skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's investment was too small to save Apple at that time, their revenue and losses were in the billions. The $150 million was symbolic, the more important thing was their commitment to the platform.

This article says that the investment was actually a result of a legal settlement.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-micr...
Lizard squad associated account just tweeted this
https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/559963134006292481
I feel strangely free.

Perhaps this is a sign that I should go back to blocking myself from Facebook with StayFocusd.

Kind of sad that I needed this kick in the backside, but I'll take this as an opportunity to reclaim empty calories and wasted time.
Quick, Google+ Engineers: take it down too! You don't want to fall behind.
Very unlikely. The attack on Malaysia Airlines was a hijacking of the DNS, not an actual hack on the website. Plus with the reosurces fb dedicates to security, they have a much better chance of finding 0days than some terrorists.
There is no dead of the night on a platform with users all over the world. Maybe when it's midday over the pacific, but not even then.
It's about quality, not quantity.

http://wheresitup.com/results/54c732d88c3dcf8416232c91
:bufdo :GoodOne!!!111
are you joking or do you actually have any basis for this suspicion?
Yes[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework
Obviously anyone can "take credit" for things like this, but if this[1] is true, then jesus.

Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations.
Releng 2014 - Keynote 1: Chuck Rossi, Release Engineering, Facebook Inc. | Talks at Google [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/lizardmafia/status/559963134006292481
[2] http://youtu.be/Nffzkkdq7GM?t=4m39s
It's almost like he mentioned it because he realized it was silly after the fact and wanted to share that bit of mirth with us.
They can't improvise. Improvisation is an innate quality which they lack. Likewise for the music creating program. There were such programs 30 years ago so Kurzweil's is nothing new. The music program can't judge the quality of the resulting piece.
Nanog is asleep, but Ausnog might shed some light on it:
http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2015-January/029463...
Is the API down as well? I imagine thousands of websites and apps rely on Facebook being up.
I didn't say it wasn't useful. It is. But it's checking essentially a sequential property: a sequential actor is using a channel in a consistent way. What e.g. the session type community is aiming at are properties of concurrent computation, such as linear channel usage which depends on the behaviour of multiple processes.
Yea, it could be Lizard Squad. https://twitter.com/LizardMafia. Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM, Hipchat #offline #LizardSquad
Instagram is down as well!
> The justification for having them doesn't really apply to self-driving cars anyway.

You seriously believe that? You think the government makes common sense decisions? So ok, no more plates. How long until we hear about them logging the serial numbers broadcast by our tire pressure sensors? Or what about the unique magnetic signature of our vehicles detectable by all the loops already embedded in the road? If the government has the technical ability to do something that will expand power and responsibility, it will do it. It has been demonstrated time and time again.

> ... as long as we're not prohibited from defending against that spying we haven't lost.

Yeah we'll see. Tampering with NIST, clipper chips, export controls. This is not sustainable, people will eventually tire. Also, the argument sounds very similar to what was said about TSA security theater: "No, we aren't impeding your freedom of movement - you can take the bus!" Guess what, the TSA is at the bus station now. "No, we aren't violating your fourth amendment rights - if you want to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures than you can use encryption!" Guess what happens next. It is a bullshit argument - I shouldn't have to run myself ragged.

> Your argument seems to be that you can't effectively prohibit something that technology makes practical.

No, my point is that you can't prevent something technically practical while the government operates in secret, enjoying a monopoly on information. That is why warrantless home searches aren't extremely common, because it would be impossible to do in secret - old papers have very little to do with it.
Yeah but I wonder if actually more people will net log in because everyone is talking about it being down.
Yes, can't use log-in with Facebook.
Over the last fifteen years, when ever I have experienced intermittent Web access, I try www.cisco.com.

It has never been down. Ever.
Supercool Smart Watches
Would be fascinated to see them take on big G.

E: not that I support these guys in any way. Just curious what would happen -- and whether we might all learn something about DDoS mitigation from such an event.
Gmail is 502'ing for me.
http://youtu.be/qpNNa_Mokok?t=10s
Back up for me, showing an error page now though.
strip-nondeterminism "is a Perl module for stripping bits of non-deterministic information, such as timestamps and file system order, from files such as gzipped files, ZIP archives, and Jar files. It can be used as a post-processing step to make a build reproducible,
when the build process itself cannot be made deterministic. It is used as part of the Reproducible Builds project."

Browse source @ https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/strip-nondeterm...

PS. non-deterministic filesystem order .. doesn't this go away if you use tmpfs?
You might not need the quantum layer, then again, it might be indispensable. The thing is: you don't know. And without considering all the effects you have at atomic and subatomic levels, you can't say that you simulated a brain. All you can say is that you simulated something that looks like a brain. Which is completely different.
down in Singapore
Seems Facebook isn't very webscale!
Technology stack in 2015
This is great. Explicitly calling out Communication Events helps to remind us that everything we do is leaking information.

Also like the mention of cover. Every action you do should have some explanation. Why were you here? Why were you doing that? Why were you taking to them? How will these questions be posed and answered to random LEOs, lawyers, judges, etc.?

People seem to focus on some flashy part, like using Tor, but forget overall basics.

Like that kid nailed for making bomb threats. He had no cover story for why he was on Tor. He didn't shut up, and cracked. All be had to do was get embarrassed and say he was looking for porn, or looking at drug prices, and he'd have been fine.

Edit: It might be good for the cover to be slightly illegal, or damaging. Investigator grills someone, finally gets them to confess, and it's cause they were buying weed, or having an affair with illegal prostitues or hiding something from their family. Then the all the covert actions and software and nervousness make sense. (And the investigator will move on cause a simple possession charge isn't worth their time.) Just make sure the story checks out.
Muslim hate speech is rampant across the media. But Muslims hardly ever raise a finger at such issues. However, when the issue is desecration of religion, Muslims go nuts.

This contrasts with Judaism. Anti-judaism speech is ok. Anti-semitic speech is not.

To me, it's more of a preference of identity. Either I identify me by faith, or I identify me by my people.
I can't wait to know the reason behind this.
Hmm, interestingly enough Faceboook today "has complied with a Turkish court order demanding the blocking of a page it said offended the Prophet Muhammad." [0]

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30982556
Author here. Actually, I wanted to do exactly the reverse - ability to use tons of Node.js modules in Lua, while coding in Lua. Think of it :)
A few years ago, who would've guessed that Twitter would be the major service still standing during such a mass attack?
Let's suspend disbelief in the name of a stretch joke.
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/mig...
Does Steven Strogatz have the lowest Erdos-Bacon number in the world?
I wonder how many people are calling their isp call centers right now ;)
They had to leave twitter up so they could have somewhere to post?
Oh no, I just got used to React.js/Flux
I am not familiar with Lizard Mafia, do they have a history of famous hacks?
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They hacked Malaysian Airlines website yesterday. The wiki page goes into more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Squad
What is more likely: I was suggesting that people secure their homes with a moat; or I was demonstrating that, contrary to the post I was responding to, not all security relies upon obscurity?
The post mortem is going to be very interesting. It's Facebook, not like a Freenode server or something.
I've always thought how strange it is when people notice and make such a big deal about facebook being down or accessible. It's almost as if fb has become a public utility or something.

As others have remarked, one way one can interpret this is it is a testament to their ops' exceptional ability as engineers that such downtime is so noticeable.
I qualified it because I can't really tell from the limited information the OP gave, is all; that's why I made a point of suggesting professional help. I have relatives with fairly severe OCD and have autistic spectrum disorders myself, but I'm also aware that self-professed medical conditions don't always line up with the DSM definitions so I take them with a pinch of salt.
Take a look what happens if you write something simple, like "a[5]=1":
http://es5.github.io/#x15.4.5.1

Or "a > b":
http://es5.github.io/#x11.8.5

This, in turn, causes all sorts of weird behavior nicely described at https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
github supports psd
More DDoS than hacking, but yea.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/30/fbi-confirms-lizard-squad-...

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/01/another-lizard-arrested-l...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30306319
Confirmed, from Iran
I was thinking about this, and I realized there is a bigger problem. The sensors detected a break in, failed to report it, and apparently just forgot about it; it successfully engaged in the protocol designed to detect jamming, but didn't use that window of opportunity to report the break in.
Perhaps it's a good time to re-think our dependence on facebook for 'cheat' SSO.
Further, the IRS is a great example how they are being "punished".

The only thing you can take from them is funding. So did Congress -- took away money from IRS and brought their operational budget to those levels from 2008.

And now - pick one that is correct:

A) The director of IRS cut off $80MM bonuses promised to all those hard working ants that scrutinized non-profit applicants and further lost backup tapes that have been miraculously found years later; OR,

B) The director of IRS cut off funds for customer support telephone line, forcing people to wait minimum 30 minutes on the line before a real person answers, admitting on the record that majority of taxpayers won't be able to reach out for help in this tax period.

Any solutions to this clear abuse of power and disrespect to fellow citizens??
Author here. Tessel uses modified eLua, I want to use Node modules in vanilla Lua, so naturally that approach was not viable to me.
Zuck does not use his medium to spread anti-Islamic content. Charlie Hebdo did.

Here what Zuck did was uphold a nation's choice to block content in that country that did not conform to the views of that country. It has NOTHING to do with Charlie Hebdo.
"The correct level of detail for the emergence of intelligent behaviour is likely somewhere in-between."

I think this is your speculation. :)

"Classical computers take an exponential amount of time"

It is not a matter of time it takes to simulate, but of the details. You don't know which details matter and which don't. You don't know if you need infinite precision or you can stop at Plank's level. Thus, since you don't know a lot of things, you can't be sure that what you simulated was indeed the real thing or something that you imagined/theorized to be the real thing.
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lol. Might simply because people see white whales too often and that's not a surprise.
I drank with the Yocto people in 2011. They absolutely live and breathe release engineering. On subjects like repeatable builds, I trust their opinion. At present, they don't appear to mention it at all on their docs or wiki.
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Our Facebook, who art in Datacenter...
In Orleans an actor cannot physically fail, just like an object in a process cannot fail. If an unhandled exception is thrown by actor code, the runtime will deliver the exception to the caller and break the TPL task of the call. Actor code is free to logically fail, e.g. by catching an exception, detecting an internal inconsistency, etc., and can handle such a case any way it wants. For example, it can set an internal failure flag and/or ask runtime to deactivate it immediately.

I guess it's a bit of a philosophical question - what is considered a failure. Orleans doesn't impose its own definition of that on actors.
I should have been more clear -- something more alphanumeric than ASCII.
Does this mean that people addicted to valium or other benzos are more awake than others when they are not on the drug?
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The main app and Messenger aren't connecting at all for me, Facebook's OAuth is also inaccessible.
Obviously Tinder falls with Facebook, but HipChat's definitely still working for me...
This doesnt look right:

whois facebook.com @8.8.8.8

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

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:56:04 GMT <<<
Hipchat is down for me
They are brave men and women for sure.
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Facebook and Instagram Go Offline, Taking Facebook Log-In Services Down Too
I heard that many clients are browsing Dribbble. Many desigers get work just from there. But I don't have that king of luck, I guess.
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FACEBOOK JUST WENT DOWN – WHATS UP?
Thanks! I will try gun.io
"Facebook finally figures out that sex /still/ sells better than advertising"
down here (in Turkey) and surprisingly, it isn't the government this time!
It's just the way whois lookups work. Do a whois lookup of any big site (google.com, microsoft.com, etc) and you'll get a similar response.
really? your entire defense is coming down to "it's not a strawman if it's asked in a question"?

definitely adding you to the list of astroturfers on HN with that reply.
Grains are not supposed to share state directly and are expected to only use message passing. But the runtime, being just a .NET library, cannot enforce this rule. So it's merely a convention, which is trivial to violate if necessary. For example, for sharing an immutable piece of state within a silo.
instagram and facebook down as of this posting
I'd spitball a guess that it has to do with the firewall rules on the modem or router running themselves into a bad state. That would explain why a restart fixes it, since the state would be cleared.
Down from Bangladesh !
But here in India and the rest of Asia, people wake up to Facebook. You can't ignore that.
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That can be caused by a variety of issues. From the top of my head, I would investigate broken DNS caches and incorrect MTU settings.
Facebook did go down before, but not like this time. I tried to ping many IPs of Facebook, all even failed to reach. Can be a sign of DDoS.

Anyway, if that is true, people have to take it really seriously this time.
FYI https://twitter.com/hashtag/facebookdown?src=tren
Gmail seems to be in working order
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It's been that way for a while now and happens with any large site. Try google.com for example and you'll see the same thing.
The only subdomain working is: http://newsroom.fb.com and hosted by wordpress.com
I've run WHOIS queries on FB before and gotten the same(ish) thing more than a few times -- assumed it was temporary tampering before
So of course you're on Hacker News.
All the 'is it down' websites are slowly going down with people searching for it.
Might as well take a first step to ignoring facebook.
I've spent more than my fair share of time on the site in the past few years. While it's been productive overall in terms of professional and personal networking, I could have achieved as much with 10% of the time if I focused solely on the productive aspects. Two weeks ago I decided I could do without endless pointless conversations with vague colleagues, being updated on largely irrelevant minute details and thoughts of people I don't actually know, and and endless stream of low quality news links.
I deactivated my account for a week and then reactivated it but only visit once a day at most. My quality of life certainly has not decreased!
The site is down. Not sure about the actual service.
Have a link to the article which contains your comments about that? I'd like to read them.
It's down in Eastern Europe too.
Facebook is down, what will you do now?
https://twitter.com/NSA_PR/status/559964818120011776
Yep, *nix support is definitely part of the plan.
One of our vendors crashed which hung out site. Damn counterparty risk!
If they guy is posting pics of himself on Twitter asking others to "dox him", it could mean that he's pretty emotionally stable not to fall for the common pitfalls when it comes to online hacking.

In that sense, it's very possible that he has access to some major database dumps that the public is unaware of, and given that he is also claiming the glory behind the Malaysia Airlines hack; it's clear that he does more than DDoS, no matter what the more educated hackers are saying.

A long way to go for a secure internet, that's for sure.
Have you tried Google inbox? Just kidding, Zoho mail is descent, we switch to it a few years ago and it has steadily gotten better.
I blame global warming. Them servers were too hot I betcha.
Just tweeted

"@LizardMafia: More to come soon. Side note: We're still organizing the @MAS email dump, stay tuned for that."
Seems to be --> https://developers.facebook.com/status/
$400 per second somehow seems... smaller than I would have thought. Their opex on a per second basis has got to be orders of magnitude higher than that.
Dr Hansen has had himself arrested for activism so many place little credence in his views, particularly as he likes to contrast his scientific work with exaggeration when talking to the media.

The IPCC predictions have all been revised downward with each report. The only thing that has increased is their 'confidence level' which is not statistical confidence but author confidence.

I don't know what will happen, but I do know that nobody else does, either. Every single simulation so far has been completely off by a factor which makes it worthless.

The only thing we can predict is that better, cheaper forms of energy will be produced, and these are likely to be lower emissions than what we have today. Pricing out lower income people in the present day in the hope of making a difference is morally wrong in thighs is context.
The police/interrogators want you to lie to them with a cover story so your alibi can be picked a part easily, correct response is to say nothing and get a lawyer. Even worse is admitting something illegal to them thinking they will just let it slide, more likely they will use your confession as cause to search your property.
In python it is still a function but it is also an object?
They report issues:

http://status.hipchat.com/
> If you are white, have a good job, follow the law, and make sure to richly kiss ass if and when you come in contact with the police, life in the USA is rich, full; it's like heaven.

Sure, until any of the above changes. Or you piss off the wrong person with connections. Some of which you may have little control over.

And to be honest - to not be raked over the coals simply to exercise my right to freedom of movement is not exactly "heaven" to me, it's the basics of a free society based on laws.
Why less people commenting on this thread?
Appears to return hosts with name starting with search term, which doesn't make a lot of sense but has likely always been the case. Also @ flag is a dig thing, not whois.
what advantages have you realized from the switch?
Yup. You can get a working program with the simple:

const int main = 0xC3;

...which is just a return. Or you can get fancy and make it exit successfully by clearing eax first:

const int main = 0xC3C031;
Google gets DDoSed all the time. You don't hear about it because, well, the DDoS SREs are very, very good at what they do.
one of the comments in thenextweb article is going nuts on the upvote/like
It will result in cancer treatments that are cheaper to produce.

This does not mean the treatments will be more widely available, not that they will be cheaper.

Remember that drugs useful for cancer treatment in the USA are already orders of magnitude more expensive than non-US products simply because they can be.
> Here what Zuck did was uphold a nation's choice to block content in that country that did not conform to the views of that country.

It isn't the nation's choice, it's the government's choice. It's a political decision to support the policies of the Turkish government.
It's already been done with agricultural pests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack
thy pingdom come
I gotta say I'm finding it hard to accept their word that they're responsible for Facebook. I haven't paid much attention but I'm under the impression that they primarily just deal in DDoS's and other crude attacks, and I have a hard time imagining that they could cause a large enough DDoS to affect the massive juggernaut that is Facebook. Especially since Facebook just came back up and is now perfectly responsive and showing no signs of being under strain.
Up again here from Norway.
Your right, I misread your original comment. However, supporting subsidies for solar through increased prices for everything else does penalise the poor.

We are in agreement about the Fed. Only the debasement goes back further than 40 years - that was merely the acceleration point.
Back up now. Total downtime around 55 minutes that I could see.
I'm pretty sure a generation from now kids will not be able to comprehend that we once used additive light displays. It's really a poor reflection on the way markets work that the "good enough" of backlit displays has stifled the correct way to do it for so long.
Expensify is having issues too:

http://status.expensify.com/

I feel like this is more the norm rather than an exception for them at this point, though.