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dacm··on Monetise Your Genome Anonymously
Very interesting take to counteract the 23andme data leak
dacm··on Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes
Forcing you to give consent to receive a newsletter in order to download the ebook is not the way to go
dacm··on New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
Being that the data is queried from a web app through HTTP, the shorter the better. Around 1 sec should be alright, but 6 - 8 definitely isn't
dacm··on New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
It is in our case. This is a service which is very seasonal, so it may be used during a couple of days each month only. Having a bunch of instances mostly idle would definitely be more expensive
dacm··on New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
When I worked on this I used this article as a reference: https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-python-packaging/ and also ended up with a huge image. What that article didn't mention is that the virtual environment folder should be excluded in the serverless config file, as the runtime is provided by boto3. So adding:

package: exclude: - venv/

would reduce the size considerably (to 50 MB in my case)

dacm··on New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
Our problem is that we have a team of data scientists who are familiar with Python, plus a decent set of custom tools written in it, so changing languages isn't an option
dacm··on New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
We've been packaging pandas in a lambda which is used to perform some calculations, but being a 50 MB zip file makes cold starts of about 6-8 secs. We're lucky that the service has little use, thus our way to workaround it is by having a lambda warmer which is run every 5 minutes and invokes N pandas lambdas. I'd be very interested in knowing if Layers has some feature to avoid this kind of issue.
dacm··on Pianist Maria João Pires panics as she realises she prepared wrong piece (2013)
From one of the video comments: "They (Maria João, conductor, and orchestra) had recorded 6 months earlier three Mozart concerti. This lunch concert was the rehearsal for the evening performance. Since they had rehearsed to prepare the recording six months earlier, this lunch concert was the only rehearsal. She came prepared to play K. 467 and was caught off guard by K. 466 (although it has been in her repertory for years)."
dacm··on Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions in 2016?
My current top three would be:

uBlock Origin - Block annoying ads

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

LastPass - Easily manage passwords

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lastpass-free-pass...

The Great Suspender - Save RAM by suspending unused tabs

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

dacm··on New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
Here: http://www.dell.com/nl/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?oc=cnx93611&m...
dacm··on New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
Website is a complete mess and the page you refer to was probably about the previous model which was withdrawn. Anyway, after some search I managed to find it here in Spain and even order one (they have a nice discount these days due to Black Friday). This one should make it for you: http://www.dell.com/de/unternehmen/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?o...
dacm··on Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon
Bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314332
dacm··on NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
Should be noted in the title that this post is from 2012
dacm··on Ask HN: What should I buy? Macbook Air or Dell XPS 13?
I'm in a similar situation to yours and been reading some positive reviews about this https://slimbook.es/

They seem to be very responsive in terms of doubts, questions, etc. but as most small companies their main disadvantage is brand awareness when compared to Dell or Apple. But of course this is greatly compensated by a cheaper price.