andrewfarah

Maybe they rename Yahoo "Aabaco" and the spin-off, Yahoo.

Definitely click-bait. Glad you dig it. We're very happy with the logo, too.

They do and it's very helpful, however, since they are technically "savings" accounts and CapitalOne 360 (like all banks) makes more money the longer we keep our cash in one place, they limit the number of transactions out of any of those accounts to 6 per month.

For that and other reasons, I think the proposed system is worth exploring.

I will say though, I'm a very happy 360 customer.

Total occupancy but larger spaces can be segmented however they might want (order line, dining, bathrooms, bar area, etc.) Just need to separate two sections with a sensor.

1 sensor... ingress = movement into one area out of an adjacent area. Simultaneously, that counts as an egress (that person having moved out of that adjacent area into the next).

Dolly, I meant.

You got it. Consider it formally on the list. Friendly with any of the staff over there?

he has a couple names: "little guy; wall•e (unofficial); density nano"

but what he's made of is two infrared distance sensors. measures ingress and egress.

Corporate answer: big, hairy proprietary algorithms. Startup answer: straight magic, yo. Real answer: manual for this week. We're doing a couple things that don't scale to validate a concept.

For accurate, autonomous counting, we use this little guy -- https://s3.amazonaws.com/screenshots.angel.co/73/340163/7982...

We're gunning for city-wide, real-time movement.

That's especially true in the case of 37signals. It was novel the first time someone built a website just to get hired. The 2nd time it was probably still cool. By 5th, 6th or 10th time, the gesture likely lost its novelty.

There isn't a playbook for doing something worthy of a company's attention (sans warm intro). But there's something to be said for non-traditional, creative outreach.

I agree. I was referencing this -- https://medium.com/@abhinemani/ubers-as-ambulances-4e3a2db38...

This sounds insensitive (I don't mean it as such), he should have taken an uber.

>How do I get in front of companies and show them that I am an excellent hire.

If it was flattering for 37signals (read: influential company) to see this -- http://jasonzimdars.com/svn/ it will be even more flattering for not-yet-famous-company-X to see something similar.

1. pick a company that solves a problem that's interesting to you. or who's founder said something that resonated (in a talk, interview, or essay) 2. research their founding team 3. write / build / hand-craft / hand-deliver something (website, message in a bottle, anything, things non-digital like hand-written letters are particularly effective). 4. offer or do something unsolicited (logo, find a new customer, write effective copy for a campaign) 5. don't attach a resume. just write clearly, use nice paper, and expect nothing in return.

bonus: follow up if / when you don't hear back.

There is a line between irritating and hungry. You won't always be the latter but aim for it.

Do this 2 or 3 times, to companies that aren't yet big names (look through http://angel.co), and you'll floor their founding team with your level of effort and at least land an in-person.

Don't pick the job, pick the people and the problem. You'll find sufficient motivation later.

What's important isn't a success or failure (in Lessig's "trial" election cycle or in 2016). I think his point is: people care enough about campaign finance reform to help raise $5m in a month.

If candidates knew this was something their constituents cared about, they might actually run on it.

Who cares if Lessig fails. We're finally talking about campaign finance.

To be clear, we're not collecting credit card data / swipes. Just anonymous movement. There's been some discussion about eventually using in-store payment systems with open API's to marry purchasing behavior to foot traffic >> but this wouldn't be tied to the individual.

The goal is not individual (person) tracking. The goal is identifying and operationalizing trends at an location-specific and network level.

We encourage users worried about privacy to opt out. But realistically, they're not individuals to the system. They're part of a trend.

As long as we get a statistically relevant percentage of movement (15-20%) we believe we can still be useful to the business. Worst case: a lot of people opt out, we drop from our current 60-70% capture to 20-30% capture and we simply extrapolate the remainder.

It's an inexact science but, we believe, very useful.

The bluetooth address is actually just one character different from the phone's MAC address -- although this might just be an iPhone standard. Need to check up on Android standards and if it differs by manufacturer.

What makes WiFi (currently) more relevant is more people leave it on. Likely to even out over time as more bluetooth devices are made commonplace.