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Cache link is essential, of course the term 'gaslighting' [1] may be common in some groups, it was new to me. The general theme is that Facebook is making changes which make the service benefit Facebook more and is less user friendly. I'm not sure it rises to the level of abuse implied by the term but that is clearly subjective. The 'answer' of course is to leave.

I know, I know, "But all my friends are there!" or "Nothing else has the reach of Facebook!" or "I've invested thousands of hours in Facebook!". At the end of the day, Facebook is on the road to becoming a 'public' company, and they are making choices which are in Facebook's interest (mostly about the whole Open Graph stuff which they will sell for money to advertisers for revenue.

The 'good' Facebook you are looking for has to charge its users for accounts because that is the only way to pay the bills without selling you off to less purient interests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting (warning Wikipedia link)
Do you realize you made several accusations against me, provided no facts to bolster them, and accused me of having "visible bias"? This communicates to me that when you hear something you agree with, you believe it to be "objective fact", but that anyone who disagrees is obviously "biased".

One of the things I am careful about, personally, is distinguishing between what I know, what I don't know, and what I believe. I cited facts that I know to be true, some that are obvious opinions (Eg: significance of something by definition is an opinion and "shows visible bias") and put forth hypothesis (e.g.: what I believe, and that is that there's an ideology at work here.)

If you don't see the "pretty visible bias" in things that you agree with, I think that can lead to mistakes. I recommend trying to find the faults in the arguments of people you agree with. If you can do that, you can produce even stronger arguments for your position, and you keep your mind sharp.

Anyway, as for the topic at hand, your response only serves provide supporting evidence for my hypothesis about ideology. I believe if that hypothesis were wrong, you'd have not made accusations against me, or if you did, you'd have supported them with facts, and that your primary objection wold be to an error of fact, or an error of belief on my part.

But in doing so, you provide a good example of what I'm talking about by ideology. Ideology is an act of faith, whereby you take your beliefs from another person or group, sans evidence, or by accepting their claims.

If you were responding to me on a philosophical basis, or simply on a factual basis, you would have had at your ready disposal philosophical (e.g.: logical) arguments, or specific facts that contradict my claims.

Please don't take offense here, none is intended. I'm simply disagreeing with you and explaining my perspective vis-a-vis your comments.

But this is also why I hesitate to post comments like the one you'r replying to to Hacker News. I don't find the charge of "pretty visible bias" (etc) to be.... interesting.... at all. (And the down votes I see I'm getting, for the "crime" of pointing out that the above response was personal rather than on the point, serve to further confirm my hypothesis. Hell, I even said "please don't take offense here" in response to someone who accused me of lying, but didn't even bother to be specific about what I was allegedly lying about!)
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Interesting concept. I suppose this is based on statistics/ml, which is nice for finding positive matches. It doesn't work with diets avoiding certain ingredients like vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free. Typing gluten free, the first ingredient I get is flour. Vegan curry gives me some butter curries.
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You can get much cheaper VPN/proxy services than a $20/mo linode instance.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SERVICES

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http://hotspotshield.com/

http://www.hideipvpn.com/

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The list goes on...

Do note that these companies specifically market themselves as a method of bypassing GeoIP blocks, and will rotate IP ranges to bypass any blocks that are set up. VPS/Server hosts like linode give you one static IP that is easily blocked.
As someone who builds recommender systems for a living, let me assure you that the output of the netflix prize was perhaps 10% of what you need to actually build a good recommendations product.
The server is under more load than I expected. I wish I could fix this is the near term, but if you try again later it should be much faster.
No, but it's a pretty useful signal. If you want someone who can build you an iPhone app, asking for an Objective-C programmer gets you 75% of the way there, and calling yourself an Objective-C programmer is more likely to get you the damn job than calling yourself a "smart, informed Hacker News reading hipster".
I would say, only half facetiously, that game theory has advanced to the point where we are very good at designing systems where everybody loses, but not so good at designing systems where everybody wins.
Anyone forget about Hotspot shield?? It's free VPN BTW.
It's weird and kind of annoying, but it's the only real counter against somebody ramming a bill through Congress. Having a perfect Congress would be more optimal, but you know, you make laws with the legislators you have, not the legislators you wish you had.
This is a good explanation. To elaborate on the /64 network assumption, it has to do with stateless autoconfiguration, which is the way of configuring IPv6 addresses. An IPv6 address is comprised of a 64 bit prefix followed by a 64 bit "interface ID." The interface ID is inherent to an interface, and is derived from the MAC address, since it is guaranteed to be globally unique. When you bring up an interface, the OS listens for router advertisements which contain the 64 bit prefix. It takes this prefix and appends the interface ID to generate a full IPv6 address which is unique.

This is really cool because it means your computer will always have the same lower 64 bits no matter where you take it, and it can auto-discover the prefix without the complexities of DHCP. (Note that there were some concerns about tracking computers using the lower 64 bits, which led to the optional privacy extensions, under which the interface ID is randomly generated.)

However, the standard requires that the interface ID be 64 bits, so if you only have a /64 from your ISP you are, practically speaking, limited to 1 subnet. For this reason, I like to measure prefix lengths in terms of subnets rather than IPv6 addresses.
Technologically speaking, sure. I don't think we know how to build a society which provides those benefits of a basic, comfortable existence for everyone, yet.
It's not illegal, but I assume it would be in violation of the terms of service...yet people still do it.
It can be thought of as a tactical nuclear option. You don't want to do it, but in critical situations where the passage of the law needs to be halted for a time for debate and backroom wheeling and dealing....

A filibuster calls scrutiny on the law in progress and being able to run a filibuster signifies strong support.
I think the answer you're going to get is a foregone conclusion. This is like asking people if they'd like a free lunch... of course. If you plan to build a business on this model, you should consider that you'll likely be violating the Terms of Service for these services and, at a minimum, be blocked. In a worse case scenario, because you're profiting from the act, you'll be hauled in to court for damages. If you do manage to build a customer base, there's a good chance that this could be used to show that the owners of these services were "damaged" as a result of your actions once they shut you down. They'll argue that consumers were misled to believe that they were paying you for access to these services as an act endorsed by the service owners, and that the customer developed a negative view of these companies once their service was shut off.

Sorry to be so negative toward your idea, but this is a pretty scabby business model. Like it or not, the license holders of this media control its method of distribution.
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True, but problems are there to be solved. :)
We've done a lot of work around data normalization/scrubbing from a multitude of sources as part of a sister project, so I'm fairly confident about this aspect.
Curation and classification is another issue, but we have a few ideas.

As for business, you never know, just let me try to get off this Ramen based diet first. ;)
This is true. I presume a preferred option would be dumping the warnings altogether, but this would be a big boon for phishers.

What I don't like about the article is the suggestion that the best way of combating Facebook's excessively paranoid and usually unwarranted warnings about offsite content is to show excessively paranoid warnings to people trying to get into Facebook. Particularly when one of the principal gateways to Facebook is the browsers and websites operated by Google - not exactly a disinterested third party.
Technological, no. UI/UX? Definitely.
I never said this video was a fabrication, or that Xerox never invented any key technologies, like, for instance, the Mouse.

Pretending that I did, is a bald faced lie on your part. You should consider the fact that, if you have to rely on outright fabrication about the position of your opponent, you don't have a very strong position to stand on yourself.

At best you're knocking down a strawman.

Either you're too ignorant of the history of computer science to understand what a GUI is, or you're simply being dishonest. Either way, I find the tendency of people such as yourself to post lies and then links to "supporting evidence" that don't even address the issue, while down voting everyone you disagree with to be... less than compatible with useful discussion.

The thing I learned a long time ago about liars is this: It doesn't matter how many time you prove them wrong, they'll just make up another lie!
Why do we sleep?
Aside: I really like the typography of your title/subheads. I mistook the font for Gill Sans Light initially, though.
Thank you for helping to build such a solid browser. We love it, and our clients love it, and we love working on a first-time client's machine and seeing that they're already using it. :-)
Watch out - almost no hardware got updated to randomise the callids or use the call tokens. That means if your phone can accept traffic from the internet, it's quite possible that anyone can hijack your connections, or at least ddos you.

Also it works with asterisk only, so it's not that useful in practice.
>(warning Wikipedia link)

What's the warning for? If it's warning against being confronted with Jimbo's piercing gaze, that seems a bit snarky.
Agreed, reading a great story like this is super motivating. So it's time now to stop reading and start doing.
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> It's also not a matter of preference but a matter of what is right and wrong?

Who defines right and wrong?

Is it right or wrong to look for abortion clinics? What about just doing research on abortion? How about stem cells? Should I be able to use bit torrent? After all, I can torrent Ubuntu releases, or copies of mp3's, or child pornography - and there's no way to tell the difference.

Is it wrong to look up information that makes your government look bad? How about someone else's government?
This is a pretty well worn quote, but it really is a good thing to keep in mind anytime you hear people talking about how [whatever] is declining. If things were getting worse even 1% as often as people say they are, we would be extinct by now.
A fine example of the banality of being contradictory for the sake of it. Turing was coerced into 'treatment' (the alternative being prison, a grim prospect for a man like Turing), consequently 'barbaric' is spot on as a description; doubly, trebly so, given his contribution to the war effort.

What are you going to try next? How about quibbling with something being called murder because the 'victim' might have wanted to die?
Is iOS 5 really necessary? I didn't upgrade yet because of my jailbreak, so I can't use the app :-/
The only thing that will "fix" facebook is the next thing to popup to diminish their influence.

Of course shooting themselves in the foot wouldn't hurt either.

Remember MySpace? How about Digg?
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Considering Hacker News is a developer heavy crowd, I'm surprised a second and third version hasn't come up. I've wanted to develop the same thing myself just to learn how to build an iPad app. And I'm sure my other ideas for creating different views of Hacker News are nothing special.

It's all about execution. I've seen the other one before and considering the basic style of it (newspaper page with multiple articles layout), it wasn't pretty enough to make me want to install. I really like the look of this app and look forward to trying it out.

Also, kudos for him getting the domain. I figured it would have been taken already.
Drug trials fail all the time though, and not only because of risk aversion.

If you look at the first 50 years or so of the pharmaceutical industry, there were wonder drugs being discovered every year. We may simply have exhausted a lot of the low hanging small molecule fruit.

Also, if risk aversion was slowing pharma innovation then we'd see a lot of potentially efficacious compounds failing safety trials. Instead what we see is that the cost to discover candidate compounds before they're ever tested on humans.
I took it as a riff on the "Please be careful" popup warning from the article.
> "more people will understand technology"

When has this ever happened? As technologies approach the refinement of appliances, it looks to me like the general understanding plummets. Under-the-hood complexity all but kills the tinker class and buries the professional class in detail that further muddies their attempts to talk to the average person.

Consider hardware issues. In absolute numbers there may be more hardware tinkers than 25 years ago. But as a ratio of technologists, they're shrinking. And as relevant to popular opinion and voting, the general public has no more (though not clearly less) understanding or appreciation for hardware freedom issues. Trusted computing, the issue of yesterday's hardware freedom battles, is simply the reality of mobile computing.
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The legacy MBAs are the ones who are lobbying Congress etc, not only on this but also on the financial crisis etc. (I am thinking in particular OWS, for example.)
It was not their attention grabbing activities that stopped killing whales, but the unsung efforts of chemists finding a synthetic replacement to sperm oil.

I don't see how a synthetic oil developed in the 1980s could be responsible for a law signed in 1973, and I'm pretty sure it was the law (regardless of where the law came from (the future??)) that directly stopped the killing.

In this case, I'd say the passage of the law led to greater interest in synthetic oil. Conservation led to improving technology, not the other way around.
I agree completely.

Well thought out and sound reasoning.

And the effort is probably hopeless, but maybe it will at least draw some attention to facebook's abhorrent practices. But they get plenty of negative press already, doesn't seem to slow them down.

I figure it's going to take a lot more efforts like this, to stop the abuses when portals gain monopoly power on user's attention.

User's will put up with it, (and probably put up with much worse), there is no alternative to facebook for what facebook does and is. Chickens and eggs ...
Wikipedia on "incandescent light bulb"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb):

In addressing the question of who invented the incandescent lamp, historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison.

On "phonograph" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph):

Several inventors devised machines to record sound prior to Thomas Edison's phonograph, Edison being the first to produce a device that could both record and reproduce sound... [Charles] Cros's paleophone was intended to both record and reproduce sound but had not been developed beyond a basic concept at the time of Edison's successful demonstration of the Phonograph in 1877.

I won't bother to quote the enormous list of Henry Ford's predecessors that appears in e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile. I'd never do them justice.
Anyway, American manufacturing jobs have disappeared mostly because of advances in automation technology - A great product of American and German cleverness and innovation.

Yep. http://blog.american.com/2011/01/the-demise-of-america%E2%80...

Now of course, people assume that the Chinese will never start innovating and only copy American or Japanese products.

Innovation is an interesting thing. I think culture feeds a lot into innovation. I wonder if the Chinese government will continue to bend enough to let innovation occur or will it hit some limit?

As an interesting aside, I was at a conference a few years ago on web services. While watching some of the presentations it dawned on me that anytime pricing or some other hard to get exactly right decision came up the students from China always defaulted to having a central authority make the decision. The students from the US always used some market mechanism/crowd sourcing option. The culture that the students grew up in clearly had an impact on their solutions.
PayPal had a clear vision

This is actually not true. They started as a way to transfer money or IOUs between palm pilots. The web portion of the product got so much more traction that they pivoted.
"Innovation" is a glittering generality that tech companies and their admirers feel obliged to assume, but most successful companies are built on execution rather than innovation.

Apple is actually an exemplar of execution over innovation. Since Jobs returned, none of their genre-defining products have been fundamentally novel. Even the iPad represents a category people have been trying to get right for twenty years without success. Apple likes to identify markets with demand but immature products, so that they can learn from the mistakes of earlier entrants and launch with an extremely polished, market defining product.

I don't hold this approach against Apple. On the contrary, I wish there were more companies that obsessed about creating polished, highly-functional products that run a little behind the technological curve, rather than the slapped-together assemblages of new parts from Asian electronics manufacturers' supply catalog that typify the industry.
I wonder how much driving they did, though. Personally, I have always avoided cars and environmental impact is one of the major reasons.

Of course I still benefit from cars, I am aware of that (goods get transported by cars, which I then consume). Just saying that some environmentalists actually also avoid driving.
Thanks for your feedback.

I realize this won't ever work perfectly for every type of dish. But the dishes I have tried using the given ratios have all come out much better then my previous unaided versions of the same dish.

The ingredient database I am working with definitely needs an overhaul. The original focus of this db was matching ingredients broadly, and that is now becoming a major problem.

I think the ingredient database you are looking for is http://www.ingredientpairings.com/. This brings forward more of the broad matching ingredient problems though. When I redo the ingredient database this should be more useful.
I work on the team that generated the warning that seems to be the crux of this post. I am pretty convinced that it is a bug.

His central theme, though, is a bit misguided. I don't understand why 1) using opengraph, or 2) using a like button implies facebook should trust your link and whitelist it. Even pages with those integrations can be malicious.

In this actual case though, the notification link (generated from the commenting widget) seems to malformed and causing it to trip a security check. I've pinged a bunch of people about figuring out what is happening and getting it fixed. The guy sitting next to me is currently trying to repro.

As for convincing Google/Microsoft to warn users when visiting facebook.com because of security false-positives, I'll leave that discussion for you guys.
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I sure hope that's not what OP meant...
Which is a crock of shit considering there's an entire decade that occurred after the whaling ban and before the introduction of synthetic oil.
> If it took 100,000 employees to run twitter as it exists today, would that make it more valuable to the economy? Of course not.
> If it only took one guy to design, build, ship, and sell the iPhone, Apple would be far more valuable to the economy, not less. You'd free up all those talented people to go out and create even more value on their own.

I think it depends, really. Historically, talented people have created new industries/companies that employed a lot of less talented people and allowed them to live a comfortable life. I suspect the focus of his worry is that these less talented people are nowadays less often reaping the benefits of the innovations talented people create.
Great piece of history. I think the author's conclusions are flawed though. He writes:

> Ecological activism did not play significant role in all of these developments; neither did the numerous well-meaning international treaties, moratoriums, and other chest beating displays.

That may be true for the whales themselves, but there were indeed regulations passed on automobiles in the 1970s due to the oil shock:

> In the 1970s, the car companies were required to develop engines working at higher temperatures to comply with lower emissions and improved efficiency and that changed the regime for the tranny fluids. Suddenly, the car companies did not need to lobby any more.

So it was government action regarding auto emissions that wound up propagating into saving the whales. Perhaps that was not among the intended consequences, but we also can't claim that the change was simply due to "market forces."
Sorry, I wouldn't.

And people over here (Uruguay) have become used to Cuevana (a dubious Netflix/Hulu replacement), Taringa (an Argentinean site that among other things is a link-sharing site), stuff in RapidShare, MegaUpload, various bittorrent clients and other peer to peer stuff (I can't keep track of them, I'm probably several generations obsolete).

The worrying thing is, most people don't even think it's illegal or think they're not the ones infringing. The inprisionment of the people behind Taringa being a bit of a wake-up call, but everyone thinks it's not going to happen to them.