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I imagine they will have thought of this — there's probably an authorization step like Face/Touch ID or entering your Apple ID password.

Sorry to hear.

Check out Crucial Conversations (https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-...). It's a framework that I've found immensely helpful.

If interested, I do recommend you read the book, but you can still get something out of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFaXx3pgaxM (it's a summary masquerading as a review).

David this looks fantastic. I can’t wait to play with it.

Just on the GDPR front, our DB also has customer data. We currently host on heroku. Does the data we pull in / process using retool go anywhere else except for where we point it?

I think I remember a Bleacher Report engineer talking about this on an Elixir podcast. They use it to power their push notifications and pride themselves in being consistently the fastest among their competitors.

I imagine adding a phone number to your Google account is more about Google having a particular phone number explicitly linked to an account for their information graph rather than for security reasons.

Does anyone other than those evaluating applications (i.e. YC staff) have access to these applications, the ideas they contain or any prototypes which may have been submitted?

Love the landing page. Really refreshing.

Like Omegle but with a more noble goal - less creepiness.

I really admired the selflessness of "dick feed" and "A Helper Cell". In a game where it seems that only being the biggest counts, these guys were helping the biggest get bigger at their detriment. Kudos.

It's the same, just later. He probably feels he's learned from his previous mistakes and can do it better this time.

"Sublevel is to Twitter what Pinboard is to Delicious, Reddit to Digg, Linux to Windows, Android to iOS, etc."

http://lucianmarin.com/archive/sublevel.html

Chas was kind enough to call me and not only explain their product, but also to educate me on HIPAA compliance in general from a legal standpoint (his background) – answering all my questions until I had a really good grasp on it and pointing me in the right direction to learn more.

(I'm working on a product that may eventually use this – left my email on their website and Chas got in touch and we ended up on a Skype call)

Am I the only one that thinks these are creepy?

> a full ring of between 300 to 400 balloons circling the globe

I don't want Google looking back at me whenever I look up into the sky.

Any idea if someone has written an abstraction layer for this yet?

This is awesome – jealous I didn't think of it first. Well done.

Edit: Spoke to soon. Not a fan of sending every page I visit to you guys [1].

[1] https://www.kifi.com/privacy

Fair enough, thanks for the explanation. :)

Here's another as the site is getting hammered:

http://possible.lv/tools/hb/

Nice touch showing a motivational quote when you try to visit the blocked website.

I've been using Concentrate[1] so far with great results. It has a few more options (such as a growl message every X seconds) but no nice motivational quote for websites! :) Also – the first version is actually free (click the buy button).

[1] http://www.getconcentrating.com/

clickable: http://discover.store.sony.com/be-moved/

Kickstarer campaign?

Could not recommend this more – strikes just the right balance between a Rails app and plain HTML/CSS for prototyping.

> The fingerprint ID is just another option, which you don't have to use.

Maybe not, but the mechanism still exists to capture your finger print — even if it's "turned off".

You may as well set up a location-aware tweet to broadcast "I'm here" every time you hit that home button.

  > from the ground up with privacy and security built in

Couldn't agree more!

  > I'm finding that other folks are thinking along similar lines 
  > (but taking different approaches)

Not sure if this is the right place for it but does anyone have a list of all these similar projects? I know of:

* ArkOS [https://arkos.io]

* FreedomBox [https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/]

Seems to me that something like this can be built faster if resources were combined in some way. I guess the tough thing here is that people seem to have different visions as to what the end product would look like. Perhaps effort would be best expended by collaborating on a solid, secure "base" image which could then be forked as needed.

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My ideal system would:

* Be open source.

* Be built with a security mindset from the ground up.

* Have some sort of full system/drive encryption.

* Run on something like a Raspberry Pi with local storage attached.

* Have one identity per-person for social use (public/private blog, private chat, private audio/video calling, private email, private sharing of photos, videos, private VRM [1])

* Have the ability to spawn off anonymous identities that would not be traceable back to your IP/device for anonymous publishing/chat/email where required.

* Be easy enough that I can give one to my parents, create accounts for them, show them once how to use it and then forget about it.

* Have all of this backed up through some distributed, encrypted system like SpaceMonkey [2].

* A possible late addition for mass adoption - the software could "trick" users into doing things they shouldn't (in a controlled way) and then after they've done this, tell them that what could have happened would have been quite serious (such as giving some . This would lead to more careful behaviour in general by all that use the software, which could only be a good thing.

Anyone know of such a system in the works? I'd love to contribute.

[1] VRM - Vendor Relationship Management. Keeps track of who you've shared your personal details with, generates a unique email for each "connection" (where connections can be you telling someone to flick you an email or you signing up to a site) in order to cut off communication at your convenience, not theirs. Sharing of personal details (such as name, birthday etc.) for sites that require it would initially be done directly, eventually moving to a system where this software IS the proxy by which third parties communicate with you (physical mail, messages, phone calls etc.). No more spam!

[2] http://www.spacemonkey.com/

Here's the full thing with better sound:

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/VIDEO-Kim-Dotcom-GCSB-committee-f...