ssalevan

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   Chrome Extension Replaces Every Instance of ‘The Cloud’ With ‘My Butt’(betabeat.com)

   13 points by ssalevan 14y ago|1 comments
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   by ssalevan 14y ago

   Common Crawl has a really neat mission, as there isn't a whole lot of free and open data out in the world right now and they're trying to change that. With this donation it looks like their commons will be augmented with some great stuff a
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   Man Who Uses Tobii to Communicate Has Identity Stolen by Internet Hoaxster(betabeat.com)

   11 points by ssalevan 14y ago|0 comments
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   Nestle Embeds GPS Trackers in KitKat Bars for Promotional Campaign(betabeat.com)

   10 points by ssalevan 14y ago|6 comments
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   The World's First Horse_ebooks: Mark V Shaney(betabeat.com)

   3 points by ssalevan 14y ago|0 comments
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   by ssalevan 15y ago

   That was just for the crawl sample, yes, and was approximately 100M of data, though you can specify as much as you'd prefer. The cool thing about running this job inside Elastic MapReduce right now is the ability to get at S3 data for free,
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   by ssalevan 15y ago

   That's an interesting idea, and I dig using a fully open stack; we'll consider adding it into our next howto!
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   by ssalevan 15y ago

   Hey Curt, Most of my own runs, using the 2 small VM default, resulted in 3 normalized hours of usage, which equated to around 25 cents per run.