skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had to look this up because I had no clue.

> Most of Sony's executives spends their winter vacation in Hawaii and play golf after celebrating new year. In one of those new year golf competitions back in 2001, " Steve Jobs and another Apple executive were waiting for us at the end of golf course holding VAIO running Mac OS" recalls Ando.[President of Sony at the time]

> Ando liked Apple. He always felt Mac and VAIO were so close in philosophy. He especially admired the original iMac introduced in 1998. But the timing was bad for Sony, it is just about the time, Sony's VAIO gained popularity and it is just about the time that VAIO team had finished optimizing both VAIO's hardware and software specifically for Windows platform.
Because of this, most of the VAIO team opposed asking 'if it is worth it.'
And that was the end of story for this Mac-compatible VAIO.

http://nobi.com/en/Steve%20Jobs%20and%20Japan/entry-1212.htm...
I think less reliance on clock time would be a good thing for the modern world, but I don't think getting rid of time zones would achieve that.

It's amazing how much of modern life is unnecessarily affected by the time on the clock. When daylight savings time rolls round in the UK you can make 60 million people change their schedule by an hour, and even miss an hour of sleep while doing so! Who would have thought the humble clock had such control over people?

In the modern world of plenty, why is it so incredibly rare to meet someone who goes to bed when they're tired and wakes up when they're not?
Yeah, I'm still advicing against using it on its own in general.
> People (and kids) survive wars and famines I'm sure we can handle a little bit of darkness.

I never claimed otherwise. To use your own rhetoric: People, including kids, survive wars and famines; I'm sure we can handle changing the clocks twice a year.

But to clarify my position, it's that when asked to choose between two hardships:

* Gain an hour of sleep every fall, lose an hour of sleep every spring

* Have an extra hour of morning darkness all winter long

...the majority chooses the first.
Good news: now that this broke through the noise I can relax on the shilling.

I assure you I am the person most relieved by this. ;)
Digits by Twitter is down
Can I ask why if you dislike LA so much you choose to be there?
The real problem is people who think that being slightly inconvenienced, say, by someone moving slower than they are on a sidewalk is somehow comparable to a driver who takes risks with the lives of everyone else around them in order to get to work a few minutes sooner.
We'll all have to go back to .plan files.
Allegiant.
What It’s Like Inside the World’s First Emoji Convention
Why is IRCv3 still relegating chat history to "IRC bouncers" instead of making it a feature of the protocol?

Chat history makes chat more usable, and it makes it usable at all on intermittent connections.
Doesn't look like a DNS issue this time. Something specific to Twitter specifically?
GET and POST are technically all you need, ie. "get representation of operation X", and "apply operation X to these arguments". It's a simple lambda calculus.

The other methods are merely optimisations to these core operations, and hence, entirely optional.
Side note: "hard fork" has a special meaning for Bitcoin and derivatives, but no meaning for a software fork. I've seen that phrase used several times in the comments though - is this a new trend?
Are there any pure-play free email providers?
Indeed the DNS seems alright. I am seeing broken routes to their load balancers from all of my testing sites (on opposite sides of the globe).
A bit suspicious right before the US election, maybe it's under attack.

We'll find out soon enough.
It is kind of weird but this site supposed to be their status page, right? Or this might be scam. Could somebody verify?

http://twitterstatus.tumblr.com/
I'm amazed that works, but don't do what they did. Use configuration profiles where possible.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles...
Said more clearly, declaring Crocker's Rules informs everyone else that they need not fear offending you if they wish to share controversial opinions.

E.g. an elderly person may declare Crocker's Rules during a discussion on the utility vs. cost of the elderly in society, such that younger people feel comfortable speaking openly against Medicare, etc.
Their own status site is showing wrong info: status.twitter.com

Don't even know what to say anymore.
Other than the doom and gloom, what is the standard practice in other paddy growing regions in Asia and India ?

If the state really wanted to help, they'd do well to believe their word is that of the God, and actively help with practices.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Crop-fires-already-...
status.twitter.com redirects to https://status.twitterstat.us/ which presumably is their official status page. Which, by the way, reports that all systems are operational.
Twitter is down globally
Parallel rendering in Rails
man perlvar

was always pretty easy to search & explained the real purpose of whatever goofy line noise people would use
Torus, a simple, secure "workspace for secrets"
There are so many point of failures in your descriptions I don't know where to begin.

- The network can be hacked;

- the client can be hacked;

- the server can be hacked;

- people managing the server can be corrupted or forced to do things;

- the system could have a subtile bug in either the client, server or network;

- the system could have a failure in either the client, server or network.

- how are persons suppose to be able to audit them ? Go to the server ? The network node ?

- how much time a citizen must spend studying the system before he or she can start to even begin to assess the sanity of it.

- how much time and persons to assess the entire system ?

There is NO WAY an average citizen can even start to comprehend the full extend of all that, if you couldn't even see all those problems.

Paper is simple. It sill can have it's problems, it's not perfect, but people can understand it and audit it quickly, easily, without being trained. It has less single point of failure, less complexity, more accessibility.

Technology is NOT the answer here.
Let's not forget this one! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna...
The error I'm seeing in Chrome is: www.digits.com’s server DNS address could not be found.

We're using Digits in an iOS app; it's down there too.
They went out of business.
Dial in to The Fiddlers Grove BBS for updates.
Speaking of smooth animations, the blog post is hosted on Medium, and I've always admired Medium's image zoom thing because it's so smooth!
Millennials to Snake People
Nothing at all.

But, in my experience, because of the limitations on how flexible the language is, a 3000 line python function which is edited by multiple people is usually more readable than a 3000 line perl one.
Twitter API is down. Just got alerts. That status page appears abandoned.
My acoustic coupler has been waiting its entire life for this moment.
Right after WikiLeaks released the last batch of DNC/Podesta/Clinton emails, the most damning ones...

Hmm...
Outages list [1] says routes aren't being announced via BGP anymore [2]

[1]: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

[2]: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2016-November/0098...
the 400lb hacker strikes again
Is that a lot? Nobody has actually died. Nobody has crashed.

US airlines are incredibly safe as a form of transit. An airline flying older planes will have more issues.

Someone will always have the most issues. I think it's cheap journalism to call them out without an actual compelling reason to think lives are at risk.
How can you quickly check DNS? Combination of Who.is / traceroute / ping / nslookup?
I also got redirected to some other odd status page. I failed to grab a screen cap before I lost the page.
WL is also down.
DNS is fine. Routes are gone. Seeing the same in Sydney and Dallas. Pretty worrying.
>Updated 16 days ago

That's pretty funny. What use is a status page that's updated that infrequently?
I like the website. Nice style. Interesting music. But why did you use an if-then-else statement and needlessly reassign task to task, where a simple if-then would have been sufficient to initialize task if undefined?
Yep. It's always good to know there's a [preexisting solution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol).

Queue hordes of people typing "man finger"...
If you are selling phones, Traffic /= market share. There is good reason to believe that iPhone users use more traffic. They are the premium phone and their users spend more. Similarly, app installs are also not market share for the same reason.

There is even an argument that handset sales isn't market share, that the only real measure is to survey some people to see exactly what phones they own and use. That's the only way to include old phones that aren't used for much other than making calls.
Wikileaks and 4chan also experiencing issues. Looks like a DDoS possibly connected to DNCleaks2 released by Wikileaks a few hours ago.
After claiming it a few hundred times, people have started to doubt it.
Trying to search "twitter ddos" on twitter and it's not loading...

Are there any alternatives? It kind of sucks that twitter can just go down and there's really nothing to replace it.
Wonderful to see more CC0 use compared to a lot of "free" art on the internet that burdens the users with keeping track of attribution requirements and including the license text and all that tediousness.
I live in Japan and laptops here are real expensive. Macbooks are not much more than similar-spec'd windows laptops (well until the newest generation came out). I wanted a decent windows machine with a dedicated video card and was looking at $1700 (for something I could get on sale in the US for $1200 from Dell).
dig is always helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_(command)
Actually, in ETHIOPIA, it already is 13 MONTHS always!

https://encrypted.google.com/#newwindow=1&q=ethiopia+13+mont...

I was shocked, being a visitor here, when sometime about a month ago, we celebrated new year (after the 13th month), while the rest of the world was in the middle of the Gregorian calendar!
Wikileaks is down also, coincidence?
I just tried to look at this to see BGP activity: https://twitter.com/bgpstream?lang=en
"SMS was originally a popular way to use Twitter."

I use SMS->tweet all the time. There is also a set of commands you can use over SMS to talk to twitter. [0] Doing so makes more sense (to me) as SMS is a reliable protocol over mobile networks.

[0] https://support.twitter.com/articles/14020
I actually made my Twitter available through finger a while back, just for fun. (finger david@gloveraoki.net) Ironically, as it is cached, it still works!
What, specifically, is damning?
It's an amazing place to visit but not live long-term.

If you stay here long enough, you'll slowly start to go crazy. Unless you are part of the 'expat' crew then I guess maybe it's tolerable.
Just as I was sending something to Katie Couric, too.
I'm a Christian and I love this post, but this part:

> There is often a big difference between being nice and being good.

... made me all giddy as a philosophy major :)
Give it an hour before posting this...its back up for me 16 minutes later.
Really?

Why would you update it if nothing is happening....
The Curious Case of Finding Answers on the Internet
I should hope so ...
Very possible, a few places are already predicting it.

All the major news stations would love that scenario. Each station gets to broadcast the news they want to say without that pesky little social media providing information that may counter what they are saying.
As others have said, Apple has a very strong presence in Japan. If I go to an electronics store, usually half the models on display are Apple. Panasonic and Fujitsu pretty much rule the desktop with bizarre television/computer fusions. Imagine a TV about the thickness of one of the old plasma TVs. It usually has a stand, but I think you can also wall mount it. You can watch and record TV on them, so they are basically consumer devices.

For laptops, the biggest brand (other than apple) is probably Asus (based on retail floor space ;-) ). Sony, Panasonic, Fujitsu and Toshiba pretty much share the rest. Toshiba is apparently exiting the market soon, though. From my perspective, it seems that the market is split between very high end, large format, desktop-replacement machines and tiny machines. There is not very much in the middle. I live in the countryside, though. It is very possible I don't see the interesting models where I live.

When I worked at a high school, all of the machines were actually Dell. It surprised me greatly.

One thing that most people don't realise is that Japanese electronics are expensive compared to the rest of the world. If you have high end purchases (like a computer), you can fly to Korea and the money you save will pay for the flight, easily. Especially with the insanely high yen, American machines are also a pretty good deal.

I like to support the local economy, but when Toshiba exits, I might be stuck finding the kind of machine I like to use.
As far as I know, v3 features are already in use on some servers.

e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687798

There's also an IRCv3 section on blog.irccoud.com but I can't access it from here.
They're way outside the expected amount for a US airline. I'm curious what the comparison would look like internationally. But still, part of keeping air travel safe is enforcing safety and maintenance standards.

I'm really glad this newspaper wrote this article! It's exactly the type of investigative story I think can be really valuable.
The thing most major disasters involving human built things have in common is that it is often a series of failures. An 'alignment of the planets' where everything happens to fall in to place and that string of 1-s comes up on the cosmic die to let you die.

What this article is covering is how much closer, by a wide margin, Allegiant's running to that result than other airlines in the US.
Indeed, why? I work at a medium sized company, a modicum of data, no particular idea what a "data engineer" would do for us. Most midsize-co "data engineering" positions I see could be filled by any software engineer of reasonable caliber. Huge-co data engineering is the land of specialists, but otherwise don't see a reason for a "hiring spree".
Wait, I'm in Ohio and I am able to log on...and I see tweets from others from a minute ago. Is this only for the West coast?

EDIT: I just tweeted...
https://twitter.com/noobermin/status/795510255333556224
I had a product idea for a status page that would switch "Degraded service" whenever people started checking it.
Currently regional. Inaccessible from US west coast; seeing responses from web requests from machines on east coast (nyc)
Release a huge pile of emails no one will have time to vet, the day before an election, after millions have already voted. A fiendishly diabolical plan, Mr. Assange!

Check, mate, and match!
Yep, i'm no expert, but a BGP looking glass seems to suggest that all of the best paths (chosen by AS pathlength?) are not being advertised to peers... But some routes are being advertised? Idk

Router: Palo Alto, CA - US
Command: show ip bgp 104.244.42.193

BGP routing table entry for 104.244.42.0/24
Versions:
Process bRIB/RIB SendTblVer
Speaker 261897778 261897778
Last Modified: Nov 7 06:11:36.675 for 00:02:37
Paths: (4 available, best #3)
Advertised to update-groups (with more than one peer):
0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7
Advertised to peers (in unique update groups):
129.250.47.126 129.250.9.146 128.242.180.62 80.150.168.193
128.241.2.58

Path #1: Received by speaker 0
Not advertised to any peer
13414 13414
116.51.31.10 (metric 14530) from 129.250.0.18 (129.250.0.18)
Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal
Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0
Community: 2914:370 2914:1405 2914:2406 2914:3400 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134

Path #2: Received by speaker 0
Not advertised to any peer
13414 13414
62.73.183.110 (metric 28640) from 129.250.0.30 (129.250.0.30)
Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal
Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0
Community: 2914:370 2914:1204 2914:2205 2914:3200 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134

Path #3: Received by speaker 0
Advertised to update-groups (with more than one peer):
0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7
Advertised to peers (in unique update groups):
129.250.47.126 129.250.9.146 128.242.180.62 80.150.168.193
128.241.2.58
13414 13414
129.250.195.210 (metric 7029) from 129.250.0.115 (129.250.0.167)
Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal, best, group-best
Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 1, version 261897778
Community: 2914:370 2914:1007 2914:2000 2914:3000 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134
Originator: 129.250.0.167, Cluster list: 0.0.0.6

Path #4: Received by speaker 0
Not advertised to any peer
13414 13414
129.250.195.210 (metric 7029) from 129.250.0.116 (129.250.0.167)
Origin IGP, localpref 120, valid, confed-internal
Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 0, version 0
Community: 2914:370 2914:1007 2914:2000 2914:3000 65400:4134 65420:4134 65460:4134
Originator: 129.250.0.167, Cluster list: 0.0.0.6

edit: sorry about formatting, i've tried to clean it up.
Policies that encourage internships and entry level recruitment of young workers. Policies that encourage the supply of child care, schools, university access and other services to support families. Access to family medical insurance.
New Macbook Pro TouchBar for Testing
Your anchor tags are using curly quotes, so external links aren't working.
They all seem back up now.
There is NO census data that supports the Delhi metro being 22 million people!

Here is the link to the official Indian census data:

http://www.census2011.co.in/census/city/49-delhi.html

which states:

"As per provisional reports of Census India, population of Delhi in 2011 is 11,034,555; of which male and female are 5,882,117 and 5,152,438 respectively. Although Delhi city has population of 11,034,555; its urban / metropolitan population is 16,349,831 of which 8,750,834 are males and 7,598,997 are females."

That is not 22 million or 25 million, it is 16.3 million!

The population of Texas is an order of magnitude more in population. So yeah the OP was wrong.

Please substantiate your claim of otherwise with actual data.

Source:

http://www.census2011.co.in/census/city/49-delhi.html
…Just curious, have you ever used any of Perl(5), Python, or Ruby before?

If I had to guess, ‘foo.IO.words’ probably turns ‘foo’ into an IO object of some sort and then reads words. (Whether it reads the whole file into a string and splits that into words, or if it just reads the next word generator/iterator-style is not especially relevant.) An error throws an exception, like it would in Python or Ruby ‘open('dict.txt')’.

Also I kinda doubt that ‘loop over lines and split them into words’ is more readable than ‘.words’ which presumably does exactly what it says on the tin.

A word is probably defined by either \b or UAX #29. (And since IIRC one of the goals of Perl6 is good support for Unicode, \b hopefully uses the word boundary algorithm in that appendix.)
They did that to break the control of the church, to do away with sundays. I've run into a couple people who still support the concept. I know one ardent atheist who doesn't like that we name days after Norse gods. Similarly, when I lived in the middle east some chuckled at the concept of an Islamic nation using pagan names on calenders. They don't want a 10-hour day, but both want to break from the old dogma.
Well, except wikileaks. 502.
From their Facebook, "WikiLeaks servers are currently under a massive targeted DDoS attack"

https://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/posts/1145935365441574
"works on my machine"

although, http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ reports it as down

Edit: I'm from Romania
https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/06/macbook-pro-touch-bar-any-mac...
It's back now. Panic over.
It's back already. Calm down.
I get a 502 for Wikileaks but consensus is there's no BGP announcements for twitter. Possible it's the same attacker but they seem to be two different attacks.
Same here. Could read that tweet perfectly fine... Weird.
Routes are back!

Bit of a BGP blip there. Nothing to worry about. It's not like anyone's been practising attacks on fundamental Internet infrastructure.
I'll take the current MacBook Pro, if it's maxed out on RAM and has enough SSD. But that's for work, not personal use.

For personal use, since my current MacBook Pro is already maxed out on RAM and SSD, I'll most likely wait until 2017 before I seriously consider upgrading. There just wouldn't be enough bang for the mega bucks.
Same here, AU.
Bulletproof BMW used to rescue dozens from ISIS in Iraq
Curious how that would work on 443, given that the whole point of SSL is that you can't recognize the payload as...well, anything.
From Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/5bjhwx/wikileaks... ):

> CNN colluding with DNC over questions to ask Trump. Apr 2016

> https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/25846

> https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/25284

> Here's another one for Cruz:

> https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/23554

Sure, these are not the end of the world, but... They are documented proof that CNN and Dems colluded.

BTW, did you notice that I also mentioned "DNC" and "Clinton" emails?

Here are the new DNC emails:
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=%40releasedate+%222016-1...

Oh, and they dumped the whole Podesta file: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/podesta-emails/
Sure, but "society adjusts" works both ways: Society also adjusts to turning the clocks back and forth.

The question isn't whether society can adjust, but rather which society prefers: winter morning sunlight or not changing clocks.

If two people come to opposite conclusions on that point (as you and I do), there's really nothing left to do but agree to disagree.
Wikileaks was briefly down.
Then Twitter went down for a bit ( just checked now).

Reddit, yc, Netflix, I had no issues
It's color scheme just completely changed.
I can still get to it from Singapore, and you all aren't missing anything.
They shut it down. Afraid of late night Trump Twitter Rant.
Plus, Alicia Machado was seen eating at Chipolte this weekend. Trump very angry. (Alicia--you are, and have always looked great. I honestly don't know what Trump was talking about.)
List of jobs people overlook, but can start within one week
All back up now.
you forget that some of us are lazy..
wikileaks up for me.
DNC could have gone open source at anytime.

They choose not to.
"Attribute ic-get-from not allowed on element div at this point."

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fintercoolerjs....
I'm in Europe and it also seems offline from here ATM.

Edit: it's up again
Twitter is definitely down, I just read about it on #twitterdown
Interactive zero knowledge 3-colorability demonstration
So poor blokes know the status is up to date and not frozen for the last couple of weeks.

Really, how hard is it to update the date?
You just need to get used to it. I live in Rome, Italy and everytime the light goes green there are usually a few bikes around you that will rush off, so you know to properly check around you before you move. Here even cars split lanes, and its mostly not a problem.
So now that Twitter's back up, here's a message for everyone in this thread that claimed it was a coordinated attack or somehow premeditated:

Take a look at yourself in the mirror. Take a good long look. You're part of the problem. You are the fuel that drives the fear engine. Get a grip, go outside or something. You weak-minded simpleton. Christ.
Twitter is working when proxied through Europe. Not working on the west coast of the US.
Thank you for this. I went and read the article anyway, but this title is absolute garbage.
I tend to give twitter a lot of crap, but it's one of my gotos for finding out what is happening during an attack. Not in this case.