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Hipmunk Co-Founders Spurned by SAP Concur in Attempt to Buy Back the Company

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iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

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Google’s Jigsaw Was Supposed to Save the Internet

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Trolls struggle to get Twitter disinformation campaigns off the ground

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Google Ventures leads 30M round in AR for the enterprise startup Scandit

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Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity

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muda.co 8y ago

How to turn a Microsoft Surface into an item scanner

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Loose Lips at Hewlett-Packard (2007)

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Rudy Kurniawan

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Coinbase Insider Trading: Litecoin Edition – Bitfinex’ed – Medium

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Why Did New York's JFK Struggle to Cope with Its Flight Backlog?

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General Motors EV1

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websdk.scandit.com 8y ago

Show HN: Near native C++ speeds with barcode scanning with WebAssembly

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Twitter Overstated Number of Users for Three Years

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Hackers: We Will Remotely Wipe iPhones Unless Apple Pays Ransom – Motherboard

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Wii Dolphin emulator so accurate you can buy games from the Wii Shop

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Mobile ad company Appodeal acquires game platform Corona Labs

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Scandit, which replaces barcode scanners with phones, closes $7.5M from Atomico

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The Future of Bitcoin Is Not as a Digital Currency

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Intel is HERE’s new investor and partner on autonomous cars and IoT tech

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The Death and Rebirth of 'The Matrix Online' – Waypoint

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Microsoft's Chinese Chatbot Encounters Sensitive Words

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VoCo. Adobe MAX 2016 (Sneak Peeks)

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A Boom in Startup Investing Is Breeding Conflicts in Silicon Valley Boardrooms

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No partner in sight, Twitter faces tough solo choices

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Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo

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The going rate for self-driving talent is $10M per person

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What I don't understand is how do things get this far down the road before a good old fashioned sanity check happens?

Softbank was hoping Vision Fund II will be closed once this collapses so pumping it up to 47B made sense to juice the returns on Fund I.

Adam N. already took 700M of his chips off the table before the IPO as well, so he clearly expected the music to stop playing as well.

I would interpret this as a sign that Thomas Kurian is trying to "enterprisify" Google Cloud by acquiring companies with high-touch enterprise sales cultures. Which runs against Google's traditional stance but is also credited as one of the reason Google Cloud has struggled to sell into big companies so far.

You can use classic starcraft / brood war keys as vouchers on battle.net if you want to verify and make sure you'll always have a digital copy available :)

No, I meant across different properties of different publishers. I assume that's still only possible with browser fingerprinting, IPs etc.

So blocking third-party cookies is a good start to avoid tracking across different publishers (which is the big no-no for me, the fact that a single publisher knows what i read of his is not such a big issue and not that different to what has always been done by just crawling the ht_access logs...)

I assume they'd only combine them on "soft factors" (browser fingerprints, IPs etc) then?

Since the unique IDs between the different platforms would differ for the same user (as there's no way to coordinate without 3rd party cookies)

no real differentiating benefits other than size and brand recognition and maybe some vague “guarantee” to the customer.

- scale

- brand

- customer loyalty

that's a lot of differentiation. more then 99% of the businesses in the world and more than even many public companies.

(especially once you add the power gained from aggregating demand and supply which most of these companies have)

Cut & Paste for when you really need to reorganize? But usually it would probably be enough to just list the most recent files somewhere and provide full text search for everything else.

I keep hearing this here, but AFAIK there's plenty of record keeping regulation which won't allow for that. No?

I assume many companies auto-clean the user-facing mailboxes for different reasons, but they probably all are required to archive the emails on some type of long-term storage for a few years.

But maybe that's just industry-specific regulations...

Unfortunately I can't get into details regarding the getUserMedia stuff, not only due to trade secrets but also being from the product team and not engineering :)

plus the requirement for a license check at runtime is shooting our big use case in the foot

That should only be a problem with test licenses, ping us at support@scandit.com and we can help.

On older mobile devices it can decrease significantly, but it's still much better then any known Javascript alternatives (e.g. quaggaJS) and works reasonably well even when only passing on a handful of frames/sec to the scanner library. (which happens on slower devices)

OTOH having SIMD would speed it up significantly and probably get them all up to speed.

Unfortunately SIMD is still not supported on any browsers and with the move away from SIMD.js it looks like this might take a while.

We've been working on porting over our fairly large barcode scanner library to WebAssembly. While the performance is close to what we have on other platforms ( http://websdk.scandit.com ), the major bottleneck for now is not being able to use optimized code relying on SIMD (and not having an existing C fallback as all other platforms we target have SIMD support)

Since everybody here is confused on why they would give up the Yahoo brand: This is not the Yahoo which was sold to Verizon (which stays Yahoo, incl. email service) but the investment vehicle holding all the Alibaba shares. The name "Altbaba" is an obvious play at the official ticker of Alibaba (BABA)