skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is everyone naming software after random Japanese stuff? ("makisu", or 「巻き簾」 in Japanese, are mats used for food preparation, primarily sushi).
Thanks I have a friend whose site is down from this and this helps shed some light on it.
Incredibly frustrating that they understate the magnitude of the problem. We have many instances that rely on ebs and are currently unresponsive. We suspect there's a massive flood of ec2 customers trying to restart instances to fix the ebs problems, which is slowing us down in getting our service back up.
Well said.

You either:

- watch very judiciously (save time, spend $ anyway)

- watch very profligately (spend time, get your $ worth)

My roommates and I spend the minimum on cable TV to get the discounted internet package (we ran the numbers, it's more worthwhile to get cheap cable than internet alone). And we don't feel bad that we have a crappy living room TV that no one ever actually watches.
Good point. I had forgotten how different the experience was pre- and post-SP2.
Front page seems down for me.
If it is helps, all in single page:
http://all.fuseurl.com/eeo
Of course vested interests in old industries will do whatever they can to block innovation. We're seeing it with all major industry disruptions. It used to be enough for the vested interests to write laws to block out, limit, or otherwise hinder additional traditional competitors (taxi medallions, ridiculous license requirements for florists[1], etc).

Now we're seeing these same groups try to initiate and bring in new laws to stop competition that is truly an innovative take on an industry. Such as the Uber amendment[2] that was to be written and voted on in less than 24 hours, or cease and desist notices being sent to Lyft and SideCar, telling them to shelve their business while they investigate whether or not they are doing something illegal[3].

Entrenched industries with connections to governments, and governments making tax revenue from these entrenched businesses both have a huge incentive to get old laws enforced past their original intent (which were often written for the sole purpose of protecting those entrenched businesses anyway) and new laws written and passed to shut this down.

However, these truly innovative companies are filling a need that the old ones don't. That's why there are more Uber black cars in SF than there were black cars in traditional services before Uber[4]. These companies that are pushing society forward have so much momentum and support from the communities using them that lawmakers are better served listening to the people than ignoring them.

I have no doubt that Elon Musk and Tesla will be able to disrupt the car-buying market by selling direct to customers. Maybe we'll see another startup come along and piggyback off of their success by selling other cars direct, blatantly ignoring the protectionist laws, and consumers rally behind them to get the laws changed.

I don't know where the future lies in the auto industry, but I do know that innovation and forward progress won't be stopped in the long run, no matter how many road blocks there are. I have huge respect for all of these companies that are not only working on doing the incredibly hard task of creating and trying to sustain a company, but having to fight much larger corporations at the same time.

1. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131571&page=1

2. http://blog.uber.com/2012/07/09/strike-down-the-minimum-fare...

3. http://thesidecarblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/sidecar_cp...

4. From Travis Kalanick's talk at Startup School
The issue is not the user permission, the issue is that in the physical world, the retailer would have to go through the court system to take away a right or property.

It's interesting how http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig described this situation back in 2004 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_%28book%29
My HS yearbooks were destroyed in a flood. I felt bad and nostalgic for a couple of days. Now it's just a cocktail party story about how I lost my yearbooks.
This is a community for geeks ( although there are those who claim otherwise: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681146 ). I believe it is a reasonable expectation that people will want to see things and will understand that sometimes they will need to spread the load. Cutting edge technology sometimes can't handle the load, and geeks will know that, understand, and make allowances. I would have thought that people in this community would want to see new stuff, rather than have it withheld simply because someone thought the server might not be able to handle the load.

How can one tell if the server is going to be able to handle the load? Perhaps the owners had anticipated that this would be of interest and were ready to handle it?

How could I tell?

I think it's a reasonable expectation in a community of geeks that if you are to level criticism at me, then you should offer alternatives and constructive suggestions, and I look forward to your reply as to what one should do when considering submitting a link like this.

How would you test it?
Why is it called Model S? Any play on the Model T?
Hm. I never used OSX till my son bought one six months ago and I had no problems at all figuring it out. Yes, it's different than Windows but, a 'usability nightmare'? Far from it.
-_- I'm really beginning to hate you ec2/ebs.
Apple Dumps Java
"The Product Specialists (...) goal and the sole metric of their success is to have you enjoy the experience of visiting so much that you look forward to returning again."

This is not the experience I had. Walked into a Tesla store, said I want to test drive a Roadster. Salesman went into that profiling mode that all car salesmen do constantly and no customer likes, asking me all kinds of questions to find out how much I earn. Since my answers didn't please him, he told me I could test drive it for $300 for half a day - essentially renting it.

I won't be going back.
How to Name your Company
I suppose this explains why Airbnb is down now, as well: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/airbnb/

I was just in the middle of booking a stay in a Palo Alto startup embassy for this week, too!
I am not ok with that, but I am not really that surprised by it either. Considering the Arabic spring bloodshed I am not sure that even today radical systemic change can occur in a completely peaceful fashion.
Just a friendly reminder that AMZN now runs a large chunk of the Internet.
Isn't this what the US Navy is doing with jet fuel?
Personally I've been waiting for this device for years. My primary phone usage is reading and composing email, making calls, and listening to music. I also use a Nook Touch to store reading material for reference and entertainment. This new device resolves the two devices into one- what's not to like? If I need internet or video, there are tablets available that provide this functionality in a much more comfortable form factor.

I don't claim to be representative of a large market, but this new device has finally done something that NFC, dual cores, retina, et al have failed to do, which is excite me.
> Since ebooks is not exactly a very regulated industry...

Definitely is a highly regulated (gov't, media co.'s) industry. Without knowing anything else about it - how hard is it to create a web application to serve e-book content? Not very. Yet how many good ones exist? One? Two? That alone should tell you there's a ton of baggage that goes with the market.
Sigh, my heroku site is down.
Cloud computing indeed.
Do You Have What It Takes To Be A British Secret Service Agent?
We all make concessions for something (unless you're rms). I refuse to buy DRM laden ebooks, yet I've spent thousands of dollars on Steam games. I don't mind the inconveniences of using paper books but when it comes to PC games Steam is just to convenient for me to ignore. I know I could lose access to hundreds of games suddenly and without warning, yet I continue to give Valve my business.
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Amazon EC2-Related Issues Take Down Reddit, Imgur and Other Sites
Looks great! The background image is really nice too. It would be cool if it would correlate somehow with the quote that is being presented.
Thanks - I've already emailed the lecturer.

For info, Coursera seems to randomize the assignments. Specifically, in the case of multiple choice tests it seems to pick a random subset of answers to each question, and randomize the order. This is obviously a defense against dumb copying.

What it does mean though is that you can't resubmit your own work. I've re-done the assignment twice this evening (the questions change enough that you have to think a lot, even when re-doing the same assignment), only to get 500 errors both times.

Anyhow, I'm sure it'll all work out and these temporary technical problems are but minor hiccups in what is a fantastic course and a fantastic learning system. It's very, very much appreciated.
If you're relying on individual servers to have drives which never fail you're doing reliability wrong.
Finding the right balance between DOM and MVC is not easy - yet remains critical if you want to capture the flexibility of the DOM and the update capabilities of MVC. It is great to see Jeremy/BriteSnow pushing the limits and capturing some of the best practices.
You know guys, this always makes me wonder...
So many of you experience issues because of cloud, why not got dedicated at hetzner or whatever your baremetal provider is?
EC2 instances are affected by the EBS issues. But you're right, it's not correct that EC2 is "down".
Same here! Even trying to boot up some replicas is painfully slow.
It's not "Windows for Tablets" because full Windows 8 will be available on tablets, specifically Surface Pro from Microsoft's lineup.

You're the second person to reply saying that.
How quickly can you scale up on a spike? That's the key reason I use cloud hosting and it's something you won't know the power of until you need it.
These are quotes from the talks, not his summary of startup school.

It doesn't say anything about his perception of the startup school experience. Please tell, what's your startup school summary?
Welcome To The New ReadWrite
On-demand instances
Multiple, independently scrolling columns?

Did they forget the fervor over the Gawker redesign, or did we decide it wasn't that bad and nobody sent me the memo?
I just recently signed up for a EC2 (3 weeks ago) and my small site is also down. :-(
Many large sites which aren't properly architecting their infrastructure to deal with the commodity nature of the cloud.
Why does anyone think Chrome is lagging behind?

http://caniuse.com/#search=svg
As I understand it, Elon had massive plastic surgery and was never happy with his looks so you rarely see old photos of him, and if you do you can't tell it's him
"Basically, it's a lot more money than we would have expected for a website all about family trees."

This post is bad technology reporting, and terrible business reporting.
How Many Screens Does One Man Need?
Lance Armstrong Stripped of Titles and Removed from Record Books
Remember the old saying about "Lies, damn lies, and availability zones"?
Hasn't the Roadster been sold out for quite a while now?
How to Leverage Existing Application Director Templates in the New Beta Release
Note that the region-1[a b c d & such] designations are randomized per account; my us-east-1d won't (necessarily) be the same as yours or anyone else's.
Running your own servers costs more for engineers/devops/sysadmins, but in terms of how much you pay to your provider, hosting your own is FAR cheaper if you have more than 1 or 2 instances. You can get a 10U GigE unmetered colo for $550/month from this place on WHT: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1200231

I'm fairly sure that if you have 10 instances at EC2, you're paying FAR more than $550/month.

The other benefit EC2 gives you is quick/instant deployment of even really high-end hardware if you quickly out-pace your current capacity and need another box ASAP, whereas even if you were doing dedicated servers, it still takes a hour or two for them to put your new box in a rack and get back to you with the IP and such.
And lo and behold; the menu folds up just like one of those mats. Japanese yes, random no.
Fair enough - work that falls under the umbrella term "development" does have a wide range of technical difficulty.

What I was objecting to was the implication that the GP made that people with kids must be one of those "businessy hangers-on" because development itself is too difficult to balance with family. The vast majority of development is not that demanding - most developers are not building the equivalent of suspension bridges, and even if they are, it's not impossible to leave at 6pm most of the time unless something critical is down.
The fact that Amazon can do this is obviously scary, particularly for those with extensive Kindle libraries. Personally I love the idea of ebooks but the publishers are doing their best to kill this market (eg Surface Detail in paperback is $6, as an ebook its $10 WTF?).

Now I can't speak to the truth of these claims. I have no inside knowledge but I will say this: be skeptical of such stories. I have seen other stories like this on HN where I have had some inside knowledge and I can tell you that there have definitely been cases that vary between being one side of the story to being a distortion of facts and events to being outright lies.

It's a common theme to have a post of "[BigCo] shut down my account for no reason". I describe such stories as "unverifiable stories in which the poster is a victim".

Like I said, this could all be exactly as the poster claims but it might not be as well. It could be as simple as the person having the same name as someone who got blocked in the US. Who knows? Amazon needs to be extremely careful to be right in situations like this or they risk undermining the ecosystem they've spent so long to create.

I don't mind buying Kindle novels because I tend to only ever read them once. And if they were $6 (like the paperbacks often are) I'd view them as a throwaway purchase.

But when it comes to technical books--books I'll often refer back to and that can cost much more--I'll have to make sure I either only buy the PDF version or I buy the PDF+mobi+epub upgrade from the publisher after buying the Kindle book (2 thumbs up to publishers who do this BTW).
All my instances across 3 zones are functioning normally.
RedisConf Notes Part I
This was about 1 year ago.
Looks like a classic example of a huge market that young techies think isn't important. I don't know anyone my age who has an account on ancestry.com or who cares about their family tree, but I have lots of older (and richer) relatives who do.

Pet owners are another example. Apparently some of those "facebook for dogs" sites are doing pretty well, since the dog owners who use them tend to be middle-class and middle-aged - a huge market that most tech startups ignore. Think different!
Pinochet was brought to power by a brutal coup displacing a democratically elected government. They rounded up thousands of dissidents and killed them.

The reason you get shunned is that you're cheerleading for a mass murderer. What are these "long time effects" that justify the death of thousands, the oppression, the torture?

Edit: links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/807599.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Nacional_Julio_Mart%C3%...
Hacker Seeks Couch for Sleep near Palo Alto on Tuesday Night
So, I'm a regular HN'er and YC applicant. I'm going to be in town tomorrow morning and may need a place to crash overnight and would love to meet with fellow entrepreneurs, hang out and generally "shoot the sh"

About Me: I'm basically a marketing/tech focused entrepreneur with 4.5 year of full-time business ownership in the affiliate marketing field. I now am "CEO" (whatever that means) of a tech startup that is bootstrapped and making moneyz.

About What I'm Doing: I'm meeting with a bunch of really cool people during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. Suffice to say, this is a fantastic opportunity for my business, so I'm doing my normal thing and turning it into a crazy few days.

About the Couch: I'm 6'2" and about 230 pounds, "built like a tank" (according to my wife). The couch must be able to handle tossing, turning and the occasional "inspiration" that causes me to bolt upright and start coding or writing notes. It could also be a bed. Or a futon. Hopefully not the floor.

About the Couch Owner: You'd preferably be some fellow HN peeps that don't mind talking marketing, code, infrastructure, business tactics or any of the other general stuff we all love. You have fresh water and coffee. You probably have a bathroom.

About Tuesday Night: I'll valiantly attempt to play pool while we continuously talk about the merits of various programming languages or NoSQL vs. Postgres (I'm not sure which side I'll take there). Food might also be involved, especially if you have a kitchen (I hack cooking).

About Wednesday: I've got one tentative meeting for Wednesday, so if you want to get together and talk anyway, let me know! I'll be in Palo Alto/Menlo Park area and can pretty much get anywhere that is near CalTrain, so hit me up if you want to meet.

Ping me at keith (wat) appzorz (dawt) com if you're down for it!

Cheers :)
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Because that is wrong! If you actually spent a moment or two looking at their lineup, you would know that there are tablets that will run full Windows 8.

People need to be shaken, this has been the huge motive for Windows 8 all along - full OS on tablets. Windows RT is an unfortunate compromise for ARM processors.
I am quite surprised the pirating of eBooks has not taken off. The infrastructure certainly exists, but I'm not aware of any exclusive, prolific communities in a similar vein to music and tv shows/movies.
This is because overlapping window managers are fiddly. Moving around overlapping windows feels cluttered and unclean (yes, even with the feature to snap them to the left/right half of the screen).

Proper tiling+tabbed window managers (e.g. i3) are much better at organizing screen space in a clean way. You can split the screen into window holders. Each window holder can be tabbed or stacked. Essentially what you get is the ability to split your monitor into multiple smaller monitors. Makes a lot more sense than the jumbled overlapping mess.

See http://i3wm.org/screenshots/

edit: here is a rather impressive screenshot that demonstrates the power of the tiling-tabbed/stacking concept: http://i3wm.org/screenshots/#/screenshots/i3-2.png
Stats for Translating an Android App - Is It Worth it?
Seems like one of the monthly reminders of how many websites use EC2 and the dangers of it.
All Jobs Should Be Dream Jobs
Regarding the policy violation, is it possible the problem was the fact she lived in Norway and was using amazon.com?

My experience, as a Canadian, is that Amazon encourages use of amazon.ca (your local version of their site) and you have to go through some tricks to use Amazon.com.

Many of my friends did because that was the only way to get a kindle and books for years. Are they all at risk of this?
Reddit Down?
Is it a coincidence that Reddit is totally down, and there was a very big story at the top of their page criticizing Amazon's role in destroying a woman's kindle and entire library? Or is this just gremlins in the machine?
Why would it be "random Japanese stuff" ? It unfolds/unrolls kind of like a makisu. I think it's a good name, not an unrelated, random one.
No need to upvote this: it's now on the front page as this item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684384
Sumit Gulwani of Microsoft Research has a non-genetic programming approach to this and similar problems, which is interesting to compare: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2240236.2240260
A substantial difference between "a car" and "a file on a computer". One main difference is that one actually can steal a car: if I steal a car, I possess it, and the owner does not possess it. He or she can no longer use the car, while I can.

The book in question exists as a file on a computer. If I copy that file, then the owner is not deprived of the use of the file: he or she still possesses it, and can still use it. That's not theft in any traditional sense.

The other raping and pillaging scenarios are equally nonsensical, pretty much on the same logical grounds. Please try a new argument next time.
I'm having issues trying accessing the AWS web console...
Love the responsive design.
>> Ah, the smell of boiling frogs!

>That's a myth; look it up.

Uh, yeah, I know that it's not biologically true. It's a metaphor. It doesn't matter that it's not biologically true just like it wouldn't matter if I used the allegory of the Frog and the Scorpion or the Ant and the Grasshopper.

> How many people don't launch startups because they can't risk it?

How many people don't launch startups because they don't have the disposable income needed to take risks?

You could compare US startup rates per capita with other countries featuring Universal Healthcare systems. Wanna guess what that graph would look like?
Yes, good point. We focused on Webkit and Firefox, but we should add opera. Will fix this in the next few days. It should be mostly CSS. Sorry about the inconvenience.
Founder Stories: The Ups and Downs of Startup Life at WeddingLovely
This entire situation is the foundation of my reluctance to completely shift to 'online media'. I have always understood that I would be leasing the media and that it could be terminated for cause just as the article related. Rough stuff.
Reddit had a big story that criticized Amazon's role in deleting a woman's kindle library and basically telling her to go fuck herself.