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We built Tangent, a stream-processing engine with WASM at its core. In our benchmarks, end-to-end ingestion and transformations perform at native speed, with some workloads even ru…

Like many of you, I'm a software engineer employed by a Bay Area company and I will not need to go back to the office for at least 9 months. I plan to live in the Bay Area once Cov…

Given the OpenAI initiative and the explicit intention of "democratizing" AI, it seems they're interested in funding application, not more research. I think the results seen from d…

Buddy? Is that you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPDRnUWeBA

Or the asia crisis

Facebook's IPO flopped because of a glitch in the nasdaq where orders weren't being filled for hours and then multiple orders were being filled. It was not because investors didn't…

This was a common strategy among pit traders in the 80's to place orders to entice other traders to follow, while a partner would take a large position in the opposite direction. P…

Futures were off bad before the market opened. People look at futures, think the sky is falling, flood the market with sell orders that cannot be filled until market opens, price t…

The US government does not lie about growth, nor does it threaten money managers with prison time for selling stocks.

This is most likely a correction, not a recession. There will be recession in markets that depend on China -- the commodity exporters like Brazil, Russia, Venezuela, etc. The US ec…

> I guess the only difference is that in the West, the money goes mostly to the banks, which distribute it to the companies or invest it in the stock market and real estate. Conseq…

I was pretty far into building a platform for investors to buy portfolio insurance, then I read about Vest this morning( http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/hardware-demo-day/ ). It s…

I would buy put options instead of a naked short. I know it looks like an easy trade right now, but the Chinese govt. can be unpredictable. Even if you're right over a 6 month peri…

Looks like a big move is going to happen in US markets judging by afterhours being very in the red

Isn't Google doing the same thing with the new YouTube deals?

Is it common to use prop trading strategies for trading a personal portfolio? Or do quants almost exclusively work at hedge funds

Does anyone else have the feeling smart watches are a consumer created category? Meaning the public expected smart watches to be the next big thing after the smart phone so they be…

Could you theoretically wait to commit database transactions until after the client has sent acknowledgement of the response?

I was coming here to say exactly that. from: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/free-stock-trades/ > Tenev says Robinhood is charging a 3.5% fee to trade on margin in a private beta …

I have a micro EC2 instance I do my development on. I just the repo on my mac, put the folder into sublime and I'm ready to go. There's just something about having Redis, Postgres,…

I once had to implement a simple API during an interview. I'd done it many times, but the stress of having an interviewer breathing over my shoulder made it a painful experience an…

It is still growing, but the momentum has been slowing for over a year. I googled, "twitter user growth" and every result points to disappointing user growth