eugenez

There is a difference between understanding the content (e.g. ICO) and understanding what happens a few weeks after the content is interacted with (e.g. someone runs off with the money). The first is doable, the second requires prescience.

Every Facebook ad has a dropdown in the top right corner, and one of the options is "Why am I seeing this ad?". It will show you details on that ad's targeting and why you are seeing it.

At least in the United States, Personality rights are only for commercial use. You do not need someone's consent to take their photo or to publish said photo as long as you do not attempt to profit from it.

This for example allows you to take a photo on the street and publish it even if the photo contains some strangers. The concern that does come up is whether the subject of the photo has a reasonable expectation of privacy; if they are in public, they do not. (note: not a lawyer, but I have taken many photos of strangers)

$10 may be cheap in the developed countries, but in much of the world this is a very significant amount of money.

It's not about individual productivity - it's about team and company productivity.

I doubt anyone questions whether individual effectiveness suffers from an open layout. However open layouts have several benefits that more than compensate: - Impromptu conversations are easy. The barrier to ask someone a question is lower - it's faster to get unblocked. - Shared context. With conversations happening in the open, others will often overhear, sometimes learn, and often will choose to participate. - Impromptu socialization leads to better morale. Someone drops by to chat socially, others join in, people build personal relationships. - Function-specific spaces. The space saved by having a denser desk layout is allocated to having everything from kitchens to massage chair rooms to ping-pong tables. At the same cost per employee, an open space layout has more 'perks'.

I've worked in both offices and open spaces and I far prefer open spaces with a good etiquette about when to interrupt someone.

Apologies, this was a false positive from our automation and has already been unblocked. Thanks for reporting!

We try to respond to any exploit of this severity immediately, and will often disable a feature temporarily while working on a fix rather than letting the exploit remain open. It helps a lot when the repro steps are as clear as they were in this one.

We also have a system for patching vulnerabilities which does not require a full code push. It has been useful on a number of occasions. (source: I patched this one)

The ruling is not so much about whether they can search a phone without a warrant, but whether the resulting evidence is admissible in court for criminal cases. This will not impact NSA's collection since they have not been using it in court.

I wonder if the combination of total Hachette sales weighted by the portion of overall book sales via Amazon would be a reasonable approximation.

The 1.1% of Amazon sales (by item count) for Hachette is an interesting metric if only to determine overall sales volume for Amazon should someone happen to have the approximate Hachette numbers.

Agreed - shared keychain + unique token would work. Was concerned original post was talking about the advertiser ID as authentication.

If you use the device token as the authentication and identification, any other app on the device immediately gains the ability to log into your service as that user. May as well use a single password across all services which do this.

The Facebook codebase is not exactly a small-to-medium project, so there is a fair bit of value in edit-and-reload.

If it makes you feel any better, that photo of me is from our holiday party - and the 'cigarette' is a prop (I do not smoke). The manhattan in the other hand was real and delicious.

They should all be back now. If not, trouble you to post the app IDs?

Both of these are back, just verified.

Hi, I work at Facebook along with Chris. All of the accounts and apps should now be restored. If any are not (and were disabled between 3pm and 5pm PST today), please let me know the app ID and I will investigate. My sincere apologies this happened - we are looking into ways of making sure this cannot happen again.

This one should be fixed. Thanks for passing it on!

This one should be fixed - thanks for passing it on!

There is a 2-factor code generator built into the Facebook app for iOS and Android specifically to help with SMS deliverability problems. Have a look at https://www.facebook.com/help/270942386330392/

Best ways are to check https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ thoroughly - it's actually a very well written and concise set of policies - or come see us at one of the hackathons we frequently run (such as the UPenn one mentioned in this thread).

I am an engineer working on Platform Integrity at Facebook. Just as friends can't consent to transferring friend data outside of an app, they also can't consent to an app taking actions on their friends' behalf (such as posting a story when the friend didn't consent to it). Even if it's funny.

Hey guys, I am a Facebook engineer working on this.

We've been getting a lot of user feedback recently, spiking significantly over the past week, on the amount of application spam people are seeing in their feeds and on their walls. We turned on a new enforcement system yesterday that took user feedback much more heavily into account. This resulted in a number of applications with high negative user feedback being disabled or having certain features disabled. In particular, many applications were disabled which posted to the walls of other users and had very high mark-as-spam numbers.

My apologies for the suddenness of the action. The numbers were high enough to cause a real loss of trust in applications, which can impact the entire platform. Where we have failed is not providing enough feedback about negative engagement metrics to developers before needing to take this action. This is something we are working hard to fix with the new Application Insights that will be launching over the next few weeks - you will have detailed information about both positive and negative engagement of the content your application generates.

If you think you have been disabled in error, you should have received an email to your application's contact email address with a link to appeal. Just in case, the appeal link is https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=dev_disa... . Note that no content is deleted when an application is disabled. If an application is re-enabled, all the content posted by the application will once again be visible.

-Eugene