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SEEKING FREELANCER: Must be in NYC. Looking for someone to build a simple Python/Django app for a huge customer of ours. You'll have to come by the NewsCred NYC office (or you can …

NewsCred ( http://www.newscred.com )

The following line is not correct: "it has to be a UK co owning a branch in the States, not a US co with a UK office" It can be either way around. But your general point is true: t…

100% agree. It took us 2.5 years to get to product market fit. We raised a seed round and kept burn incredibly low for a long time while we figured things out. There were a couple …

NewsCred - New York City, H1B okay Lots of positions, but our main focus is to find engineers who are passionate about information retrieval and big data. So any interest or experi…

I find it ridiculous that a significant percentage of the population here equate raising VC money with selling your soul. I know you cite the SvN post, but that is one opinion. Rai…

There is a decent market. While its not our core business, we host content APIS for some large publishers. Because we're ingesting their content anyway (content syndication is our …

If anyone wants licensed Bloomberg financial news content, we have that in our News API and can give to you guys at HN rates. Can be used for commercial use. We worked hard to get …

We did an L1 and it was straightforward. You need to be trading for one year in the uk.

Contact me and I'll set you up. We (NewsCred) have fully licensed news and archives from 750+ news sources. All available through an API. You can use it for commercial use but ther…

FYI - your email address in not (visible) in your profile.

Honestly I don't know. I would guess it's slightly under the average at most companies. Cetainly less than 20 days as an average. But we've had people take a month and work in Thai…

We have always had unlimited vacations at NewsCred and have never had anyone abuse it. We are approx 20 people now. People love it.

What is the underlying tech? Can you talk about your listening and topic modeling algos?

Hootie and the Blowfish website on Geocities in 1997. Made decent money through advertising. Tickets.com was my number one advertiser. Those were the days....

I tried a bunch of my competitors but for each one, it said "No Active Ads Found." Although I know they have ads running on Google. For example, try Yellowbrix.com. If this actuall…

You can use the NewsCred API (developer.newscred.com) if you want. We'll make it free forever if you email me.

Very helpful benchmarks. Anyone know why there should be a premium per employee for a platform as a service company? Why is PaaS any different from any other startup with regards t…

NewsCred - New York City We're hiring information retrieval engineers and sales people. More here: http://platform.newscred.com/jobs . We've created a single API for all the news i…

Interesting story for those of you on HN who have seen my startup (NewsCred) go through a bunch of pivots. We are now licensing and powering a lot of the premium content on the app…

We provide API access to more than 20 million articles (headlines, excerpts). People have done all sorts of interesting things with it - http://platform.newscred.com .

NewsCred is hiring in New York City. Lots of positions, but our main focus is to find engineers who are passionate about information retrieval and big data. So any interest or expe…

NewsCred is looking for engineers in NYC. We're looking for engineers interested in Information Retrieval, Solr, Lucene, Machine Learning, NLP etc. We're also hosting the NYC Hadoo…

NewsCred - New York We're looking for an information retrieval engineer. If you're interested in solr, lucene, machine learning, NLP or solving big data problems, get in touch! We'…

NewsCred - New York We're looking for an information retrieval engineer. If you're interested in solr, lucene, machine learning, NLP or solving big data problems, get in touch! We'…