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justinluther

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    Ask HN: Could online services "flood the zone" of compromised password lists?

    What if a majority of online services agreed to all create a lot of fake user profiles in their databases that have random string passwords? Then, when a service gets compromised a…

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    Comment #37408610

    The main condition that you're talking about is having a high population. Chicago has a lot of murders because it has a lot of people. The murder rate per capita is a little above …

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    Comment #36232834

    Yes, but you could slightly amend their statement to say "Can you name a non-capitalist government..." to remove the false dichotomy and preserve the original point of the question…

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    Show HN: A Rust content editing tool for the GPT-3 Completions API

    I have been experimenting with using the GPT-3 Completions API to co-write blog articles. I wrote this Rust binary to speed up the content generation process. I use two text files.…

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    Comment #32124744

    Thanks! In a previous iteration I used some of those solutions, both Heroku and Render. I thought this might be a good use case for Lambda because the API doesn't get called very o…

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    Comment #32124566

    I'm keeping it private for now but might open it up in the future. Thanks!

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    Comment #32122940

    Thanks! I've also noticed that the pie chart re-rendering is quite busy and visually distracting. But javascript is by far my weakest layer in the whole stack so I've struggled to …

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    Comment #32122047

    I agree! A video could definitely help, and I will try to change the display of the instructions on small screens.

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    Comment #32121402

    Thanks for the suggestion! Right now I have attempted to do what you are describing, but the user has to click OK on the initial "welcome" dialog box to get stepped through the tou…

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    Comment #32121134

    Thanks very much for the kind words!

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    Comment #32121089

    Thanks for your feedback! This is on my to-do list of things to fix-- some of the flavors have been developed using monthly returns and some use annual. In both cases the x axis is…

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    Comment #32120068

    I believe the idea with mlfinlab is for users to build and test models to predict asset returns. In other words, a tool to generate alpha. I may be wrong about this as I'm not fami…

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    Comment #32120041

    Yes that's definitely a struggle. There is a balancing act involved in getting a set of time series that share 1) a common methodology for calculating index levels and returns, 2) …

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    Comment #32119810

    Thanks for the feedback! I'll try to label the chart a little more clearly. The y axis is expected returns, the x axis is expected riskiness. I show the generated optimal portfolio…

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    Show HN: CashGraphs – A securities portfolio optimizer

    Hello, This is a portfolio optimizer I made to help select portfolios for my clients. I'm a personal financial adviser. I generally put my clients in a mix of low-fee index funds a…

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    Comment #31584976

    Location: Charleston, SC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Vue, Django, Python, R, Tensorflow 1/2. Experienced in sales / finance / MBA / CFA. Hobbyist coding. Rés…

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    Comment #26239624

    Thanks! I like the idea of example buttons, particularly for the cash flow planner. And also maybe a default set of assets and cashflows that would work as a starting point for a c…

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    Comment #26237530

    Hi HN, I’m Justin, and I’d like to get some feedback on Indie Adviser. It’s a web app I initially built to support my own independent state-registered investment adviser (RIA) busi…

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