The Person Within

Eight charts that put tech companies’ diversity stats into perspective

Originally posted on Gigaom:

The latest hot-button subject in tech, hotter even than ephemeral apps, is diversity. Or at least, if not actual diversity, the act of releasing employee diversity statistics. From Apple to Twitter, almost all the big names in Silicon Valley are doing it. Google fell first in May, and with some pushing by activist organizations the rest soon followed suit.

We’ve…

MongoHQ adds Elasticsearch support and renames itself Compose

Originally posted on Gigaom:

MongoHQ, a startup that takes care of a company’s database management so developers don’t have to, is changing its name to Compose and is rolling out support for Elasticsearch — the open source search tool that’s great for indexing — so it is no longer, strictly speaking, a MongoDB shop.

Although the company’s founders had always planned to support multiple…

Who owns this monkey’s selfie?

Originally posted on Quartz:

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When a monkey commandeered a nature photographer’s camera on a small Indonesian island a few years ago, the results were extraordinary. Among the images captured by the crested black macaque were a few amazing images of himself.

Those monkey selfies made headlines back in 2011, and two of the photographs made their way to the Wikipedia pagefor the…

Introducing The Startups From Accelerator DreamIt New York’s Fourth Class

Originally posted on TechCrunch:

Twelve new companies just hit the NY tech scene during today’s DreamIt Demo Day in midtown Manhattan. Ranging from a location-based messaging app, a cloud-based hotel management system and a service that makes pins on Pinterest shoppable, these companies took part in startup accelerator DreamIt‘s three-month program, which provides resources such as access to…

SQL-on-Hadoop startup Splice Machine adds $3M in funding

Originally posted on Gigaom:

Splice Machine, a San Francisco-based startup promising to turn HBase into a relational database that can even handle transactional workloads, has added $3 million to its series B round of venture capital. Correlation Ventures led the latest cash infusion, which is in addition to the $15 million that Interwest Partners and Mohr Davidow Ventures invested into Splice…

Originally posted on TechCrunch:

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a way to manipulate objects in photos in three dimensions, allowing you to see all sides of formerly 2D objects. How is it done? Some might say there is dark magic afoot, but what’s really happening is far more interesting.

Here’s how it’s done: an object is selected in an image, be it a chair, an origami…

Metanautix Emerges From Stealth With Sequoia Backing

Originally posted on TechCrunch:

In 2012 a team of two top data scientists from Google and Facebook left their perches at the internet giants to begin working on a technology to make it easier for data scientists and analysts to collect, aggregate, deliver and analyze the massive sets of data that map, display, and define our digital lives. Two years later the team has unveiled the fruits of…