If you wish to target post-round startups, it can be a little bit easier to contact a vc firm's talent team (such as: http://a16z.com/talent-services/) who, if you pass whatever conversation / interview they give you, can recommend you to good fits within their portfolio.
Missing my personal piece of advice:
Interested in startups / smaller companies? Easiest thing to do is email / interview with one or two VC firms. I know both a16z and greylock do this, I'm sure others do as well.
I don't understand how using an external attack tool is grounds for anything. If Hamed could use it to search for exploits an attacker could have used it to search for exploits.
Especially if a students' information had been previously exposed and the attacker had access to everyone's personal information / passwords!
-- Edit : after reading his expulsion letter, it seems he supposedly injected SQL on both occasions. One imagines they strictly forbid him from doing so again. Sure, he probably should have asked for a sandbox system if he wanted to do ad hoc security research, but it is still quite a logical leap to actually expel him.
Either ways, the solution should be to fix the security system and reward the whistleblower. In a few years, we are going to have millions of teenagers with the competence and ability to pull of what Hamed did. What then?
Obviously those youngsters are all criminals that ought to be put to jail. We shall implement a zero-tolerance policy, just like the copyright industry did. </sarcasm>
A lot of hate for graph search going on but I am pretty excited.
> photos I like taken in New York in 2010 - great way to find something again without filtering through activity log or remembering (all the) details
> friends in Austin, Texas - because _people move_ and I travel
> friends who like ultimate frisbee - I meet a lot of people and play a lot of frisbee, it would be stellar to have an auto-populated list of friends (not just the regulars) who would be down to play
> friends who like Book of Mormon - who should I be asking for a recommendation?
> people who going to event X and event Y - now we can carpool
> people in group X and group Y and group Z - similarly
> Stephanie who went to Mike's event and is friends with James - use case from below (that I encounter about once a month) of trying to find someone with a sparsity of details.
I can't think of any way to (nearly as easily) get this information without graph search, and frankly I think it's awesome.
I doubt I'd use it for any of those reasons, but I guess it doesn't hurt to have the search there. Just like outfitting your blog with a search function, this improves the usability of the site a bit, but I'd hardly think it would be a very big profit maker for Facebook. On the other hand, if it helped you reach out to people you don't know for various reasons, maybe to find a language studying partner, people to play sports with etc, that would be more useful. It would also be perfect for businesses when they want to find and target messages to a certain audience. The only problem is, I doubt very many people would like to share their information with anyone outside of their friends, I sure don't.
A lot of comments about how no one owns a CD, its a waste of resources yada yada yada
For me, I own a car from 2001 so CDs are great. I buy CDs at concerts/shows, as I've long surpassed the appropriate number of t-shirts to own. I like supporting the artist, particularly if the artist is doing a signing. My girlfriend buys CDs, from Amazon, just because she likes having a physical things. She has been griping that it is a pain to her that she has to rip/burn it herself!
Maybe you should try buying MP3's directly from the artists via http://bandcamp.com/ or their websites. Artists make way more cash that way (oftentimes tremendously more) than they do when you buy a CD, especially if they're independent. You could probably install an auxiliary adapter to hook up an mp3 player in your car for around $100 and you'd be saving the planet too. In my old car I have a $10 tape adapter that works great with my iPhone.
For me personally, having less "stuff" is the biggest bonus of the digital age. I can't really argue with your girlfriend who "likes having physical things" except by saying that the stuff those physical things are made of is really terrible for the Earth. Buying CD's just seems socially irresponsible if you have an alternative.
Edit: Here's a little support for my carbon footprint case http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/the-carbon-case-fo.... The additional thing to note is that when you buy a CD, that carbon cost is spent upfront. With an streaming mp3, the cost is distributed over time with technologies that are continuously improving in efficiency.
Sorry for coming down harsh but I don't understand how to interpret any of the individual curves, since it looks like they are five points on five different axis with a curve fit through them. What's the significance?
Each curve/line is an individual app with each point representing that app's stats in downloads, reviews, etc. You can use the different axis to see trends. Ie, there is (obviously) a correlation between number of downloads and reviews. You can check out a bit about the history of the visualization at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_coordinates
Parallel coordinates is based on projective geometry, and has a point-line duality with orthogonal (cartesian) coordinates. Points in orthogonal coordinates become lines in parallel coordinates.
Few parallel coordinates applications take advantage of the fact that you can show lines in orthogonal coordinates as points in parallel coordinates though. It's one of the few effective ways of representing hyperplanes and hyperlines. Interpreting that is tricky though. Even people who "get" traditional parallel coordinates would have a tough time at first.
Think of it as a multidimensional scatterplot, where lines are a necessary concession to map N-space to 2-space.
I don't see you as coming down harsh at all, it's a data visualization that requires some math skills. Having an interest in, or understanding of higher dimensional geometry is not for everyone. Basically you can spot positive and negative correlations using these kinds of visualizations.
