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Re:Peering into neural networks on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:55PM (#14672926)
Question to the community. Where can i follow research on this area understanding decision making and reasoning of neural networks?
I'm a great fan of Slack. Large portion of revenue for an b2b app like Slack will come from big corporations and businesses with more than 200 employees.

Microsoft/Google are heavily invested on large enterprises. These big giants can pull off a product like Slack and sell to all the big clients. Microsoft already sells communicator to large corps. They can switch that to Microsoft-Slack version and bundle it with their office products taking the large (90% revenue) out of Slack pocket.

Slack has to go really big to hit enterprises hard or they will be just serving small medium businesses which will have churn burn and less LTV.

Re:Marc Andreessen just offended 1B Indians with a single tweet on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:35AM (#11071094)
I have a great respect for Marc Andreessen who have invested in great tech companies at early stage and they are part of my daily life. I have learnt a lot by reading his essays and his bullet points in twitter about startups and building companies.

I'm not able to understand why he has to make this comment. He sits in Facebook board and recently TRAI had declined Facebook's Free Basics which violates Net Neutrality. Does this have anything to do with his comment?

India has been growing great in recent years and it's headed for enormous growth in next few decades. India has the largest youth population in the whole world and it can transform itself into a great super-power if it's run by great politicians and put India back in track.

- The British East India Company was the original Free Basics. We all know how that ended.

Re:Facebook is closing Parse on Thursday January 28, 2016 @05:50PM (#10992101)
The news i have heard from various googlers is, `GOOG acquired Firebase because a project started using Firebase as backend and grew very fast and they didn't want to migrate and just acquired FireBase`.
Re:Uber Bonds Term Sheet Reveals $470M in Operating Losses on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:38AM (#9802978)
This is really interesting. I believe this might be attribute to all the Uber promotions in Asia. I have heard from all my friends in India/China that Uber rides are actually free for around 10-15 rides. Also, they are giving tons of money to Drivers to promote Uber in India.

An average Uber driver in Bangalore earns 110000 INR per month where as an entry level software engineer in GOOG/AMZN in India earns 80000 INR/month.

I was shocked that one of my friends who drove Uber in Bangalore told me that he made 180000 INR two months back.

It would be interesting to know Uber's customer acquistion cost and driver acquisition cost.

Re:Show HN: Replicate the world's best stock investments on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @08:10PM (#9649845)
Also, Why does it require me to be an US citizen?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015) on Friday May 01, 2015 @02:55PM (#9473697)
Zenefits Hottest startup of the year http://www.zenefits.com/jobs SF bay area/Canada VISA/Remote

This is Radhakrishnan working as Software engineer at Zenefits, San Francisco USA. We are building a kickass engineering team in SF to work on hard and totally new kind of technical problems. We are disrupting the whole Heath Insurance industry which is taking off in US now by providing free software.

We have penetrated only 0.6% of the market. This is without considering international growth and upselling to big companies.

We are looking for engineers who can take a concept from inception to market. The process is extremely autonomous, with little to no, management. You are the PM, tester & developer, building full-stack, who coordinates with our in-house designers. Our revenue model is one of the best in the world and we have seen the hyper growth like no other company in the world.

More info: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/14/zenefits-financials/

Startup of the year 2014: http://onforb.es/1IoK3aU

Our Tech Stack: Website running on Django/redis/RabbitMQ/Celery. Backend: Python/AWS

We're hiring for engineering offices in San Francisco, CA, USA and Vancouver, Canada

For more info: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=zenefits

To apply for job: www.zenefits.com/jobs To learn about the company and challenges: [email protected]

Ask HN: What do you use to store application level config in Django?

We are using Django for our website as well as in the backend. Whenever we want to change some application level config like `connection_timeout`, we had to change the constant in the source code and re-deploy. Deploying takes around 1 hour for us.What i'm looking for is a key value store framework already built for Django and which provides an UI which we can use to override the config when...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @08:46PM (#9308010)
Zenefits: (zenefits.com).(VISA) Software Engineers - San Francisco CA, Vancouver Canada.

Hottest startup of the year 2014. http://onforb.es/1IoK3aU

Zenefits was founded ~2 years ago with the mission of re-defining the HR software space and giving it away for free. We have seen the hyper-growth like no one has ever seen in the industry. David Sacks (one of the paypal mafia and founder of Yammer) who saw the hyper-growth joined us as COO 3 months back. Even with this hyper-growth, We have penetrated only 0.1% of the market and so our journey is 0.1% finished.

Who are we? We are a group of 50 kick ass software engineers which includes Engineers from Facebook, Google and founders of various startups, solving problems which no one has ever dare to look into. We are looking to more than triple our engineers this year and we're looking for highly passionate engineers who can own the product from Day 1 and ship it to the world. We rapidly iterate and roll out new code every day.

We offer highly competitive salary and meaningful equity which is going to be worth a lot.

If you would like to talk with us, please apply online here: http://grnh.se/71a8xs

Press: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=zenefits Investors: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zenefits Some random posts from medium: https://medium.com/@stephenjcho/how-zenefits-gets-to-ipo-in-...

Ask HN: Anyone moved away from GitHub to Phabricator?

I'd like to know the experience of engineers who moved away from github to phabricator. Phabricator is really good but it has no third party app support like github. We use circle CI to run all the tests after send a pull request in github. I couldn't find a support for CI in phabricator.

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Thanks. Updated.

Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

We use Django heavily and we have all the requirements in requirements.txt and we do pip install on it. Lot of times, some requirements are not installed properly and we have to do pip install when we see an error message for particular package.The issue we are facing is whenever we run `python manage.py migrate` after cloning the repo/pulling the repo, it takes around 30-50 mins.

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Ask HN: Personal Assistant as a service recommendation

I'm fed up with my monthly chores like paying credit card bills on time, gas, electric, car loans, mortgage all these bills. I miss to pay some time and it affects my credit score.Do you guys know any trusted startup who provides personal assistant as a service. I don't want them to manage my calendar but pay all my bills and expenses and generate expense report monthly.I'm ready to pay...

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Re:Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @06:14PM (#8690743)
Ah, So many systems going to fail on that day for using epoch with 32 bit.
Re:Snapchat VP of Engineering Leaves After 6 Months on Thursday July 31, 2014 @04:41PM (#8116864)
Exactly!