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by netvarun 13y ago
Other than the fact that they are using docker, what I found most interesting was that they are developing support for Racket!
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by netvarun 13y ago
I am also specifically interested in what techniques they they are using to determine the levels of change - Is it based on content changes or changes in (x)html tree structure?
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by netvarun 13y ago
Another really good article on distributed systems along the same lines is this one: http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distribu...
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by netvarun 13y ago
Hmm. Goldbely's funding round was a seed round.
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Mrs Mapreduce(pythonhosted.org)
1 points by netvarun 13y ago|0 comments
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The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people(theguardian.com)
260 points by netvarun 13y ago|214 comments
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by netvarun 13y ago
Shameless plug: Kindly add my startup's API, the Semantics3 Product API* ( https://semantics3.com/ ) too :) Documentation: https://semantics3.com/docs Our Python wrapper library: https://githu
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by netvarun 13y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on the part where you mentioned "far east weirdness: Tamil / Burmese / Malay". What's so weird about those languages? All three languages you mentioned are linguistically very different and
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by netvarun 13y ago
What course was that you took and from which school? That sounds like a really awesome OS course!
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by netvarun 13y ago
We've had no issues with rsyslog, which already comes packaged in ubuntu. Runs with no issues on micro instances on the AWS cloud, even at heavy workloads.
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by netvarun 13y ago
I think this will be a great resource for those participating in the ACM-ICPC competitions. A nice collection of all the standard algorithms and data structures that one should be able to implement in a heartbeat.
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by netvarun 13y ago
This is great news. Our centralized logging system at Semantics3 ( https://semantics3.com ) is built using Logstash+Kibana+Rsyslog+ElasticSearch. Running off a single EC2 large instance it has been been able to seamlessly aggregat
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Zeroing in on unbreakable computer security(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
25 points by netvarun 13y ago|14 comments
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by netvarun 13y ago
This is really cool! Are there any open source libraries to do steps 2 and 3 - auto type detection and error correction/detection?
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by netvarun 13y ago
We (Semantics3) are a perl shop too! Other YC companies, AFAIK that use Perl are: Crowdtilt and Terascore
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by netvarun 13y ago
That's great to hear! My only feedback, your new site has way toooo much text. I think you need to cut out atleast 80% of it. I am pretty sure that will improve your signup/conversion rates. Good luck!
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The Physics Behind Traffic Jams(smartmotorist.com)
256 points by netvarun 13y ago|102 comments
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by netvarun 13y ago
You could checkout Balanced Payments ( https://balancedpayments.com/ ) - a YC company that does ACH.
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by netvarun 13y ago
If you haven't written assembly or at the very least c, you ain't full stack in my definition.
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by netvarun 13y ago
Sounds really interesting. You could try to secure additional funding for this project via Microryza ( http://www.microryza.com/ ), which is a kickstarter for scientific research.
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Lexicographically sorting large files in Linux(grepalex.com)
5 points by netvarun 14y ago|0 comments
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by netvarun 14y ago
Being ddossed is not going to affect you. For Heap to kick in, the page needs to be rendered and their javascript snippet processed. A DDos attack is just going to send lots of traffic (eg: a gazillion wget requests made to your domain. You
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by netvarun 14y ago
We use heap at semantics3 and it's really awesome. I highly recommend it. It's really like crack for devs.
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by netvarun 14y ago
As a former PhantomJS user, I certainly would have used you guys. I went through a lot of shit trying to set it up (this is phantomjs v1.3 i am talking about - mainly xvfb - which kept sending shitty screenshots). I am pretty sure you have
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by netvarun 14y ago
I just tried it (setting up wordpress) and it was pretty seamless - it was done in 2 mins flat! If you could do bundling of apps into one install - where I pick all the apps I am interested in, and it spins them up in one go, it would be re
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by netvarun 14y ago
They helped set up the insurance for us (Semantics3) and I fully recommend them! Here is the direct link to their site: https://www.simplyinsured.com/
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How the Mashape Cloud API Hub Works(mashape.com)
7 points by netvarun 14y ago|0 comments
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by netvarun 14y ago
Yes, this is a big problem, which we have put in a lot of effort to tackle. We try to calculate a 'hash' for the product, which is independent of the sku, factoring in all the structured metadata available - normalized dimensions (height, l
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by netvarun 14y ago
We currently get the pricing data via rss feeds, crawling, data dumps and for some cases also crowdsourcing. In the long run, we also hope to establish merchant relationships and get the data directly. To the original question on crawling -
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by netvarun 14y ago
By "curation", it's machine "curation" of course :) All the product data is categorized and disambiguated with the rest. At this point we spit out a confidence interval, and only those that pass a high threshold are inserted into our master

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