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alphagrep12345··on Hacker Surfing: Free Housing for Engineers and Designers Visiting SF
Done. Looking forward to it :)
alphagrep12345··on Manipulating an Indian politicians’s tweets is worryingly easy to do
This is just insane.
alphagrep12345··on Hacker Surfing: Free Housing for Engineers and Designers Visiting SF
Love the concept. I'm already in the bay, and just want to socialize. Can I come to the next socializing event? I won't need any housing.
alphagrep12345··on Edit My Ex – Remove Your Ex from Your Photos
£6.99 for a photo? That's too steep. I guess this can be automated.
alphagrep12345··on Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
I wanted to make something like this for a long time. Thanks.
alphagrep12345··on Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
If it's not revealing too much, can you tell us a bit more about how you got the necessary training data? And any tips on optimizing models for on-device ML?
alphagrep12345··on Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
Ah, gotcha. This is a really cool idea. All the best.
alphagrep12345··on Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
Not to make it sound simple, but all you’re doing is running a small neural net on device to identify multiple card formats. What prevents a payment gateway like stripe to do the same thing inhouse? Doesn’t sound like a very difficult thing, especially considering that tools to do on device ML have proliferated.
alphagrep12345··on How to Be Successful
Won't basic universal income give rise to more inflation and negate the benefits in the first place?
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What is the fastest way to code a website?
I haven't thought about it actually. Will look into. Thanks
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What is the fastest way to code a website?
Looks like a good one. However, the problem with US-based frameworks is that I'm not located in US, and hence these frameworks poorly integrate with payment gateways of my country (India)
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What is the fastest way to code a website?
Yeah, maybe it's a better idea. There are classifieds plugins in WordPress. I'll look into that.
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What is the fastest way to code a website?
Sure, I am willing to try it out. Can you provide me your email id? However, how can I validate the idea just with a mockup?
alphagrep12345··on Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
One more todo and notes app. Why does the world need so many such apps? I always find myself changing from one such app to another, porting all the existing notes. Currently I'm using onenote and am very content with it. But there's always this feeling that something's not quite right. I tried evernote, onenote, and several other notes apps. I don't understand why I try so many note taking apps. I think others too feel the same way. Any ideas why?
alphagrep12345··on Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant instant messaging
Tor can also be de-anonymized if a person controls a significant chunk of the network. However, if we keep changing the route constantly, (instead of establishing a static route during startup time and just reusing it, as tor does), we might make a much better and safer system. As you can expect, creating route takes time and defeats the purpose of IM.
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?
It’s shorter only on L1a. I have L1b. I don’t get any such benefits.
alphagrep12345··on Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?
I am completely clueless and confused.

I’m 23 yr old working in a dead end job at Oracle. Each day of my work just makes me feel more drained and irrelevant. I’m unable to change company because of visa (I’m on l1). I am split between changing the team or leaving USA for London/India for good.

Leaving USA is a risky career proposition - which also pulls me towards doing a masters so that I can stay in US few more years and work on OPT without restrictions. However my friends who are currently pursuing masters are not getting jobs easily, which makes me wonder again. All these worries never give me enough time to pursue my dream of enterprenuership and starting up something seriously.

So many considerations, so many thoughts and a very confusing year ahead for me.

alphagrep12345··on Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes
Sorry if I shouldn't ask this on a public forum, but I'm pretty confused as to 'How does an international guy start a startup in USA?' I've even asked a question here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17770245

Can you please reply?

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