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In the new Auth Dialog, extended permissions have this behaviour built in. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/authentication/

This particular number counts monthly active users. Your friends with three accounts would have to be active on the site at least once a month in each account for them to be counte…

Solving this problem in general is a major area of research. Look up "Partial Evaluation."

I can't and won't say anything about Google, but I will say that your implication that we Facebook employees are greedy, un-hacker-like and unable to get into Google is inaccurate …

Check out U of T's Snowflock. Very fast VM cloning and destruction. http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock

The latest nightlies conform to the latest draft. And Safari 5 supports WebSockets. But yes, it's an annoyingly volatile standard-in-progress.

What language is this?

Did you report it to Facebook before publicizing it?

If HN members have any questions or comments about the Automata article, I'd like to hear them.

I'm going to work at Facebook soon, and I'm paying very close attention to what's going on. I'm looking forward to seeing the other side of the story as it were.

So obvious, but only in retrospect. This is insight at its best.

Raymond Chen (the author of this article), Larry Osterman and others have been writing great historical MS stuff for years. There's lots of great stuff if you've got the time to re…

There's no SQL behind Hacker News, the persistence code is custom and straight-to-files.

By your logic all witnessable acts of good must be viewed with suspicion. I don't disagree, but it's a hard way to approach the world.

I'm not sure that the brand awareness of these cases is related to the company naming. For example, I think Bingo Card Creator is well-known mostly because everyone here loves pati…

Could you give some concrete examples of the sorts of programs you mean?

I think by and large we agree: It's wrong to expect memorized answers or to ask questions that are so narrow that they only test whether a candidate spent time studying. I'd even g…

It's a good idea, and I think it would make an excellent supplement to current interview practices. There would be some difficult logistical issues: Unfamiliar dev environment, etc…

"Gets-things-done" people prepare for technical interviews, such that they don't flub simple questions. The danger for the employer is that lots of Computer Science PhDs end up not…

That's disingenuous. When they say "no built-in functions", they really only mean "don't use a library function that makes this task trivial." Which eliminates 'strlen' in C, 'leng…

I've been asked some of those questions at other top-tier tech companies (that the author isn't criticizing). Conducting good interviews is hard. Watching someone attack a problem …

It is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164338

Inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161522, I think lots of people would love to hear more about startups' early stories. How did you decide what to work on? How confi…