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segment.com 7y ago

The tools of today aren’t the tools of tomorrow

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segment.com 7y ago

Segment Is Now Free for Early-Stage Startups

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blog.visor.com 8y ago

The New 83(i) Election – Defer Tax on Your Stock Options

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www.myvisor.com 8y ago

Show HN: Visor – Tax advisor for equity compensation

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thenextweb.com 11y ago

Jobr updates its job discovery app for iPhone and launches on Android

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Show HN: Jobr for Android (Private Beta)

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blog.jobrapp.com 11y ago

The Real Data on Uber X Prices in SF

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blog.jobrapp.com 11y ago

The Data Behind Uber's Job Listings

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blog.jobrapp.com 11y ago

How to hire your first intern

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blog.jobrapp.com 11y ago

The Data on Tech Industry Pay

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tryladder.com 12y ago

Show HN: Ladder, find a new startup job anonymously

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brack.in 12y ago

Why iPhone

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brack.in 12y ago

The Crescendo of Music Tech

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brack.in 12y ago

The Resourceful Economy

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layer.com 12y ago

Introducing Layer

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www.fastcoexist.com 13y ago

The 2013 Thiel Fellows

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bunchy.com 13y ago

Show HN: Bunchy - Social Funding

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blog.peoplebrowsr.com 13y ago

PeopleBrowsr wins in federal court for Twitter firehose access

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twmeetup4.eventbrite.com 13y ago

Tomorrow's Web London is back for founders, devs & creators.

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blog.linkedin.com 13y ago

Linkedin reaches 200 Million Members.

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developers.facebook.com 13y ago

Facebook changes Open Graph guidelines to stop applications auto-posting

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

eBay announces site redesign and Pinterest-like discovery feed.

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www.nytimes.com 13y ago

Apple Apologizes for Misstep on Maps

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brack.in 13y ago

Stealth is bullshit.

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www.nytimes.com 13y ago

What Restaurants Know About You.

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brack.in 13y ago

The Personal Touch.

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Mobile Rewards Network Kiip Raises an $11M Series B.

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brack.in 14y ago

What do you do?

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brack.in 14y ago

Reflecting on EU 'Cookie Directive'.

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visualidiot.com 14y ago

The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Design.

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Cruise 10 years ago

Awesome work, I wouldn't be surprised if shaming these tactics stops him from filing or deters future shady characters from similar tactics.

Jobr - San Francisco, CA - FULLTIME

We're hiring:

- Web Developer (Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, and golang).

- Data Science Lead (Technical Background)

Jobr is the leading mobile job finding app. It takes seconds to create a profile and we start recommending jobs for you based on your experience & education. As you start to swipe yes/no they improve. Our 3.0 update is currently featured in the app store and we're growing dramatically MoM. http://jobrapp.com

We're based on 2nd & Howard in a beautiful brick office. Scrappy, hardworking team. Extremely flat culture & data driven.

Connect with us by emailing: tj@jobrapp.com

Slack was hacked 11 years ago

It's why I love Slack. If I remember a conversation about something two months ago I go to the room, search and find exactly what I needed.

All of these marketplaces exist in the US and Europe but Lyft Line is different. It's on demand, you get into a car that you just requested on your phone and it designs a route to pick up other passengers on the way, it may only be 10 minutes each. No pre-booking or planning required, the software does everything in real time.

What's wrong with this? If they're delivering coffee German's can't get otherwise, at a fair price for the connivence then it works for everyone. People complain on HN about startups with vague, long term, lofty business models but this is the opposite.

Coffee is different to socks because people that like good coffee won't buy it from anywhere.

Well done for writing about this. I think that people in SV think that this is such a simple issue, if your startup is "doing well" (or if you say things are going well) then you're fine but people are much more complicated. Also that certain feelings are something to be expected and not to be dealt with or talked about. We doubt our abilities, we worry about our external perception, how others will treat us if we fuck up.

Absolutely. Honestly, I was really surprised at the number of people that signed up that aren't on the market, still work at their job & couldn't use one of our competitors. Including founders and PM's.

The V1 is definitely not the end implementation, there are a lot of challenges ahead. It's just a great way to connect people at a relatively small scale. With curation and reaching out for more information from talent.

We want to get out of the way as much as possible. We're really involved with companies and check back in. Can check Linkedin, etc. We wait to see how the employee fits within the company.

If we connect companies with high quality hires they'll want to pay so that they can continue working with us. This will likely only scale to a certain size.

We quietly launched about a week ago and have already seen good quality and experience from technical talent. With 50+ engineers, designers, PM's on the platform. Some with 15 years of experience in their field or previous experience leading teams at well known companies

Co-founders of startups are signing up to find something new, PM's at tech companies are looking to join startups and engineers that think they might want to try something new are getting options.

We speak to every signup to evaluate if they're right for the platform and if we can find the right role for them. Once a company and employee are matched, they can communicate directly through their own process.

For years people said this about Uber in London but now the cabbies are protesting them because they're getting a lot of traction. It's important to remember that Uber is cheaper than cabs in almost all of the markets they're in. In SF they're more than 50% cheaper.

How is it cloud storage or a "reverse Amazon"? This seems like a worse deal. You pay $300 a year minimum and $29 a delivery for storing small, low value items. Large items cost more (bike is an extra $300/y, ski's are an extra $150).

Their fine print makes the deal look worse.

- They only cover $250 of liability per box and they won't store undeclared expensive items.

- If you don't pay for the service after 30 days they WILL sell all of your stuff. If you do pay to get your stuff back within that 30 day window, they'll be a fee attached.

- However much you pay in the first month will continue for the first 3 months. I.e. If you need to store ski's in your first month (At $25) and return them in that month, you'll pay for the ski's for the following two months.

I live in a city and I could see people maybe using this for unused laptops, etc which I keep in a drawer but the low liability hinders this.