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abhididdigion RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing

Along with all of this, the team behind rethink DB is really very helpful. Team was always patient when I was new. They always helped. This is one the very few projects that I felt right at home. Rethink DB had(during the days I was trying to use IRC) atleast one core developer available on IRC every day from Monday to Friday. Congratulations team!

abhididdigion USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016

It is ironical, in asking me to speak for myself you are using the "royal" us.

abhididdigion USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016

I myself am an immigrant. I seriously don't see any need, because all the new immigrants will keep their eyes and ears open to see if their application is selected. All citizens/ existing immigrants, don't really care.

abhididdigion USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2016

OK and why is this the top of HN? Because of the number of applications?

The number of applications is slightly higher than last year, but still I fail to understand why it is on the top, because this same thing was happening for the last 4+ years.

My application was picked up in the year 2013, so I have been following both HN and the USCIS at that time. Never saw it make top of HN.

abhididdigion Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?

I exercise everyweek day, I meditate twice a day everyday, I play atleast 4 chess 5 min games. I have been doing this over a year and I think I'm healthy.

I make it a point to sleep atleast 8 hours a day, and sleep for 7.30+ hours everyday.

abhididdigion Mathematics for Computer Science

Being a CS student in my Bachelors I was able to spend sometime on Number Theory. But the lectures here blew mind.

abhididdigion Super Mario 64 HD

This is super awesome. Is the code available too?

abhididdigion Show HN: Highbrow – Bite-sized email courses delivered to your inbox daily

This is good, but how do I add multiple lessons? I don't see how to do it. It's not very user friendly.

abhididdigion Another update on the Truecrypt audit

Do you have any source to say Truecrypt becomes outdated? The last I checked, it was working just fine in Windows 8.

I don't think anything would be _drastically_ changing in Windows 11 and 12.

abhididdigion More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to One Wired Broadband Provider

That's really bad for a country like USA. In India we atleast have access > 5 providers in big cities.

( Though, yes I agree there is no Internet in villages, but it's slowly changing )

abhididdigion $2.25 Lyft line rides in SF

Wonderful. As a heavy Lyft user, I'm looking forward towards the same in NYC - NJ area.

abhididdigion 100 Years of Computer Science

I liked the first two papers. Also when two years prior I did read the Shannon's paper. Must read for anyone looking for some Theoretical Mathematics.

abhididdigion Deep Learning – Course 11-785

I think there is more to it.

abhididdigion Nokia 215

I don't believe this to be something new. My mom had been using this ( very very similar - the OS) from Nokia since 2009. Nokia released many such cellphones in India.

abhididdigion Show HN: WordsAPI

Thank you. I was looking for an API only yesterday, and didn't find any that is as good as this one. Even the Princeton University one didn't fit into my workflow, because it is overly complex.

abhididdigion List of Computer Science Courses

Guys how do I take this class? There is no way I can do this online?

abhididdigion “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”

If there is one story that changed me today, it's this. Kudos to you sir. With no internet/help you still pursued your passion and built this from Ground UP.

Thank you for the inspiration, and have a great career ahead.

abhididdigion [dead]

I too, for one think that the headline really tries to make the problem look bad by linking it to Open Source.

abhididdigion Resignation from the pkg-systemd maintainer team

http://err.no/personal/blog/

For folks looking for more detail.

abhididdigion Show HN: Explained Visually

Wow. This is awesome. I never really, really understood Markov Chains. Really very well designed.

abhididdigion Hater News – Now for Twitter and Reddit

Concept is nice, landing page and the website are nice. What needs more work is the algorithm for determining hate. Almost all the comments that Hater News chewed out of my Reddit username were not at all* trolling. Indeed some statements were even contributing to the discussion.

abhididdigion I Hope Twitter Goes Away

Lots of Negativity here again. Most of the commenter here are saying it is wrong when he says Twitter should die because it doesn't encourage good communication, and then blocks his own comments section. It just means he wants to have a meaningful communication.

He says, you can email him, or write your own blog post to refute or add on to what he says. That way you will be facilitating a great communication.

abhididdigion I Hope Twitter Goes Away

He says though, you can email him, write your own email blog, except that you don't comment on his blog.

Does that mean he doesn't want communication to happen?

abhididdigion Countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free

I'm really interested in this. Especially Germany. Do any one of you have a link handy for me to see the good Universities in Germany? Please? Thx

abhididdigion Pro Git, 2nd Edition

Thank you!

abhididdigion “You Don't Know JS” Book Series

I read this book a little when it was in its infancy. The author does a good job of explaining the closures

abhididdigion The world's largest library of historical European martial arts books

I think so too. The image first looked weird, and then I realized this.

abhididdigion XOS: Build your own operating system

This is nice. I'm going to try this out over the weekend. Thanks!

abhididdigion Nunjucks – A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript by Mozilla

Have you looked at Apache Jelly[1]? This is a server side templating language in itself.

[1] http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jelly/

abhididdigion Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling

Seriously?

I gather that you are not an Indian, and if you really are an Indian then either you are an illiterate about what's happening in country, or you are an NRI earning in dollars in US who really don't care about India, except in writing these snarky comments.

If you are not an Indian citizen, you still should know the truth before you talk.

750 million Indian citizens aren't enjoying basic sanitation facilities because of the corruption in India. There was a Politician who was a son of Chief Minister who pledged more than 75 million in an election. This is just one example of the amount of corruption in India. Every state in India are filled with those politicians who are corrupt, and they own huge amounts of Black money.

So, I don't see what is your basis in typing in useless comment, when this money was spent as per the Budget allocation.

And finally, please don't write something unless you know the facts properly. The basic sanitation of all Indian Citizens will be improved, if the Political situation of the country is improved not by stopping Technological Advances.

Sometimes, if you don't have anything to contribute, it's better to close your computer and get out than to write these kinds of comments.