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by riphay 1y ago
Link to the keynote presentation, fills a lot of the gaps in the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_e_A_vFnk
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by riphay 7y ago
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 believe the stock will trade at. This way the IPO investors and
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by riphay 8y ago
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.
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by riphay 8y ago
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 options, etc.
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by riphay 8y ago
I think his point about the "happy accident" is that iAds failed and that's part of why Apple is now "pro privacy."
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by riphay 8y ago
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 this case has too wide of a range of in
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by riphay 8y ago
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 market opportunity to be exploited.
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by riphay 8y ago
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 stocks will find reasons to be volatile?
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by riphay 8y ago
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 businesses. And having strategic plans, vision, values is hugely
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by riphay 9y ago
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 with debt, you still have to pay for that if you'r
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by riphay 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. Reminds me of the concept of the "company store" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store )
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by riphay 9y ago
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 ideal. Glad that people are working on this, keep it up!
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by riphay 9y ago
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 was a simple solution to a simple problem, didn't need an
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by riphay 9y ago
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 the same way and they're pretty funny at the very l
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by riphay 9y ago
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 categories to switch from majority female to male over this particul
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by riphay 9y ago
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 this direction. Perhaps we can see more customization as
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by riphay 9y ago
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 someone with a well-defined problem with available labelled da
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by riphay 9y ago
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 and maintain the public toilets. T
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by riphay 10y ago
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/magazine/2011/01/10/we-ha
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Ask HN: Machine Learning for Relational Data
1 points by riphay 10y ago|1 comments
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Uni. of Alberta researchers solve puzzle that baffled scientists for decades(edmontonjournal.com)
53 points by riphay 10y ago|25 comments
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by riphay 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11156288
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by riphay 10y ago
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, we should all just farm our own food as it's the
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by riphay 10y ago
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 a wide array of energy companies running the gamut from pr
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by riphay 10y ago
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 it by your customers. Clearly not a cash positive vent
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by riphay 10y ago
Mostly this is a question of transportation. You can't put heavy crude in a pipeline or on a tanker until it's been diluted with lighter hydrocarbons like condensate.
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by riphay 10y ago
It could be well within the Chinese government agenda to have broader control over global productive capacity. Impossible to prove, I know. Generally I'm pro-free trade, but the issue gets quite messy when you consider government subsi
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by riphay 10y ago
Not in copyright anymore in several countries, including my own (Canada) [1]. Kind of interesting question about treatment of works on the internet with differing copyright laws across borders. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by riphay 10y ago
> Calgary was also the provincial stronghold of the NDP Correction: Edmonton is the stronghold of the NDP. Premier Notley's seat in the Legislature is in Edmonton's Strathcona riding, and I believe before last year Edmonton was
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by riphay 10y ago
We're seeing more and more of these types of articles coming up, but they're all talking about different aspects of the same issue: inability to share growth with wide swaths of the population. In the west, our quality of life has

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