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Zuckerberg's cheat sheet at senate hearing

42 points by harshgupta 8y ago

shard972 8y ago
> His notes also referred to the fact that only three percent of Facebook employees are African American and five percent Hispanic. What was the point of this note? To point out how facebook needs to work harder on their diversity culture?
- xtracerx 8y ago
  I assume so if someone asked about diversity he would have accurate numbers.
goalieca 8y ago
> Mark Zuckerberg’s private cheat sheet for today’s Senate hearing wound up online after the Facebook CEO failed to use the proper settings to protect his private data from public eyes. Quality writing.
neom 8y ago
Inaccuracy in a Senate Judiciary Committee isn't fun. Cheat sheet seems smart.
koolba 8y ago
From his notes: > GDPR (Don’t say we already do what GDPR requires) I was hoping someone would bring up whether they’d be applying those rules globally, not just in the EU. I missed the end of the testimony but for the majority that I listened to, I don’t recall such a commitment.
Slansitartop 8y ago
Looks like this post was buried... currently top on http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ but completely missing from the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/).
- deleted 8y ago
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- dang 8y ago
  Users flagged it. Perhaps they felt it didn't add enough to the main story, which has been on the front page for hours (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803775).
keyle 8y ago
> [...] at the same time, information he willingly revealed by not actively covering it. Everything in that cheat sheet raises a lot of 'valid points' and he probably knew not all of it would be discussed. I'm leaning towards the fact that he's a smart cookie, and that he really wouldn't be opposed to it being photographed.
hn_throwaway_99 8y ago
I think these kind of "piling on" articles do a real disservice, because they distract from the significant, valid privacy concerns about Facebook. I mean, come on, calling it a "cheat sheet"? If you were giving testimony to the US Senate in a highly anticipated hearing, don't you think you would prepare? Were you hoping he'd just wing it?
- lancewiggs 8y ago
  They are commonly called cheat sheets.
- newscracker 8y ago
  Regardless of what it's called, it does provide an insight into what Facebook (which seems to mean Mark Zuckerberg) is thinking or has been advised to use in public. Certain points may not have been used in the hearing, and may have never been known without this "leak" (for lack of imagination to think of a better word).
- majewsky 8y ago
  > I mean, come on, calling it a "cheat sheet"? Maybe that's me not being a native speaker, but "cheat sheet" to me does not have the negative connotation that you imply. I agree with you that preparing notes for such an occasion is appropriate, but a cursory reading of the article does not show anything that calls Zuckerberg out for bringing notes.
notacoward 8y ago
Did he have a choice to opt out of that hearing?
- artur_makly 8y ago
  Yes and he was not under oauth.

42 points by harshgupta 8y ago

> His notes also referred to the fact that only three percent of Facebook employees are African American and five percent Hispanic. What was the point of this note? To point out how facebook needs to work harder on their diversity culture?

xtracerx 8y ago
I assume so if someone asked about diversity he would have accurate numbers.

goalieca 8y ago

> Mark Zuckerberg’s private cheat sheet for today’s Senate hearing wound up online after the Facebook CEO failed to use the proper settings to protect his private data from public eyes. Quality writing.

neom 8y ago

Inaccuracy in a Senate Judiciary Committee isn't fun. Cheat sheet seems smart.

koolba 8y ago

From his notes: > GDPR (Don’t say we already do what GDPR requires) I was hoping someone would bring up whether they’d be applying those rules globally, not just in the EU. I missed the end of the testimony but for the majority that I listened to, I don’t recall such a commitment.

Slansitartop 8y ago

Looks like this post was buried... currently top on http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ but completely missing from the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/).

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dang 8y ago
Users flagged it. Perhaps they felt it didn't add enough to the main story, which has been on the front page for hours (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803775).

keyle 8y ago

> [...] at the same time, information he willingly revealed by not actively covering it. Everything in that cheat sheet raises a lot of 'valid points' and he probably knew not all of it would be discussed. I'm leaning towards the fact that he's a smart cookie, and that he really wouldn't be opposed to it being photographed.

hn_throwaway_99 8y ago

I think these kind of "piling on" articles do a real disservice, because they distract from the significant, valid privacy concerns about Facebook. I mean, come on, calling it a "cheat sheet"? If you were giving testimony to the US Senate in a highly anticipated hearing, don't you think you would prepare? Were you hoping he'd just wing it?

lancewiggs 8y ago
They are commonly called cheat sheets.
newscracker 8y ago
Regardless of what it's called, it does provide an insight into what Facebook (which seems to mean Mark Zuckerberg) is thinking or has been advised to use in public. Certain points may not have been used in the hearing, and may have never been known without this "leak" (for lack of imagination to think of a better word).
majewsky 8y ago
> I mean, come on, calling it a "cheat sheet"? Maybe that's me not being a native speaker, but "cheat sheet" to me does not have the negative connotation that you imply. I agree with you that preparing notes for such an occasion is appropriate, but a cursory reading of the article does not show anything that calls Zuckerberg out for bringing notes.

notacoward 8y ago

Did he have a choice to opt out of that hearing?

artur_makly 8y ago
Yes and he was not under oauth.