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@dang - Normally I agree with you, but I do feel in this instance, especially in regards to him trusting (or once trusting) a third party with his data that the quote is appropriate. It wasn't a troll comment to any HN'er but more of an observation of the pot calling the kettle black. Zuckerberg is absolutely 'trusting' that CA has deleted the data that they gained from FB. While it may be often brought up on HN, its one of Zuckerberg more profound quotes (especially in regards to privacy of information) and speaks to how he sees the world, the difference now is he's on the other side of the coin and we are getting to watch him deal with it.
How does this work ? Any descriptions of it would be very informative. Also congrats
Unless the US Military is being extremely careless, attribution of malware is extremely difficult and, aside from leaks, almost impossible to accurately attribute.
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You're assuming that targeting people's finances is the best way to leverage the data collected. In Facebook's case, they are using it to literally assert influence over masses of people. When other groups get access to that same data, then they too can use that data to assert influence because that's literally what the platform has been developed into (not implying this was Facebook's intent all along).

I think these groups targeting your pocket book may have the most immediate effect on your person -- however -- I don't think it's the scariest or most malicious outcome.
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A huge part of what yahoo were was the dotcom bubble. They're like a personification (firmification?).

People could see the internet was a big deal. People could see that oligopolies would be important. They assumed early movers would own the market. Investors and startups were right about a lot of things, but it was enough to be wrong about one or two things... Yahoo did better than most.

No one knew how long it would take for the internet to "get there," and the implications for early movers. In retrospect, I think this was knowable, but everyone made this mistake.

More importantly, no one knew what businesses would be valuable online.

Servers would become amazon's main moneymaker. They achieved (along with others) the goal of becoming a retailer on a scale not yet seen then, but servers are a better business. Go figure.

Search, holiday rentals & distinct categories of social networking became monopolies, and great businesses. The Encyclopedia became better than anyone imagined, but not a business. Retail margins never improved. Free online video never became a business. Online news is barely a business. Email is not a business. ebay would stay exactly the same. Go figure.

Stress on the news point. News was the centrepiece business of almost any other media sector, print, tv, radio, teletex... online, it's a dud.

All this stuff had to be figured out.

Yahoo started from logical premises. You couldn't find anything online, so they made a directory. There wasn't much online, so they published stuff for people to read. They surveyed the two, saw more potential in the latter. Huge mistake.

It just wasn't obvious at the time. The better the directory/search got, the less time people spent there. People spent time looking at news and stocks and stuff. ...That's where the ad money will be, like TV. It was not ilogical, it was just not true.

Who knew that search advertising would be a $100bn blue chip business and "content advertising" would be mostly penis enlargment and diet tricks? Surely yahoo finance would be a premium ad seller? no? really? search & facebook, the online tabloid?

A lot of stuff still doesn't make sense. Youtube. Why isn't youtube a serious business? People watch 1bn hours of youtube per day! TV ads are a thing. A big deal, in fact. They don't pay anything for content. Google already has a massive ad business. For the life of me... youtube should be as bigger business than facebook.. certainly bigger than netflix.

Incidentally, almost every news site tries to force/trick me into watching videos (not even always ads). ...hints at how bad a business news is, that they want a sliver of what youtube have so desperately.

TLDR: Yahoo had to guess a lot of future, and place bets. It turned out that these bets could be placed 5-10 years later, with much better chances of being right and without missing out on much. Hard gig Yahoo.
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It was standard crisis management PR sermon.

"learn from this experience", "doesn't change what happened in the past. ", "responsibility", "going forward", "together".

You find this same boilerplate from athletes who beat their wife, do drugs, or kill people.
http://archive.is/VsIV7 works for me.
I created an app back in 2009, to grant myself access and look around.

Saw too much information about friends, realized some friends began "using" my app, just because it was made by me. Realized all the quizzes and dumb polls are data-gathering apps for the developers.

Realized, all the awkward "friend requests" from other side of the world, are fake profiles, to gather more data.

Made a fake profile, to seem from a different part of the continent, with such an awkward for us name. Facebook recommended me to befriend people from that area. Some accepted the friend request. Soon I had 30+ friends on a fake profile, all within the same "web" of friends, within same region.

Then I made more of those fake profiles, and made more fake apps with same theme, since this soo easy, for this and other regions which I suspected had hot women, and I was 25ish single at the time. My devious plan was to get outside my own social network and cast my net to catch the women who my algorithm would say - they are not on the edge of their own social network - they are a hub a popular and single etc. But that was too much work to complete. Later facebook gave me the graph search query where one could say "friend of my friends and single in this city", but that was still meh compared to what I had planned - since I would be doing the data gathering and analysis.

I wanted to catch the woman who had good privacy settings, those not show up on fb own searches, those not installing my app, but appearing in friend list of those who do accept fake friend requests or use dumb quizz apps. Those who appear to be recommended by many fake profiles.
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My spidey sense tingled on the sentence just previous:

"Filtering means removing the high frequency components from the signal"

Sure, it can mean that. To claim it always and only means that, even in the context of periodic waveforms, makes me question the authors understanding of the subject.
Then make "no requests for users email" part of the terms of using the API?
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Once the toothpaste (data) is out of the tube (FB data center) its hard to put back (manage). An option would be to remove or hash (different nonce for every share of data) identifying information and add noise to the various metrics gathered. That way, the results of an analysis cannot be used to target individuals.

Short of some breakthrough in homomorphic encryption sharing data for analysis is problematic. Penalties can be enforced but the data is out at that point.
Heh. I didn't even try because my machines blackhole their address space.

A decision that looks better every day.
Yeah, technology is basically a lever that increasingly grants larger power multipliers to those with access.

When high leverage technology is more accessible then it becomes a leveler for the playing field. When it's available only to those who already hold power, then it tips things drastically in whatever direction they wish and typically makes things drastically more uneven (though the Gates Foundation and others do apply their power/tech toward leveling sometimes).

I think this is one of the effects that makes our current society more fragile... bad actors (big and small) can create enormous impacts with minimal resource, and because of the nature of the Second Law, it's far easier to destroy than it is to create.

Just look at this data breach, it took enormous effort (relatively) to create a platform to identify, gather and organize all this personal data, yet look at how easily it slipped into the hands of bad actors. Bad press for FB, less trust in social networks, and who else has access to this data set? A small team who also managed to hack something like 23AndMe or another useful dataset with additional information will be able to create an even more powerful dataset with a laptop and some python scripts. Combine that with more advanced CRISPR technology and I don't even know could be possible, it's the stuff of sci-fi thrillers though.

You're absolutely right to be concerned, but I don't think this can be reigned in. The UN isn't in any position to regulate the global network, and the modern economy/society can't afford to create walled national networks, plus policing them would just be another layer of complexity.

I think the best we can do is get ready. All of this complexity will become a drag on economic growth (which requires constant gains to maintain itself, especially in the face of massive deficit spending), which will continue to lead to societal unrest and political instability... AI and robots will exacerbate the complexity and fragility more than they alleviate it and climate change, with the more volatile weather system, will create increasing opportunities for black swans to create enormous set backs.

It's unfortunate, but Russia and China are going to be in a much better position to take advantage of the increasing uncertainty and chaos than the US and EU (dictators are shitty, but much more efficient in uncertain times). I recommend moving to Australia or New Zealand if you're not looking to get caught up.
> It is against our policies for developers to share data without people's consent.

Not to mention that it's arguable that "consent" was really given for facebook to share the data in the first place. I'd be interested to see some polling results asking if facebook users knew what facebook was up to and whether they feel OK with it.
Will do, should do, going to do. Lots of promises not a single action.

Since Friday, or earlier of knowing about the incident, they could have conducted the audit and closed any lose ends and used this opportunity to say we have already done x and y.

Instead, it's just announcements. Not good enough.
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> The Google search comparisons in the article are strange. Google did not win the search engine war because it had integrated ads

Extremely strange. Google won because search was better. Users flocked there because it actually worked. The fact that it had integrated ads was incidental. Integrated ads helped with funding obviously, but users don't care about that. (To the extent that they do, they actively don't want it.)
I think that's because in a full EE/CE program you would have some earlier course that covered that based on a book like Sedra/Smith "Microelectronics" (but disclosure, I was CS so most my EE is self acquired)
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How can you explain European Christianity with top down imposed rule if the Western Empire collapsed before the medieval ages? What is doing the imposing?
> They’re also pointing out that Zuck is fine meeting with Xi Jinping, meeting with Medvedev but refuses to appear before the US Congress and sends the company counsel instead.

Worth noting that Zuck wants something from Xi and Medvedev, has everything he needs in terms of support from the US Gov.
The part that really got me is the one regarding the photos that Israeli agents captured from Othman's laptop in Vienna. This looks like the surface of a deeper story -- why was a top diplomatic agent carrying highly classified information lacking basic training on data security? Or why did his staff let him use an unsecured/unencrypted computer? Assuming he had no use for these pictures in Vienna, why was he carrying them to a place where attacks from foreign agents are expected? Why weren't top diplomatic agents and people trusted with state secrets issued clean (and secured) laptops before traveling abroad?

The way it was described precludes a Evil Maid Attack unless, of course, they had previous access to the same laptop. A lot of very interesting questions remain.
I love how pure Hacker News is. It's like Digg or Slashdot 10 years ago.
Let’s not waste a perfectly good crisis.

Ask Zuckerberg to reveal all of the psychological test data he has, which shows the mental health effects of spending too much time on Facebook.

Ask for a list of all employees whose parents and spouses are judges and politicians.

Ask for a data dump of the actual data points used to make suggestions in Suggested Friends.

Ask for the data Facebook buys about you from Datalogix and others.

You will be met with silence.

This man is a crook. And far worse than the world knows.
Interesting. To Google's credit, they jumped on mobile early when they realized where traffic was trending.
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Exactly. It's the same fallacy with open source code. Just because it could be reviewed, doesn't mean it has been. Formal or semi-formal groups that professionally review papers are essential. How are they going to get paid?
If you want research to be publicly available (as it should be) you can either put the reviewers on government dime (which isn't a great idea but it's better than nothing) or you can follow the system that was pretty much followed until now:

Research institutions that produce papers to be reviewed, pay up the reviewers, and then we make the research publicly available, because everyone is paid and happy. No need to double-pay the reviewers via per-paper costs etc. The cost of reviewing a paper is fixed. Hosting costs are trivial compared to that. The uni can take them on. In a sense sci-hub fixed the peer-reviewed industry. Formalize it (make all journals open-access) and we're done.
I like forestry.io. it's not API based, so you just use stock Hugo backed by git. The change you make get committed back to git. So the nice thing is you're not tied to them. If they go away, you still have Hugo and can generate manually. You can host at netlify or AWS. Most the other static CMS are API based, so all your data is with them. If the go away, aodoes your site maintainability.
"I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform."

Regardless of my feelings about how this was handled, I appreciate the level of leadership accountability demonstrated in this statement. I wish that more founders, CEOs, and politicians facing difficult circumstances would adopt this perspective. Even if you didn't personally code/negotiate/write it - you made managerial decisions (hiring, culture, review process, etc) that induced it.
Hi, I'm longtime lurker and was compelled to create a HN account for this topic. I'm in a similar position in my mid thirties; currently struggling with a heavy course load while working full time. Most weeks I seem to get most of my work done on the weekends and a occasional week night, struggling with the math classes though. I think I'm about thirty units away from transferring to the University I work for tuition free as 3rd year student.

As a sysadmin with tons of experience (rhcsa and aws certified by end of year) I'm tempted to just give up my studies and go work remote somewhere in a developing country since I love to travel. Though I remind myself an education is invaluable and that my university alumni is connected and full of prestige, I just imagine myself in Thailand making half of what I make and having a more enjoyable life as opposed to one I here in States.

Most of my lower division classes have been online at my local community college, but the math classes are not online and I have a hard time following the professor's lectures and getting to class early. Youtube lectures helps with some concepts, but I think I need to supplement my college math classes with an online program of some sort or a private math tutor.

Can anyone recommend some math online math courses that cover Algebra to Calculus please? Any tips that help with time management, focus and staying motivated?
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What about the like button on web sites and the FB pixel that is invisible to the user? Again, you seriously think Joe average is aware of that?
> , own internal ec2 clone,

Are you talking about openstack/openhouse, or something else?
"pushes ridiculous conspiracy theories", can you give an example?
FB will be fully integrated as part of the surveillance state soon enough.

> that Zuckerburg explicitly takes personal responsibility for everything that happens on his platform

Sorry, but bullshit. He may say that, but I'll believe it when he publishes the agreement he signed that makes him personally liable for lawsuits.
> First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity.

> Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse.

> Third, we want to make sure you understand which apps you've allowed to access your data. In the next month, we will show everyone a tool at the top of your News Feed with the apps you've used and an easy way to revoke those apps' permissions to your data.

All of these points don't address what actually happened. It's not like CA had a feed of FB's user data. It was harvested. And saved. And data, like diamonds, is forever.

The problem is that FB simply has too much information about us. The #deleteFacebook moment is a wake-up call not so much for FB's tone-deaf execs, but moreso for the masses that (probably until now) never realized how much data FB has on every single one of us.
They could aggressively pursue enforcement and punitive measures. It's not about preventing everything that could possibly go awry, but making it well-known in the developer community that Facebook/Platform has no problem shutting you down if you egregiously break the rules.
Facebook and Google provide very basic internet services that really should be provided by open systems. But through luck and timing they managed to establish monopolies.

They abuse their position to extract hundreds of billions of dollars by selling their user's limited time on earth to advertisers for peanuts per user.

Feel pity for Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page that they have such fundamentally corrupt businesses and are apparently incapable of fixing them.

And applaud Apple for having created a business so well aligned with its users. It's very difficult to find examples of Apple failing to do the right thing and very easy for the other two, as in this example.

Startups should reject the rent-seeking Facebook/Google monopoly model and embrace the Apple innovation and direct-to-users model.
It was years ago before they started locking down the data. I put together a web page I was going to post to show people what info they were releasing, but I felt I would get lynched by friends for posting it all.

Basically everything you see on yourself, plus pages you visit and like, groups you belong to, your picture, your friend list, as well as their friends, so it was really three steps out and included things not available through FB normally.

It was totally predictable this data would get collected and abused.
It's almost exactly 10 years since Yahoo rejected Microsoft's acquisition offer. Even at the time it was pretty clear they should have accepted it, but it seems like Yang was too proud.

Microsoft offered $45 Billion(!) for Yahoo.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13655197/1/what-would-have-h...
Agreed, so we made sure that in order for a share to be approved. We first need one unique click on the shared post. That way, fake accounts can share all they want, but advertiser will not be charged until a unique click has been made.

Also, the app tracks the sharing accounts. The same account can't earn more than once even if they share 100 times.

Once again, I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. It helps me iron out the wrinkles.

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Basically no CEOs ever want to testify in front of a congressional committee. There is only downside to such a situation for the company. There is zero upside.

This is not a deeply telling datum. It is a boring an standard one.
Big difference, you're only trusting the host computer (and the JTAG dongle) once. This is manageable, use an airgapped junk laptop with no HDD or similar if you're ultra paranoid. Sure perhaps the firmware is compromised and leaking data through some super exotic attack but I mean come on. That should give you a pretty reasonable level of confidence. You can never 100% trust a device you didn't design and fabricate every aspect of yourself, there's always some risk with any hardware token.

I'd also argue that trusting your host computer is certainly better than trusting the supplier. Shifting the burden of trust from a device you don't control to one you do is at least an improvement.
That vpn ad blocking sounds promiding. Are there reputable FOSS apps that do this?

Edit: this looks promising: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/README.md
> Last week, we learned from The Guardian, The New York Times and Channel 4 that Cambridge Analytica may not have deleted the data as they had certified.

...so instead of looking into it at all, or vetting our partners, we relied on media to tell us?
> Mayer was an idiot.

Don’t have much to say about her. It could have been anyone else in the management class looting a company for eight or nine figures and leaving it for dead. I’d do it for seven, if anyone needs a punching bag.
Similarly, Nintendo is almost 150 years old. They spend most of their history as manufacturer of playing cards.
It's a really bad business move to share the data, if Kogan was smart he'd develop an API to allow them to ask for the insights, but not see the data.

The sad thing is FB sounds jealous he realized more value from their data than they did. It's totally a Duh, why didn't we think of that, Clinton would have paid way more for that data than Trump did.
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2011 FTC hearings were about the exact same topic. You can't trust the 3rd party app developers. Back then it was social game developers selling user profile data to Rapleaf and other data brokers.
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Facebook doesn't sell user data for money. It sells targeted advertising for money. There is a huge difference.
Honestly, it's no different anywhere. BigCorp, no matter the quality, will acquire in the hopes of getting the 'special sauce' that comes with the startup but then proceeds to either force a rewrite, or poach all the people off, kill the product, or some other means of demotivating all people involved.