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Sounds like they needed an excuse to cover up something.

I actually like it, it's been brewing for a while and for once news are keeping a story for more than 3 days. I get tired constantly changing topics and shifting focus. And of course, media has a huge revenge to get to facebook from facebook algos deciding which ones to promote and which not and to whom.

I wonder what is the penetration of these kind of news outside our bubble here at HN, reddit and the like. I'm wondering the rest 2 billion people (which to a first approximation is probably just about everybody) care about this or are willing to care if few of their techie friends leave facebook. Is there some mathematical model + social science that could estimate the network effects of say, every techie person does leave facebook for good - what would happen to the rest?

Most of my non-techie friends have heard briefly about "some kind of scandal with facebook" but I cannot possibly appeal to them talking about "privacy" or they are stealing and selling your data - "Oh, everybody does that, you can't not use the Internet".

> Remember the 1960s when rapid gains in space tech made everyone think we'd be travelling around the solar system by 2000?

I think space tech is a different beast economically - the intensive had been more to compete for global dominance in the 1960s and not so much demand (from the general public) to travel in space. I believe there is a bigger intensive to have faster processors now but we might be hitting physical/engineering limitations so we go distributed.

Recently - exactly one year ago. And there is exactly one year left.

You are probably right about the congratulations part, I try not to think about them too much for the same reasons you pointed out - but I am a human, bias myself and feel good. I did not try to take my friends out with me, I completely understand their reasoning for staying, that's probably why I stayed for about 10 years - it does provide value with everybody being in the same place. But some of my closest friends kept asking me how to reach me beyond the email and phone number I gave them and I said I will be on Signal. Some installed it just for me, I don't expect them to stay too long so I created reminders in my calendar to reach out via whatever means so that I don't lose them (I tend to live abroad from time to time like now).

This is a standard media trick (and also common people's rationalization) - oh, it's not just X that's bad for you, see everything else - it's also bad for you too. You might as well stick with what you know. Suddenly, people feel they have no choice and the story is over in a day or two, everything's back to normal.

The difference is these few days blew off the periphery of uncertain users. It won't hurt them now, but in the long run - it may be like tobacco. Annectodal example from here on.

I've tried many times to quit Facebook, these latest ones threw me off board for good. I tried to do it smartly by contacting people I know and want to keep in touch with and then posted on my wall and my profile pic that I am going out of fb for good. I gave (I think reasonable) 72 hours and some people did reach out and most congratulated me. Which means a lot of people want it, they get its bad for them but "everybody is there" is the main argument. I don't try to convince them, I just tell them where they can find me. Tonight I am out for good.

> 20 years ago, there was an expectation that when you left the office, you were unreachable except in an emergency.

Maybe I am sort of fresh in the workforce (3 yrs) but I just don't allow this - if I am not in the office I don't work. I don't have slack on my phone or whatever and I have strict boundaries working 9-5. Does it become worse when I have more exp?

Yeah, right - "no one will use it for every tweet notification, it will only provide contextual information" - it will be used for whatever people want to use it and we know what people want to use it for (porn).

Oh My, so many memories, so many hours spent on this program. Such a fan of MSPaint, thank you for doing this, absolute hero!

Few nitpicks and more of showing off how much I care and love what you've done:

* polygon is antialiasing - it shouldn't * rubber cursor is wrong * circle and rounded rectangle tools are filling their insides when they shouldn't * Text works in zoom mode - it didn't used to (not sure if bug or feature) * Color picker is way too modern :D

But man, even stretch/skew are implemented, awesome job!

Depends on where you are: https://time.is/leapsecond

I just love to see how my mind is so fallable. I want to believe that many of things I hold in my head are data, facts and logical theories and forget what assumptions I have made to get there. Not saying whether the author is right or not but he brilliantly points out some potential flaws and logical leaps that must be taken to get there.

I find it rather odd to have a GLOBAL 500 even for a minute (it may be still lasting at least in some regions http://downdetector.com/status/youtube) when a web app is distributed among servers, services, dockers or whatever and has so many systems in place to roll back automatically.

The same thing happened about a week ago with Fb Messenger (http://downdetector.com/status/facebook/news/53463-problems-...).

I expect this level of outages in 2016 to be only caused by solar flares, am I missing something?

Accidental or purposeful "weed" in the photo behind the knee of the guy on the main pic?

Not convinced that in an age where I can buy a plane ticket for thousands of dollars, where we are thinking of sending people to Mars and I can securely communicate with people, in age where Edward Snowden is able to send private documents or whatev, and I have computers on my wrist, pocket and dick, I have to go to a physical place, stand in a queue and draw on a piece of paper to cast a ballot.

I've been hearing these complaints for years now, I don't buy it. It's a problem, solve it. Start from here - everyone has a digital signature or certificate or another mumbo-math-jumbo, the system for collecting votes is open source. You have an account at the web service and you can see that your vote has been cast for that candidate that you wished, so who watches the watchers - everybody. Pick two authorities - one counts votes, other distribute keys. One gets a summary of votes only, the other has the mapping of key-person.

Sure there are problems. But it sounds to me like laziness and lame excuses.

What if they are relying on Docker https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822562?

I see hackathons as a very fun activity - it needs not be serious. Imagine it like a friendly basketball game with few of your friends and a chance to meet new players. Now, there will be some people who will think that they are worthy of playing major league, because they were best in college or something, but as said in many other comments - they will get a reality check sooner or later.

Hackathons come in many flavors - some are trying to mock a startup environment, some are sponsored by big corps who look for PR, some are trying to find vulns in software. But at their core, they should be looked at a chance to just gather with like-minded people, exchange ideas, give a stab at an interesting challenge, win a trophy and move on. And a company that hires a person based on flashy trophies from basketball courts down the street, probably needs to rethink some of its values.

Unusually short, and I feel very biased essay with examples from 3 big(est) companies out of hundreds of thousands (more?). #NotConvinced

Don't center and add the fixed horizontal limit for images when there is an instant answer.