skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Focus and elevate video content. Entire TV episodes are sometimes made public on Twitter - there's no way to surface this. When The Expanse has a new episode, it should go into a tab that's YouTube on Twitter.

- Pay video creators out the ass to get them to dual-publish from YouTube, and create auto-sync features that let them publish in both locations. Build in live-streaming functionality to compete with Twitch.

- "Async realtime". When watching a show, make it possible to replay Homeland tweets from the time you start. If you watch an Apple Keynote later, make the realtime tweets replay, and make it possible to add your own.

- Allow different engagement models. If someone has a whiff of abuse in their feed, make it trivial for them to see only verified + low risk users. The moment someone sends an @message to someone they've never conversed with with a single abusive word, crank the risk on them. If someone wants to engage with the firehose, make that the default.

- Make it easy to "import" feeds. I've had at least 3 friends ask me who to follow, and then we spend 15 minutes scrolling through my follow list, they manually look them up. When a new user registers on Twitter, I should be able to pick 3 people I'm most interested in following, and it should then recommend the people they like the most.

- It should be one-click to "super follow" someone, and get all their follows into my feed. Make it trivial to get an awesome, active feed. And trivial to reduce noise when I'm not interested in something.
I would assume, I couldn't even share a screen shot of my evidence to my team on slack!
That doesn't terribly surprise me. More/larger products, more opportunity to miss bugs or not be agile enough to work on them.
I use pocket because it is automatically synced with my Kobo e-reader. One thing I wish they would offer is folders. Before I bought the kobo I stuck with instapaper just because of the cleaner interface and the option to use folders.

I get that pocket offers the option to tag, but different people have different preferences and folders would be nice.

Also a bunch of large squares doesn't seem to be the best way to organize information consisting of web blogs and pictures.

Hopefully mozilla will make some UX changes to pocket.
Having issues as well.. big issues..
Yup, same here. It has been a few minutes already. Wanna bet the green checkmark[1] will stay green until the incident is resolved?

[1] https://status.aws.amazon.com/
I only had a project with Sitecore, v6.5 at the time, and really enjoyed using it.

Just the overall replication of Windows desktop for the backend management UI seemed a bit extreme. :)
I'm laughing pretty hard at your last comment. Around here, there are much worse places to be posted than Moose Jaw. Rural isolation (entire RMs with populations of 200 people) plus significant substance abuse and domestic violence problems.

The point still stands though. Joining the RCMP is likely going to result in you going somewhere no one wants to be for a few years, because anyone with seniority transfers away as soon as possible.
Sell it to Trump.
Can't access my website which is hosted on s3 (http://joshuajherman.com).
Absolutely nothing. It's just what OP wants Twitter to be I guess.
FreshDesk makes extensive use of S3 and it's been unbearably slow to load for the past hour or so. All on S3 requests.
i would love to see twitter-as-a-protocol but it's not going to be the current twitter. people forget that instagram bootstrapped itself off twitter's social graph and then bailed when they reached critical mass
I'm genuinely interested in supporting all use cases!

If you create an issue at https://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js and describe your use case in more detail we'll figure out what the right answer is.

Thanks!
Uh-oh. Same here... and tried taking a screenshot of pinging s3.amazonaws.com and Slack upload hung.
Amazon s3 is down?
Did Amazon S3 just go down?
I am getting an internal error code?
This is total BS. I've set up two friends with Linux Mint machines; one is elderly and the other middle-aged and not a techie at all. Both of them are quite happy with them because they never have any problems, and I almost never have to even answer any questions. I did give them each a 15-minute orientation course beforehand, but considering that KDE works a lot like Windows (before the whole Win8/Metro debacle), it wasn't hard for them to adapt. WhyTF would they need to "muck around with a package manager"? And how is that harder then messing around with Windows' total mess of "installers" which don't do proper package management at all? In fact, Linux package management is superbly easy: just open up the software center, search for whatever you want, select something, read the description, and click "install" and type in your password. How is that hard? It's sure a lot easier than looking for random software on random webpages and worrying about it having malware baked-in like most Windows software on places like download.com.
It won't.
Dropbox using this? Can't seem to sync
AWS S3 seems to be down
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Twitter is the web interface for mobile messaging. The network effects have carried it so far. "Turning around" is going to mean saying no to all of the shiny new things both on mobile and on the web that have little to do with its core value. That means no live video, no original content, nothing but messaging on the web. Focus, focus, focus.

With that focus, I believe Twitter can return to growth in its user base. There is more that could be done to make the experience more engaging, for example, without interfering with the core experience. By mixing some suggested tweets into my feed using machine learning, Twitter could increase engagement. The new user experience would flow better with good use of machine learning.

In terms of monetization, it's about the data. Twitter APIs should be recognized as best-in-class, and access should be sold on a subscription basis on a graduated scale based on frequency of access.

There is a natural scale to core Twitter, and it might not be much bigger than it is right now. Sometimes we have to be content with what we've got -- which in Twitter's case is nothing to sneeze at. They shouldn't be going all "New Coke" getting into video and media in my opinion.
To counter: the Pi Zero is coming on for 18 months and is still regularly sold out.

I'm not expecting mass quantities on release, but the problem is that you can only buy one which makes development difficult. And if it's anything like the original zero, we'd have no idea when it will be available in quantity. Often it's useful to have more than one board e.g. one bare dev board, one in an enclosure/prototype. Having a month or more lead time for a replacement isn't practical.
Not the person you asked but I also develop .NET Core on a mac. I like .NET because I can use C# which is my favourite language, and the new ASP.NET Core framework is very clean, modern and straight to the point. There's very little magic and it's performant and productive.

Dapper for data access is also fantastic for the same reasons.
Totally fucked.
Yup - dead in the water
It is, of course the checkmark will stay green throughout this as Amazon doesn't care about actually letting its customers know they have a problem.
I disagree with that. In my experience the apps and extensions have gotten much clunkier. The UI is inconsistent across iOS and Android, and on Firefox and Chrome. If I want to look up a password on my phone I will get logged out of the app two or three times before I finally get to the item I'm looking for.

I was a premium member up until my subscription expired last week. It used to be required in order to use the mobile app. Now it's not, apparently, and given the mobile app experience I've been having lately it's not worth it. I've been passively looking for a self-hosted alternative I can switch to.
You could, but you'd be ignoring the realities on the ground:

Wordpress powers a vast chunk of the web[1], whether we like that or not, and frameworks such as Symphony a good bit of the remainder.

For the love that Clojure, Rust etc get on HN their over-representation should not lead you to believe that 'PHP has had it's shot', PHP hasn't had it's shot by a long shot...

[1] https://managewp.com/statistics-about-wordpress-usage
You want your employees to collaborate with you avoiding and tracking down malware and potential leaks. If everybody is used to working around your restrictions you just make it harder for you to figure out what's happening when something goes wrong.

For instance if your policies are too restrictive people will use their smartphones more and more to access the internet. Then some will start doing work stuff on their smartphones and you lose all control. What do you do then? Forbid smartphones within the company? Fire everybody you catch using one? It's just an arms race at this point.

Sane security measures and some pedagogy go a long way. Easier said than done though, it's a tough compromise to make.
Really? You thought I was unsubstantial? The people I was replying to were far more unsubstantive and really I restrained from incivility admirably. This is a disappointing decision to say the least.
I'm not an expert, but doesn't celery use multiple processes? I hope I'm not saying anything stupid, but I thought that's what "workers" were.
An aptly named language if there ever was one.
The way I see it is that the team was working on the payment system. She may well have specialized on some scaling aspects but that does not preclude her working within a team having responsibility for building or maintaining the payment system. Considering that Uber has a micro services architecture the teams will be organized vertically along end-to-end functionality and not along the architectural layers. In that way the story is consistent with what is publicly known about Uber IT.
Yea seeing the same thing
Protecting hearts from hackers
Scrounging for App Parts
Also sed supports any character separator ie:

$ echo http://foobar.com/mai/path/meme.png | sed 's@/mai/path@/sweet/new/path@'
http://foobar.com/sweet/new/path/meme.png

Consider any separator
Down in US-East-1 as of 17:40 GMT. Amazon SES also down in US-East-1 as of a few minutes later.

Hearing reports of EBS down as well.
You can't do that if you don't own the house. A lot of us are renters because we have no intention of staying in the same place for 10 years.
SES also down.
Down from the outside;
The internal access (from within EC2) APIs still work.
The mobile app is nice, I use it every day. The only issue is that it doesn't work that well with Firefox but Chrome.
I actually thought about this in the context of magazine subscriptions last year. I wondered whether anyone would open things up so you could subscribe in either of two ways:

1) The "digital" way - you've got access to every issue of the magazine, from the very beginning of their publication - but only for the duration of your subscription. If you quit, you're locked out.

2) The "print" way - you've got access only to those issues that were published during your subscription. If you cut off your subscription, you don't get any new issues but you can still log in with your account and see those issues that you were "subscribed" to.

(Granted, it adds complexity to people who are likely just thinking "I just want to read this month's [X] magazine, why are you making it so hard?".)

It sounds like Microsoft is doing a decent best-of-both-worlds option here - if you play it and like it, you get a discount to purchase it.
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Lol... It's interesting how much depends on Amazon's infrastructure at the moment.
The substantive argument is that people spend a lot of money on things they don't need, then complain that they don't have the money to cut their hours and earn less money (if that's even an option).

You're the one not making any substantive arguments by just calling it "shaming"
Dead as a doornail for me
"Twitter's modern-day utility seems very low outside of news/sports/politics"

Twitter has tremendous utility for the medical community. I am final year medical student and through twitter can follow worldwide leaders in emergency medicine (my field of interest). These doctors post clinical factoids, cases reports, unique ekgs, and other learning points live from the wards (all de-identified to protect patients of course). They also post opinions on the latest research publications. Twitter has become my best way to stay current in medicine.

Other apps targeted for doctors have attempted this. Doximity and Figure1 are examples. But twitter has done the best job.
At Microcenter, only the first one (per visit) is $5.00:

1 at $5.00 each,
2-5 at $9.99 each,
6+ at $12.99 each
Speaking of toasters, https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/6d1e688cb2bd37121c7de... :)
> Ability to enter the roadway at any time, rather than after checking that it's clear.

Jaywalking doesn't depend on whether the road is clear or not. Try crossing an 8-lane stroad sometime even when it's "clear" for the moment. A car doing 50mph can get to that far lane way faster than I can, let alone someone who isn't young and in reasonable physical shape.

What we've really done is taken half of all land in every city and made it deadly to set foot on. A city that is supposedly built for people, but will kill you if you walk about 10 feet in most directions.
The sad part is that the majority of Android users won't see those fixes anyway.
Anyone else seeing ELB/ALB issues?
The Air with a retina display would be the perfect laptop.
Oh, variable ints are surely a thing. You don't even have to go as far as crypto - if you're using UTF-8, you are using the same idea. Which also reveals its downsides once you need to parse utf-8 strings into parts and do operations like wrapping or splitting. That's why I wonder if they are really needed there. I mean, the space optimization is obvious, but I suspect it might be premature, unless you are storing really billions or trillions of hashes and need to squeeze out every single kilobyte out of it.
the load balancers in VA seem to be down.
Google owns a decent chunk of CloudFlare. They shared the flaw as they should last week.

I see nothing close to Google trying to get MS. Instead it is what should be done.

Mow me with things like Scrougle and MS replaced YouTube as with their own i probably would not be so nice.

Look at Amazon will not allow Chromecast to be sold on their site. Personally i would have removed Amazon from their search engine but not Google.

Look at Uber. If i was Google i would use my power to destroy but not Google.

Feel how ever you want about Google but let's at least be fair.
They already have licensing deals with NFL and MLB, and built out the streaming infrastructure. I'd argue the licensing and execution is already proved out - it's time to focus on those, cut out the fat and double down on what's working.
in the s3 web interface requests to S3 backend end with 503 Service Unavailable
> Ain't nobody got time to read all that crap.

+10 to this. The signal to noise on Twitter is terrible.

Pretty sure I'm using it "wrong", but my likelihood of following someone on Twitter is generally inversely proportional to their number of tweets per day.
Fast web pages for everybody
Tangentally related:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/pass-rotate

I posted it on here the other day but it didn't go far. It's like youtube-dl but instead of downloading videos it changes your password on various online services. If you get your password compromised by vunlerabilities or whatnot it makes it easy to mass-rotate your passwords. Could use some help adding support for more websites if you're interested.

</shameless promo>
S3 and Elastic Beanstalk (S3 dependencies) ... no issues with RDS at the moment
Is cli working for anyone else? I can't use the console UI, but aws s3 ls and get commands seem to be working fine.
Because it's new and lighter?
iCloud and iCloud keychain are not really the same thing. iCloud keychain is designed not to disclose user passwords in the event of an iCloud account compromise, for example, among other things. The iOS Security Guide[1] has more details on this topic, starting on page 45.

That's not to say other solutions can never be as secure, but it's a fairly good design nevertheless.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Ahh, you're one of those "libertarians" who claims that the market will correct all social ills and then suddenly gets offended when the market starts correcting those social ills.
Same here. US East (N. Virginia)
- Remove advertising

- Charge for longer tweets in the following way

- 200 chars -> $10/year

- 500 chars -> $10/month or $100/year

- 1000 chars -> $100/month or $1000/year
No, a couple companies test a dozen cars here and there.

Try that with a thousand and watch California lose its mind.
The complexity allows a lot of emergent gameplay.

For instance in one game a dragon attacked my fort. NBD. Everyone got inside and I was planning to catch it in a cage trap. Then use it as a decoration.

However there was a group of Human traders at my Trade Depot. They decided to run over and fight the dragon. Now the dragon is running around breathing fire. Which started a forest fire. Which destroyed my wooden bridges and doors.

Completely unscripted fun, just a result of the game simulation.

Also the game manages to make you hate goblins and elves through your interactions with them.

In evil regions eyeballs grow out of the ground, blinking at passing dwarves. However cattle will happily graze on them.

If you "delve too greedily and too deep" you'll unleash horrors of the underworld.

There's just a lot of neat stuff there.
Seeing the same here
When used well Borland C++ builder was one of the most productive tools for application development on windows.

One day someone will make something like it for the web and make a few billion.
> What should I do?

I can see a couple of options:

1a. Suck it up and do the marketing that you know you need to do. This seems to me to be the most straightforward option.

1b. See if you can find a way to automate some of the marketing. You said you're a problem solver, so put your mind to work and solve the problem!

2. Take on a partner who can do the marketing, in exchange for an equity stake in the company.

3. Look for some marketing student(s) who might be willing to work part-time (maybe on a short-term contract basis) for a reasonable rate, and let them do the marketing work.

4. Sell the businesses to someone who is interested in putting in the effort to market/grow them.

There are probably other options, but those seem to be the obvious ones.
Yes, yes, yes! Instead of always blaming the worker, look at the environment. I have been on 50x teams and the main reason was that we were allowed to do our job coding and making recommendations and management did their job by removing obstacles and clarifying things quickly. They also believed us when we said something. I see it so often that management has an inherent distrust of their own people and goes behind their backs to get advice from other parties.

You go down to 0.1x if management doesn't make decisions, drags you through tons of process like status meetings and stupid metrics, forces you to use incompetent vendors and so on.
You don't get a job where your role is to make people's life hell, even for a few hours, if you don't have any inclination for it, these are unionized federal workers whose skills are transferable, not slaves. They are not bothered enough by their own and their co-workers behavior to resign, they self-selected.

Moreover, this entire "the bad people are coming to kill us from outside" is crap, Americans suicide themselves with their food, their cars (about 100 every day) and their guns. This is just pandering to the red necks.
Children working in factories losing fingers every month got paid too. I think the idea that we've now, in 2017, reached perfection in employment is ridiculous.

I also think "go do farmwork if your job sucks" is dismissive and below the standards of HN discussions. There's always something worse, that doesn't mean we shouldn't ever complain.
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Multiple S3 services down in US East
S3 Ireland (eu-west-1) seems to be doing fine at first sight.
It appears to be down. My website runs on S3 and my monitors are going nuts!
Well, here we have a great historical example of someone in the real world not deciding to work against their own interests, despite our impotent insistence that they do so. Since countless other examples of that happening are a few seconds' google away, maybe it doesn't work?
Yup it looks so. My console says I have zero buckets, my Lambdas are timing out and https://aws.amazon.com/ returns a big:

"500 The server encountered an error processing your request." message
Fire almost everyone. Cease innovation and roll several things back. Open the API up more. Limit spending to what you can afford and coast forever. Growth is overrated.
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If Uber and AirBnb were to claim taxis and hotels as their competitors, would that invite more scrutiny as to why they escape the regulatory burdens of their primary competitors/comparatives?
I wonder if this will kill the second hand games market the same way Netflix murdered Blockbuster.

I don't really know how quickly you can buy a second hand game for a reasonable discount, but if games people currently buy second hand appear in a subscription instead I think that means GameStop is dead since that's their main driver of profit AFAIK.
It would be great! I have already noted this requested feature on my list.
Yeah, we host on S3 (US-East-1 I think) with Cloudfront for caching / SSL. Some of our requests get through but it's been intermittent. Lots of 504 Gateway Time-Outs when retrieving CSS, JS.