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3.2M debit cards compromised in India(indianexpress.com)
2 points by msravi 10y ago|0 comments
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by msravi 10y ago
I don't have a source, but my guess is that it's much more intuitive for kids to program in an imperative style rather than anything else. So provided that the base API that you provide them is not too complicated, my guess is tha
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by msravi 10y ago
Agreed. The good thing with the Arduino is that there is no OS to navigate - there are just 2 simple functions (setup and loop) where you put whatever you want to in, with some very simple intuitive functions (digitalWrite, analogWrite, ...
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by msravi 10y ago
It's somewhat surprising to me that the "block editor" thing is so popular in these beginner kits. My son (almost 11) was introduced to it at school[1] and did not find it intuitive at all. We then got an Arduino and started
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India launches strikes against militants in Pakistan occupied Kashmir(bbc.com)
3 points by msravi 10y ago|0 comments
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by msravi 10y ago
Wow, didn't know that either. But I don't "follow" people. Rather, I simply add them to different lists (finance, news, science, tech, right, left, etc.) and use tweetdeck to follow the multiple lists. I wonder if they&#
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by msravi 10y ago
It avoided the immediate danger, but how did they finally get him to land safely? Did he recover after briefly passing out? Did they get him out some other way?
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by msravi 10y ago
1. Yahoo not buying Google? 2. Yahoo rejecting the Microsoft offer? Glad (1) didn't happen though. Pretty sure they'd have screwed it all up for everyone.
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by msravi 10y ago
From the article: > This means that the ability to pick and choose individual fixes to apply will be removed; they'll be distributed and deployed as a singular all-or-nothing proposition. So, if this "update" contains the
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by msravi 10y ago
> or at least enough battery life that I can have Chrome running and still be able to code all day long Shouldn't that be an action for Google rather than Apple? Of late, I've found Google's applications to be big battery
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New Photos Cast Doubt on China’s Vow Not to Militarize Disputed Islands(nytimes.com)
3 points by msravi 10y ago|0 comments
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by msravi 10y ago
The quora link you posted also says that gmail does NOT do that anymore - the clause was removed from their policy.
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by msravi 10y ago
From the summary: "We’ve added that for any device that can connect to Xbox Services, we may automatically check your version of Xbox console software or the Xbox App software and download Xbox console or Xbox App software updates or c
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Microsoft's updated Xbox agreement prevents “unauthorized” hardware and apps(microsoft.com)
2 points by msravi 10y ago|2 comments
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by msravi 10y ago
I didn't know that felons weren't allowed to vote in the US - this was news to me. Looks like it varies by state: http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...
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by msravi 10y ago
Well, it isn't uncommon to create a log file with a timestamp and a name like foobar.$datetime.log with $datetime expanding to something like 2016-07-20T22:08:38
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by msravi 10y ago
I stopped using Flipkart when they went pushy with their mobile app. If you went to their website on a mobile, it just insisted that you download the app, with no other option, which I didn't want to do. I just went to amazon.in Edit:
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by msravi 10y ago
What's the power source for these buoys for transmission and reception? It doesn't look like there are any solar panels - so are they just running off of a battery that needs to be replaced periodically?
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by msravi 10y ago
An interesting bit: China created a half-mile square terrain model of a disputed region with India that was discovered in 2006[1]. 1. http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/huge_scale_m...
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by msravi 10y ago
Turning off js for the site circumvents the blocker. In uMatrix: hindustantimes.com www.hindustantimes.com script block indiatimes.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com script block lets you get past the blocker. But given their unambiguously hos
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Ad-Blocking War Comes to India(thewire.in)
1 points by msravi 10y ago|1 comments
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by msravi 10y ago
Yes, it can. In uMatrix: hindustantimes.com www.hindustantimes.com script block indiatimes.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com script block lets you get past the blocker.
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by msravi 10y ago
Goodbye, Times of India, and Hindustan Times. And anyone else who joins the bandwagon. What's surprising is, that unlike in the US, newspapers in India aren't in a decline and have no need to do this. Subscriptions (the print vari
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by msravi 10y ago
Looks like Indian newspapers are ganging up on their readers to force then to turn off adblockers. Goodbye, TimesOfIndia and HindustanTimes! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007472 Clicking on an article in timesofind
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Turn off ad-blockers or don’t read us, say top Indian newspapers(factordaily.com)
5 points by msravi 10y ago|3 comments
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by msravi 10y ago
From BLR over an ACT line: ~25ms From BLR over an Airtel line: ~65ms From Taiwan (google compute instance): ~112ms
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by msravi 10y ago
While this is good news, AWS really ought to work on (a) competitive pricing, and (b) flexibility in cpu/ram customization. Today, google compute instances cost less than half of similar AWS instances and allow customization of ram and
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by msravi 10y ago
Also, if you use uMatrix, you can choose to spoof the referrer string of third-party requests. And you can optionally choose to allow referrers for certain domains: referrer-spoof: * true referrer-spoof: wsj.com false This, for example, &qu
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by msravi 10y ago
It's Taiwan[1]. Close enough for me - actually better, because I'm mostly talking to servers in Hong Kong. 1. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-...
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by msravi 10y ago
I moved from AWS EC2 to Google Cloud a few days ago. Google really seems to have beaten AWS, at least in pricing and flexibilty. On AWS (Singapore region) a 2-vCPU, 7.5G RAM instance costs $143/month (not including IOPS and bandwidth c

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