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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 sit…

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…

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 M…

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://istr…

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. H…

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 ass…

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 ne…

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 bl…

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 Intern…

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 addre…

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_…

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 …

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 Foob…

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 …

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.2…

I don't have the answers that you seek, but you can find out how to format HN posts here (it doesn't support tags). https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Also, HN doesn't have pri…