> You seem to be overlooking the bald-faced lie told by Meta/IG that someone's new account is violating "Community Guidelines" before they can even use it.
I don't know about OP, but the the article they linked had a screenshot showing that the Community Guidelines they'd violated were around "account integrity". Looking at those[1], it seems plausible that OP and the article's author used something during account creation that triggered an integrity system, similar to what the parent was describing. Maybe they used a proxy/VPN, or something else that caused the robots to think that they were "Creat(ing) an account by scripted or other inauthentic means."
I don't think that big tech deserves a free pass on much, but to think they they're suspending accounts just to harvest phone numbers seems like it would be something they'd likely get into deep shit over: stock price drop, huge fines, CEO in front of Congress-type of thing. I doubt it would be worth it to them.
I bought some cheap IP cameras to monitor our cabin while we're not there, and every single time we arrive I unplug them. This makes me feel vindicated that I'm not just paranoid; the creeps really are one buggy firmware away from selling videos of your family on the Internet.
As a Model X owner who rarely engages Autopilot for this exact reason, I concur. The number of times the car has suddenly started braking for no good reason (clear weather and good road conditions, few cars around) is way too high.
I'm curious to know how people feel about offline (pre-transformed) vs. on-demand transformations. Are there any HN'ers out there that have worked on a site with a large set of images, and have an opinion on this? Adobe's Scene7 product works in an offline mode as far as I can tell, and seems to have captured a large segment of retail companies with product catalogs.
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* Prototype substantial system modifications to serve as proofs of concept for large system development initiatives.
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One thing that's interesting is that the Navigation Timing API available in modern browsers varies from being wildly incorrect to accurate, depending on the browser. In a quick test on my Mac, Firefox 13 showed an incorrect result (basically, the same issue as WPT and Gomez - almost immediate TTFB), while Chrome 20 correctly detected the 10s TTFB.
Agreed, it's a great alternative to mean for performance data - Keynote even has it as an optional aggregation function when viewing data. Heck, if you have your performance data in a MySQL database, it's as simple as 'select exp(avg(ln(myVal)))', and doesn't require you to install a UDF, as you would if you wanted to find the median.
Monthly generator testing is, and should be, standard for any data center. Same with the UPSes - monthly testing to make sure they can handle the load long enough for the generators to kick in. Throwing the switch on the mains is probably not happening anywhere on a regular basis, though. There may be "routine" events (some sort of electrical infrastructure upgrade) that causes the data center to be put onto generator power, but throwing the mains just to test is a very risky endeavor, and one that a data center provider who has very high power availability guarantees with expensive penalties, is not like likely to undertake.
This seems to be a logical multi-vendor play to me. Especially if Apple's data centers aren't geographically distributed, it needs to get other vendors involved.
I'm a little surprised how slow the initial image loads are (the download is choppy; kind of reminded me of my old 56k connection :)). Obviously, once the cache is warmed it's much better, but it's not like they're huge files.
I can't tell if it's just the angle of the video, but it doesn't look like the airbags deployed. Maybe they were intentionally disabled, but yikes, seems like a car you should stay away from until they work the bugs out.
Has it really, or only in perception? Some proof of this would be nice. Last I saw, neither Apple or Linux have really made a huge dent in the consumer and business desktop space. Sure, they are more viable options than in 2005, but it still seems that most consumers are going for Windows, and businesses still buy Windows + Office.
I don't know about OP, but the the article they linked had a screenshot showing that the Community Guidelines they'd violated were around "account integrity". Looking at those[1], it seems plausible that OP and the article's author used something during account creation that triggered an integrity system, similar to what the parent was describing. Maybe they used a proxy/VPN, or something else that caused the robots to think that they were "Creat(ing) an account by scripted or other inauthentic means."
I don't think that big tech deserves a free pass on much, but to think they they're suspending accounts just to harvest phone numbers seems like it would be something they'd likely get into deep shit over: stock price drop, huge fines, CEO in front of Congress-type of thing. I doubt it would be worth it to them.
1. https://transparency.fb.com/policies/community-standards/acc...