lukejduncan

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by lukejduncan 9y ago
I love my echo, but I hate that it thinks it's user oblivious. Take "alexa play music" which will play recommended artists based on your listening history. All it plays is garbage (in terms of my tastes) because 1) my wife LO
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
I've always wanted a way to do collaborative editing ala google docs in a Jupyter notebook. Does anyone know if there are existing tools that do similar things?
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
Isn't yahoo search just bing repackaged?
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
I've seen a few links to resources on elliptic curves on HN, but I don't understand their importance or why they're trending with folks here. Can someone give me some context?
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by lukejduncan 9y ago
The satellite launch the article references was mostly nano stats from Planet Labs. These satellites are designed to deorbit and burn up on rented with a lifespan of about 2 years. Space debris is a problem, but they could have done a muc
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
According to Planet Money, an in person block chain is used in at least one prison. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/10/514577243/episo...
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
for snopes and politifact the answer is no.
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
It's a fair concern. Both Wealthfront and Betterment are Broker dealers and they have legal obligations in the event of going out of business. Wealthfront spells it out as: "In the unlikely event Wealthfront were to cease doing b
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
This is a great breakdown. Data Science can mean a lot of different things and I think the three roles you defined are spot on. At LinkedIn, what used to be called Data Science is now exclusively analyst roles. We have a separate org (hu
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
The first time I heard of HeatStreet was as a claimed source by the Trump administration that Obama had wiretapped him. Is HeatStreet a credible source? Given its association with Breitbart in the wiretapping allegations and others commen
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
sorry, was on mobile
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
Acro == Avro
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
I don't know if this helps, but reading up on backwards and forwards compatibility can get you in the right direction. The same concepts apply, but the details may very. For API interfaces read up on or think through best practices a
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
Unless you're designing to spec, how do you not need to understand graphs and hash tables for front end work? I'd imagine understanding hash tables would be useful in reasoning about caching, and graphs for dependency management
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
If you've spent 17 years in industry and haven't written a graph traversal algorithm... you probably don't recognize when you're writting a graph traversal algorithm.
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
Some pre-IPO companies offer RSUs. Facebook did this I believe
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
FWIW, at LinkedIn evergreen grants are fairly common but not guaranteed. That's prior to the MS acquisition though which has a reputation for being less generous with equity.
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
There's a lot of advice to value your options at $0. I'm curious how people do the math when considering moving from a big company with RSUs that are liquid at vest to a startup (doesn't have to be a unicorn). Big company R
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
Nope, definitely your definition that's wrong. One of many examples http://pca.st/VnJY
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
Just curious, what are the median Bay Area salaries? I'd think most married couples in bay area tech are above the contribution limit.
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
I'm a software engineer, about a year into a career shift into data science / machine learning. I'd second the majority of the books. Some were new to me. I did a lot of on the job learning, but Intro To Statistical Learni
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Introduction to Statistical Learning, the book(linkedin.com)
4 points by lukejduncan 10y ago|0 comments
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
I used to be super intimidated by negotiation. I recently took a Coursera course that I highly recommend https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation . It's not specific to negotiating job offers, but it helped me
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
That's what they meant. And probably said. You can take my quote as a (close) paraphrase.
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
Yeah fair. It was definitely a very negative sign. Having participated in hiring elsewhere, my assumption was maybe it was just a bad recruiter. Generally, engineering managers have a big input into the offer process and I thought I&#x27
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by lukejduncan 10y ago
I've followed this advice in the past with mixed results. Some companies do a great job of either respecting this or not asking in the first place. When I interviewed at Uber (a little more than a year back), the recruiter was super
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by lukejduncan 12y ago
App actions can still count as "pageviews" in a comscore world. I'm not entirely sure of the specifics but I've heard of it being reported.
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by lukejduncan 12y ago
There was a pretty good post the other day going around to that effect https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141209160450-9652774-in-def...
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by lukejduncan 12y ago
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/als.asp
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Ask HN: Space exploration book recommendations?
4 points by lukejduncan 12y ago|4 comments

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