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Ask HN: Has anyone ever set up a free conference call system?
So a little weird question, but we are working on something that needs the same foundation as a free conference call system. Has anyone ever set one up before or worked for a company that has? Would love some advice and/or guidance on how to get the basic setup working.

OR

If you happen to work for/be a founder of a service would you be interested in chatting about partnering?

I know this is not the typical post on HN, but was not really sure where else to turn.
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Looking at various examples of security advice we find
that the advice is complex and growing, but the benefit
is largely speculative or moot. For example, much of the
advice concerning passwords is outdated and does little
to address actual threats, and fully 100% of certificate
error warnings appear to be false positives. Further, if
users spent even a minute a day reading URLs to avoid
phishing, the cost (in terms of user time) would be two
orders of magnitude greater than all phishing losses.
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Tell HN: FamilyLink is hiring a Flex/Flash guru
Just got this email from the founder of FamilyLink, Paul Allen. Note: Salt Lake City based job.

FamilyLink.com is looking for a Flex/Flash Guru.

We have more than 50,000 family trees being created daily and we are looking for a lead developer for our family tree.

You may have heard that FamilyLink's web properties now rank us in the top 150 of all US web properties. FamilyLink now has 57 million users and is the top Facebook Connect site. Most of our users are over the age of 35; a lot of our users are older, including many grandparents.

Take a look at our traffic levels and see how we stack-up at http://www.quantcast.com/familylink.com.

Can you think of the Frontend Developer you know that we should be talking to? Let us know, and if we hire your candidate, we will send you a check for $250. But more importantly, we'll be very grateful for the help. We need to fill this position immediately.

Here's a link to the full job description: http://corporate.familylink.com/about/employment/FlexDeveloper.htm
I don't think that was the goal. This whole crusade is just to get people to realize the true cost of getting crypto right. It costs time and money to build a resilient protocol. How many person-hours went into the AES competition? What was the proportion of time spent on creating the algorithms versus analyzing them?

In crypto, review costs much more than design. If you understand that tradeoff and the benefits of your own design are worth spending this effort on, congratulations, you are Qualcomm, Netscape, or Intel. All of these companies had staff cryptographers.

More likely, your problem is close enough to other problems that you don't need to spend the time or money to DIY. If that path is available, take it!
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Step one is admitting you have a problem.
Your not going to want to hear this, but there are really no options. Your best bet is to raise from friends and family. Maybe, maybe you could get lucky and raise from a government grand or biz plan contest, but still unlikely. Get something built, get users, then the funding should come (well at least a little easier.)
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Counterexample: Skype. No one complains about its obfuscation and software tamper resistance. It has been effective in preventing workalike clone clients. I haven't heard any complaints that it crashes, blaming the copy protection.
Quite. The point is not that plastic is bad, it's that plastic as supplied by Visa and Mastercard is a monopolistic rip-off of consumers and merchants by those two companies and the banks.
I love the narrative account. Making a point dramatically is great and a pseudo-mystery story is great way to talk about encryption.

The narrative is right that AES is a wrong solution.

But really, any encryption at all is a wrong, bass-ackwards solution to keeping the user from modifying their account information.

A single cookie or argument that's a randomly generated user id with all the information server-side is much better.

I mean, consider any scenario where you pass the user data you'll later use. Will you not keep track of that data yourself but expect that the user's encrypted cookie will do it for you? This is one way of simulating statefulness in the stateless http protocol but it's a clearly an inferior, dumshit of doing it and it doesn't matter what encryption you use for the purpose. Giving someone encrypted information they can't use is essentially analogous to copy-protection and similar unwinnable scenarios whereas the unique id approach is pretty much the standard and works well for many, many apps of all sorts.

Having unique user-ids and user-information is only costly in terms of accessing the information. But there isn't a point where decrypting information coming from the user becomes less costly than getting it from the database. Indeed, the higher the traffic, the more different brute-force attacks make sense.
Any idea how much money is made on a DVD not being rippable for the first week of release? The movie industry thinks it does and that's why it spends on copy protection for some titles.
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Instead of dismissing it out-of-hand, perhaps suggest that developers find metrics for measuring piracy and apply the appropriate amount of protection to their problem.

Disclaimer: one of Root Labs' areas of business is exactly that.
What the article fails to mention is that the surviving 0.01% of a specific microbe (or the ones on the 60th test plate) may just be the strains that are resistant to the common antimicrobial agents in household cleaners, which will then find themselves in an environment without much competition, allowing them to thrive. So regular use of antimicrobial household cleaners allows you to grow your very own unkillable strains of germs (and if you are really lucky you may also get cross-resistancies against common antibiotics), putting you and your household members at a considerably higher risk of severe infections. It's all evolution 101.

Antimicrobial agents should be used sparingly and under strict medical control (just like antibiotics, see the article on MRSA in Norway a few days ago), household cleaning should be done with normal detergents or at most chlorine, which has an unspecific toxic effect on microbes and does not lead to resistancies.
- building profile and spreading word about own business/products is harder without it

- longer-format writing (blogging) takes too long and can be too much of a commitment

- Facebook is a walled-garden and (at the time?) wasn't as suited to businesses
Not to mention that hyper-clean environments are associated with immune deficiencies such as allergies and asthma in children.
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Well, yes. The aim was to show that Oracle is actively marketing SPARC. What better way to do that than by citing an ad?
Very little finance/investment reading. I am surprised.
"The reality is that less than half of all doctorate holders — after nearly a decade of preparation, on average — will ever find tenure-track positions"

That doesn't sound too bad at all.

Presumably some percentage of doctorate holders do not want "tenure-track positions." Some might be good at things other then academia to which their academic expertise is useful. Some are probably already wealthy or old & do not want to work full time. Some are just not very good at being academics. You have that in every field regardless of training.

Being a history researcher is probably a less wonderful career path then Laws or engineering but I assume the students know this going in & prefer history anyway.

Besides, I know several PHDs working as academics with comfy 6 figure jobs that I would never hire for anything.

This article seems to be assuming that all PHD candidates are all of the highest "quality" and that even the bottom 10% would be flying high anywhere else and are wasting their talents in Academia. That's just not true. I'm sure that many are. These get their cushy professor jobs or do something else that they like.
I agree with everything you write, except with the suggestion to evolve your app.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you're a much much better engineer than I am and can duplicate MailChimp's functionality in a single work day -- 8 hours. Spiffy for you! You'll save about $100 this year, or whatever, and do a bit better running your software business than waiting tables, despite the fact that you're a kick-booty engineer.

Instead, you could evolve your app. I don't know how much you can get done in a day, but we've established that you're a kick butt engineer, so maybe you get a new feature done. Yay. But most of your users won't use the feature. Most won't even know you have it. (Instrument your new features, folks. It is depressing but invaluable to correct your intuition that you know what your users want. Nobody knows what users want. Users don't even know what users want.)

Instead of spending a day on the app, you could spend a day on your email marketing. For example, A/B testing subject lines for your lifecycle emails. (Or, if you've read my blog recently, building systems which will let you do that sort of thing on a recurring basis.) I am totally not an email marketing guru (one of my skills to work on in 2010), but everything I know about split testing tells me that if you aren't doing it yet you're missing a LOT of opportunities to eek 5 to 10% performance gains out of it. Which, when you're doing email at scale, means you make stupid amounts of money. And you get to keep the improvements forever, since they'll probably never get stale, rot, or require upkeep.

My one "Oh that just isn't even fair" suggestion with regards to life cycle email: putting stuff in the subject line that reminds your customer they actually have an existing relationship with you works very, very well. The easiest possible example of this is pulling their name out of your records and putting it there. A/B test if you don't believe me.

A more sophisticated variant is tying your email creative to your usage data. The particulars of that will change with your commercial offering and service, but here's an example for me: I send customers an email 24 hours after signup which thanks them for signing up and tells them how to log back into their account and use it. Currently, it has a static subject line which is pretty uninspired -- something like "Here's how to print your bingo cards." One thing I want to try is to have the computer inspect their account and craft the subject line to appeal to their interests, such as "Susan, don't forget your Baby Shower bingo cards" if Susan had started working on baby shower cards yesterday but not printed them.

Intuitively, that sounds like it is a heck of a lot more compelling to me than the old subject line. I can do an experiment like that for far, far cheaper than adding additional features to my software, and it will probably have a bigger impact on the bottom line.
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I thought Paul was married :)
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The timeit module (http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html) is an invaluable tool for taking and comparing performance measurements.
From this 1998 OP - "The only thing that could make American sugar cane farmers world-class competitive would be massive global warming."

Gee whiz - sugar was also the reason why the US never signed the Kyoto Protocol!
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I really don't know what it is, but it's just really fun to watch this go. Balsamiq and that bingo card dude are two of my favorite startups to follow. I'm the proud owner of Mockups, though I haven't used it in a few months. On the other hand, though I have no personal use for bingo cards (and hope never to have one, no offense), should I ever run into any little old ladies who would be interested, I'm for sure going to pass on my knowledge of his cool website.
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Right on! I was being HN-safe and giving technical advice like "code!" but yeah more accurate to say "evolve your business" which quite nicely groups app evolution (note evolve does not have to auto-imply feature add, when it well could be feature-loss, streamlining, performance increase, new api, etc) and marketing evolution as you quite nicely explain here - bookmarked!
Search engines are a bait to bring users to advertisers, and to study user behaviour. Apple already has the users, not just by through their bookmarks, familiarity or desire, but by their actual physical devices.

A google user can quit google. An apple "user" can't quit apple without a significant investment. By their minority status in the market, they're able to do what Microsoft always wanted to do with the majority, without incurring the wrath of the law for monopolistic practices. Apple diversified itself as well; they're the largest desktop minority platform, but also the largest smartphone minority platform, largest music store, MP3 players, soon tablets, etc. They have a finger in a lot of pies, and they're weaving all these disparate platforms and devices into a giant, highly lucrative meta-platform.
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Some excellent titles throughout this list. I'm currently enjoying 'Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence (Rethinking Theory)'. Such a great read.
If you s/Amazon.com/public library/, that is fairly typical of people who read a lot. There is a LiveJournal community called 50bookchallenge that encourages people to read 50 books a year, keep track of them, and share what they're reading with others. It has 7000+ members. My reading lists for 2003-2006:

2003: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/24851.html

2004: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/60579.html

2005: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/83785.html

2006: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/105646.html

(The part I can't imagine is spending so much money on books when the library is perfectly adequate, but I imagine that's not so much of a concern for PB.)
what about using twilio?
This is potentially an interesting experiment in incentives.

I wonder if instead of giving tutors the 8.50 ph they could do something else with it that might be better incentive.
Thanks! (And I clearly need to work on my branding.)
Going beyond keywords, how does time of day influence conversions
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Yes,

But it seems like the situation they describe is one where you wouldn't want to use encryption at all. Why give the user his data in an encrypted form when you can give the user an ID and keep his data entirely away from him? Seriously, when does giving someone data you don't want them to read ever work better than just not giving them data at all?
You know what, maybe you do...or maybe it's just me not being your target market. I actually clicked on your profile to find out what your website name was. As soon as I saw "BingoCardCreator," I knew that I'd seen it before. Somehow I couldn't get it to stick in my head. I'll probably never forget it now though. ;)
>Every time I see a Kindle, or a Sony Reader, I desperately want to buy one, but I never do. I keep telling myself that waiting just six months will mean a better version and more variety to chose from.

Bad idea. 6 months is a lot of reading he's losing.
I think it's getting more common in the hobby community though. Just look at all the code and modules ready to use on AVRs, Stamps, etc.

It's only a shame that a lot of it is fairly unreliable C code. The situation for embedded C reminds me of PHP. You can find snippets for anything, but most of them won't be written by experienced library authors and can have an 'interesting' behaviour...
My experience with HN is that people here are remarkably tolerant of marketing and other engineering disciplines.
my lame speculation:

a.) once you're that wealthy, i don't think you care too much about 'get rich quick' or 'crazy investment strategies of the week' books anymore. you probably stash your money somewhere safe

b.) i'm sure paul cares a lot more about hacking than the latest fads in finance/investment
Over the course of many hundreds of deaths, I've had that happen to me maybe a couple times, like a falling rock trap on turn 5. Occasionally epic shit like this happens: http://alt.org/nethack/player-all.php?player=Ascension -- but more common is early unavoidable pet deaths.

But as you pass the first few hundred turns, the probability that your death is going to be entirely the fault of something you decided to do in the last few turns rapidly approaches one. You can acquire resistances and detection mechanisms quite early, plus your pet is so very useful in that period too.

Once you know what you're doing, every decision is an explicit trade, especially in hindsight.
What's really depressing is the huge spike in hand sanitizer sales after H1N1. Don't these people know that antibacterial agents do nothing against viruses?
A lot of e-reading, that is. Reading continues as it has for centuries...

I sympathize with his point of view. The smartphone market, the netbooks, the tablets, are all changing so fast that you have to settle for second best if you want to get in.

For me, cell internet access was such a big draw I couldn't stay away from the phone eventually.
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Is this why we use high fructose corn syrup everywhere?
From Wikipedia: Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with a method of compensation based on the amount of labor expended.

Of course Wikipedia might be wrong here, but even my rudimentary understanding of "socialism" is aligned with wikipedia's stated definition.

How are the sugar import quotas socialism, or is it merely popular nowdays to label every overstepping of government as socialism and/or communism?
Here in Australia, or at least my state of Victoria, the local road body realised how much money this could generate and "euro plates" were introduced in 2005. They've really taken off this last year especially.

http://www.vplates.com.au/euro-plates/
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I concurrently read 2-3 books per week; just finished one since yesterday morning. And it's not a hobby.
The US signed it but the Senate didn't ratify it (they voted 95-0 against it). Which is for the best really because it was a poorly conceived idea even, perhaps especially, if you think man-made CO2 emissions would lead to a world catastrophe in the near future. Note that most of the signatories to the Kyoto protocols have not lived up to them.
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Yes. The quota system drove the price of sugar up so much that manufacturers switched to the much cheaper alternative.
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Its like someone released a "build and sell your own e-reader" kit to all these people.
I guess my point - poorly made - was elaborating on the article's observation that Congress and the White House have spent the better part of two centuries doing everything they can to prop up the US sugar industry, and then connecting the observation about global warming to the timing (about 12 months after Kyoto).

As a general rule, when a comment or joke takes more words to explain than it did to make originally, that's a darn good sign you missed the mark!
I've placed about 130 orders through Amazon in the past two years, which is more than once a week.

Having Prime (free 2-day shipping) helps a lot. They sell almost everything: I've bought books, yes, but also protein powder, grocery items, exercise equipment, notebook batteries, tools, screws, jeans, and shoes.
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At AngelConf, I seem to remember he said most of his money was invested very conservatively.