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by mayank 9y ago
Yes, they're planning a hosted version in addition to the open source version.
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by mayank 9y ago
Doesn't sound particularly challenging from a serverless point of view, if you have some sort of central Cosmos DB instance. Wrap it all in a Lambda function.
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by mayank 9y ago
> The example given at the emit conference was: You have a lot of code running in AWS, but all of a sudden, you would like to start using some nice features around google ML, and for this you need integration with google cloud. I'm
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by mayank 9y ago
Inciting violence can be speech though, and is included in the statement. There's nothing to be neutral about, it's already the law.
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by mayank 9y ago
Correct. The ACLU is saying they would not defend Antifa if they were arrested for speech inciting violence.
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Baresoil Face Detection Benchmark (AWS)(iceroad.github.io)
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by mayank 9y ago
> If all your firm wanted to do was ensure its employee pool matched the demographic of the qualified worker pool, it wouldn't have to do anything at all except test for competency. Matching demographics then happens naturally. Stat
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Show HN: Deep-learning face feature extraction on AWS: 630 GB for $8(github.com)
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by mayank 9y ago
Is there a measurable performance impact caused by the 100 kb library size?
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Show HN: 314 GB of image data processed per hour for $10/hr using Baresoil(iceroad.github.io)
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by mayank 9y ago
> Long story short, all "research" is pretty much B.S. Easy there! When I start feeling cynical about things like almost every sentiment analysis paper, I go back and read some of my favorite papers, especially ones from the 70
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Baresoil: an open source PaaS(baresoil.org)
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by mayank 9y ago
> It has so much economic potential that it hurts not being in the space already (working on that though) As someone not familiar with the area, could you elaborate on some examples of what you think the economic potential is? To an outs
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by mayank 9y ago
If you think all Google/FB/Apple engineers represent a monoculture, you're leaving a lot of intellectually diverse talent on the table. Source: former google/fb engineer, can assure you there's no one single "t
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by mayank 9y ago
Please read the site guidelines; empty comments like this are not encouraged and will generally be downvoted to oblivion.
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by mayank 9y ago
You may possibly be conflating concurrency and parallelism. JS has concurrency due to its event-based programming model, but not parallelism due to its single-threaded nature. The TypeScript compilation you mention likely has many concurren
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by mayank 9y ago
As far as I know, AOF is still not the default setting. It's important to point this out, or otherwise Redis will suffer the same fate as early MongoDB, which had a similar default persistence model which many users didn't fully u
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by mayank 9y ago
You definitely could, with some pretty big caveats: * you can tolerate some data loss in case of system crashes/power failures/etc, because redis only flushes data to disk periodically [1] * your dataset can fit in RAM, since redi
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by mayank 9y ago
A number of companies now let you drop an SDK into your app build and let marketers manage some aspects of the app via a web GUI (push notification campaigns and a/b testing at least). Check out www.leanplum.com
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by mayank 9y ago
Fun fact: the eigenvector centrality computation in PageRank was originally used for citation networks many years before PageRank. A surprising number of web spam problems have parallels in academic publishing: spam rings, "rich get ri
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by mayank 9y ago
This is called double-blind peer review. Unfortunately, it is often against the interests of the most "eminent" players in a field, who benefit from their eminence leading to gentler peer reviews.
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by mayank 9y ago
There's also http://ec2instances.info which has RDS pricing as well.
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by mayank 9y ago
Shameless plug, but I've got a project that builds a static site using Webpack 2 without having to configure it: https://github.com/iceroad/martinet Contributions welcome!
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by mayank 9y ago
This is a pretty common question. Check out this blog post for how to get Terraform to bring up a new ASG with a new AMI before removing the old one from an ELB: https://robmorgan.id.au/posts/rolling-deploys-on-aws-usin
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by mayank 9y ago
> It's great that Terraform is 'mulit-cloud' but it still seems like you have to write .tf's catered to each cloud, you can't just lift and shift to another cloud by copying and pasting a file? We're not qui
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by mayank 10y ago
They certainly did not, if for nothing other than `async.auto()`, which automatically runs a dependency graph of async functions.
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by mayank 10y ago
> It's something that works most of the time, but sometimes breaks when the callback code isn't what the promisify function expected. The sounds like a limitation of promisify, not inherently of callbacks. There are many situat
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by mayank 10y ago
Make sure you're using permessage-deflate with the Websockets, and try disabling animations in chartjs.
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by mayank 10y ago
> Nobody sorts by comparing all N! permutations and picking the correct one. (Well, I certainly don't.) You can usually make a problem seem harder than it actually (from a complexity point of view) is by phrasing it in terms of d
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by mayank 10y ago
Semantic versioning -- basically each version here is x.y.z for some x, y, z. Node patch releases (.z) happen reasonably fast and constitute a "version of node" as used here.

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