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by dude_abides 13y ago
It makes joins possible without going through mapreduce. This is pure gold https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says material :)
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Google News down?(news.google.com)
1 points by dude_abides 13y ago|1 comments
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by dude_abides 13y ago
Douglas Hofstadter once said of Ray Kurzweil and his grand ideas: "It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid." I think Google (and Lar
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Leaked doc shows Foursquare's big plans for your check-in data(news.cnet.com)
1 points by dude_abides 13y ago|0 comments
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by dude_abides 13y ago
MapReduce is handy at terabyte-data volumes, but how often do we run jobs with input size > 1 TB? According to the paper: at least two analytics production clusters (at Microsoft and Yahoo) have median job input sizes under 14 GB, and
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by dude_abides 13y ago
A key stat is steady week-on-week growth. This is typically more impressive than single milestones. Acc to pg: A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well. [ http://www.paulgraham
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by dude_abides 14y ago
This is what you should be doing: plot(density(Annie), col="red") lines(density(Brian), col="blue") lines(density(Chris), col="green") lines(density(Zoe), col="cyan") This is the plot you get: http://i.imgur.com/sY2awX7.png
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Some serious lack of imagination on Facebook's part. They didn't go the hardware route since it is a lot of work. They didn't go the route of forking Android, since then they would have to partner with hardware manufacturers and that is a l
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Do companies, at this stage, announce what the IPO issuing price (or market cap) will be? If so, what is theirs? If not, any guesses what it will be? It is not in Splunk's league, but it is definitely a solid product, with a great growth pr
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by dude_abides 14y ago
I like this other quote by Sam better: startups: growth solves nearly every problem, and if you don't have growth nothing will solve your problem. (Ref: https://twitter.com/sama/status/289918007151583232 ) Corollary: if you don't have g
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Loved this line: "Why Postgres?" "It is the emacs of databases"
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by dude_abides 14y ago
It's amazing how at least some fields of science have been able to exponentially improve their experimental methodology, thanks to present-day social networks. Milgram's 1967 small world experiment that introduced the "6 degrees of separati
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by dude_abides 14y ago
I like this idea! But what happens if someone "suspends" their account after 1 month? How long will the content remain online then? There is no point in asking these questions about a free product. But since this is a paid product, an exhau
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Is there an option for a paying customer to "suspend" his account? If so, then how long after "suspending" would the customer's content get deleted?
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by dude_abides 14y ago
You left out a (probably very common) option: You have an earning spouse.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Great point. As per the author's thesis, we are in phase 2, and phase 3 is going to be initiated by a startup, and not before another 20 years. But IBM is currently doing (and making good progress at) exactly what the author describes as ph
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Great pitch, but the product and the news article seem to be low on details. The "how it works" link says that they get read/write access to the data on s3, they massage/process the data, and allow queries on it. But I'm confused how this h
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by dude_abides 14y ago
1. Start with any key. 2. Look up the relative minor. 3. Go one step to the right and/or one step to the left in the Circle of Fifths. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths There, you have the most popular and pleasant-sounding ch
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by dude_abides 14y ago
I became suspicious because the writing style of this paper was very superfluous, yet the conclusions were very strongly worded. Here is an example in the very first page: for each additional 1% pre-shutdown Megaupload penetration, the pos
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by dude_abides 14y ago
The authors are from a prestigious school, CMU. Still, I was curious to know who funded this research. Alas, not surprisingly, it is MPAA. The CMU lab is called Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA), and according to CMU's p
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Are the pageviews and unique IPs per day?
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Hive is not meant for real-time queries. Hive would merely serve as a baseline for comparison; what will be interesting is how it compares against Impala. And Hadapt, as @mwexler points out, and maybe also RedShift and BigQuery :)
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Not a single mention of Cloudera Impala in the article? Competition in this space is great! Woud be great to know how this offering compares to Impala.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
I believe board seats and lead investor/pro-rata rights are just negotiation terms and not a must for a Series A. Your other point is a good one. If there was no valuation and only convertible notes were issues, then I understand why this w
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Naive question: Is there a technical definition that differentiates a Seed round from Series A? I used to think - Seed round was raised from friends and family - but this one has tonnes of institutional investors. - Seed rounds typically ra
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Most points in this document are great, except for the argument about high salary in lieu of high bonuses and great benefits. High bonuses have worked well for Wall St traders, as well as for exec-level employees in all industries. And grea
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Since launching a year ago, 42Floors says that it has connected some 1,000 businesses with over 2 million square feet of office space Assuming very conservatively that an office with 20 employees requires 4400 sq ft, 2million/4400=454. Is
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Coffee Joulies(joulies.com)
6 points by dude_abides 14y ago|3 comments
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by dude_abides 14y ago
This proposition will work IFF the OP has street cred. Why did you choose to go anonymous? Founders want a backer with street cred more than they want money. Most founders will gladly give 90% equity for a pittance if the investor is in the
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by dude_abides 14y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned MSR academic search in the comments yet. It is light-years better than Google Scholar. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ Example author page: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/1180211/hari

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