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That’s great to hear. These guys do some smooth interactions with ms word and version tracking, worth checking out:
https://www.simuldocs.com/features/collaborate-microsoft-wor...
This is a great market that nobody has run away with yet. If you find the right combination of features around contract lifecycle, it could be yours.
Common docs (clerky), redlining (ms word), esigning, tracking self serve contracts (ironclad), contract lifecycle management (pandadoc), employee onboarding (gusto).
There’s a lot of good criticism here about edge cases and getting buyin from large customers. But at the end of the day there are a ton of companies with zero game plan around their contracts process, plenty of room for a good product.
Curious how you’re thinking about dealing with ms word and ‘track changes’. Every lawyer wants to live there. Do you fight this or build your product to work word-first?
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Podsights is the operating system for podcast advertising.
We likely work with your favorite publisher and handle over 7 billion events a month. Our mission is to grow the podcast industry. Far too many brands try a podcast advertising campaign and churn. Or worse: they don’t even try to enter the market. By providing a platform for brands to understand and scale podcast advertising, we encourage investment in podcast advertising, and by proxy to publishers.
We're a growing funded, remote-first team spread across the US. We like entrepreneurially-minded folks who like solving problems in podcasting.
We're hiring a machine learning engineer, ML ops engineer, and backend engineer. Listings here:
Podsights | https://podsights.com | Engineering, Platform Support Analyst | Remote within the US | Fulltime
Podsights is the operating system for podcast advertising.
We likely work with your favorite publisher and handle over 4 billion events a month. Our mission is to grow the podcast industry. Far too many brands try a podcast advertising campaign and churn. Or worse: they don’t even try to enter the market. By providing a platform for brands to understand and scale podcast advertising, we encourage investment in podcast advertising, and by proxy to publishers.
We're a small, funded, remote-first team spread across the US. We like entrepreneurially-minded folks who like solving problems in podcasting.
We're hiring for generalist engineers, data engineers, and ML/NLP engineers, as well as a Platform Support Analyst (customer facing with some javascript knowledge). Listings here:
There used to be a terrestrial radionavigation system called Loran-C that could be used for positioning and timing, but it was decommissioned in 2010.
Loran-C was a high-power, low-frequency signal as opposed to the very-low-power, high-frequency signal of GPS. This made Loran-C less susceptible to jamming. It was a nice backup.
"Give a dog a bone, leave a dog alone..."
There's too much hate for DMX in these comments. Dude has some tracks that just ooze energy.
I won with using basically this strategy. I was forced to use the other direction exactly once.
Yep yep, back when it was thefacebook.com
It's true, standing desks are so last year. But why take baby steps with the squat desk?
Keep your eyes open for my kickstarter yoga desk.
Valleywag articles are auto banned on HN because they are too waffly.
Maybe try turning it off, then, after that, turning it back on again.
I started using xmonad about a year ago, and it's awesome (not that awesome).
Going from gnome to xmonad was almost as much of an improvement as going from just one to multiple desktops.
Bonus points for great support for dual monitor setups.
I also love the configurability of xmobar. I use it to show the top memory and cpu consuming processes at all times.
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Embed.ly (YC W10)
We make an API for embedding all kinds of content from the web.
Think of sharing a link on Facebook or Google+; that's the basic functionality that we've been providing to our users. We're more than that, though, and we're looking for a couple people to help us take it to the next level.
We're hiring for two positions right now:
Front-end Engineer:
We want someone who is in to javascript, HTML, CSS, and maybe a bit of photoshop. We've grown our API, but our customer-facing site is lagging a bit. Specifically we want to present our analytics data in a better way. We've got more in the pipe, of course, but details are sparse for now.
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Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning Engineer:
As I mentioned above, we're looking to take our API to the next level. NLP/ML is going to be a large part of this. We have access to a fantastic amount of data, and we want someone to help us leverage it.
Right now we have some NLP/ML stuff dealing with textual content extraction. We want to do some semantic analysis and categorization to come up with information that is useful to our customers.
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Our team is still small, fewer than 10 people, so you'll mostly be doing your own driving when it comes to your projects.
Despite the small team, we have a serious customer base, and are actually making money.
We aren't able to sponsor candidates from outside the US, sorry.
Get in touch! team@embed.ly
I'm surprised by the number of people who don't drink coffee. High fives all around.
Does the name mean anything? I guess it's an anagram of statsd, but it's tough on the eyes.
Maybe I'm just not seeing them, but this seems to be missing some of my favorite graphite features.
- Combining multiple metrics on a single graph
- Filters (e.g. lowestCurrent)
- Graph labels and resizing
Is there a feature like graphite events?
I'm pretty sure cell towers all use gps for time synchronization, which is necessary for the network to work.
I always trust my cell phone time.
That would be amazing. I'd imagine it would be something like the difference between transatlantic travel by sailboat and today's jets.
It is a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg type problem.
Best case, 10 startups pop up all at once as a result of these grants, and more follow. I think this is actually a reasonably good try at jump-starting a startup culture.
The nice thing about a web startup is that, aside from "culture" and government regulations, there aren't really any reasons you couldn't run your startup out of a cabin in remote Alaska with a satellite internet connection.
Of course, it does go deeper than just an initial seed. There also needs to be a government with policies that won't restrict the growth of startups.
For all the complaining in Maine about college graduates leaving the state, I would love to see them try something like this.
You're right, maybe lazy wasn't the right word.
Still, the reasons for interference are more political (FCC rules), than scientific.
There's only so much usable electromagnetic spectrum out there, so neighbors need to play nicely together. Especially when your neighbor is trying to do something awesome.
The title of this article has it backwards. LightSquared's technology is entirely scientifically feasible.
The problem is political-ish, and the U.S. government and GPS industry carry a good portion of the blame:
The way that spectrum is allocated in the U.S., the chunk of spectrum that LightSquared got just happens to be designated as low-power, space-ground. Or at least, that's what their neighbors (GPS) are doing.
According to LightSquared, GPS makers have been lazy in their filter design, under the assumption that they wouldn't have to deal with much noise from neighbors on the spectrum.
I can understand saving cost by not designing really aggressive filters, but it would be sad to see an innovative idea like LightSquared be shut down because the GPS people don't want to clean their act up.
I hope LightSquared can trade for another chunk of spectrum that will allow them to move forward. This is really cool technology, and a great step forward.
I like the idea, it's a nicer interface than dealing with EDGAR.
Unfortunately, any company who's filings are scanned-in (not submitted electronically) will not show up. (and that's fair... that would be a lot of extra work).
Edit: I'm referring to REGDEX filings, which are (always?) scanned paper documents declaring offerings of under $1 million.
Maybe I'm just not in a skeptical mood today, but the anecdote in that story points out something that I tend to take for granted. I'm probably not alone, especially here on HN.
That is, the fact that some people just really don't understand the most basic concepts of using a computer. And it's not their fault.
Your breath seizes in your chest, and you realize you have no idea what to do. You have the form that they gave you at the social services office, which has an address, which you sort of know what that does, but you can't quite remember – 17 minutes, by the way. You try typing X City Social Services in a box at the top, a page comes back and says “address not found” with a list of things below it. You're panicking...
I'm all for increasing the use of technology in order to make things work more smoothly and efficiently, but this story points out just how left-behind this can leave some people.
I guess the answer is better education, and not just in schools. I guess I can be glad that there are a lot of people working in that space. Even then, before anyone can use Khan Academy or enroll in online classes, they need to have a better idea of "what a [web] address does", and sometimes even whether to "do a left or right click".
I also had the Silberschatz (such a weird cover!) and Oppenheim books. I think Sedra and Smith is pretty widely accepted as the canonical introductory electronics book.
Most frustrating book I had to deal with: Random Variables and Stochastic Processes by Papoulis and Pillai. I understand it's also very popular, but I found it really hard to follow.
I remember this from a few years ago; hopefully it's more complete now than it was then. I stuck with Sedra and Smith.
Edit: looks like there are still a lot of missing and incomplete sections in the semiconductor volume.
Of course not, that's why electronics courses generally have labs. Same deal with CS theory and application.
Even then, there were definitely people who would do very well on the theory, but struggle with the labs. And vice versa.
Check out meetup.com groups in Boston.
I know that the Boston Python group has solid meetups, and I think the Ruby meetups are also popular.
I like the site.
I would like to see multiple options for each element of a meal, in the interest of not eating the same meal each day.
For instance:
chicken breast or ground beef
wild rice or baked potato
I like the site, but I also don't like the name. It has some pretty "bro"-esque connotations. It might turn away some of your desired audience.
It's funny, I was just thinking yesterday how I hadn't heard much about Airbnb since all the attention from the robbery in SF this past summer.
There was a lot of negative press, and some serious concerns.
It's great to see that they've overcome that hurdle, and are growing like crazy.
Andy
New grad: M.S. Computer Engineering
Looking to work in San Francisco, Boston, or Washington D.C.
Interested in Python backend stuff.
Check out my github: http://github.com/anrope
Featuring:
- Twitter/flickr mashup (python/twisted/NLTK/jQuery)
- Particle swarm optimization sudoku solver (python/pyQT4)
- Sports schedule scraper (python/BeautifulSoup/requests)
Contact me by my HN username on gmail.
Cool dip into Ruby internals.
If you roll your own ruby, instead of redoing all your strings, you could just change RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX. This would cause more wasted memory if you have a lot of short strings (0 < len << RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX), and probably isn't worth it since there isn't much performance improvement.
The most confusing part of this article was the actual RString struct implementation. Are the anonymous unions and structs used to control structure padding and alignment?