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Going to FUDCon KL 2012?
Event details:
* Date/Time: 18-20 May 2012, 10am-5pm
* Venue: Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI), Bukit Jalil

Some of the sessions that might attract you;
* An Introduction to Puppet and Usage In Cloud Environment
* Boxgrinder: Back your 1st Virtual Applicance
* Darkserver, way to new world
* Linux security best practices with Fedora

Have you got an itch to talk about "Fedora" or FOSS in general? Or if you want to find out more deails about the event or sessions, the event page can be found at: http://fedora.my/events/fudconkl2012/sessions
I'm conflicted really. I am used to the old GNOME desktop, so XFCE just feels like home to me... I'll miss right-clicking my desktop for instance... but I feel that in order to better support customers going forward I need to get used to the UI's that they will be using.

I do very little Linux support currently, but there are talks of deploying Linux in our schools very soon and I can't see them using anything other than Ubuntu. It will do me well to have familiarity with the product. I'm upgrading my desktop to Xubuntu 12.04 now, but I think I'm going to switch my secondary laptop to Ubuntu and start getting used to it.
I think it's worth pointing out that you can deploy Python webapps to Heroku and Dotcloud [1], not just GAE. And for blogging software: Hyde [2] is just as well designed and equivalent in functionality to Jekyll.

[1]: https://www.dotcloud.com/

[2]: http://ringce.com/hyde
I started rising a bike to and from my startup (also raising kids.) One hour of very pleasurable cardio a day, lost a lot of weight.
Love the simplicity and the creativity!
I submitted a patch for that about 16 months ago, I assume the behavior is intentional or desirable.

Depending on the day, I can get through 2-3 pages of /newest before getting that. I probably miss quite a few decent posts that were entered overnight.

More annoying is typing a response to a comment, only to have it lose the session, you hit back and sometimes the browser tells you to refresh, losing your post. I've gotten burned on that on a few longer replies so, I figure the site prefers more concise answers.
I think this would make HN a very boring place - if the community has a vested interest in whatever batch or whatever startups the bias is going to shift from mostly interesting content to mostly YC content.
simple, but increased my delayed_job throughput on Heroku by 3x. Your performance will depend on the nature of the delayed work, but mine alternated between blocking on IO and CPU intensive work.
> Really? In my experience, Django has about the best documentation of any open source web framework. How are the docs lacking?

It's been a few years so I don't recall exactly (and maybe it has improved) but I just found myself browsing and clicking around to re-read particular chapters all the time, that I could only reach via an unintuitive sequence of 2 or 3 clicks.

Only when I found that the docstrings inside Django's code, plus the function signatures and the (IMO very well-written) code itself, were much more useful--as long as you have an IDE that allows one to ctrl-click an identifier to jump to its definition (cross-file/module), only then I got a better grasp on what Django was doing and how it worked.

But then, that's the general take I got from Django after using it for some time: As long as you strictly stay within the "batteries included", it's absolutely great, and the documentation is probably wonderful and sufficient. But as soon as you need to develop your own `ImageFileWithMultipleSizesThumbnailAndExtraCheeseField`, you really need to dive into the innards of the code, the documentation starts lacking, and it's like they never even considered that sometimes your customers prefer their database fields with extra cheese.

Hey but I'm not here to bash Django, it's a great framework (and so is Rails, btw). It's just that next time when I need something like it, I'm going to try and use one of those WSGI things with SQLAlchemy and see how that works for me. I'll probably really miss the automatic admin though.
Samsung Behind Apple Store Protest Telling People to 'Wake Up'?
Explain to me why this isn't techno-utopian claptrap?

The thing that frustrates me about the way that Narrative Science is discussed and some of the unhinged techno-futurism stuff that people write, is that it's never about making people or individuals more effective.

Automated processes and people have different strengths. Computers really aren't that great at pretending that they're people, and people are bad at accuracy on repetitive tasks.

That people keep on talking about "replacing" so-and-so misses the point. Change their market, change their workflows, make them better at accomplishing the function journalists or whomever play in society.

Endeavoring to make them obsolete is both unnecessarily inflammatory and also not terribly sensible.
I don't think it can be a bubble when up until very recently it was illegal for 'crowds' to invest in private equity deals at all. How can there be over investment from small investors when there is currently zero investment from small investors?
It's an impossible task to convince you. The inherent problem is that you dismiss the premise: If you're an agent of an investment firm, you cannot give financial advice in any capacity in the US unless you've passed certain certifications [1][2]. Them's just the breaks. It doesn't matter if it's amateur advice or for profit, the company is put into a very sticky liability situation if you're blogging and posting advice to Facebook.

If you are quick to dismiss the law, then I really don't know what to tell you. The law's the law, and the company's trying to minimize its risk and liability. There are a lot of reasons that these laws came into place, but the fact of the matter is that they exist, and it's a world that you, admittedly, know nothing about.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_adviser#United_Stat...

[2]: To clarify, there are situations where you could give advice that would not run afoul of the law. However, the line between that and actions that open your employer up to serious liability issues is very blurry, and so companies take the prudent action and make a blanket, "Don't give anyone anywhere financial advice and most certainly don't tell them to buy anything of ours unless you're paid to do that." The author knew what he was getting into, or at least should have known.
Google Currents also has a tab for your Google Reader feeds.
In defense of Python:

* Rails' website has the design might of 37signals behind it. Most things look bad in comparison. To be fair, Django's website isn't great. Maybe compare Sinatra and Flask's websites too?

* Comparing the personal webpages of the guys behind the main frameworks seems pointless.

* I host Python code on both Heroku and GAE (Heroku isn't only for Ruby). Heroku might be more designed, but GAE certainly isn't ugly, and I think I prefer their documentation.

* Have you compared the official websites for Python and Ruby? I know which one I prefer. Python's documentation is excellent.
Or you could carry your own IPv6 addresses around. In this world of mobile devices and networks this might soon become a requirement, actually.
However, you can turn off Metro and get a desktop OS on Windows 8. Mac users are essentially forced to use the iOS features in OSX.

(That's my understanding, I have no experience with either of these OSes.)
Timber trusses
Our Product - Prefabricated Timber Trusses with punched metal plate fasteners are used for construction and reconstruction of the standard and nonstandard buildings.
And the SEC is right to do so. One of the provisions of this new law is that companies seeking unqualified investor funding (i.e. crowdfunding) are not required to disclose their finances for up to five years after going public.

As to simply buying stocks, IANAFinance Guy, but I believe there is an upper limit on the amount you can invest before having to be certified as an investor. Could anyone contribute a proper explanation of that?
> I don't think I've ever actually accessed the Python docs in any other way in fact. Same goes for Django. They're clean, static HTML, totally trivial for search engines to index and you always get just what you think you're getting when you click over from a search engine.

I usually download them as local static HTML so I can also access them when I'm coding without stray wireless packets floating in the air.
> It'd be like Scrooge McDuck stepping outside his money bin to pick up pennies off the street.

OT, but that's a pretty bad example, because he does do exactly that. A lot.
No problem. Sorry I took it the wrong way.

Of course every issue has a simple visible portion and then there's the 90% of the iceberg under the surface. I view simple ideas as fundamental to start the thought process going. A lot of them are not viable due to the details and real issues deep down inside. I realize that.
Having built sites in Rails and Django, I far prefer the Django docs in terms of content and visual style.
How we trimmed 2 seconds from page load times: remove AdSense.
Spotify for iPad - Unofficial App
The falling returns to venture capital
Updating your social will
The benefit would be the return on investment, just like any other start-up they fund. In this case, their investment would be the time and effort they put into mentoring their companies and the legal fees they put into launching the crowd-funding. The return would be whatever they wanted it to be. The HN community would mostly have the capital at risk, not YC.
At least he didn't get caught out flogging any made-up 'scoops' during his internship: http://hasrohansilvaquityet.tumblr.com/
> What the world needs, I think, is a paid social media aggregator. If people are going to pay for a newspaper subscription, couldn't you get people to pay for something that makes the web easier to follow?

There are already a number of these: different planet* aggregators for technologies, longreads for "longer pieces", etc...

A single aggregator? The world does not need it, because it's absolutely worthless and makes little to no sense. I probably don't want to read what you want to, and neither does the next guy.

> If people are going to pay for a newspaper subscription

There's a reason why newspaper are dying: by and large, people are not going to pay for a newspaper subscription.
Roof trusses
The timber joining technology with perforated metal nail plates allows obtaining the required timber trusses a lot quicker and more economically.
I find them almost exactly as readable as XML, and with good highlighting, probably more so.

I'd say S-exps are definitely a lot more writeable than XML, at least.
Years ago when I was learning to code I chose Python over Ruby (and Java, etc) because of the aesthetics of the code. Python is so pleasing to look at on the screen.

I tend to agree with the premise of the article. I've thought the same for years.
Hah, sorry, not watched Duck Tales for a while. It's still an irrational act ;)
I have an exopc slate that I'm trying to use with Linux, and have had no luck for the last year.

12.04 doesn't make it better - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/utouch/+bug/801988 has all the details (for the W500, but it's the same bug). Touching the screen with two fingers causes X to blow up. Touching with one finger at the wrong place causes X selection to lock-up for a few minutes. I'm almost tempted to go to Windows 7... I hope it gets fixed soon.

Meego 1.2 is able to use the touchscreen without multitouch (but is otherwise unusable as a distribution).

Does anyone have good experience with any ubuntu distribution on an eGalax / DWAV capacitive multitouch screen?
It wasn't canceled, he chose to stop the show, and at the time it was the most viewed show [0]. They offered him a lot more money but he decided to leave on a high point [1]. After having one of the most successful shows of all time, he went on to create a successful movie (Bee Movie) [2] and continues to do stand-up.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld#Ratings

[1] http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/26/seinfeld/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Movie
dist-upgrade won't upgrade you to the next release, just updates your current release. You want do-release-upgrade. And I've never had a problem with dist-upgrade.

http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2010/02/dist-upgra...
Things To Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
No, I'm pretty sure I made them animated, and added a big red text over the sketches to make sure you know they are, saying "Animated sketch, click to play" =D
>Especially for a medical condition which is not contagious.

But the fact is, obesity is contagious. Habit and culture are huge factors in obesity, both of which are contagious to those who you share extended proximity with.
I've used this in the past to track multiple goals in this way: http://www.joesgoals.com/
I agree, best documentation of any framework I've used.
The actual story is linked in the nav (for those wondering).

This matches my experience with programming too. It's just beautiful how pieces fall into place when you first start programming.

I remember first taking a look into Rails when it was first released, as I'm a designer and I was into 37signals work back when they were a design shop. My reaction was "what the fuck is this"?

Some months later I had to collaborate front-end code with git, and ssh into a couple of servers. I started to feel comfortable at the console, so I took a look at Rails again, but it was still too difficult.

Wanting do add some interactivity to my front-end code, so I started using jQuery. Of course it was the naive selector spagetti code, but it got me started with programming. Took a look at Rails again, too hard.

I then dabble into really simple MySQL databases driven by PHP. What a nightmare, wasn't this supposed to be solved by ActiveRecord? I take a look at Rails again, and it starts making sense.

Then the pre-parse craze came out, so I learned CoffeeScript and Sass. CoffeeScript happens to greatly simplify js OOP code, and has some bits of Ruby's syntactic sugar, so this time I another look at Rails and suddenly it all starts making sense.

All those bits and pieces you collect from real project experience come together and suddenly the you have crossed the gap to create a full web application.
What ard0r said about TwinView. I'm anxiously awaiting TripletView from Nvidia...

ard0r, if you were to recommend an ATI card which had three display ports, what would it be? And, as a guy who has used nvidia with Linux for the past, oh, 14 years or so, can you tell me why you seem reluctant to recommend an ATI (AMD)? Am I inviting trouble by purchasing one?
Code Review Gone Bad
That would make sense in 1995.
This is sentence alone means that there is going to be another full blown tech bubble.
Lower bar for entry to invests in startups.
just like lower bar to get a home loan.
At least for the "de Casteljau" algorithm that Jason also demonstrates in this HN link (in my article, it's http://processingjs.nihongoresources.com/bezierinfo/#splitti...)
Sharp Transistors Will Enable Cheap, Retina-Style Displays
Does focus-follows-mouse work correctly?
I get this from time to time, analysis paralysis.

I go build some tiny and completely unrelated to get me to enjoy programming again. Usually works.
Mexican, even Chipotle will work. Get a burrito bowl. Substitute the rice for more veggies. No tortilla. Beans, veggies, meat, and fresh salsa. It's right in line with most of the diets. Pretty low carbs. I just completed a month of the Slow Carb diet by doing this. Lost 20 lbs.
You're on a forum full of self-important humourless people, what did you expect? Mind the downvotes.
I upgraded a few days ago it worked fine for me. I can't stand Unity yet however, so I'm still using Gnome.
So but it is more like "I can't get a job, or live where I can afford because I'm too easily distracted to be a good driver and I might kill someone, but it's that too likely since there are lots of shitty drivers and not that many people die and I don't really have alternatives."

I bus to work, but I wouldn't work minimum wage if all the good jobs required commuting; I'd just be another shitty driver. It's not selfish either, it's selfish of you to expect me to give up anything resembling a normal life to make you a little safer.
Getting exercise is a must, for anyone. It has nothing to do with whether you have a start-up or not.
I found an explanation of the rewrite http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/g3why.html
Spotify Said Developing Pandora-Like Online Radio Service
He who has just learned something, or is in the process of FULLY learning it....is usually better able to teach it, because they understand the challenges with learning it.

Perhaps. Or perhaps they're at the point where they think they get it -- they understand it -- and they start espousing their wisdom to others prematurely? Only they have some fundamentally wrong ideas about the thing they just started to learn. This is the story of almost every developer's apprenticeship since the beginning of time. Heck, it's the story of the world (the whole "I was a better parent before I had children" thing. And of course the most you'll ever know is in the first year of university, before you learn how much you don't know).

A simple case in point is, just pick up any of the hundreds of programming books...how horrible are they?

I'm not sure how that is a case in point given that the overwhelming majority of programming books are written by people trying to gain credibility through authoring as a surrogate for actual code (indeed, isn't this what this submission is about?) -- it is hardly dominated by experts since, what, the 70s?

The software development how-to field -- and this has only been made worse by the whole self-publishing trend -- is dominated by apprentices. It is the guy who has laid his first brick telling the world how to be a mason. No thanks.
MythTV turns 0.25
Walmart Adds “Pay With Cash” For Shoppers At Walmart.com
>Now I am not against sugar when it's appropriate and rare.

Yes and later goes on to say it's a poison, unless you just finished a race or exercised. I don't think that's how poisons work. Sugar is not rare either, as pointed out by the video itself our bodies run on sugars. We require it. I am not sure you can say that about real poisons. Carbs we eat breakdown to sugars. Given how he classifies fructose as a poison, anything we eat could be classified as a poison, if we ate too much of it.
I think in Canada that describes only 3 cities, and even then a lot of the tech companies are on the outskirts since the offices are cheaper.
Many bubbles are caused by a change in legislation that either incentivizes bubble participation or removes barriers to bubble participation.

We saw this with the policies the Bush Administration adopted to further encourage an ownership society via home ownership as well as ongoing incentives to own a house. We also saw that the changes to Glass–Steagall contributed to the economic meltdown.

I'm not arguing that we are or aren't in a bubble, but instead the legislative changes are common leading up to a bubble. Some would argue that the house bubble has been building via legislative change since the 1950s.
I've actually done this as well, should have mentioned that. Also, the Django docs can be easily compiled into a (very large) ebook in epub format. I put a copy on my Nook. Comes in handy every now and then.
I'd say 7 hours of sleep per night and 3 hours of exercise
I'm talking about routers, from the big devices in your datacentre/telco down to your dsl or cable home gateway. There's only a limited amount I can say about this ( at least, without having to think hard about I am allowed to say) but there really is a lot of silicon out there that knows what the layout of an IP packet is.
Ask Qwest how the government encourages "voluntary" participation.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...
RSS is free as in freedom, Twitter and Facebook are not. And that alone is a good reason to keep RSS around.

Yes, exactly! When I first heard someone suggest that Twitter was the replacement for RSS, I thought "oh really? so Twitter is now a protocol anyone can use?" And the answer is no - you have to register with Twitter. And no, I'm not going to sign up with Twitter or Facebook. There's a reason I run my own web and email server - I like my independence and not relying on some company that's trying to milk my personal info for all it's worth. I'm really surprised that these supposedly rugged individuals are so quick to toe the corporate line of Twitter and Facebook. But then again, it's always been the case that the market follows what it thinks is the cause of success, ergo we have everyone hawking closed protocols and walled gardens. They might be wise to remember that AOL was a walled garden with closed protocols too.

Edit to cleanup and followup: So RSS supposedly has problems; I can't tell, as I don't much care about UI (except CLI), and to be honest, Liferea+Firefox under Debian stable works pretty well for me. Who knows, maybe I'll be pissed at the changes come the next major upgrade, but this would lead me to think that RSS is not broken and not the problem; the client software is. And at least I have the source and a choice when it comes to RSS. Facebook and Twitter, not so much.
I looked at it for a project, but the current release still seems very 'early'. It was hard to figure out how to do anything with the clients, other than the basic querying covered in the documentation. You have to do a bit of work to get it to run under windows. The indexing gateway mechanism is also difficult to figure out. I would personally rather use Apache Lucene on its own (which I believe SenseiDB itself uses). That said, it does show some promise and in future versions may become a useful technology.
Huh. Then I'll give it a try.

I always disabled Unity until now, precisely for the reason that it didn't work for me on this laptop that is often docked with 2 monitors.
Linkbait with a main course of generalization and ample sides of selection bias. OP is a Python/Django shop -- if this is intended as a call to arms it is severely misguided.

What does web design have to do with the actual languages? All you've proven is that Ruby developers spend more time on HTML and CSS.

With regard to docs, as of May 2011

"With revision 31499 of trunk RDoc reports that just
under half of ruby has not even a single character of
comments with over half of the classes and modules
missing documentation"

Source: http://blog.segment7.net/2011/05/09/ruby-1-9-3-documentation...

Given finite developer resources, I'd rather have docs over shiny. The Python community has its priorities straight.
As a non-accredited investor you can invest as much cash as you want in public companies. The crowd funding portion of the bill restricts non accredited investors to (I believe) 10% of income or 10,000 per year for risky start up investing. Further it requires investments are made through a platform.

Personally I am worried that 10000 is way too much for an asset class this risky.
Places that focus on bread, pasta and rice are usually chain-food places (Panera, Chipotle, etc). Find a deli that will give you a chicken breast + veggies -- there are at least 4 near my New Jersey suburban office building that do this.
A Pure CSS3 Cycling Slideshow
See, if I was going to take on an extreme fad diet that cut out entirely one of the three basic building blocks of nutrition, I would have gone with the junk food diet: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...
Good advice, but don't abuse that friendship. They're getting questions from every friend/family member with a cough.
Employers Cautioned Against Asking for Passwords of Social Media Accounts
This is hardly unique to the States.