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I think 11.04 is just slow. I installed this on my nvidia ion-based desktop (that I use for watching TV, etc.), and it's much slower than the previous revision. Everything is glacial. I think I'm just going to replace Ubuntu with my Usual Setup (Debian), because all I do is run wget and mplayer anyway.
Wikipedia already has mechanisms in place for dealing with spam.

Wikipedia and Google might rise up to the challenge of dealing with more spam on Wikipedia arising from using it as a ranking function.
Seriously what got me at the end was these comments about "well it's YOUR fault! You should have XYZ123 and you have 8 years of experience? PLEASE"

Unless that kind of attitude and culture of blaming the user changes I am afraid Linux won't be winning many desktop users from the mainstream.
Raising Capital is not the Same as Succeeding
Microsoft’s Silence is Infuriating .NET Developers
Painless Django maintenance mode with Fabric
Thanks for quick and informative reply.

I talked to founders; they did mention that some acceleration in conjuncture of retention package is in works.

And I have a double trigger acceleration in place as well. So I am thinking of Option 3; but I don't know how practical that might be; given acquirer may want to put earn out in place.

From valuation point of view; our product is compelling on paper but dont have much traction; so the biggest question I have is can that be big. A good team and decent product. If I compare offers; 5 times return on original investment will break me even in terms of my offer with new company and their valuation. So is it likely to get 5 times return in this kind of acquisition.

I also have one more question; will my departure negatively impact the acquisition of company as I am one of three core engineers and joined at very early stage.
CS makes sense as a major if you want to work as a highly paid software engineer building someone else's products.

That's not the creativity I care about.
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>The future extinction of the human species cannot affect you if you are already dead: strictly speaking, it should be of no personal concern.

Nor should the future bankruptcy of your country concern you as long as it happens after you're dead. Even if your descendents have to pay the piper for it.
It used to be illegal here in the States too, within my lifetime. We had Blue Laws. And I think such comparisons are valid because it highlights a huge hole in the vision of American leadership -- both political and corporate.
I'm running mine with an Intel 320 SSD, and it's pretty good. (Only downside is that I always encrypt my laptops and I accidentally got the 1 processor variant that doesn't have the AES instructions. Doh!)

Also, the mobile broadband does not work under Linux, despite the fact that the datasheet for the card says "Linux is fully supported". It will show up as a serial port (well, four of them) after you edit the kernel source (sierra.c) to contain this card's USB vendor/product ids. But without a firmware loader and firmware, you can't actually use the broadband. I feel that this will be fixed soon, though, as the Gobi 2000 is quite popular for Linux and this is the Gobi 3000.

The GPS does work.
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It is probably indicative of a larger problem, although one that is very hard for the community to solve. A big issue with hardware support is the lack of specifications and vendor participation. Vendors are getting better at that, but it's still an issue and the major vendors are less-than-stellar. For consumer components, Intel is about the only one that's all-in on Linux support; nVidia insists on binary drivers that are hard to install and have a checkered reliability history, and ATI provides specs but to my knowledge no engineering effort (although AMD/ATI may be improving on that front). Not sure how things are in the sound department w/ Creative, etc. these days.

If vendors provided and honestly advertised Linux support, that would be a much better world. Then compatibility can be checked at the store. It'd be bad, though, if they supported Linux like they do Windows - with a gig of userspace junkware.
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This is my first submission to Hacker News, so please be nice! :)

This is also my first attempt at creating a blog, so I'm testing out the look and feel of the site and how I'm going to be writing.

Any feedback is welcome and appreciated, thanks!
Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet [video]
Slides:

http://mirrors.bufferbloat.net/Talks/BayBloat04262011/BayBlo...
Goose also does image extraction there is a demo online here:

http://jimplush.com/blog/goose
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Hmm,

I've had many of the same issues over the years, but it has progressively gotten better. Now have Ubuntu Maverick on my Dell Studio XPS and it runs like a dream. Video, camera, networking, sound, hotkeys, suspend/resume ran since first boot, and I didn't have to do anything. Printing surprised me too. When I went in to work one day I was printing after two or three clicks in the control panel. It was never that easy in Windows XP, tho maybe 7 is better. And keeping up to date is 10x easier than windows of course.

I did have a problem with Video crashing occasionally on first install but a subsequent kernel update fixed all that.

My tip for Ubuntu users (at least) is, don't upgrade to the newest release, stay back one. And if you do upgrade, wait a full month for the most egregious bugs to get fixed. I'll start looking at Natty when finished with my current project.
HAQu: Queues as "Hardware" for Fine Grained Threading
That is my own desire too. I don't want Apple's iCloud. But I'll gladly get a Mac Home Server so I can have my own personal iCloud.
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That was my first question too. Why not just make it out of a modified software firewall? That way you can run it on your wireless mobile devices as well, and not be vulnerable when connecting from Starbucks or wherever.

It looks like they have plans for that too. The physical box part is apparently for Apple-ish, plug-and-play ease of use, while software will also be available:

>James Vasile: Well right now we’ve convened a technical advisory committee. These are people who have deep expertise in the various difficult things that the Freedom Box is going to have to do extremely well. And those people are right now coming up with a road map for development that will lead us to actual software that can be loaded onto boxes, not just Freedom Boxes, I mean, if you want to load this onto your PC that will be an option although you’ll need somewhat more technical knowledge than simply plugging in a box. But we’re at the road-map stage right now. People are planning the architecture and figuring out what existing free and open source software we can pick off the shelf and put in the box to do most of the things that we’re planning on accomplishing.
Just because you've had a bad experience doesn't mean CS departments should reject creative people. It means it wasn't suited to you.
Apple is not invincible, look at the iPhone 4 antenna fiasco.

I agree that it's bad that they deny most problems instead of being transparent about them. It can be extremely frustrating, you file a Radar ticket and then it goes into a black hole and the only feedback you might get is that someone else had the problem too. They are by no means perfect and neither are their products, I didn't mean to imply anything like that.
Exactly what I thought before reading :)
>> communications with national leaders as they
>> negotiate, often behind the scenes, ...

Looking forward to reading the stuff on Wikileaks.

Only absolutely necessary things should be classified. Not every time a goverment f*cks up, the should just print a "secret" onto it to get away with things.

Its not a democracy if we don't have enough information to make our election choices.
I think of Daily Deals as equivalent to payday loans.

A lot of small businesses have cash flow issues. Daily deals sites propose to give extra liquidity in exchange for something your business is already offering. Seems like a great deal until you realize that the fees are egregious. And daily deal site fees ARE just as egregious, but they do a better job of marketing themselves/their fees.

Running a daily deal is great for a lot of businesses, but in many cases the cost to the business is much, much higher than advertised.
>>offering the right solution to the right person, and at the right moment

i agree that it was very smart of the road seller. but the issue is that what that guy was selling, the problem was always there....the sun.
other things aren't as easy as that. you dont always know the right person. in this case EVERYone was the right person. who likes sitting in the sun? therefore everyone wants shade.

but this business technique cannot be transferred to most things
sure, it will be a couple of days - I am working with 4.9 this weekend / next week and it has a different setup (they added rc.d to OpenBSD) - I will do a step-by-step next week. I am also trying to do my spam stuff a little different.
The problem with electronic voting is that you cannot have both anonymous and trustworthy voting.
A review of Google's Chrome OS netbook noted poor network reception affected everything - even starting up. Of course, that's the mobile network.

Maybe you're right. I was thinking of the Amazon outages, but they weren't due to the network.
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If the author is looking to make a point about daily deal services why reference Google and not the 800 lb gorilla that is Groupon?!
In Russia, Nancy Pelosi would own Google (But there would be no Google)
Yeah, the 901 was a nice machine. Great screen, working wifi, and very light. I "replaced it" with a newer Eee PC last year, but the newer model was more expensive, had the same CPU, was heavier, and had a much shittier screen. Worst laptop ever.

I replaced that with a Thinkpad X220, and it blows both of them away. (But it cost twice as much.)
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Yes you can. We used to run whole webservers on 486DX/2-66's with 8megs memory. Ran just fine.

Kids these days.
Out of curiosity, where do you buy books from?
i dont know much about design: but i would think that if apples are all over the desktop and when you use a mac you are bombarded by little apples, i would think it would just make you think of a macintosh every single time you eat or see an apple. its like subliminal messaging. slowly make it that for you apple = mac
You can either take your pain up front or at the end. Raising money is the best decision in many situations, but more often when startups raise money it reminds me of a four-year-old failing the marshmallow test.

You see situations all the time where companies selling B2B software could easily increase their valuation 20-30% just by spending a couple weeks to build a database of 500+ leads to cold call, but instead they raise money first because they are too scared to validate their assumptions until they've already sold 15% of the company.
If by "cohesion between design and code" you mean "more attention to the design and usability aspects" then I agree.

What Linux still lacks in my opinion is a coherent and usable design. KDE4 and Unity/Gnome3 are trying, but I think they are not there yet.
Most of the problems with energy liberalization can be attributed to politicians bungling the process and ending up with something that is very far from a properly functioning market. That the messy result ends up performing worse than a government controlled market does not prove that a deregulated energy market is much better for the economy.
Altered Beast port for Rails 3
Unfortunately the way that Twitter's OAuth works, at least when I dove into it a few months ago, is that if you ever want to send out a Tweet on anyone's behalf (for totally legitimate reasons, with user permission etc), you have to request write permission from everyone. And whatever choice you make now, you're basically stuck with, for a variety of reasons. This is why the vast majority of apps decide to ask for both read and write access even if they don't need/want it right away.
Because he's disappointed they've entered this market, are also taking big fees and encouraging daily deal 'best practice' that are actually bad when running a daily deal.
Pixelmator is a great and underpriced product. I had no qualms about buying it again when it hit the app store.
I switched to using Ubuntu on my personal machine about a year ago. I was seriously excited.

My experiences:

- Utter inability to consume streaming video, be it Netflix, Hulu or YouTube.

- Complete madness wrestling with the built-in, broken version of Ruby.

- Real difficulty finding any clear, accurate documentation.

- Out-of-date crappy versions of libraries available through apt-get.

- Printing? Ha.

- I can't play Minecraft, which is a Java game.

- GMail freezing on load 3 times out of 5.

Rather than liberating me from the bondage of win32, it has made me feel like a third class citizen of the digital world. The consequence? I am buying a Mac.

Edit: I wouldn't usually complain about a downvote, but this is a list of difficulties I have experienced when using an operating system. What do you object to?
"these parameters are the ones helping webmasters identify what the user wants."

That's a completely one sided and biased portrayal. They also help webmasters manipulate the psychology of users, hinder privacy, make an open web more difficult, etc, etc.
It seems his point is that when it was just a bunch of random startups, it was obvious that this was a shade-ball kind of business. But now that Google is in the space, it makes the entire concept seem legitimate.

(FWIW, I disagree with this, but I think it's what the article is trying to say. My thought on this is, "if the only way to get someone to come to your business is to give them free stuff, what's the point?")
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When they build new development here (outside of inner cities), they generally do put it underground.
Few things in Javascript annoy me quite as much as the damn comma...
Can't stress powertop enough. I have a N455 Atom netbook, with 11.01, just now installed it (I knew about it but always forget to install it after reformatting), and using powertop's suggestions, I brought idling down from an average 8.5 watts to 7.9 watts, giving me almost another 30 minutes of battery life.
What about all of the entrepreneurs who come up with their own products and code them? Also CS is a major about how to think about problems and solve them. Any creative person needs that skill set eventually. Whether they get that from Computer Science is up to them but CS makes sense as a major for a variety of people.
Why not just 18... why not 48 or 128 or 1024? Questions like this are always loaded. First of all:

- This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't, in my experience, and rely on something like cPanel to do all administration. Which is why you can't really run on 64MB.

- The site itself doesn't take up RAM, just disk space. If you have 1024 static sites the only thing taking up ram is the configuration of the sites sitting in Apache's memory. As long as there isn't a lot of traffic on the site, it doesn't really matter how many there are.

- You could have 1 static site that has a medium amount of traffic and it would bring the 64MB instance to its knees as soon as you have more than a few concurrent connections.

Anyway, from this hoster's experience, when I get a question like "What can I run on a 64MB VPS" the easy answer is "Not much" because usually the type of person that wants to spend $3/mo on 64MB VPS instead of $7/mo for a 1GB VPS doesn't really have their priorities in place.
I think all of the big selling points of PulseAudio had similar tragic flaws. Either they were totally useless even conceptually (network transparent audio? really?) or conceptually at least so-so, but implemented so badly that they were also practically useless. My favorite example of the latter was the per-application volume control (which I've never wanted, but maybe somebody does) which pretty much ended up with the system volume occasionally getting set to the maximum value.
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I did look closely at this list. I commented because it's such a typical example of unearned upvote candy.

I could have assembled this list (as a non-computer scientist) in less than an hour just by looking at the usual places I look for lecture notes and following the typical linkbait-maker advice of leaving a brief comment and headings. The author admits s/he is still working through the material and the details on each are minimal, so this curator ≠ expert.

Nor is the field "highly specialized". arxiv/math.QA is specialised. Welding less-than-1cm aluminium for a particular part in powerboat engines is highly specialised. Computer Science Major is an extremely broad area of study.

To me this is exactly a "clusterf_ck of references".
When you buy a license for the software, you are buying the license as of this date. You should not ever buy software for future possible improvements. The only situation in which I'd say it is really necessary is OS security updates.

If any customer ever asks me: "I'll buy it if you add this feature", I always reply: "please buy it based on current features otherwise I cannot promise anything".
Now in Unicode:
⌘ 'PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN' (U+2318)

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2318/index.htm
Instapaper like article extractor demo now online
This semester I had a course where we had to implement a MIPS based processor from the ground up, with pipeline, caches, forwarding, and other techniques. I recommend starting with a basic non-pipelined MIPS processor, as it is not hard to find information, and go from there.

We had to use VHDL, and also used some predefined ports, so we hadn't to create everything from nand gates like you are trying to do. The book we used was "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessy & Patterson.
I've been using Linux as my desktop since 1997. Works for me, could be better, but it does what I need.
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What could cause a cable underground to be more susceptible to failure than an aerial cable. I don't buy it.
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There's no practical limit to the number of static sites you can host on a 64MB VPS. There is a limit to the amount of traffic that a 64MB VPS can serve, but if you want to host 10,000 low-traffic sites then by all means go ahead.
Speakeasy is probably the best ISP available. Unfortunately they are also expensive. AT&T U-verse is cheap, I have not had any problems so far (installed a couple months ago) and I have not heard any complaints from friends and coworkers who have it. Avoid Clear.
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Pfft - in my day we used to power our web servers using a potato: http://d116.com/spud/
Correct. If you don't trust Amazon and the CA's then you shouldn't use Glitter.

While it might be insane for your requirements, its not for ours and we trust both S3 and the respective certificate authorities for our software distribution. Glitter is very bias towards this to achieve its level of simplicity.
I live outside US and since a decade ago books from Amazon arrives on one of the mail building (except using FedEx). So, I was not buying tech books lastly, only literature in closer bookstores.
I don't need them to die, but the whole daily deal fad annoys me. I feel like it's making people into boring, decadent, consumerists who can't think of something fun to do that doesnt involve a monetary transaction.

That's my current pessimistic view at least.
Telekom wasnt even a private company 20 years ago and they had a monopoly. Today you can choose between lots of ISPs/Telco companies. I get 64/5 Mbit with 2 unlimited phone lines and cable TV for about 50 EUR in a small german city.
No one i know still has metered calls in germany. Prices fell and speeds have risen dramatically in the last 5-6 years.
However true the rest of the article might be, there nevertheless is a Google of Russia, Yandex, which recently IPO'd on Nasdaq (YNDX).
"This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't"?

What? I thought it was the opposite, i.e., that typical VPS customers were familiar with a command line or had to get familiar pretty quickly :-) Do you have any data or experience to back this claim (I ask because I don't have any data to back my perception)? Maybe you are referring to managed VPS as opposed to unmanaged VPS?

Btw, the article is 2 yrs old so (should have been in the summary...).
Since when did phishing count as a sophisticated cyber attack?
Quite the opposite: their hate of him has been consistent and their predictions have proved quite accurate. It would be much less credible if they only started hating him now, after everybody else realized he's a crook too.
>> You've made few if any valid arguments

I made fun of a guy that wrote anti-technological arguments about expecting technical solutions to problems as being a "religion".

The guy wrote the same thing in multiple other comments.

You call me on that -- and write WALLS of text, insisting that the first comment was only about nuclear tech and that the other comments (note, pluralis) are irrelevant for other unlikely reasons.

If you didn't put time into writing well, I'd be certain you're a troll.

So congratulations, you got another comment out of me. I must assume that is your motivation into writing possible explanations for what "Andi" really means, when he wrote the same thing multiple times.
Much of the programming entrepreneurs do is not difficult -- especially with the availability of all sorts of libraries for more difficult things.

CS would be more useful for those people building difficult libraries that require specialized domain knowledge.
Many hosts (and users of hosts) - including myself - over at WebHostingTalk use/sell cPanel hosting a fair amount.

And naturally 64 MB of RAM would NOT be enough for a VPS running cPanel (or any other mainstream server control panel, for that matter).

If the user is happy to use command line though then yes, he can run 18 static sites on a 64 MB VPS.

His post doesn't mention whether he's happy to have a no-control panel VPS though, so this entire blog post (well, the basis for it) does seem to be predicated on a fairly big assumption...

Overall it's a good, informative post though.
>Bad for business

Bad for those who were already profitable and could not make much out of the deals. Not for those who were alienated in some part of the city and got the kick-start just because of deals.

>Bad advice

While the link posted by author http://blog.agrawals.org/2011/06/06/best-practices-for-busin... gives some great advice, the allegation on Google asking the merchants to tell their customers about 'Google offer' more and more does sound true.How does the advice for posting lots and lots of photos and a blog post relate to telling your existing customers about 'Google offers'!
No matter how sophisticated or amateurish this attack is, or was, you can be sure that it will be used by politicians as ammunition to help pass laws which most people reading this will probably disagree with.