skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Richard Feynman – The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Unfortunately, I don't believe that is correct. To the extent of my understanding, the vagueness doctrine applies only in some criminal law circumstances, while contract litigation would generally be within the realm of civil law, so it would be inapplicable. There may, however, be relief available under doctrines like that of unconscionability.
irc.freenode.net / ##aws (must be registered with nickserv to join)

outage first reported around 11:35CST.
I wonder if we are going to get to the point...

Going to?
You might want to check out Figure1 which is a social network for medical professionals and very twitter like but has a user base that's full of very people.

https://figure1.com/
blown away by how much he knows ..I think he could beat Watson in Jeopardy
Apparently this is not a joke:

“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
Just posted on their Twitter:

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."
This web assembly scheme saddens me a bit. I wish the scripting line would not be crossed and we could stick to JIT-compiled JS or even dialects that can execute closer to the metal (like asm.js). It's just so nice to be able to have all the codes - I've found that even the most aggressively minified uber-scripts can be pretty printed and studied.

All the arguments in favor about saving bytes and offline compiling would seem like only short term gains since network, cpu's, and memory sizes are going to continue to improve.

And, it's certainly not Flash or Java Applets all over again since there are multiple competent vendors in the mix. Yet, I fear a new wave of unconstrained, impenetrable code schlock will flow from content creators once this thing hits the mainstream.
Or so we thought...

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
Or instead of Cloudfront, you could migrate to a service provider that provides meaningful status pages.
I thought this was a joke, but apparently not too far off:

"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
You're pushing hard on a wide-open door :-)
Allow me to publicly follow someone while privately ignoring them.

Allow me to easily and permanently get rid of "In case you missed it" thing and read my feed on a strictly timeline basis.

I get a lot of junk in my feed that I don't want to see, and thus I don't go to it much.

Facebook is not as bad, but they've gotten worse. Two of my friends "like" some newspaper and then I start seeing the latest stories from that newspaper in my feed all the time.

I want to go to these feeds once a day and read what those who publish once a day or less who are my friends (Facebook) or friends/colleagues (Twitter) say, in timeline order. Any deviation from that lessens my desire to read it. Some of my friends publish to Facebook several times a day and I usually don't even want to read that, never mind the other junk that both put in my feed.
AWS is updating twitter here. No red icons on the status page IS an AWS issue:

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
No, PS Now is a streaming service that allows you to play PS3 and PS4 games. What you really meant to say was PS Plus.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstation-plus/
Battery powered rocket, here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(rocket)
In this case, the bug is a logic error, not a resource-related error. I have hard time to see how Rust would have helped.
“Tesla vs. Edison”
I already did, I built an entire new network from scratch, eg. https://sublevel.net/
>"Goes Public" implies there was a human who pulled the trigger; it was a bot:

Meaningless distinction, a human designed the bot that pulled the trigger. Building a robot that then murders someone doesn't absolve the designer from the ramifications of what they built.
Because it takes time to write a fix, test it, test it some more to make sure it doesn't break any of you 1 billion users, then ship it, then wait some more because people ain't updating that often.

That's in total contrast to web development where you can deploy a fix in ~ 1 hour to all your users simultaneously.
It's unbelievable that the status page is still showing green checkmarks, almost what, 2 hours into the outage?

edit: oh, it is actually because of the outage! So if they can't get a fresh read on the service status from s3, they just optimistically assume it's green... even though the service failing to provide said read... is one of the services they're optimistically showing as green XD
AWS status updates not working due to S3
Its the best source for breaking news. If something is going on I can search a twitter hashtag and parse out the good stuff for myself. Scroll through quickly and find people on the spot who may be periscoping etc.

Also because of the twitter culture/brevity In my personal experience people are more apt to reply. I have hired and been hired etc just through tweeting. I think there is a sort of casual atmosphere that can be used to get people to respond who otherwise never would.

Just my 2 cents.
If passphrases contain 'memorable' word-like sounds, predictable structures or real words as a basis they can be attacked more efficiently. Often password generators have such modes.

2^44 = ~10 hexadecimal digits, but to be fair the example was purely alphabetic and about double the length, so this is apples and oranges.
In 2004, when I came to US for the first time as a student, I was asked by an immigration officer at JFK to make the XOR gate using OR and AND gates on a paper.
S3 experiencing massive outage, affecting other AWS services also
You guys are so funny sometimes.
"Its virtually impossible to find any of these "$5 computers" in quantities greater than 1."

Only true for Pi products. If you're willing to spend $7 you can get esp8266 nodemcu hardware delivered from amazon prime in arbitrary quantity.

Theres a problem where no matter how many times its stated, "you can buy ONE if you pay six times MSRP or live within driving range of the one retail store on the continent selling them or if you import from the UK or eastern europe" vs I need six for an IoT experiment involving micropython and I2C environmental sensors. I can't buy six $5 pi or even six $10 pi but I can have six ESP8266 boards by thursday afternoon for $35 total. Which is less than single pi zero plus "development kit of parts" costs, ironically.

A $5 computer that's impossible to actually purchase is much less useful in practice than a $7 computer delivered in two days by amazon prime in any quantity I'm willing to pay for.

Its interesting that above $40 or so there is an infinite supply of rasp pi 3 and beaglebone blacks. Everything is widely available except for cheap pi.
Well what if you'd hosted it on your hard drive and it crashed? It seems like the probability of either is similar nowadays.
Ooh, I like this question.

1. Trim the fat. Reduce the number of employees dramatically. Obviously not a graceful change but I feel there should not be that as many people working there as there are now.

2. Focus on engagement, not growth. Twitter may not be growing in the way that the market wants, but the users that it does have are incredibly devoted to the platform. If I were to leave Twitter there's nowhere else I could go. If I leave Tinder or Snapchat there are many other platforms that can fill almost the same niche. Twitter needs to capitalize on that.

3. Make brands pay to have a page. In other words, if you're not an individual, you must pay to create an account. Savvy companies have realized that being on Twitter is a key part of a solid social media campaign. To not be on Twitter is to miss out on a huge opportunity to reach a very devoted audience, and you can't reach that audience anywhere else (#2). Some brands are already doing this well (e.g. Wendy's.) If the choice comes to paying for the opportunity to market on Twitter, and not market at all, companies will gladly pay. On the plus side, this could let Twitter reduce the interstitial ads on the timeline.

Everyone hates ads, but the way that brands have engaged with individuals on Twitter really humanizes them and makes people form more real relationships with them. It also forces brands to be more accountable and aware.

4. Bring back Vine. A huge part of Twitter's staying power is the unique culture it has created (#2). Staying power is what gives Twitter its greatest value to advertisers (#3).

5. Ramp up engagement on Periscope. Periscope being a part of Twitter makes a lot of sense because Twitter is all about stuff happening live. It's a great platform but I think it also needs a desktop client (with OBS support, the way Twitch does) to allow the caliber of content creation to go up.

6. Re-open APIs. Twitter has sown a bad seed with the dev community by making its API very restricted. Tweets make up a very interesting dataset on which other people could build very unique things on top of. Twitter should encourage this, not stifle it. "Look what cool things we can do with Twitter" will only serve to strengthen the image of Twitter as a unique, irreplaceable platform.

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These are the main issues I see as an everyday user of Twitter. Things like live sports/TV are good ways to grow but these are all secondary to Twitter strengthening its core platform for longevity and meaningful sustainability.
>the private sector is just as full of pointless, or even actively harmful paper-pushers.

1- Maybe. To what degree are these paper-pushers an artifact of government requirements? It's hard to tell the difference between a 'pointless' private paper-pusher and a private paper-pusher who is there because of some perceived liability to the government or hostile lawyers.

2- Even if so. At least private companies can ultimately be punished in the marketplace. Government typically insulates itself throughly from oversight, both economic and from the ballot-box.
> However, having read a decent amount of the code myself, it is pretty crappy/sketchy.

Have a look at vvfat.
ironic .the status update doomed by its own downtime
I'd like to get involved, but a lack of capital is going to make it very difficult.
Ask HN: HN not working properly?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8168569 shows "Sorry,this is temporarily unvailable."
You can use Java with GWT everywhere.
People were joking about this but it turns out to be true: they host the status icons on their service: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
Not necessarily "on the device"—they can be part of the browser. Or—for phones at least—part of the carrier profile. In either of those cases, rather than one centralized authority, there's an explicit chain of trust: you trust the browser maker, who trusts set X; or you trust your ISP, who trusts set Y.

That's more in the mindset of how the original X.509 design was supposed to work: you trust your company/university, who installs set Z on their workstations. Except, in this case, you're much more free to switch who you trust.

Of course, in the "carrier profile" case, a lot of the smaller ISPs might delegate their cert-verification to some company set up specifically to be an, ahem, Authority for Certificates.

But those companies would be "CAs" in a very different sense than the one we have today: they wouldn't issue certs; they'd instead generate pin lists and run OCSP portals, i.e., verify certs—including certs that are not their own. They'd essentially provide "TLS stack plugins" for devices that subscribed to them, instructing those devices on what makes for a valid or invalid cert. (Or you could build the infrastructure the other way around, and make a "TLS thin client" library that talks to its CA every time it wants to know if a cert is valid. Given that OCSP already exists, it wouldn't be that much more traffic.)

This would also mean that the TLS "technology" could evolve much more quickly, since TLS extensions wouldn't have to get 100% traction with TLS client software before they'd be useful. Instead, the extension would merely need to be taken into consideration by one CA when that CA generated its pin-lists and OCSP databases (or, dynamically by webapp-like software, in the TLS-thin-client case.)
Nope. No S3 logic behind the scenes. A few of the ELBs are fine, and a few are not. Seems random.

The EC2 instances themselves are fine, but the affected ELBs are spitting out 500s.
Alexa smart home component stopped working, if you try to reinstall the Alexa app on your phone, you'll find that you can't even login anymore.
I think that might be my favourite tweet this year so far.
> That's great but it's fair to say that's niche - both in terms of the number of people I'm guessing who are producing that type of content and the amount of monetization that can occur from that community.

Although it's niche, you could substitute almost anything else for 'medical' and have it work. There's an equally good and thriving literary Twitter, arts Twitter, gay Twitter, black Twitter, politics Twitter, dev Twitter.

Turns out that people like their news and sports mixed in with other ephemera anyway - it's a secret that TV networks have known for decades with late night TV and 'and finally' segments on network news.

For me the point where Twitter really lost its way is when it decided to focus on being a 'media company' and drawing attention to tweets from 'public figuresrather than finding better ways to enable people to tap into and contribute to communities that matter to them.
"bit-barn bods" is some of the worst alliteration I've ever seen.
Yes, the typical point is far from the origin (but unless there is spherical symmetry the only thing those points have in common is being far from the origin). What do you gain by excluding the origin from the typical set?

Edit: I'm not sure if your comment contradicts or complements what I wrote. As I said, taking a hypersphere of radius 1 the "inner" hypersphere of radius 0.5 accounts for just 1/2^n of the hypervolume. Would you say that the "outer" shell is a neighbourhood? How is that defined? What is the advantage of doing so instead of using the whole (only marginally bigger) hypersphere?
So... https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."
all of your jokes about the dashboard not turning red b/c the icon is hosted on US EAST are true:

Amazon Web Services‏Verified account @awscloud 8m8 minutes ago
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The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates.
Deep Voice: Real-Time Neural Text-To-Speech for Production
We present Deep Voice, a production-quality text-to-speech system constructed entirely from deep neural networks. Deep Voice lays the groundwork for truly end-to-end neural speech synthesis. The system comprises five major building blocks: a segmentation model for locating phoneme boundaries, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion model, a phoneme duration prediction model, a fundamental frequency prediction model, and an audio synthesis model. For the segmentation model, we propose a novel way of performing phoneme boundary detection with deep neural networks using connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss. For the audio synthesis model, we implement a variant of WaveNet that requires fewer parameters and trains faster than the original. By using a neural network for each component, our system is simpler and more flexible than traditional text-to-speech systems, where each component requires laborious feature engineering and extensive domain expertise. Finally, we show that inference with our system can be performed faster than real time and describe optimized WaveNet inference kernels on both CPU and GPU that achieve up to 400x speedups over existing implementations.
I bet the outage is related to the new color coded CloudWatch metrics: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836630468778864640

As part of the release they wanted to make sure everybody gets a chance to see "red" metrics.
There is "Amazon Warehouse Deals", Amazon itself acting as a used products seller on Amazon. This is usually used for returns etc., but I wouldn't be surprised if they also handle something like this.
The icons aren't hosted there (or if they are, they are cached). https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif

The status information is hosted there.
I've heard (on the Fnord new show on the most recent CCC congress, so take it with a grain of salt and a bucket of humor) that Amazon's TOS are more or less void when a Zombie Apocalypse breaks out.

They had some convoluted but fairly specific wording in their TOS, whoever wrote must have had a lot of fun.
1) Focus on capturing value from "Twitter as realtime newsfeed" -- creating products for non-Twitter-posting-users to see what's going on at a longer timescale. This could be first party, or through partnerships with publishers.

2) All those Twitter developer/publisher services which Twitter recently sold were IMO the real value at Twitter, Inc. Unfortunately, Twitter has burned developers too many times to be trusted. I would have made them independent rather than selling, though.

3) Rather than randomly banning users, focus on better filtering tools, and tools to coalesce spam/multiple replies/etc. If you make a popular tweet, or are the target of an attack, there should be a single "click more" link, rather than hundreds of separate notifications.
Make Twitter both more social and more publisher oriented.

1) Twitter's ability to have a good experience around discussions around a group of friends like Facebook is

2) Twitter can be a huge publishing platform
DDOS? More like everybody refreshing it trying to figure why their app broke (spoiler: it's S3!)
Well, for one I would stop banning and restricting people for expressing their opinions. Your phone company wouldn't disconnect your service for leaving nasty messages on someone's mailbox, so Twitter shouldn't ban people for writing nasty messages to people. It's not their responsibility and I think society suffers from their judgement of what is allowed and what isn't - how can you promote understanding and bring people closer together when one side of the argument is being silenced and marginalized? People who break laws should be dealt with by the legal system. People that do not shouldn't have to worry about their ability to communicate with people being curtailed.

If you think this sort of thing doesn't happen, read this: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157826468646/nothing-to-see-her... , or http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157201503761/freedom-of-speech-... . He's had problems with this for months, because of his political blogging, and this is just one example. If it can happen to the guy who made Dilbert, it can happen to anyone.
Audio samples here.
http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-production-quality-text...
I agree. MMM is completely unhelpful for someone who is not already in a great position.

If you have great income and you want to retire early by saving on some big expenses, MMM probably has some good advice for you.

If you are relatively poor and you're trying to figure out how to pay off your student loans, fix your beater that you need to get to the office, and afford health insurance, while having essentially zero money left over, MMM's advice is essentially worthless. It's like telling a homeless guy with no jacket, "Why are you cold? Just put a jacket on."
Snapchat spectacles worn by UK surgeon while operating
> Sort of retail.

Eh, that is really vague, if you could be more specific I could help ya more.

> I'm looking at having a printer controlled cash draw.

No reason not to use the printer to control the cash drawer, every receipt printer you look at will support 1 if not 2 cash drawers.

> I don't need a bar code scanner.

Do you only have a few items which you intend to have on a touchscreen?

>A Raspberry Pi touch display.

How big/how high resolution?

> And some sort of pinpad

Look at the Pax Px7 or Dejavoo, we wrote PHP bindings for Pax's API. Would recommend you avoid Datacap, most semi-integrated credit/debit offerings are a pretty penny besides the two I mentioned.

https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/PHPax
Just finished reading The Everything Store... I bet a "?" email went out.
I'm only familiar with one of his works, "The Muse in the Machine", which is a bit dated now but provides an excellent informal discussion of the relationship between human and computerized intelligence. It seems he has published on some [even] more controversial topics since then, but I can easily recommend the title I mentioned to anyone with even a passing interest in the subject.
dang [0] just commented to say that their server is getting hammered because of this thread.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756819
> Do you remember why it felt that way?

Yes: I've really enjoyed using Turbo Pascal in eighties and earned for living developing using Borland products in the early nineties. I've received VA for C++ to evaluate its suitability. After I've installed it it crashed almost on every click, before I was able to even try something usable. Before it would crash, it would be also quite slow to do anything. In short, not comparable at all with the Borland feel I was spoiled with (remember, the OP here is about Delphi). I don't remember if I've tried it before or after the first (16-bit) Delphi. But I know that I was absolutely amazed with Delphi, and quite puzzled with VA C++ (not understanding how they approved the production of the CDs of something in that state). I understood that IBM favored OS/2 and I've tried it on the NT of that time, so, apart for the clumsiness of the interface (which simply didn't fit much with what I've expected an IDE should let me do easily) I've also assumed that they probably tested it only on OS/2 and have made the NT version just to say it exists.

So I can't say it appeared better than Rational Rose which was also horrible, as far as I remember, more stable (as in not crashing that much), but again in my opinion unusable except for wasting time.

The system on which I've tested was otherwise stable, the applications I've user regularly and the builds that lasted hours haven't crashed.
via AWS twitter account "The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue.  See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."
Oh God you are taking this seriously ain't you ?
> Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS.

Personally I've been using it for ages and I know most services inside and out. They do suffer downtime in some regions occasionally, but it'd be too expensive at this point to move.

And who doesn't suffer downtime? You can't avoid it; you just need a plan to deal with it. For example, having a backup replica bucket in another region and the ability to quickly switch your CDN over would probably be a good idea here; that's what I did.

If you want to go further you can replicate your data to another cloud provider entirely and use low TTLs to switch to a backup CDN if your system is that mission-critical (in the event of a worldwide AWS failure doomsday scenario).

All systems will fail you and it's our responsibility as IT professionals to have a plan to mitigate this.
Typically a 35 hour workweek is 7 hour days with up to an hour of unpaid lunch.