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Ask HN: How do sites like coinbase.com or mint.com access your bank accounts?
Does anyone know how they are able to access your bank accounts information after you provide them with your online banking credentials. I would assume there is a common library or API that these sites are using instead of implementing a parser for each bank.

Any thoughts will be appreciated.
AMD has some strong folks in low power design, something that Intel hasn't done well in the datacenter. Many companies bought lower-power Opteron parts for disk-bound or generally lower-performance-need applications, and saved a fair amount of money over time.

Also, AMD is still working on leveraging its strengths from ATI, which might be useful depending on their market targeting.
The sign up button says "try for free", which implies it's a trial signup. But I can't find the price for the subscription anywhere on the website.
Thanks for clarifying that.

It's amazing that a complete computer with screen and a multitouch interface sells for $275 or $199. $200 is how much a couple people can easily spend in one day at Disneyworld, or the price of a night at a decent hotel and a couple restaurant meals.
Introduce your product through a series of emails.

Two huge benefits over what you do today (almost certainly a singular welcome email)

* helps users understand your product

* reminds users of your product. What was the last product you signed up for? Unless it was userfox, you've forgotten!

Introduce features, tell the story of why you're building what you're building, and so on. I love emails that profile power users. Real explicit actionable advice.

I totally agree you should write specific emails about specific features. We'll support that, but right now you'll make more money by sending a few welcome emails rather than just one.
it's like the next evolution of landing page signups. to me this was missing from sites like launchrock.
Back-up the iStrike Shuttle, iOS controlled drone
Looks pretty cool. One question - pricing? There's a "try for free" button, but there's no indication of how long the trial actually lasts nor of what happens after the trial. Note that I didn't sign up, - this information is only from the home and signup pages - but it would be great if I (or any potential customer) could see this info right up front.
Thanks for your comment! We created it in about 15 minutes right when Sandy arrived to NYC, so we had little time to optimize it.
It's showing in real time what's being shared over Twitter, it's not curated at all. Cheers!
Touche! Prison is a special exception to most logical arguments. Indeed, it would be perfectly legal for convicts to be forced to compete in 99designs style competitions too, unless that fails the "cruel and unusual" punishment laws ;)
When you say refresh, are referring to a full browser reload ?
It is free for now. There'll be pricing eventually, but it'll be for additional features (such as a/b testing and so on) as we ship them.

Right now, if you sign up, it's free to use, and we'd never be like, "hey man, you now owe us money for stuff that you thought was free."
We're also teaching kids about subjects they literally couldn't care less about. Every single class I took on World History, Arts, and English literature was very close to useless. I bet the artists and English lit lovers would say the same thing about Chemistry and Physics.

We don't trust 16 year olds to make decisions on what they do and do not want to study, so we force them to study some things we know they won't like. And why?
Well if it is an opinion piece I think that is pretty much true. I have a cell phone that is not a 'smart phone'. Just one with a slidy type keyboard. There have multiple times I have been made fun of or heard sarcastic remarks about my phone being outdated. It is funny it is only 2 or 3 years old model. I don't care much but it sort of illustrates what the attitudes out there are.

Also people in charge of making purchasing decisions at Pentagon have iPhones and iPads at home and they see the difference between the device they are supposed to use for work and the ones they use at home. And a lot of it is not that Blackberry is terrible, it does its job, it is just that iPhones and latest Android devices have moved so far ahead and comparatively they look so much better.
Weird, most browsers show the pics as they're uploaded to Twitter. And yes, it's pretty fast because people are sharing lots and lots of pictures related to Sandy right now. Will try to slow them down, but it won't be real time anymore.
Given that there is a significant chance that AWS east will go down today, this seems like a useful feature. However since the platform is still only in that data center, I'm not sure how this will help.

How are people on Heroku preparing for the hurricane?
> Simple games have no practical use beside the learning in itself.

I disagree. Games are a great starting point. Creating your own world where the user can immerse themselves and make a variety of choices is way more fun, on a visceral level, than converting Fahrenheit to Celsius or using jQuery to put a few special effects on your website.

That fun is part of a reward feedback psychological loop which helps get you motivated, and the motivation helps you study harder and get past frustration. So the positive effect on the learning process may be large enough to justify such an "impractical" application.

> games have no practical use

Let's not forget that computer/video games are a large, visible and highly successful part of the entertainment industry that essentially didn't exist before the computer era. We could also say that art, music, movies and fiction "have no practical use" -- but a large segment of humanity still finds them compelling enough to spend enormous amounts of time, money and other resources creating and consuming, and these things are widely considered to be a core part of what makes us human.

> beginners need to focus on the pure code concept

Depends on the person. I would argue that many people learn better when they can apply their learning to a non-trivial problem. This is why introductory university science courses have labs. This is why classes at all levels have large projects in addition to the tiny problems on homework and exams. In fact, an inability to apply your learning to a non-trivial project implies that the learning process is incomplete.

> requires spending attention on entirely orthogonal concepts

Most projects in the modern world require interfacing multiple languages, libraries and API's. Any web app, for example, will likely have -- at minimum! -- parts in HTML, JS, CSS, database, backend language, and a template engine. That's six orthogonal components.

If you're going to be dealing with multiple orthogonal concepts in the "real world" of programming, the "academic world" of programming (whether a formal college curriculum or just self-learning) would be remiss if it didn't give you some preparation for that aspect through exposure to projects involving integrating different technologies.

Even single-language projects involving only core libraries often require putting together different API's (for example, many applications can be roughly divided into dealing with files, dealing with a user interface, and internal core functionality.) In fact, not being able to modularize a large problem into manageable pieces that mostly treat other pieces as black boxes is a recipe for failure of any and all attempts at large projects.
> LTE is not as important as you make it sound.

Except you then go on to explain for a couple paragraphs that it doesn't matter BECAUSE <insert a ton of active device management>.

Here is my process for connecting with my LTE phone: I turn it on. Speed is as fast as WiFi all the time. I have a 6GB plan and have never had to worry about hitting it. That's it.

I haven't used a free WiFi network outside of work in a year. LTE is way faster. Just like the touchscreen on the front of the phone, you don't know you want it until you have it. Then, you'll never give it up.
Made this from a personal need:

http://ace-subido.github.com/css3-microsoft-metro-buttons/

Reached a lot of karma and comments here. I plan to update this in mid-November, getting a lot of emails and tweets about new colors and other stuff with the project.
Nice, we built something similar internally (but without the nice frontend and relying on sendgrid for analytics etc).

What's missing in the longer term are more detailed ways of bucketing your customers based on where they are with the product, ie: did they deploy/install/upload a picture/whatever other functionality you offer. But as you've said, shipping it is important.

Another pain point you guys addressed was that making custom table based html templates for email is a pain. If you'd offer more templates in the future, that would be a nice thing to add.
No worries I totally understand. It'll be a useful service to some I'm sure. All the best!
Miracast support. I hope more devices (TVs and set-top players) really jump on board with this protocol.
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/460
I can't believe it's still a viable business model.

Granted they provide convenience and the ability for customers to use products in store before purchase, but I can't believe people still pay the price premium.

I've only stepped foot in their stores twice in the last couple of years; once to try out the new Retina MacBook Pro and once to inspect televisions before buying one online for ~£400 less than their price.
Is anyone aware of a similar book covering Python internals at this level of depth?
"LineUp App - Get a new phone number for your iPhone/iPad in 30 seconds or less"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585832

Sadly there was no response whatsoever from my Show HN, but LineUp has been profitable since launch (minus my time/effort), gains about 100 new users per day, and was recently featured at TwilioCon in the Community Hall. I'm currently working on the UI/UX and the next big push for users, but have a few other things, like my actual job, getting in the way.

Any suggestions/feedback are always welcome!
Ask HN: How are Heroku users preparing for possible hurricane AWS east outage?
Pricing will be for new, more sophisticated features, what you see today will always be free. Features like push notifications, a/b testing, custom campaigns, additional email themes, and so on.

I have learnt a lot from patio11 so we'll always be generous and honest about this stuff. Pricing simply didn't feel like a reason to delay launch!
Care to do an "Explain like I'm 5" about skeuopmorphism vs path dependence?

I'm not sure I understand it in the context of device design.

Edit: or are they talking specifically about app design?
It is obvious that for some reason the officers in the patent office are not able to find out that the "technology" to be patented is really an ages old technique or device defined in a horribly bloated language to either hide what it really is or include anything and everything that may have any small piece in common with that art or device.

And i guess it's always seen or shown as the patent office is responsible for the problem, not the individual officers who really are the ones that mess up.

Isn't it possible to hold the individual officers or at least the patent office responsible for the damages caused from granting patents to these kind of bogus claims?
Why would you work there if you dislike it so much you feel it's necessary to criticize them in a public forum?
It was pretty clear that he was talking about visual design and interaction. None of the things you list here are in that domain. One is a new app, one is a voice UI and one is an Internet-based storage service.
> So you are proposing that the purpose of education is indoctrination into value system X, and propose that a successful system will indoctrinate more people?

What did you think it was?

> Your goal is now vaguely stated. But how do I actually count the # of people concerned with individual rights/positive outlook/etc?

Uh, polling?
This is hardly unique to NYU. This is not uncommon in undergraduate courses on terrorism.
Mmmm, I'd say Apple Maps is :)
I had the same question as @jd - to clarify this, you might want to change the call to action to "get started for free" or something along those lines...
We'll offer bucketing. It just seems very hard to do right: now from a software nor even design point of view, but in a manner that makes it worthy of a time investment for young startups. welcome sequence felt like the low hanging fruit. but it is coming.

We actually had custom themes. My co-founder will mock me for now removing them. ("simple is best!! these are UGLY!! People will want a clean simple theme or custom HTML. REMOVE THEM.")

shoot me an email though and i'll get my designer to build you (or anyone else) a custom html theme. (surprise bjoern!) peter@userfox.com
You're not a nerd
My ideal solution would be to search my pinboard bookmarks from the address bar in chrome. As it is I get fairly close using alfred and a custom search for pinboard.
Why Android 4.2′s Multiple User Account Switching Is Tablet-Only (Hint: Patents)
Thanks for your reply - definitely looks cool. As I mentioned above (under @jd's post), it might help to change the call to action text...
I'm not sure what happened to my comment, so here's the back story:

This is my first "real" app I've written in node.js.

This app came to be because the last time I changed jobs, I went from getting paid once a month to once every two weeks. Since two weeks doesn't quite line up the way once a month does, I had a hard time figuring out how much money I needed to set aside to get into the new rhythm. So, I wrote a little script that figured it out for me.

I wanted to play around with node.js, so it was a great excuse to create full app. Let me know what you think!
I can but when it comes to text. Images not so much.
Heroku offers database replication to the west coast, but in my understanding, the platform is all in the Virginia data center, so this would not mitigate.
Browser incompatibilities? That's a candidate for the 'information to be most quickly rendered outdated/irrelevant after graduation' award. I would rather spend my $1400 a credit hour on poetry workshops (and I did.)
Introduction to UIAutomation, Apple's Automated UI Testing Framework
Also in your "leaked slide" where "they're burning cash at an enormous rate" one can clearly see that revenues exceeds costs. ie. making money?!
OTOH, most AWS customers are not Netflix and couldn't afford the sort of high availability architecture Netflix has.
His point is that he thinks that many people with the square card reader never read any cards. He's right - unless there's a government subsidy that I don't know about, Square does not make money from every user.
I don't know when it has been introduced, or even if it was always there and I didn't notice, but iBooks also supports continuous vertical scrolling and it IS much faster than looking at an animation that shows a page turn or a slide. The default mode, "page turn" doesn't make any sense. When I scroll through an ebook through the continuous scrolling, the text appears INSTANTLY, without a perceptible delay and since it's continuous scrolling, you don't go from a page to another, but you're always "in between". The concept of a "page" 1, "page 2", "page" 3 itself is no more. It's not a physical book, it doesn't need pages.
It'd help me if you gave examples what you think iOS could be doing that's it not. The big ticket feature that iOS didn't have 60 days ago was built in turn by turn maps. Since they added that with 6.0 I guess I'm wondering what else you're pining for? A weather widget? NFC? Fjords?
Assignee is WebCollage, which creates product pages for Walmart, like (http://www.walmart.com/ip/Power-Wheels-Dune-Racer-12-Volt-Ba...).
We're changing the button to say "Get Started - It's free!" better?
I think this is more interesting:

"Forstall has made it abundantly clear inside Cupertino that he would like to eventually be Apple's chief executive, adding that "he wears his ambition in plainer view than the typical Apple executive.""
Good luck but beware - there are quite a few of these products, and so far none are successful. I think this is because they are trying to solve the "lowering the barrier to entry on the app store" problem.

I think this is the wrong problem, the real problem is how to get your app noticed, and this is down to being high quality and individually themed. These two problems are somewhat at odds with each other.
Agreed. I still have no idea what propeller can do in terms of apps.

A while ago, I spent an evening signing up for all these sites claiming to make mobile apps. I wanted to use my database of addresses on the backend to let users search for nearest X. Nothing fancy. But not one of these visual app developer sites could do it. Most of these visual app builders are nothing more than a few pages/mobile sites that don't do anything. There is nothing 'app' about the results.
It seems it was only a matter of time until Ive took over as true heir apparent to SJ in this respect. Will be interesting to see how the relationship with Cook works and if it pans out in a similar fashion as it did with SJ+Cook.
+1

Even worse than maps, which are a huge ongoing problem.
FYI, Chrome now has stacked tabs and tab grouping.
I cant wait to hear reactions from the fanboys when Cook is out : "Oh yeah , best opportunity ever for Apple...",
Whatever Apple does is ,strangely ,always a good decision from its followers perspective...
I think retaining key talent is one of Tim Cooks' most important jobs... and this shows pretty clearly that Mansfield was tired of his previous job, wanted to retire, and Tim found a way to create a position that interested him, or at least, would keep him around for a couple more years.

And this new section, I think, could be really important.

Apple has been really innovating in silicon and wireless technologies, and they're at a point where this will increasingly be the source of key competitive advantages.

I suspect Mansfield's job is to integrate this division, get it whipped into shape and then recruit a replacement to lead it.
http://www.zotero.org/ can do this. It can make a snapshot of the page, and also a copy of all attachments on it (especially useful for pdfs, images etc.)
This is great! I like how you provide some basic advice below the email composition, since many users won't know exactly what to send. I'd even suggest you could build on that with some more specific guidelines on sending the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. And guidelines on determining how many to send, when to send, etc, since those things can be edited by users.
Depends on what libc (or other) routines you call... going over the end of the stack is no fun. Lots of code seems to be written to rely on deep stacks in userspace.
I think what Gruber was trying to say here is that (in his opinion at least) Apple is usually plainspoken, but in this case they were not because they were being polite to Forstall by being euphemistic rather than plainly saying that he was given the arse.
I'll answer your questions here and then think about how to answer them on the site.

Q: how does information get from my app into yours

A: async javascript snippet. my co-founder has the scars to prove it is robust.

Q: can I embed per-user links

A: yep. our docs are a lot more elaborate than our user interface at this point, but you can do almost anything you desire. best to shoot me an email and i'll explain. peter@userfox.com

Q: how do opt-out notifications get back from your app to mine

A: we have a simple unsub API to communicate who has unsub'd, we handle the entire unsub from userfox emails obviously. you're going to eventually (soon) send all emails via userfox though.

Thanks for the note on the ui issue. we'll get it fixed.
That's perfect. Thanks for the clarification.
We haven't announced cross-region followers. When we announce it, there will be an announcement.

This is an internal feature we've been using for a while that we thought our customers might appreciate access to under the circumstances.
I wish this meme (that, in no uncertain terms, Apple dumped Google) woud die. This is a very large contract between two large, competing companies.

If I were looking only at the impact of the iOS decision, I would have a hard time believing that Google didn't tell Apple to piss off, but I think even that reading is far too simplistic.
We actually have a copywriter on team who would love to assist people writing emails. He manages a copywriting helpdesk for our customers, and also offers services to write and manage content. Shoot me an email if this is interesting to you. He writes dozens of emails with tremendous results for some of our customers. peter@userfox.com
See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715263
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715266
"None of the things you list here are in that domain. One is a new app ..."

Since the very sentence I was responding too was about apps ("iOS is stagnant, reviews of recent Apple designed skeuo-heavy apps bemone the lack of functionality") I fail to see how talking about app functionality is some huge leap of logic on my part.

"he was talking about visual design and interaction. None of the things you list here are in that domain"

How is voice control not about interaction?
Nexus 4 looks interesting but a bigger screen would be nice and I could go to the Nexus 7 now that they have one with a phone option and MicroUSB for connectivity! Ah, it has no camera well a 1.2 MP front facing one but that's it. Maybe the Nexus 10, big, would take some getting use to to replace a phone with it and it has an 8MP rear facing camera, but no phone option. :-(

When I can get a 7 with phone and at least 32 Gigs or preferably expandable storage like my Nexus One which I've had 32 Gigs on now for a year or two and an 8MP real rear camera and a front facing camera and MicroUSB then I'll upgrade from Nexus One to Nexus 7 or if the 10 gets a phone I might go to that.

The 10 would be a strong option for me now if it had at least 4 Gigs RAM, 64 Gigs storage or expandable and a phone as well as rear and front facing cameras.
We announced userfox with a launchrock page and I really wish I could have tied launchrock into userfox: sending a drip sequence to users that registered interest in a service would have improved launchrock 100x fold. (as asked, but alas, they're busy.)
No, that was sarcasm, basically throwing his own advice back to him to show he was being hypocritical.
Chrome Web Lab: The Experiment Continues
And a similar set of people flag down Paul Thurrotts's http://winsupersite.com so much that it's banned from HN just for being a Microsoft insider. Just because a narrowminded mob does something doesn't make it right.
Evolution of Type
In case anyone else is missing this, when one of the demos first loads -> ctrl+f -> "play", click it.
We store a flag on the user that the tour has been seen. The user is always loaded with the page anyway so it's no extra DB calls to get this information.
have you seen a primary use case among your customers?
There are 4 million articles on Wikipedia and 50k active editors. 100 people, even working full time, would hardly make a dent. This is true even ignoring the serious impact of tampering with the all-volunteer philosophy. I'd wager you'd need at least 10 times the number of people/money to seriously improve the content of wikipedia by hiring editors.
Unfortunately it's not running on Linux and it's running Windows.
I'd like to know why it works. Does "10x superior onboarding emails" mean 10x better retention/conversion numbers? Backstory: I've been trying to improve retention in a complex system with ~10^5 users, and email doesn't seem to add too much gain. Focusing effort on the website seems to have a larger effect.

How are your emails 10x better? Is it the schedule (Day 1 ... day 4 ...day 7) of emails? The content ("Become a power
user like Zach...")?

Unless you say why it is better, it is hard to see if that it is a no-brainer.