skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible to install npm packages that are hosted on GitHub: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17509764/889864
So the browsers need to do a secure request to a server of a registrar for each connection? Even assuming you cache the result, latency has just been shot. And what if those servers are down, or slow, or under DoS attack? And what about EV certs?
The Git backend is different from the GitHub frontend, unsurprisingly.
I was getting plain-old 500 errors, which is what brought me here
You learn something every day, but thanks to this site I learnt 100 things today :)

Here is the list: http://qi.epfl.ch/en/sondage/list/
Or a local cache of dependencies
Doesn't look like DDoS, maybe they deployed some dodgy code?
They just now managed to get "effecting" changed "affecting", so there's hope!
It's quite possible that some clients will find grounds to sue if something serious is proven.
What would that look like? Can you describe it? It's not very useful to say stuff without providing some sort of useful idea. You can't just say "someone should write some sort of stupid content tracker, and give it some random three-letter combination that is pronounceable," or whatever.
Any game that involves NLP or difficult CV is still not really doable.

Have you ever played Diplomacy?
More like learn to be a wealthy, elite, and well-connected.

These founders are as privileged as Bill Gates but totally lacking his work ethic and sincere passion. They're pedigreed out the ass, so those involved (including themselves) think they're actually good. In fact they just seem like they should be.

So the VCs keep pumping more and more money into them, knowing that at least people won't blame them so much when they fail, given how elite the founders are. It's easier to keep funding them than to admit you were fooled. That's the mystery behind why they burn through such huge quantities of money.
It is true that's what 99% of us will see/do. But that doesn't change a basic fact about good engineer - being able to solve "yet unknown/unsolved class of problems" and not just be able to solve "JUST yet unsolved problems". Plumbing is generally about solving "JUST yet unsolved problems" whereas engineering is about the former. Yes, good engineers will also be (will have to be) good plumbers and that's where the 10x thing comes into play in a big way.
Not laws? Those are section numbers from the US Code of Federal Regulations. Are you trying to point at the distinction between civil and criminal law?
GitHub Experiencing Significant Network Disruption
I find the idea that we are not going to see any more life-changing technological advances quite unpersuasive. New technology usually comes from scientific advances, and science in many fields is advancing rapidly.

I can think of at least four radical technological changes that might flow from new science, ones that would make people of the future look back in horror at at how we live today.

1) Ways of curing or eliminating the main health problems we have today, such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and infectious diseases

2) Doubling the human life span

3) Greatly increasing the intelligence of the average person

4) Establishing mass colonies in space and moving much of the population there.

I'm sure HN readers can think of other plausible advances.
The moment I saw XBOX I knew that list was suspect. And according to Ballmer even the Azure numbers are cooked.
> having to be there some hours before your flight, the level of security screening

for inner-european flights those aren't big issues. security is basically walking through a metal detector and you don't really have to wait for hours either.

wifi can be an issue though.
This is amazing I didn't even realize.
In a real world this is even more critical: you don't want, for example, your car brakes to fail because of OOM.
All of the RCTs conclude that there is no evidence that removing unsymptomatic wisdom teeth is beneficial:

http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/evidence/intervent...

Given the major surgery involved, it seems best avoided. I have had two impacted wisdom teeth for over 20 years with no problems (using good dental hygiene).
Grammar police are on the job- everyone can calm down... Unless the grammar police are the REASON for the outage. Mother should I trust the government?
sigh Many moons ago when I was a starry-eyed lad just learning to use Git, I remember all the cheerful sentences in the Git book like "Unlike SVN, with Git you can work even when the server is down!"

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
You are being pedantic.

People have learned to communicate heuristics which is very useful for beginning players. A grand master may not be able to communicate nuances of the game to low level players, but they do benefit from working in groups which suggests they can share reasons for a given move not just propose moves and have other independently evaluate them.

So, while people can't map out the networks of neurons that actually made a given choice, we can effectively communicate reasons for a given move.
First time I saw that logo was on this Android ROM, I wonder which used it first?

http://aokp.co/

(they're using a different but similar image now, but they used to use that exact same logo)
I once ran rm -rf in the production mysql data directory.

Shit happens.
also espruino (http://www.espruino.com/) and tessel (https://tessel.io/) (Tessel 1, not 2)
Hell yes.

I may be biased since I'm a founder of a 100% distributed company, but I feel the value of working from home every.single.day and I know my employees do too. Midday naps and gym visits, not feeling bad wandering out of the office for a break, getting to be just as productive when at home. No commute.

The modern office is a scam and a relic from the fifties and we are only now able to break free from its chains.
Skynet fights with lumbering robots and doesn't seem all that smart. If you want a picture to symbolize what we're worried about, don't imagine a picture of a Terminator robot with glowing red eyes; imagine a picture of the Milky Way with a 30,000-lightyear-diameter sphere gapped out of it, centered on Earth's former position.
Don't forget how everything is over-regulated nowadays. Anything you do that's too different will probably run afoul of some law. For example, the Intrade shutdown.
No, that is not what I mean at all.

It makes it worse by making it less painful for the status quo to continue forward. Currently, women are making a great many hard choices in order to stop the pain of being poor because society does not want to hire them, promote them, etc for "men's work" while expecting us to continue to "care" without compensation. Give women what amounts to permanent welfare and a lot of them will not make the hard choices involved in questioning the status quo and trying to find another answer.

There are plenty of examples of populations given some kind of permanent welfare. They never result in some sort of golden era. They result in people who are overweight, out of shape, demoralized, with no goals or aspirations.
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have only used ImageMagick lightly, for e. g. resizing or merging simple bitmaps, and I never found it lacking. However, I recognize that there are users who need more.
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"
Homeostasis is why reducing dietary cholesterol doesn't do squat either. Reduce your intake and your body just makes more.
That's a weird change of subject, a weird distortion of what tptacek said, and weirdly personal to boot.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984185 and marked it off-topic.
I have a page hosted on Google Sites. It seems that Google Sites doesn't support HTTPS on custom domains either.
To be fair, you know all that in advance and its not difficult to avoid being charged.
To clarify, you don't want to suffer an MITM attack; that's just the current standard way of finding the captive portal login page. I believe the Wi-Fi Alliance is working on Hotspot 2.0 (Passpoint) to fix this problem:

http://www.theruckusroom.net/2014/10/hotspots-get-hotter-wit...

Briefly, it looks like there's a secure (WPA2) hotspot for internet access and an associated open hotspot if you need to sign up for an account (with a published signup URL).
The CFR is made up of regulations. Usually when people refer to "laws" in a U.S. context they are referring to statutes.
Russia? China? Is it forbidden to state the country?
Good thing we've got mirrors, and don't depend on GitHub for releases. Still, we interact with our customers through GitHub and use it heavily in our workflow. Productivity is impacted if not stopped.
GitHub is Down #status update
GitHub is Down
GitHub is completely down at the moment. The single point of failure that creeps into many processes is noteworthy enough to make the news each time it falls over.
pushes have been working for the past 10-15 minutes... pulls for 5-10 minutes.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20system

Full Definition of solar system
: the sun together with the group of celestial bodies that are held by its attraction and revolve around it; also : a similar system centered on another star
It works as long as the land isn't effectively free.

The theorem's theoretical basis is pretty spherical-cow: a government that governs land centered on a single point with people trying to minimize distance to the space. (Which is to say, it models best to the idea of a city-state rather than a federal government.)
It seems the more we learn about the object out there, the more varied they appear, and the clearer it becomes that our naming conventions are completely arbitrary.
...graph is shocking, it's like somebody pulled the plug out.
I wonder if it's China again.
As a workaround, I can add all of you to my company's GitHub Enterprise install. It's only ~$2,500/year per 10 users, so I can just expense it.
Can someone explain this to people who don't use bower?
Is there a good way to quantify that?
Oh! i see! So you are the guy that DDoSed github by downloading Ember!
I see you got your centralization in my decentralized protocol.
Storage != Networking.

Storage is an end-point. You can control almost all the variables inside. Networking is in the middle. You can control almost none of the variables.
What are differnt kind of SW Testing
This is a frequent pitfall in video game AI - people go into it thinking the AI's goal is to win, then learn the hard way that the AI's goal should be to lose in an interesting way.

Nobody says that the red koopa in Super Mario Bros. has bad AI.
When I was 21, my dentist wanted to remove my wisdom teeth. I asked him why, he said "because wisdom teeth are difficult to clean and you'll likely lose them by age 30 anyway because of that." I replied that since they were healthy now, I'd wait and see, and got a new dentist.

I'm 56 now and my wisdom teeth are still there and still healthy.
Github Pages still working though.
Actually, minimaxir, when the stories first broke a few months ago, it was the rare case where VCs and SV insiders did criticize publicly. Google Ventures (bill Maris), e.g. I can dig up the other examples too.
I wish they say more than

> We're investigating a significant network disruption affecting all github.com services.
Federal regulations (created by the executive) are technically different from statutes (created by legislators), but there can certainly be criminal penalties for violating them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that were the case here, given the public safety implications of medical testing.

The letter says that Theranos must provide "acceptable evidence of correction documenting that the immediate jeopardy has been removed". "Has been" is past tense, so Theranos really is required to fix the problems (at least the most serious ones) in ten days, not just plan to fix them.
Completely agree. But whoever makes it, they should make it free and open source and designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Additionally, it should be easy to learn and have a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. It should outclass SCM tools like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and ClearCase with features like cheap local branching, convenient staging areas, and multiple workflows.
If anything self driving cars will be most disruptive in trucking and delivery and in the process destroy the economy of middle america [1]. As for everyone having an on demand car, it has been stated here a number of times that most people still all need to get to work around the same time. If anything, automation and robots are a race to the bottom if we stick with capitalism in its current form.

[1] https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-goin...
He was just cloning stuff and it failed mid-way.
Just the other day there was a discussion about "go get" and what would happen in the case of a Github outage. Sigh...
Simply that moving the TV exposes it to a different localized magnetic field -- just like a compass inside a building. This could also be the result of moving around big loudspeakers near the TV (especially if they aren't magnetically shielded).

Built-in degaussing circuits fire when you turn on the TV presumably because (a) it disrupts the image, so best to do it at turn-on than randomly while you are watching, and (b) because you are unlikely to move the TV while it's on.
In the UK my dentist said its up to me. They don't recommend it any more but are happy to do it if you want.

Mine do catch a fair bit of food and get minor infections relatively frequently (maybe every three months they hurt for a few days). I want them out but don't want to go through the process.
I just really hope they honor their code of conduct while they're investigating this.
I am nearly certain that's not true in the majority of circumstances. Cab drivers are generally self employed and issued 1099s not W2s.
Why Economists Ignore Much of Rich People's Income
It depends on the language. TypeScript is basically JavaScript with added bits. Unity compiles to JavaScript, but it does so through a crazy chain of C# -> CIL (via Mono) -> C++ (via il2cpp) -> JavaScript (via Emscripten). And then remember that your browser then converts that JavaScript to assembly. Holy convoluted toolchain, batman.
I can barely begin to imagine what you've been thru, I was evicted from a flat once and that was incredibly stressful - but we had a support network and were helped out and got back on our feet. This is one of the reasons I feel viscerally that Basic Income is important - it would have made a massive impact in working thru this.

Yes, as a society we don't value that kind of work that traditionally women have done the majority of - child rearing for example. Maybe as a single dad I can now have some empathy or appreciation of that, that I wouldn't have otherwise as a middle class white male.

Looking after my kid and making paintings have probably been the most useful things I've ever done - neither of them paying anything, unlike programming work which does provide an income. I have to wonder what more useful things I could have spent my time doing, rather than some projects which paid ok, but were unlikely to be of much use to anyone.

I can relate to some of your comments - when I see people who want an Uber clone developed, or who think programmers should get 5 bucks an hour because they enjoy their work anyway.. or who dont understand how much skill it takes to draw a plausible figure, who think a one off oil painting should cost 70 bucks. But then these people are using apps that cost 20 million bucks to develop but are free to use, or they can buy a print for 30 bucks and a chinese replica for 150..

There are some economists and even politicians who have been talking about the value of all the work that is done which is not paid for - value and money don't match up, in many cases. I hadnt seen the term 'emotional labor metafilter' but I'd heard of the concept [ as I listen to people like Piketty, Paul Krugman, Elizabeth Warren and lately Bernie Sanders ]

My hope is that a Basic Income might be a way of partly fixing this flaw [where real work is undervalued], rather than entrenching it - if the free market is not efficient enough to pay you for the useful work you are doing, basic income might at least cover the cost of living.

Its not a solution to every ill.. teachers will probably still be paid less than their true worth, stay at home parents will probably still have to sacrifice a lot of income. It wont solve sexism, racism, ageism .. but it might alleviate some of the worst symptoms, some of the current pain ?

Maybe the government service is in fact BI, because it covers so many special cases where individuals can do useful work, that the government wont ever be able to implement an overall program ?

> No one should be expected to live in poverty on an allotment of Basic Income while taking care of others. It is a shitty, shitty expectation.

I agree.. but I assume the Basic Income is more than being poor, that it was high enough to cover living expenses so that you are free to function without stress.

So the question is how much should BI be - equivalent to 15 bucks an hour ? 25 an hour ? Should the minimum wage be set at the same level as BI ? Location dependent on average rent ?
Increases in life span due to medical technology have been rapidly plateauing as the low-hanging fruit is picked. Medical technology has yet to make any impact on human intelligence. And physics has been brutally unyielding in making space colonization impractical for close to a century now.

That is not to say they'll never happen, but rather that those things are so out in the horizon as to be beyond the dividing line between prediction and speculation.
Get em' removed when if (when) they become a problem.
I still have mine. My Dad got his removed when he was 50-something. He says that it's a lost easier to clean behind the teeth, and that he used to have gum growth over the wisdom teeth before along with bleeding as a result, which is no longer a problem.
Can't tell if your serious or not but I suppose that would be properly implemented git.
My thoughts exactly. I'm in my 30's, I've never had dental problems and every time I go to a dentist and he suggests to remove my wisdom teeth, I change to another dentist.

These teeth exist for a reason, and mine - luckily - were developed in a perfectly straight way in line with the rest of my teeth. Suggesting to remove them seems just ridiculous to me and a greedy way for the dentist to make some hundreds of euros extra by butchering me off.
So, in this case, it looks like github isn't acting as a version control server, but rather a static server... It turns out that github isn't just a single point of failure for some application, but rather multiple points of failure for slightly different reasons...
If this happens often enough maybe my company will start using their Enterprise install
I agree. I think it's fine to wait till you're getting issues from your wisdom teeth before thinking about removing it. If it costs nothing to delay a major surgery by a day, you should do it.
I'm truly sorry to hear that.

I don't see why narcolepsy should be a problem, especially in our area. I mean sure, meetings and stuff like that might be harder to do, but our industry is/should be lenient to things like office hours. There have been tons of times where I go to the office at "late hours" (e.g. 1+ PM), and as long as I turn in my deliverables on time (or let my lead know I won't be able to), there is no issue.

So again, very sorry to hear that.

Also, if I may, I would like to give you the following suggestion.

What about, instead of porting something and then writing about it for the PR, why not take the lowest hanging fruit you can find and do some local web dev/mobile dev, even if you only get a small fraction of the money you need each month.

I am saying this not without reason. I have a friend that is doing bad financially, and doing only one gig that got him around 1k USD (different country and situation of course, but at the current exchange rate, it's about that amount) gave him some hope.

And the thing is that he got a big relief when he saw with his own eyes that he could basically turn code into money. Not enough money necessarily, but at least some amount. That in turn lowered his stress and things started to look less bleak.

Just to tell a bit of his situation: he has kids and a wife that for medical reasons as well, can't work, so he is the sole wage earner at home. His job is very likely going to end soon, and has about 1 month runway.

So just in case you check back the comments, and if you are willing to take some random advice from a random guy on the Internets, why not try this? Just take a gig, very very simple one you can find through friends, your local laundromat/liquor store/etc, family, that consists of doing a simple but sleek-looking webpage or something very low hanging-fruity, and after you get your first few bucks, rinse and repeat.

Hopefully the boost in morale will be enough to get you to try maybe a bigger gig, etc, or at least buy you some time while you get to find another job.

Sorry if this is of no use to you, since I know that this route might not afford you the medical care you need and that definitely sucks. But I truly feel you and I was hoping I could chip in at least a very very minor idea in case it's helpful in any way.

Not sure what else to say except to try to keep going as hard as you can, and that I can definitely lend an ear if you are so inclined (let me know and I can send you an email or something). If not, I sincerely hope things get better soon.
Fair enough. Do you think informal discussions benefit from a focus on thematic engagement, rather than logical minutiae?
Thank you for doing this. This is truly the kind of thing the tech industry needs to be doing in order to make a net positive impact on society and promote a more agile, results-based social super-structure.

EDIT: So many of the comments here are obviously ideology driven. I am ideologically in favor of full automation and UBI but doing this kind of research will help us move forward in an informed and scientific way.
Maybe, but they have their own storage lines, and have been investing heavily in OpenStack.

HPE may have been free'd from some restrictions, but I think many would have drawn HP-EDS-Compaq-Digital comparisons, and rightly so.
I enjoy remote work and dislike the stigma it has with some people. I hear a lot of "everyone else deals with it!" when you mention the (significant) time you save on getting ready and commuting each morning, and some people are suspicious that remote workers slack off because they're not in an office.
Paul Rudd schools Stephen Hawking in a game of quantum chess
Developers: "I can't get any work done because GitHub is down!"

Linus Torvalds: [facepalm]
The sections listed don't cover acceleration structures. Thats critical to performance on scenes of any complexity. Otherwise it looks like a decent introduction.
I had the exact same thought.
I haven't written about it in detail, no. It's been long enough that it doesn't hurt when I think about it anymore. Maybe I'll jot some words down and share with them y'all.
So you seem to have just contradicted yourself. You said before that the storytelling experience is consciousness. Now you are saying there are other kinds of subjective experience that are also consciousness. Why are we conscious of them?