skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snipers are effective, but they can be detected using laser technology, and they can be neutralized by sharpshooters. What kind of counter-measure could one use against a UAV-bomb?
It's a metaphorical ghetto because metaphorical lepers like you are metaphorically whining about how the metaphorical government sucks rather than leaping up, not complaining, and getting a metaphorical job. There is nothing more annoying than somebody whining about being downvoted, so while I upvoted your original comment, I downvoted the seertaak drama. I get downvoted for things I say pretty much constantly, but I don't call that a ghetto. I call that difference of opinion.

To respond to your "argument" as succinctly as possible: musicians are terrific, but musicians who demand that a hosting service like Youtube pay them when Youtube never offered that up as an arrangement are musicians who are greedy and trying to take money from an honest service. Some people get a million views on Youtube and become famous and get a contract. Maybe if your band did the same, you'd stop thinking it's totally unfair. In the meantime, companies do offer you the ability to get royalties off your videos. Just not Youtube, which happens to be the most popular one. You have a choice about using Youtube or not.

Meanwhile, my favorite new musician, Joanna Newsom, a harpist who has a bizarre voice, managed to release a Steve Albini-backed album in 2006, which I can't imagine happening were it not for the insane amount of freedom that the Internet provides. So this "inability" of musicians to get funded? Doesn't make sense to me, when you can self-release a CD for no cost at all. Get Logic Studio, learn a teensy bit about music recording, release yourself an album. If you're decent, people will hear it despite the shoddy recording, and you'll have leverage to get a deal.

So yes. You are entitled. You do not have a right to make any more money than people think you have a right to make. If you were superawesome, you would rise up. A friend's band recently signed on to a subset of Sony and they've gotten 4 million plays on MySpace. They're on the rise. I bought their album on iTunes and it was almost worth the money I paid, which is saying a lot since I'm broke.

Meanwhile, you defend yourself not with logic but with swears and Britishisms, which makes me think you're just a jerk rather than a sincere guy.
Yes. The point is to start a meaningful discussion, not to spread ideas that I support.
Yes, it's particularly good at emptying your wallet.
an interesting & open graph database from danny hillis & co:

http://www.freebase.com

http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/faq

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/creating_types_and_propertie...
All that's left up to the reader to decide. This is what _we_ did, and it got us rejected. We're pretty sure we followed directions both literally and in spirit. However, we didn't get selected. Maybe fewer emails would have helped, but I doubt it.
suggestion: I'd put a sentence or two at the top of your post (or on blog sidebar) about what your service is.

You're (probably) going to get some traffic via this post, not all of them will have read your previous HN posts -- sell to them rather than make them wonder pricing for what
I submit stuff that I think will be interesting to others.

But I don't endorse it as being accurate or truthful since most times I just skim the stuff.

And yes a lot of my stuff have "bait" titles, because I use the quick-submit that just uses the original post's title. You know:

javascript:window.location=%22http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=%22+encodeURICompon...
"Divorce in America or Europe is not easy, it's a long and expensive process."

That depends strongly on jurisdiction and the particulars of the divorce. I had a mutually-agreed divorce last year, and it only took a coupla months, and was less than $1K. The legal and financial part of the divorce were by far the easiest parts of it.
Sharp variables don't seem particularly useful, but I didn't know about .toSource() in Firefox before I read this article, and that does sound like it could be useful.
SVN still on the fence. Ba dum tsh !
Nearly half of marriages fail, but not half of all first marriages. A simple example to illustrate: consider a sample of 4 happily married men and one guy with 4 ex wives. Half of the marriages failed, but 4/5 guys are happily married.

If you want to avoid divorce, don't marry a divorcee.

Incidentally, while divorce == FAIL, unhappy marriage == EPIC FAIL. But I guess the latter is hard to measure, so lets just focus on the former.
Ask HN: The best way store thousands of Images on a server
Hello. I've got a server of my own handling the multimedia files for a website. It has around 200Gb of images (all JPG's) stored in nested folders.

I have Apache 2 on Linux and nothing else. I don't know if it is the best solution, but I think is not.

What system (http server, cache, or anything) would you recommend me?
Your team and the execution looks very good to me. But that is also the case with the rest of the applicants, I guess. Despite all that talk about ideas beign secondary to the application, at this point all you can really show is a cool idea and your desire to dominate the world.

Seems like you fail on these two tests completely.
You really think they need the money? They're a small company that made a million dollars off their last book sales alone, and they have another contract right now. They're legendary in the computer world and they said they weren't at all damaged by the recession. Don't you think there's a chance that they just really, really, really like what they're doing?
Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your servers?
I recently ran into a problem where MySQL was running out of connections. For now I've upped the maximum_connections setting and I'm keeping a close eye on the server.

I'm sure there are lots of tools that could monitor this sort of thing for me, and alert me if any problems occur (or ideally before they occur).

I suspect there are also tools that would make it easier for me to diagnose the problem, and allow me to see what was happening on the server at the time.

So my question for HN is: What tools do you use to monitor your servers?
GetExceptional for rails apps & pingdom for everything else.
Henry Ford & Event Driven Architecture: Reinventing the assembly line
Your word and reputation are certainly worth far more than a single shared idea. Those are pretty strong incentives.
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
The problem with this is the exorbitant costs in time and money to bring a suit for something like this. StockArt can afford to litigate (from the sound if it, they do this repeatedly and can just shell out to a lawfirm), this designer probably cannot. There's a kernel of truth to the saying that the only ones who profit from lawsuits are the lawyers.
Sorry, I can't find mention of that in the article. The article doesn't exclude development as far as I can tell. Besides, are you telling me scripting in windows is easier?
At least make the header link to the home page instead of to the blog's home page.
I have my own server to do that. With 1TB of transfer a day, I cannot afford Amazon S3 (I have my own 200mbps low latency connection)

Thanks, but I was looking for technology to install on my own server. Not moving to Amazon S3
Interesting, but I don't see mention of this in Javascript spec (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...), so I'm guessing it's not portable.
Russian girls have long legs
Actually, a 1999 study showed that highly selective colleges made a bigger difference in the future income of students from low-income backgrounds than it did to students from high-income backgrounds. Putting dumb people in MIT isn't a good idea, but putting lower class people in is. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/003355302320...
That doesn't do the same thing. It doesn't make short URLs, it makes shorter URLs that try to be readable.
And they got other people to finance an extensive keyword conversion study. What a deal!
It's not that relational databases aren't good at what they do nor is it that developers don't understand them. They're fantastic at it; it's just what they do isn't what app developers really need.

For the most part, app developers aren't looking for a store that allows them to query their data 6 ways from Sunday if they write 50%+ more code to put their data in there. What they're looking for is rock solid transactional persistence for the data structures their applications actually use.

Relational databases primary use in the enterprise market is really as an integration point, a central location for all business data that all applications can access. It does this very well, but the times are changing and more and more apps are being written Internet style where integration is done via web services at the application level.

Relational databases aren't going anywhere any time soon, but their dominance as the default solution of choice is coming to and end.

Object/Graph/Key-Value database are being used more and more because they actually solve the problem app developers want solved; they reduce the code that needs to be written in the application to deal with persistence to virtually nothing.

Developers are perfectly willing to trade queryability and and data consistency for simplicity, availability, and easy scalability across farms of servers. Dealing with the consequences of pointer chasing is less work that writing the code necessary to fit a graph of objects into a relational database.
But if it is overkill for photo storage why did facebook use that in the first place ?
30 days a month * 1024 Gb of transfer a day * 0,17$/Gb = more than 5,000$ a month. Am I right?

My own 200mbps connection costs me the equivalent of 300$ a month.
I'm a Windows person, and I don't want to switch away from XP. When I recently built a new PC with 4 GB of RAM I had to switch to 64-bit and I had a bit of unpleasant experience with it. Windows XP 64-bit is built upon the codebase of Windows Server 2003 (Vista is Windows Server 2008) and it shows.

1. Some hardware may not have drivers for the OS. While on 32-bit system you can connect any device form a decade ago and it will possibly work (with drivers that were also written a decade ago), with 64-bit there's additional possibility of breakage. My printer, HP LaserJet 1015, is manufactured in 2004, but alas, it doesn't have drivers for XP 64-bit. I can get away with installing un-working driver and substituting the driver with LaserJet III's which kinda works. HP's support can recommend nothing better too.

2. Same with system software; something might break too, most likely if it is system-related. I have used SwitchIt, a keyboard layout switcher, for a long time. Its last version is from 1996, but it worked fine for me. In 64-bit, it doesn't. (there's a beta version now which kinda works, but what if there wasn't one?)

3. Not 64-bit related, but Windows related one. I came to like Hibernate feature in Windows XP, but it stopped working for RAM >= 4GB. It's a known issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888575 I guess, the person who wrote it left long ago and they can't figure out how to add support for files>4GB, or addressing RAM>4GB at boot time. Seems like other OS folks don't have this problem.
I think they really, really, really like making lots of money.
I'm not sure if it is really economists to blame here, they are merely trying to build models that approximate the world the best they can. In fact, a lot of the work they have been doing lately has been based on behavioral economics, where actors are not necessarily concerned only with selfishness.

However, I do agree with the broader point here that the financial and corporate worlds have accepted a corrosive morality where greed is good. I think part of the problem here is lack of regulation. Without any punishment for bad behavior, it just grew out of control.
There are much easier ways of making money if you're in their position. Teaching and preparing for a set of seminars like this is time-consuming and most likely exhausting. If they were in it for money, they could be doing much better.
They certainly seem to need constant self promotion.

I'm at a loss to know what they could say in a 'university' that they haven't said already.
Friendfeed release simpler, faster UI
Will there be more or less ad networks in the future?
Ask PG:  Feature or Business Question from Investors
What does it mean when an investor asks: Is this a feature or a business?
I made a tiny script on my server that get's all the numbers that I want (http connectios, mysql connections, cpu usage, etc) and put them on a txt file.

The only thing I got to do is check the file online whenever I want.

You could do this and also add email alerts easily.
1. What anti-anti-spam agreements do you have with email providers? Are you signed up with senderscorecertified.com and other whitelists? How do you ensure that other users don't cause my messages to get rejected or misfiled as spam?

2. The SMS rate looks too good to be true. What agreements do you have with Wireless carriers? I have noticed that AT&T seems to block many SMS messages that businesses try to send me.

3. Do you have a (shared) SMS short code? Premium SMS?
David Geffen, P. Diddy, Rolling Stones (?) - but I don't think any of these own a 747. However, just because musicians don't own one doesn't mean the can't own one. I would argue in the corporate world they are likely treated as corporate, rather than private, expenses. In the acting industry, many own private jets (or, in Travolta's case, five).

The easy path is through the mainstream - if you're willing to give in to The Man (tm).
Oracle is awesome. There are lots of good database products out there.

People laud map/reduce and all those fancy new toys because it makes sites easier to scale. For 99% of websites out there, traditional RDBMS's are plenty scalable enough and they give you vastly greater options for data analytics, roll ups, record locking, indexing, etc...

Gotta pick the right tool for the right job. The problem with this article is that it is written for the general audience, but the general audience will never get into a scalability issue where a traditional RDBMS won't perform exceptionally well.
I'm into less technical subjects almost as much as science as engineering; most of the "too-intense" stuff I think comes from me being overall achievement and knowledge focused. So, I'd hopefully be far less out of place at Yale than at my high school, or even Tufts.

Thanks for the advice on the course catalog - I'll definitely do that.
Really? Because they avoid advertising themselves beyond their blog. Is writing a really good, useful blog self-promotion? If so, it's not the greedy sort that the terms "self-promotion" implies.
Marketing is a lot better when it just 'happens' though.

Google wasn't marketed, they didn't start selling books about the right way to make a business, they just made something good and watched as people started using it.
Looks like they're looking to make money five times off the same material. Good for them :) I'm referring to:

"Repackaging allows you to earn money multiple times on the same content. It’s a great way to grow your revenues without significant marginal cost.

Money One: A lot of our ideas originate on this blog. We post articles which generate traffic. We make money off the traffic by running Deck ads in the sidebar. We make a few thousand a month off The Deck ads.

Money Two: We bundled up the best blog posts about our software development philosophy and turned it into a PDF book called Getting Real. We sell the PDF for $19. We’ve made a few hundred thousand dollars from the PDF.

Money Three: We take the Getting Real PDF and turn it into a paperback at Lulu.com. We sell the paperback for $25 and we make a few thousand a month on royalties. The paperback is currently ranked the 4th best seller on Lulu.

Money Four: We took the content from Getting Real and produced a Getting Real conference series. We held a few conferences a year and made about $50K per conference. We’ve produced about 5 of these conferences."

from: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1256-making-money-twice
A smaller web server like lighttpd or cherokee may be a better choice if all you are serving is images.
The future of our cities
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Can organic cropping systems be as profitable as conventional systems?
We only hear back if we get invited to the interviews. My finger is hovering over the "buy tickets" button on Expedia. ;)
"post relational (can we say)"

I think you meant to say "pre-relational"
This is one of my pet peeves: Product blogs that don't provide a big, obvious link to the product at the top of the page. (Not to mention: In the sidebar, in the footer...)

As a member of the culture that invented 24-hour cable TV shopping channels, one would naively think that the usual failure mode for product blogs would be "Arrgh, every time I mouse over any element on this page there is a popup link to the product! The page detects if I linger for more than ten seconds and automatically pops up links to the product! The product's name is inserted, subliminally, in faint text between every line!" You know, overkill.

And yet the opposite is the case. I have been to lots of product blogs that don't link directly to the product, but force me to guess its URL (which is usually easy, thank god) and then manually type that URL into my address bar. Why this keeps happening I have no idea.
MogileFS might be what you're looking for:

http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/

with an nginx or lighttpd frontend.

The documentation is a little sparse though the mailing list and irc are useful for help.

Also it would somewhat depend on your traffic profile. If you've got thousands of random reads (e.g. thumbnails with dozens per page, ssds might be better; specifically the Intel X-25).

Otherwise MogileFS with an array of fast drives would probably do the job. Mogile can also do load balancing based on drive I/O because each image is replicated across different files/machines.

EDIT: Make sure you've got browser caching set up correctly (though admittedly that's a tiny bit harder with Mogile)

If you can use a expiry time that's far in the future.
Also don't send a Last-Modified nor an ETag Header.
Only send Expires.
Any "water shortage" is really an energy shortage, considering that oceans exist and so does desalination. Purifying arbitrarily polluted water is feasible given nuclear power. (Nuke subs do not carry supplies of drinking water, for example.)
I'm with you. The problem with this is the separation... He could likely be tied up in litigation over this for YEARS, all while his business is now losing revenue. Hopefully he has some rich relatives he can call on to bankroll his legal issues.

Thats the downside of being in this position, is that you can get ruined before you even finish the first legal battle.
It would be especially hilarious if it turns out that the Wolverine movie does surprisingly well, given the recent Bittorrent incident.
There are much easier ways of making money if you're in their position.

What would one of those much easier ways be? Corporate training is a gold mine.
The end of your initial comment is not civil. Downvoting such comments is the entire point of the moderation system here.
> Teaching and preparing for a set of seminars like this is time-consuming and most likely exhausting.

Those are the only two pieces that require extra work. They don't need to spend time on content creation, finding a market, or marketing in general. They have an audience, they know that audience has deep pockets, and they'll tell that audience the same damn thing they've been saying for 10 years. The only difference is the format and the price.
A /terabyte/ of transfer a day?!?
I know a few guys who have a lot of sex in college - all of them are already making more money than one usually makes working for one of those so-called tech giants (HCL, Wipro, blah).

Earning potential = sex. No, seriously.
A google search reveals digistamp.com. I also recall looking into this 6 or 7 years ago and finding a similar service back then.
Back in the day Larry and Sergey accepted every interview they were approached for and hammed it up all over campus posing for photos standing on balls and playing with toys in order to keep that "wacky geniuses" thing going and get on all the magazine covers.

Once they found a business model and could hire enough programmers to basically churn out a new feature/project every week, they had built-in marketing and enough brand to self-sustain itself.

Are 37signals already to that point? I don't know, maybe, but faulting a 10(?) person, self-sustaining, Chicago company for keeping their name out there by comparing them to a grow-as-fast-as-possible, well-funded, Valley startup-gone-gangbusters that's been the feather in the web's crown for the past 10 years is a little unfair.
Being an architect is very much like (if not outright identical) to being an artist. Sure, anyone can put paint on a canvas but very few do great work.
"Doing graph traversal in an RDBMS is beyond painful. Every edge you traverse typically comprises of one query."

You mean MySQL doesn't do transitive closure? Sounds like a product problem, not a relational database problem.
I don't submit(not yet!). I take fancy to the comments here. I read the comments in depth and skim over any articles submitted.

I think, even a 'dumb' article gets decent conversations thread.

Accurate or not, it's the crowd that discusses that makes a molehill of a mountain or otherwise.

PS: I used to think, I should comment on something I think I can talk about. But now, I think on reflecting my opinion on my understanding. I don't care about karma (points) as long as I express clearly what I 'thought' reading thru..
FTA: "Quality is the best business plan."

(John Lasseter, Pixar co-founder)
Most of the time, I submit things that I believe are worth reading. Occasionally, however, I do submit things that I believe are worth discussing, rather than reading (i.e. I don't agree with the point being made, but I want to read the discussion of that point).

Usually, in the latter case, I get involved in the discussion too.
tell me about it. Talk about pay thru the nose from the UK.
If Steve Jobs Had a Facebook Profile...
> Most musicians, even of the mega pop star variety, make most of their money performing music

Especially of the mega pop star variety. The highest-grossing band in the US last year was Bon Jovi. The idea that the new emphasis on live gigs somehow benefits new or "alternative" is a fiction. It in fact benefits well-established acts with long and successful recording careers.

Incidentally, how is recording in a studio not "performing"? Why should it be less deserving of audience's cash?

> I would go so far as to say that musicians should make most of their money by giving concerts.

I'm guessing that this is because it fits your romantic view that a musician should be essentially like a bard in the middle ages.

Also, as other another poster pointed out, some acts are not designed to be "live" acts. Like Steely Dan. Some can't perform live, or at least not to the extent necessary if there is no revenue from recorded music. The late Michel Petruciani would fall in this category (he had esteogenesis imperfecta).
Ask HN: Advantages of immutable variables besides concurrency
Some languages, notably erlang has immutable variables. Are there any advantages to this besides
making concurrent programming easier ?