jimdanz

Nice writeup, jhoon!

In case anyone else was searching his/her eyes trying to figure out where the "likes" field is actually sanitized out from the the training data set, it's the item.pop("likes") inside the function "is_liked": https://github.com/jeremydhoon/hashkernel/blob/master/fblear...

... Maybe I like long names too much, but my vote would be something longer like "check_if_liked_and_remove_likes" since "is_liked" sounds like a predicate that won't be modifying its input.

I just came here to thank OP for passing single_page=true in the url.

What is this guy's deal? He posted almost the exact same blog post over a year ago. http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/08/what-business-is-wall-str...

Agreed. Excessively unfortunate that they didn't send it from @dropbox.com, as I'd never heard of dropboxmail.com.

"It's illegal in California to have a non-compete clause." Not quite. They're just unenforceable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California

"It also only applies if one is fired from said previous employer, not one who's left at will."

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Are you referring to California here, or non-competes in general? If the latter, I'm, pretty sure that you're incorrect. " The use of such clauses is premised on the possibility that upon their termination or resignation, an employee might begin working for a competitor or starting a business,..." (top of same Wiki page)

+1. Many thanks.