skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The culprit appears to be his submission from shinetech.com. It appears to have been banned 3 months ago, after being submitted mostly by a single user or others with low karma, and most receiving 2 votes, which probably set off the voting ring detector.

sciwiz, send the admins a note at info@ycombinator.com explaining that you think you got caught up as a false positive, then be careful submitting things from smaller blogs for a while.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=theverge.com#!/story/sort_by_date/...
What a strange coincidence! 97% of the Fortune 500 also use Dropbox. :-)

From https://www.dropbox.com/news/company-info: "Dropbox is used in over 4 million businesses with presence in 97 percent of Fortune 500 companies."
> This probably isn't the right place to discuss the article

yeah, you're probably right.
Some flights tend to have interesting trajectories:

A350 test flying:
http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.file?id=168559&filename=php...

787 test flying:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/498855/BOEING-787-DREAMLINER-LOGO-...

Cessna:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N750CX/history/20080307/1...

Gulfstream:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GLF17/history/20070206/15...

Boeing 747-8:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE523/history/20110802/1...

Norwegian holding pattern:
http://imgur.com/nD2l3uk
French Student have usually a very formal education with a lot of assessment/homework to do in order to pass semester/exams. Certainly more so than in the US/UK.
I used to have high hopes for Box. While everyone else was mining you data and trying to lock you in with shelfware editors for .docx, .pdf, etc, they were focusing on encryption, api and no-BS clients.

but of course it was all a matter of time. now their apps have less synchronization features than the competition and more bloat thanks to editors for all the formats you will never use a sync app to edit in the first place. Their android app almost went on the right direction though...
> Why can't Microsoft make that kind of sharing easier?

What makes you think they haven't done so already? Ever heard of Office 365, OneNote, Lync?

> My guess is that they were too arrogant to make things work for the folks not on the latest versions, or on different OS's.

My guess is that you haven't really looked into Microsoft's products for the past 5 years. I can tell you that they are doing quite well in the product development of their cloud and SaaS offerings lately.
JavaScript Improvements in ReSharper 8.1
For all the people working at coffee shops/libraries... how do you deal with having to leave the place for a few minutes? For example, say you receive a call at a library, or want to go to the bathroom, etc. Do you take your laptop with you or do you risk getting it stolen?

Leaving my laptop unattended is the main point that stops me from working away from home
Show HN: WeTorrent - Your torrents on the cloud now (Dropbox etc.)
DigitalOcean is fabulous. It's very nice hardware and not very expensive. No AWS services, but if all you need is root access to an OS image, I can't recommend it enough.
I've seen this explanation in a few places and while I don't discount it entirely, I find it difficult to believe it's the sole factor at play; primarily because of the dearth of other third-party accessible services that build on AppleID (CalDAV and IMAP/SMTP are the only ones that come to mind).
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Yeah, I'm cool with it too. It'd be good to know if someone connected to a terrorist organization wanders into Pearson, and no one expects privacy at the airport, anyway. You go there knowing it's a secure zone and that your luggage will be gone through and your body scanned. Tracking your Internet usage seems like less of an invasion of privacy than that.
then that would be unfair to King

Really? So, because a company wants to use the word "saga" in a line of products, they now own the word "saga"? Really?! Man, I totally should have grabbed the word "trilogy" last year before I wrote my last three apps.
What you're asking for does exist: http://ender.jit.su
The Match keyword is great, but the syntax of "and continue reading until the end of the file" is a pain. They should add an EndMatch keyboard to close the block, or force indentation or something.
> I guess we really shouldn't be surprised at this point

Yes, we shouldn't stop at being surprised. We should put our actions where our surprise/shock is and do something about it.

For example: leave your mobile phone permanently in flight mode and just all the other features, like agenda, clock, etc (or leave it always at home, if you don't have a landline anymore).
on text IM, google did an old microsoft bait and switch. Everyone moves to gtalk, it is open XMPP, except that it is not anymore. sorry.

then came video and skype got everyone back to square one. but they were more worried about being bought by microsoft so they lost the mobile integration with phone numbers, and a bunch of others and made the "facebook deal" with their users. give us access to your phone number and contact list and we cross that. privacy for convenience. And everyone loved.
The clue is in your answer: you didn't name a single alternative.
yeah, tell Apple about it!
I'm not sure you noticed, but this doesn't affect any popular distro. It only affects the kernels build with the X32 ABI, which is not used in production by anyone as far as I can tell. So the fact that you're running old kernels didn't prevent anything this time.
Brilliant advertising for Boeing. In the true spirit of what the Super Bowl is really about.
Squarespace Booked a Super Bowl TV Ad Really?
Apple|MS|Samsung|Intel and who ever else is sitting on tons of cash need to use Google's tactics of free everything(os,browser,video,docs,mail etc) against Google if they ever want to seriously compete with them. The ideal open neutralizer of Google would be an Open Search Index with unlimited API access.
If that doesn't happen soon Google has all the data and its Game Over. You can see this already with their speech recognizers and image recognizer.
When telephone started it was like that.

until regulation... which allowed Bell to buy everyone else and integrate everything.

So? pick your poison?
King might have thought it was taking Candy from a baby, but now they must prepare to play Legal Saga and Negative PR Saga.
You need a completely different userland, compiled for x32 instead of amd64. Just running the default amd64 installation with a x32 kernel doesn't make it x32. EDIT: It would also work for just running x32 apps on an amd64 system, but then you only get the x32 benefits for those applications.
More details :

http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/freedom-from-...
Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Good Design
Don't forget it's userspace equiv (strace is syscalls), ltrace. This tracks all lib calls made by process.

Under windows, strace is an SSL/TLS monitoring tool (also hella useful). It shows payloads passed to CryptoAPI/CNG libs so you can easily troubleshoot explicitly encrypted protocols like ldaps. Especially useful if you use client authenticated TLS where is is not possible to use a TLS mitm proxy to snoop the layer 7 data.
UK government planning to ditch Microsoft for Open Source alternatives
Good call on ltrace. I thought about writing about that one next.
Sugar Rush, not Candy Rush
I mean, really? Are we in a bubble?
After doing ads in credible podcasts and blogs all over the web now a Super Bowl TV ad?
Haven't we learned anything about the crazyness of the big bubble anno 2000...?
Small, somewhat nit-picky critique: the man pages for system calls are in section 2. If you want to see the docs for the "read()" syscall, and not the bash builtin "read", saying "man read" w̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ may not (see follow-up) do what you expect. Instead, you should say

man 2 read

This should probably be mentioned somewhere.

Otherwise, great writeup. Thanks for sharing!

(edited)
Thanks, I've looked at KendoUI from their 'Preview' days onwards, when the license was so confused (and no one could answer) that I gave up. I've been back since and read through the demos, but to be honest I'm not a fan. KendoUI doesn't feel cohesive, and while I'm pleased they advertise framework bindings, having their own MVVM implementation seems crazy.

So, I'm biased against KendoUI as my gut feeling says something's not right with it, but have no actual experience to back that up ;)

Completely agree re the learning curve and hating ExtJS - I've 'used' a bad implementation of ExtJS 3.2 in the MODX CMF [0] where it powers the CMS's admin and it's hideous.
well, this is the point. his intentions are thrown into question. was he simply being helpful, giving advice, and mentioning the title of the book if the parent wanted to get more information? or was he craftily building trust with a helpful comment, enticing the parent into buying his book? who's to say?

real gifts are given unconditionally, with no expectation of anything in return. if you can simply give advice with no marketing, plugging, or bullshit, it shows your intentions are pure. you expect nothing and simply want to better someone else's life. when you market to me, i have to assume that you are using me to make money.

people have to eat out here, but there is an appropriate time and place for marketing your services and products. when you blur the line between who you are as a businessman and who you are as a person, you are severely tarnishing your character imo. (not that the comment was even that bad, but i'm talking about marketing in general)
Judge understands bitTorrent, kills mass piracy lawsuits
When I read the article, I thought the opposite. Our brain is an obfuscated computing device (due to evolution and its "holographic" nature), and we're trying to deobfuscate what it does on rather simple inputs.

Mostly, we don't succeed by analyzing it fully, but only by observation and attempts to build an algorithm on our own. I think one could approach breaking such schemes with similar strategy.
It isn't a sales pitch. I read it as such myself, but it looks like it's just a verbatim excerpt - ".. in this book .. " can be taken as both a pitch, and a section from an introductory chapter in the book. An unfortunate coincidence.
For OSX you need to use dtruss, for NetBSD and FreeBSD ktrace is what you need.
Dyson Aims for a Cordless Revolution With Tiny, 120,000 RPM Motor
"Saga" is far too broad, and they have no fair claim on that.
Please see

ftp://86.0.252.89/pub/release/website/tools/trace-20140126-x86_64-b95.tar.gz

This is a tool called ptrace - which does everything that strace does and a lot more. You have working binaries in there, and most of the source - I havent extricated the full build dependencies so it all builds, but this includes extra facilities like reporting summaries of process trees, showing only connections or files, and shlib injection into a target process.

If people are interested more on this, contact me at CrispEditor-a.t-gmail.c-o-m
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Personal Grooming
It's either extremely subtle satire that I cannot detect, or this guy does not understand how the world actually works.

So, you code your contract. When there's a need to enforce something in the real world (which will happen, eventually - virtual only goes so far), you eventually need contracts underwritten by guys with guns (police and eventually army), or whoever feels wronged or doesn't want to pay their share, won't.

And when you need the underwriter to step in - you realize that you interface to them through the court system, exclusively using legalese and lawyer interfaces.
Strace is easy to use, commonly available, and very useful in many situations.

More modern tools such as dtrace for the solaris and systemtap for linux addresses similar problems but with a broader coverage.
...which is significant.
So what happened with the Lotus system, and how did strace help?
By which you mean... don't have a mobile phone? (I imagine you are someone who either spends most of the day in one place, or doesn't have anyone who they would want to be able to contact them on a whim.)
A real datacenter is almost certainly Better Than You at reliability. Consider:

- Redundant fiber connections to multiple independent ISPs

- Battery backup and generator failover

- Redundant HVAC

- Waterless fire suppression

- 24x7 staff presence

- Security systems and personnel

These are all economies of scale. If you're just running a couple of racks you're either throwing away money by paying for all this or making yourself irresponsibly vulnerable to things that can and will go wrong.
I don't think it's uncommon for a hacker to believe they're invincible. Especially if they are doing something to a U.S. company or citizen when they are in a 3rd or even a 2nd world country. The laws and enforcement are often lax in comparison or even non-existent.
Lost respect once candy crush trademarked their name, keep the trolling going!
Good coffee at Silo hey? :)

I like how you've integrated moving between coffee shops into your workflow.
Bad language/platform/library choices. People go for what's hip rather than what's efficient.
I usually ask someone who's been sitting there for a while to keep an eye on it. Hasn't been stolen yet! Though the coffee shops I work in tend to have other people doing work as well, with people sitting next to me.
What you're saying may apply to simple SaaS companies who might build a two-tier application that can be easily scaled up and down by adding front-end nodes and r/o database nodes, but it doesn't always apply to data analysis companies like Moz, who may use large ElasticSearch clusters that don't autoscale. I run technical operations for such a company. The vast majority of our infrastructure remains static, simply because the underlying technologies don't allow for autoscale. The best place for a company like ours is in a private cloud, be it at Rackspace, SoftLayer, or in colocation.
People in charge of the database is able to load arcs with a given radious. It's not possible to do it from the mcdu (the flight computer keyboard and display). I guess this was designed on the ground and then loaded at the aircraft.
> The author has says it's "rare to see an iPad without a ... keyboard"? Really?

Indeed; I've never seen anyone use an iPad with a keyboard. Heck, I've never managed to stumble upon anyone typing on their iPad, period. What I do see are people playing games, reading books, watching videos, and having video conversations on them.
Well POSIX requires more than three arguments for some system calls. But around 6 is the limit for most architectures. They are passed in registers for efficiency.
People are finally getting around to experimenting now there is gcc support. You need an x32 libc too, but you can use a chroot environment.
Is anyone a little more versed in US law able to explain what kind of precedent this sets for further cases in Iowa or I'm guessing to be nation wide due to the judge being federal?
I am a bit paranoid about downloading a binary from a site without a domain name.
Brilliant idea if I understand it correctly. Just want to check that my use case would fit. I just submitted my first and main paper for my PhD to Icarus. I'm planning on soon uploading it to ArXiv as well. My paper is theoretical in nature and through a suite of Monte Carlo simulations I generated a few hundred MBs of data. Can I make use of this system as a way to deposit that data so that it's available to anyone that wants to verify the conclusions I reach in my paper and possibly extend the research?
Could the problem not be the lack of desktop-looking ui-frameworks, but a lack of willingness to design something that doesn't look like a java swing app from the 90's. (Yes, ExtJS is butt-ugly).

Could the app you want to write maybe lend itself well to the UI-stylings of Bootstrap? Or Pure? Or Foundation?

Or maybe you could combine something yourself... Googling Angular CRUD gives me this: http://angularjs-webapi-crud-grid.azurewebsites.net/
Add to that, that the physical and mental strain which having children will put on you is better absorbed at a young, but not too young age (if you actually take care of the children, as opposed to offloading the work on your SO).

I (on purpose) started having children at under 30, which is quite uncommon among the university-educated here in Germany. And indeed, I'm glad I did it.

It is certain that I left money and career opportunities on the table. Nonetheless, I retained some "free time" due to the fact that I could sustain the strain of sleeping less and working more. I am quite sceptical that I'd be able to pull it off once I'm going on 40.

Also, having children earlier leaves you more time to "bounce back". Want to go on that six week trip overseas? Better wait until the children are in their late teens. But will you then be 50 or 60?
a good client is not really noticeable in battery life for me. have you even tried it or are you just spreading FUD?
For me coming from applied Systems Engineering, I see this as a very good lessons learned sharing - Thanks ! The article just forced me to write down few comments, my emphasis, and thoughts, coming from my background and experience as a Systems Architect.

I'd like to reflect back with my words, that one needs to get customer dialogue and engineering dialogue into balance, to be able to create successful products and/or services and to be able to launch them in time.

One has to ensure that the customer needs are refined well for engineering, for product and/or services content decisions and for development. This along with a company own strategical and internal needs and requirements. The engineering process may be agile, lean, waterfall, V etc, but the information, how and by who it is harvested, and what are the dependencies, are very important matters.

There are several means to ensure the effective refinement of information. The given lessons and described work sharing looks good and is surely important. E.g. epics were mentioned, and required good PM&PO co-operation.

Should the customer categories, portfolio and/or required engineering effort increase, the situation gets more complicated. One needs to ensure that the information is captured on/by identified locations/roles, and that it's refined on for relevant stakeholders e.g. in engineering. In many organizations today, it is impossible to rely on an IT solution stored information as your input data. In many cases personal network is emphasized instead, which makes the operations too much person and person2person relation dependent, as well fragile. For sure the network of colleges is important !

We should complement the proposed PM&PO work sharing and good relations are far as possible, BUT with defined information model, tasked refinement roles, and minimum amount of control mechanisms, whatever process is been applied in the organization.
I'm very curious about your ROI analysis for colo vs. a service like Rackspace's "Managed Colocation" [1] where a hosting provider runs the DC and provides the hardware and your folks manage the OS layer and up.

I run technical operations for a company with a fraction of your footprint (but growing quickly). We're at the point where we are growing out of the RAX public cloud but by my calculations, the decision to run our own private cloud in colocation vs. lease one from a service provider is (financially) a wash.

From a practicality standpoint, the scales tip towards leasing bare metal from a provider. I'm curious to hear your experiences with colo. How many folks do you have working in your colocation facilities doing hardware maintenance? What about network engineering? I presume you also keep a sizable stock of spares?

1: http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/managed_colocation/
it also has:

* sshd(8): Add support for pre-authentication sandboxing using the
Capsicum API introduced in FreeBSD 10.

Capsicum is a nice way to drop privs that shipped in FreeBSD 10 and is also being worked on for Linux.
Can Lenovo save Motorola?
Thank you for that link. Can't get one now, but I can dream! :)
Got a relative working at Box who's been there for a while. Husband is doing his best to launch a startup and he's made some big strides forward in the last year. Think they'll be very happy with a big payday.

I have Dropbox seamlessly integrated in a number of my devices, but I don't pay anything. I think Box has the advantage of having built a foundation on the basis of customers that expect to pay. Will be interesting to see if Dropbox can transition to capturing more paying customers.
Good job. Did you have previous experience with writing GPU code?
Sure, and when they work hard, it can kill you (that's what a fever is). So how can you do healing better than the body can? Where does the power come from, and where does the heat go?
There's a manpage bash-builtins in section 7, but I've never seen a system that had manpages for the individual builtins, let alone having them in section 1. "man read" on every system I've used opens the read manpage in section 2.
Berlin urged to step in over EU's relations with Ukraine, Russia
But we need those uranium mines, so we can maintain our arsenal of five thousand nuclear warheads, so we can destroy the planet four times over. Duh.
Zero? So not even pure functional programming is OK, since that tends to pass state as function arguments? We should all just happily poke our global state from our niladic functions?

Haven't read that book, but color me neon skeptical.
> Odd that the pair of you are nitpicking

It's not nitpicking, half of the singleton's purpose is to only ever have a single instance.
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Some syscalls share names with commands in section 1 though.
My local CentOS 6.2 VM has bash-builtins in section 1, which is where "man read" takes me. Same with a RHEL 6.4 machine in the colo.

This might be a distro-specific thing.
I actually think there is a middle ground; just bump the deadline, allow people to still solve it and get a T-shirt but freeze the scores and everybody's happy.

Btw, I agree that the scoring needs to be consistent or less coarse grained (percentiles) so that people don't submit thousands of attempts to get the max out of their solution...
I completely agree with this statement.
Improving business by emulating nature…
I'm so confused...
Thanks for the writeup! strace should definitely be in your toolbox. There is also systemtap, which I like a lot as well. It has some problem on Linux though, especially only being widely supported of Linux > 3.5 if the distro you are using does not ship with patches. Custom userspace probes are a real strong point.

I wrote a short article about stap using Rubys probes as an example: http://www.asquera.de/blog/2014-01-26/stap-and-ruby-2
Lists like this aren't for experienced pythonistas, but more for new people to know what things to avoid, and what not to copy if they do come across it online (in an article from 2005...) :-)
Always happy to see these guys in the news. The site is powered by Apache Rivet, which I helped work on. It never saw wide adoption, so the one big user always makes me pleased that it did take off somewhere.
I wonder who the 15 holdouts are in both cases.
>On the other hand, the increased risks of malicious de-anonymization (risk, not certainty) have to be weighed against the obvious benefit of having a portable health record and reducing duplication and administrative overhead if you are taken ill and have to visit a hospital or a doctor who's not your GP.

That's not the system that's being discussed, though.
On page 20, there is slight mistake - count is used in the second ("NOT SO GOOD") example but "i" is printed.
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ftp://crisp.dyndns-server.com/pub/release/website/tools/trace-20140126-x86_64-b95.tar.gz works too if it makes you feel any better.
strace taught me that glibc never does what you think it does behind the scenes!
Why do you link directly to the download file? A link to the tool's man page[1] would be sufficient.

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace