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"... He sounds like a religious fundamentalist, or an 'Amish farmer'..."

I quite like the Amish Farmer [0] analogy to technology. Select the good bits of technology, ignore the ones that are "better left alone".

[0] Jamie Sharp, "The Amish: Technology Practice and Technological Change" ~ http://www.shawcreekgeneralstore.com/amish_article1.htm
I'm not sure why the focus here is that they gained that amount of revenue inside of a month. Looking at their traffic chart it seems like the site was never very popular until one specific date when they suddenly jumped to 20,000 users thanks to one highly successful promotion they did. So if anything this is more about how fab.com was really good for them.
USAA is great. I used to deposit with a crappy android phone, and it would fail half the time, but since I got the iPhone 4S it has not failed once. I'm sure it's related to image quality. USAA has a $5K limit per day, and you can log in with just a PIN. Their service in general is awesome, and the phone deposit is very convenient.
He crossed the line when he decided OpenBSD is nonfree because the ports tree contains URLs he doesn't like. I take being called unethical as an insult.
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Because we launch instances and volumes, create AMIs, SnapShots, KeyPairs and security groups, read only access would not suffice. We have considered creating an IAM template, but it would need nearly the same permissions as full access. But it would probably still be a good idea for users who aren't comfortable, at least that way they can see exactly what is required. I'll revisit this, thank you.
That's a great idea, thank you. We are planning to add import/export to CloudFormation anyway, but what you are suggesting sounds like we wouldn't even have to ask for any credentials (as long as the user isn't using custom AMIs/SnapShots) and could be a good introduction. I will think about this more, thanks a lot!
Python has a good REPL and it even has 'eval' and 'print', so RMS is wrong stating that all of them are missing in Python. But in principle he is right - Python does not have separate 'read' and 'eval' which is a manifestation of deeper differences.
I agree. But you should be trying to impress them with relevant skills. If a well designed resume is relevant to the job at hand, then so be it.
Parent didn't argue that American/British protectionism was worse than Mao's isolationism. He simply argued that American/British protectionism was bad for poor people in developing countries.

> A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.

It seems to me that you are misrepresenting your opponent's position.
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He seemed to cover everything but what phone he uses. Is the closed hardware of android acceptable? Or does he just stick with nonsmart phones?
"Of course, when we say “you”, we really mean everyone in your household." It's interesting that they've made a conscious decision to go that route. My wife and I share a streaming account which does not allow for separate instant queues. We have different tastes so I often see prompts to rate or recommendations to watch films and shows I dislike. If I'm honest in my rating it seems like I'll skew the recommendation engine away from shows my wife would like but if I'm not I'll end up seeing only recommendations i done like. It's a catch-22 situation and makes me distrust pretty much anything that is recommended.
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I've learned Scheme, I've used Scheme for projects, but I don't think I would praise it like it is the one single language like he is doing.
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I guess it's vets and families because I've had electronic deposit ever since they rolled it out something like 3 years ago.

USAA deposit by phone is my only option unless I want to post the check to TX and wait 5 days (USAA has been my only bank since 2006 or so)
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My pitch to YC this round was TCombinator. It`s my first try.
TCombinator is YCombinator for transgender founders, with more hand holding, proactive recruiting, and a social good focus.
The pain point it solves is that transpeople can find it hard to find work sometimes.
It operates on the theory that companies founded by transpeople will hire transpeople in a population proportionate way.
It depends on the hypothesis that their exists, in the difference between their proportion of the population and their representation in the set of startup owners, some worthy transgender entrepreneurs with the potential to change everything.
TCombinator is needed because YCombinator exists, and there are no transgender founders blogging about how they were selected in a past round, and my cofounder and I are to only two I know of that applied this round. Their is no role model or example to hear about to inspire people like me to participate in this startup world. I have other ideas I could have pitched at Transtartup.blogspot.com, and if I had just applied as a ciswoman with the best one and not mentioned my transgenderism or made it a focus of my pitch, I may have been accepted; but my story wouldn't do as much good to the transpeople that read about it, even if I'm not, and the story is just this AskHN post.

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Would you be impressed by more subtle qualities? Let's say a design with special effects, but printed with a professional printer on thicker paper. Maybe subtle effects like watermarks or micro embossing.
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> Sometimes, new technology is not progress

You like ATM deposits? That's great. Other people prefer digital deposits. The cool thing about technology is that we have a choice.
My experience from other science fields suggests that the difference between a BA and a BS may be as much about the school as the academic program. I went to MIT, which gives BS for music and other humanities. My wife went to Middlebury, which gave her a BA in chemistry, as they do in all the sciences.

A bachelor's degree - BA or BS - is more about your particular courses and program of study than anything about the letters.

I'm still in academia - at a liberal arts college, marlboro.edu - and don't have much experience with what employers want. But my CS students - most with BA's - seem to be doing fine.
Yes, I agree, but fortunate in the case that it's not as big a problem for us as it could be.
Freedom Included is a company that got set up in Cambridge specifically to sell the Lemote. They ship internationally apparently through a partner (can't vouch for it). The folks who run the site seemed like decent enough people, so I think it's on the up-and-up. (I haven't bought one though)

If you actually want one of these things, it looks like about $450:

http://freedomincluded.com/
For some, it's a $10K limit.
I think you should market your manual process more aggressively. Generating from templates is easy and cheap, but that a professional graphic artist is doing it, makes quite a difference.
A more convenient approach might be to remote desktop at random to a pool of machines that aren't his and that other people also use, the way he uses Google search.

By the way, isn't this what TOR is for?
Well you're kind of making my argument. There's a misunderstanding. I'm talking about young people. Stallman doesn't need to change his approach or principles but what I'm saying is that I have a feeling that one day all the people like you who "get" it will die and very few if any of today's young people will be on board with his views. They'll probably think Stallman was the father of Open Source and not be able to tell the difference between Free Software and Open Source software. If only there was a more moderate, more palatable version of Stallman then maybe the message would reach more people.

And I'm not saying Stallman's views are right or wrong. They just are.
Plus if you ever split up... who gets the Netflix account and does it represent you?

Personalisation is weird when they're not even dealing with people but households.

Householdalisation?
What's this VPPA?

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

The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) was a bill passed by the United States Congress in 1988. Congress passed the VPPA after Robert Bork's video rental history was published during his Supreme Court nomination. It makes any "video tape service provider" that discloses rental information outside the ordinary course of business liable for up to $2500 in actual damages.

(Covers DVD rentals too, and apparently paid-for streaming content.)

Wow, never heard of that law before...
This is the first I've ever heard about the VPPA law. I'll have go look it up later when I have time.
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I guess understanding the full implications of this is what Lisp Enlightenment is. http://xkcd.com/224/
But we are already able to extract parallelism deep down in the instruction level with out of order execution.

Imagine some layer in between an abstract syntax tree and micro-ops. Again, just thinking out loud.
It sucks. Prevents a lot of interesting possibilities. I see that it was written with good intentions, but it's a great example of unintentional consequences when it comes to legislation.
I also have kids and that really screws up my "suggested" queue. Hmmm, should I watch "Inspector Gadget" or "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" tonight?
cd ~;

apt-get source [PACKAGE];

That's not really a barrier to tinkering.
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This experience sounds specific to the "PC Deposit" implementation by Chase and if it's how they have educated their customer like the author, I am worried:

1. A check never "clears" the same day. The check may post the same day but they take at-least 3 business days to clear. This is because all checks I am aware of use the ACH in the U.S.

2. You are never supposed to "destroy the paper check". Most institutions recommend you hold onto it for at-least 90 days.

3. It's really a challenge to OCR a check photographed by a iPhone unless the lighting conditions are absolutely perfect. Hence, it's better to ask the customer to use a scanner if that's available, but if not, only then suggest using a phone camera.

I almost exclusively use Alliant and DCU for my check depositing needs and am yet to have any issues. They do require me to use a scanner for best results, but scanning a check takes me less than a minute and I am able to import it into GNUCash as well.

Neither do I have to obsessively check if my deposits cleared, I get emails automatically about the status.

I will never go back to an ATM, unless "I need money now" and there are no places around that will take plastic.

Photo deposits is part of the future I want to be part of: I want to be part of a future where regular banking is done online allowing me to focus my time on things I like better.
I've wanted to purchase a Leemote laptop/computer for a while now, and each time I go searching for them I come back empty handed.

That being said, a quick Google search did return valid results this time around, particularly that it is for sale on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Screen-Lemote-Yeeloong-8101_B-Netbook/...

It is a $499 dollar 10.1" netbook that runs at 1 Ghz with 1 GB of ram and a 160 GB hard disk. With a display at 1024 x 600, which is slightly smaller than an iPad 1/2 screen.

If you are into freedom it might be worth it, but i'd have a hard time getting development work done on a screen that small, let alone on something running at 1 Ghz with a single core.
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Create an array of object instances that you'll reuse and pass them to the Pool constructor.

Enqueue an action by passing a function to the Pool.act method. That function is pass an instance of the next available object and the Pool instance that it belongs to. When you're done with the object, put it back with Pool.add so that the next guy in line could use it

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Red takes the longest and you'd see it used the fewest times, you should see blue 2 times more than green
It's baffling that the US lacks proper privacy laws, apart from one obscure and weird law about video rental.

Compare to the EU laws:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive)
The type of REPL he's referring to has very specific features. Read returns a parsed structure, eval evaluates a parsed structure and print writes a parsed structure. Python's REPL just deals with strings, I believe.
> However, I’m also with the author in that there are obvious social issues arising from the existence of many implementations.

There are issues with competing implementations, but I would say that's not totally bad(options are good) and over time, some equals become more equals than others. Python has numerous web frameworks, attributed to the fact that it's easy to define your own, but a newbie is more likely going to stick with Django.

As I said, people re-implementing things "just because" isn't unique to lisp and might not be as bad. Look at Flask - it was an April Fool's joke by Armin which is now a proper micro framework. It isn't like Django wasn't the dominant and recommended framework when Flask came into being. It's good to have options and progress depends on people fooling around.

Look at async scene. You have twisted and you have gevent and you have diesel. Templates? Jinja2, Mako, Django, Cheetah etc.

Python or Lisp, most of the people are going to make their choices and stick with it. It's not like everyone who programs lisp starts writing their own CLOS, and not everyone who programs Python tries to write his own framework regardless of how easy it is.

> For obvious reasons, that’s not the case with Lisp dialects despite their superficial similarities, but I think that catches many neophytes off guard.

I don't know. Doesn't most of the programmers program to a particular scheme or lisp implementation(sbcl, racket, clozure, gambit, clojure)?

> So even if such detrimental personality traits aren’t peculiar to Lispers, there is a strong apparent correlation because of the “fractured” community.

I think more than the "fractured" community, it depends on the out of the box experience. If I am programming Racket, I won't try to build an object system of my own - the one it provides is good. If I am programming Clojure, though it doesn't provide a conventional object system, I agree with the choices and won't try to implement my own.
I guess it has more to it than time management. For time management, I think its way easier to use emacs org-mode to make a queue of websites to browse and get to them later.
Nice work! I've wanted this for a long time. Giving it a try right now.
I have 11.10 on my work laptop right now, since we use ubuntu at work. my experiences are

2 hours battery life (with jupiter), windows on the same machine gets 6-8 hours

around 1 in 5 times it crashes when coming back from hiberation

it never shows me the login dialog after turning the monitor off, instead i get my desktop in a much lower resolution, and random artifacts of the windows that were on the screen when the machine turned off the display

fonts look like garbage compared to osx

trackpad support is a joke compared to osx.

I use the keyboard primarily, and things don't make anywhere near as much sense as osx. For example, c-c to copy test, alt-tab to switch to terminal, c-shift-t to create a new tab, and c-shift-v to paste the text. on osx, it is cmd-c, cmd-tab, cmd-t (just like every other app), cmd-v (just like every other app). I don't appreciate constantly jumping modifier keys for even the simplest workflows, and the wild inconsistencies in short cuts on ubuntu.

There is nothing that even comes close to omni-focus for gtd, photoshop for image editing, 1password for account management, colorschemer for color choice/manipulation, ia writer for creative writing, git tower for git frontends, reeder for blog aggregation, keynote for slide decks, etc etc. I have found alternatives for these things, but honestly, they all suck in comparison to what is available on osx. This is probably the biggest dissatisfaction with the os, frustration with every app I use that is not chrome or emacs.

Not saying osx is perfect (I could do a top ten list of things that annoy me there), but given a choice I would probably use windows over linux, and osx over windows. I am hoping 12.04 will at least give me battery life that will last a long meeting, but im not holding my breath.
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Screw netflix -- they stopped trying to even upsell you to dvd rentals if you have instant. So if you search for something, and you have instant, they no longer tell you that you could rent the dvd. It's just plain dumb, but then so was their last 'de-design'.

Also the instant que is not in the order we added the items in, and seems to be arbitrary. It's just a terrible service with stale content. We'll be cancelling soon.
> You like ATM deposits? That's great. Other people
> prefer digital deposits.

I think that you're missing the point of the article. The point of the article is that it's supposed to be 'the future,' but the experience is horrible compared to the ATM. Just because it's 'on the iPhone' isn't enough to make it a better experience.
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He is right to fight for Free software because it empowers the weak, the poor, the oppressed, and also hobbyists, even though there is certainly non-Free software that does so as well (routers for example may carry speech freely but may not be Free themselves). He takes this philosophy to extremes to make his point.
The way it works is actually really simple. The thumb pad is powered, and when it touches the other points, closed circuits are formed. And depending on which pad is touched, a different voltage value is read by the microcontroller, which then runs our code and translates the value to an ASCII character, which is then sent through Bluetooth to the computer/phone screen.
You can't get a credit card, loan, or insurance product (and by extension, remote deposit access) without a "military connection". I really wish the breathless USAA cheerleaders that come out of the woodwork all over the Internet every time there is a banking thread would remember to mention this.
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Aside from the functionality, this is how every man page should look.
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i have similar feature with smaller credit union. similar steps involved, but their tool is just more thought through and somehow their app able to recognize bad shot and ask to redo one. so far it was easiest way to deposit for me.

tl;dr; this is bad implementation, not idea/technology.
We literally finished the prototype yesterday, so I can't give you a figure as to how fast we can type on it. We laid the keys out so the most used letters in the English alphabet are placed in easy to reach spots. But even after a few hours of use, I'm already remembering the keymap and was able to type with one hand without looking at the glove, which is something you can't really do with an on screen keyboard.

I can report back later when I get more used to the glove.
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Good to see the Netflix prize paid off for Netflix. In pure terms of hourly rate, Netflix managed to get some of the smartest people in the world to work for less than chump change. In those terms alone it was a huge success, but the Netflix prize also pushed forward the field so really no-one was exploited.

The same idea is been commercialised by Kaggle (http://www.kaggle.com/) but there are several issues. Of course there is less up-take as the idea is no longer novel and the prizes are less. More than that, I think people are realising that winner-takes-all sucks, and the winning entries tend to combine so many different techniques that, as Netflix found, putting them into production is difficult. There is some interesting work on a better model here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2664
Since our design uses really inexpensive parts (resistor arrays) to solve a relatively complex problem, we don't need that much funding, so I'm not sure if Kickstarter would be necessary. Although I'm not entirely familiar with Kickstarter. Are there any other benefits besides the money?
My point was that in FP you build things by composing existing things which require much more thinking it terms of trying different permutation and combinations at which the right brain is much more capable of. In general when I am doing FP I need to do lot of thinking and it requires some time whereas in imperative programming you can basically start coding as soon as you heard the problem. Ofcourse in the end the FP solution is much more elegant and simple
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This is true, thanks for pointing this out.
Stallman's critique of software, hardware, and services as tools of social control has only become more relevant over the years. Can you imagine his search records being rifled through by a government investigator? Or his Facebook profile being examined by an employer? No, because they don't exist. Nor can you imagine his computer being locked by a bootloader that only allows "Genuine Windows".

He's not concerned about looking weird. For certain audiences this is a disadvantage. But he is concerned about tying his computing down to his core philosophy. He did it so well that you can almost hear him when he's not in the room. We should all be such effective weirdos.

At some level we have to trust a substrate of computing to get anything done. Stallman's work to make that substrate as trustworthy as possible was very farsighted.
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