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The First Week of YourStack

By Ryan Hoover 
2,281 days ago Product Hunt launched as a tiny newsletter. The early days were especially chaotic. I didn’t get much sleep, skipped the gym, and buried my head into work. While unsustainable (I'm not advocating overworking yourself!), it was sooo fun and energizing to build something brand new. It was also scary.

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A Genius, a Deceiver, or a Naive Dreamer? Deep Tech Explained

By Yurii Filipchuk 
In 1943, the American aircraft engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson received a call from the Pentagon: the US Air Force needed a fighter jet. Johnson ran Advanced Development Projects (ADP), a closed division of the Lockheed Corporation aircraft manufacturing company. It was located in a separate room, and only employees directly involved in the development of ADP could go in there.

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Graphs in the 2020s: Databases, Platforms and The Evolution of Knowledge

By George Anadiotis 
Graphs, and knowledge graphs, are key concepts and technologies for the 2020s. What will they look like, and what will they enable going forward?

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The Case Against Crypto Maximalism

By Shingai 
Bitcoin is one of the 21st century's most remarkable innovations. The ability to send and receive value over the Internet without relying on a centralized intermediary signifies a paradigm shift in the evolution of money.

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NEON.LIFE: Meet Your Digital Avatar from Samsung

By Michael Li 
Anyone watched Blade Running 2049 must remember ‘Joi’, the pretty and sophisticated holographic projection of an artificial human. She speaks to you, helps you with house affairs, tells jokes to you, keeps you accompanied, and some more… just like a real human.

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Weather.com Has Become the Pawn of A Huge Data Theft Scheme

By Andrej 
Wanna know tomorrow’s temperature? Don’t visit weather.com to find out, especially if you’re on a mobile device: the website has been compromised by a malicious advertising (malvertising) attack that is scraping personal information from its mobile users. 

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How We Manage Editorial At Hacker Noon

By Natasha Nel 
At Hacker Noon's first All-Hands company meeting for 2020, CPO Dane Lyons introduced the team to the concept of a North Star Metric. Since the term is pretty self-explanatory, I'll get straight to the story of how we're using this framework to prioritize activity.

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Lessons on Thinking: Learn from James Clear, Scott Young, Shane Parrish and More

By Andreea Serb 
The idea of understanding and practicing how to best live our lives has ignited the greatest minds for centuries.

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How One Bain Consultant’s Medical Debt Led Him to Become the Consultant For Aspiring Consultants 

By The Hacker Noon Podcast  
Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube.

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Gain State-Of-The-Art Results on Tabular Data with Deep Learning & Embedding Layers [A How To Guide]

By Michael Li 
Tree-based models like Random Forest and XGBoost have become very popular in solving tabular(structured) data problems and gained a lot of tractions in Kaggle competitions lately. 

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Scaling Symfony Consumers using Kubernetes [A How To Guide]

By Debricked 
At Debricked we have been using Symfony for our web backend for a while now. It has served us very well and when they announced the Messenger component back in Symfony 4.1, we were eager to try it out.

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Node.js vs Java: Why, How, and When to Choose One Over the Other

By Alexander  
Recently, my colleagues and I discussed the popularity of a couple of technologies — in particular, Java and node.js.

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I Made a Python Bot That Can Solve Multiple-Choice Question From Any Given Image [incl. Code]

By coderasha 
In this post I am going to show you how to build your own answer finding system with Python. Basically, this automation can find the answer of multiple-choice question from the picture.

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Dimensionality Reduction Using PCA : A Comprehensive Hands-On Primer

By Pramod Chandrayan 
We, humans, are experiencing tailor-made services which have been engineered right for us, we are not troubled personally, but we are doing one thing every day, which is kind of helping this intelligent machine work day and night just to make sure all these services are curated right and delivered to us in the manner we like to consume it.

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Interview with Yukihiro Matsumoto: Ruby is Designed for Humans, not Machines

By Iurii Gurzhii 
We’re thrilled that our good friend Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby programming language, has been able to join us at RubyRussia 2019 as a speaker for the second time, having previously spoken three years ago at RubyRussia 2016.

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How China Broke the Closed Circle of Recession With the Help of Technology

By Becka 
Economic growth has always been one of the most important and crucial aspects of any country’s existence. In ancient times, this trend was happening on a much slower and less conscious manner; people at that time didn’t have enough insight into economic forces to predict, not to mention influence, the forces of the economy to their advantage.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Claim To Be the Future of Account-Based Marketing?

By Dmitry Chervonyi 
To be honest, I hate phrases like “harness the power of AI” or “use AI to revolutionize your sales”.

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What Does 2020 Hold for Decentralized Social Networks?

By Emre Sokullu 
The race for the next decentralized social network has officially begun, following this tweet from Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey.

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Ethical AI: Who Watches the Watchmen?

By Amber Cazzell 
The Axial Age saw the independent rise of multiple societies, each with their own set of religious and cultural practices. The silk road arguably marked the end of the Axial Age, connecting these previously isolated cultures together in a network that traded not only goods and germs, but also ideas.

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Port Your Medium Articles to Your Personal Blog with a Simple Bash Script [A How To Guide]

By Michael Li 
As good as it is, having your own blog outside of Medium is still not a bad idea. It enables you to have another channel you can totally own to communicate with your readers. And who knows, no company can last forever, what if Medium got acquired by some other company or something even worse happen. You can still sleep well at night knowing you won’t lose all your articles.

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What Could Be Causing Google Searches for “Bitcoin Halving” to Surge?

By MachinaTrader 
The whistle for “halve-time” is set to blow, with May 2020 creeping ever closer. For those operating in the crypto-verse the “halving/halvening”, is the talk of the office, with speculation as to what new heights the price of bitcoin will surge to taking center stage. 

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Rising Tensions in the Middle East Highlight the Need for a Haven Currency And Bitcoin Is Not It

By Daniel Popa 
Shortly after the United States assassinated influential Iranian military leader Major General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, the price of bitcoin spiked alongside gold and crude oil. Bitcoin’s price leap was especially significant because gold and crude oil are considered safe havens that tend to attract investment in the wake of economically destabilizing events like the strike against Soleimani in Iraq.

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Smart Contracts and Real Estate: The Past, Present, and the Future

By Mikael Ainalem 
Very little has changed the last couple of decades when it comes to real estate practices. Buying and selling a home today is much like what it was fifty years ago. It's more or less the same process as when our grandparents' generations purchased and sold homes.

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ETHEREUM 2.0 AND CHAINLINK: The Story So Far And What To Expect In 2020

By Cryptonite 
When investing into cryptocurrency you want to look for projects that will make the biggest changes within an industry. This is why I prefer coins like ETH, BAT, LINK, XLM, ONT and NEO.

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Hiring Managers Share How to Answer Behavioral Interview Questions

By Rooftop Slushie 
Anyone making a career change soon? We used our platform to ask senior FAANG employees heavily involved with the hiring process on behavioral interview questions. 😇

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