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by bthdonohue 10y ago
That will not be the case, Jeff.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
We will be using the signals from Instapaper to power some news-based discovery within Pinterest, however, those signals will be used in aggregate in a manner similar to which we use them for the Instapaper Daily and Instapaper Weekly offer
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Hi Natan! Here's from the blog post: "Instapaper provides a compelling source for news-based content, and we’re excited to take those learnings to Pinterest’s discovery products. We’ll also be experimenting with using our parsing
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful comment Ristretto! The product, engineering, and design folks at Pinterest are very smart and I think we all know that forcing integrations into Pinterest like the ones you're describing would really damage t
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
I appreciate the congratulations. I do understand that plans change, and all I can say is that I will be doing everything to make sure we offer the same great product and service at Pinterest.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
The core engineering team for Pinterest is out of SF and the team was open to moving to SF as part of the acquisition. Given that the company was majority-owned by betaworks (based out of NYC), it's unlikely we would've moved outs
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
There are no plans to kill the product so we haven't had those discussions.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
No plans to change the Instapaper API.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Firstly, I built text-to-speech playlists so I'm glad that you're enjoying that feature and making good use of it. It's kind of a weird one but good for driving commutes, etc. I'll reiterate here that Instapaper will rem
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Obviously the Math Camp acquisition was before my time, but my understanding is that acquisition was explicitly for the team and not the technology.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Hi Maciej, 2/3 of the staff members are moving to San Francisco. We all agreed to it before making the decision, no hands were forced. Also, big fan of your writing. Want to grab a coffee or beer now that I'm in SF? Brian
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Hi all, Brian from Instapaper here. There seem to be a number of comments expressing concerns about the acquisition, and I wanted to just jump in and offer to answer any questions you have about the acquisition. Based on the comments I&#x27
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Good response.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Really skeptical about this whole "bot" thing, what makes you guys think that there's any big opportunities here? Especially since it seems the first wave of bots to come out have not been well received...
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by bthdonohue 11y ago
It's also a lot faster than Diffbot. We were using Diffbot at Instapaper before launching the new parser, and our total parsing time dropped an order of magnitude: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/staticinstapaper&#x2
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by bthdonohue 11y ago
Brian Donohue from Instapaper here. Over the past few years we've gotten a significant number of requests from developers to have access to Instapaper's parser. Today we launched Instaparser, an API to access Instapaper's par
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Show HN: Instaparser – An API for Instapaper's parser(instaparser.com)
12 points by bthdonohue 11y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: DiggBot – Latest news and videos in your Slack(digg.com)
1 points by bthdonohue 11y ago|0 comments
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Paul Ford answers questions about the code behind Wikipedia(digg.com)
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by bthdonohue 11y ago
I work at Instapaper, which competes with Pocket. We have #2 and #3, #1 is a difficult problem and we face the same challenges as Pocket and others.
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by bthdonohue 12y ago
Huge fan of this — lots of great technical articles delivered to my inbox. A lot of the articles are things I would've expected to see on HN, but either missed or they didn't make the frontpage. Highly recommended!
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Hacking TestFlight Invites(medium.com)
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Bookmarklets are Dead…(medium.com)
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by bthdonohue 12y ago
const char type:1; // I'm not sure about this and padding, char padding[7]; // maybe it's just a uint64_t too... This is for struct alignment to address boundaries. It's fairly typical C and results in s
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Instapaper Beta(beta.instapaper.com)
2 points by bthdonohue 13y ago|0 comments