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A few exist -- you can find use the unofficial Robinhood API, for example. I use Alpaca, which has an official API.

To be pedantic about this complexity estimate for the 4 x 4 case, both of them reduce to a O(1). If N == 4, it's a constant, so we have O(4^2.778) == O(4^2.8074) == O(1). Talking a…

It used to be that one of the best things about working at Google was the "blameless postmortem". As long as you are able to learn from an incident and weren't attempting to look a…

I'm inclined to agree with you here. The solutions suggested here seem to depend on heuristics that depend on the type of distribution. A tangential question: real numbers are unco…

Is there actually some way to guess with better than 50% chance? I'm pretty sure this could be reduced to the secretary problem where there's a pool of 2 candidates, which yields a…

There's an unfortunate issue with software engineering: Perception is Reality. The technical struggles you've described sound like they're about par for a junior dev. You made some…

Well, I was exposed to a new idea today. It looks like the concept here is similar to me observing that the average number of hairs on a human head is about 1e5. Also, the average …

Everything Paul wrote about in this post resonated with me. He avoided any examples, and looking through these HN comments, it's clear why. A lot of people assume that his experien…