bhollan

7 ms·

31.
Ask HN: Which JavaScript DataViz package should we use at my company?
1 points by bhollan 8y ago|0 comments
32.
by bhollan 8y ago
I'm not sure how this will be received, but I'm learning a lot through following Jeremy Howard. He's a huge PyTorch fan and he's spent the last 3 years trying to figure out what people like you need. He launched a cour
33.
by bhollan 8y ago
I've tried this a few times. As much as it usually passes the buck to the next interviewer at best, I would just rather be honest. Especially when the company I'm currently pursuing lists 'trust' in their list of 3 valu
34.
by bhollan 8y ago
But if "protecting US jobs" means giving jobs to US Passport holders, THAT'S ME! If it's protecting US tax income, THAT'S ME TOO!
35.
by bhollan 8y ago
I'm a born, bred, red-blooded American, dude. I've only been living in Mexico for 3 years. My English is spectacular. I'm even from Alabama and don't have an accent. The risk of delivering or not shouldn't come fr
36.
by bhollan 8y ago
I've never thought about requesting to be transferred as a contractor. That would mean I would have to pay my own taxes as in the self-employment situation. As was the case for my termination a few months ago, I actually WAS working a
37.
by bhollan 8y ago
Y'konw, honestly, the time-zone thing I understand. If you're looking for people to cover specific shift work for incoming tickets or events or whatever, that makes sense. Just like on-prem jobs. But I'm talking about total
38.
by bhollan 8y ago
I use https://travelingmailbox.com . They're great. Not super modern and hip, but certainly functional and affordable. My employer doesn't have to pay Mexican taxes. I don't even have to pay Mexican taxes. Th
39.
by bhollan 8y ago
That's not actually true in my situation. My visa requires that I not hold a Mexican job. As long as I hold a job in another country and pay taxes in that country, I owe zero taxes to the Mexican government.
40.
Ask HN: Why do companies do “remote within the US”?
13 points by bhollan 8y ago|18 comments
41.
by bhollan 9y ago
Having just finished 1.5 years working at a code school, here's my "link dump" of stuff that helped a lot of people. Good luck! https://beehollander.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/helping-over-3...
42.
Helping 3500 students learn to code(beehollander.wordpress.com)
2 points by bhollan 9y ago|0 comments
43.
by bhollan 9y ago
Apparently Kaggle just opened a training/education branch. https://www.kaggle.com/learn/overview EDIT: I also second the fast.ai suggestion(s) as well
44.
by bhollan 9y ago
This sounds like a brilliant idea, but if any recruiter ever found the text, it might be a red flag for the employer. Have you ever had it come up in an interview process?
45.
by bhollan 9y ago
Sam Ritchie from Stripe was a guest on This-Week-in-Machine-Learning/AI (TWiMLAI) (podcast) talking about explaining black box predictions. https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-73-exploring-black-box-predic... TL; DR is basi
46.
by bhollan 9y ago
I'm shocked Codility isn't on here yet. https://codility.com/programmers/lessons/1-iterations/ They're really strong on language-agnostic testing with emphasis on CS concepts. That's grea
47.
by bhollan 9y ago
Can you tell us more about this data set? Is it 100k offers, 2.2M offers? What are we talking about here? Is this just offers during FY2017?
48.
by bhollan 9y ago
What on earth do you do for $400k/year? Make moon rockets in your garage or something?
49.
by bhollan 9y ago
I had checked that page when I posted my comment. Somehow the issue got fixed before that note got posted. Thanks!
50.
by bhollan 9y ago
Working now
51.
by bhollan 9y ago
Am I the only one getting 500 for this link?
52.
by bhollan 9y ago
Did no one else notice?: Category 3.... Category 2.... Category 3.... Am I taking crazy pills??!?! But in all seriousness, this is a fantastic idea. I'm wondering though if it's 100% of a "personal preference" which pla
53.
by bhollan 9y ago
This. I have two engineering degrees and studied neural networks in college. He cuts down about 3 months worth of math to a couple of lines of code in such a way that makes it make sense AND is productive. It may just be that his teaching
54.
by bhollan 9y ago
Why does the Per Adult National Wealth line for France stop in 2010?
55.
Data Engineer / Musician sells her own music for BTC(forbes.com)
1 points by bhollan 9y ago|0 comments
56.
Mobile App Mesh Networking SDK: Bridgefy(techcrunch.com)
1 points by bhollan 9y ago|0 comments
57.
by bhollan 9y ago
Don't get me wrong, I fully subscribe to the school of thought that he's a murderer, but honestly, drones fighting drones sounds pretty good.
58.
by bhollan 10y ago
+1. This is one of my major annoyances w/ Ubuntu. Been using it 3 years now and this seems like a fundamental issue that should be fixed.
59.
Ask HN: Tools for meeting across multiple/distant time zones?
2 points by bhollan 10y ago|2 comments
60.
by bhollan 10y ago
When I was an electrician aboard a volunteer ship, I bought some Swedish work pants that saved me SO much walking. It was like wearing a tool belt all the time, but WAY more comfortable. I could carry tools, supplies, a notebook, cell pho

More ›