Google Street view taking up to depths of the Amazon

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It is hard to believe that Google's street view has been in use for over four years. More surprisingly perhaps, given the speed at which they are briefly discussed in the world of streets and alleyways that nowhere is left unmapped. But while their team successfully detected on the surface of most major cities and a number of other interesting areas, I believe he will not come as a surprise that the remote reaches of the Amazon is not subject to the lens.

They seek to change this, however, and are detailed in a blog post their plans on the street-Ize a large section of the River. This is done in collaboration with the sustainable Amazon Fund, a nonprofit working in the field.

To map the entire length of the Amazon and its tributaries and distributaries, so the work years, however, Google does not attempt to, just yet (although there are many spots to abandon Orange guy, if you're interested). At the moment they focus their efforts on a 50 km stretch of the Rio Negro, starting around Manaus, right about the images:

They also went down to the dirt in the small villages with the street view Trike, a comparison of all the time and a tripod, which they use to show business interiors give panoramic taste of village life. And how little parting shot of mercy, they will be leaving some equipment, probably some cameras and laptops to use FAS and locals. All this is some kind of advertising play for sustainability, not that there's anything wrong with that.

No word on when the project is completed, from what I read (travelogues from the 19th century, but still), these types of trips usually takes longer than expected, but you can see some photos of their work on the blog of Google.

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HP beats Street, Q3 revenue from 2% to $ 31.2 (b), cuts Outlook FG11

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After confirming its intention to acquire software company autonomy, HP released the stronger than expected third fiscal quarter 2011 financial results, posting of initial 31.2 billion, an increase of 2 per cent from 30.7 billion a year ago.

In the third quarter, preliminary GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) was $ 0.93 and non-GAAP diluted EPS was $ 1.10. Analysts in revenue expected EPS of $ 31.19 and 1.09 billion.

HP's fourth fiscal quarter 2011 earnings estimates that approximately $ 32.1 billion to $ 32.5 billion, GAAP diluted EPS in the range from $ 0.44 to $ 0.55 and non-GAAP diluted EPS in the range of $ 1.12 to $ 1.16.

Full year revenue will be approximately $ FG11 127.2 to $ 127.6 billion, down from its previous estimate of $ 129 to $ 130 billion. GAAP diluted EPS FG11, expected to be in the range of $ 3.59 to $ 3.70, down from its previous estimate of at least $ 4.27 FG11, and non-GAAP diluted EPS is expected to range from $ 4.82 to $ 4.86, down from its previous estimate of at least $ 5.00.

HP warns that this can be achieved through restructuring and shutdown costs associated with the webOS devices and costs we will receive more detailed information on the rest of HP'S financials at the market close.

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Funded YC interview Street makes it easy to find great programmers

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Talk to any tech company and they will tell you that the hiring of quality programmers is an incredibly difficult task — smaller companies often have a difficult time in front of the best candidates and big and hot "inundated with applications, many of them to sub par.

Interview with street is a new startup funded by Y Combinator, which set out to fix both of these problems — and for the preservation of all participating a lot of time. This service, which goes out of beta today, makes it easy for tech companies to verify applicants ' skills through the puzzles (and this makes it easy for potential applicants to find out who's hiring).

Head to the site and you'll see that it is divided into two sections: one for "challenges" and another for the "Inductee". First feeding for engineers looking to land jobs at companies such as Dropbox, Facebook or Airbnb. Log in and you will be able to take one of the three coding problems that you are going to finish, using a Web-based IDE (you can copy and paste the code into your application if you want). Test Web code supports C, C++, C #, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell, MySQL, and Bash and generates the results immediately.

Click the second tab and you'll be part of the site that directed the recruiters. Here companies can create their own tests, and they can manage their dashboard.

Now coding puzzles on the street interview is pretty standard, but co-founder Vivek Ravisankar said that in the future, the company wants to offer more testing "real" — things like application deployment for ARM or Twitter API integration features of the iPhone about Ravisankar explained that programming puzzles, promising engineers to participate in the process of their implementation is often not applied directly to the role, they would fill and street interviews wants to change this situation.

At the start of the interview Street offers three puzzles to solve, and it will add more in the coming weeks. The site will soon also allowing companies to upload your own Puzzles (for example, Facebook can upload their own puzzles and test cases that all potential candidates would have to go).

Of course many tech companies already offer puzzles for potential claimants. But Ravisankar said that the process of a typical presentation of their clunky, with applicants, attachments that must be manually inspected by a mechanic. Interview Street automates this process. Until the service is already used by major companies, including Facebook and a bevy of Y Combinator alums like Dropbox, Airbnb and Justin.TV.

The service offers 30 day free trial. After that, the plans start at $ 99 per month, with pricing, scale up depending on how much candidates taking test (performance plans also allow you to take advantage of the "live mode" playback, so you can see the thought process/coding and labelling trait white).

Competitors to street interviews include CodeEval (described here) and Gild (described here).

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