Hacker News: IndianAstronaut

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Saturn moon 'able to support life'"

IndianAstronaut — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 02:47:18 +0000

If life was not there, I would wager that life is exceedingly rare in our universe.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Cassini: Mission to Saturn: NASA's Cassini Mission Prepares for Grand Finale"

IndianAstronaut — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 07:16:36 +0000

Saturn's moons are much more likely to spread any contamination due to the presence of liquids. Liquid water on Enceldus and hydrocarbon lakes on Titan.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "The tech industry has a problem with “bro culture”"

IndianAstronaut — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 01:05:54 +0000

Financial companies are also competing for tech talent. Anything that drives away top talent from tech companies is a win for financial ones.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Ask HN: Ever met a psychopathic CEO?"

IndianAstronaut — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 07:47:36 +0000

Not a CEO, but I am currently dealing with a very vindictive and petty VP. Absolutely no empathy or thought for others. Brings similar people on board her team and they run amock making the lives of their subordinates or others that deal with them miserable. The lower end managers are blatantly self centered, but the higher up you go, the shit just gets more polish. Capital One has been quite the nightmare.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)"

IndianAstronaut — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 05:16:37 +0000

Do you have a separate link or confact for HNers?

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas"

IndianAstronaut — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:15:19 +0000

Mexico could capitalize on this as well. Guadalajara is a mini tech hub.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind"

IndianAstronaut — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 04:54:05 +0000

R's data analysis libraries are still far ahead of Python. Dplyr, Shiny, etc. So much stuff is still in built in R.

Places where I still use R is its easy to use statistical functions, handling large amounts of missing data, etc.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "12,000 startups are being created every day in China [video]"

IndianAstronaut — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:42:36 +0000

>commodiously embeds into Business Intelligence which creates an interurban transcendence

Wow.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners"

IndianAstronaut — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:19:11 +0000

A better option would be to employ more people in the sciences. There is still a lot to be discovered and labs I have worked in have a range of work to be done from the low skilled cleaning glassware to high skilled design of experiments.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere"

IndianAstronaut — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:16:28 +0000

I am curious why we don't focus more efforts on Titan, which already has a thick nitrogen atmosphere.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "What terrible treatment have you seen in the workplace?"

IndianAstronaut — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 03:36:58 +0000

Sure. Basically started off there working with analysis teams. You will be working with some very old school managers who follow a strict hierarchy. Things may seem golden for a couple months, but then the threats and intimidation go into full gear. I was told that I would be held liable for failures even though my manager was making the decisions which were resulting in failures. I was told multiple times that if a project was not done, I would be in big trouble.

If I spoke up about a new technology or method, I was told sarcastically that "oh you're so smart". I have been told that the work I am doing isn't rocket science.

Micromanagement has been the norm lots of digging into the details of the project by managers who don't even know the difference between Java and Javascript.

Nothing is in writing so managers frequently will bring up issues about things not getting done or taking a different direction. The politics are rotten.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "What terrible treatment have you seen in the workplace?"

IndianAstronaut — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:57:07 +0000

I am experiencing this now at Capital One. Routinely berated, intimidated into better performance, arbitrary judgements, a lot of belittling(e.g. you're no rocket scientist), and threats (eg you are screwing your reviews, I will hold you liable, etc.).

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Inside NASA’s Space Farming Labs"

IndianAstronaut — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 03:36:38 +0000

>The future is probably artificially produced food, like the porridge / sludge shown in the Matrix. Something out of a chemical process instead of a biological one.

I imagine we can synthesize relatively simple molecules such as glucose to supplement calories when needed by astronauts.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Inside NASA’s Space Farming Labs"

IndianAstronaut — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 03:35:17 +0000

Do you have a link to your 3D printed growth substrate or an info page?

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Mathematicians becoming data scientists"

IndianAstronaut — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:14:44 +0000

Take a look into data engineering. A lot of data engineering jobs require you to implement mathematical models at scale.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "[dead]"

IndianAstronaut — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 07:13:41 +0000

Title is very click-baity. The concept is nothing new, very similar to the idea of a 'promoter' in Net Promoter Score (NPS).

The Purpose of the Telescopes Is to Give Us Back the Galaxy

IndianAstronaut — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 07:10:11 +0000

Article URL: http://now.space/posts/purpose-telescopes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736085

Points: 2

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New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Ask HN: Is a Master's Degree in Bioinformatics a Foolish Idea?"

IndianAstronaut — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:59:19 +0000

I have a bench biology background. Have looked into bioinformatics as a career option before, but I just went the straight corporate route and got into a finance company as an analyst and then engineer. Just not enough good paying jobs to go around in bioinformatics.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth"

IndianAstronaut — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:56:01 +0000

Considering the time scales involved, it wouldn't surprise me if multiple planets around nearby stars happened to be seeded with earth based bacterial/archaea life.

New comment by IndianAstronaut in "Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'"

IndianAstronaut — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:18:14 +0000

JOVE is really nice. My old lab posted some videos on there of how to for experiments. It is a huge step up from just reading methods and materials.