as fast as possible), and you sold it when the price was high (your customers really needed the s
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by veyron 15y ago
someone left a comment in the first post saying: "... most of the crowd here probably comes from HN and as techies we don’t have much knowledge of the trading part of HFT." I assure you, it's in the pipeline.
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by veyron 15y ago
Rockefeller Center NYC, onsite: #1 looking for #2 Bootstrapped prop ultra low latency trading firm (as opposed to a firm which originally had investors and later kicked them out), and I'm willing to cut significant equity. see http://news
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by veyron 15y ago
New post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835656
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Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 2(veyronb.wordpress.com)
119 points by veyron 15y ago|47 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
"User name not found. Might be a temporary outage. Sorry."
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by veyron 15y ago
"But this is not what Google does, or am I missing something" <-- Google in specific doesnt do anything like that now, but Google and the other sites can change their terms of service from under us (I dont think people knew five years a
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by veyron 15y ago
"Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label" <-- its not known if they can get an insurance policy for such a disparate group of people at a price that allows them to run with a profit
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by veyron 15y ago
If you are a US citizen, you have COBRA coverage. Which can get pricey, but at least its something. How old are you? My parents health/dental/vision coverage extends to all children until 26, and I think one of the benefits of Obama healt
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by veyron 15y ago
I remember a discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2801109
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by veyron 15y ago
I ask because it looks like Twilio is a pay service (and i though GV was free)
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by veyron 15y ago
can you leverage google voice instead of twilio, using asterisk or some other pbx if necessary?
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by veyron 15y ago
When my likeness is used in conjunction with a random product, there is an implicit assumption that I somehow support it. And other people may see it and distance themselves from me, refuse to do business, or refuse to hire me. As an extre
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by veyron 15y ago
Ads seem harmless until they start using your likeness to sell stuff to others or vice versa.
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by veyron 15y ago
math,cs,philosophy
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by veyron 15y ago
You provide python and beanshell as options, yet the templates seem to be ruby-only. You should put demos of both examples in all languages you support
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by veyron 15y ago
This was posted by rush-tea on the imposter thread from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830424 People should be warned about making hiring posts like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2829174 -- Looking for a technical
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by veyron 15y ago
To avoid confusion, please delete this post. I copied rush-tea's post over to the official whoishiring thread and will delete it once it is reposted
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by veyron 15y ago
Direct link: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0106/
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by veyron 15y ago
You can't do ultra low latency trading on IB or any of the discount brokerage houses. Essentially, your order goes through their system before it goes out on the broad market, and that (time) cost is orders of magnitude larger than the int
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by veyron 15y ago
I think TD Bank is in your area. They are open on sunday!
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by veyron 15y ago
Aren't they included in the 1.3 trillion not attributed to stimulus or extension of Bush tax cuts?
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by veyron 15y ago
I think you glossed over quite a few points: 1) EJ specifically points out that there was no way to perform due diligence on the other person. You are inviting someone to use your home, and you normally expect some entity to perform some s
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by veyron 15y ago
I imagine there are a large number of pirated windows xp copies in china
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by veyron 15y ago
http://www.ie6countdown.com/ <-- 10% of the world still uses IE6. I would imagine most obsolescence conversations go like this: "We should stop supporting IE6" "What percentage of people use IE6?" "10%" "Hmm, 10% sounds like a lot of
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by veyron 15y ago
Oh no the fund is still running. After building a ton of python and C programs to automate basic tasks, thanks to the magic of cron, I stopped doing a lot of the day-to-day work. And now I have some time on my hands :) There was another d
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by veyron 15y ago
Unfortunately I had no silver spoon :/ Due to family financial pressures, I had to graduate early. Fortunately I was taking enough credits to graduate a year early. I really didnt want to discuss numbers, but I realize that the comment see
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by veyron 15y ago
Does anyone use a service like mailinator or spamgourmet?
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by veyron 15y ago
where's the whoishiring account?
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by veyron 15y ago
Realized this would be a much larger effort than a single HN reply or a single blog post would justify, so I am starting a blog series on this. First post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2829116

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