yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

TomAugspurger

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

alvations

NLTK API to Stanford NLP Tools compiled on 2015-12-09

Stanford NER

With NLTK version 3.1 and Stanford NER tool 2015-12-09, it is possible to hack the StanfordNERTagger._stanford_jar to include other .jar files that are necessary for the new tagger.

First set up the environment variables as per instructed at https://github.com/nltk/nltk/wiki/Installing-Third-Party-Software

bishboria

These links no longer work. Springer have pulled the free plug.

Graduate texts in mathematics

duplicates = multiple editions

A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen

A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen

nkhuyu

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.h2.Driver;

nkhuyu

#!flask/bin/python
from flask import Flask, jsonify, abort, request, make_response, url_for
from flask.ext.httpauth import HTTPBasicAuth

app = Flask(__name__, static_url_path = "")
auth = HTTPBasicAuth()

@auth.get_password
def get_password(username):
    if username == 'miguel':

dideler

The program below can take one or more plain text files as input. It works with python2 and python3.

Let's say we have two files that may contain email addresses:

1. file_a.txt

foo bar
ok ideler.dennis@gmail.com sup
 hey...user+123@example.com,wyd
hello world!

bwhite

"""Information Retrieval metrics

Useful Resources:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mooney/ir-course/slides/Evaluation.ppt
http://www.nii.ac.jp/TechReports/05-014E.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/handouts/EvaluationNew-handout-6-per.pdf
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/72/67/60/PDF/07-busa-fekete.pdf
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (Tie-Yan Liu)
"""
import numpy as np