skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what do you mean when you say "exoneration of the conscience"? it's an interesting phrase that can be taken many ways.

i also loved les miserables, and took the story to be an implication of the state: of law & order and it's imperfections and corruptibilities. of how right and wrong aren't forever attached to labels, titles, persons, or any of the other mental shortcuts we take in our daily judgements.

it's really interesting to see how this dichotomy continues to play out in the current political environment. some people believe we are safer when we lock up criminals and thugs, to separate our good selves from those bad selves, to harshly punish in the hopes of instilling order in the world. yet we are each but a single mistake away from crossing that divide into a label we would never apply to ourselves. it goes against our own ego to understand that we are, in the same person, at times lawful and at other times lawless, and the application of justice against that backdrop is often neither fair nor just.
Could you give a specific example of how typical data (ie internet browsing records) could be exploited by a politician? Will they arrest me? Tax me? Publicly shame me for reading the New York Times?
That's not what I've seen. I misconfigured my auto-billing and got paged in the middle of the night by nodes mysteriously disappearing, but they released those machines minutes after my CC went through. Not that I'm a big fan of OVH but if you design your system to allow for failure you can't match their value for money.
> since network, cpu's, and memory sizes are going to continue to improve.

As the article mentions, the drastic speed improvement that JIT gave us let us build even bigger, more complex web apps. Maybe things will continue to get bigger and more complex and we'll need wasm, or maybe wasm will allow us to build apps not possible now.

> I've found that even the most aggressively minified uber-scripts can be pretty printed and studied.

I haven't found this to be the case. Most minifiers rename variables to one-letter, which makes any moderately-complex web app unreadable, or at least not very fun. Furthermore, I don't think that technically requiring source-code distribution for execution is really the solution - Open Source is a social problem at root, not technical.

I, for one, welcome the possibilities.
it would appear that you are correct

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates." https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
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> But will I someday be prosecuted for the news articles I read or the songs I listen to or my amazon purchases or my google searches?

The fear is not of being prosecuted. It is of not being prosecuted. Never having your day in court. Being put on watch lists and "no fly" lists without any recourse. No way to examine the evidence against you. The fear is not a orwellian world, the fear is a world driven by kafkaesque bureaucracy. You are right that privacy may not always protect us from violence, but it will protect us from indifferent and abusive bureaucracy.

See: 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565)
Which sites are down because of S3 outage?
Amazon: The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates.

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
Now might be a good time to ponder a lasting solution. Clearly, we cannot trust AWS, or any other single provider, to stay up. What is the shortest, quickest to implement, path to actual high availability?

You would have to host your own software which can also fail, but then at least you could do something about it. For example, you could avoid changing things during critical times of your own business (e.g. a tradeshow), which is something no standard provider could do. You could also dial down consistency for the sake of availability, e.g. keep a lot of copies around even if some of them are often stale - more often than not this would work well enough for images.
SmugMug,
Trello,
Voluum,
Basecamp, BackPack, Campfire
iCloud Backup,
Buffer,
Some people do, and a lot of other people are genuinely having a rough go.
Ahah, thanks for that -- I thought it was pretty clever, but it's hard to explain why to someone :-)

If you look closer, you can see I've actually repurposed the main interpreter core, and uses a GNU awk (of all thing) to extract each opcode emulation 'meat', converts it to a string to and that string is used by the translator to generate the C for tcc...
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Maybe too late for these specific examples, but figure out how to use their existing tech to take over new markets as they pop up. They currently have all their eggs in one, low margin product.

They should have been able to release, for example, competitive offerings against Disqus, Signal, and Slack.
HN is a bubble for sure, but that may not be the reason why low-code tools are not discussed. Suffice it to say that my interest got less and less piqued with every single word in the URL you provided (I was already biased against it before even reading the report), and I couldn't get past the first few pages in the PDF before feeling bored.

I recently was looking for Java based open sourced wiki software for intranets. And I read about this software called LifeRay. To most people on these forums, LifeRay is not particularly interesting (based on searching HN for LifeRay related submissions and seeing how many comments a submission gets). The market size for LifeRay might be quite large, I don't know, but it is just not the kind of tech that people are excited enough to comment about. For example, I am fairly sure no one is going to go and read about LifeRay just because they read this blurb.

There are many different reasons for the lack of excitement as I am sure you can imagine. But the echo chamber is not the cause of the lack of discussion. Some topics are not just interesting enough, and probably never will be.
Looks like SoundCloud is hosting the tracks on S3 , can't program without my music...
I disagree, 90 days is sufficient time to work offline with the reporting entity. If they cannot come to agreement in 90 days what is another <arbitrary amount of time> going to matter? It just further extends what they are already doing, not prioritizing it.
Is us-east-2 (Ohio) any better (minus this aws-wide S3 issue)?
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"Amazon CloudFront: Service is operating normally"

This is bullshit if you're using an S3 origin in your distribution.
Does anyone have trouble with the Cloud Console? The JS assets for the CloudFront dashboards seem broken, so unfortunately it’s not possible to change the behaviours of the Distributions (e.g. to point them to another bucket)
(Disclaimer: I work for AWS.)

The dashboard is not changing color due to the S3 issue. We're updating the banner in place of that.

Edit: Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue.

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Amazon has metrics so they can tell a story, not so they can measure things.

As a cute example, one of their senior people (in a stats heavy role) couldn't explain how they'd detect if people wanted to be able to automatically order socks and tshirts on a buying cycle outside of what I call the "scheduling horizon", eg every 3-6mos. (Things I need regularly, but sparsely enough it doesn't stand out to do proactively -- eg, I buy socks when they all have holes, not on a reasonable replacement cycle.)
Google calls ‘time’ on the Pixel laptop
I got all these things right with Sublevel. It‘s like someone read my mind. Including 7, people can donate any amount so I can verify their real identity. At 1, I cut costs down to $75/year.
That works in the vendor's favor in the short term, but can screw them in the long term because you get staff who go the extra mile to avoid the vendor in the future, including structuring requirements to avoid them.

For example, by experience and gossip I know Wind stream has awful reliability, but they handwave that away. By including a requirement I knew they couldn't meet (dynamic E911), they were knocked out of a 200 site VoIP RFP early.
In the military, a warehouse fire or equivalent suddenly generates a ton of "backdated transfer requests" showing that various stock had been sent to the warehouse just previously!
I'm going to go do my laundry.
http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/aws-is-investigating-s3-is...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/aws_is_awol_as_s3_g...
It's not a lie, it's an "alternative fact" about how totally like awesome AWS is!
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I'm not saying we shouldn't resist these types of arbitrary unofficial screening processes whenever we encounter them but if I weren't such a confrontational type of person for these things, I would just listen to my lawyers and just bring employment verification letter and visa letters with me whenever I travel abroad.
Um, silly question. Does this affect people using QEMU to run ReactOS, FreeDOS, and their proprietary counterparts to play old games and use old programs that don't work as well in DOSBox?
Turns out that not all Heroku dynos are hosted on US-East. One of my friend's dyno is still up and running great.
sure: https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-buil...
That's why grep is great.
- launching AMIs (they are stored on s3)

- cloudfront

- ses

- ebs

- rds (snapshots/backups on s3)

- lambda functions (appear to be stored in s3)

perhaps others
We host with TierPoint and they are reporting a massive DDOS attack
Agreed that the post length limit shouldn't be removed. However, I am fine with a limited number of tweets instead. Perhaps not by day, since some days there are so many newsworthy events that there might be a lot of possible quality tweets. Maybe a weekly limit? Just something to discourage someone from spamming.
For some reason, either my account or the the baidu.com domain is blocked or delayed on HN. We tried to post this but weren't able to post the link.
Can anyone comment on mitigating issues like this with S3 Cross-region replication? I'm reading up on it now while one of my services is dead in the water.
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You have to have a Microsoft account (as opposed to just a local account) linked to your machine. Then you'll be able to do the Windows Insider thing, and also switch between Fast/Slow Rings.
> How is "figure out a way to transform your business so you don't wreck the planet" haughty idealism

Because it's like asking a tree to figure out how to become a meadow of flowers. Sure, the meadow could just as easily exist in the same place, but the mechanisms by which the tree became a tree can't be used to turn it into a field of flowers.

Certain kinds of change can only come by displacing what's there with something new.

> and how does suggesting that as the correct approach result in nothing ever getting done?

Because the people you're assigning to do it have no natural motivation to do it, and are completely psychically cut off from the information signals that could guide someone through the successful foundation of a clean energy company.

You've got the right approach, you're just looking to the wrong people to get it done.
> Why are we not placing a DNA/Seed-vault on the moon

Because it's expensive to get it there, useless on the moon, and expensive to get it somewhere useful in the event of need, all because of gravity wells.

> Why are we not depositing resources on the moon

Same answer.

> Why dont we plan, plant, place autonomous robotic pods on the moon that can be called down/up carrying various resources

And, again, same answer, both for the pods and the resources themselves.

> what happens to the moon if we transfer water/create water on the moon

It boils off and leaves, possibly after freezing for a while, depending on the time of lunar day you deposit the water, IIRC.

> Why cant this be a global effort

Because a really bad idea doesn't get better because more people are involved.

> Why aren't we actually practicing mars colonization on the moon first?

Because the Moon isn't very much like Mars in ways relevant to colonization, so there is no value to doing that. While perhaps some relevant technologies might benefit from the shorter feedback cycles of Earth-Moon missions for refinement, the costs of such missions are close enough to Earth-Mars missions that it's generally not worth it to go to the Moon if your goal is Mars. Just go to Mars.
I think that's a bad idea as people will loose trust in the info. Payed search results didn't work either.
esp8266 is not even close to being a replacement for rPi. The specs are orders of magnitude worse. 160KB RAM, 1MB flash, 80MHz CPU, no GPU. None of the builtin modules for networking, wifi, etc.
Or at the very least acknowledge and work with the reporting entity to delay disclosure or come to an agreement on how you plan to resolve. 90 days is plenty of time to get your ducks in a row.
Saw that too, sounds like a convenient excuse for being caught in a lie.

AWS Employee #1: Hey, people are catching on that our status page isn't accurate

AWS Employee #2: Tell them it's cause of S3
Hey there! Our paper is on Arxiv [0] and we have a blog post about this [1].

I am one of the authors on this paper and am happy to answer any questions you may have.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07825

[1] http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-production-quality-text...
TierPoint, a large hosting service, is reporting a massive DDOS attack on their infrastructure.
> without also open sourcing a large portion of their infrastructure.

Well, that’d not necessarily be bad for the dev community.
1. Fire all the CXO level people. All of them.

2. Fire all the rent-seekers.

3. The 5 people that are left, keep the lights on.

4. Profit!
Allow users to pay to "boost" tweets and expand their exposure. I.e. you can pay $5 in boost credits to increase the reach of the tweet promoting your website or whatever. (Or maybe much more if you are a corporate account- not sure how the pricing model should work). The boosts should be invisible to other users.

Basically, monetize the one thing that every wants to do on twitter, which is go viral.
This might be a kind of a tangent but the reduction of brokerage fees and index funds has actually increased "ownership" (as in investment in) almost all sectors of the economy. Perhaps this analogy is incorrect; would love to hear the refutations :).
After few requests timed out, started to dig a bit.
The CNAME for a bucket endpoint was pointing to s3-1-w.amazonaws.com with a TTL of at least an other 5600 secods.
Doing a full trace was giving back a new s3-3-w.amazonaws.com
The IP related to s3-1-w was/is timing out, all cool instead for the s3-3-w.
My suggestion would be to rediscover the clarity and focus of thinking about systems and code on paper.
"bullying and harassment has shown a strong positive correlation with the frequency of such claims as those you describe"

"which have no such attachment to one specific end of the political spectrum, the worst I've seen is thoughtlessness."

My comment was not to start a partisan political thread but your anecdotal claims hold no merit here since CEO of Uber is known to spout Ayn Rand bullshit in public and is known as a Trump supporter.

I was not calling Uber's culture progressive and meritocratic. It's clearly not. I was challenging the rest of the community to treat Uber in a way that was appropriate for a meritocratic and progressive community.
Browsing works but some functionality is broken; for example you can't view your order history.
In case anyone was curious to review what election "expert" predictions were: they were Hillary to win with 85% chance (NYT), 71% (538), 98% (HuffPost), 89% (PW), >99% (PEC), and 92% (DK).

But all of these sources made more detailed predictions than a simple binary winner. For example, the probability that Hillary received <=232 electoral votes (as was her pledged total) was ~4.3% according to the New York Times.
SAP Cloud Platform, Nothing Fishy About a Clever Cloud
this still works for me https://musicforprogramming.net
Many password managers also offer a few alternative methods, including a custom keyboard or a notification with copy buttons on it. This is pretty good, so long as you don't go launching an app that spies on your clipboard.

Firefox for Android is also capable of running the LastPass extension for anyone using that combination.
> With this improved performance, JavaScript started being used for things no one ever expected it to be used for, like server-side programming

Oh, how quickly we forget.
Hey can't change it due to the S3 issue. See their twitter post: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
Its also affecting http://status.fabric.io/

cant build Android apps or update beta builds
An open source project minio.io implements Amazon S3 APIs, and allows you to create your own in-house S3 like infra.
It always seemed weird to me to hire expensive specialists only to slap them around and override their experience by insisting on sub-optimal tools, methods and work environments. It took me 30 years of diligent, daily practice to get here. That experience better be put to good use or I'm out, I have no patience for business bullshit.
It's not "Mac works" and "Windows doesn't work" or vice versa. They both have issues, regularly, and often trade places being worse. They BOTH suck.

It's a matter of what issues you feel comfortable dealing with. There is no computer utopia, unless you're only surfing and writing documents, and need nothing more complex than a Chromebook. ;)
I'll bet that what Heroku does is precompile all the code when you push to Heroku (or doesn't), saves it to a S3 bucket, and kills the running process after a certain amount of inactivity. Once it detects a pending network request, the code gets loaded from the S3 bucket into the EC2 instance, and then your code spins up.
Problem is journalism is a crap market. No one wants to pay for it.
That's still encouraging the problem though. It's extremely easy to set up a blog on your own system and share it.
Awesome intro, that was pretty easy to follow :)

Just a few small typos to point out:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/what-makes-webassembly-fas...

"Executing" section - "...know how to write code so that they compiler can type specialize it" - the compiler instead of they compiler

"Conclusion" section - "etching WebAssembly takes less time because it is more compact than JavaScript, even when compressed" - missing the f in fetching
There was a discussion on this in the report itself; the vulnerability was far too huge for it to go undisclosed for 90 days, I believe.
Same here. I can't find any information about that though.
Amazon S3 is down – Twitter updates
Agreed. AWS' postmortems are fascinating.
That's the case for the OS X version, but not for the Windows version.
I do my web dev in Delphi: http://yoy.be/xxm/
Maybe you could encourage your colleagues to host the status page outside of AWS?
Is it? When was the last time anybody asked you whether your country should go to war? Or how to spend your taxes?

Finding a representative that you agree with on most (let alone all) issues is pretty much impossible.
1. Give people control over things that matter to them, whether it be length of tweets, ability to enable/disable certain features, or see Twitter in preferred modes (pure reverse chron, ad-free, image-free, no politics, only sports, etc.).

2. Charge fees for this stuff

3. Make it easy to buy anything via Twitter

4. Get rid of the bots and AI-obvious trolling/threats/TOS violations. I find it astounding that despite years of promises to do something the situation seems to be getting worse.

5. Get a new fully-focused leader who can execute on these and other issues without distraction of a second company, and can also bring down headcount. This probably requires a reorg and a new board.
If you want to see how Twitter will look like without modals, you can check the interface on Sublevel. It’s pure HTML without any JavaScript renderer.
If you run malicious binaries attacking this, sure.

If you're just playing old games, you are probably fine. (Likely wouldn't need to worry about other security exploits either for that case.)
Amazon outage just reported on NBC News.[1]

AMZN stock down $3.45 (0.41%).

[1] http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Amazon...
Lily Robotics Promises Refunds as It Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Could you recommend 5-10 leaders in emergency medicine to follow? (I'm trying to build up a good follow list outside of my usual domains, and I find recommendation graphs to be really useful)
Unordered Radix Trees, faster alternative to hashing for dictionaries (2007)
If pass would encrypt file names I'd switch to it immediately. But unenecrypted filenames are a non-starter for me.

Right now I'm ginning something up based on the PasswordSafe format and the pass interface, but it'd be great not to have to reimplement the wheel.
I never understood why so many devs flocked to AWS. I actually find their abstraction of services gets in the way and slows down my dev instead of making it easier like so many devs claim it does. I prefer Linode.
It's more subtle even for news-gathering. Here's a similar perspective from the Left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp69gKVe9o

I highly recommend watching the whole thing.
The Intercom bubble is also down on websites. Their dashboard works fine though.
The only appropriate comment is that this issue is affecting all of our buckets, both in us-west and us-east. Replicating to another region would yield no useful benefits in this specific failure scenario.
I am so afraid that WebAssembly will make too many assumptions that will prevent Go from targeting it as a platform.
New update:

"Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue."
are you openly admitting that the AWS service status page runs on AWS? because that is far more embarrassing than this downtime ever could be
My bad. I misjudged the indents.