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thro1237··on Google Outpaces Facebook on Getting India Connected to Internet
Whatsapp. A lot of people I know use data just for Whatsapp.
thro1237··on How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server
Any flask based ones?
thro1237··on How to Keep a Journal
And the equivalent for emacs is?
thro1237··on Investing Returns on the S&P500
Is it possible to do it for dollar cost averaging? That is what happens if one didn't invest in a lumpsum but invested $1000 every month -- how does the returns look like for different time periods?
thro1237··on Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
Perhaps I am not understanding his situation properly. If Chrysler refuses to acknowledge that he worked there, why couldn't he apply for jobs without mentioning his experience at Chrysler?
thro1237··on Moving Forward on Basic Income
This was tried in India. It is called MNREGA.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rural_Employment_Guar...

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (or, NREGA No 42) was later renamed as the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act" (or, MGNREGA), is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.[1][2] Starting from 200 districts on 2 February 2006, the NREGA covered all the districts of India from 1 April 2008.[3] The statute is hailed by the government as "the largest and most ambitious social security and public works programme in the world".[4] In its World Development Report 2014, the World Bank termed it a "stellar example of rural development".[5]

thro1237··on How and Why to Log Your Bash History
How do you do this?
thro1237··on I Satisfied My Passion for Software Dev and Open-Source by Doing a Part-Time PhD
If you don't mind -- which univ and which prof?
thro1237··on Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig
Is there any synthesizer that would sound like a real violin?
thro1237··on Hololens pre-orders starting tomorrow, ships in 30 days
They removed a perfectly working functionality. At the time of removal they said it was because they wanted to bring in Skype to XBOX 360. But skype never came to Xbox 360 and it came only in XBox One. This entire feature that is touted in this video [1] is not available in Xbox 360 now. And I bought an XBox 360 because Microsoft's marketing material said it is available.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBsTimrYTIQ

thro1237··on Hololens pre-orders starting tomorrow, ships in 30 days
I am not a gamer, but I bought an XBox 360 and Kinect because it had the messenger app and my parents 10000 miles away can see their grandkids who are always running around. And it worked really well. Then one day, they dropped support for messenger. Now, if you want to have the same functionality, you have to get an XBOX One that integrates with Skype. Several people complained in Microsoft forums about taking away a functionality they explicitly paid for. They were greeted with a link to the legal Terms of Service. That is it. I am not going to get something from a company that does this bait and switch.
thro1237··on Swirl: Learn R, in R
Is there a similar one for numpy/pandas?
thro1237··on I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Do you have a Phd? How did you satisfy the requirements of EB1A otherwise?
thro1237··on Chinese Cash Floods U.S. Real Estate Market
I remember an anecdote where the New York City mayor called up the Chief of Police Department asking him to stop any Japanese guy carrying NYC real estate with him to Japan :)
thro1237··on Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips
Was the 300GB of data processed on MacBook Air? How as the response time for queries?
thro1237··on More parents, students saying 'no' to homework
Any games that will be enjoyed first graders?
thro1237··on Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet reviewed
If only we have GPIO on these tablets!
thro1237··on SICP in Clojure
I tried to use Clojure exclusively at work for couple of years. The problem was I couldn't figure out what my code when I try to go back and read it. I was able to write really succinct code by building up abstractions, but it was much harder to figure out what those abstractions meant few months down the line. I realized that inorder to figure out what the code does, I had to re-run the computations in my memory. Went back to python and I am loving it.
thro1237··on Why Write Python in Visual Studio?
Is there any difference in the code completion for the professional and the community edition. I tried out both and it seemed like some of the code completions only work with the professional edition. Just want to know if this is a bug or a feature :)
thro1237··on How to implement a spreadsheet
Is there a python/clojure/java version of this?
thro1237··on Ask HN: Software developers, What happened when you were fired/laid off?
Edited the title to cover both.
thro1237··on Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
The site shows average salary, but it would be nice to see Median salary. In fact, it might be best to split the salaries into different quartiles.
thro1237··on The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies
Is there a book/documentation on how to do the stuff mentioned in the Haskell documentation using Overtone?
thro1237··on Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
This. I used to do all my programming in clojure. Now I am going back to python -- because I am not able to figure out a month after writing some code, what these deep recursive, reduce, apply things do.. But it is a good exercise writing it.
thro1237··on Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer
How about the 2015 Camry fully loaded?
thro1237··on Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter
Buffett owns 6% of IBM
thro1237··on What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar
I can't find a source quickly -- but I remember reading that many years back (like when we were apes in Africa), the sweetest fruit was probably as sweet as a carrot. We increased the sweetness of fruits through selective breeding to current levels.
thro1237··on Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her to code
If this really comes from a high schooler, I can say that you are going to do really well in life :)
thro1237··on Ask HN: What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?
Thank you very much everyone for all your useful comments. This community is awesome.
thro1237··on Ask HN: What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?
I evaluated few simulators today. Since this is an on-off hobby, I wanted to avoid anything that requires a subscription. I found an app called Everycircuit. The paid version is $10, but there is a limited time free trial as well. Seems very user friendly and nice. LTSpice looked pretty neat and perhaps is very comprehensive, but didn't look very polished and has a learning curve. All these apps use spice behind the scenes. In Linux found an application called ngspice. It is commandline, but pretty nifty.
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