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	February 22nd, 2013 Codecademy (YC S11) launches API lessons for Twitter, Evernote, Box, WePay, Firebase, Github, more Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Codecademy, the startup that aims to teach people everywhere how to code, wants to help make those APIs even more accessible. Today Codecademy is announcing that it has partnered with a number of established web companies to offer a host of new lessons that concentrate on the basics of building with their specific APIs. Codecademy first launched API lessons last month, but this release brings a number of new big name API providers to the mix. Codecademy now has lessons for building with APIs from Twitter, Evernote, Box, and Gilt. The full list of Codecademy’s new API partners is rounded out by WePay, Microsoft SkyDrive, 23andme, Mashape, Ordr.in, Firebase, Easypost, Github, MailChimp, and Dwolla. Read the full article on Techcrunch Referly (YC S12) makes its first acquisition, LaunchGram Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous At just about a year of age, Referly may be a tad young to be making its first acquisition. But the San Francisco-based startup is doing just that today with the purchase of 500 Startups-backed LaunchGram. Basically, LaunchGram was a service that kept people up-to-date on upcoming product releases. Because Referly also appeals to people who like to curate products and earn extra cash off recommendations through affiliate revenue, there was a big overlap in their customer base, Refer.ly CEO Danielle Morrill explains. Read the full article on Techcrunch Citus Data (YC S11) launches CitusDB for Hadoop Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Embedded media -- click here to see it. Citus Data has launched CitusDB for Hadoop, a service that can process petabytes of data within seconds. The offering shows once again that the new class of analytics databases that can analyze everything from data to entire libraries of digital books are the next big thing. CitusDB is based on Google Dremel, a real-time analytics database that has surpassed Hadoop’s analysis capabilities. The difference is in its parallel-computing capabilities and SQL-like functionality. Do a query across petabytes of data over thousands of servers and the results come back in real-time. Read the full article on Techcrunch Upverter (YC W11) raises $650K, running a hackathon at YC on Friday Feb 23 Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Embedded media -- click here to see it. Toronto’s Upverter is a startup that’s poised to effect change that could reshape the landscape of entrepreneurship. That’s not something you can say about most of the businesses we cover on a daily basis, whether or not they have good ideas. But it’s definitely true of Upverter, the company that’s hoping to build a cloud-based hardware engineering platform that can match and overtake its desktop-based counterparts within the next few years. ... The rise of Upverter means a potential explosion on the horizon for hardware startups, which is why the company is hosting a hardware hackathon with Y Combinator on February 23rd. Making hardware engineering collaborative, affordable and easy to access can have a tremendous impact on the cost of doing business and risks associated with creating new hardware, which is why Upverter achieving its goals could lead to a new revolution for hardware startups, incubators and investors alike. If you happen to be one of those hardware startups, Upverter is offering free team accounts to TC readers. Just follow this link to sign up. Read the full article on Techcrunch TrustEgg (YC W11) launches the the way for any parent to set up trusts for their children Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous TrustEgg, a Y Combinator-backed startup which lets parents set up trusts for their children is actually launching. That’s a milestone in and of itself, because, as a financial services company, it had been facing a lot of regulatory hurdles. The company has also recovered from the loss of its first co-founder, Gabe Krambs, who left CEO Jeff Brice to take a job that paid the bills. It has since added John Zdanowski, co-founder, CFO, and investor to the team, and has relocated operations to San Diego. Read the full article on Techcrunch 面白いこと Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 1 始まりそう。 Gnocchi: 4 Flavors, 4 Sauces Posted about 21 hours ago by markbittman to bittman A phrase often used (overused, really) to describe well-made gnocchi is "light as a cloud." It’s not an especially instructive description for a piece of real food, and for cooks hoping to try their hands at gnocchi for the first time, it can be downright daunting. It’s true that gnocchi requires a bit of technique, but achieving that cloudlike texture — "light" is perhaps a simpler, less intimidating word — isn’t actually that difficult. Read the rest of this article, get the recipes, and watch the video with Mario Batali here. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.