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Link to the keynote presentation, fills a lot of the gaps in the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_e_A_vFnk

The banking syndicate takes on some risk in order to facilitate trading in a successful IPO. Usually to compensate for this risk the IPO price is (slightly) less than what they bel…

Yes, but they are paid by the importer and (usually) passed on to the consumer. In effect they become a subsidy for local industry paid by consumers.

Long is short-hand for anyone benefiting from the price of the stock rising. This includes people who own the stock outright, have bought on credit, own call options, have sold put…

I think his point about the "happy accident" is that iAds failed and that's part of why Apple is now "pro privacy."

My point was that I don't think there's a ton of productivity to be lost by smoking 1 puff in the middle of the night vs. smoking a whole joint in the middle of the day. The "X" in…

You're absolutely right; but I have a hard time believing this depresses stock valuations with so much smart money out there (by ~20% no less!). Otherwise I think there's a serious…

He took one puff of weed on a casual podcast at ~11 p.m. local time. Not certain this is the canary in the coal mine some people are making it out to be... but I guess volatile sto…

Great article, bookmarked for future reference! I work for a small consulting firm focused on improving productivity and building innovation systems within small-medium sized busin…

When one company buys another it has to assume it's debt. Enterprise value = equity + debt - cash on hand (and other adjustments sometimes) So if a company has financed its growth …

Couldn't agree more. Reminds me of the concept of the "company store" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store )

This is really great. I actually struggled to find ML solutions for a large relational data set at a previous employer. Ended up figuring out a way to flatten the data, but was not…

Former banker, and to this day I remove the F1 key from my keyboards because I still use excel heavily. Never really crossed my mind to remove winhelp.exe or anything else. This wa…

Really interesting study, would have liked to see some preliminary or even anecdotal findings discussed in the article. I've seen some Youtubers pranking drive-through windows in t…

Seems to be a few as other comments have pointed out. But the female labour-force participation rate at the start of the dataset would make it difficult for individual job categori…

This is a great point, and why I'd like to see more features being locked without a passcode. The move in iOS 11 to restrict device imaging without a passcode is a great step in th…

This is a great point, and I think I fall into that bucket you describe. I have just enough information to be dangerous. There does seem to be a lack of available tools even for so…

Don't mix up "Romans" and "Europeans." A better question is if the residents of Rome and other cities that had public facilities went back to the bucket or if they continued to use…

For those who want to take a deep dive in the world of bananas, great article about what different people are trying to do about the problem (from 2011): http://www.newyorker.com/m…

I've been dabbling in machine learning and trying to find a way to apply it to some of the data at work. I work in a custom fabrication / construction company and I'm trying to bui…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11156288

I think that misses the point of the comment. You don't establish confidence in a system by just ignoring it and doing it yourself. If you take your logic to its natural conclusion…

I used to work in energy corporate finance, and this feels like a pretty alarmist article to me for a few reasons. My logic runs as follows: - The trillions in credit are issued by…

Obviously lots of work to do for all the players in the autonomous vehicle game. And I actually like Uber's approach to testing: get lots of miles of testing while being paid to do…