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S4 adds Hadoop Interop, Scala PEs(blog.s4.io)
2 points by amock 16y ago|0 comments
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by amock 16y ago
If you apply for an invite and focus on the HN field you can see the limit, currently at 2500 karma.
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by amock 16y ago
Why doesn't other fit? How can there be anything that isn't covered by other?
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by amock 16y ago
What made the offer better could have been that it was coming from Quora rather than Google.
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by amock 16y ago
I agree that it probably won't become a huge success, but I think that if they switch to Android they'll end up with nothing since there's nothing special about the hardware. They'll lose the interest they have now and no one will have a r
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by amock 16y ago
It was around before Android so that's one reason why it's not Android based. I think that becoming just another Android device wouldn't be a good business move either, but I don't have any data to back that up.
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by amock 16y ago
I've heard more anti-union sentiment from people who had to be in unions to to get a particular job and then were forced to go on strike for a settlement that really only benefited the union leaders or from people who lost their jobs becaus
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by amock 16y ago
You can find more information at http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
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by amock 16y ago
It seems like that should get harder and harder as the density of disks increases. I wonder how different the ease of recovery is for drives made now compared to when that book was written.
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by amock 16y ago
Do you have any sources for this? I've heard about this before but I've never seen any details about how it works.
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by amock 16y ago
Do you really want to not care about the work you do? It's nice to be able to come home from work and not worry about work, but I wouldn't want to work on something that I wasn't interested in.
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by amock 16y ago
I think people believe that once you buy hardware you should be able to do whatever you want with it.
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by amock 16y ago
There are lots of people who just went to college for four years and then got jobs writing code. I didn't keep a track of many of them but none of the ones I know of turned out to be good at it.
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Google Books n-grams data and Apache Hive on Elastic MapReduce(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by amock 16y ago|0 comments
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Four-Hour Body Reviewed(makuro.wordpress.com)
2 points by amock 16y ago|0 comments
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by amock 16y ago
They make you pay extra for an unmetered gigabit port, so it seems reasonable that you should be able to use more than the standard bandwidth allocation if you pay for more and if you don't you should be able to use the standard package.
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by amock 16y ago
Yes. "For example, you could stream terabytes of data off of a genomic sequencer as it is being created, store the final data set as a single object and then analyze any subset of the data in EC2 using a ranged GET"
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by amock 16y ago
The pricing is $1/month and $0.50 per million queries for the first billion queries.
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by amock 16y ago
The problem with this is that Amazon has so many businesses that almost anything you do could be related the to company's business activities.
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by amock 16y ago
Yes, but I think that since the wholesale bandwidth market is more competitive it won't be as much of a problem.
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by amock 16y ago
There are also a couple of very small providers who provide really cheap fast connections. If you have access to one of them you can get either 30Mbps symmetric for $40/month or 100Mbps symmetric for $60/month. Hopefully more of these wil
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by amock 16y ago
It's not a C compilers, but Mlton is an interesting SML whole program compiler. There's also JHC for Haskell which is nifty but can't quite compile all Haskell programs. I also found the Stalin Scheme compiler very interesting since it se
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by amock 16y ago
Slide 3 says that power, power distribution, and cooling account for only 31% of the monthly cost. So while power related expenses aren't trivial they're significantly less than the cost of servers. I think land would be counted under oth
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by amock 16y ago
Power is not the big expense and neither is land. See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/31/DatacenterNetwor... for a breakdown of expenses.
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Unlocked Palm Pre 2 Available to Developers(developer.palm.com)
3 points by amock 16y ago|0 comments
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by amock 16y ago
Those are available now, but not with the comment was posted.
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by amock 16y ago
I think the two big changes are that the nodes have 10Gb network cards and full bisection bandwidth. They're also HVM instead of PVM but I don't know how much that matters for this benchmark.
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by amock 16y ago
Why wouldn't you be able to get much done on this cluster?
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by amock 16y ago
Someone sold the LHC enough to get the money required to build and support it.
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by amock 16y ago
No. This is complementary to Hadoop. Google's Percolator is a similar system and they say that it's much less efficient. If you don't need continuously updated data then Hadoop is a better choice.

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