skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
punctuated evolution stipulates this very thing.
Can you control for education? Why is it a company's responsibility to counteract society's bias? Even if one company could succeed at that excellent goal, it'd be impossible for all companies in an area to follow that rule. Unless many people were unemployed.
Facebook is mainly hated here by Google employees or Google advocates because is some how more successul than them.
Certainly not an advertising apologist, but sometimes advertising attempts to provide information to alter consumer behavior in a way that is more optimal for the consumer and the advertisng vendor than it is pessimal for the original vendor. From a mpg(society) perspective, some urban commuter might do far better in a Prius than in, say, a Suburban. This might be the result of advertising and also a net gain for society. Also, sometimes really good things get underwritten NPR, Podcasts, etc (which might be like advertising).
"the international community with the US at the lead reached a faulty conclusion"

Mistakes can happen and be forgiven but deception is seldom forgotten. It didn't go down quite so innocently as you portray. It appears painfully obvious that there were/are many parties with economic and other interests who were behind what turned into a giant expensive catastrophe and killed hundreds of thousands. No one has even been reprimanded much less punished. A lot of them are still around trying to beat war drums for Syria. Trust was broken. The effects of that will go on for a long time and they aren't good.

re. North Korea
"There is no question as toward their progress nor their intentions."

Fully agree. Very much unlike Iraq (or even less Iran and Syria) NK is truly dangerous and leaving them to continue their present course doesn't seem wise.

Supporting almost no military adventures the US has engaged in over the last 30 years I would fully support any action necessary against NK. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

It's a shame someone has been calling wolf every few years for economic gains and now when a real wolf is at the door lots of people won't listen. Look at the comments on this thread. People don't trust. And with very good reason. But in the case of NK I think they are mistaken. If there is a place a germ or technology comes out of that kills half the globe it will be there. ISIS are a bunch of circus clowns in comparison.
I agree with you up until the mic comment.
I ran a few tests with friends. We talked about very obscure topics repeatedly (and nothing else) that we would otherwise would have never messaged, and after scrolling 2 mins, targeted ads appeared for those topics. Happened for multiple topics.
Resellers are pretty common in enterprise land. They'll manage all your subscriptions and give you a consolidated bill each month.
Very possible, but any refusal/dissuasion against considering such possibilities can equally serve propaganda. This observation is no more profound than the insight that advertising is usually trying to get you to buy something.
Are Boolean operation on the shapes supported? What background options are available? Looks nice. Will buy for Mac since OmniGraffle just isn't good enough to replace Visio.
Geez. Look at real exchanges... Not the price times the coins in circulation...

If you'd dump all that even across all major exchanges that support JPY, guess what, you will easily empty their order books followed by every other exchanges exploding into mass confusion with crazy arbitrage literally killing the market.

Has to be some off the book trade or auction when FBI sold a large sum.
Among other things, yes. I'm fairly sure you'd rather live in the US than North Korea, though. And I say that as someone who's not American and has a very dim view of capitalism and imperialism.
Yeah they're a little late to the party. Governments have been using this for years.
How Much Selling Is Too Much?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(journalism)#Anonymous_...
are you serious? Which app/phone?
I've been at both companies. I highly doubt HN is filled with Google employees bashing Facebook.
42% of the US population smoked daily. You really think that a hundred million people lit up daily with no "real" utility?
I believe it does exactly this. The rise of "rubber duck" debugging is a tool to extract this sort of thing, in fact.
But that would prevent Google releasing the closed source Chrome.. And if khtml had been GPL apple couldn't have released the closed source Safari browser based on it - which would have meant that webkit might never have become mainstream - and chromium probably would have never even existed.
Then, who are those people?
What are you talking about? You know trades go back and forth... Those are not some new coins that didn't already exist on the exchanges that just gets withdrawn from the exchanges on one go... Exchanges don't even have such amount of fiat to handle.
The HN set really doesn't seem to understand where the value of Facebook actually is. It's not the feed. The feed is mind numbing, time wasting garbage. It's being able to communicate and organise things, with all your friends, in the one place. It's in Facebook Messenger, which everyone has. It's in events organisation and events discovery. It's in groups.

Facebook supplies a directory of everything happening in my city, algorithmically curated against things Facebook thinks I will like and which my friends have said they're interested in attending. It lets me organise my own events, and communicate easily with attendees, who can see which of their friends are attending and make plans. It lets me make contact with people I briefly met in person but wouldn't have grabbed their phone number/wouldn't text them out of the blue yet (because who does that?).
> PiCloud ... one of the best products I've used

It was so wonderful. And I was so disappointed that Multyvac (http://www.multyvac.com/) dropped the ball. I thought I'd be able to continue using the service ...

BTW, Multyvac has one of the more hilarious "trusted by" sections I've seen on the internet.
The problem may be that Arduino is too forgiving.

Isn't that the same argument for using xml over html?
My general feeling from the comments I've seen over the years is that HN is not keen on market leading companies in general. I suspect it could be due to a selective audience since the site is tailored to entrepreneurs and startups.
I just call my friends up. Crazy, I know.

I don't need an algorithmic feed to tell me what my interests are and what my friends are doing because I know the first and there are other ways of doing the latter that don't involve giving up my privacy.
Website appears to be refusing connections.
ASICs can't be changed.
The Star is also vaporware. It was announced over a year ago, and is still not available for sale.

The Tre was in the same situation for a while. It's no longer even listed on their products page...
Death by Hamburger
The phrase "responding to criticism" appears twice in your link and "the criticism" appears once. There are no sources for the actual criticism or where it appeared, it's like an abstract thing. Such is Techcrunh
Mod: Please add the year (2016)
> Sometimes the examples are too few or don't fully exemplify options of particular functions

TBH, that's why actual documentation is there. Examples can never really cover everything something can [or cannot] do.
If I were going to take a very high-profile job as the head of a failing company with the mandate that I fix it, a high probability of failure, constant criticism from the press, the issues around being a woman leader in a major silicon valley company, and low expectation of another similar gig after, you bet your sweet ass I would negotiate a golden parachute.

Did she make some mistakes? Yeah. The weekend redesign of the logo was probably insulting to a lot of people at the company, and it seemed kind of ridiculous to people outside the company.

But the bottom line is that for the rest of her career she's going to be branded as the woman who failed to save Yahoo!. A much more likable Carly Fiorina. Likable, but still a failure.

That's a shit thing to have to live with, but it's a risk she took. Who is going to hire her next? She's way over qualified for most positions in the tech industry, and she will always be perceived as under qualified as a CEO.

You take a risk like that, you deserve the reward she got. Her career is toast for a while unless she starts something up on her own, which she has the money to do.

What kind of package would you trade in exchange for likely never being able to work in your capacity anymore and having your name very publicly and widely shit all over?

I'd take everything I could get if I thought that was going to happen. The board made a deal with her, and she took it. I don't see a problem. Good for her.

Also, considering so many of the comments in this thread about how this has nothing to do with her being a woman--what do you think the HN threads are going to look like when Kalanick gets kicked out of Uber and makes millions?

Guarantee you there won't be any criticism. The narrative will be that he was a smart guy who made a savvy deal.
Are you suggesting that only Google employees can hate and distrust Facebook?
Facebook is training rats in a maze. At least the theory is the same. So the question then is, are you a rat in a maze?
Sadly, same here. We need a show HN for replicating a static website via whatever the currently best value proxy/cache/CDN is.
Holy Moly, thanks for pointing that out!
Fair point - people finding value in something doesn't imply that it's a net positive.

That said, I'm not convinced that the value Facebook provides is net negative.
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There is lots of blame to go around with re Iraq. Our intelligence, Saddam himself (calling a bluff he could not possibly win, the cat-mouse game, in addition to just being a tyrant), opposition, Shiites, many western countries (but curiously Russia opposed) etc.

It may not seem like it from the way I write, but I was utterly devastated when the congress approved the plans. But I take one incident at a time. I try not to color unrelated things.
It's so new and so massive that decisions made there affect the world in unpredictable ways.

It's compelling to talk about the effects, clearly people care about it, so it will be written about.
This is true.
There have been many many many discussions over the years as to whether open source licenses are gratuitous.
The general view (i'm just trying to sum up all the posts on all the open source counsel and legal networks i belong to in a few sentences, sorry!) is that the vast majority require at least some consideration (even in the form of attribution) in exchange for the rights they offer.

As far as i'm aware, legally, giving attribution attribution in exchange for a thing has been held to be plenty consideration since nearly the dawn of time.

(Even giving up the right to sue for warranty claims would likely be sufficient consideration, but no open source license explicitly says that, they just disclaim there are warranties, which is not quite the same)

There are some that are significantly more problematic.
WTFPL is a good example of a maybe-gratuitous license.

Common ones have clear consideration (agreements to do certain things with your patent rights for downstream users, etc).

I have not yet found anyone who believes you would have a strong argument that most open source licenses are gratuitous.

Agreement to do a thing you didn't have to do (give attribution, include a copy of a license, whatever) in exchange for something, is plenty consideration.
In my case, someone who thinks that it dumbs-down the population, leaving them in an echo chamber of made-up bullshit, lifestyle signalling and narcissism.

My position does ignore the positive aspects of Facebook like finding old acquaintances, coordinating social events etc, but then even cannibalism has its bright sides.
This, uh... It just doesn't appear to be anything criminal.

I mean, it's not even unsavory. It's not embezzlement. It's not fraud. It's not even spam.

Is it a waste of electricity?

Oh... I guess so...

Yeah, wasting electricity is "kind of" irksome. Maybe. (depending on context)
Zuckerberg said plainly that people who trust him are "dumb fucks", so I have what I think is the natural response and don't trust him. It's not complicated.
Well, hey. There's the utility I guess - it makes something I want to do (find out how and when I can hang out with my friends) much simpler than it was previously. If I want to see some live music on a Thursday it's a lot easier to mark myself as "interested" on the gig and see who contacts me about wanting to come along than messaging or calling the 30-40 people who might be interested.
I don't have a strong opinion about your general question, but this is easily explainable:

> Safety Check is a wonderful feature. If I remember correctly, it started off as an internal hackathon project that got turned into a full feature. They get shit if they turn it on (here), and if they don't turn it on (past tragedies where they failed to turn it on).

It's just not the same people doing the complaining. That some people complained about the feature not being on doesn't mean there are no negatives to turning it on, and now people affected by those negatives are complaining.

Or to draw a more absurdist comparison, let's say Facebook had a switch. If they pull it, I get punched in the face. If they don't pull it, you get punched in the face. Now, when they pull it, I'm understandably upset and demand they stop pulling it. When they listen to my complaint and stop pulling it, you are suddenly upset and tell them to keep pulling it. Seems like Facebook just can't catch a break? Or are they simply trying to serve customers with competing needs, something every business has to deal with?

I don't think this situation is special to Facebook, so I think a likely explanation for your initial question(Why does everything Facebook do have to be so heavily criticized?) would be that this is something common to large businesses trying to serve competing interests, and you notice Facebook more because Facebook is very large and has lots of users.
FreeNAS 9.x did not include virtualization. If this was just a 9.x.y release, why would it include major architectural changes like virtualization?
I couldn't disagree more with this statement. Omnigraffle 7 blows Visio away.
This bug was in code which very few applications would ever use, and its manifestation is quite specific, so it's no surprise that it was never discovered. I don't doubt that more of these "benign" bugs exist in other exotic pieces of code in the kernel; in light of this, perhaps the saying should be "given enough bugs, all eyeballs are shallow."
Actual empirical studies that show they DON'T get any value from it, and that it actually makes people more miserable on the whole?
>"Ok, I had to make a throwaway for this because apparently its a heated debate."

I am curious why do you feel the need to make a throwaway account because something is a "heated debate."?
Strategically there is sometimes advantage in not letting the enemy know what you know (how you define enemy is another question, but it's reasonable to observe that we have antagonistic relationships with some countries). The alternative is a siege mentality. If you systematically throw up defences ASAP every time you discover a vulnerability, and an enemy discovers a vulnerability but does observe any defensive preparations, the enemy now knows that they have an operational advantage over you and is incentivized to deploy it for maximum effect.

Obviously this is only a thumbnail sketch rather than an exhaustive exploration of strategy. But it's a subject I read and think about a good deal. Pretty much every military thinker through history has emphasized the value of surprise and the ability to set the tempo of battle.
Interesting. So reputation would act as a mediator for decision making then? Those with greater reputation would have more influence, and theoretically this should work because reputation would be gained only when other people notice that the person has done something beneficial/helpful in their eyes. Overall that should result in high reputation values being directly correlated to those who are altruistic and good.

It's definitely a cool concept. The main problem being I think is incentive to adopt. Without the weight of reputation having meaning behind it, no one will care and thus the intended effect disappears.
We both had our phones (one iPhone, one android) and macbooks on with facebook (web/app) open.
4 years later, and I have missed out on invitations to a few parties I probably didn't want to go to, and one that comes to mind that I did want to go to, but found out about with enough time anyway. I honestly believe they've done a fantastic job convincing you it's more important to you than it is.

It sounds like from your examples you're the perfect case for lock-in they are after. It's penetrated your business and family life so much you're afraid to leave it. That bothered me when I started to feel like that, which is why I left. Since then so many other things have happened (there's a link-fest from another commenter on this thread that I won't bother to compete with - thanks) that I'm pretty good with accepting that I might have missed out on a few things as a result.
It is weird that Facebook always get bashed for privacy and Google (who is even worse in that aspect) always get a free pass, just saying.
I went looking but can't find the thread again. It was on the Seattle-themed subreddit so there's a better than even chance that it was yanked by one of the overbearing moderators there.
> I just call my friends up. Crazy, I know.

There's nothing wrong with calling friends up, but that takes a lot of work and a synchronous connection between two people. There are hundreds of people I want to know about or stay in touch with but don't have the time to call them all up individually.

Facebook makes being friends easier. That's a pretty solid value add. I would probably lose a lot of friends more easily if I didn't have Facebook.

You may not value that, but I find it much more valuable than the value I'd gain from making sure Facebook doesn't know enough about me to show me relevant ads.
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Interesting. Maybe it would have been more accurate to say my former managers loved an entrepreneurial spirit. Don't have as much experience with HR directly.
They don't just have lots of users, they have more users than any country in the history of the world (that's 1.9 billion monthly users). Therefore there are potentially massive, world-changing consequences to everything they do, and even those who don't use it can't opt out of the effects.

Do you really feel like a non-democratic oligarchy (or more inflammatory language, a dictator) should have that much power?

edit: posted too much to make a proper reply, but China is only at 1.3 billion and is obviously a lot more localized
Don't live the life of others, is not your problem.
Are you kidding me? This is not a "wonderful feature" this is a blatant attempt to capitalize on disasters and turn it into user engagement which becomes ad revenue for Facebook. Give me a break.
This book [1] is fascinating, and there's not much out there with the same info that isn't buy the same author or his circle of friends. There are a couple youtube videos.

Humans (who's livelyhood depend on it) can understand what birds are talking about. There's a story in there about an african safari tour guide driving along slowly with tourists and when he hears a certain sound, pulls over and shows his customers a rad snake or a lion.

One of the themes of the book is (re)learning how to do this, and how it can be therapeutic(?) and is a great form of _meditation_

The book's site had bird call recordings (probably not the same bird as the OP!) for those that are looking for them.

[1] https://www.hmhbooks.com/whattherobinknows/
It's not speculation, in my opinion, because the "Safety Check" feature gives the impression that every human being potentially affected by a terrorist attack/natural disaster/unfortunate circumstance is completely and totally unsafe (killed, raped, beaten, burned, and so on) lest they broadcast their safeness to Facebook.

It's one thing to scream "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, but is it not equally damaging to imply that loved ones are in danger lest they broadcast their safety on your platform?
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> I think the use of those inline-emojis on a message are a good indicator of importance. That could be another feature for the logistic regression.

Upon first reading that, I thought you meant that more emojis implies more importance, and I was very curious about what kind of conversations you and your peers were having on Slack
Don't forget, avrgcc can generate hex files for atmel chips without dragging a whole IDE around.
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I'd like to read a document that lists pros/cons of using FreeNAS vs just standard FreeBSD. To me it's not sufficient to just read something like "you're building a NAS, so of course you should use FreeNAS".

Okay, but why? Other than a GUI, what makes FreeNAS better than vanilla FreeBSD? The GUI isn't important to me.

I think I might know one other advantage? From perusing various discussions in the past I've gotten the impression that FreeNAS is more proactive than FreeBSD when it comes to fixing bugs related to storage. Is that true?
Facebook's hooks are my relationships. Leveraging relationships in order to drive engagement isn't problematic in itself; that's just the business Facebook is in, and I accept that by using the site. But there are ways and means. Facebook's all too often feel so tone-deaf it's insulting, given the special nature of the content I've entrusted to them. Safety check's radical over-inclusiveness is an example. And the rates they charge even the nonprofit fundraisers - that strikes me as just shameless.
China has more people than Facebook has users.
Thank you. Even if things are a little different for every person as they naturally are, this is good advice and I genuinely appreciate the positive attitude. As someone who has struggled with depression quite a bit, I generally have a knee-jerk reaction to "just be positive" advice, but this really sits a nice middle ground between "be positive" and "find a way to be as positive as you can".
You can always find something to talk about in the code, though. You can start by just describing what each line does, in your opinion. Then you can go back and start to group the lines - e.g. "lines 1-3 are the initialization, lines 4-6 are probably intended to flurb the glorb", etc. Yes, it's possible that you can find an interviewee who is great technically but shuts down during an interview. The question is how much time and effort you want to invest digging for that person, especially in light of such studies.
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