skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm happy to concede that the figures may be outdated

"Share your metrics or we are going to assume and publish your company as being today where it was many months ago" is pretty shady journalism.

>We gave you that opportunity yesterday

How generous of you.
You're right, Lyft's accident was much more minor. It's clear it was only in the news because of the connection to a car service. My point was basically just that hacker news these days always seems intent on painting Uber in the worst possible light, even when they issue a public statement that starts with condolences to the victim's family, but they don't seem to care about what happens with other car services. It seems only recently that everyone was in love with Uber, but I guess now it's the goliath that needs to be taken down?
Is it really that false, though? I agree it reeks of demagoguery, but it's still not that far from the truth. Where freedom refers to digital freedom, of course.
Down in VT.
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What are the proprietary compilers that LLVM enabled? Are they significant?

Stallman's claim about the practical difference between gcc and LLVM is interesting but I'd like to know more details.
lol its everywhere! Both GAFYD and gmail.com are down here in N. California. Anyone have real time satellite imagery of The Dalles in Oregon? :-)
I'm pretty sure they are aware that there's a problem
I'm also getting 503's from http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
Kansas City MO
My theory is that they will cave almost-last.
My OS X Mail.app got stuck since it cannot access Gmail at the moment. OK, using Mail.app with Gmail isn't the best idea as we probably all know … ;)
I am a reporter as the username suggests and quite open about it. Every comment you have posted defends Uber and not just on this issue but others as well. What's yours?

Having worked for a few years doing what I do, I have learned that people don't make up amusing names for unethical practices and share them in humorous conversations with acquaintances unless it's the company culture.

Having said that, you are right. Company culture doesn't ALWAYS come as a directive from the top, even though other comments by Uber's founder in the past point in that direction. So I have edited my comment.
Connecting with POP3 over telnet and authenticating gives the following message:
+OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will seem empty.
Your filter is not enabled.

The sites listed in the URL you mention are blocked by CleanFeed, the censorship mechanism developed to block child porn and repurposed by the courts for commercial protection. CleanFeed can't be disabled with a phone call to your ISP.
Yes there is. It's the most easy way to verify - see if the protein matches with the problem receptor. It's pretty much black or white if something binds to a receptor.

I think the perspective just needs to change. Maybe a little handheld "protein receptor match" kit that you plug your numbers into, and it will "make" your particle to try to match in a small lab kit that is portable.
Cool. Good job on genius scan.
Replaced playing arts + crafts with 43 expense receipts then fedexing every week!
The same as debit: interchange plus 0.04%+$0.10. Even though I sell mostly B2B, Visa debit cards make up over 25% of my transactions, all at 0.05% interchange. Interchange on CNP credit ranges from 1.6% to 2.8%, but most cards are closer to the low end.

There are no extra fees for Amex/Discover, and "unqualified transactions" (which is nothing but commercial purchasing cards sent to the gateway without line-item info) are <5% of volume over the past 12 months.

The MAP charges $15/mo in fixed monthly fees, which includes paying for a 3rd-party for PCIDSS compliance (the SAQ and quarterly scans). The payment gateway costs an extra $20/month I think. Regardless, the savings on transaction fees pays for them immediately.
Well, of course. But it's still amusing.
You forget that in relativity, the frame of reference is everything.

In your frame of reference, you never pass through the event horizon. As you get closer, the event horizon seems to recede. A false event horizon seems to arise around and behind you. You will eventually reach the center, in a finite time - in your frame of reference.

Of course, in my frame of reference, something very different happens. As you approach what I think is the event horizon, you slow down more, and more, and more, until you get frozen forever in molasses of space-time.
You might think a laptop is harmless inside, but it actually contains 500-700 volts to power the LCD backlight. I learned while trying to fix my display - fortunately I found it out by reading, not by getting shocked. Unlike when I stuck my finger across the flash capacitor in a camera - yow! The point is, even harmless-seeming battery powered things can have surprisingly high voltages inside, so be careful.
That page appears to be down as well. I guess everyone is checking it at the same time. :)
down in montreal
Oh? So it sounds like Uber is doing something similar to what I proposed then. That's good.
Hopefully they get it fixed soon! But I wouldn't mind if Plus never came back..
down for me. NY, NY
If it's actually a widespread outage, is this a configuration problem for some anti-snooping changes that Google is making?

I don't think they've ever had a worldwide outage like this.
Yes, it is a difficult problem. At least if you want to have enough of a track record of reliability that within a couple minutes of going down you've hit the top slot on Hacker News.
Down: Chicago, IL
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7116764
> Ahh yes, I see your point, it comes down to what cake you think will grow faster in terms of what you will buy into.

Yup, I agree with you there. The problem is that there's nothing inherently different about Dogecoin that ensures a faster growth rate than Bitcoin. Bitcoin also has a subreddit, and I would argue a more mature community, even though it may not be the new hotness.

What is different about Dogecoin, it's faster block confirmation, it's faster difficulty retargeting, and it's larger reward payout, actually make it inherently less secure than Bitcoin (Litecoin shares these traits, to a lesser degree). The reason it's seeing faster growth compared to Bitcoin at the moment is that mining is still somewhat reasonable with regular hardware, but this will change fairly soon and slow it's growth rate as miners jump on the next currency that offers faster payouts.

So why not build your social network for tipping around Bitcoin? Personally I'd prefer a Bitcoin tip of 0.002 rather than 1000 Dogecoin.
You're to blame. Please don't be uploading files while the rest of us are emailing.
Well said. I'm glad Dogecoin injects some long needed humor into the tiresome earnestness of the BTC discussion.
I quipped "Today must be my last day"...
As someone who struggles in general with javascript this is phenomenal and makes me feel like a programming goof. Good job.
Every once in a while, RMS makes a statement that doesn't require translation to avoid seeming ridiculous:

"When any program fosters non-free software, that works directly against the overall goal.

"Copyleft is our method of making sure that our free software does not generate nonfree competitors which consist of our code plus something else that is off limits to us."

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00208.html
See the Gmail Down Error
Well, that just cuts it down from 2 numbers to 1, and it assumes that the caller ID hasn't been futzed with. Certainly plausible, just perhaps slightly less reliable.
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Down for me in NYC
Why is there no alternative webmail of the
caliber of gmail? Is it a difficult problem?

Are you serious?
#6 is super important. It's absolutely crazy that many companies won't tell you this.

#7 is a good question, but don't expect a tangible answer -- unless they just closed a round yesterday, it's truly impossible to say. That said, it's still a great question to ask to see how they value themselves, and what they feel potential acquirers or the public market would value them at.

#9 - I think that's a good question, though might be more diplomatically phrased. ;) (That said, be aware that "market rate" is extremely hard to pin down: for the same reasons you should expect an ambiguous answer to #7, your own "market rate" is similarly ambiguous.)

#10 - Agreed. I target 50, personally.
Well I haven't disabled any filters, haven't been asked about filters and I'm a new customer as of last week.
Then they'd have a flood of new users.

There are a handful of alternatives each with their own pros and cons but the key problem is lock in, psychological or technological.

Even if Gmail were down for an hour every day, I'd have to think and work hard to migrate away due to (over)-relying on their service and some of the unique features it has.
Google+ is down, too
Occasionally download a complete backup from
https://www.google.com/settings/datatools
to your harddrive.
There are many alternatives of the caliber. Fastmail for example. Probably the problem is that you are expecting an alternative that is exactly like Gmail but if that's the way you judge alternatives you will never find one you accept.
YouTube comments and Google+ as well.
Elaborate, maybe?
FSF is deontological and the "open source" movement, consequentialist. My personal ethics lean former, but I just can't quit my unethical Macintosh.
Your statement " So every time you switch companies, you're starting the clock over again." is incorrect. After your i-140 is cleared and you have received your priority date you can port your i-140 and retain your priority date. Your clock doesn't reset per se.
yep saw 500 ran a search on HN
And sometimes developers choose a permissive licence when they would have preferred a copyleft style licence had they realised the implications, same deal.

Now LGPL and Go's static linking can simply be about not grasping that Go statically links libraries into the final executable, as it's hardly the norm outside of Go.
Obligatory link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

"The Scunthorpe problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails, forum posts or search results because their text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word. While computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, broad blocking rules may result in false positives, causing innocent phrases to be blocked."
Can confirm, G+ too for what it's worth.
Whenever I'm looking for real time information, the first thing I do is type search.twitter.com into chrome, hit tab to autocomplete into a search command, and search some keywords. Highly recommended! Also works if you're curious if an earthquake just occurred in your general area.
Down for me (região da Paulista).
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Is the Google App status dashboard manual?
My coming to HN wasn't to see about Gmail, but because I couldn't waste time reading email at the moment.
> Stallman wants you to use Free software because it's free-as-in-ideology, not because it necessarily works well or does what you want.

Though, the point is, you can make free software work the way you want or work better. You're _allowed_ to. That isn't necessarily the case with other software; that is the point of free software.
Vancouver, BC also down
I'm also having this problem. Odd.
down in Nepal here
The free public beta is now over. ;)
Good for you. Since you're doing this, and according to yid, Uber is also doing something similar, I'm even more surprised that Gett is not only exposing real phone #'s, but doing so without even requiring a phone call to be placed.
Even the ad-clause license is free, it's just GPL incompatible.
I really like that. It makes the internet feel more like a community; reminds me of old slashdot days.
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If LLVM is so bad why are the people who make it so much easier to work with? You shall know a tree by it's fruits. It wouldn't bother me one way or another whether LLVM was copyleft or not, the people who run it are more pleasant to work with.

I think the biggest hurdle to people caring about copyleft is the sheer tonnage of disrespect people like RMS show to others. Nobody wants to work with a curmudgeon.
Cool, but I need separate object and direct selection arrows like Illustrator. And rulers and draggable guides and a square grid.
`Last updated: January 24, 2014 2:01:15 PM UTC-5`
Not true. Google employees are finding it much harder to share pictures with each other.
Down in Houston; using Apps for Business
Does intent matter all that much when seeking damages like this? The damages happened, and Uber admitted to being the cause of the damages. If the law weren't some complex beast (and we know it really is, so this could be false), all Gett would have to do is prove damages, and prove that Uber did it, and that'd be that.
I've heard terrific things about fastmail.fm's web client. Many people say it's faster and has most of Gmail's cherished features.

Edit: plus, no Google-snooping of course.
Very. Multiple updates, public contact addresses, good reviews.
> When I finally realized that the FSF is really about being a social movement and that creating useful software is a non-primary goal (or maybe even a non-goal)

I think that, to a large extent, creating useful software, inasmuch as it is a pursuit of the FSF, isn't an independent goal so much as a mechanism for acheiving the goal of obstructing the development and spread of non-Free software.
Your whole account or just the email part? If you have a real email client, you could rescue your email from it even if your account is toast. If just the webmail part goes down permanently, you can download your mailbox from https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
This is the NCSA/University of Illinois license. GNU classifies it as a free license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NCSA
We didn't write "stripe's metrics today are X." We wrote, "Stripe's metrics 6 months ago, when they were in fundraising and M&A talks were X...during the same period its competitors metrics were Y, Z." Seems fair and accurate.

Stripe doesn't need to share data if it doesn't want, but then criticizing us for being inaccurate is a bit ridiculous.

Also, it's not our job to tell Stripe's (or any company's) story as they want it told. It's to report on the ecosystem. Its better for the ecosystem – investors, competitors, customers, etc. – if they share transparent numbers.
So, when scientist take the time to point out why creationism is wrong it means that they believe creationism is correct? I call bullshit on you.
Revised statement: "I wonder if Google processes the twitter feed looking for keywords to assist in monitoring their most-used services"
Forget about Gmail. The Mavericks Invitational is on. Watch it live now: http://live.redbull.tv/events/374/mavericks-invitational-201...
Yeah ... it's always my fault!

The percent-complete gauge on my upload went up to 20%, then back to 0% ... maybe I'm just backwards?
No, they make it extremely clear that the numbers are old in the article, and then give a pretty generous extrapolated figure.
How to get you first users
Re: 9, totally agree on phrasing a little more diplomatically ;)

But even with the ambiguity, I expect the answers would still be enlightening.
Downrightnow is down right now
>You can actually "mine" paper dollars as well: it's called counterfeiting.

The counterpart to mining coins would be to invest dollars and "mine" interests.
Of all things, this happens as Google's Site Reliability Engineering team starts an AMA on Reddit[1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w1y5m/we_are_the_goog...
Didn't you use to work for Apple though in a past life jarjar? :-)

You are entirely correct though. I would still love to be able to reply and do customer support in the comments and reviews like Google Play. Star rating need to go though.
To a certain extent yes, but it was designed to be operated by the Air Force and Marines. Had they maybe split the variants up they could have avoided some of the design compromises that created some of the problems they had.

Still, the V-22 was a vastly more successful program than the JSF will be. At the very least the military got an aircraft that can perform missions no other aircraft can, thereby giving the services capabilities they've never had before. I don't think that will be the case for the JSF when it is all said and done.

edit: Made a mistake, Navy doesn't have V-22's yet
Mind if I ask what is your recent total rate for Credit Cards (interchange plus 0.04%+$0.10.)?

You must being doing a ton of volume to get this rate.
Bonus points if they use the shell theme from Tron: Legacy.
Same here. The GMail status page seems at variance with the actual status.

Manhattan, New York. Verizon DSL.
I was surprised, Hangout chat self declares "Gmail is down".

Usually you would expect "not reachable" or something similar. It is like server is returning error msg to client that service is down.
I'm guessing whoever was responsible for that decision was either a hardcore FORTRAN or MATLAB user, since both of those have 1-based indices. Or by a similar token, they could have chosen that because they expect that many of their users might be coming from either of those languages. I guess you'd get used to it, but I agree it's a big drawback.
I am surprised he isn't railing against all the folks selling GCC for extortionate rates to the embedded community. IAR, KEIL, others, $3,000 - $6,000 for a "development tool" which is 99% gcc and 1% some startup code the vendor wrote. Nice margins I guess.
St. Louis is great. I wouldn't live there. It's very similar, at least in my experience, to my hometown of Memphis. The Italian food is obviously better, but we have barbecue. :)

America has a lot of great cities. They all don't have the technical talent level that San Francisco has, but good culture is not monopolized in San Francisco.
The dashboard is probably manually updated.
"Code rots. It should always run somewhere."

Words of wisdom.
This article is awful.

One of its inaccuracies:

>Young founders in their early 20s take on the online payments sector with nothing more than a YC pedigree to their name.

Patrick actually co-founded Auctomatic in the beginning of 2007. It sold about a year later for $5 million.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/auctomatic

http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/26/communicate-acquires-y-comb...
I remember the last time something like this happened - 4 years ago it was down for almost a day.

Impressive that it's almost always up without serious flaws (for me at least)!
Even the Gmail Blog is Down
Down: Bowling Green, OH
I took off my headphones and asked the office: "anyone else having gmail issues?"

Everyone burst into laughter. They had been talking about it for minutes.
Do you seriously think upvotes on HN have any impact on Google's motivation to get Gmail back up?
Wow! You make 30k/day? At this difficulty? You must have some serious hardware there, don't be sad. (mining around 1k/day with a HD 6950)
Down in Austin, TX.

Edit: Personal @gmail, and also Apps for Business.
They claim they paid cancellation fees. Gett claims the charges are pending. At this point it would be stupid of them to not let those charges through though.
Gmail is Down - Error 93
Gmail for your domain (Google Apps for domains, or whatever it's called) is down as well.
If you're someone who doesn't know what they're doing, then this wouldn't seem quite obvious, would it?
So this post is probably not meant for you, but rather for people that are not as experienced in SQL.

This logic seems quite obvious...
One benefit of removing regulations is that we get to relearn why we needed them in the first place.
I think your pessimism is spot on for most companies. But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with how great companies handle those questions.
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I'm in Sierra Vista, AZ and I'm getting same error on all gmail accounts right now.

Temporary Error (500)

We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the Apps Status Dashboard for the current status of the service.

Hide Detailed Technical Info
Numeric Code: 93
Down: North West, USA.
Many authors do naively choose GPL, and many do not. It depends on the author's goal. If their goal is for as many people as possible to use their code then GPL is not the best choice. If the author places higher priority on the Stallman definition of free software then GPL is a great choice. Sometimes authors with the first goal pick GPL because they don't know any better.
So wealthy Ð 1,000,000 :)
To the moon
Gandhinagar, India (error code:93)
Down in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Obviously you've never read RMS, because "open source" is one of the things he vehemently fights against.
also down in Madison Wi, at 1:18pm Friday (CST)
"Branding" or "narrative" as a differentiating factor for altcoins. Reminds me of Marscoin (similar to Litecoin) which competes on the meme of implications for the future of cryptocurrencies on a planetary scale.
It is still paid for. As if you paid for an all inclusive meal at an establishment and received 'free' beer as part of the meal. Just because its not on an itemized list doesn't mean it is free.
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1390604399...
Why GitHub's new CEO ditched its devisive 'meritocracy' rug
It depends on who your end users are. They are not necessarily strictly consumers of software -- in fact, RMS' history clearly points to a concern for the rights of the interactive web of hackers circa the early 1970s. It is open for debate as to how relevant this focus is in today's very different looking software environment.
Hmm. Is there a particular repeated source of breakage? I only use MELPA, and apart from the recent nrepl->cider migration (which was intentionally piloted on MELPA) I've not had any instances where my work was hindered by package issues. And as a maintainer, I update my packages daily.
Happy that the gmail team is having this much success with their product! Don't let the haters get to you, it's inevitable to have some downtime for a product that has gotten so many users. Hoping you guys are back up soon, since our startup has really come to rely on your services. Keep up the good work!
For most purposes, the risk of a double spend is negligible, and it's perfectly safe to accept an unconfirmed transaction.

However, there are still those purposes for which that's not a good idea...
A better question is, why isn't there an open source webmail service like gmail that can be run on a server you control? My lab uses Gmail for business, and the outage took us down too.

I just want to be able to run an email server that has conversation features, contacts, XMPP chat, etc, but isn't Microsoft Exchange
I agree, there is no alternative, there are only other mail services, especially if you use not only Gmail but also Calendar and Contacts.
This thread has now become the most reliable way to send a message to my coworkers. Andrew, please push those changes to production, kthx.
also down in Madison wi at 1:18pm Friday (CST)