skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be very interested in seeing if Dropbox does the same thing the author claims, but on non-Windows OSes. There are official Dropbox packages for OS X, Debian-based Linux distros, Fedora/Redhat and derivatives, and a source release for packaging the binary for other OSes. If the same or similar activity is seen on other OSes, something's afoot. If the issue only shows up on Windows, it's likely a Windows-only issue or quirk (but could still be nefarious and only targeting Windows users, though personally I'm not that paranoid).
Excellent. F# is fully supported by ASP.MVC / WebApi and there are a number of F# specific frameworks/components available.

There are two "Javascript transpilers" available, WebSharper and FunScript, both capable of compiling a large subset of F# to JavaScript. WebSharper offers a very attractive "server mode" as well. And the new - soon to be released - version 3.0 of WebSharper makes that into a very large subset and supports features like source maps as well.

http://fsharp.org/guides/web/
We've posted our resume builder, VisualCV on HN a while back and had got a lot of great feedback. A lot of people wanted to see some real resume samples that others have created so we built a curated database of some of our top public users and ran a script to take a screenshot of all their CVs. Hope you guys find it useful.
Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of GoPRO Users' Wireless Passwords
Coldest February on record in the U.P. (VIDEO)
"Amazing! What used to require an entire suite of floats, media queries, and outright hacks, is acheived by adding one property to a container div!"

...or you can just set display: inline-block on the child elements... [1]

[1] http://jsfiddle.net/18fjgc0w/
Google haven't supported a number of major projects this year (including some that they directly benefit from), it's not just Mozilla. One assumes, therefore, that the GSoC management decided that GSoC should support more smaller projects this year.

EDIT: If Google only wanted to fund things that directly benefit them, you'd've thought they'd do just that, none of this faffing about with an application process and only funding student work, no?
Does Pebble’s new gold-colored Time Steel smartwatch look familiar to you?
So much for "Don't be evil." That motto's out the door.

But on the other hand, this might quite exciting. More companies will now compete in the "don't be evil" space. And Mozilla can pick up the baton.
Do you have a workaround for having to run them in a `cmd` or `powershell` window? Those are worse than the old terminals in many cases.
Security firms pretending to have found security holes to get attention really pisses me off. Unfortunately it's too easy to get away with.
Are there native builds that don't use cygwin?
Amazing, I had always heard flexbox being touted as the "next big thing" but it had come across as confusing and obscure. This was a great tutorial and I will definitely be using flexbox in the future.

It seems to almost eliminate the need for a grid system a la bootstrap, which is great because I know a lot of people that use bootstrap specifically for the grid system and throw out/re implement all of the other parts.
I got stuck on what the 7 is supposed to be??
New research shows that cigarettes kill 2 out of 3 of its users
Does Amazon Web Services Pricing Follow Moore's Law?
For some reason, when I search "mount and blade"; dracula.txt and equator.txt show up. For some reason processing comes with several books from project gutenberg by default, and they show up when I look up some programs.
You can also get many unix commands, including ssh, from the git packages. They work remarkably well, with the limit being you get to run them in `cmd` or `powershell` windows.
The EU's WEEE is supposed to be the solution to this. It imposes requirements on manufacturers and distributors to take back discarded products: http://www.valpak.co.uk/compliance-services/weee

The actual implementation is a bit more fraught e.g. http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/electrical-forum-general... (supposed to be free for domestic purposes and therefore "invisible", but not necessarily for commercial). Especially in a context of phasing out the easily disposable incandescent bulbs in favour of CCFL or LED which aren't so safe to landfill.

Once the products have been returned they're supposed to be recycled. No doubt some of them end up being shipped to Ghana even though this is not supposed to happen.

Ultimately the solution is longer-lasting less obsolete products, but that's "bad for the economy" when the economy is transaction-focused.
To be fair, people change opinions.
Nice try, XShell employee.

I doubt that anyone is going to take $90/year closed source payware over well known FOSS like OpenSSH or PuTTY here at HN.
Be a responsible open source user
And the battery life is even better on the Pebble Time Steel (10 days).
Micro-Services for Dysfunctional Teams
It's not usually the first question I ask. There is, however, already a subthread discussing legal approach. But since HN has a lot of smart, business-minded people, I thought it would be worth discussing commercial options.
High pollution cuts most Indian lives short by three years
PhoneGap / Cordova will support WKWebView
I find it hard to find good ones, but luckily the good ones find us.
Strong Link Between California Drought and Climate Change Revealed
> around the world and turned it into Empire.

I would argue the opposite. Wars have eroded US global power. Iran was the biggest regional winner in the Iraq war, Saudi Arabia the biggest loser. US has weakened its position in the Middle East and Eurasia. Saudis are dealing with China more openly and Turkey is more independent. Even Germany is now more openly pushing it's own agenda in relation to Russia.

>Obama has attacked no less than seven different countries in undeclared wars.

International laws have changed a lot since WWII. Formal declarations of war (using the text 'declaration of war' in the bill) are not used anymore. There is no need to declare war if the war has UN authorization. If a country goes into war without UN authorization they can't do formal declaration without violating UN charter they have ratified.

If you look at the wars US has been involved since 2001, they are either wars authorized with UN resolution and funded by Congress or they are 'military engagements' authorized by Congress.
I've done the very basic ground work: https://github.com/davedx/lustro
For playing around or to accompany tools/systems without an assets pipeline, Lea Verou's prefixfree[0] works very well, it does not require a compilation/munging phase and only generates the necessary prefixes for the browser it's run into. Really quite convenient.

[0] http://leaverou.github.io/prefixfree/
Ultra-cold mirrors could reveal gravity's quantum side
The number of chips. So if there are 3 defects in 7 chips...

Some specific chip has the first defect.
The odds that it has the 2nd defect are 1 in 7
The odds that it also has the 3rd defect are 1 in 7 squared.

Which equals 0.020408....
Windows has a standard way of doing this, no? I've seen other Windows apps like TortoiseSvn do icon overlays too.
Interesting. My tentative 39000-foot-view understanding of Booking.com is that they run what might be thought of as an A/B-test-driven development shop: you know your code is busted when it makes less money. It appears to be working out for them, so there must be something to it.

(Rumor also has it that they're actively hostile towards more traditional automated testing and test-driven development, which I assume is a prime reason they didn't want me to work there, so I can't tell you more...)
How Pigeons Dodge Skyscrapers and Taxis
Cheap wonder metals will make a faster, cleaner world
How We Increased Signups by Over 1200% – Just by Changing One Button Text
Carter is the canonical example of why you cannot appear soft on foreign policy.
How to Write Command-Line Applications in Ruby with GLI by Przemysław Dąbek
MongoDB 3.0 is now available
ConEmu, MinTTY or similar terminals.
My libertarian vacation nightmare: How Ayn Rand, Ron Paul were all debunked
Ask HN: Many of you running startups out there using Office 365 email?
Startups are natural early adopters, and a great way to spread the word about a new product. Trying to figure out if this is a viable route to market for my startup. Hard to know how MS is perceived by startups these days.
In my personal opinion everyone should learn the basics of programming for the same reason everyone claims that everyone needs four years of English classes and science classes and history classes, because it helps you look at the world in a different way. In addition, I personally have found that if I try to make a program to do math for me, I understand the math way better.

So thank you for teaching some people, because learning is fairly hard, though if you have a good teacher it doesn't seem like it would be as hard to me.

What is Spectrums though?
The concept of computers as brain amplifiers goes back to at least the 1950s, as part of the cybernetics movement.

Engelbart's "Augmenting Human Intellect" (1962) was a big influence of the idea that computers, which were mostly used for computations, should be seen as a "increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. ... We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations."

This essay, by comparison, likes that computers can be used to "trad[e] understanding for extreme speed of execution."

That sounds more like an isolated clever trick for computations, rather than the heart and soul of augmenting human intellect.

I suppose one way to view it is that Engelbart's vision is so much embedded in how most people think about computers that it's taken for granted that computer have mice, are networked, include sound and video, etc., and instead think that the computational abilities are what lead to brain amplification.
I was really confused as to what Robert Jordan got arrested for until I realized it should be Ronald Jordan. :)
MongoDB 3.0 released
Former Amazon employee possibly using inside information to make millions
How to get the body of your dreams
WebOAcard – WebGL Powered Pop-Up Card Editor
I don't think this is related to FileSystemWatcher (or ReadDirectoryChangesW) at all. I believe the author is just confused by the shell extension. Every time you right click a file in explorer, this type of "file access" would happen.
This is really nice.

The only small suggestion I'd make from a usability standpoint: make volume adjustments as the slider is being dragged instead of waiting until `mouseup`. It's always nicer to get immediate feedback when you're changing volume levels.
My premise is that it is not incompetent to ignore the business impact of GSOC.

If giving $150,000 to Mozilla materially erodes Google's business, giving $150,000 to Mozilla isn't the actual problem.

"Every thing was going fine for us, but then the CEO didn't pick up a penny he saw on the street and the whole thing fell apart."
MongoDB 3.0 and MongoDB Ops Manager are now generally available
I don't want to wait an extra 2 months, so I think I'll stick with the regular Time and hand it down to my wife when the Steel is in stock, retail. She doesn't want the Steel version anyway and would be happy with an upgrade to her Pebble.

The smartstraps are going to be really cool -- a lot of potential there.
During the London riots, bookstores' inventory was left untouched. If there were any book thieves left they would have had easy pickings.

First hit on Google: http://www.thewire.com/global/2011/08/its-pattern-london-rio...
MongoDB CTO on 3.0 GA
Tried inline block a few times but find the spacing on inline elements (and the various workarounds[1]) a bit awkward and unpredictable.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-blo...
The Chinese government never never really care about counter terrorism, all they care about is keeping their power. To keep their power they need to control their people's mind, to control people's mind they need to control the internet. That's it. It's not about privacy, it's about free speech. Please do not confuse this with the debate (about privacy) happening in the western countries.
* WebSQL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSQL (works almost everywhere)

* For NoSQL, ForerunnerDB sounds interesting. As IndexedDB has a flawed API and slow (using SQLite!) and buggy implementations - without a shim useless.
The improved performance numbers are mind-boggling. Write performance improved an order of magnitude? Up to 95% less overhead?

Does this mean the previous versions weren't very good, or have they done something exceptionally smart?
Give Your Static Assets the Boot with Boot-Fingerprint
Agreed... I just had a discussion with a coworker that recently switched over to Hangouts from GoogleTalk. They came across weird/odd/non-standard behavior whereby the chat windows "float" above everything, even after losing focus. You have to actively "minimize" them in order for them to go away.

It's a mess.
Incoming – JSON Validation Framework for Python
Time to complain about my school. Our "computer" classes consisted of learning to: type, format word, type in a spreadsheet, format powerpoint (in a way that I think powerpoint is unnecessary for), one week total of messing around in garage band, one week of typing out the exact lines of html, copying instructions for dreamweaver.

EDIT: And then we do 'job' stuff in that class. Including making resumes that include our ability to use basic microsoft/adobe programs. I could have learned to do that without a manual or internet before the class. I can learn way more with internet just messing around in photoshop/gimp every once in a while.
Any transaction support? That's one of the big features of IndexedDB, but I don't see anything about it here. Are you doing each command in its own transaction? That's going to be pretty slow for large amounts of data, and you lose the ability to group multiple queries into a single atomic operation.
According to http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox it is already widely deployed.

Why did I wait?
Startup Compensation: Is Your Salary Fair?
I have to mirror the general sentiment of most posters. Nationstate's criticising these measures are entitled to but in my opinion are committing an act of hypocrisy. At least I am entitled to that opinion I suppose. Even if it means I may be investigated for terrorism, without a warrant, behind my back. The audacity of criticism.
I see where MUI fits in, but I think Google is also using Material Design to drive polymer and webcomponent adoption.

Being able to import a few elements and make a resizable toolbar is a much better experience than adding a fucktonne of classes, in my opinion.
Actually, 'The Real World' changed cities every year and the original one was in Soho, NYC, only Seasons 3 and 29 were in SF. </pedant>

(Sorry, couldn't help myself, but you do make a good point)
Inevitably when you take away privacy you hamper freedom of speech. There have already been polls of journalists who are concerned with reporting on important items because of a lack of privacy.
Apologies... all book related...
I am with office 365 for my startup but I dont understand what you really want to know about that?
I've been recommending MobaXterm [1] to people. My favourite feature is that it has an embedded and pre-configured X server for X forwarding.

[1]: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
Show HN: Automatic Validation, Correction and Generation of Dataset Metadata
In theory it's also true of ASP.NET. You have a magic folder of CLR-compiled binaries you drop into the IIS site root folder and it "just works" (or doesn't, as the case may be).
Computing doesn't lead well, in its current form, to the development of coevolutionary mastery. That's the thing, I suspect. For example: Your text editor, with the exception of emacs et al, probably isn't particularly programmable in a form that the average user is likely to discover. There's probably not a way to right click on a button and see what function it's calling, or to right click on a transformed bit of text and see what's been done to it.

The program itself isn't built for that. And the economic interest in not building it for that is obvious - if you let users have access to the full power of the machine, even worse to share their modifications, what do they need you for any more? How are you going to convince people to buy version 15 when they've got version 14 set up the way they want it?

Your options have become increasingly strongly contrasted: Become a programmer or live in user-land. As if a programmer isn't just a more knowledgeable class of user and as if that's not a spectrum. It's nothing special about typing white text into a black screen. Even if we still lived in command line land, I don't think that we'd be better off. I don't feel like it has anything to do with how hard the computer is to use - at least not at a surface level. It seems to me more to do with how programmable your programs are and how easily you can start doing useful things with that power.
This is clever. Paying back 500k in a couple of years is no big deal if the business reaches any kind of profitability, and the odds of getting there are much higher when you start with 100k in the bank. Bootstrapping from 0 is disproportionately difficult, so I can see how this is a great deal for some people.

The incentives are aligned too. With a deal like this it's good for the founders and for the investors if the startup gets to profitability quickly, but there's no perverse pressure to shoot for a 100x return or die trying like you get with conventional VC funding. Of course, if the startup takes off in a major way then VC funding is still on the table. Otherwise the founders will own 100% of a profitable lifestyle company. Win-win.
That gold one with a red band is a bit reminiscent of another smart watch coming out soon. (And plenty of existing non smart watches, of course.)
Likewise. Moved to Mosh in a VM and now have continual access to several boxes with very little effort.

Putty allowed for more secure remote working when on untrusted networks, but not having to constantly enter credentials is much more preferable.
The problem is that it's Salon - the writing is really badly biased, doesn't actually understand Libertarianism at all, and is mostly trying to smear Ron Paul.
The language is pretty polarizing--you either "get" and appreciate the design decisions or you find them limiting and archaic.
That isn't how HMAC works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticati...

The private key of the API user is hashed with the full URL of the service. The user id is sent in the header of the request. The server looks up the user id and gets their private key, it then uses that key to hash the URL, comparing it to the one passed.

There is no way for a scraper or bot to get the HMAC token.
So did Google suddenly realize they are competing with Firefox? Proof by contradiction says your theory is wrong (true for n=2015, false for n=2014 & earlier)
I thought CPUs did have binary blob drivers, both in the BIOS and on the operating system.
Then I look at the 'housing shortage' in the UK...
> ...or you can just set display: inline-block on the child elements... [1]

Which requires various hacks or source-munging to remove word-spacing between your elements, and fix baseline spacing.
IANAL and I am scared by licenses I don't recognize. I pretty much bail as soon as I see the words "all rights reserved" regardless of what comes after it.

That said, this license is extremely short and for a tool that is clearly intended to be distributed. Is this essentially a CC attribution license? If so, why not just use that?

https://github.com/Selz/plyr/blob/master/license.md
How to be a good open-source citizen
It's a minimilist, practical language that picks a set of features much different than most popular languages today.

I wouldn't pick it for code golf or a programming competitions, but as someone who's been programming for a long time and haa come to value the ability to make clean, simple code that doesn't break (eslecially in weird ways at bad times), I really enjoy Go and think it actually is a really good, if in certain respects unambitious, language.
I just set up TextSecure with my Google Voice number. The SMS failed, but after a couple minutes it went to a fallback verification by phone call that worked. I'm on Lollipop, not sure if that's important.
Sure, but like PTX/CUDA it will mean you can write shaders in other languages with a better hardware mapping, instead of compiling them to GLSL/OpenCL C source, which is currently one advantage of CUDA.
It's actually not. It has a very restricted license, and you have to sign up to get the source. So it's not free software or open source.
The Business Case for Extended Enterprise Learning
So would this help older games with updated drivers, or only for newer games that use this new version? I have a Windows tablet with a dual-core Atom and a PowerVR GPU and it performs worse in 3D graphics than my pre-iPad netbook with a single core Atom and Intel GMA.
It's not entirely clear to me that they're wrong to move slowly on this.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9105363
I think I prefer the regular Pebble Time. It already includes a stainless steel bezel, although the rest of the case is plastic. I'd use a custom strap no matter which watch I got. And 7 days is a long enough battery life for me -- I'd rather have the thinner watch than the longer battery life.
Was it an AOL account?
Could they be ice or metallic material?
> Recent advancements in Bitcoin/Blockchain have the potential to take us back to the promised land of a truly decentralized, free, and open Internet.

I keep hearing this, but really, how? The only useful thing on this front to fall out of the blockchain is Namecoin and, despite being a really good idea, nobody knows how to stop name hoarding. There will also never be a mechanism for name dispute resolution... and who wants to register a name that could cost $5 this year and $1000 to renew next?

Bitcoin itself has and likely will continue to trend toward centralization because of the tendency for people want want lightweight clients and instant transactions. Services like Bitpay already consolidate merchant interaction, and too many people already accept the Gmailification of wallets by holding web wallets. This is probably for the best because people can't be trusted to guard their own keys. It's also debatable whether total blockchain decentralization is a good thing, given that currently the hash power is all held by a bunch of very dodgy unknown Chinese ASIC mining shops instead of a bunch of very dodgy but well-known multinational banks.
I wonder why didn't Pebble user Mirasol instead of e-ink.
Superfish doesn't get around pinned certificates.
What is most interesting to me is the number of accepted organisations is down significantly: from 190 last year to 137 this year, the lowest since 2007. Naturally, the question that arises is 'Has Google cut funding for GSoC, or is it adopting a significantly different strategy from what they have done the past ten years?'
I believe Fiddler handles this? Not very friendly to change, but it's documented here http://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/KnowledgeBase/FiddlerScript/...
> It seems to almost eliminate the need for a grid system a la bootstrap

Having classes/mixins is convenient, rather than need to implement the properties "by hand" all the time. But it does get rid of most of the complexity and compatibility issues, and provides additional features (source-order independence, column-major display, ...)