skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like what you are looking for is a Drobo (www.drobo.com). It has some shortcomings, but it is great for dead-simple backups that protect against hard drive failure.
FreeNAS has some ZFS support, I believe: "ZFS integration has been done in 0.7, so it is possible to create pools and datasets via WebGUI.", from an old entry at http://freenas.blogspot.com/

Unfortunately ZFS depends on the Solaris fault management daemon (fmd) to handle failing disks by itself, something FreeBSD doesn't yet have a replacement for.
The point is, he endangered his neighbors. I'm sort of ambivalent about the story. Should society let people build reactors? Sure. Should it let them build reactors in an unshielded toolshed in a residential area? Hell no, but it's still sort of awesome when it happens. And I'm not sure if it's really more dangerous (from a societal perspective) than owning a car.
They're called koans. People in the US seem to be really attached to the koans from Rinzai Zen, to the point where anything that's vaguely surreal is a "Moment of Zen". On the other hand, Soto, the other major schools of Zen buddhism, doesn't even use koans (it emphasizes meditation), and they arguably have about as much to do with conventional Buddhism as getting your picture taken with the Santa Claus at Macy's does with Christianity.

Historically, the association seems to be because the beats and hippies (who were also pretty fond of surrealism) had a big part in popularizing Zen Buddhism, while comparatively, most other forms of Buddhism haven't spread that far past immigrant enclaves.
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I upvoted you because I think you raise a valid point, but I still disagree. Personally, I know where you're coming from; I make electronic music as a hobby, but I can't bring myself to use samples because then I feel like it's not me any more.

However, I don't see it as theft, any more than I see a production of a Shakespeare play as theft. Stealing is when you're dishonest about the source of your raw material and represent it as your own creation. An interesting juxtaposition of known material is a commentary in itself, regardless of whether you like it; and the guy's career is as a producer, not as a musician or composer. For that matter, both Mozart and Bach were regarded by some as mere hacks, appropriating or accepting tunes from others and applying mere technique to arrive at elaborate (but not fundamentally complex) arrangements.

I'm unsure why you seem so personally offended by this, to the point of finding it indecent and dishonorable. I've been blatantly ripped off by a (book) publisher in the past, and it made me mad, but not to the extent of rejecting an entire branch of creative technique. Can you explain, without the invective?
$2777 take home equates to about $47,500 gross per year (adding the taxes paid back in). The per capita income in New York state in 2005 was $40k. I suspect now it's around $43-45k.
I've build something similar for home/small-office use. My experiences are at http://johnandkaren.com/blog/file-server. Daz at http://sigtar.com/ has done similar things as well, and I've found his site to be invaluable as I have built my file server.
This is a strawman. He never says that the industry isn't brainwashed. I'm not sure why you are attacking that point.

His point is that the industry is screwed and they know it. Given the choice between folding in the towel and suing to drag out the process (making money along the way), they have made the only logical business choice.

Saying the industry has made the only logical business move is NOT the same as saying they are good people.
Try Wikipedia searches using Google:

"<query> site:en.wikipedia.org"

It enhances the Wikipedia experience to a whole new level.
I have read studies which compared the brain activity of monks who have regularly mediated for decades and lay-people. There are measurable differences.

edit: an example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43006-2005Jan...
I agree and I would also check the contract for an "Entire Agreement" clause which basically says that side agreements, whether verbal or written, are not considered part of the agreement.
Wikipedia is one of the main source of data for Wolfram Alpha, so killing Wikipedia would make Wolfram suck if not die.
"The feelings you state above come back, and you view them as a problem, because you've not really made an attempt to understand them. When you view them as problems, and not ephemeral conditions, they become problems."

very close to a religious discussion imo. Without acepting the underlying dogma of the mystical school (vipassana in this case), the above sentence makes no sense at all. By this logic two Christians arguing whether music is allowable in Christian worship and its impact on a worshippers mind is valid discussion on HN.

People making unverifiable claims about inner states and so on. What's next - a discussion of the subjective effects of various recreational drugs on the human mind?

I suspect the subjective descriptions of mental states would be very similar "I got high and I observed my thoughts arising blah" "No you didn't do it right .. you should have ... "

"I been conflicted about whether to pursue Buddhism. "

Ok. Great for you.

I would have preferred it if this pseudo religious stuff were left off HN. I am very surprised that this made the front page of HN, leave alone such a high place in the rankings.(I tried to phrase this carefully so as not to violate any HN guidelines).
SQLite is a C library, and is called in-process. It's probably the best fitting relational database for your problem, as I understand it. You've painted a pretty incomplete picture, though.

The constraints on the problem (how much simultaneous r/w access, size of the data set, etc.) will have the most impact on what to choose, but it doesn't seem like you've fleshed that out anywhere else in the thread.
I could imagine the post office put a sticker on the envelope with the real address. This guarantees a correct address (as long as the whois info is correct).

Of course, have to see if it is practical or not.

There is a service in Belgium that if you move house you can pay the postal service a small fee (20EUR) and they will forward mail sent to your old address to your new address over a 6 month period. When they do this they simply put a sticker over the incorrect address.

I am guessing this is autmated and is a similar problem as my proposition.
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Well, it tried out the famous (and probably apocryphal) correlation between hemlines and the Dow Jones index. It doesn't have skirt length or hemline data. Then I tried correlations between the Baltic Dry index and the S&P 500. It didn't know about the former.

I guess financial isn't their top priority. Maybe there should be a new group of experts focused on that alone?
Yup, I know. But Soto has its share of "faith", starting with the quote above: if you do zen for any purpose, you're not doing it right. I get the point and the logic, and I agree with it. But it's just too damn hard to swallow stuff like this without chewing, and if i'm chewing it... well it usually makes sense, but it's still not easy.
I think that's a luxury of coming from a socioeconomic class where your basic needs are taken care, with skills that are both intellectually stimulating and can make a living.

When you live in a suburb of Pittsburgh with a median household income of $23,000, where 20% of the population lives below the poverty line, and your day job consists of saying "Would you like fries with that?", and most of your friends are shooting at each other or getting pregnant, then maybe not everything around you is fascinating.
Thanks, that is very interesting. Not ZFS apparently, but that is the product I described.
I think the majority of the populace will not have the wherewithal to appreciate it. The part that does will see its potential, and I think that's all Wolfram cares about.
I simply refuse to click on, and thus reward, obviously sensational idiotic linkbait titles. Hopefully, this behaviour spreads and will be the killer for the mass of them.
I can't remember the name, but there is an opensolaris NAS software package. I really want a hardware appliance based on ZFS, though. I'd rather not spend time setting it up.
You lose hacker points for posting a question staring with "Do I win hacker points...?" But if you are only joking, you only lose joke points.
in my scenario, it is a read-heavy database with occasionally writes. As average about 3 tags for 500,000 images, it should supports 1.5 million in-memory records on one computer. for performance, I expect ~100ms to retrieve 100,000 records.
well, they are the only two places he mentioned in his comment...
Would you believe Evan Williams when he writes about startups? He did his "10 rules for webstartups" (http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp) and then broke all of them with Odeo, which, not surprisingly, failed.
Dropping TV is the single most life-changing thing any modern person can do. Mostly because it gets you to wander "what do I want to do tonight?"
I guess there's a distinction between remaking music and copying it (bit-for-bit) that people aren't seeing. Or, they see, and don't care. Now, if you make the 2000th cover of "Yesterday" and sell it, that's one thing. If you take the original 2 minute recording of "Yesterday", add yourself belching on top of it, and sell it as your "own", then you're a thief and an artistic wrecker.

I think this comes down to opinion. The principle is firm, but the disgust is sometimes lacking. When this little gem was released,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJePNFkkvFk

...the outrage was vicious and near-universal. DM is doing the exact same thing, and I would argue, to a much, much greater extent, because he isn't contributing, you know, actual music, like the above recording.
There is no doubt about the effectiveness of meditation. It is a tool. And certainly Vipassana seems to be as methodical and systematic an approach as can be possible, when it comes to learning(and seeing results of) meditation. However, as in programming, it is important to go beyond the tool/s. And the same is true about this peace thing. There is a similar path (non-dual advaita based on self inquiry), where in addition to meditation, emphasis is given on the root of the problem(or identifying and fixing the root of the problem, which they identify as "I" or mind). In fact, it is very similar to Zen Budhism, in the sense it is very direct, but is geared more more towards knowledge-based /intellectual bend of mind. Here is one interview by Daivd Goodman on this: http://www.davidgodman.org/rteach/jd5.shtml. I am sure there must be lot of internet resources on the same.
Yeah, really strange.
I agree, but it depends on the nature of the project. That's why i included it in the brief description.
Not only are the different things but it will take either a lot more time or a lot more effort before Wolfram Alpha can compete with the amount of information that Wikipedia has.
Patents used to be tools of inventors and now they are tools of lawyers.

Depressingly true. Mrs Browl works for an electronic discovery company, whose service is to organize huge volumes of documents for legal cases, and it happens that many of these are related to IT patents. For obvious reasons I can't discuss any specifics, but even casual shoulder-surfing has resulted in a great many eyerolls.

To me, a major part of the problem is that while the profession of law purports to be based on reason, it lacks a proper axiomatic framework and success frequently depends on the exploitation of ambiguity...and sadly, many lack the critical thinking skills to deconstruct arguments made this way. If I were ever unlucky enough to be defending myself in court, I'd seriously consider opting for a trial by judge rather than by jury. I would far rather have one intelligent person evaluating my case than 12 random folk.
The CPU is overkill, but make sure you get a 64-bit CPU. The way ZFS is designed it basically requires as large a mapping as you can get.
I've thought about this before. I move fairly often. But why in the world should I have to update my address with 27 different places every time. Why can't I simply have a virtual mailing address that I give out to people, and when people mail things there, it gets looked up after it reaches the post office. And then, when I move I simply update the physical address in one spot. I do this already when I set a forwarding address with the USPS.

In order to increase adoption, I was thinking that in addition to a simple domain name, it would also have a human-readable addr1/addr2/city/state/zip format to be backward compatible with current mailing address forms. If you're concerned about redundancy, it can go in here. If the address still can't be read by the post office, it will return to sender or route the same way a dead letter would.

I even thought about making a startup out of this by implementing this routing myself using the post office as a service. In other words, people could register a virtual address with my company, and when giving out their address, give out my company's address where the address-line-2 indicates their "domain". When my company receives the mail, it does a lookup on the virtual address and remails the letter/package to the physical address registered. Since this is a convenience for the owner of the virtual address, they can pay my company per thing routed, so they only ever pay when it actually gets used. But this easily allows my company to pass the remailing postal charge on to my customers. I think remailing would be acceptable to me as a user, b/c 95% of all the mail I get, it wouldn't matter if it took twice as long to get to me. For things that required speed of delivery, I would probably make sure something special happened anyway, like priority mail or fedex. Of course, people are then going to want to do things like get an email about something they received before paying for the routing, which I think would be cool as a user anyway.

Using DNS for routing is a good idea though. It's already redundant and reliable. It also avoids concerns of criminals using this as a way to hide their address, since anyone can just do a WHOIS on it.

I didn't pursue this idea because I figured reading hand-written addresses was a hard problem, and it would make more sense to simply be implemented by the postal service itself to avoid remailing. But how in the world do we convince the postal service to add this feature?
http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=82...

Thecus 7700 supports ZFS. 7 drive bays though.
Dropping TV is the single most life-changing thing any modern person can do.

I used to think that. Then I did it, and it was true for about 8 years. Now the internet has all the TV I'd ever want to watch in an immediately summonable window right next to all the other info-crack which had taken the place of television. I'm thinking dropping the internet is going to be the next big life changer. I went on a laptop free vacation a couple months ago and felt like I had 6-8 hours of extra time per day. Watching a couple TV shows in the hotel room at night was actually kind of relaxing and quaint, like I'd taken a time machine back to a simpler age...
The law usually says work done while you're employed belongs to the employer. Off topic: at least in my country this is a special exception to the general "author" legislation, which says for example a painting you make for a buyer will forever be "by you", and even after selling it you still retain some rights. In software, what you write belongs to the company, period.

Now depending on the specific wording of the law and in your employment contract you may or may not be able to work on something related on your own. The only solution I can think of which would not require a lawyer and/or reading a lot of legalese is making a piece of paper in which you grant the company the right to use your software and the company agrees it's yours, and get your boss to put the company's stamp on it. That would work in pretty much all cases I can think of, and it's reasonably easy.
"The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators rather than being refined to approach a theoretical ideal"

This might be an interesting language design methodology. Try to code up something hard (to introduce constraints) and assume you have to build a new langauge to do it. Iow ignore existing languages/libraries etc.
About half of that is the cost of the drives. That's not going to change no matter which solution you get.

Compared to the 4-bay $500 Drobo, (plus $200 for DroboShare) it's not bad considering he's getting exactly what he wants.

The trade off is that he has to maintain the Solaris box, and the size/footprint of the overall solution.
There are thousands of attempts to say what the meditation is, but in fact, one should realize it by oneself. For me, for example, that was about to stop looking "into the mirror" and suffering, and starting looking around, but not judging, just see. But this is just a theory. Meditation is the another name of some very simple practice. It could be described as "watch your thoughts". When you can "see", then you can try to "control" this flow, and after that you can try to stop it. Suddenly, after hours and hours of failures you will catch that very moment, and realize this short "gap" between thoughts, while last one already gone, but next one still not arise. Everything will be obvious after this experience, like when you saw the light in the dark stormy night.
Of course, this moment was not that when you will drop and forget all your flawed habits or booze and dope addictions, but you will finally have something to compare to.
The need for food and shelter are not things that other people impose on you; you'd have those needs even if you were the only person around. Just sayin'.
Buddhism is primarily about reducing the amount of suffering in the world, in both ourselves and others. Part of this includes trying to let go of the cycle in which you think you need _ to be happy, strive to get it (perhaps successfully, perhaps not), then forget about it and reflexively start worrying about the next _ . This sort of behavior ("retail therapy" and subsequent credit card debt, for example) usually causes problems which get in the way of great achievements, or even being able to think clearly enough to enjoy our day-to-day lives.

(This is a quick attempt to summarize the idea usually translated as "desire is the root of all suffering.")

One can do great things because they seem like the best thing to do with one's time, not just because they're terrified by the feeling that they'll never be happy / have a meaningful life without it.
Nice read.

I can't find any empathy with the author though. Her description of getting a cd-rom drive working in Linux embodies all the things I dislike about working with computers, and is the probably reason my dealing with Linux have been so painful.

I simply don't want another hobby. And even if I did, it wouldn't be "getting my computer to function at all." Linux seems to enforce this hobby on me, every step of the way. Granted it's a lot easier 10 year on from this article, but it's still just not fun for me.

I'd rather spend my time writing code.
I don't see much evidence that the company was funding growth oriented small venture plays in China. Their role was to help Chinese companies line up foreign IPOs and cash out.
If you're writing a consumer application and there are great libraries available for much of the functionality, you'd probably use them, right?

If the license on them permitted it, yes. If FOSS advocates want respect for the GPL, then you've got to respect other peoples licenses too.
No company if forced to "go public" by trading on a public exchange. But the Securities & Exchange Act of 1934 requires public disclosure of some financials after a company accumulates 500 shareholders and $10 million in assets.

The SEC granted Facebook an exception in November 2008 because many of the shareholders hold restricted stock. Read more below:

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/11/23/facebook-gets-sec-d...
That Rapidshare link isn't a valid RAR file. I posted a working torrent of the album here: http://neekolas.tumblr.com/post/108678640/my-first-torrent
Years back I used to go to Mensa meetings in NYC and found that the most distinguishing feature of the crowd was not what the thought or believed, but how they expressed themselves.

Overall, the Mensa folk (for the sake of argument, "smart people") believed much the same things as the average person on the street, but they had a much better vocabulary.

(Actually, one thing else was interesting: beliefs held seemed to be more extreme. E.g., higher numbers of hard-core socialists and libertarians than mainstream population.)
More likely Oracle will abandon work on BTRFS now that they have real ZFS.
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If they're happy with the software they got at the price, the labor (or lack thereof) that went into it doesn't matter. Of course, if he's being paid by the hour, it might be different, but I'm sure he wouldn't be padding time like that if he were.
Wolfram is remarkably short-sighted. You'd think that such a smart guy would have realized that spending 1100+ pages blowing is own horn would tend to turn off the very people he hoped to convince.

They say that love is blind, ego must just be plain blinding.
This seems like a matter of taste. Certain people were apoplectic about the Kenny G. But tons of people actually loved that Kenny G thing (look at the youtube comments). Scary, but true. The Grey Album seems to draw the most ire from Beatles fans who consider their recordings sacrosanct. Personally I liked the 99 problems remix better than either of the two original songs. Related, I'd rather listen to a Girl Talk track before I'd listen to any one of the songs he samples...
s/might/is
This actually might not help you if you've run afoul of your IP agreement; just because you've released something GPL doesn't mean you've renounced your copyright on it. See: the various companies that have dual-licensed commercial/open software.
The philosophy is a broken set of assumptions.
This is a REDDIT post, not a ycombinator post.
As others have mentioned: it is not clear in 10 seconds what you do. That and your demo is pages of text, nothing I can interact with.

I need to be able experience your product in some way. Reading about your promises of a revolution in looking at data is not enough. It comes across as vaporware.
The article is from 2006, but is still valid. The Consumer Products Safety Commission in its crusade to make everything idiot proof has neutered the once ubiquitous chemistry set. (Lawsuit happiness probably contributed.) The war on drugs has made it illegal to purchase common laboratory glassware without a background check.

Last week my SO had to repack her cosmetics case into checked luggage because she had more tha 3 oz. of lotions and such. To top it off some TSA idiot spilled perfume into her suitcase. She is now sick because she has multiple chemical sensitivity and her clothes are probably unusable.
If you read "%s Killer" anywhere on a news site, you can safely ignore it.