PG - Lost all my karma
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Something definitely seems to have gone wrong. We'll figure it out.
Edit: There are some corrupted files on the disk. It seems to be related to the new memory we had installed on the server. Fortunately we have recent backups. We probably have enough to reconstruct what's missing, but it may take a few days because I'm travelling.
Anyone besides kashif, bootload, and ardit33 seeing problems?
Edit: There are some corrupted files on the disk. It seems to be related to the new memory we had installed on the server. Fortunately we have recent backups. We probably have enough to reconstruct what's missing, but it may take a few days because I'm travelling.
Anyone besides kashif, bootload, and ardit33 seeing problems?
"... We'll figure it out. ..."
The good bit is the historical posts & submissions are still there, just the 'user?id=foo' data is blanked.
The good bit is the historical posts & submissions are still there, just the 'user?id=foo' data is blanked.
I would be a bit concerned about WFP applications. Any submissions between your last backup and now that may be gone...
The only files damaged were a couple that were written just before a crash. No one has reported anything missing from an application.
Your account was created 3 hours ago, how could you have had 93 karma? Creating a new account will start your karma over, in case you didnt know.
No it wasn't. It was created a long time back. My point is that my account reset for some reason. Now if only PG could respond to this.
This comment was posted before my account was reset. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63522
Interesting, it looks like your entire user was reset along with your karma.
PG recently mentioned the server was running out of memory and they had to temporarily trim some content. Maybe this is related?
I upvoted to try and get this on the front page...
PG recently mentioned the server was running out of memory and they had to temporarily trim some content. Maybe this is related?
I upvoted to try and get this on the front page...
That's funny. I ran out of memory on my server last night too. Spent most of the morning trying to trim everything down.
The common scripting languages should include memory optimized basic data structures..
The common scripting languages should include memory optimized basic data structures..
Arc is anything but a common scripting language.
But it should include memory-optimized basic data structures.
It's my impression that memory usage is very obscured in functional languages. Others' thoughts?
In lazy languages, it's very obscured, because you're not sure whether the integer you're pointing at is a four-byte number or whether it's a big unevaluated expression.
In strict functional languages, and also in Lisp-like languages, it's not obscured. You might, say, not know exactly how many bytes a certain datastructure takes, unless you do some thinking but the same goes for C and C++. (For example, tell me how many extra bytes the std::string datatype takes in the nearest implementation of the STL.) Garbage collection adds the danger of leaving around dangling references, but that doesn't really have anything to do with the functional aspect of the language.
In strict functional languages, and also in Lisp-like languages, it's not obscured. You might, say, not know exactly how many bytes a certain datastructure takes, unless you do some thinking but the same goes for C and C++. (For example, tell me how many extra bytes the std::string datatype takes in the nearest implementation of the STL.) Garbage collection adds the danger of leaving around dangling references, but that doesn't really have anything to do with the functional aspect of the language.
my karma is gone too :(
It seems like an upgrade gone bad.
It seems like an upgrade gone bad.
Fortunately I still have all 3 points of mine.
Looks like that comment helped to increase your karma four fold!
Yeah now I'm pissed! All my Karma (ex #11 on leaderboard, 1142) , submissions are missing. Plenty of screenshots of mine exist. Boooo Boooo Sup pg?
You're pissed because you lost your e-points on a news site? Seriously?
More the links to the submissions made and comments so I can mine them for data. For example you have your details over say 157 days.
- http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kingnothing
and
- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kingnothing
Mine are over 220 and there's a lot of information that I've been intending to mine in my hackerID project ~ http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/
That serious enough?
- http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kingnothing
and
- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kingnothing
Mine are over 220 and there's a lot of information that I've been intending to mine in my hackerID project ~ http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/
That serious enough?
Oh, okay. I can understand being upset about that, but I'm sure it will get worked out.
"... Oh, okay. I can understand being upset about that, but I'm sure it will get worked out. ..."
Thanks, Just letting off some steam. The content is all still there but the index pages are screwed. It'll be interesting now to measure the acceleration of my articles since I'm starting from scratch. So it might actually be a good thing.
Thanks, Just letting off some steam. The content is all still there but the index pages are screwed. It'll be interesting now to measure the acceleration of my articles since I'm starting from scratch. So it might actually be a good thing.
Now I'm beginning to recover old posts from yesterday (yes I keep all posts, submissions). What I've found is past entries are there eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=63249
So maybe the data collected in user?id=foo is currupted and could be rebuilt. It looks like the data is still to be found in edit?id=bar
So maybe the data collected in user?id=foo is currupted and could be rebuilt. It looks like the data is still to be found in edit?id=bar
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PS: there should be an email id to send bug reports.