skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats what I was thinking, Im going to go ahead and guess that not too many fb users go through their entire timeline and delete Every.Single.Post. Flagging something like that as hostile and then "restoring" your timeline makes sense. However, I feel like there should be some kind of communication going on in email before something is actually done (for the mass deletes and auto restoring) and a simple "click here if this is what you really wanted to do" would suffice..
I think $20/month for hosting is pretty small if it's a business expense that helps you win new clients. But if that is really too much, then you could use Github Pages (free) or a Wordpress blog with a "portfolio" page (free or cheap). But careers last a long time, so I'd buy a domain name and start building a web presence for yourself. You'll have the most flexibility if you pay for a VPS rather than going the WP/GP route. I haven't done anything particularly outstanding to create my own "web presence," but for what it's worth here is my own portfolio page:

http://illuminatedcomputing.com/portfolio
They tried to cut a deal with the USPS where the scanning happens at the distribution centers.

The USPS said that they would never do it.
I'm pretty sure Google Maps predates both Google+ and the Zagat acquisition by a large margin.
Please try this on a monkey first. Show me a monkey with a transplanted head and we'll talk.
If you feel your identity is as trivial and interchangeable as a computer's CPU, be my guest. I don't think you'll get the result you're looking for.
>much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious.

Most, if not all, of your so called "illegal", "immoral or malicious" behavior comes from a certain handful of boards, of which there are over fifty. For most, the only illegal/immoral stuff they engage in is piracy and just generally being assholes, both of which can be found on almost any online congregation.

In short, lel.
With all respect, moot, 4chan breaks a huge number of laws about copyright protection (half of which were made specifically to illegalize file-sharing, of course). Raiding is certainly malicious, even if you enjoy it.

And I don't think debating morality with the founder of 4chan is productive; if you have a moral sense it must be almost entirely libertarian.
An MIT Project That Lets You Spy On Yourself
Markov chains based on content about facebook privacy intrusions, perhaps ;)?
Wozniak designed (and built) the Apple I circuit. Jobs was not an engineer, he filled the marketing role.
The tone of this article sounds more like anti-European propaganda than news.
I don't think there's any malicious intent. In my demographic, (almost) all events are set up through FB because your friend graph, mass-invites, and guest lists are built in.

My flatmate's boyfriend is fond of throwing large house parties with hundreds of invitees, then hiring a doorman to check names off against the FB RSVP list. If you're not on it, you're not admitted.

My closest friends remember me and send me invites via email, but I can't fault them for forgetting now and then.
Most people aren't moderately sophisticated/equipped adversaries. They are just people you think have no business knowing about (parts of) your life.
> Then I got banned on HN. Beats me how. Still waiting to figure that one out. I asked to be reinstated and I was, but without knowing what I've done it makes it really difficult to avoid doing it again.

HN bans often seem completely arbitrary. I recently turned on "showdead" to see what gets banned, and have come across some quite puzzling ones.

For instance, there is greenpizza13 [1]. His offense appears to have been posting a comment that called that "wat" video "hilarious".

Even more puzzling is luka1413 [2]. Just two comments. Neither particularly useful, but not offensive and certainly no more useless than many of the comments of regulars here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=greenpizza13

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luka1413
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> /pol/ is a hive of neo-Nazi scum

When you censor the rest of the internet, the "scum" (aka people with non-PC opinions) will concentrate where they can talk without fear of censorship. You can be a "political-normal" on /pol/ but you won't have the politically-correct wind at your back like you do in so many other places.

Massive props to Moot for keeping 4chan alive as a bastion of free speech.
If I hadn't seen exactly the same thing with my own eyes then I would be tempted to believe you.

I said this previously in another Facebook related thread:

Facebook don't properly delete content that you choose to delete.
Photos, check-ins and posts are just archived. I've been through
and deleted everything manually on my timeline back to 2007. I noted
that certain pages still showed the "counts" of content that had long
been deleted:

- http://i.imgur.com/zdwTl.png

- http://i.imgur.com/27RFG.png

Recently I went back to delete some of the newer content. To my surprise, ALL of my previous posts, and comments had returned.

I don't think Facebook are playing fair. Delete means delete, and I want to delete it permanently.

If they archive the data instead of deleting it, then they should say 'archive' on the damn button.

I also no longer trust Facebook at all. I don't post on it, and keep the account only for OAuth testing purposes (and lurking).

If my deleted posts mysteriously appear again I plan on updating every single one to gibberish. Maybe quoting loremgibson.com or 1984.
Either the $20 million claim is wrong, and then all the information on the slides is suspect, or it is correct, and the scope of PRISM is much smaller than is widely believed and is believed by the author of this article.

Multiple replies below have already questioned this either-or choice you present. From what I know about government agency presentations to higher-level authorities who set budgets, the likely claim on the slide is that the marginal cost of PRISM-as-such in an environment in which NSA already has other programs and the facilities to run them is just an insubstantial $20 million. And on the more extravagant assumptions of the submitted article, that might very well be a true claim for a PRISM program that gathers and analyzes quite a lot of data. That's especially likely if NSA has low-cost in-house software development capabilities, as it surely does.
This isn't a chicken and egg scenario though. Snowden couldn't be hurting the US if they didn't take the actions in the first place. It's like blaming victims of police brutality that have come forward for the bad public image of police.
> I am quite sure there is enough evidence that trying psilocybin or marijuana ONCE is not going to damage your body in the long term

So... where is this evidence? Maybe that's the case (no one can say for sure yet), but it's not something I want to risk, even if the risk is low. That's fine that you want to experience all that reality offers, but I am simply disinterested in that particular experience. I'm sure there's many experiences you care little in being a part of even though many people find it enjoyable. (For instance, I like going on long runs by myself. And there's certainly a risk of getting hit by a car. Most people would like nothing to do with such an event.)
My point was different. If there is no need for someone to see the (encrypted, if you like) traffic, then it would be safer not to send it through their server at all. It is difficult to decrypt the stream you don't have access to.
While big agribusiness doesn't, small OS seems to be getting results. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/16/ind...

http://www.mnn.com/leaderboard/stories/how-small-scale-farme...
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The crucial part of the interview for me is this:

>>Steve was still young, trying to move too fast, and not regulated enough to really create a good product, a successful product. He had basically, in Apple times, when he ran things... he had three failures. We had 10 years of revenues from the Apple II running the company, and that was just from one person.

Lots of really good nuggets in there from Woz. Really interesting.
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Interesting idea!

You're making me wonder if someone intentionally violates the TOS by, for example, uploading porn if they would delete the account. Facebook does delete accounts that it considers spam so they might just delete such an account.
Did you read the part where it stated Mark Pincus has a 61% voting control in Zynga?
Why aren't the USPS doing this? They already have to process some addressed mail specially (eg if you have them a forwarding address), so it would be practical for them to deliver your mail virtually.
1. get people to opt-out of all the junk.
2. sell advertising on the site to replace postal mail.
3. provide last-mile services for UPS/FedEx.
4. capture $1 per bill from the bill senders.
5. focus on saturating by zip code.

and...

6. make a smart mail box that knows when it has mail in it.

You put it all together and they can make $25/month per customer and only they only have to visit the mail box when your mom sends you cookies.

It is still a big gamble but that's what you do when you are Peter Thiel. Will and Evan are smart guys. This is their 2nd pivot and the bet is that they can find a way to make money in this space.
I'm not pretending anything. Both of those statements are true. Android is more open than iOS, FxOS is more open than Android.

And in every Android topic there is at least one commenter saying that Android isn't truly open.
Thanks! I know HN is so minimal that it's easy to overlook.
> Is being maried and having kids a specific French problem?

I am inclined to think it's easier to move around with a family in the US than in Europe because of the language barrier.
If you have very little data about a situation, and then start reasoning using only that bit of data, it's very likely you'll get a different result from those who have hundreds of times more data.
This is what I wonder the most. Bradley Manning was/is basically tortured so US has made it clear that the punishment for leaking any information, especially embarrassing, will result in torture.

And now they are making comments that by leaving Snowden showed that he is a 'defector/spy'. If he stays he would be tortured, if he leaves his stories are discredited, though they would be discredited in any case.

Are those that claim he is defecting totally serious? That he should endure torture?
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Its not what people can know about you, but rather how much of what they know is controlled by you. You can put out there all the info you want to make public, but if you change your mind, facebook will still keep your data.
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There seems to be a philosophical difference in how users versus services view ownership of data and posts like this. If you write status "foo" and someone else comments "bar," who owns what? Do you own the comment because it is subordinate to your post? If your post was just a letter, and someone wrote an essay in a comment underneath it, do you own that essay and can you delete it without permission from its creator?

No, we shouldn't trust facebook. But no, we also shouldn't pretend that the word delete means the same thing on your personal computer as it does on a shared resource like facebook. It's way more complicated than that. It should be simple, but it isn't, at least not yet.

Also, not upvoting this because of the eye-rollingly overdone "merriam-webster defines..." line. God, I can't stand that!
While I agree with the gist of the argument (Facebook shouldn't bring back user-deleted posts, and you shouldn't trust Facebook), the semantic arguments over the term "delete" are frivolous. It's not unreasonable for Facebook to keep storing things that I delete. Windows has the Recycle Bin, word processors have undo, databases have backups, etc. The problem is restoring the content without the user's permission. Citing a dictionary definition then overfitting your argument to that specific definition is something I expect from a high school speech class.
Wouldn't it save a lot of hardware resources (given the scale) if they, say, carefully cleared them out with a regular cron job?
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> Having been homeschooled, this is a great suggestion.

Agreed. I was homeschooled as well, and homeschool groups were absolutely vital to making the experience a success for me. I did great teaching myself at home, but especially in high school, I needed outside classes and outside social activities. The city I grew up in had a huge homeschool community, so it was easy to find classes on a wide variety of subjects.
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The only reason I can't get my wife to switch to Chrome is that Chrome has no "left sidebar history". If I could find an extension or something which duplicate that, I'd switch her over in a heartbeat.
What a business plan! Create a social startup, sell it for a bazillion dollars, wait til the new owners wreck it, buy it back for a song. Wish I'd thought of it!

Seriously, though, since they have a proven system that was pretty popular, a little tweaking and a good marketing plan (perhaps one that exploits the sell-your-life-to-NSA issues of other networks), and I could see it come roaring back to life.
Or perhaps in light of the brand damage caused surrounding Xbox One, this is the result of said reorg by Ballmer.
This feels somewhat disingenuous. Naturally a site making it's money off of ads is going to give them an above-the-fold and prominent position. Just scroll down... the value add is in the qualify of the organic results (which is still there), not in the absence of scrolling.

If you think the ratio is off, then write an article about it... but this is hardly "killing organic search".
Pincus already cashed out and has enough money to live a lavish, comfortable lifestyle. Having someone else take on the task of turning around a publicly held company on a day to day basis is probably very appealing to him. Not to mention, Wall Street likes seeing this type of behavior from companies performing poorly.
Because I don't have enough spare time/energy to

A) Get out and find one.

B) Spend time with her.
Even in a somewhat controversial/borderline-hostile CEO replacement by the board, the ex-CEO often retains some sort of position in the company (say, a seat on the Board)
Ok, here's the thing: I don't even have huge moral problems with piracy, but it is very illegal. And "just generally being assholes" should damn well be labeled as a guilty pleasure, at least as it regards 4chan's interaction with the world outside 4chan.

Likewise, many people have no actual problem with smoking crack. That doesn't mean it's not illegal, and it doesn't mean there's no good reason people don't want to live next to a crack house. Or even a dive bar, for that matter.

Consistent cross-site raids conducted by sites like 4chan and SomethingAwful (and worse: hate groups are some of Reddit's most regular raiders) definitely do create the effect of having a virtual "bad neighbor".

I enjoy 4chan too, after having finally getting over being a newfriend (printing the polite version of that term) since half my IRL friends are anons. This doesn't mean I don't know damn well the site is a guilty pleasure and I shouldn't actually let myself get sucked into the Internet Hate Machine.
Why use Google Analytics, when there is Google Chrome browser?
I'm not sure either. I hope someone can enlighten.
Thanks very much for adding your perspective. The article itself is very intriguing and points out things I just would not have understood, even from 'watching' spoken Italian, as an intrinsic part of the language as it is actually used in its native culture. Having the extra nudge from someone who's part of the culture makes it even more educational.
Or maybe someone just tipped him off.

Trivia: I just opened his HN profile to see when was his account created, and by some strange coincidence we have exactly the same karma (443). Either that or it's bug in HN :)
I just tested this myself, and got 43.8% of organic results (I'm counting the image result preview as organic results), 18.9% of google UI (the bars on top), and 35,2% whitespace. They do not sum to 100% because I just roughly measured stuff at photoshop. Zero ads or curated content on either search, logged in with my personal google profile.

I guess adblock and not living in US has some advantages.
One thing that has always bothered me it's that if you ever decide to post a comment on a site that uses the Facebook commenting system and you decide not to publish that comment on your timeline, then you have no way of recovering it (and thus deleting it, if you ever decide so). You have to resort to search engines that behave poorly for this kind of things.

I admit that after some mishaps Facebook has greatly improved the privacy controls on the site and allowed user to more easily control what they share and with whom, but I guess pretty much everyone would agree that it's not enough yet. We need the ability to delete the very content that we create, everyone has the right to be forgotten should he decide so.
You are trivializing the underlying issue here. If the same thing happened in a physical world it will be a high profile public defamation case.

Browser is the window through people sees the world. That’s the reality we live in. In our target market, Google chrome holds 40% market share. Because of its stupid categorization, in one stroke Google harmed our reputation and the reputation of companies we serve. It is not a simple browser compatibility issue. Google chrome is telling the world our software is phishing software while we are not. What is the recourse here?

We don’t care what Chrome’s algorithms are. But the results are not factual and it harms our business. "One cannot escape saying hey that is our algorithm. We don’t do evil…" Remember.
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Most of these are pretty easy to pick up even as a foreigner, although you've got to be careful - I once accidentally spilled a drink on my wife while gesticulating when I was telling a story.
There are just too many excellent free alternatives to justify such subscription.
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Yep, JavaScript/web is not a first-class runtime on Android. You must write a Java wrapper application that uses a 3rd party (PhoneGap) framework to get access to most APIs. And IIRC Android web views still use Android Browser, which is terrible.
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Yeah, this is why North Korea gets upset every time one of their people defects and reveals the human rights abuses of their government.

Those people are scum, embarrassing their government like that!!
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Earth class mail had exactly the same idea 2004 and got 21.4M funding [1]. A documentary from 2008 about them: http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies . They later fired the founder and changed from B2C to B2B [2]: “As many a tech startup has discovered, though, a great idea doesn't always make a good business. Digitizing all that paper proved hugely expensive, and Earth Class Mail couldn't make its business pay.”
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I thought the reason that we had seen only a few of the PRISM slides was because Snowden was being cautious rather than cavalier. It strikes me that this way the media can be blamed for any negative public opinions about Snowden on the basis that they gave out too much or too little information.

On a some-what-related note, I wonder if this is going to be a rerun of the Wikileaks state department cables, where a Guardian reporter 'unknowingly' gave away the password to the encrypted 'insurance' cache. I still wonder whether that whole thing wasn't track 2 diplomacy masquerading as espionage theater.
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"Everyone is a creator in one way or another - and it’s important to know someone cares about whatever it is that you’re creating."

Couldn't agree more. My grandmother, in her last few months, used to love to sing bhajans and other religious songs. She'd sing to herself sometimes; she'd sing with her visitors, too. My family certainly made an effort to involve ourselves and appreciate those precious moments. My only regret is that I wasn't able to capture them to save for the future.

I love that you have a little window on your grandfather's life, even if you're not communicating every day.
Great hire for Zynga. Don is hugely respected at Microsoft and was actually tipeed to be a potential Ballmer successor. Big loss for Microsoft.