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nrbafna

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tech-blog.flipkart.net 12y ago

Automated Palette Image Generation

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www.payzippy.com 12y ago

Flipkart launches PayZippy, a novel payment option for consumers

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yocaptcha.com 13y ago

Show HN: New approach to advertising - through Captchas

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www.nokia.com 13y ago

Nokia and Microsoft's Windows Phone event live.

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www.flickr.com 14y ago

Pencil vs Camera. By ben heinne.

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shashank-kulkarni.blogspot.com 15y ago

Electronics for undergrads | blog

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Show HN: Seinfeld Calendar webapp.

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agoogleaday.com 15y ago

A Google a Day

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www.google.com 15y ago

Google Romance

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anuragd.com 15y ago

Powerpoint for logo design

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i.min.us 15y ago

Show HN: Duplicate entries on the front page

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en.wikipedia.org 15y ago

Happy Diwali to all

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Android application developement resources

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Minimalistic web design works?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Review my first website design

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mashi.tv 15y ago

Timeline driven JS animations

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www.smashingmagazine.com 16y ago

The Evolution of the Logo

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: I am designing my first commercial website. What should I keep in mind?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Why is the browser battle so important?

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ftp.mozilla.org 16y ago

Firefox 4 beta build 1 now available.

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: What programming language do I use?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Chrome skipping "http://". More minimalism?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Is iphone 4's gyroscope magical?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Download to the Cloud?

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nbafna.blogspot.com 16y ago

For Ubuntu, With Love.

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[dead] 11 years ago

A keen observer of changes that can also relay change events reliably to interested parties. Provides useful infrastructure for building eventually consistent data sources and systems.

It currently has support to listen events from mysql events (from binlog), hbase events, transform & relay them to mysql, hbase, elasticsearch.

Do you some figures around improvement from changing thread_handling to a pool instead of one per thread?

The queries on my db server, fit the documented use case for this feature - lots of short live queries.

Isn't this entire discussion a false dichotomy? It seems from this thread the only two options for everyone is to donate to things that Gates does vs. things that Musk does.

The same thing happened when India launched its Mars mission, with people saying they should take care of their poverty first. But, the discussion around that time on HN was in favor of India exploring space.

On other note -

Is there an extension/app for HN that categorizes the posts into topics (based on some text analysis) & enables the user to filter them out from the feed? Feature akin to what lobste.rs provides.

This will basically enable me to filter out fluff stories that manage to rise up.

I saw a comment on HN sometime back and can't seem to find it now, but thought it had some merit. The gist of it was that enabling posts from mobile might lead to lower content quality as typing on phones is tougher and we tend to focus on a quick reply rather than a thought out discussion.

I personally use http://hn.premii.com on mobile & it has a good reading experience.

How is it different?

Currently, there are a few sites that enable users to save their cards for future transactions. But, these saved cards can be used to only pay on the particular merchant site.

With PayZippy, you can save your cards once and use it across multiple stores including biggies (in India) like Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, BlueStone, etc.

Disclosure - I work at PayZippy.

He writes about it himself here - http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-Sys...

Also, from his write up, it was serious lack of security on the results website.

More importantly, the focus from his write up should be less on the getting the data of the results, rather on the data itself. He goes on plot the scores vs frequency for all the courses taken up students and discovers a good case of tampering with the scores.

This is incredible. I can only wonder in awe if something like this was implemented in online courses provided by say Udacity or Coursera. That would be a revolution in online education.

I have tried some of the cases:

1. Re-install whatsapp on the same phone and same SIM : you have to go through the entire setup process again. You're asked for your phone number, whatsapp sends a sms to that number to confirm. If you had previous backup of chats, it restores that.

2. Insert SIM into a new phone, without whatsapp previously installed: Same as 1.

3. Change SIM in the same phone and whatsapp previously installed: Nothing changes. Whatsapp runs using your previous number and that is displayed to all the contacts. On re-installing, 1. is repeated.

I did not go to MIT; heck I haven't been to the States. But, this post does really warm my heart!

I am about to graduate from an elite Indian university and I can only gasp at the vast difference. Restrictions on what courses you can take up as electives, exams that many a times test only on memory, the end goal to academics is to land a decent job, subpar internet access, etc.

But, I have benefitted greatly from MIT's OCW. I haven't signed up for any course on edX but have religiously completed a couple of courses on Udacity and eagerly waiting for NLP to commence on Coursera.

This is a wrong way to reason about it.

The article appears in an Indian paper, why single out U.S. as the country to compare to?

Also, just because other countries have other restrictions (wrong or otherwise), that doesn't justify such restrictions in India.

P.S. Avoid typing in all caps. It comes off as rude.

A Hole in Mars 14 years ago

Just the link color was borrowed from Twitter Bootstrap. Rest is pretty much white background, max-width, padding between <center> elements on the page, bigger line-height :)

A Hole in Mars 14 years ago

and style change for links (color change, not underlined by default)

so, pretty simple changes.