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Going generally against the grain, I really like it, but this may be because my background is in the arts and architecture.
@nir (post below - "incredible pretense and complete incompetence rarely seen until now outside fields like art, fashion and architecture")

Maybe as some posters suggest they want you to know what it is your looking for answers about, I don't have a problem with that.

More interestingly though, has anyone submitted a business plan to SC? How many do you think they get a day? Do they read them all? Do they run through 20 plans in an hour over coffee at 7.00 am each morning?

If you follow their plan submission guidelines, you'll probably end up with a very different plan than the one you've already written. You have already written one haven't you???
It's often because $1 ~= £0.65, but prices transfer at $1 -> £1, so prices end up 50% higher than a currency exchange would lead you to expect.

Dell monitors do this too - a good 24" LCD is $550 (=£357) in the USA but £550 here (=$846).
And has a disaster for a user interface. Once every three months I have to file a tax report and that's when I log in to see each transaction for those three months. Their history form has a "[Go]" button and a "[Search]" button. I press the wrong one each and every time.

There is no details page for a transaction and you can only see the item that was sold in a CSS popup that disappears when you mouse away, making it impossible to copy-paste.

And then there's the fact that their calculations can be off sometimes. We have some sales that are € 12.75. The transaction costs for that is € 0.44 or € 0.45, I don't know which: the amount field says it's € 0.44, but our balance is actually decreased by € 0.45. That's a rather bad mistake to make as a payment provider...

All in all I'm not too happy with Moneybookers. It gets us money and it's cheap, but it's perfectly clear why they are cheap...

Edit: Also, Moneybookers sales were less than 5% of the Paypal sales...
Isn't it a bit sad that someone should have to work a 60 hour week (assuming you don't work weekends...), likely with no more than 2 weeks a year vacation, to earn a good living, though? Fair enough if you're doing what you love, but that is never, alas, going to be the case for most people.

I'm lucky enough to get to work on what I love, but I still think that we should endeavour to restrict the 'normal' working week to a lower number of hours. In Praise of Idleness is an interesting essay on the point: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html .
The last time I checked, the Palm Pre is available on Sprint's network, not on Verizon's. I expect more from the Wall Street Journal.
These kinds of startups have an advantage for small loans, but for larger ones the "real" banks that don't have to carry all the money they lend (fractional reserve banking) have quite an advantage. Also, in a system where people loan directly from each other the money supply is constant. That's bad if you want economic growth, and I suppose, good if you're an environmentalist.

If you want to do away with banks you would have to somehow do away with the fractional reserve system. Any ideas on how to do that?
Sure, but the question I'm wondering about is why they transfer at $1 -> £1, when this isn't the exchange rate.
Almost certain that wasn't there earlier.

Ah now I know why - I was on my laptop earlier which doesn't have a massive monitor and you can't see the bottom menu then.
Wait til they steal your money. PayPal used to do this, but then they got the shit sued out of em and got regulated. (I think they're legally a bank now?)

http://slash7.com/articles/2009/3/26/google-is-evil-worse-th...
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I think I see his point.

All programming languages are very similar in their code: once you've picked up the nuances and the basics of the syntax coding in it is easy enough.

But "creating" (I think that's the wrong word personally; but cant think of a better one) in a specific language requires much more in depth understanding of how it works (for example how a compiler constructs your C program, or how a Javascript engine runs etc.).
I use both of them. I prefer Paypal. Google Checkout is just a redheaded stepchild of a product. It has more sharp edges than a shuriken put through a blender.

Here's one nuisance, among many: Google Checkout makes it impossible for you to search by important pieces of data like, oh, customer name.

If I get an email from Jane Smith at an unrecognized email address (because customers often have several of them), I can't find her transaction through Google Checkout. I have to open up my dashboard, which was coded by some chump who writes bingo card software in his spare time but nonetheless is better at search than Google, look up the transaction, then copy/paste the order number so I can search by it at Google.
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Avoid violence of any type, move to the coast, buy a surfboard. This will teach you balance, make you fit, calm your mind, put a smile on your face.

There is no logical sense in learning a system of violence (defensive or otherwise) to improve your body and mind.

Goal Setting - I'm gonna paddle this board through this beach break like a dolphin

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Who's the best surfer? the one having the most fun.

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If you look at http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com+myspace.com+tw... it might paint a different story: MySpace still has ~twice the visitors of Twitter, the current social network du jour. Even if you don't think much of Compete's stats, it means there are still a lot of people that still use MySpace.
I think the difference is that you are still the lender while a real bank just takes your money and does whatever it likes with it without even asking you.
On Zopa you decide that you actually lend 500 or 5000$.
Is C++ still needed?
It doesn't make money. Banks do that (well, prior to the recent financial crisis).

See Prosper, incidentally, which had lending peers decide which loans got funded and at what rates. If you think BoA was bad at estimating default risk, wait until you see the average Prosper portfolio.
I wouldn't think a seeds-gimmick alone could raise all the funds, but it might raise a lot. A grove of trees (or other plants) grown from seeds that have been farther from Earth than any other native organism [1] would have serious tourist-attraction value, even if replicated in many places.

Wikipedia reports the ESA's 'Mars Express' as having a total budget excluding lander of about $185 million. So perhaps a bare-bones orbit-and-return could be done, unmanned and on a leisurely pace, for $300 million.

Sell 5,000 seeds at $30,000/each to raise half the mission cost? Not totally inconceivable.

[1] disregarding stowaway microrganisms on non-returning probes
It's not quite so simple: don't US prices exclude sales tax? VAT in the UK's 17.5%.
I would say Facebook is MySpace's biggest competitor, not Twitter.
Don't waste your time going to a bullshit school without any smart or wealthy people.

It's pragmatic of someone but not necessarily pleasant of them to seek another out just because they're smart or rich. Also, learning how to learn and learning how to relate can be undertaken at any college. But, I do agree with you on one level.

Furthermore, unrealized knowledge entitlement annoyed me far more than unrealized career entitlement (if any). I was ready to run or inherit a business empire knowledge-wise upon graduating. Alas, that did not occur!

Most grads (of Information Systems) said they used none of their knowledge after graduating: best study something one enjoys or something that will definitely be used.
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OK, MB is not perfect either but I still prefer it to PayPal and use it whenever I can.

Also MB has some security advantages. You can already notice on the front end (captcha etc.)
That is true for original GSM networks. However SMS might be using a data channel for delivery instead of control in the latest EDGE,CDMA.

I googled for UTMS 3G (the most usual here in europe), and they still use the FREE signal channel:

"On umts, sms is packet switched - bit rate will be 16k...... cos it is sent on signalling channel."

ref: http://www.wirelessforums.org/uk-telecom-mobile/anyone-know-...
They might get away with this in their community because the people who actually have business to transact with sequoia will know what to do. However, what about non-digeratti who just want to find out something? Are they now some irrelevant person that no one cares about, awkwardly standing outside of your imposing building?

This is ultimately a throwback to the high-design, austere, textless sites that hit the scene just before Google thankfully became relevant.

I assume that sequoia will revert back to a more sensible approach that conforms with the rest of the world wide web. How long it takes depends on how much kool-aid the relevant parties have sipped.
Cool. It would be neat to sync an animated version of the flow chart with the song.
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I actually like LOC as a metric.

Base on the truism that every line of code has a potential bug, even if the line is cruft, then the length of the codebase is proportional to the potential bugs.

It's a simplification, obviously, but LOC is useful in this respect.

The main problem with LOC IMHO is people try and use it for the wrong purpose.
I wouldn't disagree with you. I only added Twitter in as a point of reference, since its getting a lot of the hype these days.
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You have a contract directly with the borrowers, not with the institution. If the borrowers don't pay up, you loose that money. Zopa doesn't pretend that you have money sitting in a vault somewhere that you can take out whenever you like.

To be fair to banks they don't really try to push that vault myth either, but that is the mental model people still use when interacting with banks.
No - the internet is not broken. The fact that we are communicating across it attests to that.

What needs to happen is for it to evolve to solve these problems. There are many projects aiming to do just that. We are getting there, but progress is slow.
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They are essentially free, because the carriers provide no delivery guarantees for SMS messages. That is, if the channel is busy with other signalling traffic, then SMS messages will be silently dropped.
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Hmm.

Looks like a lot of hard work went into this. But all you've really done is put a web interface on a BBS, or implemented a poor version of USENET without the benefits and a few social thingies.

The design needs a do over.

The name is hard to pronounce, this hard to remember. The thing about names like vimeo, flickr, twitter is that they at least invoke a sense of what they are about. How did u get the name Uzvy? Oh ... Usenet.

Did you build this on top of NNTP?
I'm really curious as to how you deal with licencing, PRS etc. I like your app though, as a big Spotify user myself, I think you have a little niche going.

Big question for you - how you gonna monetise this? Not digging for trade secrets of course :)
One of my favorite websites like that is http://www.baupost.com

If that doesn't say "we don't need your business... unless we already have it", I'm not sure what would.
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Way to accidentally the whole usability!

The site even allows single letter searches.
Out of curiosity, how does Yahoo benefit/profit from BOSS?
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Compare apple.com to apple.co.uk (or .co.ie, or .com.au, or any other country).
Someone's already emailed her offering to pay to make t-shirts of this slide.

Isn't the internet awesome!
From about 200 friends on Twitter to international ironic t-shirt baroness in one move. Love it.
I don't particularly care for the captcha. It annoys me and I'm assuming Paypal has protected against brute-force login attempts differently. It's not like captchas fully protect against those anyway.

Paypal really is much more polished. Their reporting is top-notch. They have an API. And they have an interface which doesn't confuse me. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than MB...
From Withrow (1990), on ADA:

Module LoC | Error Rate per 1k LoC
63 | 1.5
100 | 1.4
158 | 0.9
251 | 0.5
398 | 1.1
630 | 1.9
1000 | 1.3
>1000 | 1.4

This appears to show no such linear relationship between error rate and LoC within a single language, with a fixed amount of program text.

This report appears to suggest an observed average error rate of 18 defects per 1000 lines of code:

http://www.lanl.gov/projects/CartaBlanca/webdocs/PhippsPaper...

and the same programmer generated an average of 6 defects per 1000 lines of code in Java.

This is just a random sampling of error rates I could find quickly with a google search and a paper I already had on my desk, however the fact that three samples from three projects (two of which were from the same programmer) suggests that there is likely to be variation both in terms of the (fixed) amount of program text, and the problem between languages.
Can you post a link to some research that conclusively proves string theory being completely, totally wrong? If not, then let string theory stand as a hypothesis, but don't totally dismiss it (or dismiss it, you may or may not be wrong).

Also, if you think somebody is going to take a 10 minute web video as the answer to the universe (everybody knows it 42) and a substitute for an ungodly amount of science, research, and knowledge then you have mistaken.
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The only thing I miss is a more hands on problem solving example, its such a fun way to start learning something compared to just reading technical detail. Would certainly widen the crowd if you provided both :)
Related work: "Although based on a different technology than the existing GPL-licensed PyQt bindings, PySide will initially be 100% API-compatible with them."

Background: "Work on PySide was initiated within the Maemo division of Nokia once the lack of suitably licensed Qt Python bindings became apparent."
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Yeah, shows how fast communication can make things happen. If someone droodled something like on a piece of paper 100 years ago it would probably only end up in the fireplace after the family have had its amusement of it.
Seriously? What kind of technology is behind this thing that a 3am PST HackerNewsing could bring it down? Even with the lowest spec cloud slice, no decently built web app should fold under a few thousand visitors.

My guess (from having various sites linked at the top of HN) is that you are seeing maybe 20 simultaneous visits right now. If it's having scaling problems with this light a load, that's a serious problem.
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this sounds a bit like timecube
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This is great! I like the style, love that octopus logo (beard is just perfect), and like the formatting.

One thing--and this might be me--that I would change is the color of the body text. It's not dark enough.
Well, most hedge fund web sites are like that, even the ones that do accept new investors. They're prohibited by law to advertise to the public, so you generally need to email them for a password.
Entitlement involves having an inflated view of oneself - based on what's said in the article, sounds about right.

Just seems odd that the author complains about not being able to find a job, yet takes zero responsibility for his situation.

When I graduated college (into a shitty job market) many job offers were delayed, rescinded, or simply unavailable - I don't remember blaming everyone else.
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I would go as far as saying the submitter should have removed the sensationalism by changing the title to "Radiohead Uses BitTorrent to Publish Track". A heading as boring as the article itself.

The article almost seems like a parody, if you read this fan quote they included:

“OMFG! This torrent is being redirected from the radiohead official store, so there’s no album, just this song finished, this is very edgy..."
Quite possibly! I need to go and re-learn Haskell's typeclasses - I found them quite elegant when I looked at them years ago, but have forgotten it all since :-( Ah, the penalties of age...
I agree. And they can't even pronounce Möbius strip. (The narrator says Mobius strip.)
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I got an even better flowchart:

This HN submission -> deleted
And this video has nothing to do with string theory.
I participated in some ACM programming contests when I was a student. My university had about half a dozen teams, and we had local contests and participated in national and european level competitions.

I can see where the author is coming from, but I can't agree with him fully.

Programming contests really are no measure of how good a programmer is. At most they are a measure of how good a programmer is at memorizing solutions to "standard" classes of problems and then quickly adjusting them to specific instances of them at the competitions. But I don't think that's why competitions exist at all.

I admit, I was never a good programming "athlete". I like solving those kinds of problems, and I like to solve them as quickly as I can, but I also like to immediately go back to them once solved, to "clean up" the code and make sure I can understand my solution when I read it again a few years in the future (which will probably never happen, but nevertheless). The problem is the "as quickly as I can" never was "9 problems in 5 hours", not even 5 problems in 5 hours. And the same applies to my fellow teammates, which I don't see as bad programmers at all.

In fact, looking back, it is funny how I seemed to like to pick apart other people's solutions when they happened to solve the problem as far as the automatic judge goes, but then seemed to have some corner case problem where it would probably fail (incomplete solutions). This happened from time to time, and it could also be attributed to me failing to solve the same problem, but incomplete solutions really irked me. :)

But the social aspect of the thing was important, probably more important than the actual programming, not only because of the visits to other academic institutions, but also between the teams of the same university.
As science it is bad. As a narrative (and flash video) it is not too bad. Though it should be treated like fiction and be seen on the same level as Scientology cosmology.
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It has been the exchange rate, it might again. Part of the issue is that the exchange rate changes over time.
I wouldn't put too much stock in the results. Tr.im had that intentional downtime, but more importantly, ls.gd is down right now for me (may change later):

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ls.gd

I'd stick with bit.ly or ow.ly. Also, there's u.nu, which has a nice gimmick if you really need shortness. It wasn't included in the results.
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72 hours before the band acknowledged that they uploaded the track to bittorrent, they uploaded it to what.cd bundled with a really neat .nfo file and let it propogate from them while refusing to make any statement about the purported "leak." That's the edgy part.
Yeah this won't last much longer. It's still against the guidelines to make a post saying "flagged". In controversial articles with interesting discussions, the thread about "flagged" is incredibly uninteresting.
Well

Things have to start somewhere. A new "financial system" will have to grow naturally to create any sort of stability, that is based on the trust in the system. And mind you your bank adviser is not really an adviser but a salesman. If you want advise on money use Mint.com.

There is nothing that hinders this kind of thinking to scale.

Microfinancing shows that there are money to be made in decentralizing where the money comes from and where they go to. It fit's perfectly into the "spread your investments" that seems to be the most stable.

To add to that, I actually think the future will bring much more small to medium sized companies than necessarily large organizations so it seems to be the right way to approach it.
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