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   by netvarun 14y ago

   We are currently only US centric. We hope to cover the other regions (starting off with the EU zone) in the next few months. Drop me a mail at varun [at] semantics3.com - I will keep you posted!
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   by netvarun 14y ago

   As of now we are only indexing US prices - but we plan to expand out to the UK and Germany next. Drop me a note at varun <at> semantics3.com, I would love to chat with you!
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   by netvarun 14y ago

   Some great advice here on crawling at scale, which has inspired our crawlers a lot : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4367933 Basically it boils down to three things: 1. If the site is slow,crawl slooowly. 2. If you see non-200 http er
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   by netvarun 14y ago

   We were originally based out of Singapore and Paypal was the best option we had. If we had the option of Stripe then, we certainly would have gone with them :)
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   by netvarun 14y ago

   That's a great idea. Pricing trends analysis could be done through the historical data we provide across the different merchants. We do provide the affiliate purchase links to the products, available under the 'offers' field. Currently you
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   by netvarun 14y ago

   We aggregate data from a variety of sources (crawling, data dumps, rss feeds, and in some cases even manual curation) after which we integrate them into our data pipeline. We update them using a power law distribution, where the top 1% of
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   Show HN: Semantics3 – API for Products and Prices(semantics3.com)

   108 points by netvarun 14y ago|33 comments
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   Frege(code.google.com)

   40 points by netvarun 14y ago|16 comments
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   Mashape - The Cloud API Hub(mashape.com)

   15 points by netvarun 14y ago|6 comments
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    Amazon’s Future Is Not in Selling Stuff — And That’s a Good Thing(wired.com)

    7 points by netvarun 14y ago|0 comments
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    GNU Emacs April Fools' joke (2006)(gnu.org)

    11 points by netvarun 14y ago|0 comments
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    Opposite of a Bloom Filter(github.com)

    38 points by netvarun 14y ago|18 comments
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    Obligatory XKCD link: http://xkcd.com/927/
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    My startup* actually builds a Products API that provides constantly updated price histories for products sold across the major e-commerce sites (amazon, bestbuy, walmart,etc.. ). We noticed a three-fold jump in the number of pricing points
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    I would suggest starting off with Codecademy ( http://codecademy.com/ ) first.
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    Move over, Doogie Howser; here comes Engineer Biswas(mytown.mercurynews.com)

    2 points by netvarun 14y ago|1 comments
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    Interesting article on the CEO, Sanjit Biswas: Move over, Doogie Howser; here comes Engineer Biswas http://mytown.mercurynews.com/archives/sunnyvalesun/04.29.98...
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    I took a similar course at the National University of Singapore called 'Competitive Programming'[1] taught by Dr Steven Halim. It probably has to be one of the most fun courses I took at uni. I didn't really learn much theory since most of
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    Letter to an Undergraduate Computer Science Class(spin.atomicobject.com)

    2 points by netvarun 14y ago|0 comments
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    We use Balsamiq and are pretty happy with it.
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    Perlis Languages(blog.fogus.me)

    1 points by netvarun 14y ago|0 comments
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    Great post! Lots of interesting points, but I disagree with: "You need to pick a large market if you want to raise venture capital investment. A business that makes £10m profit per year may look great to you, but it's small fry for a VC." I
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    A couple more to add: Splunk (Founded 2004), Workday (Founded Mar 2005)
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    Not-so-insightful article but an interesting service provided by the company. With cloud-based APIs to handle things like DBs (Parse), files (Filepicker.io) and now auth (Dailycred), one can just pretty much do everything on the client-side
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    Thanks for the great article. A gotcha I have come across: Document keys can't contain the dot character. If you are storing a complex document (hash-of-hash-of-hash-etc..), you would need to recursively clean up and ensure that none of t
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    Off-topic: It's interesting that word 'countenance' appeared at the top in his screenshoot. That's the only word I still remember from my word-memorization spree while prepping for the GRE. For those wondering: It mean's face (as in a perso
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    For those wondering whats the difference between the Parallella and the Rasberry PI: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/99-ras...
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    Thanks for the excellent write up. Out of curiousitt: Did you investigate other centralized solutions like graylog2 and logstash?
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    The fundamental question is whether there is such a thing as too much entrepreneurship. I personally think no. Also I think having more entrepreneurs is better than more investment bankers. Net net, I think there is a greater benefit to soc
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    by netvarun 14y ago

    This article had way too many buzzwords. Basically it's an 'intelligent' social media monitoring app with e-commerce features like invoicing and sales monitoring. The app's site explains it much better: http://mila.com/en/home/