skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but most strategies have such small positions that even if the market went to 0 instantly at your maximum long position, you'd still lose less than a year's worth of PNL in that strategy. The more relevant risk of blowout is something like Knight happening, statistical black swan events are not really an issue (in HFT).
this is really cool. I love the ipython notebook model of dev...and splitting apart those features from languages is a good idea
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I love this :-D
they're just on Valve Time [1]

[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
I use blame quite a bit, along with the pickaxe in Git and revsets in Mercurial. Those involve querying over the history of the repository - potentially quite a large fraction of it. I'm glad to be able to do that locally, limited by the speed of my SSD rather than min(the latency of my broadband connection, my tiny slice of GitHub's disk bandwidth).
For an enterprise company always wear a suit. For a C level interview wear a suit, regardless of environment in my opinion. If a startup comments about you being overdressed just have some fun with it.

For mid-sized firms it can go either way, suit or just business attire with or without tie.

For small firms, dress appropriately to the company, as someone else said, dress at least 1 level up from what they are wearing daily.

Also, you can always ask the phone screen person or HR rep. Say hey, what is the daily dress code like? Or be more direct and say hey I like to make sure I am respectful of your environment and would normally wear slacks and a button down shirt, would that be acceptable for an interview with your team? Frankly I have had only a few people ever ask me and they stood out in my mind positively as conscientious.

Financial services/banks etc, always wear a suit. A few other industries are like this too from my experience.
The one that "turns away good developers", since you put it that way.

Because good developers aren't all going to look like me, but people's hiring practices tend to make them hire people that look like them under the phony guise of "these are the good people".

(And what makes you think they're turning away good developers for diversity quota reasons, and getting crap instead?)
Steam is bringing so much money to the company, I guess they no longer feel the pressure of publishing new games and new concepts like in the old days. They just release a few hats on Team Fortress from time to time and work on fun projects in the mean time I imagine.
There's a good in-depth linguistic analysis here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17913
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I didn't bother to read the contents of the library and was just stating the fact that in the real world header only libraries are usually a consequence of heavy template use, e.g. boost.
Take a step back and put this identity politics madness into context. Basically you get penalized for working hard and following the rules. Imagine you're a working-class White or Asian family, not eligible for state aid, and your child is trying their best to get into college. How would you feel if you also found out:

> "Apply only for California state aid through the California Dream Act of 2011.
Several state financial aid programs and many private scholarships are open
to AB 540 students. Other undocumented students are encouraged to apply
as there are often campus based aid and private scholarships available to
them.

There are two types of grants available as Cal Grants: the entitlement grants and
the competitive grants... Under entitlement grants, eligible student are guaranteed a Cal Grant A if they
have at least a 3.0 grade point average... Cal Grant A and B Competitive Awards are available for students who do not
qualify for the entitlement grants. The competitive grants are not guaranteed. Each year 22,500 competitive grants are awarded.
"

[1] LATimes comment via http://web.csulb.edu/president/government-community/ab540/pd...
Not when you understand how local governments are chartered. In every state I'm familiar with, the state government grants local governments a charter to exit. Local governments are essentially organs of the state and have no sovereignty.

Illinois could end Chicago's existence if it were so inclined.

So telling a state that it can't regulate it's local government is an actual and serious violation of state's rights.
I just want to say I've used your products and they are truly excellent. You guys provide a much-needed service to the world.
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I sent you guys application last month, I didn't get any kind of reply. You should mention that you will only reply to candidates you are interested in.
All right, I think I agree with you on many points. Let me try to summarize my view here:

1. We can only see the effect of race on admission at a very coarse resolution, because universities try their hardest to obscure it.

2. Even at this coarse resolution, it's easy to see that at most US universities, race has a massive effect. We see this by noting that when you break down admitted freshmen by race, they show very large group differences on all the characteristics that the universities will admit they're looking for.

3. Although minority enrollment in the UC system dropped after Prop 209, we still see these large differences. As they are our only way of inferring any effect of race, we conclude that race still has large effects, despite the fact that this is now illegal. Ward Connerly will tell you any number of stories (well, write stories down that you can read) about other UC regents specifically plotting to subvert prop 209 and get minorities in by whatever pretexts they can think of.

4. We fail to observe significant differences among the racial groups at CalTech.

5. You are almost certainly correct to estimate that, since CalTech says it considers race, we should believe that it does consider race.

6. But I, personally, while admitting that in the sense of point (5) CalTech does consider race, still think that it's usefully correct to go around telling people "CalTech, unlike other US schools, doesn't discriminate by race". This is because when we use our own metric, which is what we have to do for other schools, we can't detect any discrimination on the part of CalTech. When we compare it to other schools, it seems reasonable to measure them all the same way.

Put another way, in the wise words of Cecil Adams, what we cannot reliably measure we are entitled to ignore. CalTech has information that we don't, but until it makes a difference that we can see, there's not much of a reason for us to pay attention. Comparing our view of UCLA with CalTech's view of itself is terrible statistics.
Forget the ‘To-Do’ List, You Need a ‘Stop Doing’ List
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Are asians part of majority population or minority group?
It is not that difficult. I have asked many question and never had anyone close them. If you follow common sense and state the question clearly and specifically, you should be fine.

I sometimes vote to close questions, but it is always due to pretty obvious laziness like not actually asking a specific question ("Here is my code... please help me") or overly broad questions ("I'm trying to write an e-commerce web site. Can anybody point me in the right direction?")
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For me, the more interesting applications in this space are not necessarily normal communications, but "next level" anonymous/pseudonymous protocols, which are by default encrypted, highly private and decentralized.
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It sounds much more likely that this device was largely produced by HTC with Valve consulting because HTC has no experience in VR or the PC gaming market. I wouldn't downplay the success of CSGO and Dota 2. Sure HL3 will never live up to hype if it gets released. Valve hasn't kept a traditional shine, but one that has evolved with the interests of the industry.
>If you were black, you might see it as "Orwellian" when someone claims an admissions policy is non-discriminatory when it results in a class that is 6% black and 29% Asian among U.S. students (this is CMU), while blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population and Asians make up 5.3%.

That is not logical at all.

How can it be discrimination when 2 racial groups are admitted in opposite class-to-population ratios?

Blacks at 6% < 13%
AND
Asians at 29% > 5.3%?

The AND conjunction is key. It would be clear discrimination if both groups' percentages were less than the representative population.

And by the way, if such a hypothetical black person didn't know: the Asians are already an "undesirable" applicant group. It's somewhat of an open secret in admissions that "we don't want anymore Asians."[1] That the maligned group still gets 29% in the uphill battle against that condescension is astounding.

Also, I'm not sure where the logic of blacks as 13% of population should or would translate to ~13% of Harvard student body. Let's look at each layer of qualifications for an elite school:

Of the students that achieve SAT scores of ~2200+, are 13% of them black?

Ok, let's pretend Harvard removes SAT scores from consideration and only looks at GPA. Out of all the valedictorians at high schools, are 13% of them black?

Ok, let's eliminate SAT and GPA. Just evaluate students on course workload. Of the students that took AP (Advanced Placement) classes such as AP Calculus, AP English, etc, are 13% of those enrolled black?

How is it Harvard's problem of discrimination if their student body doesn't happen to have ~13% blacks? The only way to do that would be to relax the tough academic standards until it's meaningless. No SAT, GPA, or course transcripts.

I can't see how a black person with any dignity would feel pride about being "accepted" into Harvard with less qualifications than his peers of the last 100 years. The 6% blacks at an elite school may be low but hopefully, the vast majority of those 6% actually belong there by genuine academic qualifications.

[1]http://cornellsun.com/blog/2011/11/14/no-asians-need-apply/
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Um... that's what the option does: it refuses to display HTML; if no plain text part is given, the HTML parts are converted to plain text for display.

If you're only worried about http image bugs, TB disables all remote content loading by default.
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I don't think the two are comparable. At work your goal is to grow and make money as a company. At elite schools they aim to educate their students to better their futures. Colleges are attempting to shape people not make a billion dollars. And I love that here on HN, where from working in the tech industry I can only assume the posters are mostly white and Asian, no one questions whether the metrics are of any quality. Is SAT really a good measure of your talents as a human being? Are high school grades? Two things that vary based on your education before the moment of the test and the grades. The grades themselves being subjective evaluations from thousands of people with different standards. If the quotas were swapped and whites and Asians were getting the "bonus", how quickly would the arguments shift to the idea that the metrics aren't any good in the first place?

Not to mention if you approach the admissions officers at Ivies, particularly at Harvard, Princeton & Yale, they say that they easily could fill 3 freshman classes or more with the applicants they receive. That even most of the rejected applicants could succeed academically at their schools. So yes, I think it's okay to select for diversity.
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That's not a useful definition of discrimination, as it would also mean that students with low test scores are being discriminated against. In fact, the only way to not discriminate would be to simply admit everyone.
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(based on the German version of the article)

The LLC mostly cares about the idea and the software and is thinking about allowing other manufacturers to use the Arduino name (All the third-party boards right now legally only can say "Arduino-compatible" and can't use the logo). The SRL manufactures all the official boards right now and of course doesn't like cheaper official alternatives and is more oriented towards industry cooperations and getting an IPO. With the renaming and a new website (arduino.org, against the original arduino.cc run by the LLC) they are trying to get a stronger association between the name "Arduino" and themselves.
I'd love to see the code.

I attempted the same thing[1] but between the fact that I had no idea what I was doing and having to screencap every frame (instead of hooking directly into the game's buffer), it didn't work too well. I think at best it tended to last about 10 seconds on level 1.

[1] https://github.com/david-crespo/py-super-hexagon
Stuff like this makes me mad, because it seems to do more to reinforce the "2-party" system which automatically means that the "other" party is the "bad" party.

Not sure that not having it would be any better though.
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If you seriously need lots of tiny files in order to find code, it is a fact that you don't know how to use the tools you have available.

That's my professional opinion.
Not Algernon!
Button-down shirt with slacks for most companies. That way you're unlikely to be penalized before being over or under-dressed. When going for a leadership level position, add a blazer or sport coat.

For C-level positions or if you are interviewing in the finance industry, wear a suit.
Isn't it in Harvard's self-interest, and the interest of its students, to have a diverse (racially and in many other ways) student body that prepares students for a diverse world?
> I can't see why anyone uses Gmail.

For a relatively consistent experience across platforms, without having to depend on a local application.
Likewise, in what way are questions of racial fairness verifiable or falsifiable?

Straightforward: "Do American universities routinely intentionally discriminate against Asian applicants as a consequence of formal policies designed to ensure that happens?" Binary question with a single, verifiable answer.

The objective, verifiably true answer to that question happens to be "Yes." You can be in favor of it, if you like, but disagreeing that it is actually policy beggars the imagination.