chucknthem

I hope it’s a better business model! Last thing I want is more regulation adding administrative costs to business.

You might as well say the internet is a front for the NSA

um...citation needed?

https://www.facebook.com/help/193430577370347/

That is a perfectly reasonable explanation, and not what I'm calling conspiracy theory. I'll quote one from a reply to the current top comment.

>Google and Facebook are part of the military surveillance complex, it's as simple as that. They are privatized surveillance companies who serve the US government.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5899813

This needs to be the top comment. Way too many wacko conspiracy theorists in this thread.

If a kid who only went to community college (or no tertiary education at all) has the skills to be a great programmer and can pass the interview, sure Facebook would hire them. It is harder to get noticed without a degree, so they might have to do more to show it by contributing to open source projects, winning programming contests or being referred by an employee, but once they're in the loop, it's fair game.

There's a huge difference between IT and software engineering, and using IT as the umbrella term is really doing us a disservice.

You can follow the facebook engineering page to see updates on what engineers get up to https://www.facebook.com/Engineering

Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices are still being released on low end phones, especially in developing countries, so the number of pre-ICS users are actually growing, not shrinking.

You missed the bit that says > "[Ed: This is completely untrue, in case this fantastical point seems plausible at first. I installed a hot tub (non-functioning) as a conference room in Facebook Seattle. Interviews are never done in them.]"

Gotta say, it really bugs me to know that people would willingly download a script they don't understand and run it against their private data.

Sure the javascript is open source, but how many people will actually read and understand it before running it?

Not saying that this specific script or post has any nefarious intent, but it's obvious how easy it would be to trick a bunch of otherwise intelligent people to give away access to their facebook account by posting something that claims to protect privacy.

It becomes much harder to track down a leak when the leakers know they're being chased.

These comments doesn't make sense for spam (unless their account links to a lot of spam?) I wonder if it's non-english speakers trying to practice their english.

It's required by the chinese government http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_c...

It's an ad, you're probably not in the targeted audience for it.

I don't think they're saving money by making an HTML5 version. A slow app means less engaged users who are less likely to see or click on ads. At facebook's scale, that's potentially tens to hundreds of millions of dollars lost on the iPhone per year while it probably only costs a couple million to fund 5 engineers to make a decent native iOS app.

Here's a recording for anyone who missed it http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25340828

> I don't mean to be snarky

Then please don't and try to refrain from posting :)

The rest of us haven't seen it yet and there are a few photos of the non open compute servers too. It's also perfectly fine to post older articles and stories here because they are often interesting to the HN community and make for good discussion.

Great to see them doing well. I first heard about the company while exploring different Android ROMs, and the MIUI rom by XiaoMi was the best I've seen overall in terms of stability and usability which cyanogen lacked. Their native apps felt really intuitive to use and it adds a lot of functionality that you normally get from apps and more. e.g. a toggle to turn things on and off in the notification area is an app in the app store, but the quality just isn't good enough and I hate going through a bunch of crappy quality widget apps just to find one that I might like. Cyanogen has most of the features that xiami offers and more, but they're not as well designed nor as stable.

It's not about whether they can be considered an "upstart" it's about whether speculators think they have the potential to make much more money than they already do. Amazon for example has been around for 2 decades and have a PE ratio of 179 because they've put nearly all their profits into investing in new businesses that has a lot of potential to make more money down the road.

You mean they would profit more if the price would go *down? The way I understand it, you make money on a short when the price goes down because you can buy back the shares you shorted at a lower price.

Buffet is the epitome of a contrarian investor. He's buying precisely because he thinks the popular opinion about the dying newspaper industry is exaggerated, and he can get a good deal for his money.

Out of that list, I think unpleasant is what separates a disease from other biological phenomena. You can say the same thing about human growth (the early parts of aging), but it's not unpleasant until later.

$100,000 of seed funding. I wonder what share of the company they gave up for this. Heavily funded anti-piracy agencies are almost guaranteed to make this a good investment.

Actually, it has msnbot listed, and according to this http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive...

The bingbot will respect msnbot permissions when it doesn't see bingbot, unless of course github has explicitly blocked unrecognized user agents too.

Hm...maybe these answers aren't enabled in your country/region. All those searches gave me answers on Bing set to en-us

That already exists, scroll down.

Those links are usually recruiting links for YC companies allowed by PG.

Not sure if it's still the case, but Google hosts all their internal source code on a modified version of perforce, so they essentially have everything in one repo.