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And that's why I dislike "art" - because too often the only thing that makes something art is a label. Without it, it would be a skippable youtube video. His comment about the photo of a woman sitting in a chair is spot on. Nobody would give it five seconds if it was in somebody's summer collection, because it does look like a boring holiday photo. The article's author may have cherry picked, but it's true that art lacks fundamental safeguards against crap. If you have a reputation, you can post almost everything in the art thread.

I value aesthetics more than art. It's much better defined. Not everything that looks nice is an art, but in worst case you're left with something that looks nice ;-).
I bet they have layers and layers of redundancy. Remember Digital Fortress? It will take some time before they can shut down the goddamn thing completely
Are you saying that true art needs to be immediately understandable without requiring some background knowledge? This is not true for e.g renaissance art either. It usually uses a host of obscure (to modern people) symbols to communicate.
In a situation where one has that much money to blow on something so limited, virtually anything would've sufficed.

We did a trivial test of Splunk at my last company, it's extremely expensive and it's very easy to bump into its limitations. We were able to wreck the poor Splunk server with some rather sundry queries into a dataset that shouldn't have been that big of a deal. Issues that we took back to the company and didn't get any real answer on.

Its popularity leads me to surmise that there is still a lot of money to be made in solving mundane problems. (Which is good news if you're a product-minded programmer)
The code documentation part is a quite clever use of a slide tool. Very enlightening.
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Never going to happen. Need to completely disrupt the system.
Yes I was a senior software engineer on the Ops Arch team, and a coworker of Chris Davis when he was at Orbitz, and both my team and the prod sysadmin/netops folks were the first users of it, anywhere in the world, debutting roughly with the Austin project, which was a big rewrite of the Orbitz/Cheaptickets codebase to support i18n & white label functionality. I can assure everybody it was used in production for a huge travel website at least as far back as the 2008 timeframe. And it stood up very well back then. I'd be surprised if it hasn't gotten even better since.
They should have kept the main interface same as Windows 7, and the whole Unity-like interface thing (which they call Metro), should have been an application which you would run to make it more friendly to touch - if you need.
I was referring to the critiques in the article (e.g. dismissing the works one by one, instead of looking at the retrospective as a whole.)

But you raise an interesting point. I'm not sure if groups form because of herd mentality, or if there are parallels in perceiving the modern world. It's hard to say.

If I remember correctly, the early Nietzsche (in Birth of Tradegy) discussed the Dionynsian ideal of an artist -- which in his spiritual ecstasy he turns himself into a work of art. It's a very modern concept, in some sense expressed in Tracey Emin's work.
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Who decides what is "the point of art"?

If you don't know the story behind obfuscated C, but only look at the code listing as art, then many people would say "my five-year-old can do that", since it just looks like a bunch of random characters.

It is totally fine not to like art, and not wanting to invest time in understanding it. But there is a difference between not understanding something and proclaiming it "humbug" because you dont understand it.
Yeah, my mistake. The word 'moderation' to me means more the forum-style stuff (given also the terms up/downmod), what moderation in the OP meant was what I consider 'editing', probably due to growing up with a publisher for a mother.
Agreed. My point was simply that you shouldn't write off the filesystem entirely just because some of the implementations aren't mature.
I think that's probably an indication that the whole "It's not a replacement for the Start Menu, it is the Start Menu" school of thought is a bit flawed.
Spot on. As much as I dislike arrogant people, some of them are competent. A huge ego is not a good indicator if someone is competent or not. I can endure someone like Dali, because he made works I find very pleasant to look at.
Encountered a bug: When I die, the game keeps counting score as my "dead" player keeps going across land behind the scenes.
Problem is, you need to have a good understanding of contemporary art before you are able to call out bad attempts.
It's unfortunate that they decided to save 2 bytes by using onkeyup instead of onkeydown. That choice makes the game nearly unplayable for me. Compare the version in the demo to the one here: http://micahw.com/tron.html (221 bytes).

In any case, this is really impressive. It's always fun to see the tricks people employ to get these tiny sizes (smaller than this comment!).
All sorts of stuff.

Diesel is great food. For bacteria, that is. So it's treated, but you've still got to stir it to keep gunk from settling, you've got to rotate it (so you burn through your stock every so often), you've got to filter it. And stages of all of that can go wrong.

I recall a cruise on a twin V12 turbodiesel powered ship (hey, we've got full redundancy!) in which both engines failed. Cause? Goopy fuel and clogged filters (she spent a lot of time in port). This happened a couple of hours into cruise, fortunately on inland waterways, not open seas, shallow enough water to anchor, and numerous skiffs with which we could head to shore and find replacement parts.

More recently, an colo site I know of was hit by a similar outage: utility power went out, generators kicked in, but a transfer switch failed to activate properly. Colo dumped.

Second time it was the fire detection system which inadvertantly activated. One of its activation modes is to deenergize the datacenter (if you've got a problem with too much energy liberation, not dumping more energy into the system can be a useful feature). Again, full colo dump. And APCs will only buy you enough time for a clean shutdown. If you've got them at all.

But, yes: exercise your backups.
This is a great blog entry on exactly the kind of system I am trying to build.
When we went thru the evaluation for this stack - Elasticsearch came out as the choice for the datastore and querying part. Where we are still not decided is using Flume vs logstash. Have you compared the two? We will be building our own UI ...
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Usually logic is considered part of mathematics. However, in an important sense, logic precedes mathematics. You can't do mathematics without using logic.
Clever stuff, thanks!

typos: "exercice" -> "exercise", "brining" -> "bringing"
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You have a typo in the first sentence, 'exercice'. I like your presentation of code walk throughs with slides.
> Pretty soon people are reading their way through the museum.

Yes. Yes that's exactly what I want to do. I want to spend a day at the museum, and read, i.e. learn, why some things are important and great art, and others aren't.

> for most contemporary art, there is not even a critical consensus about the work.

What? Then how is any decision made as to what art is featured in these exhibits, and what isn't? Remember, for every piece in one of these exhibits, there are 10 artists getting behind on rent who didn't make it in. Someone decides. Who? How?

If you're trying to counter my current argument, which is that this is all arbitrary and picked by some insiders at their whim, you should be aware that you're actually kind of helping my case here...
Reading back my post I seem to imply that SDR enthusiasts discovered it, that wasn't my intention. This phenomenon was probably well documented before SDR.

When I first saw it, my first thought was "what a strange technique to run a radar, I wonder what the benefit is."

In ELF, would it be possible to set up three omnidirectional antennas and triangulate the source to get an idea in what layer of the atmosphere it's generated? I'd also love to read peer-reviewed publications, please post some references if you can.
No wonder the "lag" feels so bad. Also, the area is way too tiny and it needs a way to restart without having to reload the page.
I'm not sure that by legalizing prostitution the slavery outlets would disappear.
No different from other peer moderation? And you downmod me? Using your first example, Slashdot, there is exactly the thing I am talking about: a reason for the mod. You seem to be more ignorant of the topic than you accuse me of being.

Similarly, you say I disregard a list of sites when I mention three of the four in my response about my personal experience being part of web communities (and seriously, 'as good as 4chan' is hardly an argument for content quality, particularly on a site where the users pride themselves on intellect and quality).
"Also, the 1420 MHz signal is problematic in itself in that it is "protected spectrum": it is bandwidth in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit due to it being reserved for astronomical purposes."

Wait... what?? If this has been enforced on Earth, then clearly other civilizations might make the same choice and not broadcast anything on that frequency.

Does anyone know if we are broadcasting anything into space on this frequency?
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I'm... confused. I've been under the clear impression for years that Comcast, my service provider, was doing everything in its power to quash bittorrent users. Its been accused of everything from packet shaping to cooperating with the NSA to "spy" on its customers. I've been living under the assumption that at any point my service could be interrupted, slowed, or disconnected because of my occasional torrent use (linux iso's, game of thrones, etc).

While I'm not entirely sure how to take this news, it is certainly food for thought.

It makes sense that Comcast is fighting back primarily for financial reasons, more than trying to protect their customers. The sheer volume of subpoenas must be costing them a lot of money and does nothing to endear us to them.
When Linus Torvalds started writing Linux in the early 90s, he was cloning a 20+ year old OS.
Or maybe just not upvote? Good argumentation, still can get in the way of why HN is here. It's not just a place to make formal argumentation, but to exchange experiences, or get some opinions from others. In some case the opinion is wished from experts (how can I get funded etc), in others it is about how a product is liked by general users. So please take a piece of salt in applying that ;)
It's 219 bytes, it's not that clever! When you die it simply displays 'game over' along with incremented timer. Because the entire logic is inside a `setInterval` call it never gets stopped.

setInterval is set to update in 9 ms intervals - I assume because whilst it's probably more playable (easier) at higher intervals doing so would require additional bytes.
This is a good thing.

From the government removals section in the US:

> We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove a blog because of a post that allegedly defamed a law enforcement official in a personal capacity. We did not comply with this request, which we have categorized in this Report as a defamation request.

We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove 1,400 YouTube videos for alleged harassment. We did not comply with this request. Separately, we received a request from a different local law enforcement agency to remove five user accounts that allegedly contained threatening and/or harassing content. We terminated four of the accounts, which resulted in the removal of approximately 300 videos, but did not remove the remaining account with 54 videos.

> We received a court order to remove 218 search results that linked to allegedly defamatory websites. We removed 25% of the results cited in the request.

> The number of content removal requests we received increased by 103% compared to the previous reporting period.
that's an interesting thought... a subtle and sophisticated subversive act
If you think there are no scientists who believe they are getting closer and closer to outlining what nature fundamentally, truly looks like, then you are sadly mistaking. Philosophy-savvy scientists may even deny doing so, but their day-to-day conversation and casual remarks tell another story. Most scientists definitely believe there is a single absolute unshifting reality below it all and they are outlining it.

Edit: and I should add that most non-scientists also believe the same thing. In fact, I often catch myself depending on that hypothesis, even though I thoroughly believe it is wrong.
Comcast cares about the issue because these requests are costing it money. But if the government should compensate them (as they do for phone tapping), no further protests would occur.
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Your version plays so much better, that was really not a good way to save 2 bytes.
I hate excel. For some reason, it has become the standard for creating any grid-based documents, even though the table support in word would often be far superior when equations aren't needed.

I hate the lack of smooth scrolling, especially when you have differing cell heights. I hate the lack of cell padding, leading to manually sizing every row.

Most of all, I hate the total lack of focus. What sort of document is it aimed at creating, these days? The answer is certainly not what is was 10–15 years ago, but the basic interface hasn't changed much (ribbon aside).
This thread made me think of this New Yorker article on the "Decline Effect" which is describes a tendency for the results of scientific experiments (in particular those based on statistical methods) to weaken as experiments are repeated.

As a person with a generally skeptical/pro science bent it truly shocked me.

It highlights the need for understanding the sociology of science, which has huge impacts on its effectiveness.
In my experience, some of the best advice I've ever received has been from anecdotes that run counter to the text of an article.

...I kid. It's actually an interesting idea. I don't know about scrapping them entirely, but I think a lot of sites (say, Reddit) could benefit from moving the anecdotes elsewhere. Partially because of this, and partially because anecdotes in any form tend to derail the discussion pretty darn quick.
What about Flattr model where there’s no mental transaction cost as everything is prices equally? (You have a monthly budget, one click payments, at the end of the month budget / number of clicks = click value)

Works the same way in mobile apps for example (although you need to OAuth your account initially) and you can keep your privacy so publisher only knows that someone paid, not who did so.
What is extremely expensive for you? We find the overheads on storing & processing the data are much more than the cost of the license, on a per GB basis.

Without knowing details of exactly what you are doing it's difficult to comment on your problems with queries. It's true that something like Solr gives you more control over the indexing process, so you can optimize it more for specific queries. Splunk tends to rely more on saved searches (and the new search acceleration feature).
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In order for this to be usable for a broad range of projects, it must contain:

* Cookie support (I see this is partially implemented)
* File download support
* Mouse movement API (move to pos X,Y - click)
* NSPlugins support (Flash, etc)

Of the latter ones, I cannot find a reference so I think they are not working yet. Once they are implemented, this is a nice alternative to PhantomJS.
>We find the overheads on storing & processing the data are much more than the cost of the license, on a per GB basis.

What are you storing the data with...the etchings on wings of fairies?

>Some blather about Splunk's "saved searches"

We talked to the company, explored every avenue. Our volume of data simply overwhelmed it. (Data from three Apache servers. Lol.)

I am 100% certain you know less than Splunk-The-Company, so our conversation is done here.
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Thanks for your defence of recent works around the philosophy of science, I am genuinely surprised to find one on HN. One small book I liked that I would add is "predire n'est pas expliquer" from Rene Thom.

I don't get the mistrust of philosophy from many scientifically-inclined people. I find it especially sad that most people stopped at the falsifiability concept and don't go beyond.
As far as graphic editors go, my favorite is Pixelmator.

Most people don't need Photoshop but still want something that supports layers, does image manipulation basics and feels like a happy OS X citizen.

On the other hand, GraphicConverter is the Swiss army knife of image formats and is even more powerful. GC can read virtually any image file ever created. It's a little more buggy, and the UI is less modern/fancy, but oh so handy.
Every since they added the 250G limit they no longer care about bittorrent.

The abusers go over 250G (and they don't care if it's bittorrent or streaming music), the rest don't bother them.

Bittorrent itself never bothered them, it's was just the most visible usage of the abusers.

Considering how comcast is at the forefront of IPv6, DNSsec, and other technologies, I have a pretty good opinion of them.

After the backlash from the bittorrent issue, and the consent agreement from buying NBC, they are not going to dare do anything to annoy their users.
I've been using Windows 8 since they released the consumer preview. I hated it with a passion at first, but I wanted to see if it was just because it was different, or just because it was bad, so I kept using it.

You definitely can get past most of the annoyances without too much trouble. For example, there's a start screen when you first load up the computer, a screen that comes before the screen where you type in your password. You have to hold down left click and flick your mouse up to get rid of it, which is annoying on a laptop without a mouse, which is what I'm using it on. That annoyed me for a good week or two before I figured out that you can press a key to get by that screen without the mouse gesture.

There are still some things that make me curse, though. Anytime metro goes full screen because I hovered my mouse near the top left of my screen (I'll occasionally try to click on the options in firefox and go to metro instead), any time it reminds me that I can use an annoying full screen metro app to play videos when I open videos with VLC, anytime the charm bar appears (I've never used that thing once). I also wish there was an easier way to go to my computer, because that's what I use the start menu for 50% of the time, and now I have to right click where the start menu was and spend 10 seconds looking for 'windows explorer' on a small menu every time I want to do this.

It's just a lot of little annoyances. I can live with it, but I really do hope that Windows 8 crashes and burns.
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No, querying the data takes less than 2 seconds. I can't remember the load time.

Obviously 2min of netflow data ain't much

Depends where you work...

I just checked, and it was 2Gb of netflow I tested on. That seemed small, so I looked a bit deeper and indeed I was only using a small fraction of our total netflow for that period.
Tt was adequate for what I was trying, though.
They are also worried about reputation. A bad reputation costs them users. Standing up for users gets more customers.

If they could do these things in secret you might be right, but the subpoenas are public. And their objection is even more public.

I love that the reaction of their customers drives their policies, that's exactly what I want in a company.
Is this not based in the assumption that the article to which the anecdotes are offered as replies is omniscient? Which may in and of itself be fallacious.
So we have to understand the context of modern art, but you're opposed to museums explaining the context of modern art in an accessible way?
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Just checked it out. Great work. A suggestion off the top of my head. Exposing an API to get a single random quote. Perhaps use for display a quote at the start of blogs or a news article.
Does anyone know the full story behind the "suicidal" reference?
Wow, first PC laptop I'd actually buy.
"Metro and WinRT may be at the heart of Windows 8 on the desktop, but they're purely adjuncts on the server. The charms and contracts are there, along with the Start Screen, but you're hardly likely to see them as you can manage much of a server from inside Server Manager or via PowerShell (or externally via RSAT and System Center)."

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/reviews/server-os/2012/06/11/screensh...
The assumption is only that the article is based on a scientific study, not that it is omniscient.
The main problem with academic research process, I think, is the notion that a publication is the end goal of research. This is true only for theory and math research. In systems research, a working system should always be the end goal of research; a publication merely serves as documentation of the working system.

Scientific publishing is important. Hadoop was possible largely because Google published SOSP papers on map-reduce and google file system. Many of the current NoSQL stores are based on ideas from the SOSP paper on Dynamo key-value store from Amazon. However, it is important to realize that Dynamo, Google File System, Map Reduce were all working systems first and publications later.

Unfortunately, there is no incentive built into the academic research process today for building working systems. It is not necessary for promotion/tenure/awards. The incentive structure for systems research is what really needs to change.
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It takes a lot of discipline to run a shared power setup like you describe. Most of those servers that have two power supplies operate in a shared power mode, rather than active/failover. This means that if one of your sides (LH/RH) is over 50% and you fail over, you are going to have a cascading failure as the other side goes >100%. It used to surprise me how often I saw things like this, although I'm talking about server rooms in the low 100s of servers, not huge data centers.
Does anyone have a good privacy policy document style recommendation?

I'd like to give visitors and customers the best possible experience when viewing such boring but important documents. Saving their time and allowing easily to grasp the document. Particularly, also content wise, what should be really in there?
Splunk is absurdly priced for normal verbose syslogs for a bunch of hosts. You could preprocess or tune your logging to only send important stuff to Splunk to make up for this.

It's cheap for application-specific logs where each line is relatively high value.