skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is this related to the one from the other day?

DUH - doesn't seem to be - that was west coast, IIRC, and the only issue I see now is in Virginia.
Is this why Reddit is down?
Not to mentioned that this only started in 2003, which was of course too late.
I'm 46. I was just shy of my fifth birthday when the Kent State Shootings occurred. Age surveys suggest that people on HN are predominantly in their 20's and 30's. Attitudes about time aren't necessarily age dependent. I find that people from older cultures tend to have a longer view of time than your typical American. I do happen to be American. "Mate" implies you are not.

Peace.
Ask HN: Cool Demo Project Ideas
The standard (and probably true) wisdom around here is that a good way to get noticed and get the kind of job that most of us would like is to "build something".

What I'm hoping for is ideas for demo projects. I don't need anything designed to make money or steal anyone's startup idea, just things that are fun to build and show development skills.

Demos you've seen already and liked or that have gotten people job offers are also appreciated.
3 out of 4 us-east-1 AZs are unavailable from the outside. The AZ that is working is the one that has chronic availability issues, so there is no way to recover service in that zone.
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I don't mean to praise wall street but Mark Cuban made his initial cash from stock options the same things the people on wall street trade. So he knows very well what businesses they are in.. They made him rich!
I think he is right but the biggest issue is that Wall Street has become solely a place for 'transfer of wealth'. They do not care about value or know what it is, i.e. people like Warren Buffet stepping in recognizing value and investing when the price does not match the value.

But I think the biggest problem is the market is so huge and the more money you feed it the more irrational it gets, doesn't matter wether algorithms or humans are doing the trading.

Irrational trading creates bubbles and they gamble value away until the bubble burst. And even after the bubble burst its just a reset to the market.

I do not know where it is headed but I think one day countries will realize that they were better off with out mr.market because when the value companies build are traded away and in turn the middle class/country suffers, wall street walks away with the money, i.e. the house always wins in the end.
Imagine launching your startup on the day Amazon AWS goes down? On another note.. why don't these power outages ever affect Amazon.com from going down? Come'n, eat your own dog food!!!
Yep its down
Reddit gives: An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #97.374a7b5c.1312858006.1a17105

Must be this.
Hasn't this been done for ages? Razors, etc?
Huh. My piddly little website hosted on a micro instance is down. This kind of sucks, not that I get a lot of hits, but I have a few things hosted there that local stuff depends on.
You sent me my password in the confirmation email in plain text. Please fix this security hole ASAP by hashing the passwords.

Edit: The content looks great. Sorry, didn't mean to sound snarky, but that is a scary first impression of the site. I have some more comments that I tried to email to the contact email address, but my email was retured. Is there an email I can use to contact you or someone at the site?
I have DiP3, and have used it for a couple of tricks, but I found learning Python through Project Euler + documentation to be much more useful.

Also, having learned Python 3 first, I can't stand porting things to Python 2. It's like taking a final draft of an idea and trying to turn it into a rough draft.
People often come up with the wrong answer without knowing how, too. They just forget about those times.

It's been well documented— your perception of the "real world" is heavily distorted. That's why we have math— to figure out the right answer despite human biases.
sorry, your company is just one more of those 'we will send your email to every company around'. I just filled both forms. one is email passive, the other is just showing a list of companies that do not give me no more information than a link and phone number.

The change leaky (or coverhound) has of succeeding, is if they do what mint did. provide a way to work with insurance companies, even if there's no 'publicly available pricing API'. There will be the magic that is missing in this market.

but, of course, once you have your service mandated by the gov (as is here in cali) you will make it harder and harder for the public to be informed about prices of your service. That's the gotcha with car insurance. no company benefits being transparent about rates.
And now for something completely insensitive: http://wondermark.com/743/
That's why I came here after I found out reddit was down :P
Creative accounting?

How can something that is supposed to report 'reality' be 'creative'. It's analytical, and highly objective... where is the creativity?
Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc
My servers are down in east us.
Twilio is down. Bummer
4chan users make troll facebook accounts all the time. It can't be that difficult.
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I heard this theory as well, in a history of science class. The professor claimed that you can extract something like 60% more food energy from an egg by cooking it.
I've been moving over to EC2 and use S3 and Route 54. I am starting to wonder if Amazon, which I think Heroku also uses, is reliable. It isn't just with the system as a whole too (like the outage they are having now).

I've had 3 servers out of 22, in around 1 month, degrade. I've only had the servers for a few months. That is like 6% degradation a month on servers. Every server has redundancy, but still...

Is EC2 worth the risk?
dotCloud is struggling as well ... Amazon US-EAST-1 out :P
Dropbox is up but stored content seems to be inaccessible. Yay for single points of failure!
netflix down on my PC and their app is down on my TV.
Except that much more of it seems to actually be about code.
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Netflix also seems to be affected.
My business is on 15+ AWS instances and we are completely down and all hosts are unreachable.
FWIW, here are what I, a low-level (OS/firmware) guy, got this time:
https://plus.google.com/116664423478272670997/posts/BYtnWF73...
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What? You mean without a backup plan to substitute in for the platform with known reliably issues? Yeah I guess that would suck.

Edit re your edit on dogfooding: supposedly they use the same tech, just not the same servers, so their AZs are probably separate form ec2s. Also, they're in all of their geographical locations, not just us east.
Are you saying that the Efficient Market Theory (EMT) is correct?

The market is mostly efficient, but there are still many efficiencies that can be exploited by people who do their homework and are ready to stick around through volatility and/or wait for catalysts.
Cuban's tl;dr point is that Wall Street has become a simulacrum. Now go read Baudrillard.
damn, http://status.twilio.com/ - calls are still going through, just a few extra rings before my service receives the http request from twilio... gotta love twilio they rock - looks like no call recordings...
I think they ripped it off because Square's design is great. And, personally I think it's pretty decent they acknowledge it. I've seen plenty of designs ripped off and nobody ever has the guts to give credit.
In most countries i lived (UK not included) the army can only be used for pacific work inside the country.

It's against all countries' constitution I know of to use the army in internal affairs that include use of force.

And I doubt the riots are killing anyone. You probably lost more money for corrupt government office holders than to any riot-smashing-your-precious-things you will face in your life time. so focus your desire to raise arms more effectively, please.
Our minecraft server on linode is down.
My reaction: shocking (but not really).
http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/EC2.rss

http://reports.panopta.com/cloudharmony-borderless/server/57...

various ec2 clients affected:

- dotcloud

- dropbox

- engine yard

- foursquare

- heroku

- hootsuite

- instagram

- kicksend

- netflix

- pagerduty

- reddit

- twilio
Management console says all my instances are still running. But can't ping or ssh to them and can't ping amazon.com either.
Creating is much more difficult than destroying. Creating actually takes preparation, discipline, work, sacrifice, frustration, and the ability to put off till tomorrow the pleasure we want to experience today. In so far as education tempers people with the ability to sustain that process, then yes you're probably right, it is a failure there. Not an easy problem to solve, though.
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Congrats to them!!
Dotcloud is down
Reddit is intermittent too.
Ask HN: How many $$$ per second does the US economy lose when EC2 goes down?
Just wondering :)

Anyone got a back-of-the-envelope calculation they want to share?
From the AWS service health page at: http://status.aws.amazon.com/

7:39 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for EC2 in the US-EAST-1 region.

7:50 PM PDT We can verify connectivity issues between instances in the US-EAST-1 region and the Internet.
Netflix is down as well.
Two large, lengthy outages within a few months of each other? I hate to piggy-back on Amazon's follies, but it's times like these that make me love my Linode boxes. Total downtime over the last 5 years? 5 hours. I really couldn't ask for a better hosting company.

Edit: The 5 hours are what I've noticed from either personal servers or those of friends/acquaintances. YMMV.
http://www.hubski.com/

It is slow, but I find the majority of links in-depth and worthwhile.
Appears to be back up, at least for us.
Interesting that a similar comment was made by patio11 and there was intelligent discussion about it.
heroku is working fine for me now, got 2 projects hosted on it
"And anyway, if there's one thing banks are great about, it's passing on the fees to their clients. A one cent per-share transfer tax doesn't mean Wall Street is out of business. It means you won't have enough money in your 401k to retire."

While I agree with the rest of your criticisms, this is off base. You have to consider the second-order effects; banks will not simply continue to trade at the exact same volume as before whatever (presumably somehow fixed-up) tax is imposed, then pass the costs on to hapless consumers who have no choice but to just fork over the cash. They will have to trade less. Which is the point; however good or bad it may be, at least the core idea is making some account of second-order effects. When you tax a thing, you get less of it.

(My specific opinion is that it isn't necessarily a net gain as written, it is after all just an HN comment, but that the general idea of carefully re-inserting some friction back into the market as a damping factor may be a useful line of inquiry. But it's not going to be easy.)
HFTs and hedge funds are very different entities. If you want to blame someone for man-made crashes, blame the people with large capital outlays, who are forced to unwind their positions when the equity goes down (or up) enough, thus further exacerbating the movement.
Apparently most of the police do not carry guns as well. I saw that it was questioned earlier if some of the forces being used to maintain order are now carrying guns, but I don't think there was a definitive answer. The Metropolitan police might(?)
Using dropbox is a bad idea overall in my opinion. They lied to their customers about what they can and cannot view in your account. They lied to you. They intentionally told you that they could not view your files when in fact they can. If that's not enough, they had a critical security vulnerability (log in with no password) for four hours, proving that their systems fail open. Finally, if all this wasn't bad enough yet, they do not encrypt your files when they store them[1].

[1] Technically they do encrypt the files, but the keys are right next to them on the same infrastructure. Doesn't do any more good than not encrypting them.
Looks like it is up now. (7:58 pacific). I can access netflix.
Yes, but don't use the non-functional US postal service. UPS or FedEx work fine. There's a reason why knowledgeable shippers (such as Amazon) use the USPS only for rural parts of the US, and use private couriers exclusively for the coasts and large cities.
This will likely kick Heroku into high gear with jumping off EC2.
Well there goes all the parts of the Internet I'm interested in. Time to go read a book.
I'm with you there yo.
My servers (on Engine Yard) were down for a few minutes but appear to be back up again.
Re "penny a share transfer tax", the UK already does this, it's called the "stamp tax." Unfortunately, they exempted a few large institutions from the tax, so everyone trades derivative instruments managed by these institutions who don't pay the tax. You only pay the tax if you're stupid.
College tuition + majors? CollegeBoard does this to a degree but I despise their layout and sometimes the tuition prices are inaccurate.
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I'm guessing you haven't been affected by any of the Fremont(Hurricane Electric DC) outages? I have a lot of Linode boxes and love their service but I'm still splitting load with different providers as well.
as of 9:59 PM CST it appears we are back up. Additionally, all our instances are running normal. It appears to be a network connectivity issue for AWS.
Linode down for 1 hour 1 day ago.
Linode relys on amazon? My linode's still up...
Actually, even very dumb algorithms totally destroy the problem you describe in your third paragraph.

Even if all you do is organize by date and show the first few photos for each day ("featured" photos), that's enough to vary the stream of photos people browse through.

I speak from experience, as someone who runs a photo-sharing site that organizes by date. I also make it easy to switch between featured/non-featured for any photo, but doing such switching is not a prerequisite. You already have a nicely varied collection just by uploading.

From what I've seen of Snapjoy so far, their format also guarantees variety. I haven't seen the fancy algorithms in action yet, but I imagine there are techniques one could use to make the initial set of "featured" photos more likely to be varied.
Yes, my site is up now too.
And it's back up for us, at least.
I thought this was going to be about actual 'gifts'.

I haven't interviewed for a traditional job in a long time, but I sometimes used to bring something with me - milk and cookies, brownies, flavored popcorn, etc - as a bit of an icebreaker. I didn't always do it, but it helped to keep things a bit more casual, sometimes gave the others in the group something to snack on while a couple others of us would have a discussion, and what not.

In one case, I brought some milk and cookies to a smaller company, and it happened to be the owner's birthday. He was pleased as punch. :)
Okay, now that's an Android device with higher than average returns. I take back my previous statement.

That said, it's cute that you're comparing the Galaxy Tab to the iPad. For the unaware, both articles are referring to the original Galaxy Tab that released last winter, before Android's Honeycomb version came out, making the OS officially tablet-supported. It's a middle-ground device that's neither a phone nor a tablet, and seems to take after the worst of both. The actual Honeycomb Samsung Tablet is called the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and was released this summer.
reddit is currently working for me.
My eyes were similarly opened to the unnatural focus on calculus in mathematical education by the book "Everything and More" by David Foster Wallace. It is about Georg Cantor's search for an understanding of infinity, but spends much of its time laying groundwork with a lengthy adventure through math history, including many of the topics Stillwell mentions in that quote.

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-More-Compact-Infinity-Disco...
Yep. A year a half so far with my linode. Not so much as a minute of down time.
I'm a fool, it's mojang's authentication.
What is an acceptable outcome for the operators of those sites may not be acceptable for an angel or VC funded startup.
Actually, I find the font they use a bit too wide.
Do you have a source for Amazon.com running on AWS or AWS technology? As far as I know, they've never gone on the record with that.
It's analytical, and highly objective

Is it? The deeper you look, the more arbitrary it gets, in my view.
All my boxes just came back up
It feels good. It doesn't necessarily accomplish anything, but it can force the other driver to reevaluate the appropriateness of their actions.
I wonder how many 9's Amazon is down to? It's really a shame because it's such a good service in theory.

But it really is time for Amazon to start thinking about some kind of automatic failover system.
and here I was thinking the change I just rolled out to our EC2 instances had boned our test environment. Two failures in a week? Does not really inspire confidence right now :(
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Yep, the Fremont DC has been down at least 3 times in the past year. I still love Linode, but i'll probably move my (personal) VPS to another of their facilities.
Looks like we're back.
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pagerduty down?! I don't know if I should be sarcastic here and laugh, or just worry...
I'm on my celly so I can't, but if I remember after I land ill try and dig up where I read about it.
I think amazon can fix this problem simply by raising us-east prices to be on par with us-west. At least then there would not be quite the incentive to make the foolish choice of running all your instaces out of one region. (I suppose they could lower prices in us-west to match as well)

But in any case, I expect the PAAS people like heroku to at least start to step up their game. My apps on Google App Engine are up and I can run clojure and ruby there too.
It's worth pointing out that I am in the US-East with 8 beefy instances and my site stayed up during the entirety of both outages, so don't assume you're getting better uptime than all AWS customers.
My t1.micro instance in us-east-1b seems to be up and running just fine as far as I can tell.
Wow thank you for that link!
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Amazon specifically tells you to set up multiple servers in multiple availability zones. They probably follow their own advice, and, as a result, don't go down.

I've talked to some people about AWS about this, and the reason why they have availability zones is because they don't want to charge you the speed cost of syncing data between zones if your app doesn't need 100% uptime. Generalized replication slows down your app. AWS gives you the option of not having replication or bringing your own.
Yep, I'm on Linode, too. Love it. Linode guarantees three nines but in practice it gets close to four nines. EC2 looks like it's falling below three nines for some regions this year, even though it guarantees 99.95%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nines_(engineering)
Hm, running a staging server for our app on Heroku and it seems to be up and running. Maybe just a temporary outage?
For me personally, it was the right tool at the right time.

I got tired of saving pictures of the products and architectures I liked. I was searching but I don't remember how I came across Pinterest, but when I did, I had to get in. It was early in their beta, so I sent off an email to Ben and said if you want a loyal user, let me in right now.. and he did. It was exactly what I needed!

I've been collecting all the gems of the industrial design world ever since. I even got my mom registered so she can find inspiration for her home renovation.

It's very visually appealing. None stop inspiration.
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Anyone who thinks that the position of president has power enough to make substantial change in the way the US government operates is living in a world of fantasy.
Looks like Pagerduty is hosted on ec2? Really?
I saw this at work, signed up, and uploaded a few pics. I wanted to check it out later when I had more time. By the time I got home, I had forgotten the name of the service. I checked my email to see some kind of welcome message, but I didn't get one.

While I appreciate your efforts not to spam, a simple email might help your users find you, learn know how to use your service, etc.
Yes, that's how firms on Wall Street make money: they exploit inefficiencies in the market in the short term or long term (and, by the way, by doing so, correct the inefficiencies). Paradoxically, firms that target the shorter term do better when volatility is high, because it usually means there are some pretty massive inefficiencies going on.
Is it just their user facing website that's hosted on EC2? Or do the pages originate from EC2 as well?
Actually, Buffet has time and again said that if he had only 0.5-1.0 million to manage he could consistently get 50% a year. His greater capital does give him special access to management, but also greatly restricts where he can invest. I'm part of a fund that does automatic value investing based on an analysis of the fundamentals of the universe of stocks, and you can do quite well for yourself. Here Graham's "the intelligent investor" is still the bible
This may be a stretch...but anything to do with the Verizon line workers strike?
For the vast majority of projects I've worked on, I just can't seem to justify the cost of Amazon or similar cloud environments, especially given the relatively poor performance and increasing risk. A simple shared host works for most of what I'm doing, and when it doesn't, a virtual dedicated or something like Linode works well. While these environments don't protect from single points of failure, it seems that neither does Amazon. A smart clustering / distributed approach would work equally well in the Amazon cloud as it would for shared hosting / VPS type services.

I'm not sure I understand the draw of Amazon for startups. Even from an economic perspective, it seems to me to be more expensive than I had hoped, and the promise that the Cloud allows for highly flexible scale at low risk doesn't seem to match to reality. Then again, there have been precious few outages, so maybe the reliability is there? In any case, it was the economics and poor performance, rather than these outages, that leave me wondering if Amazon is really worth it.
There's plenty of areas where "writing code" is engineering, and there's plenty others where its rocket science. Then there's some where its Apollo 13.

The trick is to know which is which.
Will link to my response below:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862467

The military quelled the LA Riots, which is the direct comparable. Northern Ireland was a decades long political/military issue, not about lads looting TVs. Not a good comparison.
That's what I thought too when I saw the title. I didn't think anyone brought actual gifts to interviews, but it's cool to know that someone has! I wonder if anyone would have a negative reaction to bringing actual gifts.
I think the spirit of your idea of a per transaction tax on financial products is a good one. I would balance the increase in government revenue with a reduction in tax on capital gains held more than 5 years as Cuban suggests.
I just got the CoffeeScript book in the mail an hour or two ago. It looks awesome! Can't wait to dive into some of these examples and play around!