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511.
New Mechanical Turk Blog(mechanicalturk.typepad.com)
1 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
512.
Why do we need database joins?(lemire.me)
28 points by timf 16y ago|31 comments
513.
Secretive X-37B spacecraft back on ground after 7 months(google.com)
25 points by timf 16y ago|9 comments
514.
by timf 16y ago
There's a nice summary of the paper here: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2010/11/availability-in-glo...
515.
Tablets(paulgraham.com)
387 points by timf 16y ago|250 comments
516.
by timf 16y ago
Make sure to look at this more comprehensive review: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers
517.
How hard is space travel, in principle?(michaelnielsen.org)
39 points by timf 16y ago|16 comments
518.
The only script in your head(headjs.com)
258 points by timf 16y ago|33 comments
519.
by timf 16y ago
> Giant, Purposeless, Unfocused Machine Learning System. There's a YC company that does this in a general way but I would not label their use cases as "purposeless". http://www.directededge.com/
520.
Using 'git stash' as a todo list(blog.vwelch.com)
23 points by timf 16y ago|11 comments
521.
Visualization of a Facebook news feed load over 3G wireless(vimeo.com)
10 points by timf 16y ago|1 comments
522.
by timf 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934273
523.
Breaking AES-128 in realtime, no ciphertext required(eprint.iacr.org)
69 points by timf 16y ago|19 comments
524.
Netflix AWS Strategy Reflects Google Philosophy (interview w/ Adrian Cockcroft)(cloudscaling.com)
8 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
525.
by timf 16y ago
There is a Python port, too: http://packages.python.org/GitPython/0.3.1/ ( http://gitorious.org/git-python )
526.
Fiber to the Home — technologies & challenges(research.google.com)
1 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
527.
Twitterlogical: The Misunderstandings of Ownership(canyoucopyrightatweet.com)
7 points by timf 16y ago|1 comments
528.
by timf 16y ago
In what sense do you think each user "owns" their tweets? In most cases it's not at all, here's a good page on the topic: http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com
529.
Getting A New Product Off The Ground: Part Two(kalzumeus.com)
93 points by timf 16y ago|18 comments
530.
James Hamilton: HPC in the Cloud with GPGPUs(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
2 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
531.
by timf 16y ago
It only mentions using the same two GPUs (dual Nvidia M2050 GPU units), not the same overall setup. Before the bandwidth graph that shows EC2 really beating out the native setup, note this comment: "Note the capped PCIe speeds in the clien
532.
by timf 16y ago
Check out the extensive benchmarks here: http://blog.cyclecomputing.com/2010/11/a-couple-more-nails-i... (HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1906452 )
533.
Benchmarks for the brand new Compute GPU on Amazon EC2(blog.cyclecomputing.com)
9 points by timf 16y ago|2 comments
534.
On Erlang, State and Crashes(jlouisramblings.blogspot.com)
5 points by timf 16y ago|1 comments
535.
Keep a Small Surface - Webapp Isolation(peakscale.com)
11 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
536.
by timf 16y ago
Just remember this is durability not availability. Jeff states this clearly: "If you store 10,000 objects with us, on average we may lose one of them every 10 million years or so." Eleven nines availability is the service not working/r
537.
Amazon S3 Price Reduction(aws.typepad.com)
141 points by timf 16y ago|37 comments
538.
Notes from A NOSQL Evening in Palo Alto(highscalability.com)
1 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
539.
I’m Moving to Chile for Six Months for Startup Chile(nathanlustig.com)
4 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
540.
For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance(theatlantic.com)
259 points by timf 16y ago|226 comments

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