Facebook is Probably Tracking Your Rainbow Profile Picture

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/30103108/mark-zuckerberg-rainbow-profile-gay-picture-facebook.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="mark-zuckerberg-rainbow-profile-gay-picture-facebook" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-12153 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/30103108/mark-zuckerberg-rainbow-profile-gay-picture-facebook.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="470" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/30103108/mark-zuckerberg-rainbow-profile-gay-picture-facebook.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="940" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The US Supreme Court ruling to legalize gay marriages all across the nation was a revolutionary step and it was received with happy emotions all over the world. The tech companies like <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google</span> and <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook</span> too expressed their happiness in their own way. <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google showed rainbow colors</span> on searching the term gay marriage while Facebook chose to go via a more personalized path.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.392364501953px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 31.9965286254883px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">A</span>s from the past few days, you would have seen your news feed full of rainbow pictures. While people found it a great way to express their support, it’s possible that Facebook might be conducting another experiment with its “celebrate pride” feature. Earlier Facebook’s data scientists are known to track the voting behavior and moods of the users.<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> So when Facebook does something once again, naturally Facebook is also keeping track of who’s using it. And, Facebook hasn’t denied it. According to Facebook, this <span class="microcontent" data-description="the rainbow filter was built by two interns during an internal hackathon" data-fragment="the-rainbow-filter-was" data-micro="1" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> rainbow filter was built by two Facebook interns during an internal hackathon</span> recently.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Atlantic asked Facebook if these rainbow profile pictures are “another experiment.” A spokesperson from Facebook responded that “it’s not an experiment or test- everybody sees the same thing.” Back in the past Facebook has conducted studies on people’s profile picture and this time it’s safe to say that Facebook is also keeping track of who is using this feature.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Facebook didn’t deny that the website was tracking which users support gay marriage and it’s adding their information to its database. Based on some past research papers, we can say that Facebook is looking closely to everything you are doing on the social network.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Well, it’s a great way to celebrate an event like this but remember, Facebook is always watching.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Gizmodo reached out for clarification and Facebook still failed to deny tracking. They made sure that they won’t be using this to target ads or anything, but tracking isn’t denied.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So yeah, Facebook is watching you.</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Did this rainbow profile picture tracking surprise you? Tell us in comments below.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> With inputs from <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/were-all-those-rainbow-profile-photos-another-facebook-experiment/397088/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Facebook is Probably Tracking Your Rainbow Profile Picture

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Racket-lang: A Programmable Programming Language

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/27114847/racket-language-1-7281.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="racket-language-1-728" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-11894 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/27114847/racket-language-1-7281.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="486" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/27114847/racket-language-1-7281.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="916" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You must have read our coverage on <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">programming language and its development.</span> If not, I would recommend you to go through it once. There are very interesting articles on <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Top Programming Languages on GitHub</span>, <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Highest Paying Programming Languag<a href="http://fossbytes.com/top-12-highest-paying-computer-programming-language-learn/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">es</a></span> and many more. This article is about a new programming language called Racket-lang which is gaining a lot of attention of programmers these day.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.392364501953px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 31.9965286254883px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">Y</span>ou’ve certainly heard of JavaScript, Perl, Python, and Ruby. But Racket? Probably not. Just because it’s not the most mainstream programming language doesn’t mean you should discount its capabilities. Racket allows functional programming and other different paradigms that even hard-core programmers have never seen before.<h3 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> What is Racket-lang:</h3> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://racket-lang.org/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Racket</a></span> is a descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance, power, and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind.  It goes beyond Lisp and Scheme with dialects that support objects, types, laziness, and more. Racket enables programmers to link components written in different dialects, and it empowers programmers to create new,project-specific dialects. Racket’s libraries support applications from web servers and databases to GUIs and charts.</div> <h3 style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> A glimpse of Racket-lang:</h3> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Getting started with Racket-lang is pretty easy unlike lisp which requires a substantial amount of knowledge before even you write your first hello world program. Below is a small example to get you started with Racket-lang –</div> <div class="crayon-syntax crayon-theme-github crayon-font-monaco crayon-os-pc print-yes notranslate" data-settings=" minimize scroll-mouseover" id="crayon-558ef09e671b8023534675" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255) !important; border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222) !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr !important; font-family: Monaco, MonacoRegular, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 12px !important; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 15px !important; margin: 12px 0px; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px; position: relative !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="crayon-plain-wrap" style="background: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;"> <textarea class="crayon-plain print-no" data-settings="dblclick" readonly="" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; color: black; font-family: Monaco, MonacoRegular, 'Courier New', monospace !important; font-size: 12px !important; height: 51.1111106872559px; line-height: 15px !important; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; resize: none; tab-size: 4; white-space: pre; width: 631.371520996094px; word-wrap: normal; z-index: 0;" wrap="soft">