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nearestneighboron Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs

In fact, we were basically the trader’s little bitches, and any quant who’s honest with himself realizes that.

I wonder what it is that traders do that they can't be replaced by software? How do they manage to generate more value than quants?

nearestneighboron Ask HN: is algorithmic or HF trading something I could do on my own?

Thanks very much for the links!

nearestneighboron Ask HN: is algorithmic or HF trading something I could do on my own?

There's the possibility of middle men who are supposed to make some of these obstacles easier to overcome: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1560072

Are you speaking from personal experience by the way?

nearestneighboron Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms

NYT now also has an article about this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/us/29scotus.html

nearestneighboron Ask HN: log on, drop out?

If you are going to move somewhere cheap, while you are working on your software all by yourself, consider safe and stable countries in Latin America, like Costa Rica.

nearestneighboron Ask HN: How do I turn 100K into 1 million?

> At this point in the real estate cycle, you could probably buy two single homes,

For $100k? Where in the US would that be?

nearestneighboron Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown

> which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk").

I find this difficult to believe.

nearestneighboron The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male

Sorry, but both of these stats are bullshit.

nearestneighboron How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years

> Smart people whom are successful usually got there by doing the same and have an innate desire to help those do the same.

Most smart people know not to overuse the dative form.

nearestneighboron Medical Reviews of "House"

It should be easy to check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_specialties

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_(medicine)

nearestneighboron Medical Reviews of "House"

I didn't realize that "diagnostics" was a medical specialty.

nearestneighboron Medical Reviews of "House"

I don't know. I thought radiation to treat a possible brain tumor without knowing where it is was way off-base.

nearestneighboron Medical Reviews of "House"

I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display?

My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.

nearestneighboron Ask HN: Typical Startup or Abuse?

I think your mindset is that if you leave now, your boss wins (having underpaid you all this time). Right?

nearestneighboron Forbes 400 Data Shows Paul Graham Is Wrong

> "Instead of assuming this, why don't you check and tell us? It should be pretty easy; historical Forbes 400 data is available online."

Well, he wasn't WRONG. He just advised you to make a stronger argument, since the data is easily available.

nearestneighboron Somebody please hire me before I take a job in weapon development

I'm trying to think of "famously aggressive" and "little", and all I can come up with is one of them Koreas.

nearestneighboron Why VCs prefer firing founders

> Hate to sound boring

When you feel you are being boring, start with an executive summary for the less patient.

nearestneighboron [It is official:] Russian math genius ignores $1 million Millennium Prize

Wrong title. He ignores the award ceremony. Still has one year to collect the money.

nearestneighboron Mac dating site Cupidtino opens beta to the public

It's a step in the right direction, but not enough. Too many losers out there are still using OS X 10.5. I wouldn't want to date them.

nearestneighboron Common False Beliefs in Mathematics

> the level of formality and carefulness in discourse is considerably higher than SO or HN

Well, HN is pre-college kids arguing with those who went to college about whether it was worth it.

nearestneighboron [dead]

> Why was this submitted again?

Why? I only submitted this once. The first submitter may have deleted his submission. Actually, there is no way to know what that linked to for sure.

> jrockway already did an excellent point-by-point rebuttal

Quote: "Bad science: OK, I'm tired of reading this tripe now. (Next)"

Excellent rebuttal indeed. Who upvotes this?! I for one think "Bad Science" is spot on. It's a shame the taxpayers have to foot the bill.

nearestneighboron [dead]

From Wiki: "In the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts. He successfully accessed two of them."

If this was buffer overflows, I might have looked the other way, but this is despicable! Perhaps if he hadn't avoided justice then, Facebook wouldn't be screwing with its users' privacy now.

nearestneighboron Illegal to record an on-duty officer?

Anything a cop says is copyrighted by the police department.

nearestneighboron Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er

Out of curiosity, who paid for your year-long chronic Lyme treatment? It's not an official disease, as far as I know.

nearestneighboron Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er

Some people have negative reactions to probiotic yogurts. It's better to take it slow.

nearestneighboron How to make Lisp go faster than C [pdf]

It's not just Lisp. Language advocates are the snake oil salesmen among computer scientists. Case in point: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bnnoh/fast_auto...

nearestneighboron Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

I don't know why I'm not allowed to vote up or down, but I do see both arrows.

If someone's not allowed to vote, how about a little courtesy of not wasting their time on voting?

nearestneighboron Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

STOP bugging me about my email address! When I signed up, it wasn't part of the deal. The same goes for you, Reddit.

nearestneighboron Ask HN: My co-founder sux. What can I do ?

> Ok. I never even used the word teach in the original piece though...

But you misinterpreted my use of it, so what's your point?

I see that I'm getting downmodded on top of having to waste my time on this, so that'll teach me how to help people with their English next time.

nearestneighboron Ask HN: My co-founder sux. What can I do ?

> He needs to improve his skills, and that's teaching someone how to sell as well, but not from scratch. Or isn't it ?

OK, I didn't realize you were from Netherlands until I read that sentence and clicked on your profile. In English, learning does not imply teaching.