Hacker News: sandaru1

New comment by sandaru1 in "GitHub Renamed Me (2014)"

sandaru1 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:01:56 +0000

How would this affect you if you are using Github as a OAuth provider? Does Github mention under what conditions they are going to take away someone's username? No code? No OAuth? No activity?

Show HN: Vetter – check if your emails will be spammed

sandaru1 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:20:09 +0000

Article URL: https://vetter.monsoonyeti.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22330973

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by sandaru1 in "FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services"

sandaru1 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:29:57 +0000

It has gotten considerably faster in last few years. I'm using SLT 4G with an average speed of 30Mbps.

New comment by sandaru1 in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

sandaru1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 04:35:42 +0000

But the religious groups are a protected class. Religion is something you choose. By that logic, it would be possible to discriminate against "Christians", "Muslims", etc.

New comment by sandaru1 in "India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste"

sandaru1 — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 01:19:32 +0000

It's $25 because it's buy one - give one free. http://www.luckyironfish.com/facts (At the bottom).

New comment by sandaru1 in "Reasons not to use Uber"

sandaru1 — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:01:45 +0000

One of the reasons I'm using Uber is that it's quite safe. Otherwise, most of the times you try to get into a cab, they try to rip you off. There are rigged meters, long routes, switching bills when you are paying, etc.

AirBnB: Fighting Discrimination

sandaru1 — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:05:01 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.airbnb.com/fighting-discrimination-and-creating-a-world-where-anyone-can-belong-anywhere/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454258

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by sandaru1 in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

sandaru1 — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 20:06:39 +0000

I posted about our small medical app about 6 years ago. So far we've been,

1. Started a company around the medical apps (http://www.medicaljoyworks.com)

2. Managed to create a revenue stream and released more than 12 apps in the medical education field (Some completely new apps and some sub specialty apps of the original app idea)

3. Employed several full time people through out the years - in four different countries.

4. Our apps have been downloaded more than ~4 million times and been in the top ten medical apps around the world continuously.

5. Have been featured in many prominent blogs and medical college study guides (Also few research papers on medical education using gamification and pilot programs from universities)

6. Released more than 600 case studies in English and Spanish. (We are on the process of translating everything into French, Italian and Portuguese).

7. Doing quite good on revenue/profit and about ~200 content creators are working for us on contract basis right now.

New comment by sandaru1 in "A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant"

sandaru1 — Fri, 13 May 2016 18:19:50 +0000

Anyone know whether they used watson APIs to create this bot or used the original watson codebase (with IBM collaboration)?

New comment by sandaru1 in "Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours"

sandaru1 — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:59:22 +0000

It could be a competitor of someone who is using linode for their hosting. Rather than attacking a single server which would be easier to track down, it's probably easier to attack the whole network.

New comment by sandaru1 in "Instagram's Million Dollar Bug"

sandaru1 — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 05:52:49 +0000

In any case, there is one question remains. How do facebook defines a "million dollar" bug if the security team is not aware of the damage it can do. Since this is not the first time this bug was reported, did they actually give a big bounty to the first person who did the initial report(Given that it can lead to this much damage)? Or just another small bounty saying that it's not a very important security flaw.

New comment by sandaru1 in "El Capitan and Homebrew"

sandaru1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:58:22 +0000

Just make sure that if there are any launch daemons plist files, those should be root:wheel. Otherwise "launchctl" won't load those daemons.

New comment by sandaru1 in "Legion of Tech Volunteers Lead a Charge for Bernie Sanders"

sandaru1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:06:15 +0000

During the Presidential Election of Sri Lanka (2015, January), there was a huge Volunteer supporter base on social media for Maithreepala Sirisena (The candidate who won the election defeating the previous president). This was mainly due to the fact there was no media freedom and the traditional media was hugely biased towards one side.

It was quite interesting since the official tech teams of the candidates are there as nominal roles. They were just using online advertising and maintaining FB pages, etc - nothing more.

This blog explains in more detail : http://groundviews.org/2015/01/13/was-prespollsl-2015-sri-la...

New comment by sandaru1 in "The xkcd survey"

sandaru1 — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:34:06 +0000

Correlated.org is quite brilliant. Is there a way to see the most popular posts?

When Facebook’s advertising team takes political correctness a bit too far

sandaru1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:34:25 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@medicaljoyworks/when-facebook-s-advertising-team-takes-political-correctness-a-bit-too-far-9b59e97c93d9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9861667

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by sandaru1 in "Show HN: A DOM text-selection highlight renderer"

sandaru1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 01:13:21 +0000

Is there a good library that does the same inside a textarea?

New comment by sandaru1 in "List of April Fools' Day Announcements"

sandaru1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 07:56:04 +0000

Checkout our newest product - an online medical reference. The main feature would be our new creative UI that would let users navigate the site easily and comfortably with a nostalgic feeling. http://www.explainmedicine.com/

The Hackaday Prize – 2015

sandaru1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:38:57 +0000

Article URL: http://hackaday.io/prize#

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9190130

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sandaru1 in "Ten years of Ubuntu"

sandaru1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:49:22 +0000

One of the main reasons Ubuntu got popular (compared to other distros) on Sri Lanka because they shipped free CDs. Lots of people in Sri Lanka didn't have Cable or DSL internet connections by that time. It was limited to a smaller area of the country - even when people had it, it was 512kbps.

No one was going to bother download a huge distro DVD to try out a new OS. However, when you get a CD, you tend to try it out. The smooth installation process certainly helped a lot.

New comment by sandaru1 in "Failed many times before raising $13M on Kickstarter"

sandaru1 — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:16:08 +0000

I funded MicroView on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-ch...). I think they also ran into problems with manufacturing a large quantity of devices. However, I got the device in a reasonable time frame and I'm very happy with the quality of the product. I'm not sure whether they are the rule or the exception.

In the end, it's unfair to assume that this project will fail to deliver shipments based on unrelated failed crowdfunded projects.