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NYC has a open data policy. http://iquantny.tumblr.com/ has great analysis and commentary on a lot of the open NYC data that you might find interesting.

Love the discussion. Will write a long response because I don’t have time for a short one. In regard to the first paragraph can you name any examples? The most regulated industries…

Referencing the time period in which the economy grew at its fastest rate in history in regards to GDP and real wages? Gilded Age transformed US into the economic superpower that i…

um you would probably need 10s of millions to do this. If you had 10s of millions you probably don't enter money-losing ventures on purpose

I would argue that capitalism does not favor this "concentration of power," in fact quite the opposite. Most industries where there is huge concentration of power (i.e. banks) is l…

"Algorithmic investing has long been a high-priced, secret weapon used by Wall Street" Fails to note most algorithmic trading on the street is HFT. Being a retail investor running …

"why are you interviewing for this position?" awful question in my opinion.

Property rights are the basis of human freedom. All these comments supporting the government taking your property after you've already paid taxes on it is troubling.

i don't understand where all this demonizing the rich rhetoric comes from. "or more so than the way the rich aquire their money." What? Did they steal their money? Or were they par…

his competitive advantage is the algorithm not the tools he's using

NFL was thinking about saying they own the stats -- afterall it is their product. Needless to say that would require lots of lawyers but could potentially bring in huge new revenue…

The French have a Ministry of Defence? Thought all they had was a phone.

lower barriers --> more competition

From a cost perspective it's easy to see this. I've made plenty of trivial VB scripts in large/bureaucratic companies to automate tasks that a customer service person(or a whole de…

From my experience VBAs used a lot in the corporate world. Learning VB in high school can be of great use in the future if you're not looking for a tech career. Front-end MS Access…

I disagree completely. Amazon is successful through legal means. What do you want to do? Government punishing them for being too successful? As long as there isn't regulation that …

I'm looking for recommendations for a good pair of headphones to wear while I'm coding, I'm hoping the HN community can point me in the right direction! Prefer something noise-canc…