skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm moving stuff to network drives all the time because the SDD drive capacity of my laptop is too small. Even after 3 years there still isn't anything on the market that is an acceptably priced replacement. Like I said, where is my $300 1TB SDD that should have been on the market by now?

3 years is a really long time for an entire industry to be totally stagnant. It's somewhat similar to how Intel has been sitting on their asses for the past few years ignoring the entire mobile computing revolution.
A clever solution would be keeping an internal time and generating POSIX times (and human friendly times) as needed. This way, leap seconds will never touch true system time.
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Here's my take on the UK health care system - these are just anecdotes, but they are illuminating in their own way.

I broke my collarbone (clavicle, whatever) snowboarding - I go to see an orthopedic surgeon, or rather I go to the local hospital's orthopedic department and see somebody who I assume is a surgeon (he was in fact an MRCS) who tells me, "Collarbones heal on their own just fine in about 95% of cases" - my response - "According to this very out of focus x-ray I was given in France, my collarbone is in a gazillion pieces - maybe I'm in the 5%" - to which he replies - "Collarbones heal on their own just fine in about 95% of cases, I can write you a sick note".

My nephew, my brother's child, was born with what at the time was assumed to be a hole in the heart but which later turned out to be a particularly obnoxious genetic disorder (CHARGE), my brother and his partner lived in a central London hospital for six months while their son lived on life support and underwent open heart surgery. He will need a fairly high level of medical support his entire life, the cost to his parents $0 - in the US this could bankrupt an extended family.
are there any significant projects other than debian that have elections?
Have Fun with 26 Open Source Software for Designers and Artists
Tell HN:  Searchify is down (leap second problems)
If you valued Apple like Facebook was at 38 Apple would be worth over 2 trillion dollars. Also keep in mind Apple is faster growing than Facebook in terms of actually making money.

Yeah, sure there is some potential but perhaps not that much. Everyone does scream its got the same trajectory as Google, but the thing is they are already slowing down.

If the stock hits 38 again and Facebook has not figured out a marvelous new way to make a lot more money, then its all just speculation and gambling.
Well, "Knowingly accesses and without permission... uses any data" would make the accessing and transmission of contacts (a la Path and many other apps) illegal. Except there's probably a clause somewhere that you agreed to without reading which lets them do that, and the same may be true here.
That Greenspun essay makes me angry every time I read it. The kind of clubhouse mentality of "we don't invite girls to our club because they wouldn't be stupid enough to join our dumb club anyway" is nothing but thinly veiled paternalism. He makes a good point about pay, but the way he frames it as a paternalistic pat on the head to women is insulting, at best.
If you pick C++, yes.
and yelp.com
While it certainly isn't a full-contrast color scheme, if you're having trouble reading it, you probably have a messed up color profile or gamma setting. I'm no big fan of low-contrast color schemes, and I'm partially color-blind, but I had no trouble with that site.
I think they meant to say "Programmer Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth".
I tried to get involved in FFmpeg development several years ago, and felt driven off by the existing community. It wasn't so much any one individual, but the absence any "adult" voice trying to keep things moving forward. There are a lot of smart programmers there, and a lot of loud people on the list, but no real correspondence between the two traits.

The quality of the code base also left something to be desired. It was fast, and generally worked, but they certainly didn't subscribe to the camp that believes in treating compiler warnings as errors. I remember using Valgrind and discovering that some memory was being used uninitialized, and submitting a patch. The patch was rejected with a comment such as "not needed". I still don't know if this was correct, but I do know that being a static initializer my patch wasn't going to slow anything down.
It's amazing how many more people complain about this:

Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science...

than this:

...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
How do satellites deal with solar storms currently? Surely they could put a ton of iron around the servers to protect them.
Where are the Female Programmers?
Entitled to what? I don't get it.

Also, I think the analogy about shorting stock at age 9 is flawed (although amusing). What financial whizzes might point to is confectionary arbitrage in the school playground, or helping their father trade commodities in street markets, or mastering card games, or something like that.

I think what would help people would be a better understanding of how much value you can add to a business with even unexceptional coding skills. When i pursued my education in IT, I was aware that there were people who started at much earlier ages and people whose abilities simply dwarfed my own. But since I'd already seen first hand now my programming could help a business operation, I never doubted for a second that I was 'worthy' of being a serious programmer.
FB integration isn't coming until the fall - it is currently only available in developer builds of iOS 6.
I've been under the impression that NAND will someday be replaced with something like MRam. Not sure how far of that is or how it's progressing, would be interested in knowing if someone knows more about this.
I agree. I bet that 99% of "movie players" are direct clones of ffplay.
How we spent Friday night coming back online before Instagram and others
There were outages yesterday when Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in northern Virginia lost power. That one took out Pinterest and Netflix. As a multitude of sites are down again today, I agree, this is interesting.
Cool! When do we get a NodeJS binding? XD
Daniel Roesler here, I feel really sorry for those who paid for Multi-AZ support on their RDS instances only to have all the availability zones go down. That would make me rage quite a bit.
Out of control Java processes when dealing with a leap second?
Cloud Leaves Some Tech Giants Seeking a Silver Lining
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-02-11/
I guess engineering is a bit different, I don't think there are many working engineers with a Ph.D. There would be a few at NASA but even then most of the engineers would be at a Masters level.
Who you calling "coder", coder?
Steve Would Be Proud: How Apple Won The War Against Flash
Batter my heart, three-person'd God?
Lolz. Even a reasonable post gets downvoted.

Now I'm just itching for downvotes. GIVE ME THEM.
You win: "We are having some Java/Cassandra issues related to the leap second at 5pm PST. We're working as quickly as we can to restore service." https://twitter.com/redditstatus/statuses/219244389044731904
Really? The primary definition on the page you linked is "One who hustles: especially somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets."

The secondary and tertiary definitions are pimp and prostitute.

I have never associated the word "hustler" with a pimp and never even heard it used in that connotation, and I doubt most people have.

I'm with you on the gender imbalance and being sensitive to all persons, but let's not go looking for things that aren't there.
As someone who bit the bullet and bought at 256g SSD in January, yes, I've noticed this rather dramatic drop recently. I paid about $420, and could get a 512 gig for $399, IIRC, going by last week's pricing. Ugh.

I wished I'd waited a bit, as switching again to a 512 would be... I dunno - not sure if it would be worth it again, but I am running out of room a lot on a 256.
Reddit is also down due to Java https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/219244389044731904
Many things would be fantastic if they didn't have a fatal flaw; for RSS, it is that the mechanism, while something no one seems willing to pay for (a la $1/month to subscribe via RSS), is designed to undermine the only monetization model content producers normally can manage.
One possible answer: "looking for another career".

Seriously, after you move around a few times and keep seeing the same things happen, you might decide it's unfixable and move on.
The Prius hate is amazing. They drive it on a race track and conclude that it's a crappy car. Because, apparently, that's what that car was built for...
Where did you find a 512 for $399? I haven't seen anything near that
Pardon the ignorance if this is a stupid question. I've been looking at some of my hosts and have noticed a message "Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC" in dmesg output but each of the hosts is in the EDT timezone so the I was under the impression that the leap second hadn't been applied yet. So what does that mean? That the systems have applied the leap second successfully or have only received it from their NTP servers?
So, I have a Ph.D. and I always ask myself why I got it, because now I just build websites.

Basically, what I feel like I got most out of it, was that it was a good life, that I ended up really enjoying. I did theory and I felt like my professors let us kind-of do whatever we want. We got paid enough money to live and I had a lot of time to enjoy my hobbies. I learned to play tennis and surf (I went to school in LA). But I would figure things out and work when I was inspired.

That is pretty much how I live now and it is still great!
Ways to Get Free Wi-Fi Anywhere You Go
This really changed a lot, see http://fate.ffmpeg.org/

We now test all the code through valgrind; a single memory leak will complain. There are also static analysis, and various other checks.

And BTW, you can't treat warnings as errors. Just try to fix the warnings we have and you might understand why it's not possible easily (might require API changes, compiler false-positive, deprecated warnings that can just be silenced, etc). Of course, you might be able to fix some easily, and the patches will likely be accepted (assuming they are correct).
There's a Crucial M4 deal running on Amazon a few days ago...
I suspect it's coming. You can get a 512g for $399 now. I'd wager a small amount that we'll see 1TB SSD in the next year - it may still be $800+ when they first arrive, but will come down more after that.
What kinds of things have you seen that you think would send people out of the industry? I'm not disagreeing--I'm curious.
Yes, as the other poster said, it's crucial:

http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?k...

But others manufacturers sub 500g are coming down: http://www.compusa.com/applications/Category/guidedSearch.as...
Taking into account his age and his yet-unrealized-ambitions, I sure hope not.
Nice visualisation, very pretty but as others have stated, not very usable. One thing this demonstrates clearly is at the breakneck speed the web is evolving at the moment, the mess from 2008 onwards clearly shows this.

While i wasn't worried before, it kind of reaffirms my feeling of security of the ability to make a living as a web developer, I doubt i'll starve in the next 10+ years...
There are other alternatives to Parse, which might serve you better. its worth it to check them out you can do it at http://mobilebackendreviews.com
$100/h approaches $200k, and consultants can definitely make $250/h+.
Sublime Text 2 for Ruby
LKML is responding very slowly if at all. Try:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134110453128431&w...

Another thread to watch:

"[PATCH -stable] ntp: Correct TAI offset during leap second"

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134110635328824&w...
Year One [of eBook sales]
I'm the opposite of offended. :)
> academia's publication game... and I find it distasteful.

All trades have their harsh, distasteful parts. The rest of the world is mostly caught up in a rat race about money, artists struggle to get exhibited in galleries, etc. You shouldn't focus on the negative parts, the decision should depend on what your ambitions really are.
Honest about what? Guilt?

Should we, as humans, crawl back into our caves and claim resource limitations as the cause? Claim greed was our downfall? Claim that this was all just too much for the human race?

I might be a romantic, but it seems to me that focusing on ways to make all peoples lives better is what we should continue to do. We should be technologically solving that which has plagued humanity the most: limited energy and resources.

We shouldn't be spending our time focusing on conservation. We should be focusing on how to make conservation un-necessary. Only then, will poverty go away.

Maybe, just maybe, the ideas like mining asteroids, fusion, nano-technology, and AI, just to name a few, are silly. However, they are a lot less silly than creating artificial centrally planed markets like carbon offsets to alleviate poverty.

That being said I leave this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk .
While it's probably true that the EULA permits FB to read the contact list, and update it in expected ways, there are many points covered in those statutes: interception and destruction of data, making the system unavailable for its intended use, etc.

Can anyone find language permitting FB to destructively alter the contents in profoundly unusual ways so that email is redirected to FB servers for interception and delivery as FB deems appropriate?

I'd really like to see an informed legal opinion on the possible criminality of their actions.
Not always; there are a lot of the hardcore travelers who hate their corp TA, and who want to maintain status with 2+ airlines. Add in hotels, and there's a market.

Especially if you fly international a lot -- the foreign airlines are usually pretty bad at handling principals who make their own travel reservations, and most of the <40yo tech/law/etc. professionals who have to travel a lot prefer doing their own arrangements (with help) to blindly trusting someone else.

There's also a market for people who fly a huge amount but are cheap and micro-optimizers. Not enough $ to get United Global Services, but 1K, and 1K doesn't actually help much except at the airport (and clearing waitlists).

The other market might be lazy/late optimization. i.e. passively looking at your travel patterns, and if I see you fly in J/F SFO-IAD-KWI once a month for 6 months, proactively negotiating a rate with UA for you to do so at a discount in the future. That's not something UA will offer, but something a company or group could push for based on observed travel, especially if they can present LH as a credible alternative.
Agreed. I paid a buck for HaxSync to get sync working on ICS, looks like it wasn't able to overwrite the email addresses I had for people. I just disabled contact sync for HaxSync and Facebook (in case they actually decide to get it working with ICS)
This all sounds very Hatfield/McCoy to me. Whether or not libav is a PITA/POS, I don't know, but of the two, I had only heard of and used ffmpeg until now. That said, I really don't give a crap how either of them operate, and neither should anyone else but the maintainers. This reminds me so much of the volunteer work that happens at our school. So many personalities involved and people get so upset because they've poured their heart and soul into it. You don't find that as often on the business/corporate side of things. Even though real money is on the line there, it is just a job. I think the same thing applies here. These people are getting so upset, but I doubt they realize that 95-98% of users don't give a crap. We are just glad that you are providing great libraries and utilities. So... take a chill pill and get over it. And thanks for your work.
This happens frequently (that is, maintenance that results in this page appearing).. not sure how it made FP.
Which, in summary, is pretty much every production kernel out there.

Spent the last two hours recovering servers, tomorrow will be another interesting day.

Whoever figured it'd be a good idea to INSERT[1] the leap-second instead of just slowing/accelerating time... <censored>

[1] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
Edit: Ignore this; I wasn't paying attention.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5067/understanding-tlc-nand/

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2012/06/25/Chris_Mel...
And as evidence, I present the current contents of the posted link:

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
And they're still too expensive.

Getting a rMBPro with 768GB is $1000 more than the 512 option. Thats just absurd
Redundancy wasn't the problem I saw last night. What I saw, at least with Heroku, is that when I checked, the main Heroku site was down and displaying things like nginx errors. That to me is unacceptable for an operation such as theirs. Even if all hell is breaking loose, you don't only keep your status page up for all to see, you have a pretty damn good message up that the main page resolves to. I'm not saying they screwed the pooch entirely as I'm sure they were busy, but, damn it, even Amazon is going to go down sometimes. Screw redundancy if you can't even serve a webpage to inspire confidence that you are working on it. I'm sorry I'm picking on Heroku specifically, because I'd be really f'n surprised if a lot of you weren't in the same boat. You need to have the main page served when that happens, even just a static page that inspires confidence or direct to the blog and provide updates there.
I remember reading about this case not so long ago http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Noirin_Shirley_ApacheCon_...
Hard to say. I'm completely speculating but I'm imagining that between the natural resources present there and the possibility of colonizing the planet, there's economic potential. That being said, very difficult to calculate.
We saw this on every Ubuntu Lucid machine we run. Restarting the JVM was insufficient - we ended up fully rebooting the machines.
TLC is (confusingly) 8-level flash, not 3-level, so it's still an integer number of bits per cell.
Classic innovator's dilemma.

(They actually have SSDs, but they're not competitive in the consumer market. See http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-hybr... and http://wd.com/en/products/solidstate/embedded/ )
This seems to be a widespread issue with Java and the leap second. Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook affected. Personally speaking, my pager just went off five times in the last hour. It's going to be a long night.
> 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.

Are you certain? See http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio/FAQ/News
Excuse me, but some of us don't like carrying around externals with our main laptops because we happen to have more than 100 songs in itunes.
The funny part is my friends thought I was crazy NOT to sync my Facebook contacts with my gmail contact list.

This is a great example of why I continue to keep my information segregated across different networks. For all of the nonsense Facebook keeps pulling, I continue to have a healthy does of scepticism when allowing them access to ANY of my information - let alone letting these networks interact with each other.
The SSD market has been anything but stagnant for the past three years. That's a ridiculous assertion for you to be making - three years ago, the SSD market was still immature and not at all ready to be mainstream. The first halfway-decent SSD (Intel X25-M) is only about four years old, and it's nowhere near competitive with current SSDs for price, capacity, or performance.

You seem to be under the false impression that the NAND is the most important part of an SSD. It's not. From an engineering perspective, it's the least important component - it just happens to be the primary reason for cost scaling with capacity. The controller and it's firmware are far more complicated, and make all the difference for performance. Those components have made a lot of progress in the past three years. And even the NAND has advanced, just not exponentially, because while density is inversely related to unit cost, it is also inversely related to durability, and the drives 3 years ago weren't designed with excessive longevity requirements.
Nice write-up. How did your users perceive the downtime? Mostly understanding, or was there a lot of anger?
Just in case you were being serious...
Facebook sync wasn't broken in ICS. Google intentionally disabled the feature in Gingerbread.

"Google says it is removing Facebook contacts because they are not stored locally on the phone like other contacts. This means that, unlike your Google contacts, the Facebook listings aren’t exportable so, if users decide to close their Facebook accounts, those contacts will disappear from the address book, something which violates Google’s notions of data portability."

http://blog.laptopmag.com/google-removes-facebook-contacts-f...
Wes - I think that the reason I would keep using R over pandas is all the packages in the R universe. Which I suppose is the reason why you would use pandas over R if you had more experience with python.

E.g. ggplot2 still seems to be quite a bit better than matplotlib. Also for the random data examination/sketching I absolutely love rstudio due to it's integrated help/plotting/file browsing.
These are only estimates from our intelligence community, but they are considered relatively reliable. China hasn't built up a massive nuke stockpile yet, and its probably not within their best interests to do so (expensive, increased tensions). They could not hope to match the US or Russia today, so why bother trying?

China will continue to build up its conventional forces to project power in the region, that is probably more of a worry for the US than anything else.
Leap second + Java + Linux fix (without reboot):

/etc/init.d/ntp stop; date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date;

-- then restart java
Moserware: Life, Death, and Splitting Secrets
his business card also said "I'm CEO, Bitch."
Well, in general, and I know this is circular, but ... a lack of people who think like me. Basically, you'll just be there, doing your thing in your natural way, and it will clash with someone important sooner or later. This will hold you back. This can be really stupid stuff like communication styles (or the fact that you talk your way through things while your coworkers don't).

At that point you can jump to another venue and hope for improvement, or try to alter your behavior to be less than genuine. Basically, start acting like someone else at work. The acting thing wears thin sooner or later.

I can dig up a citation for that last claim if you like. I've also written a bunch of my own posts about these topics over the past year or so. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/04/fireandforget/ is one of them.
The thing preventing me from changing languages? The fact that there isn't a fork of PHP that has fixed all the major complaints?

Someone was working on one. PHP is open source. It could exist. It could be POPULAR!

But no.
The leap second caused reddit to be offline for two hours and counting
Neat AES animation/visualization/explanation
For some value of significant, Squeak. The turn out has been down for the last few elections, with the last one getting around a hundred votes, with around 450 people authorized to vote.
Oh yeah. Flashback to the 90s: I got Q3Test with some magazine's cover CD and had barely-56k internet at the time so couldn't play FPSes at home until CS got popular, but that didn't matter - I was too busy wandering around the included level with my jaw on the desk.