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Sampling from Streams: Reservoir Sampling and Variants

screwedup — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:19:38 +0000

Article URL: http://tech.magnetic.com/2016/04/virbs-sampling-events-from-streams.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447928

Points: 14

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New comment by screwedup in "Hacker Says He Printed Anti-Semitic and Racist Fliers at Colleges Across U.S."

screwedup — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:47:07 +0000

If you don't feel like reading the article: the guy wasn't printing bigoted content just to bring attention to the lack of security on printers, he seems to actually believe in this stuff.

New comment by screwedup in "Why I'm leaving the R community"

screwedup — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:20:49 +0000

It's usually not considered wrong or sinful in the USA either.

New comment by screwedup in "Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R"

screwedup — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 03:06:00 +0000

No, it's an introduction to Machine Learning (without much neural network stuff).

New comment by screwedup in "China Cracks $64B ‘Underground Bank’ Moving Money Abroad"

screwedup — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:03:32 +0000

Is it really true that Chinese money prefers SF? Chinese money definitely loves LA, perhaps its impact is just more pronounced on a smaller city like SF? My knowledge on this is purely anecdotal, I'd love to see some data.

New comment by screwedup in "San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless"

screwedup — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:58:57 +0000

Ideally, our government would be user-friendly enough to make this service simple.

New comment by screwedup in "At Silicon Valley Bank, risky tech startups are lucrative business"

screwedup — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 02:42:44 +0000

Unless your whole portfolio is correlated...

New comment by screwedup in "At Silicon Valley Bank, risky tech startups are lucrative business"

screwedup — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:45:00 +0000

> the bank has outperformed bigger rivals, not just by lending to fledgling firms but by taking small ownership stakes in them to help offset their higher risks

Doesn't taking equity in a company that you've already loaned money to _increase_ your risk, not offset it? Am I not understanding what's going on?

New comment by screwedup in "In Atlanta, Schedule Future Lyft and Uber Rides"

screwedup — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:38:35 +0000

I've gotta ask - if people are going so far out of their way to request you in particular, why schedule the ride through Lyft or Uber? Is there some regulatory issue that keeps you from cutting out the middlemen?

New comment by screwedup in "Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M"

screwedup — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:15:09 +0000

A dating site is only worthwhile if other people are on it. Obviously it's possible, but you need people on it to attract more people.

New comment by screwedup in "Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules"

screwedup — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:25:48 +0000

The other 40% are not necessarily against it completely - they may want gay marriage but want to call it civil unions.

New comment by screwedup in "Apple removes Civil War game from App Store until it removes Confederate flag"

screwedup — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:12:33 +0000

Neither does the US...

New comment by screwedup in "Apple removes Civil War game from App Store until it removes Confederate flag"

screwedup — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:16:44 +0000

I don't think PaulHoule was saying it isn't a racist symbol.

New comment by screwedup in "Apple removes Civil War game from App Store until it removes Confederate flag"

screwedup — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:14:59 +0000

I'm very comfortable with games that display the Nazi flag, why shouldn't the Confederate flag be different?

New comment by screwedup in "On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats"

screwedup — Wed, 13 May 2015 20:26:11 +0000

Anecdotally I've been told that Alberta has some rats, they just keep on telling outsiders that they don't.

New comment by screwedup in "The Price of Nice Nails"

screwedup — Thu, 07 May 2015 18:37:26 +0000

Probably because there aren't many Vietnamese-Americans in NY, at least compared to Texas and California.

New comment by screwedup in "Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882"

screwedup — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:50:16 +0000

There's a lot of emphasis in this article on how that era's ideas of what constituted science and medicine blinded them from the truth and cost them lives.

What analogous contemporary ideas will people be laughing about in the 22nd century? What parts of how we view science and medicine are costing lives?

New comment by screwedup in "A Field Guide to the American Sandwich"

screwedup — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:21:52 +0000

LA's "sandwich shops" are burrito trucks. As a Texan who used to live in LA, I much prefer them to any east coast sandwich shop.

New comment by screwedup in "Tinder Cuddles Up to Instagram in Latest Update"

screwedup — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:55:42 +0000

Goddamn engineers, always counting from 0...

New comment by screwedup in "Key West Declared a Faux War on the United States in 1982"

screwedup — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:15:03 +0000

Did anybody else initially read this as "Kanye West Declared..." and then get really confused when they got to "...in 1982"?