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1) Why exactly do you want to be a "Linux power user"? That doesn't sound like a real goal; you might want to elaborate.

Why not ? A lot of us like to learn just for the sake of learning. I say becoming a Linux power user is a worthy goal in itself.

I agree with your point 2), it's fair easier to dive in and try it, rather than ask in forums if you should do it. It's not like it's going to cost you anything. Just download Virtual Box and do it.
I'm a Brit and had a similar moment of realisation when I discovered America wasn't about the size of Spain + France. I think it was the facial expression my (American) girlfriend gave me when I suggested we drive for a weekend away in Florida (we were in New Jersey at the time) that tipped me off.

America is basically the size of Europe, which really surprised me. But then, it's not knowledge you ever really need to know.
Can't be used for IRC. I can't think of any use for these limited resources yet.

Also does anybody know a "cheap" VPS that would let me run IRC bots. There are some channels i read, and would like to log them.
s/very good// and you are right.
So who started the first one?
I'm an attorney, so I have to recommend consulting with an attorney licensed to practice law where you live. Talk to her/him about drafting a simple no-compete & non-disclosure with the other two partners assigning you exclusive rights to move forward. Give them some money or other valuable consideration to make the contract binding. I would not recommend just doing nothing in the hopes that nothing bad happens; if you are wildly successful you can bet there will be repercussions.
I understand that is the general rule of thumb, and I do agree with it. But I am simply looking at the economics of it.

Does it make sense to spend $4K (for example) on legal fees for a deal where I am getting an $8K investment. These aren't the actual figures, but I imagine the legal fees would be at a similar ratio.
Cool. But show me some screenshots of example profiles on the homepage.
Thanks. Somebody else also suggested Gentoo to me and I think it's high time I explore beyond Ubuntu.
And will switch on their emergency blinkers after any sudden stops > 50 km / h to < 10.
I tried a standing desk. You get tired, numb and painful after half an hour. I can run several hours no problem. So indeed evolution did it's job and optimized for running.
"Folks keep asking the question: what is in it for us (UNIXY or even VPS Tree)? ...know that a 64MB VPS can go a long way in getting someone across the world full of hope."

Seriously? They're trying to spin this as saving the world with cheap VPS? That's pretty gross. They'd be much, much better off just transparently saying "We're doing this as a loss-leading marketing initiative to spread the word about our services."

THAT I would buy. This VPS, not so much.
Seems kinda silly that after that lecture, they claim to offer 8GB disk space and 50GB bandwidth. Why not make it something more practical and believable for 99 cents? Many companies keep it unrealistic because that's the pitch. But since you're already talking about being real, how about not sending mixed signals?
Ask HN: What are some good books on learning theory?
Recent HN discussions on "Waiting for Superman" has made me very curious about the current science on how people absorb and retain information, and its implications on government policy and marketing.

Is there any good books or resources on the subject? Amazon gives me some highly rated books such as this: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Theories-Educational-Perspective-5th/dp/0132435659/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286815469&sr=8-1 but I'm not sure where to start.
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401 exits can backfill right on to the actual highway though.
Very nice work indeed Zach!

I think it probably says more about the motivation, need, and the size of the respective communities. CPAN has been a great success and example, but I don't think that has had anything to do with AI.
Best, easy to use, stable knowledge base that is searchable?
I am looking for a good easy to use knowledge base that will preferably start showing up results as the searcher types, much like Google's instant on. All I need is search box that will pull up results. Clean and easy to integrate. Any suggestions?
Left off Alaska, but there is plenty of unallocated gray area in the Africa outline so I'll call it a wash.
He runs one of those music lyrics sites Reddit AMA
I wonder how many are driven by the children of millionaires, who are not millionaires in their own right.
EmailOracle (YC W10) Tracks Your Emails and Confirms They've Been Opened
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Windows Phone 7 launch day app roundup
Left bank of the river is more expensive. You can find cheaper apartments on the right bank. Contrary to common belief Praga district is not ugly and dangerous as a whole and has nice locations, esp. Praga Południe. You trade paying less for some longer commuting, as you most probably work at the left bank. If you work remotely it's even more convenient.
This is true. One of the distinguishing characteristics of geeks is that they like abstraction; most people don't.
Don't know about no one visiting: MediaCity's going to be bringing a lot of tech people to Manchester over the next few years.
Often, sure. But that's no excuse for locking people out of their own hardware. Mobile platforms are the future computers for many people, and we simply cannot accept a future where the carriers and manufacturers control all aspects of computing.
Good point.

For Firefox users, browse to "about:config", then search for "dom.storage.enabled".
Does that vary based on the kind of product (and has anybody studied with any rigor how class v. instance stories work)?

The BigCorp engineers I know really hate instance stories when trying to find information on possible products they might use; they view those stories as being mainly targeted at managers. Especially true if it's hard to find anything but those kinds of stories, which is the case with a lot of enterprise offerings. "Tell me what the damn thing does, not this marketingspeak about how SomeCorp leveraged your solution to save $3m" kind of thing.
There is no preparing. They don't own the code. They need to release it in exactly the same state it was in when deployed as binary. Otherwise, they are violating copyright (often referred to as pirates).

That said, I'm almost certain that the linux kernel is released under a modified form of the GPL, or at least Linus refuses to enforce parts of the GPL. Binary modules and blobs are a clear violation of GPL, but they exist in the Linux kernel to a great extent. There has been some fighting over the issue in the past.

At any rate, I know that Linus is not as adamant about freedom as RMS. He's using the GPL as a tool and not a principal. There was the whole Tivo-ization argument, where Linus supported the hardware manufacturer and RMS released GPLv3 explicitly forbidding that type of stuff.
The starter-less engine.

If the ECU knows the position of the crank (because of the encoder on the crank these days) it also knows which piston is past top-dead-point.

Inject some fuel in to the air already present in the cylinder, spark and go!

No starter motor required.

Regarding the ideas, I think the way you are organized and how you have this set up is at least as impressive as the fact that you've had 1000 (not so bad) ideas. My way of 'filing' an idea is usually to register a domain name in the hope that when the time to fish for a new project comes around that I still remember what it was about.
I agree with the theme in a lot of these comments: It's a good idea if you have a plan of attack. I've had lots of ideas (eg battery powered heated wetsuit! damn, it's been done) and am now working on one where I have the unique combination of training, opportunity, luck, etc.
I first saw motorcycle brake lights that flashed faster with the amount of braking at least 20 years ago in the US aftermarket.

I've seen them on the road maybe 20 times.
Thanks. This is the exact reason I love Hacker News. I could not have asked for much more.
And yeah , the kind of 'poweruser' I want to be is just knowing what is required, and not too much. I'll be sure to check out Gentoo which has been a popular suggestion, even by some of my college seniors.
Trivandrum, India

Rent : $50 - $150 (ranging from single room to 3bed house)
Utility: $20
Internet: $10 - $40(3Mbps unlimited bandwidth)
Food: $100 (Assuming cooking at home and occasional $3.5 subway sandwich)
Car: 2x US prices ($2000 for a decent non-imported used car. Motorcycle is the preferred transport here. You get a pretty good motorcycle for $1500 new. You get really good fuel economy too.)
Gas: $1.3/Litre ($5/gal)
Cellphone call expenses: $10 (Phone is not part of contract. Phone costs are comparable to unlocked ones in other parts of the world.)

Monthly wage : $500 - $2000

Trivandrum is at the southern part of India with an emerging IT industry. I used to work here a few years back but the scene has changed a lot now. The pay used to be less than other cities like Bangalore, but has now improved with the IT giants coming in. Living costs also shot up due to this.
I did not know about Arch. Thanks for the recommendation, I've bookmarked it and will be sure to check it out..
There's a way to do that, but it's mostly useful for deploying a large amount of machines,ie, if you don't use something like cloning machines:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
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I also went through the book in school, I learnt so much from it.

Back then, I only had a single computer, so while I didn't really need your computer for day-to-day work (or at least, it was rarely required to maintain my income), it forced me to carry on with LFS long past the book, all the way up to installing GNOME and OpenOffice. It was very worthwhile, and the residual knowledge I have from that process is still used frequently.
Thanks for your additional information. I've been wondering about contracting/consulting since a while, but I'm not sure how to get started here. My mail is in my profile - I'd appreciate if we could exchange a few lines.
I built a LFS system about 5 years ago. At least back then, the book felt a bit incomplete. While it told all the steps needed to build a system, it didn't really explain why. Download this specific version of a package, download this magic patch, and type in ./configure, make, make install. What it failed to tell is where to find those patches, how to find compatible versions of software, what alternatives do some software have etc etc.

Based on that experience I wouldn't recommend LFS. Either spend your time studying some prebuilt system (I remember one time installing Debian via chroot, which came out extremely minimal, and that was somewhat interesting), or actually design and build your own Linux-based system. Outline (maybe on paper) what parts you want (maybe you have heard of some trendy init replacement, or you just hate pulseaudio and love oss, etc). Then research what you need to run that stuff. It will take a lot more time, but it will also be much more rewarding
Yeah definitely. They're taking me out to eat and for beers Thursday to celebrate the first event managed with my software :)

I'll bring it up then and see what they have to say. Because I'm planning on redoing a lot of the code and adding some features, I was planning on giving them the new improved version for free. They win either way, they just had to pay more up front.
Yeah, I thought MORE is an adjective while the other three are names.
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Wait, so are you a non-technical co-founder who had an idea, hasn't written any code, and now is annoyed that the developers who are working for equity aren't moving fast enough?

Before you jump to another set of developers, maybe you should figure out why these developers aren't as interested as you think they should be. Perhaps you need to offer to pay them instead of just paying them with equity, you could then buy back some of the equity you gave up.

I don't feel like we have the entire story here.
1) Mostly because I want to exploit everything that Linux offers - and I wish to move out of Gnome on Ubuntu.

2) It's mainly because I'm halfway through the alpha-launch of my web-startup, and have a little time to spare, which I want to use productively. I haven't been 'actively wasting time pondering over it' , it's more like 'been at the back of my mind' sort of a thing.

//edited: making my point more clear.
Also: the included disk/bandwidth vary in the text and the example screenshot.
Not really, because every changeset from the new-ui-widget branch shows up after the point at which the rebase happened, so there is a clear cutoff in the git log between branch changes and master/upstream changes after you've rebased.
I use windows 7 on a daily basis and I enjoy it! And I bet it's made with visual studio.
250 years ago, the notion of infinite supply didn't exist.

In a vast majority of cases, infinite supply is exactly the world that many producers live in these days, especially on the internet.
They are a bit misleading with the space/bandwidth. The front page presents a screen shot of a sign-up page indicating 8GB disk space and 50GB bandwidth, but in reality the actual plan they're offering is 5GB disk space and 20GB transfer.
What the fuck is my information security "strategy"?
Ask HN: Do non-commercial offsite backup solutions exist?
Like most people, I'm not doing offsite backup of my data. Are there any low power/cost end to end solutions that I could plug into my friend's home network and backup data from my home?
Reminds me of the adage: In America, 100 years is a long time. In England, 100 miles is a long distance.
Obama expanding mass government surveillance of electronic communications
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Thanks. I've heard contrasting opinions on how much 'value addition' the book provides. Some say it's just a 'robotic follow how-to' guide while some swear by it. But most people have been synonymous on it being a useful guide to being a sysadmin. So I'll be sure to browse through it.
Apparently it is a plain GPL, but it is not enforced. I don't know if HTC has modules in the kernel that aren't specifically written for the Linux kernel, but I would find that hard to believe. I'd be very surprised if it was enforced in the circumstance.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
...and getting backlinks is one of the areas where people most underestimate the amount of work required to do well. Everyone wishes on page factors made a much bigger difference than they actually do.
Don't most email clients (both web and desktop based) block images loading by default to specifically stop this kind of tracking ?

I recall spammers using precisely this technique with early html supporting email clients in the late '90s to validate email accounts.
"If you don’t like what people are saying, change the conversation" is not the same as "if you don't like what people are saying, lie so they have a better opinion of you."
Benefits of Test Driven Development for Startups
http://www.garmz.com/
They appear to be "out of stock" of $15/year plan
3D photos in JavaScript 
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>I think the fear for Windows being "late to the game" isn't that MS will have a hard time getting mindshare, but I think they are going to have a hard time getting "developer share".

Microsoft already have huge developer mindshare. All they have to do is get developers that already use their platforms to use yet another of their platforms.
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@cdixon tweeted this which summarizes
"When I see how inaccurate NYTimes is re computer security, it makes me worry about inaccuracies I miss in topics I don't know about."

Seriously, nyt needs new reporters who can understand and see technology things.
Clean Energy Angel Fund Receives Close to $11 Million in Funds
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I just want to move out of using gnome for Ubuntu and become a 'power user' ( for the lack of a better term, but I hope you get the point - someone who knows the UNIX system inside out - and is able enough to help people troubleshoot, and so on.
I hope my definition of 'power user' was good enough. If I'm wrong, then I'm sorry and please feel free to correct me.
The pricing is very intriguing (considering how low it is) but the website is so poorly designed I'd be scared to signup. Does anybody actually use these guys? They don't even talk about datacenters or location but their parent company has a canadian domain.

http://buyvm.net/
Gonna have a pretty high false negative rate though, right? Virtually all modern email programs and webmail systems block images by default (unless the sender has been marked as "safe" or sometimes if they've been added to your address book).

You might as well steal some of the (very clever) tricks used here: http://litmus.com/email-analytics to track whether the messages was forwarded and the time spent reading. They don't work all the time, but it's a pretty neat piece of code.
Is it really a virus if it has to guess your root account's password to work?
Can anyone else verify that BuyVM is a good/reliable service? I am planning to get one.
Uhm, there are no buses here (see other posts) and bicycles don't work in certain conditions (high winds, snow, -40F below weather). Plus, let's also remember that a lot of places don't have facilities for people to bike into work (like showers), not to mention the people who can't use bikes.
I would suspect people to be far more liberal with the "Always display images in emails from ..." if they know the sender personally. But still an important objection, since it obviously breaks the process...
That is a good point. I'll add it as soon as I have time.
It will take longer than a day for the stock market to figure that the new gal is as good as Jobs, so you can delay your buy for a while.
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I usually consider emails with some kind of read-receipt requests or (even worse) tracking images (which fortunately gets blocked in any decent email client) at least very rude.
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Take a few hours and go watch The Social Network and see what one possible outcome could look like. That said, go talk to a lawyer, get your ex-partners to sign something that either gives all of you the right to run with the idea with no claims on each others implementations.
Thanks for the elaborative answer - which definitely cleared out some things.
Since this visualisation is dedicated to the fight against "immappancy" I'd like to mention that Eastern Europe generally doesn't include any of Austria (Central Europe), Greece (South Europe) but it definitely does include the Baltic states, Belarus and the European parts of Russia. Just sayin'.
Seems doubtful - if I don't want to keep paying for "x" service, what difference does it make if you give it to me for free for a month on the condition that afterwards I presumeably have to go back to the original condition - paying for something I'd rather not use. Then again if it did work, it may be a pretty good indication that your main problem is that your price range needs adjusting. Also, once a "hack" like this gets out how can you keep the person from spreading the word via their blog and getting a situation where all your users email you something like, "I've heard it's your policy to give me a month free if I quit; I'm not satisfied with your service and will be doing so; however, IF you're so kind as to give me a free month ..."
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Anyone who is concerned about security and tracking will leave images blocked by default, but most average people will turn image blocking off so that they can see the pictures in whatever trashy chain email is making the rounds.

The don't realize that this allows spammers to track whether or not the email address is live, they just think that it saves them from having to click "Show All Images".
I've had a similar idea to the brakes, but in my version the intensity of light was linked to the intensity of the braking. That way if you're just cutting a few mph off your speed, it doesn't really matter and the light is pretty dim. If you're braking moderately, the light comes on bright enough to indicate that you're braking, but if you slam on the brakes then the light illuminates strongly and brightly.
Maybe not an answer, but there are very good articles about that subject at http://www.supermemo.com/
No, America (meaning the USA) is somewhat smaller than Europe, especially if you count European Russia, another country whose size is often underestimated. Though, it is helpful to realize that the United States is, in fact, larger in terms of landmass than China, and is exceeded only by Canada (the other North American Anglo democracy, much of whose land is largely empty due to the extreme cold) and by Russia, (another country with a lot cold, mostly unused land.)

Russia, even in its post Soviet scaled-back state, is in fact largely an empire. Most of its land was conquered from indigenous peoples who still inhabit it, this it not too different from both the United States and Canada, though the circumstances are somewhat different.
This week I have been house/cat sitting for a friend. While reading on their computer my posture would begin to hunch, followed rapidly by a cat leaping onto the area behind my neck.

Sitting up straight solved the cat issue. Maybe a cat will solve your slouch issue.
I think they're using some kind of REFERER magic to link the 99 page to vpstree.com (so only people that go through that link get to sign up). Or just use paypal if you don't want your CC info logged.
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He even says 'eagerly awaited Windows Phone 7' to describe something that supposedly no one cares about.
Around for "about 4 years now"? I remember seeing it at a conference 7 years ago.
Thanks for sharing your experiences on LFS. It cleared out a lot of misconceptions I had about it, and I'll be sure to check out Arch
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There's a short and sweet review from lowendbox claiming that everything is legit:

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/buyvm-5-95-openvz-vps-with-512...
Talk to me privately for specifics. Short version: getting a visa is hard, renewing one is easy if you are as profitable as your previous employment. The easy paths go through native megacorps.
"I'm the only one with the knowledge base required to make this business happen".

If the above quote is true, why did you let the other two become equal partners? Seems like there was a mismatch to begin with, assuming this isn't a detail you just now realized.

Have you tried talking to them? Maybe just getting it out in the open would fix some things. They may even be relieved and just want to walk away, at which point you can have them sign over all rights to the project, etc.
Isn't that what the NSA tried with SELinux?

SELinux is a good thing, but it isn't attack-proof, and I doubt anything can be.