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Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test
How the physical box design for a subscription box affects retention.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,895 posts.
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Crowdsourcing a More Secure Future
A guy from Russia just earned $100,000. Crowdsourcing a More Secure Future
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FlixMobility Acquires Greyhound to Expand U.S. Intercity Bus Services
Launched in 2013 in Munich, Flix is a global travel-tech champion providing sustainable and affordable travel solutions to more than 500 million travelers since its launch, across more than 40 countries on 5 continents through its brands FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound and Kâmil Koç.
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Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it
Authorization terminology often conflates ideas and presents complementary technologies as rivals. This post proposes a new taxonomy.
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Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
I’m sure many of you either have an Alexa-powered device in your house, or at least have played around with one somewhere. So it won’t be surprising to you that Amazon has been partnering with home…
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The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange
Searching Google recently it struck me that I rarely see results from Experts Exchange . I used to see a lot of these, because I typically search on things like error messages or programming issues for which the site is a useful source.
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Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29
We’re here with a couple save the dates to reserve some space on your calendars.
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Airline Takes Revenge After Bad Review, Posts Passenger's Passport Online
YouTuber Josh Cahill, who has nearly 700,000 subscribers, reviews flights and courts drama, it seems. Just a couple of months ago he was banned by Qatar Airways over a negative review. Now he’s taken on East Timor’s Aero Dili.
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Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts
I parse HackerNews (HN) “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” posts from 2013 to time of writing and analyse them to better understand the trends in the data job market with a focus on the fate of data science. Here are my main conclusions:
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A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee. Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Shel Kaphan was the first employee at Amazon. He is currently pursuing personal interests and still living in Seattle. Discussed: Getting…
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Norvig's Law (2002)
In July 1999, there was a news article stating that PC usage had doubled yet again, reaching penetration of 50% of homes. People were hailing this as yet another sign of the inevitable climb of technology, but I saw it as a warning sign that the glass was half empty, and coined the following:
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Job Descriptions Should Be Better
Most job descriptions are terrible. We need to make them better.
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ARM server market
Microservers and the motivations for microservers have been around for years. I first blogged about them back in 2008 ( Cooperative, Expendable, Microslice, Servers: Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers for Internet-Scale Services ) and even Intel has entered the market with Atom but it’s the ARM instruction set architecture…
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Welding and the automation frontier
The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization, is the effect it will have on employment.
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Why the cloud isn't for your startup
BlueScripts is a boutique Clearwater software studio. We build custom software, web apps, iOS apps, and APIs for startups and SMBs across Tampa Bay. Senior engineers, no juniors, no offshoring.
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TunnelBear Publishes Security Audit
TunnelBear works with Cure53 to complete consumer VPN industry's first public security audit.
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Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License
Dear Google, There has been quite a bit of news lately that you have applied for a patent on bill splitting. It's a helpful tool—we've all been to restaurants or lived with housemates and have needed a convenient way of calculating and tracking who owes what. But this technology already exists—and...
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Timescale raises $16M from Benchmark, NEA, Two Sigma Ventures
Humanity is now living with machines and swimming in machine data. Timescale just raised $16M to help developers, businesses, and society make sense of it all.