skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think that lawyers and insurance companies have to gain from better crypto (than HTTPS)? Most leaks come from poorly secured servers and compromised credentials. I have a hard time thinking of a realistic threat that an insurance company or law firm could mitigate with PGP everywhere.
https://status.cloud.google.com/summary tells a different story or do you have other information?

I have used GCP for some time without being affected from any incident.
Additionally, Zendesk is apparently failing to process new tickets, so our users can't report the errors they're encountering.
Thank god I checked HN. I was driving myself crazy last half hour debugging a change to S3 uploads that I JUST pushed to production. Reminds me of the time my dad had an electrician come to work on something minor in his house. Suddenly power went out to the whole house, electrician couldn't figure out why for hours. Finally they realized this was the big east coast blackout!
This is now at https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/lang-items.h...
Thanks to stranger danger, freerange kids aren't allowed to explore the neighborhood anymore. What was perfectly acceptable behaviour in the 80s is now considered parental negligence.
The best way to attract investor money
I'm a presentation consultant. I help companies create presentations for high-stakes pitching scenarios. The most common high-stakes scenario is investor pitching. Nowadays, the average adult attention span is only 8 seconds. So, you better have a fast-paced, compelling story to tell when you're presenting to a group of investors who will either be captivated by your company, or just as quickly pull out their phone and check their email.

I've been to many investor conferences where the typical "investor speed-dating" occurs. Companies have 20 minutes to convince the audience why they are worthy of getting funded. And the sad reality is that most of these companies won't get ANY funding, and it's not because their companies don't have a great product. It's usually their presentation that stinks.

Here are the characteristics of what makes the best presentations:

1. It's simple. That's it. It doesn't over-complicate the message and its slides are easy to quickly digest.

2. It tells a compelling story. What sounds more exciting?

Story A: We offer a place where you can save your files and access them anytime on the internet.

Story B: You've gotten the dreaded blue screen again, and this time, you can't get into any of your files. With our solution, your files are backed up on the internet and you can easily access them at any time.

Story B paints a picture of a scenario that your audience can empathize with, while you also simply relay your value proposition at the same time.

3. It features excellent visuals that add to the story. There is nothing more that I hate than an image thrown into a presentation just for the sake of having an image there. If the image isn't helping to explain something or evoke some sort of emotion from the audience, you're better off with a text-only slide with compelling text.

What are some of the worst things you've seen companies do in presentations?

hello@hytched.com
they already admitted it:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/aws_is_awol_as_s3_g...
us-west-2 (Oregon) is still up for me from the CLI.
If you've ever felt the AWS health dashboard was dubious before now...
Well, imgur.com is currently down, too. I assume they are still using AWS: http://blog.imgur.com/2013/06/04/tech-tuesday-our-technology...
Same here, and it's 100% consistent, not 'increased error rates' but actually just fully down. I'd just stop working but I have a demo this afternoon... the downsides of serverless/cloud architectures, I guess.
Salesforce as part of your API and APP - easy example using OSS
That's quite ironic. http://isitdownrightnow.com is also down.
Heroku API/Dashboard is down, Bugsnag is down, etc.
Imgur's down right now as well (except direct links to images) and it's not lossless (they resave images).
Hosting Static Files Reliably
Put one ad at the top. Serve one billion a day.

You can't just turn a business around from your core competency, which in the case of Twitter is short bursts of emotions. You can't turn it into a Medium or Facebook, you'll fail miserably.
Also, https://status.pantheon.io
Edited. I meant creating profiles with tweeting privileges will cost money.

I think sometimes we need to rethink what growth and engagement means. In my model, Twitter does not rely on advertising.

Famous people might still be interested, because you allow them un-fettered access to disperse their message directly to the population without any filters and trolls bothering them.
Which is less than 5 minutes per month, I guess they've already used that :).
Hello, I understand your example, but when putting

write(fd, buf, count);

inside your my_write function... it doesn't work. Is there something more? Thank you.
A few ideas:

# Mass Monetization

1) Integrate payments and one-click purchasing, take a cut.

2) Host specific pages for live-stream events (not within tweets) like sports games. Target the remaining pieces of cable TV: Live sports, ESPN, Awards Shows, Olympics, Talk shows (e.g. Daily show, Colbert Report, etc.)

# Large Account Monetization

1) Charge for additional features, e.g. private/protected accounts, verification, having more than XXX followers.

2) Build tools specifically for managing a) large accounts and b) brands/customer service. Charge them for it!

# Data Monetization

1) Build API access for alternative clients that is free for a certain number of users (~10k) then charges on a per-install basis.

2) Partner with marketing platforms (e.g. Salesforce) to build marketing funnels from Twitter into CRM or marketing platform.
It uses it, and it's completely down right now.
Kinda like Winsock Error 10107, "A system call that should never fail has failed." I recall running into that one at my first job out of high school - once we'd looked up the error code, we had a good chuckle about how unhelpful it was.

(It was actually our bug - we were doing a Winsock layered service provider, and the error code indicated that we'd failed to return SUCCESS and hadn't set any additional error info. At the time, though, Microsoft's documentation gave only the one sentence above as a description.)
That's called the "Long Tail"... individual users/customers have a niche interest, but together they form a center of gravity approximately as large as the largest use cases.

http://www.thelongtail.com/conceptual.jpg

You have to think a little differently to design for the long tail. You can't just design one consistent experience, you have to design tools that can be used in many scenarios.
quite ironic that 'isitdown.com' is also down
Funny, cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request.

Perfect storm.

As for other cloud providers seeing green: Or maybe people will come to their senses and will see that monocultures are bad, whether in biology or hosting.
If only the .NET version would use proper security (no permissioner to modify files, sandboxed plugins, ....) then yes. But that would be a rewrite.

Otherwise the .NET version only remedies vulnerabilities in php and not those in WordPress or its plugins.
First FDA Approval for Clinical Cloud-Based Deep Learning in Healthcare
This one seems pretty bad: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=10...
wow even services like Intercom are affected, I can't see who is on my website right now.
> My greatest problem with twitter is that those whose who have something worth saying tend to talk an awful lot less than those with nothing to say.

This just reflects real life. It's not a Twitter problem.
Conditional cash transfer
Wanted to post a screenshot saying that Heroku is down because of AWS on my Slack team, only to realize that Slack's file upload is also based on AWS
Omg I wish I googled this earlier. Wasted hours debugging :(
Took me 5 days as well, though I might have spent more than an hour on it daily. I stepped away from the cube for about 4 years and was able to pick it up again just from muscle memory.

I now use the cube as a meditative practice. For 1-3 minutes, nothing in the world matters with the exception of solving the cube. Doesn't work well as a meditation tool when you start doing other cubes however, like the megminx. It just becomes a frustration device.
> Amazon, everything is on fire. you are not fooling anyone

Fun story, when I was an intern at Amazon there was actually a warehouse fire. The result was a lot of manual database entry updating as products were determined to be destroyed or still fit for sale.
Your partial quote leaves out the word 'implies', which makes it exactly clear that it is a bot and not a human.
Our static site hosted on eu-central-1 is still up: http://www.creativepragmatics.com.s3-website.eu-central-1.am...
is it just us-east-1? could it be prevented by using a different region?
Its Google, they didnt even try selling them.
I love #15: Browse the Amazon store (ironically, this still works!) ;)
Show what advertising offers/reach etc prior to asking for payment details.
For our app, both S3 and SES have been completely down in us-east-1 for hours now.
...a 1.7MB js payload just to hit the landing page...
I started developing in Delphi after Delphi 1 came out, have worked in Java and C++ along the way, but I've been largely a LAMP stack web developer for the last ten years. I've looked at the code output from various Delphi web builders; it's not pretty, not inherently responsive, not accessibility compliant.

I still use Object Pascal in Lazarus for writing widgets and utilities. It cross-compiles to Linux, MacOS and Windows and lets me do things that would be difficult or impossible with a web app. But these get about 1% of my attention.
Mr. Robot live shoot? :)

slack file services down too
What about something like B2 from https://www.backblaze.com/ ?
Let me guess. They cancelled your grandmother's RSS reader four years ago?
If only someone was interested in contributing Smalltalk programs written with MatriX to use quad-core --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/smalltalk.html
You sound like you might be a shill for big shill.
What we need are status pages that are driven by votes from verified customers, which could also serve to inform the provider about issues.

This would address issues that are only visible from the outside.
> So V(x) = exp(-pi(x)) and you use HMC to explore those potential energy level sets?

Not quite. You explore the level sets of the augmented system of kinetic-plus-potential energy. The use of a Gaussian distribution as auxiliary variable is arbitrary, so it's not surprising that it's suboptimal.

That the gradient information is needed comes from physical intuition. I roll a marble with along an inclined plane with velocity V. What determines the trajectory of the marble? The gradient of the plane. Now since differentiable functions look locally like planes, that's more or less all you need, at least instantaneously.

I'm sure you know more about this topic than I do, but you'll have to work quite a bit harder to convince me that the hockey puck intuition is "incredibly shallow".
Includes quora.com, honeybadger.io and cocoapods.org.
While this is a complicated issue and there is no clear smoking gun, I believe the comment is more for the sensationalism of the article.

We do not know, at least from the article, why there are only two women VPs. Could be a number of reasons.
If this isn't good evidence that amazon downright lies on their status page and that no green checkmark should ever be considered trustworthy, I don't know what is.
">> The guy running this should get over it, and admit that the only reason he's got some sort of fame is because of a single game.
>And if you don't mind me being so blunt, what is your reason? I don't know of zo1."

I was a tad bit to harsh for polite conversation; but I have no idea why the creator couldn't let a community helper just fix things up a bit. Give it some love, so to speak, like it seems he does to the game itself.

>"Really? You can find some of us here. Length > 0. http://www.bay12games.com/champions.html*"

Sure, length of the amount of "champions" is approx 2100. Bay12Games is still a pretty unknown game company. But everyone knows Dwarf Fortress, so my point still stands. In case you glossed over it: It was a bit of hyperbole.

>"Now, I'm going to do something rare and separate from the usual jovial friendliness associated with the community to give make a very stark statement: if you can't figure out how to run the game, you probably shouldn't play it.*"

It's not that it's difficult to get into, it's that the whole presentation of the game and how it is presented to the user are completely unpalatable. Even before the user gets to see the game UI on his own machine.

Am I saying that your community needs to cater to me, make the game easier, etc? No.

I'm not trying to pick it apart, just adding my point about what sort of disservice the surrounding presentation of this game is doing to it.
What is your last datapoint on that?

The last year or two has seen a remarkable improvement according to those customers of mine that host there.
I'd happily write anything C# for a paycheck over anything .js.
> edit: in the future, please subscribe to @MyFootballNow for timely AWS service status updates https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5xdm9_WMAAY7y_.jpg:large

So this is what centralization looks like.
Ah! I would write Unix but, you know, the marketing ... :p
Its not even GNU/Linux !
The status page is stored in s3. It can't be updated. The page you see is cached in cloudfront. They are working on updating the status page.
Well said :) wonder how I missed replying to you. Yeah,I do not wish to be a workaholic.Rather would love to have a balance in my Life.
Preventing data leaks and injections in your DB
> Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS.

I tried them all and Amazon is still the best.
I recently went on a hunt to find a game similar to the old Settler series, and found a game called Banished, where you have manage a small town against the elements. I put 10 hours into it so far and really enjoy it, check it out if you haven't already.
> Afterwards, I created a new Tor Circuit with a new exit node, then checked the hash. I ran that test 10 times, and every time it gave me the same result.

IP is not one of the fingerprinting sources of fingerprintjs2, so this is totally expected. It doesn't prove anything about quality of fingerprintjs2, or about effectiveness of Tor Browser's privacy protections.
Honest question, are you a software developer?

Wonder how did you get your app review approved with screenshot demo text such as "appStoreTestApp"

But anyways. You might have a good idea, but that app doesnt do it justice. Poorly designed and implemented. Also, one screenshot?!?
Sorry, my simplistic mind is only thinking this right now:

http://alessandrobender.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/fi...
Be politically neutral.
I'm curious about what happened to products that were no longer fit for sale, but still fit for use. Do you recall?
I would speculate that it's because they are more concerned with checking boxes for their auditors or insurers than they are about the actual data. As for convincing the KPMGs of the world to take security seriously instead of calling for security theater, well, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".
Yea my self hosted concourse is down. Feels quite bizarre to have our internal CI so crippled by S3... though i'm still investigating, perhaps the workers are just hung after all of the failed docker pulls.
It's absolutely insane that this is apparently the expected behavior. It makes no sense whatsoever except to give people who know this an ego boost when they can successfully work around Python's unintuitive semantics while inexperienced people cannot. It completely breaks functions, the most fundamental unit of encapsulation and abstraction in every modern programming language.
You'd guess that if HN was on S3, it flat wouldn't work at all. Maybe a lot of people goofing off on HN because they can't do any work with the S3 outage.
Yes, but when the deadline expired the APK part was already fixed, the remainder is still open.
"Refocus the company to be the Netflix of live TV, focusing on the delivery of live sports and news broadcasts while enabling fans/viewers to discuss in real time." I didn't feel like their experiments in live broadcasting NFL games drew a large audience last year. I think twitter offers sports fans a solid mobile experience(checking real-time reactions from other athletes and sports fans) while watching the game on a big screen HDTV. The biggest sports and political events are also social in nature, most of the time you're watching in a group of people. How do you get a group of people to watch a sports/political event on twitter and discuss in real-time? I agree that Twitter's modern day utility lies here but the switching costs for the user have to be reduced.
Sounds great to be a peasant. Wonder why so many peasants try so hard not to be one.[1]

[1]https://www.ft.com/content/44096ed2-eeb0-11e4-a5cd-00144feab...
>Is [] is global reference to a single mutable list which is only initially empty?

No, the problem is default arguments to methods are evaluated once, when the method is created and that value is used for all calls. I don't know why that is, its definitely strange - any other language would evaluate the default args each time a function is called just like the regular args.
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I admire your sword of sarcasm +1
After more than an hour we are now at ~99.8%, so everybody affected should be able to claim a 10% discount, right?
Heroku apps are also down because of this!
I always thought the magnifying glass for search made sense as it was like a detective looking for clues.

It is shown in the famous Cluedo board game [1] (aka "Clue" in the USA). It's typically associated with forensics when looking for fingerprints.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Cluedo_1956_S...
Amazon's web servers are down and it's causing trouble across the internet
The alternative is kids home alone. Not even legal in many us areas.
$30 for a game that's early access, may never be finished.

$30 for a game that already has more content than many AAA games I've played, is still actively developed, is in many ways more advanced than most AAA games (in terms of the simulation and emergent gameplay). If it were abandoned RIGHT NOW, nobody would ever notice that it wasn't "completed".

I've personally got more value out of playing it than I get from most $60 games and I haven't even played the last two updates yet (which were HUGE).

The expensive packs are expensive because they let you add custom stuff to the game (e.g. Characters named after you) and not meant for the average player.
Why This CEO Is Helping 20% of His Employees Find New Jobs by Next Year
Same here, was eating lunch and browsing HN when hipchat started lighting up with customer complaints.
news.ycombinator.com seems really slow right now. s3 dependencies?
Removing all the anti-hillary trending or pro-bernie hashtags really pissed me off during the election. Google does similar things with auto-complete.

Politics is truly separate from threatening to kill/rape people, why are you grouping them? You can threaten people over anything, why conflate threats with political speech? There is real censorship on twitter over political ideas, and threats don't even enter into it.
Yup probably some incentives due to SLA's for their larger customers.
pretty sure they can afford it ;)
Go the Yammer route: they already have messaging down. Might as well make "rooms" that you can tweet "in."
Looks like the RSS feed hasn't been updated for an hour and a half.
Reading List was still in development when it was canceled. Anyone who preferred Pocket was free to install it.

Continuing the current revenue model and supporting Context Graph seem at odds with improving user privacy. Pocket isn't now Free Software, but hopefully it will be feasible to self-host whenever they do release the source.
The book Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays[1] has three main algorithms that are in the vein of this basic idea. They were actually optimized for ease of remembering and executing on. With full documented solutions for moving specific cubes of the final layer. Really fun read.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Winning-Ways-Your-Mathematical-Play...
The Master Switch (2011)
US GOVERNMENT SECRET STIG/SCAP CODE EXPOSED ON GITHUB SEARCHABLE VIA GOOGLE
Not in places where wages are low.
"Technology doesn't create itself." well, we might end up telling the story of how Amazon internal microservice culture created AWS, or the war created GPS. In that sense, on some level, technology (or ideas or culture) does beget other things. Over time, as each individual human becomes less significant, we might end up being just part of the medium that helps ideas manifest other ideas.
Before the Egyptians – The Journey of a Thousand Steps…
If politicians think it will help them win elections, it will totally happen.
Personally I think that is too simplistic a position and the reality is more complex. Most people would agree that using this approach to spy on your employees to track their banking activity is unethical. Using MITM-SSL as a way to get visibility on certain APTs using products such as FireEye is controversial, but I don't personally believe to be unethical.

I would argue against such an approach if there are alternatives but if the organization's leaders were set on it I would engage with the process and make sure that it did not evolve into more unethical practices such as logging all traffic contents or the above banking example.
There are some real gems @Pinboard too: "Green checkmark = no lava in data center. Green checkmark with information icon = data center filling with lava https://status.aws.amazon.com"
Your example is absurd. Where do you live that you ever have to cross an 8 lane highway on foot? City streets have crosswalks and stop lights. When used properly it's perfectly safe for everyone.
Polymath David Gelernter’s wide-ranging ideas about American life
Yes I have notice period but i might leave earlier (still unsure).
Exactly, interview screening is broken and the best way currently seems to be through referrals.

Indeed I would like to have deep knowledge on a subject. I am learning and working on some topics of interest. As u have suggested will try to build and showcase some projects. :)
> Also, there are incentives based on colors, so the managers really don't want to admit any failure.

A textbook case of "wrong incentives". #1 incentive should be satisfied customers.
Sysadmin: I can forgive outages, but falsely reporting 'up' when you're obviously down is a heinous transgression.

Somewhere a sysadmin is having to explain to a mildly technical manager that AWS services are down and affecting business critical services. That manager will be chewing out the tech because the status site shows everything is green. Dishonest metrics are worse than bad metrics for this exact reason.

Any sysadmin who wasn't born yesterday knows that service metrics are gamed relentlessly by providers. Bluntly there aren't many of us, and we talk. Message to all providers: sysadmins losing confidence in your outage reporting has a larger impact than you think. Because we will be the ones called to the carpet to explain why <services> are down when <provider> is lying about being up.
All: I hate to ask this, but HN's poor little single-core server process is getting hammered and steam is coming out its ears. If you don't plan to post anything, would you mind logging out? Then we can serve you from cache. Cached pages are updated frequently so you won't miss anything. And please do log back in later.

(Yes it sucks and yes we're working on fixing it. We hate slow software too!)
Nice example....
Can anyone get Alexa to play music? Is this related?