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Refreshing to read. Her answers are not carefully rehearsed and perennially regurgitated sound bytes you hear all the time. From my observation, it seems this gap is prevalent most…

or don't accept status quo. Improve the current system by 10X and solve real problems and position yourself as a great company.

As a top technology company, Uber should have had some basic measures to ensure safety of their rides. In this specific case, the driver turned off the GPS, and took a detour. At t…

Hmmm..shouldn't Uber banned in whole of India instead of just Delhi, till the Govt of India figures out how to allow Uber to operate with better safety measures.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and helpful information!

Check out his list of awards on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Satyarthi . None from India?

It is a shame that Indian government never even conferred a Padma award to Kailash Satyarthi ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padma_Shri ) but was bestowing these awards in abundance…

Feel humbled to read about him. Floored!

I suspect the opposite is true. Mostly IIT CS/EE majors get into the top CS PhD programs. Many non-CS folks, sure change professions to being programmers but rarely graduate with a…

yes, yes. Thanks!

It is remarkable that top 4 IITs combined make up 5.2% of undergrad degrees of CS professors right after MIT 5.9% and ahead of Harvard at 3.1%. What is even more impressive is the …

There was post on HN of a blog post link which contained a list of all free machine learning/data mining books. Wondering, if someone can post the link to it. I am unable to find i…

I haven't done much assembly (barring some FPGA programming I did in an undergrad course, and writing an editor on a Motorola processor). This code so eminently readable. Is this t…

It looks like Brian Acton, Whatsapp's founder was turned down by Facebook in 2009. What a comeback! This must be even sweeter! https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383

When you get a chance, would you be kind to write a "how to" blog post about how to build and wire one yourself, so others without any clue about how to do this can have a shot at …

Interesting you chose Scala. I have built and managed Jetty based adservers to talk to bidding exchanges and wondered how would the system perform if the adserver was written in Sc…

You have a typo: Brandon Eich -> Brendan Eich. Not nitpicking, am compelled to point out since it is a name.

You think they are not technically savvy to understand that the system is obsolete. It is deliberate. They defer payments, so they can hold up the cash for a few weeks; This gives …

Is it Werner Vogels (Amazon's CTO) who submitted this story?

Agree with this advice. There are many immature, egoistic, self-absorbent founders (consciously emulating wrong traits of Steve Jobs) that it is always better to play it safe, and …

Thank you for making the valley a better place (and hope you make a good return on your investment in the process)

I think the situation has started to get better with software start-up infrastructure costs going significantly down, angels and incubators eating traditional VC's lunches (to a po…