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Maybe add "Ask HN" to the title?

Anyway, I use a light background in my text editor on bright sunny days. I haven't found one I'm in love with yet but it certainly makes things more legible.

dabberon Android in Cloud – An Open Source Android cloud emulator

Not a problem at all, thanks for getting back to me.

dabberon Android in Cloud – An Open Source Android cloud emulator

May I ask which thinkpad you're referring to?

dabberon Linux utils that you might not know

Awesome, thanks for the tip!

dabberon Linux utils that you might not know

Thanks for the second link. I go there every few weeks but never thought to check out the top voted.

...In hindsight, of course...

The gem I just plucked out is something I've been curious about for a while but never looked up:

    CTRL-X e
    
    The shell will take what you've written on the command 
    line thus far and paste it into the editor specified by 
    $EDITOR [then run it when saved]

Similar to `fc` except you don't need to run the command before invoking the editor

dabberon Learning to break ciphers

(2015)?

dabberon HP is shipping audio drivers with a built-in keylogger

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314795

dabberon There is little research into the long-term effects of using antidepressants

And of course the first ad in the article is for an antidepressant.

Drop the ad script in and forget it they said... Targeted ads they said...

dabberon Thank You, Yakkers

There are plenty. Here's a few posted on HN:

RethinkDB was very straight forward: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/

Wattage too: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/

Hackpad from a few days ago: https://hackpad.com/

The above make their intentions unmistakably clear in the first line.

dabberon Ubuntu 17.04 Released

Thanks for the reply, I think it's finally time I give evolution a shot.

dabberon Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

I was hesitant to use this for the obvious reasons but in the end decided to roll the dice...

Of course, the first link I get starts an immediate download of the ubuntu 17.04 iso. Vindication on the first role.

dabberon Ubuntu 17.04 Released

Not a Thunderbird fan? What's your preferred mail client? I'm looking for something else; I've got my eye on Claws and Evolution but haven't started to play around with anything yet.

dabberon Why your digital games collection isn't yours to own

The scripts ( read: ads) on this article crashed my browser. My phones not new by any metric but still; I don't think its unreasonable to expect a page intent on serving text to load without issue.

dabberon Amazon Planning a Microsoft Office Killer

Its always been something I've thought about briefly before going about my day, never really in any depth.

What do you think the reason is? My thought is, not many people complain loudly so why invest the resources in an overhaul. If it ain't _totally_ broke why rock the boat kinda thing.

That or the engineers build the frontend ;-)

dabberon Amazon Planning a Microsoft Office Killer

>zero faith in Amazon's ability to deliver a compelling user interface for anything remotely casual.

Hah, took the words out of my mouth. Prime video is the first example that comes to mind.

dabberon Uber is charging passengers a $10 cancellation fee even when the driver cancels

Ah, you're right I wasn't clear (it was early.) What I meant was, it's Uber's policy to charge a fee if a ride is canceled some amount of time after the driver accepts you as their fare. I think the grace period before the fee is about 2 min though I may be wrong. This my experience in New York and Boston.

I've never canceled a ride before waiting 5+ minutes and two of the three times I am referring to the driver drove past me twice.

dabberon Uber is charging passengers a $10 cancellation fee even when the driver cancels

I've canceled rides in several cities around the north east US, usually because the driver is taking too long/lost. Every time, Uber's policy was to charge me $5 if I cancelled 2 min after requesting. When I did dispute the charge, the process was the same as OP on reddit (including an account credit over a refund.) I wonder why there's a difference in how the money is reimbursed.

dabberon GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources

Wow, I'd lie if I said I wasn't worried I'd someday have to take a job like that. Was this job you applied to in the gaming space? If so, is that type of ask common place in your experience?

Also, a bit of an aside. What's the game you released called? I get you probably intended to avoid the plug but I'm curious.

Edit: And of course, props to GitHub for this!

dabberon Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

Just a note, in the FAQ[1] it states "distribution packages are often outdated". There are (very simple) cURL/wget instructions in the repo's README[2]. Then you can update with:

   sudo youtube-dl -U

There's also an .exe for Windows as well as pip, Homebrew, and MacPorts packages.

[1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-...

[2] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#inst...

dabberon Show HN: Calligraphr – Convert your calligraphy into a vector font

Not sure I understand either. At the top of the pricing page, "pro" is advertised at "$6.90/month" however at the bottom of that page they state:

"We do not offer subscriptions as most of our users do use Calligraphr.com as a one-off activity and we don't want to charge you just because you have forgotten to cancel our subscription."

dabberon Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell

And a split :(

...I did the same

dabberon ReBreakCaptcha: Breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 Using Google

Some background on the code:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21762076/why-does-gmail-u...

dabberon Apt: please make the moo reproducible

try

  $ apt-get moo moo
  $ apt-get moo moo moo

dabberon Apt: please make the moo reproducible

dabberon A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it

If any one wants a bunch of emails from curious HNers the domain the script addresses the email to is unclaimed.

supertechcoderhirepeople.com

dabberon The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here

From the download page: "Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products [...] none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers."

"algorithmic and policy methods for detecting and preventing non-consensual tracking"

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

So I think the biggest difference is the algorithm it uses to "learn" what to block as you browse.

Edit: Also, it doesn't block all ads. From the same source: "Because Privacy Badger is primarily a privacy tool, not an ad blocker. Our aim is not to block ads, but to prevent non-consensual invasions of people's privacy"

dabberon Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub

I posted this in a comment above but because it's relevant I feel it's worth putting here as well[1]:

git rerere (reuse recorded resolution): https://git-scm.com/2010/03/08/rerere.html

"it allows you to ask Git to remember how you've resolved a hunk conflict so that the next time it sees the same conflict, Git can automatically resolve it for you."

[1] This isn't explicitly against the rules but if it's in bad taste I'll happily remove it.

dabberon Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub

That's great, thanks for sharing.

FYI: If anyone is interested in the section about git rerere (reuse recorded resolution), the link at the bottom of that article leads to a 503; a repost can be found here: https://git-scm.com/2010/03/08/rerere.html

dabberon Warning: 2016 MacBook Pro is not compatible with Linux

Mind elaborating on the hiccups and generation?

dabberon StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules

Very funny. I hadn't seen this before. I particularly like:

>>Is it safe?

>>Uh… it evals both user input and random code, unchecked, from an external site. This is what security-minded folks would refer to as Very Bad™.