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Pretty good, in this universe at least. Every intelligent creature in this universe has to be able to do the same basic things: reproduce, manipulate objects, fend off predators, etc.

That's a very small scope of 'basic things' - it very well might be that it only applies to the results of evolution on earth. What about evolution in our universe on scales that aren't our size, that don't move at our speeds, that aren't made up of carbon/oxygen/etc?

What is there to stop an evolutionary processes from happening inside a star? It doesn't have to be our star, it could be a red giant - with entire complex evolutionary "life" constantly being created and destroyed in a matters of seconds - to them, the star is the accessible universe - it forms the fundamental fabric of their existence.

What is there to stop evolutionary processes to happen on a quantum level?

Most things in the universe don't happen at our speeds, and they don't happen at our size. And get really not-like-this-universe when you start thinking about relatively big things, or relatively little things.
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CentOS works well for us. I like the idea of having a free version of a commercial distro (RHEL).
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Well, we do have about 100 shirts to give out and depending on the response we could order more. :)
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CentOS would be best.
Ubuntu is mostly debian, and they even support a LTS (Long Term Support) version of their software. debian has more software packages (@18,000) than any other distro, so you would have any linux software you need right at your fingertips. Ubuntu comes with commercial support from Canonical if you should need that, but I think you will find lots of Ubuntuistas out there willing to help for free in the fora and such.

My personal preference is for debian, but if you are already familiar with Ubuntu, then use that for you web server since you will be able to use your already hard-won knowledege and Ubuntu performs admirably.
debian is the "universal" operating system and runs on more hardware than any other linux distribution.

I love the *BSD UNIXes, but there are also "issues" there as well. The FreeBSD threading model does not work well with MySQL for example and you can see database problems there. I suspect Postgres on FreeBSD is more common and works rather well so you can go that route instead.

However, the original poster wanted info specifically about linux, and while a BSD UNIX is similar, there are enough differences that productivity at first might be diminished while one learns about the port system for packages as well as other differences.

I think it is a bit misleading to say that a distro like debian "opens all doors", that is not the case. And the recent OpenSSL problem not withstanding, debian is quite secure. In fact, the OpenSSL packaging issue shows that the debian security apparatus mostly works, and that the lessons learned are quickly being implemented. One must acknowledge however that this was a serious security problem on debian's side and in contrast OpenBSD has had _two_ exploits in _ten_ years. Those are some pretty sterling security credentials for OpenBSD.
Not sure I agree with you there. Red Hat has gone a long way with their documentation - being a commercial linux distro requires solid documentation. So, to be fair, Red Hat probably has the best documentation. I have used debian / ubuntu for years and documentation can be quite spotty unfortunately.
With Slashdot, anybody can vote. Often, trollish behaviour gets rewarded with points, because, well, because trolls can vote too! Before being able to vote in the system I proposed, you have to have demonstrated to the current moderators (voters), that you are someone that on average posts interesting, thought-provoking stuff.

I don't know whether this would actually work, but it seems at least reasonable, and as far as I'm aware, it has not yet been tried
What would be required to get Unbuntu to perform as a server in your mind? Removing X windows? Hardening? Why wouldn't you just perform a minimal install of Ubunut's LTS for example? That has X disabled and no open ports by default - that is an excellent start for a public-facing server.

More info here: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/fe...

Further more, Fedora is a johnny-come-lately, created when Red Hat closed their once open linux version. While they claim that Fedora will always be free, one wonders how much Red Hat supports Fedora since it obviously competes with their product. I think a truly, permanently free distro is a much better choice.
Kierkegaard nailed this long ago, when he said that everything is subjective, and that no wisdom can be transferred from one person to another, except through directly living and experiencing it.

(Kierkegaard wanted his gravestone to say 'A person', because after all, who would understand what Kierkegaard was anyway.)
Upload? localhost? pfff. I hack right on the production server!
Yes, not installing X windows would be one of those things. But not one of the main issues. Removing lots of stuff that is installed on a fresh system, configuring the services that the server will be running in, that intrincated "debian like" /etc, making shure no ubuntu specific configuration tool will destroy some configuration file edited by hand, etc...

About the LTS, I would like to remind you that it mean Long Time Support, not Long Time Server. As for the Fedora Core, I myself don't use it, but my previous experience with Red Hat lead me to believe it is easier for the Linux beginner than Debian.But you're probably right about that, Cento OS would probably be a better choice that a Fedora Core... but don't quote me on that cause my experience with Cent OS is almost null.
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LTS is for long term support, meaning that they will provide help for it longer than the other releases. The most recent version, 8.04 is an LTS release. The previous LTS was 6.06.
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Great if you want to compete in design contests like this...

Otherwise, read up on why it's often a bad idea for designers to work like this:

http://www.no-spec.com

http://www.no-spec.com/articles/design-contests/

http://freelanceswitch.com/designer/design-contests-devaluin...

Read the terms of Crowdspring's user agreement carefully as well..

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(a) Content License and Access. When you submit content to the Site, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform the content in connection with the Site, in any media known now or in the future."
Any changes made by hand to a configuration file on a debian-like system are noted and respected by aptitude and apt-get, so your configuration files will not be over-written (unless you want them to.)

All services are "off" by default on the LTS server and debian tries to conform to the Linux Standards Base so what you find in /etc/ is most likely similar to other distros.

The Cent OS community is not anywhere near as large as the debian community, and when you add in commercial support from Canonical, that makes for a pretty good value for money when you chose Ubuntu.
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The number of results is not displayed correctly when < 7.
An example: http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...

For more results, it always says "7 of", even after clicking "More".

And larger searches always end at 1023 items:
http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...

Oh, and I saw this in the results: "If Iâ€™d only known!"

Hope this helps.
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CentOS or Fedora Sulphur.
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Under $400 (Prolly not you): Eee and OLPC battle!

Under $700: You just walk into best buy and try to max out ram/HD/Optical Drive/USB Ports and stuff. Its hard to say who's a sure winner becuase this category is so tight.

$700-1000: Either do what you did for the lower price range, or sometimes you can get a lower end PC from the next price range, if you know where to look.

Over $1000: Thinkpad, MBP, Dell Precision, HP 85xx/87xx series.
I'm using the Dell Precision series and I'm really happy with it. Its hardware is well supported by Linux.
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Finally...After upgrading to Ubuntu Heron, I began falling in love with FF3...until I realized I had no firebug.

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My vote would go to Debian.
There was a recent panel discussion at UC about MySQL, scaling up or out, I think there was a link on YC to a noteset, with some pretty big names. There was a round of questions about server specs. WRT OS, they all ran OpenSolaris or Linux (specifically RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, or SuSE)

I think this is the link that came over the wire
http://www.paragon-cs.com/wordpress/2008/04/16/scaling-mysql...

but this seems to have the best aggregation of notesets from the panel, from tables to video and lists:
http://www.technocation.org/content/panel-video%3A-scaling-m...
I'd say far more complex.
Wait - so instead of spending $11.99 on a book that tells you what to do, you advocate spending tons of money and losing tons of sales while you reinvent the wheel? Come on, man...
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Austin has a high volume of both young and smarter hackers but many of those are absorbed out of the city by big business thanks to a school curriculum heavily influenced by the aforementioned. And this has always been Austin's problem since UT became a major player...

However, that does not detract from the able and educated talent pool that spends 4-6 years in Austin before moving on and fresh talent cycles in. The school, city government, and local funds are somewhat involved but it's not enough and that's what we're trying to change -- slowly but surely.

We're getting premature news coverage of the idea(s) as much of this is still in planning, but is being shared at social events to sample interest and demand. However, the co-working space is very close to being secured. There was early discussion that the space itself would operate as non-profit, but later felt that it would slow us down reaching our goal of an affordable and accessible co-working space.

The idea of a Startup District is still very much just that, an idea. Let's not get hung up misinterpreting preliminary planning, or insulting local Austin-ites trying to make a difference for the city and it's people.

We encourage any Austinites to reach out if they're interested in helping/sponsoring.
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I guess the question is: would you talk to someone like this in real life?

http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I'd stick with what you're familiar with, otherwise you'll lose a lot of time relearning how to perform sysadmin tasks on the new system.
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The comments on this article are great - I give huge props to Jeff Atwood for showing up, commenting, and staying polite and not getting overly defensive.
How could an article about nerds miss the central point?

From "Revenge of the Nerds":

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/revenge-of-the-...

- That was wonderful.

- You did things to me you've never done before.

(gasps)

- You're that nerd!

- Yeah.

- God, you were wonderful.

- Thanks.

- Are all nerds as good as you?

- Yes.

- How come?

- Cos all jocks think about is sports.

- All we ever think about is sex.
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I assume you are referring to Section 230 of the CDA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...

To qualify Twitter just needs to be a "passive conduit" of the information. I believe the case law has defined this (in Twitter's context) to roughly mean as long as they do not actively monitor and screen content, then they are a passive conduit. That is, I do not believe an irate customer pointing out harassment, and then Twitter shutting the perpetrator off in response to that harassmanet, would undermine their CDA exemption in any way.

I haven't looked at this in a few years, so if there is more recent case law, please enlighten me.
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PostgreSQL on FreeBSD does work great.
It doesn't bother me, but at least once a week someone puts their name at the end of a comment and they get a reply with just the guidelines link. I thought I'd preempt those people and include some friendly context and explanation.
> You seem to be under the impression that I agree with Giles.

No, I merely stated that your "solution" took every "problem" that Giles observed, and magnified it: making all of those problems bigger.

> But he is correct to point out that current systems favour prolific posters, not quality posters. I used that idea as a jumping off point to perhaps find a solution...

Right, that was one of the problems he mentioned, and it's one of the problems I pointed out getting worse in your "solution." Your moderators would be those prolific posters: people who had time to be on the site regularly. The casual votes or submissions would be lost, and the system would continue to favor prolific posters. (OK, now I've brought this point up several times to you, you haven't addressed it, and you continue to act in a hostile manner.)

> You also seem to feel that...

I don't, but would like to note this fallacy of yours.

> I mean, take PG for example...

I read what he writes, and I'd recommend his recent essay, "How to disagree."

> As far as I am aware, no one has attempted to moderate a site this way yet (although maybe I have just not visited the right site yet).

Wikipedia is an example of this kind of moderated site with contributed content.

> Anyway, do you have anything more constructive to say other than 'but, but, you disagree with Giles!!!!!'?

Yes, I've mentioned it in every post, and you haven't addressed it, so I'll mention it twice in this one:

> But he is correct to point out that current systems favour prolific posters, not quality posters.

OK, so you _DO_ agree with him here.

> I used that idea as a jumping off point to perhaps find a solution...

And your "solution" goes completely against this. Moderators would not be, by definition, "quality" posters, but rather "prolific" posters. And if only moderators could submit content, we'd lose any casual "quality" submissions.
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I'm not talking about apt or any debian configuration tool, I'm speaking of those graphical configuration applications that come with ubuntu, some of them use specific files to overwrite default configuration files on boot, etc...

About the ease of configuration on /etc, I can tell you that I've lost a full day to try an make apache work with vhosts and mod_python on ubuntu because of the debian specific way of scatering the configuration files, I usually do this in 5 minutes on gentoo or on apache compiled by me using the official distributed tar packages.
Even this last week I had do configure a qmail with vpopmail on a debian system and it was again a pain in the ass.
Maybe I've been unluck with the services I've needed to run on a Debian, but as far as I can say, I would not advice Debian.

A big difference on more "low level" distros where the user contrlos everything, as gentoo or slackware to more "automated" ones, like Debian or Fedora Core are the services on by default. A "ps ax" after finishing a base installation on gentoo fits on a 80x25 screen, on a Debian/Fedora this could fit on two or more screens.
"... However, the original poster wanted info specifically about linux, and while a BSD UNIX is similar, there are enough differences that productivity ..."

The poster also mentioned inexperience then requests a less secure server OS than what is possible. Productivity may indeed suffer. Would it be a better idea would be to get an experienced sys-admin to look over the server and secure it?

"... I think it is a bit misleading to say that a distro like debian "opens all doors", that is not the case ..."

Of all the distro's debian is probably the better of the bunch to work with. Debian can be secured. But the strength of Linux and debian, its openness is also its weakness. Default installed distributions still install more applications than you need. This can leave the potential of an unwanted application running to be exploited. Debian before Ubuntu was also the hardest to configure hardware.

"... One must acknowledge however that this was a serious security problem on debian's side and in contrast OpenBSD has had _two_ exploits in _ten_ years. Those are some pretty sterling security credentials for OpenBSD ..."

When it comes to security I'd take OBSD over any linux distro for the simple reason the source has been audited. It is secure by default (You have to actively install what you require ~ http://www.openbsd.org/security.html ). You will not be let down core applications with holes. Having said that I balk at upgrades.

"... The FreeBSD threading model does not work well with MySQL for example and you can see database problems there. I suspect Postgres on FreeBSD is more common and works rather well so you can go that route instead. ..."

Or dispense with RDBM's altogether?
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What's your plan for dealing with noise? Will public rooms always be world-writable?
I'm not sure. I think one of the cool things about the old facebook layout is that it can fit so much on one page without looking cluttered. Granted, some apps -- and the people who add them in spades -- are ruining this, but I don't think the new layout looks that great.
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This is exactly what Paul was talking about with respect to Trolls in a public forum. Right or wrong, difficult or easy, it is this simple: if the incentives favour the trolls and disfavour the polite users, the trolls drive the polite users out.
Here is an example in: http://www.devx.com/webdev/10MinuteSolution/27134/0/page/3

Most likely, if you are using a JS library, they already have some easy tools to do this through the library. I use YUI, and here it is for that library: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/container/keylistene...
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It only takes a few steps to be out of Faneuil Hall and into the rest of Boston. If you haven't seen the greenway since the big dig finished, that's one more nice place to walk directly out of Faneuil Hall into:

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So how does Flickr get away with moderating content and banning users?

How does Hacker News get away with moderating conetnt and banning users?

How does Reddit get away with moderating content reported as spam?

How do any of these sites get away with banning porn or spam?
Current site is at:

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Whether they actually capture objects is unclear. You could get the same results by building the vector field of motion (pixelwise) and then detecting if the mouse moves along the vectors (fast forward) or against them (back). So, you aren’t "dragging" the car with your mouse - your mouse is simply following the path of the car.
"... That has X disabled and no open ports by default ..."

A big plus. The downside is the CLI will now be your best friend. For those weened on GUIs, all that finding, typing and configuration can be a time sink. Also LTS runs on 64 bit systems and has commercial support (Long Term Support) ~ http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
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Interesting article. My own experience is that over reliance on money and over reliance on technology can also lead to failure. Having been an entrepreneur for the past fifteen years, I believe this is the best time for startups since we now have the luxury to bootstrap (until there is a workable business model) and also the ability to build business around off-the-shelf technology. Startup failure is sort of an old topic on this forum but my humble opinion is that there is never too much information.
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We're always looking for a Silver Bullet. Does someone know if there are papers out there that correlate unit testing with better results in software projects?
This article may apply to those who are building the next "killer app", but for the other 99% of us, it never mentions the two most important questions:

- Is the product any good?

- Does anyone want it?

If you can't answer "yes" to both of these, all the money in the world probably won't help you.
Not really. If you read those unauthorized biographies of Steve Jobs, you will know besides Steve's financial backing, most of his management ideas were not adopted by Pixar and Steve Jobs yielded because he knew he's not good in that area. Steve's permanent obsession was making great computers when he bought Pixar from George Lucas. Most operation inside Pixars has been always run by Ed Catmull and John Lasseter and they basically do the way they want to get things done.

But nobody can denied Steve Jobs unconditional financial support during Pixar and Next's low point. And Steve Jobs reap his reward during the IPO of Pixar and buyout of Next.
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