mayanksinghal

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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I would argue that it has not worked reasonably well. The part that worked well, is that only nation states have access to the technology. The part that hasn't worked well is that only a few nations, most of them being allies to each o
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Here are some of my Chrome autocompletes: n (news.ycombinator.com), mu (music.google.com), ma (mail.google.com), a (amazon.com), gi (github.com), q (quora.com), l (localhost), i (images.google.com), c (coursera.com). I don't think I ev
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Well, it is seems like caching of the actual map data, but the application itself is not capable of performing the searches or figuring out routes. Since the device I am talking about was really not that powerful enough to perform that kind
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Offline maps has been available since at least 2 years. I think you had to long tap a point, choose Save offline from the menu, choose the dimensions of the square that pops up and the square becomes available offline.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
As opposed to looking professional even when the attire is uncomfortable or at least not the most preferred.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
For one, people who wear sneakers often do it because they are comfortable. To equate them to high school teenagers if they are not personal trainers is quite unfair. You are free to advocate a more professional look, but if you get disresp
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
If I recall correctly, most humans freeze, not shoot. The natural reaction is to either flee or freeze. I think policemen are specifically trained to take the gun out of the holster and press the trigger in such situations.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> even bury the whole issue from getting any traction. Wasn't your site explicitly whitelisted?
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I have owned a dog in past, and I was able to calm him down when he used to get angry. And I believe that would have been the case with the dead dog and the person who was in cuffs for no reason.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
What! How is this not related to HN? A lot of people here are from CA and would want to be aware of these incidents. HN guidelines clearly state that if it interests people then it is alright. And since it is clearly on top of the page, it
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I was NOT trolling. I was pointing out that (A) Exaggeration is not a great debating tactic, in your case it was a clear slippery slope argument (B) It will not help in convincing the other stakeholders into being empathetic with your situa
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Was he not driving well? Was it the Glass device that is the cause of poor driving, if it was in fact poor driving?
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Or let everything go through until and unless we are 100% certain that it shouldn't. Like, if someone is pointing a gun at you, do not duck because there is a chance he/she will miss. Because you know, exaggeration is truly a grea
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
IITs have been increasing seats at a rate that is often unsustainable. During my stay at IITB from 2007-2012, I saw the number of undergraduate freshmen increase from about 500 to about 900. I think the largest issue has been scaling infras
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Most of the questions and answers are quite narrow in their perspective probably because the community they are targeting to comprises largely of other IITians and people who are closely related to them. If you are looking at it from an out
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
So was the case with Apple, if my sibling is correct. I am just trying to say is that there is plenty, like a lot lot, of innovation in Google Maps - from devices that make it's own mapping data to using WebGL to render it in 3D in bro
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
MapBox announcement seems to be not more than a couple of months old. If you think that someone can take inspiration, get data, process, QA test and launch such a feature in such a short duration, you should be impressed anyway. Google Eart
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Yes, just like they can draw maple leafs without thinking about Canada. Did red and blue on the American flag ruin the colors for children in the rest of the world?
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
That doesn't really explain anything.
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SEBI (India) Says Angel Funds Must Not Invest in Cos Older than 3 Years(nextbigwhat.com)
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I am not questioning that sending entire URLs is undesirable, I am asking if the hash solution works (at all).
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> only sends in a small part of the URL's hash for matching ... Isn't it incredibly easy to bypass that check by using a randomly generated url segment? [Edit: Formatting + isn't]
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> You are not breaking laws, nor breaking the spirit of the law I wasn't suggesting that either. Sidestepping is avoidance not evasion. > The laws have not been updated in light of these new privacy implications. ... the delibera
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
> a Trash folder as a first stop for deleted messages, and All Mail as a second stop I was just trying this, I moved something to trash and then did a 'Delete Forever'. Nothing appeared in trash or all mail again.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
I don't follow this stream of logic. If you have to build technical systems, the sole purpose of which is to sidestep laws, in order to be good then aren't the laws at fault here? I find the acceptance that governments will do w
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
The legitimacy of an act (violence in this case) is highly subjective. The legality is a lot more objective. In this particular scenario, I think I would rather say that the government has a legal monopoly on violence. The legitimacy argume
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
And they can be/are prosecuted/jailed/shot/hanged/poisoned/electrocuted for that by the government.
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
And I agree with it. I was addressing a different view altogether. There seems to be a very widespread paranoia that the worst possible event is the one that is occurring and that all entities but the user are collaborating willingly to mak
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Then we should definitely consider DDG, a much smaller company in the same country, sharing its keys with NSA. They too might be under some gag order that not only stops them from saying that they are compromised but also gagged to say that
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by mayanksinghal 13y ago
Exactly. Someone really needs to have very tilted perception to not see the perpetrators at this moment.

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