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Ask HN: The Ethics of Working with Someone Else's research
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by kshatrea 14y ago
Totally. I was in first year of engineering when this guy (then in high school) walks in and gives a talk filled with such obvious bull and then gets a standing ovation from the faculty, most of whom weren't too knowledgeable either. I
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by kshatrea 14y ago
I am using Firefox on Ubuntu, and when I disable Noscript for this site, it keeps crashing my browser. Viewing it with scripts disabled. Other than that, site looks good.
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Maisto Fresh Metal Tailwinds UAV Drone (Read the reviews)(amazon.com)
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India Skirts Patent Laws to Help Companies and Poor(spiegel.de)
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by kshatrea 14y ago
A bunch of terms are thrown around in this context in daily discussions online: police state, civil liberties, curtailing of freedoms; mostly stuff that comes from a militarization of a society. You take the DHS and its buying of 1.4 billio
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by kshatrea 14y ago
Harish here. I am calling some people up. In case I find something, will send you an email on the email ID posted on your profile. Take care.
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Stupid prediction of the day: "Google May Meet Its End"(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by kshatrea 14y ago|0 comments
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A Private Bus Company Debuts in Detroit(popularmechanics.com)
93 points by kshatrea 14y ago|69 comments
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by kshatrea 14y ago
I've been on the platform for about 6 months now, and I've found quite satisfying work and generally cooperative clients.
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Occupy's struggle to survive in a surveillance state(theverge.com)
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People go into hock to buy iGadgets(thestreet.com)
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by kshatrea 14y ago
I logged in to write essentially the same thing. Google+ has a lot of features to solve multi-class problems. An interesting thing would be web-based tools that Google could develop and release for different circles such that people could a
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Lift launches on the iPhone(itunes.apple.com)
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by kshatrea 14y ago
In India, there are several levels of bureaucracy that are involved. The main layer is called the Public Distribution System (PDS), whereby people are issued ration cards and allowed to purchase a certain amount of food at subsidized prices
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by kshatrea 14y ago
> If you actually read the article you would know that non Indian wrote it. Dead wrong. Jawed Anwar wrote it, a ToI columnist. He just quoted Soghoian's tweet and used that as linkbait. I posted this article on HN, without the question
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Yes, India is a police state - Christopher Soghoian(blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
93 points by kshatrea 14y ago|93 comments
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by kshatrea 14y ago
With reference to the aggressive litigation-based attack philosophy of the publishing/recording/movie industry of your country, isn't it a bit risky to go ahead and write this? If they go ahead and sue you for doing something (remembering t
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by kshatrea 14y ago
I don't mean to be snarky, but I don't think it is rare for us at all. I've seen a few articles before on the Prineville data center. I remember an article when they unveiled "Open Compute". At that time, there were quite a few articles abo
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Google faces malpractice charge in India(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by kshatrea 14y ago
>But “commodity manufacturing is unsuccessful. It is the opposite of China…We have archaic labour laws. Nobody in their right mind is going to set up a plant employing 10,000 people.” This. The labour laws protect unions; many busines
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by kshatrea 14y ago
The current financial crisis is primarily one of debt. This is because of excessive government spending. How is an algorithm going to change that?
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Non-Facebookers could be insane(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by kshatrea 14y ago
I can unequivocally state that the conclusion you reach for many corporations or companies in India may be true. But not for these two. The first company is a family/friend owned company of the Karunannidhi empire, often called the first fa
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by kshatrea 14y ago
My company and I've been using the face.com face detection API extensively. OpenCV's in-built face detector just doesn't cut it, and we needed something built better.
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Prizes.org to shut down in 6 months(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by kshatrea 14y ago
On Techmeme, one of the first articles linked to is that of Robert Scoble. I know MS is an easy target, but I really feel taking such potshots at your former employer, especially when you pride yourself on being a tech dilettante and should
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by kshatrea 14y ago
Having a Tata Photon+ wireless (EVDO) connection, as well as an MTNL (Mumbai) broadband and a local internet provider (Hathway) in my home and/or at work, I haven't seen this in action. I am not sure whether Airtel and Reliance have any v
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India launches an antitrust probe into Google(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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by kshatrea 15y ago
Just wanted to point one thing out: 1980-2012 = 32 years, not 22.

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