skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Chrome crashed as well while trying to load gmail. But in firefox gmail is working.
On the plus side, the little broken robot drawing on their error page is cute. It is no Octocat, but hey.
I've tried Coffeescript a little and didn't really care for it, but I haven't experienced any of the others. From reading the list, Opal is by far the most interesting of these because rather than forcing me to learn yet another new language syntax, it compiles a language I already know into Javascript.

The XHR implementation looks pretty no-brainer as well:
HTTP.get("/users/1.json") do |response|
puts response.body
end

This might be worth a go, but I suspect I will probably just keep using JS with jQuery directly. But at least it's cool to know that I can now do a full-stack Rails app including client-side scripting entirely in Ruby if I want to.
My Chrome crashed as well while trying to load gmail. But in firefox gmail was working. But it seems now nothing is working for gmail.
It has to do with power. The comment about jewish film producers (high status) is not only not offensive, Mel Brooks has made jokes about it for 30 years.

Calling all female schoolteachers (low pay) 'bitches' is extra offensive on 2 levels.
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Getting 500 errors from GMail now, still no crash
No. Read my follow-up post: http://0xdabbad00.com/2012/12/07/dep-data-execution-preventi...
> if it did give some of it back to the artists.

I'd guess they would if they legally could. But if they could, everybody else also could, and then the cash cow of "selling copies" would finally die in an era where everybody can produce copies themselves. Therefore they cant, because the current stakeholders have too much power in legislation.
Web interface is down, but with a desktop client like Apple Mail it works to receive and send emails.
Some features typical of VM languages, like "goto" makes it more appropriate as a compilation target, because lots of higher-level control structures kan be compiled to gotos. Of course goto could also be added to the JavaScript language as is, but then we have a conflict since goto is nice in a low-level language, but discouraged in higher level languages. This conflict of interest in language design does not exist when the user language is seperate from the VM-language.

I agree with your point though.
I honestly have no idea, but if the company is owned abroad by a company listed on a stock exchange in that foreign country, by institutional stockholders also in that country, one would assume that they'd be trying to move some proportion of it back 'home', if there is such a place.

I'll freely admit my knowledge of corporate finance falls apart somewhere around here.
My Chrome is continually crashing here on a MacBook Pro Retina as well. Even just visiting unrelated sites like Android Market and others. I assume it is trying to sync my pages to my account, or pull down URL malware black lists or something, hitting the same error GMail is hitting, and crashing.
Few more days for 21 December, Mayan calendar. :P
But most startups fail because the product sucks. its not the people that "fail" in the market. The end-market could care less about "the people", in that sense. Its worth sanity checking even good heuristics, occasionally.
Chrome is crashing for me without even a gmail tab open. Curious...
The traffic from this must have crashed Gmail
It is certainly true that some content that has been pirated would not have been bought anyway.

Although I do feel that this might insentivise draconian DRM.
If you are going to buy $50 worth of content per month and then pirate everything else you are probably going to pirate the stuff that is most easy to pirate.

For example I know people who pirate just about every PC game because it is as simple as downloading the torrent, installing and sometimes cracking. OTOH they don't pirate iOS games because they don't want to jailbreak their iPhones.

The result is that iOS game developers get more money from them not because they like iOS games more but because iOS is the more locked down platform.
A tweet by The Onion:

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It may be region specific, it's still down for me.

I've noticed that Hacker News seems slower since gmail went down. I'd be interested to know how traffic responded. I'm guessing a lot of people default to HN if they hit a roadblock in their work. I know I do.
Tested on my Cr-48 and login works, seems limited to Gmail.
Feedburner has also been sporadically returning temporary errors over the last hour. Looks like it's a google infrastructure problem.
Hmm.. it doesn't seem to check if the website you're reviewing is actually there. The window just sits there, and if I go to the site it is down.
Ok, I would like to take this opportunity to ask something about HN.

What if, say a month later Gmail.com goes down again. Then, how do I submit another post to HN? I mean wouldn't I be redirected to this one?
Well, to be fair, 14 Gigayears in terms of an attack geared towards a totally different case. I wonder if we can optimize an attack on sentence passwords using hidden markov modeling, or other natural language processing methods. The entropy at the character level decreases if we assume the password is an english sentence [1], and my gut feeling is that we can apply this same thinking at the word level as well (this may very well have been demonstrated already in research).

[1] http://www.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/cryptograp...
Then given the difficulty in measuring taxable profit effectively, it sounds like you should be in favor of a consumption tax that doesn't distinguish the source of the money being used to make the purchase.
chrome aborts left and right on win7 64, too.
I wonder if this post has anything to do with it: http://www.elezea.com/2012/12/google-calendar-lost-data-secu...
I see the Hasbara police is here too (US-taxpayer funded Israeli government-paid propagandists who troll the internet to explain why they kill women and children and why they don't give equal rights to Palestinians and why they continue to occupy the 22% of the remaining land of original Palestine).

What is a good place for this new startup? Maybe Al-Arakib which is a Palestinian Bedouin village where peopel have been living for hundreds of years and have deeds from Ottoman era but the settler startup nation keeps demolishing their homes?
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/al-araqib-demolished-for-the-3...

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-stu...
Gmail work for me but chat isn't connecting.
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It happens to the best of us :) is all I can think of
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Because it is interesting. Actually it is more interesting and novel than much of the other news items that you can see in the front page.
Depends on what the criteria for violent is... Mario Kart is rather violent when you define it as injuring or impeding your opponent. Blood and guns don't make for a violent game although they are present as part of a violent game frequently.
Mince pie is a thing in America, they're just much larger than the British treat. From what I can tell, it's a similar filling, just, expanded to a full-size pie.

In my experience, you can find it in any supermarket around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

(Example: wal-mart http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mrs.-Smith-s-Classic-Mince-Pie-27-...)
Wha ... how ... why would browser performance be coupled to performance of one particular site? Firefox, Opera, even IE don't crash when they're offline and unable to connect to any site.
It would be nice to have one interface that controls everything with Apple's eye for detail. The puck/TV combo today feels kind of like buying a bloatware-filled Windows machine to run OS X in a virtual machine.
I love how our predictions of the future never account for the existence of poor people. That's why they're always so wildly off; the vast bulk of humanity are never factored into the equation.

While I don't doubt there'll be printable organs and brain-integrated silicon by 2030, the majority of people will not benefit, and the tensions brought about by escalating inequality will set progress back by years.
Strange, we got Youtube crashing chromes on all our Ubuntu machines
This idea has been floated before: http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/11/18/freakonomics-radio-co...

Basically just taking all the interest from the loans, and splitting it up as payouts in a lottery among everybody who has money saved.
Obviously the catfish is disrupting the food industry, catching those lazy entrenched pigeons off guard.
Sorry about that. This is what was on my computer. Apparently the updates have failed to work (I don't use Windows normally luckily, but that surprised me). Didn't realize that.
Mine crashed out of the blue as well, thought it was very strange.
I can easily live with a few minutes of downtime for my mail, but they should fix Chrome and other platforms being dependant.
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It's working fine on Safari, albeit a little slowly. This seems to be Chrome specific.
My Chrome keeps crashing every minute or so; I gave up and am in Safari now.
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Gmail and all Google services are working for me using Chrome 24.0.1312.35 beta-m. I did have a 502 error for about 5 minutes, but it didn't crash the browser.

edit: typo
went down for me. need to get work done. oh god.
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This doesn't really refute my statement at all. I was merely claiming that piracy is often framed as a political statement, when it really isn't at all. It's about people choosing to spend their money on something else, relying on others to pay for the actual production of entertainment.

As for your point about there being no inherent right to protection of IP, I would have said that was obvious. However the legal system doesn't exist to just enshrine and enforce basic rights. It's also used to shape societies in ways we (or our representatives) feel are beneficial.

Currently we as a society choose to enforce IP law. If that changes, then sure, I'll find another job. Good luck waiting for that Game of Thrones season 3 though.
What? If keeping uptime of a server was as easy as wishful thinking, we'd see a lot more of REAL 99.9% uptime.
Working here on Chrome
crashes by itself with a 502 error on ubuntu. The chrome doesn't crash though
aaaaand it's back )
Submitting the link of a dead site has never really made any sense to me in the first place. If the company has a separate status page, post the most specific URL from that page. If not, perhaps an external checker like http://www.isup.me with a (manually entered) query string for the date would be appropriate.
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Everything and everyone has a name. Ever wondered why the name...?

I was curious and so I put together
Whythe.name which is an attempt to document the story behind a name. Why the name was chosen, how did it come about, the thought process and the history behind every name.

Would appreciate your thoughts/feedback. Thanks a bunch.

http://WhyThe.Name
Chrome has crashed twice for me in the last 2 mins...
There are no realistic alternative to JavaScript which is not based on JavaScript in the end. Some of them provide very powerful abstractions on top of JavaScript though.

There is nothing weird about abstractions. All modern languages are based on multiple levels of language abstractions.
Working in FF....
The list is missing Haxe. (http://haxe.org)
Working for me on Mac, but not in windows
Yeah, it's a common internet meme. Often you will see the word 'one' in there as well. e.g. !!!11!!!one!!
Seems to work in Firefox, for anyone who needs to urgently access their Gmail. Still down in Chrome for me (Error 502), though it's not crashing the browser.
I knew I read it from Levitt somewhere. For better or worse, most of my knowledge of economics derives from his blog and books. Of course, he describes it better than I did.
I use gmail via IMAP on mutt and it still works fine, although the Web UI is giving 502 and other various errors. I guess it's just an issue with the front-end, not the mail server itself.
This page seems really light on data - do you know how they decide which artists/albums get listed?
Aw, you too?
Happy birthday! :-)
Surprisingly left out one of the best and most used to-javascript compilers?
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/
My chrome is working fine. So is gmail. I'm in Bangladesh so maybe Asia is okay.
When I wrote that comment, I thought that investment in R&D was taxed because it added to the book value of the company —you carry the results as intangible assets on your books until you depreciate them. Some other comments have asserted that that's not the case, since capital investment is not taxed as profit.
Notice how TechCrunch (and every other publication that picked up this story) worded it:

http://i.imgur.com/C5how.png

Australian Police is infinitely less misleading and more accurate than simply saying 'police'. I have to assume all of these downvotes I've received are from Australians or other foreigners making some kind of anti-American point. The fact remains - this is a US owned website and a topic about a US company. Saying 'Police' gives the impression it is American police - when it isn't.
Seems fine to me...
If they are not behind it, we should still send them this link. They could certainly make use of some of those ideas, maybe with a little bit of twist here and there to make them more comic. I doubt writers could get better startup ideas than actual SV people and SV-wannabies :).
Gmail.com is up now.
Chrome crashed for me as well.
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The chrome crashing can be stopped if you disable Synching. Means disconnect your Google Account from Chrome
a thread from earlier.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4898496

Speculation that it is happening to many users.
I was able to reproduce the crash once by adding a bookmark, which probably forces a sync. Gmail came back up for me, though, so I'm not able to test this again.
From that discussion it seems that not much of this system was usable at that time. Fortunately it appears more complete now. He got his thesis done too.
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Same here. This is bad.
So your web mail interface is always down... I'm still sending and receiving Google Apps mail through IMAP, so we're currently at parity (except I've never had to manage my email server or deal with spam).
I switched from hosting my own server and using local mail providers to Gmail since they had never been able to provide sufficient reliability (uptime, spam filtering, mail delivery). I use, however, Gmail with my own domain name since I want to be able to change to another provider if necessary.
Yes, my Chrome has been crashing every ten minutes for the last half hour.
thanks, i have heard flurry has not many updates for long time and others are outpacing them.
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I don't think it's Gmail, I think it's the Sync service that is causing crashes.
Chrome also starting crashing 30-or-so minutes ago, on a OS X 10.8.1, Chrome version 23.0.1271.95. I just had my Facebook account open in that window, but it continued crashing by itself after 5 minutes. GMail doesn't work , too, from neither FF nor Chrome, it does though from my iPhone (different web provider, I wonder if that counts).
Yep, Chrome was crashing for me on iOS after about 30 seconds of use.
You might be right. What kinds of public goods have you created lately? I listed a bunch that Google has done.
Chrome crashed 3-4 times in a row trying to access Gmail. This was on Windows, and I was logged into Google Sync.
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Thanks for this very detailed response. Is the same FNID shown for all visitors during the FNID's applicable period, or is it individualized or region-specific?

Essentially I'm asking if all of us see the same stuff at the same time.
If all else fails, there's always cultural fit.
Besides the fact that you were blocked of playing YOUR game because of the problem in THEIR Ubi-thing, there another major issue:

You need to install a program that according to their license can basically spy on you.

Some people will say nobody forced you to buy the game, but imagine: if all companies selling cars decided to add a bug to record your talks claiming they can this way offer a better service, how reasonable would it be?
Works for me with both Opera and Chrome. Even with chat. Either they fixed it or it's an issue only affecting part of userbase.

edit: I'm in Europe.
I host my own email as well and have been very happy with Roundcube - clean and fast, no bells and whistles.
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My Chrome crashed several times as well
Just a bored student from the United Kingdom.
I wanted to ask how is that even possible, then read:

> However, we realized that a lot of the transformations could be done at load time and preprocessed to an intermediate representation.

Lazy computation has its disadvantages. Still, impressive gain.
Then those authors are idiots. Libraries pay for their books, they don't seize them for free through some kind of literary eminent domain.

If their argument is that it should be illegal for anyone to share a book that they've paid for with someone else, that would be a radical redefinition of what it means to "own" a book.
Codemirror is fantastic. If (like me) you used to think that in-browser code editing/debugging was doomed to fail, look at CodeMirror. It just works, and is comparable to Scintilla; one less reason to do native apps.
You can also get a text file filled with a scrap of all the magnet links from TPB. What this effectively means is that with a single 1USD flash drive, you can "infringe" on the copyright (to the same extent that TPB does) of an absolutely unprecedented amount of content, merely by handing that flashdrive to somebody else. Millions of magnet links, at how many million dollars a pop? Insane.
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That's best-case. I have backup-mx, but no real failover for imap or normal smtp (other than reading mailspool directly on the backup mx). I used to do a crazy flood-fill thing with 3 servers smtp forwarding mail and marking it, but doing mail HA correctly is kind of hard (and then keeping mailstore synced from imap in sync, too).
If they really want to change the game, they need to find a way to offer a la carte network subscriptions and full on-demand (similar to HBOGo) for every channel. I would pay a premium for a service where I could buy HBO, ESPN and Comedy Central and have access to those network's entire archives as well as the latest programming.

Its obvious that is the future (HBO already does it and its amazing) so anything less would be a step in the wrong direction for them.
Except that laws that deal with morality and other behaviors that people never agree on (drugs and alcohol, sex, public behaviors, etc.) are political suicide to repeal, so few legislators would ever be willing to try, so (fill in the blank) will be illegal in (fill in State) for the foreseeable future.
> I'm not necessarily sure why anybody in their right mind would create such a thing and share it!

Best startup ideas are about solving real problems. Some people care about problems getting solved, whether or not they are the ones doing the solving. Keep in mind that no one has enough time to try and solve all the problems at once. So if you see something wrong that needs to be fixed, and you don't have time to do it yourself (because you're busy fixing something else), why not just share it with people, so that someone else might work on it, thus helping to make our world a better place?
As a keyboard guy, if I can't hit enter and have it do it's thing (it looks like a form) I'd be hard pressed to use it.
Even my chrome is crashing, switched to firefox a while ago.
To clarify what Cyranix said, it's possible to add a useless query string on the end of a URL in order to have HN fail to match a URL that's already been submitted. So say SocialMobileLocal.com goes down and someone submits a link:

status.socialmobilelocal.com

When it goes down again a year later, you can submit:

status.socialmobilelocal.com?foo=bar
Crashing on my mac as well (OS X 10.8.2, Chrome 23.0.1271.95).
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Bottled water, a blanket or two, food that stores well, and a first aid kit. None of that takes up a lot of space, and it could easily save your life. Plus just about all of it is handy to have around for non-emergency needs anyways.
This might apply to 95% of splices, but not 95% of your template. This particular benchmark does show the best case, but the typical case of a few dynamic splices will not affect things much because the page is still getting converted into a concatenative style and a ton of the splice processing of things like <bind>, <apply>, etc is happening at load time.
Down in France : http://www.blog-nouvelles-technologies.fr/archives/21512/err...
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The trick is to want it to be down when you notice that it's down.
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I've been having luck with mutt. Looks like their POP / IMAP servers are running better than their webapp.
Chrome just crashed on me for the first time. Gmail has been up and down a few times already the last 30 mins.
I agree, but I also said this when the rumour came out about Apple getting into phones. Cell phones were cheap crap back then with no margins. I really don't think it's a completely 1:1 comparison, but Apple does tend to surprise me occasionally.
And I was wondering what was wrong. It crashed for me on 4 devices of different OSes.
My chrome and gmail are both fine, U.S. Midwest, so its more complicated than that.
I wonder if the author read PG's essay.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html
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The script automatically adds the span around the name saving you from manually adding it every time.
I'm really proud of this release. I'm happy to answer any questions about it.

If anyone has any doubts about how hard Geoffrey Grosenbach or Ryan Bates work on their screencasts, put them to rest. Those things take _forever_ to make!
What do people think about the "Imaging REST API" idea? It seems all the needed infrastructure exists (AWS, etc), are there any services like this already?
The letter of the law is one thing - the recommendations of HR lawyers to employers wanting to stay out of trouble are far more conservative. The advice I've heard is basically "don't do anything to create or discriminate against a 'protected class'". So even if it's not strictly against the law to decline to hire or promote people who wear blue shoes on Tuesdays, it's probably a bad idea to make such a policy without a strong, well-documented, objective basis for it.
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I think more appropriate link would be http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821928. Gmail downtime is still negligible WRT maintaining your own mail server. But the problem is the downtime of ecosystem built around it.
right, like select "Walking directions" and accidentally walk into the Bronx at 3 AM :)

Also, people should look at the directions of Apple max as a whole as well, you can tell that something is fishy when route looks dumb. Just use common sense
+1. Chrome crashed once for me, and it had an interesting error message. Something along the lines of "Wahhhh!!! Chrome crashed! Would you like to restart?"