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Early hire at startup just scaling revenue – Streak (YC S11)
We’re building a product that people love to use. Even though we sell to “businesses”, we aren’t an enterprise company - we’re a technology company maniacally focused on a great product. Companies (that you’ve definitely heard of) use Streak everyday to make their teams more effective.

Some cool stuff we're working on:

- machine learn on how our users are categorizing emails and offer proactive suggestions

- we're building a next gen CRM and we want it to feel as easy as a spreadsheet to users. We're allowing users to enter formulas in JS into Streak so they can do calculations with a syntax their used to.

- android app

- in app purchase system instead of typical Saas plans, pay by the feature instead

- platform and appstore for gmail: anyone should be able to use our tech to easily make apps

Some Details:
- we’re looking for smart fast learners

- you’d be an early addition to the team, so expect to be wearing lots of hats

- Future founders: this is a great way to get real experience on what its like starting a company - on our dime.

- we aren’t looking for a specific skillset but you can expect to work on our backend, front end JS app or our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and then specialize once you’ve had exposure to the full stack

Obviously:

- Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)

- We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing

- We’re very well funded by elite silicon valley investors

Our requirements:

- you are intellectually curious

- you want to better yourself and care about your craft

- you are located in or willing to relocate to the bay area

Email us at revenue@streak.com if you are interested and please include something you’ve built.
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I tried Dropbox, Amazon S3, local hard drive, still not happy with any of them.
> But then there's the separate question of why Yale wants to do any of this.

I suspect that providing easy/effective access to course and professor ratings trampled on some feet. Somebody's course enrollment is hurting and making somebody look bad.
> Ubuntu is generally the best Linux distro out there when it comes to drivers etc

Thank you for this comment. It shows how RMS was correct; when people think "Linux", they should really be thinking about the kernel inside the computer. This is what handles "drivers, etc" that you were talking about. a Linux Distribution (normally referred to as GNU/Linux, because it has a full GNU system alongside the kernel) can have a branding such as Red Hat, Debian, or Ubuntu. A similar situation exists in the BSD landscape as well; FreeBSD and Apple's MacOS share kernels (Darwin was based off FBSD's kernel), but you're really just using a branded version of Berkeley Systems Distribution.

Ubuntu provides a GNU/Linux distribution (though they seem to be anti-GNU overall) with the latest stable kernel they can get away with. Any distribution with a kernel of the same version will have the same hardware compatibility with "drivers, etc".

Unity is not the only touch interface. Plasma Active and Enlightenment both have touch interfaces that make Unity pale in comparison.
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The thing with "As Good" and "X times better" is they are subjective terms. In the PC vs Mac debate, "As Good" can vary greatly from individual to individual, which means pricing is really a moot point. However, in the case of Dropbox, I really don't think "As Good" is all that subjective. And the reason for this is, its really a behind the scenes product. In this space, the only driving factors that I can think of are "Trust, Accessibility and Price".

Do I trust company X to safely store my files. Microsoft, Google and Apple can compete on this.

Can I access my files from X. Google is probably the only one right now that can compete with Dropbox.

And what does it cost. Since Dropbox's biggest user base is Free, you can't go lower than free. But if you are a paying customer, I can't see brand loyalty having any affect because I can't see such a bond forming. It's a behind the scenes solution and if done well, should be invisible.

If "As Good" can be commonly defined among a large user base and if you are "As Good", you can unseat an incumbent with price. And the price difference doesn't have to be too significant as academic studies have shown.

Coke is able to fend off cheap generic brands because no matter how low they go, they know they can't match them on taste. And that's due to decades of cleaver advertising to introduce that psychological barrier. So no generic brand can ever say they are "As Good" with people believing them.

For the space that Dropbox is competing in, I really don't see any other defining variables, other than "Trust, Access, and Price". And these are all pretty tangible points with the vaguely subjective one being "Trust". And it's the reason why they are in such a precarious situation that they are in.
> I've been thinking about dll interception stuff

In Win7 you get audio volume per process option when you click the speaker tray icon. So the OS does know the process source of audio

Since Chrome is multi-process I think it's easy to identify the noisy process.

Just an idea.
You can use viewport units in modern browsers. See here http://caniuse.com/viewport-units
As a parent, I have learned that not every mind at every age is equipped to process every bit of information out there without some guidance. Misinformation can be dangerous. Information out of context can be dangerous. Information in ill-prepared hands can be dangerous. The word is mightier than the sword - Ahiqar

The feature is called "supervised users" not "locked in a tower users". So information can flow however the supervisor wishes. It could be simply a "monitor & discuss" role where seeing the user's browser history gives the supervisor information about what the user has been reading and they initiate a conversation about it. It doesn't have to lead to blocking and restriction. It can be another tool for parents to use to teach their children.
Similar, but not quite - notable is focused on design prototyping and wireframing, but our goal with Awesomebox is to follow a website throughout its lifecycle, not just during the initial design phase. I'm a big fan of ZURB though - their products are great and I've enjoyed working with the Foundation CSS framework.
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considering Futurama's "Mom" character, it's even more uncanny.
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> All they say is we have changed our terms and conditions and don't even ask or care about whether we accept or not.

Well, in that scenario you can always change to a different thermostat...

> Having motion sensor that sense your presence and having that data on someone's server is always scary.

Is Google more scary than Nest? You signed up for that data to live on someone's server when you bought a Nest, the only difference now is that it's Google's servers instead of a small startup's.
The data was scraped quite some time ago. There is no issue with a DoS on the Yale servers.
I was unpleasantly surprised this week by two rather lengthy outages. Now considering Linode as an alternative.

I'm wondering what other DigitalOcean users have to say?
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"Check-ins - Have your kid text/call you when they arrive home. Can’t use a phone? Don’t leave them alone."

Or better yet: Leave them alone and stop hovering. The world is safer today than it has ever been, and yet parental paranoia is at an all time high.
We were pair programming with myself in the driver seat, so to speak. I didn't code Python fluently and he didn't code Perl fluently, so we just implemented the same logic in our respective dialects.

Edit: http://projecteuler.net/problem=98 was the problem, so it wasn't in the 100's like I misremembered.
To summarise your comment: "Bah, Humbug."

More seriously, I think you're being way too dismissive. The same train of logic could apply to any tech advances we've had. Email? Use letters. Smartphones? Use a proper computer. Social networks? Use a paper address book. Do you feel the same about those?

Compliance is a big problem for medicine. Motivating people (nay, yourself) to be active is a problem. Keeping track of shopping/groceries is a problem in a busy or shared house.
Whether they are enough of a problem to build a business around is another question.
The atelier system seems to be a good match for this field (given that what we do is effectively arts and crafts.)

Regrettably, the facile access to information by the current crop of practitioners of this craft has blinded the clearly novice to the necessity of donning the disciple's apron.

--

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

(*: there is very little science and engineering in the practice of software development.)
He's talking about Firefox here. :)

But anyway, major browsers (other than IE) -- even when tab per process -- only use a single Flash process for all tabs, so you cannot distinguish at the operating system level. Chrome is now able to show audio indicators because Flash is embedded via a new kind of plug-in (Pepper) which allows them to track it.
I find it fascinating to watch how companies reputations and image changes. Apple was considered 'beleaguered' for a long time after they were making tons of money. They are still considered to be 'about to fail' by many. Lots of people used to be pro Microsoft, then they were the evil empire, now they are in the process of trying to change their image. Google could do no wrong for a long time, now everything they do is wrong.

It'll be interesting to watch how Google handles this in the coming years.
Blackmail is illegal, and intentionally screwing with ratings is almost certainly libel. Both of those hypothetical can be dealt with by the law already; I don' think there is much sense in warping copyright law to protect you from the possibility of those things happening.
I can't believe no one has yet commented on the quality of developers the OP has found. Did the Great Frameworks War end this afternoon? Even as a Rails dev, I have to both laugh and also think, "yeah, I could see that" to the OP's experience of interviewing a "Rails engineer" who didn't know what ActiveRecord was.

Maybe it was a railroad engineer?
DO has always been fantastic for me.
It's good for a small form factor budget gaming box. Kaveri closes the gap but at this point you can still buy a cheap non-APU processor + $100 faster discrete graphics card that will perform better at about the same cost. Even if simply buy the same-ish GPU in discrete form with GDDR5 (~$80) it will perform better than an APU paired up with DDR3. Even more so if you don't pay the premium to get fast DDR3 modules. APUs take a big performance hit when paired up with less expensive / slower DDR3 modules.
Why are you guys working past 1am? Get some sleep, feedback can wait in the morning!
I have one too and Mother definitely make me remember that. Shitty product that looks good but neither useful or worked properly. In the end, they filled bankruptcy throwing away their servers and I can't even turn it on to make it work again. Funny part, my mother bought it to me!

[edit] and yeah it's obviously creepier than the rabbit
Really great read.

Are there really Rails devs out there getting work who don't know what ActiveRecord is or what gems do? That's a bit shocking to me. Maybe it'll be easier for me to get work than I thought.
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I'm a big fan of what iFixIt is doing. I agree with them that electronics need to get where autos were in the 70's with respect to 'right to repair.' There is also the issue of the proprietary firmware. I'm totally ok with not giving anyone a right to copy it and re-use it, but not ok with not having enough information to know if the computer controlling the engine in my car is functioning correctly or not.
Unless you put a tracker on every bottle you own and the ones at the bar, this won't solve the drinking issue.

As for pill management, I'm not sure what problems you are talking about with young people but I do know the issue with pills. I currently live with an elderly couple that have to take a huge amount of different pills. They just use multiple weekly pill bottles with a time/requirement note. Cheap and non-complicated to work with.
I've done the same at my university, and they've mostly turned a blind eye to it. The timetabling department expressed concerns about students relying on timetables that are outside the university's direct control but have thankfully not taken any action.
It would be great if a JavaScript-based Flash (such as Shumway) gets to the point where it works well enough for a large number of audio sources. I imagine then sound would show up to the browser as HTML5 audio or webaudio, which could then be tracked.
I disagree - I think the money quote is this one:

One of the prominent features of Kaveri we will be
looking into is its HSA (Heterogenous System
Architecture) – the tight coupling of CPU and GPU,
extending all the way down to the programming model. Gone
are the days when CPU and GPU cores have to be treated
like independent inequals, with tons of data copies back
and forth for both types of cores to cooperate on the
same problem. With Kaveri, both CPU and GPU are treated
as equal class citizens, capable of working on the same
data in the same place in memory. It'll be a while before
we see software take advantage of Kaveri's architecture,
and it's frustrating that the first HSA APU couldn't have
come with a different CPU, but make no mistake: this is a
very big deal.

It's not a reason to buy one for a gaming box today, but the article is right: this architectural change is a very big deal.
I can't answer this on the site, but my boss claims that he was partially responsible for this. He worked with the company doing facial recognition software to hunting down kiddie porn makers, which was (I think) moved into terrorism detection (this is in the 2001-2002 timeframe). They couldn't get the facial recognition to work with enough accuracy with anything but a blank facial expression.
Perfectly stated. Employee compensation is a contract freely entered into by the employee. If you think you deserve more, don't take the job.

However, I have sympathy for the fact that founder risk in SV has declined dramatically over the last twenty years, while employee risk has not, but if anything employee stock pools are smaller than they were a decade ago. Yet every founder says "it's impossible to hire good people".
I had never spoken publicly, as in a featured speaker in front of a large gathering of strangers. I had spoken in front of everyone at my old company (80 people) but that was the closest I came to public speaking, and since I knew everyone it didn't count. I remember freshman year of high school having my stomach in knots when teachers would call on me. I just had that nervous personality. Want to know how nervous I'd get in public with everyone's attention on me? I almost fainted at my wedding - at the altar. The priest had to cut the ceremony in half to accommodate me. To this day people make fun of me for it (I feel bad for my wife).

A couple months ago, I surprisingly got asked to be a speaker at a pretty large and prestigious conference in town. It was at a large venue with over 1,000 attendees, some of whom are important to impress for various reasons. It was a great opportunity so I accepted, knowing that this could be a problem.

Anyway, I rehearsed my 10 minute speech ad nauseum, I could do it in my sleep. Every little last verbal tic, joke, everything. I knew I'd still be nervous. I wanted to be so good that I could do it on autopilot and hopefully be more confident. I got on stage, lights shining brightly, and took a seat as the host read a brief introduction about me. While he was doing this, I was so nervous that I thought I was either going to vomit or faint, or some horrible combination of the two. I was literally telling myself not to puke over and over again. My stomach was tossing and my head was spinning...I could barely breathe.

He finishes his intro and I start my talk, visibly nervous. Then a funny thing happened. About 20 seconds in, something clicked and I just thought to myself, "Why are you nervous? You know this stuff cold. You got this." And wouldn't you know it, from there on out I killed it. I dunno, it was weird, I instantly became as relaxed as I am with my friends and delivered a great speech. I had tons of great jokes, kept everyone really engaged, and I think even delivered an interesting idea to the audience. By the time it was over I was actually disappointed it was over since I was having so much fun. I got tons of superlative-filled compliments afterwards and was really in shock about it all.

I dont know what the moral is. Just have fun I guess. Know what you're talking about and the rest will sort itself out.
I agree completely, I'm simply saying for the overprotective ones, you don't need this toy
See my other answer, but the short version is it does make facial recognition software work better. I'm not sure if it's variations on the facial structure, or what, but my boss worked on the facial recognition software in the '01-'02 era, and it worked with more accuracy with no smiling.
This is very unfortunate that they are doing this if the data was scraped and not hitting their servers. Is it that some part of the data they think is copyrighted (like grades) versus just courses?
It might be a bit cliché but I read On the road by Jack Kerouac and it motivated me to do a big road trip alone across USA/Canada/Mexico. I met many awesome peoples, became more confident, more adventurous, more open to people and new experiences.
So the trip changed my life but the book led me to it.
This other book motivated me as well : Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Oh, this is the proof of the new business model? Not the Motorola purchase, which was far more money for a far bigger consumer device company?
That's the first thing I thought about and when I saw above that Sense was a French company, I thought it might actually be related. Well, it is: https://sen.se/about/who/
it's a different article, about the same topic.
UNC invested in what was initially planned to be the most expensive academic ERP system ever, and which then went way over budget and schedule.

The result? An even older version of PeopleSoft (which apparently is Oracle's second-tier offering) than what was being sold to other universities in prior years.

It's barely useable at all. It's utter shit-ware. The prior in-house system, which was early-90s HTML presumably layered over 1980s mainframe software, was MUCH better.

Personally, I am convinced that this was a MASSIVE kickback scheme. Tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions, have been stolen from the State of North Carolina, and people need to go to jail for it.

IIRC the project actually did get a special appropriation from the NC legislature, but don't quote me on that.

This isn't just incompetence, I think it is actually a cover for massive fraud. I know, always blame things on stupidity if you can... but from what I know, no, you can't in this case.

I wish some enterprising journalist would hurry up and investigate this... could net them a Pulitzer or something. That is why I am posting this comment.

zaidf, if you didn't realize this already (and you probably did), when you made your alternative portal, you were fucking with some very powerful people.

Meanhwhile, UNC has also been uncovered as using the Afro Studies department to hand out free grades to athletes for decades. There were hundreds of courses and grades listed that literally did not happen. Fraud is absolutely rampant at UNC. Maybe that's why our new Chancellor left after like a year? The state of NC needs to completely clean house.
Is this a practical, answerable question based on an actual problem that you face? Are you deciding whether or not to do something based on answers to this question? It's an interesting question, but I don't see how it's in-scope for this stack exchange.

Tangent: Oh, good god. I guess I should be heartened that it's not just programmers who think this way. What a useless sentiment this is. Stackexchange is like a super smart scientist uncle who has this one weird blind spot for homeopathy or something. It's so frustrating to see this sort of comment over and over.
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The best and worst thing about project Euler is the binary feedback they give you: either you pass or you fail.

On the one hand, it is a good lesson in how hard it can be to write correct code.

On the other hand, real world problems aren't black boxes where you try an integer until you get the right one. Problems with multiple tests needed to pass (like topcoder) are much more realistic.
"Chinese crack down on Tibet" "Not news."

"Israel/Palestine peace talks halt." "Not news."

"Millions die of malaria." "Not news."

"Armed robbery at the corner of Ellis and Leavenworth St." "Not news."

"Your kid flunked his math exam." "Not news."

Just because somebody chooses to use Nazi Germany as an example, does not mean that they do not have a point. It certainly does not make them automatically wrong.
The easiest way to speak publicly is to actually believe in what you're doing and talking about. The audience then becomes kind of like an omnipresent pressure that keeps you going.

If you aren't 'locked into' what your talking about then nothing will save you. I know from personal experience.

I also heard a talk that if you imagine the audience as 'prey' such as small rabbits or chickens then it becomes easier as it takes power away from the flight or fight aspect.
I'm sure they debated adding light sensors, but perhaps they figure that adopters of this may have also adopted wifi connected lights which could be built into the software.
Looks like it's similar to, if not the same as www.designdrop.io.
It may have been a rant, but there was some great info in there. Being a designer, I didn't take offense at all. Many designers don't want to "get there hands dirty" with html, but I think that's changing, especially as there are newer designers that have never designed for print entering the market.
I've never understood the point of the "passport card" option. I mean, I get that it's $100 difference, but never saw that as a reason to get one, and don't know why the state dept didn't just not come up with the idea and make everyone get a proper passport.
Flickr. The Terabyte space is enough for me (though I do have the Pro version) allows me to get the originals again (I think that's for non-pro users too)...and the API is fairly flexible, though I think that's a consequence of it being somewhat neglected...in any case, it's been straightforward to suck down dozens of GB of photos whenever I feel like it.

Flickr serves as a pretty good place to share things...lots of random viewers come across my photos...its primary benefit is that it is a great interface for cataloguing and further sorting my photos...especially with geotagging.

I've just found out how to link it to Adobe Lightroom, so now even the inconvenience of exporting from Lightroom, then drag-and-drop upload to Flickr has been eliminated.
Agreed. The branding is terrible. There are other in this space it seems...similar but not exactly the same: "Twine", and "Ninjablocks. my favorite is Tally http://www.tallyyourworld.com but it's not out yet.
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