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jacobscott

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September 4, 2008 (17y ago)
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  1. New EBS (AWS) volume type: General Purpose (SSD)

    It looks like Amazon has released a third EBS volume type, and renamed "Standard" volumes to "Magnetic". General Purpose is currently the default type when launching "Create Volume" in the EC2 Web UI…

    14 points 7
  2. Software Predicts Which Companies Are an Easy Sell (technologyreview.com)
    11 points 2
  3. Project Horizon: analysis at scale (palantirtech.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Facebook nearing statewise dominance of Twitter (jhscott.posterous.com)
    1 points 1
  5. Ask HN: Just replace my DBA: painless db admin and scale without the cloud?

    The recent launch of FathomDB is the latest of many articles on HN about databases, scalability, and the cloud. What is the state of the art -- in terms of scalability, management, monitoring -- for people who need to…

    7 points 14
  6. UC Berkeley's eighteen hour hackathon (startupatberkeley.com)
    21 points 4
  7. Ticketmaster-Live Nation talks raise concerns (cnn.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Executive Editor of NYTimes on business models, etc (nytimes.com)
    3 points 2
  9. NYT on analytical versus subjective risk management (nytimes.com)
    4 points 2
  10. Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand (nytimes.com)
    67 points 24
  11. Ask HN: Best debugging war stories?

    I just finished spending two days with the Eclipse debugger and WireShark to fix a crash that would happen every 100th Spring RPC call I made. Fix turned out to be removing a single line of code. This got me to thinking…

    4 points 4
  12. Ask HN: volunteering/giving back?

    I'm wondering what other HN folks are doing in terms of volunteering and giving back to the community at large, and how technology is affecting your choices? Generally, how do you approach the issue of helping the less…

    3 points 3
  13. Netflix brings online streaming to Mac with Silverlight (engadget.com)
    4 points 1
  14. Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online?

    I know that the TED talks are up free, I'm familiar with MIT's OpenCourseWare, the free educational material up on iTunes, and that Google puts some tech talks online. Unfortunately, it looks like you have to be a…

    50 points 22
  15. Ask HN: Best partner language for Java -- Python, Ruby, or X?

    In August, globalrev wondered what Ruby has that Python doesn't (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283639). I have a related question. In my day job I am a Java engineer working on enterprise software (I know, I…

    9 points 19
  16. Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads (reuters.com)
    2 points 1
  17. If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform (scripting.com)
    50 points 21
  18. Stuck in Google’s Doghouse? Solution: mail DoJ (nytimes.com)
    48 points 27