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EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than $30M
eBay— the soup to nuts marketplace for new and used goods — has made another acquisition to build out its search and discovery technology for customers to find what they need among the 1 billion or so...
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Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane
Southwest Airlines flight 994 from Louisville to Baltimore was evacuated this morning while still at the gate because of a smoking Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. All passengers and crew exited the...
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The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture
Dairy calves are kept in 4,896 individual hutches at Calf Source, in Greenleaf, Wisc.Credit Video by George SteinmetzOur industrialized food system nourishes more people, at lower cost, than any...
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Are closed social networks inevitable? (2010)
Are closed social networks inevitable?Are closed social networks inevitable?This is an archive of an old Google Buzz conversation (circa 2010?) on a variety of topics, including whether or not it’s...
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Cartographer – A real-time simultaneous localization and mapping library
SLAM is an essential component of autonomous platforms such as self driving cars, automated forklifts in warehouses, robotic vacuum cleaners, and UAVs.Cartographer builds globally consistent maps in...
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Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform
README.mdMastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU social project. Based on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon.Click on the screenshot to...
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Typora – A cross platform markdown editor
Readable & WritableTypora will give you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other...
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Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD
README.mdThis repository contains the source code of SolveSpace, a parametric 2d/3d CAD.InstallationMac OS X (>=10.6 64-bit), Windows (>=XP 32-bit)Binary packages for Mac OS X and Windows are...
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Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv, an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010. The three left Apple in...
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Udacity open-sources additional driving data
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt last month, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun announced that the online education company would be building its own autonomous car as part of its self-driving car...
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Systemd programming, 30 months later
Did you know...?LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net.September...
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Designing a SaaS Database for Scale with Postgres
If you’re building a SaaS application, you probably already have the notion of tenancy built in your data model. Typically, most information relates to tenants/customers/accounts and your database...
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Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid
Twitter Inc. fell as much as 11 percent in extended trading following a report that Alphabet Inc.’s Google isn’t interested in buying the social-networking service.Technology news website Recode...
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RethinkDB is shutting down
Today I have sad news to share. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our...
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RethinkDB and Compose: Where Next
Share on FacebookShare on Google+Vote on Hacker NewsPublished Oct 6, 2016TL;DR: RethinkDB databases on Compose will be available for the foreseeable future.The unfortunate news that RethinkDB Inc is...
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Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
A prominent local media executive fired from Yahoo last year has filed a lawsuit accusing CEO Marissa Mayer of leading a campaign to purge male employees.“Mayer encouraged and fostered the use of (an...
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Theorem LP (YC W14) is hiring researchers and engineers
About UsTheorem (www.theoremlp.com) is a company at the intersection of technology and finance. We were founded by a Google software engineer and a Morgan Stanley quant trader. We are a YC graduate...
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Google Debug Project
Fighting bad bugs one community at a time. We’re currently developing our technologies and methods to target Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. This means partnering closely with scientists, communities, and...
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