skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for expanding on that. In trying see the relevance of PGP's web of trust to Outer Circle, two things throw me off the scent.

First, identity in Outer Circle is simply a public key used to decode each signed post. When an identity is highly regarded, others will wish to impersonate it, in order to get their writing or advertisements read, but they are unable to do so because they do not know the private key.

Prevention of passing off is the whole of identity in Outer Circle. We do not care if users have multiple accounts nor do we care whether group accounts are acknowledged or pretend to be an individual. Circle jerks, be they conspiracies or sock puppets, do not undermine the Outer Circle system because an identity, even in good standing, has no right of recommendation. If some-one on your direct list starts reading crap you "shallow" him or drop him, and that is part of the normal operation of the system as tastes change (his or yours) or time pressures squeeze.

So it is confusing to me to read about web of trust because Outer Circle has no notion of who somebody really is. Ossian is welcome.

Second is Outer Circles core concept of the coexistence of incompatible through invisibility. Whether somebody is who he says he is is a valid concept that is either true or false. I see the idea that a post is worth reading or not worth reading is a trap. There is no truth of the matter and that is the heart of the reason that traditional forums with moderation and meta-moderation collapse. They are trying to forge a consensus when they should be facilitating disagreement.

You doubt the value in keeping a medium that is 99% nonsense usable for the last few erudite users. That foregrounds the issue of scaling. I picture Outer Circle growing from a thousand elite users to million users, 99% hoi polloi 1% elite. So the proportion of erudite users falls, but the absolute number rises tenfold. I see the endless migration of the nomadic elite as an important problem, preventing them reaching critical mass.

Do you still think that PGP's web of trust is relevant? How do I relate "is john@example.org who he says he is", which has type boolean, to "john is worth readng", which has type function from users to boolean?
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If a proprietary vendor is willing to do all the work to cross-compile, package, and test on a variety of architectures and distributions, I can't believe they would be deterred by the need to link a binary for each package. With FatELF they would have to do that anyway, and then glue all those binaries together before building all their packages.
That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger

Is there a confusion between an ISP and a Web site here? I've never heard the term "ISP" applied to companies that just run Web sites.
Thirded. "How to Talk To Anyone" is an excellent book. I need to read it again though as there are so many things to remember :-)
It is very hard for Americans to comprehend the idea of blatant oppression by the government as Americas always had a gentler approach to oppressing it's citizenry. I have quite a few friends from eastern European origin and it is always peculiar when you get into a discussion about the government with them and their voice immediately drops into whisper. After all of these years thy still have it in the back of their mind that someone from the party could be listening. Pretty creepy stuff if you stop to think about it.
RIP. It's good to know that a smart guy left four children to the world, so part of his essence will continue to live.
I can't see why you'd be downvoted. :) I'm reasonably certain that str0ke would have chuckled at that himself.
>"What does democracy have to do with it"

democracy = everybody gets a vote. If we where a democracy, I did not get to vote, because I was not allowed to see the text of the subject to make an informed decision.

Anyway, we are not a democracy we are a republic which is evident by the fact that I did not get a vote on the issue. The elected leaders did and this is the problem with a republic over a democracy, someone is doing the voting for you and after that someone has received your vote to put them their they tend to forget about the people that got them there.
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Warning - rant ahead. However, I believe I'm making a valid point. Feel free to down-mod me if you believe this is of no value, but if you think I'm wrong, I would appreciate hearing your point of view.

Open rant:

The singular is "optimum" - "optima" is plural.

I know this sounds like I'm just being a grammar nazi, but perceptions matter. If someone comes to your web site and their first impression is noise, disorganisation, garish colors, etc., then they will go away, and quickly, and find your competitors, even if they aren't as good.

When you work with people, some of them will wince every time you write "your" when you mean "you are", or "loose" when you mean "lose", or use "optima" as if it's singular.

A while ago (I've spent 10 minutes searching - can't find it - reference appreciated) someone submitted the article about Joshua Bell playing at a train station - and, in essence, no one listened. The "frame" was all wrong.

If your writing is littered with errors, a large number of people won't listen to you, even if what you say is of great value.

This is especially harsh if you're writing in a second, or even third, language, but the point remains. Please, when writing for publication, take the time to proof-read and correct, and get someone else to read with a critical eye.

It's worth it.
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This is not true, Guerrilla style warfare is one of the few styles of warfare where technical superiority does not equal a total advantage on the battlefield. The reasons being is that you general negate mechanized infantry and air superiority. Even the advantages of selective fire assault rifles are somewhat muted. The number one advantage in these situations is familiarity with the terrain. It was the deciding factor in the revolutionary war, Vietnam, Soviet / Afghanistan, and if something does not change US / Afghanistan. Time and time again some of the poorest nations beat the most powerful nation of that time by simply drawing them into a Guerrilla war.
So the main point of this article is that the biggest risk a company can take is to not take any risks, right?
Does this support significantly enhanced capacities or a significantly different programming model than processing?
Lots of issues for myself and friends too.
Shouldn't have updated so soon, but 8.10 - 9.04
didn't feel this problematic.
All the graphs are hilariously bad for a site with tech-geek audience.

They only just stopped using a translucent 3D pie-chart. But it's still tilted, drop-shadowed, single colored and, most importantly of all, a friggin pie chart in which we need to eyeball differences between several items less than 5%.

Just give us a table of figures and a bar chart for love of tufte. If you want to be trendy make it sortable with javascript.

And it's the trends that actually count anyway! I truly dispair every month when they wheel this out.
I've played about setting up both. If you have a VPS or dedicated server with shell access then Redmine is a dream to set up (took me about half an hour - mostly to convince fedora server to install the latest rubygems).

I've never used RoR before but it was excellent.

The other advantage over Trac, I found, was that Redmine handles remote repositories (specifically SVN) without batting an eyelid :)
I had a class called "Negotiation and Conflict Management". The two required texts for it were "Getting to Yes" and "The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator". My recollection is that these are the only two books on the topic (or were at the time) that are based on research. "Getting to Yes" is short and an easy read. "The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator" is a much meatier book. I recommend it often.
Nice to see something like this on my side of the pond. Just a shame it's on the other side of the country.
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Actually it is as bad as it sounds. Although git makes it easier to merge with mainline, in the end it still requires an active maintainer who manually merges and tests stuff once in a while. Maintaining a fork requires one's constant attention and diverts one from doing other - maybe more useful - things.
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>You have AR-15s but do you have UAVs? Do you have tanks? Do you even have nukes, for that matter, that ancient 60 year old tech?

You don't need any of this, In guerrilla warfare mechanized infantry (tanks) are really only good for expensive body armor and neither side could use nukes if they had them (you would just be bombing yourself). Utilizing either would cause to many civilian casualties and the nasty part of guerrilla warfare is that for each 1 killed their are 50 recruits that have seen family and friends die (hardcore). Once this happens you have one of three choices surrender, withdraw or genocide.
milw0rm is (or was) one of the first places I check each morning for new info. I was worried about the lack of updates - and this is sad news for both the security community and, obviously, str0ke's friends and family.

RIP.
Ugh, if you are a rank and file employee why would you do this. You are basically taking on a large risk where all the upside benefit is for the company.
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Exactly the same here! Except I hate it where flash is slower in Chrome than it is in FF, but I can live with that.
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We just started using Pager Duty, and I love it. We had used email2phone.net but this is a lot better in the way you can setup an escalation path and filter using regexps to avoid false positives.
But, look at the pool featured in the article -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305924

Is it normal that only in 16.56% Upgrade - worked flawlessly and in 13.83% Install - worked flawlessly? I'd say that's tragedy.
Never upgrade Ubuntu. Just reinstall. It's not that user-friendly.
You seem to be confusing several different concepts. Most countries have representative democracy, rather than direct democracy. This is largely orthogonal to the issue of being a republic, which (in this context, and in over-simplified terms) simply means that there are certain things that even a majority vote can't achieve, as the majority is also bound by the Constitution (in an attempt to avoid the classic problem of two wolves and a sheep voting for what to have for dinner)
No, the right lesson is to take a deep breath and ask yourself what three hours of downtime is worth to your business and compare that to the cost of full failover.

The cost of full failover is first off a doubling of your hardware and datacenter costs. Then add the cost of developing a software system that can handle seamless failover, as well as testing it. By this I also mean the cost of significantly slower release-cycles, because you're not going to release a new feature without testing if it breaks the fail-over, are you?

If this comes out in favor of doing full failover, you're a bank or an airline or similar. You're probably not even Google or Facebook. Chances are that you're not taking infrastructure advice from an online discussion thread.
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I've been making the transition myself, doing much the same thing--starting FF to use Firebug, but otherwise leaving it be. Sometimes I miss a few of the plugins, but otherwise, I appreciate the speed and smaller memory footprint.
Why didn't he just by Twitter for $1B and save himself $43B?

http://www.reuters.com/article/smallBusinessNews/idUSN161636...

Does he know something we don't?
You obviously haven't been paying attention, then. Internationally there is a ton of support among governments and industries for measures like this to be taken; the general lack of support among the public hasn't been very relevant.
The intellectuals are pacified by their McMansions and $150,000 student debt.

Your brothers, cousins, and sisters don't understand what is wrong with censoring the internet. They think it's a good thing because they're afraid of pedophiles.

The whole point (as I explained) of modern non-lethal weaponry is that it can be used to enforce bad laws without causing a public uprising. Brothers, cousins, sisters, etc think waterboarding is okay because they watch too much 24. They think anyone who flees in pain due to LRAD is a pussy cause it's just like loud music.
Thanks, I did indeed mix the plural/singular.
Really appreciate the feedback (certainly this well thought out and reasoned comment).

My grammar can be atrocious at times. I am getting a little better with time. But with daily blogging, I generally am not as careful (proof read only once when I can make the time for it).

I don't want to scare off people with potentially incredible feedback with poor grammar. This will force me to improve if nothing else.

Post corrected!
That will teach me to try blogging at 4am from bed so that I could drop my fiancé off at work by 6:20, and still get to work by 7. Trying to get out by 2:30 so I can meet back up with my better half and catch up with Fred Wilson at his Donor's Choose gathering in Manhattan later.
You're missing the point. Guerillas don't win wars, at best they ensure that no one wins.
I feel like we're going in circles.

1. You can't win through pacifism because of modern anti-protestor technology.

2. You can't win through conventional warfare because you have no collective ability to project power except through the incumbent government.

3. You can't win through guerilla warfare because guerillas never win wars. They just make life really suck for everyone.
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Hrm. That information is useless though... people think in terms of GB, which is indeed also listed on the front page...
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Have you seen vietnam? They definitely didn't win anything from that war.

It sure is a hollow victory if your entire country and way of life is destroyed and all your descendants are horribly mutated, etc.

If winning means getting what Vietnam got, I'll take surrender and slavery.
If the population collectively goes against their government there can be no doubt as to the outcome: The politicians lose.

Swat teams are only effective against small groups and individuals - they can't kill 300 million+ people.
a constitutional republic != a republic != a democracy != representative democracy
Tufte calls it the "Lie factor": size of graphic / size in data.

For graph 2, the lie factor for each bar graph is:

IE: .25 / .62 = .403

FF: .25 / .2383 = 1.04

Safari: .25 / .0417 = ~6

Chrome: .25 / .034 = 7.35
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sure, how are you going to link computers together?

the only way that i can see this working is a NCLB improvised device-to-device network, which is actually a great idea that the tech giants are terrified of because they want to keep their proprietary lockdowns on everything
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I just opened about 20 tabs, and ONE OF THEM STARTED MAKING OBNOXIOUS FUCKING NOISE.

Not acceptable.
This.

I don't know who is running the show but obviously this leak has ulterior motives of some kind. The elites are always planning further lock down on their slave populations, it's really just a question of whether the public is sufficiently conditioned to accept it at some particular moment.
Just to be clear...

Firefox passed IE6. It did not pass IE in general, which enjoys a huge advantage.

Or did I read something wrong? Because at first blush, the version number "6" didn't seem that important in the headline. I'm a little confused, though. Why is every version of FF compared to just one version of IE?
pg, this is an uncommonly hysterical and poorly thought through response, for you. Has someone hacked your account?

You can tell it's accurate for the US because the DMCA has codified those provisions here for the better part of a decade.
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Hmm, you had not previously expanded on the prevention of impersonation, although that is indeed desirable. In fact, piggybacking this whole thing on PGP (with special "is interesting" messages) may work. Somewhat.

I don't see why the web of trust-approach would fail. Certainly, I admit, "is worth reading" is not (intended to be) a global value, while "is really that person" is.

But ultimately the web of trust answers the question "do I trust that person to be who (s)he says (s)he is". For instance, someone who trusts a lot of people is likely able to verify that key D5327CB9 belongs to Wietse Venema, while someone who has just created a key but doesn't yet trust anyone cannot. Therefore, while this key belongs to Wietse or does not belong to Wietse irrespective of who asks this question, the answer may differ.

There are obvious parallels to "do I trust this person to produce interesting content/tag appropriately".

I can understand your desire to bring the elite together, but what is the big added value over, say, Twitter or blogs? These are fairly stable, fairly reliable identifiers of people, with connections between them. Filtering out the nonsense is so easy that it's hard to notice that we're even doing it, and "clusters" of smart people form more or less automatically. (Which is not to say that either Twitter or blogs are the best possible communication medium, especially for small messages like this, but they seem to get this mostly right.)
I am dubious that such language will appear in any kind of treaty in the future.

I'm not calling BoingBoing a liar, but I find it hard to believe that the U.S. is going to pass laws or engage in treaties that destroy some of its greatest companies. Either these provisions are misunderstood, they are proposed amendments that nobody thinks will be in the final language, or they are interpretations by folks looking to sabotage the negotiations. If I had to guess I'd say the latter, but that's just intuition.

My call based on one article? Flame bait for nerds.

Show me some more sources and we'll see if this develops into something worthy of all the yelling and shouting.

Even if this is true -- multi-source, people. It's much too easy for "leaks" to be more manipulative in nature when the internet is one big echo chamber.
There are readline wrappers such as rlwrap ( http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rlwrap.1.html ), which may be handy for other stuff.

Bray does add "Don’t do that though, get yourself some IDE help."
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I like it. Love the transition audio, reminds me of Bioshock. Listening as I type this comment and it's pretty cool. Not sure how often I would use it or if I would use it regularly at all. Does it push live updates?

Agree with the suggestions mentioned already (mute, remove extra commentary).

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You assume that online communities die because there are too many (sub-)mediocre people. I admit that this is a reasonable hypothesis that explains part of what can be observed, but it is a rather big leap to get to "a community will not fail as long as its populated by the elite". Even the elite has a finite attention span, after all, and any sufficiently large community is likely to splinter into sub-communities anyway. Either that, or people have to stop posting all but their best posts - and that does not seem likely.
Actually, it's a pretty useful thing to do. Had he "laid his cards on the table", there's a good chance his partner would have never thought about the star hypothesis. His goal was to get a fresh point of view, which you can't if you fully describe your position.