skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single SVG icon in the .zip contains every icon in the whole set...
Show 4 different icons on your site? Load the whole set 4 times...
Oh man, this is epic.
Did something change yet? I'm in Vancouver and have no problem going to outlook.com... that's what is down, right?
Such a fun read.
I love it. Good example of enriching the development environment without any kind of special files, databases, etc. Would be great to port it other issue trackers.
These Van Halen song release names are hilarious!
Visual Studio is down. Can't push my commits dammit.
FYI: outlook.com and office 365 are also down, earlier the DNS zone for outlook returned NXDOMAIN! (DNS speak for 404 not found)
this has nothing to do with the scroogled campaing though...
aka "works fine from my machine"
outlook.com, xbox.com, microsoft.com, live.com, ...

Pretty much all sites are down for me (Germany).
Verifying email addresses is vitally important for building a high quality list. Otherwise, you can easily sign up other people for the list, they get essentially a spam email, report it as spam, and all of a sudden your list is crap because they didn't have double opt-in.

Keep double opt-in, it's necessary (and I think required in Mailchimp's case unless you use the API directly).
To think bitcoin can acquire a stable deflation rate is to assume that the economy stops cycling, that's simply not going to happen. Every boom will cause a massive deflation period, it can't be stable.

Speculation is the least of bitcoin's problems. I think a crypto-currency is inevitable, but it'll be one that has a mechanism in it to inflate and deflate to match the demand for currency in the market. During a boom there's a higher demand for currency and the supply must increase if prices are to remain stable, otherwise deflation is going to happen in an amount that matches the boom; that's not stable.
Show HN: A Growth Hacking News Aggregator - Would love any feedback/suggestions
(BugJar core developer here) Thanks for the compliment. Bugjar is a work in progress; it's got some rough edges, and definitely some missing features -- but I'm excited for what it can become.
Show HN : fuzzy.js, a fuzzy search implementation in Javascript
Google's DNS cache will drop them in 250 seconds...
This is a BIG step to make me switch to Windows. Debugging Node.js just like C# is really awesome (no brainer breakpoints and inspection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_1_UqUDx2s).

This plus a decent shell would definitely make me switch (I hate PowerShell).
Yep, Xbox Live is down here in the UK.
Applications were running, but I couldn't resolve any domains from any of our Azure machines.
Correct, your data being inaccessible isn't the same as being Scroogled (per MS)
My guess is they changed DNS so they could keep the service up while cutting off an attacker's route.
While looking at this, I saw some other temporary DNS fails as well, including HN, Google News, and Twitter. But all came back quickly, except for Outlook/Microsoft domains. (I'm in Minnesota)
It depends on what your local DNS has cached. Also, I’m finding that 1 out of 5 of their DNS servers is still responding from my location (not too far from Vancouver).
UIViewController containment like a pro
I feel like for years we've bastardized chef to execute like fabric, using littlechef, custom attribute smashers, and git. Now with ansible this a first class experience, very cool guys!
Xbox Live is down. Just posted on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/xbox/comments/1r6axx/anyone_else_not...

What a bad time for this to happen for Microsoft. It's almost too badly timed for it to be a coincidence, if I were an attacker with access to Microsoft's DNS' this would be the perfect time to launch an attack.
Another representation, with explanations of the steps in the connection: http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
CodePlex is down too?
(in AUS)
Maybe if Microsoft wasn't wasting its time trying to spread slurs about competitors, it could actually spend that time creating interesting software, building viable new products, and making sure it doesn't f*ck up its own DNS records. Or maybe someone's making that point for them ...
SERVFAIL doesn’t mean they dropped the records (that would be NXDOMAIN). It does mean their nameservers aren’t responding.
I enjoyed reading this, as a heavy Angular user & someone interested in trying out Ember sometime. Thanks!
People closed their doors? I work in a everyone-gets-an-office environment and basically all the doors remain open 24/7. It's basically an unspoken rule.

You only close the door if you're super focused and want absolute silence, if you need some privacy for whatever reason, or you are having a group-discussion/phone-call and don't want your voice to carry down the hall.
Great looking forward to this, as I believe this strategy of being able to hack directly on a shared code-base from a browser-based IDE will end up being the most productive environment, especially if it's integrated and can easily consume managed PAAS infrastructure services without the hassle of maintaining or trying to scale them yourself. Having an auto-updated IDE will also be a nice change.

I haven't been excited about web-based IDE's previously as all the ones I've tried have been clunky and slow, but it looks like this is being built with Dart so should offer better start-up and runtime performance given it will be running natively on the DartVM inside Chrome App.

Looking forward to the day that I'm able to login, hassle-free to any ChromeOS PC and have instant access to my working environment. Which will be useful if you ever want to upgrade your workstation, e.g. when it breaks down or a shiny new model comes out.
Back up already :)
> You were obviously qualified

Not so sure about that. I looked at parent's code submission. In particular, his game logic looks like this -
https://github.com/jyothepro/tictactoe/blob/master/TicTacToe...

This is unduly verbose & has newbie programmer written all over it.

Here, I just wrote up the same tictactoe over lunch in the repl - https://gist.github.com/krishnanraman/7591435

Without much thought into optimiziation, refactoring etc., its about 20 lines of actual code. Random TicTacToe is a very simple game. Even if you take that Scala & translate line by line into Objective-C, you shouldn't see an exponential explosion from 20 lines to 400+ lines for game logic alone.
Nodejitsu has been down for over 10 hours, again
Thanks for this comment. Double opt-in makes a lot more sense now. We’re definitely gonna stick with it.
Haven't used the web gui, so can't comment on it. The core open source ansible product is text-based. A few months ago, I migrated a provision and deploy system from a bundle of fabric and shell scripts to ansible. I'm happy with the results.

Some things are easier to do: builtin templating for things like config files is nice and all the modules I've used work as advertised. Some things are harder: reusing groups of similar tasks is kind of awkward but doable. The main advantage is that the ansible imposes a structure that is necessarily self-descriptive and that makes everything very readable. The docs are great and the learning curve is pretty linear so you can defer messing with advanced features until you need them (at that point you'll probably be happy they exist).
Scheduling Major League Baseball
Yep - http://mail.office365.com/ is down for me in New York.
I was unable to resolve any hostnames from my Azure machines from 4:20-4:40 Central time. I'm assuming this is all related.

This about sums up how I feel about Azure: http://i.imgur.com/ESakkWk.png
xbox dns set to msft.net

same for microsoft.com

ns1.msft.net doesn't return an address (no time to check the other 4 will I assume it is dns).
I feel like Winamp should be open sourced. There's enough enthusiasm here to guarantee a fairly healthy dev community. How does it compare with the default KDE/gnome players? Would it add anything of value to what is already out there?

(never used them since my linux boxen are all either networking or imaging focused, not desktop)
There are a million apps, and only 5 people that can 'win' the app store at any time. To say it's more difficult to rocket to the top is an inane and obvious observation. It has nothing to do with indie development, it's about the fact that there are 5 top spots for one million apps. By definition, 99.999995% aren't going to win, regardless of whether they are indie or not.
I like the speed of the search and most of the layout. It could really use some kind of Table of Contents for the current entry, though.

For more fanciful ideas, it would be neat if there was a way to add links to particular paragraphs or sections so you can link to any relevant blog posts or StackOverflow questions that explain the intricacies of something in more detail. Especially if it was easy for readers to add them in themselves.
Wow. Your screenshot is giant.
One feature that all these tools share is that they're console based. This is nice, but there's a reason we all use graphical environments for our daily computing -- rich graphical user interfaces are a powerful tool for visualising complex data. However, you don't have to adopt a full IDE to get a graphical UI. Bugjar (http://pybee.org/bugjar) is a graphical debugger -- not an IDE, just a debugger. It uses Tkinter, so it's cross platform, and can be installed using "pip install bugjar".

It's an early stage project, but hopefully demonstrates that there is a middle ground between "Everything in an 80x25 text window" and "500lb IDE gorilla".

(Full disclosure: I'm the core developer of Bugjar)
How come Samsung has lost all their software patent lawsuits against Apple in the US while they won in South Korea? Get real.
I find ignoring the JS component to work great for me - I override the UI Bootstrap templates and adapt it to work how I want.
thanks talles. note that you can debug from VS to Linux with NTVS. here's the debugging video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ir9ZB8lUg4
office365 uses the same nameservers. Your isp must have the addresses cached. We run our own dns and don't have it cached. So I can't get anything out of anything that uses msft.net nameservers (xbox.com, microsoft.com office365.com etc.)
As someone actively monitoring this all day long because we have recently deployed an Xbox launch site on Azure- it's been pretty much since first thing this AM on the west coast.
Nice, congrats!

I was one of the early experts on AirPair; it's been a good way to get a bit of contracting work on the side without having to promote myself. Jonathan and Maksim do a good job of matching up experts with clients. Best of luck, guys.
Fine, you are correct. I didn't think you were nitpicking my choice of words.

They should be worthless.
Looks bigger than this. It's ns*.msft.net.
Screenshot? I'm not seeing what you're seeing.
Dow ends above 16,000 for first time as stocks jump
Found the problem... just needed to reset The Internet.

http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009...
Giving it a shot. I think I tried it out when I first switched, and wrote it off for some reason or other... but it's probably worth re-visiting. :)
Cmd+shift+4 on a retina MBP. Not sure why it does that...
Definitely looks like a DNS problem

http://Microsoft.com is down, but
http://134.170.188.84 looks fine
Biggest thing I admired about these guys is their reluctance to code! Some startups spend months and years building elaborate codebases before anyone even uses them, these guys were doing everything by hand and making money before a single line was written. Really the right outlook on things.
Yeps, a lot of Microsoft services are down. I'm in europe and can't reach outlook.com, microsoft.com, windowsazure.com and probably a whole bunch of other services
FoundationMade Now Accepting Foundation 5 Themes
Common sense contradicts big bang theory.
MiniDLNA works extremely well on linux, and a quick Google search shows links for how to get it working (albeit hackily) on a Mac. It might be worthwhile to run a VM on your Mac with an easy linux distro like Ubuntu to run MiniDLNA.

I use it daily on an Arch Linux server as well as occasionally threw an Ubuntu VM on Windows 7. Works seamlessly in either case, and better than most other DLNA servers I've tried in terms of file format support and reliability.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/
Kresner is a talented guy, glad to see this blog post up!
hotmail.com which points to outlook is still working for me on OpenDNS
I think they just added the local mp3 sync feature to avoid having to use the horrid iTunes client for that. Agree it's a bit out of place, unless you are a very particular kind of user.
If there is enough noise that it turns into white noise then it seems to be okay. We found that at the bank I worked for in London. Massive open floors with rows of desks and it was fine.

Smaller offices where you can hear individual conversations and it becomes really distracting.
Well the ugly aspect is good, you wouldn't want Foundation to style your website out of the box, I don't think that's the point of these libraries.
Honestly, I don't see a point. Presumably, it originates from the belief that the the web is the future and that it will finally replace native platforms. I used to strongly believe in that too but now I don't think it will happen any time soon, if at all.

Currently there are two kinds of platforms: the web, initilly intended for documents and native platforms, designed primarily for apps. Both have different strengths. The web: no installation, hyperlinking, decentralization and openess, etc. Native plaftorms: window manager, speed, collaboration between apps, much richer API, centralization (enabling human interface guidelines for example), etc.

A third platform having the best of both worlds would be great but that's just my utopic dream :)
From a product management perspective: it adds complexity, and it adds other things for people to complain about your product.

People might complain that your car's top speed is 60mph, and that the acceleration is crap, and that is bad for your car and company's reputation.

It would be much worse if there was a switch a driver could flip that would double the speed and acceleration, but would soimetimes eject the windshield, exhaust pipe, and door handles.
The console is now up for me (noting only a storage degradation) but xbox.com is still reporting a DNS failure.
There's an option to show the unavailable songs in lists anyway, even if the song isn't playable for whichever licensing reason.
Angular yes, Ember perhaps not. I this wrote briefly on the subject recently: http://adambard.com/blog/angular-in-the-small/
Sounds like DNS caching, alright.
This probably explains an error we were getting on a Node.js app running on Azure websites. Simply creating a new AWS.S3 instance was throwing this:
Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND
at errnoException (dns.js:37:11)
at Object.onanswer [as oncomplete] (dns.js:124:16)
LG was also scanning shared folders on LAN. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/lg-smart-tv-snooping...

Smart machines like Washing machines, refrigerators, also need to be investigated. Is Samsung clean in this regards?
That's not correct - I surmise that's the ID of the post in the DB. For example: https://github.com/blog/1681-subscribe-to-github-s-explore-e...
Pinterest Introduces Place Pins
outlook.com is back up
One way to diagnose if a dns problem.

whois xbox.com

grab the nameservers from the whois.

In this case:

ns3.msft.net

ns4.msft.net

ns1.msft.net

ns2.msft.net

ns5.msft.net

On the command line:

nslookup

server ns1.msft.net (etc.)

xbox.com

www.xbox.com

msft.net

...etc.

In this case ns1.msft.net doesn't even answer consequently
you will not be able to get any addresses for the other domains.

If you query your local isp dns (or google at 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) it's
possible they have the addresses cached and will return something.

But if the dns isn't answering (per the whois) you have at
the very least a dns issue.

While I was typing this ns1.msft.net started to answer again...when
I started the "server ns1.msft.net" part failed.
Same issue as "Massive Microsoft Office365 Outage - Outlook.com DNS records have disappeared" @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778042
We do have a ToC view for everything we index, it's just not totally obvious how to get to it right now (from search, click on the header in the preview window -- those links go to the view you want). For example:

http://www.omniref.com/docs/ruby/stdlib/2.0.0-p247/classes/A...

That said, you're totally right about this needing to be more visible, and we'll have something better for this in the next day or so.

"it would be neat if there was a way to add links to particular paragraphs or sections so you can link to any relevant blog posts or StackOverflow questions that explain the intricacies of something in more detail. Especially if it was easy for readers to add them in themselves."

We've had multiple requests for comments, so that's definitely going on our short list of new features. Thanks for the feedback, and let us know if you think of anything else.
A Basic Rule of Chemistry Can Be Broken, Calculations Show
Zappos.com Gear Sh-t Product
related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778042
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778012
R.I.P. T1 bonding
wilsaj, have you looked at parametered roles yet? http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks_roles.html#roles

Curious on thoughts about what we could make easier.
Err... electronic active noise canceling headphones don't work on speech, only against simple droning noises. I'm talking about headphones that use thick pads of material and a strong seal around your ears to straight block sound.

You can just about hear people through them, whisper quiet. But if you are also wearing some in ears, then music, or white noise at a comfortable volume will eliminate it completely.

You want headphones that do like -30db noise attenuation.
Will negative caching of DNS records prevent a quick recovery? If so, for how long will the negative records be cached?
I believe LightTable uses monospace fonts.
> Once something functions as a mature currency, everything is priced against it, so it is no longer volatile.

The economy isn't nearly so simple. Pricing something in a currency doesn't automatically make the currency stable, a stable currency comes from the currency having enough liquidity to serve as a means of exchange for the wealth it's representing but not too much. Any sudden increase or decrease in that represented wealth will cause demand for the currency to either increase or decrease and a currency fixed in supply cannot increase/decrease supply to match the demand so it must necessarily inflation/deflate in value instead.

> As a side note, your comment is bizarre. There is no reason to think a fixed supply would lead to volatility.

It's not at all bizarre if you think about it, a fixed currency will always be volatile because the wealth it represents isn't fixed, markets grow and shrink and if the currency can't then a booming market automatically means currency deflation because that fixed amount of currency must now represent a larger amount of wealth creation. With a fixed currency, a boom in productivity and wealth creation will cause massive deflation in the currency.

I honestly don't know how anyone thinks a fixed amount of currency can possibly work when the wealth it's standing in for is not fixed. The market cycles up and down continually and the supply of currency, if prices are to be kept stable, must also.

You can't have stable prices with a fixed amount of currency, it's not logical. One of them will cycle to match the market's ups and downs. So either prices will be violate or the currency must allow inflation/deflation of the currency supply to keep prices stable.
"they’re Google’s way of pushing the limits of the Web as a platform."

Nope, they're Google's way of extinguishing non-Chrome browsers. Only Chrome/Chromium will be supported.
That's called vendor lock-in - regardless of being open source.
Hubris -> Atë! (not that any of you youngsters would understand that reference)
This is the only intelligent comparison I have seen of Ember & Angular (or actually of Angular with any other modern framework). Thanks!

I am wondering if the uniform access principle is mostly a dynamic language issue: you end up screwing up whether you need a parentheses invocation and you don't know until runtime. If you type everything with TypeScript then you know at compile time if you messed it up. Relatedly, Ember's get/set is more difficult to make strongly typed. In the TypeScript definitions I am looking at, property access is only typed as a string. One could define an enum for each object to be used in place of the string, but overall there is a price to pay with set/get since it isn't baked into the language (like Ruby).
> A law against buying sex (rather than selling)

Seriously? You buy into this kind of rhetoric? A law against buying something is a law against selling it too. That's just common sense.

The visible prostitution as you say, but it's just gone underground. Rape has also gone up. Even then, if it went away, this would mean it'd ruin perfectly fine and peaceful business between consenting adults... while granting the state the power to decide what you can or can't do with your body. How is that a victory. I wonder.

> In fact it seems to have worked so well that a similar law is proposed in France.

yeah, France is all over prohibition too and nany state. No surprise here.

> And you are surprised to hear this on HN why? Is this a libertarian haven of some kind?

As the article says, it's not a libertarian stance as in Germany green lefties support legal prostitution. It's a matter of freedom and not letting the state decide what you can do with your very own body. If you're fine with the state telling you what you can or can't do to your own body, good for you. But don't force it on others. That's just as bad as religious people forcing their opinion on others by law (prop 8, no Jews/atheists/women allowed in office etc).
Don't mean this as a dig, but if this is the definition of bootstrapping, isn't almost every YC company bootstrapped?
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> The commentator then asks Anand something along the lines of "did you think through all of these complications?"

The question was "did you try really to calculate [...]?" which is quite a bit different that "did you think through all of [...]?". The latter is implicitly asking if perhaps he was not successful at seeing through the variations (which is a reasonable question). The former is asking if he even tried, which is not a good question.

He had come out of the opening with a significant lead in time, and near the end he spent a very long time thinking, so much that he became behind on time. Of course he was calculating variations. It is quite reasonable for him to give a snippy answer to that question.
It's cross Google ;-) Croogle apps.
Knight's Tour game in 30 lines of Javascript
Ember yes.
#TBT Throwback Poetry Spoof from Throw'd TV
Exactly! As if it is hard for media to understand that they can use twitter in a fashion that's not so maniac about tweeting for everything and anything.
It's a case of need to grow vs. need to survive
Down in Melbourne
I’d be curious to hear how Datomic scales, ops wise and application wise. Is adding a “peer” all there is to do to handle more reads?