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YC Interview for Foreigners(al3x.svbtle.com)
3 points by ar7hur 11y ago|0 comments
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How to interview at YC when English is not your first language(al3x.svbtle.com)
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by ar7hur 11y ago
Not to us. It's mostly a nice UI on top of the same old horrible healthcare system. When you submit the form, I guess it sends an email to somebody who does everything manually. When we signed up with Zenefits, they did a mistake for 4
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by ar7hur 11y ago
HipChat?
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by ar7hur 11y ago
I've used the Nylas API for 9 months for my side project iOS email client. It works very well and the team is super responsive. Documentation is clear and complete. It makes it super easy to build any email client. Eventually though, I
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by ar7hur 11y ago
I still think it's impossible to run two companies that both require so much attention, given their stage. Yes Jobs had Apple and Pixar, and Musk has Tesla and SpaceX. But both Pixar and SpaceX don't really require day-to-day CEO
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by ar7hur 11y ago
If you're interested in the probabilistic approach, this is how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog "The basis of the HyperLogLog algorithm is the observation that the cardinality of a multise
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by ar7hur 11y ago
Embedding is a technique using dense vectors to represent words in a "continuous" space. Most deep learning NLP systems use embedding to get natural language as input. See https://code.google.com/p/word2vec&#x
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The deep learning tsunami continues to take over NLP(wit.ai)
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Facebook’s Messenger and the Challenge to Google’s Search Dominance(techcrunch.com)
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by ar7hur 11y ago
It's M! http://www.wired.com/2015/08/how-facebook-m-works/
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by ar7hur 11y ago
Remembering pg's great advice before demo day, a pitch has only 2 goals: - Capture the investors' attention -- they'll have to remember your company among dozens - Make them curious to hear more -- you want them to reach out
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by ar7hur 11y ago
> Give the illusion of self-service, but actually have a very high-touch, highservice model 100% true. We've used Zenefits for one year and it was very, very painful. It looks like self-service, but whatever you do in the UI is then
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by ar7hur 11y ago
How did you get invited? I'd love to test the app. With Natural Language we should be skeptical as long as all we have are canned demos.
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5 Tips for Interviewing at YC with an Accent(al3x.svbtle.com)
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YC Interview for non native English speakers(al3x.svbtle.com)
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by ar7hur 12y ago
Yahoo and Foursquare both lack a clear strategy moving forward. I'm not sure adding two struggling companies makes a strong one. Reminds me of Microsoft/Nokia.
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by ar7hur 12y ago
Do any of you guys have children?
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by ar7hur 12y ago
This is a 11-month old announcement: On April 30, 2014, we announced the deprecation of the XMPP Chat API as part of the release of Platform API v2.0.
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by ar7hur 12y ago
I've used InstaParse with great success for an IMAP client. It's well documented and delivers as promised. Kudos to the author.
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by ar7hur 12y ago
Kudos for sharing this. Only caveat: I've sold SaaS to large enterprises (like AT&T, Coke, etc.) for ten years, and unfortunately most of them insisted that we use THEIR template, which was a huge pain point for us.
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by ar7hur 12y ago
Here is the original work "Récoltes et Semailles" from Grothendieck (PDF, French): http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~duchamp/Books&more/Grothendieck... Brace yourself, it's about 1000 thousand pages,
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Alexander Grothendieck, the secret genius of mathematics(al3x.svbtle.com)
95 points by ar7hur 12y ago|15 comments
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Wit.ai (YC W14) Is Joining Facebook(wit.ai)
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by ar7hur 12y ago
Dan Jurafsky is the chair of linguistics and a professor of computer science at Stanford. This video is an incredible, fast-paced presentation he gave at Listen.ai last month. Dan opened the talk with the history of ketchup and how the lang
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by ar7hur 12y ago
In France, Siri has a male voice!
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by ar7hur 12y ago
Synopsys: Walking backward in time, Adam discussed the technical history of Siri as well as how the vision of virtual personal assistants evolved over time. He wowed the audience with a video from 1987 on a concept from A
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by ar7hur 12y ago
Sorry about that, it should be fixed now. Can you please confirm?
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The Story of Siri, by its founder [video](wit.ai)
75 points by ar7hur 12y ago|15 comments
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Ask HN: Gmail alternatives?
2 points by ar7hur 12y ago|2 comments

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