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orik··on A Dark Room: The Best-Selling Game That No One Can Explain
I remember playing this with my co-workers as an in browser game when it got posted to HN last year. It's a must-download app IMO.

Here's the previous discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961205

EDIT: I didn't realize the game had been monetized. Is it worth the 0.99c over the HTML5 original?

orik··on For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins
If the coins were seized on Silk Road servers they didn't belong to anyone at the time but the Silk Road.

We can argue the merits of returning the coins to the last previously associated wallets; but I don't think the U.S. Gov has any intention of returning drug money to drug buyers the same way they wouldn't give gun money back to arms buyers.

orik··on End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google
Why would attachments be considered part of the body?

Encrypt them before uploading them, and send the decrypting key in the body.

orik··on If you’re on the beach, this map shows you what’s across the ocean
What about Hawaii?
orik··on OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative
If OpenSSL software foundation is a for profit operation, why are tech companies funding it(1) instead of LibreSSL?

1: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-g....

orik··on Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla
There's a strong associate between the two.

Example: It's the first thing your mind jumped too although cpeterso never mentioned the Hitler in his comment.

orik··on Poll: Do you use marijuana
This poll has a lot of options for something that could have been boiled down to "No, Rarely, Sometimes, Smoke Weed Everyday."

Even worse - although there are 8 options to choose from - I don't find myself fitting into any of the categories.

orik··on Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-destructing private links
mischanix was referring to Mozilla's decision to ship EME (Encrypted Media Extensions; DRM) in Firefox.
orik··on LibreSSL – the first 30 days
If OpenSSL software foundation is a for profit operation, why are tech companies funding it(1) instead of LibreSSL?

1: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-g...

orik··on How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring
You have a new account, so I'd like to point out the Hacker News guidelines. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

" Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you. "

orik··on Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers
You could use a MikroTik Routerboard.

You could also install their RouterOS on an old PC of yours however you won't have too much fancy hardware acceleration. Should be fine for home use though.

orik··on A fridge that is more tolerant of power interruptions
The title of the article lead me to expect a Fridge that doesn't use electricity. Instead it should have been something more akin to "A Fridge that can keep food cool for up to 35 days after a power outage".

I wonder how many days of cool you loose each time you open the fridge to pour a glass of milk.

The design is rather novel though and I'd love to see it in my home one day if they shrink it a bit.

orik··on CoreOS Beta Release
This is an especially exciting time for container visualization, considering Docker has their first 1.0.0 release candidate. (Docker 0.11)

I hope the CoreOS team manages to reach what they would consider a "stable, and production ready version of CoreOS" sometime around (after, but around) when Docker 1.0.0 lands.

orik··on Elastic Containers: auto-scale and pay for what you use
Containers don't have persistent storage. You'd want to use this in combination with S3 to create a cloud solution.
orik··on Observations of an Internet Middleman
Disclosure: I work at a small ISP. We mostly compete with Frontier DSL and Comcast Business Class.

If you're buying residential it's safe to assume you're purchasing a burst-able speed and downloads/uploads aren't going to sustain that for hours on end.

Much in the same way that a Utility Company probably isn't gathering enough water for everyone to be maxing their pipes 24/7, residential ISP's don't operate under the assumption that every consumer will have maxed their connection at the same time, and they shouldn't have too. Smart traffic shaping and peering arrangements gives ISP's room to compete.

If consumers could afford a dedicated 35x15 connection they'd have a T1. When you're buying copper it's safe to assume it's going to be over saturated.

The real problem is ISP's for the most part don't compete. They zone of sections for eachother and rack in as much dough as they can. Consumers aren't informed about the quality of different types of connections vs others, and buy based off the cheapest Mbps down/up they can get.

orik··on Washington state sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver
It's easy to make an attack on a politician and dismiss things, but I think it's much more likely that someone (Bob Ferguson) is trying to set a precedent on crowdfunding and their obligations to the funders.
orik··on Intel Clang-based C++ Compiler [pdf]
It's a none issue. This compiler is for OSx only, and I can't even remember the last time Apple released an OSx machine that's had AuthenticAMD.
orik··on Flappy 2048
I was expecting flappy48 (http://broxxar.itch.io/flappy48) but I'm glad to see someone's combined the two games in another unique way.
orik··on Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)
Hackpad and Loom? Dropbox is on a bit of a feeding frenzy.
orik··on Ubuntu 14.04 released
Can anyone comment on the difference between the PC and the Mac 64 bit images?
orik··on Akamai release source to their custom secure_malloc for OpenSSL
And if OpenSSL had been licensed with a GNU Affero license, we'd all be running something else.
orik··on Show HN: Kiwichat – group chat of people who are within 1 mile
I don't think the cyberbullying is exclusive to Yik Yak. Kiwichat should also be susceptible.

derp?

orik··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
Oh really? That's curious. I wonder why an identical URL was still allowed to be posted after such a detector has gone off.
orik··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
Anyone willing to comment on why the previous discussion got sunk and a new one was created?

Safe to assume this post will be sunk also?

orik··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
He left the foundation board also. If anything I think he's going to be keeping his head low for a bit, internally and in the press.
orik··on Poll: How much money do you have in your bank account?
You probably won't ever see this but I'd love to hear this story if you do see it!
orik··on Turkish government takes down YouTube too
I don't believe the US Gov would do more than a DCMA takedown request.

Wikileaks hasn't been taken down.

If someone did have a recording of a Classified Video/Call I guess it would be up to their discretion to leak or not to leak.

orik··on Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
Most of the current comments are along the lines of "You will only need this card if you are doing _____". ie "Gaming at 4k", "Parallel Compute".

I think it's pretty clear this is a halo product, but I want to point out that having two non-crippled gpu's on a stick is an impressive technical achievement. Sure they will be throttled when the heat constraints kick in, but I am excited to see this sort of technology trickle down into the next "Asus 760 Mars" product.

orik··on EFF adds ASCII art to its DNS
Well I guess I need a new alt. dns to provision phones with.
orik··on Poll: How much money do you have in your bank account?
Always have some cash. You'll never know when you'll need it.
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