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A pre-cursor was launched almost 8 months ago [1] but perhaps you missed it. I can imagine looking at such a refined design and feeling like you can't measure up. But if you are really passionate about whatever your are developing, you'll find a niche. Moreover there's always room for more than 1 player and competition is good to shape up the landscape for everybody. If you share your open source project, you might get a lot better feedback and perhaps more contributors.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203

Absolutely beautiful design. I wish I had the skills to design something like this.

As a user, it would be fun to look at your journaled life years from now. However, the skeptic in me thinks advertisers must be drooling at that much data. Also wondering what impact could it have on potential health insurance providers. Or perhaps one day big G or FB would swoop up all my data.

All that aside, congratulations on a fabulous job. I'd definitely give it a try someday. Please enable sign-up without FB.

'liability' & 'credit history' may or may not be the reason but it's a good justification.

In India, is it easy (or even possible) to deny an unauthorized charge on your credit card? AFAIK, this is possible only after you declare your credit card last or stolen. Any charges before that would be the customer's responsibility.

Before the above is implemented, it is important to have 'zero liability' credit cards (RBI is working on it [1]). The 'zero liability' requirement would also need a reliable credit history of consumers. Not sure if that exists in India yet.

[1] http://trak.in/tags/business/2012/01/10/rbi-hints-at-zero-li...

Upvoted for visibility. A bit related : another recent article on fake Amazon reviews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9136614 .

> If you don’t have much time skip ahead to 3:10 ..

This was the news part for me : the pesticide used is so toxic that the potato farmers won't venture out in the fields for up-to 5 days after spraying it

Background: Almost all govt / public sector / regulated private sector services in India requires you to submit a physical proof of ID/Address (along with application forms & other essentials) e.g. bank account, mobile SIM, gas/water/electricity, credit card etc.

It's unlike US where your SSN is electronically linked to your identity & credit history and most of the above stuff can be done without any physical documents.

The Aadhar (literally means foundation) card is trying to provide a unified identification across the country. Perhaps like an SSN to some extent.

Favorite quote from the above paper: Albert Einstein once said, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” However, it is possible that the unconscious mental system can, in fact, do just that.

Related reading : Thinking fast & slow [1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...

You didn't give an alternate solution?

Someone mentioned here there's a million to 1 user to engineer ratio. As much as I would want Google to fix the issue, I don't expect that happening anytime soon. If all of us can collectively help the community fix bugs then why not? Just like countless other crowdsourced intelligence tools (e.g. wot browser extension, ad blockers etc.).

Your experience is scary-pleasant. Perhaps someone should start a peer-reviewed list : why-google-blacklisted.me where the top voted ones would stand a chance of getting reviewed by non-bots at Google. In all likelihood, a situation like this gives nightmares to entrepreneurs on a daily basis.

Edit: Another recent similar incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873149

From the linked XKCD : "Could not be reached for comment" => "is guilty and everyone knows it"

Nice work. I'll add 2 more to the mix (bookmarked these while searching for pure CSS icons recently). To answer the title, yes I'd definitely use one of these

http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/demo/

http://saeedalipoor.github.io/icono/

Awesome ! Loaded, closed tab, turned off data, loaded again, still works :) (except that people think I'm crazy waving my phone in the air trying to draw the figure 8)

I would vote for him as the most decent & helpful guy on Stackoverflow. I've always found his tone humble, which isn't very common these days. Really glad to have people like him around.

uncopiable : for most users.

Is there a good software (preferably open) to remotely kill/erase your data on a Windows machine. Not all versions have bitlocker. Truecrypt's future is unpredictable.

> most of the problem is your own thoughts reinforcing themselves

This has often helped me in dire situations when you need some validation on the choices you've made.

The winner of this post, HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital. Their NAS are well rated on Amazon & Newegg.

Personally, I'm more concerned about the lifetime of laptop HDD (500GB range). Wonder what's the time frame around which I should swap it out (& what brand)

Can someone familiar with the code explain what's the difference between this & adblock/disconnect etc. Why is this lighter? (a little technical algorithm difference would be good to know)

> spend billions... adequate period to recoup... earn enough... huge amounts of capital

All these words don't carry meaning without proper data. Unless we know how much they've spent, how much they need to recoup & grow, these claims are vague.

> stealing the fruits of other people's labor

Without studying the merits/demerits of the patent, this is a hyperbole. I'm saying, maybe your statements are true, maybe not. But without backing up with facts, they are merely sentimental.

Here's an interesting case of drug pricing. Albendazole is a fairly common/old drug. It's a broad spectrum anthelmintic that retails for a few cents in most parts of the world. Recenty, U.S. price of albendazole has increased by >4000% to over US$100 per 200-mg tablet[1].

Another example: Novartis, the company that makes the leukemia drug Gleevec, keeps raising the drug’s price, even though the drug has already delivered billions in profit to the company. [...] Novartis is just keeping up with other companies as they charge more and more for their drugs. They know we can’t say no.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albendazole#Controversy

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/opinion/why-drugs-cost-so-...

The article explains it better instead of simply saying it's not innovative. It's worth reading these 2 paragraphs:

"India believes that the patent standards are so low that companies can get patents for inventions very easily," Amin said in an interview. The patent office's examiner ruled Gilead's patent claim "lacks novelty and inventive step," as Bloomberg News noted, and also doesn't demonstrate it's significantly more effective than already known compounds. Amin explains that the controller general's decision holds that "there are a number of earlier compound structures that are very close to what Gilead is trying to get a patent for."

But Sovaldi is a breakthrough drug. Shouldn't that be worth something? "It's important to recognize that what the patent office deals with is whether something is new in science," Amin said. "The decision says there are a number of earlier compound structures that are very close to what Gilead is trying to get a patent for. It's a scientific decision and has nothing to do with the utility of the drug." Gilead didn't offer comment on Wednesday.

According to Wikipedia:

Sofosbuvir costs US$84,000 for 12 weeks of treatment used for genotypes 1 and 2 (about US$1,000 per pill) [...] health care costs in California could increase by US$18–29 billion per year because of this medication

Love them. Why disable right click though?

document.getElementsByTagName('img')

https://d12oemfd9cl6ha.cloudfront.net/i/images/imgs/27839146...

https://d12oemfd9cl6ha.cloudfront.net/i/images/imgs/27833893...

https://d12oemfd9cl6ha.cloudfront.net/i/images/imgs/27833887...

I find it useful for creating pseudo random unit tests, targeting specific elements on the page.

For those who don't want to read the whole book, or want inspiration to read the book, here's the New Yorker articles on which the book is based. It's long, but worth reading: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

Is there a readable mirror. Horrible resource hungry interface kills my modern laptop in under 30 seconds.

There are a couple of libraries listed below. Would using any of them make life easier with ElasticSearch + Python?

- https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-py (low level lib, from ES)

- https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-dsl-py (high level lib, from ES)

- https://github.com/mozilla/elasticutils (high level lib from Mozilla)

There are a few more, but they are either obsolete or don't have much traction. There's also django-haystack, but that's specific to django.

There was a relevant article recently [1], [2] talking about similar issues & maker movement[3]. Also reminds me of camera manufacturers trying to stay on top of innovation by convincing customers to buy higher megapixels.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/29/the-cure-for-our-disposab...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1129892...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_movement

> you have a 1 in 119, or 1 in 833 chance of the user having a cached copy

That statistics has assumptions on what's the most popular jQuery versions being used. It would make sense if there was real data to support that.

In case of Django, the RunSQL command [1] in migrations makes it very easy to use partial indexes. There are a couple of examples on Stackoverflow. Definitely a low hanging fruit and worth those 10-20 minutes to setup.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/migration-operatio...

> At what point is the Indian government responsible for this guy being at large?

Indian government is totally at fault. And so is Uber for lying about background checks and not taking the complaints seriously. This is not an isolated incident that shows their cavalier response. A follow-up from Uber on the complaint would have absolutely won my trust in the company.

> thats hardly enough to fire someone

Maybe run a background check based on a complaint, that would have given sufficient grounds to take action.