skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What else should we be vigilant about besides falling? I felt the article was a little incomplete w/o this information.

I've got one:
* Lifting heavy things correctly.
What is nowadays called "link bait" used to be called "headlines" back in the days of paperboys and rotary presses. It's simply an old journalistic practice.
Can someone please clarify what it means to "endow a chair." I get from the article it has something to do with the EFF but no idea what it actually means.
... 35 minutes and anonymous hasn't claimed responsibility yet?
You can set up a cloud VM (on Rackspace for example), and then set up your VM's firewall (iptables) to only allowing connections from your test machines (could be your local IP, or the IP address of the test machines from Browserstack or Sauce.) This allows you to keep your dev/staging/prod environments in sync (and allows you to do things like blueprint/image your dev setup to build it elsewhere), decouple your dev from your staging/prod, and allow you to develop from anywhere without needing to carry around the same laptop or rebuild your dev environment on another box - particularly if you use an intermediate system with a static IP so you can reconfigure your firewall whenever needed.
The most likely explanation: no one got anything early.

Venue timestamps can often disagree by a significant amount. It is very likely that SIAC (distributors of CQS and CTS) simply are not well synced to the reference clocked used to distribute the report.

Nanex spends a lot of time doing analysis based on precision timing without providing any sort of error analysis as to how well timestamps produced from different references synchronize. It would lend credibility to their hypotheses if they either provided their own reference or provided some measure of margin of error to the timestamps they so heavily rely upon.

For example, if Nanex had stated that they measured the time of release and the time of trades themselves as they appeared in CQS as observed from their machines then they could make a much more concrete statement as to whether: (a) the report was "early" or (b) the trades were "early" relative to one another. Most likely they would observe that the report appeared "early" as measured to their system clock (or possibly some other reference), but the trades did not appear before the report. Of course, Nanex would be smart enough to account for transit latency and other what-not.
Both of the Bootstrap developers left Twitter a few months ago and AFAIK they are still the ones developing Bootstrap.

While it is possible that they are collaborating with the current-Twitter developers working on this thing, it doesn't seem like much of a sure thing.
How's the general performance and memory consumption on smaller machines, e.g. entry-level VPS's or the lower spectrum of AWS VMs? Don't have any big projects in the pipeline that immediately required sharding etc, but would like to play with it on a few weekend-scale items.
Do something useful with those recruiting emails
Running on AWS doesn't protect you from problems in the applications you're running on AWS. You can `rm -rf /` an EC2 instance and have plenty of problems.
That would be part of 4a. talk to the smartest person in the room, even if it is you.
True... it's not like there are a lot of rubes out there with orders 400ms before data is scheduled to be released, who aren't still going to be there 400ms later.

The question is who gets to do the fleecing of the rubes.

So if someone did figure out a way to play the system and get it a little early that's interesting... if someone on the inside is playing fast and loose to make sure the right people get first crack at any small orders that happen to have been left in the system, that's a problem.

But, yeah, it shouldn't be super big bucks at stake...beyond some small initial volume, anyone you're going to trade with is going to know what's up.
Fired is more like it. Though I doubt Jeff Bezos is the kind of guy to do something like that.
> Small investors can only buy on bad news and long where applicable (i.e good company). Bad news and poor technical performance even if for a period is guaranteed almost to be driven down by HFT. And sometimes HFT over does it (maybe on purpose to let the suckers flood back in). I.e. Apple going to 430, Netflix to mid 50s after similar shorts/run ups and battle of machines.

I think Apple's a weird case. They had a "down" quarter, which caused the tech analysts to go all crazy and claim that Apple's a sell. So that caused people to sell, which drove down the price, and dropping below 500 probably triggered a lot of people's stop loss strategies, which drove down the price even more...
It also assumes that everybody who goes to buy something from Amazon while its down end up buying somewhere else as opposed to simply waiting until later that day
Honest question: How are timestamps different from any other user-supplied data? Is the timeline of events ever recorded using an unsynchronized clock for relative comparison?
The report is a government report, in machine-readable format, that is taken from a government server. If you wanted to put out a false report, you would have to hack the server or the connection to the server.
Yes, The Great Gatsby, published 1925, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, not the later lipogrammatic Gadsby, 1939, by Ernest Vincent Wright.
Honestly, I tuned out. Animations are procedural and are best represented with a scripting language - not with a declarative image format. Resource-constraining javascript within an (i)frame is probably a better way to spend a browser developer's time.
45 minutes of downtime so far, we're seeing mostly 503 responses with an occasional 200 getting through. We've seen a few other smaller outages for amazon.com in the past but this is definitely the longest in at least the last 3-4 years. Details at http://reports.panopta.com/amazon/server/96291
Still down at 2:00 PM CST. I hope we see a good post-mortem out of this. For their record amounts of uptime, I can only expect something extreme.
I was once like you, young and innocent :)
Because the report isn't supposed to be available for another 400ms?
Ilya's mother reportedly said, "I strongly believe that if Ilya did not start this project and stayed in school, he would be well and alive today."

I agree on the startup stress but you have to admit that the above quote isn't fair either. College kids attempt suicide at a pretty regular clip - be it from social or institutional pressures. I personally believe that suicidal people are prone and it's not their circumstances so much as it's them.
12:22 PST still down... Looking for Mushroom cloud to the NW
You're right! There is no start button, this is my mistake.

The desktop looks like this: http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2012/11/Surf...
> A lot of people wrote off the iPad

There was a lot of negativity about the iPad, and people were wrong. It turned out that multi-touch was a total game changer for the tablet form factor, and people didn't see it coming.

> There is an awful lot of negativity around the Surface Pro from some people, and its pretty obvious a lot of it is purely because its a Microsoft product.

I don't think it's "obvious" at all. Microsoft is launching a 2 pound tablet with 4-5 hour battery life at a $900 price point. You don't have to dislike Microsoft to think that the "but you can run Visual Studio on it!" angle is just going to go over peoples' heads and the market will pass on the device.

Especially considering the lack of "game changer" as existed in the iPad. Is the weight reduction from 3-3.5 pounds as with the previous Windows tablets to 2 pounds (at the cost of battery life and a real keyboard) going to be that game changer? I think you have to really be rooting for MS to think that is the case.
Indeed, but to be fair, 22 million is nothing, especially for a country so big as Australia. Also, it wasn't just one crazy person or crazy group. They were random people in a bus, and they had the same anger and hate. Wtf was that?

I'm curious, where in Australia do you live if I may ask?
Yep. I'm not saying the lure of startup success is easy to defend yourself against, but we should be more vocal about when it's time to stop or get help when things aren't going right.
as a potential user, I was wondering if you have anything planned for offline use. Many times writers / blog drafters will take themselves offline to jam out some drafts.

If there's a local store that can keep version control distributed it would be great.
which has never worked in history. as soon as you raise prices, you lose market share...
On the plus side, if they're willing to share, I bet this will be a very interesting postmortem. Presumably Amazon.com is one of the more bulletproof web properties in the world. Whatever could have occurred to take it down for nearly an hour (at this point) can only be interesting!
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I'm not in that demographic, but it's easy for me to imagine a techie who just likes to be the person in the room who has an informed opinion when the subject of available tablets comes up. For devices that have decent return policies or retain their resale value, there's minimal risk other than one's time investment.
A good brand is informed by the company/person/whatever being branded.
Still down at 1423 CST.
I was 400ms too late :(
I would think that roughly 50k USD would be enough incentive for most people to start remembering REALLY hard
I'm not sure the problem is with being a founder. Actually this can be a very stimulating experience in your life, and may even bring some economical boost that is not bad for stability.

I think the problem is with the culture of being founder: there is agreement that you can sacrifice almost everything for your work. It is not true. As long as you enjoy what you do, it's ok to work long hours at critical stages of your startup, but it is also ok to take pauses, go to drink with friends, and avoid the pressure in general.

Another thing that always makes me a bit suspicious is that "we are going to change the world". This is a good recipe for pressure. Maybe there is another way to take it, and is simply, I work without too expectations, I try to do my best, but well it's not a drama if this does not work as expected. I'm also worth as an individual, outside my work, outside the business.

Maybe we are building a too aggressive culture and this is the result? I think that "back to technology" should be the motto for the next 10 years.
> That's less than I expected!

That's still a huge amount of money ... $7mm an hour?
I hear this grid-computing stuff is pretty capable. distributed applications are the future! Anyone want to pay me for time-share on my VAX?
Flight is rendered server side? I must have missed that.

Okay, in that case I can see a need here.
Congrats to 42floors.
I get that there are decisions in elections, and I get that on the issues YOU care about YOUR party is infinitely better than THEIR party, but when both parties just do the bidding of anti-democratic big business elites it just seems impossible to ever make things better, and the accumulation of these seemingly small steps continues. Stories like this ruin my day, not in isolation, but precisely because of the pattern of behavior in our body politic that they reprsent.
I currently work remotely, and I agree with you that there is something special about working physically together. There isn't a good remote substitute for standing in front of a white board with another coder. We tended to get excited when we thought of a cool new feature or solved a problem. I fed off of their excitement and they fed off mine.
I didn't ask the question rhetorically. I agree with you, but it's nice to get different perspectives as well.
What is this? I hate to be rude, but it reads something like "Hey, we wanted to know how to start a bike shop, and had some friends that did. ... Here's their renovations ... 1 year later, they rock, and they don't know why ... oh, and there's 1 or 2 BILLION dollar ideas in here, have fun!"

Have they done surveys? Have they asked their customers "how did you hear about us?" Did they bring on each of those employees with sales experience? What was their onboarding process? Did they just get lucky? How far away WAS that other bike shop?

It was a fine article, but I felt it lacked real details.
However, I just reloaded and it loaded back up nice and pretty.
Sure. I don't think genuinely suicidal people would call a crisis line, so it just serves as a harmless outlet for the "cry-for-help" types.

I also think the "mental illness" explanation is just a little too convenient in the general case.
for those of us just following along from home, care to provide some specifics, the nature of the fair use misunderstanding, and where xenophobia, conspiracy theories reside in this article ?
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I think the quickest way to do that would be to convince small country like Antigua for example to become a patent-free zone opened for infinite innovation.
They should definitely try AWS. It is ridiculous that a simple online store manages its own infrastructure.
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New internet law: any sufficiently sized platform or framework will attract increasingly more compromising/malware attacks. Anyone running Wordpress still knows this all day.
Up for me (Kentucky)
I'm not entirely sold on icon fonts. They look good at large sizes, but as they get smaller they become blurry. I'll stick to creating pixel perfect icons at different sizes.
By parsing this JSON file http://ir.eia.gov/ngs/wngsr.json
12:26 PST and no problems accessing from Seattle.
Free month of Thinkful to the team that's supposed to be keeping it up. Could have order something and had it delivered in the time it took to get back up...
I completely agree. I'd rather work for a startup where the founders have a solid life balance than if they're Red Bull-fueled business owners running non-stop.

There has to be measurable differences in the ability to make decisions when you have a well-balanced life than if you're laser-focused on your company for years.

Even if that means I'd be working for a startup that grows slower, it's more controlled, intelligent growth. Growing smarter, not faster, if you will.

Obviously people are going to disagree with this, and that's their thing, but the culture of giving up everything for the off-chance of succeeding at a startup and then having no clue what to do after you've failed... has to stop. Or it'll just stop naturally when all the startup founders have given up on life (which is what we should try to avoid).
a : a native of Hesse

b : a German mercenary serving in the British forces during the American Revolution; broadly : a mercenary soldier

Powerful, unavoidable connotations are only valuable in a brand when they reinforce the product being sold.
I've been having odd behavior with DynamoDB all day. I wonder if it's related. The AWS Health Dashboard says things are fine, but I'm not so sure: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
For some perspective, checkout GOOG's intraday movement between 2006-2009. It was the trader's dream come true.
With its low profit margin amazon leaves virtually no room for a small size competitor to dislodge them from their share of the market.

Say you want a bite of the tablet market dominated by apple, it's easy, make a somewhat decent tablet for cheap and there you have it.

If you want a bite of an amazon dominated market, well good luck with that, and while at it hope that amazon is not planning to get into the market you're in.

It seems their strategy relies on tiny margins, maybe with a different set or circumstances amazon would change their stance, but I don't think it's currently part of their plans to ramp up prices.
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I find this extremely hard to believe. (Not calling you a liar, but I think something must have gotten lost in translation).

The possibility for theft and fraud would be so massive if every dev at Amazon had write access to production that I find it nearly impossible to believe this is true.
Of course it wasn't the reason nor was it the only one. Please. We are all adults here, we all want to piggy-back on HN traffic, but - c'mon, your blog is not a notable example of the use of Font Awesome "in production".
Is Amazon running Rails or Rubygems?
eBay's outage in 1999 was for 22 hours [1]. That painful experience completely changed their entire internal engineering process.

[1] http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/137251/Cost+...
Mental health care is 1) unaffordable 2) inaccessible and 3) socially unacceptable.

I'm a well-paid white-collar professional and I'd still find the financial burden of between $150 to $250 a week or more hard to swallow. Seriously, who has an extra $600/month lying around? And that's a conservative cost - heaven help you if your insurance isn't up to snuff or if you need meds. Not to mention the extra time out of one's day, because most therapists will not do house calls. How much does an hour of your time cost? How much more that of an entrepreneur?

Let's talk social acceptability: how many people want to invest in a person (which is really what entrepreneurship is all about) who is seeing a therapist? How many people want to have relationships with those they know have mental health issues?
Why not just use KnockoutJS?
Good thing that hacker news is their first port of call for monitoring then !
Amazing that you can see such dramatic and sustained growth even on a logarithmic scale
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From Amazon's perspective, it's the only way to exist in the long term. If they keep costs and margins low, they don't give their competitors much breathing room to challenge them on price.
Awesome work! I remember this way back when :)
Not all abandon sales are a loss for Amazon. Many customers will simply just com back and buy another day because they don't know about the competition.
The reason, I think, that people are being so circumspect about Jody's death, is because it is so close on the heels of Aaron Swartz's own demise. Suicide tends to happen in waves where the first one tends to encourage copycats. Aaron received a lot of publicity and it's not impossible that Jody was partly inspired/encouraged to follow through as a result. I think a lot of people are concerned about encouraging more potential suicides in the startup community.

Whether or not this is the way to do that, I do not know.
Thanks for the support Antirez. We have still have a many things do to help our customers even more.

Also, thanks for you work on Redis and your essays (such as this one[1]). These are helping many startups reach needed scalability and fault tolerance.

[1] http://antirez.com/news/36
I'm not denying awful things were one in the name f psychiatry, but these ate the current state of the field/profession.
http://revisionator.com does too.

What we need is open source, so all that writing, and all that revision history, is downloadable, liberated data.
GGS is the kind of book that makes academics despair [1]. I remember a Geography lecturer once relating how Diamond had been given honorary membership of some geographical society or other, and was giving an acceptance talk. It was a cause of supreme embarrassment for most of the people in the room; Diamond didn't seem to realise that he was addressing many senior academics who had spent most of their careers exploring why his ideas are unsound.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.... (paywall)
Also the same. I could sort of recognise the Amazon one once I knew which one it was, but even then I wasn't 100% sure.
It's true that their profit margins can be vanishingly thin, but that doesn't mean they don't make money.

For some classes of items, they can sell at cost and still make money, because their operations are allegedly so good that they can turn over the inventory before their own payment to the supplier is due.

For example, say Amazon buys a book today and payment is due to the publisher in 30 days. They sell the book tomorrow at cost. Now they get to sit on the full price of the book for the rest of the month. In fact, take that money and buy another book, and sell it right away too. Keep that up, and you have a very big pool of money always sitting in your bank account. Money that can be profitably invested in other activities.

Why would a publisher give them 30 days to pay? Because they're Amazon. It's good to be big.
Interesting for all those people chasing "five nines": If 45 minutes today is their only downtime for the year, their annual uptime for 2013 will be just

1 - 45/(60*24*365)

or 0.99992.
I honestly just assume at this point if there's a way for the Obama administration to dick over the public in favor of their corporate masters, they're going to jump on it. This has become typical and expected behavior from this hypocritical "transparency"-baiting group.
Not looking good for the Mac Pro. Apple can't even be bothered to update the machine to meet EU safety requirements, despite a few years of notice, whereas other manufacturers have.
I believe he's covering all their expenses; salary, travel, etc. Effectively a free extra employee for the EFF.
Beginning today, people can give their friends gifts to Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target all on one reusable gift card from Facebook.

Looking at their initial retail partners, they have a beverage store, restaurant, cosmetics store(?), and big-box retailer. For contrast, they aren't starting with Starbucks, Cheesecake Factory, CVS, and Sears.
Depends on whether people buy by going to the home page and searching, or just searching on Google.
Why would I want to use this? It will result in Facebook tracking more of my (or the benefactor of my gift's) movements, and then selling that info (or letting it leak out via sleazy apps that steal all my info)

Is this solving any problem or filling any hole in the market? Of course it's filling facebook's data hole in that they can't currently track what I buy. I'll keep that between myself, the retailer, and my bank. Thanks anyway.
> So a component subscribes to some event somewhere. Who's triggering the event?

Look at the event source.

> When you're debugging in Firebug or someplace, what does your call stack look like?

Look at the data passed to the event. The callstack starts at the function attached as a listener to the event.

Is the event data incorrect? Then the problem is in the code that triggers the event.

Is the event data correct? Then the problem is in the code listening to the event.

> Say I want to add a component to a page. Which events do I need to trigger
> to make it do the kind of things I want? What do I need to pass as a
> payload to those events?

Documentation. That is indeed the cost of using an abstraction that decouples code, but it's also a cost that has benefits - good documentation is useful.

> How do I know if there's a consumer for my event or not?

It's not important. That's the point of an event-based system, it's a decoupling. De-coupling is an abstraction. It works on pages that are based on components or modules.

If you don't want that abstraction, then using code based on that abstraction isn't a particularly good idea.

Event-based frameworks do need documentation - but reusable code should be documented anyway. There's just more emphasis on getting the documentation done in event-based systems.
Maybe not 5PFS but happens to me too when page has many gifs.
This is not a Ruby or Rails issue. This is a software issue.