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Posted by
harshgupta on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:06AM
from the causalinf.substack.com dept.
Great product, much awaited! Feature request: Maybe consider adding terraform scripts or such for easier self hosting?
Posted by
harshgupta on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.
As an engineer, I do not understand this. Google has unlimited software talent, compute and money. Any ideas why they haven't been able to catchup to Zoom?
Posted by
harshgupta on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Came across this thread on twitter: https://twitter.com/hnshah/status/1119426019494989824?lang=en asking the same question. Curious to hear HN's answer.
Congrats on the launch! Curious, how do you plan to acquire customers? Wouldn't hospital systems want to keep the treatment within their system or partner hospitals?
Hi Peter, I am on STEM extension part of my OPT.
Can I start a company and fundraise on my current visa?
If not, can I be a founder and work as a CTO under an American CEO since technically that is still a supervised job?
Posted by
harshgupta on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:29PM
from the github.com dept.
Posted by
harshgupta on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:41PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am curious to know what metrics do people use to measure relative contributions to a project. Bare git metrics like Lines of Code, Number of commits seem to be partial (and at worse) dangerous sources of accounting.
I think you mean 'forward-deployed' engineer.
Not sure. The attached readings and class notes are great resources though.
Posted by
harshgupta on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:56AM
from the nil.lcs.mit.edu dept.
> As there are more than an average number of stupidities there.
Please post more meaningful comments. Sure it doesn't have static typing or performance of C, but it has a stable framework in every conceivable application (Web Dev, machine learning, CLI, you name it) and works as a top notch scripting language. This is not "stupidity", it was by design to make it batteries included and easy to use with a tradeoff with the above things.
Posted by
harshgupta on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:14PM
from the twitter.com dept.
Posted by
harshgupta on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:23PM
from the wsj.com dept.
I am pretty sold on the idea that failure of ambition = good, failure of sloth = bad. This post seems to be in line with that.
This may be an opinionated article, but the facts it cites are real and credible. I wonder why its flagged?
As an F1 visa holder, can I host a commercial app on internet if it includes not actively working on it?
Posted by
harshgupta on Thursday June 14, 2018 @07:16PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.
One of the core advantages I see here is trust. It would be so much more effective to match with someone who is connected to you by shared people/interest, rather than just a photo card.
Tell me a better standardized question set for programmers that measures intelligence efficiently.
I think its more of aptitude test in a domain common to all programmers.
Just to be clear, this was a response to the comment.
I do not have any opinion on Barbara Bush in particular other than knowing that she has a lifetime of experience in top American political circles and has been widely respected for that.
> Perhaps the most influential woman (literally) in American history
That's a little far fetched.
Posted by
harshgupta on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:02PM
from the news.vice.com dept.
Just so you know,
1.recommender systems != collaborative filtering.
2.RBMs are good only for certain situations like explicit ratings (where users provide direct feedback), its a really hard problem in implicit recommendations (which are most sites). See Bayesian Personalised Ranking Algorithm.
3. >I'd argue that the logistics of shipping perishable food is significantly more difficult than streaming an audio file. Thats exactly the point. I am not measuring hardness. But that looks a supply chain problem that a software engineering problem.
One of the issues that nobody seems to address is when entire societies shift to cashless, there are network operators who are still milking their first mover advantages. A product that is worth x, is now priced at 1.01x to pay for transaction networks. Europe is definitely ahead than US, but there needs to be better regulations around this.
Spotify is a tech company by all measures. Their core value propositions - recommendation engine, UI/UX, scaling responsive applications - those are pretty 'tech' problems.