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Bucephalus355
I watched a video of Nancy Pelosi speak to Google after the 2008 election.

For every problem America had at the time, it seemed like her solution was
“rural broadband!”.

Not saying that’s bad at all, but this has been promised for a while by many
people.




Ask HN: Best encrypted cloud storage option? - kotrunga
What is the best option for storing my files in the cloud, completely encrypted and secure?<p>Not like Dropbox, or other services where a government entity could force the company in giving up someone&#x27;s files. Completely secure.<p>If rolling my own from home is the best option, any software recommendations?<p>Thanks!
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nokcha
I use Tarsnap for storing backups of my files. Data is encrypted client-side,
so the server can't decrypt it. Tarsnap is designed for backups, though, not
for general file storage.

Some encrypted cloud storage offerings are mentioned here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451396](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451396)

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mtmail
I'm using
[http://duplicity.nongnu.org/features.html](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/features.html)
incremental backup with GnuPG encryption.





32-way Raspberry Pi cluster - Luyt
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/20/32_way_raspebrry_pi_cluster/

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Luyt
PDF with technical details and some nice pics at:

<http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/files/2013/05/Rasp.-Pi.pdf>

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Spur
It's not only fast but he pimped it up like a casemodder on a LAN party!





One of the ways I am approaching the crowded iPhone Twitter client space - hboon
http://motionobj.com/blog/the-conversation-view-in-simplytweet

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hboon
There are many Twitter clients on the iPhone at the moment. Most of seem to be
focused on implementing the API and offering integration to other services.
Some are doing very well and are very impressive.

While I'm also doing some of that, I'd like to experiment in a different way,
that of building new features. The conversation view, while it is not a
totally new concept (it is available in a