Sam_Odio

Thanks Oo Nwoye for bringing this to our attention. I've created an internal bug ticket. A Facebook ads engineer should be investigating this within the next few days. Facebook takes extreme care to make sure advertisers are only paying for ads that are legitimately displayed so this will definitely get attention.

Feel free to email me in a day or two if you want an update.

> Again, Microsoft is the biggest company implicated here, with some of its components being constructed in said factories. Other companies include HP, Samsung, Acer, Logitech, and Foxconn.

Interesting how MSFT gets the bad press, yet it's not clear they're the primary buyer of parts from these factories. They're just the "biggest."

This kind of fear mongering sucks. Technology isn't the problem here.

The subtext of that message is that specific groups (homosexuals, girls, etc) shouldn't have the freedom to use the latest technology to communicate in the way others do.

There are bad people out there. The iPhone won't change that.

Yes, but 3 is preferred.

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.

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.

I understard that it's unusual for a large corp to make a personal appeal on hn. However fb is more like a startup than a big corp.

It's pretty standard practice for fb employees to give part of their referral bonuses back to their friends. Are you suggesting that I keep it for myself?

I just had a realization. Apple's actually becoming the next Microsoft.

And they're beginning to act the part.

No comment on this idea, but I'd love to see more of this (vs Ask HN or Tell HN about my startup).

If you're not going to implement something tell the community. Let us vote it up if we think it's good.

Congrats on the short handle and the creative idea.

Some suggestions: 1) @wtf t=24hrs; Allow me to adjust the frequency. 2) @wtf -mashable; Allow me to add/remove sources. 3) @wtf "(facebook|twitter) down"; Allow for more advanced searches.

That sounds plausible but it still sucks. Affected developers should email me with details: so@facebook.tld.

I can't promise that I'll be able to do anything but I'll try to be your advocate within the company.

I bought an iPad about a week ago. It's lightly used (some scuff marks on the back). I'm willing to part with it and wait for the 3G model instead.

Email me if you're interested. I paid $550 (incl. sales tax). first_name@last_name.com

Everything you need to achieve massive wiki success (domain, similar domains, wiki, slicehost account, etc) is included.

Another note: I was just told that our pagerank fell from 5/10 to 0. Probably happened a few months ago from wiki spam that we've been strugling with. If you implement a captcha you can might convince google to restore the PR.

You might remember BluWiki from an Apple censorship lawsuit a few months back. More info: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/apple-backs-down-blu

Of my web projects, BluWiki is Divvyshot's ugly sister. The site has always been much larger but has received a fraction of the attention. This would be a great move if you're looking for an instant source of traffic.

I rarely watch 30 minute videos all the way through. This one is worth it (if you're interested in the topic).

Facebook, via email.

The Divvyshot team has talked about this and it's definitely something that we want to do. Ultimately it depends on Facebook's legal department.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all the congratulations. We're thrilled to be joining the Facebook team. Frankly it's still taking time for everything to sit in.

I'll admit that it's bittersweet. When you spend 18 months obsessing over your company it's hard to see it go. It ultimately came down to the decision that we could touch more people's lives at Facebook...and that's what we've been in this for all along.

<shameless thread co-opt>

Since this post is going to get a lot of eyeballs I want to take this chance to solicit any suggestions/feedback/complaints HNers have for Facebook Photos. I can't comment on exactly what we'll be doing at Facebook, but I can promise whatever you tell me will get in front of the "right people." :)

If you want you can email me directly: sam@divvyshot.com

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Since their legal department might read this: I'm not yet a Facebook employee and I'm not speaking on behalf of Facebook, anything you tell me is going to be placed in the public domain, you waive all rights to ownership over any IP that Facebook ends up implementing, etc.

</shameless>

Even better: An electromagnetically shielded, gold plated optical audio cable. Sold at Sears [1].

I stopped buying cables retail a long time ago. My favorite supplier: RiteAV. They're (IMHO) the Amazon of cables. Huge selection, modest prices [2], and great customer service [3].

1. http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_05750807000P?vName=...

2. HDMI cables start at $3.50 - http://www.riteav.com/hdmi-cables-c-141_147.html?osCsid=cjmg...

3. I've never seen another retailer with as high a satisfaction rating: http://www.resellerratings.com/store/RiteAV

I'm very interested in your experience moving to an RV (and what life has been like since the move). Do you have any links to articles you've written about it?

Why?

I don't mean to be snarky. I don't actually understand why this is a "mind blowing" release (other than the fact that it was released by Apple).

No. The fact that the Moon is in orbit around the Earth means that the pen is in perpetual free-fall. As long as the Moon is in a stable orbit, the distance to the Earth doesn't matter.

Even if, at 200,000 miles, the Earth's gravity was stronger than that of the Moon's, the pen would still fall to the Moon.

Think about it.

Link to the source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/24/dell-looking-outside-of-c...

It's interesting that many of the respondents were so concerned about the Earth's gravity. It's inconsequential given that the moon is in orbit around the Earth (and therefore so is the pen).

I wasn't "blabbing" about something I got away with. I reached out to Jason because I mistakenly thought that he might be willing to help a guy in a tight spot. I've never been in a situation like this before. That was obviously a mistake.

Also, I've been careful to only reveal information about my friend that was already public. See Daniel's mixergy interview: http://mixergy.com/daniel-brusilovsky/

It's already known that Daniel received an iMac and who he received it from.

I realize this contradicts the details Daniel's story.

I'm trying to respect Daniel's wishes by not releasing transcipts of our conversations.

However if Daniel feels that I wasn't fair or accurate then i'll release transcripts. I'll leave it up to him.

I actually tried this a few months back. No longer works...at least not if you purchase the maximum order ($5,000).

> Sure, I wish it supported higher resolutions, but the medium-res images are good enough for 95% of people.

Where did you get 95%? I've heard this before yet I don't know of anyone (besides us) who's actually taken the time to ask users if med-res is good enough.

When founding Divvyshot I used Amazon mechanical turk to conduct a quick market survey (with hundreds of respondents). A few highlights:

77% of respondents knew what hi-resolution photos were and preferred them.

43% had manually increased the resolution setting on their camera.

77% had been promised photos from a social event within the last few months and had never received them.

Unfortunately there aren't very many names available to startups these days. You can thank domain squatters for that. Once we can afford to buy something nicer we'll probably get rid of Divvy.

In the meantime we just have to take heart that the population of the liverpool metro area (850k) is 0.01% of the world's population.

We have an announcement to make about that in about 2-3 months. Stay tuned ;)