Here is a video of guy hacking SnapChat and finding out Mark Zuckberg's logging info like phone#, email. The video was posted on Dec 26th. How come they did not fix this..
How would you fix it? The app needs to know if your phone contacts are on snapchat, and if they are, what their usernames are. In other words, the API needs to exist.
Do we really need rules saying "don't post other people's non-public personal details" like Reddit? Someone needs to tell you that?
He's not a king guys.
The leaked database: doesn't have full phone numbers and I don't think it should have been posted either -- I didn't upvote it.
Nobody should have their personal contact details posted against their wishes. I do not particularly care about Mark Zuckerberg.
i posted a joke on a comment of someone going "This. A million times this." the other day cuz that is the most melodramatic, overused, annoying, lame textual meme... the joke was pretty innocuous & immediately got like 5 downvotes.
I don't mean to hate too hard cuz it is what it is, i dont care about my karma, & obv its good enough that i still read articles here but posters being annoying/hypocritical/oversensitive/humourless/feeling that they are the protectors of society... very common on HN. I think it is some facet of the nature of people thinking they are real sophisticated by reading HN for some odd reason (basing this on all the wannabe devs I know on social sites who make it a point to mention it constantly in posts like "my fav sites to procrastinate on"), whereas there are lots of higher-level programming communities out there who seem to have less of this self-seriousness.
that said, occasionally there is that nice moment of a few reasonable people chatting each other & introducing to tech they may have otherwise overlooked. I'm heavy into Clojure & the other day a Lisper on here pointed me to freenode to get community help rather than SO, for example. It's all percentages, I guess :-/
Not society, just the SNR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio).
i understand it as a way for SNR sure, but mostly its just a way to fade the text of people you disagree with. it doesn't solve much for people who can skim, & it usually just makes me more curious about what got downvoted (some of the comments are very insightful but just pissed off those with normative opinion)
im just not into kool-aid drinking & the weird PG (harhar no pun intended) vibe of HN while downvoting & having this weird karma system smacks of lame culty passive aggression, which incidentally is much more offensive to me than actual aggression
i didnt want to come of as indignant tho, its just a funny coincidence. you never quite know who you are condescending to on here
You guys need to go out more, since women are more than OK when people swear, you're not talking to toddlers here.
Now, this is a comment, not a fucking essay or interview (haha PG fucked up really bad huh? So bad he's gonna have a women only conference).
Now I sound like a troll, so I'll shut up, but seriously, women are OK with swearing (that includes all George Carlin's 7 words).