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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by eru »

ddeck wrote: post #94
Alex_MJ wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Also, in the name of "understand your market" - what did early HN readers get from reading HN that they wouldn't elsewhere and how does that translate to finance? Would HN be successful if some random dude had started it instead of PG? I admittedly wasn't around in the early days, but back then I would imagine that the expectation was "wow, generally people who post on here are legit" as a direct consequence…

The problem with this approach is that given a sufficient population of contributors, a random distribution is going to give you individuals that consistently out/under perform purely by chance. This can be seen in the professional asset management industry, where: there is strong evidence that chasing managers with strong 3 and 5 year track records is actually harmful to your portfolio health [1] [1] http://advisorp…

So you should short-sell managers with strong 3 and 5 year track records, then?

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by xerophtye »

dfc wrote: post #147
Dwolb wrote: post #146

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I wouldn't think it'd generate very much money to directly monetize easy score verification other than as an additional data point for advertisers. However, I do believe easy score verification could be part of an overall strategy to increase the GMAT business. The thinking is that if society started using indicators of intelligence for various reasons (e.g. entry into an exclusive online forum, government civil serv…

I do not think the GMAT is a good indicator for civil service positions. Certainly no better than any of the state civil service exams and at the federal level the civil service exams were deemed to cause problems with affirmative action policies. The military has the ASVAB and I can't imagine anyone saying the GMAT is superior to the ASVAB. The small "d" democrat in me finds exams for public office abhorrent and I w…

So, if not tests, then how? (just curious). Personally i'd prefer a system where u need to pass a difficult academic test to get into the govt, rather than have connections etc. (Yes, IMO if no testing criteria is involved, its all up to connections).

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by krapp »

krapp wrote: post #160
taskstrike wrote: post #143

I feel out of the HN clones, designer news is the best because it didn't copy HN. Love to see better design on boredbanker. Also, is it illegal to copy the HN design?

It comes with the ARC script does it not?

Although (incredibly late) that does raise the question of how closely you could copy the HN layout in an implementation in another language?

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by bodhisattva1 »

frenchman_in_ny wrote: post #50

Member of your target audience here; some others have done similar styled sites (up voting, but no discussion). Check out [0]. Might actually be run by someone who follow HN. [0] http://www.streeteye.com/

+1 streeteye.com is pretty awesome.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by rms »

miles wrote: post #86
selmnoo wrote: post #85

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Since it was operated by nickb, why're you asking pg to bring it back? And, whatever did happen to nickb? Is anyone still in contact with him? Is he doing okay?

Still no word after all this time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775507

Nickb is Satoshi Nakamoto!
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