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sandyshankaron What is your favourite tool to (geo) map thing?

I recently came across Datasette. It lets you a build a map with a simple sqlite DB. Here is an example: https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plan...

sandyshankaron Ask HN: What is the “stack” for streaming/transcoding video?

I have done video streaming with this library for node: https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg. As some one else pointed out, do the transcoding up front.

sandyshankaron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)

I am part of start up that is working in the recruitment space . We are also hiring node.js developers through our app. Is it ok to post here?

sandyshankaron Design and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS

When are you planning to launch spreadsheet.io?

sandyshankaron Turf – A modular GIS engine written in JavaScript

Found this blog visualizing turfjs modules with mapbox.js (http://rousseau.io/turf-mapboxjs/)

sandyshankaron Show HN: Deploy your websites from Dropbox

Some time back, I was in the market for similar sevices, I evaluated brace.io and site44. If I am not wrong, they both charge $5/month for 5 websites. As a user, I would not mind paying that, because if I want to quickly demo to a client, I would prefer a separate sub-domain/folder without having to pull my credit card for that. Second, I was looking for minification and compression, great to see that you have added that feature. Third, great to see that you have contact forms, the first obstacle where you might think of servers. I like brace.io's implementation. Additionally I liked brace.io's admin and shipping workflow. Do you have anything similar?

sandyshankaron Looking for a programmer with strong knowledge of Twitter API and semantic

Can you mail me the details? My contact is username at gmail.

sandyshankaron Ask HN: Do you know a public API with high troughput?

You can use the twitter sample data stream. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample

sandyshankaron Ask HN: Where should I save all the great links I find on the web?

https://www.instapaper.com is a good service. However I find this more suitable for long form articles not multimedia.

sandyshankaron Project Tango

Imagine if you integrate this with a future version of NEST thermostat or an integrated lighting, you can create different environments in a single room and change it on the fly. An electrician working in a Hotel would be navigated to the right junction box. You buy a new car and the manufacturer provides you with a virtual manual to find new controls, may be even basic repairs.

sandyshankaron TextBlob – Finding Sentiments in Text

We are working on a tool which will flag mails that might require urgent attention. You can mail me if you are interested in discussing further.

sandyshankaron Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?

I found this to be a good tutorial for setting up a nodejs server on EC2 http://cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-...

sandyshankaron Ask HN: Any cloud computing instances cheaper than AWS EC2 Micro?

You can try appfog(paas).. and if you are coding on nodejs, you can try nodejitsu(paas).

sandyshankaron Ask HN: What's the best javascript charting library?

Google charts (https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs...), Flot (http://www.flotcharts.org/) are some of the popular options