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also interesting: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys...

In this case, does client side encryption mean that it's happening in the user's browser?

somewhat easier to remember: curl ifconfig.me

We actually implement the same ruleset from HTTPS everywhere :)

Is anyone else experiencing optical illusions on this page? I'm getting black dots between the swatches, and the swatches look like they're slightly in motion.

For those that are interested in the backstory: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...

In traditional Jewish culture there is a large emphasis on education. In the most traditional sense, Rabbis are essentially scholars. They study the Torah. In ancient times they would sit around and do nothing but study the Torah and discuss its various interpretations--this was their primary purpose. You might consider them among the world's first pedants :) In traditional communities Rabbis are among the most respected members. Consequently, there is tremendous value placed on qualities of intelligence and conscientious study. Fast forward to current times and that still exists to a great degree in modern Jewish culture (in my experience).

Is there any actionable advice for those of us who are not your customer and without access to your monitoring panel?

Yeah I think that's a very valid point. Thanks for the link -- was an interesting read :)

EDIT: Just as an aside, Fastmail is operated by Opera and runs on many domains that they control. For example, their IMAP and SMTP servers are messagingengine.com.

With regards to your email: I recently switched from Google Apps (free tier) to Fastmail.fm and the transition has been pretty seamless. The interface is snappy and decent looking, and importing all of my gmail over IMAP worked well. On the other hand, I now pay a yearly fee for my email. The fee is fairly nominal (~$40/year for a mid-range account), and my money ensures that Fastmail doesn't need to harvest my content to keep the lights on.

Is this why I'm having such a hard time changing my default search engine...? :)

How long before we see it in Github Enterprise?

+1

I have previously written a crawler for http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Default.aspx in Perl that was fairly effective, but never actually finished with the project. That may be a potential source for the data, though.

This looks great! I would be interested in talking to the creator about making a plugin based on this for DuckDuckGo if they're around and so inclined.

I have one of these as well (majestouch tenkeyless). My girlfriend routinely threatens to throw it out the window (which would obviously be devastating), but I am holding on to it tightly. In my excitement I bought a version without key markings. In retrospect, this was kind of silly. Theoretically it was supposed to promote touch typing, and so consequently increase my speed. In reality, I don't really notice a difference, and it mostly just serves to deter friends and family from using my computer (probably both a positive and a negative outcome).

Logstash is really great and Jordan is approachable and very helpful. To all interested, I recommend joining their IRC channel (#logstash on Freenode) and talking to the people there a bit.

Congrats :)

Would be interested for someone to fork this and translate the cyrillic to english

This is a link to the transcript of the speech. If you'd prefer to listen (or watch) the talk the recording is available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btlgQs0UDxY

"Discover your Vim heroes and periodically check how they have set their editor up. A lot of people publish their dotfiles on GitHub."

Does this actually happen? How does one discover a "Vim hero"? If you guys have any, can you show some examples of who might be a candidate for a Vim hero please?

Link to actual paper: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0894589/petrovic13unsupervise...

On OSX, CarbonCopyCloner works really well :)

For those of you who are annoyed by the shutdown/restart processes in Windows 8, consider adding some shortcuts to your desktop and start menu to make this process 1-click[1]:

Shutdown: Right-click on the desktop, click "New > Shortcut" and enter "shutdown /s /t 0"

Restart: Right-click on the desktop, click "New > Shortcut" and enter "shutdown /r /t 0"

You can change the icon to look more appropriate, and pin this to the start menu or task bar.

[1]: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-add-windows-8-shutdown-rest...

PRQ (http://prq.se) serves as a decent host insofar that it's harder for the server to be seized--it works for us. Obviously there is no perfect solution, but if you don't have a target on your back then this is one way to decentralize communication with a group of friends.

To take it a step further, end to end encryption is only good when you can protect your private key and passphrase... All you have to do is take a look at Rakshasha (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRpilXPv8pU) for a practical example of how compromised we all really are.

A lot of my friends who use IRC as a primary communication channel will stick to invite-only self-hosted SILC IRC networks. These are essentially 1 step above darknet (eg: local IRCd), and are a far cry from the efnets of the IRC-verse.

Thanks for pointing this out -- we're implementing this now.

Not really relevant to the current topic of Pandora's relationship to music, but for those interested in the historical problem with music (and the music industry), I strongly recommend reading "The Problem With Music" by Steve Albini (From The Baffler, No. 5, 1993)[1]. This was my first introduction to The Baffler, and led me to start reading their publications regularly. I don't always agree with the author's point of view, but almost always find the content stimulating.

[1]: http://www.petdance.com/actionpark/albini/the-problem-with-m...

This looks like it would be an excellent addition to CyanogenMod. Also, for any CM users that might be lurking: Have any of you been able to get SEforAndroid (http://selinuxproject.org/page/SEAndroid) running? I haven't spent too much effort researching this, but would be very interested to hear some anecdotes/experiences.

There are quite a few! And the list is growing... :)

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm looking into updating our ciphers very soon.

While we do use 3rd parties to fulfill some of our organic results we always make those calls from our machines. We never pass along IP addresses. This means that while our other sources might see your queries, they are not tied with PII (personally identifiable information).