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Stripe - Financial Products | Software Engineers | New York, NY, USA | Full-time | ONSITE Stripe is the best software platform for running an internet business. We handle billions …

You're correct -- Stripe self-imposed the seven-day delay early in its development. While we may have chosen the seven-day delay, there are still a number of real challenges in mov…

Stripe is trialling faster transfer schedules for US-based users, meaning you'll get your money in two business days instead of waiting one week. If you'd like to be part of the be…

Your point regarding lost meaning is quite salient. It can be useful and enlightening when a learner reports a measure feature importance (such as in random forest models, http://w…

First, please don't use hashkernel in production. It's a toy designed to showcase how hash kernels can help us (easily) learn on structured data. VW is faster, smarter, and more fe…

This is a great question. The "unprincipled" part comes in the application of hashkernel. For example, any integer-valued fields encountered in structured data are treated as categ…

Great point! VW was actually an inspiration for this blog post. I don't believe it handles structured data quite the same way as hashkernel, but it does a great job of accepting bo…