skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears reddit and 4chan are affected too.
They're here:

http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-2-5-Inch-Performance-OC...

AFAICT, the OCZ Octane is the only 1TB 2.5" drive on the market, but I suspect you'll start to see more of these later this year (at slightly more sensible prices, one would hope).
The bigger question is: Does It Matter If You Go to College?
Great post. I'm considering backing up the latest to another blobstore like Rackspace Cloud Files as well, so I can tell people that I don't depend on a single vendor.
So what did they do about the Nobel prize awarded to Waksman?

I can see why people like Grigory Perelman have an anti-awards stance: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/07/02/mathematician-rejects....
Android has a feature where you can indicate that contacts from disparate services are actually the same person. For example, I have my friend Chris in my Android directory, my Gmail directory, on Facebook and on Twitter. Within my contact list, I am able to specify that these are actually all the same person. They're still separate contacts from each service though, they're just grouped together in my phone's directory.

I suspect that the problem being described happens when the only source of someone's email address was the Facebook contact, as I doubt that, e.g., a Facebook contact would overwrite someone Gmail contacts. At this point it's not clear, however.
We just had 100s of EC2 instances generate high (alleged) load. Instances had load averages of 90+ but were responsive.

Running on a 3.2 kernel

Rebooted them all and they're fine.
I wonder how high up within Facebook that decision originated and was ultimately approved.
I like answering these questions by solving simpler ones.

Does it matter where you are born?

> Afghanistan vs. United States.

Put you in Afghanistan and you're dead. Put you in the US and you have a shot at middle class. Both are not your fault - and neither are deserved (I hate that word).

Does it matter who you are born to?

> Rich parents vs. Poor parents.

One can pay for all you need, and support you in every way to best game the system (which is completely rational and understandable behaviour). The other gets screwed by the self same game. Both generally through no fault of their own - no one deserves anything.

Does it matter when you are born?

> 1900s vs. 2000s.

One situation gives you cholera. The other gives you an iPhone, good health, decent lifespan and an education. Neither was deserved - both greatly effect future outcomes.

Of course it matters where you went to college. It matters more than you think it does, and even more than you now think it does. The world is not a meritocracy - never has been - never will be. Fun fact - meritocracy was coined in a satire since it was so ridiculously false. Unfortunately, people like believing things that are false - it is one of our strengths as humans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis). Karma is bullshit masquerading as depth and is merely a result of faulty (but useful) logic generated by induction machines that we call the brain.

Why do we use QWERTY keyboards? Because some random guy made a couple thousand typewriters that didn't stick mechanically 70 years ago. What does that have to do with modern computers? Absolutely nothing.

The world is chaotic, and exhibits extreme path dependence in path outcomes, which of themselves, are extremely uncertain.

What would've happened if the comet that killed the dinosaurs missed? What about not having a snowball earth to generate all the oxygen you breath right at this moment?
The importance of people by the people is greatly overrated.

Everyone is replaceable (even if you are 1 in a million - and nowadays even 1 in a billion), but situations aren't.

Situations are king, path dependence and chaos rule your life and there is a lot of poor reasoning out there. That doesn't mean you have no effect on future outcomes - it just means you have a lot less control than you think you do.
I’m really saddened that you think I’m a troll. I’m honestly not. I’m trying to understand you. I just cannot see how spaceflight could be more important for humanity in the next, say, half-century than transportation. Cool, sure. (Maybe also scientifically valuable if the cost of payloads decreases – but those payloads are actually already most of the cost, so I don’t foresee much change there.) Important? Don’t think so.

I’m also not sure why making electric cars work in the market is any more obvious than slightly cheaper space launch vehicles.

For decades people said they can make electric cars work in the market. They couldn’t. Maybe Musk will.

For decades people said that space launch costs will decrease. They didn’t. Maybe Musk will.

The difference between those two isn’t so big and transportation has the bigger immediate impact on humanity. I mean, both SpaceX and Tesla have many competitors.

(I’m also not sure what sources can tell you here. Comparing two so completely different things is a bit of a fool’s errand, a single source will hardly be valuable. You would have to cleverly combine date to make this somehow work – and much of this is open to interpretation.)
My only direct interaction with ffmpeg and libavcodec/libavformat has been from a user and developer stand point. Most of it has been very poor, the code works well, but their API both the C interface and the CLI could be a lot better.
God damn facebook. This is why i hate their motherfuckin' asses
Hmm, well off the top of my head:

- Affordability. Not necessarily low prices, but reasonable prices.

- Quality of education, in terms of teaching skill, breadth of courses offered, and the like

- Strength of student community (clubs, etc.)

- Location of the school (rural schools bore me)

- Background of students (I like schools with students from the world over)

- Location of students post graduation. I dislike schools where most of the graduates never leave the area.
As soon as the CIA lets other companies start using the seekrit computer technology they let Google use.
I got that too, but upon further inspection, it's a rendering bug.
I read the entire article carefully, thinking about various other schisms in the Open Source World (Net/OpenBDS being the one that came to my mind first) - and reflected on how important leadership is in many of those communities. For better or worse, the (in most cases) benevolent dictatorship of people like Theo (OpenBSD), Linus (Linux), and Guido (Python) play an important role in herding their respective cats.

It might be interesting to see how effective (if such a thing could even be measured) communities with benevolent dictators perform as compared to those that operate by consensus/voting.
You don't need a solid-state drive for your movies. That's just wasteful. Mechanical hard drives are fine for data that will only be read, and only sequentially. Plus, they're still 10x cheaper, even given the currently inflated hard drive prices and record low SSD prices. There simply isn't a market for a 1TB consumer SSD. What you're really looking for is a hybrid drive with 64+ GB of Flash.

EDIT: Also, at the end of 2009, TRIM support was just hitting the market, and SandForce-based drives were just being announced. Since then, TRIM has become universal, as has 6Gbps SATA support, and most controllers have been through at least one other iteration. SSD caching has also hit the market in a variety of forms.
You sound like you either have one, or have transcended the need for one.

Try not doing either of those things.

I too used to sing along in happy harmony with the "it doesn't really matter, follow your bliss". Now I'm 33 and my high school circles are filled with people who have wrecked their financial lives on the shoals of that advice. Now I know I was singing with the sirens.

It was already screwed up 15 years ago, as my high school circles can attest to. It's more screwed up now, but now people are seeing how messed up it is. Money matters, especially when accruing lots of debt. It isn't the only thing that matters, but it most assuredly matters.

Don't keep singing with the sirens.
That wasn't quite what I was meaning! :-)

What I was really meaning is, what metrics would you use to determine the quality of teaching not necessarily just the overall quality of experience?
What? Is this Reddit now?
Maximizing income and minimizing debt are not the same thing.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6038/owc-releases-960gb-mercur...

$1270 for a drive that is essentially a RAID-0 of two 512GB SSDs, packaged in a single 2.5" drive. OCZ also has the Colossus drives that offer 1TB as a RAID-0.
It is literally the number of seconds because of leap seconds :)
I was logged on to a couple of CentOS 6 servers when I saw this happen, and on each one the Java processes went absolutely haywire. Everything else seemed to work fine.

I attempted to fix with adjtimex and the script in the linked question, but to no avail, in the end having to restart them all instead. After that, all was good again.
Depends. Please go to college if you intend to become a doctor! I hear people frown on "doctors" that are self taught.
You should have a native English speaker proof-read your writings before publishing.
But the thing is they're not supposed to get the email at all. The user goes into their contact book and selects the person they want to email, and suddenly Facebook is getting the email instead of it being sent to the person's actual email address.
I just asked - they supply a testing firmware that does the qualification. So on ship (from China) the device will start, but only to POST level.
When people say mid-six figures, do they mean 500k? Or 150k?
Days. Not in messages, other, or anywhere.
Ha! People should be so lucky as to be worried about "maximizing income". We're in an era in which people need to be careful just to balance their income with their college debt.

Stop moralizing and think. Millions of people are hurting out there. It's time to put away the gibberish about how it's somehow uncouth to think about money as you think about college. We now know that line of thought is profoundly damaging. If you don't agree... how much more evidence would you need?
Hmm that's a tougher question. The big thing in my mind is having a sincere interest in the subject and the charismatic ability to get students interested in it. Most professors don't really give a shit whether their students like the subject.

Also, the willingness to go beyond bureacratic systems in the name of intellectual interest. In other words, talking about X because your students are fascinated by it, not sticking to the curriculum 100% of the time and talking about Y.

Sorry for bad sentence form, on my phone.
He swears a fair amount in real life even though I've only met him briefly on a few occasions.
You can just go off and do some damn good scientific work and then publish. You don't really need permission to do science, if what you are doing is good work. The college environment just gives you time and space and environment in which to do that and a social cover for your interests. The only major downside to just looking into things in your own time is that many people seem to find it an extremely odd thing for someone to do, unless they are doing it within the confines of a suitably sanctioned institution.
For those who may not be familiar with id's titles, this is a code review of the older idTech3 engine. He also recently published a code review for the newer idTech4 (Doom 3): http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php

His amazing site includes code reviews for several other id software titles.
I've been complaining for ages that Facebook's contact sync was broken in Ice Cream Sandwich. I only had the app installed so I could sync my friend's contacts details with Facebook anyway, and every update I'd check to see whether they'd fixed it. But it was still broken, even after dozens of updates.

Now I'm glad it's broken!
They're two separate people?
I rooted my HTC Evo just so I could "freeze" the facebook and sprint apps. I got a good amount of extra battery life by doing so.
You're missing my point. Making a decision to go to X school because it will make you more money is fundamentally a different decision than going to Y school because it's cheaper.

You may have to get the higher debt to get the higher paying job, but going to the lower debt school is probably good enough to make a decent income.
I just uninstalled facebook from my android phone. The facebook contacts and their information is still being shown in my phone contacts list. I am not sure if it will be deleted in future (during some sync operation). If that happens, I may install it back again. In the latter scenario, merging the contacts however will be a pain.
Ask HN: Screwed my life and career. Can it be fixed?
I believe many of the best minds in the world read HN and they can provide best advice on almost anything including life, career, technology and business. So, I am asking my question here.

My story so far: I am in my early 30s. Unmarried. Without house. Without money in bank. Without insurance. I am a software developer. I started freelancing right after graduating from high school. 2 years after graduating from high school, I went to college and got a bachelors degree. Then went for masters degree immediately after getting bachelors degree. Completed first semester. Then got ill severely in second semester. Survived somehow. Dropped out of masters. I was at home on rest for almost 1 year. Went to work for a mid sized software company. Got frustrated after experiencing the corporate politics. Left the company after working for 2 years and started freelancing full time. Freelancing for 6 years. I worked a lot but didn't make much money because most projects are very small. People of my age are married, have children, houses, cars, insurance, cash, good position in companies. I am a loser today. I am nowhere. Is there any way you think I can catch up with people of my age? Can I have a successful career if I start now? What do you suggest? I am not among the smartest guys in the world. But I am not dull either. I am broke mentally, financially. Thanks in advance for your answer.
Depends on whose logos are on the rocket.
what is the prerequisite course for this course, I couldnt understand anything ...
Don't be silly. I'm not saying search results aren't important; I'm saying they're not difficult. The specifics of Google's algorithm have to stay secret to make it harder to game them, but the real "secret sauce" is the stuff they don't talk much about: custom built networking switches, smart power grids, and clever software like Map/Reduce. I bet R&D spends a lot more on that stuff than on figuring out how to improve ranking order.
I think you're right. If this is only changing addresses that only have Facebook as a source, then it's not really a problem with the phone. But if it's changing addresses that are in your Gmail contacts (say) then it's a serious problem. Worse if the change then propagates from your phone to your Gmail!

I think someone needs to confirm exactly what's happening here.
Linkedin is focusing on content. They need to start building a voice, I think the voice and conversations on Linkedin will be very different to those that occur on Twitter or Facebook.

There is a core audience that loves linkedin, my dad is one of them and I think the Twitter spam from all of the people that don't use the service blew all of the less common but more relevant postings from the active users away. Now that it's just Linkedin a voice should start to develop.

Sure, you may only have one post per hour but I think it will engage users more and this will start to increase over time as there is more value in this content.
I'm sure you'll face a tremendous amount of naysayers who say it's insanity to attempt to build a new fb, however I've heard some very compelling arguments as to why it might be an inevitability.

Your post is incredibly difficult to read, however, so I barely skimmed it. I would suggest putting it on a shaded transparent background or pretty much anything besides what you have now.

Best of luck.
"Why does everyone always say Y2K wasn't an issue?"

From the outsider's perspective, it is indistinguishable from any number of other putative disasters that required lots of money to fix, yet didn't come to pass... in some cases including putative disasters in which the money wasn't spent and the disaster didn't happen anyway.

I have the insider's perspective and I agree that it is the more accurate, that Y2K was, if not necessarily going to end the world, certainly a bad thing and was largely averted through effective engineering. But I can still see how from the outside it sure doesn't look that way.
> If there is something out there that is better by a wide enough margin to justify giving up that established ecosystem, I'd love to hear about it. The ecosystem has plenty of imperfections, but I haven't come across anything yet that seems nearly comprehensive enough to displace the incumbent here.

David Mark's My Library[0] is the best DOM library available by a wide margin. It has supreme browser support, and it's "modular" with a custom builder. The code is so solid that many people have borrowed from it, including the jQuery project and myself.

I've also created a DOM library, but with a more limited feature set (it's only a few months old). See my submissions for details.

[0]: http://www.cinsoft.net/mylib.html
There are really three options:

1. Give away your money after you make it.

2. Give away your money as you make it.

3. Stop making money once you've earned enough of it.

Elon has chosen #1, and that is a viable option. It's viable because fortune begets fortune, and if he'd chosen #2 (or certainly #3) he might not have been able to create as much wealth.

That fact that he's not choosing to set his children up for life (apart from, I'd imagine, enough to get them through grad school comfortably) is to his credit and to their ultimate benefit.
So I hold an opinion and do have substantial intellectual abilities. Does that mean I must be erudite in every post? <-- rhetorical answer because the answer is an assumed "No."
Well, you do have the problem in most science fields (except the theoretical sciences) where it costs a lot of money to run experiments, so it's not just something you can do in your kitchen.
Couldn't agree more on the C API. The time I had to use it was a nightmare. There's almost no documentation, and the interface changes so often it's nearly impossible to find working sample code.
100 years ago today: Tunguska Event
IIRC the CEO of Nissan already is betting on this - http://www.bloomberg.com/video/57007678-nissan-s-ghosn-bets-...
I know many, MANY people -- myself included -- who were impacted positively by college. I found my passions and improved myself tremendously.

I'm not saying college is some panacea, but you're an idiot if you think it "doesn't fucking matter in any way, shape, or form".
"researchers have discovered one reason why: a genetic mutation, common in store-bought tomatoes"

This reason stated in the article is not the primary reason. Store tomatoes are picked hard and green so they will not be bruised during transport. They are then sprayed with nitrogen before being put out so that the skin turns orangish and looks sort of ripe. But it's not ripe, and won't ripen properly since it's a green tomato that was picked long before it was ripe.

You can grow the exact same varieties that they sell at the store and allow them to ripen and they will taste considerably better than store bought. This shows that the popular hybrid varieties are not the primary cause of the taste and texture problems.

Yes, some varieties of heritage tomatoes will taste even better, due to genetics. But the overwhelming primary issue here is the picking when completely non-ripe.

source: decades of growing tomatoes
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Bundling things together gives the bundler more leverage. And opens you up to paying more when they make a mistake.

An older German lady I know told me many times growing up that you should not $h|t where you eat. In other words, it pays to keep some things separate from other things.

If you value someone's contact information, keep track of it separately. And have a backup.
> Google is hurting Firefox

...By giving Mozilla $300MM a year?
>So one of the reasons fancy organic supermarket produce is so expensive is that they hand sort and pick the prettiest pieces.

Very interesting. Do you have some good sources so we can read more about it?
You're correct, it's solanine, not cyanide.
I love RSS... But I hate the sheer volume of noise and repetitive shit that gets rehashed over and over again across numerous feeds. I subscribe to a large variety of topics too, not just startups and technical news. It happens in every group and the VOLUME of repetitive crap is annoying to deal with.

Social media, when properly set and curated, have been slightly better at filtering some of the noise (albeit there are some repetition) but then lacks the volume of good stuff that RSS goes over that is being missed.

I need a solution in between.
I just had the exact same experience.
We did some work to improve this a little, see for example: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=tree;f=doc/examples;...

This should be deployed with any new fresh ffmpeg install.

The filtering code is still unstable due to what's explained in the blog post...
Would you have found your passions and improved yourself anyways if you had not gone to college?
RSS would be fantastic but the vast majority of sites that still bother to offer it gimp the crap out of their RSS feeds for advertising purposes (eg. RSS feed only gives tiny snippets of the full content and a link to the site so you'll click through and they'll get advertising views), making it basically worthless.
Each of the last 4 Presidents of the United States went to either Harvard or Yale at some point in their education. Do you really think this is pure coincidence?
You should not allow where you went to college to hold you back, but it matters..A LOT.
Reddit is down for emergency maintenance
If it can be commercially produced, that would definitely set us up for a while for flash (CPUs would be thermally limited); though interestingly, not really that long!

If each layer was 50 nm high, and you built the chip up to an unrealistic 1 centimeter high (eg, a 1 cm^3 chip instead of 1 cm^2), chosen because that would pretty easily fill a 2.5" drive, that would give you:

(1 centimeter) / (50 nanometers) = 200,000 times today's capacity.

Which is only only 18 doublings, or 36 years more of Moore's Law (assuming the pessimistic 24 month end), or roughly the gap between a Commodore 64 and a decent laptop today. Some people still working in the industry have gone through a larger increase. I've gone through a 1000 fold myself, and I'm only 25.

There are sure to be a whole bunch more we can do to get more capacity, but it's pretty mind blowing to think that the theoretical limits to storage are within our lifetimes on an exponential scale. So as much as Moore's law hasn't failed us yet, it certainly will at some point (probably in the form of the doublings themselves exponentially taking longer and longer).
I agree, why not do it "just because"?
December 2nd, 1998? I'm curious how you had that handy. Have you always liked this comic and finally found a relevant place for it? Was it something you vague remembered and Googled it?
> Does that mean I must be erudite in every post?

No, you take your own decisions, you don't have to give knowledgeable answers. But it is always a good thing to word your answer while taking in respect the nature of forum you are posting it to.
SmartMoney Goes Web Only
Solar City as well!
Well they call it a medical practice for a reason, right?
Then go do something else.
Yeah, I never thought I'd see the day I'd have to view -> page style -> no style on a Google site.