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This is great. Would love to see an import from twitter/reddit subs feature in the extension.

indigovioleton Ask HN: Help geeting back Deleted Facebook page/app

what is the page/app?

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/dart-language-for-str...

indigovioleton 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...

indigovioleton Facebook fixes logout issue

user_id:389472984 isn't anonymized. Aggregated and anonymized data means, "gender:male ages:18-34"

indigovioleton Facebook is scaring me

This is an excellent point, let me pass that on to the platform permissions people.

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http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2320770&cid=367...

indigovioleton Facebook Design Getting All Hipster

Interesting. I'll file a bug. Thanks for the info.

indigovioleton 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.

indigovioleton 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.

indigovioleton Facebook users drop in the US and Canada

134 points, 76 comments, and maybe 3 of them critically examining the methodology :/

indigovioleton 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.

indigovioleton $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.

indigovioleton $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.

indigovioleton 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

indigovioleton Facebook blames Zuckerberg embarrassment on API 'bug'

A bandersnatch ate the anti-hacking chip we'd installed.

indigovioleton 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.

indigovioleton 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.

indigovioleton What Facebook needs? A killer search engine

That box searches the web. It even uses Bing.

indigovioleton 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.

indigovioleton Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?

Thanks, that's cool. I'll post it on our team group.

indigovioleton Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?

Sorry I didn't respond earlier. We work on basically any data-analysis-intensive part of the site, including basic research into what people are using the site for, how features proliferate, deduping and disambiguation on the graph, machine learning, recommendations.

My Facebook profile is on my HN profile, and is the best way to contact me.

indigovioleton Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?

Not sure why, but I didn't get your message on Facebook.

indigovioleton Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?

(I work on this team at Facebook)

There are definitely sensitive issues, but IMO the limiting factor to putting out more cool analyses is that packaging these up for public consumption takes time and effort, and there is a _lot_ on our plate for a small team. Lisa (the author) was a very smart and productive intern.

If you're qualified and want to help, drop me a line or go to facebook.com/careers

indigovioleton Facebook Slaps Google: “Openness Doesn’t Mean Being Open When It’s Convenient”

It's interesting how noone wants to actually respond to the arguments that Mike Vernal is making, instead resorting to the equivalent of "Facebook is evil, how dare they say they aren't!".

indigovioleton Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data

Why can't you just get them from Gmail?

indigovioleton Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-allows-you-to-...

indigovioleton Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video

Agreed; only, the fact that no one has done it conclusively so far says to me that the Lua community isn't/hasn't been thinking about these sorts of things, and makes me worry about the other holes I will encounter if I do delve into the language. I'd rather invest my time and energy into learning how to use Cython to speed up Python, or Clojure to make Java more fun.

indigovioleton Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video

I wouldn't have a problem with external unicode support if there was one "standard" recommended library that had a strong community behind it. My whole point is that that doesn't appear to exist.

indigovioleton Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video

Why is it in beta? Why does the mailing list [http://lists.luaforge.net/pipermail/icu-lua-users/] have no activity on it?