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Interesting...you guys sound more and more like a hedge fund (and I say that in a positive light).

Not a good point AT ALL. LSD tolerance builds up over absurdly short times. If you take a dose today, and another tomorrow, you'll experience drastically fewer effects. Thus, you never hear of "LSD addicts". There may be other psychological dangers involved for certain individuals, but addiction is not going to be a concern, for purely physiological reasons.

Nope, SOPA was another (succesful) attempt by user-generated content sites to deflect liability away from themselves. That's my point, these onerous terms are pretty much in the same spirit, from an Internet company's point of view, as the SOPA protest.

Let me rephrase GP's comment, since I felt the same thing as them. Allow me to set out a hypothetical.

You find that Pinterest's terms are awful, and stage a very successful revolt with your own site, sans the offensive terms. Users flock to your site, and Pinterest dies a sad death. One of the copyright owners of your "pinned" content decides to go after you, and decides to sue the pants off you. So you freak out and hire a top-notch lawyer, who will draft a new set of terms for your users to shield you from the liability you now realize you have.

Repeat, iterate, and before you know it -- your top-notch lawyer guarantees that you will face no more expensive liability, but you now have the onerous terms set out in practically all sites that allow user-generated content.

Basically, these terms allow you to bump the liability from yourself to the user who uploaded it (because they have pinned the pictures in bad faith, in violation of your terms, etc.)

So there's really no point railing against the terms -- they aren't going away, and the best you can hope for is very minor modifications of wording with sufficient popular pressure. Good luck on that.

I think he was referring to the data manipulation capabilities of SQL, things like GROUP BY and WHERE and ORDER BY that can be offloaded to the client, not as a data caching benefit.

Flawed logic; A/B tests are hypothesis testing, the specific hypotheses can still violate one's privacy. If they could use a bit of retrofitted code to surreptitiously capture your text messages and geolocation, it would certainly help their business, but would it be ethical?

I think you might be ascribing too much to the marketing types. Regardless of the company, a "controlled leak" would probably be someone from PR (credible) talking to a single (or few) outlets. They almost certainly have no idea of (a) what a user-agent string is, (b) that it is logged to servers, and (c) that high-credibility news outlets are monitoring user-agent strings.

I'm putting my money on gaffe.

Yes, we don't know, so lets pick the one that is expedient to our biases.

You can salt all you want, but an 8 character password with a single round is going to fall very, very fast. Salt, being public, has nothing to do with it.

I don't mean to be a hater, but does every acquisition story have to have a comment like this? If you want to congratulate them, use email or a phone call! If you want to show that you know them personally, please realize that bit of information doesn't contribute to the discussion. A semi-anonymous comment on HN will not make them feel particularly special or appreciated, and is not required by etiquette either.

Sorry, I just had to speak up in my personal bit effort to try and keep this a meaningful place.

Seriously, neither can I, and you're right that it's a culture problem. I am genuinely trying to do my part to overcome that. Towards that, it would be nice to see more in-depth expositions of setups, and above all, an honest description of any issues and problems. I'm trying, antirez, I'm trying... :)

I'd like to pose a Redis question to the community at large. On HN, I keep hearing about how awesome it is, how readable the codebase is, how efficient and well thought out it generally is.

That's all fine, but there is incredible resistance in many enterprises to adopting new technology. I recently faced a similar problem trying to get people to move to Redis, and the feeling is that there isn't enough "enterprise social proof".

So my questions to anyone who has deployed a large enough Redis cluster (and by cluster, I mean replication, since sharding isn't apparently supported yet):

-- What is the largest instance you have run? -- How reliable has that instance been? -- How easy is it to maintain and administer? -- What are some issues you would warn other enterprise users about?

Sure you can! Like everything else, you have to pick your sources. I go with NYT and the IHT for "American" sources, and the BBC and Al Jaz, and then occassionally the local newspapers if I'm bored. NYT is quite decent, IMO, although obviously far from perfect.

I agree, I tried it out and it was remarkably accurate.

This part stood out to me:

> The app compares your Likes in common with Wikipedia listings to identify similar categorical interests. Examples I’ve seen: If the other person likes The New Yorker, a line of text might say “You like The Econoimst.” If they like The Sopranos, it says “You like Mad men.” Sometimes these comparisons end up better than others, but overall the feature does succeed in showing you things loosely in common that might not have been obvious if you only compare Likes.

Any chance of making this an API sometime soon?

Good point, but I think they want to go well beyond pretty girls in coffee shops. I like that they use your Facebook likes behind the scenes to generate connections that might be serendipitous.

Um, Grindr is for casual homosexual encounters, which is admittedly a big market, but not as big as "lonely in a new city and looking to meet new people".

Glancee looks wonderfully polished, I'll give it a spin and see if it works.

Erik Demaine has some of the nicest algorithms lectures, and I would compare him to Gilbert Strang teaching linear algebra.

EDIT: and closer to here, cpercival talking about cryptography and security, or tptacek when he's not grumpy and actually writes an informative, detailed comment.

Strangely, qualified engineers and security experts keep turning down the consumer-facing support jobs.

PBKDF2 with a high iteration count.

FWIW, as a musician, this is a really good idea. If you do implement it, please do post a link back on Hn.

I hate to say this, but you're really starting to sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. You admit that GP has a good point, but then you go ahead and bash one type of person based on some ridiculously flawed notion that an "instructor put together" their knowledge for them. That's as far as I'm going to read this thread.

I can't speak to business, but I can about technology. When you're "on the job", you don't have extended periods of time where you have the luxury of studying a complicated topic in depth. Many tech jobs also don't give you the luxury of breadth, but rather are guided by an overarching practical purpose -- to get the "job" done.

Your generalization of the knowledge one gains by doing a degree is much too broad.

So people with Facebook profiles are somehow repulsive, while people with HN usernames are implicitly acceptable?

Cultures are different enough across the world that this might work somewhere, possibly in Holland since KLM is organizing it.

Wow, you're really asking for a lawsuit aren't you? I mean, MP3s available for download for free on a simple HTML website? What is this, 1998?

You made rookie mistakes, please don't write your experience up as panacea. Most people who are interested in art will not "like" the facebook art page. They might not even like any pages at all. Connection targeting is spotty unless you know your demographic actively "likes" relevant pages, like Twilight or Justin Bieber. Finally, perhaps your ad just is not that interesting. That is more likely than not, given that people come up with really good ads. Far be it for me to defend a rival's product, but you don't build the revenue facebook has if your product is useless.

It's great that you're sharing your experience, but your lack of experience and sensationalisitic headline strike me as cynically timed linkbait.

No. A simple search of their site will yield that information to you. It's people who log into the site, either mobile or web.

> #4 - "Facebook user growth and engagement on mobile devices depend upon effective operation with mobile operating systems, networks, and standards that we do not control;"

Interesting. While the other points are gloomy-doomy and a bit vague, this one lends itself to a concrete solution, doesn't it?

Zero conversions from 200k uniques? Are you sure your conversion tracking isn't broken?