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arunpn123

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About arunpn123

www.arunpn.com

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    Comment #21476898

    Nice website jmstfv. I have a question about how customers trust your monitoring saas. Say I have a website/service, my deployment config would probably be similar to what you have…

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    Comment #15963555

    What are things I could do to improve my resume for EB1 category Greencard in the next year or so? I am currently on H1B working as a SWE at a top Silicon valley company (think Goo…

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    Comment #15902232

    As long as the candidates have a valid work status, isn't it illegal to discriminate based on type of work status?

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    Comment #15342619

    Apologies for taking it offtopic, but can't you just move internally?

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    Ask HN: How to responsibly report security bug with Gogo?

    I found a way to circumvent security with Gogo and get free internet on my laptop in flights. Based on my limited Google searches, I couldn't find this method of exploit posted onl…

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    Comment #15022719

    Thank you for the reply. The employer sent me an FAQ that says to be on the safe side, just list the item on the form and I can work with their legal team after joining, in case I …

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    Ask HN: What to put in 'declaration of prior inventions'

    I am about to start a new job in California and employer wants me to sign this form. I dont have any patents but my side-projects are in the same domain as in the job. So I am conc…

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    Comment #14856779

    I built a voice-activated light switch using Pi. Demo and schematics here: http://arunpn.com/projects/voice-activated-light-switch/ After that project, I have slowly added more fun…

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    Comment #14744585

    Most of my projects fit in my laptop hardisk. I have a dropbox subscription which syncs everything interesting in my laptop to dropbox servers. This setup has saved my work once wh…

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    Comment #14518926

    Ah finally something I am knowledgeable about.. building a software simulation system for a smart power-grid that can account for renewable energy sources was my grad school resear…

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    Comment #12181980

    Anecdotal evidence: I know some new grads who took this test when Amazon rolled out this automated form of hiring 2 years back. There were several crazy things with this process.. …

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    Comment #11358656

    You are wrong. I am depressed and this made me feel better. You are painting depressed people with too broad of a brush.

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    Comment #11256984

    I built something like this at home. CMU Sphinx is a popular open source speech recognition toolkit that you can run locally. But it was kind of clumsy to setup and train. Also, I …

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    Comment #10786261

    I built a voice-activated switch to toggle the lights in my bedroom: http://arunpn.com/projects/voice-activated-light-switch/ . More than the project itself, I am happy that I got …

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    Comment #10543849

    For $1000 you can get a new Thinkpad X1 Carbon(Gen3). Lighter than a Macbook Air but specs comparable to a Macbook Pro. I got one recently and have dual booted Linux and Windows 10…

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    Comment #10429962

    I recommend Lenovo X1 carbon 3rd gen. At 2.8 pounds, it is lighter than the Macbook Air but with a bigger 14 inch screen. I run Ubuntu on it and am pretty happy with it.

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    Comment #10043028

    I am running Wordpress on a $5 plan for my personal website. Also paying $1 extra per month for backups. While requesting for an OS image to install, you can choose to install Word…

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    Comment #6474385

    Applied on a whim and got in. But being a student, the cost of travel from Atlanta is making me think twice.