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zxtangon Nexus 5

Right, if Google doesn't think you are in the US, you won't be able to download Voice from Play. Which is really annoying if you actually are in the US...

I had to deal with this problem earlier this month, and the answer here fixed the issue for me: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/44677/how-to-chan...

zxtangon Git Tips

The git-config man page[1] is probably the best resource. The list of options is in the configuration file section under 'Variables'.

[1]https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config....

zxtangon Mailchimp offers 10% discount for using 2-factor security

It was specifically an IE7 tax by a company called Kogan: http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax/. And here's the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109137

zxtangon Sync to Paper

You mean like this? http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/

zxtangon Geoffrey Hinton has joined Google

http://research.google.com

For reference, I googled "research at google".

zxtangon Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Legal Teens'

It's also not very sophisticated last I checked. Just change the extension.

zxtangon Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies

Many ad networks[1] do already provide an opt out mechanism. You look for a blue icon[2] in the corner of the ad, which if you click it should take you to an opt out page.

I dug a bit further, and also found this: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ which purports to allow you to opt out from any or all of the participating companies from that page.

[1]: http://www.aboutads.info/participating [2]: http://www.aboutads.info/sites/default/files/page_img/icon_e...

zxtangon Use long flags when scripting

"GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scripts": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295681

zxtangon David Gelernter predicted Dropbox in 1996

This part jumped out at me:

"As a solution, Gelernter proposes moving all of human knowledge to online servers so that the in-person college experience can be replaced by user-driven self-education."

zxtangon Mega has launched

Here's what they have to say regarding browsers: https://mega.co.nz/#blog_1

Basically, only Chrome seems to be supported because it is "the most advanced browser currently in existence"

zxtangon A cry for help

It's a redirect to that domain.

zxtangon Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will feature name and picture

You can enable it in the control panel, under 'Organization & users'. It's listed as Google+ but appears alphabetically after all the other Google things.

zxtangon Humble Bundle 4 for android

System requirements and incomplete list of supported android devices: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/812...

zxtangon Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward

As always, there's an xkcd for that: http://xkcd.com/465/

zxtangon Github Raises $100 Million

You can use Google's cache of the page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Clicking on the current page link should still allow you to read the page too, at least it works for me.

zxtangon Mars One Project: “Humans Will Live On Mars In 2023″

They plan to launch food supplies to Mars in 2016, 7 years before sending the astronauts and 2 years before they've even scouted out where to establish a settlement.

I don't understand why they would send the supplies there so early. Can anyone explain this timeline to me?

zxtangon Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right

"Never send the user a new password over email."

This is what HN does right now. I know, because I forgot my password just yesterday.

zxtangon Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?

I liked http://gitref.org when I started with git. I find it's a good quick reference to common git commands so you can quickly get up and running with git. The rest of learning git is really just practice and searching for how to do stuff when you need to.

The section on commit explains what the '-m' option is:http://gitref.org/basic/#commit

zxtangon Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is doing an IamA

http://askolo.com