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Wow, this is brilliant if it works well. If anyone from Unchecky reads this, you should repeat this experiment with your software installed and post it on your blog.

Firefox differs from Chrome in that it will enable Flash for a whole page, rather than per-element. This means you still need an extension for blocking Flash ads on Flash video sites.

Mate seems to be under active development. They're currently adding support for Wayland and GTK3 for the next release [1]. It's not like they're just repackaging GNOME 2.32 for the latest distributions.

[1] http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/roadmap

http://www.wolfram.com/programming-cloud

I think the relevant part is "Start coding and deploying now–for free." Whereas before you had to spend at least a few hundred dollars on Mathematica.

It has been done [1]. Rule #2 of the audit project will solve the problem for future builds [2].

[1] https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie...

[2] http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

From your first link:

"There is no explicit “Enable/Disable” button any more. We would like to promote the use of searching and feel that Baloo should never get in the users way. However, we are smart about it and IF you add your HOME directory to the list of “excluded folders”, Baloo will switch itself off since it no longer has anything to index."

This philosophy is why I stopped using GNOME and now prefer Xfce. I'm looking forward to trying LXQt when it's more stable.

If you use a country code TLD, make sure it's on Google's list of generic ones (e.g. .io):

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en

Violating all expectations and trends, new Java users on GitHub even grew as a percentage of overall new users, while everything else went downhill. This further supports the assertion that GitHub is reaching the enterprise.

This is more likely to be due to the rise of Android since 2009.

You'd need a spotter because your risk of choking would increase by a lot.

The second word isn't necessary. "You" can be singular or plural.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you

I can recommend the Pi to someone who has never used Linux before because there are so many resources available that are Pi-specific. It's the same reason I recommend Ubuntu for newbies even though I prefer other distros for myself.

I've been planning to start a blog for the same reasons you listed. I'll probably use a static site generator like Pelican [1]. A lot of people use Disqus for comments on static blogs, but I'd rather not rely on external services when I don't need to. Do you find linking to Twitter to be an adequate replacement for comments?

[1] http://blog.getpelican.com/

I'm pretty sure it's based on the most commonly searched phrases with phrases containing words on a blacklist deleted. Add in some magic to throw off the spammers and competition.

Here's the whole thing unsorted: http://pastebin.com/z7BzEnhC

and in case you want to learn about NAPTR: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2915.txt

debs/rpms: http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount

"Playback settings" > uncheck "Play next episode automatically"

My favorite is "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating" from 2010-04-07. It was deleted when they were bought by IAC. Thankfully, nothing is ever really deleted from the Internet:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jhb2147/why-you-should-never-pay-fo...

Relevant discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6912229

This is probably obvious to people who do email marketing, but I just tested whether gmail bounces bad addresses. They do bounce addresses that have never been registered and addresses that have been deleted. This means that even before this change, spammers could find out if an address is active.

More info from upstream:

Press release - https://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/11/red-...

Release notes - https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...

Technical notes - https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...

ECDSA Support in OpenSSL: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Note that only the nistp256 and nistp384 curves are supported.

ECDHE Support in OpenSSL: Ephemeral Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE) is supported, which allows for Perfect Forward Secrecy with much lower computational requirements.

I was about to argue with you about it not being very confusing, but then I read the "About" section on the front page:

"This site allows you to navigate the bitcoin blockchain (a database which holds information about all transactions)."

That really does make it sound like they are storing the centralized database for bitcoin.

Edit: changed "storing a" to "storing the" to clarify my point per gojomo's reply.

I used Winamp heavily until the version where they added video support. That version was extremely buggy for me and I used the previous version for several years until I found Foobar2000.

It looks like 2.90 was when they added video support:

"added integrated full featured video support (NSV and DirectShow (AVI,ASf,MPEG,etc))" -- http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=130748

From the "Quotes Falsely Attributed" page [1] on the official Churchill Centre website:

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?"

[1] http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/qu...

It looks like it's not quite 30%, but still high enough to make an opt-out worthwhile [1]. As someone who is afflicted, I can say that it would be a deal-breaker.

[1] http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/cilantro-love-hate-...

I don't have the answers that you seek, but you can find out how to format HN posts here (it doesn't support <p> tags).

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Also, HN doesn't have private messaging, so you need to add contact info to the about section on your user profile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ULAM_SPIRAL_OMG

The privacy issues were discussed in Sept. 2012, a month before Quantal was released.

22-Sept: Slashdot thread

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-n...

23-Sept: HN thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4558049

23-Sept: Shuttleworth blog post

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

Forbes interviewed DPR (Ulbricht or not) in August.

"Roberts isn’t actually the site’s founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me anything about and who may have used the “Dread Pirate Roberts” nom de guerre before it was assumed by the person I interviewed."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-th...

I agree with you 100%, but I come from the other side. There are just enough articles on design and business to give me additional perspective and knowledge, but not too many that I lose interest or have a hard time filtering them out.

I've only been around here for about two years. Before that, I kept up on reddit. I still use reddit regularly, but limit myself to a small selection of subreddits.

In case anyone else is curious, DRM in the kernel stands for Direct Rendering Manager [1]. It has nothing to do with the DRM that's usually discussed on HN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

Excluding Nexus devices, which manufacturers are currently hacker-friendly (i.e. let you to unlock the bootloader without exploits)?