skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The expectation was that dividing Germany or Korea would be a temporary measure until a democratic government was formed. It was never intended to last even one decade. In Germany, three out of four occupied zones signed up for the democratic government which was formed in 1949, only 4 years after the end of the war. The agreed-upon plan was for Germany and Korea to form single, democratic governments, rendering the occupation zones a temporary measure. The fact on the ground was that the Soviets had millions of troops on the ground and surrendering all of Korea, or all of Germany to Stalin would have had grave consequences. No one likes being a divided country, but presumably the South Koreans prefer not being part of North Korea and the West Germans preferred not being part of the DDR.

In Germany's particular case, many of the allies were comfortable with the notion of dividing Germany anyway, since at least that way the Germans wouldn't start trying to conquer the rest of Europe again. But it wasn't the agreed plan, nor was it feasible to salvage the whole country as a democracy, either, nor did it seem wise to let Stalin have the whole country.
The tech is nice, but adding hashtags like this does, in my opinion, more harm than good. Hashtagifying common words does rarely make sense, except in those few cases when there is a specific conversation going on about that word for any special reason.

Users ask us all the time to add an automatic hashtagging feature to hashtagify.me, but I'm resisting those requests because bad hashtagging makes hashtags less useful. It would be great to find an algorithm that (at least almost) always finds hashtags that are really relevant, but until that will happen it's better to ask users to make a little effort.

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This is not the best analogy, but I liken Docker to a high level language. I am not one of those hackers that started programming when I was a fetus, nor did I write my own LISP before I could walk. I started off with Basic in the early 90s (at the ripe old age of 17). I got frustrated with some speed and moved to C. I got frustrated again and moved to Assembly (as an aside I then did my first network enabled program and realized I could write in Basic and it would still be fast enough).

How does this relate to Docker? I knew nothing about containers and was first introduced to them by Docker. So I started off using Docker seeing what I could do with it. When I got frustrated, I started looking at the core components of Docker which lead me to lxc.

So yeah - it has bugs. But it is opening up a "whole new world" to some people.
And using Japanese here is pointless.

We're just doing our best to show off ;)
We're really excited to see what hackers can do to improve the world... Let's do this!
Paypal asked me for the same data 6 years ago to unblock my account. (I was not a merchant, just doing a purchase on my card)

I told them to fuck off but haven't been able to open a new account since they manage to keep linking such to my old blocked one. They pretend it's for my security as well to protect against fraudulent acts.

It's none of your business. In Denmark the bank will protect us against fraudulent acts.

Once again,
Fuck off.
My point is that you have to take positive action to control for a factor. Since there's a practically infinite number of factors that could have an effect, you can't assume that only the experiment variable is changing, because that would require first enumerating an infinitude of factors. You can list the things that you think are most likely to be confounding and make sure that they're either controlled for or randomized, but eventually you have to make a judgment call of when the groups are similar enough.

Here's a couple more silly but vaguely possible examples: what if one cage was nearer the window, and UV exposure had a significant effect? Or what if the big-pen rats were in the corner where the air was more stagnant, and rats don't like to get high when it's humid? Nobody would have predicted those as a possible hypothesis, so there would be no effort taken to account for them. That's not poor science, it's a necessary part of the process.
Is this supposed to be an aggregator of QS data or a privacy tool so that you don't store this data on the cloud?
[invite] Hack a Raspberry Pi project with me this weekend in SF
Hey! My name's Kris and I live in SF. I have a Raspberry Pi project idea and am looking for one or two people with a technical background interested in working on the project this weekend. It's a fun project that can be completed within one day.

I have all the parts and an overview of the project but I'm new to hardware projects and don't have a technical background.

If you're interested email rudeegraap[at]gmail.com and I can give you a full overview with much more details and then we can talk offline.
Can't wait to give this a full test run! Thank you!
It's a few more lines of code more complicated that that :)

In all seriousness, we can give a talk on software security, encryption algorithms and network security with the setup we've created. To do it right, every system in our platform is segregated where one system doesn't see another -through software and network level security. Plus every piece of data is uniquely encrypted with rotating keys (that's kept isolated from the encrypted data). The level of security is like the Secret Service vs. Paul Blart the mall cop.

We are in the middle of writing a blog post about how we harden our platform. Stay tuned.
These are the same black & white terms people usually use to frame this debate but the iPad mini has already demonstrated that there's room under the premium tier for quality products and healthy margins. Apple's dwindling market share undermines their efforts to establish Facetime, iMessage, iCloud etc as popular services.

The problem with dismissing the low end of the market as "junk" is that this segment of the market is increasingly made up of reasonably capable phones with Android 4.x, which is good enough to serve most people's needs. We've already hit the point of diminishing returns on increasingly powerful mobile chips.
And they said we wont miss scott forstall who would surely not let anything like this out of apple.

But what do I know.
That seems to be very weak compared to traditional captchas.

* It is no more than a weekend project to extract the Xs from the image and write a solver.

* Even without a image processing, the number of possible answers is 7. A 14% success rate is plenty for an automated spambot.

The only benefit is obscurity: a solver would have to be custom-built for this captcha and website. But a text field with instructions "type the word 'blue' here" would work just as well for keeping out non-customised spambots.
Depends on how often you have to do this... if it saves time, I'm in
Thanks, grantlandram, cannot wait to hear your feedback!
Ghostery's anonymized data sharing is opt-in.

Source: current, updated Ghostery user.
Some of them are bugs found in the beta releases of iOS 7.

I am assuming that the “sloppy UIs” are from the general release.

There were tons of changes from beta 1 to the GM and there are still some UI bugs, but they are not showstoppers.
Well, the point is how do you even tell whether some of them are working? Supposedly Canvas Blend Modes are working in my copy of Firefox, but how can I tell? What's it supposed to look like?
Integration is one of the biggest problems because there are the most unknown unknowns, to quote Rumsfeld. You don't know what spontaneous changes will happen, and you frequently can't control the resources on the other side.
45 minutes is better, and you can have 1 on 1 conversations while walking if you can't spare the time otherwise.
I love the quote, but unfortunately, it's not always the right way to think about it.

http://sebastianmarshall.com/on-willpower-and-why-its-not-en...
Wrong answer. Give it up spammer.
Docker maintainer here. This is a common misconception, and I find it disappointing. On the one hand we glorify simple designs and the unix philosophy of doing one thing well... Only to trivialize and look down upon projects which apply this philosophy. It's so simple... it's not "real technology"!. No wonder so many projects are so complicated - that's how you prove to your peers that you're a real man!

Now to address the initial comment: docker has different goals from lxc. There's a summary of the differences here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17989306/what-does-docker...
I'm pretty doubtful it's a GoPro as well. I think the title was just pulled from Reddit.
Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL
HIPAA compliance is a hugely important issue when it comes to developing medical applications. I think it's important to point out here that Box is now also apparently HIPAA compliant and signs BAA.
Still, there's room for a product that's easy to use and focuses purely on maintaining compliance.

Given how important this is, however, I would think the creators of the product would put some information about themselves and their backgrounds up on their site. It seems that's not done as much anymore with startups, but given they are a new company offering security of healthcare data, I think potential users would like to know.
Depends on what you're doing in those 15 minutes. I'd argue 15 mins a day is better than 2 hours, once a week.
The bottom line is, doing anything new puts you in a vulnerable position. Just ask the people saying the truly mean-spirited insults- have you ever tried to do anything new or different? The answer is pretty much "No". So, their opinions really don't carry much weight. Negativity is just useless!
Good point, but it's also not quite a fair comparison to go back and forth between implementation languages.

Changing the language changes your thinking about the problem. If you translate a program from erlang to C++, the result might be shorter and more reliable than if the first version is in C++ and you rewrite it in C++. It also might not be, of course, but the fact that it could be muddles the comparison.
iOS 7 Supports number blocking, iPhones can now be troll devices
The block is only one way, so you can call and send texts as much as you want without the other person being able to respond easily
It does include a special exception not requiring source code release of combined worked, but still I agree that having it be LGPLv3 even with the exception will hurt its adoption with the wider Go community. The vast majority of widely used 3rd party Go libraries just use the standard Go license here:

http://golang.org/LICENSE

Using that license just leaves things totally clear and unambiguous, if you're using the language you must already be okay with the license. I've worked with a number of companies that just don't want to touch anything *GPL with a 10 foot pole in Go where static linking is non-optional other than over a CGO bridge (which makes Qt's own LGPL usage palatable). This may be a sticking point for them even with the exception (just because of the extra work required in getting legal clearance, not because the license as written actually harms them).

License aside, this is a pretty great library and this is what I think is the most practical solution to providing a cross-platform GUI solution for Go in that it puts all the heavy lifting of platform independence on Qt without having to expose the entire large Qt API to Go via wrappers.

I was actually working on something like this a few months ago (mentioned in HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6055043) but got side-tracked due to serving jury duty on a 6 week trial (ugh). This solution is a lot further along and benefits greatly from Go 1.2 support of compiling cpp files in CGO (mine was being written against Go 1.1 and required an extra intermediate static library build step). I may possibly continue working on mine anyway just to side-step the licensing issue altogether (which, again, I think is more of a perception problem than an actual practical problem, but still a problem).
The latter! Although by accident, since I hadn't played RR before inventing RT. RoboRally is vastly more complex and has oodles more depth. Robot Turtles is entirely pictorial and great for ages 3+.
I would recommend __against__ CCCP and any other codec packs. Codec packs in general are pieces of software ripped from the original installs and put together in ways the orignal author didn't expect. Thus it will crap out with a high probability (or even if not, it will create all kinds of issues like consuming CPU / memory for no good reason, Explorer crashing when trying to generate previews, etc).

In addition, using those codecs without the original install kit is against the license in almost all cases (just because "you can download it freely" doesn't mean you can redistribute it). Finally, many codec packs are infected by malware (although CCCP might not be, I have no experience with it).

In summary:
- Use VLC
- If not, use http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ which is not dead
- Alternatively you could try out LAV filters which I learned about from the parent - https://code.google.com/p/lavfilters/ - haven't used it, don't know how good (or not) it is

Never, ever use codec packs.
Wow. I just started publishing wordpress plugins... i'm going to study this pretty hard.
Well, if I can do something in one line (albeit perhaps a long line), awk is my preferred tool. But as soon as things get complicated, one is almost certainly better off in a richer environment -- bash, Python, node.js, etc. So I don't view it as one versus the other, but rather picking the right tool for the job -- which the Unix philosophy very much liberates us to do.
One of the reasons HN needs a search function for stories. Don't know how many times I remember a cool story a co-worker would want to read and can't find it for the life of me - even after trying to wrestle the story out of Google.

Also, if there is some decent way to search the links or stories which I don't know of, by all means, tell me.
Seamless in which sense? Across different devices, mail services, accounts, etc?
Promise for Education - University of California
In particular, I think there are some dangerous side effects of collecting too much data for those of certain personality types or those prone to certain mental illness (OCD, compulsive hoarding, etc.) Besides the cost of collecting more data, there are costs related to its (negative) impact on the decision-making process.
Not a question but a point:

While you did everything else right (from what's enumerated in the "midmortem" to the game's rules), what put it over the top for me was the very high quality of the graphics. Especially that shot of the turtle who's delighted to achieve that red gem prize.

It sets a very good tone for the game, what can be expected from it, etc.
Tried Etymotic earbuds? They come with a bunch of adapters to fit different sized ears. My model is of course discontinued but the mc5 looks closest. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/mc5.html

edit: unlike any other earbuds I have tried, they are engineered to survive the inevitable wax-plugging. Just replace the filter & you're back in business.
I think jQuery is a good analogy. One day jquery might be unnecessary, when all browsers everywhere implement all the high-level API goodness. In the meantime... :)
Fighter jets havn't got any faster because more speed is worthless compared to better avionics.

That is also what is happening with computers - it is simply more efficient to cram out more instructions per clock cycle than it is to cram out more clock cycles.
There are a number of obstacles between where we are and a world where intelligence is taken as seriously as it should be.

See most other comments around here though; the reason IQ is not used more often is that intelligence denialism is rampant. One reason is that as some comments demonstrate, egalitarianism and democratic principles are incompatible with IQ realism. It's pretty clear that intelligence segregation is going to turn out in practice to be racial segregation, so it's simply not going to happen in a society that has defined itself against such practice.
AWESOME. You just completely made my day!!!
Play Framework Grid Deployment with Mesos
Lisp Outside the Box (2011)
Buying and selling guns on the Internet: what MAIG’s report doesn’t say
You missed the part where Ubuntu was sending search requests to Amazon?

Ubuntu "exists" but it is not "stable" because Canonical, the company that creates the Ubuntu distribution and is losing money [1]. Their efforts at capturing sustainable funding have been largely unsuccessful. So eventually they too will be gone.

[1] http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/74511.html
A Conversation with Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, aka onetoughnerd
Skuld: Distributed task tracking system.
What is the Best Day to Conduct a Weekly Review?
When do you do yours?
Related to his original idea: I think it's simply fantastic. Not only does it help avoid writers block (You constantly have a stream of stories to create), but it's forced practice. Nobody says Mozart's first few works were brilliant. It wasn't until he practiced for years that he became a virtuoso. An approach like this, while easy to view from the lens of simply making people happy, is an investment in one's creativity and writing skill that will pay off in leaps and bounds years down the line.

It's just so unfortunate that the internet makes it so hard. You're either loved, hated, or ignored. He, thanks to an unlucky picture angle and loss of context, fell into the 'hated' category by many. I applaud the effort to just do it. It is funny how many view the real world as hard and the internet as an easy escape, yet in his experience, it was just the opposite.
Hello - We are developing a library of JavaScript UI controls our customers place on their site to display protected content that's pulled directly from our server. We'll have display widgets as well as input widgets/forms like sign-in, sign-up, etc.

They are very much like Stripe's checkout JS form.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566782 is so meta.
Meet a Start-Up with a Big Data Approach to Hiring
Astley participated in a rickrolling himself, at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade a few years ago. He popped out of a float in the middle of another musical performance and started singing Never Gonna Give You Up. It was a staged stunt, with a canned background track ready to go, and the TV announcers obviously feigning surprise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI
Very cool, QML is a very promising GUI development language. I'm a huge fan of declarative UIs, and QML is great for this. For those that have experience in WPF, QML is actually very similar.

My main complaint about QML is that it really needs to ship with some desktop widgets. Without common desktop widgets, developers are forced to basically reinvent the wheel, and redefining common controls using primitives like rectangles, text, etc. Once this problem is solved though I really hope QML will take off in a big way.
Phil Haack is trying to get the team to put C# support in, and has a few other comments about the tool: http://haacked.com/archive/2013/09/17/popular-code-conventio...
Startup meets Governor of the Bank of England
Whoa, that looks really sweet. I especially liked how simple the dev tools looked, is that in the browser as well?
Turbo Charging Detroit’s Techonomy
Had Enough of Comcast Cable's Appalling Pricing Strategy? So Have I.
Brazilian hackers confuse NASA with NSA in revenge attack
If you look at the shadow at 1:20 or so, you can see the jesses (falconry straps) trailing behind the bird.
I assume that Tim Berners-Lee's original Web client http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb is a better poster-child for the NeXT environment and tools. (Not that any of this matters anyway, since no-one is denying that Apple and Jobs were both capable of impressive and influential work.)
Linux Seeks Help From More (And More Diverse) Coders
$14k and Counting for iPhone 5S Touch ID Hack
2. Great food and drinks

Yet they leave alcohol off the list.
Uber uses lobbying to drive expansion
Awesome! I'm planning on doing a similar thing soon.
Although I respect whatever decision you make, please note that there's absolutely nothing I could use as an argument for a license change there, other than "George will work on something else if we don't change it.", which is pretty hard to sell. If you do have valid arguments, please mail me with them so we can have a more focused conversation on actual issues.

And by the way, Qt is also LGPL, so not wanting to link with LGPL software when working on linking with LGPL software is also a curious choice.
True. While reading it the second time, "How dare you wedge such a nullity when everyone uses google?" and "voit-la' a disgusting bing search page." made me laugh out loud and almost C|N>K.
Every time one of these issues pops up with users crying foul, I can't help but grin, and be reminded of the popup-days of yesteryear.

Ah, the good old days - where a video player hijacking your homepage was nothing. People didn't get annoyed until it started spewing popups with "Your PC is not optimized! Click HERE", "You WIN! Click HERE". I bet if divx did that, they'd really make some money.
I would argue it's more important to constantly discover your weaknesses. You don't have to fix them, just realizing them will let you compensate in any number of ways.

Most founders have will in spades, but have never had their skills tested in such in incredibly broad way.

For some structure may be the key to success, for others it's a different demon. Find it, kill it, or build a wall around it.
Thank you educating! Appreciate your feedback.
A great analogy. Hopefully - just like jQuery - you can get Microsoft on board with LXC as well :-)
Staples and RadioShack pull Amazon lockers from stores
DoJ Stonewalls USA Today on FISC Update [pdf]
GPU NES Documentation
Ask HN: Are you in need of a Mac Developer?
Hi Guys,

A few samples of my work are in the comments. Do check them out.

If you like what you see and have a mac app related work to commission, please reach out to me at mail _at_ bibhas _dot_ com

I can do everything from regular CRUD apps to low latency soft-realtime stuff. I take no upfront charges, so I'm free to try.

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I'm a shareholder. So are many of my friends.

None of my friends are homo economicus, even qua investors. As much as we love earning more money, we also care about other people. We also like when the companies we part-own aren't evil.

As for the fact that 23andme's founder and Brin are married...you do understand the marriage of two CEOs does not equal the merger of companies...especially when the CEOs don't own the companies.
The problem is we don't do similar things over and over again. Each new unsolved
problem is precisely that, a new unsolved problem.

And if tasks are similar, and they can be made mechanical (or at least, commonalities can be factored out), it should be turned over to the machine itself.
I think it more proves that HN users drone on about them.
MITx introduces "XSeries" course sequence certificates on edX
In a sentence, that is the real problem.
Horror All white males in a dev team
Excellent, krapp! Looking forward to your feedback!