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The article has no discussion of "disruption", when HDD vs. SDD looks like a classic case of it. The key empirical data of "The Innovators Dilemma" (which coined the term "disruptive technology") was on the evolution of the HDD market.

The article's analysis is correct - for today. It doesn't take into account the trajectory of improvements: all three technologies are improving (HDD, STEC and thumb drives) at a greater rate than the need for those improvements. Although HDD will still be better for some features, the other technologies will be adequate for the user need for those features - and will supply other valued benefits, that HDD lacks.

Specifically:

(1). USB flash drives will eventually have enough capacity for most needs - while staying at about $20. HDD will have much more capacity but it's not needed, and it simply can't match the per-unit price.

(2). STEC will eventually get cheap enough for most needs - but keep the high performance. HDD will be even cheaper but it's not needed, and it simply can't match the performance.

HDD will still have advantages that make it preferable for some usages - for one thing, I think it will probably become the new archive tape. It has cheap capacity and fast sequential writes and reads (I saw two brands of 500GB USB HHD for backup today in a mainstream retail outlet (post office), for about $150 AUD).

And perhaps new approaches will become more popular, that fit this well - such as journaling file-systems. If capacity becomes cheap enough, why not store everything and never delete? (like Gmail).
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What about?
All right, I read up a bit. Downmodders, I fucking dare you, read this piece by Krugman

http://www.slate.com/id/9593

and tell me again that he isn't a quack.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/pundits-as-mole.html
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Ask HN: Anyone know how to un-hijack my friend's Clickpass account?
A friend and I both use Clickpass to access HN. She uses her Facebook account, and I use my OpenID. I logged in from her computer the other day using my OpenID, and now she is completely unable to log in to HN with Clickpass. It always takes her to my OpenID provider.

We've tried clearing cache, deleting cookies, even using another browser, and it always directs her back to my OpenID provider.

Anyone have any ideas? Clickpass sure is user friendly...until you need to change something!
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I read that link four times.

Are you saying that Krugman was a spy who actually published and worked his way up the right side of the political spectrum in order to make a stand for his true left-leaning views? Or the other way around?

I found the "Pundits as Moles" post murky. I'm not so sure it helps in overcoming bias as much as finding excuses for behavior we don't like. Pundits could be moles, they could just sway with the partisan wind. Or they could just be businesspeople looking at their daily ratings. A plug-and-play system for determining motivations is not something that will help you overcome bias.
I don't think so really. I mean the MacBooks are a design masterpiece and what better person to present them than their lead designer. I wouldn't read too much into this.
I'm a man, and I've worked as an ER/ICU nurse for the past 15 years. Being a gender FOO in a gender BAZ dominated industry can be unpleasant and challenging at times.

Not to complain, but to make the point:

* I almost got expelled from nursing school because of what I believe was discrimination towards men. I've talked to other men who've had similar experiences.

* I worked on a unit where my charge nurse repeatedly called me a "boy nurse".

* I am frequently referred to as "one of those male nurses".

* Many patients have asked me, "are you going to go on to be a doctor". When I tell them that I'm not, I hear, "Oh." and get a surprised, concerned look.

* I've had my ass pinched/slapped by coworkers. (I'm married. It's not appreciated)

* I had a coworker ask me to help with her, "fertility problems" and don't I look just like her boyfriend.

* Last week, I had a coworker come behind me and start braiding my long hair. I had to tell my coworker that I don't like people messing with my hair. Can you imagine if I did that to a female coworker at Google, IBM or Ford?

* I'm frequently around when women trade child birthing stories, or hear coworkers talk about their menstrual cycles.

* I've had bosses talk to me about how men don't really do foo very well as nurses.

* I'm frequently asked to "be a big, strong man and help me move my patient". I have back problems from 15 years of being asked to do things because of my size and gender.

* I've often been asked to care for hostile, combative, drunk or otherwise chemically altered patients, because I'm a "big, strong man".

I could go on.

Let's just say that I'm happy to mentor any man that comes into this profession. There are certain tricks of the trade that will help a lot that I've picked up along the way. And, there are benefits to being a man in this profession as well.

If the gender FOO's want to get together and help each other out or talk about how to deal with being FOO around so much BAZ... More power to them.
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Spokeo is pretty creepy. They index all of Pandora's public channels so you can see what kind of music your friends have been listening to.
Damn, people are still commenting here and I forgot to mention the non-commercial stuff I'm doing. It all lives at http://greaterscope.net. I'm taking a stab at:

* Creating a foreign key based ORM for PHP5
* Creating a PHP5 database abstraction layer that's easier to use than PDO or the alternatives
* An abstraction layer for html forms that generates, validates and even supports deeply nested "arrays of fields"
* A console terminal multiplexer (GNU screen, but split-screen) in C for Linux

Disclaimer: There are existing projects similar to many of the above, but I'm striving to make my APIs cleaner, code readable and more concise. Plus I enjoy learning by doing.

I'm also extremely interested in wireless mesh ... anyone working on that?
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i'm not convinced...

280 dimensions? is he talking about the same dimensions that everyone else is talking about? or is he calling every viewable vantage point a dimension?
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If there is some functional reason why a group might be all one sex, then few people would argue against it. For example, the way men act, think, are expected to behave, etc, in a dating/relationship setting is different from how women do; and importantly the behaviours that lead to success differ depending on whether you are male or femaile. So in that setting it'd be entirely appropriate to have a all-male or all-female support group.

Is being a startup founder like that? I don't know, but it seems plausible that it might be.
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Still working on my website http://overtrainer.com/

Doing other random hardware as well
Worse. The article I linked to wasn't even about politics - it was about the economy. Reading it was like hearing a Fields Medal winner publicly explain that 1.999... does not equal 2. When a guy who advocates printing money and lending it, gets the Nobel Prize in economics... you know something's wrong.
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Sounds neat! I'll look for it.
it's easy to slip out of startup mode when nobody around you is doing it. peer pressure & constant exposure help a lot.

you certainly can do it, and the perks you mentioned are spot on, but i've always found it harder to stay motivated when not around startuppy people.
To house your startup?
It solved the "elephant int he room"-problem wih browsers, that the whole thing crashes when one tab crashes.
Each tab having its own process is great.

I miss some features from Firefox and I still use Firefox but Chrome defineately has potential.

And like bdfh42 said, it's waiting for a killer app.
I wrote about something very similar a while back: http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2005/04/why-bubble-burst.html
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What's wrong with printing money and lending it? Isn't increasing the money supply standard policy in a recession? Certainly the US government is doing that right now. It will help the recession at the cost of inflation.

Krugman is a liberal economist. I am guessing that you are more in favor conservative economics. I believe that both conservative and liberal economics work perfectly well. It's a matter of convincing the people participating in the financial system that the theory in place or the one to be adapted is the best one. It all comes down to faith. If you have enough faith, liberal economics probably works better. Conservative economics doesn't require nearly enough faith to work.
I wasn't saying that Krugman was a spy for one side left or right -- he worked his way up the academic spectrum of quantitative economics, in fact, all the way to the very top. Now he gets to write about politics and literary economics using the authority earned from his academic career. His current motivation is getting Barack Obama elected and generally advocating higher taxes and more government services.

I'm not reading into that "Pundits as Moles" post overly much -- I just thought it funny that it seemed to apply to Paul Krugman.
You can also have a look at R and K.
Rather undewhelming. I'm every hit for the first 5 pages of googling my name, and these guys have almost nothing on me.

Muahahahahaha
b.2) Or there are more than six or seven guys on the picture.
It certainly isn't b/c of my habits. I use Firefox+GreaseMonkey with the YCFix script that hides your upmodded items. Every time I visit HN, I upmod every single item so that I don't see it again lol.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8242
But they offer only 200 GB of bandwith with that plus overages are $0.89 per GB. Yes you've got root acess but they charge $29 for reboot (yuck!) and $75 for half an hour of custom services.
I think that one would be better off using VPS like Linode or Slicehost: you can reboot, repartition and reinstall your virtual machine to your liking and the expansion should be easy and straightforward.
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Can this kind of bandwith be had cheaper? And by the way how did you get that 30000GB figure? It's roughly the full capacity of 100 Mbps connection.
here's the opposite -- a site where you google yourself and then comment on and reorder the search results, and then share it with potential employers. this requires you to be proactive, though. http://hitbio.com
I think _thin_ is an understatement
Yeah, and they should raise the temperature in their free sex salon (the executive one). Last time I was there, even with all the hot chicks, it was so freezing I almost got sick!
I'm applying for this year's cycle and have sent pinkgaragementors a couple of emails with no reply. Any other way to get in touch?
Going colo can be worth it when you need serious hardware but for 800$ / month you can pick up:

Four of these: Xeon 3210 - SATA	250 GB IDE/SATA HDD	2 GB	2000 GB	5 IPs	$199.00

Or one of these ~Dual Xeon 2.8, 8 x 300 GB 10K RPM SCSI/SAS HDD 2 x 73 GB 10K RPM SCSI/SAS HDD	8 GB RAM 3000 GB Bandwidth 5 IPs	$799.00

Which can take a lot of traffic. IMO Colo is great when you want to use lots of heavy duty HW and little bandwidth but for front end web servers you need a lot of traffic before it's reasonable.
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Yep, that is a stinker.

I'm trying to skew the site towards unusualness and away from genres. Thus, the ways I link artists can produce some weirdness like the above. However, users can give feedback to help reduce the insanity quotient.

Thanks very much for the feedback.
The "tool" feel was exactly what I was going for. Kind of the Google of music recommendations.

However, I am desperately in need of someone who can work with me to make things both more functional and more attractive.

Thanks very much for the feedback.
There's a difference between not having a business model and waiting for the proper time to spring it on your customers.

In the case of twitter, the author is being a little bit short sighted. More and more companies are using twitter to form tighter relationships with their customers. It is a no-brainer for Twitter to charge them once it becomes common practice. That's just one example. I predict that Twitter will become one of the net's great success stories and people will have a hard time remembering that when it first launched, it was nothing more than a couple of hundred people twittering "I'm bored."

As far as Seesmic goes, well, it's a little tougher to guess, but my guess is that they're hoping that their video commenting service becomes so addictive and important to companies that they'll pay to have video comments included on their sites. Will they succeed? Unclear. But it's not like when asked "what's your business model" that they said "uh, we don't have one" and it's short sighted to think that. Seesmic also owns that twitter client. Downloadable clients are trojan horses. Once you get enough people using them, almost anything is possible.
Surely taking the best of a lot ideas and putting them into one browser is a good thing. That's how processes become streamlined and businesses flourish.
Certainly there is a lot of work to be done on the OpenID UX (user experience) front.

I've got to disagree with that statement; OpenID just hasn't (and probably never will unless a big player like Yahoo! can give it a proper face) taken off enough in the mainstream view to be a reasonable option for end-users. Sure the possibility is there that Yahoo! can expand on the UX of providing an alternative login, but the following factors play in here:

1. As we already stated OpenID just isn't something that's going to have proper face time

2. Yahoo! cares about it's own login metrics and it only makes sense it wants to keep things internal and more predictable

3. Form follows function; the median of the above two facts can only beg that if 80% of users use login A, and 20% use login B that one is made more apparent than the other.
So this post says that I can upgrade my own memory on the things, but I saw yesterday somewhere that we can't. That would have been a nonstarter.
For $1,049 in the refurbished section of the Apple store is is fashionable right now.
I'm curious as to how companies are forming tighter relationships using twitter. Got any links for that? I'm having a hard time understanding what a tweet would do that an SMS message, IM, or email wouldn't do.
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> Krugman is a liberal economist.

Term hijacking alert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

I guess you mean Keynesian.
Have you seen Steve Jobs lately? We are literally watching the man be eaten away by cancer. I am not sure if he has much of a choice in the matter.
Timely for me as I am in the market for mail hosting as well. Saving this to see if anyone weighs in with useful info :)
* Mentoring is mentoring - if I liked the people involved, I'd get involved*

Yeah, but if it's a 50 year old male executive privately mentoring a 22 year old female CS grad, it might get a little creepy. Same thing goes for a 50 year old female executive privately mentoring a 22 year old new grad.

That's not to say that it's wrong for older people to mentor young people of another gender. It's just that the potential for creepiness is higher.
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If the 2.1 GPA dude had a mentor group catering specifically to him, his GPA may have been higher. That's the point of group specific mentoring groups - find a group that seems weak in a particular area and mentor them specifically to improve there.

You don't see Black Basketballers Mentoring Associations, do you?
Tweets are asynchronous, unlike SMS and IM. I can read them when I want. I don't have to be running the client at the time they are sent.

And they don't get spam filtered, nor do I get phishing Tweets from people pretending to be my hosting company.

Remember all those harebrained schemes to charge companies tiny amounts of money for guaranteed-delivery emails with verified sender IDs? Twitter just deployed that system right under our noses.
I've always heard things like "I think you'll find that you're lonely." Hm. Well, yeah, I (male) do find that! But it doesn't seem to matter where I am or what "group" I'm in, I'm lonely as hell. I connect on a meaningful level with a very low percentage of people. Most of the others can be classified as disconnected from me and apathetic about me (not "wrong" per se) or actively malignant, in that they are bullies or otherwise seek to use\abuse me, probably in a totem pole ego gratification move or just in a political\profit based one.

I dunno. I think what it comes down to is that in most things, male\female is much the same experience, even if it expresses it self in different ways. You can rant on about all the sucky hard experiences one side gets, but I think if you really look, you'll find the otherside has a very similar set of problems as well.
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Dang. I really liked this book.
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Ask HN: Comparing Virtual machines
What are the differences between virtual machines like JAVAs and Erlangs?

Is the future virtual machines?

There is a lot of work going into bringing dynamic languages to the JVM and Sun seem to support that strongly.
There is also some efforts to bring other languages to the Erlang VM.

Is it correct that VMs offer safety but have a slight penalty when it comes to performance?
I understand the penalty for speed but a virtual machien offers another layer of abstraction, and it is software and software is less reliable than hardware in general right? So wouldn't that make it less safe? Or it is different types of safety?
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All I want is a 10" MacBook Air before Steve kicks the bucket.

And a 60" Apple TV (not a stupid box, a real TV)
I grew up on a farm--feeding cows, moving hay, clearing fields, etc. (There are many great stories.) and am now, as a "technopreneur", on the exact other end of the spectrum.

Even though I sometimes refer to my work as "moving electrons", I've never questioned the value of technology as real work.

I look at technology as the catalyst that speeds up the reaction. Technology helps you meet the right person or find the right product more quickly, buy more easily, produce more predictably and less expensively, ship more efficiently, etc.

We keep the gears moving, just like what the stimulus check was supposed to do.

Actually, it would be interesting to calculate how much lift the stimulus check gave to the economy, and then see how many days/weeks/months it takes Facebook/Ebay/Amazon to generate the same amount of consumer spending.
I would think the place to ask would be their contact form: http://www.clickpass.com/docs/contact
That concept is as dead as the Detroit Lions’ playoff hopes.

I somewhat wished bloggers would stop with the irreverent use of cultural icons with no substance value other than some blind synonymous nature of what they're reporting on. Not everyone wakes up with the analytical, yet still commentary skills as Chuck Klosterman.
Upmoded for proper use of Ghettobrowser, but don't set your expectations too high, never gonna happen.

Why do they hate the web?
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