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by netvarun 14y ago
It worked. Thanks.
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by netvarun 14y ago
I actually have it installed. But it couldn't load the video anyway. More critically, there was no gracious fallback. All I get is a completely broken page with absolutely no outgoing links or any textual content!
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by netvarun 14y ago
Page miserably fails to load on Chrome running on Ubuntu http://imgur.com/eWREY
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by netvarun 14y ago
The high traffic to the blog post has brought their entire site down. It's always a good idea to host the blog separately from the site - best is to use a managed solution (tumblr, wordpress.com, etc..)
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by netvarun 14y ago
From what I gather I think that they are building some sort of visual tool for the easy munging of large data files (ie. converting semi/un structured data into some sort of structured form). I would assume it would be some sort of GUI th
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by netvarun 14y ago
Somewhat tangentially related, hence my shameless plug: My startup ( https://semantics3.com/ ) is building APIs for products data. Using our APIs, you can get access to rich metadata and pricing histories (including affiliate links) for ove
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by netvarun 14y ago
This a nice nifty script. Thanks! Something I noticed ( https://www.filepicker.io/pricing/ ): Since filepicker.io charges by number of files and NOT by total size of files, a free account could potentially host a huge amount of data. Eg: 50
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by netvarun 14y ago
IMO, a search engine for hackers would be a 'Code Search' (which Google killed off a few months back) replica/clone. It was great and awesome and I still miss it to this day.
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by netvarun 14y ago
Why isn't Singapore[1] in the list of countries on swellphone.com? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
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by netvarun 14y ago
Hmm, why the downvotes?
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by netvarun 14y ago
You beat me into writing this =) Great article, btw! It seems to me that there are three camps of people when it comes to dbs - (1) The "I hate anything new" camp, (2) The "I hate anything old" camp, and finally (3) The "I will pick the bes
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by netvarun 14y ago
Pretty curious why you are beanstalkd instead of using Redis (BRPOP & BLPOP) for directly handling your job processing?
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by netvarun 14y ago
I cant wait to hear Richard Stallman's reaction to this. Neverthless, what on earth is Canonical thinking?!?!?
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by netvarun 14y ago
Might be of interest: I wrote a post a couple of weeks back regarding our distributed crawling architecture built using perl+redis+gearman How We Built Our 60-Node (Almost) Distributed Web Crawler http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4469911
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by netvarun 14y ago
When I saw this my initial reaction was 'bleh. bloody #firstworldproblems'. But then it struck me: One man's first world problem is another man's billion dollar company.
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The previous time we applied, we pasted the text version on a google doc and created two versions (main and redacted versions), which we were then shared with the team and our app-reviewers (for the app-reviewers, disable editing and allow
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Amazon Allows For Reselling of Reserved EC2 Instances(aws.amazon.com)
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Github is down - Emergency DB maintenace(twitter.com)
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by netvarun 14y ago
OP here. This post is an expansion of my comment http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4369590 on the excellent post 'How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours' ( http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4367933 ) Don't hesitate to ask me any question
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How We Built Our 60-Node (Almost) Distributed Web Crawler(blog.semantics3.com)
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In Battle With Amazon, Walmart Unveils A Semantic Search Engine For Products(techcrunch.com)
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Building A Paid API Offering(blog.semantics3.com)
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by netvarun 14y ago
Amen. That was the standout sentence in this very well-written article.
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by netvarun 14y ago
I fully agree with this article. At my startup, Semantics3, we use Capistrano [1] for multi-machine deployments of our git repos. This has greatly helped our productivity as it just takes a couple of minutes to go from dev to production! Th
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by netvarun 14y ago
Out of curiosity. How do they handle such heat? I mean won't it melt anything around it? Also, how did they measure it? [I am assuming it was measured using a sophisticated thermal imaging camera, though I would like to think that some brav
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by netvarun 14y ago
Thank you very much for the post. I have written a distributed crawler at my startup Semantics3* - we track the price and metadata fields from all the major ecommerce sites. Our crawler is written in perl. It uses an evented architecture (w
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If what is stated in the title ('YC S12') is true, then definitely yes. 9Gag has been around for close to four years. But that begs another question? Why did they choose to join YC then? They already had their product out and had a pretty l
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by netvarun 14y ago
urghh. my bad. didn't see it :(
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Shameless plug: My startup, Semantics3 ( http://www.semantics3.com/ ), is building an vertical based search engine for products data - track product pricing changes, get detailed metadata etc. Our current strategy is to monetize on selling
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by netvarun 14y ago
My suggestion: Prove the infinitude of prime numbers.

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