NhanH

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by NhanH 11y ago
You got the arrow of causation a bit off there: organizational debt causes business failure, the lack of it does not equal success. If you have evidence that there are successful company growing with massive organizational debt, I'd be
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by NhanH 11y ago
I'm interested in learning the immigration path to Canada, but unlike the US, I haven't found many people with experience in Canada immigration, especially the path you took (PR via job and stuffs). Do you mind if I have your emai
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by NhanH 11y ago
Thank you. It isn't strictly confidence under pressure, I'm just having a general existential confidence issue right now. And unfortunately I don't see it changing in the short term. Partly also the reason why I don't wa
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Ask HN: I don't like technical interview, how do I go about getting a new job?
9 points by NhanH 11y ago|8 comments
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by NhanH 11y ago
If Rand Paul was to have his way entirely, his stance would be for the government to stay out of marriage altogether, straight or gay. That is to say, Rand Paul does NOT oppose gay marriage, he oppose marriage being a LEGAL CONCEPT at all.
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by NhanH 11y ago
Expanding a bit from this comment, any set of actors will exhibit certain emergent properties (culture etc, if you will) , which is strictly speaking independent from any of the actor themselves. Are we actually sure that the "imprint&
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by NhanH 11y ago
How did the founder manage to build a company of 70 employees without a product and securing 30 million fundings after 2 years of not really showing anything? And to top that of, it didn't look like the founder has any track record bef
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by NhanH 11y ago
This is a genuine question: I know nothing of B. B. King, and how does the first picture tell anything about his significance to music?
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by NhanH 11y ago
US Tax payers will be paying for something , considering that the majority of the US economy is private, and the government has to get stuffs done somehow. So if you agree with the goals of a private entity that the government is spending
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by NhanH 11y ago
I don't think anyone has ever solved the issue of "communicate mastery" vs "mastery" itself: in our field, that's pretty much why recruiting/ hiring/ interview is a big fat giant clusterfuck. Is it ac
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by NhanH 11y ago
I would like to hear the opinions of other PhDs on the validity of this comment. Specifically if it's a universal problems to all fields, and whether the actual PhD time can be cut short had it not been an actual issue?
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by NhanH 11y ago
It really doesn't matter how they feel though.
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by NhanH 11y ago
The two comparisons with Zoosk and Tinder were a bit off the mark too. Zoosk was founded in 2007 and has been around since forever. And Tinder is not quite a ... dating app. Dating app to Tinder is Slack to Snapchat. They might look superfi
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by NhanH 11y ago
Thought experiment: If alien landed on NYC and SF, then decided to abduct everyone in the two cities and wipe out the cities, how much of a reduction in US GDP it would be for the next year?
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by NhanH 11y ago
This is the first time I've seen Flask being called crappy. Do you mind elaborate why?
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by NhanH 11y ago
I didn't mention writing encryption tools, I was simply saying that plugging all the available tools to use together is non-trivial. Tarsnap to encrypted backup is what dropbox to file syncing (to a certain extent, obviously). I can un
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by NhanH 11y ago
When Drew first do a "Show HN" [0] (before it was a thing, actually), there were a lot of response about how it doesn't do anything new that couldn't be already done by a technical inclined person (see the first two top
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by NhanH 11y ago
It's the dropbox discussion all over again. We know how that turned out, don't we?
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by NhanH 11y ago
The problem about 10x myth seems to be the comparison point that each of us is making: is it the best vs worst, best vs average, or a binary threshold between the best vs everyone else? And then even defining the "worst" seems to
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by NhanH 11y ago
Did I read the number wrong, or is that an absurd amount of changes (note: I haven't look at the commit myself, as I have no idea how to get all the stats from github interface)? That's about 800000 additional lines of code for 49
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by NhanH 12y ago
>The #TalkPay discussion has been quite good in bringing people back down to earth. Developers that I admire and are clearly better than me are earning not much more than I do and much less than the figure you have quoted. Out of curiosi
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by NhanH 12y ago
It doesn't have to be out of context: not all comment threads are equal, and it makes a lot of sense to pull to your feed certain threads based on the aggregate upvote count of all comments in the thread (or just pull the whole thread
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by NhanH 12y ago
Too many of our toolchain is still unix-based, and they have to be ported, or unikernel-based alternative have to show up: anything C related (which power the majority of the infrastructure anywhere), DB also comes to mind - you still need
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by NhanH 12y ago
Yes, definitely. Unikernel is in fact the very reason I've been (trying) to learn Ocaml lately.
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by NhanH 12y ago
Materialistic is not the only type of ambition. Are we actually sure it's not the problem with materialistic, rather than ambition? It would be interesting to have such study comparing with another culture: specifically the Eastern cul
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by NhanH 12y ago
The thing is, we see the depressed head-bangers because head-bangers are visible. We do not know if there are people depressed because they never try, or they gave up.
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by NhanH 12y ago
So, asking the obvious question: what's the solution to that?
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ReinforceJS: Reinforcement learning in JS(cs.stanford.edu)
2 points by NhanH 12y ago|0 comments
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by NhanH 12y ago
I didn't mean to say "jaded" in a negative way, in fact it's very much the opposite. I would have used "cynical", but I think it's quite a bit more negative, and "skeptical" isn't the correc
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by NhanH 12y ago
In general, I like your posts and opinions: clearly you have experience and is honest with your jaded view -- something that the dreamy younger blood like me very much appreciate. On the other hand, the increased frequency in personal attac

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