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by zzleeper 14y ago
Just a tidbit: The market is about 15% up this year, so his investors are probably worst off that if they just invested in an index fund.
842.
by zzleeper 14y ago
I'm guessing its much more than 400%. After all, the stores that don't post their prices online (most of them) are probably the more expensive ones
843.
by zzleeper 14y ago
Is it possible the WiFi, or a crappy laptop's hdd, are the culprits for the bottleneck?
844.
by zzleeper 14y ago
I think this may be already 'fixed', I'm seeing "privacy": {} in all of my json results..
845.
by zzleeper 14y ago
What was the trick?
846.
by zzleeper 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) maybe this is what he meant
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by zzleeper 14y ago
They probably just used a logit model, as Stata doesn't support fancy ML algorithms. What puzzles me though, is that I don't see ANY reason for using alal of these tools together (Stata, R, SAS, etc.) and the code taking one hour to run in
848.
by zzleeper 14y ago
BTW, in antitrust terms, they do have a monopoly in that segment, and could be charged for abusive practices.
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by zzleeper 15y ago
Its only one word... fucking.. so what you need to do is press E from the F
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by zzleeper 15y ago
I read somewhere that non-hft tend to trade much more at the "second" tick. This may have been b/c they were dumb (hard to believe) or because converging at the same time (15:30:10 instead of 15:30:10.175) gives them better chances to findi
851.
by zzleeper 15y ago
Because the guy making the decision (the professor) doesn't pay the cost of that decision. Publishers give the professors free books, and court with them (like big pharma courts doctors) to convince them to use it. There are other reasons,
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by zzleeper 15y ago
Then they don't need to ask you for it.
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by zzleeper 15y ago
Looks amazing. Compiles fast, supports packages, and the error logs are much better than what I use. That said, it would be nice to be able to download the files with one click, sync with dropbox, and maybe have support for versions or diff
854.
by zzleeper 15y ago
Would you mind elaborating about (b) more? Thanks!
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by zzleeper 15y ago
I started learning SAS (I mostly use stata/matlab/python for my daily needs) but also ended up abhorring some parts of the syntax..
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by zzleeper 15y ago
Do you REALLY believe that? Spotify is not a little tiny startup starting from zero. They already have a pwd mgmt system, captchas and so on. Given that they are not that small either, alienating just 0.5% of their user base may be enough
857.
by zzleeper 15y ago
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928973 (?)
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by zzleeper 15y ago
I think its the other way: 2k/15k = 13 cents per user. Given that I just paid ~$10 to join, my guess is that I just bought around 6 years of storage. That said, it still looks quite expensive.
859.
by zzleeper 15y ago
Are you talking about cold boots, or resumes from sleep/hibernate?
860.
by zzleeper 15y ago
This. Just write the Selenium base code in the Firefox addon, and then click, export as python :D
861.
by zzleeper 15y ago
+1 on thinkpads, I've heard good things about them ( I currently have a Dell that has worked ok, but they feel kinda "cheap", so I'll probably move to either a Thinkpad or a MB(A|P) )
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by zzleeper 15y ago
My guess is: 1) Speed. JS may be too slow to quickly parse such a complicated file format. Remember that may PDFs may be very large in size 2) Complexity. This is the big one. PDFs are full of quirks that make html pale. Thus, it was smarte
863.
by zzleeper 15y ago
But non-tech people can't do that yet, they don't have invites. Or-in the rare case that they do have one-their friends don't so they can't still comment.
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by zzleeper 15y ago
Finally. Even for people working there, or with a paid subscription, using their "treasure chest" was a PITA. On the other hand, it was the WB's incompetence that motivated me to learn Python and write my first script, to scrape their websi
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by zzleeper 15y ago
Would you mind sending one? Email in same spot as yours =)
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by zzleeper 15y ago
Agreed. But then, 3-person groups are more common than 10-person groups (where it's hard to get anything done b/c everyone wants to speak and so on)
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by zzleeper 15y ago
I've seen pretty convincing studies showing opposite results: http://www.econ.upf.edu/~iriberri/Personal_Web/Loreal_24_Feb... TLDR: Using data from business competitions (L'oreal, undergrad and MBAs), they studied the performance of group
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by zzleeper 15y ago
[Meta] Funny to see that your post has been grayed out, even though it's logical and makes a point. I would expect people who disagree to reply instead of downvoting. And yes, even though your topic is controversial, it passes the guideline
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by zzleeper 15y ago
This is not robust to outliers. See for instance: http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=payday&e=payday... Maybe they could use a different (and probably more computationally intensive) correlation to fix this.
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by zzleeper 15y ago
No, if you have a written deal and someone throws extra expenses, they are breaking the law and they are IDIOTS, not assholes. If you have a verbal agreement and someone tries to push a last minute scam like this, they are dicks and they CA

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