slvrspoon

www.abine.com | Boston / Remote | Advanced Javascript + Android devs

Privacy, security, and payments startup - millions of users. Must code during interview.

Abine.com | Boston | On-site or remote part time or full time |Software dev's (Ruby, Javascript, Android, iOS)

Online privacy, security and payments for global user base of millions. See our web site at www.abine.com and try the Blur software. Interested qualified dev's please email jobs@getabine.com

only support for Safari on touch-id enabled devices. doubt Apple will provide API or any other x-platform support. most impactful for mobile commerce sites without strong App or App traffic.

Identity is required by us (and by most "foundational" financial and phone providers) but for external use with other 3rd parties, not at all. www.abine.com

We (disclaimer i'm a co-founder) does exactly this with our Blur product which includes a "tracker blocker". We crowdsource and test for problems because of 'improperly implemented' tracking code and blockers and dynamically allow just those trackers on key sites. More here: https://www.abine.com/suggestions/

sorry Michael, this is ridiculous, i like Gabriel but please don't upvote this absolute CRAP here.

thanks HN readers - any more suggestions are valuable. the debate between opt-in and opt-out is a fair one. i'd point out that Abine extends exactly the privacy cookie features that are the Foundation of TACO. that said, it was too big and abrupt to please the advanced user, and our product needs a lot of work.

what i'm really interested in is HN's advice in building a sustainable privacy company. one that is one the users side and not corrupted by advertising. plausible?

Correct: angel groups and the author are a waste of precious time.

and that would be: http://wwww.getabine.com :)

i'd be interested in what the HN community thinks of my current co / hack that's trying to deal 100% with this issue. use "SXEDCRF310" for your invite..

i work with a hacker startup focused on impact of these issues and there is a ton of info there: http://www.givewell.net

i see: - some significant progress against cancer in the tenties and that being a big thing. - growth of a chinese middle class with a voice and some balls and independence - continued problems with islam, terrorists, and the first terrorist small nuclear detonation. - possible but not probably achievements in nanotech or energy on the tech front - wifi data collection on everything as the main tech change in this coming decade. internet and software basically a sideways moving bore and snore - privacy as an issue for the common user

this is why Y combinator is important, and the offspring it has spawned in the last 3 years.

as a guy with a startup focused on this area for 12 months, i am curious to know what the group thinks about having some form of identity be stored in the cloud by a single company (e.g. google) or managed locally at your PC/phone (stored by NO company) and synched across devices?

the key thing is to not give your personally identifiable info out in the first place. have 2 profiles: one for 'namespace' discovery and 'general friends' and another for real friends and posts that contains no PII links. is there an app for that?

my venture backed very early stage startup in cambridge is hiring students who are great coders. email address in my profile.

not to denigrate the smart people and great work done here, but i think this is a pretty depressing list when looked at from on high. this is the creme of the crop of all the yc hacker intelligentsia? suprisingly banal imhop.

this list is for people who know very little about what learning constitutes.

Wow HN(!) what a discussion. its.. fun.. sort of. Matt: if the philosophical underpinnings of the country you live in.. (e.g. the constitution) agreed with you, we'd have no JURY SYSTEM brother :). believe me, i (and many readers here) share your sentiments often, but respect for formal knowledge must come from knowledge itself, not prior experience or credentials. Also, as a former tech analyst who spent a LOT of time working with the labels in 1998-2000 on DRM and MP3, i can offer you this perspective: the music "industry" as we know it, only existed for a small amount of time between the first, nearly accidental, record sales, and the advent of the digital age. Musical artists as a group have never truly profited much from recorded distributed music - they have made money from live performance.. where, as you look at recent trends with companies such as LiveNation, things are predictably returning to. The execs yachts will be repo'd and among their jury may be the very people they prosecuted.

rob

i believe, without having done any research, that credentialism worldwide has GROWN massively as the middle classes try to protect their positions for the selfish reasons PG states. less biased, more thoughtful research would make for a more reasoned debate about an important topic, to Y combinator, and to wider society.

check out http://www.givewell.net and you can see which charitable causes actually have GOOD OUTCOMES

good post. q: so why can't said new system 'work universally' (at least online) by users generating their own "pseudonymous" online identities (name/email/pass/etc) and managing these per site/relying party? the 'generating application' or party has oversight and responsibility for fraud but no others and the user controls key aspects relating to government subpeona type issues. thoughts?

i guarantee Matt will cringe when he reads this in years to come. some valid critiques of the worker-bee lifestyle, but a completely off the mark sense of true utility, value and cross-generation contribution to such. any small amount of serious study of historical "effort" would cause an about face hear. there is little else to say.

all laptops have one of the highest failure rates in all of mainstream consumer electronics.

that said: i will add to the groups discussion i am a die hard thinkpad guy. the 'stick button' is SO MUCH more effective than a touchpad. they are fantastic machines. X series are small light and about $1k - $1.5k. i never spend more.

downside: Windows. or worse... VISTA!

they need a lot of users to get liquidity to "make real markets work" but if so, they will beat ebay based on its inherent usntructuredness. worth a try.

agree with Wil. in fact, Wil, shoot me a quick msg if u could.. slvrspoon a t g-mail..

i looked at this space/concept a LOT years ago. lots doing .. nothing made it. except for fortune tellers on keen. even google closed up shop here. Q&A markets are free on yahoo because online non-social info is free and low value. high value stuff is service provision (ie. doesn't scale in time) and the good people get good rates w/out messing with internet customers who tend to flake out (just try renting an apt on craigslist). i don't see a way this works, but sure is a great idea.