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Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 934 posts.
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The end of smartphone innovation
Smartphones are still evolving, but we're on the upper slopes of the S-Curve. This means innovation is slowing, but also that iOS and Android are now unassailable. It's time to focus on what's next - voice, machine learning and, especially, augmented reality.
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The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016
Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, on behalf of the entire Google Brain TeamThe Google Brain team's long-term goal is to create more intell...
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Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
A trade group representing giants of Internet business from Facebook to Microsoft has just endorsed a “compromise” version of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), a bill that would be disastrous for free speech and online communities. Just a few hours after Senator Thune’s amended version...
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Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today. In this landscape, we see enormous opportunity for the cloud to accelerate innovation, support people across the continent who are working to transform their businesses, explore new entrepreneurship opportunities and help solve some of the world’s…
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Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
Read the latest company announcements, partnership news, and press highlights here.
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Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Read the note to employees from our CEO Sundar Pichai about the memo that was circulated over the past week.
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Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?
When Firefox was introduced in 2004, it was designed to be a lean and optimized web browser, based on the bloated code from the Mozilla Suite. Between 2004 and 2009, many considered Firefox to be t…
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How much do hedge fund traders earn?
Hedge fund trading may be the highest paying job in the world, so to learn more, we spoke with a former manager at one of the world’s leading hedge funds.
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Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies
Did you hear the one about the tulip bubble? It’s almost certainly a myth. It is myths, though, that explain why cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
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What makes the perfect office?
In 1923, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for workers in his factory near Bordeaux. Le Corbusier duly delivered brigh…
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Announcing the New AWS Secret Region
The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. AWS customers benefit from data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. AWS supports more classification…
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Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
We added a paywall to Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com/], our video editing startup, two weeks ago. But to help ease the transition, we allowed users to skip the paywall if they wrote an good reason for why they couldn't pay. In this post, I'll share some of the apologies
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Driving for Uber and Lyft
About two years ago, I switched from taking my personal car to the airport, to hailing Ubers and Lyfts. The math of it was pretty simple: Uber was cheaper than paying for my driving and parking*. A…
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Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit
Curated resources and advice to help you grow your business and empower your employees. Grow your business with Talk Shop, the Gusto blog.
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Disney’s Choice
Cable TV created a world where differentiated content could profit from everyone; that is why it will be hard for Disney to make the choices streaming will force on them.
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How We Found All of Optimizely's Clients
Search Engine For Source Code. Find websites using technology, HTML, Javascript, CSS Tags.
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The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November
[UPDATE: This post was originally said that the SegWit2X fork will happen on November 1. In fact it is scheduled to occur on block 494,764 ...
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How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA
Have you ever looked at your shopping list and tried to optimize your trip based on things like distance to store, price, and number of items you can buy at each store? The quest for a smarter…
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Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten
Even the greatest companies can only do three things well at a time.