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by annapurna 5y ago
Yeah agreed. It’s something my wife and I have discussed a lot in the past few years esp. coming from families who actually worked with proper goods/materials. Working in/with software just doesn’t feel the same and like you, we h
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by annapurna 6y ago
Just did. Thank you for the reminder.
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by annapurna 6y ago
ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ Happy New Year!
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by annapurna 6y ago
Couldn't agree more as a Torontonian. It didn't help that they conducted most of the discussions in bad faith with the whole "trust us with your data" approach when these were geniune concerns due to the amount of oversi
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by annapurna 8y ago
> Most people do not realise how much data Google et al. collect about them, and are genuinely shocked when it is shown to them (even though, yes, it's an existing feature well known to you and most HN readers). I was surprised (eve
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by annapurna 8y ago
>There are still so many things that are ridiculously expensive in Canada for no rational (long term) benefit to either party assuming it was a real market. I cannot find the link but no surprises when there was a report (from one of t
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by annapurna 8y ago
That's what it's become for me and my circle. Got my parents the older iPhones (6S) late last year and got the same for myself this month. I miss being able to access the local storage (one small hack I found was using the Firef
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by annapurna 8y ago
Of course you are and that's fair. Would it also not be fair to have these privacy settings available with any of the deceptive tactics mentioned in the report?
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by annapurna 8y ago
Android users are pushed through a variety of techniques: Deceptive click flow Hidden default settings Misleading and unbalanced information Repeated nudging Bundling of services and lack of granular choices* Deceptive click
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by annapurna 8y ago
Thanks. We had a free trial version for about three months and then started paid plans based on customer demographics around last summer. So it's been less than a year. Note that I'm based out of Toronto and my friend in South Ame
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by annapurna 8y ago
Correct, close to $1000/month.
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by annapurna 8y ago
Great suggestions here so far and a common thread I noticed is leveraging platforms such as Slack/Gmail/Trello/Shopify etc. - essentially an B2B platforms. My friend and I currently run cardsync.xyz on Trello which allows Tre
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by annapurna 9y ago
As the article mentions, there are many players in this area and time will tell how Kickstarter leverages their brand to succeed, especially as it is an invitation list only (for now). Some interesting thoughts from Perry Chen (Kickstarter
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Stinks to high heaven: Top cops pot startup(former Toronto Police and Fire chiefs)(thestar.com)
1 points by annapurna 9y ago|0 comments
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by annapurna 9y ago
Yeah, Beck's been fighting a losing battle. Once I called them to give it a shot and they made me wait for 15 minutes. To be fair, the taxi did arrive and I was not in any rush so overall, the delay didn't matter much. However, th
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by annapurna 9y ago
Agreed. I fly YYZ-LGA route frequently and notice the differences. Would love to have Lyft (or any other competitor) here in Toronto.
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by annapurna 9y ago
With recent investments in both Lyft and Uber, it will be interesting to see how Lyft executes on it's international expansion. > John Zimmer, Lyft’s president and co-founder says 5,000 Torontonians downloaded the app this year with
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Lyft's first expansion outside the USA in Toronto next month(thestar.com)
117 points by annapurna 9y ago|50 comments
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Dispensing fees exceed drug cost in seniors homes(thestar.com)
2 points by annapurna 10y ago|0 comments
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Different sizes and types of meteorites since 2600 BC(jigdel.github.io)
1 points by annapurna 11y ago|0 comments
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by annapurna 11y ago
I did a short analysis on the all the different types and sizes of meteorites if you are interested. The data is based on the meteorite dataset provided by the US Meteoritical Society. Site: https://jigdel.github.io/projects
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by annapurna 11y ago
Thanks for the detailed info and context. Just signed up for my first edX course.
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by annapurna 12y ago
So soon we forget about this last discussion "Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8824691
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Healthcare data breaches and fines(projects.propublica.org)
1 points by annapurna 12y ago|0 comments
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How Couchsurfing became the Friendster of the sharing economy(gigaom.com)
1 points by annapurna 12y ago|0 comments
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by annapurna 12y ago
"[It] was not till 1956 that [Nepal] set [their] watches for the first time to Nepal Standard Time, with the meridian at Mt Gauri Shankar, 100km east of Kathmandu [capital of Nepal]. It wasn't Mt Everest because Gauri Shankar was
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by annapurna 12y ago
Completely agree. Always the same excuse - bring up the past to defend the present. More than 125 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March 2011[1], including three in the past week [2] (37-yr-old monk, 20-yr-old woman, and a 34-yr-o
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by annapurna 12y ago
We are a startup [1] working in this space (hand tracking) for some time and it's been an interesting experience. Most of the hand tracking is done either using cameras (vision/image-based) or sensors (gyros/accelerometers).
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by annapurna 12y ago
"During previous attempts, we could only expect a landing accuracy of within 10km. For this attempt, we’re targeting a landing accuracy of within 10 meters." I thought previous landing accuracy was more than 10km. Regardless, it&#
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Ask HN: Product Design for glove
2 points by annapurna 12y ago|3 comments

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