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i've just started working with the facebook api over the weekend to integrate into an app i've built and every permission requested has a checkbox next to it on facebook's auth dialog to allow the user to reject it.

http://i.imgur.com/v4jAU.png

are those apps using a different api than the open graph? i don't see any setting in my app's page on facebook to allow those to be disabled (not that i would prevent users from doing it, just wondering).
I would have never suspected that this would actually work. Right on!
Speaking of research, check this out:

"Nationwide, pharmaceutical manufacturers routinely pay medical professionals..State-employed doctors and researchers are generally no exception, though they are supposed to comply with their individual institutions' conflict-of-interest policies."

"Beginning in March, federal law will require drug and device companies to report and disclose all of their payments to medical professionals and researchers; by September, the data is supposed to be displayed in a searchable online government database."

http://preventdisease.com/news/11/112811_Doctors-Researchers...

So who do you trust for health information, agents of pharmaceutical companies, or self-help experts?
Actually, that may finally trigger the backlash that injects some sanity into the process.
would make a good idea for a startup...a Python host that has a simple checkbox interface for installing all this stuff.

That way you can get started with coding instead of having to install everything by yourself.
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Craigslist won because it was first to market. If anything, their particular case might prove that having deep network effects are more important than good design.

It drives me crazy that Craig won't allow image previews for apartment listings. It's a poor design decision. But since they own that space of mind, it's extremely difficult for someone else to come along and dethrone them with a better product.
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That may be the case, but on the other hand C#'s TIOBE ranking is quite a bit higher than VB's. And really, neither metric is a good proxy for how much code is actually being cut in either language.

The only thing that's certain is that language popularity surveys are painfully easy to cherry-pick.
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Reality?

Since when have government started using information technology efficiently?
Presumably, I've never looked into Safari extensions though.
This story was on the HN frontpage 20 days ago. Why is it back? Has the post been updated?
This is a cool idea, but of course the warning is that if you are turning off certain permissions, there is a good chance the app you are adding is going to break since it's coded expecting certain behaviors from the API based upon those permissions being granted (even if the data is not going to be used.)
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They make happy users from Doodles. With Google's business model, happy users can be trivially converted into money.

(Technically, Google doesn't make money from Search or Android either, but they get happy users from them too, which can be trivially converted into money.)
Their site isn't an accurate description of Solidcoin or Bitcoin, though. There's actually a worse concentration of Solidcoins in the hands of its early adopters than Bitcoins and Solidcoin is far easier for the Government or a hacker to shutdown - all they have to do is get control of its creator's PCs. The amount given to the CPF account controlled by its creator has always been twice that stated: 10% of the value of an ordinary block, not 5%. The base reward for a block was reduced from the stated 32 Solidcoins to 5 by central fiat a month ago, which is why so many are in the hands of early adopters. The "10 trusted accounts of 1.2 million each" can actually be spent because the creator of Solidcoin designed it so he could transfer their entire contents to the CPF account he controls at will. I've already mentioned the 51% protection is deeply flawed and probably ineffective. It goes on.

Some of the criticisms of Bitcoin are valid, but they've already been fixed by other less problematic clones that still never became that popular. In practice they don't actually matter that much; for example, even 2 minutes to confirm a transaction is too long for many things anyway.
Huh, that's interesting. I never considered the similarities between parallel processing and people management until today.
I have a relating question, for anyone law-inclined:

What's stopping someone from setting up a "consulting" company in various countries to act as a shell? If a company wants to hire an immigrant, that immigrant could grab a B-1 visa (or whatever else is applicable). The company would then in turn pay the shell company, which would operate at a $1 profit, and pay the salary to the worker.

Am I missing something entirely?
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This removes the workers from their local economy, drains the value they have to offer and plops them back where they came from with a meager wage to show for it.

Allowing people to immigrate to the US has the same effect.
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Does an employer (or anyone) even need to "ask" for your score though?

They can just pull a credit report. Granted, they would need to know your SSN. It could be done as part of a background check and you wouldn't even know it happened unless you're tracking your credit events.
People (like me, too) are going to assume Dojo the framework over dojo-the-special-kind-of-room when there is no article (a/an/the) used.

Capitalization makes a difference in the English language.
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> People paid money to his show to have their work/customers belittled.

From another perspective, people paid money to his show to hear his opinions. If he said something you didn't like, I'd hope you decided to stop listening (or take his opinions into account when choosing technology).

Why else did people pay his show?
Lithium fires give off a number of toxic gasses like HF. Even if the fire was safely contained, my concern would be if the people on board were exposed to these toxins through inhalation. If a plane is recirculating cabin air, is there a anything a pilot can do to expunge bad air in these cases?
Maybe they want to create an enterprise offering (like Yammer).
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You can disagree all you want but it is pretty much objective fact that in practice, especially in the world of business, 99% of programming is not advanced at all. CS, which is not just programming, may be advanced, but you do not see the advanced concepts emerging very often in day-to-day programming.
They haven't. But they do leverage civilian companies who do - for instance, the credit bureaus routinely do what turns out to be police or intelligence surveillance, without specifically meaning to.

If they could make Google do the same, they would.
Does anyone know if I can expect a CM port for my ZTE Blade? It's a supported platform for CM7 (Android 2.3.5). I read that all phones that support 2.3.5 ought to be able to support 3.0, but a) I'm not sure that's actually true and b) I'm not sure if they're going to bother. Though a) is more important than b) -- if it can work on the phone, hardware-wise, someone is bound to do the port, even if it's not an official one.
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I guess I'm too isolated from business jargon, but it took me half this article to realize they weren't talking about a _medical_ incubator.
Typical Facebook authorization: Give us permission to post on your wall, check out all your friends, and generally keep tabs on your entire life. Oh yeah, and allow us to verify that you are logged in to your Facebook account.

Typical Google authorization: Allow us to verify that you are logged in to your Google account.
Good [insert profession here] can recognize good [insert profession here] by just having a real conversation with them, with a focus on listening.

Sure, there are outliers in the form of pathological liars and psychopaths, but these tend to gravitate towards professions with a major ego-boost factor (and they're often actually good at those professions).

Most of these kind of tips and "lessons" come down to: how to desperately compensate for being the wrong person to do the hiring in the first place.

Here's another tip: any experience professional who's skill is in demand will recognize such a flawed hiring process, understand that this is probably pervasive in the rest of the company, and run like hell in the opposite direction.
I don't think is relates to immutability. This is an example of the "=" operator being overloaded for assignment.
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I would bet that you would have gotten a much different response if your comment indicated that you read the article at all, rather than constructing a post based entirely on your interpretation of the OP's (lame) title.
There's a difference between trying to help a guy solve a specific problem and trying to evangelize him to switch to your preferred platform.

There are tons of resources on the Web devoted to syncing Outlook with the iPhone. Maybe someone more tech savvy (like Marco) could have helped. Instead he said he "couldn't help him". He really meant "I don't want to try to help you".
For me, design needs to be taken into consideration from all sides. Technical, creative, everything needs to be put together just right for a project to take off--being good in all fields is a competitive advantage. Design in the sense that this article writes about is important (and as a not very technical founder I appreciate vb pumping my tires) but never forget the other parts of the machine that help make it run.

From the lens of a role-playing gamer (big fan of Bioware games), I think this realization can best be described by the distribution of attribute points. You can drop all your points into strength, and sure enough there will be times that you excel as you bash things with swords, but there will be times when you think, boy it would be nice to have a bit of magic or better charisma or whatever to solve this problem (usually bad guys) and then you start going all magic... usually the best builds that provide the best overall advantage are the ones that are balanced. So again, as much hype as these Design people might be getting now, don't forget about the other "attributes" as it were.
> "It would be interesting to study how these are affected by the availability of ingredients and cultural influences."

It would be like a window into history, but focused on food.

My inner fat guy historian is very excited.
It looks like there's a "new" auth window in beta: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/authentication/
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I think I did the ultimate opt out: I've never had a Facebook account, and I never will.
i really like the idea. how are you getting around the copyright issues of parsing out their shows and displaying it online?
I find it funny that this was on the front page last night:

"Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3283768

Edit: Not implying anything about a relation to phone use during takeoff and landing (BGR and Australian press release are vague), but I just found it curious.
Does this actually work? I mean, wouldn't the application just go ahead and use those privileges anyway, since it was built into the API? I think this just makes you aware of the privileges it intends to use, and doesn't actually affect what the application can and cannot do.

I'd love it if somebody could prove me wrong, though. This would be swell if it worked. :P
Some questions:

While the floating incubator will be in international waters, it's still within the U.S.'s exclusive economic zone. Is there legal precedent that travelling to a floating platform in the U.S.'s EEZ count as an "exit" for visa purposes?

The map in the article suggests that the ferries will go to/from Half Moon Bay. But Half Moon Bay is not a Port of Entry. Is the expectation that the U.S. government will set up HMB as a Port of Entry? And if it doesn't, is this project still practical if the ferries are required to travel to San Francisco?

If the U.S. decides to bar someone on the platform from entry, doesn't that mean that person is stuck on the platform? How else would someone get from the platform to, say, the U.K., without going through a U.S. airport?
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Actually, that is a huge problem. You have to decide on the test you are going to use before you see the data. After you've seen the data you can always come up with a specially made statistical test that will prove anything you want with any p-value you want.
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Thank god this didn't happen in the USA. The poor iPhone owner would likely be imprisoned right now.
Weissman needs to differentiate more. He seems to be mixing up marketing, advertising and sales. I would argue that "people sitting around in a boardroom and telling narratives about What People Want, and so forth)" are still core to successful advertising.

At the core of advertising is the "idea" - almost similar to a startup. Neither number crunching nor some psychological tricks are able to replace this. In fact their purpose is in my opinion just to evaluate or optimize towards better follow up investments.

Now this might be a different story when talking about (direct)sales where you can try to quantify action-reactions related to a specific product. And for most businesses the role of marketing ("all processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging value") is far more complex than just Tweets, Facebook and Foursquare.
In other words, it's a good test to see if an app is coded incompetently.
>This removes the workers from their local economy, drains the value they have to offer and plops them back where they came from with a meager wage to show for it.

This voluntary arrangement plops them back into their community... with new found wages to spend that otherwise would not have been acquired in such quantity, and/or at such a high relative cost to the laborer (availability, desirability of the work).
Only for values of "everybody" that don't include Europe.
Generally, yes. The challenges with doodles are:

1.) Absolute hard deadlines. Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday only comes around once; if you miss it, you missed it, and the doodle gets canceled.

2.) Big responsibility. You're the gatekeeper to Google's front door; if you screw up, a billion or so people will know it fairly soon.

3.) Ambitious quality standards, also because it's Google's front door. Some of the doodles are as big as ordinary projects at Google.

And on the plus side, your work is up on perhaps the most visited page on the Internet, and you have something really cool to talk about at parties. Plus the doodle team itself is really fun to work with and you have a lot of artistic latitude. It's probably one of the more startup-like areas in Google.
I just wish Facebook would include this as a standard option on the auth page.

Sadly, I believe you misunderstand Facebook's business case.
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I enjoy the discussion between engineering and design.

I used to think of myself as an engineering-type person. I engineered solutions. Indeed, my undergraduate education was in math and physics. But then I began a lengthy graduate design education in architecture and, in the process, began to design solutions. I had become a design-type person.

Yet when I reflected on these two types of tasks -- engineering and design -- I realized they were not different types of tasks at all. Rather, engineering and design are two different approaches to the singular task of creation: design is creation in which decisions are based primarily upon qualitative metrics; engineering is creation in which decisions are based primarily upon quantitative metrics. I was instead simply a creative-type person, just one with an ability to approach problems with both engineering and design eyes.

Perhaps my most important observation is that engineering and design are fundamentally more similar than different. And by improving your abilities in either, you are improving your abilities at that which is similar: the creative process itself.
This should be part of the default UI
This is a great way to teach programmers a new framework or tool.
Did you know that the left/right sides of the brain theory has been debunked and hasn't been seriously considered for the last few decades? Stop using it to talk about different types of skills, it just makes you sound stupid.

edit: just in case you need more info about this... http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/10/the_left_bra...
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The TSA are a funny bunch. They've searched through my 80 year-old grandma's bags and confiscated her paint. Yet, when I mentioned that the metal detector failed to detect my solid metal watch, the agent said "it's ok - keep going".
I'm afraid that unless he brings something substantially unique to the table, his chances are just very very slight.

There are a few people who can raise money on their name and reputation alone. See: Steve Jobs.
If he were one of these people, however, he wouldn't be applying to incubators, he'd be turning money away at the door.

Instead, he NEEDS something to show off.
No matter how awesome he is, he NEEDS a product.
Slides won't cut it.

Again, let's look at Steve Jobs. Arguably the best "idea man" or "business guy" in the history of tech. Until he and Woz put together their Apple I, and started selling it in shops (read: traction), even he had zippo.

In short: Get a demo, get users. Ideally, get a co-founder. Then, maybe, you can get funding, if you still need it.
I included a link to the Facebook application settings on the extension's space so you can verify which permissions you've granted and which you haven't.

Basically, when you generate a connect button, you list the which permissions you want to ask for and you get redirected to a page that asks for those permissions. My extension just changes the URL of the popup window so Facebook will be asking for different permissions.

Before yesterday, I've always just done this manually, but I was surprised to learn that people didn't know this trick. So, last night at 10pm I decided to just sit down and finally write it as an extension.
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Don't confuse the public services (including internal IT used for public services) with the IT governments use to secure their power.
Agreed, an really the same goes for Android Apps. Requesting permissions is a request, not a demand.
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Thanks for liking it! I am building this as SaaS for TV stations ; the TV stations would continue to own the copyright of their content. My solution will just provide a value-add service for their content.
I wish there was a way to request permissions for a given time period, it seems it's all or nothing. I'm creating some apps at the minute and just need to checkin the once, I wish I could communicate that to the user but instead facebook insists that they authorize it 'for ever' (well, until they remember and go and remove it).

In my opinion that would make take up and "throwaway" usage of apps a bit easier to sell.
It will be good to know if we could get a hold of their data - this is a fascinating experiment.

While you are waiting, I just googled around and found this - http://kasabi.com/dataset/foodista - Haven't looked into it to see if it has much though :-/
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A plane does not recirculate all of the cabin air; it recirculates about 50%. Not ideal for the people but it's not like they are trapped with only the air that they have onboard. Also, the recirculated air is HEPA filtered. I would turn up my personal air nozzle if there was something like this in the future.

Source:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/cabinair/facts.html
I cant wait to try out ICS, but seeing as an official update from google has been said to be released (by around about now) I have been holding off, also waiting for baited breath for cyanogenmod 9 for the galaxy tab 10.1 since thats just gonna take ages to get an official update.
The problem is that when government involves private company, the resulting quality of work deteriorates down to typical government work.

One example is fraud prevention.
Fraud hurts e-commerce badly, and the government would have been in great position to identify and prosecute fraudsters (fake credit cards etc.).

But government agencies are so inefficient and lazy, that they even discourage sending fraud data to them.

My biggest concern with government abuse of power in airports is not violation of privacy.

It's travelers time and tax payers money wasted for nothing.
Facebook is actually a bit scary even with most of the things you're disabling here disabled.

(My point is that this is cool, but it really isn't enough)

For instance, I'm using facebook auth on http://lanmarks.com -- I wanted to be able to pull my users' facebook friends so that they could filter the data on my site to only their set of friends (this is one of the appealing parts of facebook auth, imho).

I spent a bit of time looking around the API docs searching for the option for "allow me to see their friends", figuring that I would have to ask my existing users to re-auth against facebook with the new permissions.

Nope. I get that by default, and I can pull a list of your friends silently in the background.

This is with the most basic authentication mechanism that facebook offers.

That's...scary to me. As I was building this out, I asked a friend of mine on gchat to go to the site and auth against facebook to check that the functionality was working.

It was... I was watching my DB, and without facebook even telling her, it grabbed a JSON of all of her friends.

Creeeepy

_I_ tell people this on the site (this will get your name and people in your network), but I wish that facebook did too. At least I wish they made it more obvious.

And you know what? Honestly, facebook, you're totally dropping the ball on oauth here. Where in your documentation does it explain how to exchange an expired token for a new one?

Most devs end up requesting a permission called "offline_access", which facebook explains as "The application can access my data at any time"

This, along with "stream_access" (which most apps also ask for) literally means that the developer can post to facebook, as you, without you knowing it, whenever they want and with whatever they want.

That's bad, facebook. That's bad to the point where I actually disabled facebook integration on http://thingist.com/. The idea that my application could just post a status as any of my users, and it could do so without any interaction from them...was just too much.

C'mon facebook, stop making it so hard for me to defend you all the time.

(By the way, you don't really need a plugin to do this. Have a look right here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permission...

then look at the URL in the window that you end up in at facebook.com -- the one prompting you for permissions. Just edit the URL to reflect the permissions that you want to give the app.)
You mention that you correct your sisters when they tell their children "you're smart"- but what would you do differently if you could get a chance to change things.

I venture that the 'not smart' and 'smart' kids both suffer from social anxiety & lack of motivation issues. Could some of your ideas be the ground for an educational startup?