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by jpadvo 16y ago
They also used an open graph meta tag, too. So people can easily share the prank on Facebook, presumably. A little ironic. <meta property="og:description" content="Hulu.com is a video service on the World Wide Web that offers hit TV s
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Why the downvotes? It is common sense to not run software with more permissions than it needs. Your production app shouldn't connect to your database through the root account, for example, unless it needs full, complete permissions to funct
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Personally, I think democratizing technology is a really, really good thing. Sure, we have to suffer through things like Comic Sans abuse and crappy apps, but that is a minuscule price to pay for increasing the creative freedom of humanity.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
The best comment, in my opinion, is the one that had this nugget. Sadly, it isn't the top rated comment. Here's the link: http://www.quora.com/What-was-John-Nash-like-as-a-professor/...
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by jpadvo 16y ago
His passion is user experience. This requires top-notch hardware, software, retail stores, support, distribution, packaging, research, legal work... The question is a false quad -chotomy.
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Lucas and his team are amazing. Everyone makes mistakes, and no system will be perfectly secure. So in my mind the best parts of the entire post were these: "We have hired professional white hat hackers with government level security experi
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Hi Elliot, I appreciate that you discovered a security flaw and took action to get it fixed. Thank you. However, the WAY you did this really screwed up a bunch of people. I have an app running on PHP Fog that serves 25,000 people a day, and
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Astonishingly classless and mean-spirited. Especially this part: "feel free to harass the staff in their support forums..." The founder and CEO of PHP Fog is extremely active in their support forum. He provides lightning fast responses, and
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I got my account back! Someone at Facebook evidently saw this, and (1) updated the blog post and (2) brought my account back to life. Thank you! However, unless this was a general fix, it looks like other developers are still stranded: htt
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[Update] Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account
10 points by jpadvo 16y ago|2 comments
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Haha, wow I get it now. Thank you! I just requested that he answer my question on Quora. Long shot that anything would come of it, I know, but worth trying.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I just submitted it as a question here: http://www.quora.com/I-accidentally-changed-my-Facebook-acco...
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Good idea. If the issue doesn't get resolved quickly I will. Thanks!
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I've considered that. The problem is that if they ever find out that the account is not a "real" account, they will disable it. And, unless you have other people as admins, all your apps will also be deleted.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Clever idea -- human engineering can get past any kind of software security. But I don't want fix this problem for myself by dragging more people into the pain. Thanks for trying to help, though.
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Probably not, because pages inside Facebook proper don't display inside frames. Despite some terrible failings with providing support to the human beings who use their services, they've got good engineers doing security. :)
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I bet you're right. I'm glad they made the new system -- it looks really clean and useful. I just wish they hadn't left the old system halfway operating, so you can fall into it but not climb out. And they really, really need to edit that b
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by jpadvo 16y ago
...and even better, they could also provide some way to undo it. I still can't believe such a drastic action is irreversible. > I hope your account got fixed. Thanks, it hasn't yet but I hope it will too.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Thank you for pointing that out, but I tried that and it didn't work. The network simply doesn't appear in my list of networks. Other developers haven't been able to get this to work, either. Thanks though!
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by jpadvo 16y ago
You are completely right. I admit that I wasn't paying a lot of attention. I was in a mode of scanning-documentation-trying-to-figure-something-out. I didn't think that poking around the developer center could destroy my account. Obviously
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by jpadvo 16y ago
That URL itself doesn't perform the action -- that page has a button that, when clicked, submits a form with POST. That is when the action happens. In addition, it appears that they have taken steps to prevent CSRF. So no, it probably isn
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It is highly relevant, but it is also broken. The method stopped working recently (according to my experience and comments that are scattered around blog posts and the developer forum). Thank you though, for pointing it out! I wish it worke
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Has this happened to anyone else? Does anybody here work at Facebook and know something about this?
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Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I assume this was submitted as a comment on Apple's recent actions with the app store. I don't think it applies. > Rent-seeking generally implies the extraction of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to produ
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by jpadvo 16y ago
Other: Re-open the pages that were open last.
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Offer/Show HN: Static HTML + CSS + Javascript... powered by Amazon S3
1 points by jpadvo 16y ago|0 comments
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by jpadvo 16y ago
I think baddox was referring to the title of the blog post, which is "10 Rock Solid Website Layout Examples." The HN FAQ and / or rules don't apply to people's blogs. ;)
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YMMV, but I switched from Head JS to LABjs and reduced data transfer by ~ 30%
5 points by jpadvo 16y ago|1 comments
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by jpadvo 16y ago
According to the LABjs homepage, Steve Souders is now working with the author on LABjs. http://labjs.com/

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