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While I agree that the this video isn't that good as far as sound as video quality goes I think we need more of these. They are very valuable.

I'd rather watch this than something written by professional writers, vetted by PR department, practiced with guidance of presentation experts, where everything is pinned down to the minute and every body gesture is scripted and over-practiced and then professionally recorded and edited.

And I definitely don't feel that we "should keep the nerds in the back room and let the big boys do the talking". What makes you think he was forced into this?

Sharing knowledge is good.

Now that would be unrealistic.

You can't really guess which distro someone is using just by glancing over their screen for a second.

You can tell which DE they are using but not distro, except in the case of Unity and Pantheon, those are mostly used with their respective distros. People don't usually have output of cat /etc/os-release on the screen easily visible for people passing by to see.

There isn't that much visible difference between distros if you aren't working as root.

"I see you're running GNOME" snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

Back button doesn't work right on that site. It gets you back to the top of previous page, it doesn't take you down where you were on the page. I love modern web UX.

(Firefox & Chromium. )

Works in Chromium on Linux for me.

In Firefox (my default br.) the message is: "Youtube on TV is not supported on this device, for more info go to: www.youtube.com/devicepartners" which is unclickable and unselectable. Modern web...

For me, the no-BS standard looking UI was the reason to choose Foobar, as compared to Win Media Player or Winamp and other weird looking ones. (Remember Sonique? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_%28media_player%29)

As for aero tiles... That's a Win8 thing? I guess it's a valid complaint. I think you can set global keyboard shortcuts for those actions, if that helps.

"You cannot sell Android phones unless you pay licence fees to some company"?

Of course you need to pay licence fees to "some company" if you are selling Android phones, they're the ones making it. Why shouldn't Google get paid for their work? You can always remove Play store and other Gstuff and "leech" Android like Amazon. Let's not compare selling(licensing) software to some kind of feudal extortion pls.

I kinda can see what you're trying to say, it has been said many times before - patents make it harder for new players to enter the market. We have Jolla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla), and that spanish Ubuntu/Android-phone maker (http://www.bq.com/gb/), and the other spanish company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone) which kinda prove otherwise.

I also recommend YAYOG program. It's $3 now for the app and I really think it's worth that price. I think it was $7 when I got it, and it was money well spent. Timers, videos, descriptions, warm-up and cool-downs, everything is set up so you can just start working out.

Also, you can lurk http://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness and http://www.reddit.com/r/yayog. Every question has already been answered.

A mistake? All I see is pure malice. The guy threatened the developers with bad press, and then he followed through with it. I don't see how that is a 'simple mistake', it was plain extortion. Talking about reputation, what about SPI's reputation?

Did you read the links in the linked article? We may be reading the same thing and getting a different impression, and that's ok too.

Firefox is kinda special because they get a lot money from whoever pays them to be the default search engine, doesn't matter if it's Google or Microsoft or Yahoo. There's only so much software that can get away with that, GPG certainly can't.

All of the Debian developers are volunteers, am I wrong? Slackware can barely support one employee, the founder. OpenSSH falls under OpenBSD, which also supports just the founder, everyone else volunteers, and they DO volunteer some serious time and do important things. They also had problems raising funds, there were discussions on HN about that here, and I'm sure there will be more in a year or two.

From: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2014.html : * If $10 were given for every installation of OpenBSD in the last year from the master site (ignoring the mirrors) we would be at our goal. * If $2 were given for every download of the OpenSSH source code in the last year from the master site (ignoring the mirrors) we would be at our goal. * If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be at our goal.

This is kinda depressing.

Is there someone from the Debian project here? I'm wondering if they could afford to run their own mirrors around the world if they had to. Could they cover hardware, colo and bandwidth costs, if they had to? I'm just curious.

I don't think it's helpful to consider this ban a non-issue because it's easy to bypass. It's easy to bypass this time, next time it may be a bit harder, depending on what the government orders ISP's. And there probably will be "next time", depending on the effects of all this.

Also, someone else here asked about legality of bypassing the ban, that is a good question I'd like to see answered, even though I think we all know the answer to that one.

I didn't downvote, but... It's actually pretty irritating that discussion of any project not hosted on GH gets "Why not Github?" question, every single f-ing time. I hope this will end, together with LinkedIn invites.

So, I decided to buy the album, but first I downloaded the "free bundle" as they call it. It's the free sample of the work. It downloaded without problem with my client of choice (rtorrent).

Then I paid for the full bundle, paid, got the torrent containing all the files, and was surprised it doesn't work with rtorrent ("could not parse bencoded data"), or btpd ("bad data from tracker"), or BitTornado ("[Errno http error] 402: 'Payment Required'").

qBittorrent is the only client that worked with the full, paid-for .torrent file.

Bugs need to be filed...

That's just a heads-up for Linux users, I'm sure that the official BitTorrent client works without problems on just-works platforms.

Just out of curiosity, HN seems like a good place to ask: Does anyone actually here use unix-likes in a multiseat fashion, like they were used 30-40 years ago? Like described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration

So, basically give in to bullying? Let the bully back into the forum, to potentially harass other users, continue doing whatever he was doing that got him banned? What's the point of having admin/mod rights if you aren't going to use them to make the forum a better place for the users?

Even that 4.5MB doesn't seem particularly small to me. Podkicker Pro, Android podcast client takes 2.15MB on my phone. App itself take 792KB, and feed metadata takes 1.38MB.

What does this even mean? The name GNU itself is a joke.

I mean, the project wants to create an operating system that looks like UNIX, acts like UNIX, smells like UNIX, but from scratch with appropriate license that allows usage and access to source to anyone - so that the project doesn't get into legal trouble from whoever actually owns UNIX?

So drunk Stallman in 1981 says: "hik, let's call this, hik operhikating system GNU, hik, because it's not UNIX hik, but it sure looks like one, hik, but it's not, hik, but it kinda is hik, but it's not theirs hik it's everyone's hik". That's how I like to imagine it happened.

Usually people are skeptical about Slackware package manager (slackpkg). I thought I'd just throw in some links to alternatives. If you want to try another package manager you can install it and start using it in under one minute. Package manager is a package just like any other :)

One is slapt-get [0], supports third party repos, resolves dependencies if you use it with repos that have dependency metadata, if you really really must :) Salix repos are a nice source of extra packages, and have dependency metadata. You'll have to wait a bit for them to upgrade to 14.1.

Another nice package manager is slackroll[1]. This one doesn't do dependencies, but has other nice options.

For slackuilds (build script repo, like BSD ports) you can use sbopkg [2] or sport [3], both are nice.

Have fun.

[0] http://software.jaos.org/#slapt-get [1] http://rg3.github.io/slackroll/ [2] http://sbopkg.org/ [3] http://slackermedia.info/sport/

UPDATE: I think there's a lot more to a distro than just a package manager, and these tools might help someone. Of course you'll probably get most stuff you need out of the box, some others from slackbuilds.org.

Slackware pkgtools (installpkg, upgradepkg, removepkg) are really simple, manpage for each is under 2 screens of text, and they really get out of the way, and never betray you.

Further, init system is classic sysvinit with rc style scripts in /etc/rc.d and it supports normal SysV scripts like other distros, in /etc/init.d. No pulseaudio out of the box (it's available on slackbuilds.org if you want it). You can disable NetworkManager and install WICD from /extra in no time, and it's not gonna magically re-enable itself later.

Last 3-4 Slackware releases I installed over the net. It supports FTP and HTTP package sources on the Internet. Or NFS and SMB shares on the LAN.

House of Sand and Fog. Yes, excellent movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Sand_and_Fog_%28film%...

Well, there is Stylish add-on for Firefox and Chrome, try it with style that suits you. For instance: http://userstyles.org/styles/12503/hacker-news-skinnier

Radiolab had an interesting segment about the Pitch Drop Experiment, interesting to listen: http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/never-quite-now/