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Show HN: Stratava – CSV files to APIs in seconds

Posted by mbowcock on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @08:35AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://stratava.io

I’ve worked on a few projects with vendors that had data but no easy way to share that data with external systems. Typically, the story goes, we have this data in an ERP, CRM, Warehousing system, etc. but need an IT project to expose that data. That might include a developer, networking, security, project managers, all the typical project overhead. People on the business will question this and...

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Re:GE will move headquarters to Boston on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:31PM (#10897675)
GE chose to leave Connecticut because of a tax increase on profits made in other states by corporate subsidiaries. They're not the only corporation in Connecticut that's unhappy about the tax. Anti-business or not, it's not exactly a draw for corporations with subsidiaries across the country. The money that Boston threw at them was to keep them from moving to New York.
Re:Ask HN: Where to host Static single page website and cheap? on Friday July 25, 2014 @12:05PM (#8085924)
AWS http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosti...

Costs me about $0.50 a month to host a simple, static site.

Re:Startup idea list on Friday September 21, 2012 @04:31PM (#4555591)
Earth Class Mail http://www.earthclassmail.com/

I don't know who else saw it, but there was a show called Startup Junkies that profiled this company for 8 episodes. http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/about.jsf

Re:High-risk video game venture has Rhode Island, Curt Schilling reeling on Friday May 18, 2012 @04:57PM (#3993926)
My understanding is Kingdoms of Amalur was work in progress at Big Huge Games, 38 Studios acquired them and they modded the game to fit the world of Amalur. Which is supposed to tie into their next game.
Re:I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python? on Sunday May 06, 2012 @09:42PM (#3937183)
It seemed you were arguing against using transactions by default because they didn't roll back a call to a web service. I meant to point out that the issue in your case seems less about db transactions and more about the code and error handling.
Re:I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python? on Sunday May 06, 2012 @12:27PM (#3935497)
The transaction is internal to the database. It's essentially a list of operations to perform, if something goes wrong it provides a list of things to reverse. If the db transaction fails, then there would need to be some code to handle rolling back operations outside of the database. I don't think db transactions were to fault in your situation.
Re:Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @01:04PM (#3648892)
It's not transactions with the .com that's at issue. It's the fact that a company operating a business the government considers illegal is making money in the US and moving it overseas.

It's all about the money. Not .COMs.

Running a gambling site on an .so domain and hosting the servers overseas while profiting in the US will still get you indicted. The government might not have the authority to shut off your internet presence but I'm sure they could turn off finances in the US. And certainly make travel to certain countries an issue.

Re:Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @12:42PM (#3648774)
That was only one of many charges.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/02/ccips....

Re:Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @12:40PM (#3648761)
The US government has always had dominion over .coms (and .nets). Verisign manages .com's through a contract with the US Department of Commerce. That's where they get there authority.
Re:Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @12:09PM (#3648612)
But that is already an issue - whether or not you have a .com domain name. The domain name is just an asset and the government routinely seizes assets when filing criminal charges.
Re:Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @11:46AM (#3648497)
This seems to be the same issue as megaupload. A company outside the US, marketing a service that's illegal in the US to US citizens. Money paid for the service is then moved overseas. (I understand there may have been users in other countries, like megaupload)

While not something I necessarily agree with - I don't think this particular move indicates all .COMs are now threatened.

Re:Tesla responds to "bricking" issue on Friday February 24, 2012 @02:23PM (#3630563)
I believe all lithium-ion batteries have a low-voltage threshold that once crossed they can not be charged again. It's similar to a fuse - once tripped - there's no* getting around it. This protection is to guard against shorts in the internal circuitry. With the current technology there is no way around it.

* Edit. Missed the 'No'.

Re:Microsoft needs Wizards: A 1984 Microsoft job posting on Friday February 24, 2012 @10:51AM (#3629514)
decvax was DEC unix engineering groups vax on uucp/usenet. I believe it was the first system to move email in realtime. Microsoft must have been linked through this vax.
Re:OCaml for the Masses on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @04:50PM (#3481987)
http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

This write-up describes the basics of ocaml and haskell and some of their individual strengths. (along with scala and scheme)

Re:OCaml for the Masses on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @04:34PM (#3481932)
Seems like financial/quant computing would be a natural fit. The author mentions ocaml being well suited for general programming needs - Anyone using ocaml (or haskell/f#/etc.) for real production code?

Edit: should have mentioned this earlier for an example - xmonad is written in haskell

Re:WSJ comes out for SOPA on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @04:21PM (#3481888)
For some reason this sentence jumped out at me:

"Some lawmakers have noted that PIPA and SOPA would not affect anyone of the Web sites participating in the blackout."

I assume the argument being made here is that they're domestic sites and would not be affected by the legislation. And since they're not pirating anything what do they have to worry about. I could see someone reading it and thinking this is much to do about nothing. But this bill really puts pressure on domestic sites to comply and as we all know will just push the pirate sites to find ways around the law. So really, the sites most affected by these laws will be domestic and law-abiding.

Re:4chan "blacking out" (or, "spoilering") all comments as SOPA protest on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @03:50PM (#3481774)
"I suppose it's possible there are a lot of intelligent people with the emotional maturity of a 10 year old."

I think this sums it up correctly.

Re:Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000 on Monday January 16, 2012 @01:04PM (#3471696)
I had the same thought. Maybe for short burst where something is well thought out in your head and all your doing in transcribing. For most coding I find my typing to be more than sufficient. Maybe for something like documentation (but who writes that anyway?).
Re:John Carmack's .plan file on Sunday December 18, 2011 @03:45PM (#3367429)
As an aside I just saw this a couple of days ago and while activity seems to be slow to non-existent this looks like an interesting project.

Webfinger - http://code.google.com/p/

Basically finger 2.0 for the web

Re:Why don't they implement Python and Ruby on the web browsers? on Friday December 16, 2011 @04:19PM (#3362382)
This is an interesting implementation of python in the browser. It's a python interpreter written in JS, so you wouldn't need any new software on the users end.

http://www.skulpt.org/

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