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aram··on An Update to Our Supercharging Program
It works just fine for me; maybe try again. In either case, here's the text:

Four years ago, Tesla introduced the Supercharger Network – the world’s fastest charging solution – to enable convenient long distance travel. Today, more than 4,600 Superchargers allow over 160,000 Tesla owners to drive across the continental U.S., from the Arctic Circle to the south of Spain, and across all of the population centers in China and Japan, among many other places. Supercharging has even helped owners drive their Teslas around the world.

We’ve designed our network so that all customers have access to a seamless and convenient charging experience when they’re away from home, as our intention has always been for Supercharging to enable long distance travel. That’s why today we’re announcing a change to the economics of Supercharging – one that allows us to reinvest in the network, accelerate its growth and bring all owners, current and future, the best Supercharging experience.

Ensuring Use for Long-Distance Travel For Teslas ordered after January 1, 2017, 400 kWh of free Supercharging credits (roughly 1,000 miles) will be included annually so that all owners can continue to enjoy free Supercharging during travel. Beyond that, there will be a small fee to Supercharge which will be charged incrementally and cost less than the price of filling up a comparable gas car. All cars will continue to come standard with the onboard hardware required for Supercharging.

We will release the details of the program later this year, and while prices may fluctuate over time and vary regionally based on the cost of electricity, our Supercharger Network will never be a profit center.

These changes will not impact current owners or any new Teslas ordered before January 1, 2017, as long as delivery is taken before April 1, 2017.

The Road Ahead Just as you would charge your cell phone, we believe the best way to charge your car is either at home or at work, during the hours you’re not using it. For travelers, the Supercharger Network has become a powerful, unique benefit of Tesla ownership. As we approach the launch of Model 3, this update will enable us to greatly expand our Supercharger Network, providing customers with the best possible user experience and bringing sustainable transport to even more people.

aram··on Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials
Completely agree. Here's another example: BitDefender (antivirus) passes your email and MD5 of your password in the hash when you want to go to your dashboard. When I contacted them more than 1 year ago about it, their "senior e-threat analyst" said it's nothing to worry about. Absolutely ridiculous.

What to do when the company is ignorant and continues to use something as stupid as that?

aram··on Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?
If you didn't check already, see NomadList[0] for summarized information on a lot of cities. It provides a "score" in basic categories that would/could be important for people working remotely.

[0] https://nomadlist.com/

aram··on Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever
Honestly, I have exactly the same question. I saw dozen articles that talk about the thing but noone mentions exactly how it works / what happens after you catch a pokemon.
aram··on GitHub down?
Seems to be back up; it was down just a few minutes for me.
aram··on How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
I experienced this too many times with UK/US providers (e.g. Hostgator and Fasthosts). They often ask for server root password or email/password combo for the client portal, even after you verify account ownership.

Seems that they don't have any other way to grant the technicians access to the server/my account, which is absolutely ridiculous.

aram··on Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?
Same here. Since it combines most of my areas of interest, I don't need to use other sources.

If I'm not active on HN for some time, I check out Lobste.rs to keep up. They have way less members and posts, so hot news stay longer on the front page.

For funny things I go to regular Reddit front page.

aram··on No more 300ms tap delay: touch-action now supported in all major mobile browsers
Gist: https://gist.github.com/gajus/bbf06ea2e37047b01e70
aram··on The dating game
The page contains only the link to another article; you should have used that one instead:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-2e3f0042-75f6-4bd1-b...

aram··on Visualizing a century of European demographics
You can see the visualization here:

http://laem.github.io/eurpop/

aram··on Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
AFAIR, Opera had this feature before (I think before they changed the engine), and it worked fairly well. I don't know though if they had similar issues.
aram··on Laser Razor suspended by Kickstarter
Since we all check the comments first, here are some links:

KickStarter project page (suspended):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skarp/the-skarp-laser-r...

IndieGoGo project page (they re-posted the project there after being suspended):

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-skarp-laser-razor-21s...

Demonstration video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLwNJ7TXWA

aram··on Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites
Interesting, AFAIK it's not something in the core. Which security plugin are you using?
aram··on Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?
It looks pretty confusing if the window is smaller. I'd just leave the page if I visited it randomly.

Screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/8CpS67L.png

Latest stable Chrome @ OSX.

aram··on Love Minority Report? Come to Meet Precog Agatha Live Online
I don't see any form on the signup page:

https://juji.io/login

aram··on Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?
Propaganda of what exactly? That we shouldn't trust proprietary software?
aram··on Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?
I'm curious - why is this downvoted?
aram··on Our Director of Engineering on the new Wired.com
Good points; however, this is not only important for startups and new companies, but for the community itself.

Drupal has much stronger community than WordPress & Joomla for example, and I think this has to do with keeping all extensions in one place and discouraging premium ones.

This way all developers can get whatever they need, but because of Drupal's "complexity", you there is way less crappy code written by people who are just passing by, as in WP/Joomla.

aram··on The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read (2014)
Here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8020621

aram··on Introducing node-Firefox
This one is still on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9004133

aram··on Ask HN: How do I secure a personal journal?
Here are a few affordable pens:

- Lamy Safari/Vista

- Kaweco Sport

- Pilot Metropolitan

- Parker Vector

- Tesco's if you can find them; $0.5 but write fairly well

The interesting part about fountain pens is customization: you can choose between different nib widths, type of paper and quality of ink. After some time you will notice significant difference if you go back to ballpoint/gel pens.

If you're interested, check out Fountain Pen Network:

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/

aram··on Ask HN: How do I secure a personal journal?
One minor thing to add - consider fountain pens and good paper. That alone can push the thoughts come to paper way easier than other means, and will let you have richer "micro-expressions"/mental bookmarks in your handwriting.

I know it's offtopic, but wanted to mention in case it helps someone.

aram··on The answer to the eternal question: “Where do I find a technical cofounder?”
Same here unfortunately.

Most people I heard asking that question had no clue about technology, and more importantly, never showed interest in understanding the basics.

My feeling was that they thought of such partnership as a way to get someone work for free.

aram··on The YouTube Contract for Indies
Which is enough to understand what's all the fuss about and why all those pages should make one "surprised". Blog post itself doesn't have any description. Doh.
aram··on The YouTube Contract for Indies
They give an idea of what's all that about without reading dozens of pages.
aram··on The YouTube Contract for Indies
For anyone wondering what's all this about - check out the comments at the bottom of that page.
aram··on Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
Thanks for sharing!
aram··on Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
Same experience. I tried it on DO droplets (1, 2, 4 and then 16GB of RAM to see if I'm nuts), computer I'm working on (16GB RAM) and from a RPi (that was for fun though). Every single time it was painfully slow.

It took it about 1h to sync a folder with about 100 files, under 30MB total across 4 computers. Not to mention that minor modifications appeared only after 15 minutes (small text files).

BTSync worked great, but I wouldn't trust it with something sensitive.

What did you end up using?

aram··on Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
No matter how much I tried, I always had crappy experience using OwnCloud (-> very slow to recognize new files and sync them across other computers). I tried it maybe 4-5 times in total, last time just couple of weeks ago.

Does it work fast for you? Do you use desktop client or primarily web GUI?

aram··on Bootstrap 3 Tips and Tricks
Completely agree; with the exception of first item (dropdown on hover), all other items are pretty regular, documented things that are easy to understand if you are already using Bootstrap.
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