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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 934 posts.
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As G Suite gains traction in the enterprise, G Suite’s Gmail and consumer Gmail to more closely align
Google’s G Suite business is gaining enormous traction among enterprise users. G Suite usage has more than doubled in the past year among large business customers. Today…
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Indie games don't make money
At the time of writing, a quick check of stats on steamspy for player unknown:battlegrounds reveals this chart:
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Twice as happy customers means half the marketing spend
Halving your cancel rate doubles the number of customers your business has. Even if you run a subscription business forever, you will not have infinite customers. Instead you reach a steady-state number.
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My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
Hello Spicy Compatriots, I know this is not typical on a business blog, but I want to share what happened to potentially help someone in a similar situation. If you have followed my twitter account since December, you might know that I was robbed by my Uber driver. He intentionally drove off with my backpack…
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AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
Numerai just released 1.2 million Numeraire tokens on Ethereum to build a bridge between artificial intelligence and the stock market.
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Teller – API for your bank account
How many times have you thought to yourself “Damn, I really wish my bank account had an API”? I bet the answer is a lot. Well, today is the last day you will ever think that again because we are pleased to announce that the Teller API beta program is now open to the public.
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Transparency report
Proton's transparency report with aggregate statistics of legal orders from the Swiss authorities, covering Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and Proton Calendar.
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Google Jobs Search
Today, as part of our Google for Jobs initiative, we are introducing a new feature in Search to help better connect people to job opportunities across the US.
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Amazon’s New Customer
The key to understanding Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods is to understand that Amazon didn’t buy a retailer: the company bought a customer.
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If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers
(The inspiration for this post came from here: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-interview-ee673bc5ef6)
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Your own company? You can do it (2011)
When I was 17 and a high school drop-out I went to work for a bank. My mom was ecstatic, I had a job, in spite of my failure to ‘get an education’. Never mind that the job that I got was mailroom gofer. Now, don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a mail runner for a bank. And run I did. So fast that…
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How to Get Hired at CircleCI
Come work with us. Join our amazing team of highly technical engineers and business leaders to help us build great developer tools.
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Hard Questions
Today we're starting something new.
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New analysis reveals significant ROI in open source technologies
Examples abound of leading tech companies that have adopted open source strategy and contribute actively to open source tools and communities. Google, for example, has been a long contributor to open source with projects – such as its popular mobile operating system, Android – and recently launched a directory of ...
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Deal or no deal? Training AI bots to negotiate
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The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy
Vili Lehdonvirta is an expert on the politics and economics of digital platforms. His current research focuses on the geopolitics and geoeconomics of digital infrastructures.
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NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
For the first time ever, NumPy—a core project for the Python scientific computing stack—has received grant funding. The proposal, “Improving NumPy for Better Data Science” will receive $645,020 from the Moore Foundation over 2 years, with the funding going to UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science. The principal…
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