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The HR person might have changed jobs / companies. It sounds like this is more an internal screw-up on their part, and that they would be lucky to have you. Definitely email the head of HR. In the email, try and go with "really enjoyed interviewing, but why haven't I heard back, as it's been 4 weeks?" instead of an angry message. I doubt they turned you down; rather, they aren't very well coordinated.

Awesome work, يعطيك العافية!

Is there a link to the font on github?

Beautiful! So much more readable than the other Arabic fonts I've seen in the past.

This is a little far fetched, but I think is a huge win for society. Better Arabic fonts = easier Arabic-only speakers to do work online = more opportunity for a huge portion of the world.

This is why I'm super bullish on The Information (https://www.theinformation.com).

IIRC Octopart was a part of one of the 2007 batches. Congrats on staying with it!

Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

> When we first met the founders of Octopart, they seemed very smart, but not a great bet to succeed, because they didn't seem especially committed. One of the two founders was still in grad school. It was the usual story: he'd drop out if it looked like the startup was taking off. Since then he has not only dropped out of grad school, but appeared full length in Newsweek with the word "Billionaire" printed across his chest. He just cannot fail now. Everyone he knows has seen that picture. Girls who dissed him in high school have seen it. His mom probably has it on the fridge. It would be unthinkably humiliating to fail now. At this point he is committed to fight to the death.

Edit: Funnily enough, one of the Octopart founders quit grad school on the first day HN existed. Time flies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...

Not sure what you mean by "dominate", but there's $13 trillion in mortgage debt outstanding as of Q4 2014, $5T of that is held by federal agencies, and $4.5T is held by financial institutions [1]. So it's actually a much bigger business than you imagine.

> How exactly anyone expects to make money ... and with low recovery percentages if the security needs to be seized is beyond me

which is probably why you're not a mortgage banker :).

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortoutst...

Mortgages get disproportionately low airtime in the startup world, which I've always thought was strange, especially considering how significant they are to the US (and global economy).

Check out LendingHome (http://lendinghome.com) if you're looking for an awesome company in SF that's doing some really cool work in the space.

➜ ~ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep "^porn"

pornerastic

pornocracy

pornocrat

pornograph

pornographer

pornographic

pornographically

pornographist

pornography

pornological

Link to source code: https://github.com/microsoft

Agreed. I've read a couple and this is my favorite translation.

This is amazing. I've been using Anki for a few years now and have been looking for a better app. Congratulations. I can't wait to use it.

It looks like the Midnox team (YC W12) has been busy at Facebook! http://midlux.us/. Great work.

Task switching used to be a big issue for me, so I reassigned command+T so that instead of opening a new chrome tab, it played a discordant buzz.

Since it's harder to press that button than it is to type Command+T, I opened fewer tabs and was able to stay on task more. This is by no means scientific but curious to hear if it works for anybody else.

I've been using looker a lot these past couple of months. Amazing product built by one of the strongest teams I've ever met. Would definitely consider joining if I was looking for something full-time.

Noted - thanks for your feedback.

(I work at Priceonomics)

Sorry to hear the map boundaries are looking weird to you.

We're using US Census boundary shapefiles to draw the city limits. This is how the map should appear: http://i.imgur.com/xk8WI6Q.png - does it look different on your end?

Email me if there's anything else I can do -- omar@priceonomics.com.

It's coming up on our roadmap. Email me if you'd like to test out our new responsive design - omar@priceonomics.com

Great work SendHub team!

Priceonomics -- Full Time, San Francisco, CA

We're hiring python hackers to join our team in San Francisco. Competitive salary, early stage equity (we're pre- series A), and the opportunity to work on some very interesting problems.

More information here:

http://priceonomics.com/jobs/crawling/

or email me directly: omar+hn0713@priceonomics.com

Hi there! This is the first we've heard of this issue, but it could be something going wrong on our side.

Could you visit http://supportdetails.com/ and email me the results? I'm omar@priceonomics.com.

Thanks and sorry for the redirects. Completely unintentional.

We use celery pretty extensively. It's nice because you get the flexibility of multiprocessing, but also the ability to distribute tasks across many machines.

There is definitely an overhead to get it going. Using redis as your messaging backend reduces this cost somewhat.. rabbitmq is overkill for most of the cases we've used celery.

Have a look at rq if you're looking for something more lightweight: https://github.com/nvie/rq

Thanks! I was struggling with d3 until I focused on understanding data joins. It's not too hard once you really figure that part out.

Here are the two pages that I think explain them best:

- http://mbostock.github.io/d3/tutorial/circle.html

- http://mbostock.github.io/d3/tutorial/bar-2.html

Good point.

We tried to keep the visualizations simple because this was our first post using d3.js. Will think about adding an option to show errorbars next time around though. Thanks for the feedback.

Yup, Bellman Ford is the algorithm we had in mind for this puzzle. It's similar to Dijkstra's algorithm, but deals with negative costs as well.

(I work at Priceonomics)

Congrats to Crocodoc! They're one of the hardest working teams I know and totally deserve it.

FULL TIME or INTERN - Priceonomics (YC W2012)

* We build things and ship fast. We're looking for people who do the same.

The rest is negotiable :).

omar+hn05012013@priceonomics.com

Yikes! Sorry, this is bad user experience.

Update: Tumblr seems to load their own stylesheets for mobile devices. We'll find a fix for this.

Hey swang - this is the first time I've heard of this issue. Are you getting an error code from the blog? Let me know here or email me, omar@priceonomics.com.

thanks :)

Awesome work Dan. Excited to give this a try.