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If it does go to court, a goodwill payment might be interpreted as evidence of wrongdoing.

In your case, the marginal cost to Amazon of providing AWS was negligible, and Amazon has full rights to offer products they create as freebies, so such grants easily translate to goodwill. In this case, Amazon doesn't own all rights to the product, so it's a bit more murky. It would be as if Amazon was granting you freebies but were only resellers rather than providers of AWS, and didn't compensate the actual provider.
There's a whole bunch of problems we're solving. More, really, than fits in an HN comment.

You're right that user experience is a primary concern for us. The interface that most people have their financial data is extremely poor. This makes answering questions about your financial life slow and clumsy, if it's even possible given the tools your bank provides. That keeps a lot of people from making the right financial decisions to stay debt-free and grow their savings.

To your point about your checking account: many checking accounts don't actually have simple terms. Increasingly, they're full of hidden fees and complex conditions.

More broadly, we're doing what we're doing because many banks aren't investing in design, technology, and customer service. Instead, they're investing in new ways to squeeze as much money as they can out of their customers without innovating. We're here to continuously experiment and improve. That may mean that we're not the right banking solution for everyone, but we think a lot of people are going to like what we've built.
even now when I try to think of it I have trouble
recalling such vivid memories.

Are the youth memories part of what you captured to paper, and are you able to find an external way of verifying that they're authentic?

I have zero experience in this field and no education in related disciplines (other than CS :) ).

A theory about experiences such as from dreams - that it might feel like memory recall but actually be caused by stuff being written directly to the recall system at the time of recall.

By way of analogy, you used to be able to buy devices that plugged into floppy drives, and wrote magnetic signal directly to the reader head, without there being any actual movement or a real disk in there.

Continuing this (still entirely speculative) theory, after we wake up, a whole lot of internal correction rebuilds our knowledge map. This could explain why our memory of dreams fades as we wake up - that stuff we experienced wasn't a genuine experience and our brain has ways of knowing and chucking the junk.
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None of the LiveCDs ship LibreOffice, though KDE ships KOffice and I think XFCE and/or LXDE ship AbiWord.

At any rate, I strongly recommend doing a netinstall. Then you don't even waste bandwidth on stuff you don't want.
Is this serious?

Both Ubuntu and Fedora install from a CD-sized ISO file which doubles as a live booting environment. In the modern world, that's less than 1% of the storage of even a "small" laptop. And it's only slightly larger than iOS5 or Android installation bundles.

How much "lighter" do you really want it to be?

If you really have storage requirements that won't fit a desktop distribution, try something like buildroot (http://buildroot.uclibc.org/) or Yocto (http://www.yoctoproject.org/), which are better targetted at that kind of environment.
"Founders today will not have the opportunity to learn the lessons Jobs did because they don’t have the resources and klout that Jobs had."

Jobs was a millionaire when he failed a bunch of times and lost all his money. Are you a millionaire?
As long as the "Tea Party" is just a vocal minority within the Republican party there is little meaningful difference.

Or can you actually point to an elected official that says, let's END social security, medicare, and farm subsidies, cut the DoD budget by 80% and gut the rest of the federal budget?
Aha! Multifactor authentication is an integral part of the service. That's a USP. You should put it right in that FAQ.

A number of Internet banks used to say "hey, you could mail us checks, or you know, just keep a brick-and-mortar account open and transfer them over." The way the FAQ reads to me is that Simple are a bit bloody-minded about it, what if I never get checks? (I must have had about 2 or 3 this year, total). Then I wouldn't need a smartphone, but Simple would still not let me sign up. Saying things like multifactor authentication would help push the idea that the smartphone is really required, rather than just something helpful.
On #2, it varies by field, but I agree somewhat, in that I generally think there's already a significant problem of people being too quick-on-the-draw without first familiarizing themselves with the literature. There is a lot of stuff published that rehashes (without citation) existing published results or minor variations on them, sometimes from decades earlier, that the authors and reviewers just didn't happen to be familiar with. If you accelerate everything and distribute the peer-review to people with less deep knowledge of the literature, I suspect this will only increase, adding more noise to the literature as we spend the 2010s rediscovering the 1970s, accompanied by triumphant press releases and blog posts about Breakthrough Discoveries.

I notice this particularly in computer science, where it seems nobody is capable of locating or reading journal articles published before around 1995, a handful of canonical "classic" papers excepted.
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Or he just got lucky and was Wozniak's best friend from High School. Which is the true story.
Steve Jobs played a minor role in Apple’s early success with the Apple II

I disagree. Here's what Isaacson writes (p. 73):

If it had not been for Jobs, [Wozniak] might still be handing out schematics of his boards for free at the back of Homebrew meetings. It was Jobs who had turned his ingenious designs into a budding business, just as he had with the Blue Box . . . . To make the Apple II successful required more than just Wozniak's awesome circuit design. It would need to be packaged into a fully integrated consumer product, and that was Jobs's role.

For all of his foibles, Jobs was the quintessential founder, relentlessly pushing the business forward -- recruiting great team members, signing up investors, and polishing the product for a mass audience.
If I ever find one of these things on my car, I'm taking it off and putting it on an over-the-road tanker truck, or a Greyhound bus or something. I'll deal with the fallout, whatever.

Actually, wait... on second thought, an even better plan would be to disassemble it, and hack it to report bogus data. Like, have it show me doing nothing but driving around in circles around Groom Lake for hours on end, then "magically" transporting to Edwards AFB.
Actually, there are custom gun makers. There is somewhat less room for "handmade" when it comes to firearms, but they still get pretty creative where possible.

I don't know any makers personally, but I do belong to the same blacksmithing club as a guy who deals in authentically custom guns and knives: http://www.hallowellco.com/

I'm not a collector, but I love to go look at the pictures.
As long as the submitted sites aren't the latest social network simply mining for more data/active users, it sounds like it could foster a great community.
until this year ASIMO, japanese robots felt naive compared to what's been coming out of boston dynamics | big dog team (which are on the opposite of the 'off the shelf look' spectrum). The latter being awfully uncanny in the depth of balancing behavior combined with the human scale proportions.
Sorry you don't like the title. Article is about the misconceptions surrounding Jobs.
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Nope. But I've certainly failed a bunch of times. And now I'm going for the brass ring again.

Work within your means, but reach for things that are out of your means.
Even if we assume that Wozniak was much more essential than Jobs, the fact is that Jobs persuaded Wozniak to do the startup in the first place. And if I recall correctly from the biography by Isaacson, it took quite a bit of convincing on Jobs' part to get Woz to leave his secure job at HP.
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!

Humans are instinctive, not as much as other animals, but still quite a bit. This is no way news. That we are driven by all kind of social trends, rather than pure reason is also damn old hat.

I think I sense of superiority was one of the main arguments behind buy fair trade. So f-ing what!??!? If it gets 3rd world farmers higher prices for the same or safer labor, then seriously so what?

Get off your astronomically high horse people.
I didn't see your post. Just signed up for the waiting list.
But the thing is that if it takes to long people will lose interest, though I have to admit the name/domain is catchy.
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

Most banks do use "glorified IT systems". Very few of them develop their technology in-house.

Think about it this way: you can have a bank that buys their technology from another company, or you can have a technology, design, and customer service company that partners with banks. Both are viable options, but I think our approach is going to better for retail banking customers in the long run.
This is correct for their high-yield investor checking account (don't let the name fool you, the interest is a fraction of a percent). This account requires a credit check and a linked brokerage account; although, I don't think that brokerage requires a minimum balance. While I hold options, my cash balance is ~$3.

Anecdote: I have been with Schwab for years and love their offering. One weekend in Vegas I accumulated something like $150 in ATM fees and they refunded every penny of it. Like Alex said, this was only possible through previous trade commissions/fees they've generated from me.
Doesn't Ron Paul basically say that?
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Having read the same biography, I came to rather different conclusions: True, without Wozniak, there wouldn't have been an Apple I and II. However, without Jobs, the Apple I and II would never have SOLD. A company needs good engineering AND hustle.
Yeah, I had a similar thought. And along with that, I think we need to get some people together and start a new "Government Information Awareness"[1][2] project. Turnabout is fair play, ya know?

[1]: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/gia.html

[2]: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1011439/mit-launche...

And on this note... does anybody actually know what happened to the original GIA site? Did they just get bored with the idea, or were they pressured into shutting it down, or what?
I noted that Jobs's hustling was important. His product vision, design aesthetic, and RDF were not, which is where most founders go wrong.

Not sure you read the book carefully--many investors laughed in Jobs's face not because it was a bad idea, but because he had BO and they couldn't stand him.

Also--Steve was lucky to be Wozniak's best friend, whom most talented engineers came to Apple because of. Mike Scott (the CEO of Apple since it launched the Apple II) is the person who built the team, not Jobs.
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It would also be interesting to know how many of those IIS sites are just companies Outlook Web Access and MS Terminal Services gateways. Lots of things will serve you some HTML over port 80 that aren't what we think of as "web sites".
All Jobs did was get Wozniak to quit his job. Markkula was the one who got the Apple II beyond the hobbyist market which Jobs could never have done.
Reminds me of a quote from the always incisive Karl Pilkington (to keep this family friendly, google "asimo karl pilkington").
USAA is an outlier in terms of banking interfaces. I've had accounts with several banks, and so far none has beat USAA in terms of web interface, customer support, and consumer friendly features like free ATM withdrawals from wherever. In fact, when I transfer from my brick and mortar bank to USAA, they grant me use of the funds immediately. I know they haven't collected the funds yet, but they let me use them so there is no "limbo" where nobody really has my money.

Simple would do well to match USAA's service, but in reality they are competing with the BofA's, Chase's, and WF's of the world, and beating them on service shouldn't be too difficult. I think Simple is a step between your bank's actual web interface and a service like Mint.com. It's certainly a gap in the market. The question remains "is there a market in the gap?"
LOVE the interface! Simple library overview with a drag-and-drop playlist on the left side. Man, in times like this I wish I had a Mac!

Are there similar apps for Windows? Apart from foobar2k, which I kinda like but only use for simple playback (eg. search for specific album, then play it) than managing my library.
I'm throwing mine at the concrete at high velocity, then spray painting a middle-finger gesture next to the debris.
You're right it did take a lot of convincing and hustling. It didn't take product vision from Jobs to make the Apple II a success however. Look at all the products Jobs tried to produce through his "vision," they all failed until the iPod.
We definitely want to make an API available that would allow almost anything to connect to the core editor. Using that it should be possible to write specific tools (like a lathe or extrusion style tool). We see Tinkercad as a core around which you can build more specialized tools and we want to give a broader community the ability to do so, not just depend on us to hack out new stuff.
Of course not.

The author and Amazon agreed a contract which they both understood which stated rules (Amazon could vary the price) and consequences (essentially none for Amazon so long as what they did was an honest mistake which it seems this was).

The author had the right to not sign it or to ask for amendments (and not sign if they weren't granted) but whether or not it was a good deal for him or not he did agree to those terms and assigned certain rights to Amazon which they were asserting.

Copyright infringement doesn't involve any agreement between the two parties, it's a simple assertion by one party that they don't wish to be bound by the (legal) rights of the other.

They're not comparable situations and whatever superficial similarities exist it's nonsense to suggest they are.
when you get the binaries, you need to have access to the source at the same time, I understand
The last time they did that, there was a huge upswelling of discontent, several lawsuits (which went nowhere, I believe), and they stated specifically that they would not do so again.
This is exactly how "law enforcement" used to work behind the iron curtain. An anonymous tip that you were anti-communist could get you arrested.
Right, but the server OS can run you $K.
Why is the handmade movement extravagantly wasteful? The main resource added in handmade prodcuts is time, and unlike helium, crude oil and heavy metals, time is not a scarce resource we risk using up.
I agree failure is important. It's easy to start with a large fortune and end with a smaller one though.
> No, that's a "strawman user", or some grandma.

I'm willing to bet you never worked in technical support. The average person is lucky if they manage to turn on a computer.
Steve Jobs was one of the hardest working man in the industry. Enough said.
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I think that you are wrong that this is a concern. HN is not a financial forum, and you are asking for technical details that are irrelevant to the discussion. Simple's statement is that your money is in a third party bank, and Simple promises to be a prudent intermediary.
> 1. Are capable of understanding everything in the paper

Agreed. In my academic field (Debuggers), to understand and know enough to give a real review of the subject requires reading what I would estimate to be somewhere around a thousand papers. It also requires keeping up with the major industrial producers of the product. I think the field has something like two to three thousand papers right now, I haven't checked in a while.

For my work, I am just hitting the seminal papers and trying to avoid spending time reading work that led nowhere. I've read maybe two-three hundred articles (haven't tracked), and my thesis cites over one hundred.

So no, ordinary people won't do that. Ordinary computer programmers won't do that. Most people are not capable (or prepared) to understand everything in a given paper and comment on what has gone before and what has been tried before.

Academic knowledge maintenance is the total philosophical opposite of tl;dr and Twitter.
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Part of the reasoning there is in calculating the impact of redistribution. When someone tosses an mp3 up on a torrent the RIAA doesn't just lose the immediate (potential) sales for those who downloaded it, but also for anyone that that network shares the files with.

Mind you, I don't agree with the specific numbers they're citing, but the general logic works. It's kind of like the Drake equation, everyone can agree on the general format, but you can plug in specific values to make it mean whatever you want.
I think it is also worth pointing out that more durable, reliable products do not have to be replaced as often. Not to mention, cheap low-quality goods are in theory functionally equivalent, but in practice it often turns out differently.
This is Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway corporate website: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

It's very simple and clean.
>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.

Does Fair Trade really benefit all of the producers in the third-world? What are the side effects of Fair Trade? I think you could postulate that it drives down conventional coffee farmer's profits, since non-fair trade coffee will try and compete on price.

Wouldn't this lead to lower wages and higher poverty for the majority of the farmers?

I have no data to back this up. Anyone know any facts about this and care to share?
Some of the time.

Yet Paul’s plan would not return the country to the 1990s, let alone the 19th century. It calls for total outlays of $2.9 trillion in 2015, which is about as much as the federal government spent as recently as 2003, adjusted for inflation. http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/8278110-452/ron-paul...
Counting savings from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Paul calls for $832 billion in cuts over four years, which would leave the Pentagon’s base budget in 2016 about 2 percent lower than it is now

Now compare that with the perfectly reasonable idea of only spending 300 billion a year vs. 1,200 billion which is still more than any other country in the world. http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/20/weinstein-is-wrong-about-d...
I cannot understand how you could read this biography and arrive at the conclusion that any one person should be "emulated". What I took away was that all components of Apple's success were mutually inclusive. It's unlikely that it could have happened any other way. You can pick a thousand points along the line wherein the events might have not come together as they did, and you do not end up with the Apple that exists today.

I don't seek to "emulate" Jobs. I look at his life, and I hope to learn from his mistakes, as well as his successes. You should do the same from Wozniak's life. Likewise with your family and other mentors.

Reading "Steve Jobs" reminded me of reading Watchmen because he is often cast as the "American Entrepreneurial Hero". But underneath, Steve Jobs was as deeply flawed as any of us, and that is the truth of our humanity. None of us are perfect, yet we are all capable of greatness.
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.

It sounds like what you're saying is that although you may be able to get code written (and thus wealth created) faster in a small company, you don't automatically get paid in proportion.

If that's what you're saying, I agree, and in fact I said so later in the same essay:

"The other catch is that the payoff is only on average proportionate to your productivity. There is, as I said before, a large random multiplier in the success of any company. So in practice the deal is not that you're 30 times as productive and get paid 30 times as much. It is that you're 30 times as productive, and get paid between zero and a thousand times as much. If the mean is 30x, the median is probably zero."
Ive is much more responsible for Apple's current renaissance than Wozniak.
>>I'm not quite sure whether the LSD caused me to think more about things, or whether it simply removed a filter that otherwise would exist without the drug.

Alcohol puts some parts of your brain to sleep. Too much alcohol eventually starts killing brain neurons. LSD obviously causes some temporary changes in your brain.
There wouldn't have been a Markkula there without Jobs' ability to bring him on to the team. Ability to bring together great engineering with great industry expertise is more valuable than solely Woz's engineering talent on it's own.
Agreed. Vast amounts of very solid literature have 'fallen' off the public face of the planet in CS, except in the archives of publishing houses and libraries.

(Of course, I'm confident part of the problem is that expensive paywalls discourage exhaustive trawling by non-academics).
Colloquially, they're "B of A".
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A nicer way to do it that's not as obtuse, since 5.6 is to do

use IO::Handle;
*STDOUT->autoflush(1);

This ends up far clearer than either example, and the idiom even extends easily to all file handles, lexical or otherwise.

EDIT: That being said,

system("sleep 0.02") == 0 or last

is even worse. There is no need to go out to a shell or even an external program for that.

use Time::HiRes;
...
sleep(0.02);
...

Not only will that work on far more systems, it will use less resources and is available to all perl's since 5.7.3 (development release from March 2002, first in stable release from July 2002).
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i am running arch-linux (migrated from ubuntu after a botched upgrade removed /bin/mount) and my fonts are looking waay better than ubuntu. fwiw, i am using infinality patches for cairo/fontconfig etc.
I would suggest that they are no more interested in doing business with customers without a smartphone than ING Direct is interested in doing business with people who don't use the web. I think the general consensus is that the majority of banking is going to mobile over the next few years, and Simple is betting on it. Why waste a metric ton of money to service people without smartphones when 90+% of the customers you want will have them within the next few years.
Where? I cant find it. But I think its a fantastic idea. I really love the idea of "Creative Destruction". The people who always go "but that will cost jobs blabla" always pisses me off because they only see the bad and not the good. Until we hit "real" AI there will be alot more work to be done.