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by unfasten 14y ago
I used to run a local server as well until I saw a recommendation to use 0.0.0.0. Requests now fail instantly and I don't have to run a local server just for blocked domains. There is one thing I do miss: being able to log requests and seei
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by unfasten 14y ago
I have the 8 GB Nexus 7 and I bought it at launch. I just checked and the total price I paid (device + shipping + tax) came to $230.03. I don't remember which delivery method I chose, perhaps you chose an expedited shipping option?
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by unfasten 14y ago
If anyone would like to see another example, here's one I just did. The original photo was taken with a Galaxy Nexus and no flash. It's a grainy shot and not the best starting point, but I was curious how it would do with a lower quality st
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by unfasten 14y ago
For those interested in the full paper: • Dickerson, A., Mills, Z. & Hu, D. L. (2012) Wet mammals shake at tuned frequencies to dry. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Interface. http://www-old.me.gatech.edu/hu/Publications/Hu12-dog.pdf
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Dogs able to quickly, economically shake themselves dry, experiments prove(philly.com)
3 points by unfasten 14y ago|3 comments
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The next-gen of video game blocks from Sifteo(gamasutra.com)
1 points by unfasten 14y ago|0 comments
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by unfasten 14y ago
Interesting. The difference could be A/B testing or serving up different scripts to different browsers. At a quick glance you can definitely see some differences between the different scripts we were served. For instance, in the one you wer
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by unfasten 14y ago
I ran into this problem last night and ended up looking at the script. File size is 4,129,653 bytes, on a single line. I had it saved to check out what the problem was, so here it is if you want to check it out yourself: https://dl.dropbox
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by unfasten 14y ago
Hadn't thought of that, thanks. My friend compiled and installed AOSP Jelly Bean and you are indeed correct; global search works without limitation.
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by unfasten 14y ago
Does anyone know which commit covers the reduction in functionality for the global search (related to the sales ban on the Nexus)? My friend is trying to find the commit so he can compile Jelly Bean (for the Galaxy Nexus) with the global se
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by unfasten 14y ago
Thanks for the information about reporting spam text messages, I had never heard about it. I just received some spam text the other day and ended up reporting it through the FCC, but reporting straight to your mobile operator on the phone i
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by unfasten 14y ago
The Capital One example actually turned out to just be normal split testing, not based on the visitor's browser. HN discussion thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861037
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Namespaced Constants and Functions in C(mikeash.com)
3 points by unfasten 14y ago|0 comments
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Changing the Stereotype(gamasutra.com)
2 points by unfasten 15y ago|0 comments
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by unfasten 15y ago
At least all the photos on the first page of the photostream are darkened for me. Here's a screenshot of the first picture: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24903613/ss/flickr-whitehouse-sopa.p... Are you located outside the U.S.? It could also be
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Amit Gupta and the South Asian Bone Marrow Problem(good.is)
3 points by unfasten 15y ago|0 comments
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by unfasten 15y ago
If you'd like remove Preview then you can use the CSS from this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3194164 to disable it. conradfr: You may also be interested in the CSS snippet in the above post since it will make the Cache link sh
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by unfasten 15y ago
I used WMWWRAWNXAXL. Thanks, I'll be trying it out a bit later.
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by unfasten 15y ago
I think there are 2 reasons videos from the BBC don't load. The first, which I'm almost certain stops the loading, is having your Flash privacy settings to never store any information. I have mine set to ask me when a new site wants to stor
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Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)(bbc.co.uk)
224 points by unfasten 15y ago|44 comments
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by unfasten 15y ago
> On a related note, I saw some screenshots and the windows version now has a bloated, horrible UI, not at all how I remember it. That's probably one of the 'Modern' skins. The 'Classic' skins (from v2.x) still work the same. Windowshad
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by unfasten 15y ago
The following CSS should disable preview and put the Cached and Similar links back into the correct spot. I use UserCSS in Opera, not sure what to use in other browsers but I know there are solutions for custom CSS available: .vspib {
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by unfasten 15y ago
I came across this one yesterday when I was looking for more information about something mentioned on HN: Search: carmack +zfail gpl Date: 2011-11-02 Result: Bad autocorrect; Plus operator broke """ Showing result
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by unfasten 15y ago
I've saved a few searches where autocorrect gets too aggressive. I've run in to more than this but I don't save all since usually I just want results for my search immediately and don't feel like recording them: I needed `+pyinotify` on thi
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by unfasten 15y ago
>[...] and now, I see ads for casinos on about a third of the webpages I visit. You should be able to remove that from your ad targeting here: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ It lists all the categories Google thinks you're int
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by unfasten 15y ago
> How about create a JavaScript library that sandboxes execution of third-party scripts [...] There has been some work done in this direction. I don't know how active the project is, but it's called ADsafe ( http://www.adsafe.org/ ). It
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by unfasten 15y ago
From a previous discussion on it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 here's a quote from Gabriel: """To be fair, it came as an asset in an unrelated acquisition (On2). But it just sat their (pointing to this Duck Corporation histo
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by unfasten 15y ago
Insert single characters: Press 's' in normal mode and the next character you type will be inserted at the cursor and put you back in normal. Press 'S' (Capital S or shift+s) and the character will be inserted after the cursor like 'a' appe
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by unfasten 15y ago
If you're talking about the following: 6:20:09 A.M. EST At about six in the morning, Mark Zuckerberg searches for "universal facebook” on Google, finding the Universal Face Book on the Quincy House houseSYSTEM web site. ro
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by unfasten 15y ago
> But I'm all for removing the 'I'm feeling lucky' button. Did anyone ever use that? I don't use the homepage, but I do have a custom search set up in my browser for "I'm Feeling Lucky". It's useful when: a) I'm reasonably sure what res

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