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by eshvk 13y ago
> You may not agree, but I think having more women and minorities in programming would be a good thing. When you say minorities, who exactly do you mean? Silicon Valley has more non white immigrants writing code than 'young white du
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by eshvk 13y ago
> If we want to inspire young girls to be interested in programming, we should highlight the work of people like Marissa Meyer, who have worked really hard over many years...not give them the impression that being born tall and beautifu
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by eshvk 13y ago
> So why does she matter? Because regardless of the reality, programming is still seen by the masses as a well paid janitorial function that only uncool, socially inept, nerdy males should do. (Notice that I didn't say could but sho
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am inclined to agree. Presumably there is some text processing algorithm that matches the name and other entities that co-occur with high probability. In this case, the man's name probably co-occurred with that phrase. Abhorrent and
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Edit: Also this article isn't about that sort of occupation. I was focusing on the topic at hand. That is fair, I presumed you were making a moral judgement of the way they were spending their lives, apologies if that was not the
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Hits the nail on the head for me. In the end these people make incredible amounts of money for doing what amounts to a job that is worthless to the society at large. As opposed to making incredibly amounts of money finding ways of gett
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I think you must have missed the good parts of SF, if you felt that your coding skills defined you. As a person who got into programming five years ago after finding out math doesn't get you jobs, I would be worried if my average
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by eshvk 13y ago
> New York is pretty impressed by a billion dollars even if you merely inherited it. In Silicon Valley no one would care except a few real estate agents. The only defining common factor of all the VC shops in the bay area is money. Sure
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This is my experience with movies as well. I find the use of genres (a la Netflix style of taste profile builder) annoying. Why should I be shoe - boxed as a comedy movie watcher or a horror movie watcher? Maybe, I only watch specific comed
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by eshvk 13y ago
I think he/she is talking about the shuffle feature available for free users on Mobile.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Your best bet is to work for a trans-national organization. I know EU people at Mozilla who used to do stints in the MV office. My current employer, a Swedish based company that has a NYC office also has quite a few people who spend extensi
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by eshvk 13y ago
To be fair, I have sent corrections to Google Maps and it took them two years and talking to a friend in Maps before they corrected it. Also, this was for Google telling me to take a left where no left existed when driving from the South Ba
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by eshvk 13y ago
Hmm...in order for me to really explain to you why robust PCA is needed. I will have to explain to you what PCA is. In order for that, I would have to explain why? High dimensional spaces with lower dimensional information, understand what
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by eshvk 13y ago
> The problem is that there is a belief in the industry that 15-30 minutes of technical interviewing tells more about a candidate than that person's entire career history. I have seen no actual data to support this belief. Actually,
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> Are algorithm questions really that useful when looking for a candidate? I go back and forth on this. I do machine learning/backend large scale engineering stuff. I have typically found that very rarely do companies actually reall
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by eshvk 13y ago
> "Clan" to describe South Bay residing Indians is ..mm.. weird.. The word clan was not used in a pejorative way. I merely meant a group of people. > A South Bay residing Indian is more likely to be a college-educated, white
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by eshvk 13y ago
1) > I've lived in South Bay myself for 18 years and honestly haven't seen this. Right, this might just be a matter of personal opinion. I spent a few months in Mountain View, I found it oppressively close to being similar to
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I guess if I had to pin it down, what bugs me is the way many Westernerns move and settle in countries without regards to their culture and ways of living -- out of purely material and practical concerns. And what do you think of clans
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Also, I'm a bit confused as to what kind of role you're looking for. You experience with Java/C++ leads me to slot you into a systems developer position. Isn't Java/C++ one of those first OOPs languages that un
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Ask HN: Non profit/Pro bono opportunities for Data Science people
3 points by eshvk 13y ago|0 comments
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Learn a systems programming language and a functional language Not trying to start a language war or anything but would really appreciate learning what you (would have) started with especially on the functional side of things.
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by eshvk 13y ago
No idea really. I know quite a bunch of people who live in SF and do the South Bay trip. Enough of them spend money in the city, walk dogs for the elderly and so on. I think we are getting into "No true scotsman" territory with al
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by eshvk 13y ago
Uhh...way to go on stereotyping people. Because everyone who is in tech does this. There are countless tech people who take the Muni and Caltrain to work in Mountain View. Also, the shuttles are an option, designed by companies to optimize
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by eshvk 13y ago
> We're supposed to the LSD experimenting, sandal wearing, authority deriding rebels. > We're threatening our own existence. Erm...no. You are choosing to define tech as either " LSD experimenting, sandal wearing, autho
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Yes, but who are the "people" that you show things to? There is no clear split between "tech people" on one side and "locals" on the other side. Just like there are people who have been living in the Mission fo
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by eshvk 13y ago
> 2) simple feelings of being left out...that's what people don't like about Google shuttles. They're mysterious. Let people in them, see what they are, see how they're really not that amazing or great: but then that
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by eshvk 13y ago
I think the most hilarious backlash is the one from folks who moved here barely three years ago. Apparently, if you don't work in tech, you are somehow more of a real person and keeping it real. Bull fucking shit.
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by eshvk 13y ago
What did you think of National Van Lines? Was it reliable? The other issue is that I can't find reviews on these things on Yelp. Not sure if I should be using an alternate review service.
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Ask HN: Recommendations on a mover
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by eshvk 13y ago
So I saw the page and will probably sign up. However, there won't be a strong motivation for me to come participate unless there is a) A minimum threshold of folks who use it actively. or b) I keep seeing it in my feed. I visit HN and

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