skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. When Graph Searches were announced, I thought "meh, I'm tired of FB...". I never thought to explore what Graph Searches actually meant. And I would never have done so or will do so, but I'm very glad that someone has investigated the system.

>it will always lead to situations like that which are [bad]

I wonder if there isn't some definition analogous to "Turing complete" for social graphs? i.e. with a sufficiently powerful API, any question can be answered. Just as Turing complete-ness leads to viruses, worms, etc, might "XYZ complete" social networks lead directly and predictably towards A, B and C bad outcomes?

>Zuckerberg's views on privacy and openness are laughable

Perhaps. I'm not versed in them well enough to know. But I wonder if he isn't a bit Bill-Gates-eyan in his perspective of pushing the border between X-Y quite hard to see what bends and what breaks. For Microsoft, it was Code-Data and, while there were certainly people saying don't mix Code and Data!, people happily used their Excel spreadsheets and we suffered mightily from the resulting viruses. Whereas "viruses" were the unintended consequence of mixing Code-Data, are "outings" the result of mixing Social-Search?
There's no real knowledge to be gained with this line of questioning. There aren't many companies like Apple which makes it very hard to run controlled studies or do thorough research.

Also the markets they helped define have changed dramatically as a result of their involvement. So many variables... The best we can really say for now is this is Apple's history as known to outsiders. They accomplished these results. Take it as a data point.
I wonder how many of these would be a joke though...
I don't know if it's enough, but I just removed nearly any interest that I liked "i.e. removed snowboarding, hip-hop', etc. along with other stuff that's just promotional fluff. I may not be able to avoid the social graph altogether but I'd like to limit the kind of searches I appear in.
I've got an arduino-powered robotic bow-gun firing Hello Kitty droid-doll you might be interested in...
Interesting. I'm currently running Arch Linux on my Acer Aspire One 722-BZ197. When I try and watch HD and fullscreen videos on YouTube that screen tears and the audio and video get out of sync, but when I use toogl I'm able to watch in 720p fullscreen with no problems whatsoever. I know my poor video performance can be largely blamed on poor graphics drivers, but I have found the new YouTube layout to be fairly slow and bloaty, which definitely contributes to the problem.

Great job. I've replaced the standard YouTube shortcut on chrome with a shortcut to Toogles, and I fully intend to use it from here on out.
Judging from the Isaacson biography, Jobs would have been fine had he actually attended to the fact that he had cancer right away, rather than spending a year ignoring it.
I don't think he's saying that at all. The insanity is trying to construct a platform that manifests a person's entire social life. I think there's a harsh combination of conflating business interests and disinterested, contrived people sorting that is potentially very, very bad.
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Exfoliate for Android (which stopped working for me after timeline, but i haven't retried since)

http://www.exfoliateapp.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.worb.andro...
When the author was asked why his changes weren't merged upstream (which would have prevented his issues):

> "A lot of this kind of stuff differs wildly between the distributions, especially since no two distros share the same boot code. The simple fact was that the changes were sent upstream and rejected because they didn’t apply to Red Hat, and the RH way of doing things. Likewise they don’t apply to Debian since that uses sysvinit and (I believe) udev is still optional, etc"

For a project as large and as complicated as Ubuntu, I imagine custom patches like the author's get lost periodically between release cycles, especially if they no longer apply cleanly to the latest upstream version.

I guess I also find it hard to believe that the upstream maintainers (RH?) could not be worked with to get this eventually merged in. Difficult developers/teams do exist, but the difficulties in getting the patches accepted weren't really outlined in the post (so it's hard to know what happened).

I also wonder how many alternative distros are using the unmodified upstream version of the package in question, meaning that the author may run into the same issue on other Linux distros as well.
Well, that's hardly Amazon's fault, it is?
This seems like a strange question to a foreigner like me.

Presumably there are fast food restaurants and menial jobs in New York City. Ergo there are people living on minimum wage in the city, or near enough to commute. Therefore, provided $65k is equal to or greater than minimum wage, you can presumably survive on that level of income. Your savings would be dictated by how much $65k exceeds the minimum wage.
It doesn't matter if it has bugs. All Mega needs is plausible deniability. They've got it.
Zuckerberg thinks people complain about privacy because they're old-fashioned and scared of the future. He thinks in the future we're all going to be extremely open, share shit all the time, aaaand basically the whole world is going to be one big chat room where people don't really hide things any more.

Personally I think he's probably right. It has shades of that old totalitarian argument, 'why should you be worried about privacy if you don't have anything to hide?' but hopefully it'll be a little more... forgiving than that.
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The thing is, there actually are cloud services that let you cheaply back up and restore terabytes. Crashplan is one of them, and they have a Linux client.
> The idea of "personal digital media" was born. This was Steve's vision, and why he put together the iMac DV, with Firewire and iMovie. We called it the Digital Hub strategy internally, to encourage you to put lots of personal digital media on your home computer.

Here is Jobs presenting the Digital Hub concept at Macworld 2001: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9046oXrm7f8 (See also http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/1... ) You can also see how the Digital Hub idea evidently influenced the layout of the Apple Store http://lowendmac.com/orchard/08th/roots-of-the-apple-store.h.... : the stands devoted to a particular kind of task, with appropriate gadgets attached to a Mac.
Going on your statement, "not effective for any type of depression", you're saying that the SSRI I'm taking has no effect whatsoever, and that nobody else has any benefits from SSRIs. The good effects we all report are imagined. I'd just like you to directly confirm that's what you're saying. It's a little rude to state that I'm completely misguided in my healthcare choices, then to wave it off as "just go read this book" when i question that.
This tool is part of a much larger machine that may actually affect society more than it serves it.
There are 100+ governments on Earth.

Why wouldn't you pick a proper one?
I can't work in complete silence, I'm easily distracted at the best of times. I agree with a lot of the selection there, the rest... I'm going to have to try out as I've never heard them before.

A good source for working I've found is Stoner/Doom. It's so washed out and not in your face with insane tempo changes.

Dead Roots Stirring - Elder, Dopesmoker - Sleep, Eternal Season - Glowsun

Also for some ambient stuff take a look at:

Dredd Soundtrack - Paul Leonard-Morgan, 2nd Disc of The Awakening - Send More Paramedics, Mass Effect Soundtracks
Also, I think it is frowned upon in open source world.
That's true. I do consider it polite though not to display their names openly on the site. It gives these people a chance to change their preferences and hide from future searches for instance.

Interesting concept... showing courtesy for strangers you find in search results...
I think his point is that $7/month is reasonable. What's hard to understand is why you could privately host a project the size of jQuery or Rails for $7/month, but his 50 projects that are orders of magnitude smaller and less active would cost much more.
Zuckerberg hopes that we're open to facebook*

I don't see all this "open" information, because I don't have a facebook account.
Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassing, and at worst, dangerous, for whoever is in the system.

What does this even mean? The "dumb algorithm" here will (a) take a user's query and (b) search that user's friends and public profiles for hits on that query. What's next: shouting about the robots taking over? Lamenting about how we're all losing our humanity and man weren't things better back in the old days?

I'm really disappointed this is the top comment on HN's top post. Users identified by Graph Search have public accounts and have willingly entered personal information into Facebook. We go thorough this song-and-dance every year: FB updates security policies, everyone is up in arms, then -- gasp! -- everyone updates their security settings. Facebook has a clear transaction with users: build a profile, get sold as eyeballs to advertisers. If you don't like it, then quit.

"With great power comes great responsibility," indeed. People have received numerous warnings about Facebook and privacy, and yet they've chosen to share personal information with everyone they know. At this point the user is responsible for choosing to participate or drop out. Meanwhile, every third HN post includes a commenter, wagging their finger, reminding us in a nasally, know-it-all voice that we're not the customer if we're not paying.

Is Graph Search really that shocking to you--to anyone on HN? Why the hell is anyone up in arms about this in 2013, given what we know about social networks?
I'm surprised nobody has invoked godwin's law yet; ie searching for "Nazis who live in California".
On OS X: cmd+alt+j, paste, enter

Probably substitute cmd for ctrl on other OSes.
Yeah, well, maybe I'm the only one, but apple maps work fine for me. Massive improvement over the old maps experience. Google regularly got a ton of things wrong, even in urban areas like San Francisco, so I give Apple the benefit of the doubt when it comes to minor mistakes.

Then again, this whole discussion could be related to the fact that Apple users are about 985% more likely to nitpick a product than any other group of people on earth.
This is a tool that lets you search data, some of which was collected on a false(or dishonest) expectation set by facebook that the data will not be searchable in this manner. That is a violation of trust. I say this as a huge fan and user of facebook's privacy features.

In most cases, I am arguing on the other side telling people how misinformed they are when they complain about a lack of privacy features. But this feature even has me blindsided and I am someone who uses almost all facebook privacy features very carefully(I have posts visible to Public to posts visible to only selected people, for example).

I fully expect a new set of privacy controls from facebook specifically around this feature.
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Looks like my problems were completely my fault. On my ThinkPad the virtualization setting is in the BIOS under Security and it was not set correctly. There were some
other settings under CPU that I initially thought were the right ones. I'm sorry to waste your time.
Sadly, whenever you try to suggest a project you get the message :

>Project suggestions are currently under maintenance and are disabled. They will be back with a vengeance soon!

But it has been this way for a long time (check out the comments below on this blog post : https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/blog/2012/07/18/State_of_the_To... ). I wish either he would take some help and ship the "improved" suggestions feature.
"It sounds kind of self-serving to say this, but he and I were a lot alike in that way, and in that process"

It's interesting that everyone seems to come away with this opinion, I wonder what it says about Steve's personality. I remember from reading his biography that many of the people he ultimately had failings out with claimed the exact same thing.
another trick i'd add on to the article - use the "Multiple Inboxes" view that Gmail offers - add a pane for starred items (is:starred search pane) - and set it to show only 1 item at a time - and position it above your classic inbox. What this does is - shows you 1 starred email (i.e. todo item ) at a time - at the top of your inbox. That way you always have 1 task ready for you to sort out - and no other tasks to distract you. (you can always dig into the starred items to see if theres something else you'd rather do / more important - but this helps focus tremendously! )
I guess the idea here is to bring the joy of running Arch and Gentoo to the unwashed masses?
I'm a fan of Music for Programming.
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Haha, me too. I've been saying it this way since it happened.
yes, it was just for fun :)
It was mushrooms in a hotel room in Amsterdam several years ago. I took them with my then-girlfriend - her trip was okay but mine was awful. The visuals, the thoughts, the emotions all felt terrible and when it really hit me I couldn't stop panicking.

At the time, I thought that was it: a bad trip but glad it was over. But over the following months I developed a chronic anxiety triggered by all sorts of things. First time I noticed it was next time I was in a hotel room; I had a panic attack and had to call an ambulance as I didn't know what the fuck was going on with my head. Then, other things became triggers. If I happened to be thinking of either of the hotel room incidents and felt anxious, then whatever else was present at the time would become a trigger for the anxiety. This included internal thought-triggers and external visual and situational ones. Over the next couple of years I had panic attacks in all sorts of places, sometimes seemingly apropos of nothing.

Anyway after a couple of years I managed to get it somewhat under control using a combination of anti-depressant medication and cognitive behavioural therapy. But even now there are some situational triggers that will make me exceedingly anxious, and earlier this month - after several years 'clean' of attacks - I couldn't hold off the anxiety and had another really large attack. Though I was very stressed about something else so I suppose my background levels of anxiety were high anyway.

Before all this happened, I was a pretty relaxed and chilled out kind of guy. It makes me sad that I'm never going to get back to that state of mind. When I look back at recordings or writings of the pre-mushrooms me, he seems almost like a stranger. It's very odd.

This of course is not necessarily a typical experience on mushrooms, and I suppose I was predisposed to this somehow, but it was a very unpleasant way to find this out.
The whole point of the site (other than lulz) is to highlight the privacy problems of Facebook, they obviously aren't going to completely protect the people who show up in those searches. What the blurring does is prevents the top 3-4 people in the results at the time of the search from being unfairly highlighted, and it doesn't keep any historical record of the people should they take steps to remove themselves from these results.

I think the anonymization, while not perfect, is enough to be considered ethical.
source code available here, if you're interested: http://github.com/rafaqueque

this was made just for fun.
Maybe that is how it should be, but that isn't how it is right now.

If you don't want public recognition of your marriage, I'm sure you could write up some private contracts, but it won't confer all of the same rights that a state-recognized marriage gets.
I think it's obvious that this is really a way of advertising FB's advertising possibilities, opening it up to the general public is a side-effect of building revenue generation tools.

But FB will definitely have to roll a great deal of this back as this is definitely deeply troubling.
I have a comfy stool to sit in at my standing desk. I've found that without even thinking about it, I stand when producing, and sit when consuming. For example I'll sit and read some documentation or sample code, then stand to write my code. Standing felt quite natural after a day or two.

As for productivity/quality of work, it's not worse. For quality of life, it's much better as I don't feel as drained at the end of the day.
I'm not sure I follow you. Right now, Facebook knows roughly this much about me:

1) All of the people I have legitimated as Friends.
2) Screeds and screeds of data about the quality of all my connections with those friends (have I hid them from my news-feed? how much do I interact with their posts? how much do I interact with them? talk to them? share with them? stalk them? how much time do I spend in interactions with them? how do the patterns of my interactions change with them (mouse-click patterns, scroll patterns, typing patterns)? do I use different words (different emotions/more formal/informal language/different function word patterns?)
3) People I've stalked but haven't friended
4) Brands, companies, causes, ideas, things from history, all sorts of random shit I've liked (along with similar data to 2))
5) What sorts of things I click on, how I leave the site and where I go.
And certainly more.

Etc., etc., etc. Facebook didn't manifest my entire social life. They just built a platform which allowed me to socialise orders of magnitude more efficiently than before, a platform of great benefit to me, and one into which I've poured vast quantities of data (and the amount, quality and variety of the data is only set to increase as we open up more input modalities - eg eye-tracking, gesture-tracking, and biometrics). the data is all there. All facebook is doing is cobbling together some of the most very basic tools one might use to make sense of a subset of that data.
I collected volumes of this crap and never played. If they had the campaign setting boxes for Dragonlance and Planescape I'd probably spend the money though, just out of nostalgia.
| This is just handing people another tool - the uses,
| and misuses, of said tool are entirely on the users.

The same applies to building hand-held nuclear weapons and handing them out on a street corner.

The same could be said of convincing people to put CCTVs in their houses and then hooking them all up chatroullete-style.

That doesn't mean that it's a good idea.

| A snarky and mean-spirited stereotyping of all
| nerds as socially inept! How clever.

I see it more as Mark Zuckerberg having lived a rather sheltered life. E.g., his view that people having different 'faces' with different people as being disingenuous is laughable. Many people only show selected parts of themselves to certain peer groups, while showing other parts to different peer groups.

That, and I assumed the 'average Facebook employee' part was assuming that they were all 20-somethings from (on average) middle-class or above backgrounds (i.e. possibly sheltered and lacking in life experience).
If they ever catch you at that, they'll delete your account. And they will quiz your friends to find out if your name is real or not: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/09/24/facebook-...
The Facebook Graph Search article making the rounds mentions that (a) posts are not searchable at this time, and (b) FB is launching a suite of new privacy settings for Graph Search.

Here's a link:

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/the-inside-story-of-gr...
I'll look it using this in my dreary day job. You would be suprised how hard it is to keep track of 12 staff that report to you and know what they are actually up to when you are extremly busy yourself. It would add a lot of pressure to their working weeks to commit to what they are doing and have to report against it.

Great tool I say!
>A snarky and mean-spirited stereotyping of all nerds as socially inept! How clever.

Not at all. I'm just willing to bet that the average Facebook employee has never had to hide his sexuality/political/religious beliefs for fear of execution/incarceration/abuse to his family/etc. Yet a non-negligible part of Facebook's user base are people precisely in this situation.

That being said, the very fact that you call what the link demonstrates "silliness" speaks for itself.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, you can change the visibility of likes. This affects Graph Search, Timeline visibility, and also page visibility (I've personally tested these). The Admins of pages you like will still be able to see that you like their page.

Go to the Likes page on your timeline. Click the Edit button in the upper right. Privacy visibility buttons will pop up next to each Like category for you to change the visibility of Likes. Make sure to scroll down to the bottom so you don't miss the last category "Other Pages You Like."

Yes, Facebook intentionally doesn't do a good job of advertising this. For me, though, I'm satisfied that the option is there (and that my option to stalk my friends is there as well).
I assume something like:

The social implications (for good or ill) are greater than the immediate, personal benefits are (in aggregate).
Open Compute type platforms are going to destroy margins. Margins for high volume servers (i.e. anything where Supermicro can play) already suck so much compared to the old school "Dell just has to be cheaper than Sun or IBM" world.

I really think preserving their (dying) enterprise margins gives them better total profit over the next 10 years, vs. being fast to position themselves for the bleak low-margin future. It's just like the RIAA labels -- made more sense for them to eke out $20 CDs for an extra year or four vs. going early into the MP3 future. Use the cash from $20 CD sales to then sue/force unprofitable licenses on anyone crazy enough to do music services, later.

The only really good thing about Dell is that they're not HP. HP has strong channel sales, especially in the middle east/etc., but has probably the worst corporate governance of any major company, and is generally doomed, too.
Why are you still upset? It's been months and Google Maps has been out for a while.
I see this as similar to those shady websites that scrape for personal information, then aggregate them. Not the shadiness, but the same principle of gathering information that has already been available, but now simply exposing it in one neat package. And it's very frightening. Can you imagine in a few years where scrapers can take this kind of logic and build databases of people's "online footprints" based on aliases they have used in the past by searching for references to emails they registered with, or mentioned in comments? Add textual analysis of their comments, and all bets are off.
My only complaint is that the Firefox app manifest and the chrome app manifest aren't the same thing. The Firefox and chrome developers seem like they work together pretty well, it's too bad they couldn't collaborate on this.
If it weren't for pacman's weird user interface (not functionality, just the UI), I might have already switched to Arch. As Ubuntu gets worse (it seems like every day there is a new anouncement that sucks), pacman looks better and better.