Hacker News: sagarun

New comment by sagarun in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

sagarun — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:02:29 +0000

You can use a digital Suica in Google Wallet only if your Android phone has Japan-spec hardware . International Android phones bought outside Japan generally cannot support digital Suica cards in Google Wallet.

New comment by sagarun in "Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'"

sagarun — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:54:23 +0000

I still remember they used disinsect the aircraft cabin, before you land in Indian airports with an aerosol spray https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/spray

https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/aircraft-disinsection

New comment by sagarun in "San Francisco Bay Area to phase out natural gas heating appliances"

sagarun — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:17:33 +0000

You sure? Gas bill has been astronomically high lately.

New comment by sagarun in "Linux boot partitions and how to set them up"

sagarun — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:46:46 +0000

Meanwhile the apple firmware cannot read vFAT ESP. Apple wants ESP to be HFS.

New comment by sagarun in "FTC proposes rule to ban junk fees, bait-and-switch tactics plaguing car buyers"

sagarun — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:17:00 +0000

One of the chair dissented on these rules: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/P204800MotorVeh...

Says these rules will stifle innovation and some car makers are doing direct sales so rule is not really needed.

New comment by sagarun in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

sagarun — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 23:09:27 +0000

Just be a little careful with the state returns on CashApp. It has a bug on handling mortgage interest deductions if your mortgage is over $750000 and the state allows deduction up to $1000000. Double check by filing with other tax software and verify the refund amount is the same. I used freetaxusa.com to get this right.

New comment by sagarun in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

sagarun — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:08:43 +0000

Cash App taxes has a bug where mortgage interest deduction is not handled properly with state vs federal. If your mortgage is more than 750000$ and your state is California or a state allows deduction up to a million $ in mortgage interest then you will end up getting a lower refund.

I'd double check by filing with another software just to make sure (i.e https://www.freetaxusa.com/)

New comment by sagarun in "Man given genetically modified pig heart dies"

sagarun — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:52:45 +0000

LVAD goes for 5 years

New comment by sagarun in "Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly"

sagarun — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:28:07 +0000

The doctors want you walking (with help) as soon as possible after a heart transplant, unless something is horribly wrong.

New comment by sagarun in "Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter"

sagarun — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 06:04:14 +0000

Air purifiers do not remove co2. The green way to get fresh air into a well insulated house is to use a energy recovery ventilator (ERV)

Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator

sagarun — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:57:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-child-predator-buster-hernandez

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483594

Points: 49

# Comments: 13

A remote code execution vulnerability in qmail

sagarun — Fri, 22 May 2020 09:31:31 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/820969/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270188

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sagarun in "75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (2011)"

sagarun — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:49:14 +0000

My dad used to tell me this story, In rural India in the 60s the Federal Government would lay copper cables to bring electricity to the town. Some locals would bring down all the cables overnight and sell it in black market to some quck money.

For them electricity wasn't that important compared to food on the table.

Removal of International Entrepreneur Parole Program

sagarun — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:53:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/29/2018-11348/removal-of-international-entrepreneur-parole-program

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181961

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sagarun in "Fedora Loves Python"

sagarun — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:23:20 +0000

/rant If fedora really loves python, they should first start showing their love by publishing all their distribution related libraries to pypi. blivet, selinux, none of these are available in pypi. Why do they expect everyone to use rpms?

New comment by sagarun in "Netflix Content by Country"

sagarun — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:59:41 +0000

Yahoo video guide https://mobile.yahoo.com/videoguide/

New comment by sagarun in "Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge"

sagarun — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:56:12 +0000

https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/

New comment by sagarun in "Introducing the Plex Media Player"

sagarun — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:49:41 +0000

Agree. My Vizio TV has a plex app, but i can't use it without plexpass.

I gave up and now running kodi on raspberrypi

New comment by sagarun in "Netflix's $12M Gamble on “Beasts of No Nation”"

sagarun — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:16:58 +0000

still expensive

New comment by sagarun in "Twitter’s stock falls toward IPO-level prices"

sagarun — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:31:51 +0000

I thought P/E is calculated for companies with a positive EPS. Twitter is loosing money. Not sure how you came up with P/E of 87.