Hacker News: nebula

New comment by nebula in "Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars"

nebula — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:30:52 +0000

need conditioner and aggressive rubbing it in/scalp self-massage to avoid dandruff.

Curious: Does conditioner help you avoid dandruff? Any explanation as to how it does?

New comment by nebula in "Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages"

nebula — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:58:01 +0000

I checked the character, it is anything but weird. It is a valid character in a language used by millions of people. For those curious: It is a Telugu character; Telugu is one of several widely spoken languages in India.

New comment by nebula in "Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic"

nebula — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:50:54 +0000

I used to browse with lynx till few years ago. I am not sure if it is practical to do that anymore. Most of the web is no longer friendly for text browsing.

Windows face recognition fooled by printed photo

nebula — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-face-recognition-fooled-by-printed-photo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15972634

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

American Equity

nebula — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:30:31 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.samaltman.com/american-equity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789108

Points: 509

# Comments: 535

Twitter Censored Hashtags Critical of Hillary During US Presidential Election

nebula — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:22:14 +0000

Article URL: https://swarajyamag.com/insta/twitter-censored-hashtags-critical-of-hillary-clinton-during-us-election-is-india-next

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616464

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by nebula in "Britain's 'concentration camp' in Russia"

nebula — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 04:59:24 +0000

Did Nazis persecute Christians? My knowledge of German history is very limited, but I remember reading that church supported Hitler.

New comment by nebula in "Easter Island: a sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise"

nebula — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 12:21:17 +0000

The real answer is more sinister. Throughout the 19th century, South American slave raids took away as much as half of the native population. By 1877, the Rapanui numbered just 111. Introduced disease, destruction of property and enforced migration by European traders further decimated the natives and lead to increased conflict among those remaining.

A global food crisis may be less than a decade away

nebula — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:17:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_menker_a_global_food_crisis_may_be_only_a_decade_away

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15433960

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nebula in "Bids in 300MW Saudi solar tender breach two cents"

nebula — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:27:33 +0000

Very interesting. Can you please provide more details on your setup. I would love to know more as I am interested in doing something similar.

New comment by nebula in "IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S"

nebula — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:17:53 +0000

>Even in the Bay Area, a Home is still 5-6X annual income of a typical software engineer.

Is this true? I am ignorant of actual prices in Bay Area, but people are always complaining of high housing prices there.

New comment by nebula in "India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018"

nebula — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:35:06 +0000

A good analysis of the plan and what it takes to implement it successfully: https://swarajyamag.com/infrastructure/before-those-bulbs-ar...

New comment by nebula in "Bakhshali manuscript: oldest recorded use of the zero symbol"

nebula — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:36:24 +0000

American mathematical society has a featured column related to use of zero in India: http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-india-zero...

Chinese Citizens Evade Internet Censors to Remember Liu Xiaobo

nebula — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/world/asia/china-liu-xiaobo-censorship-internet.html?smid=tw-share

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14771760

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Cloudyn acquired by Microsoft

nebula — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:01:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudyn.com/blog/message-from-the-ceo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14664313

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nebula in "Using Tensorflow to Recognize Saimaa Ringed Seals from Webcam"

nebula — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:50:59 +0000

OP said the following about AI SaaS providers:

You are using a “ready” product and so everyone gets the updates to model but your own modifications for the model are impossible with current providers.

I think this may not be true about Azure. In Build conference this year, they demoed cognitive service APIs where one can use transfer learning techniques, and train models and use them.

Neural pattern transmission across brains[video]

nebula — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:51:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ted.com/talks/uri_hasson_this_is_your_brain_on_communication

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14600748

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nebula in "Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B"

nebula — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:59:09 +0000

I know that there are some stories about bad experiences in the fulfillment centers, but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor.

The tone of your writing suggests that you are OK with treating these people badly. If a company treats some set of its workers badly, what stops them from treating other employees the same way? In this case, they may treat SW engineers well because there is a lot of demand for engineers, and they have to be treated well to retain good folks. That is not comparable to the good culture that OP claims WF has.

New comment by nebula in "New SMB Worm Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools, whilst WannaCry Used Just Two"

nebula — Sun, 21 May 2017 16:19:23 +0000

Yeah, I read about Morris worm a year later in my networking textbook. It was a good feeling to realize what I have done was similar in nature. Of course, Morris worm was a real technical exploit (buffer overflow was involved IIRC) Mine was nowhere comparable to that in sophistication.

New comment by nebula in "New SMB Worm Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools, whilst WannaCry Used Just Two"

nebula — Sun, 21 May 2017 08:38:19 +0000

Good thought :) When I put out the first version, I haven't really understood the consequences or its effectiveness; In fact it had my code name in the greeting :( When it first appeared, people found it amusing; but it quickly went out of control and kept appearing again and again. This annoyed people. I was in trouble. I had to quickly find a solution in that panic.