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by msravi 10y ago
...which is why I moved all my notes to quiver from evernote. The format is open and is extremely well designed ( https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format ). And someone's used it to bu
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by msravi 11y ago
It's amusing to see this as something of a novelty. In India, buses like these ply regularly[1] (for example between Bangalore and Chennai, or Bangalore and Hyderabad) and are pretty popular. But then, the reason for the popularity mig
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by msravi 11y ago
If I read an entire book and I use the knowledge acquired from reading the book for commercial gain, is it fair use?
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by msravi 11y ago
Yeah, and that's also a great example of what should NOT be allowed without the user's EXPLICIT permission - simply visiting a link should not result in a torrent download!
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by msravi 11y ago
Privacy Badger ( https://www.eff.org/privacybadger ) already has the capability to replace social media widgets.
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by msravi 11y ago
So this is spread-spectrum CDMA applied to a radar pulse?
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by msravi 11y ago
Since the graph plots "monthly mean global surface temperature" how do we know that it is not skewed by large temperature increase in a few urban cities, versus a widespread increase across the globe? The reason I ask, is that hig
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by msravi 11y ago
Anyone knows how other countries handle primitive tribes' adherence to laws?
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Should an aborigine be arrested for murder?(nytimes.com)
2 points by msravi 11y ago|1 comments
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Transpiling Julia to C – The LLVM-CBack end(juliacomputing.com)
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by msravi 11y ago
Apple did not want to make this public, and would have been quite happy to give the FBI what it wanted under seal. It was the FBI that actively wanted to make this public, ostensibly to establish legal precedent. See https://news
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by msravi 11y ago
From here (4th para from the end): http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/how-tim-cook-be... "Apple had asked the F.B.I. to issue its application for the tool under seal. But the government m
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by msravi 11y ago
Can you make this so it can take any RSS feed/twitter feed and show the top N in each tile?
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by msravi 11y ago
Would it also be possible to post a reply to the email as a comment? Does the HN API allow for something like that to be built (with proper authentication)?
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TRAI rules in favor of net neutrality(twitter.com)
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by msravi 11y ago
I'd appreciate an invite too, if you have one - vmarsi75-hn at yahoo dot com. Thanks!
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by msravi 11y ago
Make sure that your referer header is enabled. If you're using uMatrix and have referer spoof turned on, add this to your rules to disable it for wsj: referrer-spoof: wsj.com false
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Trai set to reject differential bandwidth pricing; FB's Free Basics to be hit(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by msravi 11y ago
Volvo buses on the other hand have had a really poor safety record, at least here in India. Here's one incident for example: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/45-killed-as-b... And it's
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by msravi 11y ago
Wait... they can read your email to verify who you say you are? Really? When did that happen?
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by msravi 11y ago
How are they going to do this? I mean, anyone could spin up a machine located in the US within a few minutes - how would they know?
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Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally(in.reuters.com)
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by msravi 11y ago
"Cable and satellite TV subscriptions cost just $2 or $3 a month, which makes paying even 50 cents for a movie seem expensive." While that might be true in Tier-2 cities, the cost of a cable/satellite connection in Bangalore
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by msravi 11y ago
Theranos has always been very careful with their words - they make sure that it's not an outright lie, but if not read attentively, can very effictively mask the true meaning. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by msravi 11y ago
No. The question is whether FB understood the severity of the bug and paid in proportion to its severity. When you run a bounty program, that's what you do.
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by msravi 11y ago
Sure, they'll be the one deciding. Except, that other bounty hunters are watching their reaction and their fairness in paying out people for their work. The next $1M bug that gets discovered will probably go out onto the black market b
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by msravi 11y ago
Then the first one to report it should have been paid a lot more than the $2500. The fact is that FB didn't understand the impact of the bug, and it needed Wes to show them how severe the bug was. And once they knew how severe it was,
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by msravi 11y ago
Ok, so here's the thing. Your $2500 payout was not commensurate with the severity of the bug. It ought to have been more. A LOT more. You're basically telling bounty hunters to not go any further to "prove" the severity
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by msravi 11y ago
Huh? How is it that I'm able to buy reserved instances? I'm in India and I've bought reserved instances. It's been a pretty bad decision to buy ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741966 ), but I can.
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by msravi 11y ago
Then perhaps PH should be more forthcoming about this hidden "process" and educate the "people who have no idea how Product Hunt works"?

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