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Something like this? https://plus.google.com/+BradleyHorowitz/posts/SM5RjubbMmV

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any documentation for these services. It is possible that the APIs are published only for the merchants who are authorized to use them, payment gateways like CCAvenue and TPSL being some of them.

It is also the case that Debit Cards are insanely popular in India, a lot more than Credit Cards. Secondly, Online Banking (banks exposing merchant APIs) is also very popular for internet purchases as it removes the middleman.

What the what! Firstly, howsoever unfortunate the incident might be, this was not Afghani students causing it, it was some group of students causing it. From what I can see about this I see 200 ill cultured Indian students as well, even more so as they seem to be acting violently against the police as well. I would guess that the problem is not that Afghan students are not well behaved but that most students are not well behaved. Please, for heaven's sake, do not stereotype. This is a great opportunity for India to build ties with a neighbouring country and such behaviour might end up ruining relationships with yet another south asian country.

I think people feel good when they donate, and that is what causes them to donate. How is that any less selfish?

(However I also know I am pretty selfish, so I could be simply reflecting)

> changing the substance of the rest of the message

It most definitely changes the substance. From Google being the perpetuator of the said privacy problem, it becomes a participant that is legally bound to participate by YOUR legal system.

Disclaimer: Googler.

Seems extremely similar to what Intuit has been building in India: Txtweb[1]. The apps support two modes PUSH and PULL. The most common is PULL, where you SMS to some number something like "@appname.optionalExtension <stuff that will be passed on to the application logic", response comes back as SMS. Their experimental PUSH automatically pushes subscribed users with SMSes. I had developed an app, @news a couple of years ago and still see decent traffic on it. The developers are also quite friendly and responsive. If you are interested in a similar platform but in a market that is benefitted from this application a lot more, you should definitely check them out.

[1] http://www.txtweb.com/

You can use J/K to traverse through the stream in a chronological fashion. Not as quick is SPACE but the animations are a lot _cleaner_. You can also force a single column layout using the More button in top toolbar.

CTO of Jetbrains is talking about this at the moment at Google IO. It could have been a collaboration.

I think it is only fair in this particular scenario. Indian laws for free speech are quite weak and their application largely political and opportunistic. While I would love the companies to be more responsible in all jurisdictions that they are involved in, I certainly hope that Govt. of India and Indian courts stop issuing frequently and often absurd take-down (and if I am not wrong, even arrest) orders for user generated content.

I certainly hope not. I was quite shocked to see such comments on Hacker News. While I can understand disapproval for the device, but a proud proclamation that someone would physically abuse another person, that seems out of place and very wrong.

Because there is a higher chance that I will enjoy a conversation with someone I share some background with. Call it an easy icebreaker.

Edit: Added 'easy'

> Not even 0.005% of the Indian populace can afford the things I mentioned as examples.

Any references for that? The one I found, partly disagrees with your claims [1]. [1] also suggests that wealth disparity in India is better when compared to world. I am not saying the situation is good, but it is not as bloddy and fearing as you suggest it is. And there isn't something very particular about India in this case, I think the problem is a more widespread. And yes, the rich in India compare themselves to global standards when they determine if they are wealthy - because the world is more global now than we would like to believe. You suggest elsewhere that these people are upper class because it takes so little to help the lower classes. If that is any metric, most of the western hemisphere should be categorized as upper class because it helping a significant majority of eastern hemisphere will not have significant negative impact on lifestyle or wealth of the west.

[1] http://www.wealthbull.com/stock-market-today/878-wealth-dist...

> There are countless cases of where rich people would push poor people on bikes off the road and into ditches with their cars.

This is just one part of the story that helped your narrative. It is always the fault of the person with the larger vehicle in India, from what I know about the society. If you are involved in an accident and survived, pray to God that you were in the smaller vehicle, otherwise the crowd might beat you death - if they feel like it [1,2,3 and countless others]. From my own anecdote, I was almost hit by a motorbike while being on a cycle, due to my own fault. Not even a scratch, but I had to help the other man not be bullied by the crowd to pay me money.

And pushing people into ditches has nothing to do with being rich, it has to do with being an asshole. Yes there is widespread casteism (religious or economic) but not every unlawful, unfair act has be attributed to the same evil.

[1] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-28/surat...

[2] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-09-06/nagpu...

[3] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-02-28/rajko...

Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.rac...

He is not saying Michael to STFU, he is telling him that if he had accused his manager of lying in the face, he would have been shown what the scores were just so that he would 'STFU'.

For one, I don't think I deserve to be hanged even once. I believe I cannot even be convicted for even minor crimes. Following the law has its benefits, not worrying (about being caught), is a significant one for me.

It doesn't, if you change your strategy a little bit. I tried, I was able to get one line off. Just one.

> I, for one, have no problem supporting bars that promise an ass kicking to anyone who shows up wearing google glass

Bars can just ban photography and ask their customers to not have Glasses on without the need of any sort of ass kicking. I would never go to a bar that advertises ass kicking as a feature - independent of whether I have/wear Glasses or not.

Disclosure: I work at Google.

I wanted to explain myself when I downvoted you, but I am just going to say that I would rather be a glasshole than be that bitter.

Could you elaborate a little more, I am curious!

Yeah, I am not saying it is. I am just saying that it was the reason I began using chrome extensively and slowly, exclusively.

To me, it was the UI and magnitudes of toolbars that would come with every addon (even the useful ones) that would then need manual disabling, and the need to restart browser over and over again (at times due to new addons being installed, disabled/enabled or browser updates) that pushed me to Chrome.

As sibling says, it is mentioned on official site (hence sanctioned?), and it was binary for me (tested on Linux and Mac).

> There's no way to guarantee that the contents haven't been modified or that they're even kept updated.

There is no solution to that but to compile things ourselves anyway.

> since they go to great lengths to prevent anyone from easily obtaining a compiled binary.

1. Googled "Download Chromium"

2. Clicked on http://download-chromium.appspot.com/

3. Unzip and Install.

There is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk... as well. That might be useful in some cases.

> zoning out on Facebook, flipping through TV channels, browsing Reddit front page for 2 hours

Not that I rate the intellectual output of these things above reading books but the value that people get out of them may be higher. Firstly, it seems unfair to judge people based on whether they choose to read books or surf sites. I, for one, find internet more interesting, dynamic, fluid and cheap source of information as well as entertainment than books.

> aimlessly browsing social media

That has some value too. For a person who prefers that kind of past time, I would argue that chances of them engaging in an activity of much higher intellectual engagement are pretty low anyway. They are probably looking for an easy and light way to spend time or consume information about their peers.

I am curious. What are your arguments?

> more extreme examples demonstrate the flaws

You are calling out for slippery slope, if X is acceptable than 1000X must also be. And since 1000X is not, therefore X shouldn't be.

> analogy would be altogether impossible because things could only ever be compared to themselves.

To be honest, I rarely trust analogies as logical statements. They are good for introduction to a concept but they have an inherent bias towards the view of the constructor which may not be visible to the other side in an debate.

The argument you put forward was that 'I do it for free so I can do anything' is fallacious. Yes, it is. Firstly the argument here is 'You agree that I do this for free, the definition of 'this' may change with time and it is entirely my right to do so' is the actual condition.

> It is very annoying to have to explain this over and over

I am sorry I annoyed you, that was not my intent. I did read it but may be I can't read as well as I hoped I did.

> ctrl-F malic -> 0 results. Uh, cool?

While I am at least a little offended by the snark I would assume that it was my mistake that I annoyed you a lot. English is not really my first language so probably my choice of word 'malicious' was out of place, but you are taking things too literally. Disqus has behaved is inconsiderate and sneaky - I am trying to point out that they notified their users and were not trying to hide anything about this.

Honestly, I see no point continuing to annoy you. So I will shut up.

That's a poor analogy and even you have pointed it out. So using it only creates an unnecessary and invalid connection between stealing and what disqus did.

To be fair, "I can do whatever I want" was actually the condition GP pointed out. As other users have pointed out, this was not a surprise to most of them as they were notified about it.

> they still have every right to be unhappy

Yes They do. But they don't have the right to call the other party malicious.