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rohanpai··on Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
This is super cool!

I am interning at Sourcegraph and we have heard devs want better usage examples too, so we automatically show all uses of any function

check out: -https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... - https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag...

rohanpai··on Introducing Ozlo – Personal AI chatbot
Looking forward to an API :)
rohanpai··on Show HN: Snapception – Intercept all snapchats received over the network
If you can man in the middle traffic, aren't all authentication cookies compromised anyway?

Wouldn't any service then be subject to "interception"?

rohanpai··on Palaeolithic diet: Should we all eat like cavepeople?
If it was not marketed at "eat like a caveman" I think it would have more adoption. Paleo is really just about eating more natural foods (less processed foods). It works well.
rohanpai··on Ask HN: Which programming language would you like more articles written about?
javascript
rohanpai··on $_GET sudo
Interesting that most of these are Raspberry Pi / hardware hacks.
rohanpai··on Popular startup stole my code – now what?
How will you know if someone is about to close or exit? I feel like startups go out of their way to keep that private.
rohanpai··on Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones'
Does anyone know if it is possible to get a dumb phone that uses nano-sim?

I want to try this out without switching permanently.

rohanpai··on Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google
If law school is so expensive, it is harder to become a lawyer. If less people become lawyers, the supply decreases (resulting in the demand for the shortage of lawyers to be greater).

"There is no economic law that says that lawyers should make more money than programmers because they choose to be ripped off in pursuit of their training."

You don't NEED a degree to do programing. Arguably a computer science degree is standard but even then, you don't need 7 years of schooling. In order to be a lawyer, you need to complete law school.

At the end of the day, it's fair for a lawyer to charge more. Why? Because someone is willing to pay the premium.

rohanpai··on New study shows we work harder when we are happy
I don't even understand why you would say this...

This is not what the parent comment said... it just asked how 'happiness' is measured.

rohanpai··on Eric Schmidt on Critics Who Say College Isn’t Worth It
Google, please make up your mind

http://qz.com/180247/why-google-doesnt-care-about-hiring-top...

rohanpai··on Intern at a YC Company
I always see this and want to say this: if you are a high schooler, do not ask for permission to apply, just apply.
rohanpai··on US Patent 5676977 – Method of Curing AIDS
Wouldn't other countries be manufacturing it 'legally' since the patent only applies to the US? This is why you see generic Viagra produced and sold from other countries?
rohanpai··on Angel Etiquette
Are you an Angel VC or is this a wishlist?
rohanpai··on Google ordered to remove anti-Islamic film from YouTube
More like US court ordered Google to remove anti-Islamic film from YouTube...

"By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Google's assertion that the removal of the film "Innocence of Muslims" amounted to a prior restraint of speech that violated the U.S. Constitution."

rohanpai··on So someone "stole" your idea
what if your idea is an algorithm that can take a photo of someone and tell your their age? If you have a detailed understanding of how the algorithm will work (and what won't) and you have proved it will work, someone can steal that? Is that OK?

I agree with the "ideas are nothing without execution" but I feel like this applies largely to the consumer web/apps field. There are a lot of other 'ideas' that have taken years (maybe even a lifetime) of research and work.

rohanpai··on Snapchat - GibSec Full Disclosure
What are the alternatives to EBC? Why not use CBC?
rohanpai··on We're auctioning off a chance for your kid to come to a YC dinner
I'm tempted to bid on this for myself
rohanpai··on Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
A startup with spaghetti code of this stature will NEVER be successful.
rohanpai··on What's it like to attend HackMIT?
Is there another one planned for next semester?
rohanpai··on How I learned to Code
Awesome! Great post
rohanpai··on Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
I remember seeing this at the Box Hackathon a year ago but couldn't find it online. Thought it was neat. Congrats!
rohanpai··on Scroogled: Microsoft's marketing attack on Google
How I found Scroogled: https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/11725...
rohanpai··on Firebase Leaves Beta Today
Congrats! Firebase is awesome.
rohanpai··on Announcing iFirefeed, An iOS Twitter clone, built on Firebase
neat!
rohanpai··on Show HN: Emulos records how people use your app
Interesting concept. Is this iOS or Android?
rohanpai··on Ask HN: AngelHack Free Developer Code
hint: base 64
rohanpai··on The Summly deal makes no sense
As a 17 year old I think this is awesome and stupid (at the same time). It's pretty eye opening that if a 17 year old can make an app and get bought for a lot of money, it's possible for anyone to.

As awesome as it is for the guy, this doesn't change the fact that a Summly got paid so much for a 2 employees and a founder. I mean the app hardly had traction and $30 million can you get you a nice army of talented mobile developers with signing bonus'. $30M really isn't justified in this case.

Congrats to the summly team, but it's also really sad how desperate and pathetic Yahoo is.

rohanpai··on AngelHack Launches A Startup Accelerator, Bringing Its Hackathon To 30+ Cities
I was one of the 4 finalists from AngelHack Silicon Valley in fall 2012 and I just gotta say, it was awesome! The AngelHack hackathon had a great focus on building (not as much biz/dev/designer)

It's an opportunity that keeps giving. I don't think I would have been able to get a tour at Facebook and network with a lot of people had it not been for winning/attending AngelHack.

Being from the bay area it's easy to forget how much opportunities there are here in respect to other cities. I can't really think of many opportunities that enable builders from around the world to come to the bay area and pitch their ideas to VCs and see what life is like here (they get flown out here for free if they win their city hackathon).

AngelHack++

rohanpai··on Use a VPN or Your Google Searches Are Public
Used my ninja skills and found it. Here is an example: http://extremetracking.com/open?login=46union [NSFW links on site] I just found a random example

It appears to be incoming search terms for a webstie that has the ExtremeTracking service installed. So it's not really that it's public, it's more that the incoming search terms are just saved along with personal identifying information (ISP/IP) etc.

Website states: "Adding the tracker to your site is not complicated. If you are familiar with HTML-editing just copy and paste the tracker code into the source of your pages and you are ready. The tracker code can also be handled fine with WYSIWYG editors and content management systems, scripts and blogs. You can use one and the same code for all your pages or the more advanced code to report groups of pages, it is all possible. We will be happy to help you through. At your My Account you find all your tracker details and setup instructions clearly explained as well as your personal code-checker to check if you have copied your code correctly."

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