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Largest photo site in the world looking for HNers (Facebook job post)
When looking for talented engineers I know of no other community with a higher signal/noise ratio than HN (well maybe Stackoverflow?).

I also know of no project to work on that is like Facebook Photos. The team is about the size of an angel funded startup, yet the scale of the fbPhotos is larger than any other app (Facebook or not) that I know of. By almost any metric it's an order of magnitude larger than any other photo sharing website.

=====Why?===== You'll work on hard problems at a huge scale. Expect to be responsible for mission critical features that will touch hundreds of millions of people. You'll be deploying code your first week here. I'm not kidding. This isn't HR-speak.

Client-side image editing algorithms, third-party API integration, data processing & warehousing, facial recognition, hi-res uploads, image matching[1], ... there are plenty of hard problems to solve.

I can promise you that it won't be easy, but it will be rewarding.

=====Interested?===== Don't email recruiting, I'll refer you internally [2]. Find my Facebook email in my profile. Use it to email me 3 sentences. One should be why you're excited about photos (or hard problems). Another should describe a cool project you've worked on. Links/examples of deployed code is best. The last sentence should be why you're going to pass Facebook's engineering interviews [3].

Hesitating? Go ahead and send that email. It might just be the best decision you make today.

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1. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=robust+image+hashing - does that excite you?

2. Internal referrals are given priority. Also, there is a referral bonus. Once you complete Bootcamp and join the photos team I will give 50% to you and 50% to the photos team (for trips, cool toys, etc).

3. I don't have the authority to bypass the standard interview process. There will be lots of algorithm questions (sorting / tree traversals, etc.) http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Facebook-Engineering-Interview-Questions
I'm hoping to see desktop apps with the same simplicity that is (forced) on touch apps. Less everything.
Actually, that's not even necessary. They just track with cookies. Incognito mode with Chrome makes this child's play. Run a script to open in incognito and keeping voting till a certain point. If you want to be really scrupulous, keep changing IP.
Whether it seems silly or not, it is in fact true that if Ron invests in your company, other investors will. Partly because they respect his judgment, and partly because if he has invested, your chances of succeeding have increased.
The original iPhoneOS device prototypes had 8-10 inch screens, were wifi-only, and named "SafariPad". Their work on capacitive multi-touch goes back to their 2005 acquisition of FingerWorks.

They started working on the iPad two years before they released the iPhone :)
This link goes to http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=92be899ef5a892c60b4a6cd97... which is ... an email campaign?

Were you trying to bring attention to the site mentioned in the email or the email campaign itself? Ref: http://helpastartupout.com/
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I made less than 10k last year.

My work is very close to my home, I have two part time jobs. One lets me work on anything I want as long as I sit in front of a computer. The other is hands on experience running a friends small business. Combined these total 22 hours a week.

Quit my full-time job a couple years ago to learn about programming and pursue business ideas.

It's not so bad being poor once you get into the groove.
I cook all my meals, do my own car repairs and garden. Free time = quality of life.
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I think it's important that everyone has the same level of access to privacy - whatever the defined level is. So if no-one has any privacy whatsoever, that's fine with me since everyone has their dirty laundry in public (and so everyone becomes numb to personal information). The real damage and discrimination seems to arise when there's a privacy (and information) imbalance between people or groups.
I've actually met a pretty successful angel who more or less only invests in companies either Conway or a handful of other similar angels have already invested in. He's success rate is incredible from the sound of it.
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Been there, done that. Advice: if you're dead set on your company, go focus on that. You can always go back. If not? Use college as a time to learn new things and find similar minded people. Also fill the gaps in your weaknesses.
Right in the pooper indeed.
I think stock dilution, is a big concern. With each round of funding, and the more stock they issue, this makes your stock worse less unless they can guarantee it. Im not an expert ( please someone expand), but my simple understanding , is something like lets say you get options to buy 10 stock out of 100 total shares, thats a lot. But then next round of funding they issue more stock and now you still have the option to buy 10, but there are 1000 outstanding now. What you had before is worth a lot less.
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Ask HN:  What are your favorite, coolest iPhone Apps?
I bought an iPhone about a week ago and I've got the basics. I googled around and found some decent apps, but I'm looking for some awesome apps to fill out my phone with.

Feel free to promote your own, as long as it's actually really cool, I'm equal opportunity.
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I'm not disputing his judgment or the fact that your chances of succeeding have increased. I just don't see that as the end goal whereas that's exactly how the article ends and where it leaves the reader ("And Ashton's in, too!").
Quality of life would depend also on the place you live. In a cheap country <50k would be more than enough to have a good lifestyle.
What a turnaround! Just a few days ago everyone was highly sympathetic towards Apple losing one of their most valued secrets (not really all that much though) and boycotting Gizmodo and everything. Now with even Jon Stewart mocking them, calling them Big Brother and asking them to look in the mirror, this has turned into a major PR disaster for Apple. IMO, if they don't respond quickly and positively, this could turn out to be the point where they start losing the coolness/"with it" factor.
Lessons learned from somebody who wrote a pretty large node app and is almost done with a rewrite:

* Yes, async coding is hard.

* Debugging can be tough, but good coding helps.

* 95% of most node apps will be pure JS that does not perform any I/O.

* Test driven development really shines in combination with node

Make sure you keep that last point in mind when you build something with node. Reasoning about async code can be tricky, but TDD will force designs upon you that make it simple.

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Microsoft did stuff the Microsoft way. There's no question that there are horrible bugs people have to deal with due to crazy implementations.

Inhuman monsters is way way over the top. The IE team can take credit for plenty of bugs, but they can also take credit for some pretty neat things as well.
Besides the fact that technology makes it easier to develop a network, a good reputation, and a track record for shipping, do you see any other factors driving this change? These factors are more than enough to allow someone to start a startup or get a job at one, but the biggest problem at big companies is that taste still doesn't scale.
Judging from their past actions, I don't think they really care about the PR effect of this.
There are standalone versions of IE6 (including IEs4Linux) hacked together for web developers, but they tend to break with updates. An official solution from Microsoft might help get corporate customers to use IE9, Firefox, or Chrome for external websites, without losing IE6 for their internal applications.
Ah, now I understand that glaciers actually are made of a different kind of ice!

I've seen glacier ice on numerous occasions, and it has a very blue tinge, unlike normal ice. I now understand that that is probably one of the other ices that is formed at a very high pressure.
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The best part? Garry's page is throwing errors too.

http://imgur.com/8afBE.png
Video seems to have been removed.
Here's at least one direct link:
http://www.cultofmac.com/jon-stewart-rips-apple-for-iphonega...
Actually, I'd be quite happy if they forgot about OS X and released it as open source to the community (as in BSD licensed). They could still maintain the official version for their hardware, but the community could run it for free, along with fixing bugs for them and developing new features.
This is gross/pre-tax, yes?
>I'm sure the fact that hardness of the ring makes it capable of (and good at) opening beer bottles is entirely unintentional.

They're Canadians.
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I'm glad to see Steve Blank mentioned. Having recently heard Blank talk about the Transition from Scalable Startup to Large Company (slide 34 of http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/why-accountants-dont-run-st...), I've wondered whether I care to make the transition. At least right now, my heart is in the chaotic early stages. Of course, I can't speak for being a "real" CEO later on but my gut tells me I'd have more fun at the startup stage.
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AT&T, Google, and Facebook know 100X more about me than Apple.
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Yup. It's a very interesting mix of using a subset of something very well known (MySQL) to get what you need done.
straight from horse's mouth

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes

starts in earnest around ~2:00; probably region locked
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I really like this quote!! and believe it too... also I read some where... "when he is awake he is working" admire this guy..
I disagree. They don't care if a bunch of Apple fanboys or tech bloggers get upset about something, because the general public usually won't notice.

Daily Show gets watched by a more mainstream audience, and I suspect it's a demographic that plays a big part in making Apple's products popular.
Apple control the police? And the courts?
Sounds like burning bridges. "Want to do something hard that few people succeed at? Eliminate your alternatives so you have no other choice than to keep going!"
Gp ahead, just don't do it with beer bottles. It takes quite an effort to remove all the little shards of broken glass and the fridge smells like beer :)
I recently wrote an iPhone app that lets you time how long you take to do routine activities. It's at http://www.ganjianwei.com/iphone/weiwatch/

Interesting how I never thought of how it fit into this bigger concept of using data in your personal life, especially how such quantification might take something away from our imperfect judgment, which is what makes us feel human.
What a turnaround!

Apple is the "A-list celebrity" of the tech/gadget industry. People both mock celebrities for minor faux pas and openly weep for their bad fortune.. so it goes with Apple.
If you don't want Facebook to know you're dating, don't date! That's what Eric Schmidt would say.
If non-ActiveX browsers had started deliberately breaking feature detection, the browser wars would have been even worse.
It's not too difficult to detect and ban votes from exit nodes. It could even be done after the fact (and still be mostly effective) if it appeared that an attack took place.
But are you prepared to share your online behavior? What if Facebook published a list of all the sites you've visited with a Like button?
If only there were schools that encouraged entrepreneurship while broadening your horizons with more smart, interesting people than you might ever meet again...
Agreed. Talk about sweeping generalizations.
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i think that's a new record. flame war from the first post.
Maybe so, but I think it's different this time.

Would you be able to walk into a Apple store again and buy something there knowing that this was a company that ordered the goons to break down the doors of some guy's house? Face all those cheery Apple employees and Geniuses and not silently think if they supported the actions of their company?
When twitter was hacked TechCrunch did everything they could to expose the valuable data and they paid the hacker.

Why should anyone even care if TechCrunch got hacked, it's only fair that when you condone hacking of other sites and profit from it that you just shrug it off when it happens to you.

TC pressing charges because of being hacked would be completely hypocritical of them.
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How NFTE set up a mobile giving campaign for free (genius hack)
If that same thug hacks facebook next week and offers the stuff he finds during the hack on an underground forum for a fee Arrington will be the first in line to pay.
Sorry to nit-pick, but Einstein doing poorly in his earlier education is a myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Early_life_and_...

("In 1889 Max Talmud (later changed to Max Talmey) introduced the ten-year old Einstein to key texts in science, mathematics and philosophy, including Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Euclid’s Elements" -- my goodness, Kant's critique when he was _ten_?)
That is, I think, the widely held view. I somehow think that BF would not have advocated actual stripping of their rights. More of a social statement, such an act diminishes his respect for them. I think that the motive behind it is probably the fact that practically, these rights must be asserted by enough people in order to exist in a society. Shirking this responsibility is contributing to the demise of these rights.

The only thing I still disagree with you on is your use of the word 'choice.' You wouldn't say that you 'choose' to drive on the right side of the road, pay taxes or get a stamp on your passport when you visit countries, would you?

I think you need to make a distinction between a choice that if free and a "choice" that isn't. Even if you don't use different words this is important because otherwise you can't really have any usable explanation of what is infringing on one's freedom.
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How long ago was this? Things have gotten a lot faster esp with recent releases.

Plus if you overclock, it's actually faster than the 3GS on the JS benchmarks.
I've never had that happen, but wouldn't the cap come off first?
Direct link:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes
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> they paid the hacker

This is not true.
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I think of mine as a +1 ring of responsibility.
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I think advice like this should be taken lightly. This writer simply says look at this or that, not realizing these guys are the exception, not the rule. What worries me is she gives life changing decisions without any data to back her approach.

Some data for you:
1. 95.1% of entrepreneurs had a bachelor degree or higher
2. 41.4% of entrepreneurs succeed on the first go (There goes the apprentice argument)
3. The average and median age of company founders in our sample when they started their current
companies was 40. The standard deviation for this distribution was 7.7.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/ResearchAndPolicy/TheS...
Entrepreneurship is a compulsion, not a want.

I think you find the spark and become an entrepreneur when you stop "searching" for something, but begin reacting intelligently to your future customers.

You don't need to drop out of college if the college demographic is a good demographic for your next product.
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> Just a few days ago everyone was highly sympathetic towards Apple

And just a few days before that everyone was angry about 3.3.1. :)

This video still seemed pretty benign. However, I wonder if this is that start of shift in how people view Apple. They've had other criticisms, for sure, but this is one of the first times they're publicly called out as being oppressive.
As much as I used to love this quote, I now see it as a non-sequitur.
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Mathematicians mostly study the surprising consequences of what others create; and it's often easier to take action than know the consequences, as the latter requires perfect understanding. Poorly understood automation is the Frankenstein fear, a real danger, as each victim of Murphy's Law will rue.

It's the pure science vs. engineering chestnut, that old favourite of science fiction: the pursuit of understanding for its own sake vs. making something useful (the trope has abstract knowledge as crucial in the end). But in reality, one isn't better than the other, both are needed, and it is, as you say, a matter of personal value.

Here's a related comment (you might like the cartoon too): http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bw3le/caveman_science_...
Last link is broken.
Probably meant to be this: http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Facebook-Engineering-Inte...
Also see: http://reza.lotun.name/entries/12052007a.html
People are wondering how much they paid, not if they paid.

Is Arrington on the record stating that they did not pay?

Even if, they still profited tremendously from the traffic, so the point still stands. You either are ok with black hat hacks or you're not, you can't be fine with it when it is other people and press charges when it's you.

edit:

If've found this response:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/our-reaction-to-your-reacti...

There is lots of handwaving there, but the issue of whether or not money changed hands is not mentioned at all, and it would have been a pretty strong point in their defense if it hadn't. The only words he uses is 'But if it lands in our inbox, we consider it fair game.", which suggests nothing preceded that, but that's speculative.
I'm not sure if Angel or VC money can be counted as debt, but its [sic] open to discussion

No it's not (open to discussion). It's not debt, it's an investment (ok, yes I know about convertible notes, but it's still not personal debt).
I think correlation is being confused with causation. It is probably more that intelligence and ambition are traits of great entrepreneurs, but are also correlated with dropping out of college. In addition I bet that most people who graduated from college do not regret the experience.
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What you get is a communication and exploration medium that guarantees enhanced productivity.
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Apparently not; I've had a bottle of soda 'sploding in my freezer. I'm guessing that since the bottle's neck is so slim the water there freezes first, effectively "plugging" the bottle.
If we all get on it, this would also ameliorate future IP patent problems, as most new technology ideas would be accountable for by the collective entrepreneur community.
I think Riak has everything you need. It's worth a look anyway.
I mean it's fascinating that that has been successful for him. I agree the notion of doing it is weird to me personally.
Funny, this describes me almost perfectly. One thing is I do not live in the city, so my rent is slightly cheaper still. Other expenses that I see people my age spending a lot on which I don't: clothes, internet-enabled phones, eating / drinking out. Especially the last one.

A downside of living this way is, obviously it would never work with a family. So if/when it comes time for me to do that, I will probably have to grow up and get a Real Job.

Until that point though, this is great! I look at all these people, friends, working 60 hrs a week and completely missing out on their 20s and 30s, and I feel like I've stumbled on to a well-kept secret.