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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,107 posts.
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Introducing the Open Images Dataset
Posted by Ivan Krasin and Tom Duerig, Software EngineersIn the last few years, advances in machine learning have enabled Computer Vision to progres...
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Human Height
The average height of a population can inform us about the nutrition and living conditions of populations in the past for which we have little other data.
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90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs Are Paid for Luck
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance2016524 points285 commentsTech Industry & Business details
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Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git
PerezDeRosso2016 Santiago Perez De Rosso and Daniel Jackson: " Purposes, concepts, misfits, and a redesign of git ". Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , 10.1145/2983990.2984018 .
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New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs
I like to watch long-term technology and business trends and watch as they shape the products and services that I get to use and to write about. As I was preparing to write today’s post, three such trends came to mind: Moore’s Law – Coined in 1965, Moore’s Law postulates that the number of transistors […]
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Machine Learning 101: An Intro to Utilizing Decision Trees
Stay up-to-date with the latest news, practical tips & best practices from Qlik on data analytics, data integration, data literacy, and big data analytics.
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Hard Tech Startups
Some people think YC only funds straightforward software startups. That’s definitely not the case — YC’s largest exit to date is a self-driving car company, Cruise Automation [http://fortune.com/2016/03/11/gm-buying-self-driving-tech-startup-for-more-than-1-billion/] , and we’ve funded many other hard technology…
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USPS Discrimination Against Atheism? A Study by Atheist Shoes (2013)
Stupendously comfortable handmade shoes, inspired by the minimalist aesthetic of the Bauhaus and crafted from the finest leathers known to humanity. Designed in Berlin, and handmade in Porto, all our materials are sourced in Europe (Germany, the Netherlands & Portugal).
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G Suite: intelligent tools designed for teams
Posted by Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President Apps, Google Cloud Research shows that each week we spend the equivalent of three work day...
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Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Throughout my career as an engineer, I’ve had a hand in numerous product launches that grew to millions of users. User adoption typically happens gradually over several months, with new features and architectural changes scheduled over relatively long periods of time. Never have I taken part in anything close to the…
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Image Compression with Neural Networks
Posted by Nick Johnston and David Minnen, Software EngineersData compression is used nearly everywhere on the internet - the videos you watch onlin...
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Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way
Adventures in getting to know our database
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PostgreSQL 9.6 Released
PostgreSQL 9.6, the latest version of the world's leading open source database, was released today by the PostgreSQL Global Development …
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Qubes OS 3.2 has been released
I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing Qubes OS 3.2! This is an incremental improvement over the 3.1 version that we released earlier this year. A lot of work went into making this release more polished, more stable and easier to use than our previous releases. One major featu...
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The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations
In November 2012 voters in the states of Colorado and Washington approved ballot initiatives that legalized marijuana for recreational use. Two years later, Alaska and Oregon followed suit. As many as 11 other states may consider similar measures in November 2016, through either ballot initiative or legislative action.
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Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research
Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software EngineersMany recent breakthroughs in machine learning and machine perception have ...
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Employee #1: Coinbase
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
We would like to introduce you to our next generation command-line tools for Azure: Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview.
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Requests for Startups Refreshed
We’ve refreshed the Requests for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/]. Here are the additions: Food and Farming An estimated 40% of the world’s workforce works in agriculture. Better food and farming could increase the world’s health, unlock the potential of numerous workers, and improve living conditions for…
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Microsoft and Bank of America collaborate with Azure Blockchain as a Service
REDMOND, Wash., and NEW YORK — Sept. 27, 2016 — Today at Sibos, an annual conference organized by SWIFT for the financial industry, Microsoft Corp. and Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced a collaboration on blockchain technology to fuel transformation of trade finance transacting. As part of this collaboration…