Hacker News: demodifier

New comment by demodifier in "Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets"

demodifier — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:03:40 +0000

This is an interesting article about what is considered the most remote point on earth: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/point-n... A lot of satellite debris is targeted there but of course we cannot expect all space debris to be so controlled and in this case SpaceX went for a region that was quite remote.

New comment by demodifier in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

demodifier — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 02:08:07 +0000

We make an IoT device that is used for precision agriculture data collection out in the field, close to the crop that is being grown. We specialize in capturing spectral data related to plant growth and can also cat as a hub for connected sensors from other companies measuring complementary data.

New comment by demodifier in "What is the randomart image for?"

demodifier — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:49:06 +0000

Good question. I would assume that with the visualization being defined by the public-key of the server, this cannot be use to reverse-engineer the private key. Also, the linked paper (I just read the summary) does try to attempt this and partially succeeds and talks more about the implication.

New comment by demodifier in "U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon"

demodifier — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 05:40:23 +0000

Regarding the last point of US putting balloons over China, that page has the following two paragraphs:

"Worldwide, there are about 1,300 upper-air stations. Observations are made by the NWS at 92 stations - 69 in the conterminous United States, 13 in Alaska, nine in the Pacific, and one in Puerto Rico.

NWS supports the operation of 10 other stations in the Caribbean. Through international agreements data are exchanged between countries worldwide."

This seems to suggest that NWS does not operate those over China but the map simply shows all the balloon weather stations that are part of this system.

New comment by demodifier in "Long-term visa for remote workers"

demodifier — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 21:45:41 +0000

One of the prerequisites is that the candidate does not otherwise need a visa to travel Iceland. Which means that foreign nationals who reside in the US and work in the kind of jobs that will meet the criteria Iceland is looking for will not be eligible for this.

New comment by demodifier in "Microsoft/IoT-for-Beginners: 12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, IoT for All"

demodifier — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 03:16:36 +0000

Would you ming sharing what you are looking for. I work for Arable (arable.com) and am interested in your use case, both to see if our product helps and to learn about new requirements.

New comment by demodifier in "Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets"

demodifier — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 03:47:56 +0000

This particular requirement is tied to operating what's called a single-brand retail outlet in India. That would be Apple-owned Apple Stores. It is not clear to me if this is a requirement for foreign manufacturers who are manufacturing/assembling products in India and then exporting them.

New comment by demodifier in "Show HN: Explore 16 Years of Green Card Applications"

demodifier — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:48:38 +0000

I also wonder what happened to Indian applicants in 2012[0]. A 0.03% success rate.

[0] - http://data.jobsintech.io/green-cards/india/2012

New comment by demodifier in "Why do buses bunch?"

demodifier — Wed, 20 May 2015 23:50:22 +0000

I regularly use Muni line 29. At least a couple of times a week, commute hour buses do this. Usually it works out okay for two reasons:

1. The next bus is right around the corner or I have my transit App to give an idea about delay if I cannot see the next bus yet. generally the delay is of teh order of 2 ~ 3 minutes.

2. The next bus is also has less people and the journey is thus more pleasant.

Things do screw up at times though. This weekend, a driver did not stop and indicated that there was a bus following him. The App showed the next bus was 20 minutes behind. I had to catch a different bus after that. I hope this does not happen on working days.

Riak, Elasticsearch and Numad Walk into a Red Hat

demodifier — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:08:33 +0000

Article URL: http://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2015/04/14/riak-elasticsearch-and-numad-walk-into-a-red-hat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9377910

Points: 3

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New comment by demodifier in "At"

demodifier — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:07:41 +0000

That is indeed the case. The 'at the rate of' usage was quite popular in arithmetic problems even in the early 90s when most of the population was unaware of emails. My parents still say it as at the rate of when reading aloud an email address.

New comment by demodifier in "Ancient Indian Texts"

demodifier — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:51:09 +0000

In general, when talking about pre-Islamic India to an Indian audience the word Hindu is not always used explicitly since Hindu culture was the dominant culture in that period and there is no need to distinguish it from any competing culture except in special circumstances. The claims of greatness of culture spread though out the site refer to a period such as this.

New comment by demodifier in "Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices"

demodifier — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 05:39:14 +0000

Just like the pixel density of an image, beyond a certain value, makes no difference to the human eye, perhaps the touch screen response time also gets perceived only up to a certain speed. Any faster and it makes no difference. Outliers with above average visual capability do perceive things differently and maybe you have a similar ability with respect to noticing touch screen response times. That might explain why most people don't care so much. Just theorising here, but if anybody has any numbers, it would be good.

New comment by demodifier in "Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search"

demodifier — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:44:25 +0000

Going to Google.com and disabling Instant Search, searching for something and then enabling it back worked for me. Now, searching from the address bar on Chrome works fine and am no longer redirected to blank.html.

A daring attempt against the Daring Fireball

demodifier — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:36:17 +0000

Article URL: http://johngruber.tumblr.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297215

Points: 3

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New comment by demodifier in "Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site."

demodifier — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:09:15 +0000

Heh. Same this happened to me. Took so much time to load that I thought there was something wrong. Clicked on your link and the image/link was cached. Now, it shows up instantaneously when I mouse over in the main site.

New comment by demodifier in "WebSocket whiteboard with chat"

demodifier — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:48:41 +0000

Nice hack. In case you are using Node.js in the back end, you might want to check out socket.io. Provides Websocket support as well fall back transports for browsers that don't support WS.

New comment by demodifier in "WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?"

demodifier — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:32:36 +0000

This post is a link to the original EDGE Magazine article that the first post, a Guardian article summarises. Not sure that's reason enough for flagging because of duplication but I would understand if the all caps title persuaded you. :)

New comment by demodifier in "Programmer Competency Matrix: Do you use it when hiring?"

demodifier — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:40:47 +0000

This page links to Sirin Joseph's page as the source, http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph/archive/2008/04/30/programmer... That is turn links to the IndianGeek source. That should resolve it.

The art of classifying computer science research.

demodifier — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:39:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mootaz/ftp/html/research.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646030

Points: 1

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