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chlion Tell HN: Planned Maintenance Jan 23 1-5 AM PST

I guess that's what broke my favorite HN Android App.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly...

chlion Windows 8.1 now available

"Edit 2: I haven't figured out backups yet. Windows 7 backup was trivial with an external disk."

There is a CLI option but the GUI is gone.

But you don't need backup since you have SkyDrive now ;)

chlion f.lux has been updated to a new version

Great update !

Now I'm just missing : "automatically disable if Photoshop is running" (I got caught a few times)

chlion Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics

Swiss citizen here...

A few answers :

  - Strikes are mostly illegal in Switzerland and are very rare
  - Apart from a standard 3 months notice it's easy to lay off people in Switzerland (unless they are pregnant or sick)
  - There are no standard minimal wage but there have been discussion recently of introducing one 
  - We do have quite a few "program" in our welfare system a GBI would simplify a lot of things
  - There have been no mention of a possibility to opt-out

chlion Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now

Didn't Snowden say that this was only temporary so he could secure a flight to a south american country at some point ?

chlion Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade

Same here, this is weird. I live in a country where free speech is given but I still censorship myself when talking about the US online.

chlion Partial Tesla Model S recall

Strange that you mention the Audi A8L since I saw one for the first time a week ago in Monte Carlo. It's very rare even in Europe.

"The Audi A8 L is the first automobile in the world to be available with an integrated WLAN hotspot. A UMTS module provides the connection to the Internet."

chlion What people are googling in real time

I don't think you have to do anything about it. It wouldn't be trending if it is private.

chlion BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45

I like the idea of building my own weather station or maybe a custom made ambilight(tm). It's been done before but I don't mind.

chlion Blank screen if kids yell too much

terminal 7 is were X resides...

So basically it's :

switch to text terminal wait 15 seconds switch to X Window

chlion Swiss scientists bend Caustic Effect to their will [video]

lab website with more info and videos : http://lgg.epfl.ch/caustics

chlion The year 2000 illustrated in 1900

I'm wondering why they are so many pictures of underwater activities ?

chlion 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

If your password was 'linkedinsucks' then it sucks because they found it already !

chlion 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dsiuavbbzt8cy7g/forum.insidepro.co...

A saved copy of my local cache...

chlion 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

The forum they are talking about apparently (found using google)

http://forum.insidepro.com/viewtopic.php?p=96122&sid=133...

chlion Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down

What's special about the .ch ?

chlion The Disconnected Bedroom

On my Android phone I use that:

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.geekherd.bedsidepr...

It let you disable all notifications, dim the screen and customize the alarm clock style.

You can also set a white list for incoming SMS and/or phone call.

It's a replacement for the "docking" application, so it is enabled as soon as I put it on the docking station next to my bed.

chlion Poll: Google+: Like it/prefer it to FaceBook

Sent you an email a few minutes ago ;)

Hopefully I'm not too late :) Thanks !

chlion Google And Amazon May Have Just Handed Apple The Keys To The Cloud Music Kingdom

What prevents Google/Amazon to handle the upload like Dropbox does ? I mean if someone else already uploaded a file with the same hash it would be available automagically. I realize that this would not work for self-ripped-encoded albums but it would work for legally/illegally obtained songs.

chlion SLR Camera Simulator

He's probably talking about the Canon 70-200 2.8 L non stabilized zoom lens. Which is behaving pretty much like a prime lens in all its range.

chlion Poll: Have you had a SSD fail?

No : Intel X25-M G2 160GB running Windows 7 since 2009-10-28.

chlion Soviet version of the Space Shuttle

There is one exposed in Germany at the "Technik Museum" in Speyer. The story behind that particular model is quite amazing.

Taken from : http://speyer.technik-museum.de/node/647

"After the end of the Russian space shuttle program, a long odyssey began for the BURAN OK-GLI. In 1999, after 10 years of storage, it was shipped to Sydney where it was exhibited as a tourist attraction during the Olympic Summer Games. Subsequently the shuttle was taken over by an investment group from Singapore who was planning a world-tour with the BURAN. However, the first and last station of the tour was Bahrain. Due to financial differences the shuttle was seized and put into storage in the harbor of Bahrain. In the summer of 2003 the BURAN was acquired by the museum but transport to Germany was delayed because of legal struggles for five years. In early March 2008 finally the time had come - The BURAN was loaded onto a cargo ship. The voyage to the Technik Museum Speyer could begin."

chlion Regex generator: Give sample text, look for known patterns, gives a regex

I use that to generate my regular expressions and test them :

http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

chlion Ask HN: Hacker-friendly Toys/Puzzles

I got that : http://www.perplexus.net/

chlion Android will be using ext4 starting with Gingerbread

I assume this marks the end of raw nand flash devices in the next generations of Android phones ?