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by vthallam 9y ago
> stupidity of the entire media world Half stupidity and Half sinister. The journalists and the opposition would apparently want to use the lack of tech literacy among the broader population against them. Also, it's driven by fear.
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by vthallam 9y ago
This is like every other Android app out there. Their biggest mistake was choosing a company outside India to do analytics for them and not having a good privacy policy. Apparently, the opposition would love to make this issue as selling ci
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Democratic senator to Zuckerberg:“Come to Congress and testify this under oath”(cnn.com)
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by vthallam 9y ago
Of Course they do. My iPhoneX dies often these days to NYC weather. Was planning to go the Apple store to find out why.
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The Left Shouldn’t Be Too Proud to Meme(nytimes.com)
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by vthallam 9y ago
I mean it's hot and a growing field with exchanges skimming off money 24*7 in billions, so no wonder the ex-govt talent would be willing to work. Crypto Exchanges and companies are making some real money, so the goal now is to make it
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by vthallam 9y ago
Exactly. Unlike Facebook which actively try to get into the Chinese market, Google doesn't try as much or it seems like it.
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by vthallam 9y ago
>Circle’s mobile app lets people make instant money transfers. The company also has a trading operation, which handles about $2 billion in crypto trading a month with large institutional buyers and sellers How does this work now? Like, c
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by vthallam 9y ago
>what does your careers page look like? This also applies to all the companies in general. If a company uses Applicant Tracking Systems like Taleo, Workday you can rest assured anyone with an existing job would not apply. It's reall
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by vthallam 9y ago
Side projects, generic comp sci interviews help, but essentially to get started bootcamps/udacity nano degree might help. Like you can take a mobile app or full stack online course and quickly build a portfolio.
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by vthallam 9y ago
I thought while Cost of living in Seattle is relatively lesser than NYC, the house prices are exorbitant. NYC has advantage of very close proximity to NJ, Connecticut where you could probably get a better home than in Seattle-Bellvue-Redmon
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by vthallam 9y ago
If you don't mind answering. For an O-1, do you really have to be a Nobel prize winner? or a Phd or a lot of work experience help?
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Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year(coinsocial.io)
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by vthallam 9y ago
Just like they make money on stocks, selling their order flow. There are tons of cryptocurrency hedge funds who would be more than happy to Robinhood to get that kind of data.
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Ask HN: Suggestions for product management courses for a software engineer?
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by vthallam 9y ago
If your eventual goal after learning the basics is programming questions for interviews, there are a tons of resources like leetcode, interviewbit, geeksforgeeks. I started writing some of the FAQ with explanations here[1], check it out to
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Adecco Group acquires recruiting startup Vettery for $100M(techcrunch.com)
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by vthallam 9y ago
Exactly this! Google Flights is already a thing and the hotel search works great too. Once they have enough people directly searching from Google, they can either charge Airbnb or hotels to send traffic or build its own Airbnb backend and r
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by vthallam 9y ago
He indirectly said the media is running a biased campaign. Even if he personally means so, alienating all mainstream media who is already mad about facebook for various reasons at best could be termed as not clever. Also, there's a ong
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In rare bipartisanship US lawmakers come together for Cryptocurrency Regulations(coinsocial.io)
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The number of Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds doubled in the last 4 months(coinsocial.io)
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by vthallam 9y ago
Yes. For a start, realizing the impact of the bots on FB and Twitter and countering them with more bots. There's some really dark stuff on FB groups and twitter bots which reply with images to popular accounts. You could counter by bot
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by vthallam 9y ago
Forget about whether russia had used the bots to influence elections. I was really surprised that Hillary with all the Silicon Valley support couldn't built a team to counter these. On the election day, the Trump tweet in the morning g
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by vthallam 9y ago
People lost on traditional media outlets since sometime and they now only rely on social media to get their news. So it is easy to attempt to influence the public with fake news and a question mark at the end. Buzzfeed ran a profile of a ne
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by vthallam 9y ago
So Cryptocurrencies was all along the plan of Aliens to limit our quest to find them /s That said, the demand for GPU's didn't decrease even during the recent market crash and I personally believe it will be like this until N
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by vthallam 9y ago
As soon as Uber launches UberEverything , Instacart will be bleeding tons of money. I already left Postmates and Seamless for UberEats. Fast, predictable and more options. If Uber could get more grocery delivery services and keep the onus o
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by vthallam 9y ago
10/10 for the landing page. your landing page to appstore conversion rate would be to the roof I guess. As other folks were asking, commenting and posting would complete the experience.
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by vthallam 9y ago
Easy to convert to an open office I guess?
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State Loophole Leaves Minors at Risk While Riding Uber and Lyft(nbcbayarea.com)
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by vthallam 9y ago
Saving a possible inflammation probably?

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