skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ING direct was sold to Capital One last week.

Wow. That's the first I heard of the news. A quick Google News search shows many ING customers (like myself) are upset.

This could be a boon for BankSimple. If Capital One botches the ING experience over the next two years, I'll definitely defect to BankSimple (assuming it's comparable).
I've never used, but for a general purpose bank, I hear good things about Ally. A pretty good site that gathers info and allows for some research is http://www.mybanktracker.com/
Incentive ideas to create customer loyalty
Yes but those flesh and blood actors have some very peculiar failure modes once the weight of fame rests on them. This makes for great gossip news.
I think it is worth mentioning that while the GUI could use a few tweaks, the overall user experience was amazing. And got right a number of things that were hard or tempting to get wrong:

1. Let me enter an email address separate from my GitHub account.
2. Automatically found git repos on my system. Let me pick which ones to use.

My only two requests are:

1. Show untracked files the way git does, where if a whole folder is untracked, it only shows up in the list once, rather than showing every subfolder and file inside it.

2. Handle submodules better: let me see the submodule changes in a commit, let me browse and commit submodule changes and the commit the parent.
Cindy Crawford Beauty Pictures, Pics, Wallpapers & Photos
Cindy Crawford is so hot girl and she is one of the world's most beautiful women. She is popular as a supermodel. Cindy Crawford has appeared just about everywhere that advertisements are allowed. She is so popular therefor In 1995, Forbes magazine ranked her as the most highly paid model in the world.
"Hi, I have 15 customers I've led along to believe they might get a half off deal at your restaurant, are you game or should I just tell them your word is no good?"
"The difference is Node has an ecosystem of async 3rd party libs for IO drivers etc."

This is also an utterly false and misleading argument. You think these multiple event-based ecosystems were all staffed by drooling idiots who didn't realize that? This isn't some sort of subtle point that can be used as a base of a secret sauce, it's a blindingly-obvious core requirement. They all have drivers for all that sort of thing. Some more than others, but they all have the basics. Many were better stocked with more and higher-quality libraries four years ago than Node.js has now.

This is why I say I hate the Node hype, even as I'm only really ambivalent about Node itself. It's bullshit. It's like Ryan Dahl went into hibernation in 1995, only to pop out again a couple of years ago. It's full of lies about the state of the programming world. Node looks fucking awesome if you uncritically swallow the propaganda packet. Well, gosh, no wonder, it's like a magical 2010-ish library magically showed up in 1995! Node looks "meh" at best, and as I said, heading down a dead-end trail, if you look at where it sits in the real programming landscape in 2011.
How good of a source is a random forum post, though?

Compared to an official line from a company or government, it's pretty shaky.
Valve licensed Quake code from id, and GoldSrc/Source are descended from that. There is no Quake2 or Quake3 code, the improvements over Quake are pure Valve.
YES! You cannot BROWSE GAMES! This is a massive oversight in the Google Chrome Web Store.

I go there a couple times a week - NOT to download something new (because that would be a waste of time give the way the store works right now) but to see if it's possible yet to browse through games, game categories, or sub-categories.

I just want to look around, find something good.

I don't know WHAT to search for when I want a game. The featured games are usually nothing I would be interested in either. When I want to find a game, I look by category, see if something appeals to me, check out screen shots, download.

It's super sad. Really really really sad that I cannot browse game categories.

This is ALSO the reason I have not ventured into porting any of my games to Chrome Web Store. What's the point? If they can't find me browsing, the likelihood of my games being found by search is next to none.

P.S. This is also what is VERY wrong with the Android Market. There are just a few game categories. I've exhausted my browsing in these categories now and it's frustrating. There must be more categories in the Android Market for games as well.
Isn't Samsung still holding on to Meego?
No, I get it. As you said, the pricing probably says that this is not for startups on a tight budget. If I am looking to test an idea with little downsize risk, I probably choose something else over DotCloud simply because of the price. Later, when I want the supposed scalability, then DotCloud is the choice. Is the free "trial" account a time-limited account (as with Squarespace), or something more similar to Heroku?

See, Heroku is the elephant in the room. Initially, I saw DotCloud as the Heroku for Django (and other platforms), but the pricing, and how you describe it, says otherwise. There unfortunately appears to be some market confusion, as they seem to be targeting a different market segment than many people thought. The challenge is for DotCloud to educate the market that they aren't necessarily a Heroku-type service, but something else that justifies a $99/month price.
I've waited > 1wk before for middle-sized transfers. What network rules are there? I wasn't aware of anything other than float causing delays in inter-bank transfers.
You just described Intellectual Ventures exactly.
That's one heck of a markup.
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BlockExplorer won't help you in this hypothetical case because as I understand it MtGox doesn't even pretend to preform actual BTC transactions until you withdraw. Before you withdraw your "BTC" are only numbers in MtGox's internal system. They could be selling you additional of these numbers without having the actual BTC behind them available.

Anyway, I'm not saying they have sold more than they actually have, just that it is a technical possibility.
Print version: http://www.itworld.com/print/176653
I am from south america. Consider Uruguay (punta del este on summer for surf) and Chile ,if you are worry about security, they are near ocean and are the safest places to live.
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We don't actually know that they dont suck..they have not launched yet.

I was really hoping to move to a better bank. I am ready and BankSimple still is not available so I need to go shopping and exclude BankSimple from my list. I wont switch twice that is for sure..Lost my business.
You should really get in touch with us :)
I use USAA for my general banking, but their savings interest rates just aren't competitive. I've had smaller transfers go that quickly, but larger ones still seem to take a couple days.
MtGox is a bank. When you put money in a real bank, it doesn't go into a box labeled "alttab's money", it goes in a box labeled "everybody's money" and there's a piece of paper called "alttab's account" with a number on it. When the bank robbers come, they take the box with money in it, but they don't take the piece of paper. Then when you try to withdraw your money, the bank manager opens the box of money and says "oops."
I'm starting at Facebook in about a week and a half and a big reason I chose Facebook over Google as an infrastructure guy was (somewhat ironically) their openness (in infrastructure/engineering practices).

I much prefer the quick Facebook note to the occasional well-edited white paper.
I mainly look to egit to help me stage refactorings correctly as move + edit operations in the index. Should I be worried about that?
I'd write that snippet the following way:

for (var i = 0, ii = list.length; i < ii; i++) {
sum += list[i].amount;
}

Or:

for (var i = 0, ii = list.length; i < ii; i++)
sum += list[i].amount;

There are ways to make normal JavaScript not look ugly ;)

EDIT: fixed minor oversight
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Netherlands launches Internet freedom legislation
Actually, it's one heck of a typo :)

Our real price is $1/10MB. Sorry about that.
Structural insight: Fexpr
I am sure it is very complicated, but they need to be careful with the hype, especially since it the meanwhile some other online offerings (such as ING direct) have been getting better, to the point that it seems to me that the opportunity to truly impress is getting smaller.
That guy
I have also used wbm when I was trying to do an analysis of sites that are similar to the ones that I cook up every once in a while just to see what they had at launch.
Sorry, I find your pricing rather confusing.

A service represents a given application or database, such as PHP, Ruby or MySQL. For example, if your plan includes 2 services, you can run an instance of Python and an instance of MySQL. If you wanted to use an additional runtime, such as PHP, you would need an additional service.

Okay, so I pay $99 for 4 of these "services".
Does a service equate to one UNIX process of my application running in a sandbox on one of your servers? How are resources allocated on the (presumably) shared host?
How much RAM does my service get?

And then there's this, which I hope is a typo:

Database services scale differently [...] With the Pro plan, database services have 10 GB of disk, and 300 MB of RAM. [...] Additional database capacity can be added to the Pro or Enterprise plans, at $1 / MB of RAM / month, and $1 / GB of disk / month.

One second. 300MB Ram for a database?
And upgrading to a still microscopic 1GB of Ram will cost me $700/mo?

And 1TB of disk will cost me $1000/mo?

Seriously?
Then take it few steps further with a 360 degree fish eye lense strapped to your forehead, and some sort of VR helmet display for playback. Then take the camera while skiing, mountain climbing etc., and you would essentially have a brainscanning device like in the movies Strange Days, or Brainscan.
Samsung? No. Last I heard LG wanted to make a Meego phone. I'd like to see Meego at least get a shot from 2 or 3 manufacturers.
You don't get to be Carmack or Abrash by working 8-5. They didn't have a slave driver boss standing there making them work, they did it because its what they love doing.
What no JQuery option?
Eventually, I hope, but I wouldn't want to make any promises.
That's not the point. I'm not an FCP user but from reading the threads there I can hear the screams of betrayed and abandoned professional users. You don't screw around with pros like that. Imagine Apple telling you that HyperCard was how you had to code for iOS and did away with all the detailed control you had when using professional methods currently available. I think your screams might be even louder. [typo edit]
Is websocket support for node.js coming any time soon?

There are already solutions for nginx/websockets on github.
Right $100 is hideously expensive for a starting price, I guess it was a good business model to announce pricing after generating word of mouth.
Ask HN: Who can host a jboss portlet written from eclipse?
If I make a jboss portlet in my eclipse and it is published to localhost, how can I get it hosted on the web ("the cloud", etc.). What cheap hosting service can I use to zip up my .war file and so forth and send it to them to host on the web? Just any old web hosting company? Or does it have to be specific? Thinking of playing around with portlets as an excercise and wondered whom I could get to host.
I'm the author of the PragProg book on CoffeeScript: http://pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee/coffeescript

It's heartening to see so many people responding to this poll. I hopped on the CoffeeScript bandwagon more than a year ago; a week of using it was enough to convince me to stop writing pure JS. It's become my favorite language, even overtaking Ruby. (Cue dhh at last month's RailsConf keynote: "Looking at CoffeeScript was the first time I got language envy.")

These last six months have been amazing: In December, CoffeeScript hit 1.0. In April, it officially became a part of Rails. In May, Jeremy Ashkenas gave a talk alongside Brendan Eich at JSConf. That same month, the beta of my book was PragProg's #1 direct seller.

So who knows what the next year holds for CoffeeScript? It's probably never going to take off in cubicle-land—and for that we should be grateful. But I would like to see it get more traction beyond the Ruby and Node.js worlds. (Pythonistas, represent!) And I'm sure we'll see far more high-profile projects written in it... and not just at 37signals.

For web developers, JavaScript is where the action is right now. And CoffeeScript is, in my opinion, the best way to write JavaScript.
Bing grabs market share from Google over past year
I'd normally never submit something like this. It's mainstream (CNET). But I was a little stunned that Google has lost <i>10 points</i> in the last year.
BCC started on $4 a month GoDaddy hosting (static web pages are cheap), but my Slicehost bill as a salaryman quickly exceeded my rent.

Total agreement regarding segmentation, by the way. This is why it costs nothing to have me write an email and five figures to copy that email into a PowerPoint. I do not do this because PPT is hard; I do it because if you need a PPT from me you're a Serious Business and I charge to match.
You're meant to use the public API twisted.web.client.Agent (which uses _newclient). If anyone's interested in finishing keep-alive support, the ticket is http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3420
A Wee Bit of Science - the importance of drinking enough water
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Alcoholism patient gets high on hand sanitizer
A 116 digit number is not a 16 digit number.
I think you conclusion is right but the way you get there isn't quite. It's not so much about some special property of Android or Meego, it's about control. WP7 might work great on tablets but Nokia can't just decide to make it run on tablets. That's Microsoft's decision. Nokia doesn't control their destiny. If they settle on WP7 the best case scenario for them is to become a company like HTC only with even less control over their software.
Thanks Shykes! I've been building my app on your service and have become hooked. I showed your tour video to my office today and they were all very intrigued. Congratulations on the launch.
Yes, they are not a sequencing company, they are a post-sequencing analysis/storage company.
"I think the Flash-based restaurant example has had it's time. Let's try and move past the fallacy that most Flash-based sites are restaurant sites. They're not. YouTube, Grooveshark, blog.tv, etc. are all possible because of Flash."

I'll stop using that example as soon as I stop having that problem once a week. It's even worse in fashion, where designers for tiny brands continually get suckered into making flash-only sites that are essentially useless beyond being brochureware.

Are there sites that use Flash to great benefit? I have no doubt, although it seems to me the examples you're using are just using it as a way to deliver media. But for 99% of web sites, Flash is a bad idea and provides little benefit. I use Flashblock on my browsers, and the only time I seem to need to unblock anything is to watch a video. That's a bad sign for folks looking for a long-term use of Flash outside of players and video games.
It's been usable for over a year, even. Grandparent's comment is really dated.

I mean, it's not as if GitHub don't have Windows instructions... http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
Twisted doesn't use ctypes to interface with epoll, it uses a Cython module. Also, the Factory stuff in Twisted usually makes sense, as the alternative is worse (some object in a long-lived closure).
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$99/mo sounds inexpensive for hosting. It's tricky to apples-apples this with Heroku because Heroku has fine-grained pricing, but it looks cheaper than e.g. EngineYard.

But sure, maybe $99 is too high for real hosting. My only argument is that there shouldn't be a super-cheap option for running the "Free" account with a custom domain.
USAA's online banking is open to everyone.

It's their driving insurance and some other products that are not.
Amazon EC2 now runs Red Hat Linux
How's this. I want to buy a new graphics card. It retails for $200. I offer to buy it for $150, the store makes a smaller margin but still profits.

You might not wait a long time to get a pizza but would be willing to wait a few days to see if you can get the new cellphone or laptop at a cheaper price?
I have had mixed results as well. The problem I see is that Google is allergic to building platforms that help developers make money. There is no top paid section in the Chrome webstore, so it is relegated to being nothing more than link directory rather than an actual store as the name implies.
Banks generally delay ACH transactions longer if the respective clearing houses are in different federal reserve districts. When I worked with them, 7 business days was the max.

In my opinion, 7 business days is excessive, even in the mainframe/batch world of banking.
I agree. My command-line experience is faster and keeps my work flow the same whether I'm developing on OS X or Linux. The added GUI would serve to slow me down but if I really wanted to see changes visually, I could just go to github.com and do everything I need there since I know where everything is.
I wish you the best of luck with that price point... but in my opinion it's still way to high.
I found I have brainspace for ~15 passwords. All complex - non words greater than 8 characters.

Though, as I get older.. I can feel this ability waning. Thus I am interested in using a password manager - though I feel a little uncomfortable about it as I have never used one before.
I don't see what's changed in 10.7 regarding windows. Can you point the app that had multiple windows, but moved to something else?

But you're right that you can avoid using multiple windows in the app if it's good for usability. My point is that currently it's not possible to have two repositories opened simultaneously; especially since on OS X it's difficult to open two instances of the same application.

(As an example, in Mail you have previews in a single window, but you can also double-click the message to open it in a separate window).
I wish I could "Show HN" the new Matasano offering, but, no f'ing way am I talking to HN about what appsec costs. It's annoying but there are simply two worlds: the world where people pay money for solutions to business problems, and HN, where code is valued in potential-Usenix-submissions-per-100kloc.
NY payroll system contractors steal millions
Sony Ericsson Xperia active
http://www.mediatalking.com/sony-ericsson-announced-three-new-mobiles-xperia-rays-xperia-active-and-txt.html
"We’re reinventing personal banking." means absolutely nothing. Marketing drivel, like when Chase says "Chase what matters." It's meaningless. It's not simple. It's not direct.
I think a good analogy is that they are an application layer over the banks, which typically have a horrible backend. If they can create a great customer-facing front end in all aspects (customer service, funds processing, etc.) then they might do well. The way I understand it is that BankSimple has deals with the other banks (or maybe just accounts) in which they process transactions through. In that case, they can mitigate much of the pain the traditional bank puts customers through.
See "if it used Twisted for the event loop and none of the HTTP stuff:" at http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/09/what-i-wish-tornado-w...

(Some of these things might have been fixed, I haven't checked)
Wow, that design looks very, very close to the old Indigo books (they bought Chapter's in Canada) logo. Same colours, font, even the use of the exclamation point.

I wonder if there was any influence or if it is just coincidence. Unfortunately, a bookstore was the first thing I thought of.
The concept of the 'Soul' is actually derived from Aristotelianism (there is no mention of it as such in the Bible)

Wrong, and wrong. The notion of the "soul" in Greek philosophy predates Aristotle; it's found in Plato's Phaedo, for example-- and there are several words in the Hebrew bible that are usually translated as "soul" (nefesh and ruach, which correspond roughly to psyche and pneuma, respectively.)
to be fair, though, these guys are doing something similar to Mint, and Mint also had a lot of people skeptical and critical of their service.

i've been on the waiting list for a long time and once i get in, i'm going to transfer a bit of money to them to test it out before i do anything drastic like make them my primary bank.
I am strictly a server side programmer and have a problem doing front end work. I want to learn it, but it feels like a sheer cliff to me. The low level CoffeeScript documentation is excellent. What I am looking for and not being a JavaScript programmer this is admittedly difficult for me, is some hand holding on the mechanics.

* packaging, how do I import modules or packages? Do these even exist?

* debugging, how do I do this?

* unit testing?

I installed CoffeeScript via node, then npm (node package manager) and am using it via the command line.

Something like the ipython (http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/) shell along with pdb (http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/04/27/python-debug...) would help immensely in my adoption of CoffeeScript.

In a perfect world the repl/debugger would be built into the webapp and open a websocket to another webapp so I could introspect/debug the page from another page while it was running (turtles all the way down). This is similar to the workflow for developing server side software (Jython, Python, Java).
They've released their pricing and are now open to the public.
YES! And we've never looked back. Indepth blogpost here: http://9elements.com/io/?p=551
And where do you get item from?
The focus needs to remove the concept of time and just frame the mind to think about tasks. This is a foundation of the Pomodoro Technique.
Yes, ram cost is in fact a typo - actual price is 10x lower. Sorry about that.

When you push your application to dotCloud, it's broken down into services. For example python frontend, nodejs worker, mysql: that's 3 services.

Each service starts with a certain amount of capacity. Those are soft limits: you get a guaranteed minimum, but you'll probably get more, most of the time. It's most definitely not like shared hosting in that regard.

Each service can then be scaled individually, by allocating more concurrent processes, ram or disk. Specific costs are listed in the FAQ.

Hope that helps.
Furthermore, a determined adversary with a well-funded and well-prepared attack wouldn't just attack the financial services industry, they'd attack other key industries.

So for example, their are 9 major oil refineries in the UK. If they could all be put out of action with Stuxnet-style attacks (or maybe with precision cruise missiles), then 2 weeks later the UK runs out of fuel and supermarkets run out of food.

Or consider an attack on the internet infrastructure itself. Since we're envisaging an attack in the future, when TV, radio and telephones are just services that run on the internet, bringing down the net will destroy communications. And the end-pints -- computers in homes and offices -- will themselves be down.

Societies are only going to get more dependent on computers, and computers are only going to get more complicated (making logic bombs harder to find). The damage that a cyberspace attack could do, and the ease of pulling it off, will therefore both only increase.
XCode 4, though it happened even before 10.7
not had a problem with EGIT once..
I'm honestly not sure that first-to-file vs invent is really that huge of a deal. The bigger issues in this bill appear to be the changes in grace period (bad) and the changes in the ability to challenge patents (good).
Can Lytro take on Canon and Nikon?
Judge denies Samsung access to unreleased iPad, iPhone