EricaJoy

On the last round, I did well enough to score a 3/4.

Is this your own assessment, or did the interviewer tell you your score?

Since you're doing iOS development, I am going to assume you're using a Mac. If this assumption is correct, whatever you choose to learn, I strongly suggest you install Dash (http://kapeli.com/dash) and grab all documentation related to your language of choice. HTH!

http://www.monetate.com/jobs#open-positions returns an IIS 403.

I confess, the still used as the cover frame for the video put me off of watching it. Is any part of the video not a barely clothed model wearing the skates?

"Mailers use Standard Mail to send:

Printed matter, flyers, circulars, advertising.

Newsletters, bulletins, and catalogs.

Small parcels."

(via http://pe.usps.com/businessmail101/classes/standard.htm)

USPS Q2 FY2014 Revenue from Standard Mail: 4,228,705

USPS Q2 FY2014 Total Revenue: 16,732,651

(via http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/revenue-pieces-w...)

Junk mail accounts for a quarter of USPS revenue. I don't suppose the USPS wants to encourage harassment of junk mailers.

This is what I thought when I saw "overseer". I would not have chosen to use that word.

I got the exact same results. I suppose this means I'm in the right field.

My first reaction to this story was outrage, followed by skepticism. The story around Operation Choke Point (OCP) appears to have taken a year long breather (the first story about porn stars losing their bank accounts was reported in May 2013 http://www.cnbc.com/id/100746445), only to resurface with a WSJ article on the subject: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230481090....

The WSJ article was penned by former governor of Oklahoma and current American Bankers Association (ABA) President, Frank Keating. The ABA is a national trade association that represents all banks (source: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/09/capital-eye-opener-s...), essentially a lobbying firm for the banking industry. One wonders why the banking industry would care enough to have the President of their lobbying firm publish a piece about this in the WSJ. Surely a Republican from Oklahoma cares little and less about the financial well being of porn stars.

On the same exact day the WSJ article was published (April 24, 2014), an article written by Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association (another lobbying group) was published, also lambasting OCP: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/204174...

These two articles, if you can call them that, given the authorship, are the only source pieces at the root of the current media interest in OCP.

It's clear (to me anyhow) that the porn stars aren't the story here, they're just the fodder to get the people in a tizzy about OCP. I'm wondering what else is in involved in Operation Choke Point that's making the banking industry and the payment processors call out the big guns. Whatever it is, I imagine large sums of money are involved.

Can you clarify the definition of "lending" here? Is YC charging for use of the space or is it being donated?

You might want to have a look at DSLRDashboard (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dslr.dashb...) which is free, frequently updated, has high reviews, works with any PTP compatible camera, and is also open source.

Please share the reason.

If your company can put out an Android app that can do everything Ovuview Pro can do and include Google Calendar integration (if I want to share my cycle calendar with my S/O), I'd switch immediately.

Going with a .ly domain is risky, so much so that YC startups are advised not to depend on them.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1764475

And I do know something about groups working on getting girls and women interested in programming. In fact we've funded two that are partially focused on that: Hacker School and one of the nonprofits in the current batch.

Can you share more about what Hacker School is doing to get girls and women interested in programming? "Hacker School is currently only for people who already know how to code," according to their FAQ, which seems counterintuitive to getting people (women or otherwise) interested in programming.

Here I thought I was looking in the wrong places for the new settings. Thanks for the heads up.

It's actually quite easy for people to not live in the central city, which is why of the 7.15 million people in the SF Bay Area metropolitan area, only a little over 800,000 live in the City and County of San Francisco.

I thought the article proved that people don't live in the city because there isn't enough housing and/or it's too expensive, not because it's easy to live outside the city.

You live in NYC. You have a 24-hr public transportation system going between the boroughs that is a flat fare, per ride, no matter where you go. This makes commuting a very feasible and affordable option for those that can't afford to live in Manhattan.

Things are a bit different in SF. While you have 468 stations, we have 44. Expansion of our public transportation system has been hampered by NIMBY homeowners who have done all they can to prevent it. Rents in areas that surround BART stations (http://www.bart.gov/stations/)are still quite high, except around some of the further out stops (http://rentheatmap.com/sanfrancisco.html). Unfortunately, the further you live from the city, the more it costs to commute to the city (http://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator/).

So while everyone moving away from the city like folks in Manhattan do would be nice, it's not that easy here.

(Aside: I miss New York public transportation.)

+1

Being able to track progress at a glance was a game changer for me.

Glad you linked it, because I was going to. :)