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Prabhadevi.

Thank you! I had noticed clicking the status bar icon but didn't really see the minus! Life's good again.

Do you have an api or do you support some desktop/console linux clients? I prefer having a blinking icon in the taskbar when there is some non urgent activity demanding my attention and checking a browser tab every few minutes is inefficient.

I would not want my application to be able to tell if I am logged in or out at the openid provider.

I like the way things work with openid. It's simple, elegant and it works beautifully. I don't want facebook connect/ MS passport like session management. That is exactly what the draw of openid is for me.

I will not leave a comment on your site because you require me to tell facebook, an app provider I don't trust that much, to know how and what I did on your site.

The guy down the road might not have convinced anyone directly but he did contribute to your cause by making the need for discussing GWB ever so slightly stronger in your community enabling you to do what you did.

I have never programmed with .NET (been coding exclusively in linux for years), but the framework looks interesting and the WPF has caught my eye. I will probably be one of those who will be exclusively learning the mono version of the .NET story and C#/F#. Though I guess there are very few people in my boat.

Is there a neat and simple pdf resume template that replicates something like this? What tex templates have HN people used for their resume?

> 1. No politics. In great start-up cultures, everybody is giving everybody else credit.

No. That is just cheapening credit. No politics means giving credit where it's due and when it's due. In a good start up, people don't care much about giving or getting credit except for cool, remarkable and worthy things.

Everyone giving everyone else credit... That is what actually leads to some really poor cultures.

Fair enough. What you have pointed out is that there are not many micro-actions that can help the poor. But, that doesn't mean there aren't any macro-actions that can.

I am in India. I too can't do anything to help the poor but my government sure as hell can (and the good thing, at least for the moment, is that it is doing so).

(For instance, tax money can be and should be spent on policies, subsidies, etc that make education cheaper for everyone and make usury extremely difficult to practice. These are the real ways in which rich nations can help their poor. Seriously, how much money did you give to AIG and friends and how much money would it take to provide free college education for everyone in the US who could get through the selection process?)

> So when I hear people confidently repeat urban myths like "we only use 10% of our brains", or "you'll drown if you don't eat an hour before swimming" etc, I don't bother trying to explain why I think they're wrong.

Why would you do a thing like that? I just go to extraordinary lengths to do the exact opposite... correct people all the time. Over the ages, it has resulted in a lot of nicknames, sarcasm but yes... a group of friends who accept me for what I truly am and with whom I truly enjoy the time I spend. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

I really don't understand why would you do a thing like that? Why hide what you are? Who cares what others think? I say jump right in... let them know what you think, pitch your ideas, debate... what's the worse that could happen? You would be back to the dark bedroom, bright monitor, 20 tabs, right?

Yep. PAE doesn't allow for any single program to have any more than the roughly 3 GB because the virtual memory of every program still is a 32 bit address space.

Ooops... availability* My bad...

Anyway, what has

> If they'd been left behind, stranded far away from the "land of opportunity," would they have been better off?

got to do with consent?

That apart, informed consent cannot nullify a crime. That is a well accepted principle. You cannot give informed consent for murder and such stuff. There is a libertarian school of thought that wants to change that but I don't subscribe to that school of thought. Slavery under consent is just as much a violation of human dignity and just as much a crime as far as my views are concerned.

Also the leader board... http://top.searchyc.com/points_per_comment

You are suggesting that available of opportunity and future outcome make slavery ok. I do not believe that. I guess we just have fundamentally different world views.

Honest mortgages and education loans are not slavery. Intentionally ignoring checks to economically subjugate someone... I am not gonna call that slavery but it's really not that far from it or at least thats how I see it.

No. De-incentivize the lender. Create better exit situations for the borrower there by making such activity extremely unattractive for the lender.

Spend tax dollars educating and discouraging the borrower. This is valid because such conditions hurt the nation in the long run.

That difference is mostly irrelevant. Slavery entered into with consent is still slavery. The key part of slavery is not the path of entry, but the path of exit, in that you don't get to exit.

There is very little functional difference between this guy and a bonded laborer from pre-independence India.

I am guessing that colloquially they would like the search engine to be called just alpha which probably will work. "Did you alpha for that data?"

I am not a heroku user yet but was just going through their docs and they seem to support arbitrary gems... http://docs.heroku.com/gems What am I missing here?

Thats quite a big fraud... I hope the chap sees some serious jail-time for this...

Are ordinary "good" citizens capable of really providing such "intelligence" without doing much damage for things about to happen? I doubt it.

However, I really appreciate the sheer lack of original journalism that came from ordinary citizens during this time... I think only one or two people were reporting from ground zero... Pretty much everyone else was just echoing the main media. That is a problem that needs a solution...

A serious collective of amateur journalists doing some serious journalism and not just echoing the established media would be a great thing to have. No idea, how that could be achieved but if it existed during this mayhem, it would have been the resource I would be glued to, not the maddening sensationalist sickening reporting of the news channels.

Indian here. Mumbaikar here. Bad idea.... Very bad idea... You simply can't manage signal to noise in such an effort and the cost of false-positives is zero to you and very very high to the poor false-positive.

As an Indian, I couldn't be more proud... what really excites me is that they are doing it at 77 million usd... There are many dot com companies that get sold for more than that!

This looks like BOSS.