indigoviolet | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Fraidycat
This is great. Would love to see an import from twitter/reddit subs feature in the extension.
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indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help geeting back Deleted Facebook page/app
what is the page/app?
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Dart language
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: any light after quitting career at big software companies?
Come talk to us at Facebook. We try very hard in our culture to avoid the bad things you mention above. Send me a message (my contact information is on my profile).
http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Facebook-EI_IE4...
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Facebook fixes logout issue
user_id:389472984 isn't anonymized. Aggregated and anonymized data means, "gender:male ages:18-34"
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Facebook is scaring me
This is an excellent point, let me pass that on to the platform permissions people.
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Hides Google+ account
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Facebook Design Getting All Hipster
Interesting. I'll file a bug. Thanks for the info.
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Facebook Design Getting All Hipster
I'm curious, what browser/OS are you using? Your screenshots look different from my view of the site, specifically, the text is either displaced or enlarged in your screenshots, making it look weird.
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Facebook Design Getting All Hipster
The spirit of that slogan is more like "Move fast and don't be afraid to disrupt established patterns". The intention is to give employees licence to think out of the box and try out lots of new ideas, without being bogged down by what has gone before. Everyone I've talked to (I personally don't have a lot of experience at jobs outside of Facebook and academia) agrees that Facebook offers you unparalleled freedom to go forth and have impact, unencumbered by red tape and naysayers.
That's not to defend API breakages or incomplete documentation and the pain it causes developers -- I'm not directly involved, but I know that we're definitely trying to get that turned around and fix some of the issues with Facebook Platform.
indigoviolet | 14 years ago | on: Facebook users drop in the US and Canada
134 points, 76 comments, and maybe 3 of them critically examining the methodology :/
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: You won't find FSF on Facebook
Actually, we're mostly the mouth, teeth and tongue of Big Brother. Which He then uses to eat babies. And His teeth are sharp indeed.
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: $3 million machine learning prize
You're perhaps right. Of course, these people are on things like Facebook, Twitter and blogs and if you can narrow down age, gender, location and medical condition, you might be able to correlate with public posts.
You can also look for specific people in there if you have certain kinds of prior information about them: For example, Aravind Narayanan was able to de-anonymize some part of the Netflix set [http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610105]. Maybe that won't translate to this data.
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: $3 million machine learning prize
Oooh. This is just begging for a privacy firestorm when someone de-anonymizes the data, which I'm guessing won't be super hard given the kind of medical features they'd need to provide to make this task useful.
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: Greplin (YC W10) open sources 10-15x faster protocol buffers for Python
I think you'll find py-yajl to be faster than any of the other Python JSON modules: https://github.com/rtyler/py-yajl
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: Facebook blames Zuckerberg embarrassment on API 'bug'
A bandersnatch ate the anti-hacking chip we'd installed.
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
This is a possibility, I'd have to ask around to see it is the case. If so, I apologize for the snarky tone in my first comment.
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=foo
'Web Results' in the left hand column. I agree with you about emphasis/focus.
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
That box searches the web. It even uses Bing.
indigoviolet | 15 years ago | on: What Facebook needs? A killer search engine
You know what would be cool? If the author went to www.facebook.com, found the rather prominent input box on top called 'Search', and tried putting something in it.
There's a lot that can be improved, but Facebook already has a search engine. One that even produces Bing results, like the OP wants.
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