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by durana 17y ago
I pre-ordered the product and I did not receive this e-mail either. I forget the exact options relating to e-mail that I selected during the Google Checkout process, but I either chose not to disclose my e-mail address to the seller or I d
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by durana 17y ago
Stanford has a Machine Learning course available in iTunes U. Direct link to course in iTunes: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.s... Stanford iTunes U site: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
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by durana 17y ago
Take #1 and generalize it to the mistake of trying to fix a problem without really understanding what the problem is. This has to be the most common mistake I've seen in the sysadmin world.
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by durana 17y ago
Yeah, I saw that too. Too bad it seems like it was ~15 hours until Amazon checked an interface and saw the high utilization.
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by durana 17y ago
Yikes, always remember to check interface utilization when troubleshooting performance issues with anything network related!
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by durana 17y ago
That's an over generalization. And difficult and expensive relative to what? When evaluating the cost of solutions to problems like this, the basic idea is to compare the cost of the solution and the cost of the problem (if realized) with
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by durana 17y ago
Everything fails. Design systems that minimize the impact failures have on your customers. Moving to another provider isn't going to fix the problem. Data like this should be stored in more than one place.
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by durana 17y ago
One of my favorites for quickly copying a directory between hosts is... dsthost# nc -l 1234 | tar -xvzf - -C . srchost# tar -xzf - . | nc dsthost 1234
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by durana 17y ago
The story really doesn't involve Twitter much at all.
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by durana 17y ago
The price comparison with other solutions isn't really fair. The cost per PB of these storage building blocks is directly compared to complete storage solutions from companies like NetApp and EMC. In the end the cost of the complete solut
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by durana 17y ago
Another interesting thing from this is that it sounds like they will be awarding grand prizes for the best entry at set deadlines. In the first contest you had to improve on Cinematch by 10% to qualify to win the grand prize.
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by durana 17y ago
Actually the post says it will run for a period of time shorter than half of the length of the first contest which could have run for 5 years (10/2006 - 10/2011). From the post... And, like so many great movies, there will be a sequel. The
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by durana 17y ago
Anyone have any ideas for apps they want to share?
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by durana 17y ago
Some of the new models that came out of the Netflix Prize do take into account temporal changes. From a user perspective, it seems to be how a user's rating style can change over time and how a user's taste in movies can change with time.
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by durana 17y ago
I think you're looking at this problem in the wrong way. Apply some of that intelligence of yours and try to figure out why you have to "dumb yourself down" to have a good relationship with your friends. Conversation is a real skill. Comm
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Boomerang: A bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc data(seas.upenn.edu)
24 points by durana 18y ago|11 comments
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by durana 18y ago
A book on learning x86 assembly on recent processors.
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by durana 18y ago
I wasn't ever close enough to see what kind of disks they were.
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by durana 18y ago
We're serving ads so working across as many browsers as possible is important to us. Also from a customer service perspective, telling a client that ads won't work on their site because of feature X in browser Y isn't always the best optio
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by durana 18y ago
I've seen them two deep side by side. They had custom racks that reminded me of those racks of trays of food you'd see in large production kitchens. There were four systems per level/tray.
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by durana 18y ago
I've been in data centers hosting Google systems. This picture looks very similar if not identical to what I've seen, so I'd say it is most definitely real.
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by durana 18y ago
"SQL does not scale out to multiple databases easily, CloudDB does." I don't believe CouchDB currently does this any better than what people are doing with RDBMS like MySQL. Right now with CouchDB, there's no bult-in partitioning, so if yo
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Ask HN: Dealing with IE8's InPrivate Blocking
4 points by durana 18y ago|3 comments
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by durana 18y ago
Since it wasn't clear in my previous comment, Amazon's TextBuyIt is the exact same service but via SMS and you can purchase via SMS too.
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by durana 18y ago
Congrats on launching a service that should be very useful to lots of people. Have you seen Amazon's TextBuyIt? https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/productsServices?sn=te... What are your plans for the future of this service? Anything t
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A community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia(dbpedia.org)
14 points by durana 18y ago|2 comments
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by durana 18y ago
Yeah, what I really meant by my comment was it is cool to see this style of programming (lightweight procs & messaging) becoming easier to do in more mainstream languages. While implementation details differ greatly, I think it still g
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by durana 18y ago
I don't think the calculation says anything about the grouping of data. Or does it? If you have an unbiased sample of 584 votes and 60% of the sample responded "25 - 30", could you say with 95% confidence that 60% (+/-4%) of the sampled po
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by durana 18y ago
"It takes a Lightweight-tasks-with-message-passing approach to concurrency." As someone who really likes Erlang's approach to concurrency, I think it is very cool to see it starting to become available in more and more languages.
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Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view.(gapminder.org)
33 points by durana 18y ago|6 comments

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