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This is a well written piece. However IMHO, one cannot lay down a path for success. Moderate success, yes - but huge success no (which is what this alludes to). Success doesn't refer to a rule book before manifesting. There are lot of great nuggets one could take from the article and apply - but I see them as little breadcrumbs that
might lead to success. Even if it did, we have no way to prove or disprove success factors.
Best thing is to take the learnings, enjoy the journey towards potential success and try not to become emotionally invested into the end goal. It's super hard I know.
Interesting project! Kudos on shipping.
Posted by
voiceclonr on Sunday November 04, 2018 @09:46AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am looking to parse various documents (docx,ppt,pdf,pst etc), extract metadata, text etc for search. I'm looking into Apache Tika - but my gut tells me a native windows tool may be better long term. Can anyone refer to tools/SDK they've used or heard to be successful ?
I tend to agree with you. Often, I see some of these stack decisions are forced by decision makers who want their design to look modern.
Still have hard time believing he's going to be in jail for life. Also hard time to believe he was doing what HFTs don't do already.
+1
Looks very interesting!
Grim read, but fantastically put together. Thanks for writing it up.
Thanks. It works for me atm as well. I wonder if Google will somehow integrate into their NLP api.
Posted by
voiceclonr on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @11:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.
If I go to Google and type "vpn vs", it automatically shows ["proxy","tor","remotedesktop"] associated words. Google's NLP API do not seem to provide list of associated words. Are there any pre trained corpus available or is there a way to programmatically get it via google ?
Neat idea! I think you should allow comments.
http://www.voiceclonr.comText to speech engine I built a while back. It was a fun project because I got to do some front end programming with React.
Never heard of it. Thanks for the pointer!
Agree. That's why I prefer to use cloud as they are replicated automatically.
Not a good idea. As a personal anecdote, I had my 1TB HP simplesafe drive crash and I lost lot of precious pictures from recent years [Before moving to cloud]. The drive was Western Digital and none of the recovery software worked. You run the risk of drive failures with these and also not easy to migrate data once data grows or hardware evolves.
Interactive Brokers can be used as well (I have heard Oanda's fills are not as good as Interactive Brokers). I am looking to see if anyone has actually setup a profitable system.
Posted by
voiceclonr on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @10:45AM
from the ask-hn dept.
There was a recent thread on Zipline that had some interest. Would be interesting to have a survey to know if any retail trader has been successful setting up an automating trading system at all ?
I agree with you. I have spent my nights and weekends into trying to find an edge and am still looking. As a retail trader, it is very difficult to find anything but random data all over. I hope I will prove myself wrong someday, but as of now, I think a retail trader finding an edge is nearly impossible.
That was a terrible one. I wish I hadn't clicked it.
This screwed me up. I gave the 5 second attention and I thought it was doing the opposite (i.e flood with SFW links and sanitize my search).
Intel's problems are long time coming. They lost track of real customer needs and have been operating in their own x86 centric world. It was always "let me build it first and then try to look for a good usage". I am ex-Intel and used to do software things. None of the leadership had a real sense of what customers really wanted and the h/w architects just built things that they are really good at. And they justified it in unnatural ways ("You know why you need such a fast processor ? You can run this flash game at 10K fps").
Things have been getting very efficient both on the client and the server side. With Cloud, they will have some momentum behind - but long term, I think the glory days are gone where they can just produce chips and someone would take it.
What does Annual Stock Value/Bonus mean ?
If I could upvote this more, I would. All companies hide the salaries do they can underpay. Glassdoor under estimates typical salaries and are not meaningful. OP - Please consider opening a simple google doc and let anyone fill in the detail.
Shameless plug. Give www.voiceclonr.com a try (something I built a while back)
Posted by
voiceclonr on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:57AM
from the show-hn dept.
Page looks bad and it loads so slow! At some point, the msdn pages were awesomely fast and I would've imagined they spent more time on load testing for such a crucial day.
That aside, the product looks very interesting. I was a Windows user for a long time and switched to Mac in the last few years. This makes me want to give the newbie a try.
Interactive brokers for automatic trading. You would also need to backtest your algorithms, so depending on the granularity, you would need to shell out decent bucks. Daily data or minute data is easy - but if you need Tick data, it gets very expensive (IQFeed is the one I've used in the past). But the most important question is why ?
The only ones who make money in the market are arbitration traders (HFT types) or those who just happen to be on the right side of market. As an individual investor, you will spend lot of time and money to get your systems running - but market conditions will change dramatically and all your backtest algorithms will become irrelevant.
The "Show what you have made" button seems broken for me.