skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is at the core of Google's thinking on this: unless presented with a negative, users' assumptions are that they're secure.

Which is fair, given that I bet you'd get about a 5% or less recognition rate if you polled a random sampling of people on whether they could define "HTTPS" / "SSL" / "TLS" / "That lock thingie" to any degree of accuracy.

A server shouldn't have the opportunity to serve an insecure connection to the user without the user being made explicitly aware of that fact.
If you listen closely you can hear the sound of continuous integration builds around the world breaking
Some "Github Pages" are down
Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
> I just don't believe everybody has to commute everyday

Agreed!
And 100,000 people's work grinds to a halt.
They also send out update on their @githubstatus twitter: https://twitter.com/githubstatus

Nothing for this yet, though.

EDIT: There it is: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/692505376554618883
And their status page says 100% operational (as updated 5 minutes ago).
Running your software stack native on OS X / Ubuntu
I made this:

https://github.com/mattbillenstein/ve

And I've been using something like it at a few different companies for awhile now. I know it's not sexy Docker stuff, but I'd be interested in hearing what people think.

For playing around with new tech or working on a new project, I install just this one thing -- development on OSX, then deploying to Ubuntu/AWS is a snap.
You're my hero right now.
Maybe they are using gunicorn?
Status page seems to be back: https://status.github.com/

No word on twitter yet: https://twitter.com/githubstatus
If you listen closely you can hear the sound of all bower-dependent builds on earth failing in synchrony
went to push, didn't work, tried the webpage, saw the outage, now I'm on HN
I think I'm setting some kind of Ctrl-R land speed record.
That's a remarkably close guess.

A small non-zero curvature would correspond to a non-zero cosmological constant, which is precisely what seems to be driving the accelerated expansion of the universe (there are other explanations but this is the simplest one).
They use unicorn[1] as a HTTP server

[1] http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
I'm kind of tired of paying for a service that has so many outages.
> If some new chess player have beat Deep Blue 4 to 2, would we revert the perceived status of AI to what it was before that match with Kasparov?

Not saying I disagree with much of your comment, but I think the answer to that question is actually, "yes". As a middling chess player, I think it would have been impossible for "a new chess player" to have beaten Deep Blue 4 to 2, and these days, it requires near-best-in-the-world prowess to pick up any games at all off the best chess computers, which I think proves that it wasn't hype-y or unfair to claim that the machines have beaten us at this.
Unbelievable. I really dislike this company for trying to pull a fast one with people's health.
I really hope some lawyers file a suit against Elizabeth Holmes or something bad happens to create a strong disincentive from someone ever trying to do something like ever again.

The chinese milk crisis is an extreme example of what could be done. The executives were executed or imprisoned, which again could be extreme, but I doubt anyone in china would ever try it again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8375638.stm
Snapchat is unusable if you don't learn this hidden "long press" action. Facebook will still be Facebook for you with all its cat photos, link-sharing, memes, blog posts and likes even if you don't figure out how to say "angry".
Yeah me too, status page says its OK but the website look like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ap1nqogmqza2e12/Screenshot%202016-...

And:

cd /[mason@IT-PC-MACPRO ~]$ cd Code/rollerball
[mason@IT-PC-MACPRO rollerball (master)]$ git pull
remote: Internal Server Error.
remote:
fatal: unable to access 'https://masonmark@github.com/RobertReidInc/rollerball.git/': The requested URL returned error: 500
[mason@IT-PC-MACPRO rollerball (master)]$
That's a python server - based on the ruby server "Unicorn"
So the only tax break you're permitting is for inheritance?

One doesn't need to believe that a startup entrepreneur who becomes a billionaire is somehow better than a billionaire who inherited his money to find line of argument that implies the only exemption in the tax system should be for inherited fortunes unfathomable.
Now we've gotten past the definition of categories and into levels -- that's progress.

That's where Basic Income or something like it shines. You don't have to micromanage -- you look at averages for the area and give a lump sum and let the individual figure it out.
Shan-Zhen: How a Small Irish Town Influenced the Mega-City Shenzhen
Githib is down in San Francisco
Youchatter- Connect with the friends that you want in life
I think the continuous integration is key to emphasise.
HTML Tidy does validation as its default action (tidy <html file>), but unlike this, it doesn't seem to be able to target an entire directory (html5validator --root <directory of html files>), so there's another difference there.
I do have the app. And that fact makes this double-annoying. When trying to visit a website, I'm told not to do that. That would be annoying on its own, and in fact it was for the first few years that it happened. But that's not at all what is frustrating me right now. What's super annoying is that Google claimed last year that they would penalize websites that do this, because they find it annoying too. Except they have done no such thing. I'm calling out Google's hypocrisy on who gets to show full-page ads without being penalized - Google does and nobody else?

If they want to show full-page ads and be super annoying, then fine, I'll deal with it. But don't pretend to be against it when you do the same practice yourself.
What's your service level agreement?
GitHub Down?
I'm in a similar situation to the original OP.

I do web dev work in an open office area where I'm surrounded by people who don't really understand what I get paid to do.

My boss is aware however, and I'm very confident that me investigating new js image viewer libs, browsing and posting on HN falls with in my job description.

I instantly closed the demo gallery because as much as it annoys me the perception of those around me matters.

I'm completely on board with your thoughts that these images are SFW and it shouldn't be an issue. I'm confident that I would be able to rationally explain why I happen to have a page full of Emma Watson pictures open. However, I wouldn't get the chance to explain. If someone around me noticed they'd immediately think that I was slacking off and looking at pictures of cute women on the internet.

If the demo images were of basically any other SFW subject matter it wouldn't be an issue.

I totally agree that the whole situation that this is even a concern is annoying as all hell. That doesn't stop it from being a thing.

:(
Ahh, didn't know of Unicorn. Today I learned, thanks!
Just the thought of Comcast having competition at high speeds brings a smile to my face.

I so look forward to the day that I can tell comcast to F-off for good.

Comcast better get off there gravy train throne and stop pissing off their customers with there bandwidth rape you rates since they don't like the term data-cap.

Google Fiber , and wirelss tech as this company are coming for you.

On the other side Amazon prime and netflix are coming after your content provider business as they are creating there own.
Sure, the correlation is statistically significant. Without a control to infer causality the results become much less interesting.

To infer causality in an epidemiological study such as this you need very large cohorts with very specific results.

Even with huge cohorts you still have relatively indefensible results. The 7 country study is a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Countries_Study
>Is VeriSign going to refuse a certificate to AT&T?

I certainly hope so.
Definitely. For example, not a lot of people know that Tim Berners-Lee developed his first hypertext system, ENQUIRE, an ND machine (the NORD-16 minicomputer running the operating system SINTRAN) [1].

[1] http://history-computer.com/Internet/Maturing/Lee.html
> "Thank you for asking."

You're welcome.

> "Giving me a basic income is highly likely to close doors, not open them."

How so? This would be a universal basic income (UBI for short), if everyone gets UBI there's no social stigma attached to it. Furthermore, a basic income frees up your time to develop your skills, whether that be through academic study, an internship/apprenticeship, or pursuing interests in the arts. In other words, UBI gives the majority of us more options if we choose to change career or make progess in a field without sufficient short term stability.

> "I find it insulting. I was STAR student and a National Merit Scholarship winner in high school. I have mostly not been taken very seriously on Hacker News. I have mostly been treated dismissively."

If I'm honest, if you're expecting a high level of praise on HN, you're in the wrong place. It doesn't matter who you are, or what your background is. However, if you enjoy a good debate and learning new things, then it's worth it. Got to learn to take the rough with the smooth, I've made empty comments with high upvotes, and thoughtful comments with high downvotes, just be clear whether you've been honest with yourself and keep an open mind to new information and you'll be fine.
Error 503 back end read error from GitHub
Sorry, I think I caused this. =[

bower jquery#1.11.3 not-cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery-dist.git#1.11.3
bower jquery#1.11.3 resolve git://github.com/jquery/jquery-dist.git#1.11.3
bower foundation#~5.5.2 cached git://github.com/zurb/bower-foundation.git#5.5.3
bower foundation#~5.5.2 validate 5.5.3 against git://github.com/zurb/bower-foundation.git#~5.5.2
bower ember#^2.3.0 ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/components/ember.git", exit code of #128
fatal: remote error:

Mid bower install. Rly srry guys!!! =[
The basis of the observation that oxidative stress is hard on cells comes from the observation that many cell lines fail to grow in standard conditions (20 C, atmospheric pressure, normal atmosphere), and that the oxygen tension in most tissues is actually well below atmospheric. These same cell lines survive when incubated in low oxygen conditions.

This sort of difference, 21% [O2] vs 3% [O2] is massive to a biologic system, but observable results show up in hours to days. The idea was that, over a lifetime, similar oxidative stress, at far lower levels, would necessarily build up in cells over a lifetime. However, certain disease conditions, like G6PD deficiency, give us a window into human physiology with limited antioxidant capacity and a moderately sized study in Sardinia has shown they may actually have a somewhat lower cancer risk overall.

Antioxidants fall into the giant pool of "meh" for most issues.
Seems like as good a time as any to head home then.
Now investigating: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/692505376554618883
It's like developed countries shame developing countries.
Agreed, but I've been through multiple CMS surveys, some with deficiencies, some without. Some POCs were scary, some laughable. Personnel issues can be trivial (somebody's cpr certification expired yesterday) or serious (you hired somebody who claims to be a doctor but isn't). It's really hard to weigh in as an outsider.
The MCTS part of the algorithm per se doesn't seem super-important AFAIK from my brief read of the paper, except insofar as it shows that the 'neural' part of the algorithm was meshing well with a broadly consequentialist idiom, which is important. Another way of looking it at is that the neural algorithm was able to well 'steer' the MCTS part, and it's the neural steering which is important.
It is unlikely that this is the only start-up with such large problems, it's just that this is one of the more obviously fraudulent ones. There is rarely just one cockroach.
Right now I have an insane 503 tabs open in Chrome. (Sometimes I'm lazy, and I forget to clean up.)

But I have 32GB RAM. And The Great Suspender, which is a must-have for anyone who uses Chrome.
Yup, a coworker was wondering why a build failed, a minute later I saw this.
@githubstatus updated
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
and github is down...
I don't think I agree with the conclusions here.

""neural algorithms that generalize well, the way that the human cortical algorithm generalizes well"."

I think we have already been seeing this for years with image recognition, speech recognition, and other pattern recognition problems. As with those problems, playing Go is one of those things you can easily get heaps of data for and formulate it as a nice supervised learning task. The task is still spotting patterns on raw data with learned features.

However, the current deep learning methods don't (seem to) generalize well to all that our brains do - most of all learning to do many different things with online small input of data. I have not seen any research into large scale heterogenous unsupervised or semi-supervised learning with small batches of input - these big neural nets are still used within larger engineered systems to accomplish single specific tasks that require tons of data and computing power. Plus, the approach here still uses Monte Carlo Search in a way that is fairly specific to game playing - not general reasoning.

Clearly this is another demonstration Deep Learning can be used to accomplish some very hard AI tasks. But I don't think this result merits thinking the current approaches will scale to 'real' AI (though perhaps a simple variation or extension will).
No offense intended, but as a web developer, why the heck would I waste my time coding things from scratch, setting up tooling, deployment infrastructure and managing yet another server when I could use a service that does all of that for me? For certain contexts it is far superior. Right tool for the right job, and all that.
This is almost exactly the plot of this short story by Philip K. Dick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)
One unfortunate reality of our existence is that people differ markedly in cognitive skill. These differences are innate and immutable.

Leaving the defeatist mentality aside, instead of saying they do not fit our current model, why not work on personalizing education. People go to school and meet a few professors with this attitude and they leave convinced they cannot be made good for anything. Not good.
Hilariously, James Watson has been sounding the bell on this for years (possibly motivated by a rivalry with Linus Pauling, who was downing megadoses of vitamin C at the end of his life). But nobody has been listening to Watson because of the overt racism in his talks for most folks drowning out the interesting parts. Of course, watson himself has been megadosing with metformin to stay alive longer, and claims to have prophylactically prevented prostate cancer in himself, though recently metformin has been shown to also be problematic.

Both of these guys have lived to quite advanced age though, so who knows anymore.
> It just seems petty for Apple to ignore the standard and go it's own way... then again, it is Apple.

Apple's had their own layout for literally decades. There wasn't a standard back then.

> Having always used a standard british keyboard, the subtle differences, e.g. location of \, #, ", `, ~, really slow me down.

You can adjust to it pretty quickly.
What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

Do what startups do: create new opportunities, for both workers and customers, at competitive prices. It's what startups do.
Rates of homelessness:

US: 633782 / 314000000 => 202 homeless per 100,000

Finland: 7877 / 5363000 => 147 homeless per 100,000

Based off of numbers from (YMMV):

http://www.housingfirst.fi/en/housing_first/homelessness_in_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=population+of+usa+in+20...

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=population+of+finland+i...
Thanks for the awesome links!

> You just run multi-PV analysis and play moves to keep the intrinsic performance rating at the desired level.

I thought that "just" was funny – it reminds me of this comic[0].

[0]: http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/fault-tolerance.png
Thank God we're on Bitbucket! Right, guys? Anyone?
As GitHub queues up webhooks, we're bracing for impact at buddybuild! :)
Time to goto the park!
Even if they were NATed I'd assert they weren't safely hidden but that's a more obscure discussion.
Heh, talk about a negative feedback loop. DDOS propagating more DDOS....
Compressed representations in the age of big data
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775
Debian does use [0-3].debian.pool.ntp.org as the default NTP servers, however. Debian (and Ubuntu) also start up the NTP daemon as soon as the client is installed -- even before one has a chance to change those default servers.
A bitbucket license is $10. Paying $50 a month is redonk.
Men are people too.

I never said all people would suffer early deaths from retirement. For all I know, some people's lives may be prolonged.
Why do you assume they're not being penalized?

Showing that they rank above "timeanddate.com" doesn't mean a lot.
Facebook wants to beat Google. Mark thinks he can challenge the language Go first. Then his research team begins by studying a demo -- game Go.
Was your employer covered by the ADA? If they have more than 15 employees, you have a great EEOC case to get un-fired.
If someone impersonates your server, it can then pass the authentication request to the original, and gain full MITM without your knowledge. Yes, even if you use public key auth.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775
On the other hand, not all actions are decisions. There is plenty of actions we would classify as decisions which are application of rules instead. There is a clear rational path in application of rules. To clarify terminology, for me decisions are actions in response to intractable computationally challenges, e.g. will that couch fit in my living room (when I am in a store, where size calculations are hard in an unfamiliar context) etc. This could mean that your action is my decision if we are not equally capable of calculating based on rules.
I guess it depends on your definition of "reasonably transported" but options are opening up:

http://minifree.org/product/libreboot-d16/
The asymmetric value (producers need Google's favor more than consumers) leads to SEO as an industry, which in turn isn't always great for consumers. I can't remember which items off the top of my head, but every now and then I try to google a thing I'm not familiar with and it takes some effort to find results that aren't trying to sell me that thing.
Troubleshooting checklist:

1. Commit fails

2. Try again, see if it fails twice

3. Check internet connectivity

4. Try github in browser

5. Try github in a different browser

6. Go to HN to see if it's down for everyone

7. Write snarky comment

8. Go try again...
Process versus flexibility
Sheryl Sandberg Is Wrong: Silicon Valley Wants MBAs
Yup. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQX-ihDWoAA0lc7.jpg
What I find interesting is how everyone has already accepted that antioxidants are amazing against cancer. Now with this information will be resisted and fought, whether it is true or false.

Every health nut (or enthusiast) praised antioxidants and will hold on to the belief because they already believed it for so long.

We don't believe in facts, we believe in whatever advertisers have exposed to us everyday on tv, radio, internet, and so on.
Yeah, you guys were way too fast. The status page needs some minutes to update. :)
I've seen more than one prescription-drug commercial on TV that uses the fine print (sometimes even the voiceover!) to say "we don't know how or why this drug has the effects it does".
Are they associating unicorns with crashes on purpose? Is the same illuminati that controls our financial markets taking control of Github?
Duplicate post of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775
they want to be a 'unicorn' in VC speak
Damn right :-)
Does this have something to do with the constant DoS attacks they've been getting from a certain country for hosting certain open source projects that defy the censorship authority of said certain country?
Totally agree. We need to bring Industry to heel.
Ha. We're on BB too. Lucky for us, there hasn't be a problem with BB service for oh, about 6 hours [1]. :)

1. https://bitbucket.statuspage.io/
Player was crippled, to prompt purchase of Workstation.

Many people I know who were serious about managing their VMs virtual networks were using Virtual Box.
Maybe that was a kneejerk on my part. There are times its useful, and in the cold decontextualized space of "online" it can be hard to read. I just want to note it's also used as a kind of attack, often on things that, as the poster I was attempting to support noted, could be discovered with literally the time it takes to open another browser tab.
Whats your service level agreement?
Jwzlyrics – Jamie Zawinski's lyrics display app (with source)
OMG! PONIES!!!
Regardless, most dependencies are on GitHub which breaks bower install for most people. It's crazy how much infrastructure relies on this single point of failure.
>IMO the right solution is to get the government involved in distributing certain goods, not just handing out money to buy them. The state could guarantee free housing,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_S...
Because it has no context. But the title sounds interesting!

"New Harvard study reveals Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and how FDA cannot be trusted with public safety"
Huh, TIL. I always assumed that they meant that the errors themselves are unicorns because they rarely happen and even when they do, you usually don't see them.
This is new. Looks like github is still "working" when it's down.

$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 5, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 433 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Unexpected system error after push was received.
remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com!
remote: Your unique error code: 4fce1b2367b5304dd3761538b8fd0c23
To git@github.com:myrepo/myrepo.git
a62b7f1..e88431a master -> master
$ git push origin master
Everything up-to-date

Note: Values are fake, but message is real.
Reminds of the talk where a Github guy says, basically, we just push, push, push, and if something breaks we hear about it on twitter.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747, which was posted earlier and has the larger discussion.
High scores in video games are effectively meaningless. People still chase them.

IMO, dying with a lot of money is no sadder than devoting your life to packman. It's hard to think of being a CEO as a Hobby, but internally the rewards are similar to a guild leader.

People tend to attach a lot more meaning to cash than it really deserves. It's not a virtue, just a token of exchange and nothing more.
sadly, same
Luckily that came back up 5 or 10 minutes after the outage began. And they updated it with a down notice.

A side project of mine called StatusGator [1] monitors status pages and alerts you when something is posted on them. I built it to handle the use case that you're trying to diagnose an issue only to remember to check the status pages of your dependencies and notice that they are already working on it.

It's pretty useful for those services that keep their pages up to date. But not very useful in cases like this when it's not updated.

1. https://statusgator.io
Fortunately git is distributed and lets you work offline.
https://git-scm.com/about/distributed