ducuboy

Focused on what exactly?

> We launched the first of these experiences last week with Moments, a great beginning, and a bold peek into the future of how people will see what's going on in the world.

Wonder what's next, because with Moments it feels like they still have no idea what to do with this platform. It would be such a pity to turn Twitter into TV-like manually curated breaking news channels.

Heh, "Updated in Real Time", like a unicorn flight tracker board.

Oh I didn't even know they had a desktop app.

I'm using Mailbox exclusively on iPhone/iPad so your post title got me worried, you could be more precise ;)

Oh the good old days..

I was rendering WML/CHTML/XHTML with Wurfl depending on UAs from hacked ASP.NET.

Then iPhone appeared and ruined everything ;)

I would say that Hacker News' few hundred thousand users are extremely significant both for YC and web-wise. I really hope we'll not end up with a Facebook-only Internet because that's the only service big enough to keep running.

Of course this can't be DoubleClick only.

But please tell us more about the business model, I see you're a Google employee.

My point is that this project is not about providing value to the user. Google could have done that more easily.

It may not be so sinister because it's a badly thought out approach indeed. Although they got quite a few big partners already, this undertake requires rewriting the whole Web which is too much to ask even if you are Google.

Ok but that still shows how much Google cares about open standards.

And did you just say "few tens of millions" of users is insignificant? How many users are we here on Hacker News again?

A platform for sharing ad revenue.

They deliver all the amp-ads via that single piece of js, and will share some of the revenue with the publishers. It's not a bad idea after all, if only they had presented it for what it is: a Google fork of the Web. The "performance story" is just the bullshit.

Exactly.

Indeed, also Google Chrome.

Absolute control.

What about RSS? That offered good performance, was widely adopted and was a real standard working for both publishers and consumers.

Remember who actually killed it? Yeah, that was also Google.. by discontinuing their Reader - a very good tool with lots of users but no revenue. That's how much open standards matter. Too bad @aaronsw is not around anymore, he would have said something about AMP.

No joke, it's all about the money. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10358945

AMP is just broken HTML, hardly a standard.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.c...

Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10358945

What annoys me is how Google is selling this project. At least Facebook is honest about their Instant Articles.

This isn't an "open standard" guys, and it's not about performance! It's about the single piece of js that's allowed on AMP pages and the amp-tags such as <amp-ad> and <amp-pixel> that only Google controls. Performance is just the story they are selling in exchange of absolute control of the Web. After all, any publisher can easily clean up their websites as they ought to do to make it AMP compliant, but use valid HTML tags instead of the invalid amp-tags. Google could have easily promoted performance by applying penalties to heavy pages via Page Rank. But it's not about performance. It's all about the money.

> I suspect the reason that Twitter is cutting off apps from using its “friend finder” feature is because...

How did this happen? I've been using Twitter API these past years but I'm not aware of this "friend finder" feature. Getting friends/followers is still there in the REST API.

Interesting concept and good looks, but the initial movie selection can be irrelevant - it is for me. I'd like to see the results but I couldn't go through skipping that many movies.

You could let the user search and select the 14 movies, or integrate with imdb.com if possible and get user's top rated movies for evaluation.

Cool hack you TopChart guys! Btw do they say how many teams will be accepted in YCF?

Btw, Johnny Walker was a teetotaler.

“John (Johnnie) Walker (1805 – 1857) was a Scottish grocer, who originated what would become one of the world’s most famous whisky brand names,Johnnie Walker, despite the fact he was himself a teetotaler”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(grocer)

I meant if you gave it up.

Wow, this really took off, looks like the right thread for a Friday. (original poster here, sorry I couldn't make the poll, not enough karma - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339667)

As I was saying, I am alcohol abstinent for about two weeks. I had been a daily drinker before, mainly beer, living in Belgium. I am not Belgian myself but I totally love Belgian beers. I tried them all. It's maybe the #1 reason to live here. There are several motives why I started this teetotaler challenge: I sometimes put myself to such challenges just to make my strong will stronger, I want to get healthier (this is debatable I know), and my wife said I couldn't do it :P

The thing is that my sleep pattern changed since I started this. I am waking up very early and tired around 6:30, though my alarm is set at 8:30. I turn in not very late, around 23:00. And I am tired most of the time. There might be other reasons for it (excited about my start-up and still doing the 9 to 5 as a contractor), but I'm wondering if any of you guys experienced this when you gave up alcohol.

Oh I heard of similar cases, sorry about that.

Hehe, you owe me some karma ;) Just kidding, thanks for the poll, I voted for the teetotalers, surprised how many they are.

Great, have you ever been a drinker?

Don't have enough karma to create a poll, there are the two options below as comments

Teetotaler

Drinker

Exactly my point here

"The Beginning of Big Twitter" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8262519

How do you cope with this problem? How many accounts do you follow? Can you recommend any solution to filter out the noise?