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by vthallam 8y ago
I added a comment elsewhere about Zocdoc. If you are in New York, Zocdoc works great for a start.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Not sure if you are in the US, but Zocdoc does exactly that thing. Enter location, doctor type and insurance, it will show you the list of all doctors/therapists and you can even sort by rating and availability.
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WeWork Is Raising Funds at $35B Valuation(bloomberg.com)
117 points by vthallam 8y ago|134 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
> A waste for the people doing it who are never going to be appropriately compensated for the value of their failure to society? Yes. Judging by their profiles, I don't think they care if they end up being a failure with this Ventur
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China hacked a Navy contractor and secured sensitive data on submarine warfare(washingtonpost.com)
90 points by vthallam 8y ago|42 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
> but having done this successfully once makes me wonder if it could be done again I think it's all about the motivation and setting your expectations that you won't make it every time.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Numerous possibilities for Microsoft having a product with millions of developers. Some top of my head, -> Bundle Github Business Plans and Office 365 which includes Microsoft Teams I guess. -> Better azure integrations and push devel
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by vthallam 8y ago
It is first launched only in India [0] . I guess they will update the landing page as they expand to other markets. [0] - https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/google-launches-neighbourl...
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by vthallam 8y ago
Like public events? or your private events inbox? I think Eventbrite/Meetup has a browsable public event list.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Disclosure: I work for Paperless Post. PaperlessPost is a events company and we recently launched a product named "Flyer". It's an easy way to create an event and collect RSVP's using a unique URL. The designs are pretty
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by vthallam 8y ago
Kinda similar. I stopped using FB since a year. I don't post anymore and check notifications like once a month. I realized you can't quit social cold turkey unless you have something to do in that time. Luckily for me, I started l
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by vthallam 8y ago
This is written in Go. I'm not sure this uses cobra, but you could start easily by writing basic CLI tools using cobra[0] [0] - https://github.com/spf13/cobra
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by vthallam 8y ago
Fall and Summer are really great! Winter sucks unless you are into skiing.
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by vthallam 8y ago
> Patanjali’s ayurvedic brand has soared in the climate of Hindu nationalism that lifted India’s ruling party, the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, to victory in 2014 This is wrong on so many levels. People got tired of corruption from
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by vthallam 8y ago
Off Topic, but I really love OpenAI's blog design and how they present content in each blog post. It's very much visually appealing.
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by vthallam 8y ago
I understand the diversity and the huge numbers India/China have, but shouldn't it be based on merit too? It's similar to hiring, everyone wants a diverse team, yet half the engineers are Asians/Indians. It's becaus
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by vthallam 8y ago
Maybe not in a trading firm, but Java is still heavily used across tech/enterprise companies. I used to work for a IB which used Java heavily and so do Spotify, Amazon, Google.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Yes. That's exactly it does and more. Like, you can trigger an event for all or the important actions on the product, track them, create funnels or whatever and analyze. It's a pretty popular product.
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Intel discloses new variant on Spectre, Meltdown security flaws(cnet.com)
3 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
This is the distraction the linked study was talking about. I'm not sure if it happens about articles related to India, but since we are on the topic about China's article getting down-voted (anecdotally I have seen multiple times
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by vthallam 8y ago
I agree with a sibling comment, you put together a good observation about how the posts get down voted and eventually getting out of the first page every time, but I think you should edit the last comment about his Xi Jinping's Wife.
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by vthallam 8y ago
T - 30 mins before this post gets buried. I don't understand despite the high upvote count, why do articles critical of China are not able to be in the first page for more than a couple hours. Also, China is the new Saudi Arabia. With
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by vthallam 8y ago
You'd think if you could trust anyone with uptime of the most important IOT stuff(locks, thermostat etc) , it would be Google. Yet here we are, smh! I like automating or wiring up my home with connected devices, this outage is making m
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by vthallam 8y ago
Man this is so confusing! I had to read the blog post twice to understand what service should one have to get Play Music, Youtube Red and new Youtube Music subscription. > YouTube Premium will continue to provide an ad-free experience, b
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by vthallam 8y ago
I'm curious as how are the salaries in top start ups in India compared to the likes of Amazon/Google? Like for a mid-senior engineer. Appreciate any numbers you know off.
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by vthallam 8y ago
David Marcus moved out messenger [0] recently to focus on blockchain related products. I am sure they must be preparing for the future where a decentralized social network getting traction. But anything decentralized is diagonally opposite
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by vthallam 8y ago
I worked for one of the two banks I mentioned and while it is definitely slow compared to the tech companies, it's not even remotely close to years to ship a product. Things have changed with banks with people more open to MVP's.
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Ask HN: Cost Effective Options for Email Marketing?
1 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
Not investing into index funds, but Bank of America checking account provides an option to take some money out and put it aside. But as you said unless they are banking on moving fast and getting the market share first, this is a very low e
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by vthallam 8y ago
> chinese forums Curious on whether these forums are moderated or monitored by Govt? And are there any online places where people can discuss without fear of the Chinese govt?

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