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1. Love the icon.

2. Will "import" copy all my music into a new directory? That should be explicitly mentioned (whether it does or not).

3. Love the fade in and fade out on pause. Is that time configurable? Also, a feature I've wanted forever is the ability to crossfade into a new song. Abrupt stops and starts are so bad at parties, etc.

4. Need tooltips on the "×" and gear icons in the bottom left. Also I wasn't expecting for the "×" to remove things from my playlist. And those need to look more like buttons.

5. The play/pause/next/prev buttons need work.

6. "Add to playlist" should have a "New..." option in it.

7. Love the concept of "History." Lots of cool directions to go here.

8. The info pane is cool but what's with the striped background?

9. I tried to drag songs from the Queue to a playlist. Gone, oops! And there's no undo!

10. How do I play a playlist? Double clicking doesn't seem to work.

11. "1 songs" in this playlist?

Overall, this is great. Keep making improvements!
Answering etherealG's question here because I can't reply to him below:

Yes, you'll know what institution your funds are at. When you get your Simple card, it'll say "issued by {Bank Name}" on the back.
If I remember right, the way it worked out back in the days of AT&T's original unlimited iPhone service plan was that basically everyone was paying higher prices in order to subsidize a very small number of YouTube addicts whose 3G bandwidth usage was larger by an order of magnitude or two. Keeping that kind of user off the network would be a key part of making prices reasonable for everyone else.
My checking account is fundamentally a revolving cash account between a portion of my paycheck and my monthly bills (cc, mortgage, utilities, etc.). Other than autopay bills, all my purchases go through my credit card (which is then another autopay against my checking acct.). I manage all this at a macro level through Mint.

I never visit my bank website, partly because it sorta sucks, but partly because I have no reason to—I really just care about the balance. Additional views would be nice, but I need it at the macro level to incorporate all my accounts (which Mint, admittedly, falls short on). I don't use my debit card for anything other than ATM cash.

My checklist for a checking account is pretty short:

1. No fees. (Including ATM fees. I'm reimbursed if a third-party charges one, too.)
2. Smartphone check deposit.
3. Features / Customer Service / Interest Rate, etc.

Simple's down in that third bucket (and they don't meet criteria #1).
This is a good example of why "we're not a bank" is more confusing than comforting. IMO Simple should just gloss over that part.

Edit: I would liken it to startups that are built on top of some cloud; I don't need to know that because ultimately I hold the startup responsible for their reliability/security, not their underlying provider.
I have no affiliation with Simple, but the relationship seems pretty straight forward. "Where" your money is becomes an abstraction. You hold an account with Simple, and are issued a Visa card with which you can access the funds in your account. Everything beyond that is transparent to you.

The accounts would technically be "in your name", since the funds are yours, but you never have to interface with the other bank, so it becomes a question of: do you want to know the technical specifics, or stick to what's pragmatic? Pragmatically, your account would be with Simple. Your money is in an FDIC insured depository bank, so you don't face any additional risk because of the "partner" distribution.
Also they seem to find the time to make robots that do other things than help with military action.
Ubuntu is not easier when they change their init sysyem every other release to get one second faster boot. Or when they make Unity default when it barely runs.

If you are not a power user and Ubuntu likes your hardware then Ubuntu is easier. If you need to mess with things in /etc then you hit its roadblocks quickly.
The author is a Swedish designer. He sees the world with the Northern European, Braun and IKEA mindset: minimalist and functional.

I respect and like it. But only for things and spaces that you need to use so often that you almost forget they exist. And only works for people that are open to this approach.

In some cultures (e.g: India and South America) you'd need to put a lot of gold and bling to catch people's attention. We like it baroque/art-noveau style: flamboyant, shiny and extravagant like a Carnaval parade or a Bollywood movie.
Can I have your banksimple.com domain name when you're done with it?
That's precisely the point vaporstun was making — we commonly omit the "Bank" from those names because it's seen as redundant.
Twilio and skype are not even to considered if your concerns are costs.

Other companies turn a profit with 1/10 to 1/100 of their prices.
I for one, love the branding. I think this is a leap forward in banking. I don't get why so many people are confused about the concept or don't like the name. Seriously...who cares about a statement or where it comes from? Those are old paradigms that need to be destroyed. Good job, Simple! I'm just sad that I can't get in the UK.
Sorry that you think the name is "weak" and "generic", but I'm glad that you get what we're doing.

"Simple" is definitely a generic term, but brands are built over time. Personally, I love our new logo (by our own @3n), and I think it'll resonate when you start seeing it on actual debit cards and such :)
There is a happy medium with mass production - the main issue is that many people (in my observation) no longer value quality equally to price, e.g. the cheapest pot from WalMart will do, and when it chips or warps next year we'll just spend $15 on another one instead of buying a single $50 version that will last. One of the greatest lessons that I've ever learned in business is that you shouldn't spend extravagantly, but you shouldn't be afraid to spend a little more for quality where it matters.
"functionally equivalent objects produced in an efficient fashion"

I haven't actually used this guy's knives. But I've used cheap knives and I've cut myself on cheap, dull knives that don't hold their edge. And I've used moderately expensive knives. It's night and day. Cheap knives just aren't functionally equivalent.

The same can be said about coffee, chocolate and other fair trade stuff. Ground Maxwell coffee that comes in a can might be functionally equivalent to Intelligentsia beans at the task of "deliver caffeine in a hot liquid form", but that doesn't mean the Intelligentsia is more expensive just because rich people want to feel superior to people who drink Maxwell. It's in part because the Intelligentsia is less efficiently produced that it tastes better. And as far as I understand it, the Maxwell coffee is being produced in such a way that the true cost (to the workers, to the land) is not actually incorporated.
If you're interested in inexpensive but very good knives without some of the social superiority complexes attached, see the Atlantic's article "Never a Dull Moment": http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/04/never-a-... . The sidebar is also useful.
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I preferred BankSimple too, but I guess having Bank in the name would present too many problems. Simple seems very generic, no offense guys.
"The only point in favour of custom skins is that it theoretically allows manufacturers to differentiate and as a result offers more choice to end users."

But is this even a real choice? It's not like the skins bring much to the party other than inertia and entropy. I doubt that they drive much in the way of sales. I also doubt that Android versions drive many sales, but there are substantive reasons for users to be on the latest possible versions that have nothing to do with the UI -- security foremost among them. It sometimes seems like nobody at Google really thought through the implications of their phone strategy.
And mine has always eaten because of the startup, or the consulting, or the speculative app development.

Starving is not really an option for software types. The real dichotomy is between living well and tightening the belt. The mental division is, Is taking a job risk worth sacrificing Anything At All?

The corporate job is lucrative, easy to get and keep, and if there is any stress you can blame it on the boss etc. Some folks crave a combination of those things. Others don't give a flying flip about them.

I think it is pretty black-and-white actually. I tell this story: Some folks are playing in the surf, paddling around, rowing small boats, diving for pearls. A tanker passes by, and folks are seen hanging over the rail yelling "Get out of the water! The tide is coming in! The waves are frightening! You're getting all wet!"

"It's ok!" we say. "I don't mind getting wet! If it storms, I'll capsize but I can swim."

All this is taken as hubris, arrogance, foolishness by those aboard the tanker. They leave the rail, shaking their heads and blogging about how their life is surely the best.
Excellent. That's all I needed to know.
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Nutritional labels for news?
To create food-style nutritional labels for news would require a common taxonomy for all the world's journalism. But taxonomy is surprisingly political and complicated. Even if you could get major news organizations to agree on a standard (and some already have, i.e., rNews), do you expect millions of independent content producers to follow?

Ethan Zuckerman and his student Matt Stempeck at MIT's Center for Civic Media are undertaking this massive project themselves, using a combination of human and computer labor to categorize many terabytes of news stories. Zuckerman hopes to create an eventual product that would let the user track his or her "news nutrition."

I post this not to be self-promotional but because I think it would be of interest to this community... and I'm curious to hear how you all would attack this problem.
A ceramic composite, by Panerai, for a new Hour.
Then you will be interested in this case being argued today in front of the Supreme Court: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-j...

Here is the issue: Whether the Constitution allows police to put a tracking device on a car without either a warrant or the owner's permission; and whether the Constitution is violated when police use the tracking device to keep track of the car's whereabouts.
Simple's FAQ says no fees:

https://www.simple.com/faq/

Although you may be referring to third-party ATM fees. I'm curious which banks still reimburse for third-party ATM fees. Can you share the name of your bank?
"America" sounds so much better!
The problem as described has a long enough timeframe that I expect to see production shifted out of Thailand -- or at least away from low-lying areas. (Production facilities are, as I understand it, deliberately relatively disposable, these days. Were I responsible, I would not risk a repeat -- especially in light of news and predictions regarding climate change. I would also want to start rebuilding capacity now or as soon as possible, as opposed to in X months.)

A subsequent question may be, then, will this shift be of existing, mechanical drive production, or to some significant degree into SSD's?

I don't know about the ownership of parent companies and the remaining value in existing equipment -- and time to restore it -- vs. new capital investment, to make a specific prediction. The Thais also provide some skilled labor; unfortunately (for them), I don't see that -- in my pure, relatively uninformed guestimate -- as predominating in decisions that are made.
To create food-style nutritional labels for news would require a common taxonomy for all the world's journalism. But taxonomy is surprisingly political and complicated. Even if you could get major news organizations to agree on a standard (and some already have, i.e., rNews), do you expect millions of independent content producers to follow?

Ethan Zuckerman and his student Matt Stempeck at MIT's Center for Civic Media are undertaking this massive project themselves, using a combination of human and computer labor to categorize many terabytes of news stories. Zuckerman hopes to create an eventual product that would let the user track his or her "news nutrition."

I post this not to be self-promotional but because I think it would be of interest to this community... and I'm curious to hear how you all would attack this problem.
I noticed this as well, but I was able to see the team over on their Jobs page (and get a little bit of information about them too). I don't mean for this to be a solution to what you have brought up, but if you want to see something about them now it's a start.
The first thing you need to realize is that Tinkercad is only partially a browser application, we also run a relatively complex cloud based component. Every operation you make is actually distributed across a 100 core cluster with the result shipped back in a few hundred ms. We try to hide this as much as possible so unless you look at the application with a debugger it's hard to notice. I did a tech talk at Google about the full architecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aY4a9QnLhw

The browser itself is pretty robust. Our biggest issue is with old graphics drivers that cause problems with WebGL, this is an age old problem from game development. Hopefully more 3D web application will help graphics hardware vendors push out more stable software.

To answer your specific question. Our stack should be able to handle compound curvatures, the big question for us is how to make the UI manageable.
Actually, http://citi.com redirects to citibank.com for me.
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We're planning on doing smartphone check deposit. We have a huge fee-free ATM network, but you're right, we don't reimburse all ATM fees. Thing is, most banks that do reimburse all ATM fees are either making that money back by charging account maintenance fees or subsidizing it through brokerage account fees. There's no free lunch.

So, we may not be a perfect fit for you, but I hope you'll give us a second look with that in mind.
Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux
I'm sure many people have a Windows 7 license they use for VMware/Parallels around here. If I were to do this gaming rig, I'd use the license from that. Useful to state that I don't use my W7 license for anything other than the oddball windows app that I want to run. It isn't a work related necessity. Your use may vary, obviously.

Second, the case they recommend is complete trash. I'd suggest spending a few extra dollars on a quality power supply. The one they recommend has a PSU with the case, and it isn't compatible with north american voltages. So get something better there.

No one is really going to plug a PC into a television to play modern warfare 3 (I'd hope). Not when you can spend less on a console and get the same experience. Granted, my personal preference for shooters is a keyboard and mouse but I'm not huge into these shooters anymore.

That said, I'd just spend the cash on a console and spare myself the cheap parts that they have recommended. Expect to spend at least $500-750 for a reasonable machine that won't start your house on fire, die within a few months, or cause you headaches down the road.

I'd pass.
Ha! I know someone who did that. Built transmitters and attached them to police cars in their small town. He could get a warning when a police car was approaching. Not a GPS device or anything -- just a simple proximity alert. And that was in the mid 90s.
Presumably if you discover a suspect package under your vehicle you would call the fire service and the bomb squad.

(Then quietly also call the local news service.)
"""The evidence that working hard helps you get ahead is legion. The evidence that having connections helps you get ahead is legion. Who is right?"""

Actually, the evidence that "working hard helps you get ahead" is not that much. Mostly correlation based on some people that got ahead in other ways (parents, environment, education, connections, chances, etc) but also work hard.

The counter-evidence though is enormous. Hundreds of millions of hard working people never get anywhere.

We just keep in our mind that CEO X that works 16 hours a day doing CEO work is a "hard working man", while we forget the millions pour sods doing real hard labor for the same amount of days...
Color...
I believe pg meant there's a much larger percentage of rich people who were once part of a startup vs rich people that worked like everyone else. I'd say that's a fact right there.
> This really discomfits some people, so they get very creative at inventing reasons

Nah, I think you're extrapolating to far. It's just a connoisseur mentality -- the same as for wine, scotch, guns, etc. It can be annoying, it's often untrue, but it taps into the same desire to be self-righteous that's buried in your post, and many of our day-to-day actions.

Please don't interpret the previous sentence / paragraph to mean "you're self righteous!" in the usual insulting conversational sense. I think it's a widespread human desire. I.e. I often bristle at someone's behaviour and am about to school them before I thoroughly understand the situation.

Actually guns are an outlier -- many arms manufacturers use the language of authenticity, but then mass-produce their products.

There may be a little touch of unconscious racism re: China, but that's a society-wide thing, not some defect / choice of these craftspeople. I.e. there was a time when goods manufactured in China were crap. Now they're not, but the bias remains.
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Ads is the one people keep reaching for, but if we continue with this route what will we be advertising exactly?
Some states have a law in their arsenal if you take a video recording of an officer. Even if they don't, some pissed off cop can just slap on the usual "disturbing the peace" or "resisting arrest" nonsense on you. There is too much hero worship for law enforcement and they need to be more accountable and held to higher standards.
I already have a checking account. The website interface works. Its not trendy glossy HTML5, but that's ok because my money isn't handed over to a third party who gets to profit off its interest on my behalf. What problem are you solving? The user interface for bank's sites are not good? So you are a different user interface and all I have to do is put my money in a black box? Who is funding these startups, wow. I have no confusion over the terms of my checking account, its already simple.
I don't think they are referring to Google App Engine specifically, but all servers from Google running their own custom http server (where the http response header for Server = "gws"). That's pretty significant, considering how much traffic Google servers get.
Yes. Yes I do.

I put my money into a bank and take it out when I want to spend it. I look at my statement to see where I spent it. It's simple. There is absolutely nothing else I want a bank to do for me. I do want a clean and useful mobile-optimized interface, a friendly and helpful customer service staff, and to not be charged a penalty (sorry, 'fee') every time I make a mistake. That's the Simple proposition. Why would you want it to be complicated?
To me it looks a lot like a manipulation of search engine. Maybe Google or Microsoft will not disclose their rank inflation counter-tactics, but what they could do is to provide their solution for this specific verticals.

As much as I'd like open-source effort for that, I understand that knowing the rules allows easy manipulation.
If anyone finds this interesting, I recommend trying a blacksmithing/bladesmithing course in your area. I took a weekend course in knife-making and, while nowhere near the quality in these videos, it was a lot of fun to create a knife to my specs from a thin scrap of steel. In the US, take a look at ABANA.org.

Shameless plug: I've tried to start a new stack exchange on blacksmithing here: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36172/blacksmithin...
Many banks in the UK are referred to, and understood, in everyday language without the "bank": Barclays, Halifax, Natwest, Santander, Lloyds to name a few.
Yes it would be so much better if a government law officer had to also get a rubber stamp on a form from a government court officer before doing this.

That would remove any concern over civil liberties
Wow, just tested, my home ISP doesn't block outgoing TCP port 25. I thought it did.

I suppose that would be a form of non-net-neutral corporate censorship. But one could make a pretty good argument that it's a technical issue with a core protocol of the Internet. It's not really practical to send emails from your home anyway because so many servers will simply refuse to accept them from residential netblocks.
He apparently came under surveillance after the FBI received a vague tip from someone who said Afifi might be a threat to national security

So one guy gets GPS'd because of a vague tip and the other guy because his cousin might be a drug dealer. Yikes.
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Or use fetchmail to receive it and just use the smtp of whatever mail account provider you fetch from. Get your mail under Fourth Amendment protection and get around the port 25 blocking.
What questions would you like us to answer, or where do you think we can be more specific? We're always trying to improve the way we explain what we do, so we're open to suggestions :)
It is not "Google etc., multi-billion dollar corporations" it is just Google.
You can't depend on each thumbdrive making it, therefore you need RAIBT (Redundant Array Inexpensive Bottled Thumbdrives).
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This makes sense. The vast majority of things I buy, I buy to use, I couldn't care less how they were made (within reason, I would switch brands if I found out making that particular type of toothbrush involved the slow torture of puppies).

But I understand the appeal of seeing certain items as works of art in their own right, even if the item also has a functional value. Once it is a piece of art first and its function is secondary, I care very much how it was made and by whom.
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I would argue that yes, debian unstable and arch are both rolling release distros, so the experience will be sort of similar, but I think that's where the similarities end.

Arch on one hand has a large user base (everyone) using the rolling release packages, this means that bugs get quickly found and squashed. There is also a testing repository which is used for the "base packages" so major bugs don't get get past into the "stable" repos. For example, kernel 3.1 is still in testing because of some problems that the testers experienced.

On the other hand, debian unstable has bitten me more than once very hard. So from my experience, it feels like debian does very little if any Q&A on debian unstable. I would compare Arch to Debian testing more since by then, packages have had some time to test and mature.

That said, I've experienced less crashs on arch than on any distro. Mind you I actually read the news. I honestly can't even remember the last time I've had a crash on archlinux.. maybe several years ago with some kernel update.
He apparently came under surveillance after the FBI received a vague tip from someone who said Afifi might be a threat to national security.

Without exaggeration, this is exactly how innocent people, some of them teenagers, ended up in Gitmo (and are still there) via vague tips from people who didn't like their neighbors and decided to deal with it by reporting them.
I would love to be able to become a master craftsman and then program a computer to augment and replicate my craftsmanship.