Hacker News: sachingulaya

New comment by sachingulaya in "Immunotherapy cancer drug hailed as 'game changer'"

sachingulaya — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 22:21:40 +0000

For measuring survival my old lab championed the Kaplan-meier estimator for its ability to censor non-cancer causes of death. The 5yr survival can be heavily skewed if patients are dying from secondary causes such as heart attacks, getting hit by a bus, etc. Oftentimes patients with cancer have other serious comorbidities.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar"

sachingulaya — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:38:12 +0000

All of the cars since late 2014 have autopilot hardware installed. This allows purchasers to activate autopilot after the sale of the vehicle.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Secret Ingredients: China’s “Fake Food”"

sachingulaya — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 23:53:20 +0000

A used HP 5890 might be 3k usd but realistically you are looking at 40k for a refurbished unit. That's what I paid for mine. You can never turn off a GC without an elaborate shutdown procedure. They consume a lot of power and require AC to be running. You need to keep a low level of gas flowing all the time.

It's about as far from accessible as one can get. I can't even imagine sample prep and...well, it's just not a viable solution. As a manufacturing principle QC should be performed in process and at the least processed state.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Musk urges Tesla workers to cut costs ahead of fundraising round"

sachingulaya — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:00:08 +0000

I found this description of a 'typical' supercharger setup:

"The eight bay setup takes a 12kV, 750kVA feed from the utility, steps it down to 480V three phase on site, pushes that into 2000A switchgear which feeds four (one for each pair of bays) SuperCharger units at 480V/200A."

New comment by sachingulaya in "Musk urges Tesla workers to cut costs ahead of fundraising round"

sachingulaya — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 17:45:13 +0000

You may be underestimating the power draw of supercharger stations. My model X pulls 200-300Amps of 400V power at a supercharger station with 8-12 stalls.

That is over 80,000watts per stall.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden?"

sachingulaya — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 01:47:08 +0000

I can't comment on Hillary's character other than she seemed cold when I met her. I do have to say though that oftentimes there are larger strategic decisions to be made. "The united states has no permanent allies or enemies--only interests."

New comment by sachingulaya in "San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000"

sachingulaya — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:04:44 +0000

The business pitch is usually "delay evictions now". The cold caller will get a list of properties that have recently gone into foreclosure. They call and offer to delay your eviction by 3-5 months as long as you pay them $400/month. Then they have paralegals file paperwork with the courts to contest the eviction. Basically they're using due process to delay being evicted and instead of paying their landlord they're paying the cold caller. I first saw this scam being run by a group of former drug dealers.

I would complain to the state bar about your legal clinic behaving unethically. The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

New comment by sachingulaya in "San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000"

sachingulaya — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 07:08:53 +0000

Kind of shocked to hear about this happening at a "legal clinic". I'm familiar with the business structure behind these types of programs and they're invariably seedy characters involved with a paralegal group and lots of cold calling. Clogging up the courts so you can avoid paying rent...shrug

New comment by sachingulaya in "UBER ATC is disguising research as fake job interviews?"

sachingulaya — Fri, 27 May 2016 03:43:57 +0000

I request work samples from applicants with the same brief that would be given to a task currently facing our internal team. It makes it easy to compare candidates not only to each other but to our internal team. As our internal team has the project fresh in their mind they're aware of the requirements, scope, and limitations of the project. It makes them better able to judge the candidate's work.

Of course we pay them for this work at a predefined rate.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Bees Making Honey with Cannabis"

sachingulaya — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:22:06 +0000

I was specifically referring to the brand name and I, unfortunately, can't speak to the differences with never having seen the bee pollinated honey seen in the article.

I will shed some light on THC infused honey (and edibles in general). Edibles are typically made from the lowest quality part of the plant known as 'trim'. For edibles the typical choice is ethanol for extraction which also extracts and concentrates any pesticides or sulfur used(sulfur burns are used as a pesticide alternative). Then that extract has solvent removed via rotary evaporation and that oil is mixed with honey and packaged in someone's warehouse. You'll often see honey and THC separate into two visible fractions if effort wasn't put into proper formulation.

For the honey in the article the beekeeper is hoping the trichromes(THC containing) of the marijuana plant will be carried and incorporated into the honey. I highly doubt this will work unless there are other instances of pollen products showing up in honey...but it's great marketing.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Bees Making Honey with Cannabis"

sachingulaya — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:05:48 +0000

Amusingly, there is already a popular cannabis-infused honey for sale in California under the brand name 'Honey Pot'.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Feds Raid Hoverboard Booth at CES"

sachingulaya — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 04:16:33 +0000

The onewheel has been for sale for about a year now. Not sure when they shipped their first board but I got my first onewheel in August 2015.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted"

sachingulaya — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 05:38:29 +0000

Amusingly, bitpay told me I wasnt eligible to use their services because I vend electronic cigarettes. Too risky for them... not too risky for my cc merchant though.

New comment by sachingulaya in "I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil"

sachingulaya — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:37:04 +0000

You receive samples first and check them. Another option is having an agent in find on your behalf perform QC before you pay the balance on your initial deposit. That's what I do..

New comment by sachingulaya in "Ask HN: How can you tell if you are insane?"

sachingulaya — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:29:39 +0000

40mg of adderall daily is the maximum allowed daily amount. That makes me wonder in and of itself..I am going to go out on a limb here and say you are abusing it. Probably a lack of sleep leading to paranoia. Someone hacking your phone? It could happen. More likely is you are either having your first break from reality with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc. or you are having paranoia and a mental breakdown secondary to drug abuse and lack of sleep.

Why are you taking 40mg adderall daily?

New comment by sachingulaya in "A robotic sewing machine could throw garment workers out of a job"

sachingulaya — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:01:05 +0000

The Los Angeles Fashion District / Garment District is dying regardless of minimum wage hikes. A lot of business was from Mexico and China is going direct to Mexico these days. Also, a recent crackdown on money laundering aggravated the situation: http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-fashion-district-ra... . Unfortunately, minimum wage doesn't apply to many of these shops. They're mostly cash under the table jobs. I don't have a source for that other than knowing many, many seamstresses over the years who are now mostly out of work.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Gaps in Alumni Earnings Stand Out in Release of College Data"

sachingulaya — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:57:50 +0000

Sons and daughters of political figures tend to be the ONLY ones to be afforded that. Every few years I hear of a senator's kid getting in w/o MCAT scores or some other requirements skirting.

New comment by sachingulaya in "How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks"

sachingulaya — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:19:48 +0000

This is a substantive claim in spite of the accuser. The independent advisor should not be helping their client solicit other bids...not very impartial.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a site to help you find co-founders?"

sachingulaya — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:49:10 +0000

I met my co-founder and, after a 4hr conversation, decided I wanted him as a partner. We started working together within 3 weeks and its been smooth sailing for 1.5 years. We have already reached 7 figure revenue. Sometimes you meet people and you realize you are just on the same page with how you view things.

New comment by sachingulaya in "Didi Kuaidi, Uber’s Rival in China, Has Raised $2B in Fresh Funding"

sachingulaya — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:46:11 +0000

Uber has received >5BN in funding. It's a big play.