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5,837karma·1,157submissions·August 2, 2011
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In an interview he emphasized that he was a tiny initial investor / had no idea what they were doing (I'm guessing Peter Thiel convinced him to since Stripe was trying to help make their ini…
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Do searches on indeed.com for various kinds of engineers and see what's up. Web developer, software engineer, mobile engineer, mobile developer, data scientist, data engineer, data analyst, front…
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datasciencemasters.org and the HN for Data Sci - datatau.com
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Something like 80 or 90% of USPS revenue comes from junk mail / mailers, companies pay them to guarantee that it shows up in your mailbox. There are services that let you unsubscribe from junk ma…
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Google around, often times people have downloaded the lecture videos / homework assignments
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In most tech companies, data scientists have adopted python over R or Matlab. The benefit is it's easier to scale python to larger datasets, and of course easier for the engineers in the company …
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There needs to be more transparency / data around this to really reach any legitimate conclusions. Salaries alone are only marginally useful, it's also important to know what stage the compa…
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Best comment ever "is he admitting to price fixing?"
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Meh, compare that to Bret Victor's version which is way better IMO http://worrydream.com/#!/ScientificCommunicationAsSequential... …
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Obviously this isn't feasible right now (and probably won't ever be), but this is great out-of-the-box thinking. I think it's super important to have creatives like designers and scienc…
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Principles
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Very nicely done! I would check out Twitter bootstrap or look for a font, that's the only thing that I dislike is the times new roman font. For a website that's focused on consuming text sum…
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Depends, what kinda aspects? E.g., there are a few companies that make drones and satellites for governments & wildlife agencies to better spot poachers and track deforestation and do targeted, ef…
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this is a parody site right?
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Exactly, just more for Uncle Sam. At least credit card companies are re-investing their profits to cut down fraud and try to make money transfer easier in general. Could they be doing more? Of course,…
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If your set on becoming a data scientist, I would just take a tom of courses on coursera.org - machine learning, computing for data analysis, intro to data science, natural language processing, then c…