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Re:Show HN: Fraidycat
on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:27PM (#22550904)
This is great. Would love to see an import from twitter/reddit subs feature in the extension.
Re:Ask HN: Help geeting back Deleted Facebook page/app
on Sunday October 23, 2011 @02:02PM (#3146777)
what is the page/app?
Re:Dart language
on Monday October 10, 2011 @03:48AM (#3092690)
Re:Ask HN: any light after quitting career at big software companies?
on Friday September 30, 2011 @03:09PM (#3058191)
Come talk to us at Facebook. We try very hard in our culture to avoid the bad things you mention above. Send me a message (my contact information is on my profile).
http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Facebook-EI_IE4...
Re:Facebook fixes logout issue
on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @04:52PM (#3045184)
user_id:389472984 isn't anonymized. Aggregated and anonymized data means, "gender:male ages:18-34"
Facebook Timeline vs Google+: Vision = Product Manifestation
Re:Facebook is scaring me
on Saturday September 24, 2011 @06:45PM (#3034534)
This is an excellent point, let me pass that on to the platform permissions people.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Hides Google+ account
on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @05:05PM (#2760680)
Re:Facebook Design Getting All Hipster
on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @06:15AM (#2754190)
Interesting. I'll file a bug. Thanks for the info.
Re:Facebook Design Getting All Hipster
on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @06:10AM (#2754180)
I'm curious, what browser/OS are you using? Your screenshots look different from my view of the site, specifically, the text is either displaced or enlarged in your screenshots, making it look weird.
Re:Facebook Design Getting All Hipster
on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:28AM (#2754125)
The spirit of that slogan is more like "Move fast and don't be afraid to disrupt established patterns". The intention is to give employees licence to think out of the box and try out lots of new ideas, without being bogged down by what has gone before. Everyone I've talked to (I personally don't have a lot of experience at jobs outside of Facebook and academia) agrees that Facebook offers you unparalleled freedom to go forth and have impact, unencumbered by red tape and naysayers.
That's not to defend API breakages or incomplete documentation and the pain it causes developers -- I'm not directly involved, but I know that we're definitely trying to get that turned around and fix some of the issues with Facebook Platform.
Facebook launches new feedback metrics for apps, changes enforcement process
Re:Facebook users drop in the US and Canada
on Monday June 13, 2011 @06:15AM (#2648589)
134 points, 76 comments, and maybe 3 of them critically examining the methodology :/
Facebook Facial Recognition: undeserved outrage?
Re:You won't find FSF on Facebook
on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @11:14PM (#2282791)
Actually, we're mostly the mouth, teeth and tongue of Big Brother. Which He then uses to eat babies. And His teeth are sharp indeed.
Re:$3 million machine learning prize
on Saturday January 29, 2011 @02:35AM (#2154982)
You're perhaps right. Of course, these people are on things like Facebook, Twitter and blogs and if you can narrow down age, gender, location and medical condition, you might be able to correlate with public posts.
You can also look for specific people in there if you have certain kinds of prior information about them: For example, Aravind Narayanan was able to de-anonymize some part of the Netflix set [http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610105]. Maybe that won't translate to this data.
Re:$3 million machine learning prize
on Friday January 28, 2011 @08:41PM (#2154303)
Oooh. This is just begging for a privacy firestorm when someone de-anonymizes the data, which I'm guessing won't be super hard given the kind of medical features they'd need to provide to make this task useful.
Re:Greplin (YC W10) open sources 10-15x faster protocol buffers for Py...
on Friday January 28, 2011 @04:18AM (#2151302)
I think you'll find py-yajl to be faster than any of the other Python JSON modules: https://github.com/rtyler/py-yajl
Re:Facebook blames Zuckerberg embarrassment on API 'bug'
on Thursday January 27, 2011 @03:28PM (#2149316)
A bandersnatch ate the anti-hacking chip we'd installed.
Re:What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:22AM (#2119251)
This is a possibility, I'd have to ask around to see it is the case. If so, I apologize for the snarky tone in my first comment.
Re:What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:15AM (#2119240)
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=foo
'Web Results' in the left hand column. I agree with you about emphasis/focus.
Re:What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:10AM (#2119230)
That box searches the web. It even uses Bing.
Re:What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:08AM (#2119226)
You know what would be cool? If the author went to www.facebook.com, found the rather prominent input box on top called 'Search', and tried putting something in it.
There's a lot that can be improved, but Facebook already has a search engine. One that even produces Bing results, like the OP wants.
Re:Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?
on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @01:21PM (#2046212)
Thanks, that's cool. I'll post it on our team group.
Re:Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?
on Monday December 27, 2010 @06:50PM (#2044038)
Sorry I didn't respond earlier. We work on basically any data-analysis-intensive part of the site, including basic research into what people are using the site for, how features proliferate, deduping and disambiguation on the graph, machine learning, recommendations.
My Facebook profile is on my HN profile, and is the best way to contact me.
Re:Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?
on Monday December 27, 2010 @06:48PM (#2044034)
Not sure why, but I didn't get your message on Facebook.
Re:Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?
on Thursday December 23, 2010 @10:13PM (#2036478)
(I work on this team at Facebook)
There are definitely sensitive issues, but IMO the limiting factor to putting out more cool analyses is that packaging these up for public consumption takes time and effort, and there is a _lot_ on our plate for a small team. Lisa (the author) was a very smart and productive intern.
If you're qualified and want to help, drop me a line or go to facebook.com/careers
Re:Facebook Slaps Google: “Openness Doesn’t Mean Being Open When It’s ...
on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:02PM (#1888120)
It's interesting how noone wants to actually respond to the arguments that Mike Vernal is making, instead resorting to the equivalent of "Facebook is evil, how dare they say they aren't!".
Re:Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:38PM (#1887427)
Why can't you just get them from Gmail?