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by gane5h 8y ago
The culture around cryptocurrencies can be a little insular – so we're sharing our onboarding guide that teaches you to buy cryptocurrencies step-by-step. I think it's broadly applicable regardless of what you think about the viab
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“We onboard our employees by asking them to buy cryptocurrencies.”(covalenthq.com)
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by gane5h 11y ago
I've used this in the past, in high performance math. If you have data (vectors, matrices, etc.) that doesn't fit neatly into a SIMD block size, you'll have to zero out fields after the calculation. At this point, it's c
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by gane5h 11y ago
Congrats to the compose folks! IIRC, they acquired Cloudant a little while ago.
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by gane5h 11y ago
We store our event stream data in Elasticsearch. Two features that made it appealing: * the ingest-side can be scaled up by adding more shards * the query-side can be scaled up by adding more replicas To compute rollup analytics, w
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by gane5h 11y ago
The closest to a hosted solution I've come across is Azure's DataLake announced at the recent Build conference: https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/29/introducing-azur... We're workin
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by gane5h 11y ago
Really cool write up – thanks! First time I’m hearing about CitusDB. They appear to be building a columnar, distributed database while preserving the Postgres frontend (similar to redshift, aster, greenplum, etc.) It’s all in the details. I
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by gane5h 12y ago
Going on a tangent here: this benchmark highlights the difficulty of sorting in general. Sorts are necessary for computing percentiles (such as the median.) In practical applications, an approximate algorithm such as t-digest should suffice
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Some ways to index data into Elasticsearch from your database(silota.com)
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Frequently Asked Questions about REST APIs(silota.com)
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Top 3 qualities of a REST API(silota.com)
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Computing the Median on Big Data, Approximately(silota.com)
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Dealing with downtime: read-only mode(silota.com)
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by gane5h 12y ago
I learnt this the hard way. Initially, I designed the API with bigints for ids and found some older versions of PHP didn't support bigints. I had to switch to using strings.
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Your REST API should come with a client(silota.com)
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Why we wrote our own custom query parser(silota.com)
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Where are the Linux distributions of web frameworks?(silota.com)
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by gane5h 13y ago
Good feedback. Still iterating on the messaging – at this stage, we are still figuring out how to describe the product. When you begin incorporating ES into your application, roughly you’d be thinking about: 1. Figuring out the structure of
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by gane5h 13y ago
My biggest difficulty with the documentation is the lack of examples and a logical layout. That's why at our company (we do hosted ES), we decided to invest in a new documentation portal ala Stripe: http://www.silota.com&#x2
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by gane5h 13y ago
Say I'm trying to sell water. Features: Liquid at room temperature. One oxygen atom, two hydrogen atoms. Has high specific heat capacity. Benefits: Helps with the balance of bodily fluids necessary for digestion, absorption, transporta
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by gane5h 13y ago
I have a couple of side-projects as well as a startup. The last few years, I’ve switched my side-projects to helping people with their backend infrastructure or architecture. This is definitely not profitable and most times I don’t even cha
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by gane5h 13y ago
There're many examples on GitHub, here's one I found just by searching: https://github.com/tbarbugli/django_longpolling
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by gane5h 13y ago
Two ways you can do this: 1. Long polling: It’s definitely possible to have thousands of long-lived requests with something like gunicorn/tornado. Remember to turn-off buffering in your front-end nginx proxy if you want to use long-pol
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by gane5h 13y ago
Really impressed with the pace of innovation in the last few months: cat api, aggregations, snapshots. The unfortunate side effect is that books and stack overflow posts written before 1.0 are outdated. Disclaimer: I’m the founder of a host
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by gane5h 17y ago
I mostly wanted to meet the YC folks in person to see what it's all about. So, I applied to Startup School last year and got in. I went to the YC offices afterwards to hang out. I had read almost all of his essays and also Founders@Work, so
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by gane5h 17y ago
Cool. Didn't expect so much interest on HN for a highly mathematical concept. If you're interested in a blog solely focussed on CS, here's one: http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/
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by gane5h 17y ago
Awesome! I might drive down from Vancouver just for this.
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by gane5h 17y ago
I really like this idea! I would also like a column for location, as I think it's key to be able to meet a mentor/advisor in person.
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by gane5h 17y ago
In my opinion, I believe llvm-g++ is a more promising approach to supporting C++. C++ is an incredibly difficult language to parse, so why not re-use work that has already been done?
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by gane5h 17y ago
The SVD connects the four fundamental subspaces of a linear system. I was fortunate to receive this great insight from one of Strang's lectures. I highly recommend you watch one of his videos online on this particular topic. This post doesn

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