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by akshayB 10y ago
I was born and brought up in India as a teenager after which my family moved to USA. Now whenever I go back to India with my family, someone always will end up getting sick. If you go out during the day time you can feel a layer of sticky s
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by akshayB 10y ago
All countries should try to protect their interest and markets. I am happy that Apple got a push back by Indian government. Can you explain in words Apple's action when it is parking Billion dollar fortune outside USA? It pretty much s
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by akshayB 10y ago
This is the correct link I think: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler/briefingmaterials160...
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Ford, Volvo, Google, Lyft and Uber start coalition for self-driving cars(mashable.com)
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by akshayB 10y ago
3D printing is a great technology but this is just sad, more jobs leaving to China.
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Enjoy Lunch with CEO Tim Cook at Apple HQ(charitybuzz.com)
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Instagram launches personalized video feed and themed channels in Explore(techcrunch.com)
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by akshayB 11y ago
There are lot of options when it comes to machine learning frameworks open source and commercial as well. Also many of these frameworks are designed to solve a specific problem. Some of the machine learning frameworks are optimized to run o
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by akshayB 11y ago
This is really great news more and more people now will be able to access Internet and connect with each other. My kudos to team who made this a reality and initiatives taken by Government of India to promote projects like this. A great dea
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by akshayB 11y ago
Facebook used this number and mentioned on it during the earnings call, showing how their business is growing and people are spending more and more time using their app and website. Does this have any implications (if they knew the bug was
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Google will stop running Flash display ads on January 2, 2017(venturebeat.com)
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by akshayB 11y ago
looks like HN overloaded the website
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by akshayB 11y ago
The punchline that "it just works" is not lost in time. Lot of Apple designed software are more like talking points when they release iPhone or do a big media event. Mac OS as lot of Apps which need update, Photos -- was more of a
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by akshayB 11y ago
One more thing to add if Facebook loves honors net neutrality in USA, why are they hellbent on breaking it in other countries.
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by akshayB 11y ago
Free Basics - Facebook claims that any company or service provider can join this and if that is the case why don't they give the power to India's people to decide who can or cannot join. As of now Facebook has the final word in re
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by akshayB 11y ago
If you notice that position is open for a long time and never gets filled, its most likely a job nobody wants to do.
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Nuclear disarmament and Mars
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by akshayB 11y ago
Forget new services, even a small change in their existing products by Google can destroy lot of companies. Everyone remembers how they ruined email marketing by caching gmail images.
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by akshayB 11y ago
Reason why I started using Adblock is because of NFL.com If you go to nfl.com to watch a 30 second play you will end up watching a commercial first. Super annoying !!!!
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by akshayB 11y ago
I wonder if this can be used to study impacts of urban expansion and how natural ecosystems around big cities get affected. Also it can be a great way of exploring natural resources conservation.
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by akshayB 11y ago
Well everything still boils down to ethics and morals of the Intelligence. At the end it all depends on what actions are taken using this intelligence by super AI or a human with amplified intelligence. Does this intelligence create a weapo
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by akshayB 11y ago
I use Adblock and I don't mind disabling it for sites that provide quality content or reading materials. There has to be a balance which is sometimes abused by the sites. For example if you go to nfl.com to watch a 30 second play most
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by akshayB 11y ago
Are there any good Neural Network frameworks written in Ruby? The ones I have used (ruby-fann and AI4r) dramatically slow down when you use them on large amount of data.
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by akshayB 11y ago
NASA's budget is way less then what USA gives out in international aid to other countries at times which is in a way used to buy influence in that region of the world. It is a tragedy how politicians decide to use their brain in genera
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by akshayB 11y ago
I feel that the Gravity Light is the way to go because it can work throughout the whole night. It is totally independent of Sun or any weather conditions.
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by akshayB 11y ago
I have visited many of the places mentioned in the article. In terms of architecture they are beautiful but now all the places are in bad shape. The government and local population make no interest in saving the history.
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by akshayB 11y ago
If this was done in 2005, I think it would have been a different story
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by akshayB 11y ago
This is good news but little bit too late. Microsoft strategy of sticking with windows to slow down Linux and Mac back fired . If they opened up .Net few years back cross platform app development landscape would have been totally different
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by akshayB 11y ago
Few years back when I worked in Java, this was the most asked question in technical interviews.
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by akshayB 11y ago
I just want to see a Klondike Bar in middle of ocean and a pencil on top of it.

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