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namtrac··on Google soft launches collaborative Jupyter-like notebook
Any timeline for Python3 support?
namtrac··on Microsoft’s February security update release delayed to March
Since Flash update is now bundled with Windows Updates it means that Edge users will be using vulnerable Flash for one more month, wow :/
namtrac··on Wine 2.0 released
Well yes it does: https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More
namtrac··on Battery Status API being Removed from Firefox due to Privacy Concerns
Chrome uses Blink which was forked from WebKit long ago, see https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/google-forks-webkit-and-la...
namtrac··on Cats, dogs starve as web-connected chow chute PetNet plays dead
Not all cats eat just what they need, one of our cats eat twice the amount of what he needs if he finds food available. That's why this kind of automated feeders makes sense.
namtrac··on Cygwin library now available under GNU LGPL
I sincerely hope Red Hat continues to develop Cygwin further. It's amazing to be able to run my favourite shell on Windows.
namtrac··on GPUCC – An Open-Source GPGPU Compiler
This is part of llvm trunk (upcoming 3.9 release) now: http://llvm.org/docs/CompileCudaWithLLVM.html
namtrac··on Ask HN: Best books for understanding and training a cat
We have two cats and pondered about this long time ago. The best resource we found was the BBC documentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcqvq also has an e-book http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Hbdn6T21hKDH6bfVBk...
namtrac··on Glot.io: Open Source pastebin with runnable snippets and API
Great, would be nice to have and updated clang (seems to be using 3.5.1) and python3 (using 3.4.3). Generally its nice to point out the version of the compiler it's using somewhere as a note.
namtrac··on Badlock vulnerability disclosed
Not really anymore: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/hyping-vulnerabilities-is-n...
namtrac··on Show HN: Papier – Open a new tab and trap your best thoughts
Also instead of taking over the newtab page it could use it own page :)
namtrac··on Show HN: Papier – Open a new tab and trap your best thoughts
Very nice! Hopefully it'll support syncing to google user account too.
namtrac··on Python 3.4 supports only 100 regex groups
I guess you meant Python 3.4 because 3.5 has no limitation: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.5/Lib/sre_compile.p...
namtrac··on iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
This is the only app I miss on Linux, kudos!
namtrac··on What is my public IP?
curl -s whatismyip.akamai.com
namtrac··on Glittering Blue
Thanks!
namtrac··on Glittering Blue
Sounds nice, do you have it up somewhere?
namtrac··on Ask HN: Share your favourite bash/zsh aliases
Well in zsh running =scp would run /usr/bin/scp not the alias.
namtrac··on Ask HN: Share your favourite bash/zsh aliases
alias scp='rsync --archive --compress-level=3 --copy-links --partial --inplace --progress --rsh=ssh -r'
namtrac··on OpenSSL Security Advisory
OpenVPN already updated: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9900
namtrac··on OpenSSL Security Advisory
https://twitter.com/agl__/status/619129579580469248
namtrac··on KeePass – questionable security
Linux support seems to be BETA.
namtrac··on The LaTeX cargo cult
doc format is not documented, obviously.
namtrac··on Localtunnel.me
Well thank you for ngrok!

My daily routine is

ngrok start ssh && go home

Stupid firewalls.

namtrac··on Android recording all your moments on Google Map
You can disable it, see https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/1/settings
namtrac··on Show HN: Notforest - cleaning up the Web one page at a time
Cool idea, a Chrome extension would be useful since some of us hides the bookmarks bar.
namtrac··on Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText
Looks lovely!

Though I would appreciate non-Mac shortcuts too (I am guessing ctrl- can be used instead of cmd-)

namtrac··on HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices
Not "All" but the newest line-up devices.