I would really love to use Julia, and for my team to as well. But we are too locked into R to even begin. If I were these folks, I would focus on the flow, not stock, of data analysts. Get the next generation locked in to Julia. Turn R into SPSS

They have to offer a plotting library that’s at least half as decent as ggplot if they want people to jump ship. Gotta be able to visualize your results easily and they’ve been stuck with a half-baked interface to python plotting libraries for years

Hello, author here. I found this the analogy between voting and machine learning to be an interesting one, as voting is essentially a classification task. Popular votes are bagging, representative democracy is stacking -- it's pretty cool!

I always hate these comparisons because they always compare market capitalization and not enterprise value. On the latter metric, which is independent of how a company is financed, Intel is still more valuable. Intel is still "worth more" than Nvidia.

I'm not even a software engineer. Lowly MBA that writes R code. even I understood the gist. But the part that I understood well is that _this was a HackerOne managed program_, meaning that it's HackerOne's job to take a raw submission and turn it into a well designed report that can be triaged and fixed.

Seems like a classic case of market unraveling:

http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2009/06/unraveling.html

This article really, _really_ needs to cite Getting to Yes, or at least their authors, William Ury and Robert Fisher, who developed these ideas, and even this terminology.

Quite; their Harvard Negotiation Project was the incubator for this line of research and their book one of the outcomes. It’s strange not to see it cited.

This logic falls into a cul de sac when you realize that many open problems can only be solved by new technology.

Like when an individual drives to a store to get groceries?

+1, I still can't access it.

+1 here too

My guess (and this is just a guess, as I too can't read the article), is that the investment was a convertible note, and they actually paid back the debt instead of allowing it to convert into equity. But I am no expert and I don't know the facts — I was just wondering the same thing and this was the scenario I landed on as a plausible hypothesis.

Same guess. The investors either 1) got there principal back with no interest or 2) they still have there money in and it only get a value upon raising money or a sale. Likely it’s #1. Investors didn’t get screwed. They just didn’t win.