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Last minute tips for YC Interviewees
Essays, investment announcements and news from the Initialized team and the founders we back.
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Ember.js 2.7 and 2.8 beta released
Ember.js 2.7, a minor version release of Ember with backwards compatible changes, is released today. Ember.js 2.8 beta is also being released today. This branch will be released as...
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Apache Arrow: A new open source in-memory columnar data format
Open source Big Data in-memory columnar layer accelerates analytical processing and interchange by more than 100x. Forest Hill, MD –17 Feb 2016– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache…
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Running your models in production with TensorFlow Serving
Posted by Noah Fiedel, Software EngineerMachine learning powers many Google product features, from speech recognition in the Google app to Smart Re...
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Decentralization is about diversity
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring
A tragic case of how poor data analysis can lead to very bad outcomes.
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Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?
Yes you read that correctly - a 60TB SSD. So what does that mean for cloud backup? Is a 3.6PB storage pod on the horizon? We take a look at the numbers.
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Five Years of Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a free, self-directed, educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming, whether they've been coding for three decades or three months.
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Ring, officially a GNU package
Ring is officially a GNU package, following its integration into the GNU project. Distributed under the GPLv3+ license, Ring is a free software.
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Releasing Serverless Framework V.1, and Fundraising
Serverless, Inc. has brought Serverless Framework V.1 out of beta and also closed a seed round from Trinity Ventures.
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Reverse Debugging for Python
RevPDB A "reverse debugger" is a debugger where you can go forward and backward in time. It is an uncommon feature, at least in the open ...
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Verizon Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercrime Gangs
Over the past few years, spammers have sought out large ranges of IP addresses. By spreading out their sending patterns across a wide range of IP addresses, they can attempt to defeat spam filters and get spam and malware emails delivered where they are not wanted. However, IPv4 addresses are getting scarce and hard…
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Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery
Publishing misleading performance benchmarks is a classic old guard marketing tactic. It’s not surprising to see old guard companies (like Oracle) doing this, but we were kind of surprised to see Google take this approach, too. So, when Google presented their BigQuery vs. Amazon Redshift benchmark results at a private…
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Emoji and Deep Learning
Dango - Your Emoji Assistant
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Introducing the Open Images Dataset
Posted by Ivan Krasin and Tom Duerig, Software EngineersIn the last few years, advances in machine learning have enabled Computer Vision to progres...
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Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
In this blog post we caught up with Chris Jones, a Site Reliability Engineer on Google App Engine for the past three-and-a-half years and SRE at Google for almost 9 years, to find out more about running production systems at Google. Chris is also one of the editors of S ite Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs…
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First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs and Tools
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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WebExtensions in Firefox 52
Firefox 52 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. WebExtensions are becoming the standard for add-on development in Firefox. API Parity The ...
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V8 Release 5.1
V8 v5.1 comes with performance improvements, reduced jank and memory consumption, and increased support for ECMAScript language features.
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Elm from a Business Perspective
Elm is not just technically great, it also allows building business around it
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Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging
Introduction Earlier this week, Amazon SNS released worldwide SMS delivery and made it available in six AWS Regions. Worldwide SMS delivery means that you can now send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries. Along with this expansion, SNS also enabled default “opt-in” of…
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Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
For quite a bit, there have been no status posts, not for lack of news, but a lot has happened indeed. I just seem to post a lot more to the mailing list than I do here. Especially about unfinished stuff, which is essentially for a project like Nuitka everything that’s going on.
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