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Sigh, still waiting for an invite. Got an email in October of last year saying I could get an account "at some point [this] year", so hopefully soon.

One question, though, I can't find on the site, is whether I receive any interest. And, if so, at what rate?
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Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

You call us if you have a problem or question. We'll let you know what bank your funds reside at, but you should never need to contact them. We have our own in-house customer relations staff.
"Do.com has been in private beta testing thus far, but now the team wants to open its beta to more participants. It has extended an invitation for the first 200 VentureBeat readers that sign up using a select link to give it a spin. Go to the link https://www.do.com/users/sign_up and enter the code “DONKISCHESPOZ” to take part. Those who get in will also get 5 invites of their own so they can bring other people into the app."
Too bad it's not open source.
Which talk inspired you?
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I think the record is just under 1Billion hashes/sec on a couple of NVidia Tesla cards linked by SLI.

You need a fairly expensive SAN to pull 1Billion MD5 hashes/second just from the raw disk - nevermind the DB lookup.
None taken. "Simple" is a generic term, and it's up to us to build it into a strong brand over time.
I LOVE Tinkercad. Really, really cool tool. I've made some stuff that got 3D printed using it.
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I dont' think that's exactly true. There is such a thing as the CDARS program, which allows you to spread your money between accounts at multiple banks. Not sure what the limitations are on that, but I would be weary of assumptions on this.

If the money were not in my name, that would be deal killer.

EDIT: for clarity.
"Market prices just reflect supply and demand"

This isn't true. One example off the top of my head, good looking people get paid more. They aren't more qualified, yet they get paid more. Even at the executive level.
Fine, then get a judge to issue a warrant.
If seniors wealthier than ever, why discounts?
"Science is not for-profit"

Science is also not not-for-profit. Plenty of for-profit businesses do research, and publish in scientific journals. Some research fields (drug development comes first to mind) have a very large industry presence.
"a lot like a prepaid card" doesn't answer the question. In what ways is it like a prepaid card? In what ways is it not? As the OP asked, where does the money actually go? It's a concern that you couldn't really answer the question.
Nope, sorry ;)
I'm just wondering, is Alcatel-Lucent still a player or are they no longer relevant?
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That was my understanding of cc-nc as well, but the linked announcement specifically says they're okay to use in an editorial context in any publication
I think that there should be more open source systems that do parity across serves versus replication. So to me this is great! AFAIK, something like swift suggests keeping 5 copies of everything, so if you want 1PB usable you need 5PB raw. But with dual parity spread across servers, like in Nimbus, you could probably get 80% usable vs raw. This would be similar to Isilon.

I wonder if Swift may support something similar in the future.
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It's tricky to figure out the damage, yes, but I think an award of sales times normal royalties would be fair here. If the RIAA went for the number of whole copies distributed times normal sale price times three in their lawsuits I wouldn't find them to be a terrible organization.
For normal users, Open/Libre Office are probably fine, but I dislike having to install unneeded stuff on my computer. Luckily, according to a couple of other people here, Fedora does provide ways to avoid this.
I'm getting tired of these YOU SHOULD EMULATE X INSTEAD OF Y stories...

You should emulate Bill Gates instead of Steve Jobs...

You should emulate Wozniak instead of Jobs...

Who cares?? I would be proud to emulate any of these great men.
Stating this in terms this harsh makes me extremely curious as to who your bank partners are.
If an app falls in the woods, and nobody buys phones to use it, does it make a sound?
If packaging really is easier, it might be interesting. It seems to be quite complicated to create debian packages.
The main implication would presumably be the discovery of an optimal travelling-salesman solution between all the donut shops in the city
I'm sure there's an area of the contract that he agreed to when he listed his book that Amazon is not liable for pricing mistakes.

So there's the trade-off: you're listed in Amazon's market that is seen by more people than probably any other e-book market and you're getting royalties directly, but if Amazon screws up, too bad.
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http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.wampserver.com/&hl=en

Am I doing something wrong or is their website infected?
That's easy. Better video quality. More attractive controls/player. A community that enjoys this type of thing.

Note: Youtube has been improving with respect to the first two.

Also, does it really lock up your whole system?
Isn't it free as in "comes with an operating system"?
I'm in a joking mood:

Because they're cheap and everyone still wants their business.

Joking aside, we're all quite familiar with the distribution of wealth here in the US of A. The top 1% isn't going to account for 99% of purchases at IHOP.

I guess the fact they're discussing the median value makes my previous statements moot. Still funny.
First republic bank Free ATM checking (firstrepublicbank.com).

Also no foreign transaction fees (very nice for a traveller).
Back in 2008 (when this was written) "perldoc -q flush" suggested exactly that gem :-) I admit I've more or less abandoned Perl since then (scripting in Python for everything).
"Wozniak had no desire to run any part of the company, he just wanted to be a mid-level engineer (he initially wanted to give plans for the Apple I away for free)."

"[Jobs] who was mainly given no authority up until this point, was obsessed with (proving) himself and was able to get an opportunity to lead the Macintosh team. [...] He grabbed the best engineers from around the company and put them on the Macintosh team."

So the only logical conclusion can be that founders should emulate Woz, not Jobs. Clearly...
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Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

We require a smartphone for more than just mobile check deposit. We want people to have our app installed so we can use it for multifactor authentication, for example. We also want to do rich push notifications of account activity, and SMS (the only viable non-smartphone option for that) isn't a great experience.

Today, there's still a bunch of people who don't have smartphones. But the previous generation of iPhone is now basically "free" at some carriers, as are many Android phones. By the time we're off our invite list and open to anyone who wants to sign up, it's going to seem crazy to support anything that isn't a smartphone.
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Okay, so let's take a real situation that happened to me: an ATM debited my account $600, but only dispensed $300. In that situation, I call you, and what happens from there?

Thank you for taking the time to answer some of our questions on what is surely a busy day.
Wow thats pretty impressive. Do you think you'll eventually embrace a "configurator" approach where you give people freeform capabilities, to a degree, and then supplement that with more in depth functionality that is constrained in a way to make the UI easier to handle?
USAA reimburses third party fees, has a nice iphone app for deposits, and a generally sound web interface. If you can get in, I highly recommended them.
Here's a paper I read yesterday. Kindly review it for me:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.2875.pdf

The scheme you are advocating might have succeeded 200 years ago, when science was happening at a much for fundamental level than it is now. These days, things are so specialized that what the OP says is spot-on: only a handful of people are qualified to knowledgeably comment on your work. What's more, these people are all /incredibly/ busy; I would know since I spend my time trying to get their attention (grad student) :-) In short, the way we conduct research is kind of like what Churchill said about democracy; it's the worst system except for all the other systems.
Have you actually talked to any of the "conservatives" in the Tea Party? Most of them are super fed up with the TSA and all this crap. Heck, here is an example from today: http://www.redstate.com/tabithahale/2011/11/08/no-tsa-i-will...

If you notice, there is a Democrat in office who hasn't ended this crap, but kept it going in new ways.
"""An "ordinary user" is incapable of installing an operating system. They don't even know what an operating system is."""

No, that's a "strawman user", or some grandma.

There are tons of ordinary users that can install Windows. And almost all Mac users can install OS X (there's not much to it).

They are no programmers, they are no superusers, they are no admins. They just know how to insert a DVD, answer a few questions and press next.

There's no reason to not be able to do the same with Linux, or for a linux distro to assume "that if the user is installing the OS himself, he isn't ordinary".

Doubly so for Ubuntu, who wants to be the people's friendly distro and change all that "Linux is for geeks" mentality.
I have thought that would be a great way to attack the system. However, I suspect accusing large numbers of people would simply create suffering and would do little to create real change. Worse yet it would probably be used to promote increased monitoring because look at the X number of suspects out there.

Still, it's sad to think the most effective / damaging / and possibly profitable approach for a risk averse terrorist might be to pretend to be a overly helpful.
I'd be curious to know if anyone's got one yet - or any kind of reply at all, in fact.
Big business vs the little guy is extremely unfair these days. If I had given away 6000 free mp3s or movies via a P2P system you can bet they'd try me in court for the full price of them all, but in this article already they are equivocating saying "oh but they were free, less people would have paid for it so he can't realistically ask for all the money for all the copies we gave away".

How come when a big company gets "ripped off" they can charge far more than the retail price for every copy but when the actual creator gets ripped off he gets nothing and people equivocate on even the numbers?
I have been trawling through large numbers of papers recently as part of my computer science Master's background research, and some papers are quite frankly unintelligible garble... I can't even understand how they passed peer review.

I would say that of the articles I've read, maybe 5% are meaningful contributions that advance the science; maybe 25% contribute something to the current understanding, perhaps 60% are "we did something cool", and 10% are "are these reviewers awake".
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I think it also happens with music, i play guitar and there is some riffs/solos that i can not remember with my brain, just with my fingers when the guitar is on my hands (so to speak).
The thing they don't realize is that this kind of attitude can and will be exploited by evil people to exact personal revenge on others. From a system-wide point of view, this irrational crazy behavior is a vulnerability. And it just begs to be exploited.

If you want to burry your neighbor -- submit an anonymous tip about them being a terrorist, child pornographer or a illegal music downloader. With a bit of luck, their life will be completely ruined.

I remember stories from Soviet Union how neighbors would make up stories about each other and denounce them as conducting anti-party propaganda, because say, they insulted them or moved the fence too close. It was the amazing ease and predictability with which this process worked.
Can I withdraw my money directly from the partner bank, and is it in an account with my name on it?
Yes, that's what I guessed from watching the video. I understood that you need at least 3 layers forged together to make a high quality knife; two relatively soft and ductile stainless alloys sandwiching a fairly brittle but hard stainless alloy. From memory, my understanding was that the japanese knife makers fold together multiple layers like this because it's a traditional technique which hardens the alloy in the centre of the sandwich, the layers towards the centre get progressively harder, more brittle and thinner and therefore easier to keep sharp. The more layers, the better the knife, up to a point. Also, the more layers you have the more beautiful the swirly patterns look :-)
That's a really interesting idea. The article says

"The administration, which is attempting to overturn a lower court ruling that threw out a drug dealer’s conviction over the warrantless use of a tracker, argues that citizens have no expectation of privacy when it comes to their movements in public so officers don’t need to get a warrant to use such devices."

I don't immediately see why that wouldn't apply to law enforcement cars in public, as well. It would be a boon to criminals, though, unfortunately. (Hm, which now makes me wonder if it could be happening already by more advanced criminal organizations?)
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I am a big fan of Dan Pink and his book Drive, and I have looked up Google Scholar for motivation papers - I was wondering if any of you had good resources/papers on motivation in the workplace ?

I know the Journal of Psychology tends to be good for stuff in this area - do you have any others or particular good paper/science articles that talk about this subject ?
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Making something from nothing has always given me the greatest high. This video reminded me that it is that high that got me into software development.

When I was young (and had no money):

- Made origami
- Learned sailors knots
- 3d sculptures of science fiction aircraft from index cards
- Bow and arrows from q-tips and underwear rubber
- Sailboats from 2x4's, coat hangers, plastic garbage bags, and fishing line
- Skateboard ramps (usually bigger than I was capable of using and with
none of the right tools)
- A workbench
- Peg board (hand drilled from scrap wood)
- Dozens of hand drawn replicas of video game/anime art
- Repaired the broken fin of a surfboard purchased at a garage sale (never used)

In high school I exploited my auto shop classes:

- Replaced the rear differential on a 80's Mustang
- Removed a motor from an early 90's Camaro
- Built and installed a roll cage in an early 90's Camaro
- Taped and sprayed flames on a fiberglass replica 32 Ford hood
as a demonstration of a new paint line for local body shops
- Completely dismantled the engine of 87 honda civic
- Resurrected an 80's Volvo with 300k miles on it
- Made a functioning 6" cowl induction hood for my 89 SR5 Toyota Corolla

From there I got a job at a hot-rod shop:

- Teardown of a 52 Chevy Bel Air
- Teardown, body work, and assembly of a split-window Corvette
- And countless others

In college majoring in Mechanical Engineering (what a joke):

- Built a marshmallow launcher
- Convinced a big angry muscle man with a knife to my throat not
to hurt me, and steal a keg from a party instead

Once admitted to college, I was given a computer:

- Pirated software
- Converted drawings to vector graphics
- Made techno songs
- Made 3d models
- Designed album covers
- Frankenstein'd countless scrap computers

After I dropped out of college I became a restaurant server:

- Documented everything I could about HTML/CSS
- Created custom MySpace themes (and never made a dollar for it)
- Built my profile in Flash to overcome MySpace's limitations
- Hid all of the generated MySpace content (minus comments)
and built my profile from scratch

From there I became a developer. Software has been an incredible way for me to create and learn. Sadly, the projects my employers provide aren't always challenging enough. Additionally, the complimentary benefits of working with my hands versus sitting at a computer have drawn me to other projects:

- Built an engine lift
- Restored a 1987 19' Galaxy boat that I bought
for $200 on CL (engine had collapsed into the floor)
- Bootstrapped a prototype analytics app for the last year (not launched)
- Insulated, ran electrical, and drywalled my garage
- Built a workshop (bench, storage, etc) in the garage of my new house
- Buy/restore/sell furniture on CL

Currently I'm restoring a pool table I bought for $100 on CL:

- Built strong/true cabinet from cheap construction grade lumber
- Carved, antiqued, and stained the cabinet to make it not
look like cheap construction grade lumber
- Built a slate sled for moving the 1" thick slate pieces up to the 3rd floor
If you can't be bothered to read new things unless they're "worth your time", the hell with you.

Realistically, even in a narrow field just reading (forget about working through the mathematics, checking the results, etc.) all the papers that are published through the slow existing process would take up more than 100% of working time. Clearly there has to be some kind of filtering process.

As it happens, I think that this process should be both faster and more open, but it is foolish to dismiss realistic concerns about how to decide which research it is most worthwhile to read.

There's a big difference between that and being afraid to be exposed to something outside their comfort zone (I am not too sure what you mean by that). You may hope to be so lucky as to have competitors with people like that on your team, but would you be happy to have on your team someone who spent literally their entire workday every day reading reviews of other people's work without contributing anything new of their own?
I'm pretty sure that bad to do with Nimbus Data, not this project. I'm pretty sure that this project will get a cease and desist too if it becomes popular.

Counting down to a name change in 3... 2...
I agree that time isn't a matter of concern for most scientists.

The article seems to be a badly researched rehash of other Open Science articles. Open Science is not about faster delivery, it's about access to information. The problem is not that publications are slow, it's that without paying for the magazine other scientists, the media and non scientists can't access those papers and learn, divulge, criticize or contribute.
Just asked them how serious this whole thing is. I'm familiar with people using weather balloons to get payloads to 'the edge of space' but have always been under the impression that getting anything into, or beyond, orbit required a very large and expensive rocket.

Can anyone with relevant knowledge comment on this?
Heh... Usually Techcrunch misspells my LAST name, so I was surprised.
There are strict rules that govern how banks operate. As bad as that relationship may have gotten recently, there are some basic legally enforced assurances that I can take for granted in how banks will respond to requests about my money. If Simple is a middleman to this transaction, I no longer have those legal protections.

That doesn't sound very great to me.
"Invite code is not valid"

All the invites have already been given away.
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Third by what measure? I hate to be "that guy", but [citation needed].

Seriously, if you're just quoting distrowatch, you need a new source.

Even by their own numbers, Ubuntu claims to have less than Fedora, though they do seem to be gaining.

[http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/operating-systems/331095...]
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics]
A set with two data points cannot imply exponential growth. The phrase you are looking for is "orders of magnitude more".

Please, let's keep exponential around as a word with meaning. It conveys something useful.
https://www.simple.com/

Seriously broken website, at least it is in IE8.
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But pragmatically if they switch banks behind the scenes, that would usually require a hard credit pull every time it occurs. This would seem to hurt a person's credit score if that was what actually occurred (that's why the semantics are important).
Azul's software jvm is based on openjdk, and they have an old source dump at managedruntime.org. I wonder how timely source code releases need to be under the gpl...
Authors get nothing for books lent through the library and people have been OK with that for a long time. A book still has to be purchased.
Can't say we are saying anything much different but let's focus on what seems important. So there's a variety of ways to get rich and we want to know which one is easier: work for someone else vs start your own company. My point is that 99.9% of the world population work for someone else while only a really small percentage started a company. And only a really small percentage of the world population is rich. Even if only of 1% of the rich people started their own company, there's still truth to what the article said. So, I was saying it's a fact that your chances to get rich are much higher having your own company than working for someone else. Which I also believe is the point in the article.
Running 3-5 year old code shows that the provider/company probably doesn't prioritize or fund testing as well as they should IMO. I'm sure Juniper would work with any company who asked for a patch or custom work around if they cannot upgrade now.

I see your point, Juniper missed a serious bug in their testing. But you can't hold them completely accountable when they've already announced and released a fix that corrects the issue.
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Looks like most invites will go out in 2012.

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So it's OK to censor the public when your own gov't is at risk but if another country ties to do it (Egypt) it's wrong?

Hypocrisy at its finest.
Sorry. Forcing myself to take a break is just like forcing myself to work. Something to be avoided. I think we are misinterpreting the Taoist concept of "do nothing" which I think inspires a lot of these sentiments that "we should take breaks". "Do nothing" means to do what comes so naturally to us that it feels like "doing nothing". We simply allow our actions to play itself out, just like we allow our body to breathe.
>>involves literally squeezing the feces out of the chick

Could it be that this method would not be efficient, economical?

I remember an anecdotal story of how, in the old days, the great players of chess could tell you if the move just made was good or not but could not explain why. They somehow just knew.
So what I'm hearing is that tenacious Steve failed a bunch of times before he finally hit one out of the park.

Sounds like an entrepreneur to me.
According to Steve, you shouldn't be emulating anyone - be yourself. You'll never be a better Steve Jobs than Steve was - or a better Woz than Woz was.

The key thing I got out of the article is how important your co-founder is - one thing Steve seems to have is that he recognized talent very quickly (Woz, Ive at the age of 29) and developed them.
Problem solving can fall under both categories I think. If you have a lot of experience, eventually you begin to instinctively know what approach to take.