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Infrastructure Mistakes Companies Should Avoid
When Avi Freedman was getting ready to graduate Temple University in 1992, there was no way to buy internet service in Philadelphia. Literally. If you wanted to send someone money to get a dial-up...
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Applying machine learning to the freight industry
The current process of ocean freight forwarding is burdened with inefficiency, lack of upfront options and hidden charges. Kontainers is created based on the need for an easier freight forwarding...
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90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs Are Paid for Luck
Moshe Levy is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem School of Business Administration. This post is based on a recent paper by Professor Levy. Related research from the Program...
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Introducing Google Container-VM Image
Posted by Aditya Kali and Amey Deshpande, Software EngineersThis spring, we announced Container-VM Image as a beta product under Google Cloud Platform (GCP). If you're a developer interested in...
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Knuth's Challenge: Analyze everything your computer does in one second
Knuth's Challenge - Commentary - GaxunAnalyze everything your computer does in one second Donald Knuth presented the following challenge in 1989: My challenge problem is simply this: Make a thorough...
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Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git
Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of GitPosted Sep 30, 2016 by Greg Wilson| Programming Tools| Software Design | Santiago Perez De Rosso and Daniel Jackson: "Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and...
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A Hoare Logic for Rust
Lately, I've been working on a Hoare-logic-based model of the Rust MIR, which I will introduce in the post. This is a minor step towards a memory model of Rust, and it allows formalization of programs...
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Blender 2.78 released
The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.78, released September 30th 2016! This release aims to be a very stable one, so that developers can focus better on...
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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 progress rapidly, allowing for systems that can automatically...
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Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
README.mdThis program generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input bitmap.Local similarity means that(C1) Each NxN pattern of pixels in the output should occur at least once in the...
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Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar
In order to enable stronger focus on advancing the Web and to reducethe complexity and long term maintenance cost of Firefox, and as partof our strategy to remove generic plug in support, we are...
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Subzero 12-hour Nonfreezing Cryopreservation of Heart
Subzero 12-hour Nonfreezing Cryopreservation of Porcine Heart in a Variable Magnetic FieldSeguchi, Ryuta MD; Watanabe, Go MD, PhD; Kato, Hiroki MD, PhD; Yamaguchi, Shojiro MD, PhDTransplantation...
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Chinese Yuan’s Ascent to Global Reserve Status: A Timeline
The yuan will become one of five global reserve currencies on Saturday, the culmination of several years of efforts by Chinese policy makers to gain such recognition.Its entry into the International...
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Audio Fingerprinting with Python and Numpy
Published November 15, 2013The first day I tried out Shazam, I was blown away. Next to GPS and surviving the fall down a flight of stairs, being able to recognize a song from a vast corpus of audio was...
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What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator
Sep 30, 2016 You’ve got a great idea and feel you can make a great company and product out of it. You’ve worked on a basic version and feel like you’re ready to enter the big leagues.Maybe the...
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Ahead-of-Time Compilation
SummaryCompile an application's Java classes to native code prior to launching the virtual machine.GoalsImprove the start-up time of small or large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on...
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Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released
Posted by Dominik Picheta and Andreas Rumpf on 30/09/2016We're happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.15.0, is now available! As always, you can grab the latest version from the...
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USB-IF Publishes Audio Over USB Type-C Specifications
The USB Implementers Forum this week published the USB Audio Device Class 3.0 specification, which standardizes audio over USB Type-C interface. The new spec enables hardware makers to eliminate...
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Fox really shouldn't have canceled Firefly
The first three seasons of the TV show Arrested Development aired on Fox from 2003 to 2006. Hardly anybody watched it. In its final season, Arrested Development ranked 123rd in viewership among 156...
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Open Sourcing a Deep Learning Solution for Detecting NSFW Images
By Jay Mahadeokar and Gerry PesaventoAutomatically identifying that an image is not suitable/safe for work (NSFW), including offensive and adult images, is an important problem which researchers have...
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