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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 198 posts.
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New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage
Businesses seek the best price and performance to suit the storage needs of workloads ranging from multimedia serving, to data analytics and machine learning, to data backup/archiving, all of which drive demand for a variety of storage options. At Google, we aim to build a powerful cloud platform that can meet the…
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Machine learning for financial prediction
Machine learning for trading is a huge domain, but not all applications are practical in terms of making your money grow. Let's find out what really works!
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TrailDB – An Efficient Library for Storing and Processing Event Data
Today, we are open-sourcing TrailDB, a core library powering AdRoll. TrailDB makes it fast and fun to handle event data.
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RethinkDB 2.3: user accounts, network encryption, Windows support
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia). Download it now !
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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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Etcd v3: increased scale and new APIs
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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PostgreSQL 9.5 Released
Stamp 9.5.0. Branch ------ REL9_5_STABLE Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cdd4ed5449bf317cc71b45a8deee0173822e7592 Modified Files -------------- configure | 18 +++++++++--------- configure.in | 2 +- doc/bug.template …
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How to Become a Data Scientist, Part 2
This is Part Two in a three-part series examining how to become a data scientist. Supported by extensive research and expert opinions, it aims to provide a comprehensive guide to anyone looking to move into this field, irrespective of background and experience. The topic of Part Two is: "Learning".
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When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema
Heap is the only digital insights platform that shows everything users do on your site, revealing the "unknown unknowns" that stay invisible with other tools.
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SQL Tricks
Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This a…
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Feather: A Fast On-Disk Format for Data Frames for R and Python
Introducing Feather: a fast binary file format for data frames that works in both R and Python, built on Apache Arrow.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016
We take a close look at the hard drive failure rates from 68,813 hard drives that are used in the Backblaze data center.
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Time Series, the new shiny?
If you’ve been fortunate enough to have been studying penguins at McMurdo these last few seasons you may have missed the attention “Time Series” has been getting in the Big Data space. Then again, maybe not. Because if you were doing scientific work whilst snug in your North Face you may have been t
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Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists
On February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. His creator downloaded encrypted stock market data, trained…