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SQS is the specific service giving me a ton of trouble right now. Hope they resolve this quickly. Had rayguns about sqs all night heh.

So are they saying they are throttling SQS because of the DynamoDB issue?
Except for the minor detail that you can sufficiently test someone's math abilities without the use of a calculator? Or so was the case for me in the '70s when demanding one was out of the question, and e.g. MIT had to figure out if I, and the N thousand other students they offered admission to, could hack the calculus required by the core curriculum (one term beyond the AP Calculus BC sequence (single variable through infinite series)).
I'm not sure. I think many of the other services mentioned probably rely internally on SQS, so resolving the SQS issues might resolve most of the other issues as well.

Not completely sure though whether DynamoDB would benefit from relying internally on SQS.
You still depend on some provider. Or, are you talking about multi cloud installations ?
Here's the SQS Error Log right now:

3:14 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates in the US-EAST-1 Region.

4:06 AM PDT We can confirm increased error rates for CreateQueue, SendMessage and ReceiveMessage API calls in the US-EAST-1 Region and continue to work towards resolution.

5:07 AM PDT We can confirm increased error rates for CreateQueue, SendMessage and ReceiveMessage API calls in the US-EAST-1 Region. As we work towards recovery, error rates may temporarily increase.

6:06 AM PDT We can confirm significantly increased error rates for CreateQueue, SendMessage and ReceiveMessage API calls in the US-EAST-1 Region. As we work towards recovery, error rates may temporarily increase in error rates.
DynamoDB now support cross-region replication [0] so you can build more resilient applications with it

[0] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developergu...
Amazon CTO: We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability :D
I think in 2081 someone will walk into a bar or restaurant and gasp at how expensive it is: There are real humans waiting on tables.
I made a AMD64 compiler. I used the stack and pushed arguments. It seems to work. LOL You Jedi Mind Trick CiA agent, LOL. What a lame Jedi Mind Trick.

All day I am bombarded by CIA reeducation camp propoganda. God I hate propoganda. Fucken sick iof it.
So when they sync with iCloud wouldn't the monk get their photos?
And yet the "go to the army and kill and/or get killed" is 18 and the "caught by law and get the death penalty" is 15...
I noticed this because I was unable to checkout on Amazon Prime Now just now.
Garbage you say? Dynamodb blazed a trail for many open source, eventually consistent kv databases. Certainly not garbage.
Yeah good point. It's something I forget sometimes that AWS uses AWS... and that even if I don't rely on a particular service specifically, a service I rely on may, in fact, rely on that service.

Hopefully there is a relatively fast recovery on this.

Can anyone even log into their aws console right now?
I also noticed the random auth problem in SMTP and my knee jerk reaction was to google "status aws"...
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Well at least it's nice to know Amazon uses Amazon. Could still be unrelated, but awfully coincidental.
I can log in.

I wonder if SQS uses DynamoDB, not the other way around.
Nice attitude (and gift of pictures ) on loosing your ipod !
Bingo. I recently declined to buy a 16c revival in miniature form because it had membrane buttons that were reported to be flaky (sure wish I'd bought one when they were generally available, not exactly cheap on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hp-16c-calculator).

I'm still using the 28S I bought back in the late '80s (also bought a spare recently), it does what I need, displays four levels of the stack, and between the quality buttons and discipline in double checking the stack before doing operations I never made a calculation error in my problem sets. Any keying error were due to hitting the wrong key, not the keys themselves.
Le sigh. This is impacting AirBnB and I need to check in somewhere in LA later today. Good thing all the details are in the AirBnB messaging history with the host. Time for them to just go back to email.
Good news for artificial intelligence. Computers are a lot better at trial and error than "thinking" through a solution.
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Alternatively, run a fallback data store.
Source for service with better uptime than Amazon?
We do this in the UK:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_demand_(electric_pow...
There a different kinds of photography. And in any case, the reality is somehow subjective, even our color perception differs, so how can you say which version is "true".
Anyway, in many cases photographer's task is to show the others something the way he sees it, not necessarily the way it "is".
My other point is, that some photoshopping is just a routine of preparing the product, some digital hygiene if you want.
If you really think taxes increase at the same rate as rent, you've clearly never looked at SF.
I'm somewhat in the same situation. I want to check-in a movie I just watched and give it appropriate rating, but IMDB is down. I guess we'll just have wait, right?
I noticed it when I couldn't stream something. The player begged it off as Silverlight issue even when the flash option is chosen. lol
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Ask HN: How to read faster
I've always been bothered by reading. I love reading, but I'm never proud of how much book I've read.

One problem is with reading speed. If average reading speed is 250wpm, then a average book of 200,000 words would take more than 10 hours, and you have to take into account the opportunity cost and the time for breaks between concentrations, and if the book is less interesting but is mandatory for you OR it requires more careful reading(i.e. College textbook), it would take more time.

Another problem is with how much you can remember after a while. I have a pretty bad memory, I often forget almost all of the stuff I read from a book as time goes. Which means that it's a waste of time to even read it. This year I'm trying to take notes and write summary after I read a book. But that doesn't help you to read faster.

How to read more? Can I increase my reading speed somehow? Or is there better ways to grasp the idea of the book faster? Is there a way to train your reading speed?
I know I'm in the minority but our street has had house parties fairly frequently over the past years since we've lived here. Here's our story:

When we first moved in, we went to each home in the area and invited them to come over and meet their neighbors that weekend. It was a cold weekend and all of those that came had coffee and hot chocolate in the garage and spoke for a little while.

From then on, other neighbors and ourselves would periodically make extra cookies or other food and just take it over to a neighbor's house. When the weather is nice, people would just walk around the neighborhood and stop by to talk to others that happened to be outside. We put a fridge in the garage and offered people a soda, beer, or glass of wine when they stopped by, and over time others would gather and talk.

Eventually people started to have dinner parties. Cocktails were served, chips, appetizers, etc. Ours is not an affluent neighborhood, but those that could afford it did all they could.

Over the years, it has slowed down a little. There have been some weird friends that messed up relationships, and other mistakes with people drinking too much, etc. But, there have also been solid friendships that came out of it, and people still get together.

It doesn't happen everywhere, for sure. We consider ourselves blessed to have such good friends and neighbors. But, I think that if you do similar things, you could have a chance at the same type of experience.
that's completely untrue. there are many ways to do fault-tolerance in AWS. it's expensive, but it's possible. netflix even goes as far as simulating the failure of entire aws regions in their simian army testing suite:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html

That's why Netflix stays up when us-east or us-west are down.
Why would you possibly think that? ( see also: http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2004/diaconis-69.html )
The author is a neoreactionary. Just thought you might want to know.
600m and the gov still has to take the contractor with the lowest bid still? Makes me think the requirements were so broken no one really wanted the work.
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The only thing DynamoDB can do good is simplicity. Except for this, even MongoDB has tons more features than DynamoDB and the new version resolved performance problems existed in the previous versions.
Glad I wasn't the only one who balked at the idea it would have gone well if everyone had more training.

I think we really need intelligent, experienced people who have a proven record in large product management. However, they're rare and more expensive than the government will pay for. Compounding the failure is the fact that you can't get fired from government jobs for incompetence. These projects aren't going to get any better.
I don't think cross-region replication would've helped in this case:

"The replica tables are intended to serve as read-only copies of the data; however, it is possible to write data to a replica table. If you write data to a replica, those changes will not be propagated to the master, or to any other replicas."
I think the interop between compilers may have more bugs since that isn't tested for complicated struct args much. Another good place to try is the tcc arm port.
I don't disagree that you would want to have a rough idea of what migrating off of DynamoDB would require but wouldn't the easier step be using redundancy across regions first? Most of the sites which have suffered downtime due to AWS outages have been operating in only a single region (or even AZ!) and adding the extra level isolation is usually going to be a lot easier than dealing with multiple vendors or having to maintain more of your infrastructure directly.
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6:19 AM PDT The metadata service is now stable and we are actively working on removing throttles.

7:12 AM PDT We continue to work on removing throttles and restoring API availability but are proceeding cautiously.

7:22 AM PDT We are continuing to remove throttles and enable traffic progressively.

7:40 AM PDT We continue to remove throttles and are starting to see recovery.

7:50 AM PDT We continue to see recovery of read and write operations and continue to work on restoring all other operations.

8:16 AM PDT We are seeing significant recovery of read and write operations and continue to work on restoring all other operations.
Videos and Alexa ia also down
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The only must-read is probably PEP8.

Otherwise, why are you interested in PEPs? For learning about language features, introductory posts on blogs and such are usually better, especially for a beginner. PEPs read more like a spec.
other down sites: medium.com, getpocket.com, idonethis.com
It's been available in the Chicago area for nearly a decade now:

https://rrtp.comed.com/live-prices/
Yep. AirBnb is not working
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Colour ink has the tendency to fade with time.
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You're not alone buddy. Been wasting hours of my life looking at this stuff too :)
The problem with std::string is, it was useless in the real world because its interface is basically unsuitable for handling Unicode. That's why every project that cares about i18n had to define its own string class to get anything done.

Only with C++11 did they add std::u16string, which is at least suitable for the (horrible) UTF16 encoding. Maybe we'll get an UTF8 capable std::string class in another 20 years.
Any knowledge or evidence that IMDB runs on AWS, and that the two are thus correlated?
Address verification on amazon.com doesn't work for me at the moment, blocking me from making any orders.

Not sure if this is related.
Nothing should be effected in non- USEast regions as per the status page
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you need to expand on your point, because I don't get at all.
Not sure if there are multiple models. The ones I saw had a gate (red/green, i.e. 'you can come in now' lights), and had you to put your hand down in a designated area / look into a camera.

Since I wasn't exactly able to move over and inspect the device from up close I admit that I just _assume_ that the hand thingy compares your fingerprints - I wouldn't know what else it could look at otherwise. Maybe it's just a bible and you have to solemnly swear not to be a terrorist, on camera. Looked weird from 10m away, everyone putting down their (right?) hand on the device, looking into the camera and waiting for the machine to say 'You are good to go'.

I don't plan to visit the US, ever. Personally I can easily state that I my desire to see some (probably) cool places over there isn't high enough to put up with the BS, professionally I am able to dodge any and all suggestions to go there so far - and will try to keep it that way (but that's the loophole: I won't sit on my hands and flat out refuse if my company forces me to go there. I will complain loudly and make sure that my unwillingness to go is heard though).
I might like to save my most important source code as microfilm. So it would be future-proof. No fancy encoding - just text.
For starters, Amazon owns IMDb.
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How do we know it can be more powerful than AI if we don't even know how powerful AI can be yet?
aren't humans already more powerful than AI?
http://www.spreeder.com/
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how would it lead to more clearer code? You would have many interfaces referencing an instance variable, each with different semantics for that variable. Interfaces cant have variables so they should not be used as traits.
Apples and oranges. People who call tools like this garbage fail to evaluate trade-offs at their required complexity space. Distributed systems have extreme trade-offs. More features => more bugs.
> And raising and killing animals humanely should become easier with improvement in robotics technology.

I don't know if this is better or more disturbing.
Always doubt your anonymity. Many color laser printers output hidden, self identifying serial codes.
There was a slightly surreal version of a similar story published to BuzzFeed some time ago http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/i-followed-my-stolen-iphone-a...
Also, RISC began at a time when main memory was actually slightly faster than the CPU[1], and the bottleneck for the contemporary CISCs was instruction decoding. With memory bandwidth to spare, it made a lot of sense to simplify the decoders to make them faster, resulting in sparser encodings which used more storage and bandwidth. Had memory always been slower, perhaps things would've turned out very differently - multicycle decoders and more complex instruction sets might've become far more common, and less caching.

[1] If I remember correctly, I saw the graph showing this memory-faster-than-CPU in the famous Hennessy&Patterson book, which is somewhat ironic since it quite heavily preaches about the virtues of MIPS.
Well, Amazon owns IMDB, so it's probably a reasonable assumption.
It seems that MLDB would be a decent fit for this use-case. You would be able to do pre-processing in the background continuously, and predictions could do a significant amount of work on-demand. Depending upon the size of the overall training set, you might need to spin up a larger server for an hour or so to retrain a model... but if you set the system up right, the model would only need to be trained infrequently as most of the work would be done online. The more preprocessing you can do in the background, the richer and smaller the data that would go into the training phase.

MLDB can memory-map some kinds of datasets which would also help with the low memory-to-datasest size ratio.

Please feel free to reach out (jeremy at datacratic) if you'd like to discuss further.
And who's to blame?
I've been using DynamoDB since it was released. In over 3 and 1/2 years of use, this is the first time I've experienced DynamoDB being down.
Because you can't carry a key.
Could this project have been completed by the likes of Google?
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This will go into the big stack of incredibly large technology project failures, including the FBI case management system and the IRS modernization program.

From a systems point of view, the problem here is the publicity. For each public disaster, there are many more that never get that much attention.

Just got through reading a biography of John Boyd. Great narrative about how huge systems of people act politically to resist change and make decisions.
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Because the incentive structures were not aligned the way you/users wanted?

I can't pull down this pdf right now, or maybe it's this collection of slides from a talk by Robert Pike by the same name: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/good_bad_ugly/slides.pdf

But based on the slides and the date I assume the "same thing" all these UNIX(TM) vendors wanted was for their combination of proprietary hardware and software to win in the marketplace.
There might be a good side to this in the form of more interesting content at major company web sites. Companies like IKEA, Safeway, Walmarts, Michaels Art Supplies, etc. might start paying content producers to make interesting content on their own web sites and draw people in.

This might work for individuals and small companies also if they support narrow niches.

The goal is some model where content creators pay their bills and consumers get good material. It will probably work out just fine.
Exactly, ads should be relevant to page content. Showing me afs based on my browsing history is downright wrong and feels etremly creepy, plus most items we already own by the time we see such ads anyway.
If it does occur I hope there is an equal increase in social skills it's terifying to read reddit /r/iamverysmart some truly smart people but psychopath level social skills.
And here comes the good old "it's just a joke".
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustJokingJustifi...
Whoever uses autoscaling and, especially lifecycle notification with SQS will be in trouble now(I'am).

The morning is going to be started. Traffic will be ramped up, and not sure if new sevrers will be launched because CloudWatch is failed. Polling SQS to find lifecycle notification message fail too.
Ask HN: How do you remember syntax?
I have to take written exams about Maple and I am struggling with keeping track of the myriad of commands. Any tricks/methodology I can use?
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Because how to arrive is as important as to where.
Like how evolution is supposed to work then.
Mutations are the 'ideas' and natural selection decides if they're worthwhile or not.
Yeah, the only reason I moved out is because the only work I could get was in another city. If it didn't mean a 4 hour daily commute, I'd definitely still be hanging with my parents.
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>Which again is why I don't see why criticizing utilitarianism is a thing at all.

Because utilitarianism is doing utility-theory consequentialism with the utility function strictly defined to be summed-up quantities of pleasure across the whole population. Utilitarianism doesn't mean "consequentialist, VNM-rational decision making", it means, "the maximally effective way of creating and enforcing pleasure for everyone". It's not the utility function anyone really wants, which is why utility theory is such crap. It doesn't matter to have a coherent mathematical formalism if you get given not the slightest idea how to come up with a good value for the infinite-dimensional free parameter.
I expect nothing less from the federal government.
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Practice!

http://squirt.io/

Edit: There's an active-ish subreddit about Speed Reading[0], maybe you'll find it useful.

0.https://www.reddit.com/r/speedreading
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Hailo open-sources H2, a microservices platform
The lack of any apparent attempt at reconfiguring/personalising a device you find and don't intend to return, but instead what seems to be just regular use, must be due to a very different attitude/knowledge about computers in general. It's a very interesting story though.
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Veblen goods, that's why.
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For simple memorization, Flashcards, spaced repetition, and constant usage.

Spaced repetition FTW.
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Scratching your own itch is the correct path to success, in my books. Keep up the good work.
I don't much use it anymore but this is something I always liked about AppEngine: baked into the pricing is automatic replication over three regions.

Serious AWS web apps are also distributed across multiple regions/availability zones, but many companies don't do that. It would be good for hosting services like Heroku, which I use, would replicate across zones also.

To be fare to Amazon, they tell you you architect and built across availability zones.
> wanting to make the same thing

That's not accurate. We want similar things, but there is a large amount of minor variation in the type of problems they are using their computers to solve. Fortunately, the focus on portability and simple, well-defined interface allowed multiple goals to coexist. It's not perfect, but even when variations between UNIX flavors breaks something, it is far easier to track down file-location bugs and text interfaces.

The toxic type of political infighting often (but not always) involves cases where someone decides to skip these traditions; conflict happens when someone tries to "remove old cruft" or "unify the various old methods" without first considering who it will impact. Unfortunately, this has become a common problem in recent years when JWZ's "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers"[1] started to take over some projects.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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I believe he meant things like using RabbitMQ instead of SQS (SQS isn't very good anyway IMHO) and things like that. More services running on plain old instances rather than AWS specific APIs, Azure specific APIs, etc.

This prevents you from getting too locked in and losing control over your application.

I honestly can't believe that Netflix can't even load their home page without DynamoDB and all this other stuff.

Edit: Looks like Netflix is back online (10:53AM EST)
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I also thought of AI while reading this title. Many people assess that strong AI will not be possible until will figure out how the brain works. Yet it's very much possible that we create a machine that exhibits human-like behavior before we understand how it works.
If I boot a recent Ubuntu from EFISTUB or from a loader like rEFInd, I can get the boot time down to ~6 seconds on a desktop with a reasonable SSD.

GRUB can be surprisingly slow at times.

See also https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/, but it's out of date.
I thought SystemD fixed this issue already, among its other 100+ nice take-over-the-world things.

Recently I had to take on systemd on debian8, man it's complicated, should we still call it an 'init' component in the linux ecosystem, assume it cares?
Link to the complete story since some links are broken http://rc.vc/files/docs/FBI_Cybercrook.pdf
How much does SS pay these days? Any other help programs for the elderly (65+ - assuming they never had a real job)?
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