<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pramalin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pramalin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:28:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pramalin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I found this study plan very useful for me.
<a href="https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/01/the-most-comprehensive-data-science-learning-plan-for-2017/" rel="nofollow">https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/01/the-most-compre...</a><p>Provides a very good idea of the courses required and their time frame. I roughly followed along this path but took "Analytics Edge" <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-3" rel="nofollow">https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-3</a> for introduction into ML algorithms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:49:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15122966</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15122966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15122966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can also dive in first and then cover the math behind ML, by taking Andrew Ng's courses. 
    <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning</a>
    <a href="https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15117585</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15117585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15117585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "On Loneliness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have read many of his books and listened to his video talks with his followers while I was in Chennai.
The "Commentaries on Living" series are easy to read and my favorites.
    <a href="http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en" rel="nofollow">http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en</a>
    <a href="http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/commentaries-on-living-series-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/commentaries-on-living-...</a><p>His teachings are just the opposite of Gita (and other Hindu scriptures), which prescribes caste based society as the act of God.<p>I moved on from his abstract teachings to practical life changing works of Osho, Ambedhkar and finally to E.V.Ramasamy (Periyar).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638045</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not all calories are the same. For example, body excretes excess dietary fat, but stores excess carbohydrates adding 4 times the amount of water to it. You can find the details in any Paleo Diet related site.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12601654</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12601654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12601654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Angular 2 Final Released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have used Angular in multi-page application, using Angular as a better JQuery in Spring MVC application. This setup worked well combining the best of both frameworks.
Angular provided two-way binding, rendering templates (in loop), dialog box interactions, better AJAX, etc.
Angular based component libraries provided calendar controls, dynamic tables, etc.
Spring took care of the routing pages, handling UI requests and returning JSON response from services.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12505287</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12505287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12505287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "China’s tyranny of characters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>//As a comparison, India, which teaches Hindi and English in school, both of which much simpler scripts than Han, has achieved an average of 74% literacy rate in the most recent census.//
The reason for lower literacy rates in India may not anything to do with how complex their scripts are. Elites just passed on their Sanskrit scriptures orally among themselves to exclude others from learning them. Their laws also denied education to the working class. In modern times, many children just can't go to school for many reasons. There are no schools accessible or affordable, they may need to fetch firewood, water, may need to take care of cattle, family members, and so on. (My mom curse their parents to this day, because they stopped her school in her 4th grade, to take care of her baby sister). In south India, there are free meal schemes for school children to alleviate these problems to some extent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:53:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12043870</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12043870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12043870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is an Indian Facebook group about Paleo diet, where dozens if not hundreds of people followed simple LCHF diet and reversed their type 2 diabetics and got type 1 under control among other improvements. Few physicians also got cured and they started advocating the diet. These doctors are working towards getting Indian Diabetes Association to recognize LCHF diet as a viable remedy.<p>You can see many medical reports posted by the members for your reference. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/tamilhealth/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/tamilhealth/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:45:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565909</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Survived a complete rewrite for a client just now.<p>The previous team blindly relied on a single method from Spring framework's RestTemplate
for every rest service calls with SAP backend.<p><pre><code>    ResponseEntity<T> exchange(String url,
        HttpMethod method,
        HttpEntity<?> requestEntity,
        Class<T> responseType,
        Object... uriVariables)
        throws RestClientException</code></pre>
(ref: <a href="https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/client/RestTemplate.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/s...</a>)<p>This forsed them to create object models structured to match the complicated 
and inconsitent request and response JSON strings that SAP used, instead of creating the objects 
modeled after the business domains. The result was no surprise was a disaster and the client wasted five months with them and I had to redo and complete the project still on time.<p>I still see many teams make their function signatures in Java so convoluted like below and don't know
what hit them.<p><pre><code>    interface ToDoService {
        ListToDoResponse listToDo(ListToDoRequest request) throws ListToDoException;
        AddToDoResponse addToDo(AddToDoRequest request) throws AddToDoException;
        .. and so on ..
    }</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:45:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554602</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "It’s gotten harder to lose weight and not for the reasons you think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Calories in calories out, hypothesis is proven wrong by many people.<p>In a Low Corb High Fat diet, excess dietary fat is burned out and excreted. On the other hand High Corb diet, corbs are stored as fat causing obesity.<p>I have personally seen many people who have transformed their heath with this basic understanding.
Ref: <a href="http://thepaleodiet.com/stop-counting-calories-start-assessing-quality/" rel="nofollow">http://thepaleodiet.com/stop-counting-calories-start-assessi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:58:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318153</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "How Wasps Use Viruses to Genetically Engineer Caterpillars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>//Maybe one day we will have crops that infest with viruses their predators?// Not viruses, but crops already do that according to Loren Cordain see: <a href="http://thepaleodiet.com/grains-and-toxins/" rel="nofollow">http://thepaleodiet.com/grains-and-toxins/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:36:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10254619</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10254619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10254619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "The Hidden Connection Between Morality and Language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>// “the use of a foreign language, as opposed to a native language, elicited less harsh moral judgments.”// I thought this is a common observation.<p>Indian movies, writings, conversations openly curse in English, but the exact words in native language would be considered as blasphemy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:25:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158693</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Soylent 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Soy is a big no within the Paleo diet group I know. This is because it's potent with Phytic acid which binds to other nutrients and turn them into waste. Consumers beware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 13:58:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995814</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Ask HN: What are the books that changed the perspective of your life?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From Sex to Superconsciousness - Osho
A great stress reliever for an Indian who was feeling guilty all the time waking or sleeping.<p>Many articles by rationalist and reformer Periyar E.V.Ramasamy  <a href="http://Periyar.org" rel="nofollow">http://Periyar.org</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:25:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9348738</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9348738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9348738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Artoo: Ruby on Robots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have started and coached a new FIRST Robotics Competition  team last year for 2014-2015 season and wanted to use Java. Initially I thought the programming would be very complicated for the high school students, many of whom didn't have any prior programming experience.<p>How can you control the speed of the robot proportional to the pressure applied on the joystick for example?. However, I was very pleased with the WPILib framework that comes with the kit. This can be accomplished by essentially a single  line like (ignoring the variable initialization),<p><pre><code>    myRobot.arcade(stick);
</code></pre>
<a href="http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/4485/m/13809/l/145307-creating-your-benchtop-test-program" rel="nofollow">http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/4485/m/13809/l/145307-cr...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:24:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238264</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know this is not the most appropriate place to ask. Last year I tried creating subtitles for a movie in Tamil and VLC rendered the texts incorrectly like in the very old browsers. Is the unicode rendering improved in this release?</p>
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<p>May be relevant: there is a cool game - knapsack on a radial graph, with Scala source code.
    <a href="http://krishnanraman.github.io/scala-js/examples/helloworld/helloworld.html" rel="nofollow">http://krishnanraman.github.io/scala-js/examples/helloworld/...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:21:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183694</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have also used MyBatis in few projects and recommend it for  applications that are database centric. I would use ORM only if the requirements call for object persistence and be DB/SQL agnostic.</p>
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<p>I think the author is out of touch with modern Java development practices. Any decent Java developer would have got exposed to POJO based development[1] by now.
  [1]Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB -  Rod Johnson, 2004<p>These days even the much hatted EJBs are POJO based and lot easier to work with. Not to mention Lambda support in Java 8 and the hybrid approach of Scala, my favorite.</p>
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<p>Try[1] in Scala standard library is also similar in concept. Erik Meijer covers this subject very well in his talks[2].<p><pre><code>  [1]The Try type represents a computation that may either result in an exception, or return a successfully computed value. http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/nightly/docs/library/index.html#scala.util.Try
  [2]http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Keynote-Duality</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:17:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052242</link><dc:creator>pramalin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pramalin in "Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One example of right layoff I have seen is at the rail-road company in my town. They hired consultants to help with the process.
My friend explained me how it went. Each person was given a questionnaire asking whom they are reporting to and who are reporting to them. The organization was so bad that many managers did not know who are all the people reporting to them. These people and others many people who were working from home most of the time were the first set of people to go.</p>
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