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Cambridge Analytica didn't need all data available to everyone. They had access to an API exactly as you'd describe: with ACLs and privacy options.

If there's a scarcity of bartenders or cashiers, then their wages will go up until that scarcity is filled.

About 3-10 people worked on this full time depending on which day in the 3 week development cycle you looked at. Most of the others helped out in their spare time in one way or ano…

the coins were not lost, but stolen through the transaction malleability bug

Skype has 663 million "accounts", very few of these were active. According to http://www.statisticbrain.com/skype-statistics/ , only 31 million Skype users are active as of 2012.

I'm part of the team that built this which came from different parts of FB. I think we'll be getting some much needed rest after today, then I hope we can start telling the story o…

The example they use is navigational query for "Southwest Airlines". As far as I'm concerned, the deep links to South West airlines' site such as "Flight Schedules" are actual sear…

I sampled a few of the reviews and the regularity of text patterns is just plainly obvious. I don't believe these are real reviews.

https://linkedin.com 301s to http://linkedin.com for me. Should I be suspicious or do browsers validate the certificate even during re-directs?

Revenue sharing could create perverse incentives to game the system. For example, imagine someone in Africa changing their location to United States and liking Gucci, Prada, BMW to…

I don't know if Google announced this earlier, but this post just released more granular active (I assume monthly) user numbers for G+ than I've seen: "More than 500 million people…

Unfortunately for Microsoft, there is more social commentary about the failure of the marketing campaign than actual #DroidRage https://twitter.com/search?q=DroidRage

Maybe I'm getting old (closing on 30) and nostalgic but the new generation of Waterloo students are making me proud and seem to be going further than my classes. Although, I'm also…

Sure, that industry exists but it is dwarfed by the automobile and maintenance industry. I'd bet 99% of modifications to cars are to increase it's reliability or to fix an existing…

You access the hood of your car to fix it, not to upgrade it. Solid state technology is much more reliable than the mechanical components of a car; especially over it's lifetime (c…

To add some context to the title, this isn't a traditional IDE in the browser. It's a kind of experimental touch-centric IDE with it's own semi-visual programming language (your no…

According to http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2012/10/11/windows-8-rele... , Microsoft plans to spend 1.5 - 1.8 Billion dollars marketing Windows 8. That's 45$ of marketing costs…

I was offered a job at Google and Facebook last month, both for the Seattle offices. Google offered a bit more in terms of total pay + benefits, but I considered both packages very…

Metro is a full-screen experience that is a huge contrast to the desktop. It's hard not to conceptualize that as switching. The old start menu was unobtrusive.

Assuming the page you are already on is compromised / malicious. Then it link baiting you to another compromised / malicious site is not your only worry.

If this practice was widely adopted, I wonder if AWS would experience a bank run/DOS in the affected and neighboring zones.

the majority of Marco's post was about the experience of the Microsoft Store

I'm not arguing that Moby should not try to do better. However, there should some acknowledgement that an almost identical product has existed for years and how this differs (bette…

It's a great hobby project, but as a product it is late to the market. http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse has had a product out for several years now.