Hacker News: akashshah

After long battle, Uber becomes first taxi app to get approved in New York City

akashshah — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:10:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4271490/uber-becomes-first-taxi-app-to-get-approved-in-new-york-city

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5617243

Points: 1

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Customer Seating and Standing Behaviors Onboard Subway Cars in New York City

akashshah — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:16:24 +0000

Article URL: http://docs.trb.org/prp/13-1693.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5549888

Points: 1

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Roman trove beneath Bloomberg London HQ

akashshah — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:09:42 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22084384

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5524567

Points: 2

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Charting drone strikes

akashshah — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:19:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/03/charting-drone-strikes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441017

Points: 3

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Alice Finch builds massive Lego Hogwarts from 400,000 bricks

akashshah — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:34:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.brothers-brick.com/2013/02/26/alice-finch-builds-massive-lego-hogwarts-from-400000-bricks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5290358

Points: 1

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New comment by akashshah in "The Department of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today"

akashshah — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:30:30 +0000

IIRC, Arrington is an ardent follower of Libertarianism

New comment by akashshah in "Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere"

akashshah — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:07:32 +0000

There are some non-programmers in my team who use excel to generate bash scripts because they find the bash for-loop syntax too hard

New comment by akashshah in "Show HN: Netflix Rate Chrome Extension"

akashshah — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:09:11 +0000

This is exactly what I was looking for since around a month now.

New comment by akashshah in "The Python yield keyword explained"

akashshah — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:50:03 +0000

Other amazing Python answers by the same guy:

What is a metaclass in Python - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-is-a-metaclas...

Understanding Python decorators - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-pyth...

New comment by akashshah in "Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store"

akashshah — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:26:51 +0000

Why don't they pull the Chrome app because I can turn the default safe search off and search for porn?

New comment by akashshah in "Google Voice Alternative SendHub Offers An Easier Way To Provision Phone Lines"

akashshah — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:19:52 +0000

Agree with you on the Google not caring about the product at all. I am so dependent on Google Voice right now to the extent that I don't even know my real number. But Google's approach to Voice is scaring me more with every passing month and year. I even switched to Sprint because they have carrier integration with Voice but even that is a half-hearted integration: - Text messages arrive after random delays. - My outgoing number switches to the Sprint number if I am on call roaming. - When I am logged in to gmail on my computer, it is always unpredictable where it is going to route my incoming call - to my phone or to gmail. - Some services don't consider the Google Voice number to be a valid number (for e.g. I had problems recently trying to get FiOS to recognize my Google Voice number)

The universal language of lullabies

akashshah — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:17:48 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21035103

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090203

Points: 1

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New comment by akashshah in "Best Practices for Scientific Computing"

akashshah — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:29:04 +0000

This sounds like best plans for computing in general, not just scientific computing

New comment by akashshah in "Lobsters"

akashshah — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:23:18 +0000

The irony is that the current submission's title needs to change from "Yehuda Katz..." to "Joshua Stein..."

New comment by akashshah in "Lobsters"

akashshah — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:19:35 +0000

He links to https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker... from the projects page

New comment by akashshah in "Lobsters"

akashshah — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:09:26 +0000

According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News."

EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters which explains some features

New comment by akashshah in "Android based camera from Nikon: Coolpix S800"

akashshah — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:18:54 +0000

There are so many things a camera could do that it can't right now: * Sharing photos on Facebook, Twitter * Post processing pictures (like Instagram) * Automatic backup to Dropbox * Live stream videos

New comment by akashshah in "[dead]"

akashshah — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:51:04 +0000

The section in the penal code should have read "deliberately letting your religious feelings get hurt and attempting malicious acts intended to outrage the religious sentiments of any class or community." instead of "deliberately hurting religious feelings and attempting malicious acts intended to outrage the religious sentiments of any class or community."

New comment by akashshah in "Google I/O 2012"

akashshah — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:34:55 +0000

That is because you were just seeing the output of Google Glass's camera, not seeing what gets shown on the Glass's display. It may already be showing the Maps overlay for all you know.

New comment by akashshah in "Facebook doing MITM attack on your email."

akashshah — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:51:25 +0000

I fail to see how this is a MITM attack