nmridul

* Or possibility to get shot because you were pulling something out of your pocket.

I'm curious why it would be different from any review websites ?

Maybe he should reword his letter and don't use that domain name. And make it so that he is just providing a review on his experiences of working with the client. And also could put it in his personal website.

If she has a gun, she can shoot at least one police officer. And as a police officer, you don't want to be the one getting hit. So human survival instinct says that you will try to protect yourself (even well trained professional could fail at times to control their basic reaction).

But I wonder if it is worth the time, money and effort of 6 police officers to prevent kids (even though she is adult) from drinking ? Drunk driving is one thing, but drinking ?

Atleast you should explain why you think he belongs there ?

By any chance, is he being sarcastic ? I myself sometimes find it very hard with some people in figuring out whether they are just joking or are serious. Even when they joke, they just have a straight face and say it seriously.

From the look of it, I feel the manager is just pulling a joke on you. Specially with the LinkedIn stuff.... But maybe I'm wrong.

The same issue with pumps when they run out of stock. Now you have to wait for the tankers to arrive ...

That is exactly what happens when you fight the powerful. You don't go to jail for fighting. You go in for something else that is entirely disconnected. It could even be a rape case (Yes, I'm talking about Assange)

> I'm smarter than all my peers at work. If you are sure of that, then create something on your own. Try to apply your AI skills, find a problem to solve (big data, NLP etc) and get a prototype running. If you can't find a new problem to solve, you could as well solve an already solved problem in a better way. But set the target. Re-evaluate yourself at the end.

Most Indian online stores (Flipcart etc) has cash on delivery option.

Also, do you think they would have more work for you ?

If yes, then just take whatever they give you and then don't bargain for that 6-7 hours. If they think you are easily manipulable, you might get more work from them. Take the work and you could be in a better bargaining position.

If it was an image or a tweet on blowing up an airport or something like that, it would've been removed instantly and the person charged with an act of terrorism, to spend rest of his good life in prison. But inciting some one to rape seems to be completely acceptable under the rights of Free speech ?

Thats exactly why its a news. Many didn't realize that the email and other particulars would be out in the open.

Its like knowing that my details are now public because I posted on HN when I expect only my posts to be public ... (Just an example as HN doesn't require an email id)

Is there a way in G+ where we can follow only relevant topics from people we follow ?

Say if someone I follow posts something which he tags something ("tech", "travel" etc) and I can choose to follow only the posts that are tagged "tech".

This is something I cannot figure out and if its there, I'm sure it will avoid most of the clutter in G+.

>> Tell me, what are you going to do about hunger?

>> If you really cared about the water problem, couldn't you have donated part of your (steady) income for that?

Lets look at this way - Regarding donating (or paying some one to do what you wanted to do) - Just look around and you will see serial entrepreneurs building their next company bootstrapping from their previous savings. They could well have paid some one to do it (coding, managing etc). Still you will see then right in the middle of the action. The simple reason is, most people love it.

Now regarding if you can't solve all the issues, then you should not solve anything (what are you going to do about hunger,,,) . So I want to solve the issues with payment processing and I plan to start a Paypal alternative. Here comes some one asking me "what about all these issues with banking " what about "all the other 1000s of problems with the financial sector" ? Can you solve everything ? If not, you should are you trying to just solve a Paypal issue ?

And a payment processor should not hold the customer's money for a longer duration. That is what the Government is trying to push them into complying. Just like any other payment processors operating in the country, Paypal can also keep the money with them for just enough duration that is required to process the payment. After that they need to TRANSFER the amount and not hold it with them.

If the India Govt relaxes it for Paypal, multitude of such payment processors would start operating and one day you would see them disappear with people's money. Then again you will blame the Govt.

Its not just the black money, its consumer protection that the Government is keen on.

India Government just wants Paypal to behave like a bank if they are going to hold consumer;s money. If Paypal follows the regulation, they will end up paying interest on the money they hold. And they will forced to insure the amount.

And paypal works around this issue by pushing the money to consumers bank when it reaches the legal limit.

You can't blame the Government for this mess. Its Paypal that is working around the system.

Lets keep aside the question of whether its a fictional story or not.

If its true, would you have accepted the offer ? I think he should have taken it. Here is a manager who has similar taste's as you. if he is the one who recruited other members too, it could be that you will fit better into his team.

The basic idea is that Wikipedia articles evolve over time. If one checks today, many articles don't even exist and others are in their preliminary stages (stubs). That doesn't mean Wikipedia as a whole is bad. There are thousands of articles that are mature enough and provide valuable information.

If you had the perfect definition for "conflict of interest", you could have well edited the article and added your definition. Its always better to light the lamp than blame darkness.

Read somewhere - "Its sad to see that all the best brains are working now just to make you and me click that Ad".

Just wait till they get an order banning Facebook and Google. See how Orkut previosly went inline with the Government.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2007-05-01/news...

And some more information... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India

Not everyone thinks of family, friends and pets .. Remember those initial explorers (Columbus, Magellan etc) who went to unknown oceans risking their life. May not be a good comparison, but when you compare the naval technology at that time and space technology now, seems its a comparable risk. And they had to fight other humans so risk to life was even high.

Google's mission seems to have changed. Looks like their focus is now more towards organizing "Personal information" than "World Information".

The top left logo clearly says "Glider Blog" -> If it had taken me to the product I would be disappointed.

Take it this way. While playing a computer game, my non-technical friends don't know how the game was written, how the buttons were designed, how the server is handling all those multiple players, or how the protocol handles all the communication.

They don't try to see behind the scenes and so they just appreciate the game and nothing more.

As a software engineer with whatever limited knowledge I have about those things, I'm able to appreciate the game at even more levels. When I see a perfectly flowing graphic I wonder how the coding was done and how much effort the developers put in for creating it or how did they even come up with such a use case.

Or take the case of movies. Once you start understanding about the planning that goes behind the scenes and how such a great movie was made, you start to appreciate it even more. Whey did they keep the camera there ? Wow, they could have changed the lighting to this corner....

Same with life. The more you understand, the better you appreciate it.

There are Human captcha breakers that you can buy for less than $10 for 1000+ captcha breaking. There are software / plugins that provide you direct access to these people. Once the plugin detects a captcha in a form, it just passes it on to these people.

Your software solutions can do only so much. Wikipedia, StackExchange etc has Human monitoring (volunteers who report spam) in addition to automated stuff.

Its tough keeping up with spam.

It could be tough to get some tech gig within such a short time, that too for that much amount. I can think of only the following options. - Try to contact any training institutes near you where you could quickly give PHP lessons. - Try subletting your place and get some cash in hand. - At the same time, try to find some online work. - Find some part time work - non-tech related or even manual work.

Wish you good luck

Because it teaches you how not to treat your workers.

He is not asking for sympathy or money. He is crying for help - For a maintainer. (The article and the direct link to the project site mentions this).

So you may not be interested, but others might. And that is what this forum is about. And as you said, from the responses of many in this thread it is clear that many are interested in this news.

It is interesting for many because they use the product and many feel it is great (see others comments). If it is not maintained, its going to affect them. And many of them are using it to support their startup's installations.

And HN is not only about interesting ideas and innovative startups, its about anything interesting for a hacker. And that could include news about another hacker (or human) who has built a great product and is now in distress. And many would love to help him as a human (to reduce the suffering) and as a hacker (to keep the product alive).

There should be a Do-Not-Contact registry. Else, another reason to close your Facebook account as you will be flooded with Spammy mails.