skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody, and I do mean nobody, spends a lot of time thinking about all of the possible failure modes until they're made aware of them (either by actively watching them fail or being told how they can fail). I say this from the point of view of a programmer, multirotor pilot, general aviation pilot, and uncle.

For example, what failure modes should you prepare for when flying a multirotor? A few I've personally run into:

- Battery exhaustion (slow descent, loss of power, potential for battery fire)

- Gyro failure (chaotic and unpredictable behavior; uncontrollable)

- Battery Fire (unpredictable loss of power, flying incendiary bomb)

- Running outside of receiver range (behavior depends on the multirotor's autopilot, and the range differs based on your environment; also caused by jamming equipment)

- Flying in a different mode than you're expecting (usually an immediate and violent crash after getting a bit of altitude)

- Prop/motor failure (immediate and complete loss of control, unpredictable flight path to inevitable crash)

- Loss of POV stream (probably a crash, depends on the autopilot and pilot's reflexes at hitting the "oh, shit" button or reorientating to external visual mode)

- Bird/drone strike: Any and all of the above

Each of these scenarios requires a different response and preparation; you may realize your drone is dangerous, but did you realize it's also an incendiary device in potentia?
Can't pull images from either Dockerhub or Quay right now
Perl of course!
PHP and the overall quality of average WP code?
Those DLC packs are actually more like Kickstarter rewards. The text of the Pirate King DLC is this:

> This DLC gives you the right to enter a name and character backstory into the game, with skills, appearance, and special work requirements. In addition, your character will appear as the leader of another faction!

and follows with a note that says it does not affect game play, only gives you the right to add your desired content to the game.
"Was just pentesting it" ... hopefully with their permission. Be careful.
A fair point, and you might be right. But I'm an engineer & product person, so the more CEO-type change of vision moves are harder for me to evaluate.

What I really want is a global, public messaging protocol with Twitter-like pub-sub and integration points for secure third party apps including rich-media support and federated/individual controls for trust. And a flying pony.
Regarding #1, #2, and #3.

So what happens if instead of having 1,000 x 140 char tweets cluttering your timeline, you instead wind up with 100 x 1400 char tweets? Do you have time to read all that?
Listen to what users are overwhelmingly saying: actually fix harassment/spam/bots. Fix the opaque, unaccountable useless support processes.

Twitter is fine for what it is, and all it needs to do is stay consistent, not suck, not burn money, not force opportunities
I was primarily talking about browsers because web ads were the concern - and also probably the most common way to be spyed on.

But for desktop and mobile I can't endorse enough running a software firewall with outgoing blocking and active prompting - many of these will also let your block things from injecting into other applications, adding themselves to startup, etc. XPrivacy on mobile works wonders. Outpost used to be my recommendation on Windows, but it's unfortunately dead now, so I've been running ZoneAlarm lately, which does a decent job. If someone knows something better, please let me know.
But thats just the thing. Its hard to get past the UI. You really have to be dedicated to get over the steep learning curve of both the game mechanics and the UI. For new players its often just too much effort for a game.

Ideally the game should be easy to learn the basics, but hard to master. The UI hinders this significantly.
Bad idea there, support is horrible.
It's interesting to note the cascading effects. For example, I was immediately hit by three problems:

* Slack file sharing no longer works, hangs forever (no way to hide the permanently rolling progress bar except quitting)

* Github.com file uploads (e.g. dropping files into a Github issue) don't work.

* Imgur.com is completely down.

* Docker Hub seems to be unavailable. Can't pull/push images.
Place with good school, college debt and healthcare are way more expensive. Cable and cellphone packages are pretty much irrelevant.
In the footsteps of michel-ange
In short - highlight what Twitter is really good at, which is delivering bits of fleeting information and working in commerce.

The long version - ads are great, but they cause a misalignment between the service users are happy with and the services necessary to monetize. In addition (not instead), id bring payments into the platform so goods can be discovered and purchased directly through the feed without the user having to leave the platform.

This would require quite a few changes throughout, but when they all come together I believe it'll bring the platform much closer to a Facebook-like status, where users spend more time on the platform as opposed to it being a "starting point" to finding interesting links.
On average, sure. In specific places, no. These days, if you can't afford more than a crappy apartment, you're going to be living in a place with drug dealers and occasional murders. And with the high rents, having a single income (and worse, having to support a family on that) means that the crappy apartments now cost what, 30+ years ago, a decent but modest home in a decent neighborhood cost.

So maybe living in downtown areas isn't nearly as dangerous as it was back in the 70s-80s (when NYC's Times Square was full of prostitutes and muggings were common), but affording a place that doesn't have you surrounded by drug dealers and ex-cons is more out-of-reach and costly (and those once-seedy downtown areas are now completely unaffordable if you don't make $150k+).
I agree with the general premise of the article that software developers need to focus more on privacy, something that neither large corporations nor closed source programs are likely to do. A few years ago I became so frustrated with the privacy behavior of the major browsers, which treat users like a commodity to be sold to advertisers and corporations with large internet presences, that I developed Privacy Browser. Currently it is only available for Android, although future development will bring it to other platforms.

https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser/

Regarding the article being published on Medium.com, I think it is ironic that anyone with strong privacy views would use a platform that requires accepting third-party cookies to create an account or post a comment.
ZOMG. Call Mike Wallace
So, global S3 outage for more than an hour now. Still green, still talking about "US East issue". I'm amazed.
> Get rid of modals for everything. Especially: when clicking on a tweet to view replies, open a new page with better threading of replies, pagination, and no reordering (or optional "quality" reordering).

A lot of users are not comfortable with browsing using many tabs. I've seen it myself a lot of times, and I suspect it's the main reason FB and Twitter started using modals in the same window lately.
Depends on you current position and your salary.

There are really a lot of opportunities, if you have nothing outstanding it's not hard to get better.
Yes, we're experiencing this issue as well. Are your ELBs also in us-east-1?
Was going to mention Dungeon Keeper in this thread, another one of Molyneux's masterpieces, and probably the most relevant comparison to Dwarf Fortress IMO.

Similarly to DF, you just allocate tiles to be excavated, and can paint allocations on rooms, but never issue direct orders to minions. (Though you can possess them and take a first-person perspective, which is an interesting twist).
How Facebook has changed the way we live our ‘offline’ lives
Yes, but XPrivacy will do that.
Apparently, that's down too. Sigh.
These are called "commutators". You can easily find a bunch just by looking up the word! :)
Getting the same error on the GUI but the aws cli and sdk seem to be working fine (our site is still up too)
Nnnnnno, it's not "just words". It's threatening to kill and rape people, directly attacking their safety and their right to a peaceable life. It's giving a platform to people who are putting the idea in others' heads that they should hurt and kill people. I don't have to follow the "race realist" assholes among us to have the fact that they are given a platform by a company under no obligation to do so--and that they use that platform to gather followers under the direct purpose of separating the white race from the blacks or the Jews or whoever the hate-object-of-the-week is. Their followers do. They are strengthened by being given their platform with which to attract more soft-headed followers. Words have consequences that cannot be waved away so cavalierly. Those consequences may not impact you, but they impact a whole lot of people and they can't be dismissed.

The government should, for reasons that make a lot of sense, be reticent (but not wholly unwilling, because the real world doesn't work in absolutes) to intercede here, because freedom of speech with regard to the state is a different thing from respecting and accepting speech by society--but Twitter isn't the government.
Experiencing issues with S3 and ELB for over an hour now.
This applies only if you "recently" crossed the border - allegedly, but if CBP ignores the law, you can't really do much, and the courts usually side with them.
Would be easier to compile the inverse.
If this is how they're going to handle an outage of their premier AWS service, it's other cloud providers that will be seeing green.
It's crazy how much better the communication (including updates and status pages) is of the companies that rely on AWS than AWS' communication itself.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1059
Focus on the core business and aggressively eliminate any and all costs not directly associated with it. It's ridiculous that they're one of the most popular websites on Earth that makes ~$2bn/year, yet they manage to piss it all away on things that don't noticably improve their service.

What Twitter really needs is to be bought up by some Wall Street type who can look at their books and do just that, and not much more.
PDO is disabled by default, and was even on default installs of 5.6 last I checked.
Daycare is not entertainment. Daycare is what stops Social Services from taking away your kids. (Which wouldn't happen in the 70s, between multi-generational families, and less moral panic about unattended twelve-year-olds.)
It appears Docker Hub is hosted on S3 as well, none of the official images can be pulled.
It's worth noting that this is just a specific case of a commutator:

http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~converse/rubiks.php?id1=basics&...

A commutator is any sequence of moves in the form of A B A' B', where A and B are sets of moves, and A' and B' are those sets of moves undone. So this example basically just restricts B to consist only of top-layer moves.
I believe that's similar to what Privacy Badger achieves, is it not?
IIRC the console for S3 is global and not region specific even though buckets are.
> It became the default with version 6.1

yea, but still the problem is that all users who created a vault before Nov 2015 never got any message neither is their database upgraded automatically. They will unknowingly keep using the old database format.

Seems alarming for a company who's business is security/privacy.
I've never played Dwarf Fortress (something I hope to rectify in the nearish future). However, friends have told me that it's somewhat similar to Factorio, which is a game that I highly recommend programmers to play.
Bearing in mind that the ullage motors need to be of a type that won't suffer from ullage problems. That implies they cant use the main motor fuel.

The saturn 5 used small solid rockets as ullage motors. Alternatively you could use externally pressurised bladder tanks for a range of non-cryogenic fuels. Cold gas or possibly h2o2 as a monopropellant come to mind. Either option has a comparatively low specific impulse, so even running them at very low overall accelerations for extended time periods is likely to be cost-prohibitive.

I like the suggestion elsewhere of spinning the tank. You could also dock, then spin the whole combination ship.
If you abandon the fuel station idea, you could just take the extra fuel tank with you, transferring fuel to your internal tank during a main engine burn, then abandoning the empty tank in a wierd orbit.
bets as to the cause? internal DDoS against their dynamo clusters backing s3? DNS issues between amazon's services?
Pretty much my opinion as well.
It's interesting that this is the second book for the general public this year to be about another book and its influence. I recently read "The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation" which is about the Origin of Species.
How Live Chat Can Enhance Online Banking – Tagove Live Chat – Medium
Netlify's status page and pre-rendering service are down due to the S3 outage.

https://twitter.com/netlifystatus/status/836643259053023232
Migrate all your stuff to Cloudfront.

S3 is not a CDN!
the non-green icon is probably hosted on s3 (i'm not trying to be funny)
"1) Creating a twitter profile costs $5."

It's over then. 99% of users don't care about Twitter that much to pay a dime.

Can't charge old users, and growth is already small anyhow.

Only about 1% of these various service entities will pay.

And the number of 'truly famous people' on Twitter is very small.

Some kind of 'unit payment' scenario would be feasible, but only if it were truly seamless, and no such paradigm exists yet.

The 'problem' is not with revenue, it's with growth and engagement.
I was upset when I found out that changing my nickname costs $10. I don't even own an XBox and this was the game community thing on Windows. I think it's called XBox App or so.

They should have just limited the amount you can change your username in a given time. But I guess free money this way.
There goes my Trello to do list. Now I'm lost. Oh well.
A follow-up to most depressing Radiohead song, with crowd data from SongMeanings
"We’re continuing to work to remediate the availability issues for Amazon S3 in US-EAST-1. AWS services and customer applications depending on S3 will continue to experience high error rates as we are actively working to remediate the errors in Amazon S3." Last Update 1:54pmEST

It shows up in the event log now too.
I think my list does address #3, at least somewhat. I don't have answers for #1 and #2, except hoping that if #3 is addressed people will give it another try.
I try not to put all my eggs in one basket, that's why for images I use imgur. They have a great API and it's 100% free. There is a handy ruby gem [1] which takes a user uploaded image and sticks it on imgur and returns its URL with dimensions etc. On top of that you don't have to pay for traffic to those assets.

[1] https://github.com/soheil/imgur
We do this at McKinsey too
Never depend your business on a single provider.
DDoS hits StackExchange
I'm aware of that. I'm saying if that your use case is simply to write to localstorage then a wrapper library is unnecessary.
We're in US-West-2 and not seeing any issues. Are the instances behind your ELB trying to access S3 in their application logic?
It's already been confirmed by amazon employees on HN that the color can only be changed manually by an employee and it needs a high level of approval.

Also, there are incentives based on colors, so the managers really don't want to admit any failure.
Coincidence?

https://twitter.com/homakov/status/836649802842591232

I've been fuzzing S3 parameters last couple hours...

And now it's down.
If your app uses a huge amount of code, then yes. But that's really the fault of the app developer. Not the library.

What developers often do is pull in a ton of components from the web components catalog and not realize that every component comes with a cost. It's no different than working with libraries. Know the tradeoffs.

There are plenty of examples of fast rendering apps that written with Polymer. Check out https://shop.polymer-project.org/ and https://www.chromestatus.com/features, to name two.

https://ebidel.github.io/polymer-experiments/polymersummit/f... is another example that shows how to utilize the "upgrade" feature [1] of the custom elements API. IOW, the browser can render markup without JS ever running. Unfortunately, this is not something that Polymer leverages very much. It requires more work and is less friendly to new developers.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-start...
Nothing you need to build, but your customers will be building their workflow around your outer layer.
The P0 people at Google are apparently surprised about this as well, so expect the answer here to be complicated. Three possibilities among many:

1. Reliable exploitation might be difficult in such a way that the P0 people know how to get an exploit working, but Microsoft doesn't, and so it got deprioritized. A related (less likely) possibility is that the bug simply isn't easily exploitable in the configuration Microsoft ships, or expects to be shipping, these browsers in, due to environment differences in Google's testing lab.

2. Patching the bug might be more difficult than P0 anticipated (it might break compat, for instance).

3. The bug may be part of a pattern which is apparent to Microsoft but not to P0, so they may be holding off to get everything patched all at once rather than release an incremental patch that tips attackers off to a bunch more vulnerabilities.

Communication between P0 and other vendors isn't always great. (I think this is the fault of other vendors, by the way, and not P0).
It is, but also it ends on a rather dismal note, basically saying that lattice cryptography is already cracked.
Embrace the use of lists and its workflow (think tweetdeck). Side by side lists. I insist on side by side because you don't want one particular list stopping content from other lists to catch your eye.

Implement smart/personalized lists by interest and suggest them to users, suggest new people to add to existing lists and/or tweets that may be relevant to that list. A bit like spotify playlists and smart radios, but oriented to tweets.

Basically, make it easier for people to find tweets and users they want to follow, segmented by interest.

Display relevant non-intrusive ads based on the interests on that list. They should take the hint from reddit regarding what "non-intrusive" means. Adding something like Reddit Gold wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Apart from that, a nice interface to follow live events and their tweets would be awesome.
Ask HN: Is HN slow for you too?
HN has been slow for me a couple of hours already. Anybody else? Is HN on S3 ?
Take Twitter and add a sprinkle of Groupon. Let brands sell direct via a Tweet. I click buy, boom I paid for it. For what exactly? Anything you can buy on Amazon, discount movie tickets, buy one get one free burger at mcdonalds, pre-order video games, etc. SELL STUFF. Add limits, like only 500 of x, or tweet will self destruct in x seconds. Imagine Black Friday/Cyber Monday on Twitter...
imgur doesn't use S3 behind the scenes?
That's completely typical in the US court system. Winning a judgment is completely separate from actually collecting that judgment, and entails extra legal work to go after the assets of someone who refuses to pay the judgment.
FYI, in seriousness you can see the fabled red status icon here:

https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif

It does exist, apparently.
Post about S3 not being a CDN hosted on an S3-powered blog:

https://jdorfman.posthaven.com/medium-bitcoin-660x493-dot-jp...

The irony
Ask HN: What services are down because of the S3 outage?
So far it seems to include gotomeeting, trello, parts of slack, and others. I'm curious how widespread this issue is.
Dynamic languages have the edge for web development. Web is nasty, badly/poorly "designed", or more exactly, patched to barely work for app development.

BTW, Synapse is better (IMHO) than Indy. One of the biggest damages of MS (yes I blame MS first) is that turn anything in a monster of complexity, I don't know if trying to mimic Java or as side-effect that a big company like MS can't understand how do lean app development.

Then the management idiots at borland follow MS (like everyone else) and the rest follow both. That is how you get something like Indy and other libraries.

Was WAY LATER with the arrival of python/ruby that that become more popular the idea of simple/good design on libraries.

Some of it is returning back to Delphi, however, because management price Delphi out of the equation of many of his own customers not exist a good ecosystem to rely on.

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P.D: Still do good web development in languages with static types is a bit harder (even F# struggle with it); and I'm unsure what language of this family show a great experience here.
Who told you that? I'm not sure anyone ever told you that.
My fire tv stick is totally unusable too. Seems I can't access any applications (even Lodi or Netflix)
I imagine one day I open Twitter to read my friends tweets and get greeted with message:

"Hello! Today, to make world more disrupted with innovation, we pivoted Twitter to become a sports TV channel! All your tweets are gone, instead open a bottle of beer and watch this great game! 20 well-fit males kick the leather sphere! Isn't it impressive?"

That will be day when I throw out my router to the window, flush smartphone into toilet, install MS-DOS and Fidonet software.
I would strongly suspect that the fact it's without opcache by itself makes it pretty much meaningless for any kind of a real-world application.
https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/home
elastic beanstalk (cut down) :(
Been unreliability informed about 1 hour ETA for a fix. fingers crossed
Same here :(. Not sure why serving a connection to my dyno depends on S3 being up...
As someone who built a major crypto exchange working on a second fintech business, this sounds interesting. Can you explain a bit more about where you work, the types of tech you've worked with and how you see this evolving? Feel free to reach me by email if you'd prefer not to discuss here.
I'm not an avid Twitter user and I don't think any of these would turn me into one. Maybe the issue is there isn't enough for me to do there...just saying.
Using imgur over a service that you pay for (with an SLA) is, as my college CS professor used to call it, "skating on thin ice".
I also like Neal's introduction. I find the discussion about the typical set in the paper linked in the submission more confusing than illuminating. Why wouldn't the typical set include the mode of the distribution given that its contribution is higher than for any other region of the same volume. Of course the "outside half" of a hypersphere (say 0.5<R<1) will contribute more than the "inside half" (R<0.5) as N grows but it will also be exponentially larger. It's not clear to me how that defines a neighbourhood (or what does one gain from doing so, it seems the neighbourhood could be defined to be the full hypersphere without any loss).
Dream Objects https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/
I think this explains why the docker registry is down as well.

http://status.docker.com/
Err, deploying PHP on IIS is actually very basic.
Agreed on Wilders.

As for the rest, I see one silver lining around almost all of the clouds which is that Trump & Company are absolutely incompetent. That's the only thing that's keeping things afloat right now, if they get their act together all bets are off.
yeah still all green in AWS status.... maybe their red and yellow icons are kept on S3. :-)))
Fair enough. But it sounds like this technology is being developed for airports, not land crossings or ferries. How would you setup this facial scanning when people leave the country in a vehicle?