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Show HN: Pastebin clone on top of IPFS
I've created a quick application that stores data in IPFS (http://ipfs.io) which is a distributed web implementation.

It's working as expected, paste some content, get a hash in the url and send to a friend. The content will be there forever and distributed to peers that asks for it.

Demo: http://ipfsbin.xyz/#QmXdMvJaRrSTCAcDFMZLUFfm9uGK6Wq7qEVcwbvaQRxq8x

This have a couple of advantages, mainly that the same content would have the same hash, meaning that things wouldn't be duplicated.

Source is available for people interested in that here: https://github.com/victorbjelkholm/ipfsbin
This goes the show how much of a gamble it is when investing by charts.
What's that complexity that you are implying?
For example from: https://www.gogetssl.com/. Their site is pretty easy to work with and a lot better than startssl. It's worth the 7 bucks to me.
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If you want your stuff to live on, there is an easy fix. You can set up your will so some or all of your stuff will be uploaded to a public place, such as GitHub or whatever. Or you can ask a friend to go through your digital possessions and use their own judgement regarding what to do with it.

Simply doing nothing and expecting app stores to come up with something like memorialized accounts is not going to work. The "best" they can do is delete your apps faster when notice of your death comes in.

If you're writing a will anyway, why not just include a clause about the data on your hard drives? Arguably, including a "data will" is probably more important to your legacy than the boring minutiae of how to split up your bank account.
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Reminds me of something Michael Lewis wrote:

“You have a dog, and I have a cat. … You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.”
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Have you had a look at sovereign (on github)? It's easy to set up and offers much more than just email.
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Firefox, Safari and Edge also use a grey lock for domain validation certificates.
Thank you for that. It makes a certain kind of sense, that impersonating a user/creating user sessions requires a high privilege. I think I'd still be more happy with it running as a low privilege user allowing log-in as "nobody"/"guest" and then elevating to a user with login/pw via "runas" or equivalent.

I can see how the only way to login directly to a certain user id would either require ssh to run as that user id or as System.
Is there a canonical source for that definition, or at least showing that it's accepted slang in SV? I'm not saying I don't believe you; I'd only like to know the extent to which this is the accepted meaning.
The more I learn about the brain, the more unlikely it seems that proponents of extreme polyphasic sleep are correct.
> The vast majority of my clients have graduate degrees, PHD, MBA, law degree. You pretty much need this, to be hyper educated to be able to afford this area. And I would say, just to quantify, probably about a 20 to 30 point higher IQ score than the sellers.

This is a good film, but it tries hard to highlight the absurdities of the market and attitudes to make a good story.

Read the transcript for more nuggets: http://milliondollarshack.com/movie-transcript/

No doubt the market is in hyper-growth phase, mostly around Cupertino, PA, Mnt View, Sunnyvale, etc. (20%+) with 8-10 ranked school districts. Even so, there are still decent options in these areas.

San Jose and East Bay have even more affordable options, but I predict they will soon appreciate as more companies set up offices (Uber, etc). At least that's where I'll likely invest long term.

If you're looking at bubbles, according to Paragon "the period between bubble and recovery is 5-7 yrs".. so the SF bubble would peak ~2016-18

https://twitter.com/tzmartin/status/655506111705972736
https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates.aspx
Tiddlywiki only needs a better UX/UI to be a killer app. Evernote with a scripting and plain text approach would be a killer app also..
Does the IP location of the server matter? The guy who wrote the article is in South Africa, if I understood correctly. Note that if the company is outside of the US and wants to keep control of their own e-mail, it would want to have the mail server locally, not in the US. Having the server in the US is otherwise not significantly different than having it in gmail.
Hey now, don't forget about .BAT files

(Seriously, though, VBscript, JScript and VBA are natively supported through WSH on Windows)
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Oh, there is Calibre, that I have been meaning to try and use. But it's nice to be able to just turn on the kindle (as I'm in the shower or something), and have it download latest reads before I leave the house. Rather than fussing about connecting the machine to another machine etc.
Last time I recommended Luakit, I was told it was no longer developed and superceded by dwb (linked below by someone else)
Thank you for the suggestion! I have so far loved the minimalistic feeling and intuitive keybindings for a vi-user.
I don't see anything in this article implying that the brain actually reads the "summed wave activity" somehow; as far as I understand, everything here is just a description of how we measure and interpret EM fields generated by charges flying around in the brain. Is there any study that shows that some parts of the brain treat EM waves generated elsewhere as input?
> It would be like trying to program your own switchboard or run your own phone lines

You mean like a PBX? Most companies with >= 50 employees do this. Smaller/newer ones will definitely tend towards a managed service for this though.
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Hi Jonah,

I run https://certsimple.com. We only do EV certificates, and we do it much faster than any of the existing companies, which normally quote 7-10 days to complete the validation process. I waited around a month for GoDaddy earlier this year, which is how I ended up making CertSimple.

CertSimple do EV certificates in an average of 5 hours.

- We check the customers info against the required government information sources (as well as a number of other places) before customers pay us.

- After we take the order, we provide a specific set of instructions based on a number of characteristics of the customer's actual business to make the validation process as fast as possible.

- We have a real focus on UX: there's no software to install or command line questions, our validation UI updates live, and we manually follow up with every customer to iterate our product.

I'm mike@certsimple.com, or @mikemaccana on Twitter.
Ah, I'm currently learn some ruby/java/c/haskell/go/erlang/javascript, should I learn the Rust dialect instead?
Surprised no one mentioned iDoneThis.com
I use it to keep a log of accomplishments of the day.
You get an email at a set time (4:30pm) is what I set mine to.
For journaling I use a emacs journal mode. It lets you create a text file with the date stamp.

To organise notes it's org mode all the way.
If you are willing to only accept SNI enabled clients (the vast majority nowadays), you can achieve the same by having one cert issued per subdomain, then configuring the web server/reverse proxy to use them.

There are a few existing Nginx configs for that (search for "nginx dynamic ssl cert").
well the article identified but failed to address both of the core issues: copyright and who pays for it.

but most importantly failed to mention or aknowledge this https://archive.org/details/internetarcade which is doing exactly what he vouches for, preserving memory (especially relevant since he's talking about a game)
I did ok in this game, i tried one of those plus500 demo accounts before and got slaughtered.
Well, you could take the money then behead him!

(no of course not, but what is he saying, it might have some validity.. "bad things" is subjective you know? Ask him about it!)
The next step should be to stop trusting any other CA, and have Let's Encrypt support EV certificates by working with other CAs and still requiring Let's Encrypt DV verification.

This way, Let's Encrypt in particular would need to be breached for a successful attack, while right now it's enough to breach either Let's Encrypt or any other CA.
The best blog I know on the subject:

http://calnewport.com/blog/
Is there an easy way to pull out the cert and load it into an AWS ELB without running the client on the server it will eventually protect? I'm not a big fan of using software that auto changes my config files, plus you can't actually run scripts on ELBs.
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You have incorrect definition of accountability. Accountability is not true/false value defined by "if a person made a choice". Accountability is a percentage of electrical signals, originated from frontal cortex, that caused the action in question. That's why children, mentally ill and even women on PMS are less accountable - less of the electrical signals originated in frontal cortex.

Now, since we have cleared out what a "choice" is and there is no more argument about that, it is easy to show that frontal cortex output is determined by input that are prior experience (or electrical signals coming in), genetics (how it reacts to them and how it is initially wired) and chemical environment (drugs/hormones/others). So there's no room for any kind of free will.

So as you see there is no conflict between lack of free will and morals/ethics. We just need to accept that your frontal cortex is "YOU" and if it produced defective output (a crime for example), it has to be punished regardless of predetermination to do so. And accept that it is ETHICAL and MORAL to do that. That is all.
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Probably because EV certs are a stupid idea.

Do you really know the difference between Citi Bank and Citibank? No? Then EV hasn't saved you from being phished.
Free will is flat earth of philosophy.
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Just so you know, there are quite a few typos and grammar issues on your homepage.
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Have you ever considered remote work? I moved to Barcelona to work for a few companies but after a couple of years I wanted different challenges but still to stay here so I looked into remote work and it's the best of both worlds!
True, but it makes Occam spin in infinitely many graves.
Is this going to be an ongoing thing? I mean, after the device is distributed this coming year, will another batch will be sent to the students in the following year? I'm asking because my son will start secondary school at September 2016 and I would be very thrilled to have me, i mean - him, play with one.
Sounds like potentially, either:

1) The individual IP address(es) used by your server were used for spamming/phishing/bad things.

or

2) The larger address space owned/used by your hosting company is seen as sullied.
This article is complete nonsense.

Just because it looks like animals are solving problems doesn't mean they have free will, any more than humans solving problems means humans have free will.

There is no reason these things can't come about through a deterministic universe.
Buzsaki argues, in this book, that brain waves are the method that the brain uses to coordinate activity in different regions of the brain. (High-frequency waves coordinate the activity of small areas, low-frequency waves coordinate the activity of large areas.)

http://www.amazon.com/Rhythms-Brain-Gyorgy-Buzsaki/dp/019982...

If you're curious about brain waves, I highly recommend this book. It is fascinating.
and as an alternative: qutebrowser!

same concept as dwb but with Qt and not gtk for those who cares.

https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser
Lawsuit about what? Company providing service on their own terms? I don't think the TV license requires them to provide iplayer at all (only TV as in TV).
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"Free will" is the output of your fully developed (25+ years) frontal cortex (brain region operating on most abstract concepts) under normal chemical conditions (level of hormones, no affecting drugs, etc.) At least that's how legal system uses free will and I think it is pretty correct.
I am a growing fan of QupZilla. The only thing I miss is functionality similar to Self-destructing cookies.

http://www.qupzilla.com/
They're in the process of rewriting the DOM handler to support dynamic changes from JavaScript. JavaScript itself runs well.
> As far as we know

What we 'know' is given to us by the mathematical models which we invented to describe the observed reality.

Currently, we have different models to describe reality based on the scale of observation.... Which is interesting because as you zoom into the microcosmos there's a point were the laws of physics magically 'switch' from relativity to quantum mechanics.

As a programmer who is not a physicist, I can smell a hack right there.
Which brings me to the inevitable conclusion that maybe our model of reality is not entirely correct.

So if I were to bet on weather time existed before our model's mathematical moment zero or that our mathematical model is imprecise, I would definitely choose the infinity of time.

Our mathematical model is for us or future generations to adjust to whatever we discover in the future.
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ADSL is ATM, so not entirely dead yet.
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I wonder what the novel feature is here. Surely somebody would have thought of renting space in a solar powered fridge before? Maybe it's only recently become viable because of improvements in the economy?
The guy who wrote the article is in South Africa. It wouldn't be surprising that big parts of the world are grey or blacklisted for e-mail. But note that having an e-mail server in the US often negates the benefit of maintaining an own e-mail server for anybody not in the US.
Qt's C++ heritage isn't any more relevant than WebKit's C++ heritage. I agree that the ecosystem needs to improve, but it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.
I honestly wonder if there is actually going to be any cost savings, once training and the friction of converting existing work-flows over from MS Office to LibreOffice are taken into account.

Unless OpenOffice/LibreOffice has gotten markedly better in the last couple of years since I got access to an MSDN subscription, it's still a second-tier product behind Office. I hate to say that, because I'm no great fan of desktop Word and Excel (I still think the 2003 editions were the best), but MS has really picked up the ball with their cloud versions integrated into Office365, which IMO, are better than Google Docs at this point.
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let's encrypt uses ACME protocol for certificates. You can use your own tools to handle it - either automatically or manually. Their automated client is just a user-friendly wrapper.
Indeed, and at least the typos (like the "interenet") can be easily detected with the free spell checkers (and even some grammar issues!) It can help efesak2, but it's off topic to what we discuss here.
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It's not worse; it's just exactly the same broken model, now for no money and being pushed on everyone.

All this because a couple of theorists in the 1990s decided that security requires authenticity, despite decades of research to the contrary.

There are all kinds of ways to establish authenticity of counterparties. Entire books are written about that. There are much better ways than our current CA model. But we don't need any of them to have passively secure transport, over which we can then negotiate authenticity.

This is arranging deck chairs on the Hindenburg. It's nice that people will (once they finally get around to issuing certs "in mid-2015") be able to have zero-cost certs, but it doesn't change the fundamental broken-ness and wrong-headedness of having CAs in the first place.
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Thanks for the clarification. I falsely assumed abandonware as public domain. I also found some explanation about the public domain here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/72916
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> I honestly wonder if there is actually going to be any cost savings, once training and the friction of converting existing work-flows over from MS Office to LibreOffice are taken into account.

Anecdotally, a frighteningly large part of the civil service's workflow is implemented in Excel/Word macros. If that's true, it won't matter how good LibreOffice is, migrating that to anything else is going to be the biggest pain (and cost) point.
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Thank you. Demanding TLS while insisting on keeping our broken PKI alive is saying that anonymous publishing is impossible.

Just look at the stupid way browsers treat self-signed certificates: these are strictly better than plaintext, but plaintext gets no warning and self-signed certificates are warned about and in some cases actually blocked.

Similarly, one mailer (exim, I think?) on seeing an untrusted certificate would actually downgrade to plaintext. There aren't enough palms or enough faces for that.
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Probably they just don't care about styling but they care on the content.
What if all the authors of culturally/historically significant works throughout history had thought like that?
If biking is too hard, why not ride an electric scooter or something? This chair seems great, but it's probably far from optimal for commuting.
> And despite claims of being blazing fast, as an user my experience is that it is very slow for more complicated pages, whereas for websites that are almost just plain text and images it beats any WebKit/Gecko browser out there.

I downloaded it and tried it. Every page loads very slowly, even incredibly simple sites. Maybe it has a slow HTTP implementation?
Come on. This guy spent thousands of hours designing a tool to make life better for people who can't walk, and all you care about is his choice of words?
There's also the small problem that not all countries have a concept of a copyright in the first place. Quite a few EU nations have laws around the concept of Authors' Rights instead. Public domain does not even exist for those (because there is always an author, and authors always have rights to their work, even if they're publishing anonymously).
I've heard that they will be available commercially next year through partners, but won't be distributed free to all students again.
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The original launch said they'd go on sale by the end of 2015 to the general public, I don't know about the ongoing plans though.
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Still better than having your government locked-in with a single vendor, where the vendor is a mega-corporation from another company that may or may not be your ally at all times.

Also what happens with the archived files and documents decades later? Will they still work? Microsoft can't even achieve 100% percent compatibility between its released versions every 3 years.

There will be some transition pains, that's for sure, and in part those pains are as big as they are because the governments have adopted single-vendor proprietary products from companies for many years to begin with. It seems to me the long term upside is way bigger with open standards and open source software.
It's not just processing power, it's all the round-trips and timeouts and social buttons delays.
You could, but SSH is used for actual security, and adding the variable of a third party makes that situation strictly worse. SSH keys are meant to be distributed through some side channel.
Free will is how a decision-choosing algorithm feels from inside. Not much more to it, IMO.

When a decision-choosing algorithm says "I can't predict my own decisions, therefore they must be unpredictable in principle", that strikes me as unfounded.
Hello douche,

I don’t know whether the step to libre software will save costs. Nonetheless, I’d still argue for the government to take it, for even if it were costly, taking things for the team is part of the reason of a governments existence.
> As a programmer who is not a physicist

Let me stop you right there...
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Thanks. Looks like there is broad consens for the 50% formula.
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Show HN: Rime.co – Never miss an update
I am co-founder of Rime. Rime is a social content aggregator, it pull together users social contents shared on multiple platforms to one place. Here is an example of user profile https://rime.co/@girish We believe that everyone is an artist and internet is a platform which allows users (brands/individuals) to showcase their creation through various apps. Rime helps users to sync all of their content in one unified timeline. Which will help their friends and followers to get every singel update.
It’s also an initiative towards supporting openweb and content sharing networks to give utmost reach to the contents, creators (authors) and providers (platforms).

You can also use rime as a tool to create profiles of others. Rime users can create anybody’s guest profile (If they are not in Rime), by connecting social media accounts of people whom they want to follow. For example https://rime.co/@google . It is like Wikipedia for social networks which will be moderated by the community.

Currently, people are not actively using platforms like vine, Flickr, tumblr etc, since they don’t get proper visibility for contents. Every time they need to share content explicitly to facebook to get the visibility that’s a cumbersome process and time consuming. Rime is a disruptive Idea which can encourage people to use various content creation platform since we can bring those content under one profile and enhance the visibility.

We are trying to make true open web platform to the internet. Where content reach can not be controlled by anyone. Whatever people are sharing will reach to the followers.
I'm pretty sure a fully privatised, insurance-based healthcare system is exactly what the Tories want.

The assault on NHS funding at all levels is clearly an attempt to gradually have it sold off.

I'm always deeply depressed and even angry at how many people genuinely believe the free market will solve all of our problems.
> Yes, let's have money decide who gets or doesn't get into the country

Yes, let's have money decide who gets or doesn't get food or shelter or medical care... oh wait.

Snarkiness aside, rich people can already buy citizenship in most countries, even the U.S. It's by far the fairest and most objective system to decide who gets in or doesn't get in. It also has the positive side effect of selecting those least likely to mooch off the state (a popular fear amongst those against immigration).
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> MS has really picked up the ball with their cloud versions integrated into Office365, which IMO, are better than Google Docs at this point.

What format can I export them in?
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