Hackers of SV

07/24/2015

Applications to the Make School two-year program are due soon. Are you going to apply?

College has failed, or so many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs believe. Not only are tuition costs spiraling out of control, but students are leaving college..

10/31/2014

"College computer science classes are very theoretical; they teach you certain things that are very important to know in order to have a successful career— but fewer of them teach you how to sit down and actually code, build, ship a product." http://bit.ly/1wltycf

Ashu Desai | MakeGamesWithUs

09/30/2014

KAPOW! Hackers of SV meets UNCUBED.

The Tumblr blog Hackers of NY launched in February this year and very quickly became a phenomenon, spawning spin off sites everywhere from Miami to Bangalore – there's now a "Hackers of…" in 90 countries and 13 cities.

09/15/2014

"Stripe has a core emphasis that the people building things should have a lot of end-to-end ownership. What I work on here and what every engineer works on is a little bit of everything. You conceive the product, you build it, you launch it." bit.ly/1BGGKcG

Amber Feng, Engineer at Stripe

08/26/2014

"I like building things, and marketplaces are hard to get right. You have two sets of customers, and that makes it more than twice as challenging. Their incentives and what they want from the marketplace are not always aligned. The product is essentially the guardrails and rules of the marketplace."

Yue Zhao | Thumbtack
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08/23/2014

"If you go to the Google Play website and search for something like Citibank, you get a bunch of results that look the same, and only one is what you’re looking for. It’s too easy to fake an app on any marketplace, even on Google Play.

How do you put out an app that a consumer can confidently download and use?"

János Botyánszki | Mobile Security Researcher
http://bit.ly/1rrXova

08/15/2014

"Your team is your family. I think a lot of people spend time talking about how they need "x" investor so that they can make it. At the end of the day, it’s the people in that room, if you make it, it’s going to be because of those people."

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08/15/2014

“The highest rates of autism are in San Francisco, Cambridge and Oxford, which tend to be very intellectual, digitally focused families. A lot of the world is heading towards this area where behavioral therapy will be the norm rather than the oddity.

Even though every school and therapist has a slightly different way of collecting data, autism therapy has a standard set of data types, so we’ve built something like a mobile Wufoo for autism. You can drag and drop to pick the form that you want.”

http://bit.ly/1oTa0ss Nightingale

08/12/2014

"When we launched in Russia, some people bought 30 phones, registered a bunch of numbers and tried to triangulate user identities. It’s almost like they were creating a bot network, all to try to socially engineer and attack the product from different angles. We’ve built up intelligence and defenses against that." http://bit.ly/1ys0ld2

Matt Mihic | Secret - Speak Freely

08/11/2014

"Recorded sound has been around for 100 years now and there is still no reliable way to search and access it. You still can’t see inside and search through an MP3. Well, until now." http://bit.ly/1kWGS3X

08/09/2014

Welcome Hackers of Nairobi! Check out this first post on using SMS to help reduce maternal deaths and infant mortality in Kenya.

“In Kenya maternal deaths and infant mortality rates are still very high and this is largely attributed to the lack of information. This is what has prompted us to think of a way in which we can use...

08/08/2014

"I’ve been volunteering on a drug delivery device. It’s like a clam shell - you attach a certain molecule to it and it only opens when it sees a matching target molecule.

It’s only preliminary, but someday you could, for example, put cancer drugs inside it and it would only open when it was near a cancer cell. It would be chemo, but without as many side effects." http://bit.ly/1u6zc1D