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Right on but not the whole story: The browser is inside of every app...
https://bitbucket.org/indrora/mirror

Apparently, the link got lost.
It's easy to talk shit on the Internet...

Obviously, I support your business idea, and I look forward to it shaking banks up a bit. If the product is strong enough, a generic brand won't kill the business. I still believe

BankSimple was a better name (in my opinion), as it actually positioned you as a new player in a game to change the status quo. I can understand if there were potential legal issues with a non-bank calling itself a bank. If this is the reason a change was made, then I'm wasting my keystrokes.

Send me a beta invite!
What's BO?
To defend the parent, I'm also concerned :)
Time can be used up. We all have a finite number of hours. Everyone dies.
Perhaps not the kindest words, but it is true... hopefully someone who can fix it sees this in spite of the down-voters!

http://browserling.com/explorer/8.0/https%3A//simple.com
We're editing the content in house at the moment. We react to feedback in real time so any bugs you saw last night have likely been fixed (we saw a few on the courses that were fixed around 20 minutes after the course was released).

We'll work on fixing the feedback tool too.
Day after leaving preview and hiking prices App Engine has 50 min outage.
I listen to a lot of podcasts and its fantastic to have one about clojure. Sometimes this kind of podcaste (spezially new ones) have a stif tone but I liked the conversationel interviewing style in this one.

The only bad thing I have to say is the length. I like it if the podcasts are longer.
Actually I had no idea this was 'not done', even though I do not get a lot of votes if I look at my statistics I have more then 1500 views coming from the different HN websites that remained on my website for longer than 10 seconds (all the others are simply not counted since I consider them not to read the blog anyways). I had read the posting guidelines and they make no mention of your comment so I invite others to come to your support, if any other users feel the same way you do then of course I will cease to post my own articles.
Quoting Paul Graham [http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html]:

"Nothing could be less cool, at this point, than calling a startup 'cool.com.' A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically. 'Cool.com' smells of a media conglomerate trying to create a web spinoff."

He has a point, yet getting the do.com domain proves they're taking this quite seriously. I guess the two signals cancel and I'm left neutral about the name. :)

Where that really matters, of course, is for startups like stripe.com and simple.com (formerly banksimple). They have justifiably huge value for their expensive domain names: being taken seriously is life-or-death for them.

Although I dislike all these expensive names -- especially "do" -- on other grounds: http://messymatters.com/nominology

Btw, I'm curious how do.com compares to trello.com...
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They have the cash for acquiring such a domain name for sure. Last time facebook paid 8.5M for fb.com (also two-letter .com domain names)
New release just came out and it looks quite nice.

Also new in Fedora 16 is full OpenStack support. And before people say, Aeolus and OpenStack are complementary things, they aren't "competing". Aeolus is a cross-cloud management tool. OpenStack is (to put it in very simple and not quite accurate terms) an EC2 clone. You can use Aeolus to manage OpenStack or to migrate loads between EC2/OpenStack/other cloud.
I really think that there is a huge amount of stuff that we could start building or making locally, individually with skill, craft and dedication.

Yes that used to be the dominant form of production & employment up until ~ 200 years ago. You could bring it back. You might not get enough stuff though.
Libraries purchase physical copies of books (often at higher prices to get a sturdier binding). For popular books, libraries purchase multiple copies, some of which get lost or damaged, and must be replaced. In other words,authors still see some income from libraries.

With Kindle Lending, there is no substantive gain for authors.
Virgin's Branson invests in payment start-up Square
It's per depositor per bank. Not per depositor period. Spreading your money across accounts at a single bank would not get you additional protection. Spreading your money across banks is how you protect more of your money.
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>What kind of pedantic asshole cares if the main benefit of fair trade is a sense of superiority?

> And it's quite something to claim the sense of smugness some people feel is a bigger deal than higher prices for farmers!

Whoa, please be calm. I didn't say either of those things.
I merely said the the main benefit to the consumer is X, and the main benefit to the producer is Y. I never said anything about the relative importance of X or Y. Of course, the key thing is that the farmers get a fair price.

The mapleoin post seemed to miss patio11's implicit point that there is a benefit to the consumer. That's all I was responding to. patio11 didn't get it backwards, he was just making a point from the consumer's point of view.
Thanks for this. Note that the "sleep" is not part of the plotting script - it's just an example that generates data for plotting. I updated the page with your suggestion.
I agree its not a liberal or conservative issues, and yes, the TSA is security theater, but according to the government they are real law enforcement.

Law enforcement throughout the country has another problem: the drug war and the militarization of the police force.

My dispute was that it is "conservatives" pushing this crap and that is far from correct. It is big government types who are in both parties.
Sorry, you are right. I'll just delete the post.
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How did they do it? I thought that their GC critically relied on virtual memory support that current OSes do not provide, hence the need to run virtualized.
You might take Ed Brown, Les Baer, and Wilson Combat as examples of semi-custom handguns; there's a lot of hand-fitting involved to make sure everything snicks together just so, and the smiths who worked on a piece are often named on your order sheet and/or sign it...

Long guns are all over the map, with all manner of fancy inlaid double shotguns appealing to the Anglophiles, and a thriving cottage industry of long-range precision rifle smiths.
So this would have been a great comment if you just left it at the first sentence, because it's true that there's an ongoing legal battle in a bunch of states about the right to record police officers doing their jobs. My home state of Illinois is one of the worst offenders here. I note, happily, that the police are tending to lose these fights in court.

The rest of your comment saps your credibility.

"Some pissed off cop can just" &c &c &c --- well, let's not discuss what the police should be able to do at all then, because this is logic that inevitably ends up with us throwing up our hands. Or, because we're on Hyperbolic News, having a debate about whether the citizens of a truly free society need police at all.
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This is ridiculous:

HN is not a financial forum, thus he should be precluded from asking about the details of this startup, who, is trying to brand themselves as a simple banking system based on their technical prowess. Further, you state he is asking technical questions which are irrelevant... how can TECHNICAL questions be irrelevant on HN - especially after you claim he shouldn't be asking financial-forum-esque questions here.

What then should he be asking.

Personally, you appear to me to be attempting to stifle perfectly relevant questions on HN and trying way to hard to filter commentary rather than add to the discussion.

Frankly, I am quite wary of Simple - especially when they state things such as "we are a lot like a prepaid card" -- you know why? Prepaid cards are largely targeted at low income/bad credit users and they pay a premium fee for such use and are bilked as a result.

I don't want to think that just because al3x and Simple are posting to HN they should automatically receive my trust.

ESPECIALLY given the inherent and complete corruption we know to exist at all levels of banking (if you have not been paying attention this last few years) Simple better make damn sure they set themselves apart.

It looks like their business model is "oooh shiny! and we are not a BANK!"

That doesn't cut it.

If they are simply an abstraction to the known egregious practices of other institutions, then simple needs to be very clear what advantage its customers gain from this model.

So far - I see not much gained.
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This is a great framework for discussing how computing is changing. But it does not go far enough to describe the fullness of the "web OS".

This article focuses on the presentation layer. I'd love to see more discussion about the other layers of the "web OS" stack described in this same light.
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He wasn't arrested. He was observed. So, this is not "exactly" how it used to work behind the iron curtain.
Excellent points.

Geographic redundancy with parity compliments the network topology we find in many cities: a metro area fiber ring connecting many data centers with low cost site-to-site (not internet) bandwidth. It's even lower cost to just buy excess capacity with lower QOS.

Every archival storage provider I've talked to has a write-heavy workload. Write traffic maybe more than 3x read traffic. So for example in this situation replicating between two sites requires a site-to-site connection equal to the size of the incoming data. Since site-to-site connections are full-duplex, in the parity system the bandwidth for reads and writes is provided at a similar price to what would be spent on replication bandwidth for writes.

That said, the first iterations of Nimbus.io won't provide geo redundancy beyond the geo-redundancy that creating an offsite backup inherently provides. We expect to add on geo redundancy storage as an upgrade option at a slightly higher price (still way under S3.)

Replying to your second point: If transient conditions like only a couple racks lost power, the system wouldn't trigger an automatic rebuild right away. It would continue to service requests with parity and hinted-handoff until the machines come back online. In any case, when the system decides a full rebuild is needed, the rebuild rate is balanced with servicing new requests (similar to how a RAID controller can give tunable priority to rebuild vs. traffic.)
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The only interesting part of these knives, IMO, are the pins (which he sources from someone else). In addition to merely being stock removal, it's pretty lame steel.

I far prefer Global (http://www.global-knife.com/) for mass-produced knives, and Kramer (http://kramerknives.com/) for custom kitchen knives.
Should they be able to plant a gps tracker on your clothing without a warrant? After all, they could get the same information by just following you. This is just easier.

Why would it be any different than your car? It's not actually on your person, per se, it's on your clothing, which is different. Sure, the resolution of the determined movement is higher, but they could have an agent tail you to the same effect if you left your car.

The line we draw in the sand is somewhat arbitrary, but it has to be there. I'm generally for putting the line further up the slippery slope.
You're totally right - I actually didn't want to bother folks with an email, but I think it's warranted at this point.
That's right (sorry, forgot about this thread). Not saying that ARC is bad, for where it's used--but it doesn't strike me as terribly "high-level".

(Neither, though, does C++, and smart pointers don't help there either. ;) )
In Illinois, the consequences would probably include the felony charge of obstruction of justice. The state has an obvious interest in ensuring that criminals cannot track the location of patrol cars in real time; this is part of the implied social contract that recognizes that citizens aren't paying the price to put a police car on literally every city block, but rather pursuing spot enforcement.
Yeah, I read "The Theory of the Leisure Class" recently and have been rethinking the meaning of a lot of cultural values/activities so understand very well your dilemma.

In this case however, I think buying expensive hand-made knives is a pretty clear case of conspicuous consumption. They're not markedly better in any way over mass-manufactured knives that anyone can afford.
Because it sounds like the safe, experienced play. It does work for a lot of companies (says something about the companies more than the CEO), and I would suppose it is easier to make deals to keep the company going when you have all the "club" contacts. When it fails, it fails in amazing spectacular ways.

I guess many should be sorta happy since it allows untried upstarts to disrupt the market and truly well run companies to expand. I feel sorry for all the people caught up in the fail.
The thing is, the powers that different parties have are all based on a delicate system of checks and balances. Allowing the police to more efficiently pursue people is not necessarily desirable, and in fact many laws and Constitutional amendments (such as the whole idea of a warrant) are explicitly intended to clamp down on police efficiency. It would be much more efficient if the justice system didn't have to worry about guilt or individual rights at all, but that is obviously undesirable.

Previously, their ability to monitor people was limited by physical resources. This technology largely eliminates that constraint and allows them to conduct surveillance in cases where they never would have felt it was worth their time before. For roughly the same amount of work that tailing a suspect traditionally would have required, they can now track everybody he's come in contact with.

So the question is, did we really mean for police to have unlimited surveillance powers, or was it simply never considered before because natural limits always existed? I would argue the latter.

This is similar to how the Second Amendment cannot reasonably be read as allowing individuals to own thermonuclear warheads. That is obviously outside its intended scope, even though a literal reading of "right to bear arms" would appear to allow it.
He smelled.
You can't create the Apple potion without Jobs or Wozniak. By all accounts in the book, Woz would have just given his designs away. It was Jobs who realized the market potential of Wozniak's designs.

But founders shouldn't be emulating anyone. They should be doing what they're best at doing. And Apple's founders did this. Woz was best at engineering and Jobs was best at building a company. Woz was very skeptical of Apple being able to become a company. Without Jobs' early vision, the company never would have taken off. Remember from the book that Woz was doing Apple as a moonlighting gig and did not leave his job at HP for quite some time into Apple's development.

As for Steve being "lucky" to be Wozniak's friend, Wozniak was just as "lucky" to be Steve's friend. Without Steve, Woz would have probably been an engineer his whole life, working for companies like HP. Instead, he got to become a multi-millionaire and retire at a very young age, become a legend in computing history, and pursue his passions without the constraints of a job.
> These days, Fedora uses Gnome 3 whereas Ubuntu uses Unity for its desktop environment.

This is what convinced me to switch to Fedora last week after using Ubuntu for years, and so far I love it (Fedora, I'll save my opinions of Gnome 3 for another thread). Using yum was very easy after having used synaptic and I was able to get everything set up on my system without any trouble.
How much did the "simple.com" domain cost you? :)
The teenagers you're talking about were taken from Afghanistan, right? Not San Jose.

People make comments about people from the US being "sent to Gitmo" for daring to stand up to authority here, but it's worth noting that nobody has been taken from inside the US and held in Guantanamo.

Having noted that, I think we find we don't even need to litigate Gitmo here. Which is a good thing, because I think you'll have a hard time finding a lot of people to disagree with you in interesting ways about it. Of course military and intelligence agencies shouldn't have taken innocent people from Afghanistan and stuck them in a brig without due process rights. Thankfully, that has little to do with what the FBI does in San Jose.
I thought HN was good at math:

lim(number_of_lawyers) = 0 USD payed
1 -> infinite
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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Now onto different and better mistakes.
How much of that is because research from the 1970s is effectively locked away behind ACM and IEEE paywalls? How much research gets rehashed because the researcher can't find the result he or she is looking for via the atrocious search tools provided by the likes of Elsevier?

I think that more openness in scientific publication will in fact mitigate the problem of people being quick-on-the-draw, as contradictory findings and previous publications of similar results will be easier to find, even by the non-scientific audience.
I like positively middle class factory produced Global knives. That said, to me, this movement is just an extension of the "Home Depot"/DIY effect --nothing more. It's not egotistical whites or egotistical Japanese who make hand-crafted goods only because they can afford to. It's people who enjoy craft for the sake of craft, rather than a show of superiority.
Wake up and look around at how many founders are trying to emulate Jobs. This article is about looking at the facts--mainly that Steve was not a great founder.
Show HN: Facebook friends and photos on one map
Thought you guys might be interested in my spare time project to plot Facebook friends and photos on Google Maps: http://friendatlas.appspot.com.

I've seen a few apps plotting friends but felt there was room for UI improvement.

I haven't tested with >500 friends yet so apologies if there's any glitch.

It's been a fun side project but always appreciate any ideas on how to monetize. Perhaps contacting a few ad agencies to see if they'd be interested in skinning it for a client microsite?

Appreciate any feedback.
Considering who he is and what he is "selling" that's all he needs. Buffet tries to cultivate folksiness and the site goes along with that.

Now take Donald Trump who is of course not as successful as Buffet but his site is much different http://www.trump.com complete with flash or whatever. For what he is trying to sell that's the approach that he needs. He also dresses better than Warren because of what he is objective is.
heh. Thats a good response, thanks.

I do wonder whether transfers work if your bank account has been frozen?

They are drama queen-ish though, I agree. Luckily that doesn't stop them from being a journalistic entity.
well, PCs have changed a lot for sure. no hdd, no ram, no OS (well you can get numbuntu for free, but then again, you need to connect to the interwebz...
Hate to sound ignorant, but someone want to explain?
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Sorry for the silence, here's the scoop:

Over the past few weeks, the number of quality inbound projects has dropped substantially. I have a few theories as to why, but as MattBearman mentions, an email mentioning the lack of projects probably would be a good move.

The biggest challenge now is getting quality stuff coming in on a regular basis. I'm also working on fixing a few of the more painful interactions on both sides (talent and project owner).

Admittedly, my weakness is figuring out how to spark growth while at the bottom of the "shark fin" (http://www.longevitas.co.uk/site/images/Shark.png) -- the initial buzz has died down (though, interestingly, we're getting double digit signups a day still), so organic inbound projects aren't happening much anymore, and the ones that are have been disappointing generally.

I hope to have more updates soon.
> Without exaggeration, this is exactly how innocent people, some of them teenagers, ended up in Gitmo

But that is exaggeration. The tip led to him being observed, not being ported off to Gitmo. So it's no where near being "exactly" like these innocent people being sent to Gitmo. If anything, your only hurting your case by sensationalizing it. Does it not stand on it's own?

That this was done with a GPS device as opposed to being tailed by people doesn't strike me as a big difference (if only that the GPS device is more accurate and less invasive).
Seconded. It seems like they basically just turned the frame-rate down, but it's not clear to me.
I totally agree Paul. But that isnt what most good VCs do. They help when needed and get out of the way when they are not
I take it you don't have kids. It doesn't matter how long the toy could last, they'll still only play with it until they get bored then it gets lost or ignored.

It's the same with most things that are continuously being improved: another poster made the point about cars. Most people don't want a daily driver that's a 30 year-old gas guzzler even if it still runs fine. New cars are more comfortable, cheaper and have lower operating costs.

It's not going to change: people want stuff. The cheaper it is, the more stuff they can have or the less they have to pay for the same amount of stuff.
Is this a good example of information asymmetry?
I can't make up my mind. I used to use ubuntu as my primary OS, but I am familiar enough with linux that I can run any distro (I used to run Gentoo and Archlinux, but at some point of time I realized I actually like the sink included stuff so I switched back to ubuntu, now I experiment less). When I bought my new laptop (Acer Aspire 5742G) it came with two graphics cards, one intel onboard and one dedicated nVidia 540M. Their is a tech, nVidia optimus, which is supposed to switch between these two depending upon my performance needs. But linux (I mean the kernel linux not a specific distro) does not really do that because of some driver issues. So my battery performance drops like 50% and the laptop heats up a lot, which is bad. I tried CPU scaling, I tried that bumblebee package but nothing worked. For now I am working out of windows 7 home edition which came pre-installed. And I must tell you, there isn't much of a difference(in usability and stability that is, battery backup increased 2x). I may switch to windows full time because switching back to linux doesn't have much merit right now. I am thinking of trying out Fedora but I need to know if it would solve the problem before I go through the hassle of installing it.

If anyone else has this kind of laptop and notes similar battery life for each distro and which is actually the battery life the laptop should have, then please tell me.

Edit: Grammar and explanation.
Please explain

bash$ mencoder -ovc x264 -oac mp3lame -x264encopts \
subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b \
-o hoax.avi ray_480p_normal.mp4

then o god o god.. is this a porn?
SproutCore 2.0 is very much alive. Tom Dale and I have been working on it since we left Strobe over a month ago, and have been using it quite a bit in client projects.

The feature we've been working on recently is to eliminate the <span> wrappers around data-bound DOM elements and bound collections. We landed that patch (and created a new library in the process, https://github.com/tomhuda/metamorph.js/) and are fixing some bugs that have come up since we landed it.

Expect a release announcement, as well as more specifics about where we go from here in the next few days.