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Don't want to prompt unneccesary debate, but her understanding of Gandhi and his assessment of the Gita is incomplete. Gandhi has written explicitly about (what she calls) the "warrior Gita". Moreover, her demarcation of the "Two Gitas" is something not a lot of people would agree with.

Personally, I've read a lot of commentaries and evaluations of the book, including the orignal, and I've found Gandhi's version to be the most powerful.

Maybe I am missing out potential applications but I can't understand why I would like to search the entire web with a regex pattern? Find all strings that could be SSNs?

Why is this on HN?

I disabled ABP on the thecupcakeblog but I still don't see any ads.

No.

Incorrect. Hindi and English are the two official languages. There is no "national language", officially.

I had the same thought, except this would be a parody of /g/ as well given how much Model M's are popular there.

For almost all of my queries, this is just giving me the list of "categories" on the corresponding wikipedia page, leaving out the wiki-specific ones such as " Articles with Open Directory Project links", etc. Clicking the categories just opens the listings on the corresponding Wikipedia category page.

I was hesitant to share this video[1] on HN, but I came upon this in my research when the same thing happened to me.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs

Edit: NSFW- language/curse words.

He mentions both in the youtube pitch.

I love your game. I discovered it on a forum mid-2012 and used it to break into and get comfortable with an unprinted happy hacking keyboard. Nice choice of music too, I usually turn off background music wherever I find it. Could you tell us what is the music that plays in the background?

Thanks.

My voting behavior on HN is very different from other websites. Since the saved stories and upvotes are the same, and upvotes cannot be taken back, I use the upvote as a "save story" button. There are many submissions which are not of a good quality, but the ensuing discussion on the wider topic prompts me to save the submissions as there is no option to save comments. I maintain a separate database of my saved stories, which I keep preiodically updating and pruning, primarily for NLP and ML experiments. So that is my personally "curated" list of HN bookmarks. Though I must say my visits here have become less frequent.

I think, and I am not an expert by far, that this just shows what the market value of those art pieces are when removed from their context. You won't pay more than $30-60 for it unless you are told otherwise by someone of authority - an art critic or a market of affluent and competing buyers motivated by various reasons. There is also the fact that he did it in NY, where $60 is acceptable to many buyers. The sales would have been diffirent in rural Alabama or New Delhi.

This one? http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2320#comic

Although I agree with you that the premise of their defense is rather nonsensical, in this particular case (Novartis/Glivec) it was no socialistic move of policy but rather a prudent decision in clear-cut evergreening. This[1] columnist elaborates it very well, explaining how popular perception of the event is wrong on both sides.

[1] http://swaminomics.org/west-should-learn-from-indias-high-pa...

This is what I find surprising about security checks, don't quite understand. When I entered Israel I was out hailing a cab within minutes of debarking my flight. When I was leaving, they had me detained and searched thoroughly. I couldn't understand why they let me enter in the first place if I was such a suspect personality.

As someone who has had a harrowing experience at an Israeli airport, I would dispute the claim that they are highly trained or even intelligent. I don't even want to recount my experience at Tel Aviv, its much milder than OP's but it spoils my mood just thinking about it.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "Golden Minority?"

Won't be able to attend this time. I hope such meetups are organized more often.

Where did you get the district map of India? I know jvectormap that has the states[1] but it excludes the areas our government claims but does not administer (aksai chin, pok) which might not be appreciated in official circles.

[1] http://jvectormap.com/maps/countries/india/

I share your sentiment, although I did not dislike them originally. In their native version they were simple four paneled MS paint comics. Since you had three panes to preamble the rage they called in for a lot of innovation and unexpected humor. Today, they have become pagelong mundane personal stories -uninteresting incidents and people being stupid/perverted- told entirely with stock images.

While I don't agree with the parent comment, arguing about 'Father of X' is bound to be futile, but I disagree with you. Gandhi's techniques are generalizable to some extent. Here's a simplistic outline of his technique:

1. Pledge not to endorse or resort to violence no matter what.

2. Travel around, survey the problem: understand core factors which allow the injustice to continue, despite mass discontent.

3. Cripple those core factors by means of non-cooperation and/or civil disobedience still adhering to rule no. 1

In summary: Maintain moral higher ground to gain popular support and attack the institutional machinery.

Behind the legend surrounding Gandhi people tend to forget that, unlike the man who stopped the tank in Tiannenmen, he was a statesman. By the time his movement gained momentum, even if he would have been assasinated, he had already infected a good segment of the population to the point of being overzealous with his program.

>By the time Gandhi started his movement, the British had learnt the secret that had eluded everyone else: empires are actually more trouble than they're worth, how do we get out of here?

This is wrong. For example Winston Churchill, 1931[1] and any of his speeches as late as 1945 he vehemently opposed the idea of an independent nation. It was Gandhi that made the empire economically unfeasible, and not until then were Churchill and others ignored.

[1]http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-w... A Quote: "I am against this surrender to Gandhi. I am against these conversations and agreements between Lord Irwin and Mr. Gandhi. Gandhi stands for the expulsion of Britain from India."

It just might be me, but I always prefer multiple keys to pressing a dead key . After some time, my short finger cannot take it. For eg, I always use yy instead of Y.

bumblebee[1] etc are open source efforts to get the proprietary optimus systems working on linux. The wireless adapter I bought is an Asus Usb N10 from a popular computer store last week.

[1] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/History-...

Wireless and graphics still cause major heartburn on a lot of devices. For example, laptops with hybrid graphics (dual, switchable cards) still don't work properly after multiple versions of bumblebee/ironhide. Just last week, I spent all night trying various ways to install a wireless adapter. The adapter came with drivers for OS versions as recent as Windows8 and as old as Windows Me, but the linux version only had kernel 2.4. I got it working finally using ndiswrapper. After that I performed an upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 and that killed it.

Ofcourse, all of the above was really just manufacturers not open sourcing or updating their drivers. But I think the linux ecosystem is direly in need of more device manufacturers taking it seriously for it to gain wider adoption. Canonical is doing a great job but we are not there yet.

Apologies for being off-topic, but what's the deal with the url? restapitutorial.com links to an unclaimed page with GoDaddy advertisement whereas www.restapitutorial.com goes to the OP's page.

The latest Kindle DX crops margins automatically from PDF files. It works well on LaTeX generated files, though not always on scanned ones.

This one is generally recommended[1]

[1]http://www.hnsearch.com/api