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by ig1 9y ago
Using a study of programmers in the 1970s (where not punching the wrong hole in punch cards was a critical skill) for programmers in 2017 may not give you the most useful data.
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by ig1 9y ago
The market for infosec in the UK and internationally is pretty healthy, if that's where you want to build your career I wouldn't worry about the size of the market, but finding yourself a good consultancy firm to start your career
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by ig1 9y ago
There's already companies like Mashape who offer these services.
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by ig1 9y ago
Data Scientist/Quant | MarketInvoice | London, UK (we've hired two people from HN) https://www.marketinvoice.com/ We're looking to hire an experienced data scientist who can take the lead in build out our cre
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by ig1 9y ago
£70k = 48k post-tax 60k/(48k*1/3) = 3.75 years And that's assuming you start from zero savings.
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by ig1 9y ago
It's a fairly common move for people getting married with a plan to have children. But if you rent in the suburbs you can get a similar discount on rental as you get on purchases. (Although the 3-bed was just an example obviously you
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by ig1 9y ago
Mortgage rates are fundamentally unpredictable, you can't assume that they'll revert to a 30 year average. However what mortgage lenders do is "stress test" at 5%-6.5% that means they evaluate if you'd be able to af
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by ig1 9y ago
Well lets reverse out the numbers. The median cost of a room in a flatshare in Zone 1/2 is just under £700 month, that's £8.4k/year. Let's assume other costs of living to be £10k/year that gives us a total of £18.4k
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by ig1 9y ago
Assuming a 60k deposit (so 340k mortage), you could get a 2 year fixed mortgage at 1.53% so your repayments will be £1,178.31. £70k post-tax is around £48k so £4k/month so the mortgage will take around 30% of your take-home pay which i
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by ig1 9y ago
You won't get a mortgage if you're that close to struggling. Lenders will generally stress-test affordability at between 5%-6.5%
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by ig1 9y ago
Only if you want to live in central London. You can still easily get a house on that income in London suburbs. For example you can get a 3-bed in Orpington (20 minutes by train to London Bridge) for around £400k which should be comfortably
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by ig1 9y ago
You don't need to worry about it if you're B2B. Also you only need to registered for VAT once you hit 85k in revenue, so it might be worth considering if it'd be worth you delaying until that point.
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by ig1 10y ago
Data Scientists & Growth Analysts | MarketInvoice | London, UK (we've hired two people from HN) https://www.marketinvoice.com/ We're looking for people who combine a passion for data with a passion for busine
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by ig1 10y ago
I'd say especially in your case you could be pushing for additional discounts beyond what's available to everyone else. You're the ideal case for this, not only will you be a large customer in your own right if you succeed bu
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by ig1 10y ago
However they miss the easiest fix: Calling their account rep at AWS and cutting a deal. AWS loves startups that could end up being huge customers so they're willing to slash bills upfront to help you get to growth stage; not only will
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by ig1 10y ago
Firstly you have a mess you need to clear up, have you bought out your other co-founders to ensure you own 100% of the company ? - you'll struggle to find investors if you've got zombie cofounders who may claim to the company, you
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by ig1 10y ago
Also they don't seem to realize how many people have caches. Crawling the web is something that a lot of people do these days for everything from SEO (Seomoz and every other major SEO tool probably has a crawl) to web data companies
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by ig1 10y ago
Worth noting this statement by Cloudflare CTO: "I am not changing any of my passwords. I think the probability that somebody saw something is so low it's not something I am concerned about." http://www.bbc.co.uk&#x
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Cloudflare bug data leak exposed(bbc.co.uk)
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by ig1 10y ago
What makes you think Jira is worse than say BMC Remedy or IBM Rational ? - JIRA is certainly better than most of their direct competitors.
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by ig1 10y ago
H1B salaries are public information, if you work at any of these companies it's trivial to check if your company is underpaying H1B holders and report them if that's the case.
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by ig1 10y ago
Join a consultancy firm that specializes in that area, many will hire people with zero experience in the area and train them up. It's also the best place to learn as you'll be exposed to many different deployments.
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by ig1 10y ago
Because when you're a medical professional you can lose your licence for experimenting on patients.
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by ig1 10y ago
For the majority of university students the learning process is largely composed of sitting in large lecture halls with minimal interactions being lectured by someone who'd much rather be doing research than teaching. Why precisely is
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by ig1 10y ago
Pretty much everyone in a relevant space is already doing it.
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by ig1 10y ago
I appreciate you might have personal reasons for wanting to donate towards cancer, but I'd encourage you to consider other diseases as well. Cancer research attracts a huge amount of funding so the ROI of donations is much lower (i.e t
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by ig1 10y ago
The maths in that article is terrible, all venture backed startups will have expenditure > revenue (because you're investing today for future revenue), you have to look at unit economics to understand if this is a problem or not (i.
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by ig1 10y ago
Uber's last valuation is 12x ($66bn = $5.5bn x 12) on annual revenue growth of 275% - 12x doesn't seem an unreasonable multiple. The valuation isn't artificially high, it's a result of an unprecedented growth curve.
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by ig1 10y ago
While the article is right that in many situations a linear regression or tree based approach will be more effective, it downplays the real value add of deep learning which has been clearly demonstrated with image data and is likely to have
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by ig1 10y ago
Not sure what data you're looking at but YC is likely the most successful seed stage investor (in terms of ROI) at scale in the world.

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