Drug money doesn't fund terrorism? Tell that to the people that live on the Mexican border that have to deal with the drug cartels there. If it were Heroin, it could likely be funding the Taliban as well. They are only terrorists to the American Military.
The guy undeniably left his mark on the industry, and general consensus is that personally he was an ass. Nothing else new to see here, please move along.
And the most recent twin study proves that autism is largely environmental.
"But surprisingly, mathematical modeling suggested that only 38 percent of the cases could be attributed to genetic factors, compared with the 90 percent suggested by previous studies."
import datetime
print datetime.datetime.today()
Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: Could not evaluate dynamic lib://lib/python2.7/datetime.so
Don' t bother reading this fluff. Wikipedia offers a better overview. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL. Oh I forgot, this is slashdot, no one here reads the articles:).
HFT is a direct result of the decimalization that took place around April 2000, as mandated by the SEC. Up until that point, the market maker was the one who was screwing the individual investor because of the wide fractional bid/ask spreads that were being kept. When decimalization took place, price discovery went from being at a few predetermined fractions of a dollar to what we have today. With the resulting spreads being smaller, the incentive for a market maker to provide liquidity went away, as there just wasn't any incentive to do so. Many market makers today are now nothing more than glorified HFT themselves, and pass the resulting executions print for print onto the client. When the price finally reaches a level that the market maker may believe is over extended, he'll come in and take a long or short position. The whole purpose of decimalization was to reduce the costs the investor was paying for his trades in the market. The unwanted side-effect is an explosion of HFT and trade volumes at various price points in the sub-penny range in order to milk out inefficencies of price discovery that was introduced by the SEC.
Yes the HFT are making huge profits, but if an investor is in it for the long-term, most days the resulting price difference of a few pennies isnt going to matter much. Which is the lesser of 2 evils, the market maker prior to April of 2000, or the HFT of today?
Take your pick, the investor was always being raped in some form or other. None of this is anything new. I'd argue that the average investor is getting hurt less by HFT than he was by the market maker of a decade ago.
The one thing that I will surely miss is being able to leaf through a book before i decide to put down my hard earned cash for it.
This is one thing that keeps me coming back to B&N when purchasing a book. Yes, there are time when I leaf through a book in the store, only then to note the title and then buy it cheaper through Amazon. But there are also times that I will use Amazon's reviews to narrow down my choices, then head out to B&N to leaf through the books before making my final decision, then purchasing it there on the spot.
I end up doing the latter for more expensive books. I'd rather spend the extra money knowing that I'm going to like the book, then send my money to amazon to purchase a book that I may find horrendous.
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Why bother learning something new? I just switched to the Gnome 2 MATE fork.
You can get json support using the PLV8 extension http://code.google.com/p/plv8js/wiki/PLV8
or altenatively you can use the hstore data type.
Boobies are fun!
Drug money doesn't fund terrorism?
Tell that to the people that live on the Mexican border that have to deal with the drug cartels there.
If it were Heroin, it could likely be funding the Taliban as well.
They are only terrorists to the American Military.
Had me scared... I first read this as tiny goatses.
wft - seriously? how is this even considered news?
if a full stats package is a bit heavy, try python + http://www.scipy.org/
below is using the ipython shell
In [1]: import scipy
In [2]: x = [1,3,6,8,9,4,9,0,5,3,6,8,6,8]
In [3]: scipy.mean(x)
Out[3]: 5.4285714285714288
In [4]: scipy.std(x)
Out[4]: 2.7957693986829897
and if you need more than that you can really delve into its stats submodule http://www.scipy.org/doc/api_docs/SciPy.stats.html.
The guy undeniably left his mark on the industry, and general consensus is that personally he was an ass. Nothing else new to see here, please move along.
And the most recent twin study proves that autism is largely environmental.
"But surprisingly, mathematical modeling suggested that only 38 percent of the cases could be attributed to genetic factors, compared with the 90 percent suggested by previous studies."
This study would disagree with you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/health/research/05autism.html
import datetime print datetime.datetime.today() //lib/python2.7/datetime.so
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Don' t bother reading this fluff. Wikipedia offers a better overview. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL. Oh I forgot, this is slashdot, no one here reads the articles :).
Nothing to see here, please move along.
How many times do we have read about which distribution to run? Check the archives. This horse is dead, its been beat to death.
Yes but when an incandescant breaks in my house the mercury is not in my home. Its the good old not in my backyard syndrome.
if bloatware bothers you that much, just install Linux or one of the BSD's. Problem solved.
Could we hope that 4 will start with Neo opening his eyes and realizing 2 and 3 were just a dream?
Sounds like corporations here in the US
The type of attack they are talking about here requires physical access of some sort. good luck pulling that off in the HFT's location.
HFT is a direct result of the decimalization that took place around April 2000, as mandated by the SEC. Up until that point, the market maker was the one who was screwing the individual investor because of the wide fractional bid/ask spreads that were being kept. When decimalization took place, price discovery went from being at a few predetermined fractions of a dollar to what we have today. With the resulting spreads being smaller, the incentive for a market maker to provide liquidity went away, as there just wasn't any incentive to do so. Many market makers today are now nothing more than glorified HFT themselves, and pass the resulting executions print for print onto the client. When the price finally reaches a level that the market maker may believe is over extended, he'll come in and take a long or short position. The whole purpose of decimalization was to reduce the costs the investor was paying for his trades in the market. The unwanted side-effect is an explosion of HFT and trade volumes at various price points in the sub-penny range in order to milk out inefficencies of price discovery that was introduced by the SEC.
Yes the HFT are making huge profits, but if an investor is in it for the long-term, most days the resulting price difference of a few pennies isnt going to matter much. Which is the lesser of 2 evils, the market maker prior to April of 2000, or the HFT of today?
Take your pick, the investor was always being raped in some form or other. None of this is anything new. I'd argue that the average investor is getting hurt less by HFT than he was by the market maker of a decade ago.
Just like having sex with the opposite gender.
You could put these to on each side of the connection. Then use ekiga ( or something else similar ) to hold open the connection. At least then you'd be able to follow each other around the room. http://www.buy.com/prod/cobra-digital-pc1000-ultimate-web-camera/q/loc/101/207906616.html
While this is cool. It reminded me of this guy, who was able to memorize pi out to 22000 digits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet
The one thing that I will surely miss is being able to leaf through a book before i decide to put down my hard earned cash for it.
This is one thing that keeps me coming back to B&N when purchasing a book. Yes, there are time when I leaf through a book in the store, only then to note the title and then buy it cheaper through Amazon. But there are also times that I will use Amazon's reviews to narrow down my choices, then head out to B&N to leaf through the books before making my final decision, then purchasing it there on the spot.
I end up doing the latter for more expensive books. I'd rather spend the extra money knowing that I'm going to like the book, then send my money to amazon to purchase a book that I may find horrendous.
I dont either, i think the writer WTFA :).
Bad password. Too common.
I'm not sure about that. This is slashdot. Girlfriends are hard enough to come by.