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HOPSTER - LONDON/UK - http://bit.ly/gethopster

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- Senior front end dev (http://goo.gl/DtYMu9) / JS, Angular, Unit testing, etc.

- Data & insight manager (http://goo.gl/vtlC5O) / Google Analytics, Mobile Analytics, Advanced Excel, User Testing & Research

- Content executive (http://goo.gl/W23CGD) / Meta tagging, Content management, CMS, Commissioning

Always looking for good people, so if you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: [email protected].

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   ** MAKING KIDS TV BETTER **
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Kids in the UK watch 6bn hours of TV every year. At Hopster, we’re trying to make that time better. Our first product is a beautiful iPad app for kids aged 2-6, which combines gorgeous TV shows with contextual learning games - and we plan to go much further. Launched in December, we have had great reviews from parents so far plus thousands and thousands of MAUs. Oh, and we have thousands of paying customers.

We're a funded London-based start-up, launched in late 2013. Our team includes people from a range of backgrounds (from start-ups to non-profits to corporates), all with a solid track record of developing and delivering innovative and successful products to consumer audiences.

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   ** OUR STACK(S) **
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TECH Front-end: Angular, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery Back-end: Python, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Endpoints & Storage iOS App: Cocos2d-x, C++, Objective-C

MARKETING WordPress, Localytics/Google Analytics, Mailchimp/Mandrill, Google Experiments/Unbounce/Optimizely, Buffer, SocialBro/Sprout, SensorTower/AppAnnie

TEAM Slack, Trello, Jira, bitbucket, Google Docs, Google Hangouts, Friday curry sessions, climbing wall & go kart track

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   ** WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR **
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As usual, always looking for good people. The team is broadly split into development, product, marketing/growth and creative (and creative actually means creative, incl. animation, characters, voice acting etc.!).

If you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: [email protected].

I LOVE Topkapı Palace, it's gorgeous. Have you been?

I had an amazing tour guide who, among many other things, explained how everything had two layers of security (at least) built in. For instance, eunuchs in the Harem were always black just in case the castration was botched - that way, you could still tell the child was not the Sultan's. A bit more here: http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/11/23/the-harem-and-th...

Talk about redundancy.

I wonder if they simply ignored all the negative connotations with Incubus when picking the name because it was 'oh so good a pun'.

I.e. very male-centric, all about preying on women, ...

I also hear Brandon Boyd is a mentor.

I'm possibly exaggerating

Nice idea, but I do take a bit of an issue with ideas like these. More often than not, they serve as a fig leaf and give the people using them a false sense of comfort and achievement.

There's a reason sports programming exists, and a certain level of intensity, planning and rotation is necessary for results.

A better thing to follow for at least a modicum of impact is http://www.7-min.com

Anyone who's done any amount of exercise worth the designation will have to do a few rounds of this to actually get into heavy breathing territory, but it's a (structured) start!

Hmm, if they are, they're elaborately faking to the extent of making up sources in the footer. I'll take a look tonight if there is a CCTV camera where they claim there is and let you know!

You can find the data sources in the footer - http://imgur.com/QknNS6B

If the companion app also feeds in, cue the obligatory "OMG SURVEILLANCE HAS GONE TOO FAR" remarks.

[edit] For sources, hit Legals in the bottom right footer, then Sources - Credit in the top (as per http://imgur.com/QknNS6B) [/edit]

Not sure about the other cities, but for London, the bike locations are probably coming from the GLA Datastore http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/tfl-cycle-hire-l.... ATM information perhaps through Mastercard's API? http://www.programmableweb.com/api/mastercard-atm-locations

I saw this a while back and thought it was a brilliantly executed marketing campaign.

On a side note, whatever happened to Ingress?

Working fine in London. Didn't get any errors in past 15 minutes.

It's not so much a theory as a collection of vignettes based on one individual's situation in their company.

I do agree with getting good at ping pong or whatever the office choice of communal activity is.

Playing foosball / Mario Kart / basketball with the whole gang in various roles definitely helped with gaining acceptance and enabling better dialogue during working hours - guess what, it's called team building and spans across sexes.

Looks great!

HTTPS giving me troubles, e.g. clicking through on footer links from HN: http://imgur.com/59cQ7G3

On an unrelated note (careful, Inception-style sentence coming up, and apologies if this has been mentioned before/isn't helpful), most of the footer links in the footer of the pages linked to in the footer of news.ycombinator.com lead to 404. Id est, click on a link in the footer, then click on a link in the footer of the page you just clicked to, 404 hey presto.

Yeah, I assumed as much but didn't make the time to investigate. Shame to hear that it's without attribution, and thanks for doing the work to find the original!

The article makes a few good, if basic, points. But, dear me, the English is appalling. Reads like someone let loose a wild babelfish.

That aside, as Winston Churchill said (or rather, as Nazi propaganda claimed he said even though he never did - which is quite apt in this context), "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself."

Seconded.

Love it. Works for me in Chrome (Version 35.0.1916.153 to be precise)

Only downside: it's basically the browser equivalent of remembering you have to get your keys from the bedroom, going upstairs to get them, forgetting why you went back to your room in the first place, picking up the copy of Wired on your nightstand, heading out, and getting to the office only to realise you forgot your keys.

Haha, nice. Also nice: www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion

Congrats on the recent round, guys :-)

HOPSTER - LONDON/UK - http://bit.ly/gethopster

Always looking for good people, particularly developers (Python/GAE), growth people, creatives (animators/voice actors/producers - contract/partnerships)

If you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: [email protected].

   ***************************
   ** MAKING KIDS TV BETTER **
   ***************************

Kids in the UK watch 6bn hours of TV every year. At Hopster, we’re trying to make that time better. Our first product is a beautiful iPad app for kids aged 2-6, which combines gorgeous TV shows with contextual learning games - and we plan to go much further. Launched in December, we have had great reviews from parents so far plus thousands and thousands of MAUs. Oh, and we have paying customers.

We're a funded London-based start-up, launched in late 2013. Our team includes people from a range of backgrounds (from start-ups to non-profits and corporates), all with a solid track record of developing and delivering innovative and successful products to consumer audiences.

   ******************
   ** OUR STACK(S) **
   ******************

TECH Front-end: Angular, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery Back-end: Python, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Endpoints & Storage iOS App: Cocos2d-x, C++, Objective-C

MARKETING WordPress, Localytics/Google Analytics, Mailchimp/Mandrill, Google Experiments/Unbounce/Optimizely, Buffer, SocialBro/Sprout, SensorTower/AppAnnie

TEAM Trello, bitbucket, Google Docs, Google Hangouts, Friday curry sessions, climbing wall & go kart track in the same building

   ***************************
   ** WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR **
   ***************************

As usual, always looking for good people. The team is broadly split into development, product, marketing/growth and creative (and creative actually means creative, incl. animation, characters, voice acting etc.!).

If you're excited about the idea of making TV better for kids (better = more educational, interactive, engaging), get in touch: [email protected].

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PS: thanks, speek, for the inspiration on making headers more obvious ;-)