Sam_Odio

If your skills are as you describe then move to the bay area and look for a job out here.

There are a lot of hackers out here who could help you out. Heck, even I have a couch (in Mountain View) that you can crash on for a few weeks. Email me.

Hey Michael - Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure it's out of line to plug that we're hiring...especially in a post about my departure to join Freshplum.

You are right - there are more effective options. However we're at the stage where we'll take whatever chance we'll get to spread the word. As a small startup with limited resources you have to stay hungry.

You're making a straw-man argument. GiraffeNecktie isn't asserting that a quote would prove something, just that the headline "What about economists?" would lead the reader to expect the opinion of at least one economist to be referenced in the body.

Great page though I noticed a number of errors after glancing through. How do you expect to ensure the accuracy of the data?

You forgot the risk premium, among other things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_premium

Tag suggestions does not autotag photos. It does make it easier for people to tag photos that are already being uploaded. Many of these photos are actually already being tagged, albeit through a much more cumbersome experience.

We're not expecting a significant jump in the number of tags created, just a significant decrease in the time people spend tagging.

Thanks, Axiom. We're proud of the work we're doing here.

Interesting. My experience with the two organizations would lead me to disagree. Fb eng are not more focused on wealth than my friends at Google.

To answer the original question: Depends on what you define as cool. Generally Google seems to value solving hard problems while fb values shipping innovative products.

Google: 1) has more perks (better food, car rentals, massages, etc) 2) has more money 3) is less focused on immediate return. IE, it's acceptable at google to work for years on an algorithm that hasn't shipped.

Facebook: 1) longer hours 2) smaller teams 3) greater impact / eng. There's about 1MM users per engineer. Everything at Facebook is measured in user impact. There's little patience for a product that doesn't ship.

Unfortunately the entire photos team works in palo alto. If lunch goes well we might be able to convince a Dublin team to do the same.

No way. Come on by. We talk about photos all day...it'll be nice to discuss something else.

If you're looking to raise angel money you should absolutely watch this video.

My girlfriend convinced me to apply to YC with the idea for Divvyshot. It was two days before the deadline.

I submitted the application the night it was due and spent that week hacking together a prototype with a friend. Here's the video we sent Jessica after the YC deadline had passed: http://vimeo.com/2044353

Thanks Jason. I'll forward your suggestion to the groups PM.

Disclamer: this might be by design. The proudct was intended for small groups of people that actually know each other (families, soccer clubs, close friends, etc).

The page should be back online.

What you're describing is a bug that hasn't previously been reported to us. Why are you hesitant to follow up via email so that we can investigate?

It's possible that you previously synced that number. Can you email me directly with your Facebook profile ID or alias? I'd like to investigate: samodio@company.com

EDIT (1 hour later): I haven't received your email and we haven't been able to reproduce your bug. Can you email me (even if it's just user error) with a more detailed description? I want to make sure we follow up on this.

There are a number of inaccuracies in this article that I'd like to correct:

> The Facebook app also appears to share numbers for contacts that you don’t have, but your Facebook friends do.

This does not happen. After syncing, the Facebook Phonebook only displays contact information you have access to. This includes: 1.Phone numbers your friends have manually added to their profile. 2.Phone numbers already in your address book.

> Facebook does this without your knowledge or consent.

Also inaccurate. To enable the syncing feature you must:

1. Open iPhone app. 2.Click "Friends" 3. Click Sync 4.Turn "On" (this page could probably be more clear) 5."I Agree" to the notice explaining what information will be transferred:

"If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email, address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and your friends' profile photos and other info from Facebook will be added to your iPhone address book. Please make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information. [I Don't Agree] [I Agree]"

> the Facebook iPhone app seems to ignore Apple’s rules on user consent, specifically point 7.1 which states: “Apps cannot transmit data about a user obtaining the user’s prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used.”

Inaccurate. See above. That said, it's possible the app could be more clear. I will create an internal ticket with new suggested language.

> To be extra secure, I recommend removing yourself from Facebook Phonebook though this link, which appears to be down at the moment - possibly due to high demand.

Accurate. I pinged the engineer that is working on this. Turns out they took the page down for some scheduled downtime. They're working hard to get it back online in response to this article.

Disclaimer: I'm not directly involved in this feature at Facebook (but I am somewhat familiar with it).

Shout-out to pcardune, who came over from Divvyshot and did a lot of the hi-res stuff at Facebook. Other members of the photos team who were integral to this launch & are HN lurkers: beau, nroman, justinmitchell, makinde.

For the record: we didn't build the product with the goal of competing with Flickr.

> This is similar to saying that, since the set of integers is infinite, it must contain Pi.

Not exactly. Pi has no chance of occurring in an infinite set of integers.

It's unfortuante that far33d was voted down. It's a valid question.

elblanco is measuring a current valuation against a revenue estimate that's over a year old.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=%24500m+r...

I haven't asked Zuck personally if he made these comments. However I can say that after working with him on privacy and photo related issues that these comments definitely don't characterize his approach to the subject. He seems like a pretty normal guy just trying to make the world more open and connected.

I agree with jacquesm...this is a great lesson. Don't email, IM, text, etc anything you wouldn't want to read on Valleywag.

Based on the first paragraph, it seems the author already realizes this, but he needs to claim less and show more. His argument:

1. The most popular mapping site also has the most consistent satellite/street maps. 2. The inverse is true with the least popular mapping sites. 3. Because there's correlation, there's causation.

Decent list, though I'm surprised actually building the product isn't on there:

11. Buy a slice, learn Pythyon/Django, and build a MVP. Cost: $20/month and a bunch of all-nighters.

Excellence in one thing. Good enough in everything else.

Disclaimer: I'm the brother of the poster, so I'm biased.

This is actually pretty cool since you can read the stories inline (instead of pulling up the iPhone's browser interface). That said, it would be nice to have the option to pull up a browser in case I wanted to navigate around on the source site.

Oh, and bro, you have to tell Isaac and Sean to stop spamming your posts with upvotes and comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118734. They're cramping your style.

Edit: Thanks Sean for removing your comment on this post.

The interesting part is after she first win Joan was able to find 3 other opportunities where the PV of playing was less than the cost of the ticket (assuming $1 tickets). 1 in 1,200,000 chance to win $10M? I'd take that.

This smacks of link bait & bandwagoning. The author's experience with Twitter is contorted to support a statement about Facebook.

The FUD among the mainstream press is getting a little tiresome and distracts from the real privacy issues on the site. Instead I'd prefer to see a concrete discussion of exactly what controls/features are broken - that's much more actionable on my end.

Disclaimer: I work for Facebook, but don't speak on their behalf.

This meeting isn't an all hands, it's an employee-driven open forum. It was schduled because there has been interest around the public's recent reaction to facebook's privacy decisions. I don't expect any announcemets to be made, just a discussion to be had.

One lesson I learned from the internal response: Many Facebook engineers read HN. Your opinions are being heard.

Concentrate might be close to what you're looking for: http://getconcentrating.com

My guess is that you could couple that with AppleScript and an iCal alarm to start Concentrate every morning.

Also, the reason some advertisers don't have success on the network is because they're not using Facebook ads correctly. This is really an education problem on our part. Facebook excels at "brand advertising" while Google excels at converting leads into sales.

Think infomercial ad vs superbowl ad. Pepsi is not trying to sell you a soda during the superbowl. They want to sell you on a lifestyle choice: the idea that you should be drinking Pepsi instead of Coke.

Those are the kind of ads that work well on Facebook.