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by pavanred 12y ago
Isn't this a slippery slope? The general consensus is changing slowly and everyone slowly is starting to accept and tolerate privacy invasions? Isn't that the same with other human rights too?
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Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance(theguardian.com)
30 points by pavanred 12y ago|4 comments
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by pavanred 12y ago
I don't think you can attribute most incredible art to be inspired by religion, considering that during those times, art (sometimes just ideas) that lacked religious conformity were dealt with severity. Perhaps the reason there is so m
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by pavanred 12y ago
Not sure if you based it on this, but it's a very famous argument made by George Carlin [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
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Chile students' debts go up in smoke(theguardian.com)
15 points by pavanred 12y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 12y ago
What mapping software did you use? Just curious, because when I lived in Bangalore, India, I used to use one of the many android apps that record a gpx file, whenever went cycling. And, I used this mostly when I cycled in parts of the city
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by pavanred 12y ago
I interviewed recently for a Data Engineer position in Chicago and was surprised when 2 interviewers from the data team introduced themselves as astrophysicists. They reasoned that they weren't happy with the career path in academia an
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by pavanred 12y ago
USA, Relocation, Full Time Professional Exp Stack: C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server, SQL Server BI, Oracle, js, IIS, NUnit, WCF, TFS Academic (MS Data Science) Stack: Java, Python, Postgres, R, Hadoop, git Resume: http://www.cs.uic.edu&#
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by pavanred 12y ago
Well, not really true. In fairness though the US population is less than 5% of the world, they amount to lot more than 5% of the market. The distinction is between the population and number of customers of internet/software based servi
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Dabbawalas tie-up with WHO for malaria, dengue (thehindu.com)
1 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
Well, I don't know how Google Now works but I presume there is a machine learning component in there and it should get better as you have lot more data to train the model. So, may be its early to dismiss such a product very soon.
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by pavanred 13y ago
I read this article [1] just a few days ago about how kids are over protected now. It also includes the Swanson Primary School story too. An excerpt "...I’ve mostly met children who take it for granted that they are always being watche
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Brazil Net neutrality Legistlation(america.aljazeera.com)
2 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
I remember the practice of using photocopied textbooks during my undergrad. The place I am from, its quite common to use photocopies of textbooks because most books are very expensive. Besides, there were specific shops that used kerosene i
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by pavanred 13y ago
What's more amazing is why human beings try to block information in the first place, at least in places where its unnecessary, even for their own cause. For instance, the Indian IT firm Infosys (many other similar companies in India to
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by pavanred 13y ago
>> I think the instability of the current government has something to do with it. Care to elaborate? I don't see the correlation between instability of a government and fining international companies for antitrust. Besides, the c
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by pavanred 13y ago
Perhaps he/she is referring to conjugate priors [1], where the prior and the posterior are of the same family of distributions. Once you compute the posterior using a likelihood and prior, you obtain a posterior that is of the same fam
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by pavanred 13y ago
I must agree, I am a Computer Science graduate student and one thing I have noticed is that the only courses that always run out of registrations within a minute (literally) of registration open are the ones in which the Professor is known
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C# Antipatterns(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
Am curious, I remember seeing a talk by Linus Torvalds on the internet where he explains git and how it incorporates a decentralized design to solve some inherent problems that the alternatives posed. Now, why is there emphasis on creating
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by pavanred 13y ago
Motorola Mobility office is in Libertyville and they are currently moving some employees to an office in downtown Chicago.
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by pavanred 13y ago
Well, not necessarily the only factor. When I was living in Bangalore (a few years ago), I remember that if I post a question on StackOverFlow at night (Indian Standard Time), I had a higher chance of getting more responses than if I did it
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by pavanred 13y ago
The point I was trying to make was that when it comes to security, privacy etc there isn't as much debate and media interest as I think should be in India. In this case there were concerns voiced that the Election commission neither co
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by pavanred 13y ago
This is true, just days ago there was a proposal of a Google tie-up with Election Commission of India [1]. The proposal allowed Google to offer services for the General Elections in India to be held in 2014. Google proposed free online vote
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Election Commission of India drops plan to partner Google due to US spying fears(in.reuters.com)
1 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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Google and Election Commission of India proposed controversial tie-up(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
Not to forget the people who still bank on the reasoning - Why should I care, I have nothing to hide. I am sure everyone of these people will object to a routine daily search of their house to make sure that they are not responsible for the
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Steam hit by DDoS as Origin stutters from separate attack(theguardian.com)
1 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
Pig is another option. It allows using SQL like commands on the grunt shell, making using Hadoop a lot easier.
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by pavanred 13y ago
I tried the android app. Say, I check the permissions of my facebook account by logging in, I didn't find a way (at least a conspicuous one) to logout. And, I didn't find the point of forcing me to create a mypermissions account i

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