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FOBO (YC S11) - Lead Backbone Engineer, local marketplace for used goods (SF)
Fobo, a local marketplace undergoing rapid-growth, is looking to hire a talented front-end javascript developer.

Would love to chat, just shoot me a quick note at ed@fobo.net

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We're well on our way to profitability (10% WoW growth leading to $1M run-rate, in just 6 weeks).

Fobo is built on Parse, with a native iOS client, and uses Haskell, typescript and coffeescript on the backend. We're looking for talented individuals with interest in this stack. Experience with Backbone, ember, etc., preferred.

This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

FOBO has raised $1.6M from a number of top-tier investors such as YC, Kevin Rose, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Chris Sacca, Tim Ferris, Index, Greylock, et al. Visit us at http://www.fobo.net

We're located in San Francisco's mission district, just blocks from BART.

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FOBO - The Fastest, Easiest Way To Sell Your Consumer Electronics

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/fobo/

Gadget Marketplace App FOBO Has Hit A Million-Dollar Run Rate

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/16/fobo-video/
I only thought about this for their Xbox division, until I saw the comments in here.

But the idea of glasses that shows you ammo count, health and other infos while your playing. Basically a HUD on your face. is really appealing to me.
I know you're being sarcastic, but it's upsetting that people are capable of having this attitude. There is no excuse that can ameliorate this behavior in the name of democracy or any other alleged moral acumen the propaganda machine spits out. It strictly amoral to attack freedom of the press, which is why we have so many protections in place, whether genuine or artificial, to prevent just that.
>crushed the stock price (irrationally)

The high valuation of this company is equally irrational. It's a massive speculative play, so there's a load of volatility.
I'm in the same boat here. It's almost (almost... but not quite) worth reactivating just to show support. I'm sure the publicity from this stunt will be plenty without my input. This post and the one about how they advertised on a porn site (http://blog.eat24hours.com/how-to-advertise-on-a-porn-websit...) had me laughing so loud I woke up my roommate.
Show HN: Compliments as a service
.blargh sounds like a great TLD for a blog.
Good, a necessary pruning from the board of people who are more interested in politics than product.
I think the author doesn't understand the complexity of a "Crowd-investing" scheme. It used to exist in America and many large and well know companies were built by the millions of pennies from the masses, but many more were failures. Enter the SEC.

Kick-starter ventures set reasonable expectations and reasonable risks which are palatable to average Joe.

Promising a dev-kit is reasonable in exchange for a small fee. Where as giving a guy, a complicated financial prospectus and a stack of disclosures is not.

We all buy over-priced products that turn out to be crap and are wiser for it.

The program is not broken it genius, small "contributors" making the world better by "purchasing" products from startups.
Ask HN: Is it okay to lie to sell your product?
What is your take on lying to sell a product?
Does it mean to say that the product does not have real value to customer or Is it "okay" in any ways?
Paypal Android App Remote Code Execution
Why so plain?
Am I going mad or is this a re-submission?
Dokku: Docker powered mini-Heroku
is decompiling an app legal? does it not break someone's terms of service?
> Facebook doesn't know how to make and sell a product that isn't their own users

And how is this any different to Google ? They have exactly the same business model as Facebook.
Google Updates Play Store Developer Policies To Crack Down On Deceptive Ads
raj, just saw your post on here. I was wondering if you were the same guy Dennis in Delaware was trying to connect us to. We were doing the large scale touchscreen collaboration stuff
>It's sad but there are so many other issues in the world right now that outweigh a missing plan

A plane? How about a plane with 200+ innocent, unsuspecting people on board goes missing, and all are now presumed dead? It's woefully ignorant to think the story is about the plane.
Ah. It appears to be nothing more complicated than computing this linear formula given, and Facebook has a thousand tiny little knobs for adjusting the parameters.

Maybe the problem is that their algorithm is not really an algorithm. PageRank was good because it had an interpretation as a random walk that made sense (before SEO). EdgeRank can only be interpreted as an arbitrary formula.
Yeah, I think the problem is the place you work with, not so much BlackBerry development itself. Though I don't blame you for having a tainted view of it because of these kind of asinine policies as a result.
Organic growth is execution and engineering, not innovation. FB in 2006 is a good design, and magically hit upon what people wanted, an easier to use private email system with a public announcement board.

Is FB 2014 fundamentally different? Is there innovation? How about FB's other acquisitions, are they innovative or just derivative? Hint: If it's in the social space, it's just derivative. FB acquires purely to secure and reinforce this one-trick pony it's on. If e-mail was run by a single company they'd buy that too.

Innovation is not in the company DNA, especially if it doesn't support the path they're on. That's why the only outcome of this is strapping an OVR to your face and getting bombarded by irrelevant ads and "join my game?" requests, but now in 3d or some other "fitting" of the acquisition into the existing and larger "social" momentum the company is on.
Add refraction, I want to make a laser.
that an unsuspecting driver could bump the ignition key and cause the car to cut off engine power and deactivate its air bags.

I didn't know that turning off the ignition would deactivate the air bags. I've welded on vehicles before, and have talked to body work guys about it. Everyone says to disconnect the battery so you don't accidentally set off the air bags. It can happen by stabbing the mig wire into the air bag harness, or just by letting the welding lead lay next to it and inductively causing current to flow.

Seems like if you're parked in a parking spot, and someone smashes into you hard enough that the acceleration can trigger the airbags, you would want the airbags to go off. I don't know why you would ever want to disable the airbags (except baby in car seat).
Send Money in Gmail
"Genesis" always reminds me of the Genesis3D game engine from the late nineties. http://www.genesis3d.com/screenshots.php
"Look around: Google search, Youtube, Facebook etc. They all had first mover advantage and there's no way someone can compete with these."

They did? What about Yahoo, Alta Vista, WebCrawler, MySpace, Friendster...?
It's a looped gif: http://kyle.bike/bike.gif
I'm sorry you feel it's trolling, I'm not making a political point, and it's not how amazon works now, amazon are a broker in trust and take their cut, just like the companies you object to.
Make uses disk I/O, which is really slow, and for complex projects become difficult to maintain. Also, why not use a proper programming language to define the build process? Well, a modern tool like Gulp[1] does that. It's streaming/asynchronous and scripts are written in JavaScript. I don't see why one would prefer Make over it.

1. https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp
You're acting as though Facebook has somehow blocked fans from visiting your page. They're of course free to do so.

Given that you accept it's a statistical impossibility for all content I'm subscribed to to reach my feed, what we're debating is priorities. Before this algorithm change, I fully believe it was tilted too far in terms of brands—I received way too many updates from brands and few from my friends.

What you call extortion is what every sane person in the world calls advertising. If a magazine writes a story about my business (free advertising), that obviously doesn't entitle me to free advertising in all future issues. Neither does Facebook once giving you free reach.
Artistic interpretation [1] of the Triforce:

http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgagAHAAABegQqAXgA/wABFwGJAg...

[1]: Have no right calling myself an artist of any sort, especially when I can't draw straight lines.
Our ancestors used symbols to convey messages and logic. Then came the Phoenicians. Its their fault!
It is a re-submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983421
That's really comparing apples to oranges.

At the airplane industry it's the government that does this calculation, with a publicly known value of C. Also, airplanes don't have the kind of problem that cause an accident by itself, every issue can be corrected on several levels, and normally when the proper fix isn't instantly applied some other action is done to attenuate the problem.

On any advanced country, around here it calculates nothing, even yelling "Are you insane? Do you know how many hospitals we could build with that kind of money?" won't make they think about numbers.
Regulations are currently prohibitive in this area. Look for that to change soon as the JOBS Act implementation gets finalized.
You could say the same thing about computers.

Nobody wants to sit in front of a screen just to communicate with other people. Yet billions of people do.

Up until now the technology simply hasn't been good enough to address the "presence" issue.
"Your red ruby lips and wiggly hips make me do flips!"
Try decreasing the reflectivity to zero and transmissivity to max.
I'm not challenging FB to innovate. It's not in their DNA. FB is FB. It is what it is.

And that's why this acquisition is bad. There are no paths that FB will take with this tech that doesn't drive it right down the non-innovative path they're already on and committed to.
It's a pledge, so likely voluntary, not automatic.
It would be awesome to have a little blog post about why and how, this is very cool tech! I'm lazy I don't want to go read the code, I want a beautiful and clear explanation with pictures
This Is Not Your Father's STEM Job
You don't even have to hate facebook to not like the merger. Anyone that has been part of a big corporate merger knows that the small company will very rarely keep its old culture for very long. Being bought changes things, and it rarely makes the company more productive. In all my years in the industry, I've not been a part of one where the consumer was helped: The only winners have always been the few people that got the millions from being acquired.

Not every acquisition like this is a total failure, but so many of them are, it's very hard to see any acquisition with optimism, unless you want both sides to fail. Can IBM please buy Oracle?
I know the head of the HBO team here, and I asked him about that topic.

HBO has no incentive to offer streaming only subscriptions. Cable companies pay top dollar to offer HBO content, because putting HBO on a TV package increases the subscription to that package. Like For ever $1 cable companies pay for HBO, those cable companies make $3 from TV packages.

He said that HBO basically prints money, and does not give a damn.
> Does the payment requirement somehow supercede the best algorithms in perfectly balancing post activity?

Yes. That's precisely the point. As a business, you can accept whatever the algorithm dictates or you can pay to override the algorithm (ie. advertising). No different than the tradeoff between hoping a magazine writes an article about you vs. guaranteed reach by purchasing an ad.

> This statement is obviously and mathematically less true than it once was.

I don't dispute this. It's the natural result of a growing network while people's attention stays finite.
is there a .js? if not we should probably build an ad-hoc framework to support it
> also, supporting windows is a lot of additional work

Yeah, GNU tools are generally written to assume a Unix-like environment. As a result it's relatively easy to port them to anything Unix-like (the BSDs, OS X, etc.). On Windows, Cygwin provides a Unix-like environment, so it's relatively easy to port things to there as well. But to making things work on "native" Windows requires a bunch of Windows-specific porting. That isn't impossible (e.g. GNU Octave has a Windows port), but it requires there being Windows developers interested in volunteering to do it.
Electric arc welding can fry the electrics (think ECU etc) on a vehicle if you don't disconnect the battery. Airbags would be at the lower end of your concerns.
No FB is exactly the same. They monetize interactions. So what kind of interactions will you be having with an OVR strapped to your face that they'll now be monetizing?

I upvoted you because I thought your comment didn't deserve the downvoting it was getting
Make is an absolutely wonderful, wonderful tool.

Most of the common criticisms of Make are actually criticisms of autoconf, which I agree is a hideous tool. (On the other hand, autoconf is a tool intended to address a hideous problem, so perhaps that's inevitable).

A lot of the more recent build tools I see are largely reinventions of Make. Make is very widely supported (most basic projects can make do[0] with portable Makefiles, though GNU Make is also available for most systems), and its syntax is actually very easy to grasp and manipulate[1].

[0] no pun intended

[1] Most projects only need a very small subset of what Make has to offer, anyway, and that can be learned in a matter of minutes.
God heavens, why all the bloat, just what is wrong with TWM?

Seriously Canonical needs to market Ubuntu to device manufacturers to generate an income stream. I really hope they succeed although I think it is a shame that they have felt the need to fork the Graphics sub-system in this way.
See this is why I like that Facebook acquired Oculus. VR shouldn't be the exclusive domain of hardcore gamers.

I want the equivalent of Playstation Home in VR. And nobody can pull that off except Facebook.
I think the real victim here is Kickstarter. I saw some project for a new kind of energy-saving device and all the comments basically said "So you'll just take our money and sell to Facebook?"
It seems like this effect could be got much more efficiently using block lighting. you could get the gradients by storing the light's strength at each vertex. This way you would be tracing only two rays per line
IMO Facebook should have never offered any free reach for businesses

It has always confused me that Facebook has done so little to monetize businesses, many of whom now list their Facebook pages in major advertising campaigns rather than their own website. Traditionally the service that Facebook provides to businesses was a pretty high value one, and it wasn't that the businesses brought users -- the businesses went to Facebook because the users were already there.
Wait: so you're claiming that there's no money in selling games, but somehow the people selling games for no money can give lots of money to the people who wrote the engine?

How does that work?
That would be a pretty terrible PR move by nVidia. While I hate the fact that they don't open source their stuff, I have to give them props because their blobs drivers work really well on Linux too.

Abandoning Linux is definitely the wrong move, especially now that the gaming community is thriving.
I actually kind of feel for facebook. Not even a year ago people were complaining about Facebook not having enough relevant content etc. So they were migrating away. Old facebook was filled with commercial spam and made it a crappy experience. EdgeRank helped with that aspect a lot.

Switching hats, this also bothers me though. I'm a marketer for a lot of local businesses through my agency, and obviously this sucks. It's still a really valuable platform from a paid perspective. In fact using the some images and copy on facebook versus Reddit I get almost 5x the CTR and conversions. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you're savvy and you're willing to treat Facebook like any other ad network there's still a lot of value to be had. The days of free engagement from pages seems to be coming to an end. That really sucks for people who paid to build their's up. Going back on features like that and screwing people etc. seems to be an endemic of the tech industry as a whole though and not just Facebook. Google Reader anyone?

I know this is more of a rant and points out more problems than solutions, but I just wanted to point out the situation is more complex than Facebook is bad let's hate them.
Reworking the human genome so people can colonize other planets
Absolutely. You only have to look at the number of reviews to know it is very popular.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-stories-from-facebook/...
Microsoft Beefs Up Customer Privacy Policy
This is what I was thinking, too. Facebook buying Oculus is the exact sort of disaster that Parzival spent the entire book trying to prevent against.

In fairness to Mark Zuckerberg, RP1 was wildly idealistic in a way I can only describe as Stallmanesque. Beautiful, but wildly idealistic.
I write my own automation/build tools in Python

Envoy pynotify and fnmatch pretty much do the heavy lifting.

I do it this way because

Since I know Python no extra syntax knowledge is required

Python is going to be readable to me in 6 months when I've
forgotten the syntax of whatever build tool I just used

*All* my machines desktop and servers already have Python
installed

*It's fast, merging 20-30 largish text files takes around
10-15milliseconds

* It's very very flexible (it's Python)

I used make extensively when I was at Uni and quite frankly if I never have to touch it again I would be a happy bunny.

It's an incredibly powerful and clever tool hiding behind an interface (that second to Git) is the worst I've ever had to use.

EDIT: I've actually been toying with the idea of writing a python library to simplify things as lots of the code I end up writing is very similar across projects, it's been one of my "think about in shower" projects for quite a while.
Indeed - maybe a corollary should be "in the same colour".
But what makes Facebook different to what Google was a few years ago ?

Google has been a long time advertising player that only recently got into hardware.
They can get away with it because their drivers actually work. The OSS drivers are improving, but it's taken them a half-decade or more to come even within 70% of Windows performance parity. nVidia's drivers have performance parity on day 1, and generally, far fewer show-stopping bugs.
And how exactly do you propose to compile a file without reading it?
Nobody paid Google any money to create a following on Google Reader, and then made that following worthless... Not really a fair comparison.
... or buying companies that know how to innovate.
> Big red button for "just buy the goddamned product and leave me in peace".

Finally a business plan where modern advertising makes any sense: Torture based freeware. "Send us money and we'll stop. Here are the products you'll hate today..."

They could even remove products from their list after payment from manufacturers.
yeah that makes a lot of sense, good point!
I don't quite see the benefit of using make for arbitrary workflows (opposed to building software) over using plain old shell scripts.

But it sure isn't that much more complex nor requires a lot more of your system, so I'd say it's more a matter of preference.
DS9? Yeah, it starts pretty soap opera-ish. That never really goes away (they're kind of stuck on the station for the most part), but the stakes get higher and higher and the various players and factions involved become pretty interesting. Not quite Game of Thrones, but way out of character for a Trek show.
Why is Hacker News hating on Paper? I'm genuinely curious.

Three downvotes for mentioning it in response to

>the product is stagnating
Does NovaLogic still develop new games? They announced Delta Force: Angel Falls in 2008. Their website looks quit dated too. A new Delta Force, Comanche, Joint Operations or F22 game would be great. Sadly RAH-66 Comanche has been canceled in real life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NovaLogic

http://www.novalogic.com
I'm hopeful you're grateful to each individually and not bringing up their collective choice of a non-copyleft license each time one contributed.
I agree that from a quick look it seems much closer to gGlass than Oculus. As much as we give Microsoft crap these days (I run in a *nix crowd), I think this is great for the sake of innovation. I really hope it's not just defensive, because I like the idea of the future happening soon and nothing will bring that on like some healthy competition.
Option 6: Start you own business.

This took me a while to realize.
Successful companies do not think like you.

They focus on making the very best products/services they can and have the money be a secondary consideration.
If your feed before was "tilted too fat in terms of brands" then you could easily have hidden them from the feed or unsubscribed.

Your analogy is wrong. Facebook did not write a free story about my business. I paid them to help me gather a group of people who were interested in my business. They never at any point said that I would have to pay to access those users. Then, after I spent a lot of money, time and effort maintaining that group, they told me that I couldn't access them without paying them again and again. That's extortion, not advertising.

As someone who has ran a business that has sold many millions of dollars of advertising you don't screw over your readers and advertisers to make an extra buck. It might work in the short term, but it's a failing business strategy.
I once worked on a website that had a "sql.asp" page where you could enter any arbitrary SQL into a textarea and submit it. The ONLY security it had was the obscurity of its URL.

This was implemented deliberately and with full knowledge of managers and developers.

Stuff like this happens....
It behooves nvidia's Linux division to be conservative when it comes to driver development. Things change fast in the OSS community, and you never know when someone is going to pull a TTM->GEM. It's best to have reasonable assurance that something is going to stick around before you invest the manpower into supporting it, lest you have to report to the bigwigs that you worked 3-6 months to support something, and ended up having to throw it away because a maintainer decided he liked a certain approach better. Incidentally, that seems to have happened here to a small degree.
You missed the point. My story is not a recipe. It's simply an admission of what I've been through, and to offer inspiration and hope to others who are at the beginning of their struggle.

I'm also confused. How did you read my comment and come to the conclusion that I just "toughed it out"? Did you read the whole thing?

Also, you called my post an "anecdote". I do not think that word means what you think it means.
You can do that with signed forms and similar techniques, though. No need to have the key on the client side (and lots of reasons not to).
I bet if I spent a ton of time in a holodeck, I'd still mostly be checking my favorite websites.
"Lee[1] was quoted as saying, "What do I know about gay ranch hands in Wyoming?" In spite of the director's removal from the subject at hand, Brokeback Mountain showcased Lee's skills in probing the depths of the human heart."

... and I remember, as someone who grew up in that time period, in the poor-white-trash southwest, being amazed at how perfectly he nailed the aesthetic and mood of the entire movie[2].

So it can be done ...

[1] Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-born American film director, screenwriter and producer.

[2] Brokeback Mountain
It's 2014 and Microsoft keeps on being the "me too" of consumer technology.