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vr3690··on Stack Overflow Salary Calculator
Maybe most of those roles can be lumped under devops. They probably don't have enough data to for ml/ai
vr3690··on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
Yep. I do this and route my email through mailgun that allows me to setup rules for forwarding emails. Their free tier is pretty generous and works great for my needs. Also solves the problem of shoddy websites selling my email because I gave them an unique email address and can block all emails coming to that address easily, if needed.
vr3690··on [dead]
Is there a version for Kindle?
vr3690··on Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves
Ola seems to be doing fine and I think they've some sort of partnership with lyft where at some point in time you'll be able to use the lyft app and hail ola rides. This hasn't happened yet, though.
vr3690··on Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?
I'm in Bangalore for a few days right now and I am interested in talking about it. Contact me through my website listed on the profile. FYI, I live in the US.
vr3690··on New Surface Pro
That's false. I've returned a number of items to Amazon India, Myntra and other online/offline stores
vr3690··on Twilio stock plummets as major client Uber distances itself
Can you really hop onto whichever network you like? I thought they made that decision for you.
vr3690··on Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
Maybe they learnt their lesson from the whole Free Basics debacle and are trying to bring low cost internet to developing areas. But that's just me being optimistic. Realistic me feels like they might just use this as another trojan horse to bring Facebook rather than the internet to more people.
vr3690··on Google Street View banned in India due to security concerns
A blanket ban to protect a few defense installations seems like an overreaction. They do mention that monitoring it after launch would be impossible, but mistakes can discouraged by imposing large fines or something similar to that.
vr3690··on 93% of phishing emails are now ransomware
Anybody have recommendations for decent providers of such backup services?
vr3690··on Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing
If technology comes far enough that telepresence is preferred to on-site, I think it would be pretty trivial to replace the headset with whatever is behind them in VR
vr3690··on Akasha: A Social Media Network Powered by Ethereum and IPFS
Wasn't clear from the page. What can I use it for? Why does it exist?
vr3690··on The future of SaaS hosted Git repository pricing
I think they meant examples of companies using microservices
vr3690··on Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine
I get the acronym is easy to pronounce with the suggested word, but why not just use the suggested word (destiny) as the name instead of the acronym. So much easier to read and write. They could explain the name's origin in Readme.md
vr3690··on “Facebook has destroyed the open web”
I hate FB and stopped using it a few months ago. But the people behind the company are pretty clever. They might have seen the writing on the wall and are trying to move pretty quickly to act against it. You've already alluded to one, but FB has also bought Oculus, Instagram and WhatsApp. All for ridiculous amounts of money, but with a crazy amount of potential. As a company FB isn't going anywhere, any time soon and by extension nor are its ideologies and practices.
vr3690··on Introducing Ozlo – Personal AI chatbot
So, I'm curious about this. Does a waitlist with a referral system help increase signups? I'm wondering how's it better than wait lists that don't push you up the line for referring people. Is it worth dedicating resources to build it out?
vr3690··on “Facebook has destroyed the open web”
Don't they have like 1.65B MAUs? How is that a fad?
vr3690··on Introducing Ozlo – Personal AI chatbot
Are you guys using a service for managing the waitlist or did you build it inhouse?
vr3690··on Siri creator shows off first public demo of Viv
I am gonna copy paste a similar comment I made on a related thread [0]. That demo was very cool. But:

1. do we really want a centralised service for everything that has access to a lot of data within a walled garden?

2. Siri only works well with North American accents afaik (maybe all western accents?). Alexa's voice recognition is the best and I hope Viv does a similar job.

3. This is mostly a personal preference, but for online shopping I prefer using a lot of filters. This UI doesn't really help with that. Also, HN probably knows better but is the "computed plan" shown in the demo, different from an execution plan created by an RDBMS?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11660916

vr3690··on Creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible
That demo was very cool. But:

1. do we really want a centralised service for everything that has access to a lot of data within a walled garden?

2. Siri only works well with North American accents afaik (maybe all western accents?). Alexa's voice recognition is the best and I hope Viv does a similar job.

3. This is mostly a personal preference, but for online shopping I prefer using a lot of filters. This UI doesn't really help with that.

Also, HN probably knows better but is the "computed plan" shown in the demo, different from an execution plan created by an RDBMS?

vr3690··on Ask HN: F1 student stuck in a CS-PhD program. How do I get a job?
You can do it mate! Best of luck!

Try switching advisors or maybe even fields within your CS department. You might start something you like

vr3690··on Ask HN: Where can I learn how to build a recommender system?
This is a good course for the fundamentals. Although IIRC the programming assignments aren't that great because it mostly involves plugging in their recommender system framework that was developed by one of the instructors
vr3690··on Ask HN: F1 student stuck in a CS-PhD program. How do I get a job?
In another comment you mentioned that you've already used your post completion opt.

Can you apply for a STEM extension now? That will keep you in the country and let you work for another 24 months. Try to get the highest paying job you can and then Aggressively save to pay off your student loan?

After that to continue staying in the country you'll have to get an H1-B. Having graduated from a US masters program you have slightly better chance in the MS cap but the odds may not be in your favour.

The safest option would be to plow through your PhD program. But you probably already knew that.

Quitting the program and getting a job might be a gamble, but weighing the risks is something you'll obviously have to figure out.

vr3690··on Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot?
That's true for all bots though, isn't it?
vr3690··on Microsoft stops Google being used for Cortana searches
Google develops Android for a reason - so you use Google more often rather than its competitors. It's a simple business decision.
vr3690··on Amazon's Alexa is the new Vaudeville
> it being on almost every windows pc

Every PC with Windows 10. I'm not sure how many there are, but it may not be most widespread or most used.

vr3690··on Docker for Mac Beta Review
Can I get in on this too please? Hoping to get my team onto docker in the next couple of months. Docker ID is vr3690. Thanks!
vr3690··on Ask HN: Where do you host your CV/resume?
Have you looked at JSONResume [0]? I build my resume in JSON and use git and github pages along with the resume-cli [1] to export it out to HTML/PDF formats. My homepage is a single page hosted with github pages that links to these exported resumes and the JSON one too.

Ideally I would like a single CLI command that pushes out my updated resume to all those sites.

[0]:http://jsonresume.org/ [1]:https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-cli

vr3690··on Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE
Don't see any contribution information? Are you planning on developing all of it yourself?
vr3690··on Macro trends in the tech industry
It'll be interesting to see if the crowd on HN has noticed any other trends missed by the author
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