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We (SpiderOak) have been working on a framework called Crypton[1] for the last few months that allows you to create cryptographically secure web apps. We're trying to get the 0.2 release and new website[2] out this week.

I'm currently the only dev on the project and we could always use more eyeballs. I'm working through a code review right now to improve the existing features, but I'm also half way done implementing shared containers and realtime public key messaging. The idea is that you don't new to understand the crypto if you use the framework. We are in the process of getting a professional security audit.

[1] https://github.com/SpiderOak/crypton
[2] https://crypton.io
Study claims restricted diet prolongs lifespan
Given the distribution, western societies already know how to not reproduce. Now we need the opposite.
People like doing business with those they know, trust, have worked with before, etc, etc.. and major corps recruit heavily from one another.

It's quite common for someone to jump ship and then turn around and do business (or even just recommend) their old company for something.

That's part of the reason burning bridges is such a horrible idea.. because it's a small world after all. It's a small, small world.
>Wow, great, you could come up with a SINGLE example for a company with State-like powers, and that was 200 years ago.

Read a little history. HE came with a single example, because you ASKED for an example. Read history books on the issue, and you'll find tons of other examples.

From Shell in Nigeria, to United Fruit Company in Latin America, to the big coprs in Hitler's Germany. E.g:

"""Big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Nazi government as it became increasingly organized. Business leaders supported the government's political and military goals, and in exchange, the government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies. Nazi Germany transferred public ownership and public services into the private sector, while other Western capitalist countries strove for increased state ownership of industry."""

There are tons of other examples. Not to mention that the question is quite brain-damaged: corporations don't make war directly, hiring an army and such.

They make them by exercizing political and financial influence. And that is not usually done by a single company: it's done by multiple corporate interests, that pursue their goals in tandem. E.g the so-called "millitary-industrial complex".

>It takes 100 billions to wage war in Iraq. Top tier companies make that much in REVENUE, not even profit. How would you expect them to spend so much? Your point does not make sense.

LOL. They don't spend "so much". That's not how it works. It's like he's explaining that to a ten year old.

Corporations bribe the right persons, create the right conditions, push and influence policy and such, and let the people of a country (or several) fight. That is, what corporations do is diverting governments and politicians, from serving the people, to doing their work for them.
I have long asserted software development is like literacy - it's something everyone will do and will bring enormous benefits to future humankind

This approach of Teaching the thing that will take less time is intereting
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2nd reply as edit time has passed on my first reply.

> But... you're saying PCT members (eg USA) don't recognize an Aus prov priority date?

Not, as I understand it, unless you go through the PCT process instead of a national applicaiton.

It's the PCT application that grants the worldwide priority and flexibility. You can't do it afterwards, you have to do it first.

IANAL, TINLA.

Email me (see profile) if you want a referral to my lawyer. I like him.
I'm curious about the Mac App Store argument. If you already built an iOS app and got it through the app review process to sell on the App Store, why would you make a Mac port and not want or be able to get it in the Mac App Store? The iOS restrictions are much tougher than the Mac as far as app review goes. And you already willingly accepted selling through Apple for iOS.
RAII is of great pratical use and is not just about memory management. My current favourite use of RAII is QMutexLocker:

https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtcore/qmutexlocker.html#d...
What about the security of the host your system is running on?
It's still pretty hard to beat physical proximity for teams, so most companies stick to one office for as long as they can.

While you can grow from 1 to 5 employees pretty much anywhere, going from 5 to 500 is hard outside a hub, where you can poach talent from larger players.
Hmm, yes, that could be.
That's pretty much what HN is, I believe.
In theory, this could happen. But neither of the two big political parties seem concerned about the NSA, so it's not going to be easy.
It is a shame that one of safest and most effective pesticides used to control mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects, DDT, is no longer permitted in most countries.
>They're basically taking advantage of smaller investors with no other options, who already have the deck stacked against them.

Business is all about getting away with the maximum that your customers (cough cough) will let you get away with and the minimum your employees will let you get away with. I agree with your assessment but also see why Fundersclub would want to try to get away with this gouging their clientele :P
First, FBI cracked 512-bit disk encryption in a recent case, seemingly with NSA help, so it seems they've got some pretty powerful brute forcing capabilities. SSL is generally only 256-bit. http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/fbi-cracks-encrypte...

Second, since some sites don't use Diffie Hellman key exchange (which provides for perfect forward secrecy), they don't even need to work that hard. They can just grab the keys in transit.

Third, with a MITM attack, you can just drop in a box that makes SSL connections on both ends transparently. Therefore neither endpoint knows the encryption is being routed through a third malicious point. See e.g. http://www.zdnet.com/how-the-nsa-and-your-boss-can-intercept...

None of this proves definitively that the NSA can do this, but it does mean that if you have something to hide you'd be foolish to rely purely upon SSL.
So an angel investor now has a choice of

1) investing themselves, and keeping the carry

2) investing through FC, paying the carry

For (2) to happen, a few things must resonate:

1) The deal flow is that good. A potential investor cannot fund the companies that go through FC on AngelList or through other venues.

2) The investor is not an accredited one, but can invest due to JOBS act.

It seems that once again (2) is the real market they're after. I have not yet seen an entrepreneur limiting their fundraising to FundersClub, and refusing other venues.
So why did they not pick something better like foo!(a,b) instead of foo<a,b>? Because parsing was not as well understood as it is today?
As an Australian, this is depressing but not all that much of a surprise. However, this general lack of science knowledge may help to explain some of the fairly ignorant but successful politics which has been happening around climate change here.
Newer versions (4.7 - 5.1) of Qt are really nice and you have many levels of interaction.

1. Standard C++ ui designed in a form designer and connected to C++ classes.

2. QML + javascript.

3. OpenGL with the ability to use widgets on the OpenGL viewport.
I'm a designer who periodically works with ThemeForest themes for my clients. The problem with most of the themes is that they look good but you realize how badly they really work only when you attempt to adapt a site to them.

I believe the author's current design is clean, functional, and honest. It won't win any awards, sure. There are some immediate issues with design elements needing a bit more space in which to live. But IMO the most improvement the author can make right now is to improve the book cover. That is practically lost territory compared to the rest of the site's large text and easily-followed bullet points. I recognized the image to the left as a book cover only on my third website view.
Good points, but the folks at Funders Club are professional investors. The referrers only get a kickback when FundersClub chooses to invest, and FundersClub will only do so if they think the company will be sufficiently successful. A standard which is likely higher than an unprofessional accredited investor's.
Political parties magically start to become concerned when the money starts to become concerned.
What if Google, others, (re-)incorporated offshore?

With it's full stable of services, could have hardened crypto and new net/server/client protocols immune to Eve opening, immune to PRISM participation and surveillance requests.

DDG moves offshore, or other foreign search, centers around provable privacy, similar crypto, then onto email, reader, etc all popular Google type services, isn't that where you would park?

Possible to monetize requiring provable secure real-time fast hardware crypto, eg, usb dongle.

I see it is required to get out of US, to avoid PRISM forced compliance.
Yes, most are old and tiered. But another problem is, there is not a company/organization or even language community to take on such a big endeavour.

I'd like to see a C based toolkit, that's made specifically for wrapping it up for other languages (in C++, Ruby, Python, Go etc) and has niceties to help with this.
Right, which is why prelapsarianism is not a useful strategy. It's impossible to prevent rot before it starts, because it has always already started.
And exactly how often do you notice a stray molecule exhaled by the person standing next to you drifting across your field of vision?

Because, given the relative scales of the things involved (solar systems and space probes), likening Voyager to a molecule is giving it orders of magnitude more ability-to-be-noticed than it's due.
I'm not sure what you mean when you mention DAWs based around programming. Are you referring to things like Reaktor, Max, and PD?
Elections never truly change anything though.
Well I can't say for sure about anything strictly US based, but up here in Canada I happen to know of one effort that is underway to move large corporate clients to a more private setup.

Apologies for being cryptic, but I can't say much more than that. I can say it has big backing, and is designed to take advantage of the fact that Canada's privacy laws haven't quite degraded to where we're in a situation like the US. Not quite yet. The hope is that by doing things somewhat more 'right' now--ahead of the legal curve--down the road clients may not end up in as tight a situation as they are in the US legal framework.

But, yes, people are working on it.
Leaded gasoline potentially affected at most a few generations in the 20th century. Do we see a spike in dementia correlated with the years that leaded gasoline was used?
Along those same lines...find a space you love and dive in. The idea and business model will change 50+ times, so if it's a space you're passionate about you'll figure out the win.
Interestingly, my former employers had what I believe to be a more common system in Japan: they paid you more to live farther away from the office, by subsidizing your monthly train pass. (One could actually turn this into an untaxed wage increase by buying the 6 month pass at the standard discount, rather than six 1 month passes, and pocketing the 6th month's subsidy. Eventually HR realized this, cut the subsidy, and directed everyone to buy the 6 month pass. HR was surprised that this decision was unpopular.)

One of the reasons for subsidizing commute expenses in Japan is that they're typically both high relative to employee salaries and the benefits are not taxable as earned income, whereas giving equivalent sums of money for other purposes does make that money taxable. For example, my read of the relevant regulations suggests that paying somebody to live close to the office constitutes taxable income but subsidizing their commute is not.

In case it isn't obvious, I'm none of Japanese, a tax lawyer, a Japanese tax lawyer, or your Japanese tax lawyer, but the regs are fairly straightforward if interested parties want to look them up:

http://www.nta.go.jp/taxanswer/gensen/2508.htm

[Funny anecdote: My boss attempted to sell me once on moving next door to the office, on the grounds that this would save the company money on my train pass and let me continue working without that pesky hard stop at 30 minutes past midnight when the last train to Ogaki left. I think he was genuinely confused when I told him "I consider that less a bug and more a feature." The joke was on me, though, after crunch time happened and I had to buy hotel stays at my own expense after staying until 3 to 4 AM.]
>>> The country now has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners.

Strangely the "nation of Free" has double the number of people inside the prison than the "human rights violator" China.

Number of prisoners.
USA - 2,239,751

China - 1,640,000

And when you consider that China has a large population... the percentage of people inside the prison is enormous.

http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php...

http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
Rather than summarize her credentials, I was attempting to point out that perhaps an intern writer at Nature.com is not someone we can refer to as "a scientist" and reference as such.

Yes, she has a degree and experience. No, I'm not prepared to accept interns 2 years out of college as authoritative experts when it comes to planetwide ecological policy.
thanks, was just updating those and missed that. fixed!
Honestly, if Linus was my boss, I'd quit my job cursing him. He has a lot going for him. I understand why he needs to be like this and why it works, but in all seriousness, I'd much rather be like Eric Schmidt or Bill Joy.
I actually agree completely. These kinds of perks are a big turn-off for me, they almost feel like I'm still in school instead of at a job.

I'd much rather just have the higher salary, and not feel like the company was trying to be anything except the place I work at. I can provide my own social life and activities, and would rather work at work, than play ping-ping or pool there.
RC4 is still a very widely used cipher, and its security is pretty questionable. See, for instance, http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
I've been writing up a blog post on the subject of extinction for a little why now and my theory is essentially this happening. Mankind could theoretically go extinct because we get to a point where we can no longer naturally reproduce. Sure science in reproduction has come a long way, but because it's a manual and drawn out process, I don't think science could even remedy reproduction issues faster than the population starts to decline.

Is it really a surprise sperm rates are lowering given the number of chemicals in our food, pollution and exposure to hazardous materials on a daily basis? Sperm counts aren't the only factors in reproduction but rather environment variables also play an important part in the process. What we eat, what we breath and how we live are also other serious factors and given the modern diet is anything but nutritional for a lot of people, it spells disaster in the long run.

Reading an article like this kind of scares me. Because it kind of gives what I've been debating internally inside of my head for the last few weeks. The day we stop being able to naturally reproduce is the day mankind is in some serious trouble.
>I'm confused. Emacs embraced this principle almost forty years ago. Would you mind explaining to me what's novel about LightTable's take on this old idea?

That it's based on technologies, design sensibilities and UI ideas that weren't around "almost forty years ago".
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I'll solve the print-length/depth problem, if you write the ClojureScript port of finger trees!
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i have spent less time talking to my close friends. However, there this one friend who i talk most of the time when I'm at home - my wife ;)
> Wow, great, you could come up with a SINGLE example

To be fair, the description given of the East India Company works for both the Dutch and British companies.
> which is free this week!

What do you mean free this week? What happens after this week?
SyncMaster 997DF: 19" CRT @ 2048x1536

Unfortunately the the focus has gradually been getting worse for the last few years; it's no longer quite as sharp in the corners as it was a decade ago when I bought it. It may only last another four or five years. Otherwise it's great.

It's flanked by a pair of 23" ViewSonic IPS LCDs @ 1920x1080. I don't use them for programming as much as I'd like, but I do generally use at least one of them to test what I'm writing.
>It works pretty well for the most part, but I do run into some issues when dealing with the size of the files. Perhaps Logic X shrinks them down in size a bit in comparison to Logic 9, but I doubt it.

How would it "shrink" them? You record uncompressed audio in high resolution and bitrate. At the very best it could half them if it could use some loseless algorithm, but DAWs record and use AIFF and WAV.
Uh, you should read about what the fruit companies and now Coke are doing in Latin America, or Shell in Africa. Or the East Indian Company back in the day. Corporations will do all of those things in the abscence of a bigger bully to keep them in check. The monopoly of violence is a power vacuum. When its not filled by government, its filled by an even less accountable entity.
I agree completely. I think it can be a real problem, when the office basically sends the strong signal that everything is basically geared towards unmarried 20-somethings.
Why don't you guys allow for printing from within the iOS app?
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He (and some of his associates) basically bootstrapped the entire boulder startup scene. His advice that is takes 20 years is direct personal experience of his.
We are working on a simple end-to-end encrypted email solution with the encryption being nearly completely transparent to the user (i.e. simple enough for the average person to use). Furthermore, with our solution, if the government ordered us to help, we couldn't. Even more, if they steal your computer, plant malware, or do any number of other shady tactics they wont be able to access your email.
> - Technical people make for bad managers

But who makes for good managers?
You did a shit job. (A life lesson)
In terms of legality, it really depends on what kind of covenants you went into.

The 20% thing at Google is currently a marketing lie, and now Google is very much so a "team dependent" environment. That is, 20% is only allowed based on your team and the politics around your group. (based on several current/former google employers that I've talked to...)
> Corporations bribe the right persons, push and influence policy and such, and let the people of a country (or several) fight.

We are coming back to what I said. Governments wage wars, not corporations. Without government involvement corporations are helpless. Government, ultimately, are responsible for military actions and the usage of force.

So, I dont see how my statements were wrong.
Thats annoying. Throwww.com is still up though, I wonder if there was a load problem on the one node.
Why don't the currently available collaboration tools enable start-ups and the communities around them to be independent of location?

It's pretty much a monthly topic here: because companies (to paraphrase) don't like to use remote workers. The history of subculture also tells us that communities spring from groups of players: before punk rock music emerged, punk rockers were (paraphrasing again) just a bunch of underemployed and blue collar kids who fit into neither the mod nor rocker scenes.

If the desire for a decentralized and geographically dispersed startup scene gathers enough momentum, the participants will create the companies and communities that support that way of working, as well as finding the funders who will contribute working capital to these kinds of operations.
>And then if you had an idea on how to improve the music, it would just be a nice fork-edit-pull request away from improving the album. Truly collaborative music could be really cool.

Only artists don't usually like it when somebody else "improves" their music -- that's a recipy for havoc. They have what is called a "vision" for their piece, so that any improvement would have to play within that vision.

Not to mention that what's an "improvement" to one, is an abomination for another.
What makes it worse is that I can't find an alternative choice.
Humans are built to socialize in meat space. I've been on HN since about the beginning. I have met... two people through it that I now consider friends. I've met so many more outside of it, it's hard to even compare the two concepts.
A friend just told me about zenmate.io , however, i dont see their advantage over a vpn, aside that it's free for now. big drawback: you dont control it, so you have to Trust them with security..
I'd like to see if the pattern of decline correlates with Banana Consumption.

This isn't a joke.
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Indeed, when you look at these in reverse, they really take on a different meaning. Essentially: you salary would be X, except it's less because we're spending it on perks, except that you might not want some of them or qualify for them...

What business is it of the employer's, where I live? Viewed in this light, it's actually discrimination against employees who don't live nearby, a salary cut in fact. It's almost amazing that it's even legal to do something like that.

Imagine if a company said, an extra $500/mo for everyone who doesn't own a car, or everyone who is vegan, or everyone who volunteers 10 hrs/mo, or everyone who votes Republican.
I don't know why I bother with common turns of phrase on HN, someone always reduces it symbolic logic and springs an a-ha on me.

Yes. Of course it's "always started". That doesn't render my point completely empty, because there is always a before to take as a starting point.
This man that sacrificed his life to expose massive, illegal surveillance by the US Government comes off as pompous to you? Wow.

You're attacking Snowden's character just like he said people (and most of the mainstream media) would.
At StartHQ (https://starthq.com) we've added the country and hosting company, as well as a list of alternatives, to every SaaS provider in our directory. So, while we're still hosted on Amazon in the US ourselves, we are helping users find snoop free alternatives to services they're using today.
Technically it's the opposite of immunity - your immune system has stopped reacting to mosquito bites. Neat adaptation though!