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I have had enough of the latest anti-Facebook vitriole. A lot of people want to see someone, preferably Zuck, drawn and quartered, but I don't. He has accepted responsibility for mistakes and has agreed to do more to protect its users. I believe him. I also believe he has earned a chance to redeem himself, considering the value that Facebook has created for society at little to no cost to its users.

Most of the Hacker News community has benefitted by Facebook, as users or through myriad successful open source projects. To take with both hands and to bite is unethical. It is wrong.

Facebook and Zuck aren't the only people who need to change.
They want a solution today, not in 20 years.
What I find particularly annoying in this kind of hearing is the condescending tone of the politicians. They are eager to put the blame on someone else when they are ultimately the ones who vote the laws.
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Well, the CGI industry had money, competent people, and 10 years to upgrade. An entire decade. And a LOT of tooling and documentation to help.

I made a lot of code conversion from 2 to 3. Most of them took me a couple hours to a few days.

I'm currently working on a 2.7 project that will never migrate because they literally patched the cpython runtime, but you can't freeze a whole community because some will take bad technical decisions or accumulate tons of technical debt.

Now, Python 2.7 will not stops working after 2020. It's just that we, as a community, will stop to pay the price for the ones that didn't move. If you want to stay there, you'll pay a commercial actor for it.

In 2020 centos 6 will stop received updates. Will you go complain that the new RPM are not compatible ? No, either you update, or you pay commercial support.

Ruby and node did it in a few months and told the community to move or die. Nobody complained.

Perl took so long the language has been forgotten.

PHP literally canceled the version 6, and made it taboo.

We gave years, and means, then extended the deadline, and heard nothing but complaining since.

I won't pretend the migration was masterfully executed. The whole 2/3 debacle was painful.

But, it's been since 2008, come on.
Unfortunately we can't do that at the moment, I'm sorry.
Subscription is a long-lasting, predictable revenue stream. Even if one-off sales bring more revenue the subscription system fares much better. I was listening to Sam Harris' podcast recently, and they seem to have discontinued the one-time donations entirely. You don't want to deal with the instability of exceedingly high revenue one month, and barely any in the other.

Another thing I noticed is that with subscriptions in place, you can understand—and grow—your customers in all sorts of ways. For eg, Netflix has analyzed that "if you have watched 15 hours of content per month, you're 75% less likely to cancel. If they drop below 5 hours, there is a 95% chance they will cancel." [1] So, now, they only have to figure out how to hook their users to watch Netflix for that many hours. I don't think it's very much possible in a traditional business setting.

[1]: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-netflix-uses-analytics/
Serious question: what's his source of motivation?

I am a young student, so my source of motivation to be more produtive is a mix of money, status, girls and also build cool shit.

But for him money, status and girls are out. Make the world a better place can't be it.
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How many people use it this way? Internet without people doesn't have much use. Internet with only geeks on is better, but still pretty limited.
How would you know a site has those buttons or not unless you visit it first?
We have this as a "meta" field (because MySQL is balls at adding new columns to big tables without multi-hour downtime) with some arcane nonsense format. Totally unqueryable with any efficiency.
For some reason night coding session work with http://youarelistening.to/chicago (fire department) for me.

https://work.endel.io/ got posted to HN this week. "Endel is an audio app that helps you create the perfect sound environment for work or relaxation." It's a prototype with a single play list afaik https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797089
I have NoScript set to blacklist any JS from any Facebook domain. Breaking half the internet by default is worth it to neuter this invasive tracking.
I remember an interview where Asimov had a fan tell him all the interesting parts of his stories were glossed over. And it's true for action scenes. He always does all the backstory and intrigue, then the action starts and he tends to skip to the conclusion of the event.

I think given this, that Asimov was about drama an the unfolding, in a SF backdrop; TV is a very good venue.
You said it's much worse.

Saying that there "are still massive problems," is a language structure admission that in fact things are obviously better.

What you're describing is a paradise compared to any number of well known periods of time in the past, including as recently as the 1950s or 1970s, much less the WW1 or WW2 time frames.

The far right in Eastern Europe, in terms of fasicsm concerns, is a trivial joke compared to the recent past in all regards. Spain as one example of real political problems in Europe, had a four decade fascist dictatorship as recently as 1975. Ceausescu ruled Romania as a brutal dictator for decades.

The worst of free Eastern Europe today is a bastion of liberalism by comparison to the recent past. Eastern Europe was almost entirely under the authoritarian boot of the USSR just 30 years ago. The people there were not only hyper poor, but they also had few rights at all.

Today Romania has a higher GDP per capita than Russia and is one of the fastest growing economies on earth.

Czech and Slovakia now have the economic per capita output of Portugal. Their economies are solidly five times larger than they were in 1991.

Deteriorating relations with Russia? See ~1948-1990.

China? See: Korean War, Mao era in general.

The West is getting along extraordinarily well with China compared to the past. The dispute today is trade, not who is going to nuke each other or when the next war begins.

Things have gotten dramatically better.
> Was this a coincidence? Maybe.

Most likely. Here's Arthur Hayes, CEO of Bitmex, explaining it:

> "The short pressure at its logical maximum emanating from the CME and CBOE contract holders is meaningless. Therefore, the effect on the broader market in actual flows is negligible. The contracts mainly bolster traders’ bullish sentiment....In terms of trading volume, BitMEX continues to blow both of these contracts out of the water. In the year to date, the BitMEX XBTUSD, XBTH18, and XBTM18 products traded a combined $53.14 billion versus CME and CBOE combined Bitcoin futures volume of $4.48 billion. BitMEX is 12x more liquid."

And:

> "The large financial institutions do not own Bitcoin in large quantities, if at all. They are hamstrung by KYC/AML concerns surrounding Bitcoin. That means that if they wanted to sell Bitcoin, they would need to borrow it from a credible counterparty. Hey, Cumberland Mining, can we borrow $100 million of Bitcoin?......Assuming banks borrowed Bitcoin with the intention of shorting it, they would need to sell it on an exchange. Given the skittishness that inhibits counterparties globally from placing large amounts of capital on an exchange, I highly doubt any compliance department at a bulge-bracket bank would approve opening an account.

> Let’s suspend reality and assume they allowed trading desks to open accounts on the largest Bitcoin spot exchanges. The maximum the desk could make is 100% if Bitcoin went to zero. But, if the market instead face-ripped them by 50% on a $100-million position, that loss would reach the global head of trading and of the investment bank.

> If you were the line executive that green-lit that trade, you would lose your job. You shorted Bitcoin, and lost a huge sum of money. That would make it into the financial press; you and your bank would be ridiculed."
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Regardless of what it's called, it does provide an insight into what Facebook (which seems to mean Mark Zuckerberg) is thinking or has been advised to use in public. Certain points may not have been used in the hearing, and may have never been known without this "leak" (for lack of imagination to think of a better word).
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I think you are vastly overestimating the value Facebook actually provides to its users.

They would get over it pretty fast and adapt.
> considering the value that Facebook has created for society at little to no cost to its users.

Is Facebook a net positive for society? Every positive use of the platform I've seen has been offset by a negative one. Maybe I just have bad friends.

Also the "little to no cost" is debatable, when the users have been packaged and delivered as fresh marketing meat to firms like Cambridge Analytica in exchange for a $500B market cap.
Sure, but perhaps not through legitimate channels.
Facebook ad targeting does not require you to use Facebook.

Facebook Audience Network is a display ad network like Adwords.

It's deployed widely across the web and mobile apps.
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Daemon by Daniel Suarez is kind of like that, except it turns out the AI is arguably good and not exactly an AI. It's an excellent book, with an excellent sequel.
Pity they didn't film Walter Jon Williams' 1986 novel Hardwired; it's one of the major cyberpunk works.
What apps require a Facebook sign in?
2.7 is a different language than 3.x.

You could argue that 2.y is also a different language than 2.x but this is besides the point: as long as there is a compiler for that language and it works (for your definition of works) you don't need to translate your programs in another language just because you have money.
Most current ORM out in the market do not make things easier but instead otherwise. We need ORM to make it easy to build application that all agrees on OO principal meaning inheritance, one or more instant variable, polymorphism and etc.

My product have done all the above, at http://shujutech.mywire.org/corporation?goto=ormj

and me personally have felt the abstraction have been successfully achieved ever since because I never need to switch back to the ORM layer to build my applications. But, there're more to goes still............
sadly just being able to boot your OS is not enough to trust the resulting hardware+OS combo
The alternative is open source and decentralised: https://diasporafoundation.org
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Darwin contributed on a more global scale.
> But it’s kind of a shock they don’t offer updates via USB

USB is an attack vector - USB descriptor attacks have been used to hack systems in the past.
There is no "muppet case"? The article just seems to be unsubstantiated allegations from someone who didn't get a promotion he wanted and is now trying to sell his book?

The only substantiated thing in that article is the Abacus case which is quite different: the counterparty there was IKB, who are a sophisticated investment bank, a million miles away from "one of these philanthropies or endowments or teachers' retirement pension funds in Alabama or Virginia or Oregon". They didn't get screwed, they bet on the US housing market and lost.
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Are you sure that the 'tracking' is not simply a cookie in your browser that were you to delete the cookie, would reset the limit back to zero?
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If you care about these people as much as you think, not having Facebook is not going to prevent you from continuing to do that.
In theory yes. It would be entertaining.

The reality is, he'd be screwed.

Nor can we discount FB isn't a favored front of sorts for various "data collection agencies."

p.s. I find it (sadly) funny how so many are upset with ZM and FB, but are completely unaware about Snowden, Obama's expansion of the Patriot Act, etc.

FB is the obvious scapegoat. It currently has to play the role, even if it hates doing so. But for how long?
Do you have a source for that? The Economist certainly doesn't, cancellation online is not possible but sign-up is.

The email method didn't work for me last time, I just got a reply asking me to call them.
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> You don't need to understand how media is encoded to watch a movie or listen to a song.

I recall the time when mp3 was to demanding for many CPUs, so you had to convert to non-compressed formats. Today you do need to know that downloading non-compressed audio will cost you a lot of network traffic. Once performance is a concern, all abstractions have to be discarded.
if changing a hashbang is that big of a deal, the codebase is completely mortibund going forward, and support is dropping in 2020 anyways.

I don't think people should be concerned about people that are that totally resistant to change.
Don't see why money and status are out. Seems like the more you have, the more difficult it is to be content with your lot.
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>Instead of migrating from Mysql to something serious (Postgres)

This is just trolling
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> considering the value that Facebook has created for society at little to no cost to its users.

Would you mind listing the positives (and negatives as well) that you believe facebook created for society? I'm strongly against Facebook, but I'd be happy to be convinced of its generally positive effects. Though please don't mention their Open Source contributions, that's not Facebook, the social media network.
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It seems like there are so many ways to tackle this problem.

Don't like USB? Allow the Tesla app to grab the map updates and then dump them to the car next time it connects.

If they're trying to grab the file in one massive 8GB chunk, stop it and grab smaller bits as they can.

Hell, bittorrent it from other Teslas while you're sitting in traffic.
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Middle ground would be possible after solo bootstrapping. Any form of distributed ownership will bring expectations of profit without responsibility.
Or even spend the $8 on a thumb drive which goes on your keyring and will store 32GB or whatever that you'll have with you literally everywhere for the foreseeable future.
You're assuming each different version of this map database will have a different filename?

It'll have whatever Tesla wants it to have. Even if they receive the file as a binary blob, they can attach whatever metadata they want when transferring it to the car. A filename would just be what I'd use, but the specific format is irrelevant.

Everything in software engineering seems simple if you dont look at the details. (...)

And some actually are. But in any case, I never actually said it was simple. I rebutted specific reasons you gave. Is it complicated for other reasons? Sure, maybe, who knows.
When I die, after the state picks out what organs it can use, I hope they dump the rest in shark-infested waters or some place the wild finds it nutritious.

I won't complain if my body doesn't get a grave.
> I mean, come on, calling it a "cheat sheet"?

Maybe that's me not being a native speaker, but "cheat sheet" to me does not have the negative connotation that you imply. I agree with you that preparing notes for such an occasion is appropriate, but a cursory reading of the article does not show anything that calls Zuckerberg out for bringing notes.
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Oops, not sure if GP edited their post about church, or if I missed it.

I meant VK.com is visually and functionally similar to Facebook (because it started as a clone).

Now if you live in a Russian-speaking country, it's unusual not to have a VK account.
Come on, The Guardian is not some Medium blog hoster. You can't say this being in their opinion section means it doesn't count. If you discounted everything tagged as opinion, their front page would have a whole lot of empty spaces.
Codecs are almost like programming languages. They are highly modular and flexible.

Implementations and encoders actually use algorithms to turn the media into something that is compatible with a codec.
Think Johnny Mnemonic pretty much sank any other Gibson adaptation - and the Matrix 'borrowed' so much from Neuromancer they'd be very similar.

Though I'd love to see a series based on the Bridge trilogy. And his version of Alien 3 would have been fascinating.
For this reason I feel that SaaS services that fall in the $10-$30 bracket are problematic. The price is too much for consumers who compare it to Netflix, whereas for businesses it's often ridiculously small and effectively leaves money on the table.

I like Discourse's pricing model: https://www.discourse.org

Their plans start at $100 / month, which is not a problem for real businesses. For everyone else, the software is full open source and it's reasonably easy to install on that $5/month cloud server instance.

The "free or $100+" model conveniently eliminates the support hassle of $10 / month users who typically are the most clueless and demanding.
The double standard is that people still stick to Python despite those problems. If we're being honest and all conspiracy aside, imagine the same story for Ruby (a very similar language in terms of capability, features and performance), everyone would be laughing at them and the language would be pulling a Perl right now.
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They already do this! (Well, they install via a tethered laptop, but same idea). Any Service Center appointment gets you the latest firmware.
That's not the entire story though. Facebook has multiple products and multiple layers of folks to sell to.

On one layer, they offer a social networking site to people, who become users. Then they take the information and sell it to advertisers to make money. Without the social networking site, Facebook wouldn't have its advertising business. There are more, I'm sure (governments are sometimes customers, for example).

There is only light competition for the advertising right now, but I'm going to guess we'll figure that stuff out as time goes on.

As far as the social networking itself, there are options, but none that can replace facebook's user functionality. There isn't anywhere robust enough to make change feasible. Instead, you can replace parts of facebook with other things and get partial functionality Your mother probably won't download a weird app just to talk to you instead of using messenger, for example, and your sister probably won't send you the pictures of the kids as often.
The experiment referred to was one where the web was a level playing field that didn't differentiate between different classes of users. The fact you see this is as a silly semantic point underscores the original point about that experiment being over.

Edit: I can only speculate as to why people don't like this, but in case it makes a difference it's intended only as historical background for people who missed the start of the experiment.
I see a DOS application running on XP all the time I go and visit the local doctor (social healthcare, regional center).
Apparently now every job that is not directly manufacturing optimizes for "engagement" of the customer base... or "marketability".

You can ignore prime top level directives only for so long.
Swift 3 is compiled. So you can provide the binaries and be ok.

Ruby 1.9 is a great example of why you should not be too nice: they told everybody "you have a fews months, deal with it". The community moved. Python said "poor things, we understand, take those tools and years to do the thing", and the community cried, and did nothing.

PHP literally failed. They canceled V6 and jumped to V7.

The funniest part ?

None of those languages are even close to Python popularity.

Swift is not even used for most Apple codebase. Python supported even Atari.

Ruby and PHP has almost no use case outside of the web. Python is used by OS, on the web, in GIS, by data analysts, for CGI, in AI, for sysadmin, to make GUI, video games...

And Python is much, MUCH older. 1990. 4/5 years older than Ruby/PHP. It has way more technical debt to pay. Swift ? 2014

Yeah the migration was badly handled from some aspects. But honestly, given the challenge and track record of the competition, it's not too shabby.
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I have had enough of the latest anti-Facebook vitriole. A lot of people want to see someone, preferably Zuck, drawn and quartered, but I don't. He has accepted responsibility for mistakes and has agreed to do more to protect its users. I believe him. I also believe he has earned a chance to redeem himself, considering the value that Facebook has created for society at little to no cost to its users.

Most of the Hacker News community has benefitted by Facebook, as users or through myriad successful open source projects. To take with both hands and to bite is unethical. It is wrong.

Facebook and Zuck aren't the only people who need to change.
Yeah. It can't really be compared to something like Dune. It's a different format. Although I love Dune, I read most of my science fiction in short story format, so Foundation seems normal to me.
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> you don't need to translate your programs in another language just because you have money.

True, but if you know the support behind your current language is going to go away, it might be smart to migrate.
> Surely they weren't all too far invested in mysql

I think by the time Postgres sorted itself out into a more user/admin-friendly system (which is still fairly recently, really), MySQL had pretty much conquered the "quick and easy" mindshare and was deeply embedded almost everywhere.

And if you've spent millions of dollars architecting your systems such that MySQL's flaws aren't killer issues, there's very little financial benefit to switching, I guess.
They had insurance on assets they held, sure. They bought the CDOs from some parties and sold (CDS on) them to other parties, like any middleman in any industry. A wash trade is something quite different: buying something from yourself, with no other parties involved in either transaction, to show a trade that manipulates the price.

There's nothing wrong with being in the middle of a line of trades. The crime is when that line becomes a loop and nothing is actually changing hands at either end.
And yet, the (full) book series isn't available on iBooks. Most likely to distribution and licensing rights. What a future to live in!
I don't like how json-ld makes you store full resource urls. What if the origin change? or you'd like to use a different protocol?
Absolutely - and in the given case, it's perfectly fine to do so because it's in fact legal (to my knowledge).

However, if you e.g. wanted to record a Netflix stream from the EME applet on their website, you could argue the same moral justifications - however, now you'd be breaking a law (circumvention of protection devices) and it wouldn't be legal, no matter how stupid the law is.
The real question is what you do with the extra time this affords you.
> The maximum the desk could make is 100% if Bitcoin went to zero.

That's an interesting statement coming from someone whose exchange allows x100 leverage. You can make more than 100% of your initial investment if you leverage more.