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sachingulayaon Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess

Thank you. My daughter and I did so the exercises together and she now loves chess =].

sachingulayaon This May Hurt a Bit: Harvard medical student's blog

The odds of resuscitation from ACLS(advanced cardiac life support) if you suffer cardiac arrest in a hospital setting is somewhere between 1-4% IIRC. The chances of a successful revival are already low. Once you pass the 10min mark you are really just hoping for a miracle...but it happens. Rarely, but it does.

sachingulayaon BitUndo – Double Spending as a service

I required 2 confirmations for my ecommerce site only because it wouldn't cause a delay in shipping their order.

http://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

12 minutes to one confirmation isn't terrible for the purchase of digital goods...but in person transactions would be limited.

sachingulayaon A Plea For Companies To Provide Support Via Text

Needy customers. That's the problem. Some of your customers literally just want to chat. They want to feel close to your brand and give feedback directly to the CEO. It's problematic. Easier to keep them at arm's length with email.

sachingulayaon The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS

Everyone I explain text secure to loves it and starts using it immediately. Its a dropin text message replacement app. It's main competition is android owners who can pick between text secure and the Hangouts app that had replaced the default SMS app.

sachingulayaon Put.io

Many private rodent does require that you seed to remain in good standing.

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The buckets don't look stackable... Which is an instant no go for me and I inside most contractors would react the same way.

sachingulayaon What You Get When 30 People Draw a World Map From Memory

He suffers from hepatic encephalopathy secondary to hepatitic C infection.

sachingulayaon The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (2007)

I have Comcast at my business in Los Angeles. It's $65/mo for what I measure at 50mbps down and 10mbps up.

When I tried the small, local cable ISP they were offering me 10/2 for 200 per month.

There's definitely no rhyme or reason to it.

sachingulayaon TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users

I understand HN is not tech support but...

TextSecure crashed on receiving MMS on my Nexus 5 on T-mobile's value plans(I mention their value plan because it works slightly differently than their regular ones). After I manually configured the MMSC it stopped crashing and displays MMS correctly.

sachingulayaon TinyPNG launches API to automate PNG compression

Is the standard CGI email form a viable business model? Wufoo says yes.

People will pay small fees to not have to worry about something. The "I'll transition to using self-hosted forms next month but I need this done right now" mentality.

sachingulayaon Mailchimp's pricing

Double opt-in exists...but their API, rightfully, allows for some rule bending. Mailchimp trusts at least one of its integrations to confirm the subscription.

One thing that is hugely bothersome is that it's not possible for us to collect email lists at conventions and send to then through mailchimp. Bad handwriting and/or fake email addresses resulted in a warning from mailchimp about a 22% bounce rate from a list we collected by hand.

I'm not impressed with the mailchimp WYSIWYG either. It's buggy with their templates and the plaintext is always absurd.

The A/B testing is nice, though.

sachingulayaon Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

I'd add that it's colloquial. When a stock drops it's "getting hammered". Also, after hours is deceiving. NFLX was up 50pts after hours with their last earnings announcement. It dropped 80pts the next day.

sachingulayaon Tiny Inconspicuous Handcuff Key

That's a great way to get yourself shot by law enforcement.

sachingulayaon Professor's apparent request to student for fake data published by mistake

Can anyone comment on how important this is to the results of the paper?

sachingulayaon Hyperloop lets you travel on a resonant acoustic wave?

I'll take that $100 bet.

sachingulayaon Soylent Subterfuge: When a Bad Joke Turns into a Business

Read my comment above. Soylent is very filling

sachingulayaon Soylent Subterfuge: When a Bad Joke Turns into a Business

yes, but it doesn't provide the fullness feeling you get from soylent. Ensure feels like starvation. Soylent, because of the oats, stretches the stretch receptors surrounding the stomach. This is one input the brain uses to make you feel more full.

sachingulayaon Hetzner's new server offer: 1 Gbit, 2 x 240GB SSD, 32GB RAM - 59 euros/month

No, the problem is I don't need decent response-time everywhere in the world. I need decent response time in California. That's where the majority of my visitors are from. Latency is the tradeoff you make when you buy overseas servers to save money.

sachingulayaon Hetzner's new server offer: 1 Gbit, 2 x 240GB SSD, 32GB RAM - 59 euros/month

Ping on my ex-4 is 200ms from California. My OVH box in Canada is 80ms by comparison. Latency is an issue.

sachingulayaon Crate.io: A new kind of Python package index

Am I nuts or was crate.io a paid filedrop service in the past?

sachingulayaon Ask HN: I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560520442/ref=oh_details_o...

From the thread "Design Books Every Hacker Should Read" . See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058583 for reviews.

sachingulayaon Can I help you? Why retail customers always say No

If Im shopping for clothes I go straight for a salesperson. I use them as personal shoppers and ask them to go find jeans in my size that meet some loose criteria. If I find a shirt in thats too small I'll ask them to bring the right size. Sometimes you can be brutally honest with the "can I help you?" and just ask them what looks good and is on sale. They'll grin and point you in the right direction. If you're buying dress shirts I've found the salespeople to have insight into which brands will fit your unusually wide shoulders without looking awkward.

Don't feel uncomfortable rejecting their suggestions either. It's an iterative process. Once you don't need them say "alright, thanks so much for your help" and they'll leave you alone.

sachingulayaon Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billion back home

From your link:

3. You are a citizen or resident alien of the US whose physical absence from the US constitutes a minimum of 330 days out of any 365.

When I lived overseas I knew US citizens counted the number of days they spent visiting family to make sure they stayed under 30 days each year.

sachingulayaon Why do professional photographers charge so much?

This is insanity to anyone but a photographer. I wonder how often it is that a photographer loses out on the proverbial jackpot when a customer resells their images.

sachingulayaon Warren Buffett: Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ

Actual text: Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ once you're above the level of 125. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

Warren Buffett

sachingulayaon The Feds Are Cracking Down On Mt. Gox, Not On Bitcoin

They've had this policy for over 2 months. Not sure why.

sachingulayaon Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?

Yes, my username is my full name and I'm reasonably confident saying there is only 1 person with my name in the world.

sachingulayaon Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS

Considering it cost me exactly $0.25 to send $30,000 to mtgox through Dwolla I imagine the impact is minimal.

Although, now that I have a Dwolla account I am more likely to use it in the future.

sachingulayaon What If the Tsarnaevs Had Been the “Boston Shooters”?

Most incidences of gun violence end with the shooters dead on the scene. With the Tsarnaevs it was questionable whether they would ever be found. We don't need to conjecture about what would happen if a "terrorist" was on the loose with guns--it happened 2 months ago. His name was Christopher Dorner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner) and they assembled multi-agency taskforces and set off on a manhunt equally resource intensity as the hunt for the Tsarnaevs.