skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are really the only ones I can think of that bother me but it's the sites placement that is what makes it a terrible UX. They place all those ads around the actual download button. You would think you could get banned for trying to force a click like that.
They probably pay more than $17M a year on domain registrations. Just the cost of doing business.
https://downdetector.com/status/facebook
Tracking is weird. One hand it's gross and I don't like it. I think because who knows who is looking at what you're looking at. On the other hand, as a consumer I actually find the ads more valuable, and I sometimes buy items advertised to me. And as a content creator, they generate much more revenue.
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Women can be opinionated, especially feminists. I'm going to avoid ever bringing this up with one.
The end of bootstrapping
I don't think that will destroy the life insurance industry. In fact, I think it will help them.

If I buy a life insurance policy for a 15 year old today, I pay them $X in order to receive $Y when the insured dies. If the insured lives for 70 years, the insurance company has 70 years to invest $X, in order to have $Y available when the insured dies.

But if the insured lives 80 years, then the insurance company has 10 more years to invest $X. They gain from that situation, rather than lose.
Not to me
This is exactly what I was considering. Basically only paying for the content that I think has value by disabling uBlock or w/e for those sites.

It would be nice if I wasn't also being tracked though since I'm paying for the content myself.
I think it's all but impossible.

Anecdote of one: I went through a period of un/underemployment a few years ago. So I had no health insurance. My state, Colorado, has an indigent medical care program. I went to their office, filled out the forms, and I qualified.

But in the six months that I tried, I was never seen (and I had an issue, not mental health, but it could have been anything). You cannot get any issue seen to until you've first seen an intake GP. There are not enough GPs available in the system. And there's no wait list, you have to call every day to see if there's an opening. After some months I gave up.

Fast forward, another anecdote of one: I'm in a great job with great benefits. I got depressed. I found a doctor immediately, made an appointment for the next day, and I'm now being treated. Easy peasy.

After money, the most important reason to have a job is health insurance. The ACA makes this a little easier, but you still need money to pay for your affordable policy.

Money.
The $15/month is a flat fee. I'm not aware of how the math works behind the scenes, but it does not appear to be a 1:1 mapping.

Edit: Apparently it is a 1:1 mapping and unused money rolls over until next month. I was wrong. Thanks cmpb for pointing that out.
productivity across the globe is skyrocketing
There is some wiggle room. The one-year thing is more to do with how much time one is expected to serve, rather than the sentence. Time already served can also alter the math. So someone spending 6-months in jail pre-trial and then sentenced to 14 months would normally be sent back to jail as they only have 8 months remaining. And to your point, where it is very unlikely that someone will server their entire sentence prior to parol, they will normally do that time in a jail.

This isn't always a bad thing. Some convicts would rather not be moved to a new facility. Jails are normally closer to the place of arrest (usually near home) and by the point sentencing happens families have already developed some sort of routine for visitation. Sending them out of town, even if to a better facility, is not always in the inmate's best interest.
What are you pritching here? Cinder for Communication?

Desperatly searching for somebody else in a existenzialistic mood - feeling very depressed?
Ha, I actually just saw this myself and the first thing I did was switch tabs to Hacker News to see if it was being discussed.

But yeah, it seems to be back up now.
Tell HN: Facebook.com is down
https://www.facebook.com is currently down.
You can't use a reference frame moving at c -- it'd be like trying to use a coordinate system where the X and Y axes are parallel to each other.

Also, distance isn't really what locality is about; it's really about the causal sequence of events. If two events are close enough in time and far enough in space that light couldn't get from one to the other (in jargon: they're separated by a spacelike interval), then there'll be some reference frames where one happened before the other, and some where they happened in the opposite order. So if one of the events caused the other, there are reference frames where the cause came after the event.

So nonlocality violations imply that effects can come before causes in at least some reference frames. That's why people don't like it.
How rational of you. After all, nothing is more unpleasant than a woman rejecting one's opinion.
Weird that the link is for ?down=true

I thought this is some kind of prank, but http://facebook.com is also showing up as down.
Weirdly I can get in, but it only shows me two items from my feed with a "click here for more" button.

Seems like some sort of load mitigation mode.
Now it is back up for me, but sporadically. If I refresh it's sometimes still down.
Messenger is down
Still down in Winnipeg. Alternating between a FB error page and a white page with "Service Unavailable."
moreover, many of the sites that rely on facebook login are down too...
I must argue a few points.

- Sites like thewirecutter.com make their money from affiliate links

- To try this experiment, I need to turn adblocking off. Which I am not willing to.

- Ads are not the answer. In fact, an interesting thing happened when a city banned the use of outdoor ads. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no-... -- people are happier since less information assaults their brains, companies are still doing what they need to do because they needed to get creative ways to convince people why their products are worthwhile.
"iteration speed being critical ... But it's something I rarely see featured in tool design."

Go? They've always had this as a top level goal.
Pensions (especially) and life insurers are going to need/want bailouts regardless of medical changes. The combination of global ZIRP and absurdly optimistic assumptions about investment returns have led to extreme underfunding for nearly every pension fund in the developed world. This problem is especially acute in the United States but is not unique to it.

The extra uncertainty in actuarial assumptions will only leverage that problem further. Your assessment of expectations is actually pretty reasonable: pension fund managers aren't taking it seriously because they expect to be bailed out regardless, so they may as well enjoy their moral hazard dividends in advance. But I think that has more to do with the fact that financial repression and systemic underfunding have rendered everything else irrelevant anyway.
Just noticed this as well, looks like it's down everywhere.
This is a really good podcast--I love the idea of progressive equity, and Ben and Andrew do such a thorough job of talking through the implications on employee motivation, secondary sales, pro-rata vs flat, ...

Has anybody aside from Detour implemented progressive equity so far?
I love the concept of this. Essentially it's just letting you enter the ad auction for yourself, with a monthly spending cap (I imagine it's a little trickier under the hood, but maybe not that much trickier).

I signed up yesterday after a friend mentioned it, and it's near. It's definitely a minority of ads, but it's still nicer to see cat pics than other shit.
Doesn't work in Bermuda.
Relevant SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2490
that was probably to get around the duplicate url check.
Thanks for the rational reply. Some of the cynical and critical comments here strike me as far too idealistic. This seems like a completely reasonable step to take in offering websites money for ad-free content without having to subscribe to individual content.

The privacy argument, I can easier get on board with. Why does Google need to still track you if you're not seeing ads? Wasn't the point of ad tracking to get you more relevant ads, help advertisers with remarketing, etc. ?
I'll forgive myself tomorrow
It was. There was another post here from 271 days ago that linked directly to facebook.com, also reporting an outage.
HN doesn't allow for duplicate links[^1] so the submitter used the query string to bypass that.

[^1]: There's some new rules about this IIRC but I don't remember exactly what cases allow for duplicate links now.
Chrome crash with URI with data larger than 2MB
Some of the Eurocentric focus on history is partly because of the lack of historical documents from South Asia. I know that in India for e.g., recording a history of the region was never a priority, infact some of of India's early history is only known because of Chinese travelers noting down stuff in their diaries.

In modern times, producing an "Official" History of their region is a major undertaking that all nation states engage in. This is where they get to 'correct' the existing biases/stereotypes but a lot of nations lack the interest and frankly survey expertise to produce a decent and accurate History. I'd say that the West in general has been very good at documenting (sometimes with overflowing negative bias) the history of the 'other' much more than the 'other' has been, at documenting their own history.
go-plus for atom is also really nice if you are using atom.

https://github.com/joefitzgerald/go-plus
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OK, then modify the statement, but use the same mobster voice: "It would be a shame if your browser got overloaded with pop-overs, malware and javascript trackers. You know, we can keep that from happening for a price."
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I'm not sure if the Doubleclick AdExchange allows that but sometimes it can look like it's coming from Adsense or Doubleclick AdExchange but the ad is actually served from Doubleclick For Publishers. In that latter case the publisher decides what is acceptable.
Reminds me of the scene in Social Network where Zuckerberg is screaming at Saverin on the phone about impending loss of money and subsequent downtime...
That made it very convenient for me recently. I had a contract that did a bunch of data analysis. The last step is to upload the results into either MySQL or SQLite database. I used peewee.py, plus some code from playhouse/db_url.py, and got it working.

Even without using the ORM part, the database objects have information to help me roll my own cross-database SQL calls using a bit of string substitution so "?" becomes "%s", etc.
Yup, looks down again =/
Looks like isitdownrightnow.com is being DoS'd as a result
If I understand your question correctly I think the Apple FAQ page says how it propagated. Basically there were services offering faster downloads of Xcode (presumably locally) in China. My guess is that the apple downloads were crawling to a halt and someone offered up an alternative.

The page also says Apple is working on making it faster for them.
No. It has a sparse (and I'm being extremely generous with sparse) standard library. Almost everything you do is FFI, which if you want to type, is a PITA.
As with most things, this probably began as a communication problem between Jorge and Bruno, and it quickly went south from there. https://github.com/wa/wahoo/issues/95

If you'd like to try a Fish shell framework with a bit less drama, my I suggest my alternative? (^_^)

https://github.com/justinmayer/tacklebox

https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle
I'd like to see more products/interaction/experiments in the way ChangeTip is going:

https://www.changetip.com/

It feels way more human than a big corporation's effort, and way more direct.
Appears that the status page over at https://developers.facebook.com/status/ isn't loading properly either. I see either a "The connection to developers.facebook.com was interrupted while the page was loading." erorr or a "Service Unavailable" page.

Not ideal for a status page.
Hopefully it spreads to HN!
Interesting - not very long at all after the AWS problems and Skype's recent outage.
It is hard to explain but I can just understand the structure of the face and my brain can sort of automatically map that to a 3D model of their head. I don't even need to try and look for distinguishing marks. I just look at the face for a couple of seconds and that's it. Just retook the test, my results http://i.imgur.com/HwQs6XQ.png
Bingo. Most people don't even realize they are being tracked via ads. And if they did, they wouldn't care. Look at how many know about the NSA yet don't really care, and ad tracking is small potatoes compared to that.
In a sense they did limit it. The "Class D" space has always been off-limits, so it's never been 2^32.

The usable range is 1.0.0.0 through 126.255.255.255 and 128.0.0.0 through 233.255.255.255. The rest is reserved for various reasons or used for other purposes. That nibbles about 10% of the address space away.

They could've imposed more limits this way, but that might've seemed too heavy handed and would just lead to severe hacks and work-arounds.

It's a Catch-22. Switching to an IPv6-like address space in the mid 1990s would've been easier, but if it caused a lot of turbulence, it would've slowed the adoption of the IP technology in the first place, meaning the conversion was less urgent.
The productivity of millions of people just went up :-)
As someone who lives in Hayward (and owns real estate there) I hope you are right. Do you know of any companies moving to Hayward?
git push Facebook -> Whatsapp
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To put it another way, here's another study that could be done: Women view walking alone at night equally attainable, but less desirable.

It's a complicated issue. To continue your example: Do we insist that women should just feel more comfortable walking alone? Or do we try to create the necessary conditions so that women feel safer walking alone?
I still meet a ton of engineers, who while being surprisingly analytical in other aspects of their life, think their worthless equity packages are worth something. Some people don't even know what percentage their shares represent. They definitely don't give enough thought to dilution, liquidation preference, lack of voting rights.

I'll say it over and over again - if you're asked to take a total compensation cut i.e. turn down public stock or salary from an established company to take options at a startup you are an investor. In fact a bigger portion of your net worth and income is invested then the typical VC's portfolio. And yet you don't get voting rights, you get screwed by liquidation preference etc, and the standard response is "well, you're not an investor, so you don't get preferred shares."

Engineers are often hilariously bad at finance and even worse at negotiation.
Build fast and break things.
I want her to be set for life though in case of a freak accident - $500k will run out eventually.
ARIN IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero
SQLAlchemy gives you a lower level view of your data. That makes a lot of issues with Django ORM just go away (like slow queries for null foreign keys), and makes the ORM much more powerful, making it possible to run queries that would need customizations of the Django ORM. At the price that it is lower level, and your code will be a bit longer.

Both let you escape into bare SQL easily, and Django ORM integrates well with Django, what SQLAlchemy doesn't.
Naw everyone is just reading "Facebook is down" threads.
Wow, first thing I did too was check HN for updates on this.
I think there's a reason nature doesn't allow a frog to breed with a plant.

You can call it a scare tactic... but with GMOs we're doing things that would be impossible to try with traditional methods.
Except if you're working on Facebook iOS integration. Dammit Facebook! What are the odds.
Facebook Outage Map
Then it's not just me...

You get the "Service Unavailable" message, too?
Or just use https://github.com/wa/wahoo
And I'm going to continue using an adblocker out of principle - because to me, the principle that my computer should remain free of malware is stronger than the principle that content creators should get paid.
There are also no workable solutions that allow enforcement [sic] to read what you're thinking, even with a warrant. But sometimes the universe just doesn't work how they'd like, so their job isn't as easy as it could be. Boo hoo.

This "debate" (actual: another attempt at forcing acceptance) is only occurring because people foolishly adopted webcrapps. The debate was settled long ago at a time when people thought in terms of owning their devices and data, before tech culture had been destroyed by advertising/propaganda. The result was a resounding "Hell No".

It's been rekindled because these huge silos of irresponsibly stored data are an irresistible trove for control fetishists. And in a sense the public sector control fetishists are right - if the de jure government doesn't gain access to them, it's only a matter of time until the de facto government does - eg insurance pricing, background checks, extreme price discrimination.

Let's hope the (de)centralization pendulum swings back hard this time, with Snowden having given it an extra push (Binney/Klein were pushing at the wrong time :/). We're due for another bubble pop sometime soon, and I hope that honest companies (aligned with user incentives) rise from the rubble. If our society is to have any long term future, the advancements of technology have to be distributed throughout it, not centrally controlled by a handful of entities.
> Sites like thewirecutter.com make their money from affiliate links

Yes, there are multiple ways to monetize things on the Internet. Affiliate links work very well for Wirecutter, because it is based around people trying to buy things. If you're forbes.com however, affiliate links don't really work.

> Ads are not the answer. In fact, an interesting thing happened when a city banned the use of outdoor ads...

If the problem we're trying to solve is, "How can we pay content creators what they need in order to continue producing content?" then an anecdote about outdoor advertising and billboards is largely irrelevant.

Of course, your proposed solution may be, "No one gets paid for content and the content ceases to exist because I don't like ads," and that may be what happens to some degree, but I personally wouldn't like that solution very much.
In the US you cannot forcibly put someone in a homeless shelter, if they refuse to go there is nothing you can do about it. People die on the streets in Boston every year because of this but it would be impossible to pass a law forcing them.
From what I understand, access to official Apple websites from within China is very slow, so people host mirrors of Apple software (like XCode) for developers within China to download.

One of these mirrors had a altered version of XCode that Chinese developers were downloading. One of these developers noticed strange behavior with one of his apps. It was connecting to strange servers on the Internet when he hadn't written the code to do so. This lead to the discovery of malware in some copies of XCode floating around the Chinese portion of the Internet.

I imagine Apple will add some sort of tool verification step to help fix this issue. Another way to help prevent this problem would be to host an official mirror inside China, obviating the need to get Apple tools from unofficial sources.
It does actually convey the fact that everything is down pretty well
Oh is that what happened to Tim Hunt?
I'm not very familiar with Go, but from what I understand Go is the antithesis of this feature in many ways. AFAIK the tools are all stand-alone command line applications which you have to run every time you want to check whether you're on the right track. Go tools which generate code are an even worse example. If your language good abstraction capabilities your development environment could understand your intentions much better than with generated code.
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Is still up
Want to do some interactive Spark with curl?
Well, for starters it requires an infinite number of universes, each with zero 'weight.' Secondly, it causes problems for materialist views of the universe. (I wrote a long term paper about this as an undergrad, but that was, like, 15 years ago and I don't have the cuneiform tablets anymore.)

Briefly, there's no way to explain the statistical correlations between spin polarization states: if we measure the polarization of a photon in a basis that's only, say, 5 degrees offset from its known polarization, the statistical breakdown between the two resulting polarization states is something like 9:1; what if it's only a few arc-seconds off? Then the universe must divide more and more finely.

You quickly realize the universe must be infinitely-divisible (because quantum collapse occurs so often, and each collapse anywhere in the universe must divide the universe, it can't even be discretized at, say, some Planck-like scale).

That said, it does neatly solve local realism. But you have to believe in an immortal soul or something non-material -- I believe that has to be the 'weighting factor'. (Again, that was the uncomfortable conclusion of my paper, wish I could conjure more of it.)
Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominos go, don't you get that?

Guess it's time to test this theory, huh?
This is the error message I receive when I go to the site with cookies:

Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.

Go Back

Facebook © 2014 · Help Center

Interesting it is dated 2014 and that it is a generic message without any helpful prompts.

Incognito mode shows the normal sign up screen.
They're serving a 503 page now: "503 No server is available for the request"

looks like it hasn't been displayed in a while or no one cares about the copyright date: "Facebook © 2014"
Anyone noticed the 2014 at the bottom? I guess their traditional static 404 needs some updating? :D (I am sure this is not the case)
This clears that up, thanks.
Can someone recommend a set of Emacs libraries that works as well as this? I'm about to embark on a real project in go.
This is a false dichotomy. There are other business models, and many people enjoy sharing things for free.
There's already the ICPC with prizes and everything, and as fun as it can be for the participants, it is definitely not a spectator sport.

You can watch the world finals from May at http://icpclive.com if you want, but let's face it, you don't.
Connections from China to places outside of China generally suck, regardless of load. I don't know if it's the Great Firewall getting in the way, or just underprovisioned links, or what, but you can have a super-fast connection for stuff locally, and then try to hit something outside the country and you're seeing something like 500kbps speeds and 600ms latency. If you're lucky.

Apple has said that they will now cache downloads inside China to mitigate this.
When you contribute to a project, you can not remove it's LICENSE, you can only add more contributors. If you fail to do so, you can add your name on the LICENSE but not claim a DCMA Takedown.
It is a relief for me to know that I found out about it after reading a tweet about it on Twitter.