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Ask PG: Has Y Combinator been everything you envisioned it to be?
Just wondering what your measurements of 'success' were and what your overall vision is/was when starting.
Why aren't you using FreeBSD?
Ask HN: Develop a site 'Has anyone developed (idea here) yet?'
Wondering if the creative minds on HN could come up with a site where a user could put in an idea and be directed to a site/app/plugin that's already been developed for the idea or able to submit it for creation.
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

From a regulatory perspective, we're a lot like a prepaid card. It's a well-known model that banking authorities, legal experts, and the government is comfortable with. You probably already use financial products that work similarly to the way we do.

That said, we hold ourselves to the same security standards that "real" banks do. I'd like to think we're going above and beyond when it comes to security.
Never use metaphors for online issues. They simply don't apply, the online world has far too many differences from the physical world for them to ever work. It isn't like "leaving books around a library", it is like "digital online content was accidentally priced for free when it shouldn't have been and some people downloaded them". This isn't such a complicated situation that we need metaphors to navigate the morass, not that they ever help anyhow since it inevitably causes people to get distracted by arguing over which inapplicable metaphor is more accurate instead of simply addressing the question at hand.

What really matter here is the breach of contract. The contract specified when Amazon can drop the price, that condition was not met, they dropped the price. Apologies or blaming computers are not what is called for here.
I still don't get it. When I deposit $1000 into Simple, will I get a statement from Simple or the "banking partner". Can I go directly to the "banking partner" and withdraw my money or must I always go through Simple?
Any idea how much bandwidth this sort of voip uses? I'm wondering if it'll affect PC online FPS gaming or netflix streaming.
[..] Arch Linux is a very fun and stable distribution that successfully blends the bleeding edge, stability and hackability of Linux. Don’t be fooled by the rumours saying it’s for the elite. [..]

Agree! I have been using it for almost a year and the most atractive thing is the rolling release update. I don't have to worry about upgrading the whole system like others distros.
What happened to TinyProj?
I signed up for it when it came out. Weekly I received an email. After a while the list of jobs became shorter and shorter. I don't think I've received one now for a few weeks. Anybody else experience this?
Are you against an office suite being installed for normal users because you don't think they are useful to normal users, or because {libre,open}office are pretty big?
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

We had a "team" page on our previous site (under the BankSimple name). We plan on revising and reviving that page, it just didn't make the cut for our updated site for the Simple rebranding.

I like knowing who's behind the products and services I use too.
Still confused.

Is the account at the partner bank in my name, or that of Simple?
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There are actually laws prohibiting non-banks from using the word "bank" in their name. A lot of bank holding companies (which are not, technically, banks) got around this by replacing the "k" in "bank" with a "c" -- such as "BancAmerica Corp". I'm sure we all breathed a sigh of regulatory relief seeing that "c" there.
That was a concern, but not the sole reason for our rebranding.
>There was a time when only wealthy folks could afford goods. Capitalism happened and now everyone can afford goods.

Okay this may sound abstract.....when you buy an object which has been crafted to perfection by another artist....you dont just buy the object ....it feels like you almost bought some of that perfection...it feels like maybe it can breathe some perfection into your work!

On a cynical note maybe it makes it easier for you to justify the amount of hard work that you put in perfecting every infinitely minute detail in your work.

It is also comforting to know that there are people out there who value perfection and attention to detail like you.....and when you show them your work they'll see all the hard work you have put into it.
This is an honest question, and I promise, I'm not trolling but have you actually experienced where someone is really uncomfortable because I can go buy something that is of equal quality and it is related to social status? Is there data on this?

Sure there are trends clothing, knife brands, and almost every other good comes in and out fashion, but isn't that the nature of competition and capitalism? Is this because the wealthy don't want to be seen as using the same thing as the unwashed masses?

In some ways I want to believe you, but I find it unfathomable.
I like the idea!! But did anyone develop it yet? :)
It's important to remember that he's not entirely making these tools by hand. He's use mass produced drill presses, sand paper, lumber, and metal alloys. I think what he's doing is nice and pretty, but let's not wrap it too much of a handmade ethos.
My answer was almost serious as well, and was answering the question "why not use Ubuntu if it's easier" and not "what is the advantage of Arch over Ubuntu?". They are two different questions.

Your question, now, is a much more open one, then more difficult to answer. This page try to explain the Arch Way https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

I wrote something that tried to explain why AUR is an important part of Arch Linux http://www.nicosphere.net/why-aur-is-part-of-the-arch-linux-...
"...I suspect very few end users to pick their Android based on the custom skin it comes with..."

I, for one, have decided to only go with Google flagships from now on. So, in a sense, I pick them based on the custom skin it comes with: vanilla.

I do think it's partly Google's fault. I imagine they didn't anticipate this becoming such a problem. They probably should've made the system modular enough and restricted the scope of the skins enough to make it a lot easier to upgrade the OS without having to update the skin, or at least making the changes trivial.

That said, I really don't think most people care that much, and the ones who do root their phone and install whatever ROM they want. As a Droid X owner, I've been amazed at what the dev community has been able to do, even with a locked bootloader.
Last Fedora I installed was Fedora 14 (which I'm still using) and you could (un)select the packages you want to install.
Kai from Tinkercad here. Happy to answer any questions about the product or space.
My first questions about any new dev tool/tech are "Where does it run?" and "What is the primary interface for working with it?"

So I'd love to see the paragraph that begins "There are various ways to install Redis" expanded. In particular, what's the workflow between a) I just downloaded something called Redis, and b) I am issuing commands to learn along with these examples.

Otherwise very clear and concise. Well done.
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

It wasn't a cheap domain, but our investors felt it was worth the expense. It's memorable, flexible, and to-the-point. We're generally not a profligate company, but we felt strongly about this.
As I understand it:

Banking is a commodity product. Other than access to ATMs, customer service, and online banking there's not much difference between banks (other than rates & fees, of course).

Same goes for the customers, honestly. If the bank doesn't extend you credit anyway, its a "your money is green" situation.

Yet the marketplace is still inefficient, and they think they can make money by making it efficient.

To do so, Simple has defined a standard checking account, if you will. It has x% interest, y fees, etc. Since banks and customers are a commodity, Simple can then say "we have 10000 customers at this price. Any FDIC insured bank - do you want them?" and perform a reverse auction of sorts. Its very much like LendingTree or FeeFighters.

The obvious obstacle is the same with internet banking - what if I need to talk to someone or get money out of an ATM? You're not going to convince me a random bank in New Mexico is interchangeable with Wells Fargo when I need cash.

They are handling this objection by providing a front-end which standardizes the customer service, ATM access (they pay the fee so use whatever ATM), and online banking pieces, and hopefully that standard is high quality.

So you still have an account with XYZ bank in Nowhereville, USA, but you've got a nice front-end instead of a questionable online banking product/customer support. All XYZ bank does is hold your cash for you, and its insured anyway so they can't screw that piece up.

Sounds great to me.
What, exactly, is a lead investor?
The best design for a site depends heavily on who it is targeted at.

It is simply not true that a bare minimum is best for all sites.

The example site is an academic and very functional site, and will appeal to a person who goes to it looking for specific and easily accessible information.

As a site for drawing the interest of children, or teenagers it will probably fail.

As a site for getting people to buy a product it will probably fail.
One of those emotions projects on the guy, the other projects on the reasons why people buy his stuff.

I suppose the easy way to buy from him and not feel like an asshole is to appreciate the passion and love that goes into the work he does.

Especially the way it's portrayed by the video, and especially with knives, there's this "this is a Hattori Hanzo sword" feeling attached to it.

If you're in the business of fighting other people with swords, a Hattori Hanzo is likely a good thing to have.

If you are a professional chef or butcher, or a passionate hobby cook, owning one of these knives may provide you with more value than a regular knife. Which side of your opposite judgements someone falls on, to me depends very much on what they use the knife for.
I would have to agree. For all the belly-aching about Wall Street in NYC's tech community, you're guaranteed a significant income for a number of years.

For this equality to hold:

E(Wall Street hacker's earnings) == E(startup founder's earnings)

you need an extremely high payoff, since

E(startup founder's earnings) == P(startup success) * payoff of startup.

and we know the probability of success at a startup is low.

Everyone on HN needs to be honest with themselves: this kind of high payoff almost never happens, in aggregate. And I haven't even included a risk premium, which would make the required payoff higher!

If wealth capture is a main concern, you're better off building a nest egg at a hedge fund or large corporation for 10 years. If you want to start a startup, do it for the culture and technological freedom. From a statistical view, however, a startup is not the optimal way to become rich.

EDIT: mynegation reminded me of risk-adjusted returns. Thanks!
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Factory jobs pay more than double the average wage in all developing countries. They are demanded by workers and much anguish is caused when they are lost.
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Actually, if you go by RIAA settlements and court verdicts, non-physical items are actually worth exponentially more than physical.
35% is a terrible rate for an ebook.

You can only get %70 if you charge more than $2.99 and opt-in to Kindle Lending. Does that mean that authors don't get anything for books read through Kindle Lending? That seems terrible if true. Kindle Lending is the reason I finally signed up for Amazon Prime, and I would expect authors to get a cut of that revenue.
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I haven't read a whole lot about your guys' operation, in fact I didn't even know the content was user submitted, but I'm wondering how you're moderating content for quality. I ask because as I was checking out the site last night, I was noticing typos and grammatical errors here and there. There are also technical downfalls, which are probably not as easy to fix.

If anything, a lazy way to get information on this would be to 'robustify' the feedback tool. If I notice a typo, or a bug, am I happy? No, not really. But I'm not confused either. The feedback tool should also act as a quality assurance tool IMHO.
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You should try the Infinality patches, they are really nice. I've tried them a few months ago and they are great.
Only used Redis on *nix, but there it's very easy: Just download, unpack and compile.

No need to install it just to play with it..

Compiles in no time at all =)
Seriously, I love it :) Good luck!
It is always my fault.. Sadly spell checkers don't help a dyslectic like me with names. Sorry, we still love you! :-)
No. Arch keeps backups of its wiki.
I don't get what the confusion is. "Simple" (generic name, weak branding..) is a middle-man between banks and you.

Why?

-They have multiple backend banks, so I suppose that keeps you the customer from getting locked into one bank's crappy fee policy.

-They can focus on customer satisfaction and UI rather than be bogged down by becoming a "real" bank.

Any doubts about their trustworthiness because they're not a bank is nothing but FUD, since they explicitly stated multiple times that your money is in a bank.
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

We're focused on banking right now, but one of the things we like about the Simple name is that it gives us room to grow.

Another thing the new name gets us is freedom from both legal issues around the term "bank" and negative associations with the retail banking industry.

Plus, people kept mixing up "BankSimple" and "SimpleBank". That was driving me nuts :)
This brings to mind the documentary "Startup.com", where the startup GovWorks.com brought in a film crew to document their success. Hopefully it goes better this time - GovWorks ended up going bankrupt in the 2000 tech bubble collapse, which makes for an interesting movie but wasn't the ending they were expecting.
Yes, and it's still only running an app which was granted the right to run, it's just that this app now has some extra code in it. Since Apple doesn't really inspect the contents of the apps it signs anyway, this grants no extra capabilities.
I can't be the only one who finds this disturbing. I have no issue with the tracking devices or their use. What I find very concerning is that they do not require a warrant and there is no oversight as to their usage.
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I hope I get an invite too. I requested one from the start...
Whoa - what did that domain name cost them.
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Great! Why haven't I gotten my invite yet? :)
Kai, What are the limitations you'll face in the browser? Will you be able to handle compound curvature in the future?
I love the concept and it seemed to be a hit at MakerFaire NYC!
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See also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/09/21/10214...
I thought my question was kind of the same. If there is no advantage of Arch, then it doesn't make sense to use it if it is harder to use. Unless you want to work on improving Arch.
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

It's extremely unlikely that we'd ever partner with an institution like BofA. We chose bank partners who are comfortable with our vision, and that includes not charging outrageous fees and engaging in other customer-hostile practices. The big banks have shown time and again that they're not in business to act in the best interest of their customers, and that makes them poor partners for us.

We don't currently have plans to allow customers to select the institution with which their funds reside, but it's something we'll take under consideration. Thanks for your thoughts.
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As a metanarrative, it's very interesting seeing the conflict between the rules followers and the ethics followers here in this thread.
Where can I see the price and/or link to buy a set?
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hey al3x. thanks for the explanation. i had a read over the faq and i think it's still not too clear who would have the deposit. am i right in assuming that on opening an account my initial deposit would go to a specific bank partner, and i would be informed of who that partner was in case i ever wanted to approach them directly to access my deposit without your service?
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It's the myth of the novice Linux user. This magical creature is both sophisticated enough and has the desire to install a new OS on his machine (perhaps even in a dual-boot configuration!) and learn to use a completely different computing environment, yet needs to be coddled with an unconfigurable, brain-dead GUI.

There's also the other myth about how you can have the same interface on a desktop and on a tablet, but that's so crazy that most people who believe it are locked up in institutions.

It's great if more people want to use Linux, of course. But it would be better if in so doing they came to have an appreciation for their device as one of the most powerful tools ever conceived by the mind of man, rather than another way to upload photos to Facebook and look at cat videos on Youtube. Those use cases are more than covered.

At any rate, Linux Mint is switching to Gnome 3 next release, although with some extensions to remove the suck apparently. So beware.
Yup. Those laws are pretty loosely enforced and vary on a state-by-state basis, but they're definitely a concern.
Have you tried using tcl/blt?
Marketing works. This is an example of marketing based on authenticity.

Regarding perfection: machines are much more capable of perfection re: manufacturing than humans. Where I think we get confused is that in the past only corporations had the capital to mass-produce, and they have an incentive to "race to the bottom" in terms of production cost. Although it's not the goal, usually quality suffers as a result. So, we associate mass production with poor quality.

I've been spending a lot of time studying historical armour manufacturing and also rocketry. It's clear to me that the goods manufactured by passionate, talented, (and largely under-capitalized) craftspeople are inferior to what could be made by automation. It's just that they're often superior to what is actually made by cost-cutting automation.

Note: I'm all for people "geeking out" about their interests. As we automate more work, people will need more hobbies.
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Exactly. A study by Tuliving and Madigan (http://alicekim.ca/AnnRev70.pdf) outlines this nicely.
In the words of David T. Lykken (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.118...):

In their 1970 Annual review chapter on Memory and Verbal learning, Tulving and madigan reported that they had independently rated 540 published articles in terms of their "contribution to knowledge". With "remarkable agreement", they found that they had sorted two-thirds of the articles into a category labelled "utterly inconsequential".
"The primary function these papers serve is to give something to do to people who count papers instead of reading them. Future research and understanding of verbal learning and memory would not be affected at all if none of the papers in this category seen the light of day"

About 25 percent of the articles were classified as: "run-of-the-mill .. these articles also do not add anything really new to knowledge... [such articles] make one wish that at least some writers, faced with the decision of whether to publish or perish, should have seriously considered the latter alternative"

Only about 10% of the entire set of published papers received the modest compliment of being classified as "worthwhile".
Given that memory and verbal learning was then a popular and relatively 'hard' area of psychological research, attracting some of the brightest students, this is a devastating assessment of the end product.
Hence, of the research ideas generated by these psychologists, who are all card-carrying scientists and who liked these ideas well enough to invest weeks or months of their lives working on them, less than 25% of 40% of 10% = 1% actually appear to make some sort of contribution to the discipline.

Given that this work was published in the 1970s when the "publish or perish" pressure was less strongly developed I expect today's number to be worse. Concerning Information Retrieval the field of research of my PhD I would certainly attest that this applies.
How soon can we something like this in Europe?
I wonder what the implications would be should a citizen or group place tracking devices on police vehicles. Though I'm sure they'd have some law in their arsenal to call that a crime.
Will you keep your operations in Finland or move somewhere else?
I learned how to build one in elementary school (as a Portuguese, we have quite an history of sea exploration).
Rest assured, your stance is by no means Marxist (it might be Veblenian, though). Marx valued the ethos of the small artisan and was deeply concerned about worker "alienation" resulting from mass methods of production.
It's funny how amazon won't pay for their mistakes, yet sellers in their marketplace are kicked off for much less. If you have over a 1% failure rate, you are warned. If it continues, your account is put on hold and you might even be kicked off permanently. Failure can be a return, refund, or bad feedback (it doesn't matter why).

If a customer says they didn't receive a package and file an A-Z claim, they win 99% of the time, even when the seller has proof of delivery.

I understand that we don't want bad sellers ripping people off, but Amazon should at least hold themselves to the same standards.

They also can't really seem to get their act together. In the past 6 months, every time they make a change to their system, sellers lose orders for weeks. Amazon won't ever admit this of course, but as a seller, I can't chock it up to a coincidence anymore.

It really makes me wonder what kind of code base they are working with.
I’m not really sure why that needs an explanation. All our imaging technologies have a certain maximum resolution. The asteroid is small and far away, ergo we are not going to get many pixels.
Top sites? I think probably a few of these would quality:

CNN.com — Server: nginx

Netflix.com — Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

YouTube.com — Server: Apache

Wikipedia.com — Server: Apache

Twitter.com — Server: tfe

LinkedIn.com — Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Granted, this does not give you a good picture of their network topology, but in general they do report something that Netcraft can use.
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Assumption alert: the account at the partner bank is in your name.

Your money must be in your name for it to get the FDIC's "$250,000 limit per depositor" insurance coverage. Having one big mattress with Simple's name on it would preclude your money being insured. Ergo, the account must be in your name.
That's bizarre. What happens if you type something that should have a plus? E.g. a phone number with the country code (+353 01 etc)