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The fact that it's a tech startup? Seriously, any startup that aims to disrupt our stagnant banking industry has my support.
I have a April 9th, 1990 Carolco bond certificate which paid for Rambo. It hangs on the wall. The basic idea was inspiration to write a screenplay. The bond was paid off, however, though Carolco eventually went under.
http://pttrns.com/activityfeeds is also a great iPhone design resource.
> It's definitely a stretch to say we all run into these issues, but you'd be surprised how many beginner and intermediate-level developers don't know about this issue precisely because they've been insulated from it by frameworks.

Or by most browsers not being broken anymore.

> which browsers it affects

Internet Explorer up to version 7.
"The market is so strong for engineers right now that you don't need to choose between decent compensation and startup environment; you can have both."

Far more articulate than me :)
Only 4 days after losing their Lead Engineer.
http://twitter.com/#!/KirinDave/status/70217986962751488
All pages on this site available over HTTPS. I mean, this is a geek website right?

Free SSL certs are available from StartSSL (https://www.startssl.com). If you need help setting it up, contact me. My rate is $45/hr at 30 minutes = $22.50.
To be clear, this is the first time that these cables have been released to a Pakistani newspaper.

Wikileaks released the cables to an Indian newspaper (the Hindu) a long time ago.

See http://www.thehindu.com/system/topicRoot/The_Pakistan_Cables... for Pakistan-related cables and http://www.thehindu.com/news/the-india-cables/ for India-related cables

Here is a quote from Julian Assange in early April.

I am tempted to say, based upon my reading of The Hindu that it is in a position to report more freely than these other papers are in their respective countries. That may be, I suspect, not just as a result of the strength of The Hindu but as a result of the weakness of the Indian federal government as a structure that is able to pull together patronage networks and suppress journalism as a whole in India. While it’s certainly true that each one of the factions involved in Indian national politics is able to exert pressures, I think it is encouraging that India as a whole has not turned into one central pyramid of patronage, which is something we do see a bit in other countries like the United States.

Assange Interview transcripts are at http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article1688846.ece
The 1.5% they get from every single credit (and debit) card transaction as the issuing bank. I also understand that they'll have no branch locations. My local credit union has no fee checking and savings accounts, and in the years of using them they have only given me fees for the occasional coverdraft and absolutely nothing else. Just like how netflix is usurping cable companies $100 bills for a $10 + Internet bill, they'll do just fine.
Time management and personal discipline are some of the best traits entrepreneurs can have. Being able to control yourself and work diligently and prudently are important for business leaders to execute.
How about women's suffrage? Governments can change to give more or to give less freedom; pretending they are a one way ratchet is counter-productive.
Killer Apps: Beam photos from camera to computer wirelessly
Original article: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/all/1
In some ways the more awesome you are the more humility you have to signal, to avoid seeming arrogant.
I made between 12k-20k a month for a little more than 3 years as an online poker player. And that was only "working" on average between 4 and 5 hours a day.

Sadly I am an American and that is no longer possible.
Also interesting is that the law was upheld by the courts not because the government had the authority to regulate firearms, but because the tax was a revenue-generating measure, not a restriction or prohibition. The court conveniently ignored that the tax was sometimes more than 10 times the price of the item being taxed and therefore effectively a prohibition.
The implication of "no real democracy" is not necessarily "rigged/fake elections", especially since the definition of "democracy" is vague at best, highly relative, and difficult to specify.

Say, for example, you have a traditional British parliamentary system (that's in use in many countries around the world). This imaginary country has 50 seats in government spread around geographically... there are some obvious issues that may arise here:

- Distribution of seats: should be it population-proportionate? Or should it account for land mass? Or economic output? There is already a huge point of contention here.

- Determination of seat: if Party A wins 51% of the popular vote in every single district, then will claim 100% governance of the entire country, despite the fact that 49% of the population voted for someone else. This problem is exacerbated in countries that have more than two major political parties, where the ruling party can be given the mandate despite having what would appear to be a shockingly small portion of the popular vote.

- Appointed vs. elected positions: many countries do not have elected posts throughout the government. Which roles should be appointed instead of elected, and if so by whom?

There are many legitimate claims that you don't have "real democracy" - i.e., the government does not accurately represent the will of the people, before you get into claims of illegitimate and rigged elections.
I think this could be a valuable service, but $99/test seems quite high (compared to similar services targeting desktop instead mobile users). At $500 to run Nielsen's recommended 5 person test, running my own tests starts to look like a viable substitute for your service (considering I'm likely to want to run more than one round of tests).

I think this is true at both ends of the scale: Startups will compare this cost against guerrilla testing techniques (e.g., sourcing testers on fiverr, asking people on the street, or inviting them into a lab for a hour for a small reward). Large firms will compare the value of this service to hiring a more high-touch UX firm (or building this competency internally) that does much more than record test sessions.

For what it's worth, here are some questions I have as a potential buyer:

* How long are the test sessions in general?

* How are the tests "facilitated", or more to the point, what happens if testers don't understand the task instructions or can't get the app to run?

* How are you sourcing testers? Can you quantify their demographics? Can you provide testers that meet specific demographic profiles?
Well, it's true that I can't read people's minds and find out the real reason that they voted for something.

However, it's not true that there weren't signs that herd voting was going on.

I've spent quite a bit of time on HN, and have monitored many popular threads and have seen how comments fared when they've gotten lots of up or down votes.

It was my feeling (though just a feeling, without hard data to support it) that comments would tend to get upvoted substatially more when they already had a relatively high rating, and downvoted when they had a relatively low rating.

Also, I noticed many comments that I considered to be of high quality get passed over for low quality comments with higher scores, and what I considered to be kneejerk downvoting on valuable comments with lower scores.

Now that comment scores are no longer visible, it's harder to gauge these trends, but not impossible.

HN still tends to place higher rated comments near the top, and lower rated comments near the bottom, so you can get a feel for how people are voting on a given comment by making note of how the comment moves up and down the page.

The scores of your own comments are also visible. So you can draw some conclusions from monitoring voting on them.

I would certainly love to see public release of anonymized HN voting data, and some good analysis of these sorts of trends (also on voting patterns in relation to how long a given user has been on HN, and how active that user is, etc..).

Until then, all we have are our own subjective interpretation of what we've seen happen on the site.
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Thanks dwynings! Amazing! Very nice PSDs. I am trying out Photoshop 30days and looked at one of the PSD.

My hope is that I can convert the different layers in the PSD into png and integrate it into my app as images.
It would be interesting to see what the IP of their BT client looks like. Maybe it would be possible to distribute the client across lots of machine and hide the fact that it was fetch.io. It would make it extremely difficult to actually prove that any infringement had occurred. Alternatively they could expose the IP of the end user in the headers and just claim to be a safe harbour.
You want to pay $100k and generate $60k/year without spending much time? I'll take 3.
I haven't recharged the batteries on my Kindle 3 in over a month.
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This is one of the reasons power always tends to concentrate.
Les fonds souverains
Apparus sur la scène de la finance mondiale, les fonds souverains ont été au coeur d’une effervescence économique, politique et médiatique croissante au cours des dernières années. Ces fonds d’État étrangers, mobilisant des volumes de liquidités
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USAA is also available only to members of the military and their families (they've been getting more lax over the years, though).
Well, my observations aren't cliches but come from actual contact with these people. And they aren't geeks, certainly not (that some of them actually wrote some perl programs doesn't make them geeks). My "insults" are factual observations and provide some additional information to form a better picture of the German pirates. And I didn't say they're anti-business because I don't like their dresses but that their appearance is typical for their political agenda and I'm not surprised.

That they dress so badly is--especially in the political domain--an important point. That they (okay, some of them, but the few stink for the whole group) don't shower is also negative when they approach people on the streets for handing out information and recruit supporters. They look and behave like an internet joke in RL. When they greet new people with "Aaaaargh!" this is certainly the way to success...

I'm not rude. I'm just telling the facts. The political domain is unforgiving and they should be thankful for my feedback.
My best comments on the site are not, as a rule, my top-scored comments.

My best comments usually get about 5 points. That's because the best things that I write are usually on very specific topics that I know a lot about. However, the way that breaks down is that there's a tiny number of people who also know enough about those things to know if I'm just talking out of my ass or actually saying something useful. And even if they could tell, there's often not enough backstory for someone who doesn't at least have a passing interest in those areas to make sense of them.

On the other hand, my 50+ point comments tend to be some combination of well-timed, snarky and generic. Basically, they're the sort of thing that HN wants to discourage. As such I'm generally a fan of the scores being hidden.
Actually, amazon hasn't been very clear about whether or not physically lending a kindle is within their terms of service.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6649814.html?rssid=1...
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> The industry isn't just "waiting" they are actively suppressing the revolution.

With some help of legislators ;)
> It seems to me that a smart JS engine could avoid this by noticing that there's no possibility of using element within the first closure, but I'm not an expert.

They don't even need that. Any garbage collection strategy (including refcounting) have no trouble reclaiming cycle (the only GC type which may have problems are refcounting GCs, and they usually have a cycle detector for exactly that purpose).

The only way for this issue to arise is to involve two runtimes, each with its own garbage collector, able to create references between one another.

A cycle crossing the boundary will not be detectable by either GC, and will lead to a leak.

This is exactly what happens in Internet Explorer up to (and including) version 7: JavaScript lives in the jscript engine and the DOM lives in COM, each has its own GC, and they can have references to objects living in the other runtime.
Yet another reason to browse through an interception proxy. Know what you are sending -- it can be enlightening.
On the issue of scores vs no-scores, it'd be possible to A/B test this, so half of HN users see scores, and half don't.

Metrics to track might include the number of comments made, number of hits on the site, number of upvotes / downvotes, and probably many more.

Some people obviously feel strongly about this issue, and it might be necessary to take steps to prevent gaming of the outcome. Keeping the metrics secret until after the test would help with this. So would publicly announcing that only a small (say 10%) but undisclosed subset of users will be used to determine the outcomes of the testing. So any individual user wouldn't know if their behaviour would affect the results, and so would have little incentive to waste their time trying to affect the outcome.

It'd be nice to take a data-driven approach to resolving this question.
I feel as though you're being sarcastic but I'm not sure I understand why. Profound organizational mediocrity is very rarely confined to a single scope of operations, in my experience.
Three years, with the last year being the most intense. We were making $1000 a month in donations all last year, our third year, now we are on to direct sales. Takes a while to build trust!
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> Please, PG, bring the points back? (and while you're at it, stop new users being shown in green?)

+1 (not least because then I could hit the up arrow instead of wasting space with this post).
So, it's just a combination of money = power, and "All power comes from the end of a gun."
This blame the user bullshit has to end.

Honestly, if you worry about viruses, it's your own fault. Period. Either get a different kind of computer. Don't use a computer. Or don't use the internet. Worrying about an event that isn't likely to happen with reasonable precautions is irrational.

Sure zero-days happen that aren't patched yet, but those are rare. Nuclear meltdowns happen to, but I don't worry about it.

My point wasn't that it was her fault for getting a virus. But rather why is she worrying about it on a daily basis? The only sensible rationale is that she's doing something where the risk is relatively high.

And if it is painful to watch her worry about viruses, you should do something. Either get her to do something less risky -- whether its change OSes, stop using the internet, etc... Or get counseling for her. I've just never heard of someone so worried about it, and further never seen anyone in pain due to the irrational worries of computer viruses in a loved one.

And I know I sound like a jerk for saying all of this, but honestly, I think you'd both be much happier with some relatively simple changes in life.
sure, email me dave@thathigh.com
I'm a little biased by submitting this, but I want to pimp Clojure at the same time by saying that I used it to throw together a program that helped process some of the signal data from this experiment. Trying to do the same thing in Java, especially with all the different things I tried, would have been a disaster time-wise.
This confused me at first because of the kickass Hype Framework built FOR Flash from Joshua Davis http://www.hypeframework.org/
Yet another case where "the common way" is wrong and disgusting. Nothing new here.
how did you promote/market this initially?
What do you mean? What api's? What customization? Are you asking about the source of the app?
So, this prob isn't the place, but instead of cards or short range radio, I thought plugging into headphone jacks and having the phone do transactions (akin to what short range radio would do). Doesn't require any modification to phone and is backwards compatible with almost all phones (that have their won sdk (Symbian, iOS, Android, RIM) or use J2ME or BREW.

I wouldn't be able to bring this up myself (I just do code, hardware and banking is beyond me at times), but I would never object to being included with people who could:-D

Anyway, ::shrug::, just thought I'd place the idea out there since I feel it's good and like to see someone do it.
On one hand, the European Convention on Human Rights protects the right to a private and family life, and on the other, you've got freedom of the press. These two acts obviously contradict each other, and so super injunctions exist to allow a judge to decide if the former has greater precedence than the latter.
Social calculators, make calculations then share the results
Save me hours? Over a year maybe. Trust me, this isn't the biggest time suck I have. stares intently at HN
If you are in the UK, how do you know which people you aren't allowed to publish stories about? How do you know if a super injunction is in force? Are they published somewhere?
Seems like a good start, but their animations seem really sluggish on my Macbook. Could just be me though!
Can someone compare this to Sencha's product?

http://www.sencha.com/products/animator/
Yes, that's exactly what the article said.
An interesting idea. But what would stop someone from continuously creating new accounts until they got an account which could see the scores?
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cat -n is discussed in Pike and Kernighan's paper on Unix style: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
As I've posted below, it's going to be a bit tough for them.

However, while traditional banks make a lot of revenue from fees and such, traditional banks also have a lot of costs. Traditional banks have very large staffs that BankSimple won't have, traditional banks have lots of real-estate that BankSimple won't have, etc.

So, there is the potential that BankSimple is cutting out the fee revenue, but they're also cutting out a lot of the costs and that they'll offset (or it'll be enough that they can succeed, even if succeed with lower than average profit margins for the banking industry).

I'm also guessing that online banks get a higher percentage of their clients from the no-fee club. There are already e-banking divisions of many banks that offer higher rates, ATM reimbursements, etc. So, there's some wiggle room there.

It will be difficult, but they're going for it. Again, I'm skeptical. There are a number of e-banks that offer better terms than physical banks, but haven't quite gone all the way on no-fee. It isn't a sector where there aren't competitors already. So, BankSimple is going to have its work cut out for it.
This is very intelligently done. I'm glad they are releasing the cards to just a small set of people first to check that everything works. People are very wary of any issues with their money/with their bank and absolutely any problem at the beginning would seriously hurt user adoption. Start slow and make sure it works.
That is apparently no longer the case. The only major services non-military are ineligible for are auto and property insurance.

Eligibility description here: https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/why_choose_usaa_eligibility_...
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The iOS UI collection shows the standard UI elements. It's useful if you want for prototyping and showing in power points/keynotes.

But I want skins to replace the native "blueish" skins.
So your issue is mostly with email-related support issues?

I'm working on something and considering if hosting will be a bigger headache than it's worth and if I can get away without offering it. I'm thinking I can't and that it won't be bad anyway.

I expect to keep things limited in scope so don't anticipate the issues you're having but I'm concerned that I might be overly optimistic.
What do you need?
I've had a very different experience with customer service.

I was able to do a lot of things like dispute charges, change address, and get information very easily on the phone with less than outlandish waiting times.

And I never incurred ATM fees either by using ATM's from my bank or just by using a credit card when I didn't have any cash.

The only real advantage I'd want is more ATM availability and higher interest rates. Otherwise, I can't say I've had that bad of an experience with a bank.
Perhaps you can you add a qr code beside the "Test it on your phone (read-only):" link so users can view the test site on their phones without typing it in? Nice work!
You can't "fix" it. It's deliberate.
I've found that when I use the webkit inspector, those unused values don't show in the Closure section of the Scope Variables display, and if I put a breakpoint in there and try to reference the unused variables I get a Reference Error.
Florida legislature: No tolerance for print
I wouldn't read too much into what the UK law says - it's mostly totally ignored in this respect:everybody passes books on and we still have a thriving second-hand book market (albeit one mostly funded by the sale of coffee).

I've seen no evidence that the US has vastly superior public libraries to the UK: all UK cities have a large, comprehensive (non-lending) public library often built by Carnegie. Our local lending Libraries, however, are struggling here due to cuts in government funding - nothing to do with these copyright laws as far as I can tell.
As someone coming from the visual arts side, I have to say that Adobe Flash is an amazingly great tool, and CS5 can already export to HTML5.

Does Hype add anything substantial to that or is it mainly competing on price? Is there a trial version?
It's actually closer to 1.1% of card transactions (our cards are debit cards). We also earn income as we pay out interest to our customers. We'll do fine.
I hope this doesn't sound condescending because I'm very, very far from an expert in this field, but you might want to spend some time researching conventional methods of business valuation. I'm pretty sure your expectations are a little off here.
I think hivemind voting is pretty evident at times. You will see certain users with a much higher upvote (based on placement) than someone who had a far more insightful, far more thought and discussion provoking comment that was posted much earlier - and those certain users are people with names the community knows and respects (often rightfully so). This doesn't mean that those users should be upvoted just because of who they are.

Granted I have no facts to back this claim up - but I have seen it happen again and again - just the way certain popular blogs always reach #1 regardless of their content.
You could exclude recently created or low-karma accounts, or at least track them separately. Indeed, there are many subgroups of HN users it might be interesting to track. E.g., new users, or users who've had accounts for a long time, or users with particularly high average comment scores, etc.
In the thousands per month from iPhone app downloads and web apps subscriptions.
Unfortunately it's more because my customers are. If I could just move I would have to have maintained that level of income. It's hard to pass up a few hundred grand a year for not much work.
Surely the question should be: why aren't any of these desktop clients good enough for you to stick with? What are their flaws that outweigh those of Gmail?
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Strong agree.

One of my highest-rated comments (inexplicable; I'm embarrassed by it):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2184067

Meanwhile, here's a comment I actually had to do research to write. Skim it and take a guess how its karma relates to the previous comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994085

Hint book: ZBER GUNA RVTUG GVZRF YRFF XNEZN.
These look great, and I'm surprised I've never heard of them. How do you market them?