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So I'm not sure why this is HN material, but as I have recently co-founded a company (www.sessionbox.com), and just purchased a new printer because of it, I'll pipe up.

When you start a company, there's a ton of paper involved:

- corporate paperwork, including founding documents, stock agreements, advisor forms, etc.

- business contracts: lawyers (corporate, IP, etc), recruiters, office space, etc.

- and most recently, your first big expense report once the seed money lands and you want to pay yourself back.

My old consumer cheapo printer died just when I was trying to get the offer letter out to our (soon-to-be) first employee. The printer just locked up, with all the led's blinking, and I kept power-cycling, to no avail.

While reviewing printers, I decided that the new one needed a "scan to email" feature. Be warned, however, that some cheap printers have a feature that they call "scan to email", but what they mean is: if you hook up our printer via usb to your pc, we'll open outlook for you and attach your scan to it. frak that, man.

What 'scan to email' should really mean is: I walk to the (wirelessly connected) printer/scanner; I put something in the doc feeder; I then use a little display to either a) punch in someone's email address or b) look up frequent email addresses. And then I hit a button, and it scans them, and the printer mails it to them. (As in, it speaks smtp.)

So I ended up with the HP 8600 Plus. The "plus" is important - the plain 8600 does not have scan to email. It's been fine so far, though my bar is probably low.
> Can't the NSA spy on foreign operations without any legal oversight

Yeah. It would be kind of bizarre to have a military signals intelligence service where spying on foreign electronic communications was some kind of exceptional activity.

The whole point of the NSA is spying on foreign operations. The legal restrictions involving a "secret court" (the two courts themselves aren't secret, though their proceedings tend to be) for oversight are to prevent the abuse of the "foreign intelligence" excuse as a backdoor for blanket domestic surveillance.

Or at least, that was the original purpose of FISA after exactly that kind of abuse. With various "War on Terror" era changes, its arguable that the purpose of the oversight has been reversed so that it now serves as a form of legal cover for the abuse of the "foreign intelligence" excuse as a backdoor for blanket domestic surveillance.
Four new NSA slides air on Brazilian TV
So much is starting to change now with there actually being great quality online education options if you are able to learn on your own. I am definitely not the 'learn out of a book' kind of person, so I really attribute my success in learning to the online courses I was able to take.
Interesting. The know-your-customer rules in the PATRIOT Act pretty much require that banks verify home addressees now. Were you grandfathered or something?
Aha, obviously you are quite cunning, therefore you knew that I would expect a second partition, so there must be a third partition!
I wonder if a focus/blur combo would trigger the needed event and the value would be set? I need to try it out.
Docker, Containers, and the Future of Application Delivery
How can I order it from Russia?
Yes - its an allocation of consumer surplus (to think about it in the TL:DR) - and what you've described is a pretty standard argument in a leveraged buyout (every conglomerate out there has a PE guy just waiting to take it apart).

I endorse the story of Barbarians; however, read the book - its better and more detailed. ;) (forgive me my hipster cliche).
I'm a subscriber to this service and I can verify it is awesome.

I'm rarely home (nor does my apartment or building have machines), the wash & folds close to me are known to lose laundry, and I absolutely don't have time to sit around and wait for my laundry in a laundry mat (you know, startup taking up all my time).

This service is maybe $5 more expensive than taking it to a wash & fold yourself, so it's a no-brainer.
And the afterhours trading is crazy
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DVDFab is also a professional blu-ray ripper for Blu-ray to AVI. It can rip and convert blu-rays to AVI with ease.
http://wishbone.org/ is another education-based crowdfunding platform. I really like their graphic design, and they have a great mission.
PUBLICLY, they have (Yahoo appears to be honestly resisting), Microsoft on the other hand was cracking open Skype before they even had taken the bow off.

From a PR standpoint, whether you are for or against the NSA program, you absolutely have to oppose it as an online multinational business.
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I also feel like much of the criticism revolved around a single hire. Everyone makes hiring mistakes and it sounds like this female manger of yours hits that mark. It's unfortunate she stuck around, but maybe focus more of your feedback on the contractor's role at Amazon.

And congrats on directing your letter to Jeff, but if you were there for 11 months, you probably learned that someone else is in charge of these smaller matters.
There are many reasons: Here are a few:

A) The universe is very large. The nearest star is 4 and some change lightyears (ly) away. That means any message take over 8 years to get, process, and transmit to the nearest star. All other stars are further than that. Since we have been weakly radio broadcasting for about 100 years, the number of stars we have been able to speak with is at best 1600 (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_stars_within_50_light_yea...).

B)Messages get lost in noise. We assume that we are heard out in the universe. But it is very very difficult to hear a mosquito at a rock concert 100 miles from you. The reverse is true for us. Also, you have to know to look. The concert has been going on for 100 years but the venue, so to speak, is 4 billion years old. Also, you might be on the other side of the galaxy, or in another one entirely.

C)Messages aren't understood as such. Do you know the protocol for USB to serial conversion? (If so I have many questions for you) We may think an actual message is just noise. Or, that noise is a message. We cannot possibly tell. Yes hopefully the other side will start out easy on us but define 'easy' to an alien.

D)Lets assume that they have spotted us and are pre-sending signals. In what medium? We haven't even figured out the basic laws of the universe yet. Heck Dark matter is ~25% of the mass-energy of the universe. The other ~75% is some crazy stuff we just labeled Dark Energy. We have no clue what is going on there. They may already be blasting us with data, but we just haven't got the interstellar radio invented yet.

E) They simply don't give a shit. What do we have that they want? Lets assume they are about 10,000 years older in tech than we are. Geologically speaking, thats nada, thats the last ice age. People were around then. And look now we have radios and iPads and ISS's and stuff. 10,000 years is a lot of time to think and make stuff. What could we do in that much more time? Well, make a computer that'll calculate just about anything, probably. And if your civilization is all entertained, why bother looking at the stars? Why bother with a,likely, giant telescope array that beams out gibberish for a thousand years. What stuff on Earth over 1000 years old? Not all that much but piles of rocks and some windows. The engineering of a giant thingy is very hard. And all for what? Some algae that you hope turns into a little curious squid or something?

F) They dont give a shit. Not because they are hedonistic but because they live under an ice-sheet the planet wide. Or they are at the bottom of a giant cloud where pressure is just right. Or they are frozen periodically in ammonia ice for 700 years. Or they have no idea of math and science because they don't have nerves that work like that. Or because they don't have cells at all. Or because they have no photoreceptors and can't even begin to imagine light. Or because they think that thing we call matter is just a rounding error. Or because they already migrated into dark energy beings and are just waiting to see us.

G) We are just plain jane alone.
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Yeah, we'll consider that. Thanks Dave! ;-)
If you're using the jQuery Rails validations I believe you'll have to set the input's "changed" data to true before it'll run the validations again. Something like $(".my-input").data("changed", true);

If not, then good luck :D
This type of behavior proves that Snowden deserves asylum, since asylum is to protect against political persecution.
When is Startup School?
Never been, but would like to this year. Has anything about dates been announced?
Because patriotism is being used to justify evil. If you don't support the "Patriot Act" then you must not be a "patriot", apparently.
Does this work? Has anyone built it?
I'd like to think they're encrypting their communications and thus, it is indistinguishable from random noise.
There are many ways. None of them involve a short-time commitment. They all involve building a loose relationship over time.

Approach 0)
Spam everyone on LinkedIn. Bad.

Approach 1)
Go to a Hackathon. Maybe even participate (marketing/consumer research/design/code - if you can). Sponsor really good pizza OR really good coffee (not crap DD). Talk to developers. Find out what kinds of apps they like to work on. Follow-up.

Approach 2)
Throw your own mini conference. Can be anything from a panel. Make it valuable to the attendees. Ask for emails but don't spam the attendees. Ask them what kind of gigs/jobs they are looking for - tell them you'll keep an eye out.

Approach 3)
Since your friend works at a recruiting firm, have them hold a developer-only mixer, bring in someone who can give a bunch of tech talks. Give away a door prize of an iPad or a Raspberry Pi.

Approach 4)
Lots of developers would like to encourage younger developers. But they don't know how. Take the lead and sponsor and organize a hackathon with a local school (just one). Background checks aside (they may be necessary - for working with minors), the recruiting firm gets good press, the developers get good press, non-direct coding resume bullets.

Approach 5)
Build an app for a deserving non-profit who has a mission you believe in with college CS/design students who may want to get an app on their resume. Building the right team may be difficult.
Strong position? Do you mean the Post Office thing? Or the "Balderdash" comment warning about getting distracted by generalizing people? Or did you mean the joke about getting ads for stuff I already bought? Sorry if I came on too strong. The boomer bashing is getting old (get it?). It's in no way helpful.

The original article seemed to be a bit political and so I bailed on it. Perhaps I'm getting lazy in my old age.

Thanks for confirming my understanding about asymmetric keys. I forget how the pass phrase fits into this. Is it required in order to use the private key? Also the article and you use the term "master key". What is that? Is that just another term for private key?
Quizlet: How it really works
Agree that, especially, the recent uncovered Origin lawsuit stuff looks pretty bad. It is probably worth considering the activities of customers, allies, partners, and taking responsibility.

(e.g. for that matter, we are allied with Saudi Arabia, and rely on them for our oil. The world is full of nasty compromises...)

But the stuff that they are actually developing, the inventors they're supporting, the work they're doing in nuclear shouldn't be painted with the same brush. This is supposed to be hacker news, and the top comment about a new nuclear startup isn't about technology at all; it's about how someone doesn't like one of the principals.
I think it's safe to assume that lawmakers in the pocket of the surveillance state are going to continue to be 're-elected' as many times as they wish.
You can’t fix what you don’t understand
Is the EFF really strapped for cash? If their budget was 2 or 3 times bigger, would they really be able to do a lot more?
Oddly enough, people have multiple priorities in life. For most people their economic prospects or issues related to freedom of choice, or stopping abortion happen to be far more important than what the NSA does. These people are not confused as to what they think is important. As surprising as that may seem to the HN echo chamber.

More generally, I'd note that actual political change often takes decades of struggle. One sees a lot of bitching on this topic, but very little "I sent a check to EFF" and even less "We are organizing for action is this way."

I doubt anyone startup success is attributable to actionless moaning.
Only time I've used jQuery with angular.js is when I've needed to use a jQuery/jQuery UI plugin that I didn't feel like rewriting.
Oh, sure. But they can't legally compel foreign companies to give them data.
I think it's dangerous to assume that.
Why should free source code, published into the ether without any exchange of consideration, be held to the same standards as a product sold by a merchant?
The main reason I bought a colour laser printer is the ink (toner) doesn't congeal if you don't use the printer for a few months.
If it wins business, so be it.

Same's worked with home cleaning. Established dinosaurs aren't moving quickly enough or don't understand what users want in sites/apps in many cases, IMO.
We have had some traction in Europe already, but it's been a while since we ran the numbers. We do have a blog post on the topic: http://j.mp/is-generosity-geographic? and we'll be looking to expand wherever we can.

As for regular bank transactions, we're going to explore it. For now you can hook up your bank to your Paypal account. It's not ideal though, we know!

Thanks for your support!
I've been using a similar service for a while in Japan (there are a lot of those here), http://www.wash-fold.com/.

This said: Prim is cheaper (like, half the price!), offers a guarantee, and deals with a third party laundromat, which is a good idea for scaling.

Cool.
Stay tuned, we're addressing that next ;-)
Like mobile check deposit, which is a big deal if you don't live near a branch.
I'm not the OP, but I'll add my two bits here anyway…

I'm moving things off US hosted services - but at the same time I'm also ramping up my privacy protections as well.

For example, I'm changing from using Dropbox to using EncFS encrypted data stored on JottaCloud. I'm not _relying_ on Norwegian based storage to be any less at risk from the Norwegian state security service than Dropbox(/Amazon) data stored in the US - but while it's possible that the NSA might have crypto attacks or hardware/software backdoors that work against my OS and/or EncFS/GPG - there's a _much_ lower chance that the Norwegians have that (or that the US shares those attacks with Norway).

(I'm also using BTSync to get "cloud-like" multi-device file sync without needing to rely an _any_ cloud provider. The closed source nature of BTSync doesn't fill me with joy though - I'm experimenting with Tahoe/LAFS, but I'm not prepared to put in the amount of work required to give me access to data stored that way on my phone/iPad…)
Incidentally, I just had a new customer call to ask about hosting services, because he needs a new mail account and, in his words, "can't trust Google after all the recent news." This guy is an attorney and very far from the tech echo-chamber.

I've got a pretty small business in a small town, so when I start hearing about stuff like this from customers, it's usually a pretty good indication that it's gone mainstream.
Ha! No, I'm just someone who decided to make a flippant joke. If only my internet slacking were paid...
Cool, thanks!

I've lived in Toronto for the past seven years, and I'm always happy to see it mentioned in technology and entrepreneurship contexts.
Modern tar versions detect compression automatically when trying to decompress, so you don't even need to the z. Heck, you don't even need the dashes!

eg. `tar xf foo.tar.gz`
Packaged software that is sold, to me, is different to code that you put up on GitHub for safe keeping. But I still think we've gone in the wrong direction.

And to your example regarding cars, such a guarantee could be "this car is safe to drive on [roads]". Replace "roads" with the legal name for surfaces where cars can be driven.

The underlying problem though is that there are such a large number of people that refuse to take responsibility for their own actions. "But, your honour, the guarantee said I could drive on roads. It didn't mention anything about being blind folded while doing so. It wasn't my fault I'm now paralysed".

A pretty ridiculous example; and probably a naive one as well. But the law systems we live with are way too complicated. And I feel the people, whose job is to "interpret" the law (judges) are doing a terrible job upholding the spirit of law.
I remember back in the 90s, the CDA was seen as an outrage by the internet savvy.

Now it's our last line of defense? What the hell happened?
We Know That the VC Model is Broken. Here’s Where It’s Broken
AFAIK, Universal Pictures cloned Subway Surfers.
To an extent you are correct although your snarky tone is lame. The same could be said of towncars and taxis, for example, but Uber has absolutely brought a new spin to the market taking large advantage of the internet and mobile to organize constituents and offer enhanced service. I don't think laundry has quite the opportunity but I don't find it necessary to belittle the effort here since there is obviously room for improvement.
> The idea of never free()ing and then taking advantage of that with a dumb allocator to get better performance is pretty clever.

Ken Thompson's C compiler does this.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/comp...

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/lex.... (near the end)

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/macb... (near the end)
Does anyone know about how many pounds in one of their bags? How does the pricing compare to $1/lb (with free pickup/delivery)?
IOS7 gets a redesign on Design Crowd
And the second you use a word that most Americans need to look in a dictionary to understand, you've already lost them. In my opinion - you need to find a way to combat the concept that "if I'm not doing anything wrong, I have nothing to hide - and they're doing it for my safety" rationale in a very real, tangible, personal way.

If you can win that argument in a convincing-enough way that people you've convinced actively refute that concept to others going forward - only then will you start to win the battle of words.

Unfortunately, I fear that may only start to happen if (when?) some of the data collected under these programs is abused or leaked.
Two reasons for non-Americans:

- the snooping is explicitly targeting foreigners. In USA I'm a foreigner, by hosting in my own country I have at least the protection of being a citizen.

- if I don't like the snooping my own government does, I can call my representatives, vote for "less snooping" political candidates, start lobbying etc. In a foreign country like USA I have no rights or leverage whatsoever.
If it's advertised as being suitable for important, dangerous things, and money changes hands, then sure I agree with you; but if a bug in glibc causes problems of an important and dangerous type, I don't see how any reasonable legal system could point the finger at the maintainers.
I notice they've now got a US based datacenter. With my overly-paranoid hat on, I wonder how much that places their entire business under risk of NSA pressure?
I'm the last guy to be harsh on people, but if you joined Zynga and you had a choice to go somewhere else, it's kinda your own fault. Personally, I have some standards a company needs to live up to for me to want to work there... Not saying I'm a "rock-star" and can choose wherever I want to work, far from it, but I still wouldn't take a job at Zynga unless I was long term unemployed.
I feel like the long-term architectural implications of virtual machines and now containers haven't quite sunk in. I'm not talking about the administrative advantages, which I think everyone is across these days. I mean the implications for the design of new applications.

As far as I am aware, folk aren't really writing distributable applications that target the VM up. You can get preconfigured stacks, or you can get standalone apps that you install in your environment.

But nobody's said: "Hey, if we control the app design from the OS up, we can make it much more intelligent, robust and at the same time sweep away a lot of unnecessary inner platform nonsense".

In terms of the slides, my approach is to reduce the NxN matrix by eliminating a lot of the choices. Why write your blog engine to support 5 different web servers when you can select and bundle the web server? Repeat for other components.

It gets better. Why write a thin, poorly-featured database abstraction layer when you can take serious advantages of a particular database's features?

You can't do this if you write under old shared-hosting assumptions. You can do this if you target the VM or container as the unit of design and deployment.

Yes, this is one of my bonnet-bees, since at least 2008: http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/07/10/shared-hosting-is-doomed...
I lover docker as much as the next pseudo-sysadmin (dev forced to do admin work), but I think the analogy with packing containers is a bit of a stretch. LXC works only on Linux. It's not gonna help you with BSDs, OpenSolaris or Windows.

Additionally, a lot of this feels like Docker is taking credit for LXC. Docker is a brilliant abstraction of LXC's obscure native interface, but LXC came before Docker and does most of the heavy lifting.
But if you have iCal, just store your .ics file in the FastMail file store and give the http url to whoever you like and viola - instant group/family calendar. iCal will do all the work for you once you set it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICal
Here is why:

* No _changes feed. (TAPs won't do here sorry). I mean that is uber killer feature of CouchDB. Otherwise, just pick any other key value store.

* HTTP interface to DB : you can use CouchDB to store both your data and your code. That is very cool.

* Futon : that is the web based db and document browser and viewer. That is killer. Being able to see what is in your database and debug before that data is used by some other part of the system is invaluable.
Offtopic... but I'd love to hear the story of how they acquired a 3-letter domain. That seems like quite a feat for a young startup.
I'm not sure what you mean. It uses the external libmwaw library, like it already uses libwpd (for WordPerfect) and libwps (for Microsoft Works).
One of our goals is to facilitate an emotional connection between donors and patients. If good photos help us raise more money faster, then we may even have a moral obligation to use photos. We need donors to trust us, so yes, the photos are also there to reassure them that there is a person on the other side of the transaction.

Can you imagine any crowdfunding site out there, especially Watsi, without photos?
Just by the way bureaucracy works you can make it a lot more inconvenient for them by using services of a bunch of different countries just to put your profile together.

By rotating free email providers such as mail.ru, free.fr, and so on you can pretty much create a bureaucrat's nightmare - assuming of cause the unlikely cause that this is the weakest link in the chain.