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The Science of Crawl (Part 1): Deduplication of Web Contentblog.urx.com
Here at URX we are building the world's first mobile app search API. Backing this API is a search engine containing a large corpus of web documents, meticulously maintained and carefully grown by crawling internet content. We've come to discover tha... - nars2000.org
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Making the Leap From Web to Mobile Apps Easierbits.blogs.nytimes.com
Most people don’t like to download mobile apps. But when they do, they spend nearly all of their time in them. A new start-up called DWNLD is promising to make it cheaper and easier for publishers to convert their sites into attractive apps. -
The Hazards of Going on Autopilot - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
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Email History through RFCs - Word to the Wisewordtothewise.com
Many aspects of email are a lot older than you may think. There were quite a few people in the early 1970s working out how to provide useful services using ARPANET, the network that evolved over the next 10 or 15 years into the modern Internet. They us... -
Famous Outfits | Affordably Pricedfamousoutfits.com
Famous Outfits features the best in celebrity inspired men's fashion. We show you the latest styles and where to find the same look at the lowest price. -
YC Investment Policy and Email Listblog.ycombinator.com
We’re making a change to the rule for YC partners making follow-on investments. Previously, partners could invest in companies after they had either raised $500k or 3 weeks after Demo Day. This... -
Designing a Personal Knowledgebaseacuriousmix.com
As a graduate student, much of my time is spent acquiring knowledge from various sources. Indeed, this is a quintessential feature of academic work, which I enjoy very much. Since so much knowledge... -
OMG Markdownspin ½ | spin ½spinhalf.net
Again, twitter erupted into its own little controversy. This time, @codinghorror got together with a bunch of smart fellas and tried to tame Markdown. This has sparked a lot of flame throwing with arguments ranging from hijacking what is, supposedly, J... -
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New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Programnytimes.com
A federal judge had ordered the department to test the cameras for one year in five police precincts, though the introduction of the cameras was not done in consultation with the court. -
Peter Thiel disagrees with youfortune.com
The tech financier and intellectual provocateur has some ideas that may turn you off. But there's no arguing with his commercial achievements. That's why Silicon Valley hangs on his words. - daemonology.net
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Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchyqz.com
Zappos is known for its zany corporate culture. The company’s Q4 “All Hands” meeting in November was aptly-themed “Gone Wild”: one female employee voluntarily climbed into a case filled with tarantulas to win a $250 gift card. The event opened with a L... -
Tech insiders: Firms halted spread of grisly videonews.yahoo.com
PARIS (AP) — Tech companies were better prepared to scrub the Web after a second grisly video showing the beheading of an American journalist by Islamic State militants was released, a Silicon Valley insider said Wednesday. - google-latlong.blogspot.com
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Uber Is Currently Fighting the Battle That Jitneys Lost 100 Years Agopaleofuture.gizmodo.com
The mid-1910s saw an explosion of people driving unlicensed cabs. They were called jitneys (slang for a nickel, which was also what they typically cost) and cities across the U.S. scrambled to regulate them.
