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Re:Nexus 5 on Thursday October 31, 2013 @10:35PM (#6651488)

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...

Re:Git Tips on Monday August 19, 2013 @10:39PM (#6241365)

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....

Re:Mailchimp offers 10% discount for using 2-factor security on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @12:31AM (#5447808)

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

Re:Sync to Paper on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @12:19AM (#5447766)

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

Re:Geoffrey Hinton has joined Google on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:19PM (#5365940)

http://research.google.com

For reference, I googled "research at google".

Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Lega... on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @08:37PM (#5289932)

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

Re:Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies on Saturday February 23, 2013 @08:16PM (#5272266)

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...

Re:Use long flags when scripting on Monday February 04, 2013 @09:00PM (#5168579)

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

Re:David Gelernter predicted Dropbox in 1996 on Sunday February 03, 2013 @11:48AM (#5160129)

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."

Re:Mega has launched on Saturday January 19, 2013 @03:42PM (#5084677)

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"

Re:A cry for help on Thursday January 17, 2013 @08:32PM (#5076530)

It's a redirect to that domain.

Re:Google connects Play Store with Google+, reviews will feature name ... on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @11:06AM (#4837521)

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.

Re:Humble Bundle 4 for android on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:50PM (#4760541)

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

Re:Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward on Saturday September 08, 2012 @11:18PM (#4494791)

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

Re:Github Raises $100 Million on Monday July 09, 2012 @05:25PM (#4220590)

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.

Re:Mars One Project: “Humans Will Live On Mars In 2023″ on Friday July 06, 2012 @07:56PM (#4210158)

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?

Re:Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right on Thursday July 05, 2012 @03:15PM (#4204490)

"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.

Re:Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git? on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @01:33PM (#4200185)

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

Re:Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is doing an IamA on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @10:42PM (#3917395)

http://askolo.com