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No offense but I'll let the hiring manager at facebook (not some guy on the 'net) decide whether I should get a referral bonus.

All I'm saying here is that anything I get will go back to the team/applicant.

I'm not sure how that's shady.

I'd take down the glass door link if I could to appease you. Personally, I think it's better that all photo team applicants see it rather than the few that find it through some cursory pre-interview research.
Are there laws against attempting to return the lost after you've taken photographs of it? They did return it, they just took some pictures first.
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It repelled me at "your team". wikipedia isn't about you or any team.

when i see "your team" i think "another 37 signals" / "google apps" etc. i might check it out one day though.
MS does the same thing. They started that practice before Apple which I said in my above post =)
What do you mean by the $80 to change the background bit? (I'm not disagreeing, I genuinely don't know what you're referring to.)
The matter was not something that needed to be attended to at 9:45 pm on a Friday night. They could have done it during business hours. Actually, they did not even need to visit the premises. They could have used a subpoena.
Doors and locks are deeply ingrained symbols of privacy and access. The police busting down his door is, as Stewart notes, behavior we expect for /meth labs/, not bloggers.
It is a good thing that the LA Times has layers of fact checkers and multiple editors to catch mistakes before they go into print. Otherwise, they'd just be bloggers with better suits and worse balance sheets.
Wow, ok that makes that evidence comletely inadmisable! :-) I hope they have some more.
Take it up with the police, not Apple.
We love to root for the underdog. Many examples are given in the comments to this post about college grads who founded successful companies (Intel, Bose, etc).

There are arguments both for the enlightening and factory-product aspects of college. Academia is definitely a path to the great body of thought that has come before us; this is particularly important in the field of engineering. At the same time, it also does teach being obligated to an outside sense of importance, possibly diminishing out own internal value systems.

Not a new debate, but one I usually like to leave as, "There's a place for both sides."
He also explained (on Peachy Keen) that if you add some sugar (being hygroscopic) to the fruit (making a sugar syrup), the sugar will help hold some of the water in the cell walls helping to reduce the size of the ice crystals.
There are laws against knowingly buying stolen property or property known to belong to someone else.
No offense, but if you are going to mention splitting referral bonuses and the like on a public forum, people might make a comment about it - it's the nature of these public forum thingies.

Ditto seeing as we're here to discuss the practices of running startups, among other things

Anyway, I'm sure the realities of working for a BigCo will continue to sink in as time goes on (if you think Facebook is still a startup, keep drinking the koolaid). Congrats on the sale to Facebook, I hope the next few years on the earn out are good for you.

EDIT: I notice you added the comment about the glassdoor link... it's not about appeasing me, it's your team and your employer, do what you like. But I would comment that while the interview Q's are out there, if someone was going to walk into my interview office with them already in their head, I'd like to think it is because they were savvy enough to go find them on their own and not because my staff member pointed the candidate directly to them. Just saying.
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Yeah, but he paid for a stolen phone!!! BURN HIM! HE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!
Isn't this the same level of quality you'd expect in housing built one mile from a gold mine

That's a powerfully descriptive image, all right.
No, your criticism is worthless. Insofar as you are correct in pointing out where I am correct, I give you some credit. But you fail to appreciate the full scope of my correctness and thus miss the whole point.

1. Consider: who would actually be so buffoonish as to call for the creation of a financial bubble at the peak moment before said bubble was about to burst - particularly when the bubble had reached an historical scale. Krugman is silly, but not that silly.

2. As it turns out, he was calling for the bubble at that crucial moment in history which we now recognize as the actual creation of the bubble. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Median_and_Ave...

Let me spell it out for you: he got what he asked for, when he asked for it.

3. Given that he called for the creation of a bubble, I am willing to assume that perhaps he didn't mean for it to get so over-inflated. But that puts the burden on you to find an article circa 2004 for him saying: stop, I meant only inflate it a little ...

Of course he did not call for the creation of the bubble just before it popped. In fact, it is much worse: he called for the inflation of the bubble just as it was getting started.

We all know how that ended ...
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This is pretty amazing insight for a freshman in college. I would love to have had your breadth of perception when I was 18. It doesn't sound like you are going to have any trouble analyzing whether to stay in college or to drop out and pursue something else worthwhile.
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I think what they were trying to say is that Apple isn't necessarily acting like "big brother", and that there are other companies that are potentially more dangerous to you personally. Apple is acting more big brother-ish to their developers than their users...

That being said, I'm not sure that the police raiding Chen's home had anything to do with Apple... that's a big leap to make.
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They could have used a subpoena

If you're investigating a possible crime, you don't say "Hey, at your convenience could you get us your computers for us to look at?" You get a warrant and take the computers as soon as possible.

You can argue whether or not the warrant should have been issued, but once it was, the rest of the raid seemed pretty standard.
I don't believe he's giving an opinion about Apple's actions, rather the accuracy of calling them "Big Brother" in light of the fact that other companies maintain a lot more information about their users than Apple does.
This shareholder is far more spooked by vague platitudes that have obviously been through the PR filter a dozen times and are devoid of meaning. Once that is all you hear, then you should start to worry.
As a two time ADA winner, and having a new app almost ready for this years wwdc we're pretty bummed out about this. As one developer put it, it feels like the end of an era. We love the Mac desktop, but Apples current attitude towards it is very bad for developer morale and will make us definitely think twice on what platform we'll build our next project.
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Awesome advice everyone should follow it. Just imagine how much more start-ups (future corporations) we would have since "1 college drop out = 1 kick ass entrepreneur".

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An example of the point I am trying to make is that HP now has a consulting division that implements SAP (ERP) solutions for other companies. Why would you spend money acquiring businesses like that?

Memristor is a great example. But how much time between nano technology research at HP labs and end-user products being released? main point being will the money spent on acquiring other businesses be rather well spent if invested in internal R&D to speedup things.
Is it ok to go past 3 sentences?

Admittedly I went way over, but I thought it may be helpful to the other applicants to know.

The topic is very exciting and I needed to write more :(
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> Run a script to open in incognito and keeping voting till a certain point

Why would you bother to script a full-fledged browser when you can just connect to the site directly through the script, ignoring cookies and/or changing the user-agent string.
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Sam,
I think you have done no wrong here. From my experience, if you appear 'too helpful' people become suspicious. Strange, but that is the reality. Human beings are not expected to be that nice, period. Cheers dude! I hope you get the best people.
Hacking web sites is not a game. I suspect most criminals crap their pants when they get caught - should they all be let go?
You're right, they are massive, and I will admit that the only division I'm intimately familiar with is HP Software. At about 13,000 employees it's is a relatively small part of HP. I can speak only to that division, you may be more familiar with ISS and Procurve than I am. I have the utmost respect for HP's technologists. The tech demos and prototypes created are truly amazing. But lets be honest, the ipaq has been in maintenance mode for years and needs a complete refresh to be on par with current offerings from competitors. When was the last time you've seen HP enter a market with a truly innovative and successful product which was built entirely in-house? Networking is being augmented with the $2.7bn 3com acquisition rather than developing new technology in house, Proliant came from the Compaq acquisition, IPG hasn't done anything truly innovative in years -- Snapfish was an acquisition, they discontinued internal production of photosmart cameras two years ago, and much of the current OpenCall (formerly OpenView) came from the Mercury and Opsware acquisitions. HP is good at buying technology, and it's services, sales, and ops, are top notch. But they've either by intent or by misstep strayed from The HP Way over the last couple years and are no longer capable of living up to their slogan of "Invent".
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HP is indirectly investing in R&D. It would take HP years to build something like WebOS on their own. They just bought 1500 patents and years of R&D effort with talent for a good price. I am not sure how they could top that.
I think we're getting too bogged down in the details here. If a facebook hiring manager has a problem they can email me and I'll fix it.
Yes, but 3 is preferred.
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I suspect that sort of hacker knows about the dual meanings of the word.
> " faster than the 3GS on the JS benchmarks."

That may be true - but is it faster than the 3GS on native apps benchmarks? Most of the iPhone's strength is not in its browser, it's how snappy the UI is on its variety of native apps.
The market of non-Appe users, that is? :-)

OK, but if time is of a premium, why not just use Android, as it's free? Or build on top of Android?
I don't consider ! to be a fancy control character. It's just simple.

Outputing/requiring json adds extra complexity and restriction that isn't necessary. Although, nothing says you can't send the messages as json (which is, in fact, what I do in my applications!). Letting the message format be completely free-form means you can treat it however you like.

The idea was to make it incredibly simple, and abstract enough (meaning no extra/unneeded logic baked in) so that it could be used in the widest set of applications. The application you build with it may well use json as its message format, but I saw no need to require a certain format.

Here is an example of a message I'm using in the 4squrevision example:

4sq_checkins!{"iid":17295,"tid":13057779551,"location":"Maths Journey","sqlink":"http://4sq.com/cGG46G","user":"greeenpea","lat":null,"tstamp":"Thu Apr 29 08:20:33 +0000 2010","lng":null}

Simple.
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On the flip side, the best thing you could do for your entrepreneurial career at 18 is to go to Stanford.
I think you're right, but in my opinion they don't overlap very well either. A startup is very unlikely to succeed without complete devotion and it's very hard to take the most rigorous classes while working >20 hours a week.
I'd like to know what they mean by "believing in privacy". If I understand the Wikipedia correctly[1], privacy is just the sum of information that is exclusive to an entity (person, circle of friends, family, company…).

So, does Zuckerberg believe there is little or no such information? Or does he believe there should be little or no such information? Does he believe that people don't control their privacy, or that they shouldn't? When he says he "doesn't believe in privacy", does he state a fact, or a political opinion?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
dotBen,

Don't you think that people at Facebook are smart enough to figure out if the applicant really knows what he/she is talking about?

An applicant can read the questions from that link but if he/she doesn't understand these algorithms, etc., the interviewers can easily tell the BS.

As with drinking the Kool-Aid, what makes you a better judge than Sam? You seem jaded by your past experiences but that doesn't mean it happens to everybody.
You're making an assumption of corporate stupidity that I find to be highly unlikely. Large companies do not become large companies by tossing hundreds of millions of dollars down dark wells without analysis.

I'm making the assumption that Coke and Nike, et al. are smart enough to have at least rudimentary knowledge of the effectiveness of their brand advertising. Is this an assumption? Yes. Is it a more reasonable assumption, a priori, than the alternative? I think so.
>this has turned into a major PR disaster for Apple

I think it's a major PR victory for Apple. Jon Stewart just told everybody that he loves Apple products, likes new iPhone, wants one and that Apple broke some doors. Now everybody knows that they have to get new iPhone this summer. This controversy spiked public interest and this media coverage would not be achievable for them even if they pay godzillion dollars.
And to play devil's advocate on /this/ side of the debate, paying for property of dubious ownership is considered a crime unto itself, and for pretty good reason.

Journalists aren't so heavily protected by shield laws that they can break crimes willy-nilly in pursuit of a story. Or any regular old story. It's one thing to break open Watergate - it's another entirely to buy a phone from a guy that they know doesn't have legal ownership of it, all for the sake of one-upping everybody else for the /review of a commercial product/.

It's arguably pretty bad precedent to just let it be. While Apple's, and the police's, actions have been comically overblown, /so was Gizmodo's/. If /nothing/ else, they really ought to be eating crow for engaging in sleazy checkbook journalism.
I'd expect that facebook would be prepared to lose some well informed and privacy conscious techies in the decisions they have made. The general public consensus seems to be that they either don't care about privacy or don't care enough at this stage to outweigh the benefits of using the social network all their friends are on.

I don't mind personally, my account is all public and I never post anything that I wouldn't be comfortable with anyone seeing. I guess I mainly use it to see what others are up to and posting and engage that more than I put my whole life on there.
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Apple sits on the steering committee of the police unit that entered Chen's house. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1795
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The other telling thing is that along the same timeline their userbase has grown immensely. Most people don't care about or understand internet privacy.
Which web app ?
Apple knows as much about MobileMe users as Google knows about Gmail users.
dannyr,

So yes, I'm very sure my friends at Facebook can weed out those who know what they are talking about and those who don't. And yes, if you don't know how to do map the shortest distance on a cube or create a bubble sort method, etc then you are going to come up short regardless of what you have read on a cheat sheet online.

But then, the same logic reasons that it is therefore pointless to direct people to the interview questions before hand, doesn't it?

"As with drinking the Kool-Aid, what makes you a better judge than Sam?"

My koolaid reference was to Sam's perspective that Facebook is still a startup. I don't think it's a case of being 'a better judge' on that one - facebook has over 1000 employees, has professional management, makes acquisitions (like his company) and has a $1bn+ valuation. It's not a startup. (I think they do a great job of encouraging the staff to think it is still a startup)

I'm not jaded by any past, I'm not sure where that conclusion comes from. I do perhaps have, however, some more experience in hiring people (both for startups and for large companies) than Sam does... and maybe you are confusing 'thinking practically' for 'sounded jaded'.

I guess I might sound jaded from my overall snarky tone, but that's just how I am at 1:40am on a Thursday morning. :P
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While multipurpose tools are always fun, how is the Chinese army shovel particularly noteworthy? I'm pretty sure you can get an almost identical model from, say, REI. Or the /US/ Army's surplus.

...actually, they likely all come from the same factory, huh?
Pretty much as the Milgram experiment found out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment.

All it takes is a lab coat to be perceived as an "authority figure" by most people - with distressing results.
Definitely yes if the punishment for their respective crimes is not in correspondence with damage actually done.

If crack cocaine carries a mandatory sentencing of 5 years in jail for less than a gram (it used to), the only moral thing to do is to let the offender go. Even if you think they deserve to be punished to some degree, you have to examine if the expected punishment is proportional to the desired punishment.

He inconvenienced TC for one hour. A felony conviction would be screwing him over for the rest of his life, possibly 70+ years. I don't see any positive outcomes from that which would offset resources wasted prosecuting.
Daily burn?
Who says you can't start a startup after completing college?
Yet this came up on HN (again). Why?

What do people here really want to talk about? It's surely not Caterina!

Damn. I'm (almost) tempted to sign up (again) just to be able to talk smack. Actually, I just deleted a whole crapload of incendiary junk. Um. Me sad now.

Yeah, so I got an account (again). Grrrr.
my question is what can this shovel not do ?
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That is just how the system works, though, you commit a crime, you get convicted. Then you could argue that the laws should change. But I can't understand these kids(?): smart enough to hack a server, but not smart enough to understand the consequences? Presumably he is feeling invincible?

There seem to be a lot of people who might be willing to give him a second change even with a felony conviction. It sounds like you would? If he really is just a stupid kid, there might be extra laws for kids, and the punishment less severe?

Cocaine is an entirely different matter, because it only damages the user, not other people. Hacking a public server damages other people. How is that excusable? And he didn't just put up a powned message, either, he tried to make money. What's next, selling accounts to the russian mafia?

I mean I would agree with you that if you personally feel that the crime is not really a crime (as you might feel about possession of drugs), you wouldn't press charges. But I don't see how hacking a server with the purpose of making money could not be considered a crime.
I love Peter Norvig's posts on stuff like this and I'm looking forward to checking out the code he wrote to do this analysis.
I highly doubt that represents all the interview questions likely to be asked. Indeed it seems Facebook know they are out there.

Is splitting the referral bonus dodgy? Well if he hadn't mentioned it sods law says someone would come along and say "what about th referral bonus - you're just pitching to get some extra cash..." or something :) I just read it as him laying a potential issue to rest.
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Yeah, I hear Bootup Labs take a similar approach <joke>