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throwawaygog6··on Processing 40 TB of code from ~10M projects with a server and Go for $100 (2019)
>>> If someone wants to host the raw files to allow others to download it let me know. It is a 83 GB tar.gz file which uncompressed is just over 1 TB in size.

Anyone knows if it is possible to download similar data set for youtube and reddit? I have ideas for search engine based on it, but I don't want to write/maintain scraper scripts.

throwawaygog6··on Open Sourcing Venice – LinkedIn’s Derived Data Platform
Opensourcing a component means it no longer provides any competitive. It just helps companies increase their open source credentials or decreases their cost of development over the next few years!
throwawaygog6··on Amazon walking back raises after internal bug miscalculated compensation
Normally, they will look at two years of stable(typically W2) income (Salary + RSUs) from one company before they make decisions. However, in bay area, some mortgage lenders have started excusing people who jump companies, because, well jumping companies in bay area is common. They now have to tweak their models.

Source: Recently went through the mortgage

throwawaygog6··on Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31
Anyone knows how Dark shy was able to do hyperlocal weather prediction?
throwawaygog6··on To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
Subscribe does not help me in discovering new channels on topics I want.
throwawaygog6··on To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
While we are here, is there a service that provides me with list of newly uploaded youtube videos? In my mother tongue (south indian language), I have many interesting channels but youtube does not surface them by default. I just want to go through the list and write an algorithm to filter them out based on mypreferences.

Is there somebody who scrapes them youtube and sells the data

throwawaygog6··on WeatherKit
Yep. Can confirm this. Weather apps provide location data. Email apps provide logged in users. SOurce: Ex-yahoo person here.
throwawaygog6··on Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?
That's ten requests per second, with some caching I am assuming. How abou a digital ocean droplet for $5/month?
throwawaygog6··on Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?
Sounds interesting. I am working for something similar. Can you give some way to contact you.
throwawaygog6··on Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?
Interesting. I will drop a mail soon.
throwawaygog6··on Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or university card
What is the best way to contact libraries/librarians for API access to their library?

I want to build an app which will dump me in random pages of my checkouted books, instead of me gathering energy to do it. I have other features planned.

I am stuck with how to interface with my local library, like Libby does. Any ideas ?