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It seems a bit like Juicero - maybe investors are trying to find a corner of market based on food subscriptions.

Chrome won't autoplay videos having audio. Unless you've already interacted with the site.

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ is a goldmine of bad examples.

I don't think there are so many ads on Youtube that it's enough of an annoyance to subscribe.

Not an answer, but people who are using Mint; is there an official upgrade path between releases yet? How do you upgrade?

I think this is the missing link:

https://github.com/commondream/maths

Love that last bullet.

I'm using Xymon ( example: https://www.xymon.com/servers/servers.html ). I found it didn't take much work to add a client to the monitor and the default set of reports was enough.

There's supposed to be an OSX client, but I haven't used it.

One day I got a cheap-ish NAS then used beets [1] to organise and copy all the music on my computer to it, listening to it with Banshee[2] over the network.

Then I got Spotify and don't bother much with it anymore...

[1] http://beets.radbox.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee_%28media_player%29

View the source.

You'd have trouble finding someone willing to do most of the work of writing a game and especially the artwork.

You're in luck though! The game is popular enough that someone else has had the idea of writing a clone:

"PokeClone: A Pokémon engine coded in Python"

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=284297

https://github.com/tpwrules/pokeclone

Hmmm... Adblock Edge ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ ) with one of the privacy filter lists ( https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ ) would do in that case.

Use a privacy plugin for your browser e.g. Disconnect ( https://disconnect.me/ ).

I'm actively trying not to spend too much time reading other people's opinions on the internet these days, it's such a time sink and you do come away with such a negative opinion of the world.

But I'll go through the comments if it's a subject I'm interested in and the comments are constructive or add to the original link. Often I've noticed a pattern where the largest discussions start with a comment along the lines of "This article is wrong because ..." and the reply "<quote from above comment> No, it's not because ...". That's a sign to just close the tab.

I have Greasemonkey and the "Hacker News collapsible comments" script installed:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138037

I do recommend that for an improved HN procrastinating experience.

I use "Adblock Edge" as an alternative. It's basically a fork of adblock plus but without the "acceptable ads" feature.

Seems decent. Thoughts:

* Lose the background image. A plain background is fine.

* "You have punched out for the day". Okay? But it's a button, do I press it? What do I do with it?

* Consider not using the term "Stuff", "Company Stuff" -> "Company", "My Stuff" -> "My Attendance"

* Things like attendance tables could probably be more "graphic" rather than boring tables of "Present" or "Not present". Think about coloured squares to indicate attendance or icons.

It's easy to get excited, but I remember the hype surrounding the Segway.

Headlines with "Emotional" and "So Eloquent" are the new "L@@K! Must See!"

Works right away now thanks!

Maybe it's just me, but the requestAnimationFrame code fails in Firefox unless they're all prefixed with 'window.'

It probably works straight away in Chrome because requestAnimationFrame is defined.

I assume they're sorted by the number of downloads from the Python packaging index (PyPI).

Tornado might be one of those packages people install from their distro's package or download from the parent website rather than via PyPi.

As for the background ... <shrugs>

To be fair, Drupal et al. are great for throwing at non-technical users and letting them create their own content.

He claims a Perl script that found computers with default or blank passwords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#Statements_to_th...

The latest XKCD comic features a panel which you drag around to explore a world. This is that map of that panel.

It serves spam when I request the page with curl, and goes away if I put a user agent header in there with "Firefox/12.0". Odd.

Here's a cached copy from Google:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

"Anyway, If you ever receive such a call, do not follow along"

But then perhaps stringing them along means less time for them to be calling other people who may not be aware of this scam?

Presumably he's referring to the plethora of comments below from accounts created within the last hour whose only comment is a one or two word praise for this submission.

It smells of sock-puppetry, but odd considering this is exactly the submission that would appeal to this audience.

"Depth of Challenger Deep in light seconds"