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by epaulson 12y ago
This could get really interesting if they extend it to all of their products. It's not just about what margin should Amazon take on this product, it's what margin should Amazon take on the entire basket, and what margin should Ama
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by epaulson 12y ago
If any members of the Google Data Liberation Front are reading HN today, is this on your radar to support? Failing that, any word on an API into the service behind it?
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by epaulson 12y ago
This is fantastic. What we need next are OAuth libraries for Postfix and other SMTP servers, so I can use Gmail to centralize and read my email but still use my home organization's SMTP server to send email, without having to give Goog
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by epaulson 12y ago
It's not quite as much like git as you might think it is. It's git-style in that it stores data as blobs named by hash and tracks everything with pointers to those blobs, but isn't as committed to keeping everything forever.
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by epaulson 12y ago
It's an acronym: "Content-Addressable, Multi-Layer, Indexed" Storage. Nothing to do with ocaml. Content Addressable: What things are named depends on their content. Two identical things have the same name. For example, the &q
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by epaulson 12y ago
The real mismatch is handling failures. The HPC world has grown up handling failures by failing the entire computation. As a defense against failure, they usually checkpoint the entire computation. Part of this is the fault of the MPI stand
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Code for New York Times Senate model is on GitHub(github.com)
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by epaulson 13y ago
I also like the idea of Keybase.io, though I wish it was based on something a little more decentralized. The unfortunately-named WebFist looks cool: http://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/06/bootstrapping-webfinger-w...
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by epaulson 13y ago
It would be great if there was some PaaS-type mail service provider. I'd like to get away from hosting it with a single VPS, and running multiple VPSes for redundancy seems frustratingly expensive for such low-intensity load like a per
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by epaulson 13y ago
The killer is the machines insists on each item being bagged before moving on to the next item. If they'd just check the weight at the end the time difference wouldn't be that big of a deal. I know the codes for most of the produc
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by epaulson 13y ago
I had nearly the same experience with Azure a few years ago. I signed up for a trial account to try their database service, but ultimately didn't do much with it and wasn't storing any data there. A few months later Microsoft want
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SatCam: Use your iPhone camera to improve weather satellite data(satcam.ssec.wisc.edu)
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by epaulson 13y ago
I wrote some bad python to save my own copy of all the cached content from the feeds I subscribe to: https://github.com/epaulson/stash-greader-posts It doesn't upload them anywhere, but at least I've got my o
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by epaulson 13y ago
I think the post is right - we need to be rethinking some of the abstractions in data center networking so we can deploy apps with specific network topologies and performance guarantees, and still be logically isolated from each other. This
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The Future of VLANs(blog.scottlowe.org)
1 points by epaulson 13y ago|1 comments
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by epaulson 13y ago
So this is the crux of it for me - why is testing for some of these genes not covered by any patents, and yet others are covered by patents? Part of me thinks "of course genes can't be patented, no one invented them", and the
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by epaulson 13y ago
I switched to feedly. I'm not thrilled (it seems to really stress my machine out) but it's not terrible. I remain curious how it well it will work after Google shuts Reader down. I may go the self-hosting route too. I wrote a script to pull
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by epaulson 13y ago
The author writes: "If you can, watch in in HD. This one needs to be watched in HD." There's a regional TV, furniture, and appliance store here in Madison that has an LG 84" 4K TV on display (resolution - 3840 X 2160P) and they're using thi
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by epaulson 13y ago
Users and computers can here. Let any unskilled user make a change. There are plenty of editors who just watch the changelog and fix things up for grammer or for NPV violations, and now that can include include incorporating it into the str
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by epaulson 13y ago
Can someone point to an example wikipedia page that's actually drawing from wikidata? When I hit wikidata and look up random items (say, item 1000, the country of Gabon: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1000 ) and then look at the source for
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by epaulson 14y ago
It's just capacity planning - they can migrate me around as needed, though obviously they'd like to minimize the number of times that happens. Maybe there are periods where I spin up but don't get the full memory - that's OK, I'm only payin
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by epaulson 14y ago
It's still just 512 megs of RAM. I'd love to find a VPS provider that gives me like 2 gigs of RAM, and charged me by how much of that was hot during the month. It's frustrating to have to pay in advance for the maximum amount of RAM I might
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by epaulson 14y ago
Google is going to be able to sell personalized advertisements in TV shows. Forget targeting networks or shows, Google can hit exactly me, complete with all my search history. At the beginning, they're only going to have a few ad slots to w
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Why Aaron died(tarensk.tumblr.com)
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by epaulson 14y ago
There's a lot of overlap between the open data/gov2.0 world and the journalism world. On a whim, I went to the main data journalism/"Computer Assisted Reporting"/newsroom developers conference last year (I had family in town so it was reall
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by epaulson 14y ago
We've solved this problem before with libraries. They're one of the institutions that in society are meant to last long-term, and take on the costs of preserving material for perhaps perpetuity. For books, that means a building, shelves, te
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by epaulson 14y ago
It's a little frustrating that only some discs are eligible. I wonder if that's just because they haven't ripped everything or if they have specific license agreements. I'll pitch my friend's here - Murfie ( https://www.murfie.com/ ) does m
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by epaulson 14y ago
Seconded, if it includes PostGIS. I'd love to have something in the cloud with operations over more than just points for small hobby projects.
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by epaulson 15y ago
For many people, an honest answer to this question has to include partner/family considerations, which aren't at all appropriate for an interviewer to be asking about. I'd only ever ask this question by first making clear that I only want t
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by epaulson 15y ago
I want to do intersections of polygons - think "what neighborhoods have overlap with this political district." Many systems seem to have one but not the other, i.e. "store points, query by polygon", or "store polygons, query by point(and ma

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