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On the plus side, the level of transparency that AWS displays and the detail that they provide seems above and beyond the call of duty. I find it refreshing and I hope that other companies follow suit so that customers can understand the details of operational issues, calibrate expectations appropriately, and make informed decisions.
I've read this opinion on a lot of blogs and online discussions. But it's impossible for me at this time to collect a list of authoritative sources.

But, for instance, check out ESR's blog esr.ibiblio.org and check the comments on his latest article, calling RMS a fanatic. May of the views expressed in the comments section reflect this view.
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If I want to start Google Chrome, I can open the start menu, type "go" or "ch", wait half a second to see that it's the first result, and hit return. To do this from the terminal I need to switch to a terminal, know the name of the executable (not just the display name of the program), know what directory it's in (or make sure to put it in my PATH), etc.

I don't agree with your characterizations. The mouse allows density but doesn't demand it - both more and less dense layouts have pros and cons for mouse and are appropriate in different contexts. A terminal is good for input but limiting for output - I would like to see a command shell that took a text command language, but produced graphical output.
Also, a lot of modern art is philosophical in nature. It pushes the boundaries on the definition of what is art? Of course, this started over a hundred years ago, so by now the boundaries have been pushed pretty far, resulting in stuff like this.
It's only loosely an app, but having a real unix terminal (without having to run a VM) is the biggest reason I'm hooked.
The even crazier thing is big industrial plants where they are using tens or hundreds of MW and have much lower margins than datacenter companies, so they run with dual grid (HV, sometimes like 132kV) feeds and no onsite redundancy. As in, when the grids flicker, they lose $20mm of in-progress work.
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I'm not sure if that's what he meant. I think what he meant is that:
use poor people cheaply for testing ==> make drugs faster ==> more poor people saved
I'm really interested in the ethical questions involved in this matter,
I'm sure of what side I am ethically on this, because I simply have to imagine what it would be if _I_ was the poor guinea pig (which could have happened btw, I was really really lucky to born to middle-class parents). But this is on very slippery slope; when you become desperate, it's where you start trying to justify a class of human beings as being `lesser'; and once you do that you've opened Pandora's box (Aryan race etc etc)
really - its a good idea to be interested in someone ELSE's life?! you dont say! I've grown to expect much better content on the homepage of Hacker News - how is intimately describing the details of how a barber chair works and looks - of any consquence - especially when the moral of the story is - "try and have real conversations some times, and be interested in others"? Sure we are hackers - but not all of us are plainly socially retarded!
Trust me, it's much more than $1B per drug.

Just take a look at how many drugs those multi-billion dollar per year R&D budgets get you.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/10/the-tru...
> push fractions and long division (which, true, most elementary school teachers do not really understand)

Wow.. Really? Then how are they going to teach anything to the students except doing + - *? How about trigonometry, or even Tales Theorem? Hell, how about percentages? That's too hard and not usefull, too?

Is this generally accepted? For me it seems like the fact that parents would riot over?
nice one. quick question, when you pull in prices from flipkart do you show discounted prices? for eg: try searching "thinking fast and slow". I bought this book recently for 324 INR but that doesn't show up in the search. How often do you index the source pages? Is it real time?
That was the original design (seen in the first public preview).
I work for the Fed. We are a remote site and have several power outages each year due to trees on the power lines or snow related issues. It's pretty much required and we've had zero issues justifying it.
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I think it's reasonable to escalate criticism of Heroku for remaining in a single AZ. They have had plenty of time and resources to fix this, and haven't, despite being quite competent. I don't know if it is that they don't think it's necessary (due to the profile of their current customers) or what, but I wouldn't use Heroku for anything as long as they remain in a single AZ, and would be really reluctant to advise other people to do so. I obviously really like the Heroku team and product and would love to use them otherwise.

It wouldn't even need to be true seamless failover across AZs right away -- just offering a us-west and us-east Heroku would be enough for me, with shared nothing (maybe billing, or not even that), and then figure out redundancy yourself inside your app. Multiple regions is WAY better than multiple AZs within a region, too -- both for reliability and for locality.

Obviously a real seamless multi AZ/multi region solution would be much more technically impressive, useful to users, and Heroku-like, but they shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good here.
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I suspect a monthly test - if communicated to customers as well - would drive better customer behaviour, e.g. multi-AZ usage, automated validation of EBS, adding extra machines in another AZ automatically. Maybe start with one or two AZ's with an opt-in from customers.

It's the same as advice to routinely replace your live data from backups. It's not a real backup until you've tested that you can recover from it.
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wow. suddenly the term "literal 'net" pops up in my head.

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The baseline generator maintenance cost exceeds the fuel cost every month. A bigger issue is getting permits from your local/moronic government to run your generators for testing, but for a big datacenter, you're probably in an industrial neighborhood (to get correct power from multiple substations or higher) and this isn't an issue -- it's more an issue with office-datacenters or other backup systems in normal residential/commercial neighborhoods.
you might consider going back to slashdot. i didn't miss his point at all, try reading my comment again, but this time, try to read the statement "but Javascript isn't assembly" a little less literally.
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Well...then they can get a bigger plaque.

Remember I'm responding to the person above who was saying there was a very straight-forward explanation and way to understand art based on X, Y, Z, A & B. If that explanation is so straight-forward, they can probably fit it in a couple of paragraphs.

Regardless, I think saying "well its reeeeally complicated, so we're just not going to explain ourselves at all" is pretty indefensible.
The final polish tha you are looking for gets the implementation into patent hell from what I understand.

I have been using OSX for as long as it was available, and I am starting to get tired of its look, but I am increasingly switching to just running as much as possible in iTerm 2 to be me as operating system agnostic as possible. Adobe software is holding that process back.
This is the most bizarre series of events I have ever witnessed unfold in the legal system.
A few years ago there was a long article about math education in USA by Russian math professor that immigrated. He blamed lack of "word problems" solved by intuition and guessing and substituting values at first, only then using algebra.

I can't find it now, but it showed exactly the same problems - math was just pattern mathing problem for most students - no real understanding.
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That's the thing with totally out there, nutbar work. Usually there's a story that makes it all make sense, in relative terms.

A lot of artists strive very hard to produce something new which is, at its essence, nearly impossible. The distance you have to go to get somewhere uncharted is vast indeed.

If people think art is easy they should struggle to create some themselves. It will take years to be able to produce something that isn't immediately recognizable as either too unrefined for serious consideration, too obviously derivative, or so done to death it's a cliche.
This is just a pathetic waste of resources.
Or maybe they should just do it backwards

Run the generators and have the grid as backup

And just stop the generators to validate fallback to grid once in a while
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This all episode is going more funnier than entire oatmeal comics ( I am a fan of these comics )

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk2
I have to agree with this comment.

As unglamorous as it is, Excel is great, and you can also create some _very_ powerful software rather easily with VBA.
Indeed. Looks like oatmeal and funnyjunk is doing this deliberately.
"a man who is his own lawyer, has a fool for a client", doubly so in this case.
I hate the wizardly control panel, incidentally. Just the other day, I was trying to remove a device. After maybe five minutes I decided it's not possible, until some time later accidentally finding the right button to press. It's very much not clear to me anymore what I can do, or how.
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What exactly are you offering here -- a scraping and archival service? I'm presuming you're claiming "real-time" because Facebook page insights are already real-time [1], and you periodically scrape and archive that data [2]?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/facebook-insights-real-time...
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I can't help but think of the Postmodernism Generator ( http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ ).
Um, yes. When I wanted to find the Settings menu on my new iPhone, it wasn't too much of a leap of faith to try pressing the icon labeled "Settings."

The idea that you have to left-click and drag a certain unmarked area of the screen in Metro to reach the control panel is light-years distant from the iPhone/iPad UX.

A good interface is one that is either highly intuitive, or highly discoverable. I haven't used Windows 8 yet, but from what I'm reading in this thread and elsewhere, it is neither. Don't shoot the messenger.
Sure , it's known that the CIA gave money to the Ford Foundation who then gave donations to various literary magazines, art reviews, and visual arts enterprises during the Cold War. It took decades for this to come out, although it was long suspected. "We" needed some bona fide art with an accompanying criticsl rationale to balance that of the Soviets.

One can interpret the whole ethos of the New York School of the postwar years in this way. Heroic individuals like Jackson Pollack striking out and defining whole genres of art, total opposite of the dreary collective approach of the Soviets.

This does not make the art invalid, suspect, or whatever. It should challenge us to look beyond the canonical figures, and to maintain an independent perspective on their work.
Or do it with a non-production load

AWS could create some machines at a lower cost and lower availability, just something that if goes down doesn't affect you much, or one-off usages.

I'm not sure how migrating machines between nodes happens in S3 or if it's easy to do it (maybe with some downtime)
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That's the thing though, everyone has a different perspective of where they are working on the pyramid. One person's peak is so far below another's abstraction level as to be considered part of the foundation, and vice versa.

In oss, I think you can make contributions in two ways: refine or invent. To do either of these you have to learn the past.

Even if all the only result is an exact clone of BeOS an entire group of developers will have learned a whole lot about something state-of-the-art at the time it was created. That's knowledge that was previously available only to a tiny group of people.
F you to the only GPU actually working on Linux. Probably Intel or AMD are a bit more open about the specs, but the only one actually working. I have used them both for graphics and computational stuff with CUDA. Saying Nvidia is bad because they do not publish their specs is ridiculous IMHO. If you start thinking about how some things in a modern CPU are implemented (caching mechanism for example) you will notice that about zero information is published :) They sure have an x64 front end but when it comes to how the CPU works internally things are completely different.
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They're less transparent and responsive than most datacenter or network providers -- it's just that most of those providers hide their outage information behind an NDA, so only customer contacts get it, vs. making it public.
The goal should be for all people to have access to health care, and since it's less capital-intensive to launch a drug in India than it is in the US, then maybe that should be the norm. New drugs would be much more accessible with less investment to pay back.
Occam's Razor isn't "jump to simple conclusions" or "don't bother thinking about it".

It's a rule of thumb stating that you should pick the simplest of two equivalent explanations. In this case there aren't even any proposed explanations, so it does not even apply.
Yes, we are recording the performances for each player and we want to show those when users are making their selections.

We are also adding a small tutorial as you suggest -- a number of users were asking "what do I do next" ;-)

The events are recorded manually at the moment and pushed to the users using Pusher.com. There are automated feeds but they are expensive.
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Ouch. English is not your first language. Sorry.
It's very much a weekends-only project.
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Large cogeneration sites (where they use the waste heat from electrical generation for process steam, building/district heating, etc.) actually do run in grid-backup mode. An example is MIT's cogeneration plant (a couple of big natural gas turbines on Vassar street) -- a lot of universities do this since they can use the steam for heating, and a lot of industrial sites do it for process.

It comes down to cost and zoning/permitting. It's much easier to get a permit to run a generator for backup use than to run one 24x7. It's also hard to get a 1-10MW plant which is per-KWh as efficient/inexpensive as the grid (although now that natural gas is about 20% of what it was when I last bought it, gas turbines actually are cheaper than industrial tariff grid power, if you have good gas access...). Being able to actually use the waste heat is what makes the combined cycle efficiency worth it.

There was a crazy plan to run a datacenter on a barge tethered to the SF waterfront, for a variety of reasons, but a primary one being power -- the SF city government wouldn't be able to regulate the engines/generators on a ship running 24x7.
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Why do you say that?

We have a couple of datacenters, so yes, we have more than a couple of servers.
I've seen the bottom piece in person - the city on fire with the two people flinching from it.

It is absolutely fantastic.

I have no such belief that the rest of this 'show' illuminates anything in the human spirit except foulness...
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Maybe

Or it is there (and maybe everywhere) but we can't hear it

One thing that's noticeable when it's really quiet (and having lived in a place where it is silent at night) is that the threshold of hearing changes a lot. Something that's barely audible in normal conditions can "scream" at night

Example: the sound of soda fizzing in your mouth.
They have more design going on in that one room than the industry has in entire continents.
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The plaques also get in the way of a viewer's own response to the work. Pretty soon people are reading their way through the museum.

Also, for most contemporary art, there is not even a critical consensus about the work. Most artists hate to describe what their work is about. They might say what experience inspired them to make the piece, or the feeling they had when they were making it, if you're lucky and caught an unguarded moment. And there would be as many reactions to the piece as critics who wrote about it. It's a losing game.

It's OK to want it, I'm just mentioning some of the barriers to it ever happening.
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Well, but isn't starting a diesel engine something to be expected in rural Canada?

I mean, generators, trucks, etc?

Now see, in distances, it appears that lower frequency sound waves travel better. For example, take someone that's hearing music far away from you, the higher frequencies sound distinctively dampened.

So I wouldn't be surprised if a diesel engine could be heard a very long distance away in a quiet region
This is just Maddox's "I am better than your kids" remixed for 20-something gallery hoppers.
I went to design school, I visited Art Basil. Agree++

Seriously, maybe it's because I'm really a hacker that was interested in design but "Art" as in the starving/gallery kind is 99% crap - 1% mind blowing.
Dude, honestly I think you are the one who is probably trolling. I can explain what's nice about ioccc codes to non-programmers easily enough to catch their attention - there's something real going on there. Upgrade Complete is an enjoyable game on its own right, even if you did not know the satire. You seriously think (that other people think) that Kongregate games are shitty and require historical references to begin to appreciate? Think again.

If someone tries, he can inject enough meaning to any artform using historical context, including this http://www.viceland.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_85...

But the point is that art should not be confused with history.
I've done iOS app programming while riding in a car going 75 MPH through backcountry GA using only the tethered connection on my iPhone to push code updates.

Honestly, only the editing of binaries hurt at all. I didn't push as often, but it was still fine when I did.
loading 10gb on a traditional hdd takes more than 2s (that's 5gb/s read speed. Nice hard drive.). your data is either in ram and you've a lot of ram, either, it's just not 2s, or its not a 10gb index.

And i'm talking 100gb+ indexes ;-)

Obviously 2min of netflow data ain't much. I would want to see the result over 200h (or more) of netflow data, for example
> Just because intelligent people are good at adapting to evolutionarily novel things does not mean they prefer to do those things.

Okay, the first "things" and the second "things" is a semantic equivocation. Evolutionarily novel "things" would be cigarettes, for instance. Some of us "adapt" to them in that there is an explanation that explains why such a thing does not ultimately lead to our extinction. Certainly no one preferred cigarettes before adaptation occurred; the most basic way to look at this is that the members of the species who were more likely to adapt to gaining pleasure from cigarettes out-lived, statistically speaking, those who were less likely to adapt to gaining pleasure from cigarettes. The presence of the (simplifying) "cigarette-gene" _disappears_.

He's not explaining preferences in the sense you're addressing. Evolution works more like picking teams on a pick up grade school game. It's not that you _prefer_ to pick the fat kid, it's just that on average, they're all fat kids. And that's the lot you get.

Of course, evolution has the universe as its lot.
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>is photorealistic painting (when a painting looks as though it were a photograph) the best art? because it contains the best skill at imitating reality?

Imitating reality is not the only skill. I can look at e.g. Seurat and see that it takes more skill to produce something that looks like that than to do a photorealistic version of the same scene.

>Lastly, here's an interesting spin on modern art: it has a greater effect on you than regular art does. You've probably had a lot of conversations about modern art but little about real art. And it has a greater emotional effect on people (generally anger or disdain) than regular art, which usually leads to boredom

Sounds exactly like trolls on the internet.
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> It took me a good fifteen minutes of clicking around to discover how to get back to Metro so I could launch any program.

Have you tried pressing the windows key? :)

Seriously, this whole metro thing is just the new start menu.
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> The plaques also get in the way of a viewer's own response to the work

That might not be a bad thing if the response is: "That's garbage", which is my response to most "art".
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"Skeptical thinking" at its best

I'm really hoping you are a troll, because otherwise you're in "youtube commenter" category of intelligence

"eventually one ofthem will sound like they are whistling a braoadway tune""

Yes, please explain how a school of fish can create a sound with that power and spectrum, because you obviously know so much about mathematical wave properties and the laws of conservation of energy.

"NOAA originated, which iirr is the American oceanographer group""

Yes, and NASA works with planes and stuff