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> if I had an algorithm that could perform well, why would I hand it over to Quantopian? I'll share my algorithm here: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/xiv-slash-vxx-pair-trade-1 "…

Hi, a shameless plug: I went to the Quantopian (the company that is behind Zipline and essentially uses Zipline as the core backend to their cloud platform) algo-trading hackathon …

http://changefol.io is a site that I use to set up micro-donations that's based off my daily spending, e.g., donate $0.05 for every $1 I spend at the gas pump to Sierra Club; $0.10…

Haha, touche.

Uhh, I really hate INTJ personalities, most are so uptight centered on being judgmental. The "worker bee" personality that I see at IT/software places. INFP ftw, feeling up and per…

Has there been a good writeup of what HFT "Is" at any point? http://vimeo.com/6056298 What is your impression of them as a pernicious/positive force? Are they essentially market ma…

You are right that for a individual investor focused on the long term, a algo-order probably wouldn't make a difference in comparison to a market order with your E-Trade/Schwab acc…

"Yes it takes practice to become a good singer, but any number of hours of practicing poor technique won't do much good." Yes, this is true and oft-repeated mantra on YC News. But …

Yea, write a simple Python/Perl script that interfaces with TOR and force-reset your exit nodes each time you send out a new request and randomize the time interval. There are plen…

I think your analysis is correct despite of all the self-congratulations that goes on here on Hacker News. A couple caveats though; I think your definition of technology is too nar…

Ahh ... isn't Mint build off a platform that allows it to do all of the fancy secure financial banking login and information sharing?

There's a saying that if you start learning a musical instrument when you're an adult, "you'll always play with an accent." I suppose you could also program or seen code programmed…

Good advice. After you have learned the basic open chords, scales and the fretboard notes, and "Wonderwall" - and are bored with the strings. You could go always back to silicon an…

Thank you for your $0.02; this might be really obvious to you, but could you be kind and enlighten the oblivious engineering crowd on this forum and be more specific as to what kin…

Thanks for your advice and the link to the book.

Maybe someone as a musician can enlighten me, but I always have so much trouble doing rote scale at every guitar fret position, arpeggio, memorize-these-chords exercises. I always …

Rote memorization is a problem in programming, too. Not to rag on PHP or Visual Basic, but people could get by with just memorizing certain keywords - or not solve hard problems by…

Affirmative action doesn't bother me. So what if the SAT-tutored and AP/IB class-taking kids from suburbia couldn't get into Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Boohoo! It's the end of the…

When I'm sixty five, I'll be playing WoW and listening to the nostalgic popular records of my day, from fine artists such as Soulja Boy Tell 'Em and T-Pain.

"Don't care if the cat is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches the mouse, it's a good cat." Basically for those who are interested in the background of the quote, Deng…

Does anyone who are pro's in music production/audio engineering wana help a wannabe out? I'm curious as for a noobie, into computer music what kind of software/languages/theory I s…

Why do algorithmic trading articles pop up frequently on HN? I understand why people are attracted to it because they think that they can beat the market by implementing their own …

I'm curious how you went from squatting 1 rep max of 135lb to 10 reps of 315lb in 6 month. It's quite a transformation. According to http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/Squat…

Does anyone know if there's any similar events at MSR, open to public for those of us who are in the Cambridge of this side of the Atlantic (Microsoft Research New England at Cambr…