You can just setup your account in for example OSX Mail, after synchronizing your messages will be in ~/Library/Mail (albeit not in a really nice folder structure like pure mbox or maildir, but you should be able to convert them without much hassle). Or you could use offlineimap (http://www.offlineimap.org), which gives you an IMAP dump/backup of your messages (in maildir format if I'm not mistaken). That said, the possibilities of getting your mail from IMAP are almost endless, just choose whatever suits you.
Btw, keeping 20000 mails just about anywhere might be convenient, but I really wonder what for (to clarify, I have maybe 300 mails right now on my own server and I regularly dump old stuff, while dumping for example registration mails right away due to security reasons)?
From the article: ...you can leave the password blank (if you secure your laptop with encryption, a locking screensaver, and a strong password, your SSH key doesn’t require a password)..., but what if that is still not enough security for you or your policy prohibits you from using key pairs for authentication, or maybe you are not using a server that often and just don't want to set up key pairs.
Enter the ControlMaster mechanism (see man ssh_config):
Host *
ControlMaster auto
ControlPersist yes
ControlPath /tmp/ssh-%r@%h:%p
ServerAliveInterval 600
So now you type in your password for your first session only, and every other session will be slaved to it (this includes directory/file auto completion over ssh in zsh and other nice nibbles like it does with public/private key pairs).
Normally, your SSH auth agent is responsible for letting you unlock your key once and use it with multiple sessions.
ControlMaster's biggest advantage is using a single encryption channel for multiple connections. Especially handy if you need to jumphost through a vpn machine.
At my university everybody can just walk into the library during normal hours. After that, you need a (photo id) library card (which you can get right there in the library for 10 euros).
This card not only allows you 24 hour access to the building itself, but to also loan books, get access to journals and newspapers, etc...
I certainly can't speak for every university library here in germany, but I have so far seen quite a few (visiting friends all over germany), where this is common practice (I do not know about getting a library card there, though).
I feel like in the states it really varies. Brown university and RISD (down the hill) both require a Brown or RISD ID to get in but in high school in Seattle I did all of my research for history in University of Washington's largest library which is open to the public. I sometimes wish any of these were open 24 hours though.
Hate to spoil your excitement, but 'discounted'???
It merely states that certain percentages (half/quarter of all available tickets) will be sold at certain dates.
Maybe the title should be corrected to reflect that...
Hi, thanks for pointing it out and sorry for miss reporting.
The discount reference came from a mailing list where I read the news from, unfortunately I am not able to provide a link to the message (private archive).
I would very much like to know this, too. As much as I see the value of being able to ask wolfram alpha stuff, my first thought when I saw the Siri presentation was, if "Turn Airplane/Silent Mode (Wifi,3G,...) on/off!" works. That would add a lot of value to it, as that would make the phone really "hands free". Furthermore I would not have to remember the insane amount of dialogs one sometimes has to go through, just to reach a certain setting (which is probably why there are so many apps that do nothing but turn features/settings on and off).
Hmm, I am from Germany, too. I don't have a Kindle, but I use the Android and other Kindle Apps and I have purchased several books and even a magazine subscription using my german credit card (and never gave them an additional address in the states). Also, I can sign into Amazon.com using my german Amazon account, I don't remember when they changed this, but at some point it just worked. I am not going to move to the German Amazon Kindle Store, as for example that magazine subscription is not available in the German Kindle store. To me, that is the real problem at hand (besides the fact that they shouldn't expect you to pay the same amount of money for a digitally distributed version as you would have to pay for the dead tree version, but that's a totally different issue, which has already been discussed a lot).
There's no problem in using the Kindle store from other countries -- you're just paying $3-$5 dollars more for exactly the same thing as you'd get if you are registered in the US.
You can check this by going to the same kindle page with an account with a US-based address, or a proxy in the US. For example, here are the prices for two ebooks, one from .nl and one through an anonymous proxy:
I think sometimes it's not that people are cheap, it's just that the internet's been out for almost 20 years and these legal barriers that screw the customer don't need to exist.
Say what you like about bittorrent, at least it's egalitarian.
The surcharge has nothing to do with which country's store you use. Users in UK/Germany/Switzerland/Austria (and Lichtenstein?) do not have to pay the extra fee regardless of whether they use .com, .co.uk or .de. Users in other European countries pay it no matter what.
(E.g. your example book shows up as $4.03 from Switzerland).
or in short: add people you want to invite to a circle, klick the share "button" on the upper right hand, share to cirlce, make sure to check "Also email XX people not yet using Google+"
just in case somebody is searching for it on youtu.be, it is scooby1961.
i discovered scooby through a friend of mine a long time ago and his tips really helped getting me started with weight lifting. i have lost all my back problems since then. just remember, as long as an exercise feels good, it is unlikely to hurt you. i had to learn this the hard way, i pushed too hard on an exercise, ignored the pain and was left with a typewriters cramp, not so great if you are in front of a computer typing all day long. so start small and build your way up.
Another good source of information is Ross Emanait @ rosstraining.com. His plan is geared more toward boxing and other combat sports, which I just always found more fun. E.g. throwing a heavy sand bag around as if you were getting ready to fight a bear, and so on.
any chance of integrating the search box into the top bar?
i use some auto pagerize plugins that sort of get in the way. i know i could just turn it off, but that would brake its purpose.
also, i suppose this would help with general visibility of the search box, as most sites have theirs on top of their pages!
but it's definitely great to see search build into the site!
will make finding stuff on hn a lot more convenient.
You can do the same thing with a keyword bookmark in Firefox.
I've been searching HN all this time with a custom Google search including "site:news.ycombinator.com". I'll have to see if this is better. Google offers results filtered by date, which is really nice, since technology moves so incredibly fast.
You can add HNSearch as a custom search engine in Firefox as well. Just visit hnsearch.com, click on the favicon in the browser's search box and select "Add HNSearch".
I can't reproduce the Firefox steps you mention. I click on the favicon in the browser's search box and I don't get a chance to select "Add HNSearch," but rather a message saying "This website does not supply identity information."
You can just setup your account in for example OSX Mail, after synchronizing your messages will be in ~/Library/Mail (albeit not in a really nice folder structure like pure mbox or maildir, but you should be able to convert them without much hassle). Or you could use offlineimap (http://www.offlineimap.org), which gives you an IMAP dump/backup of your messages (in maildir format if I'm not mistaken). That said, the possibilities of getting your mail from IMAP are almost endless, just choose whatever suits you.
Btw, keeping 20000 mails just about anywhere might be convenient, but I really wonder what for (to clarify, I have maybe 300 mails right now on my own server and I regularly dump old stuff, while dumping for example registration mails right away due to security reasons)?