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How Basecamp Blew Up(platformer.news)
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Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals [video](youtube.com)
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what the >10PB of data is and why it’s important to your startup? Is it archived customer data, like backups? Or is it data purchased from vendors for analysis and ML?
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
The environmental argument for more bike friendly cities is one thing but I think that the quality of life argument is even stronger. One of the things I miss the most from my college days was being able to ride my bike everywhere. I could
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Justice Thomas grumbles over Trump's social media ban(politico.com)
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On the Measure of Intelligence, Chollet [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
int first_argument; int second_argument; void add_numbers(void) { return first_argument + second_argument; } // to call it you'd do first_argument = 1; second_argument = 2; int three = add_numbers(); > This is, I trust
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
Pydantic has a nice way to parse/validate a collection of environment variables into native python types using type hints [0]. It solves for some of the pain points the author mentioned in a clean way. [0] https://pydantic-d
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
Have you looked at TablePlus? https://tableplus.com/ It gives you a spreadsheet UI on top of your tables that can be edited directly. All edits are baked into a transaction so when you hit save the transaction is committed.
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
This is about an online database version upgrade not a schema upgrade / migration.
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
Depending on your personal situation you might want to seek professional help. But here are some ideas to get you started: Practice making eye contact especially when someone is opening up about their feelings. Then say things that show you
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
> Ronald Barrett and colleagues from the Department of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta have gone as far as to suggest that the emergence and re-emergence of disease threats owing to globalization and antibiotic resistance is
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
> Asian countries (where rice was available) where able to achieve and sustain far higher population density than areas fed by wheat Do you have any sources/data for that point? I’m curious why rice would impact population density d
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
The Contact field can point to a landing page. > A link or e-mail address for people to contact you about security issues. Remember to include " https:// " for URLs, and "mailto:" for e-mails Using a landing
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
> Our review found that the commenting climate in Sports is better than elsewhere on the site. The conversations are more relevant to the stories, and there are fewer personal attacks. We’ll now be focusing all of our moderating resource
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
I think that this is an important question and I disagree that “YC has lost its way”. I think that we’re seeing more and more companies come out of YC that have a bottom up, Growth/Product focus instead of the traditional Sales/Te
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
It’s too early in the morning to yell. If you disagree with the OP, then calmly explain your disagreements with the post and cite sources if needed. Edit: From the HN guidelines [0] > In Comments: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curi
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
But if the company shuts down then they won’t be able to maintain the app anyways so as a user I wouldn’t want to use the app anymore and maybe have a copy of my data. The company could be required provide a download of the user’s data (enc
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
From the end user’s perspective, what would the advantages of an app without centralized storage, like these, have vs. an app with E2E encryption and traditional centralized storage? If the end user’s data is encrypted on the service provid
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SolarWinds Officials Throw Intern Under the Bus for ‘Solarwinds123’ Password(gizmodo.com)
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Show HN: gybe – Render Kubernetes manifests with Python type hints(github.com)
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
Yes, you can use dask’s lower level APIs, like futures [0] or dask delayed, and it’ll just pickle the python objects. Dask provides a group of collections APIs, like dataframes [1] and arrays that use more efficient serialization methods. [
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
Apache Pulsar is a streaming platform more comparable to Kafka. It doesn’t have built in parallel computation APIs like spark. You can hook spark streaming up with pulsar as a data source though. https://pulsar.apache.org/do
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
I would be interested in seeing some spark v dask benchmarks too. Haven’t seen any yet though. In my experience, Dask really shines when you implement custom numpy computations that could only be done in spark UDFs. We saw a decent performa
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
I’ve had a lot of success with Dask lately. It’s comparable to spark in some ways [0]. Being written in python and built on top of pandas/numpy it allows much more flexibility. It’s also easier to get adoption from data scientists who
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
I’ve been feeling the same way about modern HTML/JS/CSS. The tooling has become too cumbersome and languages like TypeScript, SCSS and even Elm illustrate how the community needs a new frontend toolset. On top of that tools like R
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
> I had to set up Python projects for some machine learning classes in college and it was a complete mess. Did you use conda (anaconda/miniconda) or pip?
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
Thanks tiangolo! Keep up the great work!!
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
I’ve used FastAPI at multiple companies now and really enjoy working with it. The tight integration with pydantic is wonderful. Also, it really is quite fast out of the box. Great for building ML prediction APIs.
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by peterthehacker 6y ago
Looks like I fell for a “conspiracy theory” here... I’m going to avoid any stock-market related comments on HN from here on out :p

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