skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just discovered this problem on my company website, thanks for the update.

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Seems to be getting better now - intermittent 502's and 504's, the occasional load (speed is choppy though)

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Back to near-instant load times, great job guys! I look forward to the blog entry on this (P.S. It might be worth hosting your status page elsewhere in the future, whilst this might not happen very often, it's when it does that your site needs to be working, the lack of redundancy here is startling.)
504 Gateway Time-out for me.
That part surprised me. I thought it was common for ISPs to not use their own services for critical web presence, i.e. places users might visit when it's down.
https://www.nameterrific.com/pricing

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
Uhm, how would I be scamming anyone? ReDonate doesn't process any payments...
the only problem with this is trust, you have to trust that these companies will do what they say, there is no way to confirm it, maybe all of them are logging and they just say otherwise, and when we are talking about privacy and anonymity thats a bigggg deal breaker!

also just because they do it now, doesn't mean that tomorrow they wont just turn on the logging... if you want anonymity and privacy you can only trust yourself and your own setup, leaving it at the hands of others is a huge exposure, as a sidenote since you are also using the services of a company that might attract the wrong sort of people that also migh expose you to potential problems (they give you up wrongfully, bad logs, payments to that company, the list goes on...)
It is not hard to get your product in front of, say, 1000 users. It is not difficult to attend a few meetups of iOS devs and ask them what they think.
>It's a strange day when we move from cables that work perfectly well to cables that need to be software upgradeable to work as well.

Yes, it's a strange day when we move from "cables that work perfectly well BUT the device with the ports they connect to has to be replaced whenever a new technology cames along" to "cables that need to be software upgradable but are far more future proof and capable all the while freeing the device from those concerns".
All my sites are now back online! ~ 40min downtime.

Edit: Looks like DNS is back. However if you use CloudFlare services then you might still have problems. Like:

504 Gateway Time-out
cloudflare-nginx
When I briefly did that test, I didn't find much difference on Pingdom; but I like some of their other services and I assume they can handle burst activity at least as well as my own server. So I'm a big fan overall and keep using them.
dns back, now I get bad gateway instead, progress :P
Juggling while solving a Rubik's cube
“Startups, when trying to be PRODUCTive, don’t forget to work on the PRODUCT.”
Maybe a little outdated but see also: How a crayon is made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMU-wXsgyR8 .. I hope you're ready for the nostalgia wave!
Have you tried Bumblebee? http://bumblebee-project.org/
I've heard that people get their Optimus cards to work well with it.
I disagree. That non-developer young guy has (as far as you are aware) the same, if not fewer, non-technical skills as the technical founders.

The only people worth bringing on board as non-technical founders are people you know personally, whose work you have seen yourself (and liked), and whose communication skills are a known quantity as well.

If you're going to bring on some random, you might as well do the distribution yourself.
YMMV, but I found this poisonous. At least mildly so.

My hobbies are what I do for fun. I don't give one whit if they're ultimately "successful". I engage in them because I find them intrinsically interesting.

After reading this, I feel like there is a peer pressure, however slight, to have hobbies that have "momentum" which will ultimately make them "the future". (Like, oh no, maybe I'm engaging in the "wrong" hobbies, because I'm pretty sure than in 10 years, still not everyone will be building ships in a bottle.)

This sort of pressure completely defeats the point of having a hobby, sucks all the fun out of it, and will leave me personally feeling discouraged and apathetic (for this morning at least -- until I can flush this mild poison from my system.)
Well to be fair, what do you expect them to say before they have diagnosed the root issue?
Yup, this CNAME service just allowed me to make a quick update to DNS and get us back up. We will probably need to automate this in the future.
I would avoid prematurely optimizing. Scale when you need to scale. Right now it's pretty clear that scaling is the least of your problems.
Has this been true since the late 80's/ early 90's when serial ports left parallel ports behind?

With serial techniques such as differential encoding parallel transmission off circuit board has been obsolete for a long time. The potential skew between the pins is too great and synchronisation too complex.
I've actually worked with the Thad Starner and the Remembrance Agent before. Let me tell you, it's even cooler than it looks.

Of note, there's a version of the RA that has additions that make it more suitable for use on wearable computers. The first item in the papers section (Using Physical Context..., 2003) describes all the extra stuff that the wearable version does.
You are really lucky :p
I'm not sure if he still uses it, but when I met him some years ago, Thad Starner (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/) had a chording keyboard hooked up to a HUD emacs.

I remember thinking at the time that it was a very "MIT" take on Ubicomp, a community that is otherwise pretty strongly infused with an Apple-esque "intuitive interface" ethos.
I guess you're here because 4chan is down?

Something I always wondered - do you use Cloudflare simply for the CDN in respects to photos, or does 4chan also frequently become the target of DDoS and other external attacks?
A workaround: try replacing imgur.com in the URL with filmot.com.
As a resident of said countries, I'd propose that you should not trust Scandinavian governments either. The officials are not that corrupt but the politicians are politicians. Moreover, in these countries there's a widespread belief that the state can do no wrong, that restricting freedom of speech is okay if done for a good cause, that censoring the net is a good thing for the government to do. Even the rule of law can simply be dismissed (it started with preventing child pornography, of course).
Yeah seriously.

This guy just lauded the internet as a bastion of debate, and then in the same breath bemoaned the fact that the dirty proles get to talk back.

It's not a "debate" if other people don't get a say, it's propaganda...
Amazon scrambles after damning german documentary
Well, ideas are constantly being heavily pruned and cut to the ground on hacker news.

And some of that pruning is good and necessary. Otherwise, bad ideas would proliferate and take air and light from the good ideas. But often when I read HN's comments, the field just looks like scorched earth. A complete, overpowering negativity everywhere. And I think then the pruning has lost its purpose, and is a bad thing.

I suppose, I would like that whenever an idea was dismissed it would be by pointing to a better idea in the vicinity which could then be thought about or worked on instead. That way the true purpose of criticism and pruning would be clear: To not let the bad ideas take resources from the good ones.

With regards to self-congratulatory behavior in general: well I suppose I understand you. I've been brought up that way too, as has perhaps most people. Still, I recall Russel's own adage:

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”

I don't know the author of the OP, but I do certainly think that negative attitudes create even more doubts in the wise, while fools and fanatics likely are innately immune. Therefore, I don't think that unreserved dismissals usually will do anything to people's character, except for strengthening those traits you really want to see less of, in the wise.
You should make sure that the site is not actually returning 500's for those request. We had some similar issues when we first started using the service
I'd be wary of any service specifically marketing to high-risk activities unless there are strong technical controls to make it trustworthy.

There are no existing mainstream VPN providers who have strong technical controls to protect user privacy OR anonymity.

There's Tor, and some other systems like that, which make a stronger technical case for anonymity.

There's still a place for VPNs, but it's not as an anonymity service.

On the other hand, I'd want all services to have high security built in -- your mainstream mail provider, mainstream note-taking service, etc. Some of that is technical (a "hostproof" architecture if possible, good internal audit on administrative interfaces, personnel security, etc.). But then, you're one of a mainstream company's customers, vs. a subscriber of the "illegal activity hiding service".

There are "mainstream" uses of VPNs (business, local-privacy, desire to defeat geolocation, firewall-busting, etc.), for which they're great. There are some purposes (anonymity) for which they're horrible. There are things like file sharing in contravention of your ISP's policies or national law where they may work but might not be the best solution -- I'd really go with a seedbox instead of running peer to peer traffic over a VPN.
50 years from now everyone involved in these proceedings still alive will be ashamed of what transpired. We'll be issuing apologies and talking about 'how this never should have happened.' Then it will happen again in slightly different circumstances and the people alive then will find slightly different justifications for their actions.
Chroma, un Widget Mac pour les graphistes et amateurs de Css
it's back up for me http://monosnap.com/image/pYrdbObsYUhKwAWla5gDzzsg0
Even if you use magic to pay for the VPN, there's still lots of linkability just based on time of use, source-IP, etc. Add to that all the traffic which goes over the VPN, and you're probably screwed.

Tor is the right solution here, not a VPN.
I've been a follower of Steve's work since meeting him in '96 at work, and I can only echo your sentiments here. The EyeTap would be my preferred solution (compared to Glass, for example).
Visual perception is truly an amazing thing! The author's anecdotes about vision alteration and the brain's ability to adapt were very interesting to me. I have nystagmus: my eyes move back and forth quickly all the time. I've often wondered what it looks like to see without the movement; however, that is how I see: I don't notice the movement at all. My vision with contacts doesn't get much better than 20/40, so I do experience the effects of the movement. I tend to think of my vision as if it's an example of two-point wave interference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_(wave_propagation) The further away an image is from my focal points, the more the interference from movement affects my brain's ability to piece it all together; it's similar to tunnel vision, but instead of darkness on the periphery, it's progressively more blur. To see most clearly, I have to tilt my head to the side, to my "null point" where my eyes move the least. Not to mention my head moves often in some sort of sync with my eyes, especially while reading; once in school, a substitute teacher raised his voice angrily, thinking I was shaking my head at his work on the board!

I'm curious how Google and other developers of high-tech eyewear will account for us with out-of-the-ordinary eye conditions. If the glasses or certain apps rely on eye movements for communication, we probably couldn't use them.
Seems to be coming back, though intermittent http 502 bad gateways errors.
Changing positions - a warning
I'm going to say this on the posibility of this being seen as a flamebait... But You should have chosen Akamai over Cloudflare.

It's so funny how everybody jumps on top of new companies that say they can proxy all of the interwebz for a low price. (Cloudflare, Blackberry)

And then they fail...
Human error is unacceptable. Online services should never have a single point of failure which can take their entire global presence offline. Not only because it minimizes the risk of catastrophic accidents, but also because hardware does occasionally break.

This is why every piece of kid should be mirrored with a redundant backup and why many businesses even have entire duplicated standby systems for such disasters. Even if that gear cannot support the entire infrastructure, it's usually enough to at least publish an official status page. Having to use Twitter to update users is just amateurish in my opinion.
> Suppose I am looking for "that movie with a button". Yup, google get's it, "The Box". Bing thinks I am thinking of Benjamin Button, which was google's second suggestion

Hm. There is no one google. In the google that I see, for that search, it's the other way around: "Benjamin Button" is #1, and "The Box" is #2 (both on IMDB).

Life before search engines was different and it's easy to be blasé. IMHO, getting the one that you are vaguely thinking of anywhere in the top 5 is a great and amazing technical feat. And also good enough to jog your memory, so #1 or #2 makes no difference.
Going back to go daddy :-(
Its back as of 10:51 GMT . CloudFlare and my sites on CloudFlare seem to work again.
In competitive environments, low-tech occupations tend to lose as a group.

Take any mass farming. Tea collectors, for example, I believe they're paid so little they are in constant poverty. Why are they paid that way? They collect all the tea people around the world drink. Paying them the increase of the cost of a tea bag by 1 cent will make them comparatively rich. Why isn't it done? They have no bargaining power. Anyone can collect tea badly enough, this is true for most agricultural labour. It is physically hard but you can teach it in half an our. So they can always be easily replaced either with local population or with some illegal immigrants.

In the developed world, a lot of people just pass documents around and make phone calls. It's the sophistication of zooplankton and physically much less demanding than agricultural jobs, but you can't quite teach it to anyone in the world in half an hour - you need locals for this (they connect to other people and need to fit culturally) and they need some even very basic skills. So they get paid with actual money you can buy things with.

Take coders. Training a coder is not easy and it even requires some aptitude. Thus, even mediocre coders can often command their rules to their employers. And great coders are true citizens of the world, employable anywhere on their terms.

So, to make farming cool we have to make it high-tech.
Another problem is that farming doesn't seem very profitable even on the large / capital scale, because the barrier to entry is so low.
They are back online, all my sites active
>They're just continuations, seriously, what's everyone's problem?

That they're badly made continuations, without support from the language.

>If you feel like your code is nesting too deep, you define the function elsewhere and just reference it by name. Then you don't get access to the current scope.

At the cost of moving stuff out of where it's invoked, so making code harder to read.

The problem with callback hell is that is pushes the programmer to write FOR the machine, in the way the machine likes it. Those things should be an implementation detail, and in good languages, are.
I think this is why we have so many cliches in this area since it's a universal problem.

"well-rounded", "informed citizen", "having a life", "attitude adjustment", "stopping to smell the roses"

Inspiration comes from life. I read blogs, news, and have real life experiences. Maybe your life involves working out, listening to music, fine dining, politics, environmentalism, drinking, traveling, farming... Then combine that with a desire to improve the condition of humanity. We are motivated by deeper, more timeless issues than say setting up a server to do X task.

Staying on track with side project work means making space for it also, and being comfortable with the technology you're using (use what you enjoy).
He gave a great talk at the HNLondon Meetup on Wednesday. He's a really entertaining speaker:

http://vimeo.com/60896034
We use CloudFlare for everything -- CDN, DDoS mitigation, Railgun (see below), et cetera. They serve ~1.5 petabytes of bandwidth on our behalf every month and proxy billions upon billions of requests. I'm a huge fan of the product and team, despite hiccups like this one.

More on Railgun: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/cloudf...

Edit -- I am officially faster than carrier pigeon:

me: was i the first human to notify you guys? |
me: i caught it within the first 30-60 seconds i think |
me: because i have no life and never sleep |
CloudFlare Ops pal: yeah. you did.

If anyone wants to hire me to check their site instead of Pingdom, feel free to ping me!
> but it is far far more important that all human beings >learn to interact with the natural environment and >understand the basics of food, water and shelter.”

This part is my biggest take away from the post. that learn to interact with the natural environment and figure out how to create(nay, refactor/engineer/discover a better word here??) food/water/shelter from it is a hard,important and makes for a more interesting* educational goal than solving math problems or puzzles.

*-- I said interesting, but i would bet that it's probably better in terms of creating a (net total) productive society(x years of education later)

Disclaimer: I hadn't heard of code.org before now and i live in India.
The most interesting part of the story lies here:

"coca-leaf which comes from South America and is processed in a unique US government authorized factory in New Jersey to remove its addictive stimulant cocaine"

Consider the implications of one of the largest American companies being singularly authorized to buy and import hundreds of tons of coca leaf, which is banned in nearly every country and produced primarily by illegal drug manufacturers. Does anyone believe there's no funny business going on here?

(For the record, I think coca and cocaine should be legal.)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/19/20040419-093...
Akamai won't even talk to people for $0, $25, or $200/mo. I doubt they'd do so for $3000/mo, directly, unless they thought you'd grow.
Its an internal server. You can install bugzilla for bug tracking, and can add your own quips.
I'm guessing its actual capabilities are basically just USB 2.0. Someone tore apart a Lightning-to-USB sync cable ages ago and the data pins are apparently wired straight through - so we know that Lightning can speak it natively - and given all the focus on simplicity and not doing multiplexing at the expense of more complexity in the adapter I can't see any reason why Apple would develop their own protocol.
But, for the amount of money many paid customers are paying them (in essence, anyone at that $3k/mo level that includes the critical 24/7 phone support), you can actually get an account with a company like CDNetworks or Akamai (if nothing else, with a reasonable CDN like EdgeCast) and have still-better network engineers than CloudFlare.

Also, even if you are using them for free: they aren't replacing people you have in house... they are an additional component that can independently fail, in addition to any of the things that would have caused your average company's network engineers to fail. They don't promise to cache enough content to replace much of your infrastructure.
Of course it's different. What if the IO fails?
I agree with the shifting sands of the "self interest" view.

Economists, though, don't fuss as much about motives because they're not observable. I mean you can build a reasonably explanatory model by simply assuming people are greedy hyperrationalists. But nobody really does that because it's just too simplistic.

If I had a point, I guess it's that economics thinking is much more textured and subtle than people give it credit for. "Neoliberal" is a label that was invented by critics and so its meaning is basically "whichever strawman fits right now".

If we're naming names amongst the arch-neoliberals, I think these days I prefer Hayek to almost anyone else. I think he really spent time in the stew of ideas and didn't retreat from the revealed complexity of the world into equations.
If and only if the site's end users and their software fully respects TTL. A lot don't, especially shitty mobile networks and web browsers.
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And you do neural networks every time you think and aolve differential equations every time you catch a baseball.

That doesn't make it any less difficult.
Akamai isn't as accessible as Cloudflare. For one example I cannot even see how much they charge for similar services, I'd likely have to get a "quote" which means that the whole thing is out of budget for most small-medium businesses.

Akamai's whole web-presents is clearly aimed at enterprise class customers. I mean there are whitepapers everywhere, the site is filled with business nonsense and I cannot even get started without at least a phone call or five.

Maybe people "jump on" to new companies because those companies actually offer a product old companies are not? I can go to Cloudflare right now and sign up, I can give them my CC info and pay, and everything is up-front and easy. I can be online with Cloudflare within the hour (or whenever DNS moves).
It's expected that eventually things will go down, I've never once found a piece of software, server, person or traffic light which has performed at 100% for their entire lifetime, the best thing we can take from this however is response times.

Barely an hour from outage to being live again - I barely had time to fire an email to my colleagues and update our Twitter before it came back online - however, what's worrying here is that there was no fallback in place whatsoever, we will be hearing from the Cloudflare team soon hopefully to let us know what went wrong, but if they are half the company they purport to be, they will learn a lot from whatever went wrong today.
In my experience, cloudflare has been little more than a scam for anyone with half decent traffic.
Not really surprised. Funny how the status page shows all green (are those just static button?) while they acknowledge there is an issue and that they don't know what's going on.

http://www.cloudflare.com/system-status
From my experience with DNS for a large site over the last years, a lot of ISPs do not respect your TTL and have their own TTL (often 24h).