skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of soul-crush usually means more quality employee fodder for Google & Facebook.
I don't see what's stopping him from forking Linux and glibc. If this is really better, everyone will just use his fork. (It worked for my fork of cperl-mode, anyway...)
The entire article mentions only one bug, which is caused by proprietary drivers. Seems more like FUD to me. And yes I had a smooth upgrade to Karmic-amd64 with proprietary ATI drivers.
I think there's a grain of truth. The forums I hang out on have been flooded with "help!" posts of different descriptions in the last few days.
Bit.ly + tinyurl.com = FAIL
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The point is to get patches accepted without forking. Linux and glibc aren't exactly small. Do you honestly see a single man maintaining millions of lines of forked code as well as handling packaging and stuff?
due to lack of adblock in chrome.
I'm not convinced you understood what I was saying in the way I intended it to be understood, so let me clarify.

PGP's web of trust is designed to answer the question "is john@example.org who he says he is". A user is "valid" (in the above sense) if you have marked it as such, or if a sufficient number of users of sound judgement vouch for it. (There are multiple levels of "vouching", and the meanings of "of sound judgement" and "sufficient number" are user-configurable; and "users" are really "keys".)

By default, PGP believes that users who are vouched for as in the above model are valid but not of sound judgement (i.e. we don't let this users vouch for others), but you could easily change that.

The point I was trying to make is that, if you replace "PGP" by "Outer Circle" and define "valid" to be "worth reading", the above sounds a lot like what you want to achieve. It has also been deployed in the real world for quite a while, so you can see to what extent it has worked (it's rather succesful in a very small part of the population).

Additionally, PGP is effectively decentralized, even though day-to-day operation uses keyservers. This model is a lot easier than full peer-to-peer (which, in the presence of NAT, is probably not possible without centralized servers anyway), and a combination of clever crypto and fallback options means that PGP does not rely on keyservers. Look at the documentation for more details.

Notwithstanding the above, which is honestly intended to be good advice, I don't see how your system is ever going to become sufficiently widespread to be worth learning for the average user, and I don't really see the value in keeping a medium that's 99% nonsense usable for the last few erudite users - just let them migrate.
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It's not as bad as it sounds, basically great many of the http://git.kernel.org/ repos are actual forks of the kernel, regularly pulling changes from vanilla, resolving the occasional conflicts and maintaining/developing their own patches.
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Great tips for us teleworkers though.
I agree - I really like Chrome (and Opera, for what it's worth) and I can generally cope with the normal ads on most sane web sites these days.

But some sites go over the top and a few minutes of looking at flashing, flickering, CPU-hogging dross like one British forum I regularly visit (two large Flash banners at the top of the page, one down the side and one large square Flash ad, often an auto-playing video, in the first post of each page) is enough to send me scuttling back to Firefox. If someone developed a Chromium add-on that did the same thing as Adblock, I wouldn't look back.

(I normally unblock the ads on sites I use regularly and value - provided they don't abuse my eyes with videos and those flashing "YOU'VE WON A CAR!" images.)
Ryan Anderson a great Magic fit
After watching this Ryan Anderson kid through his first three starts as a stand-in, you have to ask (if only in jest): So how are the Orlando Magic going to find Rashard Lewis playing time when he comes back?
Can't believe you had 0 on this. Great comment.
This reminds me of P.G.Wodehouse's stories, where you'll occasionally find a victim being dragooned into judging a 'Bonny Baby' contest.
Ubuntu 8.10 broke Intel drivers, which are OSS. Furthermore Ubuntu ships with restricted drivers manager, which pragmatically installs properietary drivers where needed.

Software vendors have the resposibility to their users to perform regression tests as part of their product. If Ubuntu doesn't want do do that, or do it better, then they shouln't bother to compete with other OSs that do.

I'm saying this after 10+ years of use of Linux on my desktop. The 8.10 issue (after deliberately picking low-powered OSS-driven hardware) made me move to OS X, which I hate, in order to have a continuously working desktop.
And instead of empowering its citizens, governments are operating in terms of profit & loss.
They don't "trump" the constitution so much as they are co-equal with it.
For a user of which you have voted on many posts, we can define "interesting" directly. If we use I(you, u) to denote our proxy of the chance that you find user u interesting, we define I(you, u) = (number of upvotes to this user) / (number of total votes on all users).

For any user u on which you have not cast a lot of votes, calculate I(you, u) as the sum of I(you, u') I(u', u) over all users u' (other than you or u), plus the above formula.

There are some issues with this: it'll take some work to make it perform, and it strongly favours established accounts. But if you can solve the first issue, you can probably live with the second - karma has the same problem.
Still, last time I checked researchers actually had a lot of influence on the evolution of the Internet.

The last time you checked must have been in the 80s then. If researchers still controlled the development of the internet, would we be having a debate about net neutrality?

Politically I agree with you, but you vastly overestimate the power of researchers.
I believe you either lead or administer software engineers. Not manage them.
Visitors yesterday to the website I edit (for a mainstream local radio station, so likely to be one of the least "techie" audiences out there):

IE8: 28%;
IE7: 27%;
IE6: 19%;
FF3.5: 16%;
FF3: 7%;
Others: 3%
I believe there are plans to create desktop versions of Cappuccino apps using Atlas. Once that comes out, we will probably release a desktop version of the app.
don't deny the fork. the fork is good. use the source luke.
Do you need a Google Wave Invitation?
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Widespread graphics driver and sound issues. GNOME-Do, System Monitor and some other programs. Launchpad is going berserk right now. http://bit.ly/1IPSsm
Most countries require ratification of treaties by the representatives of the people. Is this not so in the US?
Please stop assuming this is just about America. One of the reasons people are so worked up about this is that the US is trying to force its idea of expression control on the rest of the world.
Heh, nice notice of nonsense name :-).
At what cost? Of course you can dictate that anything MUST survive by fiat if you want, but when does it stop being worth it? They're imposing quite a heavy inefficiency on an expanding portion of the economy, for what is, in absolute terms, not that great a benefit. The old-school media companies just don't have that large a turnover, all told. They just have glamour on their side.
Google appengine does not work with 9.10, I have seen it yesterday. There is a bug as well in appengine buglist
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That would be awesome, might be the best use case for Twitter yet! And yes, Apple lets you do that.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1665119/how-to-play-a-son...
New lines in the UK, too: High Speed 1 (the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) has been up and running for a bit, and the discussions about a high-speed replacement for the Midland Main Line are going.
Funny. You should make the embedded swf visible in some fashion or it won't work with Flashblock enabled.
PETA may be a legitimate organisation, but the people involved may well have friends who perform actions which, while it is obviously impossible to condone them, your honour, do support their cause.
Incomplete Index of Serialization Formats
I have Ubuntu on my desktop and server, and OS X on my laptop. Personally I've experienced less problems with Ubuntu. I use proprietary 64bit ATI and my upgrade was smooth.

Considering I'd pay money for Ubuntu, I'm very happy to get it for free. If you're worried about stability, I suggest using the long term releases instead of upgrading to the cutting edge right away. If you want the cutting edge, wait a month before upgrading so the bugs can be worked out.

It's also important to remember that you are not a customer with a support contract with Canonical. You are a customer getting a great operating system for free. Something to factor into your calculations.
> I think you missed the part where the takedown happens without the need to prove anything.

Or, in fact, come from the people it claims to come from.
I've been going down this list, voting up things that seem interesting. And suddenly I thought "Bloody hell, I'm using my real name to criticise the government on the internet". And obviously, I've decided that I have no problem with that. But I'm a white, middle class, middle aged businessman, and a British subject rather than an American citizen. And I still thought it.

America's stupid "War on Drugs" has devastated large parts of the world. Is an equally stupid, and, more laughably, even more doomed to failure "War on Copyright" going to wreck the Internet and possibly freedom itself?

And this is Obama? Who was supposed to be the good guy?
ACTA has been in negotiation for years. This is nothing new.
Ok, but what is the lesson from DEMONOID's downtime?

Apparently the whole thing is is dependent on one guy who is nowhere to be found. Whats up with that?
fuck the US Government ! Screwing it up for the rest of us again.

thanks very much
It's not the language that's verbose, it's the Cocoa libraries.

Instead of this:

NSString *s2 = [s1 stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8Encoding];

You could easily have:

NSString *s2 = [s1 percentEscapes:UTF8];

(I like the first way better, though. It reads like an English sentence, and you know exactly what the arguments are.)

EDIT: formatting.
I've had, and continue to have, sound issues.
Linus won't let Adobe make a decent Flash plugin for Linux. Linus restricts APIs that the plugin needs to run well--things like access to hardware video acceleration.
Oh, so having future commercial packages that many people depend on, like Adobe Photoshop or 3D Studio Max ... packaged and distributed as a universal binary for every major distribution and every architecture ... is of no importance whatsoever?

This is a major roadblock for commercial third-parties that would like to distribute ports of their software for Linux.
Ask HN:What are the lessons of the Demonoid downtime?
Why is the whole thing dependent on one mysterious person? And where are they?
No, I don't think it will solve this kind of problem. It can do the only thing: pack two different binaries into one file, which is also binary, and the kernel has some extra logic to choose, so it is 'transparent'. While this makes some thing easier (if you really don't know whether you want to download that strange 'i386' file or even stranger 'x86_64' file, you download one larger 'fatelf' containing both), it doesn't solve the real problems. Distributions spent quite a lot of effort to make both 32 and 64-bit binaries run on a single system. This is just a hack, nothing more. And it can make the mess even worse. Do I have x86_64 binary in this? Is there a correct elf packed somewhere? How do I know.
You are not asking when and why.

Why?

Forums have a life cycle. They start small, full of interesting people. Hoi polloi find them and join, to spectate and snark and lark. The signal to noise ratio falls and the interesting people leave.

Forums self limit by drowning in mediocrity. If some mechanism could prevent this a forum could grow larger and have more interesting people on it. There may well be a critical mass of interesting people that no forum has reached yet. Failing that it would still be a big win if a forum could persist. Having to move on and find somewhere else is a pain and people would use a complicated system if it actually delivered on the promise of keeping the signal to noise ratio up. What is at issue is the individual signal to noise ration, what you see given your white list. It doesn't matter if the forum as a whole goes down the tubes as long as the interesting people never find out. It also doesn't matter if people disagree about what is signal and what is noise, each to his own white list.

When?

Outer Circle starts small. So participants can simply use the ALL option, and not bother with rating. However, the Outer Circle client should offer each user vote up and vote down puttons. These are private. As the forum grows and ages, two things happen: there is plenty to read, the signal to noise ration falls. Each participant has a breaking point at which he asks the system to use the his personal voting tallies to auto-build him a white list.

Perhaps it should include those with positive totals and leave out those with negative totals. That could be done with putting all the positives on level zero, but if the forum is thriving the list will be thousands long. No. It is important that the auto-build takes some time to discover some structure so that it can build a hierarchical list.

There is a social science hypothesis lurking here. Outer Circle assumes that the authors you rate very highly will read authors that you rate highly and that there is a clustering of preferences sufficiently tight that hierarchical sharing of white lists becomes an efficient way of constructing and managing large white lists.

There after rating is pain-driven. When the signal to noise ration that you experience drops too low you think to yourself "Outer Circle is dying, where do I go to instead?" Then you remember your white list. You have continued to upvote and downvote, it is a habit, even though it doesn't seem to do anything. Now you can ask your Outer Circle client why the forum has become crap and it can tell you the paths by which you see the articles and suggest deepenings, shallowings, and directings to improve your experience.

I think that there is a threshold effect. If the rating system is elaborate enough to keep the forum from dying it is worth the hassle, but a slightly simply system, which merely slows the decline and thus prolongs the agony is worthless.
I love this, rather uncommon, stance:

He had learned just enough about every subject; he could go back and fill in the gaps later, when and if that was necessary. The gaps in his knowledge were surprisingly large, but not detrimental to his work.

In some ways, teaching and learning specific subjects very deeply may be a form of premature optimization.
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"There is no fork."
Ask HN: Recommendations for a light-weight issue tracking system
We are starting off with a new consumer oriented web service. It's a small team (less than 10 people). And we need your help with recommendations for a issue tracking system (for bugs and features).

I believe we might not need all the features of a traditional issue tracking system like bugzilla or JIRA. I've used trak in the past, and found it pretty light weight and easy to use to create new issues/milestones.

Do you have any other recommendations? Perhaps even a tracking system as a service (hosted).
What do you think has been going on for the last century? The "ruling class" has greatly expanded the education bureaucracy. They love democracy; when combined with their schools it makes it easier for them to achieve their goals.
You can do this without fatelf. Put everything you have into a single package and add "shell scripts and flakey logic to pick the right binary and libraries to load". (He fails to mention, that fatelf is nothing more than this, only hardwired into kernel.)
And China put the brakes on all innovation.
It's for the courts to decide that balance, our opinions on the merits are irrelevant
Have you tried other distros like Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora?
I had two issues, one during the upgrade process, the second with proprietary wireless network drivers. I upgraded a 3-years old HP laptop from Windows XP. My initial plan was to make it boot both systems, but the install hang up during repartition, destroying Windows. Oh, well, isn't that what Linux is for, to destroy Windows? The second problem was just an annoying non-issue, solved by finding the right aptitude incantations.

Apart from that, Karmic has been a cute little boy all along.
> That is not democracy. Not even close.

Why is that not democracy? What does democracy have to do with it? I often see the word "democracy" used as if it means "freedom".
Excellent question. I can't think of a good answer. I originally thought it was about ego (e.g. knowing about something quicker than the general public). However, I think, personally, it's more about being able to observe an event from the distance of a first-person third-party (#lessconf is a great example) as the event unfolds (in, yes, "real-time") The thirst to acquire knowledge/news without the cost of having to actually have a personal or even virtual relationship with those sharing.
That bitly link is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monit... . HNers prefer normal links.
Surely they'll make it work soon. I heard Snow Leopard broke a lot of stuff, too.
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I've been told to wait with the Snow Leopard update, too. Update of Ubuntu on my second notebook really produced some errors, but after a clean install (often a good idea anyway), it looks great. For the first time I did not immediately switch off the desktop effects.
Huh? I think this is rather more a case of PICNIC :) rather than any major fault of bit.ly.
> To make this treaty take effect in the US as written, the Constitution will have to be rewritten. Politicians are much too lazy for that, so I am not worried.

Don't be so sure. It's not like they don't ignore the Constitution when they feel like it.
And its all about bug trackers. Gosh this is a boring business fight to watch - well I guess its slightly less trivial then facebook apps ;)
Yes I think it is 2/3rds of the senate.
Checking the authors back catalogue briefly - he does seem to be quite positive about Windows 7; I wonder if that's a coincidence.
Leaving a local optima takes every ounce of our resolve
So the freedom of the world now depends on the European Union, which we know is corrupt. Is there any way to buy shares in whatever method media giants use to bribe European politicians?
redmine is ok, so is trac.
Guerilla warfare?
FogBugz - use the hosted version or run it on your own server.

http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/

You can try it for free to check out the features.
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OK, to rephrase the question, what will the people accepting the jacuzzis full of money use as arguments?
And what makes you think this is driven only by the US?
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The second amendment falsifies this statement. The only reason our opinions are irrelevant, is because of complacency and the inevitable slide towards tyranny that every world power faces as it ages. The government feels no threat from the people and therefore feels comfortable in selling our freedoms to the highest bidder. If the populous where not so complacent or indoctrinated then our leaders would think twice before leveraging our rights against us. This is a simple concept that the founding fathers understood all to well. They knew the constitution was a piece of paper and that individuals in the government would always look at it as such.
"fifth of people upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 have reported issues they can't fix, according to an Ubuntuforums.org poll here"

wow, statistics in action

I have an issue with fan control with my upgrade, apart from that it went well, so a little worse than jaunty, but still easier than osx and windows.
Who eventually did lose to an extent. By the '70s the war had moved into a more conventional phase with the NVA doing the majority of the fighting. When Saigon fell it was not to VC guerillas but NVA tanks.
They are making their own "swf viewer". It's called HTML5 and it's the reason you can't find any Flash on their own webpage, or on their iPhones.
You can't really have democracy without freedom.
str0ke @ milw0rm has passed away due to cardiac arrest early this morning at 9:23 AM. We @ blacksecurity are deeply saddened by the loss of a good hearted friend.

At the risk (certainty?) of being downvoted, that's an interesting choice of words.

For those who don't know (I didn't), it appears milw0rm is a kind of exploits database:

http://www.milw0rm.com/

I had never heard of it before myself, but clearly some people had.
And that will mean that we've got good darknets for real criminals to use, whilst people doing nothing wrong cover for them.
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Google may be working on an ancestor of The Primer as we write this. OLPC + smart Google
Yes, due the Lisbon treaty the Pirate Party will have a second chair in the European Parliament.
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It was kind of the startup of the security world, and it became popular very fast. It required a working proof-of-concept (POC) for publishing - no pie in the sky text only stuff.
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