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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." --Mark Twain
Aha, I see, I can set a cookie for *.domain.com (or .domain.com) and then it will also work for all subdomains.
I'd keep trying to contact them then look at walking away. An SSL-related issue like that is not something you're going to get accused of hacking for reporting.

If you're really serious you could contact your local information privacy directorate (in the UK this would be the Information Commissioner's Office - I don't know who it is for the US) and ask them to investigate.
I do not understand where the confusion lies. In the vast majority of cases its use is simple.
Just enroll.
If only there were a way to get them to do something worthwhile. I'm sure if you went to these copyright pushers a couple years ago and said "Yes, you'll be able to get legislation that allows you to kick people off the internet for downloading movies. The only cost is your website will be down for a day or two in October 2010.", they would have signed up in a heartbeat.
Nothing silly about the name "Mint"
Sorry for the late reply - the font was more a matter of personal taste. I like the sans much better.

Of course if I used it often enough I'm sure I'd remember which was points and which was comments, but when you make a choice like that you should remember you are forcing the users to learn and remember that. There are going to be users that simply don't like being forced to do that extra mental effort.
Um, the machine I'm using now cost about $400 and doesn't have an SSD, runs Ubuntu with programming IDEs, OpenOffice and WinXP virtual instances for IE testing and Flash and Gmail open constantly and it almost never hangs or feels unresponsive unless a program is misbehaving, which is rare and easy to detect and fix.

I'm really curious about his setup. If it's Windows, I've been able to make long-used Windows machines feel much snappier by trimming cruft annually or so. One of the reasons I love Ubuntu so much is that I don't have to do that.
But humanity is inanity.

Most people just aren't going to be building rocket ships. They have normal lives and want to keep up on what their friends, relatives, and loved ones are doing.

Keeping in touch with your friends after college is a real service, and one we take for granted now thanks to Facebook.
Full support for UK banks. I hate having to go to the bank site, download the data in Quicken format, go to the finance app site, upload the data, demungify the data then classify the spending. At that stage it's offering me little more than can be achieved with a spreadsheet.
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Mint is a great name agreed but what's the actual impact? 5%? 10%? 50%? Possibly not even 5%
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I really loved reading this post. Thanks Marc, for sharing! I'm sure that brought back some painful memories. Totally worth it to us ;)
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Come on by next time you're in Chicago. See how you feel about it in person.
Classic cockney is rhyming but two-steps removed. ie.

* cocaine -> charlie -> bob marley -> bob

* telephone -> dog n' bone -> dog

* friend -> mate -> china plate -> china

see: "The construction involves replacing the common word with a phrase of two or three words, and then in almost all cases, omitting the original rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia"

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang

I have heard all three of those examples in common use (especially in South Africa)
yeah ... that was my point ... it's a tradition to write Lisp in Lisp / Scheme in Scheme but it's also a testimony to the simplicity of Lisp 1.0. The actual first functioning Lisp interpreter was written in IBM 704 assembler, but once that was done, everything else from that day forward could have been done in Lisp. A fair amount of it was, once macros and Lisp compilers showed up.
It's an interesting read and worth bookmarking if you can't get through right now (the page was going in and out as I read it).

It's kind of depressing though in that his point boils down to neither side's solution being all that effective at solving the problem. Moreover his meta point seems to be that it's too complicated a problem for politicians to solve based on their need to boil things down to a sound bite solution.
Ouch ... I just tried to signup, and got a 503 error when I tried to confirm my account. HN effect? :)
Something about Mint struck me as refreshing; I thought it was mostly their home page design because I always thought their name a little generic. But you're completely right -- it's a great name and their website design really reinforces the feelings associated with the plant.

I'd love to hear what you think makes a really good name. What about playful-type/kinda-made-up names like Google and Yahoo and Reddit?

I spend a lot of time starting up new projects, so I'm always looking for good names and it'd be cool to hear what you think, since you obviously spend a bit of time thinking about this sort of thing.

Recently I was thinking about starting a lesson sharing site for teachers called Lessonauts. It's a silly name, I know, but it stuck in my head. I also considered LessonNotes, Educape, and ShareLesson.
And it's down... http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://licorize.com/
Oh, in that case, I respectfully disagree. To me, the 'visual design' of a site is what it looks like in Photoshop, or Gimp, or what have you, before it is even necessarily sliced into even HTML bits.

Once it is sliced into HTML, and the mouseovers, hover elements and all that jazz are added (or not, depending on your workflow), that's when I consider it a 'UI' instead of a 'design'.

Before either of those happens, you need to have at least given consideration to your 'UX', which is a concept encompassing movement between functions, what goes where, how you move from page to page, what glows or fades when you hover / click / etc., and all that jazz.

Perhaps I'm the idiot here, and I'm segregating the concepts unnecessarily, but I don't feel like I am, though I'm sure my explanation here is poor (sorry -- pressed for time).
"Guess what? I don't give a fuck!" Reality is I heard that before, if you run a startup I'm sure you have too.
I've never done that; I always see either dmgs (on Mac) or installers of some sort (on Mac and Windows). The thing you download is a single file, but they expand into a lot of files. The Mac makes it look nicer with the .app idea, but you're still getting a bunch of files in there, one of which might be an interpreter for some of the other files.
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How's this on HN... oh it's YC startup!
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Yeah, a name like mint.com has a truckload of authority, while wesabe sounds like some foodie's blog.

"I think the examples of Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, Google, and plenty of others make it plain that even ludicrous names (as all of those were thought to be when the companies launched) can go on to be great brands. "

None of those names are "ludicrous", nor were they when they started. They don't have much to do with their function, but as names go, they're solid. All of them are spelled the way a normal person would guess (even google is more guessable than googol), which adds a little functional value, but more importantly adds to comfort and trust.

All else being equal, would you be more likely to entrust financial access to mint.com or myntt.com?
And it's back. I got signed in with my new account, and I checked the settings to see what account it gave me. It says: "Your premium license expires on: Saturday October 01, 2140 ... and good luck." Guess I'll need the good luck to live to see the end of my premium license!
The author mentioned that this page is not quite ready yet -- I think he meant to give the code a bit more polish, and I guess that's why lispy.html has reader's comments while this doesn't.
They blame it on Skype withdrawing their Extras program and litigation over an existing patent.
Why couldn't you?
Knowing how to design a website and being able to design a website are two very different things. You just know how to design a website. You are not able to design one though.
Uh, I thought they did. http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/06/25/google-isnt-just...
I wrote a few things in cython to give it a try and it's amazing what static typing can do to improve the efficiency of the code. Just don't look at the auto-generated .c file though, it looks scary, but this seems to be a common occurrence (swig comes to mind).
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yes, but even before Mint, there was Yodlee MoneyCenter... so you could say that Mint was really nothing more than a "better designed MoneyCenter"
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$3 for the digital edition now? You got greedy.
why down vote. Should i take my congratulations back.
I'll be writing up a post about what it was like working with each vendor as well. Not sure when I'll get around to it, but I'm looking forward to sharing the experience.
Yes - should be fine now.
To my eye, webp reduces compression artifacts at the expense of losing detail (this is especially visible in the portrait example).

Another way to accomplish a similar effect without requiring a new file format would be to apply a selective gaussian blur (or another de-artifacting filter) to highly compressed jpegs before displaying them.

Of course, no one does that because the trade-off is generally not considered to be a good one.
The Amiga 600 was a train-wreck, or as in the words of then Commodore UK MD David Pleasance, "a complete and utter screw-up".

It was supposed to be 50-60$ cheaper than it's predecessor, the A500+ but worked out about 50$ more expensive than the A500, while missing a numeric keypad (which was used for flight sims and other software) and any true Amiga fan would've avoided as it offered nothing over an A500+ with the A1200 only 6 months away.

To be fair, the latter part of Commodore's life (post-Tramiel) was a great exercise in how not to run a large company with a leading product.
Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds
I tried reporting a high risk to a popular local shopping website. Infact, I also offered to fix it for them.

But the response was merely a "Thanks for letting us know. We'll look into it". It's been over a year but it's still there.
This is true. But its still worth trying to write an interpreter for any language. I made up my own language which is a slimmed down and extremely consistent version of javascript. I was making the problem easy for myself but I still felt that I learned something - a way of thinking. Plus at the time my day job was throwing up some very unpretty problems. Writing the interpreter on the side generated momentum that kept me going through all the crap. I often think this may be the real benefit (intended or otherwise) of google's decision to let its employees work on a side project one day a week. It keeps them inspired. It also keeps them from getting creatively frustrated and taking it out on the product code by overengineering it.
My point was really that this is plain old HTML and should degrade gracefully.

Currently Im not able to sign up on a modern webkit-based browser and that's not too flattering for a otherwise rather simple webpage.
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Should be automatic on registration (wtf no + sign in my email??).
You can verify by going to settings -> licence.
If I wanted Penis humor, I'd be surfing /b/.

This is inane. Aside from a bad movie about Facebook, why is this here?
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I was not arguing about relational algebra or theoretical expressivity or logical equivalence or anything like that. I was simply stating that in practice most business problems are easier to model and more flexible to query in the MongoDB model.

Of course you need some time get used to thinking in terms of documents rather than tables and rows. But once you get used to the idea you can easily model most domains that occur in practice.

> MapReduce is a distributed computation engine. While it can be used in that way it was never meant to be a database system. BigTable is proof enough of that.

Yes, MapReduce in the Google and Hadoop sense is designed for massive batch processing. That's why BigTable and HBase exists. MapReduce in the CouchDB and MongoDB sense is a Turing complete query and processing layer built on top of a column store. In the CouchDB case MapReduce is the only way you can query the database.

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Introduction_to_CouchDB_views
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/MapReduce
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Aggregation#Aggregation-...
How does it handle absolute positioning? scrolling?

Firebug to the rescue:

- absolute positioning works great

- content overflows (so it still needs some scrolling solution)
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Negotiations: Allowing your opponent to save face
Does anyone have any good anecdotes and tips for allowing the opposite side of an argument or negotiation to save face?

This is something I need to work on. I have the classic flaw where I outright railroad people with what I know is right in a situation, and I realize that I need to temper this, to allow them to save face.
call/cc, for one, certainly needs more work. Maybe at least a mention that this implements escape continuations and not the full continuations that, say, DrRacket implements.

I really enjoy Norvig's writing. Will wait for it to be finished.
That's a ridiculously poor counter-argument.
Assuming Yahoo was aware of the top management's threat of leaving if sold to Yahoo, it quite likely would have torpedoed the Yahoo deal.

Even if Yahoo wasn't aware of the threat, I would think the Yelp board would be in trouble if they sold a "furnished house" to Yelp at a 25% premium, but it turned out that the house's furnishings all disappeared before Yahoo took possession.
As long as the crawler can't execute POST requests, no one who has built their web application properly will have any problems.
I can also believe it's "in progress." I wanted to know more about the picture tagged as "First Lisp Interpreter." Checking the link revealed that it is amazingly to the dynamic(?) Facebook(!) resize of:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Russell-PDP-1-2...

(So it's Steve Russell in the front of the PDP-1)

and I wouldn't expect the Facebook service to be used in the final version.
To save other people a google, that's the time Apple uses for iPhone screenshots in their keynotes that start at 9 am, so that whey they are displayed they have approximately the right time.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/193998/iphone_mystery_solved_...
> Unlike asbestos removal, “as best as” removal is easy, and you don’t have to wear a hazmat suit.
Effect / affect is a bugbear of mine, it pops up every now and again in bug descriptions and so on i.e. "this bug has effected a number of users".

Great reference site, thanks.
I'd heard arguments that compared the UK's NHS spending to that of the US, and after doing a couple of searches after reading this article, I found quite a nice infographic here:

http://www.visualeconomics.com/healthcare-costs-around-the-w...

Seems that this article matches up against the data in the infographic at least.
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I know me too posts are generally frowned upon, but this was the exact issue I personally found as well.

The About Us page doesn't give me any information on the company itself, what it does, the video didn't really clarify anything.

To me it just seems like it is delicious with some added features that allows bookmarks to easily be shared between team members for a project. While cool, I am not sure I would pay for a service such as that ...
The minute your company/application/service depends on something, that something becomes your weakest link.

From the announcement, Skype decided that they will no longer pursue the Extras market. Fine. What was the backup plan for the company? Surely they must have thought of that happening even if it seemed improbable at the time. They 'gambled' with the Extras since there was never a guarantee that that service will continue. Very smart move to reach an audience of 20 million or more but it backfired on them :(

As far as the patent is concerned, they could have researched a bit more regarding their service but then again everyone sues everyone about a weird patent nowadays...

Wishing them the best of luck.
There is still plenty of innovation happening in this space for those outside of the US. I know of three New Zealand based startups http://www.pocketsmith.com , http://www.xero.com and http://www.heaps.co.nz
Yup, marked the pdf in the wrong place. Too late to edit it though.
You can actually do better by selling software and hardware infrastructure to other evil geniuses working to antagonized (er... disrupt) established companies.
It's so far-fetched and fake that I'd end up dressing like Willy Wonka and try hiring midgets to do my work.
I could see a lot of nefarious individuals learning from this and using it to cause tragedies for short-term gain (i.e. shorting a stock). It does seem quite stupid to open up the door on something that could cause so much harm.
I know it's been said many times, but Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts is a wonderful approach that squeezes maximum value, maturity and robustness out of a mostly-good language with some spectacularly bad bits.
I wouldn't include social security and medicare on an income tax receipt. That would be an income tax + payroll tax receipt.
High court hangups
Apart from the fact that Mint is a credit card company in the UK and hold the top google result as well as Mint.co.uk
probably some bandwidth problem. Now it seems to work fine.
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> Mint is a great name agreed but what's the actual impact? 5%? 10%? 50%? Possibly not even 5%

Impossible to measure that, because you can't do controlled experiments. But if you're asking, "Why did Mint make the first blockbuster web-based personal finance product?" I think you'd have to have their name/branding in the top 3-5 reasons.

Edit: But if you put a gun to my head and demand that I guess - then 35%. Totally arbitrary, but that's: The increased signup/conversion rate, increased trust, increased media/PR, increased word of mouth, and increased prestige/exposure/desirability for acquisition. I think it produces huge benefits in all of those areas.
Great name, but 0 impact on their success.
You were most likely downvoted because people don't want threads filling up with a bunch of "congrats!" type comments, which are admittedly friendly but don't really add anything to the conversation.

Even though one or two might not seem like too many, "none" is a simpler heuristic than "how many are there? Ok, we have enough, downvote any new ones..."
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"as HTML and CSS are an ideal and flexible way to prototype"

They are a way to prototype. And sure, they may be more flexible than writing Objective-C. But they are far from ideal or even reasonably flexible.
For what looks to be a GTD-focused app (guessing?), the website description is surprisingly lackadaisical; rather far away from a GTD-focused package.

Six web pages into a pretty (and slow) web site, and I still can't sort out why I'd even want it.

The product is apparently (arguably) competing with MobileMe syncing, various Firefox extensions, Gmail, Instapaper and (based solely on the number of times the word is used) Delicious.

And I don't see how it's better than any of that.
Probably did it the old fashioned way, called his broker.
This is in the works right now.
What I take from the Henry Ford quote is that you shouldn't ask people what your core business or product should be. However once you know what it is you should absolutely talk to them to improve it.
My 2 cents:

1. Mint was viral to a degree. The service itself wasn't, but their blog was. They put a lot of effort into building a community around their blog - posting tips and guides on managing your finances, and so on.

2. I wonder if Wesabe ever tried shifting to be a more power-user service. If what he says is true, it sounds like they could made it into a service that caters to people that really do want to actively manage their finances.
I was unaware that being homeless was now considered "hacking the system to have no permanent address." I agree, however, that he demonstrated considerable mastery of the telephone at the senior center.
It is only client-side verification. I used tamper data and a url-encoder, and I was able to get a + sign in my email (and the verification email was sent with no problem).

But yeah, it's annoying when companies try to make their own email parser and get it completely wrong.
You sparked off an interesting conversation with myself and a developer friend about just how to do this and I think we have the answer... Stay tuned.
It's my personal opinion that Javascript is the language of the future. One could argue it's actually the language of today with everything becoming a rich Web App. I'm not a hardcore CompSci language expert by any means - have just used dozens of languages over the years - and Javascript has become my favourite language by a large margin. The simplicity and flexibility of it is just so appealing. It's the GTD done of programming languages. I should also add that I don't have too much experience with functional languages just a little dabbling in Scheme and Lisp.
It's just this audience; hackers who bill their clients $75 / hr will spend an hour trying to avoid paying $3 for something online that they want, while sitting in a coffee shop and drinking a latte and a muffin they just paid $8 for. It makes no sense.
There are many different aspects as to why health care is so expensive in the US. I never really hear about doctor's salaries being mentioned as a cause. I was browsing glassdoor.com a few nights ago. The professions making more than 300k a year as salaried employees were almost all medical specialists. I really doubt any other country pays their doctors that well.
The point of English is that when they become common enough they become correct.
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How did delicious evolve from a personal project to a company?
Ask HN: Free (good) alternatives to Squarespace?
Are there any? Of course they'd offer premium services as well at a cost, but I'm looking for any sites like squarespaces that are free.
+1 For a cracking headline
Btw couldn't 19790509 also be 5th Sep 1979 instead of 9th May?
sigh

The articles go into this - yes, the salaries are higher than expected, but they're a relatively small part of the problem. It's that we consume more care than any other country, and by a lot. We have to find a way to reduce demand. That's the problem.
A websites name is extremely important. Anyone that doesn't think that has never started a company. It needs to be simple, easy to say, easy to spell, and unique/meaningful.

Take eBay. This name actually has nothing to do with Auctions if you have ever read about where it came from, but it is perfect because it is unique, easy to say/spell, and brandable.

Don't underestimate a good name, it is an absolute necessity now with all the millions of websites out there.
The reason we don't have a solution thus far is the fundamental disagreement between those who want a total government solution(public option/healthcare) and those that want a complete free enterprise solution.

The idea of the government deciding who lives and dies creeps me out. If you are democrat remember power is cyclical and one day a republican may be deciding whether you or your loved ones live or die.

I don't have the perfect answer, but I know it's not either extreme.