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Softlayer GLBS Outage – 7 Sep 2017
Start Date: Wednesday 06-Sep-2017 20:00 UTC
Event Type: Unplanned Event
Subject: Event 47565459 - Domain names put in Client Hold state impacting GSLB and Reverse DNS services

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/ Latest Update /
- As of Thursday 07-Sep-2017 17:54 UTC
During a bulk transfer of domain names between two domain registrar services, two domains (global-datacenter.com and global-datacenter.net) were inadvertently put in client hold state by the sending registrar, but were not transferred over to the receiving registrar. This caused those domains to become inaccessible. This in turn impacted the global load balancer (GSLB) service reliant on those domain names, as well as the Reverse DNS service.

Cloud Infrastructure is working with the involved domain registrars to resolve this issue and remove the affected domains from client hold state as quickly as possible, which will in turn restore the GSLB and Reverse DNS services completely. Additionally, intermediary corrective actions have been taken to partially restore the Reverse DNS service functionality prior to the domain registrars correcting the situation.
If you can send a building into space, land it on a postage stamp floating in an ocean... I have high-confidence you can solve production line scaling challenges.
Though reck is a word, it isn't commonly used, whereas wreck is a pretty elementary word. Reck and wreck are homophones. That's probably your answer.
Fair point!

The broader point I'm trying to make is that violence (or the threat of violence) is wrong in all cases except self-defense (including the protection of private property).
You might be overselling your point with "perfectly safe". Extreme vertical winds are not uncommon in hurricanes. See

https://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/108766.pdf

With some quick Googling, I get the sense that while people cite hurricane hunters, they gloss over important bits,

But what does get interesting is flying through the
hurricane's rainbands and the eyewall.

-- http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/H3.html

In particular, rainbands occur all throughout a hurricane. You can't really fly through a hurricane and not fly through these. I'm not an aviator but I grew up in Florida and have experienced several hurricanes. I get your point about hurricanes being mostly horizontal winds and why thunderstorms are much more dangerous. (I appreciate your post because it motivated me to learn more :)

But hurricanes are immense, and immensely powerful. The size and energy drive all manner of dangerous phenomena. For example, growing up in Florida we were worried less about the hurricane, per se, than the many tornados they often spawned.
A lot of GNU packages are on Savannah, but it's not required:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Hosting.html
You know those planes have their own weather radar right?
> (years later) ... and that's how I ended up installing toilets in exchange for equity.

Holy crap, "intalling toilets" hits too close to home as an analogy. Happens way too often.
In fairness, it depends on how you define "e-mail". Some of those early ARPANET messaging systems were not exactly usable by a typical office worker with the conventions we take for granted now. That's really the crux of the issue here, and there's certainly room for debate about the minimum feature set.
What's causing the opioid use? I'd imagine the causation goes both ways.

Has anybody actually asked these people why they use opioids? Or is it just economists running statistical regressions from their ivory towers?
Waterproof cases are often bulky, awkward to use, and ugly. Apple is always, always going to choose encouraging forward thinking (wireless) over supporting legacy technologies by adding bulky, awkward covers.
I haven't experienced that at all. Okay, yes. When you ask your boss what he measures you about, he'll give you performance data. Tasks closed, commits sent, LOCs produced, etc. But what he really measures are top features you produced. And that happens rarely. I think for a really talented guy it's 0.5-1 top success per year. And these don't need to be measured, they are team memory.

Ask your team who is most talented in their eyes. They'll agree on a small number of names. And if you ask them why they believe it, it's something like "because he wrote our test automation" or "he's the guy you ask about that really nasty part of ancient code". Everything else is only for self-fulfillment of the developers.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyVksFviJVE
How Blockchain Is Kickstarting the Financial Lives of Refugees
This is the second such instance in the past month.
- For a longer discussion on the topic see this thread on airliners.net http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1373093

- On August 24 Typhoon Hato hit HongKong hard. All airlines canceled their service in and out of HKIA, except a lone KLM flight from Amsterdam. Similar to the delta flight into San Juan, this flight created a large media storm into the risk involved. http://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2017/08/24/klm-747-ty...

While I am not a pilot, I know that such flights involve sophisticated planning (route, fuel, approach), weather prediction as well as diversionary plans if things do not work out. No airline would undertake such a high-risk move without the confidence that they are not putting lives at risk.
I'd like to think all the staff were just blasting Death Grips as they flew in.
It's definitely plausible! I met a guy who had gotten a PE intern offer from FB. He said he had an systems internship at a trading company where he did automation and and infrastructure.

I wouldn't know for certain but I'd think they'd be looking for experience with scripting languages and deployment systems as well.
Request Signature Authentication for Twilio IVRs
>The article spends the first half implying causation, briefly admits this study does not address that, and then resumes suggesting that causation exists.

It starts talking about "common anecdotes," then talk about the self reporting survey this is based on. I can't see that as implying causation, and I don't know what more can be expected of science journalism. The field has to make it into a story, that's what differentiates it from scientific journals.

The abstract also states how inconclusive this result is, that the full paper addresses the limitations and that this data should be used with other evidence. The problems I see are the general need to find some link to get published, and they are at least straightforward about the strength of their data.
Yes, that's why the Soviet Union's lead on space in the early 60s translated into abundant production of consumer goods. Ladas all over the place.

Making a spacecraft work and making a production line work are completely different problems, and there's little reason to think that an organisation good at one is necessarily good at the other. I'm not saying Tesla WON'T sort out their production difficulties, necessarily, just that it doesn't follow from SpaceX being good at space launch.
You mean the meteorological charts? It is a sane color map? What would you like to see changed or had trouble reading?
No, because the idea that JP is a hack is not a controversial opinion among academics.
I'm sure they did their best to calculate it as precise as they can. Other airlines tried and failed. They had to turn back or were stuck on the island.

So the realized risk is fuel and cost of a grounded plane.
A New C API for CPython
By that logic, since Elon is a rocket scientist, I have high-confidence he'd be a great president.
Interesting, it is also MIT instead of the usual BSD + Patents Facebook uses. [1]

It is also under the 'onnx' namespace, presumably because it was a team effort.

It looks like Microsoft often uses MIT (vscode, dotnet, CNTK, ChakraCore), does this mean Microsoft was the driving force (even though it's a Facebook blog)?

* just noticed the link to Microsofts blog at the bottom of the page [2].

[1] https://github.com/onnx/onnx
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/blog/2017/...
I actually have a computer that's just my "work" machine. By work, I only have the tools on it for my deep, focused worth, whether it's writing, or coding, experimenting, etc... All my messaging is on a different machine. (This setup isn't for everyone.)
And that's what people think (me too, no exception here) two years after they come out of university.
What are you talking about? He's been going after over-proscribing doctors.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/jeff-sessions-targe...
It's not the same at all, but yesterday my flight had 150mph head winds (compare to Irma's 185) and you couldn't even notice. I only did because of the news coverage and wanted to compare.
> As far as disproportionate enforcement goes, rural and suburban Americans haven't been murdering anyone at nearly the rate of inner city gang

Certainly, more ruled-as-murders per population unit happen in urban areas, but I'm aware of no statistics by urban/rural residence of killer (where a crime happens doesn't tell you where the criminal is from, and people who live in rural areas obviously can commit crimes in cities.)

And rural areas have higher death rates and it's at least plausible that the decreased population density makes it easier for evidence of homicide to be concealed and murders to be passed off as death by other causes, so the relative rates of ruled-as-murders may not accurately reflect the relative rate of actually-is-murder.
That is why they were able to charge more than 3k per ticket to fly out of troubled locations on Irma's path.
Don't forget about Mattermost. I work in fin-tech and we've been evaluating Mattermost because of on-Prem.
I prefer this:

http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623#comic
Whether microcode is hardware or software is blurred. Remember, when microcode was introduced in the 1960's, it was used for implementing the same thing in software that other versions of the same computer family did in hardware. With microcode, a vendor could offer different machines at different price/performance points. A sequential circuit can implement an algorithm; microcode can implement an algorithm.
You'd definitely have to be more careful than I was in my post! But I think it should be possible to make it work via something like always using either one or two initial letters. The algorithm I'm thinking of is:

1. Given n, write aaaaaaa n where the number of a's is equal to the length of n.

2. If the number of a's is 1 or 2, stop.

3. Let n' be the number of a's.

4. Write bbbbb n' n where the number of b's is equal to the length of n'.

5. If the number of b's is 1 or 2, stop.

6. ...continue until the number of initial letters is 1 or 2.

I think that algorithm is mostly well-defined and only produces one possible output for each input number. So let's see if I can give a good proof-ish argument that it sorts correctly.

Suppose n <= m, then length(n) <= length(m).

Case 1: If their lengths are equal, then in step 1, they are written as

aaaaaaaaa n
aaaaaaaaa m

where the number of a's are the same. Now the rest of the algorithm is the same for both numbers, since they have the same number of a's, so they get written as the exact same prefix followed by the number. Since they have the same length, the smaller one sorts first.

Case 2: Now suppose length(n) < length(m), and further suppose length(n) <= 2. Then in step 1, they are written as, for instance,

a n
aa m

or something like

aa n
aaaa m

Now any encoding of m in further steps will start with the letter b or greater, which sorts below "aa n".

Case 3: Now suppose length(n) < length(m), but further suppose length(n) > 2. Then in step 1, they are written as

aaaaaaaaa n
aaaaaaaaaaa m

Now n will sort before m as long as the encoding of a smaller string of a's sorts before the encoding of a longer string. Let n' = length(n) and m' = length(m). We know that n' < m' and we want to prove that the encoding of n' sorts before the encoding of m'. This is true recursively by the same 3-case argument as above, though I haven't really formalized it well here.

For example, if length(n') = length(m'), then they both get written in the next step as

bbbb n' n
bbbb m' m

which is just like Case 1 above. Otherwise, they get written something like

b n' n
bbb m' m

which is just like Case 2 above. Otherwise, they get written

bbbbb n' n
bbbbbb m' m

which is like Case 3 above, and requires us to recurse again.
So when I told my daughter the Tesla X is a rocket ship car, I wasn't entirely lying?
No, because containers are processes not vms.
See also Zoe Quinn's "Crash Override"- totally polarized reviews, with notable difference between verified purchasers and not.

https://www.amazon.com/Crash-Override-Gamergate-Destroyed-Ag...
Of course it's a mixture of positive and negative values. Why would you think otherwise?
The older I get, the more I realize that things don't ever really change. We keep making the same mistakes over and over and over. You think that we, as a science and engineering focused field would be less prone to this but no, we're still short-sighted meat-bags like everyone else.
> And so in Ruby, we use test frameworks with advanced mocking, as well as runtime-reflection coverage measurement.

No matter how many times you say it, that doesn't make it true.
It's great for complex apps with multiple dependencies, but if you plan on never needing full VMs likely not worth it.

I'm used to liberally using crontab, iptable rules, multiple languages, and not deploying separate containers / vms if I need something like Redis. For some of them I'd end up with 6-8 containers if I went that route.
Chat breaks the flow, flow is necessary for cohesive elegant solutions. If we develop under a state of distraction, we end up making bulldozer-code.

Furthermore, chat is not high quality communication. It is mostly junk comms. If we wanted to encourage communication that moved the organization forward, we would have a structured medium that would automatically populate a knowledgebase.

Chat is not that medium. Chat is shat.
Google ‘in final stage of negotiations’ to buy HTC’s smartphone division
The real difference between Apple and Samsung's IP ratings is going to be corporate risk profiles, not technical capabilities. IP ratings don't in and of themselves make a phone waterproof, they just define what the customer's expectations should be. Apple would have just as much incentive to underrate their phone as they would to accurately rate it.
Wow, didn't know that 1/5 of US guys IDGAFed on society. Must be quite hostile society to men when they can't find anything keeping them interested. I think that's close to rates in Soviet Union after collapse.
Mostly officials and emergency personal, according to other reports.
I wonder to what extent cuttings are effected by these epigenetic memories?

Ex.

- Grow plant A. Expose it to stimuli to make it form a 'memory'

- Take a cutting from plant A and root it, making plant B.

- Test plant B for response to the stimulus.

Does plant B have the memory? If so, how many cutting-generations does it take for the memory to decay?
You can certainly do two things at the same time but his policy talk and actions are very much focused primarily on recreational pot usage and state's right to medicinal pot.

Sessions:

"Good people don't smoke marijuana."

"We need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it's in fact a very real danger."

“I thought those guys [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK until I learned they smoked pot.”

“Colorado was one of the leading states that started the movement to suggest that marijuana is not dangerous. And we’re going to find it, in my opinion, ripple throughout the entire American citizenry; and we’re going to see more marijuana use, and it’s not going to be good. We’re going to see more other drug use, illegal drug use, also, which is damaging.”
The things is that these small things might just be noise from some confounding factors.

http://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2517494

For example, here sample size is huge, USA population gets significant increased risk, while EU population does not. Mixing the two together would result in a smaller but still significant increased risk.

Given the size, it's quite clear that USA population has many other confounding factors that cannot be eliminated by mathematics alone (there is no control).
Seems to be a standardized replacement for language specific app servers like fpm for php. I guess that makes it a little easier to deploy stuff, although recently with docker containers, that hasn't been such a big deal anymore. You can just take an off the shelf fpm container and deploy that.
So you are saying thunderstorms contain more intense wind shear than a hurricane...I don't think I believe that.
Thank you for volunteering and verifying!
Another thing to keep in mind here is that these kinds of review systems will often result in high amounts of polarization regardless of whether the topic is controversial. My feeling is that people often vote based on how they want the current average to change rather than based on how much they liked the movie.

E.G. Sometimes I'll watch a movie, I'll think it's an 8/10 but then see it has 4/10 on imdb, so I'll give it a 10.

Presumably this may affect another person's vote. Maybe someone saw the film, hated it, wondered why the review was so high, and gave it a 0 to bring the average down.

IMDB recognizes this and uses a "secret formula" (http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?ratingsexplanation) as a result.
The Top-10 Biggest Startups in Israel by Funding
PyTorch/ONNX dev here. ONNX is a proto2 format https://github.com/onnx/onnx/blob/master/onnx/onnx.proto -- we definitely wanted to make it easy for people to parse and load ONNX exported graphs :)
It's interesting that the original did not see anywhere close to the same polarization.
What is the purpose of the website androido.trade?
doing a Google search site:http://androido.trade looks like this person did a guide for every existing phone to install something. But the text on each page is the same. It smells fishy. The file is split in 3 .rar parts. Does it contain malware ? I dont see any other purpose for the website.
Wait, why is email unsearchable?
What do you mean by "that?"
The downside of the internet... suddenly everyone pretends to be an aviation expert.
I'm sure that the tax benefits are not the only criterion here. There are plenty of things cities can do to attract companies that aren't tax breaks — SF and NY and others are already there. Amazon wants a place that its employees would actually want to live, too. But that doesn't mean tax breaks and other incentives shouldn't be on the table. But my point isn't even whether they're good or bad, it's that they're not prima facie evidence of corruption.
Same price as one at Harbor Freight in the US.
https://www.harborfreight.com/80-piece-rotary-tool-kit-97626...
Just imagine the world we will live in, when Facebook or Microsoft wins the race to general AI.
There is also google hangouts chat
Not to pull down the emotions here, but if the whole blog post is not saying more than "Hashicorp Vagrant 2.0" I doubt that there will be some meaningful content in that version. Was Vagrant bought by Hashicorp or something? Why not announce that?
Meanwhile, water jugs seem to be reasonably priced.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Reliance-Products-Aqua-Tainer-Ga...
https://camelcamelcamel.com/Coleman-5-Gallon-Collapsible-Wat...

And if UPS is still delivering, then you probably still have potable tap water to fill them up.
> But that doesn't explain why it would be preferable to remove the headphone jack in 2016 and have people be used to it by 2017, rather than the same but a year later.

Perception. People focus on something more when it changes, and there's only so much focus to go around. Remove the headphone jack a year earlier, and it's not a "change" that it's still missing from the next model. So focus/attention can be more concentrated on new features that Apple brings to the newer "10th anniversary" iPhone.

"Yeah, but it still doesn't have a headphone jack" is a rational reaction, but not the one that most people will have. It's irrelevant background noise, compared to the shouts of "Look at all the new shiny!", which is the reaction that Apple's going for.
> And when it gets here, then IRCCloud and Quassel would be a good answer to my original comment. But now, those clients don't provide those features, while Slack does.
Amazon is more or less conducting an auction. Cities will bid on hosting their second HQ. The best bid wins. Or maybe a better analogy is the Olympics site selection process.
There was that article about the guy who loaded up a truck of generators and brought them to a disaster area where they were needed.

He got caught by gouging laws, the generators were confiscated and never distributed.
That's a real stretch
It is owned by Hashicorp. Hashicorp was a company built around Vagrant initially.
LLVM 5.0.0 Release
A US court can fine or imprison any of the individual people who comprise, direct as superiors, or act on the direction of those abstract entities that the US executive branch arranges, by whatever means (which, again, have historically included both foreign kidnapping and outright invasion) to bring before the court. Vladimir Putin is obviously, as a practical matter, much safer from that than Manuel Noriega was, but lower level individuals may not be so much.
My productivity is measured on

1) me understanding the domain

2) finding a well factored solution to the problems in that domain

These things are incredibly hard. Using chat is like skipping a meal or a nap. Communication isn't valuable in and of itself.
Studies with low significance are no better than anecdotes.
This is why I think better multiple-test-correction methods are more important and would lead better to a desirable outcome than just lowering alpha.
Reps. Polis and Schweikert Introduce Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act in Congress
Uncooked rice works as a desiccant and is found in most homes. If you wrap the phone in a paper towel there is no need to worry about rice residue or rice dust getting into the phone. It does work, but it takes 24-48 hours to dry your phone. Silica gel or other desiccants work better, but most people do not have these in their home.
Virtualenv's Bin/activate Is Doing It Wrong
Obviously the shape of your ear matters a great deal, and the lack of wires makes the comparison a bit harder, but I've found the AirPods much more comfortable than the cheap wired headsets Apple ships (shipped?).
I'm actually trying to quit the third shift position, but they are begging me to stay with raises and weekend only work. I'm so tempted to because it would provide enough money for luxury or fallback if I can't make rent one month.
Crafting a Smart Mirror with My Dad and Daughter
Link: https://xra.itch.io/memory-of-a-broken-dimension

Downloading now. Itch is becoming a very interesting platform for discovering experimental games and interactive experiences.
Thoughts of using Eclipse for embedded development
The hi-res future of anti-pollution tech using Street View
Ok I know about Comic Sans and Papyrus but what's the deal with Palatino?
You realize they had DRM in iTunes music long ago at the insistence of the labels, and have killed it? Why in the world do you think Apple would add it back?
I remember briefly being told several years ago that I might have slight ADD
I am dazzled by the complete lack of any information.