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Ask HN: MS vs. Job

Hi HN! I am a junior undergrad studying CS from a top university in India (IIT). Eventually, I want to start my own business. I did a startup which failed and don't have any idea to pursue at this point of time. So, I am confused between getting a job (at a top company/startup) and applying for MS from Stanford.If I apply for a MS CS at Stanford, I will get good exposure and experience in...

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Ask HN: Should I practice competitive programming and stop doing side projects

I am a junior undergrad studying CS at one of the top universities. I have co founded a company, participated in Google Summer of Code and done interesting projects (some of which even won prizes).I applied to some companies like Dropbox, Google, Palantir and Facebook for a summer internship but got rejected from them at some stage in the interview process (even after reaching the host matching...

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Ask HN: What tools do Data Scientists use most commonly?

I have started learning some machine learning and data mining and was wondering which technologies I should try to master. Should I learn R or Python (nltk, scikit-learn, pandas etc.)? Should I learn hadoop or focus more on machine learning techniques? There is a lot of content on internet from free courses to kaggle competitions. Where should I invest most time?

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Open Source Alternative for Watson Analytics

Hi! I have been building an open source data analytics platform. I will start working on it again from next week and hopefully come up with demo, gallery etc. so that people can easily understand what it does and it's capabilities. You can find it on Github at https://github.com/apeeyush/Data-Analytics-Log-Manager . Looking for other open source alternatives from HN community.

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