akashshah

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After long battle, Uber becomes first taxi app to get approved in New York City(theverge.com)
1 points by akashshah 13y ago|0 comments
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Customer Seating and Standing Behaviors Onboard Subway Cars in New York City(docs.trb.org)
1 points by akashshah 13y ago|0 comments
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Roman trove beneath Bloomberg London HQ(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by akashshah 13y ago|0 comments
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Charting drone strikes(economist.com)
3 points by akashshah 14y ago|0 comments
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Alice Finch builds massive Lego Hogwarts from 400,000 bricks(brothers-brick.com)
1 points by akashshah 14y ago|0 comments
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by akashshah 14y ago
IIRC, Arrington is an ardent follower of Libertarianism
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by akashshah 14y ago
There are some non-programmers in my team who use excel to generate bash scripts because they find the bash for-loop syntax too hard
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by akashshah 14y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for since around a month now.
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by akashshah 14y ago
Other amazing Python answers by the same guy: What is a metaclass in Python - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-is-a-metaclas... Understanding Python decorators - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-pyth.
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by akashshah 14y ago
Why don't they pull the Chrome app because I can turn the default safe search off and search for porn?
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by akashshah 14y ago
Agree with you on the Google not caring about the product at all. I am so dependent on Google Voice right now to the extent that I don't even know my real number. But Google's approach to Voice is scaring me more with every passing month an
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The universal language of lullabies(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by akashshah 14y ago|0 comments
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by akashshah 14y ago
This sounds like best plans for computing in general, not just scientific computing
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by akashshah 14y ago
The irony is that the current submission's title needs to change from "Yehuda Katz..." to "Joshua Stein..."
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by akashshah 14y ago
He links to https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker... from the projects page
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by akashshah 14y ago
According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News." EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters which explains some features
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by akashshah 14y ago
There are so many things a camera could do that it can't right now: * Sharing photos on Facebook, Twitter * Post processing pictures (like Instagram) * Automatic backup to Dropbox * Live stream videos
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by akashshah 14y ago
The section in the penal code should have read "deliberately letting your religious feelings get hurt and attempting malicious acts intended to outrage the religious sentiments of any class or community." instead of "deliberately hurting re
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by akashshah 14y ago
That is because you were just seeing the output of Google Glass's camera, not seeing what gets shown on the Glass's display. It may already be showing the Maps overlay for all you know.
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by akashshah 14y ago
I fail to see how this is a MITM attack
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The Guy Continues to Mess With The Oatmeal(loweringthebar.net)
9 points by akashshah 14y ago|1 comments
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by akashshah 14y ago
See this video related to what you just said. It is a clip from a BBC documentary about how a tribe has different color names than us and how it affects their ability to find an odd color out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I
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by akashshah 14y ago
If the missing ads and side bars is really what your post is alluding to, then googling for "Apple forcibly" http://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+forcibly also gives you the same result.
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by akashshah 14y ago
HN may be interested to know that Anand is a brand ambassador for NIIT, a computer education company from India ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIIT ). AFAIK this is the only brand he endorses.
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Yahoo Names Fred Amoroso Chairman and Appoints Ross Levinsohn Interim CEO(pressroom.yahoo.net)
5 points by akashshah 14y ago|0 comments
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by akashshah 14y ago
The logo look like it's made of Apple TVs :)
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by akashshah 15y ago
Does anyone know the library that is used to plot the graphs dynamically?
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by akashshah 15y ago
Wouldn't both companies have in house lawyers fighting the case? In which case the lawyer fees would be just their salaries?
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by akashshah 15y ago
The term you are looking for is 'zero-sum game'
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by akashshah 15y ago
Can someone explain to me how links to copyright content come under DMCA? Twitter is most definitely not hosting the copyright content? Why are they even at the receiving end of takedown requests?

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