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The issue with Ellington has always been it's closed source nature. You make a lot of money from people who install, setup, and use your CMS/app/whatever who need a support contract later on.

If you have to pay up front, you're much more likely to go with something like Wordpress.
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I'm having some fun trying out Ubuntu on VirtualBox in Lion. I actually made another user account and running it full screen is pretty seamless. I still want to check out the Lenovo hardware based on the answers so far. Thanks everyone!
Oh, that is fantastic news. I may have a server rebuild in my near future.
Can you provide some examples of such sites? I would love to learn more about this technique.
pyphantomjs is not under active development anymore, unfortunately.
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Keep an eye on the guys at mySugr. I've had a few interesting chats where they've told me about the issues you come up against in the medical industry. They're diabetics, they get it and they're working around (and through!) it to make a really usable and useful diabetes app. It's German only at the moment, but check it out at http://www.mysugr.com/.
Awww. That sounds like it speaks directly to all the people who wish artists spent more time getting punched in the face!
>And there are only a hundred or so different names (in pinyin without tone marks)...

My instinct tell me that's not correct. So I did the calculation:) From the ancient Chinese surname document "百家姓" [1], there're more than 500 hundreds surnames listed. And by removing the tone marks, I got 295 unique surnames in pinyin. But these are just surnames commonly used thousand years ago. Multiple by thousands unique first names, I believe that there're at least hundreds of thousands different names in pinyin.

Of course this is still far less than the number of different names in western countries. But it's not the main reason that some people in China use number style email addresses.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_surname
Original here: http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/zimring-scientific-american-nyc-...

The Mind Hacks post doesn't seem to add anything, or even explain what is going on, so I fail to see any reason to pass through there on the way.
Art is about values. If you don't "get" a particular work of art, it's because the values embodied in it not only do not resonate with your own values, but aren't even part of the universe of values that you think about.

It's not because you don't "get" art as such. Of course you "get" art, so long as it's the kind of art that fits with your worldview.

The kind of art that I think appeals to many scientists and engineers is the kind that exalts the potential of mankind, e.g. the Star Trek universe.
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This got me thinking: what tangible results have arisen from current philosophy, that is, philosophy we've seen in the last, say, 20 years?

> philosophy gave birth to all intellectual forms of knowledge

I think this is an utterly unsupportable claim unless you're willing to simply define philosophy as encompassing all other forms of intellectual pursuit. Intellectual knowledge (whatever that means) existed long before the Rig Veda and Socrates.
With a scheduled test, you have the benefit of having the main power actually working if the backup being tested comes crashing down; seems to me that mitigation would be much quicker in a scheduled test than in a real outage.
Skeuomorphic interfaces, right? I thought about that before embarking on this work earlier this weekend, but haven't been able to really try it.

One school of thought would be to have it work like a "real" scanner, in which you enable and disable banks. Any activity on an "enabled" bank would then pop up. I could just use talkgroups to replace banks. It would still be smart about playing back calls serially so you don't miss anything. It would just switch the "list" for a "now" scheme.

I suspect the hardest part of this would be reproducing that ghostly backlit glow. Graphical stuff is always tricky for me.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if I can make this happen.
I'm not going to deny that there's a lot of crappy art out there. However, this article is such bullshit that I suspect the writer is just trolling.

For those who are nodding along with this article, consider the Obfuscated C contest: http://www.ioccc.org/

That's art. But it's art that most people in the world can't begin to appreciate. You need years of coding experience to really get it. You need context. When hackers sit down and study those works of art, they're not just posing.

A lot of modern art is like that. I look and scratch my head. If I go with a friend who understands the context, they can explain to me the history: movement Z is a reaction to Y, which in turn is a reaction to X. The artist is grappling with themes A and B, and exploring materials C, D, and E.

Many of us can do similar analysis with video games. Look at the Upgrade Complete series, which is a fun set of commentary on games at the same time it's a fun game. Look at the rise of the 8-bit look and sound that harks back to an earlier era. To an outsider, the 8-bit stuff could just seem like shitty graphics, but to many insiders it's awesome and nostalgic and charming. That's art.

Of course, Kongregate and GameStop are both full of shitty games. It'd be easy to write an article like this one, condemning all videos games as crap. But I and many other HN readers are willing to wade through the crap because when you find the gems, they're real works of art. Art requiring context to really understand.
First thing that I did when I got a mac was drag the applications folder to the dock and make it a list view. Instant start (menu on the side of the screen. I still use it from time to time, sometimes you just need to see the app icon. But command + space changed the way I compute. I understand why type searching was given focus in Unity and now Win 8.
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Definitely. I'm surprised that keyboards don't have a "magnifying glass" key since search is entirely keyboard-oriented. (A Windows key doesn't count because it's not an intuitive search indicator. The Mac Spotlight's command-space is also unintuitive.)

I recommend Alfred too, as well as Dash (similar but targeted to programming). Both tools come up instantaneously compared to Spotlight, they're more configurable and they seem to stay out of the way better. Even though they cost money they are well worth it because of the productivity gain.
People don't really pay for print. Generally speaking, the fee that most print publications charge is more about qualifying their readers for advertisers (e.g. people who will pay money to read about X) than anything else.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Journalism-t.ht...

"Advertising always accounted for the vast majority of the publishers’ revenues — with newspapers, 80 percent was the rule of thumb"
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Incredibly well said. I'm beginning to think he is a troll as well.
I know where you are going, but your example isn't particularly useful. If someone says that they hate vegetables, then they hate vegetables, regardless of whether their vegetable-eating experience is limited.
I think more people would be fine with Windows 8 if people stopped telling them that they should hate it.

Same for Vista; personally, I never encountered problems with drivers/sluggishness that people told me were bound to happen. It wasn't a spectacular upgrade from XP but I think most people avoided it because people were very outspoken about how supposedly awful it was.
Rackspace has a pretty detailed report[1] of their 2009 outages, which is surprisingly similar to the Amazon problems.

[1] http://broadcast.rackspace.com/downloads/pdfs/DFWIncidentRep...
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Among other things, because cable does a great job of obscuring what they're paying for. Bundles with Internet, phone and/or DVR service, time-limited promotions, ...
>"But what stops you from re-arranging and placing the most often used application shortcuts on your desktop in Windows 95?"

Nothing. Lots of people did it that way...even back in the Windows 3.1 days. And I suspect that Microsoft has mountains of data showing that lots of people still do.

This is vastly different from the wild speculation and design dogma that went into Unity's design.
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Things could be have been worse -- it could have been a nuclear power plant. oh wait...
In earlier versions of C#, yes, but with the current language, stuff like that is pretty easy.
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That art seems boring to me. But 2001 was boring to me until I knew what went into the model work for the spaceships. I'm not sure I could appreciate this art if I studied art, but I'd be willing to try. This is what I usually think of when I think art: http://mkr.deviantart.com/favourites/

Maybe the author is going after the wrong kind of art. Not all of it needs a manual.
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Not quite. They hate their idea of vegetables. They don't have any idea whether they actually hate actually eating actual vegetables, because they've never really done it.

Similarly, this guy is welcome to hate his impoverished notion of philosophy, but it shouldn't be mistaken for somebody actually hating philosophy.
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Maybe you are too young to remember, but once upon a time, there was this thing called economic growth...
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The scene represented a point of serious depression (contemplating suicide) and realisation/rebirth for the artist. Some might see it and think of dirty engineers or needing to clean up. Others might see that a bed can be a site for pleasure, pain, love, resentment, physical activity, rest, birth and death.

Each to their own. Some may see weeds growing in cracks on the side of the road and think it looks messy and needs poison. I always see the evolution of life, incredible ways that dog-eat-dog life in a godless world can see some measure of success against the odds and think about how a weed may be different to different people. (Then I poison it.)
Great work, but how is this real-time?
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>Do you really think this is smart?

Of course it is. This has easily brought India trillions of dollars worth of benefits. Is there any benefit to India at all of paying billions of dollars per year to the United States for.... nothing?
There are literally millions of smart hackers out there and only 1 entity has ever managed to put a state-of-the-art UI on top of a Unix core: Apple.

[I will get flamed for speaking that way about Gnome and KDE, but they fall a little short, IMHO. This being said, I don't blame the Gnome or KDE teams for it. I blame the gazillions of distributions that add nothing beside a theme or a background picture to the base packages they get from Ubuntu or Red Hat. At least these Haiku guys seem to be adopting a more ambitious approach.]

Why is that?

I think an awful lot of people take on projects solely to make a name for themselves...or because they truly believe they know better than Linus or some other pundit they happen to despise.

A prophecy: The first entity to put a state-of-the-art UI on top of Linux will have an opportunity to compete with Apple directly.
I wouldn't call the stimulus a top-down approach, and I thin it's greatest "failing" was that there wasn't enough of it, first because no one really appreciated how bad things were, and then because one party decided to put party before country...
But would you rather risk a once in 10years real power failure testing your backups, or would pull the plug once per year to test it yourself?
Respectfully, your setup is broken; not linux...
I'm very curious to see whether they will use the Metro UI in their server OSes. My bet is, they won't, or if they do they'll either put out a new edition fairly quickly, or will roll it back even faster to the traditional UI.
Philosophy is about posing new questions, not providing answers. It's about imagination more than it's about deduction. Of course, in the same manner that math teachers emphasize deriving proofs rather than crafting new mathematical constructs as the fundamental activity of mathematicians, people who teach philosophy emphasize philosophical argument over opening up new frontiers of discourse as the fundamental activity of philosophers. As a result, students come to perceive philosophy as pointless.
So many challenged people over here. I only said (my opinion) that humankind will be much better of if you use and improve something, but you insist on seeing something else. Do yourselves a favour and have some deep introspection folks, cause lots of people get in trouble for hearing and seeing things that are simply not there.
Of course he's trolling! It's Vice magazine. How does nobody seem to get this?
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If it needs a long sermon to proclaim it's art, it's probably bullshit [1]

Modern Art - A Skeptical View [2]

[1] http://www3.sympatico.ca/manideli/Artsp.htm

[2] http://www3.sympatico.ca/manideli/
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Of course India shouldn't! Why should they? Why would anyone want to pay for something that cost billions of dollars to be discovered now that it is discovered. We should all steal! </sarcasm>
Yes, except Splunk gets very expensive, very quickly if you want more than the free tier gives you (features or indexing volume). 500mb/day is not all that much when you start shoving everything under the sun into it (and once you've used it, you'll want everything available to it).
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Suing charities for making him look bad by accepting donations?

At some point does a judge get to say "you don't get to be a lawyer" for at least a little while?
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A major reason why the accuracy on blood sugar strips is +/- 20% is because that is all that the standard (ISO 15197:2003) requires:

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* Within ±20% of lab results at 4.2 mmol/L or more

Companies are juggling cost, reliability and performance/accuracy, with the first two generally winning in the marketplace as key selling points.

Some devices offer significantly better accuracy than 20%, depending on the market that you are in (not all are for sale in USA, IIRC).
We don't want to see this, but it's there...
It depends on what you mean by tangible. You're meaning here seems to be something like "having a direct impact on the physical sciences", a very limited question considering the breadth of the topics covered by philosophy but certainly the answer even in this limited context is more than zero tangible results. Much research in artificial intelligence and machine learning is directly inspired by philosophy and has been since the beginning, so that would be a great area to start in. There has also been much work in the philosophy of language, science, mathematics, ontology and other branches of metaphysics, politics, aesthetics if you're willing to broaden your criteria for tangibility.
There's the problem: I don't want to buy this new hardware. My hardware is quite good enough with Windows 7 already. And how many folks really have a docking station at home? Laptops that split the screen from the laptop? Hardly anyone has one of these.

If that's what Microsoft is betting on, I'd be concerned for their overall strategy.
Something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiche ?
Companies like Orbitz and Etsy that use the heck out of Graphite would be surprised to hear that it's "not really production ready"
Sorry. I didn't see this reply.

I don't thing spending money on marketing (or other things that research) is "wrong", I only tried to curtail what I typically see of cries as "Oh, but they spend so much money on R&D!" "So much" is relative, and speaking relatively, they don't.

A popular tactic for "educating doctors" is hiring locally recognized TV reporters/anchors looking to get out of their business to press flesh and hock pills in doctor's offices as sales people. That may include "educating" but it's definitely also "marketing". Some people probably get a few doses of helpful medicine this way. I don't deny.

But how much is too much? When every nightly newscast is full of vague commercials to the point where even some people in perfect health know which drugs do what, and the potential side effects? I think that's probably a bit much overkill. Especially considering many others will just know "Ohhh, that's the one that makes you sleep good and has a lightning bug in the commercial!"

Also, I looked up Lipitor. It was patented in 1987. Generics were set to enter the market in 2009, but were stopped after Pfizer sued. The generics won, then Pfizer sued again and Pfizer won, then generics sued again, and Pfizer settled out of court. So now, 25 years after the filing of a patent designed to last 20 years, generics enter the market. I don't understand, what was your question about generics?
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My relative is definitely calibrating some instrument related to the pump multiple times per day.
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Hate is a subjective term and describes a feeling, not an objective fact. You are correct in that the author is wrong in that scientists should ignore philosophy based on his limited and ignorant article, but you are incorrect that his feelings towards philosophy is not one of hatred.

Put it this way: I can hate that which I have never experienced. I've never been raped, but I definitely hate it!
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Oh really? You knew exactly where each app icon was located the moment you got your iPhone? And the settings, notifications, and everything else? There was zero learning curve? Come on. Sick of this Apple superiority fanboy bullshit.
To get art, you need to see the intention.
Wow, this is just insanity. Any judge looking at this suit should dismiss it based on how frivolous it is, and everyone involved should just grow up, and the lawyer suing the Oatmeal and Charities should start making an honest living.
Many more women are looking for great sex as the end game than are looking for penetration. I mean, ask some of your female friends who really love penetration, and you'll find that even the ones who are most enthusiastic about it have had penetrative sexual encounters they would never want to repeat.
I can only imagine that the lawyer in question is making bank or enjoying the publicity, and either way we're willingly giving it to him.

I think the thread of this story has wandered into trivial territory. It's not as if we need to see every detail of every frivolous lawsuit.

Edit: He's got a book and some really wonky websites. His ebook is here: http://sex.comchronicles.com

Amazon has it here, some of the reviews are telling:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439201013

It's subtitled titled "A White Hat Lawyer's Journey to the darkside of the internet"

He's definitely got the attention-seeking symptoms going on. I don't think gawking at zany lawyers is a good use of the front-page.
No…all art is very contextual.

Picasso's most famous work, Guernica, has many contexts to which it can be interpreted—not least of which the Spanish Civil War, upon which it is a meditation. Yet, for me, the only context that matters is that I think that Picasso's Cubist period (of which Guernica is a part) is a horrible waste of his talent, which is much better demonstrated in his blue period.

Basically, I don't care for Cubist work. Inconsistent, I know, because I happen to love the Surrealism in Dalí's work.
OK, isn't it obvious by now that these idiots are doing this for publicity? Stop paying attention to this crap.
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Why aren't lawyers that do this type of stuff disbarred? After filing X number of absolutely frivolous suits in X time period, there should be a cooldown period. It could discourage lawyers from pursuing such things, effectively stopping clients from suing too frequently and frivolously.
Thank you, that cleared things up.

Does Haskell allow you to assert that a function (like, say, the Sieves of Eratosthenes algorithm) does terminate, so that it may use that info to make additional simplifications?
He should be disbarred. Trying to sue the charities themselves, which aren't even involved in this squabble? Ridiculous. How anyone with a functioning brain could come to the conclusion that this is the best course of action baffles me.