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pyvekon Anybody need a Keybase.io invite?

Thanks! :)

pyvekon Anybody need a Keybase.io invite?

I'd like to get my hands on one if you still have it. Much appreciated!

me [@] vivek [.] im

Thanks! Sorry for the late reply. I'm using flot charts [1] for the big traffic graph and peity [2] for the smaller ones. Apart from that, there are some other good options like morris.js [3], Chart.js [4], flotr2 [5], xCharts [6] and sparklines [7]. There are more if you search for them but I've used the ones I mentioned in the template. Added more screenshots of the charts pages. [8] [9] [10] [11]

[1] http://www.flotcharts.org/

[2] http://benpickles.github.io/peity/

[3] http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/

[4] http://www.chartjs.org/

[5] http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/

[6] http://tenxer.github.io/xcharts/

[7] http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/

[8] http://i.imgur.com/MvaDsJk.png

[9] http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2875/k3uv.png

[10] http://i.imgur.com/SKhFxiC.png

[11] http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5030/jygx.png

pyvekon Screenshot Saturday

Nothing really fancy like other people here. I'm making an admin template based on bootstrap. It's my first attempt at it and I plan to sell it on wrapbootstrap/themeforest (if they find it good enough for their marketplace).

http://i.imgur.com/Q12ACJu.png

http://i.imgur.com/7gqyQiN.png

http://i.imgur.com/sEVu6lG.png

pyvekon Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders

Yes it is sufficient and doable but the question is will dropbox do it? How will they even identify whether I own or have the license to use the files I have in my private folder. If I just keep my purchased ebooks in a dropbox (private) folder and a public folder (belonging to someone else) containing some of the same ebooks are flagged, why should I be affected?

pyvekon Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders

Yes, it looks like OP isn't presenting the whole story. The DMCA filing party would have to provide the URL (of the public/shared folder) containing the copyrighted material to dropbox for takedown. I don't think they can just request dropbox to scan private folders to check for copyrighted content.

pyvekon Ask HN: Can I please get an invite to Atom if anyone else has one?

I'd appreciate it too if anyone has an extra invite. :)

Email - me [at] vivek.im

pyvekon Project Tango

Is anyone else getting 404?

    The requested URL /atap/projecttango/ was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

pyvekon Ask HN: What kind of spam is this?

Probably the spambot mistook your contact form to be a comment form. Name, Email and Comment/Message are fairly common in comment forms.

pyvekon Ask HN: Why do we pay for domain names?

Have you looked at Namecoin? [0] [1] Apart from being a cryptocurrency, it supports a decentralized DNS.

[0] http://namecoin.info/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

pyvekon Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

What did you do to promote this site?

pyvekon An HTML/CSS/JS code editor in 230+ bytes

Clever!

Use of `i--` in loop for condition check wasn't intuitive at first. Apparently `i--` will return the current value of i (before decrementing).

pyvekon Show HN: Reportr - Your life's personal dashboard

I too have wanted this for some time (have it on my todo projects list). A tool to track all my web usage, commits (both public and private), laptop sleep time, battery status, temperatures and more. This will make things a lot easier. Thank you!

pyvekon Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10

True. Even if NSA publicly shuts down mass surveillance, I wouldn't still be okay with knowing that someone can still invade my privacy without me getting even a hint. If they still get to keep their crypto powers, how can we be sure that they won't just keep doing it in secret. Just how can people trust these guys when they have already lied on the face of whole world. I feel so helpless and hopeless.

pyvekon Ask HN: What did you want to be when you were younger? And what are you now?

I wanted to be a scientist (wasn't specific about the field at that age) when I was a kid. After getting near a computer, I knew that it was going to be something involving them. But then I got into some shady stuff online when I was 16, spoiled my high-school years, didn't get into a college and dreamt about being this rich guy sitting in a huge mansion with a laptop on his lap, millions in bank and nothing to worry about. But reality and ethics came crushing down hard. Now I'm 20, learned programming this year and working on my start-up.

pyvekon Don't Fly During Ramadan

    Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail.

    – Bruce Schneier

pyvekon Switching from Gmail to FastMail

No, I couldn't find about any direct fiber [1] between India and US. But somehow while tracerout'ing, the very next hop after my ISP is a Los Angeles based IP. Another thing to note is that there are three direct fiber connecting India and Singapore but it is not being used by my ISP (BSNL).

[1] http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

pyvekon Switching from Gmail to FastMail

Another thing to note is that even if servers aren't located in US, data may be routed through there. Traceroute from my home connection (in India) to a Singapore IP looks like:

    India -> US -> Japan -> US -> Japan -> Singapore

I'm not saying that the NSA has forced other countries to route their data through them. It could be due to several other reasons. But the main point is that it is hard to escape the NSA. Even if you do your best to keep your data away from the US, there are certain factors out of an individual's control (such as routing).

pyvekon Probably not for hackers

Sorry to bother you, but if you have any more left, I'd like to get in as well. Email - me ,,at'' vivek ;;dot:: im

pyvekon Snowden's True Motives?

Isn't that a good thing? US is doing all sort of things that its not supposed to do. As a foreigner who used to like USA and had a dream of settling down there in the future, I have lost all my respect for the country. It doesn't respect foreigner's rights and not even its own citizen's.

IMO, Snowden is right by showing that US government has no bounds and they will exploit anyone and everyone. I don't want to personally attack you but I can't help seeing utter amount of selfishness in your words. You want to put the rights and privacy of the entire world at stake for your interests. I'm sure this will come and bite in your own ass one day. If you deem espionage to be a common practice, then why not see Snowden's case as just another "common" espionage act?

pyvekon Indian Embassy in Moscow did receive a request for asylum From Snowden

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/02/usa-security-snowde...

pyvekon Never Trust Facebook

Another thing to note is that they don't want their users to delete stuff or do any action that may suggest abandoning the platform. I thought that I deleted my profile 1.5 years ago but I tried logging in last week (after seeing a similar HN thread) and was surprised to find that it was all there. It occured to me that I must have deactivated my profile. Then I tried looking for delete option but couldn't find it anywhere. All I could find was a _deactivate_ button. I had to use a third party (Google) to find out about how to delete my profile.

Facebook has made it unnecessarily hard to delete accounts and instead pushes the _deactivate_ option in a very psychologically manipulative way. Even after using the delete option, I'm sure that they're going to retain my data for as long as they like. I still did it for my own sake, prevent myself from using it at all.

pyvekon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

SEEKING WORK: REMOTE

Fairly new in the field, looking to get more experience and willing to work for dirt cheap. I'm fluent in Python and can work with HTML, CSS, Javascript and C. Currently learning Obj-C/Cocoa. If you are looking someone for a small project, trivial tasks or simply a junior dev, I'm game.

My Github profile - https://github.com/vivekagr/

me@vivek.im

pyvekon Ask HN: Google Chrome heuristic warnings pose threat to our business

I opened http://dev1.codelathe.com/ui/core/index.html (URL in your screenshot) in Chrome (latest) but I'm not getting any phishing warning.

pyvekon U.S. Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for World Democracy

No, governments have and will do whatever is possible to commit act of wars against any country to serve its own interest. But the issue is that in this digital era, the power that governments exercise is exponentially larger than in the past and the room for potential abuse has also grown substantially with it. History has show that even with little power (as compared to now), many great awful things have been done.

Things get progressively worse and people get used to them. Today it has been revealed that all our communication channels are tapped. People will make arguments that they have nothing to hide and even if not, they will soon forget and learn to live with it. Tomorrow, governments around will ask for your fingerprints and retina scans (this is already happening in India). People will meh and get over it. Then they will install cameras everywhere and try to track all your movements. Given the amount of electronics surrounding us, cameras would be just another in heap and people won't budge. We are technologists and we know that though hard, these things are possible to implement at a national level.

You said that the solution is to ensure that good people are elected. It is very much important to do that asap. The system is turning more opaque every second. As governments accrue more power over the lives of citizens, it will harder to take govt down if things go wrong. Snowden did what is defined as "illegal" but the law is wrong in the first place. People are moaning over the internet that what NSA is doing is unconstitutional but has it achieved much yet? Petitioning the White House isn't probably going to get any proper answer. NSA didn't ask people whether they were OK with such surveillance, it was all decided behind closed doors. Even in a system where you can openly ask representatives and govt about its actions and they are not answering, so just think of the future when questioning the government's motives will land you a red ticket.

I am genuinely worried.

pyvekon Don't Even Think of Using Encryption Software to Escape NSA Scrutiny

Even if you don't encrypt your communications, can you be sure that NSA will not store your data indefinitely? Sure, they can pass the raw unencrypted data through their system, parse out the important bits, save them in a database with a unique key for you and then throw away the raw data. Are you OK with that? They have lied in the past and might even keep that raw data as well. How will you know?

IMO, best bet is to keep it all encrypted. It sounds like an attempt to scare people into leaving their stuff open.

pyvekon Buying the new MacBook Air

No, its not. I have a 13" MBP 2011 and I swapped out the 4GB RAM with 8GB and noticed a huge difference. Earlier it used to beachball all the time but its much better now. Right now, Chrome alone is using 3.5GB+ memory.

pyvekon RoboRoach: Control a cockroach with a smartphone.

I realize that its not the same thing but I'm raising the other issue because both of them concern the subject of animal treatments.

And why not an iPhone app? Hackers don't need a reason do something new. A simple reason I can think of is to demonstrate that this is possible and also get people interested in the field so that more research is done. I would very much like to see computers directly connected to human brain and I/O being done on it in the future.

pyvekon RoboRoach: Control a cockroach with a smartphone.

I'm surprised to see that so many people are concerned about ethics of controlling a cockroach. I would like to hear what your opinions are on animal farming and killing in the food industry. Or even killing a cockroach vs controlling it.

pyvekon Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala

Also, _Functional Programming Principles in Scala_ course on Coursera by Martin Odersky (Scala's designer) is very good.

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun