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by rm999 13y ago
He's talking about his own comment. Kind of odd that he made such a good case against his comment but hit "reply" anyway. Anyway, this is all really off-topic, just wanted to clarify.
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by rm999 13y ago
>there are very few books that tries to teach it systematically This book helped me a lot because it goes into how the core language works, something that is (sadly) almost always ignored by people who learn and teach R: http:/&#x2
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by rm999 13y ago
Thanks for the link. The comment that indicates how bad the comparison was: >Hadley Wickham: It’s a bit of an unfair comparison because you’re comparing R’s high-level lm function with Python’s low-level sm.OLS. If you use R’s low-level
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Examples: While Indian culture is patriarchal, its society can be quite misogynistic. While American culture deeply frowns upon racism, racism is a very real and ubiquitous social issue. In the first example the societal behaviors arise fro
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by rm999 13y ago
Yes you are entirely correct, I mixed up those concepts when I was writing my comment. I meant to highlight the cultural patriarchy and distance myself from the misogyny ("I won't defend this"). I do think much of the misogyn
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by rm999 13y ago
>people flee these countries for a reason ... massive cultural and social advantages Woah, there's some serious ethnocentrism in your comment. I know 100s of people who have moved to the USA from India, including my parents, a lot o
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by rm999 13y ago
Most of the comments here are missing the obvious point: it's bad form for managers to publicly admonish their subordinates, let alone publicly firing them (always a sensitive topic). The CEO could have said "no filming please&quo
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by rm999 13y ago
Weak, myopic leadership which has consistently led to a lack of innovation or even (IMO) basic competence. Their profit mostly comes from windows and office, both products that are extremely old, vulnerable, and in a state of decline. Micro
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by rm999 13y ago
I totally agree with you that bad service is not inevitable from no-tipping - some of the best service I've ever gotten has been in countries without tipping. And I do think The Linkery had particular issues, especially with the way it
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by rm999 13y ago
Back when I lived in San Diego I took my parents to the Linkery. The service was so bad it actually reversed my opinions against tipping. The servers clearly didn't care much about making us happy, messing up almost every aspect of the
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by rm999 13y ago
Yes, they do. Iran has a huge influence outside their borders. Iran has been funding and aiding al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. Hamas was, for awhile, funded almost entirely by Iran. Hezbollah has also largely been funded and supported by
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by rm999 13y ago
Yeah, the article is kind of sloppily organized and laid out. Here's the main message I got from the article: In online advertising you want to measure your success through the rate of causal events, i.e. I advertised to someone and he
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by rm999 13y ago
I think so, I know one person who is literally waiting for a new OS and an older person who went to the store and returned empty-handed complaining he doesn't know how to use computers anymore. I believe he ended up getting an iPad. An
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by rm999 13y ago
I read a lot of news articles and editorials and have taken a couple of journalism classes and IMO this reads like a very objective article that properly quotes every party that's involved. "Yellow journalism" is a really str
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by rm999 13y ago
The poverty rate has been going up in NYC as the crime rate has been going down: http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/sep/20/new-york-...
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by rm999 13y ago
Makes perfect sense for a couple reasons. Machine learning based anti-fraud systems perform asymptotically better as you get more variety and volume of data, and Sift can market it as such ("our network consists of over X merchants&quo
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by rm999 13y ago
I actually kind of like the system, but doesn't this involve publicizing other employees' salaries? A possible workaround is to just have classes of bonuses, like 5k a year for entry-level, 15k for senior-level, etc.
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by rm999 13y ago
>Busses became makeshift homeless shelters In the context of NYC: as it is there is little stopping a homeless person from jumping a turnstile and spending all day or night on the 24 hour subway system. But it's fairly rare to see t
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by rm999 13y ago
It's safe to assume these kinds of estimates are "order of magnitude" estimates, meaning they could be off by a factor of 2 or more. The goal isn't to build your own system or to bill the government, it's to put the
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by rm999 13y ago
They are parasites because they are spending money (that they didn't earn by producing anything) in an inefficient manner. That three floor apartment could house many people, instead it is wasting a very rare commodity in NYC: housing.
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by rm999 13y ago
>drop the real story for some gossip You're creating a false dichotomy. NPR and NYT have consistently reported on overreaches from the government, including past bad behavior from the NSA and on PRISM (see links below). The leak its
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by rm999 13y ago
Many economists agree with you and believe Japan has mismanaged its monetary policy for a long time. In fact, the West's aggressive reaction to the Great Recession of 2008 was largely a lesson learned from what Japan didn't do .
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by rm999 13y ago
Linear regression and logistic regression are covered by elastic net lasso, sgd regression, and sgd classifiers. Support vector machines are covered in SVCs and SVRs. I don't see neural networks on there (just saw this edit: "the chart is n
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by rm999 13y ago
I agree it was bad form of the author, but in all fairness the original piece was a very casual editorial and not serious reporting. In objective reporting the standard is to cover all sides of a story, but in editorials it's to spout off y
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by rm999 13y ago
I don't like to be THAT guy on HN who posts off-topic criticism (especially on a really interesting link like this), but as someone who is very interested in data visualization I think it's worth pointing out: pie charts are almost never th
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by rm999 13y ago
I know I'm taking this article out of context... so who is it targeted towards? Some background would likely help this article tremendously because as-is it's obviously ridiculous. Most people out of college are not in a position to forego
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by rm999 13y ago
Great article, it's nice to see someone take a simple statistic that may tell a misleading story and dig deeply into its causes. Macroeconomics is a complex topic that generally deserves rigorous analysis. The article mostly looks at gender
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by rm999 13y ago
I've seen you write something similar to this before, but I don't agree. Counterexample: a good friend of mine specialized in computer graphics where he did a lot of math-heavy research. I specialized in machine learning where I also did a
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by rm999 13y ago
I had a chance to do five 10-40 minute bike rides yesterday (it was a beautiful day) using the new citi bikes. Here are my thoughts on the program: I had to meet some friends in soho, which normally takes about 25 minutes by subway or 10 mi
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by rm999 13y ago
I think the discrimination is largely towards older people who are relatively new to the industry. 50 year olds who have 30 year careers and aren't in management are very rare, and in my experience valued highly if they are competent.

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