skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been working on solving this problem for over two years with a decent sized team. Designers and developers use different tools that don't understand the same formats causing hard handoffs and conversion steps to get a digital product to the customer.

This is an extremely ambitious problem to solve because it requires building an entire Wix or Webflow that also speaks and outputs some sort of web component (in our case React). It needs to allow designers to work in a completely visual way without worrying about tools like Git while developers can at the same time add logic and state to the otherwise static design. You have to remove all hard handoffs that fork the source of truth and keeps ideas from flowing from the canvas through the development pipeline. InVision and other tools are "glue" that attempt to solve this, and they definitely make things easier, but the handoffs are still there.

Many of the tools I'm seeing get close, but they don't go all the way because it would be insanely expensive to replace all the tools in the pipeline (InVision included) and make a single environment that everyone works in to produce a full UI from blank canvas to prototype to production. Gamers have Unity, that's what we need in the web/native app development arena.

We've been working on it here: http://www.shift.studio. While I'm sad to see Pagedraw go (and I've reached out about getting lessons learned from the founder who responded and was extremely helpful/nice), I still believe this is a good idea and we are going to push forward and get it done. I also really love seeing that others here agree that something like this needs to be built.

I would love to hear from HN, what do y'all believe is the fundamental list of features required to tackle this? (no matter how bold/crazy the request)
An algorithm in time saves millions – IOT and Predictive
Yes. There are two flashes in fact. Usually you also hear the booms and sirens beforehand, so maybe it was quite afar this time.
That's good to know! I guess I was a little out of date, I mostly saw this come up when there was a big push to get stuff on en.wikipedia moved to commons, and all of the UK/AU/CA content couldn't be moved for obvious reasons.
This is a feature not a bug of bitcoin.

As the saying goes in the community, "Not your keys, not your coins", you're not supposed to store coins on an exchange. But nearly everyone does. Everyone is encouraged to hold their own keys and be responsible for their coins. As UX and wallets improve more and more people are holding their own coins. The people that store coins on exchanges must understand the risk of holding coins on exchanges. It's a reality of crypto.

It's true, current iterations of DEX are not really DEX, they are all centralized companies, these things take time to build, it's not a simple photo-sharing app. If it turns out that is impossible to build a true DEX then you can always do shapeshift style atomic swaps and those are here today!

Bitcoin hacks and scams are not related to Bitcoin. There are even more hacks and scams that happen in the regular finance industry. From SWIFT being hacked to countless and countless of scams by small and big companies. Are you seriously saying that Bitcoin only suffers from scams??

The difference between a Bitcoin bank failing and regular bank failing is that, if Bitcoin bank fails, for people who have stored their coins safely won't be affected. Sure the price will fluctuate because of the news but I still have my coins.

When a regular bank fails the entire country has to pay the price and money is printed and currency is debased. Everyone has to pay for the mistake of a few.
Commercial software succeeds when the product sells itself as the best possible version. Looking at macOS, where you're forced to buy a legitimate copy to engage with all the features, you might think "why not just use a free OS" but that sells commercial software short of all the other things it offers other than just "this is software you've seen before".

I do believe it's closed-minded to think all alternatives to commercial software are exactly the same as the commercial version and therefore there's no reason to buy commercial. Paid software still has a reason to exist and many customers to bat.
Yes, the new moon is when they are most active, however, one of the guys in the program specifically has been trying to see an impact during an eclipse for quite some time now. The shadow of the Earth causes the new moon phase, and it is the same shadow that causes the eclipse. Why wouldn't they take the free bonus 2ish hours of dark moon time to search?
> Etsy got the niche and handmade stuff, Alibaba and Aliexpress got the cheap Chinese stuff outside of Amazon

In my previous searches of Etsy so many of the results were comprised of cheap (originally), mass-produced products masquerading as 'hand-made'. Peppered among them are actual hand-made or vintage goods but I'm not sure if Etsy was intending to address such listings, though things may have changed from when I stopped browsing (a couple years ago).
Oh my god that tile fade in irritates me to no end.
Augmented Reality and Retail – a match made in the digital world
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Cody took down that video and a lot of his other ones when YouTube got really trigger happy about flagging explosive context or anything vaguely not advertising friendly due to King of Random. That was one of the videos he took down but he did mention it in others. I cant find the video where he talked about the video takedowns sadly.
I have a crazy deja vu. I picked up this boom yesterday night and read the first chapter before going to sleep. And then this came along. I though for a second that I had to dream the plot.
What about the parent was judgemental? I've had friends that were into body nodding, and they very proudly described themselves as wierd. That is one of the big draws, the unusual factor. Reading the parent, I see no reason to accuse them of being judgemental.
> The justification frequently used for western colonialism/conquest is the principle of “Terra Nullius”, in short, the native peoples with their primative technology are not fully utilising the land, and we’re doing them a favor by conquering them.

That is debatable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius#History), the term/concept may not have even existed during the land grabbing periods of colonialism.
For the past several thousands of years, that was mainly humans and dingos. Not so much now.
Wow, I never saw this. I independently migrated to functional programming once exposed many years back and definitely couldn't imagine doing software any other way at this point, awesome to see my childhood hero endorse it though none the less.
I do not own a touch screen device that is not a mobile device, so I have not experienced that. I also realize that my comments only related to the UI portion, not taking into account how responsiveness (or lack of) affects the UX portion.
Just makes the eventual Google acquisition one bit easier.
Surprised no one else has said this, but eBay was ugly as sin for a very long time! Even now, the pages are crowded with variant font sizes and styles.

There are offers galore as though the site competes with itself to get you to click on various things. I gotta say, it is downright horrendous to look at an ebay listing still!

Look at this example from just now.
https://i.imgur.com/1cjoT36.png

I mean, it wants me to write a review for this item as though this is possibly something I would do looking at it for the first time.

It wants me to "make more cash and sell whats hot" it wants me to shop with confidence and learn more what that means. It wants me to buy it now and add it to the cart. Oh but don't forget 3-year protection plan from blah for $26.

Is there any site on the internet that has such a mess for a product page than this? I can't think of something worse.

eBay should break up the company if it means it can create reasonable item listings. What they have now is a a travesty of a product page. This hasn't been okay outside eBay, ever.
Or, Google thought the publicity was worth a gigantic discount.

(EDIT: The provided quote from a Twitter employee hints at this directly: "the savings")
I'm tired and it's late but I just want to say that the author makes a fair number of unsubstantiated claims and assertions.

1. That "organic" users are somehow more real than users acquired by paid acquisition.
2. That ads are super duper simple and you just turn them on then bam users are there. Plenty of companies in fact spend quite a lot on ads and get almost nothing.
3. That the channels she mentions are in fact "organic" I want to know, truly, what the super secret learnings are that one gets from gaming google rankings rather than simply buying a Google ad or spamming Facebook groups rather than buying a Facebook ad.

By all means, do customer discovery, but pretending that hanging kitschy neighborhood signs instead of running Google ads is somehow more authentic is just arrogance not really backed up by anything other than feelings. Plenty of profitable and sustainable businesses run on ads. Other companies ads aren't right for. Just try stuff and see what works.
For a company of Twitter's size, benchmarks likely played a small role compared to price negotiations. Being able to say Twitter runs in your cloud is worth a lot to any cloud provider. They're likely operating at steep discounts and probably played off all the major providers to get the best offer.
This is incorrect. They shared neural net activations which is explicit communication.
google/trillian https://github.com/google/trillian

> Trillian is an implementation of the concepts described in the Verifiable Data Structures white paper, which in turn is an extension and generalisation of the ideas which underpin Certificate Transparency.

> Trillian implements a Merkle tree whose contents are served from a data storage layer, to allow scalability to extremely large trees.
eBay, yeah it used to be pretty good. Which could have served as their tagline for most of the last decade.

They've scared off the most interesting segment of eBay with their policies that are actively hostile to smallest sellers, and their rubber stamp appeals processes. The most interesting segment were the individuals using it for garage sales or selling grandparent's old collection and bits of Victoriana. I could, and sometimes did, spend hundreds. There's almost none left. The very few that persevere have to walk the very fine line between unacceptable listing and opening themselves to the many possible scams. They killed that niche pretty effectively. I can't imagine using it to sell ever again.

Instead, there's medium scale businesses who can afford some percentage of fraud as "cost of doing business", eBay has become another OK outlet. It's an OK place for run of the mill, boring, ecommerce, especially at the cheapest end of the scale. There's now lots of businesses trying to tread those collectables niches with very overpriced listings or endless listings of old rubbish branded collectable.

Surprisingly, I find I am using eBay a lot more than I did five years ago. It's the place to buy batteries, cables and other trivia under £5 with some confidence there's no forgeries like I've had on Amazon.

As a saver I should perhaps be grateful, but their strategies seem to have been designed to turn me, and my peers, from thousand(s) a year customers to tens. If not intentional, surely they could and should have seen the trend years ago.
It seems that every few years a new backend language comes to the forefront and becomes a popular for greenfield projects or rewrites. First people moved from PHP to Ruby, then Node, and now Go.

Of course, Go's popularity is helped a great deal by Google using it, as well as the huge amount of devops software written in Go (docker, terraform, kubernetes). But at some point the hype for those will settle and they'll just become more tools. At the same time there'll be more and more legacy Go projects at various companies that won't be very exciting. Around about this time we'll probably see the next language start rising in popularity.
Definitely not saying it was useless, just that the utility was limited because of the usual limitations of MDA; that is, it's definitely not the same as what people would think of as a dual-head setup today.

That said, I literally was born after Windows 3.0. So... I never personally dealt with such a setup. Maybe some day, as a matter of exploring older computers, I will get a chance to actually run such a setup and see what it was like.
Privacywall provides host level ad blocking

http://www.privacywall.org
Reminder that Wikimedia receives north of 100 million of USD per year, with the servers themselves costing 2 millions.
Simple, sane testing in R
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't say what Twitter moved to the cloud. It could be literally anything, and may not in fact be core tweet or user data.

This strikes me as a team (or teams) outgrowing the storage options that were offered internally and choosing to outsource to fit their needs. Isolated use for one business case, and not indicative of a broad movement to the cloud on the part of the whole org.

I could be wrong, of course.

I'd like to know more. And I'd certainly like to know what the engineers at Twitter think.
I went to write the exact same thing. I fear this will only happen more and more once edge becomes chrome... It is a sad state of things.
His attitude and the actions of his schoolmates, while wearing MAGA hats (well-connected to white privilege and racism now) are evidence of enormous and smug privilege. He knows that he is pretty much untouchable, as a white male coming from a wealthy family with connections, the system has been rigged in his favor for centuries. His look is one of bemused contempt, "look at this silly man with his drum, doesn't he know that I can do whatever I want?"

There are centuries of racial and cultural tension at play, which must not be ignored.
We'll never know is the real answer. How sooner would the modern lightbulb have been invented without Edison, the affordable automobile without Ford, etc. He put in the work and made it happen before anyone else, and that's damned important IMO.
Is there any move towards building dedicated animal crossing bridges? These have been proving very successful where deployed in the US.
Hmmm... I'm surprised eBay didn't go the Amazon route - see what's working well in the marketplace, and then sell it yourself.

For instance, there are clearly a lot of electronics that sold at below-market rates just because of the hassle of an auction. If eBay could "pose as a buyer" and buy items at a certain price point, re-sell them for a little more, they could make money on the margins. In fact, I'm certain a lot of people use eBay to do exactly this, I just don't know how large the market is.
Is there anything new here? Twitter announced this move back in May of last year: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

The video linked on the page is also from last August: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1zjmNAuMjs

Throw a 2018 tag on this?
also there are a lot of developers globally with looser morals because of different cultural values. in my experience anyone from a -stan country will make whatever you want as long as you give them a decent salary and a visa
This should be discouraged at a professional level
That thread looks rough. Kudos to the MR author for sticking it out.

@boleary-gl have you all considered having someone dedicate time each day / week to prioritizing community issues?
It might just be me, but those seem like very broad generalizations over a large number of unique cultures.
Polyacrylamide manufacturers, Zinc Oxide suppliers – aqhdchemical.com
I run Pi-hole too, can handle much more than the hosts file of a windows computer. It was a while since I used the hosts file to block ads but at that time the computer could lock up quite a while now and then, and the problem dissappeared when I cleared the hosts file again.

It's realy neat to get autoprotection for all your devices at the same time with the Pi-hole.

Just ad uBlock to the browser to remove the rest ads and get a much smother web experience without distractions :-)
You are not wrong. The message here is that whatever data was transferred, Google was able to handle hundreds of petabytes of data. It could just be billions of photos of cats
Wow. You understand that there are zero wild animals “designed” to live in a modern agricultural context, right?
Are these really the best possible version of the software? You can be an engineer and get away with using a hacked-together clone of some popular software program, but is the money really going to set you back farther than a good copy will set you forward?
The post on Twitter's side goes into more detail: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

Relevant technical bits:

> Today, we are excited to announce that we are working with Google Cloud to move cold data storage and our flexible compute Hadoop clusters to Google Cloud Platform. This will enable us to enhance the experience and productivity of our engineering teams working with our data platform.

> Twitter runs multiple large Hadoop clusters that are among the biggest in the world. In fact, our Hadoop file systems host more than 300PB of data across tens of thousands of servers.
Yet Amazon isn't better at any of this.

Same jumble of fonts, ropey hostile layout, it asks for reviews on products I haven't bought, suggests I might like to sell one, take out a subscription and shows ads for competing products. They also try and make the distinction between Amazon and marketplace as vague as possible.
You’re right, the UI is dated, but the 10% fees definitely drive away users
One downside to this approach is that you still see where the banner was with an "address not found" block. I switched to uBlock origin some time ago which I prefer as 1) it collapses the ad blocks so you never realise they were there, and 2) it auto-updates the block lists for you.
Perhaps they did a solid analysis, but Twitter doesn't appear to be a rational actor. Look at Jack Dorsey's recent interview as an example, at one point he names 3 separate things as priority #1: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-dorsey-twitter-int...

Apparently this is a trend going back years, it doesn't seem to be doing anything good for Twitter or Square: https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/big-twitter-investor-defen...
The line about privacy is bullshit.

This change is clearly targeting aggressive ad-blockers that are too dangerous, too capable to circumvent via anti-adblocking technologies.

And Safari's content blocking is a piece of shit that's too limited and that's easily circumvented. It's in fact the weakest adblocking capability around and doesn't pose a threat to publishers.
I think you won't be able to override the emergency shutdown thresholds in the firmware.

I'm a big free and open software advocate. I primarily use free and open source software, and try to open every line of code I write. I'd like to see the firmware on the open like the drivers. I just wanted to talk my understanding of hardware. If my comments sounded otherwise, I'm sorry, my bad.
Pardon the off-topic but I'm curious about the meat, does it have similarities with other common meats like beef, pork, chicken in terms of texture, fats and taste?
A16Z partner: fake it ‘til you make it
That crossed my mind the minute I read the headline too. I can imagine folks at Google getting excited about this first step...
Vanilla JavaScript:

function getSpells(person) {
if(person.type != "Wizard") throw new Error("person.type=" + person.type + " is not Wizard");
}
Looks like there's a 2nd edition of the book out [1] it's called, the Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D.

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/
Both nazi and communists took killing lightly or as manly honorable duty. They were German and Russians respectively. They believed they are doing right thing with no ambiguity. They had fun with it. They were more violent as western armies toward non combatants.

The original claim was about this particular unit. Assumption that they are representative of all brown people is wrong. Plenty of brown don't subscribe to this ideology.

Armies indoctrinate and socialize people differently. Implying racism on part of people who don't extrapolate one unit of one army behavior to all of them is not great tactic.
I've got the X1 Yoga (based on HN recommendations) and I'd really think carefully before getting it.

The Dolby HDR screens have a really bad red/pink tint out of the box (about +10% to +15% shift) and I had to buy a Spyder color colorimeter to fix it. The speakers are really terrible, even for speech-driven content like Duolingo. Using headphones isn't much improvement, the Realtek audio drivers are really bad with clicks whenever audio starts & stops (also happens on the X1 Extreme). [1]

Most notably, the laptop sometimes doesn't charge. The orange charging light would come on, but when I came back the next morning, the battery level hadn't increased. It would only charge while Windows was running. I think it's been fixed in a recent firmware update, but it's been frustrating.

I do love the keyboard and form factor though. I haven't returned it, but often wonder if I should've got a Surface Book or even a Dell instead. Honestly I'd switch back to Apple if I could trust their hardware to be reliable & upgradeable.

[1] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1-Ex...
With Twitter's current state and Google's moves to kill their social side, this is unlikely. Why buy a moderate sized social network when you just killed your similarly sized social network?
This is fantastic, actually. It flies in the face of end users, and there will be blow back.

Power users won't stand for this sort of thing and will switch to Firefox. Firefox, in turn, will gain greater development mindshare.

In aggregate, these privacy and "ads above all" stories will continue to taint the Google brand. Many of my layperson friends are starting to worry about their privacy when using Google products--it's a good thing!
Many people think the economy is a fixed pie. Do a quick google: inflation adjusted gdp per capita is increasing exponentially(!) over time as we find new ways to create wealth. If the pie were fixed our living standards should decrease over time as there’s more mouths to feed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=world+gdp+per+capita+over+ti...

I’m not saying local deviations don’t exist - I can lose my job - but globally wealth has been growing continuously and poverty is being eradicated. This is only possible with wealth creation. Look up Hans Rosling’s work.

https://goo.gl/images/QejAcY
If it's madcatz, expect all the sinking sub news articles to come.
I have tried several times do exactly that and have yet to succeed.
I honestly thought you were going to agree that this would be a lie. I thought you were saying lies are about knowingly spreading a falsehood. Once someone at Google has verified that it's false, how does its continued spread not become a lie in the same way that it would be if that person wrote the untrue statement?
Disclosure: I work at Google Cloud (and directly with Derek and the Twitter team).

I’ll try to edit this page tomorrow when I’m at a computer, but there’s much more information in Derek’s talk at NEXT [1]. They (rightfully) didn’t want to get into a detailed “this is what we saw on <X>”, but Derek alludes to their careful benchmarking across providers.

While you should always assume smart people make economically reasonable decisions, Derek’s point about savings is about list price differences that result from total system performance (and not any sort of special discounting). I’m hoping a follow-up talk will let us say more about how the migration is going, while this talk was focused on the decision to move part of (!) their Hadoop environment to GCP.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4FLFcWgZdo4