vijayr

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   Ask HN Know of any app/tool built on top of Google social Graph API?

   1 points by vijayr 17y ago|1 comments
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   by vijayr 17y ago

   From his quotes page: Tragedy of Life is that you can’t commit suicide. I just read some of his posts. Definitely a man who lived extreme.
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   by vijayr 17y ago

   Fascinating. But how is it relevant here?
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   by vijayr 17y ago

   what he is doing, is summarizing the books in his own words. I guess it shouldn't be a problem then.
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   by vijayr 17y ago

   Does this mean, that anybody who publishes summaries commercially, should obtain permission/rights from the publishers/authors?
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   by vijayr 17y ago

   Do you know of any other sites that do book summaries? How successful are they?
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   by vijayr 17y ago

   I think wiki style won't work for summaries (books, movies etc). The key difference is wikipedia is full of factual information (most of it anyway). so it is easy for anyone to edit, fact is a fact, after all. How do you summarize a book,
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   by vijayr 17y ago

   Thanks for the link davidw. The summaries at squeezedbooks look more generic, more like reviews than summary. Also, I'm not sure wiki style is a good idea for book summaries.
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   Ask HN copyright implications of publishing book summaries

   6 points by vijayr 17y ago|12 comments
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    by vijayr 17y ago

    patio11 is male. I submitted a few text too, its quite accurate.
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    by vijayr 17y ago

    nothing against twitter, just that there is too much twitter news these days. it is a great, fun and useful service, but not exactly world changing
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    by vijayr 17y ago

    hmm. that much isn't difficult to do - I checked out the site, didn't find a single mistake in 7-8 attempts of searching. Does this mean, that they also determine businesses/organizations and drop them from their list?
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    by vijayr 17y ago

    that is a neat link. thank you for posting it.
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    by vijayr 17y ago

    yes, I thought about it. but how many names can you save/check like that? won't it be a tedious process? Also, what about names from Europe, muslim names etc?
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    Ask HN: flirt140, how are they determining the gender?

    27 points by vijayr 17y ago|36 comments
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    but the Uniloc damages fee only amounts to about eight days of profit for the company Thats nearly 50m USD profit PER DAY. few companies can match that I guess.
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    I guess its a little more difficult to be multilingual in primarily english speaking countries. But in countries like India (where I'm from) anybody who has gone to school can speak and write at least two languages, in most cases, 3 or more
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    http://kiva.org
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    It would be great if you can warn the users it is NSFW in the title itself, when you post such links.
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    I've given 10 loans so far at Kiva, and 3 have been totally repaid (others are in various stages of repayment). I don't think you should look at microfinance as investment options. That said, there are a few micro finance organizations th
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    qhoga.com?
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    I feel the same. I love their search engine, but as a company I don't like many of the things that they do. Not that I "dislike" G though. It would be super nice to have some serious competition to Google.
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    by vijayr 18y ago

    http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/04/stefanie_posave.php