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Framed Data (YC W14) Helps Developers Understand the People Behind User Numbers(techcrunch.com)
37 points by thomson 13y ago|0 comments
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Lessons learned from declined job applications(medium.com)
3 points by thomson 13y ago|1 comments
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by thomson 13y ago
From their page on funding non-profits: http://ycombinator.com/np.html "Since some people were confused when we funded Watsi, I'd better clarify that the money we're putting into the nonprofits will be a char
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by thomson 13y ago
I met Rose Broome a while back! Really cool to see she's founded this now.
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Ask HN: Where should we give our time and donations this holiday season?
3 points by thomson 13y ago|2 comments
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by thomson 13y ago
Probably the coolest part of that article was the realization that I could read some arbitrary magazine from 1982 on my browser within seconds. Archive.org really is an amazing organization, and I was also happy to find out that they'r
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Show HN: A Chrome extension to help clarify confusing Python documentation(platipy.com)
6 points by thomson 13y ago|0 comments
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by thomson 13y ago
It looks like they raised their round in 2011, when their run rate was $150k. The dates in green in that slide are projections.
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by thomson 13y ago
You could cover the surface of the earth with furby dolls, and then do it again to create two layers of furby dolls. That's about as many objects.
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by thomson 14y ago
This is a really clever idea!
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by thomson 14y ago
Now that's impressive.
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by thomson 14y ago
Congrats Paul and team! Couldn't have asked for a better board of investors IMO.
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Enhancing in-person interactions with a webapp(christina-nguyen.squarespace.com)
2 points by thomson 14y ago|0 comments
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by thomson 14y ago
Echoing Kristjan and Jeremy's sentiments here. It's a very fine line to walk in finding the intersection of public good through individual empowerment and corporate sustainability through partnerships with CSRs and non-profits. And then the
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by thomson 14y ago
Just wanted to echo common sentiments that your blog post was a very well-written and yet personal treatise on how and why startups fail. Another good pair of posts comes from Chad Etzel (previously Notifo): http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/
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Embedding User Experience Throughout a Small Company(chrnguyen.com)
1 points by thomson 14y ago|0 comments
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On hiring a Data Scientist(squareheadgroup.com)
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by thomson 14y ago
This tweet reminded me of what's next: "RT @DanielBrian: I love that @MarCuriosity launched Nov '11 but @NewHorizons2015 launched '06 & won't arrive @Pluto til 2015! Space is huge!" https://twitter.com/NewHorizons2015/status/2323622594
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It's the little things(squareheadgroup.com)
1 points by thomson 14y ago|0 comments
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On Data Journalism(squareheadgroup.com)
1 points by thomson 15y ago|0 comments
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by thomson 15y ago
Maybe we should implement a PGP-style circle of trust on HN... =D
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by thomson 15y ago
Lookout Mobile Security, San Francisco, CA - Full time https://www.mylookout.com/about/careers I'm the data scientist here and like every other company we're looking for good people across the board. Lookout is the current leader in cons
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by thomson 15y ago
I met you when Mike was an intern at justin.tv--really glad to see that ZeroCater is working out! Maybe we'll make the switch over once we move to the new office..
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by thomson 15y ago
This repo was first created at 8am today though. ( https://github.com/ihatelawyers3/ihatelawyers3.github.com/co... ) What's going on here?
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by thomson 15y ago
Lookout Mobile Security, San Francisco, CA - Full time https://www.mylookout.com/about/careers I'm the data scientist here and like every other company we're looking for good people across the board. Lookout is the current leader in cons
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by thomson 15y ago
+1! We're also scaling up a data team for some interesting machine learning problems. Experience with any of the following helps: R (lm, gam, gbm, randomForest, caret), Python, Ruby, MapReduce, Hadoop, large datasets.
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by thomson 15y ago
"The good news is that due to it being in the ultralight category, should you decide to get your hands on the jetpack, you will not be required to have a license of any sort." Why is this good news? Half an hour in the air with a max speed
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by thomson 15y ago
I decided one day to spend all my time refactoring code and ended up writing -200 lines. That was probably one of my most productive days ever.
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by thomson 15y ago
Machine learning in particular is hugely important for startups--for example, given a rich training dataset of deals you've bought from a deal site (with predictors such as type of deal, location, price, datetime, number of friends who've b
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by thomson 15y ago
This is a nonexistent battle as a developer, isn't it? Applications that sell on one platform will sell on the other, and Amazon's licensing agreement is non-exclusive. This is like Coke vs. Pepsi and we're selling the ice cubes.

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