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Hackers wanted for early-stage big data YC startup
We are a group of big data experts annoyed at the lack of simple, yet efficient tools for today's data problems. So, we started a company to make big data analysis as easy as Google made search.

We are building an analysis engine in the cloud that is fast, flexible, and easy to use. With us, customers are up and running in hours, not months. Our initial customers are web 2.0 companies that use our engine to gain deep insights into their users’ behavior. We have great traction and are looking for great people to help scale our technology and our team.

We are looking for:

- web developers (front-end): to build clear, intuitive visualizations for complex data. (We're fans of D3.js).

- web developers (back-end): to support a multi-tenant, scalable service

- systems and/or linux engineers: to automate, scale, and optimize the core analysis engine (built in C/C++/Python).

We like developing new technologies that are technically hard, fun to use, and seem like magic. Having recently finished YC, we are still early enough that you will help us define the company and its culture.

If this sounds exciting, drop us a note at bigdatayc@gmail.com with a resume, profile, or background info. We will get back to you, and tell you more about us.
This is an excellent essay. I am coming from a math background and mostly picked up programming on my own. Even though I may not directly use algebra or analysis in my programming, usually what I see as elegant and neat from a mathematical perspective later turns out to be more efficient and readable from practical point of view.
Glad to hear it was helpful. Improvely looks fantastic, btw. I love the UI.

http://www.improvely.com/demo
Perhaps you should read Anonymous' press release before dismissing them.
http://anonrelations.net/opisrael-95/
Can C be implemented such that pointers do not have a fixed size? That is to say, suppose you have a hypothetical machine that uses bignum memory addresses. Can C be implemented to run on that machine without cheating and using a fixed pointer size?
I'm not so sure; there is plenty of popular music I find grotesquely defective in ways that aren't obvious to the people who appreciate it. Like it or not, software quality is entirely subjective and in the eye of the beholder. There is no other way to explain the continued ubiquity of things like PHP, Windows, iTunes, <insert bane of your existence>, etc.
To be honest, I'm not particularly bummed that our team Contactable (http://becontactable.com) got rejected. If anything - its encouraging us to try to hustle harder, get a prototype to market, obtain paying customers and building a profitable business.

Although I was bummed about not getting through to the next round - I DO NOT feel that I was hard done by. In fact, YC partners clearly thought that there were better businesses to back or a better fit.

... and that's OK. The best thing to do, is to focus more of your energy towards your own startup.

I do not believe any of the processes need to change - if they realise something is broken, YC's partners will adjust accordingly. After all, they are also in business to make money - so if they start picking bad businesses to back, then they will change their application process accordingly.

Life's never fair, so just get over it and hustler harder!
They're a bit better on OS X 10.8 with Notification Center, but still subpar overall. But that's the nature of taking a power user tool and dumbing it down for mass-market consumption.
Hook up a Roku or other set-top box to your TV. Run the Amazon Instant Video app. It works just like Netflix. No store, no ads, just flipping through box art to choose movies or shows to watch.
Yes, but as I point out elsewhere, Turing Completeness separates the expression from the machine. Machines will always have limits. But the expression of computation does not have to have limits.
Heavy bombing of densely populated areas?

It's rather simple. As a general rule, civilians in the Gaza Strip know if they are near a target. You don't live next to a rocket manufacturing, storage or launch site without knowing about it.

The IDF have gone to great pains to warn civilians not to go near these sites, or to mix with combatants.

They send text messages, drop leaflets, even make phone calls with recorded messages to the affected areas. They perform 'roof knocks' (using non-lethal bombs) to warn civilians they are in the vicinity of a target.

The ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in the Gaza Strip is well below that of any comparable conflict as a result.
>This tactic is also a way to quickly stop a potential email conversation with a recruiter, while still being able to have them as a connection.

Why do you want random recruiters as connections? This not sarcastic; it's a sincere question.
Kudos for what? Engaging in illegal activites? Painting a blatantly one sided view of the conflict. Hamas weren't siting by letting their rockets collect dust. You can't claim them as innocent either.
Truly the only blog title which could top this would be
"Return of the ScrumMaster"

I will not be holding my breath for
"Attack of the beanlet containers"
It's a shame really, as OpenFeint was developed initially for Aurora Feint†, a very nice iPhone puzzle game and one of the very first iPhone games. It was free, and it seems OpenFeint was an effort to make money for the devs

† http://www.appsafari.com/games/5330/aurora-feint-app/
You should totally check the Reddit Enhancment Suite(http://redditenhancementsuite.com/). It adds a lot of useful functions. Otherway I think digg.com should be similar, it was a predecessor of reddit that was crashed by it and now is trying to emerge again with a new team.
I'd like to see what would happen if a third-party client just started to use the API token extracted from the official client. What could they do?
TIL what the '.' in front of '@' is for. Interesting.
Nope. The rockets haven't actually stopped in years, and there were certainly no talks of a permanent peace.
"Once you get a lead, if it takes even a single phone call to close them, you’re no longer doing self-service and Customer Acquisition Costs vs. Self-Service pricing is going to kill you. If you’re not doing that phone call and you’re also not closing those deals, you need to figure out of if you can solve the problem through conversion optimization or if you really do need to be speaking with customers in order to close them. "

Wow, can you bold this?
Touchless sale/conversion = win.

David Skok talks about it brilliantly and has an eagle eye on these metrics when evaluating his SaaS investments - http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/business-models/the-touchles...

No one really talks about backing into pricing based on LTV/CAC ratio (affected by for example measurable inbound marketing or cpc/cpm costs).

Pay back period (ideally CAC < a year) is also a factor.
http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/
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See the references on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBooks#Controversy

"Some have claimed that the iBooks interface is a near exact replica of Classics by Andrew Kaz & Phill Ryu, released over a year prior and even featured in Apple's own TV commercials. Apple has made no acknowledgement of this.[29][30][31]"
Ah. Moralfriends. Because what the Gazans really need is a network uplink to tell /pol/ and /int/ how much they're being oppressed.
You don't need to reason about C's pointers to consider its Turing Complete. That it allows arbitrary storage, it has conditionals and allows full looping (either unbounded loops or full recursion) is enough. That is, a language that had C's semantics sans pointers would still be Turing Complete.
You are not disputing that they are bombing a densely populated area. You are saying that they have to take precautions because they are bombing a heavily populated area.
The killing of Jaabari was done in response to around 120 missiles thrown at Israel prior to the killing. There might have been peace talks but it seems like they had stock of missiles they wanted to ship out before any peace was signed for. The bottom line is that both sides of this conflict are held hostage to a very vocal and armed minorities of both sides who would like to keep the conflict burning on. Its no wonder that these things happen just before elections. Both sides have an interest to keep a right wing government in place and the best way to do this is by firing missiles and retaliating against them. Fear drives people to elect a right wing government and nothing drives fear like a bunch of missiles and a heavy "disproportionate" response.
Until both sides wake up and realize they are controlled by tiny minorities with guns there is no hope to resolve this conflict.
He's one of the few politicians of that caliber where I think he's both batshit crazy while being a force for good (?) in the public sphere. I don't really know what to make of the man.
Most likely Chrome 23.
I did not suggest copying code (the code that I am referring to is not open source anyway), I suggested reverse engineering.
I have a similar issue. I go to Twitter for many things -- work info, to laugh, friends -- and it doesn't work to have everything jammed into one stream.

I would like to see something split the list of accounts I follow into subject-based lists or something so that I can consume with context.

At some point, I think following becomes less important. Ideally Twitter could just show me tweets that I should enjoy. I'm not looking to get every update anyway -- I just want to dip into a stream of info that I'd find both timely and relevant.
Gaza is among the most densely populated areas on Earth. It is simply not feasible for civilians to comply with such orders.
Twitter's official web client has no filtering capability, for one thing. For that reason alone I can't use it regularly.
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What does this have to do with John's comment? Nothing. It has nothing to do with John's comment.
There were over 100 rockets on November 11, which was three days before he was killed. There were also 25 on November 10.
171 rockets were fired last month (source: http://www.shabak.gov.il/publications/updates/Pages/graf3.as...).

Haven't heard of any "peace talks", got a reference?
On average, the male geek keeps his dick in his pants
Ask HN: What do you think about a Social Web OS?
Hello HN,

We've just been turned down by YCombinator (2 visits to our demo & video) and because they don't give feedback I'm here to ask you guys what do you think about our project:

weeZeel is a Social Web OS. It’s a website written in HTML5 and JavaScript (using jQuery) that takes the concept of a traditional Operating System to the cloud.

We have created a web desktop for everyone to use as their computer. They can edit documents, watch movies, play games… using our apps or any other app available in weeZeel Store, where anyone can sell an app developed using our API, with the feature of being 100% social. All these apps have the ability to work on real time thanks to websockets.

And because weeZeel is social, you can share all the files and folders you want with your contacts with one single click and you can interact with them in any app.

If you want to try our demo (still work to be done) just use this url: http://www.weezeel.com/demo.php
"Hastings says Amazon is losing between $500 million and a $1 billion a year as it acquires streaming video content rights."

I flat out ignore estimates like this. A sway of a few percent, sure...but 500 million to a billion is laughable at best.
How we send a morning email to users around the world.
Sites like the UN school Israel fired White Phosphorus into?

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/cast-lead-remem...

Give me a break.
The system will just spontaneously update to the next power-of-two bits when address space gets short. Problem solved.
"What a wonderful world it would be if everyone accepted the simple moral premise of rejecting all acts of aggression. The retort to such a suggestion is always: it’s too simplistic, too idealistic, impractical, naïve, utopian, dangerous, and unrealistic to strive for such an ideal.

No, my objection is that Ron Paul wants to pretend property titles are not acts of aggression backed by the state. I'm no anarchist, but I am a believer in the Enlightenment and the social contract. When a regime of property has grown unbearable to the people, it is the right of the people together to abolish it and free themselves of its burden.

Whereas Ron Paul would say that anyone wishing for even the slightest alteration of existing property arrangements is exercising the "offensive use of force." No, we are simply withdrawing force once exercised because we no longer approve its usage.

You are not entitled to a police force that defends your plantations, factories, mines and, yes, server farms and retail outlets from the angry, starving masses. You receive that defense because you're part of a society that works together and must work for everyone.

"Anarcho"-capitalism is in no way anarchist: without hierarchies.
1 sided of what? attacking innocent civillians? When did ever Israel listen to the world?
I think you're being overly critical of the Googler's design. It's only a prototype after all. I think it's more like a proof of concept at this point - that you can have your own book scanner that is much cheaper than professional versions.
Way to pander to Reddit.
Isn't the point of "Anonymous" precisely that nobody (and everybody) is "Anonymous"?
> What bothers me about this statement is that either side of the net neutrality debate could claim it was meant to support their position. Net neutrality is government regulation. It is also the kind of regulation that would prevent the kind of control Paul is referring to.

On the other hand, the government is also responsible for the existing monopolies that are the biggest threat to net neutrality.

So at the end of the day, it goes both ways: both corporations and government can act either in defense of neutrality or to its detriment. No easy answer.
The Internet was vital in exposing his naive and harmful behavior. His hypocritical pronouncements and racist background would never have come to the public without it.

Don't let Washington hit your ass on the way out.
There are both dense and sparsely populated areas of the Strip.

Israel are not carpet-bombing the area, they are performing pinpoint strikes on legitimate military targets.

As a civilian, it is not difficult to avoid those targets.
Anonymous has been known in the past to attack first and figure out who got hit and how to spin it later. I am unwilling to give them the benefit of the doubt that this was a targeted attack from the get-go.

And why does every Anon press release read like a transcription of a scratchy VHS tape involving several heavy-set balaclava-wearing dudes?
"Cyber warfare" sounded so much more exciting when Angelina Jolie was doing it in a neon catsuit. Sorry about this pathetic future, everyone!
That's interesting. In the freight, and oil services industries, transactional is often used to describe spot market arrangements versus contractual ones. I think that makes sense, but I need to think about it a bit more as it relates to rivalrous goods.
140 characters annoys me when I have something long to say, but overall it's something that I really like about it, and I know plenty of people who agree with me.

I don't know if they'd do better by dropping the limit, but saying it's a bad limit is definitely subjective not objective.
Mind, the US in the 1920s had quite a few measures that kept immigrants and most actual minorities from voting if they lived in the wrong places. Even then, they faced bloc-voting problems in the form of Tammany Hall.
I just read it and I can't support them. I am opinionless on Israel/Palestine - there's just too much I don't understand to take a stand. The reason I can't support them is because they operate as if they are the the owners of the truth and the deciders of what is right. Its okay to have strong opinions, think you're right, and stand for what you believe it but the same mentality that allows Anonymous to do just about anything to anyone they deem "wrong" or "oppressors" is the same mentality that promotes people blowing themselves up on crowded subways. I can't support that.
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I'm sure it's just me.

But the more news articles read that write about "nerds" the more I can't help but feel increasingly offended. There's often times an undertone of ridicule in the writing that I cannot overhear any more. Please tell me I'm overreacting and should just relax a little more, because I sometimes feel that mainstream newspaper articles are borderline bullying. To a point where I've actually started thinking about forming a lobbying group to fight for more respect in the portrayal of technically inclined people like us.

Just a thought experiment: next time you come across an article that talks about "nerds" try replacing every instance of that word with "gays". Not that the result would make much sense but I think the gay community, despite their ongoing struggle, has at least managed to make it almost impossible to receive a similar kind of media report that consists of nothing but stereotypes.

If you do the above experiment, I'm sure you'll the offensive subtext in some articles, the self-content righteousness in making fun of those people who created everything modern society cannot be without: facebook, twitter, the internet, apps, you name it.

Maybe it's because technical people seem harmless that they think they can get away with their bullying. But I think it's about time to stand up against it and make our voices heard.

P.S.: I'm not saying that this particular article is worse than the rest. As a matter of fact, it's quite okay, compared to some others I've read. So maybe this comment is misplaced in this thread in which case I apologize.
He'll probably say something along the line of

"In '97 Amazon had market cap of $291M, in '02 it was 3.5B, in '07 it was $20B and today it's $100B. I don't know... seems to be working."
I came to the same conclusion for adding usage logging and promo codes to my app. Use Parse for now but try not to use too much of their API and to keep it to a couple of particular lasses that I access it through so that if I need to move it is just a day changing the app and one or two setting up and securing a server with a database.

Not a game but a lists app focussed on reusable lists for things like shopping and packing with a couple of neat features. Http://iTunes.com/apps/fastlists. Free with in-apps if you like it.

I haven't decided how to do shared lists yet, iCloud, Parse, custom server or something else.
I'm afraid 1:1 brain copies will stay in the realm of science fiction, so it's not an exaggeration. This paper provides some more food for thought on my position: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli.2009.35...
Yeah, I'd like to eventually. I was thinking of organizing articles in a Pinterest-like layout.
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GREAT! Thanks Anon
As a former resident of Israel I kinda know those people. They are there to do their 'hit' before settling back to 'normal' life. The brief they get is "sell". There are companies that specialise in getting young folk to the US and Europe to sell those product. They promise them the world and a silly salary. The reality is that the salary doesn't translate to the figures promised unless you actually sell like you life depends on it. So they do just that. The dead sea stuff is just one type of product, manufactured by nondescript factories and arguably not so 'dead sea'. There are others who go door to door selling 'made in china' oil paintings that they claim to be the artist of. Others sell gadgets in malls. Others sell whatever they sell. The techniques are similar and they are controlled by a few companies.
There are even ads where they recruit based on having a US tourist visa alone (i.e., work illegaly until caught). This got so worst that the US embassy created a short film warning young Israelis of that scam, and the airports in London will hold any young Israeli coming in on suspicion of being a mall-stall fodder. Sorry for the guy on loosing $100 worth of chemicals that cost the seller about $4 to procure (I know this because, alas, my brother from the same mother has dabbled in this in the past). You've been had buyer of cosmetics.
The best way to go about it, and a lesson to future cosmetic buyers as this poster, is that you buy if you initiate the purchase, not if it initiated upon you.
JavaScript is an extremely bare language that largely lacks a standard library. Libraries like jQuery make code easier to write and easier to maintain and sometimes even result in smaller downloads for the user.

Ii your website uses the Google CDN to download jQuery new visitors will often not even download jQuery when arriving at your website because their browser probably has it already cached from visiting one of the dozens of other websites they have visited.
You should take a look at the history of regulation of taxi's in New York. It had less to do with safety or clarity than protecting exiting cabbies and from competition during the depression.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/totweb/taxioftomorrow_history_...
The library name is quite misleading. I was expecting extensions to the CoffeeScript language. But instead this is just a bunch of javascript functions written in coffeescript for use with JQuery. A better name might be "JQuery helpers".

A nicely designed site though.
My reaction is more along the lines that if the company is paying so much commission etc. to force the product down my throat, there has to be an alternative elsewhere with lower overheads and consequently better value (and not even necessarily cheaper, just lower ratio of sales:product).
He has a voting record to judge him by, for what it's worth.
Annual pricing can be a great thing -- simplification and money up front: what's not to like? But anyone being paid long in advance of when a service will be delivered should keep in mind that, from an accounting perspective, some portion of that pool of advance payments may be considered a liability, and can complicate revenue recognition. As soon as you receive a payment, you now owe the customer a year of service instead of, perhaps, them owing you the cost of a month of service.
Traditional views my foot. Everyone always acknowledged that colonialism developed new areas. The problem was that it developed them exclusively for the benefit of the colonist.
The feedback you want is the main value YC offers, they won't provide it to teams that were not accepted.

I think pretty much all teams are great. Perhaps there isn't a very specific reason for rejection once you get past by the alumni filters and is evaluated by PG himself.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the alumni are filtering teams based on their own values and reality. I think alumni having any contact at all with the selection process makes it extremely biased and will generate a lot of look-a-like startups.

It's not that they are bad or good, but this is how humans work, bias is natural.

I dare YC to choose 10% of teams at random next time, not even reading their application. I bet the results will be the same, if not, better than the average.
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I have no iOS device to test unfortunately - difficult to debug!
Maybe it's retconning loss figures to a model they already have. If they can fit online expectations to meatspace loss figures, then they don't have to change their models.
Aside from the fact that this survey is worthless because of a gross lack of data - 3% of people surveyed probably don't travel into the city much and live in areas with dense tre growth. If you lived their life you would probably agree with them, instead you question if they are just grumpy.