Profiling in Python

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Here at HumanGeo we use a lot of Python, and it is tons of fun. Python is a great language for writing beautiful and functional code amazingly fast, and it is most definitely my favorite language to use both privately and professionally. However, even…

28 July 2015

Show HN: Cloud Storage with ZFS send and receive over SSH

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rsync.net now supports ZFS send and receive over SSH If you're not sure what this means, our product is Not For You. In 2012 rsync.net transitioned to ZFS as the base of it's cloud storage platform.[1] In addition to enhanced data safety and…

28 July 2015

A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment

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This month’s theme for The Hustle is people who game the system. This is the last of the weekly series. I moved to America four years ago, when I was 22. Since then, I’ve co-founded two startups that have raised ~$90 million in venture capital and have…

27 July 2015

Generate Regex from Examples

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If you like this tool, please cite our works: Bartoli, De Lorenzo, Medvet, Tarlao, Inference of Regular Expressions for Text Extraction from Examples, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2016 The source code is available on…

25 July 2015

Raspberry Pi 2 Cluster Case, Part 2

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This is the second post of a series about Raspberry PI 2 BigData cluster case. From Raspberry PI 2 Cluster Case pt1, I drew up a rough sketch with certain goals I set out to. They are, Able to fit in 6 RPI2 in a small, contained volume. Has to be…

23 July 2015

Thanks Pivotal, Hello Redis Labs

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I consider myself very lucky for contributing to the open source. For me OSS software is not just a license: it means transparency in the development process, choices that are only taken in order to improve software from the point of view of the users,…

15 July 2015