skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could try a cognitive argument; beyond a certain number of hours/day, productivity/day starts to dive because you make more mistakes when you're tired and work at a slower pace overall. Failing that, try encouraging him to visit a therapist/psychiatrist. Maybe you could look into whether your company's health plan covers that sort of thing, often they do.

I feel your frustration. It's not really your problem, and it's irresponsible of his manager to let him wear himself down this way. His 'OCD' tendencies might well be an asset in the right context, like doing code review or QA or something instead of building code that's possibly meant to have a relatively short operating life.
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On the last point (edit), absolutely when you consider that the 'drug war' and cannabis prohibition are basically a for-profit collusion between many corporate entities and government which result in significant harm to the populace.
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Hello guys,

I'm starting my freelance path, but I have some problems. I can't get my name out to the people seeking freelancers.

I updated my portfolio, added my recent work, wrote case studies etc. I am active on Dribbble, but I just can't get good clients.

How did you started freelancing? What do you recommend me?
He's given what is in my opinion a very reasonable work load. I say that because I have the same job and work on the same sorts of projects.
We use it at Life360, formerly on RabbitMQ. No real issues.
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Wouldn't this be considered academic fraud? His coworker turning in code that he didn't write?
Hey John, I ran into some similar issues as the parent w/ line breaks (and w/ the local/remote publishing stuff in general). I posted a couple of comments on the Desk.pm feedback forum and am compiling some notes as I poke around.

I have maximal sympathy for the challenges you face and I think that the concept of focused-editing with seamless publishing is fantastic, especially since no one else has done it, and I'm willing to wait for some updates to see where it goes, but I wonder if there should be some better visibility on the apps current caveats.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

It's not just you! http://facebook.com looks down from here.
https://facebook.com is down for me (USA)
No one has anything else to do tonight, I guess.
It doesn't help to link to the website when it is already down.
I think this is relevant. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114547

As opposed to some other commentator, I don't think the shut-ins are actually content with being isolated. It's more like a trap that you fell into and don't know how to climb out of. If society don't try to help them, (some of) them may fell down even further, to the point of suicide.
Instagram too, apparently. Are they sharing crucial infrastructure?
Instagram as well
I'm not the parent, and I haven't had 8 in one year, but I've had a few, and my colds always come with congestion...

I use the hell out of neti pots/sinus rinses, steam inhalation (like a cup of tea - which, drinking lots of fluids also helps), and pseudoephedrine.
Yup. Down.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com
Welp...that escalated quickly.
yes. the fact that it feels so weird is testimony to their server eng team
awful secret of enterprise software. or maybe it's not so much a secret, I don't know.
Even the fbcdn / akamai part seems to be down (an error occured while processing your request) ... funny
> What is secret about a moat, electrified fence or a stated policy of mutual assured destruction?

Normal people don't have a moat.

A major reason that e.g. home invasions are risky (and thus are deterred) is that the criminal doesn't know when the mark or the neighbors will be away from home, what security may be in place or whether there is anything worth stealing. If you put that information on the internet for anyone then every time you come home from work all your electronics will be missing.

Replacing that "security through obscurity" with actual physical security is not something most people can afford.
yes - Sydney, 5:59pm
According to Twitter, Facebook falling in the dead of night does in fact make (about a few million) sounds.
The article is drastically underestimating how far Superman can hit a baseball.

The trick is to not swing the bat like a human. Instead, Superman should hold the bat orthogonal to the pitcher and have the ball make contact with the bat as soon as possible. Then, using his skill and reflexes, he can gradually decelerate the ball towards the back arc of his modified swing. All the while holding the bat orthogonal to the pitcher. He is essentially catching the ball with the bat, which you can with super speed and reflexes.

He then will "swing" the bat forward, now smoothly imparting the maximum force both the ball and bat can deliver. Still keeping it orthogonal to the pitcher.

Basically, because the contact time is longer, more delta-v can be applied to the ball. With a smooth enough increase in the loading, it may be possible to exceed the conventional burst strength of the baseball.
And what if it turned out that the State Dept. was helping to bankroll this? It would be consistent with things the US has been caught doing in Cuba just in the last few years.

Would this change our opinion of it?
I would also like to see a queue system with better guarantees. We've been running RabbitMQ for a couple of years and are fed up with its lack of safety in the face of minor cluster failures.

I don't know about NSQ — it looks nice, but the lack of true persistence and ordering means it's not something I can use. For example, lack of ordering means you can't use it as an event bus for document-oriented changes.

I know it's not a popular sentiment these days, but I prefer to err on the side of correctness. I have had enough of systems that are supposedly SPOF-free but still fail for mysterious reasons and are nigh-impossible to debug once they do (ElasticSearch, ugh).

RabbitMQ's lack of transparency means it's harder to work with the contents of a queue. For example, if the queue processing has stalled for some mysterious reason, what's clogging it? With RabbitMQ, the only way to peek into a queue is to actually pop messages from it (using a tool such as rabbitmqadmin or amqp-dequeue).

Another problem with RabbitMQ is that messages go away after being acknowledged. I, for one, would like to see a bit of history. Sure, you can build this into individual apps, but it turns out this kind of history is beneficial for many kinds of apps. There's DLX, but you can't (afaik) set up rules to automatically copy acked messages into a history queue.

I can't say I like AMQP. Binary protocol, requires several layers of client tooling to work with. If anything goes weird, strace or tcpdump are of no use. It's also a very complex protocol whose interpretation and matrix of support features seems to change a lot.

I'm currently writing a small job manager in Go that's backed by PostgreSQL (at least initially) because I want something safer, more stable and more transparent. It's based on my realization that jobs are different from events, and should be treated differently.

For example, RabbitMQ has no conception of scheduling or prioritization, and messages are ephemeral objects that go away once they've been acknowledged, as opposed to jobs, which have a life before, during and after processing.

So far, it looks pretty good. Postgres can't process a bazillion messages per second, and it's not going to work for "big data", but it seems to scale decently enough.
Yep, it's down here in SE Asia too
It really is. Facebook is far from bug-free, but I'm a near-constant user and this is the first time in a long time that I can recall it going down completely. I'll be really surprised if it lasts more than an hour, at most.
yep, even ping fails.
even though historically it use to work. https://bitneer/facebook.com/ping/
OCD is very treatable with a combination of drugs and cognitive-behavioral therapy (specifically, exposure and response prevention). There are no other types of treatment that are known to be effective, and drugs are rarely effective long-term on their own. Note that this treatment would force him to decrease his work hours.

If he has self-diagnosed OCD and expressed it to you, you need to encourage him to get into treatment. It may be more comfortable for him to start with group therapy. You should encourage him to tell his family and seek their support.

Helping someone else through their mental illness is incredibly difficult, frustrating, time-consuming, and emotionally draining (depending on how cooperative they are). I know from personal experience. You should do some research to make sure you're giving appropriate advice and to understand what even a minimal amount of support would mean for you.

This is something you should discuss with an expert, ideally a local lawyer, but it's possible that your manager would be unable to immediately fire him without giving him the option to seek treatment first. I'm not suggesting that you tell your manager, only that you know the consequences of doing so.
Akamai, the CDN used by Facebook went down before Facebook for me this morning: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/akamaihd.net
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zueam1oq3sdzv36/Screenshot%202015-...
DOWN for me too.
Yes, it's also down in SE Asia
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Here is a site that connects entrepreneurs looking for a variety of freelance projects with top notch developers. Heard about this recently, but it seems like a great way to start off before beginning to freelance independently (if that is what you are interested in): https://gun.io/
I have been trained well by now. Every time I see stuff like "try Pond" or click and use this tool. I am thinking -- I will be bumped up on the black list somewhere. I guess it is called thought self-censorship...
Instagram down for you?
Is Instagram also not working, just like Facebook?
What about something like product management? Your technical knowledge could be an asset since you'd be able to communicate with developers in their own language.
It's down for me as well (11:50 AM IST) in Mumbai, India.
I restarted my modem and router two times before I realized that the network was fine and that it was just Facebook that was down. Props to their ops team for uptime that is so reliable.
This post might as well be a poll...
Let's have a quick survey:

1. Are you currently using WebRTC in any projects?

2. Are you planning on using WebRTC in the future?

3. Do you think that WebRTC should be enabled by default in browsers?
where's .com? ;-)
wonder if this has to do with the storm near IAD?
It is down for me too.
How much revenue are they losing every second?
what's facebook?
I see, I often make that mistake actually of ignoring the context of a response relative to the parent, perhaps a fallacy itself!

I just get spooked by those comparisons. I think I agree with you in the end that ultimately we the relative good guys and it's important to keep that in mind. In Fact it's our role as the relative good guys that makes it so damn important to make sure we exercise our rights to free speech and political freedom to make sure we stay the good guys.
I'm assuming that by "OCD tendencies", you do not mean a literal, clinical case of OCD. However, I think OP is describing OCD, the illness, not run-of-the-mill conscientiousness.

Despite the way it seems, OCD is not a rational illness, nor does it make you "better" at anything. It's purely emotional, and you can't reason with it. The sufferer feels a huge amount of fear/anxiety related to issues that seem insignificant to a typical person, and they can't choose which issues they are.

In fact, telling him that he makes more mistakes when he's more tired may give him greater anxiety, which would feed the vicious cycle of "doing more work to make sure I didn't screw up" that's going on in his mind.
I wonder how far Superman could throw a baseball instead under the same restrictions. Should be a fair bit longer I guess.
$7.87 billion in 2013 / 365 days / 24 hours / 60 minutes / 60 seconds is about $250 a second.

Edit: using more up to date data:

$3,300,000,000 in the 3rd quarter of 2014 / (365/4) / 24 / 60 / 60 = $418.58
One of the worst things at my previous job was when the designers forced pixelapse onto developers' workflow. It was so clumsy and there just wasn't any benefit over Google Drive.
It's tough too because social pressures and norms are much stricter in Japan than elsewhere. This contributes to both the stings of social alienation, and the unwillingness of parents to kick their kids out of the nest.
Let's all have a moment of contemplation & relaxation on behalf of those poor souls on-call...
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I haven't seen Facebook go down in years. I wonder if this is going to be a big deal.
There's a shorter link

http://isup.me/facebook.com
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Yep. Down for me in Queensland, Australia as well (Facebook and Instagram). It is situations like this that give people a much needed break from social media (myself included). You don't realise just how much of a stranglehold (some more than others) that it has over you until you can't actually use it. Downtime for a site as big as Facebook is rare, but it happens, especially when your infrastructure isn't solely controlled by you (content distribution networks come to mind).
I think we'll see more cases like this, but also we'll see technology providing people with new ways of functioning.

I think a lot of it is about inertia and always choosing the easier path. If your parents enable you to live without having to work, for a lot of people the ease overrides the benefits of work (independence, sense of worth, etc).

Down the track, more and more socialising will be digital, more shopping will be online and so on. Some people will exist publicly only as avatars bearing little resemblance to their physical selves.
yes (Central Europe)
Seems to be effecting Instagram as well. I assume they both use Akamai then.

Was using both when they became unresponsive, resetting routers all over the shop.
Depends on what kind of work you're looking for, but most potential clients aren't checking out Dribbble. Get out into your community and make connections with people. The more people who know what you do and you know what they need, the more likely a connection will be made.
Yep down for me too from Serbia.
Something to do with the blizzard?
Charge your battery!
Looks like they share some infrastructure with facebook. Whatsap web and app works though :)
Traffic sent from HN is but a drop in a bucket the size of a dump truck for facebook.
that's 1% and growing, 10% and shrinking.
Ha... Ha... Someone smoked DNS... A breach or DNS poisoning attack.

Seans-MacBook-Pro:whois facebook.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

FACEBOOK.COM.DISABLE.YOUR.TIMELINE.NOW.WITH.THE.ORIGINAL.TIMELINE-REMOVE.NET
FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM
FACEBOOK.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
FACEBOOK.COM
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It's interesting to see how Facebook downtime has a huge effect on Internet traffic – there's a Guardian report where they share their referral data while Facebook was down for 31 minutes (the longest outage in 4 years):

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/19/facebook-u...
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Instagram runs their systems on the facebook network now... They transitioned from Amazon Web services sometime ago.
Display content based on the distance of the user from the device
Unfortunately, plugging a USB drive from an untrusted source into your computer is a really risky thing to do. See, for example, this discussion of the kinds of nasty malware that can be spread by USB devices:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8400796
Yeah, even in-memory processes can be sped up by compression/decompression. When you're not running entirely in cache, which many old games can be done.

Doom 1+2 (including all the data) can be entirely loaded into modern high end CPU cache.
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Looking through the customer list, most other sites seem to be working fine:

http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html

I wonder what makes FB and Instagram different?
Facebook, Instagram, and Hipchat are down
When we were doing the first major visual redesign of Google Search back in 2010, we made the top ads color this (IIRC it's called "Cosmic Latte" [1]) because Jon Wiley thought it'd be cool. It was changed soon after launch once the Ads folks started running A/B tests and making us more money, but for a while, everyone was looking at the average color of the universe every time they did a Google Search.

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I'm wondering how much revenue gets lost every minute that Facebook is down. It has to be in the tens of thousands.

Edit: someone wrote this below in the comments, which came to $400 per second of downtime. Ouch.
Even instagram seems down
Is there a way to see the product. It might help in getting you better responses.
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Facebook went down less than a year ago for a couple hours.
with malaisian airlines getting hacked its making me think what if the ISIS got it to facebook?
$1.5M an hour!!!

But considering this is not the peak time in North America, it's should be little less.
Ok, so position #1:

>"The right thing to do (long term) is to treat those feeding power back into the grid as commercial customers/producers, where they're compensated and charged based on current market rates. Anything else distorts the incentives significantly"

i.e. net metering.

Position #2, which contradicts position #1.

>There's no way power companies would agree to net metering in a free market

>my position is the exact opposite to what you're claiming,

Correct. Also the exact opposite of what you claimed elsewhere.

>with your rebuttal to a point I never made.

"There's no way power companies would agree to net metering in a free market" = a point you made.

If your point was actually that net metering should not be a vehicle to deliver subsidies... well, you probably should have been more clear about your point, and if so, should be discussed only in the context of other subsidies and tariffs (e.g. heavy coal and natgas subsidies).
I had a similar reaction, but it's very hard to know whether this tells us more about the subject or the writer. The way it's written, it makes him sound more worried about is own situation than the person he nearly killed riding at 100mph, but the writer or the editor might have decided that the details of how the accident was handled were too much of a digression from the main story. It's always a problem with heavily narratized journalism, which is more emotionally engaging but at the price of treating subsidiary characters in the story as mere props in the protagonist's story of medical-self-discovery.
It's down from here - Bay Area, California.
Makes sense. They share the same data centers. See: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/mig...
Restarting your modem is step 1 in troubleshooting internet connectivity problems when Facebook is down?
Probably not, since this isn't a case where my co worker can just copy paste my code and hope it works for two reasons. The first is I am not entirely sure their testing environment is using 64 bit linux, it could be 32 bit linux since I'm not in the class, I just assumed its 64bit so I could test it on my machine. The next reason is they don't actually have a Hello World assignment at all! The reason I wrote this article is so I could share something I learned, and my co worker (who has already completed the first half of the semester's assignments) could use this as a starting point for how to write his own version for an assignment.
The problem is this doesn't tally well with the overall user experience.

I don't want my hard drive being littered with files owned by not-me, because they don't work properly when I need to rsync things and I can't change their ownership easily etc.

What I want is a kind of "sub-user": where I have sudo like powers over files owned by my user account by default, which are then dropped for individual commands - or something similar.

Which comes back to my original point: we've lots of mechanisms, but none of them actually wrap-well or seamlessly with how you actually work which makes them too much of a pain to use for the 99% of the time when everything is fine.
yes, @korea
Yeah, my first thought on finishing the article was "Gosh that's nice for you, but I'd like to know what happened to the old lady you maimed while driving like a fucking maniac."
yes @korea
Bet it has something to do with this damn snowstorm. I want this season to be over with!
1. No / 2. No / 3. Yes, with explicit permission and warnings every time.
It was specifically fbstatic-b-a.akamaihd.net which was also not responsive, preventing css & js to load rendering a completely broken page on my browser.
South African here - Down for me too.
GitHub's a good start but PRs have some non-trivial limitations when it comes to reviewing code efficiently. Tools are springing up to help devs work around the problems without abandoning GitHub. You can take a look at GitColony, Sourcegraph, Review Ninja, and Reviewable (disclosure: this one's mine).
down in Norway
But http://aws.amazon.com/ and http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ seem to be up so some devops work needs to be done here!
Here in Brazil is Down,Facebook, Tinder, Instagram, AIM and HipChat suffer decline worldwide! D:
here in Brazil, Facebook, Tinder, Instagram, AIM and HipChat suffer decline worldwide! D:
Yes (from India)
http://check-host.net/check-http?host=facebook.com
It wasn't stated that that was the first thing he tried.
I've experienced router/modem issues where only certain sites were inaccessible until one or both pieces of equipment were restarted. I'd be interested in knowing exactly what happens to a router's software to make that happen.
And with it millions of widgets and like buttons suddenly vanish from their webpages. Good riddance I say!
Its down in India
Seems like the experience is pretty similar with a lot of these disorders. I have an autonomic nervous system problem that overlaps significantly with "chronic fatigue," and I've seen a lot of patients go through similar "why can't you just..?" discussions with family and friends. I've also had similar experiences to what you describe with your school situation, but also with employers. It's a special kind of stressful when your livelihood is on the line and your employer won't take your issues seriously, and you have to struggle to medically validate your circumstances when you can't find a doctor who understands it either.

For most people with poorly understood issues like these, getting an actual diagnosis is like an emotional and social breakthrough - complete validation that something's really wrong.
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ISIS hacked into facebook network ?