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Virool (YC S12) Seeks VP of Sales
With abundance of video content on the web, it’s become a nightmare for anyone to get discovered. Our users: brands, filmmakers, musicians, mobile app creators, all face the same problem of not being able to get through the clutter and get to the right audience.

That’s where Virool comes in.
Virool is a self-serve social video advertising company that allows anyone to promote videos to their target demographic through our network of Facebook games, mobile apps and websites. We are profitable, growing very fast (doubling revenue every month) and raised money from Tier-1 Angel and VC investors in the Valley.

Despite all of this, we are a team of 7 people: 5 engineers, 1 sales/marketing and 1 customer support. We are looking to bring on board VP of Sales.

We are NOT looking to hire an experienced sales ‘suit’ who is ONLY motivated by the commission that he makes at the end of the month, but rather an individual who truly believes in changing the world, leaving an impact and is not scared to do whatever it takes to make things happen. We want someone who knows people in the advertising industry, knows how to close deals and is extremely proactive, always be selling, type A personality that loves to hustle and close deals making a lot of money for our company and yourself in between.

You should have prior experience in video/social ads sales in one of the leading companies
(YouTube, Wildfire, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook), but looking for new challenges rather that stable corporate career.

What would you do?

- You will help us to define sales strategy and goals

- Build a sales team of people across the country and globally

- Open sales offices in New York, LA and other cities

- Make sure that sales goals are met

- Coordination with other teams - tell us what our customers want and how can we make them even happier

- Personally work with our biggest clients, and assist sales team to close bigger deals($150k+)

In other words - this might be one in the lifetime opportunity to define proper sales process in a very young company experiencing exploding growth.

What will you get?

- Generous equity stake and ability to jump on still very early but fast growing startup.

- Very competitive base salary(you will pick it) + extremely high commission (up to 20%) on deals (most deals will range between $50k-$300k) and performance based bonuses.

- We will cover all of your business expenses for traveling/lunches/stays

- You don’t have to wear a suit. Work in our chill 3-floor loft in SOMA. We have all startup perks: ping-pong table, stocked fridge, all meals are included + bedroom you can sleep in when you are tired

To apply, tell us why we should hire you: jobs(at)virool(dot)com with subject ‘VP of Sales’
Actually I think that warning comes from data stored in the xattr com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms on the file itself. So this sqlite database must be for something else.
This is most definitely not "fair use", as is determined by case law, even as profit motive plays a part in that judgment. Fair use protects such scenarios as me replaying a part of a broadcast in order to critique it (as the Daily Show does -- and definitely for a profit purpose) or to educate.

The most relaxed guidelines are probably in the educational domain. But even then, you, as a teacher, can't just tape the "I Have a Dream" broadcast and show it in its entirety from year to year:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/...

> Nonprofit educational institutions can record television programs transmitted by network television and cable stations. The institution can keep the tape for 45 days, but can only use it for instructional purposes during the first ten of the 45 days. After the first ten days, the video recording can only be used for teacher evaluation purposes, to determine whether or not to include the broadcast program in the teaching curriculum. If the teacher wants to keep it within the curriculum, he or she must obtain permission from the copyright owner. The recording may be played once by each individual teacher in the course of related teaching activities in classrooms and similar places devoted to instruction (including formalized home instruction). The recorded program can be repeated once if necessary, although there are no standards for determining what is and is not necessary. After 45 days, the recording must be erased or destroyed.

I'm not saying I "like" how "I Have a Dream" is under lock-and-key...I'm just annoyed at how people interpret the "fair" in "fair use" as, "It's ok as long as I'm being altruistic and a good person about it"
Korematsu. and executive order 9066.
It's definitely a complicated language to learn since you have to learn the complexity of

(1) Clojure core itself and readjust to functional programming
(2) Understand how ClojureScript is translated into JS in order to do interop which will absolutely be necessary for any real project
(3) Understand Clojure on the JVM in order to understand/write macros
> You didn't out grow it

Stated with such certainty. What evidence do you have that the commenter here in particular didn't develop in some way as they grew up?

This doesn't take away from your views that there may be problems with the education system but to declare that there are no cases of real medical issues in this area seems a bit presumptive.
of course it is, you use the biometric signature to sign certificates that you can revoke.
Does this article talk about regional variance of cost of living? Saving for retirement? Raising kids? Or is it the quarterly blogspam repost of a poorly structured survey from many years ago?
To be fair, that specific subset basically was the tech industry until relatively recently. The BSA was founded about 16 years before Canonical or Facebook. Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, etc, are the giants on whose shoulders Facebook, etc, are now standing. They built this industry. Also, given that Amazon sells books, movies, music, and other IP products, I think their interests are aligned much more closely with those of the BSA member companies than with those of companies like Google, Facebook, etc, who make their money disseminating other peoples' content.
If they're understood, they're not wrong. If they're causing confusion (and you can understand them only because the rest of the sentence makes it clear - you would understand just as well if they had said "foo" rather than "equate") then that's worth questioning. The way we use many words now (condone and fulsome spring immediately to mind) would have reasonably been described as "plain wrong" twenty years ago.
>citing research

No, it vaguely gestures at research without citing it. No citation is actually given in this entire piece.
The NDA asks an interesting question at the end about Mac vs PC preference.

Given Xamarin's recent mono.mac release, their targeting of a much more PC heavy developer set (C# people), their attempts to keep monotouch/droid simply add-ins to monodevelop...I am going to assume this is a new IDE aimed at cross platform mobile development.
maybe there is something to that, but i dont blame the education system for my problems. Maybe i was just lucky to have parents that were involved in my education(they are both teachers), and had really good teachers along the way.

My problems were real though. they manifested themselves mostly in math with basic multiplication and division. Reading took me a little longer to get the hang of before that, but once i got the basics i was reading Adult level (not young adult or Childrens) Star Trek Novels in 4th grade while everyone else was reading goosebumps or whatever was popular back then.
Thank you, off to do a lot of reading.
paying $1700 a month in rent on $36K would be total insanity. The general rule is that rent should be no more than 25% of your income.

On $550 a month after taxes and rent you'd not just have to pay for food (which can easily hit a few hundred a month if you aren't eating catfood), there is also:

- utilities

- clothing (employers appreciate this)

- transportation (the NYC subway is now $2.25 (going to $2.50?) a ride, or a monthly unlimited is currently $104, so there's 1/5th of that 550)

- phone bill (likely a very low end cellphone with limited use)

- laundry (coin op machines can run up $20-$30 a month), if you have dry clean clothes then this is quite a bit more

- medical ? does that $36K have health insurance as well? On a low-end insurance policy, the copay for a PCP visit is about $50, and if there's any kind of meds you need to take that can easily cost $50-100 a month.

- renters insurance ? in case your apt. burns down, it's a good idea

- any kind of occasional expenses that go over what's left, probably go on the credit card. So it's very likely there's 18-20% interest payments on a few thousand dollars going on at any given time as well.

$550 a month after rent is really not workable for an active, functioning adult.
Maybe you could consider taking him out of school, before you consider medication. School shouldn't be the first priority. Many people learn outside of school just fine. Medication can come later.
Please, please find something more challenging for your son to do than wait for other students to catch up. How envious are the other students in his class, and how are they taking it out on him? Please don't let others treat your son's advanced abilities as a disorder, or hold it against him.
This reddit post is a great description of what it's like:

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/16joxj/pe...
Call me paranoid but I always feel like these studies are being done to lay the groundwork to justify tax increases on the affluent. "You don't need to make that much, we've done research! $75,000 is all you need trust us, you'll be just as happy." Just a thought...
You should take a closer look at Stripe before jumping to such conclusions. It's hands down one of the smartest, cleanest and best-documented APIs in the history of the Internet.

They would not make a glaring mistake like this (though their users easily could).
Linguists have been working on a formal syntax for natural language for more than a hundred years and still haven't succeeded completely. I'd say formal logic is a language, not the reverse. You have to take away a lot of what we do with language to get it to work as a logical system.
I think you are missing the bigger picture. Typically someone charged federally will face intense pressure to plea out. Fighting the charges effectively adds years onto your potential imprisonment. Federal crimes also tend to be non-violent (illegal entry, wire fraud) yet typically result in longer sentences than state sentencing which typically includes more violent crimes.
You're almost certainly trolling. If you are paying 1700 for a 180 sq ft studio (which is probably illegal), and think that's a steal, that's awful
It's on TPB of course.

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6110040/Martin_Luther_King__I...
I agree with you 100% - I think it should be an essential component of any person’s psychological maturation/development, and I felt the same way in regards to the "woo-woo."

One way I describe it to my friends is a "meditation boot camp." They break you down so that you can build yourself up. It's not that they break you down, but the environment (no speaking, reading, writing, etc...) is one where you are stuck in your own head for 10 days without distraction - so a lot of your "issues" come out. And you then learn to deal with them through mindfulness.

I had panic disorder before going and nothing really helped. During my 10-day course I had really bad panic attacks often. But meditation has pretty much "cured" me of them, because I now know how to observe them without reaction.
Diversity of academic institutions is accomplished by being unique on a huge number of axes. I sympathize with this woman, but at the same time, the same-sex restrictions at Deep Springs probably deeply influence the culture there--there's probably not nearly as much point in getting drunk and partying every night if there's no chance of hooking up with someone at the end of it.

It's not "fair" that no similar all-girl or co-ed institutions exist. But I think some level of status-quo bias and knee-jerk conservatism is actually necessary to preserve the uniqueness of an institution like this.
It could be that we are doing LEARNING the wrong way. It's only the last 2-3 centuries that kids were put under such stress.
>this truly bullshit condition

Congratulations on your doctorate! Did you go for an MD or a PhD?
Why prevent copy/paste?

Wanted to send a link and share a paragraph (without using markerly) and it was a pain.

Bad user experience... good article.
Have you been to the site? It's not at all navigable on desktops. When you can't even read the content without being shoved into another section of the site entirely, it's kind of a big deal.
Ideally such a study would be published in a medical journal, and other researchers would then perform studies to corroborate or disprove the original; After a sufficient amount of evidence is gather a systematic review would be published, and the results of that would be distributed to doctors and health advice reporters, who would present the information to the general public in a clear, unified and easy-to-understand manner.

Ideally everyone would be rational, and honest, and have aligned interests, and trust eachother enough to all outsource their critical thinking to experts. Except... that sounds quite boring and I rather like being a somewhat-independent individual instead of a single-purpose cell in a larger collective organism/society.

The reporting of every study only leads the general public to believe that nothing is certain (because dissenting views are published) and not take any of the advice seriously.

Since things are in fact not certain, I would think this is a good thing?
Just Launched 3DWeapons for Android: Augmented Reality Shooting
I wonder how much jail time civil rights activists served back in the 1960s. Six days? Six months? 35 years?
Facebook just removed the top bar? 
Is anyone else getting a new facebook design? The top blue bar is now gone on my page.
Cutting spending without losing quality of life is difficult. In the vast majority of cases, you'll be cutting from social spending (going out less), convenience, or leisure.

In every single case, getting an after-tax $10,000 raise is going to be overwhelmingly preferable to cutting your spending by $10,000.
And yet this woefully imprecise factoid getsa resputtered every 3 mmonths like it's some major revelation, even though it is completely obvious that everyone who can count can figure out how much is the cost of a middle class lifestyle plus retirement plus college for kids.
Superb comment.

I actually AM a filmmaker. I spent years making very low-budget films - some of which were quite successful.

But I've now spent a couple of years developing a parallel career to fund my filmmaking - because attempting to make films without any cash, frankly, sucks.

It's a very similar situation to bootstrapping a long-time-to-launch startup: you'll often find that having SOME income through consulting makes running the actual startup either a) much easier or b) possible at all.
I make a rule of always typedefing function pointer types. I've never seen a single case where it didn't make things cleaner and more readable, not to mention that it's significantly easier to change the declarations in the future, since you rarely have a single place where you define and use a function pointer.
Well, good for you and all that, I mean that seriously. But I'm not confused; I think it is a bit minimalistic to not have a cell phone. A new laptop could be some $500 Dell, a rifle could be anything, so not I wasn't thinking of that as something akin to a middle class style, especially if that's basically it. :)
I think he means that they work under controlled conditions, but it's hard to replicate them in the real world environment. Can't go to most restaurants, can't make a lot of dishes, can't do social gatherings, definitely need to cook yourself everything you eat, and so on.
Why Most People Will Never Be Good At Recording.
It's a catch all diagnosis these days. which is sad because my parents that teach see children that they legitimately think have ADD and need to be tested and possibly take medication. But due to the fact that they are so quick to label any problems with school as ADD, the parents tend to refuse to have the child tested.
looks like this was an accident to me.
Posted because it applies to far more than just home recording.
seeing the same thing here too. Looks like a screw-up. Will probably be back up in 5 mins, but posting this comment to validate OP's sanity :)
Thx for sharing - hadn't heard the Gary Vaynerchuk story before. Pretty cool that he was able to do that and definitely worth trying.
One point that most grammar discussions seem to miss is that grammar is a model of how people communicate, not the real thing. When a construction is labeled "ungrammatical," then, it could be, as the prescriptivists would have us believe, that the construction is indeed poor at communicating the intended meaning and side-tones. But it could also be that the construction is perfectly effective and the model has simply failed to capture that aspect of reality.

A large part of rhetoric, for example, is breaking grammar for effect.
Well, the fact is that other languages do not run on it at the full speed they could with their own custom VM. It's been many years of effort and dynamic languages on the JVM still do not compete with native dynamic language VMs.

But yes, for languages like Scala etc., they run quite well on the JVM, well enough for sure.
The main discussion of the article consists indeed of the things you mentioned.
ML researcher replies to request to review paper for closed journal
I completed my (first and only, but definitely not last) 10 day vipassana retreat few years ago and i can completely support everything uberuberuber said. Definitely one of the most transforming and interesting experiences in the last years.

To anyone interested in the practice, i can recommend reading [0]. Personally, i started by reading this book and doing some practice at home. After about half a year i attended the retreat (same as uberuberuber). Those retreats are offered worldwide, follow the same rules and are all donation based. List of centers in north-america at [1].

[0] http://vipassana.org/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_english...

[1] http://www.dhamma.org/en/bycountry/na/
The why is the Mac App Store exempt?
Some kind of homomorphic encryption scheme maybe?
People usually spend half their paycheck on rent. It's not too bad considering you don't need a car, especially if you are a couple living together. In the rest of the US you'd each need a car which is easily $800/mo when you account for depreciation, maintenance, gas, insurance, and misc costs.
Just came here to post the same thing. Someone pressed the wrong button at FB HQ...
That and a code verification from your surgically-implanted-at-birth RFID. Call it N-factor authentication!
Here's more:

One of the key insights behind A/B testing is the realisation that it's only what happens with real customers that counts. It doesn't matter what you like, the CEO likes, or your dog likes -- if your customers don't like your latest design/copy/whatever it doesn't count for sh*t. This is the opposite to what the artists mentioned did -- mainly relying on their own judgement before displaying a finished work to the public. The fact they were good at consistently guessing what would be appreciated (let's leave aside defining the metric of success for art) is a large part of what makes them a good artist.

This is a moderately pedantic point, and shouldn't detract from what is to me the most interesting point of the article -- that we can correlate "good" art with objective measurements. A bunch of questions immediately arise:

Does this result generalise beyond Mondrian's work? His work is particularly well suited to the type of experiment described. I imagine fiddling with a hyper-realistic painting in a meaningful way would be harder. Are there consistent similarities in gaze patterns between good art and bad art?

Can we generate a useful predictive model of eye movements? That is, given an image can we predict where the eye will go?

Does this generalise to other domains, like effective landing pages? Could eye movements be used to predict purchasing behaviour?

The latter two seem like the core assumptions that EyeQuant is built on. More depth here would be good.
Happy birthday, Lisa: Apple's slow but heavy workhorse turns 30
Thanks. I figured as much. I was wondering if they were experimenting with a minimalist approach, however.
The best place to live in New York City is actually New Jersey.

Hoboken and almost all of Jersey City are under 30 minutes from many Manhattan offices by the Path subway or bus or even ferry. Rent goes very roughly 25% cheaper than Manhattan for similar digs, everything from basement studios to ultramodern luxury towers. There's plenty of supermarkets and any other businesses you need. And access to the rest of the world via car or airport (Newark) is considerably easier from NJ. Bonus: NJ sales tax is less, and you dodge the NYC income and commuter taxes.

I've lived on the NJ Gold Coast and commuted to Manhattan for basically my entire professional life, and pretty satisfied with it. My 15 minute ferry ride is just long enough to decompress and relax without getting bored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_(New_Jersey)

Whatever smelly downtrodden ghettoey reputation New Jersey once had is not at all universally true. Hoboken and downtown Jersey City are first-class modern neighborhoods. There's worse areas up into JC Heights and down to Bayonne, but by and large the region served by the Path is the equal of anything in Brooklyn/Queens.
In Iowa it is plenty.
I was gifted and ADD...there is actually a large correlation between the diagnosis of ADD and being classified gifted.
>MegaUpload fulfilled a very different purpose from those other sites.

Yeah. Piracy. That's why it isn't around anymore.
No, I'm not trolling, it's not illegal, and yes, that was a steal. It was in a convenient location (15 minute walk to work), first floor, and in a nice (if a bit dangerous at times) area. Since I know people spending hundreds more for a slightly bigger place (maybe 240sqft) in a less convenient area, it absolutely was a steal; most of the places around me were more like $2k/mo.
Exactly! It becomes a machine learning problem. There was a post about this a while back ..
Ask HN: What programs to write?
Hi, I'm trying to learn programming, the language which I've studied is C and now I want to start write simple programs. I've written FizzBuzz, simple parsers and a very simple text RPG. I want to write a bit bigger but still simpler project that takes more than 2 hours at least, any ideas?

Thanks in advanced.
India is no longer the automatic choice for IT services and back-office work
This is supposed to be a joke, right?
As opposed to editorials or op-eds from the NYTimes, HuffPo, Salon, TheAtlantic (see a link just below this one), WSJ, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Business Insider, Techcrunch, etc etc etc?

The article could be better written but let's debate the merits of the writing, not where it was published.
"move fast & break things"

was gone here as well but a refresh brought it back
Nope. I just have a strong association in my mind between empty rhetoric and hypocrisy.
... and it's back. The div with id "pagelet_bluebar" was empty during a few minutes. BTW, does anyone know what the div with class "pagesVoiceBar" present in the blue header refers to?
this is incredible: I created the server and seconds ago, people were already building. The power of Minecraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIwUoT4hOcs