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I've been tinkering as a solo quant dev and built a trade simulation engine that uses real bid/ask data with 5-second candles to model executions more realistically than most backtesting frameworks I've tried. After…

Helium freezes iPhones as discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693 I know Apple is big on security, but could this possibly be a vulnerability? Could an iPhone be frozen with helium, and then…

There are just days to go to the referendum that decides whether the U.K. stays in the European Union. I am trying to cast an informed ballot, and get more confused with every article I read, every debate I watch. I can…

I've been tweaking a book recommendation engine for twitter. The algorithm is based on tf-idf of words in a user's tweets. Relevant words are extracted then fed into the amazon api. Would appreciate feedback.…

Helper functions for the mongodb shell 1. db.grep() -Search through all fields in all collections in a database for a value. By default it searches only indexed fields. To include non-indexed fields, specify the second…

Helper functions for the mongodb shell 1. db.grep() -Search through all fields in all collections in a database for a value. By default it searches only indexed fields. To include non-indexed fields, specify the second…

http://foxblot.com I built this site over a weekend two weeks ago. I've spent this weekend matching tweets to books. If you mouseover a book, it shows the tweets relevant to that book. Internally, keywords are rated…

I made a site this weekend, foxblot.com that recommends amazon books based on tweets. The obvious extension is to make it a facebook app too. But what are ways I can make this profitable? I am looking for suggestions…

it's here: http://foxblot.com Spent some hours doing this today. it has started to look interesting, but i am biased! How it works: javascript: 1. fetches latest 100 tweets by json api 2. removes urls and @mentions 3.…

I went for a job interview on friday with a startup that sounded impressive. About 5 minutes into the interview a VP rushed in with a two way NDA for me to sign. I immediately knew that this was not a company I wanted…

Microsoft.com's title is: Microsoft Corporation: Software, Smartphones, Online, Games, Cloud Computing, IT Business Technology, Downloads Apple.com : Apple - Start google.com just say Google Even yahoo just say yahoo!…

The internet is my industry and takes care of me well. It is also the biggest hinderance to my productivity. I lose a very large amount of time reading / watching stuff that seems interesting. While I have learnt a lot…

i am about to launch a facebook app that has a chance of going viral. I do not see any long term viability of the app. My goal is to make the maximum possible money and exit. what are my best bets?

Back when twitter was really buzzing, I thought a web client was a great idea. I built one and forgot about it. I have ironed out some bugs and it's working at http://twitexplode.com Apart from the narcissism points,…