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013on Encrypted email ProtonMail offers up to 45% discounts for Black Friday

If I change my current subscription to a 2-year subscription, the black-friday deal I get is only -€3.16

013on ‘By the people, for the people’: Kim Dotcom to launch alternative internet

Will never happen. If it did I wouldn't trust him provide me the 'freedom'.

013on Further thoughts on why the end of net neutrality will be fine

Why do huge companies oppose net neutrality? Reddit, Kickstarter, Netflix, Spotify, Twitch, Google, Twitter, Vimeo, Pornhub, OKCupid, Airbnb, Facebook, Amazon. Are they just jumping on the band wagon so their users support them? Since these companies don't care about the little guy, they must have some motive for their support? (This is a serious question, if all the hyperbole surrounding the repeal of net neutrality is true, then it would be beneficial for the big companies?)

>To be sure, net neutrality really might be better.

I think this is important, net neutrality /may/ be better. It didn't exist in 2015 and we were all fine then, so maybe we are also better without it?

>Neutrality ain’t neutral, it’s time to get over that myth.

Exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating

013on Primitive Technology

If you watch his YouTube videos, I would advise you turn on closed captions.

013on Man plans to launch himself in a homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat

Ah ok, thank you.

013on Man plans to launch himself in a homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat

Do videos like this prove the earth is round:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQf4m6rew7c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I

There are comments saying that they use a fish-eye lense, but the only thing that seems to be affected is the earths curvature and nothing else...

013on Ask HN: Which are your favorite subreddits?

Mostly used to pass the time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/

https://www.reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tiltshift/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tooktoomuch/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnethicalLifeProTips/

https://www.reddit.com/r/youdontsurf/

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubehaiku/

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/

https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyprogramming/

013on Cowsay: should not recommend cowsay-off

>Maybe the solution is to rename the package cowsay-offensive and mark it as suggested in that topic.

That's addressed further down in the bug report:

>"I don't disagree, but the reason it's called *-off is because there was a long-standing fortunes-off package with "offensive" fortunes. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769194 for the discussion on splitting out cowsay-off.

But I think the initial problem, that this could cause legal issues, is slightly absurd. Given the context of the "sodomy" I think it would be a stretch for you to get in trouble for this.

013on Show HN: Self-destructing free file sharing

Maybe allow the user to set the timeframe and number of downloads?

How are files encrypted?

Any reason to use this over Firefox Send and other alternatives?

013on Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?

So what is everyone worried about?

Even if the ISPs did that, I'm sure at least one would advertise "We offer all websites unrestricted, no limits!!" and everyone would subscribe to them.

013on Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?

If net neutrality was ended, would ISPs actually charge incrementally for website access?

Websites like savetheinternet.com seem to argue that if net neutrality is ended, only major websites will be offered. They say "And without Net Neutrality, millions of small businesses owned by people of color wouldn’t be able to compete against larger corporations online, which would deepen economic disparities."

Why are ISPs going to targets people of color? I don't understand..

How will ISPs decide what websites I can not visit? Will they have a whitelist/blacklist?

Will there be ISPs that offer packages that we have now? (I.E bandwidth only restriction)

I've seen good arguments both for and against net neutrality and I really don't know which would be better.

013on Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market

I think Let's Encrypt is great and their certbot tool makes it even better.

With Wildcard certificates coming to Let's Encrypt, I think they will only increase in users. (https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-com...)

013on Ask HN: What is your weirdest secret YouTube addiction?

Jeb Gardener (Great hydroponic gardening) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zdi4KM3ewwfYMNo_KnU0A

The Bryan Roper Science Channel (His related channels are also worth looking at) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChqEEMF8NKrAyGw815VKuZw

CNLohr (Hardware hacking) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG7yIWtVwcENg_ZS-nahg5g

Clickspring (Clock/watch machining?) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA/vid...

Francis Higgins (Some funny videos, bit hit or miss) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwDf5MzuhJlo7dtSPOlXkXA

DanielFromSL (Trolling in SecondLife and other online games) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNa9i8ifGJRlK2yWgM9DcOA

TheCrafsMan (Home crafts that are soothing to watch) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsjHlc0WRwZYwlinsmtM4w

MichaelCthulu (1Hr+ Long videos of swords being made) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGca03sbLq7OUnXMdvRHyBQ

013on Polaroid wants Fujifilm to pay millions for copying its trademarked white border

> Polaroid claims that it owns the trademark to “square within a square” effect and that Fujifilm’s new line of film is “essentially identical” in terms of shape and border margins.

That sounds so bizarre, that you can trademark the dimensions of a “square within a square”. But I guess IP cases can be bizarre.

013on Ask HN: What's your .bashrc?

Start typing a command and use the arrow keys to find your history of that command:

  bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward'
  bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward'

013on The simple cult camera that inspired Instagram

You can buy them from Amazon, including film for around £40.

I think I might buy one, they look pretty cool.

013on Show HN: Simple command line shortcuts

`shortcut run diskspace` seems a lot longer than `du -hs`

Why use this over `alias`?

013on Show HN: FairerPay – Share your salary anonymously for fairer, more open pay

Is there any way to contribute your salary without logging in via LinkedIn?

When I sign in via LinkedIn I get the following:

>PaysUs will use the info below under its privacy policy:

>Name, photo, headline, and current positions

>The primary email address you use for your LinkedIn account

But the privacy policy says:

>in fact even we don't know it.[0]

[0] - https://fairerpay.com/privacy

013on How the NSA Caught Satoshi Nakamoto

Any sources to this?

013on Ask HN: How does one overcome the need for instant gratification?

Is this similar to how an electric dog collar works?

013on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

Are all jobs listed here (https://www.freeagent.com/company/careers/) remote? For example https://freeagent.workable.com/jobs/411049

013on Termbin: Easiest way to copy over SSH

  local$ scp remote:~/file.txt ./

013on Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

> "so did Lyft"

"Lyft had continued to operate as well but did not turn off its surge pricing, a company spokeswoman said;"[0] - Exactly, but they managed to stay under the radar as they had less market share. Also both CEOs are on President Trump’s economic advisory group, so what's the reason to boycott Uber?

[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/01/2...

013on Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

A HN discussion on the book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12351660

013on Show HN: Image Files for Image-Upload testing [git]

I thought this would be similar to a collection of images like uber.gif and lottapixel.jpg[0], but it's just plain images. Hm.

[0] - https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Paylo...

013on Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?

I know Chromecast has been said a few times, but to expand a little.

You can 'cast' you whole desktop of a specific chrome tab. Youtube videos and many streaming sites can cast directly to your TV.

I currently use the VideoStream[0] extension to play local videos on my TV, but soon VLC should be able to do this. (It supposedly works in the beta releases, but it doesn't for me YMMV)

Plex can cast directly to your TV.

[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...

013on Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

Learn C and assembly, get better at OSDev.

And start up a small VPS provider that will (at least) break even every month. (Any tips?)

013on New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation

"bad_passwords.txt" seems to be 1 line long? Am I missing something..

edit: Oh, "Convert your user's password to lowercase and do a simple string search against the index. No regular expressions are necessary." That makes sense, apologies.

013on The Rule of Silence (2006)

Programs that put you into Vi, /should/ be calling $EDITOR, if $EDITOR is to to Vi(m), you should know how to use it.

Also, if you ^C in Vi, you get the message:

  Type  :quit<Enter>  to exit Vim

013on [dead]

But has there been any proof of life yet?