hackerNews

3

Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training (http://www.spritzinc.com)

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MtGox.com is dead (www.mtgox.com)

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The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS (whispersystems.org)

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2

Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of MtGox (blog.coinbase.com)

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The MT Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted (www.scribd.com)

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A Star in a Bottle (www.newyorker.com)

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Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying (www.reuters.com)

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Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com)

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6

Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency' (notebooks.jsvine.com)

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`three = 1` in the linux sourcecode (github.com)

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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive (firstlook.org)

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1

The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies (nathanmarz.com)

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5

Flappy Bird Ported to C64 (sos.gd)

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10

App-pocalypse Now (www.codinghorror.com)

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2

Ruby 2.1.1 is released (and Ruby turns 21) (www.ruby-lang.org)

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8

Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video] (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

172 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014030506 71 comments

6

Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D (code.facebook.com)

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9

Rainbow Sort Visualisations (ljs.io)

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19

Harold Ramis dies aged 69 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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4

Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source (www.hanselman.com)

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8

A Star in a Bottle (m.newyorker.com)

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7

Element 14 Holding Orders Based On US Government Watch List (www.eevblog.com)

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13

What Linux can learn from Solaris performance and vice-versa (www.slideshare.net)

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11

A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions (minimaxir.com)

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22

Are Tiny Houses the Key to Fighting Homelessness? (billmoyers.com)

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Why Super-Fast Internet Is Coming Super Slowly (online.wsj.com)

120 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022600 118 comments

14

IBM to Acquire Cloudant (www-03.ibm.com)

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10

Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World (www.nytimes.com)

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11

Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets (www.bbc.co.uk)

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9

Facebook quietly ends email address system (www.bbc.co.uk)

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6

Q – Execute SQL on text, Linux style. Supports joins across files. RPM available (github.com)

114 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022600 42 comments

9

Analytics at GitHub (johnnunemaker.com)

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9

Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California (www.eff.org)

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AT&T, Ericsson pushing for MitM vulnerabilities in HTTP/2.0 (tools.ietf.org)

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PG at Launch [video] (www.youtube.com)

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8

Gox.com Domain Name Acquired by Mt. Gox Parent Company (www.domaininvesting.com)

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Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers (www.nature.com)

87 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022609 49 comments

22

The Blackphone is here (https://store.blackphone.ch)

86 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022512 94 comments

0

Mtgox.com is gone (tools.pingdom.com)

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11

SanDisk releases 128GB microSD card (www.sandisk.com)

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17

Hundreds of Free Online Courses In Advanced Engineering Topics (nptel.ac.in)

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23

How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit (www.sportsmediawatch.com)

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84

Mt. Gox may have lost 750,000 bitcoins (two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com)

73 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022515 54 comments

25

Anyone Who Still Thinks IPv6 Won't Happen Isn't Watching the Measurements (www.circleid.com)

69 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022518 75 comments

11

Bitcoin Prices Down As Mt. Gox Concerns Escalate (www.coindesk.com)

69 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022606 24 comments

10

Subverting hierarchy with git (joeyh.name)

67 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014090300 5 comments

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Why it's a bad idea to put a CNAME record on your root domain (joshstrange.com)

65 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022603 53 comments

18

Help make AngularJS v2 change detection better, faster (docs.google.com)

65 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022700 14 comments

10

Meteor 0.7.1: Oplog support for complex queries, Meteor developer accounts (www.meteor.com)

61 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022603 20 comments

48

Ask HN: What can I ask potential employers? (item?id=7290749)

60 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014040503 50 comments

19

On "The Future of JavaScript MVC Frameworks" (blog.reverberate.org)

59 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022809 54 comments

16

Polio-Like Disease Appears in California Children (www.nytimes.com)

55 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022621 14 comments

24

Show HN: Simple translation by email (blog.unbabel.com)

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66

The Bitcoin Economics lesson for Engineers (econgoat.com)

53 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022603 80 comments

29

Graylog2 v0.20.0 released (graylog2.org)

52 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022600 38 comments

0

Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of MtGox (blog.blockchain.info)

52 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022515 3 comments

67

'git lg' instead of the default 'git log' (fredkschott.com)

50 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022603 23 comments

24

The First book with printed page numbers (ilovetypography.com)

50 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022612 4 comments

0

Joint Statement Regarding MtGox (blog.coinbase.com)

49 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022515 0 comments

31

Gmail data visualization with D3.js (luk3thomas.com)

44 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022600 10 comments

20

D 2.065 released with 396 fixes and improvements (dlang.org)

42 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014030506 35 comments

15

Jolla’s Sailfish OS has reached release 1.0 and is ready for global distribution (www.jollausers.com)

39 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022521 31 comments

25

Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon (www.space.com)

37 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022600 17 comments

19

Introduction to networkd, network managment from systemd (coreos.com)

37 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022606 17 comments

28

IMDB Top 100K Movies – Analysis in Depth, Part 2 (bugra.github.io)

36 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022521 23 comments

86

MVP Doesn't Mean Anything (rein.pk)

36 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 27 comments

0

Khan Academy: The Illusion of Understanding (theeducationscientist.blogspot.com)

35 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022503 58 comments

16

WhatsApp going after Skype? Launching Voice Service in 2014. (www.theguardian.com)

34 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022515 51 comments

0

Poll: How many bitcoins have you lost with MtGox shutdown? (item?id=7295493)

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89

Show HN: Code Kingdoms – a game that teaches kids to code (http://codekingdoms.com)

29 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022509 20 comments

0

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes offline as insolvency rumors swirl (thenextweb.com)

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42

The True Identity of Andy's Mom Makes 'Toy Story' Even More Epic (moviepilot.com)

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80

Mailbox.org: German email service w/encryption, server located in Germany (https://mailbox.org)

19 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022503 15 comments

54

FanWing (www.fanwing.com)

15 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022509 0 comments

51

Judge Tosses Muslim Spying Suit Against NYPD (firstlook.org)

14 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

0

How Standard Treasury Built a Founding Team (blog.zactownsend.com)

14 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 3 comments

56

Am I burned out? (pastebin.com)

14 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022603 7 comments

36

Show HN: newzly-phantom: Asynchronous type-safe Scala DSL for Cassandra (github.com)

13 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022506 2 comments

59

WebServerUid: Easy Unique Browser IDs for Rails (swiftype.com)

13 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022518 11 comments

51

Memex Aims to Create a New Paradigm for Domain-Specific Search (www.darpa.mil)

13 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022521 2 comments

45

The True Identity of Andy's Mom Makes 'Toy Story' Even More Epic (moviepilot.com)

12 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022521 4 comments

0

Release Fast to Win in the App Store (blog.taplytics.com)

12 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 0 comments

0

Numbers from the Brace.io Valentine's Day promotion (blog.brace.io)

11 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

0

PG at Launch [video] (www.youtube.com)

11 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 6 comments

49

The TSA “saw” my Bitcoin and wanted to count it (www.bitcoinnotbombs.com)

11 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022521 3 comments

81

First words from MT Gox ex-employees (www.reddit.com)

11 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

70

Show HN: We launched Javelin, the product I've been working on (https://www.javelinsecurity.com)

10 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

86

Things I wish I knew before I started making websites (blog.teamtreehouse.com)

10 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022603 8 comments

0

A Star In a Bottle (www.newyorker.com)

10 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

48

Vroom: a tool for testing Vim plugins, by Google (github.com)

10 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022518 3 comments

65

Why you should learn Erlang (videlalvaro.github.io)

10 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022515 0 comments

0

MtGox LTC ticker still online (data.mtgox.com)

10 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022515 2 comments

46

(2010) Taco Bell Programming (widgetsandshit.com)

9 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2022081609 3 comments

0

We Need Young People To Take Risks And Build Inspiring Things (www.fastcoexist.com)

9 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022503 14 comments

71

Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level (www.nytimes.com)

9 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022506 3 comments

77

Ask HN: Any 'inclusionist' moderator candidates in Stack Overflow elections? (item?id=7296494)

9 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014030109 3 comments

0

4.95 million people signed up for Telegram today (twitter.com)

8 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022500 3 comments

69

Show HN: Browser Extension for Finance on Twitter (chrome.google.com)

8 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022509 4 comments

88

Ask HN: I'm a developer. What can I do to change the world? (item?id=7292812)

8 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022509 14 comments

90

The unlikely tale of how ARM came to rule the world (www.businessweek.com)

8 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014030706 2 comments

0

Search ":wq" (github.com)

8 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 7 comments

0

Show HN: Track your frequented muni buses and stops with this mobile web app (github.com)

8 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 2 comments

66

PLOS’ New Data Policy: Public Access to Data (blogs.plos.org)

8 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022521 0 comments

69

'Biggest observed meteorite impact' hits Moon (www.bbc.co.uk)

7 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

87

Everything You Need to Know on Tor and the Deep Web (www.whoishostingthis.com)

7 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022603 3 comments

82

Dust- And Water-Resistant Galaxy S5 – Heart Rate Monitor, Fingerprint Scanner (techcrunch.com)

7 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

85

Facebook retires its troubled Facebook.com email service (www.theverge.com)

7 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022603 0 comments

0

Bitcoin price is dropping $5 per minute (twitter.com)

7 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022515 0 comments

56

What Does It Mean that Nokia Launches 3 Smartphones on Android, Now? (communities-dominate.blogs.com)

7 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022600 2 comments

76

Whatsapp Is Actually Worth More Than $19B, Says Zuckerberg (techcrunch.com)

6 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022509 0 comments

77

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers (www.nature.com)

6 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

79

Dropbox Has Raised $350M In New Funding At A $10B Valuation (techcrunch.com)

6 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

0

If you're salting and hashing your passwords, you're doing it wrong (www.justgohome.co.uk)

6 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 0 comments

83

XTouch (xtouch.io)

6 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022515 2 comments

77

CYCLONE Hx9: NSA Exploit of the Day (www.schneier.com)

6 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do you manage your personal finances and budgets? (item?id=7294660)

6 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022515 2 comments

0

Wolfram releases first demo of new language, 30 years in the making (venturebeat.com)

6 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

0

Why I Left Facebook (medium.com)

6 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

0

Whatsapp will add voice calls later this year (www.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022500 0 comments

71

Unyielding (glyph.twistedmatrix.com)

5 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022503 0 comments

0

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (www.salon.com)

5 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022500 0 comments

80

Should we worry that Netflix is buying transit rights from Comcast? (marginalrevolution.com)

5 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

0

Watch the First Trailer for HBO's New Silicon Valley Comedy (gizmodo.com)

5 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 2 comments

84

Verizon CEO confident about getting payments from Netflix too (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

88

Coinpunk desperately needs more funding (blog.coinpunk.com)

5 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

73

Chrome patches "Issue with certificates validation in TLS handshake" (googlechromereleases.blogspot.com)

5 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022521 2 comments

75

Just Do Something (daringfireball.net)

5 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022521 0 comments

77

Breaking down FRP (blogs.janestreet.com)

5 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022603 0 comments

77

Open source GPU volumetric light simulator (github.com)

5 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022600 0 comments

47

Spritz (www.spritzinc.com)

5 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014030706 0 comments

0

The origins of the use of [x] in UI design (medium.com)

5 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022521 0 comments

78

Samsung announces Galaxy S5 (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022509 6 comments

0

How Using a Decision Journal can Help you Make Better Decisions (www.farnamstreetblog.com)

4 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

0

Why I wrote my own UIKit and the end of the platform wars (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 2 comments

80

Writing down an unwritten language (www.johndcook.com)

4 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

87

CMU Robotics Professor Warns Of Growing Technology (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)

4 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

81

Meteor 0.7.1 – Meteor Developer Accounts, Oplog and minimongo improvements (www.meteor.com)

4 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

0

Boids in JavaScript (www.emergentmind.com)

4 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 2 comments

0

Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language (www.youtube.com)

4 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 0 comments

0

Fin: Wearable Ring Make your Palm as Numeric Keypad and Gesture Interface (www.indiegogo.com)

4 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What do you use for file backups? (item?id=7294372)

4 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 4 comments

0

Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language (blog.wolframalpha.com)

4 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

0

Microsoft visits links you send in Skype (defuse.ca)

4 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

70

Codecha: CAPTCHA for coders (http://codecha.org)

4 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022518 6 comments

85

Bitcoin's life-or-death moment (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022600 0 comments

0

Khan Academy: The Illusion of Understanding (theeducationscientist.blogspot.in)

3 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022500 0 comments

81

Whatsapp will add voice in q2 of this year (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022503 0 comments

0

Newsstand: Better Than Games? Where App Store Profits Really Are (www.ideatoappster.com)

3 points first seen 2014022500 last seen 2014022500 0 comments

0

Oracle Buys BlueKai (www.businessinsider.com)

3 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022503 0 comments

0

Finite Fields in Julia (Defining Your Own Number Type) (www.acooke.org)

3 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022503 0 comments

0

Dallas Buyers Club startup advice (medium.com)

3 points first seen 2014022503 last seen 2014022503 0 comments

0

Google Summer of Code 2014 – Accepted Orgs List (www.google-melange.com)

3 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

0

Using Grunt? Consider Fez (flippinawesome.org)

3 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

0

HBO's new show Silicon Valley (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022506 0 comments

0

Show HN: Boost people IT and Internet skills (www.vodeclic.com)

3 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 0 comments

0

Dropbox Round Finalized: $350M at $10B Valuation (recode.net)

3 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 2 comments

0

Asian-American Contestant, 'Villain' of 'Jeopardy,' Set To Return (www.npr.org)

3 points first seen 2014022509 last seen 2014022509 0 comments

88

Rewriting A WebApp With ECMAScript 6 (blog.tastejs.com)

3 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022515 0 comments

0

How Pinterest optimized their HTML Sitemap (engineering.pinterest.com)

3 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

0

Twelve Year Old Top Selling Girl Scout's Sales Tips (www.fastcompany.com)

3 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

0

3-D Technology May Someday Print Up New Livers: Health (www.bloomberg.com)

3 points first seen 2014022512 last seen 2014022512 0 comments

0

Spokesman: "Mt. Gox has confirmed it will file bankruptcy" (recode.net)

3 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022515 0 comments

0

Selling Your Startup: Tricks of the Trade (www.lauradhamilton.com)

3 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

0

Ask HN: I want to work on games but not the graphics (item?id=7295885)

3 points first seen 2014022518 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

0

Telegram Saw 8M Downloads After WhatsApp Got Acquired (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022521 0 comments

0

MtGox acquired? (imgur.com)

3 points first seen 2014022521 last seen 2014022521 0 comments

34

Segment.io is looking for a lead mobile engineer (item?id=7292766)

0 points first seen 2014022506 last seen 2014022518 0 comments

33

User Acquisition at Virool (YC S12) (www.linkedin.com)

0 points first seen 2014022515 last seen 2014022600 0 comments