skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still do that if your news feed is set to show "Recent Stories" and not "Top Stories". The mini sidebar is mostly stuff that hasn't been in the news feed for years, like when your friends comment on or like other friends' posts.
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The user experience, from the website, mobile to device to phone calls, will be a big part of people signing up.
There are a lot of people out there who are unhappy with their banks.
If they get enough users to sign up with them, the actual banks on the back end (which will probably be a collection of smaller, unknown, entitities), wield less and less power, cause in theory BS would be able to switch over from one bank to another and the user wouldn't know, or care. This may allow them to force certain banks to provide revenue sharing.
Some questions I never bothered to actually ask of my current banking system probably because I've known people that had accounts with them and have seen several branch locations but I'd like to ask of BankSimple.

BankSimple is a bank account yes or no? I mean a real certified banking system? Are they required to meet governmental guidelines of official banks?

What guarantee (if any) do I have that my money will be there in the morning? Is there some guarantee that if I go to login to bankSimple tomorrow morning and the domain doesn't resolve emails get bounced etc, would there be any recourse for me? [again, never bothered to ask that of my real bank but I suppose a brick and mortar institution instills more confidence]

Visa, MasterCard, Amex... Is the bankSimple card backed by any of these institutions? Can I walk into to some random QuickStop gas station and pay using your card like I could with my current bank card?

What kind of development and testing infrastructure do you guys utilize? Are you able to roll out updates to limited groups of real users so you can test changes on a small scale before rolling them out to every one? I'm more curious as to this aspect because I attribute to BankSimple more of a website or new software company [which I envision bugs and glitches that get worked out with feedback] rather than a traditional bank [which surprisingly even though I know is capable of making mistakes, I don't really worry about bugs]

Will BankSimple eventually if not at launch do other bank-y things like consumer loans, offer savings bonds, etc?

What about fraud protection? What if some one steals my card and buys a bunch of stuff with it? [Ok, I've asked my bank about this one at least]
it could get even worse
They were probably using Google for their internet, but they might not have installed a browser yet.
Indeed, it may be.
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Absolutely. I think spending some time looking around dribble is a great way to find people. It seems to be where designers hang out these days.
This got some action when I submitted his original post about the challenge. Now he's got the complete list of entries up.

I'm liking the looks of:

Ketchup
Zuniq
Public Secrets
Nomad
Rule of Three
"Trademarks and patents have picked up a bad reputation in recent months thanks to patent trolls that actively sue larger companies as a way to make money."

Huh? What on earth do trademarks have to do with patent trolls?

Trademarks are easily the most sensible and best-designed area of IP law there is, even if they have issues.

The only trademark-related controversy I can remember on HN is over "App Store", which is a gray area no matter which side you fall on.
at D9:
According to eric at D9, these are the top consumer companies
1-4-the gang of four(appl,google,amazon,facebook)
5-6(paypal,twitter)
Schmidt said he believes Microsoft is “not driving the consumer revolution.” He doesn’t count Microsoft’s Xbox business because it’s “not a platform at the computational level.”

today before congress:
Microsoft's Bing has continued to gain in popularity, perhaps because it comes pre-installed as the search default on over 70 percent of new computers sold. Microsoft's Bing is the exclusive search provider for Yahoo! and Facebook. Microsoft recently signed a deal for Bing to power English language search on the fast-rising Chinese search engine Baidu, which Baidu has acknowledged will help it become more competitive in markets outside of China. In addition to Internet Explorer, Microsoft has integrated Bing into its popular gaming console, the Xbox 360, which it is in talks with cable companies to convert into the set-top box of the future. Microsoft?s Bing launched in June 2009 and has grown so rapidly that some commentators have speculated that it could overtake Google as early as 2012.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20109615-93/schmidts-writte...
One of the reasons I'm so eagerly waiting for SEPA (Single European Payment Area) to really come into force. Now banks compete mostly on country level, but when you can easily switch banks inside EU, there is bound to be some competition and innovation.

In Finland we're kind of suffering from being pioneers. Finnish banks deployed nice (for the time) web banking interfaces more than a decade ago. But then, having made the big investments in them and seeing little competition, innovation stopped.

Nordea rolled out a slightly improved web interface a couple of years ago, and ever since then their login page has had the message "the new banking interface is coming to our business customers soon"...
Excuse me, I have something in my eye.

Lovely writing, as always, Ed, and I think she probably would have smiled for this one.
Except in casual gaming and TODO-lists.
already on the beta list ;)
He is practicing on course as well, not just the range. Part of starting from the hole backwards and not bringing a driver to the course is teaching him course management.

This argument doesn't make much sense to me, though. Why do you feel that the mental side of the game can't be taught or you can't practice getting better at strengthening that part of your game? Simply recognizing that there is a mental side to the game (like every sport) means that you can to try and control it and thereby practice managing it. This can be learned, every athlete learns it for every sport they play. The mental component is a large part to every sport. I have played several sports competitively and I can't think of a single sport that it isn't a component. One major failure caused me to be mentally timid in one sport I competed at a very high level in - could I have progressed past it? Yes, and I did at times but it still required work. But I could get passed it and perform.

For anyone with both passion and time I am sure they can achieve expert status. People are adaptable, if they really want to do it and have the time to spend they will do what it takes to succeed. That includes finding their own way to cope with the mental pressures.

He has a lot of time left and nothing I've seen seems to indicate he couldn't get it done - minus the one thing I'm still unclear on, if he truly has a passion for the game.
2 engineers looking for a business co-founder
Hey hn,
We are 2 engineers/designers here in the bay area looking for an awesome business guy with a good track record (or a young hustler) to join us.
We have an awesome domain name and soon launching a new version of something we launched at tc disrupt hackathon. Our domain name is thirsty.com.
Pls email me at michaelabehsera@gmail.com if u are looking to work with an awesome team.
US consumer banking is archaic and can't be fixed with just another bank. The whole process is broken and it requires an industry change.

I applaud BankSimple for what they are doing but in the big picture it doesn't solve the major problems.

My biggest gripes with the banks:

- Can't wire money to someone else without going into the bank and paying ridiculous fees (Last time I checked, $25 for domestic, $45 for international). INGDirect attempts to make this better but the receiver still needs to have an email address and go through a procedure to receive the money. It's also slow, average is 2-3 days.

- It's easier and cheaper for me to use checks. It costs me nothing to deposit it but I have to pay a fee to receive a wire transfer. Wires have a lot fever errors than checks and a wire of over $5k doesn't have to be put on hold because the bank has to verify a check. The banks punish you for using wires instead of checks.

- When you go online and use bill pay the bank will pay a 3rd party to print and mail a check!! How is this electronic payment. (This does not apply to large firms like the phone company which will receive the payment electronically but small business can't utilize this!)

- Why no IBAN? Swift requires intermediary banks which charge a fee on your international wire.

- No chips on debpit/credit cards. In Europe most banks issue cards with chips on them. This would eliminate the risk of getting skimmed if only the US would also start using chips instead of the magnetic stripe.

I just don't understand why the banks do this. Someone enlighten me.
mothers, in my belief, are the most beautiful, most precious creations. i felt your mourning in my heart. my condolences.
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My condolences to you, Ed. Now I have a clue to why you always come across as such a wise man in your posts.

I am so lucky that I still have both my loving parents, but I have experienced the loss of loved ones. I find solace in knowing that while they can't make new decisions, their light cone will keep shining in eternity, so they will always be a part of the world.
They answer a few of these questions on their FAQ: https://banksimple.com/faq/

* They are not a bank. They are essentially a web frontend for wholesale banks. Thus they are regulated differently.

* You do have the benefit of FDIC insurance, but it's unclear what ability you have to access your funds directly from the wholesale bank, or whether you are limited to BankSimple.
I don't think a bank should ever have a mobile app instead of a nicely done web interface. Would you really want to use a bank that only works on iPhone?

There have been countless situations where I've had to make transactions in an internet cafe or using a friend's computer.
Hi there. We decided to put it out as a little experiment. If there's enough interest we'd definitely consider putting in the time to make it open to the public.

The GitHub folks approached us with the idea and gave full consent for the images to be printed.
My JSGI implementation in Common Node (https://github.com/olegp/common-node) uses node-fibers allowing it to stream out responses without blocking the event loop.

In fact, by connecting an input stream to an output stream (forEachable objects), the underlying code automatically enables Node's pipe like behavior.

Check out this example: https://github.com/olegp/common-node/blob/master/examples/ht...
That would be a cool feature, throwaway savings accounts where you can say: put 2€ in this account every day until it has enough balance to buy an iPad

Even better: ...and then buy it
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A couple of days before he died, my brother asked me to post this message here: "I am a Christian.
I fully understand the materialist view, but I (embrace) Christian hope." He also asked me to say that he enjoyed Hacker News, although he didn't participate very much. Phil's illness was very stealthy and swift--he heard the results of biopsies less than twenty-four hours before he died.
Meh. It's as generic of a term as "Windows"; why can't every service everywhere be able to have "huddles" if they feel like it? That would make too much sense....
Most startups give away their shirts for FREE. If you want a better business model, work out deals with the startups where you promote their company by dispersing their brand to the masses with a surcharge. $10 a month would be an easy price point and mostly profit after shipping costs.
How about Erlang?
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For tracking money in Excel or whatever, a read-only API would also be nice
About variable length arrays:
Scott Meyers pointed out that this code
std::vector<int[n]> a; // n is a runtime argument
has no real meaning in C++. Also std::vector and std::array already cover the use case.
Natural Language Processing With Python - http://www.nltk.org/book

Handbook of Natural Language Processing - http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Language-Processing-Learning-...
Well, BASH is still the defacto default. So you are ok.
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> When you go online and use bill pay the bank will pay a 3rd party to print and mail a check!! How is this electronic payment.

Is this true? That boggles my mind.
Privately-held stock is riskier, because it's basically worthless until the acquirer has its own exit event. When you sell your company for stock, you're basically just trading stock in your company for stock in the acquirer. If the acquirer tanks before exiting, your shares are just as worthless as if you'd tanked before exiting.

Now, it can sometimes work out - I doubt Evan Williams is complaining about selling Blogger to pre-IPO Google for (presumably - terms were never disclosed) stock. But in other cases, I'm not sure the founders did so well - SixApart, for example, isn't quite the darling it was when it purchased LiveJournal in 2005.
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Parsing multipart requests and saving uploaded files to temporary files on disk. Large request bodies emit data multiple times.
It could also let movie producers get rid of the high salaries paid for popular movie stars.
My BEEF:

Airport-Wifi:Why would someone connect to airport WiFi when the phone already has data? Is it because ATT has shitty reception and for many years the iPhone was available on ATT?

In-Air-Wifi: Something about price gouging and iPeople willing to pay for it.

Ad-impressions: How does this ad network marketshare look like between iDevices and Android?

Explain this and then I will once again consider the authors points.
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This is simple 're-texturing'. I.e. the image of other face is projected onto your face (or the 3D reconstruction of it). To actually change, re-render and replace the original geometry is much much more complicated, and also involves re-creating all direct and indirect illumination, which also needs full 3D reconstruction of the surroundings and light sources. That's how it's done in movies and it involves motion capture and huge amount of manual labor.

Edit: Speaking of replacing with a generated 3D face. Winklewoss replacement could be done 'simply' by double filming both actors in same position and then photoshopping the faces replacing the one with another, frame-by-frame. Face-tracking could be used to align the faces.
http://allthingsd.com/20110919/layoffs-at-hps-palm-division/...
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You are a lucky man to have such a wonderful mother, and to realize it as well. We are equally lucky because she did a great job with you and all of HN has benefited greatly from your contributions.

I've taken note of what she has told you and will try do do my best to absorb and apply it to my own children.

Peace to you and your family.
A rough 10 years for the middle class
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The mix matters because shares in a privately held company are not very liquid, and fair valuation of those shares is sometimes problematic. In short, there's a decent chance the shares will be considerably less valuable than the terms of the deal might suggest.

That said, I do feel this particular deal was a well-deserved success for the Wufoo guys. My congratulations to them for excellent execution!
Banks are in a rough spot, actually. The big ones have a HUGE installed base which makes any changes very, very difficult. My division of the bank had tens of thousands of cobol jobs that ran daily or weekly. (We also had thousands of ETL jobs, web apps, etc. that depended on those cobol jobs.) Trying to shift the core functionality away the mainframe would have been a decade-long boondoggle.
dude, it was quite cool honestly even though I could immediately reverse engineer what they were using software and hardware-wise into v simple units (flash for the UX, a normal projector, touch pads, standard x86 board strapped to the projector).
Having worked with Node for a while now, I can conclusively say it's difficult to say you know it well without building your own framework. Even if you end up with something similar to another framework it's still worthwhile doing just for the educational aspect.
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Yes it is. AFAIK Wells Fargo/Wachovia still does it.
They put the plane white plates in a specific place and so they project images of your order onto the plates - that was pretty cool. See the video - it's in there.
And not just for past incompetence. Let’s say their super-smooth CEO headhunter flies into Toronto and takes me to breakfast.

“What the board wants,” he will say, shooting his cuffs, “is a visionary who will have the courage to take strong action.”

“I see,” I will murmur, swirling the dregs of espresso around the bottom of my cup, eying the way the perfect crema lines the exquisite porcelain. “And am I to understand that if my ‘vision’ doesn’t meet with immediate public acclaim or if I can’t restructure the future of the company AND hit immediate sales targets, you’ll be having breakfast with someone else?”

How is this board going to hire anyone capable of making bets if they fire Leo before his bets could pay off? Who would want a job working for people like this? If they didn’t like his moves, they should have exercised governance and let him know what he could and couldn’t do. If they were doing their jobs and they let him make these kinds of moves, they should support him and not throw him under a bus.
Definitely a niche idea. I believe a few others have tried this exact same idea and documented their failure here on HN, though, so interested to see how you're approaching this differently.

In Chicago, there are only so many days a year you can comfortably wear a t-shirt out of the house, so unfortunately I'm not your customer. I also don't have $23 a month to throw at simply buying one t-shirt.
Safe-to-spend isn't about the math, it's about the psychology. When you see $100 as your "balance", you're much more likely to spend a little more than when you only see $60. What's unique about it is that they show it in place of your actual balance, which really hasn't been done by another bank before.

Also a trademark will protect the name, not the underlying technology. Other banks can still use this technique. They just need a different name for it.
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Proven to fail? You haven't proven anything. Abstractions can be useful. You use lots of them every day. Node itself is an abstraction.
Thank you for sharing this. My condolences.
That's correct. We're also using Visa for processing.

You can read more about our partners here: http://banksimple.com/blog/BankSimple/partners-funding/
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Thanks! I think if you dig in and actually write something with if you'll soon see that the differences are subtle, but significant.
Most websites (including Quizlet) don't change what language they show based on your country, but rather based on what your browser settings are - so if you really prefer English usually, you can change that. (We also have a footer dropdown to change the language).

Let me know if you think of a better word for "Speller" in German.
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What if I can't code?
I'm a start up, and a Law student with my partner who is also a Business Law student... Does this put us at a major disadvantage with this type of work? Can anyone provide me with some tips or advice. Should I learn to hack/coding? I know broad knowledge of C++, Java etc. But I cannot code myself.
Thank you for answering.
If you would like to email me- warmstr8@uwo.ca
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>However, if you bring in a new CEO to run your company, how can you fire the guy in less than a year, before that strategy has even been given a chance?

You can do it when the market has clearly responded to the new strategy by absolutely brutalizing your stock price[1], and when investors are in turn suing because the new strategy flies in the face of everything you've been telling them about the company for the past eighteen months.

[1] http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
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Even so, this breaks down with JSGI middleware that depends on running in a Java environment. For example, JSGI's gzip middleware uses Java's byte buffers.
I believe there will be a big shift coming, but not that it will come from established tech companies in the developed world. Rather, I believe it is banks from third world countries that will push the envelope. This for a few reasons:

They already have a large customer base.

Their economies are growing very fast, which creates a steadily increasing pressure on old systems. Also, this creates shifting marketplaces where new players in the area can pop up a lot more easy than in old settled markets.

Less preconceptions on what can or cannot be done.
I agree, we're working on it (I'm also committed to writing an R wrapper in my free time).
The short answer is, yes, I think we could come up with a test over some period of time where either you would turn out to be right or the alarmists would. But, we'd probably have to extend it out to the beginning of 2014, due to new rules taking effect (FATCA) and the speed we could expect from the IRS. Long timetables are a lot less interesting, unfortunately.

I've done a brief amount of Googling for more information, and I can bring to the discussion a handful of links and at least one case of "regular Americans tripped up by the law", but since it's probably just you and I in this discussion at this point, I'll leave it up to you whether or not you want to pursue this anymore.

Re: the Japanese disaster, you're right, other people were making wild fearsome predictions, like the end of support for nuclear power, and clearly that hasn't happened. And, it's not a matter of win or lose or right or wrong -- I just meant to establish that betting against bad outcomes doesn't always work out in your favor (the generic "you" here). I probably should not have used that as an example though.
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Everyone has both an @kindle.com and @free.kindle.com account. With a wifi-only Kindle there's really no difference. If you have a 3G Kindle, then your Kindle will only receive things sent to the @free.kindle.com address when it's connected via wifi. When you do this you don't have to pay for the 3G delivery fee.
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This is probably one of the main reasons why they switched the branding from "MSN Search" and "Windows Live Search" to "Bing".
Someone will come along in the next 2 years and do haptic feedback right and hardware keyboards will go the way of the floppy drive. There's been a number of patents recently on this front from basic haptics to displays with controllable surface texture.
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And hacker-psuedo-elitism aside, most of the people commenting on politics and economics aren't any more informed on the subjects than people right off the street.
Recommendation: Neither the word 'career' nor the word 'job' appear anywhere on your front page. The best I can see is a contact us page. I had to do a google search to find your jobs page:

https://www.wepay.com/about/jobs