skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their website might have gone down but I'm told that their underlying service is redundant across multiple availability zones.

Perhaps they should do the same for the website just to instill extra confidence, though.
Men is nothing more than a pluralization of man. In this context it means members of "man".

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/men

Now take your self-righteous offtopicness and shoveoff. I contribute nothing to the problems of society by exercising freedom of vocabulary. You want to see real problems? Go look at pictures of the shelled remains of children in Syria. You're suggesting that I am contributing to a "real-world problem" is insulting.

Even if we want to consider the furthering of systemic sexism through benign use of vocabulary a "real-world problem", you are more to blame than I by trying to convert an innocent phrase into an example of hatred. Words only have the power that you allow them to. I accept no responsibility for your oversensitivity.
Interesting site. But not really new. I work at Answer Financial (www.answerfinancial.com) we're a national auto and home insurance agency that represents over 20 insurance carriers. You can get quotes and buy online from our carriers in 49 states. We do this via direct XML connections into the carriers we've contracted with. We're also the company that powers comparative quotes on esurance.com (our sister company).

I very much like this concept though, its much like Confused.com in the UK as the techcrunch article pointed out. The challenge is getting enough carriers to actively participate so there's a high quality customer experience. I would guess Leaky is screen scraping the carrier sites. A bit easier in CA since you can't use credit scoring to price auto insurance here.
Actually, blackmail is the coercion of a benefit derived from the act of a threat. Twitter clearly threatened the city along with a number of other startups in the SF area to move the jobs and tax revenue to another local town or city if SF didn't abate their payroll taxes. Thus, blackmail is a justified and correct term for such an act. But, I will concede that coercion is an equal substitute.

While I don't fault twitter for their business decision. I do find it fair to call the kettle black when it is true. I generally don't have a problem with companies tax planning within the means of the law to achieve their tax goals, but simply flat out threatening the community that created you doesn't seem 100% fair either.
I would like to run my app on whatever AWS's status board is running on :-P
Thanks for the feedback. On my immediate to do list. No excuse, but I didn't build the site, and the process of trying to fix its bugs since I took it over while completely changing its focus has been especially onerous for me. Please use my personal email in my comment above.
I totally agree with you. Creating is more difficult than destroying. Although part of me thinks that destroying at this level would be very difficult. I mean, these people are ransacking some 89-year-old's small business and looting retail stores. That should feel different than fighting an oppressor. Even though you are pumped up with adrenaline, isn't there some part of you that just knows that you're being part of the problem? That's what I have a difficult time understanding. But does this just show the brokenness of the situation? Do these people feel trapped, without hope, disaffected, like nothing matters?
I'm more worried about robots than apes.
As of the time of this post, ~8:10PM Pacific, "jerk" has been used a total of 6 times in this thread - 5 of which are owned by you! ;-) I write this because this particular comment, for me, sends a negative vibe about you. By no means am I trying to question your intentions or character, but a different choice of word would go a long way.

Now, for the reason I actually wrote the comment: This should be expected behavior. It's quite possible that "jerk" actually needs the help more than the person who gets the one coffee. It's equally viable to assume s/he is simply taking advantage of the system. In the bigger picture, I think these dynamics are completely expected. Would you call the guy that gives $50 or $100 a jerk as well? Either way, it's an experiment, and I wouldn't expect it, given a proper sampling, to deviate much from what we see in society as a whole.

Best wishes - and great idea!
um, is it me or aren't there like a hundred other insurance comparison sites? Granted I'm not sure if they are realtime, but insurance lead generation is a MAJOR business.

I'd think a site that makes 40 million a year off lead generation would be able to offer anything like this as well.
Why don't people just be redundant and use multiple locations, or have a backup server at your business that can at least somewhat take over? It seems silly all these people rely solely on Ec2 and not have their own hardware anymore.
It's a lot of work to spend 12 hours researching a potential company, especially if you're applying to multiple positions. But I guess whoever is hiring you will know that you're committed and passionate about the position and company.
From a security conscious perspective it is a bad idea, but too many people undervalue noncritical data and don't secure it like they should (That's part of why infosec is such big buisness). A prevelant lack of security sense is basically the only reason dropbox is still in business.

But from a HN perspective they've received YC cash so your post is currently voted <= 0.
I must have picked a bad time to become a Linode customer. My node in Fremont has been up for two days and has already seen two network outages.
Absolutely do learn the fundamentals. Be able to look off into space and imagine the flow of a system at many different levels of abstraction. Understand how compilers, interpreters, and operating systems wrangle your hardware into submitting to your will. Learn and design algorithms. Spend time thinking about how your computer gets from point A to point B for every program you use. Do all those things and more, but then be willing to embrace being somebody who "glues APIs together" when appropriate, or somebody who creates new APIs when appropriate, or somebody who creates new APIs using others that you have glued together, and then make something with all that abstract, algorithmic thinking and all that glue.
LOL, the cloud.
; grep --version
GNU grep 2.5.3
; time LANG=C grep asdf < lesms10.txt > /dev/null
real	0m0.025s
user	0m0.011s
sys	0m0.014s
; time /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep asdf < lesms10.txt > /dev/null
real	0m0.082s
user	0m0.043s
sys	0m0.013s
; time LANG=en_US.UTF-8 grep adsf < lesms10.txt > /dev/null
real	0m1.209s
user	0m0.818s
sys	0m0.018s

Those are the only two grep implementations I have handy. GNU grep 2.6.3 takes the same amount of time searching for 'asdf' in both locales, but searching for '.' is still slow. Thanks for pointing that out.
11:17 pm EST - netflix.com does not work (though shows some minor signs of life).
I suppose I meant 'quite recently' in that I would never have imagined that something like Bloody Sunday could happen in a modern 1st world democracy, until we studied it in Modern History at school. To put it in context, the next most recent military action against UK civilians was the Peterloo massacre in 1819. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
get off your high horse. you have a superiority complex and you think you are better than software engineers. who the fuk r u to tell other people they are not true engineers? lol
Lack of imagination, lack of historical awareness, or just plain willful ignorance?

Or perhaps I was just chose the wrong turn of phrase? No need to go on a pedantic nerd rage.

Of course people could think about it. Of course people have killed millions of people in the past.

What I was trying to say is that any sensible leader in a industrialised nation would not choose exterminating 50% of their population instead of than trying to affect social change.

Of course we could have another Stalin or Hitler or Pol Pot who tries for genocide again. But killing 50% of your population is much different to killing 5%. Those 50% are going to have friends so you'd be up against 80-90% of the population. It would just be more sensible to try to redistribute wealth at that stage.

But yes, I'm sure whack jobs can think about these things and with modern weapons you could probably do it etc.
Overall they have great service. Only their Fremont location has been a bit touchy this year. I've been with them since the days they used UML before Xen and if it's any consolation, I have experienced at least one downtime in each DC(but this was over the course of many years now). Unless you plan for distributed systems, expect some failures from time to time no matter who is the provider.
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Netflix probably failed out later since the video was buffered onto your computer. The failure was probably at about the same time.
Could you expand on that?

From my point of view, it's money in vs money out... I'm not sure how "creative" you can get before you are "lying".
I didn't get any SMSes or calls from PagerDuty even though I see 4 incidents triggered in the PD web UI. Although that could be due to Twilio going down.
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The last two outages have affected multiple availability zones in the US East region. To really account for it, you'd need instances in different regions.
yeah #4 could mean that they leak your information to identity thieves.
Multiple AZs went down this time. Only way to have survived it would have been to be multi-region which is...harder.
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We are very similar but in a b2b space... http://feefighters.com - Love what you guys do... it is in many ways exactly what we do (as for the site layout, hey - it looks good!)...

The trick is convincing people that what you're providing is different from the standard lead gen sites. You've done a good job in the description, but people will always be wary. Drop me a line if you want to talk shop

Question: anyone know if someone has a similar model in the health insurance space? It's sorely needed.
Why are these big name companies still relying on exactly ONE web host? These companies are centralizing failures to just one cloud host. They definitely need to abstract cloud deployment with something like libcloud and jcloud APIs and make use of multiple cloud deployments on a dime. As for storage, they should have replications set up on other cloud hosts as well.
How about "people"?
Do you know how long the total downtime was?
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This really isn't a problem if you aren't storing anything sensitive, especially if you aren't even paying for it.
Just a fluke. I've been a Linode customer since 2008 and have managed multiple Linodes (on the East coast) and as far as I can tell, Linode has given me more than four nines.
When compact fluorescent bulbs first came out they did something like this.

The ballast lasts much much longer than the bulb, so you were able to remove the bulb while keeping the ballast.

It was a total failure. And in hindsight a terrible idea.

No two companies' bulbs were compatible so most of the time you were not able to find a replacement bulb even if you tried, and when you could find them they cost more than an entire new bulb!

The reason is that the extra cost of manufacturing them in a replaceable fashion costs more than simply tossing them.

I can confidently predict that you will never swap any components from a commercial LED bulb.

And BTW the "LED die and perhaps the driver" is probably 95% of the cost of the bulb. The heatsink and housing is nothing in comparison. There is nothing of value in them to keep. Just recycle them for the metal.
I thought it was silly how everyone was going apeshit the last time this happened. Even here on HN people were falling over themselves proclaiming the end of the cloud. But you know what, I kind of like seeing outages like this because it means Amazon is (hopefully) going to reduce the risk of a bug like this ever happening again which in the end just makes the platform more reliable in the future.
Unfortunately English law around intruders in the home is quite vague and very different from the Castle Doctrine laws in the USA

'As the law currently stands, a person in possession can use no more force than they reasonably believe necessary to remove a trespasser from the premises'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_property

People have been convicted of using force against intruders in their home. However, a group of angry rioters is somewhat different.
"This book is so full of bad initial examples and difficult to follow instructions that it actually hurts Python to have it exist. When beginners stumble onto it they end up getting discouraged and go on to another language. I personally have had too many friends who are eager to learn programming find this festering dung pile before I could warn them and get turned off from programming." - Zed Shaw
My site (hosted on Heroku and RDS) was inaccessible, as was heroku.com ... but the AWS status website said everything was OK. Heroku status also said everything was OK.

What is the point of those status dashboards if they are not actually monitoring the health of the cloud in real time?

Google App Engine's status dashboard quickly returns to green the minute an outage goes away, hiding the overall unreliability from view.
I'm saying that if Cuban is correct, the market is closer to efficient than it was before and Wall St. is doing a better job than it used to.
I don't have the answer but will point out that many estimations will mistakenly forget to acknowledge that a certain percentage of web activity, possibly a large percentage, simply waits for services to come back online.
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Linode is pretty good about accurate updates for Requests For Outages(RFO): http://status.linode.com/

I don't keep track of the totals but I think it you search their forums, I seem to recall someone who had monitored them with Pingdom or Wormly(or equivalent) for a fair period of time.
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Nice, let's screw rural sheriffs.. The only ones fighting this massive influx of gangs in the rural areas. But then again, 99% of anonymous aren't in rural America so they have absolutely no idea how it actually is out here.
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A person is smart, people are animals...
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How does the US's debt rating stacks up to the rest of the world?
An infographic on how the US's debt rating stacks up to a variety of other entities.
You make good points, but the comparison to a mortgage payment is not one of them. My missed mortgage payment affects my credit rating, but not the credit rating of the bank who holds my mortgage because they hold thousands of other mortgages. Despite the bank's leverage, my mortgage is still a tiny portion of their balance sheet. I could stop paying altogether and no big deal. Not so with US Treasuries. They are the foundation for basically every conservatively managed balance sheet. It's the old saying: if you owe the bank a million dollars you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars the bank has a problem. I agree this is way more complicated than 2+2=4, but Standard & Poor's inability to do even basic math (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/08/07/uk-usa-rating-sp-wh...) leads me to assume they are incapable of figuring out the network effects of a US default of any kind or degree.
I've never had a 'negative' reaction - the receptionist who saw me at the milk/cookies interview didnt know what to do with me, so she took the milk to the break area, but that was it.

A small tray of cookies (milk's too hard to do) or popcorn (we have palsiespopcorn.com right near the house - easy to pick up), I've found, is generally a nice icebreaker, especially if you have an afternoon interview.

I've also found these to be a really nice thing to bring to new consulting projects for kickoff meetings - few people ever turn down a piece of fudge :) I don't do it all the time, but enough to keep people happy.
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Thanks. I went through and counted up the downtime and came up with 16.5 hours down for Fremont in the past year (from today).
It looks like the outage was only 30 minutes long. At least that is Pingdom's measurement of the downtime on my EC2 East 1 servers.
If I had to guess, I'd say that's it amounts to a rounding error relative to the "US economy"
This is exactly what I want to know. What were the numbers?
We need to get a dozen or so simultaneous users for it to work nicely. Please be patient! I'm seeing several users calling in right now.

Edit: we've made some changes to greatly increase the likelihood of matching with someone!
Are these videos helping to develop "mathematical thinking" ?
Arguably, they're in the business of making money (and nothing else).
Why's it not a good book? And who are the bigger groups that recommend against DiP3?
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Fucking AWS.
"12 hours studying the company and market".

For all but new job hunters, you should have a decent grasp of the market you work in already.

For some type of work, it's a bit different - for web work, you may know the web scene pretty well, but nothing about the insurance industry. If you're going for a web job at an insurance company, getting familiar with the industry some will help a bit, but probably not too much during an initial interview.

I had one case where I knew more about the industry the interviewing company was in than the person interviewing me, and I had to bite my tongue and not correct him when misstatements were made. In other cases, there was little I could glean from the company about what they actually did, so it was hard to research too much, and my assumptions ended up being wrong. I'd tried, and they appreciated it, but I didn't actually know much about that industry (got the job anyway). Maybe just because I'd tried that swayed the decision? Dunno...
It wasn't always that way. There's a Planet Money podcast covering how the ratings agencies came to be and how thet got their legal significance. Interesting story.
Isn't... that the definition of "technologically ignorant"?
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Great point. No exemptions. Otherwise no point to the tax.
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I think this is one of those, great in theory but bad in practice kind of things.
A newline is a perfectly good terminator. It's plainly visible to humans and as for JS itself it conforms to the spec.
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"in this competitive market"?

And just what market are you referring to?
I'm moderately embarrassed to admit that I learned about this outage when both the Facebook games I play went down at the same time. Both back up now though.
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No, you're wrong. He means be nice to them because they're WITH HIM.
And for rubyists:

https://github.com/geemus/fog
Trying to understand a company's finances from its internal books is foolhardy unless the company volunteers to train you up to the standards of its own accountants. Protecting investors from the idiosyncratic and often misleading nature of a company's internal books is the entire reason for GAAP's existence in the first place.
alternative suggestion...if you are about to launch a new startup...hold off for a month or so.

no sense in wasting the launch PR boost when everyone is getting swarmed with pitches
Link seems to be broken. What did it point to?
It's been a while sine I felt comfortable discussing the details of accounting, but sometimes the need to classify things gets in the way of the truth. Do you capitalize a cost or expense it? Often you can argeue both sides of the coin, but ultimately, you're forced to choose.

The quantitative nature of accounting masks a nuanced and imprecise language meant to help communicate the overall financial story of a company. It's not like physics where there is a right and wrong answer.

You could use "creative" methods of describing and classifying transactions that aid in telling an accurate story (as defined by who?). You can also twist the truth. But there is no set of rules you can universally follow that will result in The Answer.
Nice! Its always good to see them. Tip: Dont launch your product if you are not in YC. Chances of getting coverage are none. They will get it all!
Maybe I'm oversimplifying things, but why haven't these companies distributed their compute resources across various facilities and cloud providers, enabled instant failover, and tested this before outages like these?
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we were thinking to migrate our service to EC2 from our dedicated softlayer server. now we will probably stick with our current setup.
Another thing to consider is other than LED being so much more complex compared to a glass bulb with a tungsten wire in a vacuum is why a bulb?

We have been limited to bulbs why not lighting in sheet form or around the edges of rooms rather than a point source in the middle of the ceiling?

I know manufactures have to be backwards compatible but in the future it would be nice to have the option of a different method to light an area.
his argument is based on cost, but this article is over 2 years old. the cost of SSDs has gone down and the capacities and performance have gone up quite a bit since then.
My guess is that the downvotes are from people objecting to the use of the word "steal" to describe piracy.
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