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by alehul 8y ago
I've been working on a project that requires scraping from a large number of sites. Do you have any recommendations on better resources?
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by alehul 9y ago
The New Yorker is focused on being verbose and speaking at a more abstract level, so it makes sense there's no concrete recommendations to counter Zuckerberg's current route. Nonetheless, this article seems to have rather minimal
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by alehul 9y ago
I'm interested in politics, however /r/politics has awful comment quality and isn't a great sub to visit. I'd also like to hear about people's favorite subreddits in terms of comment quality, as I'd happil
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by alehul 9y ago
Are they mutually exclusive, though? A 'loyalty club' can lead to some types of espionage, especially in an academic setting where the club members have access to some of the brightest minds in America and the research they'r
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by alehul 9y ago
> I just can't get behind the article. Starting with headline. Stock Value as a KPI is just wrong. For a quantitative measure of a company's success in creating good pizza, stock value is a functional KPI. It shows that investo
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by alehul 9y ago
The response from Arenanet [1] is noteworthy, as they specifically gave a list of programs that they banned for. If they weren't spying on the programs users have running, I'd expect them to ban on less specific factors than exact
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by alehul 9y ago
Agreed! A sample space would be relevant in probability theory and is often helpful to calculate for your denominator, but this definition is rather vague.
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The $70m round in 2015 was likely for 10-20% equity, meaning a valuation between 350m and 700m. With that in mind, it's virtually no gain or possibly a loss. The article actually mentioned a latest valuation iirc that said the last rou
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by alehul 9y ago
Sorry if you found it offensive. I'm definitely romanticizing the U.S. quite a bit. At the same time, that romanticization is inspiring (at least to me) and largely true today when you compare us to countries like China, where you have
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by alehul 9y ago
As someone with parents who experienced the USSR, this is what really terrifies me about China's rise, and the reason I can't say I'm against a trade war if it hinders them more than us. Imagine a world in which China holds m
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by alehul 9y ago
As a side note, here's an argument from Paul Graham regarding central planning (when writing about MIT and Harvard): > [1] This is one of the advantages of not having the universities in your country controlled by the government. Wh
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by alehul 9y ago
Were they actually given that profit rate from the Pincoin team, or promised that the coin's value would increase? This really seems like a mess of illegality either way haha.
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I mean, in addition to the possible miscommunication over the context of the word, it is an American news source discussing issues from an American perspective. I'd expect the same of any other country's news, really. With that pe
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by alehul 9y ago
Offering bonuses for bringing other people into the program is a Pyramid Scheme tactic. Ponzi is specifically in cases where there's a portfolio manager or something controlling the entire operation and allocating returns to early inve
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by alehul 9y ago
Rather than Ponzi scheme, I'd classify the investors as participating in a Pump & Dump. A Ponzi scheme is when it's an investment vehicle (i.e. hedge fund) that provides returns to older investors through capital acquired from
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by alehul 9y ago
Though I don't know of any, I think it's a really interesting question. I used Spotify before switching to Apple Podcasts, both of whom offer clean interfaces (and Apple's difference is downloading the podcasts before startin
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by alehul 9y ago
I know a Psych professor who will always open her first lecture with a statement about the 'obvious,' i.e. "How many here know that babies have no gauge of attractiveness towards people, and thus don't prefer to be aroun
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by alehul 9y ago
Though I could be mistaken, I believe it's different as it's enterprise-focused and aimed at checking potential employees rather than tenants.
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FWIW, this is really just clickbait as Snap released its first annual report (10-K) that day, which most certainly had the effect on share price.
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While you're being downvoted, I wouldn't necessarily disagree. On the stock market (which we consider a more legitimate investment), share price is entirely driven by perception and the amount of buyers vs sellers. This resembles
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by alehul 9y ago
What about throwing capital at developing a better way to route traffic than BGP? Or trying to further increase bandwidth and be a faster 'dumb pipe'?
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by alehul 9y ago
In response to this (and the price mentioned in sibling comments of $15k+), I recently heard about Tovala [1] which seems like a good alternative. It doesn't appear to be as complex, but I don't think robotic cooking has to be. [1
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by alehul 9y ago
Among the books, you included Thinking, Fast and Slow which really stands out, and I was wondering what you gained from it, and how you'd summarize its relevance/value? I've been meaning to read it, and I think it's real
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by alehul 9y ago
Sure! As the book is from a very abstract point-of-view, it's challenging to have specific anecdotes. It feels more like a small adaptation to your perspective / addition to your base of reasoning. Although it covers a plethora of
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by alehul 9y ago
The combination of algorithmic trading and Chinese makes me really curious about your work environment; sounds awesome! Could you share your favorite books on algorithmic trading? I've been interested in it for a while.
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by alehul 9y ago
Gödel Escher Bach, or GEB. It's one of the most informative books I've ever read with a really valuable perspective to view information through. I find myself applying it more frequently the more recently I've re-read it.
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> "The night before Nasim Aghdam opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube's headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car. She had been reported missing by her family in Souther
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Less is always better, and so we should jump on board with efforts that will reduce them. At the same time, it was laid out in the Federalist Papers (No. 46) that the intention of our Second Amendment is to protect against government tyrann
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There are definitely a lot of factors at play (education, etc. etc.), including a preferential attachment model where cities with established startups and funding opportunities will attract new startups. You've really hit the nail on t
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The original comment was meant to describe the 'elephant in the room' of how relatively inexpensive higher education is in Europe, and it definitely still holds true from a US perspective. At my current university in the Boston ar

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