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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Interviews with people who've made money in cryptocurrency

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adashofdata.com 8y ago

How Text Messages Change After Having a Baby [Dataviz]

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medium.com 10y ago

Signing into apps on Apple TV sucks

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dweet.io 12y ago

Dweet.io – Simple API for your Internet of Things device

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tumblr.bwong.net 13y ago

How to Learn Go

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www.indiegogo.com 13y ago

Pinoccio - A Complete Ecosystem for Building the Internet of Things

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laterlocker.com 15y ago

Show HN: Later Locker: for content that sucks on your mobile phone

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4squareand7yearsago.com 15y ago

Show HN: 4square & 7 years ago: What were you doing a year ago?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Tell HN: iCombinator instapaper links fixed

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Tell HN: iCombinator now has a "read" link

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en.wikipedia.org 16y ago

Microsoft Kin discontinued

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www.themaninblue.com 16y ago

Typographers and their handwriting

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robots.thoughtbot.com 16y ago

Moving Hoptoad into the "Cloud"

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blog.jwegener.com 16y ago

Economy of Taps and Smart iPhone App Design

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Tell HN: iCombinator back up

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www.igvita.com 16y ago

Schema-Free MySQL vs NoSQL

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tumblr.bwong.net 16y ago

Chat system with WebSocket and node.js

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tumblr.bwong.net 16y ago

Installing and Running Norc on Dreamhost

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www.openforum.com 16y ago

More Money, More Happiness? Not for Your Employees

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Tell HN: iCombinator is back up

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dsc.discovery.com 16y ago

New Artificial Bone Made of Wood

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blog.jwegener.com 16y ago

So you've got a million dollar iPhone app idea...

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www.exitstrategynyc.com 17y ago

Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders

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open.blogs.nytimes.com 17y ago

NYT to Release Thesaurus and Enter Linked Data Cloud

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open.blogs.nytimes.com 17y ago

NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit

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www.readwriteweb.com 17y ago

RWW Writeup of Duck Duck Go

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open.blogs.nytimes.com 17y ago

NYTimes: Service-Oriented Architecture: Using Our APIs Internally

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www.37signals.com 17y ago

No more lolcats in tech presentation, plz

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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 17y ago

White House picks Vivek Kundra to be the first US CIO

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www.readwriteweb.com 17y ago

Best Mobile App from DEMO 09: Asurion's Social Address Book

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Area man write blog post saying things are great and just so happens to overlap exactly with what he does

I really like Dan and have been following his stuff since the mid-2000s, but it's hard to apply this advice generally.

#2 and #3 are only effective if you're Dan Cederholm. He already had a reputation which put him in a very luxurious position to essentially choose his first users and have them actually use it. The same goes for #3 – imagine if all of the "people you want on your platform" got tshirts and postcards from every startup that wanted them?

This feels like this fills the void between people who don't care about calories and people who really care about calories. I know people (read: myself) who are too lazy to measure everything down the milligram and just want an order or magnitude sense of calorie intake.

Running your own geocoding really shouldn't be that scary of thing to do.

The biggest pain in running your own OSM geocoder (nominatim) is kind of a bear to set up.

You said it shouldn't be scary then immediately call it a bear. I am scared of bears.

there isn't enough money to be made to satisfy VC investors. Mailbox and the like could have lived quite comfortably as paid-for apps with comfortable

I'm not sure that's true (see: Sparrow). I just don't think there is enough demand for people to want to pay for an email client. I imagine for a huge majority of people, default mail client's work fine enough for personal use.

Timehop - http://timehop.com - New York, NY (onsite)

We're looking for iOS and backend (Golang) engineers. You can read more here: http://timehop.com/joinus

We've got millions of daily active users who love using and opening the every single day.

For iOS, we use a MVVM architecture for our app and use ReactiveCocoa in a bunch of it.

On the backend side, we written a ton of Golang using DynamoDB to access and play around with our > 160 TB of data.

Timehop is building the place online to connect with friends around the past. Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram focus on the real time, Timehop focuses on anniversaries and bringing meaning and relevancy to old content. We have millions of users opening the app every day and signing up a user ~every second.

Send an email to benny@timehop.com – let's chat!

[dead] 11 years ago

It should offend you because that statement is suggesting that your utility and your worth is merely a function of your gender, not because of your skill. That the only value a woman brings in this case is "fundraising as well as getting authenticity with parents" - not their skill or any perspective that you wouldn't have.

It is this kind of "not my fault" attitude that slows down progress in gender equality.

Go Date Format 11 years ago

While it seems random, it is simply:

1 2 3 4 5 6 => January, 2, 03:04:05pm, 2006

Go Date Format 11 years ago

I think the real lesson here is developers have a warped sense of time and would rather spend relatively much more time building a website to solve a problem than it would just to learn it

Timehop - http://timehop.com - New York, NY

We're looking for backend engineers, devops, and designers. You can read more here: http://timehop.com/joinus

We write a ton of Golang and Ruby to support our recent amazing growth (see: http://j.mp/TimehopGrowthGraph - thats 6.5x since March!).

Timehop is building the place online to connect with friends around the past. Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram focus on the real time, Timehop focuses on anniversaries and bringing meaning and relevancy to old content. We have MILLIONS of users opening the app every day and signing up a user ~every second

We recently became consistently a top 25 US iPhone app, making us the fastest growing app in NYC!

We also just raised $10mm (http://j.mp/TimehopTCSeriesB)

Send an email to benny@timehop.com – let's chat!

Timehop - http://timehop.com - New York, NY

We're looking for backend engineers, devops, and designers. You can read more here: http://timehop.com/joinus

We write a ton of Golang and Ruby to support our recent amazing growth (see: http://j.mp/TimehopGrowthGraph).

Timehop is building the place online to connect with friends around the past. Whereas Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram focus on the real time, Timehop focuses on anniversaries and bringing meaning and relevancy to old content. We have MILLIONS of users opening the app every day and signing up a user ~every second

We recently became consistently a top 50 US iPhone app, surpassing Tumblr, Yelp, Foursquare and GroupMe in daily downloads.

Timehop – http://timehop.com/jobs - NYC

iOS Engineer - We're looking for an awesome iOS engineer who knows the ins, outs, and annoyances of the iOS platform. We're a venture backed startup (Spark + OATV) that is making reminiscing online fun by taking your digital exhaust (ditial photos, tweets, checkins, etc) and showing you the most interesting things you've done on this day in history.

In an age where we're creating more digital data than ever before, we're trying to take the 90% of stuff that isn't real time and searching for the important signals and making it useful again.

Our stack is mostly Rails with PG (and decommissioning Mongo). As of late, we're adding more and more Go into our stack. As part of the iOS team, you'd be contributing to the iOS efforts on all fronts: making major decisions about how the codebase progresses (libraries, code conventions, etc), major part in hiring, etc. Since we're a small startup, you'd also have a huge amount of input into the product.

We're also looking for junior iOS folks as well!

We've raised $4mm thus far and have got a bunch still in the bank :)

Shoot me and email, I'd love to hear from you! benny@timehop.com (tech cofounder)

Timehop – http://timehop.com/jobs - NYC

Lead iOS Engineer - We're looking for a super technical iOS engineer who knows the ins, outs, and annoyances of the iOS platform.

We're a venture backed startup (Spark + OATV) that is making reminiscing online fun by taking your digital exhaust (ditial photos, tweets, checkins, etc) and showing you the most interesting things you've done on this day in history.

In an age where we're creating more digital data than ever before, we're trying to take the 90% of stuff that isn't real time and searching for the important signals and making it useful again.

Our stack is mostly Rails with PG (and decommissioning Mongo). As of late, we're adding more and more Go into our stack.

As the lead iOS programming, you'd be leading the iOS efforts on all fronts: making major decisions about how the codebase progresses (libraries, code conventions, etc), major part in hiring, and managing the iOS team. Since we're a small startup, you'd also have a huge amount of input into the product.

We're also looking for junior iOS folks as well!

Shoot me and email, I'd love to hear from you! benny@timehop.com (tech cofounder)

Helios 13 years ago

This looks awesome - a Parse.com you can deploy yourself!

A bunch of UX feedback/issues:

- after signing in/up, there is no link on any page that actually links you to your portfolio.

- The welcome page is a waste of space right now. It only has a link to give you feedback, while providing the user no useful information.

- If you're making me sign in with github, the projects section shouldn't be empty. It should pull from my github

- Under Theme, I understand it's probably more work than it's worth right now to preview the themes for a weekend project - but the link out to bootswatch should at least go to the preview so I know what I'm choosing: http://bootswatch.com/#gallery

This is super exciting for anyone who has wanted to hack on hardware but always got hung up on stuff like getting wifi shields, hooking batteries, etc. before even getting to coding. I'm getting one of the beta units (I've known one of the founders for a while) and am psyched to start hacking on it.

As a hardware noob, the promise of the arduino has been that you can build anything(!) with it - which is also the downside. I've always felt like the setup to get pieces of hardware battery powered and communicating with each other was much higher of a hurdle than it should have been and mostly lost interest before getting to build what I actually wanted. Plus, an arduino board + wifi shield + whatever else makes it super bulky.

This feels like an arduino with smart defaults - like a Rails for hardware.

When you think about all the setup, SysAdmin stuff, backups, scaling, etc you'll avoid, $200 a month ($2.4k) is pretty cheap to be able to just switch a scalable db on at a moments notice.