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by jdrock 17y ago
For 4: We will be pricing data transfer at about $0.10 per GB. Any computation done on the images would be priced at $0.03 per CPU-hour.
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by jdrock 17y ago
That is me :) 1. Who makes the crawling method? We give you the ability to write your own crawling logic. You don't have to though.. we have a default crawler that runs as well. 2. Crawling specific pages? You can specify pages to crawl us
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by jdrock 17y ago
We plan on providing some basic utility functions that will help our customers, but one of the great things is that you can use third-party code in your own code. I actually mean two things when I say this. First, you can use available Ja
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by jdrock 17y ago
At the risk of being spammy, I really do think they'd benefit from using the service my company has developed - http://www.80legs.com . They'll be able to reach and compare millions of images per day for less than $100 (depending on the c
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by jdrock 17y ago
I was in a fairly similar position (graduated in 03).. after a few months of frustration, I just started my own business. Was making less than my friends that got jobs the first year, but quickly out-paced them.
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by jdrock 17y ago
I know this is pedantic, but the article starts off with a poor example. The reason full-court presses aren't used in basketball is because they are easily beaten, especially when the team using them is smaller and slower than the other te
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by jdrock 17y ago
It seems like the author is being satirical, but there are people that really do think this way.
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by jdrock 17y ago
That's part of it. I was looking at it more from a computation/energy-efficiency perspective.
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by jdrock 17y ago
I'd be curious to see if Facebook and the rest use similar strategies to reduce the intra-datacenter processing and bandwidth, and if the savings achieved are worth anything significant.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Pretty nice idea. Just a couple thoughts.. 1. Definitely would like to search on content keywords, not just title of manual. 2. One of your top priorities should be getting this to the top of Google search for 'manual'. Right now it looks
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by jdrock 18y ago
Hey - I work for 80legs as well so thought I'd chime in and answer this question (westside is grabbing some food). We have thought about offering easy integration with AWS, but we'd probably implement this at a later time if we decided to
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by jdrock 18y ago
"..and forces entrepreneurs to build a startup that can make it as a business from day one." I think the conclusion borders on comedic. Only a miniscule # of companies should not be thinking of this way.
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by jdrock 18y ago
The author seems to be thinking that people making the distinction between capex and opex aren't making the assumptions of lower utilization, agility, etc. that are mentioned at the end of the post. On top of this, when I use this terminol
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by jdrock 18y ago
Is it the formula that killed Wall Street or an inability or unwillingness to recognize its limitations? Sounds like the latter.
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by jdrock 18y ago
I was wondering if anyone could break down the pricing plan for me. Talk about needlessly complicated... Also, if any current BOSS users can comment on how this will affect their operations, that would be awesome.
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by jdrock 18y ago
If that's your impression of VCs, you've been dealing with some terrible ones.
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by jdrock 18y ago
Yes, in theory you could do something similar with AWS. However, you'd have to put in the work to handle all the complexities of parallel-computing and web crawling. We do that for you. And yes, our service is cheaper. We'd love to see d
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by jdrock 18y ago
I have to admit I have limited familiarity with Pig and Sawzall (just added "Learn more about Pig and Sawzall" to my to-do list :D), but our platform is designed to save developers from having to think about clusters, parallelization, etc.
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by jdrock 18y ago
Actually, we're creating a way for developers to access the web really easily for the purposes of different kinds of analysis, including building semantic frameworks. The idea is that we give you really cheap, really fast access to million
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by jdrock 18y ago
..but not Carnegie Mellon? Oh well, I guess we can't all be the best. ;)
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by jdrock 18y ago
Haha, why didn't I think of this.. probably the one link I need - thanks!
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Ask HN: What's a good general seed list for a web crawler
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by jdrock 18y ago
QFT.
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by jdrock 18y ago
Hm.. are you willing to live with the insane rise in healthcare costs? As a society, we should all die around 70 years old.
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by jdrock 18y ago
Agreed.. did not like the tag cloud. I don't trust it to direct me directly to the games I'm interested in.
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by jdrock 18y ago
We had our firm get reviewed here on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=347359 ). Actually the comments here were pretty good overall. I remember going to a tech meetup in town here... describing what we did seem to personally offen
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by jdrock 18y ago
Neat idea.. my only worry would be scalability on the end-user side. I.e., it might be difficult to get an aggregate understanding of user behavior without going through tons of videos.
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by jdrock 18y ago
Really nice visualization of GAs
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by jdrock 18y ago
Agreed.. 23andme could maybe win "commercialization of the year"..? But that's still stretching it.