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Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whole Planet Daily
Today Planet successfully launched 88 Dove satellites to orbit — the largest satellite constellation ever to reach orbit.
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The Document Foundation on City of Munich’s discussion on returning to Microsoft
The Document Foundation is an independent, charitable entity and the home of LibreOffice. We have followed the developments in Munich with great concerns and like to express our disappointment to see a minority of politicians apparently ignoring the expert advice for which they’ve sought. Rumours of the City of Munich…
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New Macbook Pro power efficiency and time remaining
A look at the impressive real-world power efficiency of Apple's newer MacBook Pro models and what it means for battery life.
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Tomáš Mikolov on Word2vec and AI research at Microsoft, Google, Facebook [audio]
Find, classify and remediate PII across your files, email, databases and cloud. Accurate AI-powered PII discovery – on-premise or SaaS.
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Making More Outside The App Store
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On
We're looking to the future without 2 meaningful leaders and teammates. But we're excited for our vision and the journey ahead. Here's what's next.
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Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”
AWS is fell into the post-truth trap, providing false green in their status dashboard when all was not well.
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Considerations on Cost Disease
I. Tyler Cowen writes about cost disease. I’d previously heard the term used to refer only to a specific theory of why costs are increasing, involving labor becoming more efficient in some ar…
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Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”
I’m proud to be part of a team that is bringing green cars to the masses. As a production worker at Tesla’s plant in Fremont for the past…
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2017 State of Global Tech Salaries
Learn about LHH, with our global network of colleagues who bring local knowledge and experience to support millions of people across the full talent lifecycle.
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GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: Write Everything Down
Ali Rowghani, head of YC Continuity, talks to GitLab [https://about.gitlab.com/] CEO Sid Sijbrandij (W15) about how GitLab has built a completely distributed company with 160 people (and growing). We filmed this conversation at GitLab’s SF headquarters, where Sid is the only local employee. Sid’s biggest tip for…
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How Microsoft Lost the API War
Here’s a theory you hear a lot these days: “Microsoft is finished. As soon as Linux makes some inroads on the desktop and web applications replace desktop applications, the mighty empir…
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NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened
Had Steve Jobs’ first company not bought his second, history likely would have been very different. Apple might not exist today. No iPhone. But what could have happened to NeXT?
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Recommend a Founder for YC
Our goal at Y Combinator is to support as many great founders as possible, and we know that great founders can come from anywhere — any city, school, country or background. Companies in the Summer 2016 batch came from 16 countries and over 180 schools. We want founders everywhere to know that YC is an option for them…
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Introducing Keybase Chat
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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YC Research: Universal Healthcare
Four years ago, Watsi [http://Watsi.org] became YC’s first non-profit. They’ve since raised over $7.5 million to fund life-changing healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries. Today, we’re excited to announce that YC Research is funding Watsi for a project that will study using technology to improve the…
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How banks are getting around open banking and PSD2
Banks are scared. They’ve seen the rise of the new world of open APIs, apps and analytics and know that their organisations are not yet ready or fit to change to that world. What to do? Well, the easiest thing to do is to block access to the bank’s data. If third party FinTech firms...
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Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%. Martin Fowler: “We are still working hard to hire only the very top fraction of software developers (the target is around the top 0.5 to …
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Sandstorm is returning to its community roots
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones
When meeting with founders for the first time I sometimes hear, “We’re a Series A company.” Meanwhile, YC alumni I talk to tell me that their angel investors regularly ask them, “When are you going to raise a Series A?”. I’d like to make the point that success isn’t the same as raising a round of financing. Quite the…
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Federal Court Says Public Safety Laws Can Be Locked Behind Paywalls
Everyone should be able to read the law, discuss it, and share it with others, without having to pay a toll or sign a contract. Seems obvious, right? Unfortunately, a federal district court has said otherwise, ruling that private organizations can use copyright to control access to huge portions of...