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Another vector for disruption is with statistics. Scientists use statistics to analyze the results of their experiments all the time. Unfortunately, most scientists are not statisticians. They spend a lot of time on statistics that they want to spend doing things they're good at. They make lots of mistakes, for example using the wrong statistical test or deciding what test to use after the experiment, etc.

With today's computer speeds there is no reason to do the statistics the way they're doing it. You don't need to make strong and unjustified assumptions about your data because then you can use a simple T-test. Today with simulation you can do pretty much any statistical test you want. You can do Bayesian inference.

However, most of these scientists are not capable of programming that themselves in R. What is needed is a simple GUI interface where they can state their assumptions and enter their data. Then the program calculates their posteriors and does any hypothesis test they want. The statistics scientists use today are optimized for pen and paper. The assumptions no longer hold. Who cares if the computation takes 500 milliseconds on a computer instead of 3 milliseconds?
I didn't say that creating software is grunt work, I just said that my back hurts from sitting on a chair. I'd rather be a complete human being who uses his brain, body and soul, not just a brain plugged into the internet.
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They might just succeed by being at the right place and the right time.

Though... that didn't bode well for Diaspora; that said, I am more optimistic about Simple.com than I am about Diaspora.
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Any info on how much the domain cost?
There are already some efforts to speed up peer-review and make more scientific publications available for free to anyone, e.g., http://www.plosone.org/

> Unless scientists and researchers start to put the interests of collaboration and “open science” ahead of their desire to be promoted or win tenure the system will not change

Something similar could be said about so many industries, including our own.
I think the idea is:

What if you took mint.com, and instead of interfacing with hundreds of banks, you interface with a single bank. You can integrate much more closely and provide a better experience, and the customer shouldn't really care what the underlying bank is.
Seems to rely on IP telephony service to make calls over wifi. Uses Sprint's cell network when wifi not available.
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from slashdot:

The article explains why the asteroid looks like a pixelated sprite taken from the era of Monkey Island.

For those that didn't want to bother reading both articles and just wanted to have a look at the image but then thought "WTF" after having a look at it:

"The individual pulses can be timed very accurately as well, so that the shape of the asteroid can be determined, too. If there is a bump on the asteroid, like a hill, then a pulse hitting that won’t travel quite as far as a pulse that hits a crater. It gets back sooner, and this can be measured. The spatial resolution of this method at the distance of YU 55 will be about 4 meters, so they’ll be able to make an image that’s about 100 pixels across of it."
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Eh, Ally isn't just "Ally Inc," it's "Ally Financial," and it uses the term "Ally Bank" in advertising its banking services. And Mint doesn't do banking at all — they're purely an analytics service.
Doesn't that mean that you don't actually get any of the legal protections (insurance and assurances) that comes with keeping your money in a bank or credit union?
So what is the license for all of this data? It seems murky at best...
You know, my question was serious. There are several reasons for using vim, like maybe you can edit faster if you know the commands, there are more plugins and so on. So if my question had been "why use vim instead of nano", there would have been possible reasonable answers.

But what is the advantage of Arch over Ubuntu? They are both Linux... My question was serious, I really don't know why I should prefer Arch.
Wells Fargo and Suntrust are well-known banks, too.
> What is "Simple?"

Shoes.
The community is amazing. The forums are a wealth of information, and I've tracked down almost every single bug just by searching. The wiki is updated regularly and is just as rich.

In my experience Arch users are very happy and proud to be running such a powerful, flexible system, and they give back by helping others. I ran Slackware for a year, then messed around with Mint before trying Arch. I can't see myself trying anything else -- except maybe LFS ;).
I'm pretty curious how Aeolus is working out. It looks like an interesting technology (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Aeolus_Conductor)
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So you're saying that fair trade coffee benefits "the white man" rather than the producers in the third-world country? That's exactly the opposite of what fair trade means.

Also, hand-made isn't fighting against capitalism, it's fighting against mass-production, sweat-shops and machine-people jobs like the ones portrayed on Chaplin's City Lights or even Discovery Channel's How It's Made.
One doesn't need to look very far. The first paragraph:

> If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years.

Startups are not a reliable way to get rich. Or what failure rate would you still consider reliable?

That said, I do agree that working at a startup can mean that you can contribute more. That is not always the case however. Just like smart technology is leverage, a big company is leverage too. Even assuming that you'll be 36x less productive at a big company, you'll probably reach 36x more users simply because you're working on a product by a big company.
As @maw said, most top sites remove the http headers that identify the web-server. Also, if you had to take the top, I don't know, 10k sites by traffic, I would imagine all of them use a load-balancer, so how can netcraft know what the web-server is behind them?
Burning money on outrageously priced domain names instead of executive bonuses. I love it!
What's your reasoning?

FWIW I always thought Fedora was aimed at more tech-savvy users, not "ordinary" users (whatever that may mean).
>The publisher can still sell them. There is no direct loss, the damage is hardly quantifiable (it might actually turn out to be a net positive in the end, given all this free publicity). //

Legally you're wrong.

This is the reason why you can't call giving away someone else's copyright work on purpose "non-commercial". If you enter the market with the same product for free you interfere with the commercial operation of the rightful owner who is selling for a higher price. You can't generally sell a book to a person who has already been given that book for free. Moreover the effort in promoting the book has been lost without reward.

Now granted it might work out that giving away the product for free acts to increase overall sales. But it's not Amazon's place to make that call (the Bit-torrent/bootlegger defence I suppose you'd call this). Amazon infringed on the copyright of the author.

IMO the legal system should come down hard on a company that is trying to leverage copyright for their own gains whilst simultaneously denying the creator of copyright works the reward of their labours.

Consider a converse situation, that I take a product from a distributor (Disney say), duplicate it and give it away for free. How many millions of pounds do you think I'd be on the hook for?

Incidentally I'm not saying that is right, I'm saying that's how copyright law plays out.
Can't really blame a manufacturer for a bug that crashes routers by easily passed BGP parameters? It's not possible it's their fault this wasn't caught in dev-test?

I've seen many environments where it's a multi-year process to roll out new code, particularly in service providers. I wouldn't classify asking a service provider to change all their code in a matter of months a reasonable request. The amount of testing they do before rolling code is very time consuming. It's not uncommon for service providers to run on 3-4-5 year old code.
I have problem with this:

"If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year."

I am not sure though that it is false. It is just not very well defined. (I don't know what it means. What actionable advice can be concluded from it.) You say wealth is different than money. This implies that wealth cannot be measured with the money you can gain from it. But you somehow measure wealth with money. You somehow convert between the two using the ratio used at big companies.

What can be said in my opinion is this:

At a big company you are paid 100.000 per year to improve someone else's huge shitty code. You are paid to fight with buerocracy. You are paid well for it.

In a small company you are paid to create new programs fast. Much faster than in big companies. But this small company either has huge risks or have much smaller income than the big company. You programming does not worth more just because you can create more lines of code or nicer code. Your programming here also worth only $100.000

Maybe I misunderstood you, but I read you as you stated that the expected value of the earning of a programmer founded startup is 36x$80.000

I think it is more close to 2x$80.000
The 2 multiplier comes from you work 2x more time in a week.

But of course I have no data to back it up.
https://www.simple.com/faq/

> your cash is deposited with our bank partners in FDIC-insured products.
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For distros targetting ordinary users the office suite should come preinstalled as long as you can't buy one at Staples.

That said this is also part of what makes Linux shine compared to especially Windows: Usually everything is installed and Just Works in 20 minutes after started installation. (Have been fixing peoples borked Windowses from '95 to '08 so I'm allowed to be opinionated here. : )
Anyone notice the name "Joeseph Schumpeter" on the sample card? Its a reference to Schumpeter's Creative Destruction - further implying them to be in the process of destroying the old ways of doing things (in this case banking) with a radically different approach. Love it!
Can someone discuss the pros of Fedora? I'm mainly a Mac user these days but my Fedora 9 box is still running in the corner on a very old box. I promised myself I'd get a beefy 8-core Intel Ivy bridge system next year. I assume all my "build notes" with all my yum installs still work. All I ever hear about is Ubuntu.
'Ally' is not a successful startup. Ally is the rebranded GMAC, whose founding dates back to 1919. GMAC was renamed (and officially transformed into a registered bank) as part of a series of changes which included receiving over $16 billion in federal bailout assistance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_Financial

Though I suppose 'Ally' was a spectacular renaming, and their advertising is working, if it gives people the impression Ally is a can-do startup!
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I think this is just a PR (over-)reaction to the current negative image of "banks" and provides some space between Simple and the "banking" practices it skewers in its marketing. (It is somewhat problematic to say "banks are bad for you" and "we're not a bank" when your name screams "we're a bank")

I guess it's also somewhat logically defensible, since FDIC-insured credit unions are just as qualified to be Simple's back-end partners. Though it still feels like a dodge, given how foggy the relationship is between Simple and their partner institutions. It feels like they want people to not think about Simple accounts supporting places like BofA, while still being free to partner with BofA in the background.

That said, I wonder if they've considered a "community-focused" account option, where people can specify that they only want their funds to be deposited with credit unions, accepting whatever slightly worse terms come with less competition.
That's one of the reasons that I have two very physical and mentally engaging hobbies - Brazilian jiu-jitsu and lifting.
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This move strikes me as being a little too quaint for a financial service. I can't tell what I'd be signing up for. While their language is very friendly, it's also obtuse, and that doesn't foster trust.
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Code signining is a control that is intended to restrict the software that can run to only those apps which have been granted the right to run.

Your second question is a good one, but given is context, it is unrelated. If apple signs a python interpreter, they do so at their peril, for obvious reasons.
The article made the point that this is an "accident of paper". Peer review comes from the expense of curating paper documents.

Of course it is arguable that peer review weeds out noise too. But you have to get your work in front of a peer, and they have to understand your contribution. Its also arguable that peer review leads to stagnation and missed opportunities/discoveries. In fact, surely it does.
There's been an attempt to measure paper quality using the "impact factor", but as with seemingly every measure, it's led to shenanigans. Some publishers encourage authors to cite papers from their journals, and some editors write survey papers that happen to cite a bunch of articles from their journals. A recent AMS Notices covered this in math, and I sort of expect it's worse in other disciplines.
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An "ordinary user" is incapable of installing an operating system. They don't even know what an operating system is.

A linux distro should assume that if the user is installing the OS himself, he isn't ordinary and should quite simply ASK what the user wants to install, instead of assuming. This sort of stupidity forces me to look for the most minimal install ISO for every distro I deal with.
Well, I'd say first and foremost, it's a matter of preference. For example, some people just can't stand yum, others love it.

From a technical perspective, Fedora tends to be about 1/2 to 1 release ahead of Ubuntu, by which I mean the software in Fedora now will be in Ubuntu in 3-6 months, and has less "magic".

If you care about free/libre/whatever it's called today software, then Fedora tends to be a better choice than Ubuntu, since the Fedora developers tend to work much more closely with the community, whereas Ubuntu does its own thing.

These days, Fedora uses Gnome 3 whereas Ubuntu uses Unity for its desktop environment.
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

We work with partner banks who hold on to deposits. For all intents and purposes, you never have to think about who that partner bank is, but if you ever need to contact them directly, you'll know where your funds are.

You might find our FAQ informative: https://www.simple.com/faq/.
Email the whois contact.

Use an email address that does not show you have a huge wallet (if you do).

Propose a price. Not too low. Not too high. Get a good estimate from estibot.com (or valuate.com, same engine). The estimates are sometimes off but it's the best thing around, and professional "domainers" use it.

If you don't propose a price, you might look like a tire-kicker, and not get an answer.
If you do propose a price that is way below the market (ref. estibot), then you might upset the person.
Wrong. The first jailbreak was done because the iPhone trusted the restore mode commands coming from iTunes. The protocol was totally reworked so that the iPhone would only run some canned scripts. This did nothing to improve device security (it pretty much only enabled the jailbreak), but Apple fixed it fast.
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Perhaps. But I page through the code faster than I can register the details. Just the 'shape of it' gets through. Not really time for parsing. So some subconscious element must be in play.
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Typical utilitarian bullshit, and with a shade of bigotry at that. Who are you to deem this activity wasteful? The man produces something that other people want, and you want to go ahead and condemn all parties because mass production is more efficient?
Guys - the FAQ https://www.simple.com/faq/has all the answers you need.
- FDIC insurance is pass through from the underlying banks.
- you open your account through us, and manage it through us.
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I wonder how they managed to misspell my first name.
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The "Bank" in "BankSimple" was problematic for us. We're technically not a bank. We also don't want to be associated with the way people have approached banking, particularly in the US.

Sorry you're not crazy about the new name, but we're happy with it. It gives us a lot of room to grow.
So the question then is can you disclaim copyright infringement in this way, did Amazon do it right?

They'll probably do the corporate thing and give $50k to a lawyer to check the contract rather than giving compensation for the costs they have forced on their client.
It's probably to do with image, particularly how that looks to ordinary consumers. If consumers look at a bank/payments company and see it is run by a small team of 20/30 something geeks, rather than wall street types they might be anxious about letting them take care of their money.
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I do not think it is black and white. I myself sometimes have taken risks in my life, but I do not take huge risks all the time. I had to decide on this when I had my family and children. I am creating wealth by creating my Html5 Canvas based UI system on the side, but currently my family eats because of the money I get from a 'corporate job'.
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Do you really want to let Simple take care of your money?
Official name "SunTrust Bank", owned by "SunTrust Banks, Inc."

Official name "Wells Fargo Bank, N.A." owned by "Wells Fargo & Company".
I disagree. Even Citibank doesn't use the "bank" part on their main website, instead going by just Citi: http://citi.com

There are also many other large banks that omit "Bank" from their name such as Wells Fargo.

Keep in mind this is not a traditional bank, so following the rules of traditional banks would be inappropriate. They are better off following the rules of progressive startups which have been using simplicity in their names quite successfully as of late (e.g. Square).

As for Bank of America, you couldn't remove the Bank from Bank of America or it'd just be America which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I don't think Bank of America, aside from controlling most of the banks in this country, is an objectively great brand. Rather, I thought it always tried to piggyback and sound like a federal entity which it's not and always found its name disingenuous.
Don't be torn: there's a place for both. The affordable mass-produced stuff is great for obvious reasons, while the wasteful, pretentious hippster-alternative is cool for whomever happens to get off on this stuff. The latter is such a small niche, it hardly makes a difference economically, but people still value this stuff.

Not liking it doesn't make you a Marxist but just somebody who happens not to like this kind of stuff.
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Couldn't happen too soon. The cell phone industry is ripe for disruption. One of the primary offenses is making users route voice data over their expensive, slow cellular networks even when a cheap, fast physical network is also available. Or worse yet, not letting them use the cheap, fast physical network even when the cellular network is not available. The situation became genuinely absurd is when companies decided the best solution to offer to customers with poor home reception was to sell them microcell hardware.
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The main reason I chose Fedora over Ubuntu:

You get more recent and frequent package updates running on Fedora or CentOS (RHEL derivatives).

The secondary reason I chose Fedora over Ubuntu:

I can't stand the apt-get package manager from the command line. I prefer yum over apt-get any day of the week. I understand you can install synaptic, I'd rather not have to. Yum also has the wonderful yum-plugin-priorities package for maintaining a number of repos with specific priorities and hierarchical rules for determining which packages to update from which repositories. There are also plugins for finding the fastest mirror and protected the base packages so you don't bomb an app updating:

http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/

I also enjoy CentOS, but generally more for headless web servers.
These are nice knives, but is this not also a really slick piece of lifestyle marketing?

Also, these knives are quite expensive. I'm not so sure if they are really up there with the handmade japanese knives[1], seems like theres a bit more to it than just sharpening a piece of hardened stainless?[2] Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[1]http://www.japaneseknifecompany.com/KNIVES/LAMINATEDSTEEL/JK...

[2]http://www.japaneseknifecompany.com/VIDEOS/KnifeMakingProces...
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Oh RIM, its sad to see this is where you've ended up.
"I'm not sure erasure coding vs. replication is a simple change for other distributed storage projects."

It depends on a few factors: how modular the architecture is overall, whether the existing replication is synchronous or asynchronous, etc. I'm working on the GlusterFS replication code right now in another window (OK, I should be but I'm typing here). I can assure you that it would be possible to replace replication with erasure coding just by replacing that one module, without perturbing the rest of the architecture. I've also been through the tabled code and I think it would be possible there too. I suspect the same would be true for Elliptics, but probably not Swift. Can't tell for Luwak; that would require more thought than I can afford to put into it right now.

This is something we've actively considered for GlusterFS/HekaFS, and might still do some day - though it's more likely to be on the IDA/AONT-RS side than RS/EC. The downside is that, while these approaches do offer better storage utilization, they also consume more bandwidth. Also, queuing effects can turn a bandwidth issue into a latency issue. This is especially the case for read-dominated workloads, where you just can't beat the latency of reading exactly the bytes you need from one replica. For these reasons I don't think either full replication or redundant-encoding schemes will ever entirely displace the other. Each project must prioritize which to implement first, but that doesn't mean those that have implemented replication first are precluded from offering other options as alternatives. It's really not an architectural limitation in most cases. It's just timing.
Line 5 just made me spill my coffee (or I need to drink some more). Since STDOUT is the default filehandle, there is no need to muck around with that anachronism. A simple $| = 1 would suffice. This idiom was once useful for setting autoflush for a filehandle other than STDOUT, but this is not the case here. For a lengthier discussion on this, including the apologies of Randal Schwartz for coming up with it (when admittedly other facilities were not available for the very specific use case it addresses) see [0].

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/196754/what-does-selectse...