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Robots on Wall Street? Firms Try Out Automated Analyst Reports(wsj.com)
2 points by softdev12 11y ago|0 comments
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Firms Analyze Tweets to Gauge Stock Sentiment(wsj.com)
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Mall Operators Begin Cultivating Startups(wsj.com)
13 points by softdev12 11y ago|2 comments
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Online Lenders Offer New Competition for Banks(wsj.com)
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by softdev12 11y ago
There can be several logical reasons for this. 1, investors expect the company to merge to other verticals (outside of business file-sharing). 2, their current business is already outside business sharing (with consumers). 3, the number is
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by softdev12 11y ago
The solution is for the official Google (et al) text to include a message about the real reason the code was sent, making it clear that the hacker's first text was malicious.
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by softdev12 11y ago
You only need 1 investor - so long as they have enough cash for your needs and fall under the "good/adds value" category. To me, that should equal a hurrah rather than a sigh.
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by softdev12 11y ago
It would be interesting if Y Combinator attempted to convert to an entity that was able to publicly list on a stock exchange and sell shares to the average investor - much like private equity shops Blackstone and Carlyle have done by going
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by softdev12 11y ago
This looks nice. I'd definitely recommend porting it to an app. It seems straightforward enough to implement. Good job.
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by softdev12 11y ago
The essay uses "and" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html ), but the book uses the ampersand. Both seem correct.
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by softdev12 11y ago
I highly recommend reading Hatching Twitter ( http://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betr... ) which talks about the behind the scenes CEO transitions between first Jack Dorsey, then Ev Williams, then Dick Co
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Overworking Your Brain Can Spark Ideas(scientificamerican.com)
19 points by softdev12 11y ago|1 comments
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by softdev12 11y ago
Food, housing, and cars aren't the only annual expenses to consider. The biggest one you're missing is health (even with insurance). One major acute health problem that lands you in the ER or the need to see a doctor could easily
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by softdev12 11y ago
I also find it extremely misleading when the stores quote statistics such as "over 93 percent of all ios apps have been downloaded every month" as proof that people are finding the apps they want. What they don't disclose is
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by softdev12 11y ago
Clever. Proper email validation can be tricky at the edge cases, but parsing out sub-addresses shouldn't be too hard. I'm curious as to why the OP disclosed this hack - given there are surely more contests to win. I wonder if the
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by softdev12 11y ago
If you really go back and do some digging into the roots of facebook, you'll be amazed at how much press he got early on. He supposedly offered to do computer support work for the Harvard Crimson and in return he got press connections.
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Startup Jet.com’s Goal: $20B Volume by 2020(wsj.com)
1 points by softdev12 11y ago|0 comments
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The Man Who Hacks Your Employees(wsj.com)
81 points by softdev12 11y ago|41 comments
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Moore’s Law Runs Out of Gas(wsj.com)
3 points by softdev12 11y ago|0 comments
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by softdev12 11y ago
I'm guessing this isn't a technical limitation. It's probably related to getting the results back in a reasonable amount of time. When I did a speakoff on android, 60 seconds of speech took about 2 minutes to give me results.
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by softdev12 11y ago
This looks nice. I just downloaded and installed the android version, so I can't really comment on the ios version. Here are some of my initial thoughts: 1) the phone call analysis is a really nice hack. i've never seen this befor
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Neutron Stars Serve Up Plates of Nuclear Pasta(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
1 points by softdev12 11y ago|0 comments
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by softdev12 11y ago
This is nice. I could see it with some sort of ranking system that people can vote on (like HN) to push the best tips to the top. Also, you might want to think about adding 1 field to the email subscribe with an interest parameter - because
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Physicists Zero in on Mechanism Behind “Geographic Tongue” Condition(scientificamerican.com)
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Financial Startups Make the Jump Without a Net(wsj.com)
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Xiaomi reaches out to customers through parties and social media(wsj.com)
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Big Investor Involvement Could Boost Bitcoin(wsj.com)
1 points by softdev12 11y ago|0 comments
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Supermassive Black Holes Make Merging Galaxies Green(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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New Discovery Moves Gene Editing Closer to Use in Humans(scientificamerican.com)
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Airbnb Opens Site to Cuba for Americans(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by softdev12 11y ago|0 comments

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