TicklishTiger

I would assume that the code is open source?

For some reason, I did not manage to find it. Neither linked from this article, nor via the MediaWiki page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid

Nor via the Phabricator page:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/487/

What am I missing?

The way Twitter works for me is to select very carefully whom to follow. And to turn off retweets from everybody. If somebody tweets fluff, I immediately unfollow them.

It completely escapes me, what you can do with Instagram. You cannot do text posts. You cannot put links in your posts. I have never seen a single intelligent discussion taking place on Instagram. What do you use it for?

As I said, there are technical issues every other month with Ebay. While Amazon does not even have technical issues every other year.

That is what my question is about.

What is the root cause, that one team is creating 10x more solid technology then the other?

I am a fan of Twitter. It is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram. But when it comes to development quality, Twitter reminds me of Ebay. The technology just does not seem solid. Every other month, something goes wrong.

I wonder if there is a systematic difference between companies with solid development and companies with wonky development. Is there a different hiring philosophy in place? A different type of tech stack? A different management structure?

Just a week ago, Twitter lost over 20% market cap because they noticed that they were showing people device-personalized ads even though they were opted out of that. After they fixed it, revenues went down.

In other words, a stunning 10 billion dollar of Twitters market cap was based on the illusion that the tech was working as expected. While in reality it was wrecking havoc.

Is it really possible that a feature that makes up a quarter of the companies value is not being tested?

The prefix is just a shorter hash. It specifies a set of urls. The urls that have a hash which begins with that prefix.

    Apple insists that Safari doesn't reveal
    a different bit of information, the webpages
    Safari users visit

Insists how? Was there a public statement? A phone call? With whom? An email? From whom?

Is it normal journalism to just say "Company X says ..." without stating who of the company stated it and how?

If it is true what the article claims, that they give hashes to Tencent, then this statement is false:

    Apple insists that Safari doesn't reveal
    a different bit of information, the webpages
    Safari users visit.

Because a hash is an id for a set of pages. That is not what you mean when you say it doesn't reveal the pages.

    If anything happens in the society there's
    always a person who made the decision

Imagine a green field of gras.

People start walking on it. In all kinds of directions.

Slowly paths through the grass start to emerge.

Those paths attract more people to walk on those.

The stronger the path through the grass, the more people use it.

Finally, there is one clearly visible path through the grass everyone uses.

Who made the decision?

Nowadays, I either include javascript as a module or as a module dependency. I am still not sure if these will work with the given code:

As a module:

    <script type="module" src="Chart.js"></script>

As a module dependency:

    import * as chart from 'Chart.js';

How do you check if a machine is using jackson-databind?

Now that we have Javascript modules, is all this trickery on top of a library like this one still needed?

This is how the Chart.js code begins:

    (function (global, factory) {
    typeof exports === 'object' && typeof module !== 
    'undefined' ? module.exports = factory() :
    typeof define === 'function' && define.amd ? 
    define(factory) :
    (global.Chart = factory());
    }(this, (function () { 'use strict';
    ... now comes all the code ...

I have no idea how to read this, what this means and how to invoke a construct like this.

The one thing I really can not get over with Tesla is the dashboard. That giant screen that looks so misplaced.

Cars always used to be the pinnacle of thought out design. And Tesla is supposed to be catering the more stylish crowd I think.

I wonder how they decided to place a standard screen to the right of the driver.

It will be interesting to see if other car manufacturers will adopt this design decision. Then it would be a bit like in the smartphone world, where ugly camera bumps on the back are the norm now.

There are almost no physical products that you can not get in a nice design these days. Everything seems to exist in perfectly designed versions. Headphones, tables, knifes, socks, glasses, lamps, bed sheets ... It's fascinating that phones are the one type of product that fell off a cliff. Will cars be next?

3. Approaching hot girls.

I'm often surprised that there is not more discussion about hacking the sexual market place on Hacker News.

We talk a lot about growth hacking and hacking technical systems. Hacking in the meaning of "Using intelligent, unusual approaches to gain an advantage over the typical approach". Yet for sexual market place it's completely silence here on HN.

That's great.

Is there also a bundler-meta-audit the somewhere, so I can audit bundler-audit and it's dependencies? If not, maybe we should start a kickstarter for it?

It must be possible to do a/b tests on FB?

Maybe they don't show the variations but just a random one?

Is this legal?

A text is a copyrighted work. Users that post reviews on a site license their text to that site. That does not mean anybody can just copy the text and republish it.

From the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs."

From your profile, I see you are a freelancer. Are you on Toptal yourself?

I'm pretty good at vetting developers myself. So I have the feeling that at Toptal I would pay a premium for something I don't need. They also seem to spend a lot on advertising.

Additionally, I get the impression that Toptal would get between me and the developers. I don't know why. It sounds a bit like that.

My feeling is that I would prefer a "slim" market place.

"Pretty sure" how?

Google trends seems to indicate the opposite.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=turing%20award,tu...

But it's not about "well known" anyhow. It's about significance. A turing test winning chat bot would be a much bigger breakthrough then an incremental improvement in image and text classification.

I have the feeling this got so many upvotes because people think this is related to the turing test. And that we have a chatbot now that can trick the average person into thinking it's a human.

It's not.

It's about some incremental progress in making neuronal networks classify stuff.

Javascript again... That means putting the balls of my visitors in your hands. I would not do that. It does not feel ethical to me.

I wish there was an ad network that works with static html elements.

Hmm...

If me and 3 designers would start a new project, we would use our original HN accounts to communicate. Put our names on the project and link to our other projects and social media presences.

And we would for sure announce it on our Twitter accounts.

None of this happened here. Why?

It looks strangely anonymous.

Who runs ContextCue?

Where is it located?

Yup. We're going where the puck is going.

That is not related to tokens. You could ask those question to any merchant. No matter if they sell chewing gum or tokens. A merchant better watches out to not take fake notes.

The token issuer sells a box of 100 tokens to a store. And charges the store $110. Just like a chewing gum merchant sells a box of 100 chewing gums to a store.

Last time I checked, there was chewing gum in stores.

Luckily, with native javascript modules, there is no need for any of this anymore.

We switched our whole codebase to <script type=module> and it's such a joy now.

Never going back to bundlers. Never going back to having a compilation step on the server.

    What does your token issuer do
    when the purchase of a token is revoked?

Nothing. The token issuer is not involved in that. He just sells and buys tokens.

When Joe buys an apple from you with a dollar note and you bring that note to your bank - what does the bank do when Joe returns the apple to you? Nothing.

Instagram does not make you sign up to browse.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/ycombinator/

This seems to be the url to browse tags on pixelfed.social:

https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ycombinator

Unfortunately it wants you to sign in.

    figure out how to deal with fraud

The token issuer would just has to stoically do two things and two things only:

1: Sell tokens for $1.10 each 2: Buy them back for $1.00 each

Done. No fraud issues.

    it didn't shake out that way because
    most people ended up "investing"

No. It didn't shake out because current crypto currencies all are totally overambitious, overengineered solutions so none of them managed to create a bearable user experience.

- They want you to put a fu..... app on your phone. People hate that.

- Then they want you to send fiat to some company involved in crypto. So your bank might mark you as a criminal.

- Then they want you to guess some transaction fee that will get your payments through.

- Then they make you wait an undefined amount of time before the transaction counts.

The reason for this mess is that all the crypto currencies used Bitcoin as their blueprint for their design. And only made minor adjustments to how it works. Bitcoin has a lot of interesting properties. But they are not needed for every day transactions. Yet, it pays an insanely high price (in terms of complexity, usability and performance) to achieve those.