skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[0] has some more information – it appears to be standard OpenPGP with a random encryption key stored on the server of safegmail and then retrieved by the receiver, using a common secret as identification. Given that you have to install a (closed-source?) extension and that the key management happens on the servers of safegmail, you naturally have to trust them not to do funny things with your data.

Years ago, there was a Firefox extension to do standard GnuPG in the browser, but I think it died down. If you want really secure email at the moment, I assume there to be no other way than to use a client with PGP support, such as, uh, basically every email client.

[0] http://safegmail.com/information.html
From reddit's r/gamedev post:

"We missed a checkbox one time for IAP and a restore purchases button the second time."

Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/19vli0/30_weeks_of_...
0 isn't false.
Your bash foo eclipses mine, thank you for the bash schooling! I've updated the script on my original post and gave you credit, hope that's okay.
> I don't understand how Matthew can write a comparative review of encrypted chat clients and include one for which he has no technical information, not even a binary

Well that's the point. If there's no source, don't trust that crypto app.
Easily include PayPal buttons with a snippet of JavaScript code
I guess I find that a weird comment -- the entire point of the article was the historical connection, so if that was the only thing that was interesting, how does that make it terrible?

It seems like most people on HN were expecting something very different, and so were disappointed when it was "just" a bit of history. As someone with a backbround in physics, but who had never heard this tidbit, I thought it was pretty neat.
Is there something to try? It looks like you just want my email.
Creating QR codes in Excel
Connection-per-request is battle-tested. Other scenarios, what we're discussing, are not.
I learn something from this: to make your character look like it's standing (instead of floating) you just need to tilt the floor a bit :P
Baseless. Start it with "I like..." and then it's true.
It depends. Like always. But if your main visitors are form Europe go and give hetzner.de a shot. They have incredible prices...
Yea - there's a good documentary called "Refuseniks" that covers this in more detail.

An interesting story from there is that as so many educated Jews were fired from their jobs they started filling in other positions. Someone tells a story of applying to be an elevator operator and being asked if she had a PhD.
For me, it works, but it makes each slide an entry in my browser's history, which I hate.
There is now a serious alternative to lua: Jx9 which uses a syntax similar to C and JavaScript and is being used in many commercial games.
http://jx9.symisc.net/
Agreed. I did get a kick out of this one : "uninstall yourself out of the internet", which thus far has been the only guaranteed method of avoiding any sort of exploit.

Normally this is the sort of privilege escalation we'd see from IE, but I do wish operating systems, Windows in particular, had better sandboxing for applications. Browser sandboxing alone obviously isn't gonna cut it.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Testing Technology To Make Rockets Reusable
Can HNers who have used both Debian-derived Linux distributions and CentOS/RHEL in production share their opinions on how they compare? I'm sure there's a lot of people here who, like me, are primarily experienced with the former and wouldn't mind learning about the latter.
Because annoying a judge is a good idea.
The wisdom of sending a full regiment to catch a single man, who previously was a military dictator after a successful coup-d'état, is not exactly evident to me.

There might have been good reasons, besides providing him with some fresh troops to start anew for a hundred days.

Also, I have a problem with the global idea of rescuing the man who spilled blood all over Europe, became a defacto king giving up on the revolutionary ideals, then committed great treason towards his state (Louisiana purchase was a great deal for the US, for Napoleon own fortune - now imagine Obama selling Alaska to Canada and keeping the money!) - no really, I just don't see it.

The submarine thing might have been a nice technical feat for the time, but still the man was a bloody dictator.
It isn't; there are very few flags that allow the compiler to perform optimizations not allowed by the language standard. Aliasing is not one of them for any compiler I know of. In fact, there are usually flags to go the opposite direction and assume all pointers alias because so many people write code that violates the standard (and results in GCC optimizing the code to behave differently than the author intended.)
Google+, Google’s answer to Facebook, is finally here [video]
I usually call it the first 90% and the second 90%.
Prenda Asks Judge Wright To Lift Order Requiring Them To Appear Monday
Sure, feel free to do whatever you like with that. Bash is more or less the only scripting language I know/use, so it is only natural to find shortcuts over the years :)
Well, that's what I was aiming for.
As it says here, I think that I can't use it if it's the logo.

http://www.oracle.com/us/legal/third-party-trademarks/index....

The question is, when is it considered to be part of the logo, and how can I change it so that it complies, if I need to do so?

As for Python, yes.
Can't they just be tried in absentia?
On the other hand, it has been argued that skyscrapers can be detrimental. In A Pattern Language it's stated that "There is abundant evidence to show that high buildings make people crazy", and it goes further to propose a pattern of a four-story limit for dense urban areas.
It's amazing how many things are discovered this way.
And that day came. It was boring to read books on design, crime fiction and I bought a history book. It was about the life of Julius Caesar, I knew who he was and I knew what he had done, but I wanted to read it and refresh my memory.

From that day, I started buying more and more books of history. Extending the story from 44BC in all directions. After that day (11 years ago) I can say that my life changed a lot.

Now things are different. If you're at a party or at someone's home with friends and history appears as a topic of conversation, everyone says something but rarely agrees with the story itself. It is normal to hear more nonsenses than good facts or stories, and this is how you begin to tell the history for the rest so they understand it, and they realize that you tell in a much more attractive way than a school teacher. Everyone looks at you so mesmerized that once you finish, never, ever, you regret having learned about the story itself.
Yes, I'm clear on that. But maybe it shouldn't be. At least those unencrypted apps send a clear signal to their users about the level of assurance they provide.
But that's not what he wrote. Read that part of the review again.
Humanities professors (of which I am one) now take it for granted that their days are numbered -- that subjects like History, Philosophy, English literature, and Classics won't survive another fifty years as major parts of the university curriculum.

This post amply explains why that is happening.
Core strategy behind this move: Take one full grown pig, Add lipstick
Mathematically, starting with zero is more consistent, because it leads to the fact that the length of a range is the difference between its bounds (length x..y == y-x).

More elaborate and rigorous: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831....
Great work guys!
I am writing a game with my friends on our spare time and we have kept all the builds since the beginning so we could document it's progress with a video as well.
Glad to see that people respond well to this.
Wish you the best of luck!
Creator of GCW Zero wants to buy Atari
The majority of HN submissions that were to a referly link were from the founders, I assume the sort-of spammy nature is something they're afforded permission to engage in because they're a part of YC.
Except they're not even selling bananas. They're selling you maybe-bananas. You don't know what you're buying, you don't know the term of the product's lifetime, and they won't tell you.

Markets don't work without fair access to information. If a company commits, with a posted bond, to support the game through date X--sure, you're right. But they're not. They are selling the proverbial cat in a bag. That is anti-consumer, and consumers--people--are more important than the companies that exist to serve them.
> History should be studied because it is essential to individuals and to society, and because it harbors beauty.

And more important, we study history to avoid reliving it.
Because there is oil in Iran that can be harvested while engaging in war and "freeing" the people.
I thought communism was all about human equality. Guess it's true that you are communist until you get rich, feminist until you get married etc..
I wonder why GitHub is so popular and TFS services are not. It's so much better than GitHub IMO, can someone explain?

Supports TFS and Git vestion-control

Free collaborative projects for up to 5 people

Can have closed-source projects
Works if you add this line:

char main[] __attribute__((section(".text")));

(You get a warning from the assembler.)
I agree that government is cumbersome and often gets in the way. Yes, I shake my head and roll my eyes at the patent office and many other agencies and individuals in government. . .Yes, the NLRB may have outlived its usefulness (thought it was certainly necessary at one time, even if only to ensure that the workers didn't die off too soon). On the other hand, NASA and DARPA have come up with ideas and technology that the private sector has been able to capitalize on. Also, there's a huge difference between "innovation" and "getting a job/making money".

Maybe humger drives some people to innovate (though it's hard for me to imagine how they could drink clearly when hungry). But I suspect hunger drives most people to simply do what's necessary to eat - and they can and would stop well short of innovation to do that. I would love to see data on a significant number of innovations that were developed by hungry people.
> The wisdom of sending a full regiment to catch a single man

If I recall correctly, Napoleon already had a few hundred men with him at that point. The 5th was considered royalist, so I am pretty certain they were not sent with the intent of giving Napoleon more men.

I wouldn't say I think the man was a very nice guy, but I can't help but admire that level of charisma. Regardless of politics, it is awe-inspiring.
Show HN: Swipr, a responsive, mobile friendly, javascript and CSS3 slider
For those interested in building Encrypted/Private cloud apps Crypton.io (https://crypton.io), developed by the team behind SpiderOak inc launched proof of concept for a zero-knowledge private and secure cloud api a few weeks ago. Also 100% open source for those who are interested.
Something like 92% of browsers support javascript. Fuck off with this stupid, trite red herring.

You want content. You are not owed content.
Clean/Beautify your project html, js and css files right from the command line
Most of the times I use foreach loops like

for i, x in ipairs(mylist) do

so the 0 vs 1 based indexing is made irrelevant. There are some times where mess up but overall most Lua users don't think its much of an issue. (Personally, I find the lack of a ternary conditional operator much more annoying)
We already had several global communication services. What we got was a gimmick.
Most disgusting comment i've seen in quite a while. Maybe you can go live in one of these cages too and see how thrifty you can be.
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Biosensor uses powdered enzymes and gold solution to detect harmful pathogens
You guys might like the Ars coverage: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/top-prenda-offici...

Also, Popehat: http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/08/prenda-law-attorneys-ask-j...

They're a little too transparent, though. I called this on the last thread. I like how they managed to file it via a paper copy so that the judge might not rule on it by Monday.
I haven't used CentOS for very long and when I did it was long ago, so this comment isn't the best-informed. But from my brief experience, you have access to more or less the same software (plus or minus some version numbers), but with their configuration done totally differently from Debian. I.e., config files are in places you're not used to, and sometimes sourced in different ways. Some software runs differently too; for example in Debian Apache runs as www-data, while in CentOS it runs as apache.

It's not a bad thing, but if you already know Debian, I don't think there's a huge reason to switch to CentOS.
Does HN have killfiles yet? Please? I come here for interesting discussion, not zombie ideas from the right wing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days#Return_to_France claims "On February 1815, when the British and French guard ships were absent, he slipped away from Portoferraio with some 600 men and landed at Golfe-Juan near Antibes on 1 March 1815."

He 'voluntarily' moved to Elba, and was able to build a small army there because he offfically ruled the island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon#Exile_to_Elba)

I think that explains why they sent a large force to capture him.
I'm going to check whether I still have vodka somewhere around my place, because I want to forget some code real fast.
Difference Between the Ideal Disparity of Wealth, and the Reality
I wouldn't be surprised to find that they've left the country for some reason or another and can't come back right away.
Wont work. Affiliate networks generally do not want that behavior. Mostly its because the advertisers of each offer are specific about who can and cannot promote it. With a reseller, you lose that control.

Affiliate networks would rather keep their advertisers happy (and not lose them, since they are the lifeblood of all networks) vs doubling income and potentially alienating/losing their advertisers.

Also, This is the first I have heard of referly pivoting. I have to say I also vastly prefer the previous business concept to this. However, I am fairly confident that because of how vocal/public the referly founders/team is that they should be able to find a acquihire regardless of what success they see in this direction.
I think this is a much more reasonable argument than what your original comment seems to say, and I agree with you that an insufficient knowledge of history is harmful, and this should really be made clear in high school-level history. But isn't this true somewhat of most subjects? Consider, for example, the deplorable state of software security, or the harm caused by people who misunderstand probability. (One caveat: no subject can be compared in this regard to law and medicine, where other people need to be able to trust practitioners with their lives.)

Also, why should this mean the historical society shouldn't encourage more people to study history? When I studied history I felt that I was imbued with the importance of approaching history carefully.
You make a fair point that Chesterton seems to have a certain disdain for making money and business, but it seems like you didn't read the essay very carefully:

> If you acknowledge there is skill in succeeding (with a company, say, or in overcoming a bad habit, or tending your goals and beliefs, perhaps even to train more rigorously for that high jump), and that these things are moral or at least not immoral, the author's argument falls apart.

His thesis or argument is that the books and articles of his day on "success" are mainly rubbish. It is not to say that the word "success" is actually no good, or that trying to succeed at some individual thing is not good. A main point of his is that there are individual skills to succeed at specific things, but not an all-encompassing skill of "success."

I will concede that Chesterton sees people whose main mission in life is to make money as greedy, because he strongly, strongly believes that money doesn't make a person happy.
Had no idea competition existed for this, good to know.
Why Nvidia (CUDA)? It it the only hardware you have access to?

If you have access to AMD graphics cards, you should have written your code in OpenCL to target this hardware. Nvidia cards are a lot slower per $ and per Watt than AMD ones when running SHA256/RIPEMD160/ECDSA. That is why vanitygen was done in OpenCL.
"Fashions" like these are disasterous.

Many of those students do not realise that a straight mathematics degree has been proven for many decades to be far more valuable, flexible in a larger variety of careers, and even significantly more enjoyable (across the breadth of a career) until it is far too late.

The only silver lining is that the US university system is remarkably flexible and so being able to change major(s) reduces the risks somewhat.
>Does it look like the local gravitational field on the surface of the Earth, g? Well, no – it doesn’t because it doesn’t have any units.

Well, no - because it's a different number. Given that, the rest of the article just seems rather odd.
Dan is right, and most affiliate programs we worked with were quite wary of Referly. I am writing a pretty in-depth piece on the affiliate world, this model, the potential for someone else to execute well in this space, etc. I think our consumer-focused approach was pretty unique, and I think it could still work but is probably better executed as an extension of a business like Skimlinks (who we use).

To those who feel we have spammed HN with our content/experiments I'm very sorry, we have used it as a test bed for various types of content written by ourselves and some of our contributors in order to figure out what HN readers want. We've got a ton of data on that now, and our focus going forward is on creating a network of writers focused on high quality content. Some of it will make sense of HN and end up here, but most probably won't.
This pivot puts them in a very crowded market with no shortage of competition from offshore willing to write articles for low pay. Going that route would make them a mahalo or demand media type play. Even if they are going the high quality content route there is lots of competition there and the current branding is wrong for it.

The original model seemed to be trying to solve a highly scalable technical problem in providing people with low friction affiliate links, there are other companies doing this but referrly was probably the most consumer focused.

Scalability of the new model is harder.
Mine seems to work rather well. https://se4mods.com/plugins/arcade
Certainly not! I'm not in a union and I give money and time to a variety of nonprofit organizations. The EFF, for instance, is a corporation that exists to concentrate the power of many people who care about online rights and freedoms. The Sierra Club is a corporation that concentrates the power of people who care about the environment. Etc.
The practical side of distributions is package management in every sense. From the point of package management software (dpkg, rpm, apt, yum), repository size (official packages supported), standards in maintenance of the packages, Debian is the winner. That means that your sysadmin work will be much pleasant, and enjoyable. Having to reinstall 100+ servers from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 will be remembered as the lowest point in my work experience so far. I still regret not convincing my boss to migrate to Debian or Debian based distribution.

I do maintain both rpm and deb packages for the company that I work for, personal projects (only deb) and community. Working on Debian related projects is always nicer and enjoyable, at least for me.
The posts that have been upvoted a lot here haven't had any affiliate links in them.
OP here. The most common argument against this type of thing is what Paul Graham calls "The Pie Fallacy" [1]. But I think that argument is fundamentally flawed. While wealth can be created from nothing, one typically requires a certain amount of wealth to get to the level where they can start creating wealth.

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
They will have had to have voluntarily excused themselves from the trial after it having commenced, or absconding prior to the trial beginning. So no they cannot be tried in absentia.

If they continue to evade then the judge may find them in contempt, however they are arguing their inability to comply with their attendance by being inadequately prepared (dubious reasoning).
...linked to the appropriate affiliate program.

I think that's the idea behind VigLink:

http://www.viglink.com/
You're going to end up paying for it one way or another. Either in expensive prisons with armed guards, or by intervening before things get out of hand.
I thought I would use Front Row a lot when I hooked my Mac Mini up to my TV, but it turns out that most of the video we watch is through a browser--on YouTube, Vimeo, or Hulu. And I control my iTunes library through the Remote app on my iPhone. So I don't miss Front Row.
So far, I have been taking 2 history courses [1][2] on coursera.org (which offers over 300 free online courses) and I can certainly recommend both of them. Each course looks like this: about 2 hours of video lectures per week (which you can watch whenever you want), over a period of ~15 weeks. Clearly, following those history courses meant that I do not see the world with the same eyes now. For one, I feel that I am developing a (healthy) reflex to view news events in perspective within a longer period of time, instead of just considering the events in themselves (thus lacking context). Also, drawing parallels with similar events in the past provides insight and offers a wider and more informed framework for devising an appropriate action.

[1] "The Modern World: Global History since 1760" https://www.coursera.org/course/modernworld

[2] "A History of the World since 1300" https://www.coursera.org/course/wh1300
> The airport had to let Ryanair land before its turn.

"Ryanair: Getting you there faster."
You are underestimating early 19th century science, and even 17th century science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre: "However, it was soon discovered that the length of a seconds pendulum varies from place to place: French astronomer Jean Richer had measured the 0.3% difference in length between Cayenne (in French Guiana) and Paris."

Richer discovered that while in French Guyana, between 1671 and 1673 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_richer)
I definitely wouldn't go with a blanket 'wont work' it just wont work for every affiliate program. I've been a reseller for online poker affiliate programs for close to 10 years now and the number of sites that don't allow it is dwarfed by the number of sites that do. And the ones who don't allow it still give you a commission for referring new affiliates.

Basically what happens is that you have to enforce their terms and conditions for them. The incentive is certainly there for you to do this, because it's your affiliate account that is on the line and you are taking responsibility for the actions of anybody using your links.