randartie

> By your thoughts, all software should have been updated in a few days to be bug free.

Anyone who has used this app knows it is extremely crashy. It's not supposed to be bug-free, but releasing an app this crashy is fairly sloppy.

> the endpoints have to be somewhere inconvenient, well outside major urban areas.

I imagine large urban areas will spring up around wherever a hyperloop endpoint is built. The builder might even be able to subsidize themselves by purchasing large radius of land around the endpoint prior to building it.

Running ads is difficult. There's clearly people spending huge amounts of money through online advertising and this happens because they are able to get results (understanding what works and what doesn't work on each platform).

Once they figure out how to get the results they need, they can put a dollar into Facebook and get more than a dollar out. Then they just turn the budget knob to 11.

Point is, those who make posts saying that Facebook is scamming people are just dipping their toes into advertising and will more than likely fail at first. Advertising online takes some investment to find out what works for your situation.

Amazing levels of cynicism here on HN.

Higher quality version of this same talk (given at a different event): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q

What it sounds like is that your data-flow will be react-app-like (flux).

They went from having no free internet to having Free facebook + other core sites like wikipedia through Facebook's internet.org, but it's moving in the wrong direction?

>If the average user can only access the mindless corporate money-making machines and not the real internet

They can, but it's not free, and a lot of people have no other option but to use what is free. This corporate money-making machine just provided pure value to a ton of people, there's no downside to having this additional option available.

Gives me a headache

It's not because they don't "dominate" in the area of building network hardware that they release their designs. It's because this is not what gives Facebook an advantage in the social products space.

There aren't better social networks out there that would thrive if only they had better network switches.

You have to register your app with facebook, thus this feature could be removed from all new apps while still preserving existing functionality for apps registered before the feature gets removed (if it ever does get removed).

Earnings call clearly says ad impressions decreased 17%, but price to advertise has doubled.

The article itself claims it was inactive.

The article is titled "Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money ", I think it's fair for him to explain why it was not a waste of money for him.

Who doesn't have the money yet?

"php hack anonymous function"

I imagine a lot of the people on AirBnb happen to list their room when actually they do not own the building (renters).

I wonder how many would still continue listing if they knew that AirBnbs insurance doesn't actually cover them.

Facebook has some of the largest data-centers in the world, with plenty of spare capacity. In the article they describe that running these HUGE jobs put them at risk of not potentially not being able to provide power to all the machines at once.

If you're thinking they could have just started up a ec2 job to process a billion videos, I really doubt there's any cloud solution in the world right now that can handle this scale without capacity planning before hand.

If the estimate was for people who would see the video, why would fake accounts see the video?

Your statement is only true for CPU operations. Modern GPUs have their hardware and drivers optimized for floating point operations.

> I don't believe for a second this is about helping the user - more likely is that FB and Netflix want to prevent users running scripts that add features

How does that even make sense given that Facebook clearly gives the opt-out link which is easy to use, and works? I don't believe for a second that you aren't being completely cynical.

Sounds like a bug, that did not happen to me. (On chrome latest)

These are high grade guaranteed for 30+ years. There's also 1000 year grade blu rays out there.

I can't agree. Instead of taking everyone's advice of either switching to perforce (less user-friendly/frustrating repo) or splitting their repo into parts, facebook built a solution where they don't have to make either compromise.

Just because their solution is complex doesn't mean they're using the technology wrong. They set out their requirements and they met all of them. All their engineers are more efficient now and all this complexity happens behind the scenes.

The discussion appears deleted on that thread

It's a bold assumption that those open source projects are larger than facebook, a company which employs 2000+ engineers.

webkit and chromium have about 6 or 7 million lines of code and < 200,000 commits.

Facebook 6 months ago had 62 million lines of code and > 1000 commits a day.

http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-many-lines-of-...

Also, there's a difference between those open source projects using large repos with git and Facebook wanting to increase developer efficiency. Developers sitting around waiting for a rebase doesn't really pay off, where as an open source project can get away with it.

This post claims that it did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6925278

About 15 minutes since your post. I guess you have to take breaks when you program for hours straight.

How does sharing digital content with people you know qualify as 'little utility'?

It has happened to me. I purchased a game and the multiplayer was completely broken/bugged. Like most people, I thought Steam would refund me without much of a hassle. Turns out steam has a very strict NO REFUND policy. This came as a shock to me after hearing so many good stories about Steam. Note that this was a well documented bug in the steam forums for this game.

I used to feel very safe purchasing from steam, now I don't think it's very safe to purchase any sort of indie game.

It's not possible today because the infrastructure just isn't there. You'll experience trading lag which is just too risky and it offsets the profits. Also, getting money off an exchange takes forever.

Someone organized a fund on bitcointalk which tried to arbitrage prices on mt.gox and bt-china (This is cumbersome because you need physical presence in china to be part of bt-china). It sounded promising but it failed and everyone had to be refunded.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330209.0

In fact, the reason the BTC price on Mt.Gox is so high is because you can't get your money off there in a reasonable amount of time. This means that to get your money off of Mt.Gox you do not send a sell order to convert to USD, you instead transfer the BTC to an external wallet and sell it elsewhere. This leads to more buy orders than sell orders on Mt.gox (leading to higher BTC/USD prices).