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atomic77on What’s Our Duty to the People Globalization Leaves Behind?

An even easier argument to make for the selfish and empathy-challenged is the link between inequality and violent crime [1]. The more money and resources you have to spend on walls and security guards the less you have for investment and consumption on useful things.

[1] http://web.worldbank.org/archive/website01241/WEB/IMAGES/INE...

atomic77on C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading

It was worth reading this article just to discover this lstopo utility

atomic77on In the Works – AWS Region in Canada

Please do enlighten me.

atomic77on In the Works – AWS Region in Canada

Moreover I am curious about whether they will charge in USD or CAD.

If USD, then a Canadian firm still has to deal with currency exposure as with the US AZs

If CAD, it might be interesting if a lot of US load heads up to Canada chasing lower prices.

atomic77on You don't have big data

I read the underscores like a "u"... so i guess a mnemonic for this formula could be SuT 'N HuT... sutton hut?!

Maybe some other letters would make the mnemonic more interesting :)

atomic77on You don't have big data

There needs to be a time-dependent definition of "Big Data", because this term is frequently abused and results in confusion all around.

In my view there has always been "big" data. As others have pointed out, none of this is really any different from the data warehousing days. How much data you can store is a function of how much money you are willing to spend, and all that has changed is the amount of disk storage you get per dollar.

I would propose a definition as follows:

S_t > N * H_t

Where S_t is "big" data when it is greater than some constant # of hard drives N and H is the size of the average consumer HDD at time t.

So if we assume that today the average HDD is 2TB and we define C as say 200, big data is 400TB. 10 years ago "big data" would have been say 20TB. Simple.