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I bank with USAA, and I pretty much LOVE banking with them.

But agree that they are one of the very, very, very few banks where this applies.
And that's something that really bothers me.

In the company I work for, there are web applications that are not even cross-browser.

I have to boot into Windows every month or so to do some bureaucratic work on them.
Same thing for me! Thanks!
One thing I don't get about this; I've been trying it with completely default installs of Fedora core 11 running Firefox and it calls them all unique.

I feel like I am missing something obvious - anyone care to point me in the right direction (I read most of the links of the project site)?
I tried Everyman-3 last summer. It was a very weird experience. Highly unusual.

After a few times of failing to wake up on time, I became a bit alarm-paranoid. I once woke up on my own early, and jumped out of bed thinking two hours had passed (instead of 30 minutes). Turned out only 8 minutes had passed since I looked at my watch before going to sleep.

This reflects one of the cooler aspects of polyphasic sleep - you learn to fall asleep regularly in under 3 minutes. I slept on a bed, on a floor, on a lawn. You just learn how to relax and drift off immediately.

Also, once you've slept for 30 minutes, you don't want to sleep anymore. Your consciousness just regains control of your body and poof - you're awake.

It's not something I would do for years on end, because it can be difficult to accommodate having work and a social life, but it's very fun to do for a few months at a time. You gain a lot of time.
If a telco mindset were around 100 years ago...
WePay gets around it by partnering with an actual bank. Not the same thing as being a bank.
Sounds pretty cool in theory. But can a new bank like this really make it in today's over-regulated, Wall Street controlled market? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it go somewhere and be available nationwide for people to have a better banking experience. I'm just a bit skeptic.
Our ancestors also didn't have automobiles and airplanes. That doesn't mean that it's not faster to travel that way than on foot.
yep it's an event--we may stream it/throw up a video. Let us know if that's something you really want.
NPD data shows Mac sales up 33% year over year while iPod sales slump
It's an underground movement to get you back to using Firefox
Before we rag on telcos too much, how often do you pick up a landline and not get a dial tone?

Their customer service is almost universally poor, but telcos are the absolute masters of infrastructure engineering and operations. Vodafone's advertising in the UK is all about that at the moment... I suspect it's aimed not towards customers but towards people they want to hire.
Have an IE6 only application?
http://ingdirect.com is an online-only bank, at least in the US.
Based on my own experience I would suggest that you can sleep fine in an uncomfortable situation until you're in a light enough sleep that you'll wake up.

The rested feeling is simply not waking up in the middle of a deep sleep cycle when your body is flooded with melatonin. Alarms simply don't way us up optimally. They blare at us with no regard for how deep we're sleeping.

I don't think either extreme, sleeping uncomfortably or fighting with an alarm, is the answer. There's an interesting alarm app on Android phones that will ring quietly x amount of time before the real alarm is set to ring to see if you're more awake then. I'd like to see more attempts at hybridization like that.
I propose trying to cultivate nightmares. Go to sleep thinking about how bad the oil spill is.
weird the dupe catcher didn't find it.

thanks!
this is great, it saved my life!
Poisoning is arguably harder to deal with in a distributed architecture.
What is the working environment like at the CIA and Pentagon? I've always imagined that government work is about as far from a startup atmosphere as you can get.
On Windows 7 it says I don't have Times/Times New Roman/Verona (via Firefox 3.6.3)...
The other service credit unions (Tower (NSA), Pentagon Federal, and Navy Federal) are all really good, too, although not as good as USAA.

USAA's insurance is top-notch, too.
He needs to fix this soon http://banksimple.net/jobs/
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I've been on TorrentFreak a few times today. No issues here.
this was awesome as usual! Great things happening in Dallas.
I wonder if his new company will do everything in Scala. If I were starting a company and writing the corporate stack from scratch, Scala would be a good possible choice. He has written a fair amount about Scala, so I am just wondering...
Awesome. Where was this in 68 when I was 12? :-)
That nightmare is too far removed.

Instead, leave a window open and place a nice piece of electronic equipment on the sill. Works twice as well if you live in a shady neighborhood.
YouTomb - lists videos taken down from YouTube
It doesn't speak of anything. It may have been a classroom project for all we know, in which case as commented above the students learned more than having an off-the-shelf poster.
Why not find contract work? As a contractor, your hourly pay should be higher than that as an employee. Plus, taxes are not withheld so you

You could find a 3 month contract and then take three months off.

Some other possible jobs with a lot of downtime for doing your own thing might be security guard or small hotel desk clerk.
Did we have selective pressure to heal broken bones while laying in bed, with a cast, taking extra calcium supplements?
Oh wow. You proposed a great business model I hadn't even thought of. Guess it goes to show that there is plenty of room for innovation in the digital download market. Companies like movie studios and record labels just need to get a bit more creative and just come to the realization that the old business model isn't going to cut it these days.
Great another kid of x years old makes x amount of $ in less than x days story. Where have I read this before. Is there like some kind of book filled with formulas/structures of how articles are to be written where journalists go and be like 'oh this week I'll use this formula and this and this'?

Anyway, the article could be spun in many ways. How about 'The Should Be Teenage Tycoons'... The story of how Apple has shafted true innovative app makers into scraping fractions of their apps true worth on the jailbroken market, and how the only real success come when Apple decides to select/feature your app.
Odd, the jobs page [http://banksimple.net/jobs/] works, and from there you can get to the rest of the website...
"Userspace threading vs. event programming" is a fake controversy. Event advocates tend to be userspace/nonpreemptive thread advocates.
I hated my bank (BofA) enough to close my accounts and move everything to a local Credit Union. CU's are far better, IMO, than banks; and their rates are generally lower across the board (credit cards, CD's, savings, auto loans).
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"Most crimes are committed by the sane" does not imply "Suffers from Schizophrenia are no more dangerous than anyone else".
I'm wondering if there might be some way to start out being comfortable but setting some process in motion that would cause you to be uncomfortable 8 hours later.

How hard would it be to design a bed that, say, slowly inclines to vertical?
Mail them that if they don't re-imburse you promptly that you will name them publicly ?

They can't really fire you and they won't be hiring you. I don't expect they'll be suing you (but that's always a chance).

If I were them I'd pony up.

If you have it in writing get a (friendly, so it won't cost you more $) lawyer to write them a nastygram first ?
or
((Toast&Eggs)2&(Toast^Eggs))2+((Toast&Eggs)^(Toast^Eggs))
I currently use Charles Schwab Bank, and don't really see how SimpleBank would be a big improvement. The only feature that SimpleBank has that Charles Schwab Bank doesn't seems to be the ability to take pictures of checks and send those electronically when you want to make a deposit.

Is "al3x" from twitter really up on all the details and security concerns of running an online bank? Will his company do a better job than Charles Schwab? My gut feeling is no.
yea I had the same sense - thanks for that feedback. Maybe a screencast? I don't have much time to do a screencast at the moment, but if anybody makes one I will gladly post it up :)
While I'm not aware of anything it certainly stands to reason that they would, especially with their DoubleClick network.

If the EFF with their limited resources figured this out, Google likely would have, too.
from experience: the style mentioned causes a terrible hangover from lack of sleep. I felt sluggish through out the day.

imho, it is far better quality of sleep if you have 4 hours of 'comfortable' sleep vs 10 hours of 'uncomfortable'(as per the author)
I'm interested in some examples of the differences. One thing that struck me when I lived in Japan was how easy it was to set up automatic payment of things like rent and utilities and I thought, wow the US needs these things (I also thought it was cool how I could deposit cash and the atm would count it and update my passbook and how there were signs saying please don't take out more than 100 bills at a time) but all that is here now and I find US banking rather non-sucking overall.
Here's an idea. Add some spinning gyros in the handle (spinning perpendicular to the ground). Picture holding a bike wheel...

Then when the sensors detect an object the axis of the gyro tilt so that it cause the cane to move in the opposite direction of the object. This way you can "feel" objects as opposed to hear them.

Amen?
You're welcome! Real thanks of course goes to woid[1], who made it.

Being able to see the data stored with jQuery.data() in Firebug's HTML inspector is just awesome. Comes in handy all the time.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=woid
"Even with these side-effects, people who suffer schizophrenia are still far better off than if they'd been left untreated."

Except for that this directly contradicts the research, which shows that A) In the U.S. patients are doing far worse than they did in the 50s before drug therapy was introduced and B) patients in developing countries where they use less or no drugs at all do dramatically better than patients in the US.
I was thinking about how I could make it more HN-oriented. Perhaps thinking about a difficult problem.

But that might not be such a bad idea!

At any rate, I think the activities an hour before sleep have more of an effect on the mental component of my sleep than the comfiness of my bed. Also, I think reading a paper book* is the best one I've found. I haven't done it in over a month, though. Time to get back to it, I think.

* I haven't owned a Kindle. I've read my iPad before bed and it hasn't had the same effect as I remember a paper book having.
My parents never ever.
Shouldn't they check that sort of thing before admission?

20 offenses, no way. He's just played them for fools and now they're trying to do their best to get back at him. They should simply throw him out and mark his name on some list and be done with it.
I have their HR's email stating that they have reserved $750 for me from corporate so that I can be reimbursed. I just am not sure if this is my right. I mean, they did promise me and I have their email stating that but isn't it their discretion?
He writes that nobody LOVES their bank. But does anybody really HATE their bank?

I did love the bank I used in the UK (Lloyds-TSB - they gave me an indefinite interest-free 2000 UKP overdraft when I was a student, and have never charged me any fees that I can remember). Conversely, I hate every American bank I've had to do business with (WaMu/Chase and BofA so far).
Many banks do things that, were I a customer, I would definitely hate: http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/devil-details/f...
Right, because of course, an accused person automatically loses all rights and needs to be nailed to the proverbial cross for all to see.

Shaming people went out of style in the middle ages, once convicted it's a different matter, but it seems a bit premature to do this.

The university has a couple of things to explain as well, such as why they believe applicants without checking up.

What's interesting is that the article does not mention how well he was doing academically.
Just wait for the latest version of jQTouch. It'll have iPad support so after few hours of hacking you can make your website look "native" on iPad. Can't wait!
Hmm. Wouldn't it be great if the whole nasty 3.3.1 business turned out to be a moot point, because web apps were what mattered?

People who work on browsers and libraries for them are in a position to make this happen if they want-- to make the Web win as the platform even if the iPad wins as the device. All you have to do is make other browsers fabulously powerful for web apps. If there start to be a lot of things you can do on e.g. Chrome that you can't do on Safari, Safari will be pushed to follow suit.

In fact maybe it will be Chrome and not Android that saves us from Apple's locked-down future. It's certainly a more straightforward problem. Android can only win through partnerships with handset makers, while Chrome can evolve at its own rate.
Gyros + batteries = heavy
IANAL, but I'd say that constitutes a contract. There was a consideration, after all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration
Does anyone here have friends or relatives who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with it. Someone I know was diagnosed, but later the diagnosis was changed by another doctor to manic depressive with bipolar (we were told that it was too early to say affirmatively what the prob was). Every 9 months or so (for the past 3 years), he has episodes where he or someone else has to check him into the hospital because he's delusional (usually paranoid, having delusions of grandeur, sometimes threatening).
As far as I can see it is a 'contract', they said if you do 'x' they'll re-imburse you, you did 'x', they should pay up.

It's definitely not at their discretion to haggle or refuse after the fact.

Until you ordered that ticket they could have backed out.

I'm really surprised they would do this, no reputable firm would mess up like this.

Also makes me wonder if you're the first.
Not to mention their disgusting history. I read the book "The Informant" (unlike the movie, not a comedy) about this whole situation and they were some disgusting people. However, crime is a lot easier when "[d]uring the 1992 election, Andreas gave more than $1.4 million in soft money and $345,000 to individual candidates".*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midland#Price_fi...
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Andreas
Can you please read about the other founders and the actual company before you think they aren't "up on all the details"
Car that Slide Parks itself
The thing about not constantly being able to send patches - I'll need to think about it again, but I thought I came up with a reason for why it didn't work in a general case.

And I didn't just mean saving a copy of the document on the server - you need to do this for most collab. algos. The differential synchronization algorithm requires saving a copy of the document _per client_ on the server.

Otherwise - sounds cool - you should definitely try to implement this and see how it goes.
Perhaps, instead of an inclining bed, one could posit a light. This light turns on around 5:30AM and slowly gets brighter and brighter until it hits a maximum intensity; then, it slowly dims until it sets... err, "turns off"... at around 7:30pm?
Quote from the posting: "But if you make a totally native UI you now have a lack of consistency between products. For games, this is less of an issue, but for a piece of desktop software your users notice either way."

Why do you need cross-platform consistency? Most users use either Mac or Windows port, not both. Instead, focus on consistency _inside_ the platform: give the Mac port "macish" look, because that's what typical Mac user wants – elegant, clutter-free UI.

For example, Skype for Mac is pretty nice, while Skype for Windows is ugly as hell (from Mac user's point of view, Windows user may disagree).
> Users: Consider this. If an app needs an exit button because the back button doesn't properly manage resource use, what do you think the chances are that this exit button will be implemented properly?

Um, I don't think we can solve the problem of users desiring an unambiguous "exit" button by telling them on developer's blog that this is a bad desire. Might as well tell my mom she doesn't need really need a "save" button when she's writing long emails online because they are auto-saved. It's not going to work because (understandably) she finds the "save" button very reassuring since she really doesn't know how computer work.
Extraordinarily, the Slavic languages are chock full of calques that originated in just this way. Educated Slavs in the 17th-18th centuries deliberately modernized their own languages by taking Western words, translating the morphemes individually, and grafting them back together. Modern Czech in particular, if I remember correctly, was largely constructed in this way. The classic example is German Zeitschrift (magazine) being translated zeit → čas (time) and schrift → pis (writing) to produce časopis, "timewriting". Russian has tons of words like this from French (traduire, to translate, went tra → пере (across) and duire → водить (lead) to become переводить, "to crosslead").

Normally such concocted species (like the neologisms in the OP) fail to take root and soon wither. The difference here is that these words were badly needed in daily life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque
I did this once, to try to control my oversleeping (10+ hours a day). I put my mattress into a closet and slept on the floor for a year.

Eventually I just got used to the floor. It became pretty comfortable. I even returned to sleeping on my side after a few months.

I've since found a found some far better ways to control my sleeping habits:

- Eat more.

- Get a job where you must wake up at 5:30, combined with a lifetime habit of not going to bed before 11.

- Sleep under windows facing the sunrise, and don't close the blinds all the way.

I can't going to generalize these for everyone, but I can say it worked for me. Sleeping uncomfortably just didn't work over the long term.
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I have been told that they hire people they know but this charade has been going on to show the upper management that they are 'fair'.
Three birds with one stone: Build a bed with a shower above it. Hook the shower up to a timer. You'll get woken up in the morning, you'll get clean, and you won't want to get back in your (now soaking wet) bed. :)
That could work... but how about something simpler? A light that slowly gets brighter and brighter as it gets closer to the alarm time, with an alarm as a backup? (This exists, btw.)
Personally, I tend to use a sleepmask. Maybe I could build a sleepmask with a light...
Thanks for sharing. With articles like this I really gain a lot by being able to picture faces to the names used.
Subdued lighting in the evening promotes the production of melatonin. Conversely, staring at a lightbulb-like LCD screen inhibits its production. That's why you get tired reading a Kindle in bed, but not an iPad.
It was actually a 2-bit os.

/rimshot
Wow, we wrote essentially the same comment at the same time. Funny how that goes.
Yeah, we need a neologism for companies pursuing crackpot legal theories, betting their entire company on the outcome. This feels like a SCO trial part II.
Actually, I do the same, so my plan wouldn't work for me, either. Foiled! But I will purchase your sleepmask+light if it is cozy enough.
I got to live with a schizophrenic person who subleased after a roommate left. I gained a better understanding for people who suffer this horrible disorder. It validated my theory that many homeless people are schizophrenic--yea, go figure, homeless people who aren't lazy. It's very difficult--stupidly so--to get these people help. They have to threaten your life (or theirs) to get them any kind of help, which undeniably is not good enough yet, so they wind up abandoned by their families, in prison with a horrible mix of drugs, etc.

My case was no different, I had to kick him out because he wasn't paying rent and was causing distress to my other roommates. I would have done the same with a sane person, but I must admit I felt bad because the guy was kind, he just couldn't keep a job, so he couldn't pay me. He still owes me like $600, but I've never contacted him about it. I figure he has a hard enough time as is.
I didn't write this for customers obviously - they deserve to report bugs in any way they want. But I think developers need to do a better job helping their team-members write better bug reports.
I've been banking with a regional bank for years, and while I suppose love is too strong a word for my relationship with them, I would gladly use the words trust, respect, and appreciate.

Of course, even they apparently had a little too much subprime exposure, and were bought up by a larger bank last year, to be fully integrated this summer. If the customer experience goes away with the old name, I'll consider Al3x's new project, but that's the only way.
I thought so too, so I mailed one of the founders a couple of days ago.
Sounds like ING Direct.
Google could not feasibly track their user-base this way. The load time for a Flash application that returns font lists (though short) is much longer than they, or their users would tolerate.
Actually, MEMS gyros (~3-4v power requirement) with NiMh batteries (~8.4v) might work. Just mount batteries near the handle.
ING Direct (ingdirect.com) is an amazing online-only bank that has virtually no fees. They've got amazing customer service. And they have the best bank web user interface I've ever dealt with. BankSimple will need to differentiate themselves from ING Direct somehow.

edit:
Why the downvotes? I use ING Direct as my main bank. I love it. BankSimple will need to differentiate themselves from ING Direct to win me over.

edit #2: I have nothing against BankSimple. I hope they succeed. The market could use another friendly, efficient, tech-savvy bank. Perhaps they will drive innovation in the banking industry.
Some chick in some ramachandran youtube video, if I remember, said a giant black widow told her to cut her shirt with scissors or it'd bite her. And there was a conspiracy against people people who's name started with 'j'.
The movie naked lunch is kinda schizophrenic.
Great article, one of the best writing voices i've ever come across i have to say.

Its possible i may have mis-understood the article, but arent Facebook and Twitter in the best position to monetize this?

I mean "status updates" are exactly that, no? A cry for attention?

Obviously he's talking about paying someone to give you that attention, but would Facebook not be in a very good position to work out who wants it the most, in what way, and how much (roughly) they are willing to pay?

Just a theory
Absolutely agree. Writing template tags in Django involves a lot of boilerplate. Compare for example Mako or Jinja2 where you can easily write a macro to handle something like nested comments.
YCRFS 7? :)
Good source. Thanks a lot.
The engineering side of this situation has been underreported. (Maybe I don't follow the right websites) I support people submitting more stories on the tech side of the spill to HN. Considering the entire thing is being done by robots at 5,000 ft deep, there is some real technology getting used here.
I met Alex when he was still doing top-secret compsec work. BankSimple is a lucky company. I love the premise. Hoorah!