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Show HN: Incremental-Backups-Tools, written in Python
LOL, that reminds me of the time my work number was one digit off from the company switchboard. I worked for a telecom doing .NET stuff. So surprised I am when a mobile phone customer calls me at 2am in a panic that he had lost his phone. Three questions ran through my mind: how did he know I worked for the company, how did he get my personal number, and why did he think I could help him? After a few more instances, I realized these people weren't calling my personal number, they were fat fingering my work number, which was forwarded to my mobile. It was so weird until I figured that out.
Doesn't work for me :( The webcam was clearly on, and it was taking microphone input.
Yes, it changed the name to "Mindestspeicherfrist" - "minimum storage time"...
Great job Kushagra!
> Back in the days, your dad might have messed up for 3 years, but the stigma never stuck because (1) people did not have proof from the network itself and (2) he was able to "snap out of it" because he wasn't constantly reminded of others great lives

I'm with you on this, my dad has actually remained "messed up" financially- and career-wise, even though he was a brilliant student and young civil construction engineer back in the day. Of course I love him and think of him as one of the smartest and most intelligent people I have ever talked to, but I cringe at the thought of what would have happened to him on an emotional level if he were to had access to Facebook, for the reasons you describe above (he and mom live in the countryside now, I've brought them an old PC some time ago but thought it best not to install them Internet).

For a possible solution, I think that at some point we will be forced to retreat from this online social mess we've become entangled in, if not by our own will maybe at least our subconscious will force us to. Could be that it's all just a craze.
I hate to be "that guy" but you've got a spelling mistake. "Fishes sell volumes". The plural of fish, is fish. "Fishes" would be the possessive.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/ssvoral/enge... (just the content framed in the bottom corner ;-)
Similarly, in my house, woe betide you if you told Dad you were bored - he would give you a list of things to do!
We always go with Hetzner for european based hosting. It is Germany-based.

Never had any problems during our partnership with them, which we started 4 years ago.
Nice work! We did something on a smaller scale at the bottom of our homepage (with live stats on users choices)

http://sidigital.co/

(you'll have to wait for the liquid to reach there to see the effect of your choice)
I have this friend who manages to do just the opposite. He complains that his life sucks, that he needs a job and that he's lonely and wishes he'd meet someone. This of course has the adverse effect on people: it makes them keep their distance because you're "anti-social" or a "downer". Pretty creepy to realize that your whole life can be affected so much by what you see of the world... and what the world sees of you. Television probably had a lesser impact previously, but we're entering a whole new level of social superficiality.
But EC is not suspending any data sharing deals (yet), which could have huge economic effects since it could mean that flights to the US are grounded. But it is my understanding that the US would be the one that would order flights to be grounded if the EU no longer meets the requirements of the data sharing agreement.
Thank you!

We're always trying to improve the site but the design for the desktop version of the site hasn't been worked very much on lately. We are aware that there is always room for improvement.

Ads: we need them. Sorry.

List of alternatives not prominently visible: The problem here is that we don't know exactly why a visitor is coming to an application page. It could be to find alternatives to the application or it could be that they are interested in the selected application because it was listed as n alternative to something they want to replace. I absolutely understand what you're talking about here and we have some plans already to make this better, but after we discussed your comment we came up with a even better solution that we hope we can do something about this fall.

UI is cluttered: We have plan to hide more stuff. There is a plan.

Thanks a lot for the great feedback! We appreciate it.
Likewise, I found it distracting and off-putting.
Good news albeit won't make a big difference for United States. Let's get rid of the SWIFT data sharing while we are it, it's not U.S.'s business.
There ought to be a way for people to get 'writing some crypto code' out of their system without it being a part of a real project. A sort of play area where you can have a go but not harm anything and people can point out your errors.

Every time I write something that involves some crypto I get absolutely terrified of what I'm likely to mess up. For that reason I almost always use an existing system or protocol. For example, on one of the projects I'm working on at CloudFlare we needed a secure connection across the Internet so I went with TLS 1.2. For another I needed the same thing but with better authentication: TLS 1.2 with client and server certificates. If I need to exchange encrypted messages in some store and forward style I'd likely use PGP.

And then for another project I needed to actually get something someone else had encrypted with RSA and decrypt it. Nightmare. If you find yourself calling low-level crypto APIs start to worry.
I was mistaken and there's no way to indicate that in the comment now, but your reply is way out of line and ironically a good example of harmful stereotyping ("people who write these type of comments"). Also, my comment had nothing to do with the story and everything to do with the title.
Its a lot of reading, but I would start with this two:

http://www.quora.com/Yahoo/Is-it-true-that-Yahoo-is-better-t...

http://www.quora.com/Yahoo/Why-do-people-still-work-at-Yahoo

You can also check out related questions and their search on yahoo related recent question, lots of activity by current/former yahoo employees, both anonymous and on record.
Thank you for great feedback, very much appreciated! We will definitely try to make things very obvious when it comes to leaving our site for the final destination that should be an applications website or an app store.

I also answered some of these thoughts in my reply to imdhmd.
LeaseWeb is quite good, except for their recent MegaUpload fiasco.
For a (much) more detailed story, go here: https://www.cs.duke.edu/~carla/mars.html
I use Gandi[1], they have both IaaS and PaaS offers. They are based in France with a datacenter near Paris. They have a very good support team and I'm happy with the service so far.

[1]: https://www.gandi.net
checked this a while ago. Clean work!
Great feedback and ideas, thanks! I think I have answered much of it in my reply to imdhmd above.

I see the point you make about Questions. We'll consider this!
Good.

I'm also glad they're investigating the criminality of the UK government - I had assumed they would get away with it, rather like extraordinary rendition, because they didn't take the data directly. A big fat fine for Westminster could be just what the doctor ordered here (and I say that as a UK taxpayer.)

Now we just need similar investigations into the NSA under the 4th Amendment - I wonder what the US is waiting for...
The Matasano crypto challenges ( http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ ) are a great way to do this. Not by implementing crypto, but by breaking crypto in ways that will scare you away from ever implementing crypto.
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Xian maps provide the most essential Xian map for travelers, such as administration division map of Xian China, Xian tourist map and the like
Really hard to navigate. I gave up.
Hi Colin,

I just HAVE to ask :)

Anyway, that doesn't look good and I'm sorry for that. I use a Wordpress theme that I bought and I guess it just doesn't support your browser.
http://www.exoscale.ch has a very similar approach to digital ocean: very quick provisionning, extensive API and automation tool support
Multiple species of fish are usually called "fishes". We used this explanation to verify http://grammarist.com/usage/fish-fishes/

Not sure if it is correct though. Do you have a link to a better explanation?
This.

Culture is pushed from the top. If you're changing the culture at the top then bringing new people in lower down might speed up the change and solidify it but in of itself it won't change anything if nothing is changing at the top.
link for lazy-like-me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review_in_the_United_S...
http://prq.se/?intl=1 is a hosting and colocation company in Sweden with strong free-speech values. They're also against the data retention policies that are being implemented in other EU countries.
Wow, so you rely on heavy encryption but you do not read through the website of that encryption?

Anyways, if I relied on super secure encryption, I wouldn't use such uncirculated software anyway. I would really only on stuff like OpenSSH, OpenVPN or GPG. These tools enable you to use UNIX talk, or tunnel into a network doing messaging there or whatever.
This hit like a ton of bricks. There are days when I could easily identify with these Japanese men. On the days where I'm more outgoing, confident, and social, I've noticed that feeling productive -- and what I deem to be "happiness" -- go hand-in-hand. It could be something as simple as helping a friend set up their wireless router or tutoring my niece in math. It's almost as if I allow myself to be a part of society once I feel like I've earned it -- as silly as this may sound to those who haven't experienced this phenomenon. Ultimately, and I'm not saying it's a panacea, but what never fails for me is to attain some feeling of productivity or importance.

When I was a kid, my dad told me something that has always stuck with me: "Pretend like everyone you meet has the following sentence stamped on their forehead: 'I want to feel important'".
https://cloudroyale.se/ recently launched, I haven't used them but their offering seems pretty good and they are part of FS Data which is well established hosting provider in Sweden.

That said, Swedish hosting is pretty expensive compared to others.

I currently use Leaseweb for my own servers, but other alternatives are OVH, Hetzner among others.
> if you think that today's computers are ... "augmenting human intellect", then i would certainly like to have you tell me how.

Isn't it obvious? I have immediate access, in almost every physical location, to a data store which, while not quite the sum total of human knowledge, is pretty close to it. It's meticulously organised, indexed, hyperlinked, and easy-to-use.

The fact that many people (including me) use this for social interaction too does not detract from that at all.

You are essentially writing off the entire Web as nothing more than Facebook, Instagram and Google Adsense.
I am increasingly of the opinion that patents simply aren't worth the trouble they cause.

I get that you need them for the lone inventor in their shed in the garden, but they never seem to be the ones who own all the patents.
I should mention that exoscale is based in Switzerland and thus PRISM/ACTA free and is an IAAS provider (as opposed to a VPS provider).
Its working with AdBlock plus 1.4.1
It could all be a craze, but I'm worried it's only the beginning of a new world order - And the last resort of this society is its most unlikely candidate: the geeks and nerds that have since times past been shunned and excluded (oh the irony!)

We have to manage a personal shift beyond that - then the people who won't let the bad weigh on their shoulder or get used to the good making their life easier will be able to exist beyond appearances, and find substance in things.
I can see EST coming back in force within the next 50 years.
Incrementally back up iPhoto library to Flickr's free 1TB (geeks only)
Very neat. It kept me glued till the end.
> These represent the security issues found in the audit performed by Ronald Volgers

So this bug was found and fixed by a proper professional audit. Neat.
Well, there are three methods in Opera (that I can think of at the moment) to access bookmarks - through the main menu - which takes a few clicks and maybe modifier keys, through a dedicated toolbar which takes up screen space (I sometimes work on my 1366x768 res laptop), and finally through the side panel which again will take an F4 (I don't usually keep it open) and a few click to get there.

Compared to a simple ctrl+T or mouse gesture plus a click, or the simpler ctrl+the speed dial number, it's too much of a hassle to use bookmarks for the most commonly accessed websites. In short, I'm kind of lazy.

In bookmarks I usually put sites I might want to come back later (but I rarely do), usually documentation or stuff like that.
Bicycle for the Mind
I sought and got clarification from Github. The Flash is only for copy-to-clipboard functionality. Not related to Releases.
By 2017, Monsanto will pay no tax in the UK
CodeIgniter timing out after 300s? Here’s a solution
If the subject of the story were a guy would the thought of sexism even cross your mind

No, because it wouldn't make any sense. Now, in this specific case the criticism turns out to be unfounded, but being suspicious of word choice is perfectly reasonable, especially considered that Mayer did face a lot of unfounded criticism that was clearly gender based.

Even more so when the "lack of strategy" here smells like a ton of FUD. Lots of startups getting acqui-hired, for a company that wants to take a risk and seek a fundamental change. Even hiring Mayer herself seems like a part of that strategy.
You know, I'd really like to see what would happen when "push came to shove". It would either tear-off the fig-leaf of terrorism or the rest of the world would really understand that the US government has developed into a paranoid, frightened, bully.

However, more likely is that some deal would be struck (behind closed doors, of course) that would allow business to continue as usual - shutting down most if not all transatlantic commerce would be a gargantuan step for anyone to take. I don't think that would change the long term direction this issue is heading in though. We're either going to end up with court supervised limited snooping and more transparent governments or an all-pervasive surveillance state where absolutely everything is going to be hoovered up and stored for later use.

UPDATE: One of the goals of the European Union is to avoid war on the continent. With the road of economic and political integration riddled with pot-holes of various sizes perhaps the new direction to unite everybody is personal freedom - freedom of movement, freedom of speech, etc. Europe certainly has the history to justify why these are laudable goals. With partner countries such as Iceland (which has Europe's longest running parliament) showing the necessary leadership, the time has come for Old Europe to become Bold Europe.
A lot of US users seem to be under the impression that the EU is much better at protecting privacy. In some ways it is, and in other ways it is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

This has been in force since 2006. The storage is required by law.

"member states will have to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months stipulating a maximum time period. Under the directive the police and security agencies will be able to request access to details such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call and text message sent or received. A permission to access the information will be granted only by a court."
Windows 'back door' security alert
This is disgusting. Get this misogynistic crap off of HN.
Mayer brought in couple of high level Google execs/managers in the last 12 months for exactly what you are talking about;

Here are three I can remember (there might be others I don't know):

Andrew Schulte as chief of Staff: http://hothardware.com/News/Yahoo-Chief-Marissa-Mayer-Poache...

Dylan Casey senior director in the platform organization: http://searchengineland.com/former-google-product-manager-go...

de Castro as chief operating officer: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044435400457805...

Also I replied else where how the Yahoo working environment changed since Mayer joined:

http://www.quora.com/Yahoo/Is-it-true-that-Yahoo-is-better-t...

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At the end of day we will just have to wait and see how Mayer's strategy pans out. At least from what I can see she is taking things to the right direction.
It's gonna depend on what filters you're subscribed to I imagine. The anti-social list that blocks facebook spying etc. seems to break pages most out of the lists I sub to.
When say "Bob knows which version brings him more sales", I'm curious about how you extract the relevant information from someone to know if it's a statistically significant change in a user friendly way. Do you find people understand this well?

What about multi-variate testing? How do you explain the increase in the number of visitors needed to make a decision?

Finally, how do you reconcile giving up-to-date information without compromising on the results? (keeping an experiment going until it's statistically significant is something I can see users doing)
DATA RETENTION OF 6 MONTHS IS AN EU DIRECTIVE. EVERY EUROPEAN MEMBER STATE HAS TO PASS THIS AS A NATIONAL LAW OR ELSE THEY WILL BE PENALIZED. ALSO, AFTER THE TRANSPOSOTION PERIOD OF THE DIRECTIVE, IT'S DIRECTLY APPLICABLE IN CASE NO NATIONAL LAW SERVING TO TRANSPOSE THE DIRECTIVE WAS PASSED.

ERGO, WHAT THE CDU/CSU DID IS LEGALLY MEANINGLESS!!!
Yesterday, whether this vote would pass was in serious doubt. Now the doubt remains whether it will be put into effect.
I have found the experience of using brightbox quite good, but it is much more expensive than other services.

The smallest, cheapest, single VPS system that I had running came out at about £26 per month. And that's with almost no bandwidth - which is pay as you go (typically I used 2p per month). They split this cost up, so you get billed separately for an IP address (which you can share between boxes via a load balancer), bandwidth, actual number of box-hours, etc, and then tack VAT on at the end.

It's a great service, I just ended up paying much more than I expected because of the way they structure their billing/price plans.
Part of why this is appealing for myself is that hint of a co-operative feel it has.
People want a quiet life where they don't have to worry about the safety of their children, and this is exactly what everyone deserves. This is a generally a force for good in the world but it can be subverted by bad regimes. Human rights are designed to protect everyone even if they lack a passion for freedom, or safety, or national security. By disdaining other viewpoints you are thinking in terms of civic virtue instead of basic rights, which is characteristic of fascism, not democracy.
On the subject of extraordinary rendition, I was glad to see an announcement earlier this year that Scottish police are investigating the use of airports in Scotland for CIA flights:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-2278...

I doubt if it will come to anything, but the idea that we had prisoners who were on their way to be tortured transported through our country and we did nothing about it make my blood boil.
>IE8: "There is a problem"

couldn't have said it better myself
Well consider me corrected. I wasn't aware of that. Learn something new every day.
I think it would be fair that the acceptance of mental illnesses by Japanese society still is lagging behind other developed nations.

I have close friends in Japan that have received superb support from psychiatrists once they were able to get help for their illness. They are all doing better as a result.
Open-source platform for real-time message broadcasting in web applications
Hello!

Last four months I was developing Centrifuge: https://github.com/FZambia/centrifuge - as I wrote in its description - "Light and simple open-source platform for real-time message broadcasting in your web applications".

It's written on Python using Tornado, ZeroMQ, SockJS, MongoDB (or PostgreSQL).

And at this stage of developing I need your crytics, guys. At the moment there are some docs - https://centrifuge.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ and video screencast with relaxing music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCLnCexzfOk (don't forget to turn subtitles on). And if you are from Russia there is article about it here - http://habrahabr.ru/post/184262/ .

If you are interested, please, look at it and I really appreciate any feedback.
This MIT Website Tracks Your Digital Footprint Through Gmail
GMOCloud (Japanese company) Japan location based KVM http://vps.gmocloud.com/
and CrownCloud (Australian company) Frankfurt location based KVM/OpenVZ
I wonder what are the implications of introducing Buddhist teachings in school. What is the optimal way to introduce them so that they sink in well ? They directly target that stamp on everyone's forehead(among many other things that are wrong about society) and even though neuroscience is saying basically the same thing nowadays, for some reason most people will listen more to how Buddha expressed.

Obviously, one doesnt necessarily have to introduce them as buddhist teachings but part of some moral or character building course. Parents dont have enough time to look into all this stuff and by the time psychologists come to the scene, its already too late.
"Lazy" is also what kids with ADHD are labelled. I think "lazy" is a cop-out explanation, since it doesn't actually explain anything. Often the incentives are aligned so that it's in the kid's best interest to put some effort into homework. If they're not doing it, treat it like a debugging program: why aren't they responding to the incentives? Could be depression, ADHD, perfectionism/fear of failure, or a bunch of other things.
We switched from Linode to http://www.cloudvps.com last year because they are in my home town here in The Netherlands and the prices are almost half of Linode's. We have some high traffic websites running with them and have had no problems so far.
There's an entry on the release notes [1], the changelog, etc; but unless I'm missing it, looks like there's not really proper management of security issues (same thing for the recent crypto.cat bug).

May be I'm old-school but when a project goes over certain size and there's no prominent "security" section (as important as downloads, IMHO), that's a red flag for me.

This is the way you do it:

- http://httpd.apache.org/security_report.html

- http://openssh.org/security.html

- http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html

All projects doing sensible tasks have a security history. Don't hide it, make it public and accessible to your users.

[1]: http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/releases/0.15.1.html#rsa-ke...
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How about IRC ? you could setup a local IRC server and use a IRC client to connect to it ?
Serious question, why? Is this true only in lawsuit-happy countries?
Aaron Swartz Inducted Into Internet Hall of Fame
Nothing really. Ever since I saw something such as
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/437967.stm

I realised that most likely these types of agencies can get access to your data if they really want. If everyone moved from FB , Goog or whatever they will simply start to spy on the new services people have moved to.

If a service is in Europe it really doesn't matter. They will still snoop or ask another agency to snoop for them. The UK have been snooping on Ireland for a long time
http://cryptome.org/jya/gchq-etf.htm

I guess one way to avoid these problems is that people become far more understanding of other peoples dirty secrets, that way it cant be used as leverage. That could hopefully devalue the process of snooping.