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Sam, how young can they apply for YC? :)

I know this isn't the place for it, but when she said that, I just had to share. Give her a chance... time is on her side.

Totally agree.. and Marc is one of the best security engineers I know. I think we are all just to embarrassed (including the President) to admit it.

Every one of our customers who has access to our API demonstrates that the Ark (YC W12) API has much more data than FullContact's API. Send me an email and I'll hook you up.

Vibe just uses FullContact (see their FAQ) who's data is pretty incomplete.

Connect6 uses LeadFerret to power their plugin, which is even worse.

Haha. Midnox brothers are my favorite of the YCW2012 class.

The issue is they specific said you can't start or use existing code before the date (still there in the rules PDF). I know that many very talented teams followed that rule even though theycould have used some of their older repos and did something even more impressive than Upshot. Then they respond to a forum question, weeks after the hackathon started, saying "yeah sure, just not a significant amount". Most programmers were heads down in their code and didn't check the forum. That's wrong and they did nothing to explain or correct this.

Yeah! The same Thom Kim who demo'd UPSHOT at Salesforce before the hackathon was even announced. :http://www.meetup.com/Salesforce-com-Integration-Analytics/e...

I had a great time too. But it unfortunately does look they started Upshot (their startup) way before the hackathon was even announced.. pretty messed up: http://www.meetup.com/Salesforce-com-Integration-Analytics/e...

Ha. But it does mean "loop" or handle in Latin, and a bridge in chemistry. Now I know a new word in Finnish. :)

http://translate.google.com/#la/en/ansa

You can do that in secure ways too. We did that (another YC company) with Ark Mail:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/13/ark-is-like-a-rapportive-mo...

Interesting hack. So since you inject that social info at the time of the email, that means if someone gets a new job, it will still show the old employer info / position in the older emails... right? What made you guys do this instead of your own mail app like Mailbox?

Ark does, and with significantly more data.

We have essentially the same functionality coming out soon. Register at ark.com

Awesome! Looking forward to jedi controls in my Gmail. Great job guys.

This website should definitely be part of the Dark Patterns UX Library. It's sad how people compose UX (and investors invest in) shady user experiences designed to trick people.

http://darkpatterns.org/

I gave them something much harder to break, but I guess they wanted anything to be able to break it.

It's totally not worth it unless you want to be a professor. Trust me.

Awesome! Can't wait to use this for my next adventure.

Totally needed this. Great job guys!

Absolutely using it to sell books (at a high cost, btw, if he tries to get back on FB), but he brings up some interesting points. "It does things on our behalf when we're not even there."

But my favorite part is at the bottom where we are all invited to "like" CNN Opinions on...wait for it.. FB. You'd think he demand that they not have that below his article.

Pretty awesome that Facebook could pull this off so quickly. I literally said that exact line to Lars (who lead the search team) during our meetings last year... I can't believe he reused verbatim in the video:

"Facebook is for the all the people you know... Ark is for all the people you should know".

Agreed. What's odd is how the Politify founder (who applied to YC as WellFrankly) posted the same posting and image at exactly the same time as the fake account that he used my name for (which he is now denying.)

This is the same Politify guy who posted fake images on Reddit, and upvoted it using fake accounts. Sigh.

https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+politify+downvote http://www.flipmeme.com/image/pS4gZ

This is your fake noob account, sharing your same image that you posted from your "wellfrankly" HN account. Please stop adding unnecessary noise to HN. Thank you.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4856708

This is the founder of WellFrankly (formerly Politify), who went so far as to impersonate me and make fake accounts:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patriley

This is actually been posted by the founder of Politify. He's impersonating me, Patrick Riley. Grow up, dude. Impersonation in the state of California is illegal.

Oharo, I'm curious why your only comments on HN are two slanders against Ark, on exactly the same day you first registered on HN?

? It's true that there is a low quality dump of FB data from years ago, but it's totally useless in terms of our faceted search and we never use these kinds of sources.

I'm the founder of Ark that that's totally false.

:) Love it.

Glympse was founded by dinosaurs.. retired Microsoft guys. I'd put my money on three talented teens with a better UX in their first version every day of the week. Keep on shipping, Moby team!