balajis

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by balajis 12y ago
Hey, drop me a line: balajis at a16z dot com. We try to help entrepreneurs who have an experience like you've had get back on their feet. No promises, but often we can find you a great job at one of our portfolio companies.
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by balajis 12y ago
Hey all. Surprised to see our little site at the top of HN :) We'll be updating the website at some point with more news. Till then, sign up for notifications and check out trybtc.com and blockscore.com.
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by balajis 12y ago
:) I assure you that we are going to be hiring engineers through this process.
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by balajis 12y ago
Hmm. In all fairness, the full quote is: A BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or the equivalent is nice to have, but the most important requirement is significant independent programming experience as demonstrated by your
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by balajis 12y ago
We could certainly rattle off more terms :) Kernel density estimation? Deep learning? Semi-supervised learning? But it's amazing how far you can get with some simple scatterplots, histograms and linear/logistic regressions. a) Mos
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by balajis 12y ago
Sure, go ahead! We just ask that you not share the questions with others after completing it.
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by balajis 12y ago
It's an ongoing opportunity, but we will be hiring the first set of people soon. So it will be to your advantage to apply sooner rather than later.
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by balajis 12y ago
Did you include the country code prefix? Otherwise please try emailing vivek at hackerrank dot com with the bug to see if he can reproduce.
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by balajis 12y ago
Well, empirically we're getting quite a lot of people attempting it! :) Three hours is pretty lenient (you could blaze through it in less time), though the last question is challenging. We think the questions are kind of fun as well. W
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by balajis 13y ago
Great question. The short answer is that there are many social goods which are only available when people of like mind are in the same physical location. Among other things: 1) Walkable communities where everyone has some things in common a
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by balajis 13y ago
Sheesh. Balaji here. Clearly this touched a nerve, so will be writing on this at some length. But this is the bit I don't get: But when I asked him what harms techies faced that might prompt such a drastic response, he couldn&
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by balajis 13y ago
One of the speakers here. I found the online reaction to my talk pretty interesting as a case study in internet telephone. Here's the talk itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A First party viewers mostly s
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by balajis 13y ago
Instructor here. We'll be doing a v2 of the course after a few months and will repost the materials at that time (we've learned a ton from the first MOOC run).
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by balajis 13y ago
Hi Smirnoff: try out the first few lectures and see if it fits your background. The key is how quickly you can pick up the web programming stuff.
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by balajis 13y ago
The full Stanford course materials for the Jan-Mar timeframe are at stanford.coursera.org/cme184-001. The startup.stanford.edu URL tracked the first few weeks, but this was redundant for Stanford students and another page to keep up to
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by balajis 13y ago
The material has changed significantly since v1. Page will be updated soon to track Coursera materials.
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by balajis 13y ago
We'll go pretty deep on emacs, especially for REPL integration and debugging. My reasoning is that most people never get a course on an editor. But people who already use vim, Textmate, or something else can just ignore those parts and
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by balajis 13y ago
Hey guys - this is the instructor here. You can sign up for the class at coursera.org/course/startup. The startup.stanford.edu webpage will be updated sometime tomorrow to start tracking the Coursera MOOC content. Happy to take an
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by balajis 13y ago
Hey Formite - this is the instructor here. I actually did start a reasonably successful biotech/genomics company named Counsyl[1] (~200 employees, testing 3% of US births, $65M in funding) and I do think the ambit of the course is broa
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by balajis 18y ago
Best way I've found to do joint versioning of code with large datasets (whether binary or tab-delimited text): 1. Check in symbolic links to git. You can include the SHA-1 or MD5 in the file name. 2. Have those symbolic links point to your