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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 g…

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.…

:) I assure you that we are going to be hiring engineers through this process.

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 programmin…

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, …

Sure, go ahead! We just ask that you not share the questions with others after completing it.

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.

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.

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 challen…

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) Wal…

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 mi…

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=cO…

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).

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.

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 redunda…

The material has changed significantly since v1. Page will be updated soon to track Coursera materials.

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, Text…

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 tr…

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 …

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 i…