Sense
Data
cloud data science platform
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
5 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Design: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Multi-engine support and interface praised
From 2 comments
Looks awesome, great with multi-engine support. I'd love if you could open-source your two-pane approach to IPython... I really like IPython (and have been working with IHaskell…
houshuang on HNSense cofounder here. We're just getting started, so feedback is welcome. Sense supports R, Python, JavaScript and SQL out of the box, but is fully extensible to new languages…
tristanz on HN
Looks great and nice work
From 2 comments
Looks great! Do you have full support for numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pymc, and pandas?
tansey on HNVery interesting! Nice work guys. Just sent you an email about academic research use case. You don't mention anything about RAM in your pricing - what are the restrictions? And…
Blahah on HN
Objections
Invitation code required to sign up
From 1 comment
Tried to sign up, but I need an invitation code.
berto99 on HN
Limited RAM and single-dashboard size
From 2 comments
any plans for more RAM options? something like the EC2 244GB?
Blahah on HNNot at the moment. Right now, the biggest single dashboard is 60GB. You can launch as many dashboards as your plan allows if your application can be distributed, but I'm guessing…
apatil on HN
Requests
Open-source the IPython engine or front-end
From 1 comment
Looks awesome, great with multi-engine support. I'd love if you could open-source your two-pane approach to IPython... I really like IPython (and have been working with IHaskell…
houshuang on HN
Easier data movement between engines and tools
From 1 comment
Is it possible to move data around between languages / engines? E.g. would it be possible to run a query against Red Shift (step 1), then cleanse it in Python (step 2), run R…
siganakis on HN
Way to expose results via API
From 1 comment
Wow, this looks really nice. One thing that isn't clear is how I get the information out. so for example, if I'm building a recommendation engine, is there some kind of api that…
berto99 on HN
Questions
How data moves between languages and engines
From 1 comment
Is it possible to move data around between languages / engines? E.g. would it be possible to run a query against Red Shift (step 1), then cleanse it in Python (step 2), run R…
siganakis on HN
Filesystem performance and dataset size limits
From 1 comment
Looks nice. How well does the distributed filesystem perform and what size data sets an it handle? How quickly can you ramp up 10, 100 or 1000 cores? Improved performance in…
micro_cam on HN
Alternatives named
Domino Data Lab
From 1 comment
Also see Domino Data Lab (http://www.dominodatalab.com) which is in public beta. Similar, with more emphasis on reproducibility of past results.
fawce on HN
SageMath Cloud
From 1 comment
SageMath Cloud has open signup: http://cloud.sagemath.com
ihnorton on HN