back
user profile

kristjansson

4,853karma·1,566submissions·February 17, 2015
recent activity (1,566 total)
comment
I don’t like this response. It’s completely reasonable to assess the quality of informational content without assuming a duty to proofread and revise that content. Especially when the issue that might…
6y ago·view thread
comment
And at no point before it got this far did anyone ask ‘perhaps, part of the knowledge we’re buying for $120,000 and part of the value our future employers will impute into that degree is the cultural …
6y ago·view thread
comment
Pdb already has pretty print built in? $ python -m pdb ... (Pdb) help pp pp expression Pretty-print the value of the expression. (Pdb) pp ...
6y ago·view thread
comment
Fastai/Fastcore are fascinating in their emphasis on interactive computing in notebooks. I think that starting from the assumption that users will be (a) primarily using the abstractions in this …
6y ago·view thread
comment
That’s the one, thank you!
6y ago·view thread
comment
I’ll unhelpfully note that I could swear I’ve seen something that does what you describe, and thought that this project was what I recalled - alas.
6y ago·view thread
comment
This one is revelatory. I've installed Alfred in the past solely for this workflow.
6y ago·view thread
comment
Does an app have shortcut you don't like? Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts and click the plus. As prompted, enter the exact title of menu action you want …
6y ago·view thread
comment
Cmd + Enter opens the containing folder too - no clicking required!
6y ago·view thread
comment
Welcome to the wonderful world of ‘alternative data’
6y ago·view thread
comment
FTA > The ranking excludes first-generation fortunes and those fortunes controlled by a single heir.
6y ago·view thread
comment
That's... that's just a pump-and-dump scheme with a discord server.
6y ago·view thread
comment
At that point, it's a criminal investigation and everyone on the right side of the trade is a suspect. If you'd made enough to make the risk worthwhile, they'd subpoena everything - ph…
6y ago·view thread
comment
> knowledge gaps It's something you know intellectually, but MAN it's wild to see it in action.
6y ago·view thread
comment
If that really happened, I think the SEC would have some questions for _every_ TSLA short / HTZ long that made exorbitant profit, with a special emphasis on anyone that entered recently.
6y ago·view thread
comment
The SEC would _definitely_ have some questions for you in the scenario.
6y ago·view thread
comment
With the notable exception of Ed Thorp, who managed to write Beat the Market first, and then start a hedge fund to exploit the strategy 7 years later, and only when a reader proposed they go into busi…
6y ago·view thread
comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634519 :)
6y ago·view thread
comment
This[1] talk from Emery Berger at last year's Strange Loop does a good job discussing the impact of alignment and other 'small' changes on performance, and how to estimate the actual im…
6y ago·view thread
comment
He did get close to rags in the middle there
6y ago·view thread
comment
Teams being small, data being crummy, infra being hard, and yet expectations being high aren't so much complaints as the they are the job description. The point of data scientists and the related…
6y ago·view thread
comment
I think you want https://pypi.org/project/fuse-python/ instead. That python packages can and often do have different names than their corresponding distributables is ... no…
6y ago·view thread
comment
> zsh will freeze and compile a list of hundreds Recent zsh will (configurably) ask if you really want completion it detects there will be more than a smallish number of candidates Still a pain for…
6y ago·view thread
comment
It manages interpreters, not environments. So one environment can use python 3.5, while another can use 3.8.
6y ago·view thread
comment
Sure, naked shorts are bounded, but a naked short is not the only way to profit from the decline of an asset. And really, if you’re talking about limiting cases, you’re bounded by what your counterpar…
7y ago·view thread
comment
Command-<down arrow> to open the selected item in finder. A small convenience, but makes my finder usage completely mouse free.
7y ago·view thread
comment
Ah - you might want to clarify that point then, the marketing copy on your site implies that is (will be) usable in any python environment.
7y ago·view thread
comment
The source for the primary package is not published, afaik. The primary entrypoint function is implemented in cython, resisting casual analysis. The stated purpose is to pull (unversioned!) code fr…
7y ago·view thread