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by kmavm 16y ago
Thanks for reminding me to emphasize that I'm speaking for myself, not my employer here. I write code for a living, I don't do PR.
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by kmavm 16y ago
It's because they're thin wrappers around Facebook's stream search, a feature we shipped in July of 2009. The actual search engine is Facebook's. These projects are just hitting an ajax endpoint with a query and dressing up the results. Iro
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by kmavm 16y ago
The article's whole premise was that tweet quality does not correlate well within an account; e.g., some marvelous twitter streams include breakfast tweets.
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by kmavm 16y ago
I've looked into this a bit, albeit more in a spam-filtering context; tweets have very little text for naive Bayes to latch onto. 140 characters would be 20-30 words, tops. That is so few words that it is hard to move the prior very much, u
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by kmavm 16y ago
I suspect the first of many lessons Diaspora would do well to learn from Facebook: the hype cycle giveth, and the hype cycle taketh away. Right now, they're hipster Linus times four, getting fawning press coverage, and raking in donations f
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by kmavm 16y ago
If you are into wait-free and lock-free data structures, you owe it to yourself to get Herlihy and Shavit's "Art of Multiprocessor Programming." http://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Maurice... Not only does it provide a we
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by kmavm 16y ago
The words you typed were "sell private data." It is an inflammatory phrasing, that evokes clandestine exchanges of cash for information that users are assured is private. Since you apparently know it's bogus, please do your part in keeping
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by kmavm 16y ago
"... lose the ability to sell private data." Facebook does not sell private data. It never has. In fact, if Facebook's evil plan were to someday start selling private data, encouraging users to make their accounts more open would make thi
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by kmavm 16y ago
I'd like to point out that it wasn't Facebook, but "the Chinese Facebook." Facebook is behind the great firewall; there's a local clone.
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by kmavm 16y ago
Is this more helpful? http://developers.facebook.com/live_status
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by kmavm 16y ago
There's the Facebook platform page here and its matching twitter account, but they're not really what you're looking for, are they? Some of my colleagues in platform are probably reading this; I'll ask around at work tomorrow. http://www.f
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by kmavm 16y ago
Since this was my group's bug (search infrastructure), I can shine a little light. "Ongoing" is in the article title, but the actual glitch started Thursday night and continued into Friday morning. The title also makes it sound as though th
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by kmavm 16y ago
Facebook has had stream search for public status messages since July of 2009. Stream search is privacy-neutral; it only lets you see posts you were already allowed to see. If you don't want your status messages to be visible to everyone, se
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by kmavm 16y ago
The contact importer works both ways; so if A has emailed B, and A imports his contacts, A might get recommended to B as a friend. This is the usual explanation for mystery PYMK suggestions. That said, the algorithm for finding candidate pa
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by kmavm 16y ago
What is the exact problem here? The Creative Commons license was intended to allow such use, and Facebook reached out to wikipedia beforehand. Unlike some shadier uses of this, the community pages contain direct attribution to wikipedia, an
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by kmavm 16y ago
Of course we're here. However, this is an active legal issue, and commenting publicly on it can only hurt.
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by kmavm 16y ago
"Selling all your details to advertisers." Simply, no. There is no check you can write to facebook to in order to get a particular facebook user's, or set of users', information.
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by kmavm 16y ago
"what about facebook ads getting added to the stream?" Does the fact that those do not exist have any bearing on the conversation? I'd find ads mixed into my search results pretty darned troublesome; Google is not stupid enough to do that
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by kmavm 16y ago
Facebook sells targetted advertising: advertisers can direct ads at various demographic groups, like age ranges, genders, and geographic locales. Advertisers do not get any identifying data about users who see or click on their ads as part
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by kmavm 16y ago
"If I join a club and they sell my information (where I live, who referred me, what actions I perform in the club) to another company that is an entirely different matter." I agree, and it has nothing to do with the discussion at hand: face
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by kmavm 16y ago
You can opt out on facebook as well; and when you do so, you stay opted out. The above button works on one browser, until you happen to clear cookies.
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by kmavm 16y ago
"Don't you think you should be entitled to earn some of that money that Facebook is making off of your information?" Out of curiosity, do you hold AdSense to the same standard? After all, a pixel and a cookie on 70% of websites by hit is be
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by kmavm 16y ago
The claim that facebook has changed defaults in order to indirectly make more advertising revenue is very different from the claim that checks were written to facebook in exchange for private user data. You implied the latter, and it's
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by kmavm 16y ago
Can you provide an example of facebook "selling private data"? I work there, and it would be a great surprise to me if you could.
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by kmavm 16y ago
"well sometimes its your friends.. that will put pictures up of you without knowing, or will tag you in and can't remove it yourself" As many have pointed out, this happens already in blogs and email, on twitter, in various forums, etc., an
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by kmavm 17y ago
"I've been thinking this for years, ... The people on there the most are broke college kids and younger." Years are funny that way: things tend to change as they pass. Facebook has 400 million active users, where "active" means the account
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by kmavm 17y ago
The distinction has never been well-posed, in my opinion. I wrote about it (gulp) almost five years ago here: http://x86vmm.blogspot.com/2005/11/xen-and-redhat.html Both present "virtual machines" to client code. For that matter, so does
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by kmavm 17y ago
A similar study of weight-lifting would conclude that it weakens you: after all, doing some squats leads to fatigue. Frequently an activity that causes effect X in the short term leads to its opposite when repeated over long periods; see dr
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by kmavm 17y ago
I work at facebook (not speaking offically, mind) and can vouch for the fact that this was originally not intended for public consumption. It was written and circulated on an internal mailing list months ago. We only put it up on the engine
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by kmavm 17y ago
When working correctly, patents allow information that would be a corporate secret to be more openly disclosed. In my career, I've been able to discuss technical details more frankly in blog posts and academic publications because we know t

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