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I would think the same.

There's obviously a market for people who don't mind sleeping with strangers but I'm definitely not in it. I'm way too paranoid that I would get robbed.

The credit card cloning example from the original article would probably be my biggest fear. I'd be checking my credit card purchases multiple times a day for weeks I'm sure. While actually there I'm sure I would put my wallet, phone and anything else that's valuable in a bag and sleep on top of it. It wouldn't be a very relaxing night's sleep just before an interview.

On the other hand, hostels tend to be cheaper than AirBnB and I have no problems sleeping there.
There's a difference between being cheap and being frugal. Learn to recognize the difference. Frugality is a good sign, cheapness isn't.

Frugality: "If at all possible, I'd prefer if you used airbnb. If you don't want to, that's cool."

Cheapness: "We won't spend more than $50 a night in San Francisco."
I can only speak for myself, not others. But I know I've posted things here that if you read them too quickly might look like "Screw them, they should have gotten marketable skills." But that's not how I feel, and careful reading of at least what I have posted would reveal that I am angry at the number of people who told children to just follow their dreams and everything will be fine, and angry at the society that happily slapped them in debt to do it.

Yeah, I dodged that bullet (so far). But I'm surrounded by people who didn't.

And I've started raking people over the coals online who continue to propagate the "just follow your bliss" meme. I suggest everyone join me. This is one meme that needs to die.

(My counter-argument is that most people like more than one thing, there's more than one thing they can do for a living without wanting to die. Are none of them an actually useful skill? All the engineering fields, all the science fields, all the medical fields, all the trades, and you have to pick French Literature of the 1600s? Or in this story, political science? WTF do you do with a degree in political science and no pre-existing "connections"? And you know, look at that list I made, expand it out, you'll see that I'm not calling for everyone to be supergeniuses. Physicians assistant, decent plumber, a variety of technicians, we need them all and you don't have to be 130IQ to get there, just willing to work. (And not actively stupid, but honestly, that's not the problem most people have.))
Agreed that shared secrets are not really that secret.

"it would have been very easy to address by just using Diffie Hellman when determining the session key"

Since WPA is implemented in hardware you must add gates to support Diffie Helman. This adds cost, resulting in a cost/security trade off.
Great comment, I'll be thinking about whether it should be "whom" or "which" for days now.
What distinguishes it? My best experience by far has been at The Yas in Abu Dhabi. Fascinating architecture and very pleasing service.
I didn't read it as an article blaming all of California's problems on unions. I read it as an article illustrating one of California's woes. Is every article biased unless it explicitly pays lip service to your biases?
Most "stuff" like : clothing, food, appliances, cars (i.e. most "stuff") got cheaper, but healthcare and housing went through the roof and more than offset the things that got cheaper.

The unfortunate thing is that healthcare and shelter are necessities ("needs") and not nice-to-have things ("wants").

Even more unfortunate is that health care in US is usually tied to the place of employment. Losing one's job could mean loosing health care and losing the place to live. When before it could have been not being able to afford good food, clothes, TVs, a car.

Consequently the 2 largest reasons for bankruptcies are : health care bills and mortgage payments, usually as a result of losing a job. (Of course, jobs are often "lost suddenly" no long after a "cancer" diagnosis).

An employer can excert quite a bit of control over an employee if they know the employee has a mortgage to pay, and all of his familiy is on that employer's insurance. An employee couldn't be "squeezed" as much if they didn't have a large mortgage and could walk out and his family could retain the insurance. This has been postulated is also the reason why per employee productivity has been going up since the 70s -- people simply have been putting in more hours and doing more work because they are afraid of losing their jobs.

(I don't have any data to back this up at the moment, downvote if you like).
Totally agree with you - different countries / places have different norms on what is considered socially acceptable. So visitors can often have different expectations on what is considered late hours, what is being loud and how okay it is to dispose off trash in public places. Even ruling out bad behavior on part of the guests, they could be making a scene without knowing about it.
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I don't remember any particular public comment from AirBnB. Speaking generally, I think any business would react negatively to having a powerful competitor convince the government to rule a segment of their business illegal. After all, all it takes is a quick amendment to the law later to eliminate "the loophole being abused by vagrants, drunks, and foreigners" and suddenly you're guilty of Felony Interference With Business Model.

One's marketing and PR posture does not necessarily mirror the totality of one's business. If I was planting an article in the New York Times, it would focus on a poor Hispanic girl learning at a NYC school which has a number who loves school now rather than on a middle class white boy learning at a suburban Illinois school which has a name who got a candied apple at the Halloween party last year. Two true stories, but the one which pays the rent is not the one that gives NYT reporters weak knees.
Agreed. Thanks to everyone responding to the question! The insight is invaluable.
You're just as likely to have unsafe wiring in your leased apartment as w/an AirBnB situation. Same goes for most of the stuff he said.

The article doesn't make any sense to me.
it makes me question why exactly AirBnB was so up in arms about this

Well, one obvious problem is that losing a big subset of your business is always bad.

But another problem, which I just found, is that these fine points of the law, if they exist, are nowhere to be seen on the web. All the immediately obvious Google hits paraphrase the law as "AirBnB and Craigslist short-term rentals now illegal in NYC". So that's a first-order marketing problem.

It also adds fuel to the FUD fire, as we are seeing right here in the linked article. Suddenly every AirBnB host is being accused of running a flea-infested, credit-card-scamming, fire-hazard rat trap. That's a second-order marketing problem, but it could prove even worse than the first-order one: The law only applies in NYC, but FUD can spread everywhere.

Finally, there are the legal problems. This law gives the cops, and whoever tips off the cops, a lever with which to hassle AirBnB guests and hosts alike. Just because you're ultimately going to be found innocent doesn't mean that being hassled by the cops is a barrel of fun. If it happens to any extent it's bound to hurt the reputation of services like AirBnB, especially among foreign travelers, who are probably damn scared of American police as it is.

And, of course, to prevent a raft of lawsuits AirBnB must now carefully educate its NYC hosts about the law, and pay a lawyer to draft an airtight agreement for the hosts to sign to indicate that they understand the law, and defend any lawsuits that spring up when people get busted in NYC and blame AirBnB anyway despite all those precautions...
"Finally, we’ll assume single-core servers"... isn't that rather like working out mathematically that the best gait for horses is hopping, provided you assume a one legged horse?
Not at all. I wanted to see how people work and what speeds they do it given their approach to the combination of thinking+coding time.
C) it depends. each is the smarter choice in different situations.
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I, on the other hand, would have a higher impression of the company, as I think that promoting and supporting business models that more directly enable individuals to make a living without a lot of middlemen is important right now.
Totally fail at math today - I meant 0.5 hours, every other day which is 1.5 or 2 hours a week depending on which week.
I think the chances of people doing an apartment 'swap' for their out of town/country vacation is pretty slim.

2 people going in the exact opposite direction and wanting to living in the other person's home. Seems slim chance to me unless those people knew each other in advance.

add - bluesmoon, learn something everyday. Though I think not all everybody wants to open their own apt for swap and instead would rather rent someone's for a week or 2.
What potential hire would want to risk offending them by turning down their preference, though? You're introducing pressure and sending a signal.

Frugality is better applied to ink cartridges than employee comforts, IMO.
Go do the company. The older you get and the more assets and commitments you have the harder it is to take a big risk.
"A standard technology" is not the same as "a standard". Flash is not a (public) standard, however standard it may be.
You're scared of getting robbed by a middle-class condo owner, but you'll happily share a hostel room with 6 traveling youths?
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First, the analysis relies on every step from request to response being evented, which in turn relies on the existence of event-based libraries for everything you want to do.

This is one of the main reasons I like node.js, EVERYTHING is evented, if it isn't it's probably a bug, or at least carefully explained why it can't be (and usually there's an async alternative).
Of course not, that's different from running an unlicensed hotel. I'm saying we wound up with a law that could apply to both because some people were running unlicensed hotels and other people with money and lobbyists stood to lose money. Either by itself might not have been big enough for a law change, both together are.

I thought it would be instructive for people who talk about "government" as if just putting the word big in front of it solves the issue, and the solution is cut taxes for rich people. None of that has anything to do with this. This is a concrete policy change in a specific area.
That generation was creative, organized, pushed society against a wall and threatened the status-quo. This one just stares at facebook wall and does nothing more than update their status.

And I doubt the hippies actually run the DEA; more like the conservative kids, and the successor Reagan generation that had to be mobilized by mega-churches and shipped on buses from the suburbs, at the expense of the business establishment and old money.
It's always been my secret dream to develop an adventure game with old-school art like this (my day job is an iOS developer). I am willing to put up all the development resources and a good portion of the game design, but the trick is finding a bored artist.

I suspect there's a market for a lovingly created adventure game, although not a really big one.
Seth Jones has talked about the heat seeking missiles going back to early 2008. The only reason I happen to know this is because he was on NPR a few months ago talking about it along with the Pakistan connection. Certainly didn't see much coverage of this in the mainstream media until now. Wikileaks does a good job getting people's attention at least. Too bad they weren't around in late 2002 / early 2003.
Almost all apartment leases have stipulations about excessive guests and required behavior. I don't see in your comment justification on why this required YET ANOTHER LAW and not just common sense and enforced contracts.
Keep in mind that this was a pretty bad recording; it sounds like a (badly) synthesized acoustic guitar. Professional, live recordings of Bach's Musical Offering include the Crab Canon and sound much better.
Is this guy for real? I understand the need for minimum safety standards but the ban against AirBnB and their ilk goes a bit far.
OK... "some dreadful, some absolute flea-pit shit holes by the side of highways in Dallas" - so "flea-pit shit holes" are safer than an apartment complex that has 100 other people living there daily? Oh, and his parents own hotels. It's pretty ironic for him to complain about a service which complained about legislation that is hurting their business (which involves them lessening the hotel industries profitability, phew)...
I asked for 2-3k more and was denied, so I asked for another week of vaca and got it. Now I'm the only developer with less than 5 years seniority with 3 weeks a year.
I'd love for the company to be frugal with everything that isn't related to my salary.

My salary? No, I don't want the feeling that they're going to knock me down to as low as I'll accept, I've worked hard to develop my skills and I deserve a paycheck. The OP's company could spend an extra 100 bucks per interview and have way higher odds of a good impression from the interviewee. It's like tipping really well when you order your first drink and getting good service for the rest of the night, first impressions matter.
Most hostels have dorm and private room options. I just get the private room. It's more expensive than the dorm but way less expensive than a hotel. I've never slept in a hostel that only offered dorm rooms.

I'm just as paranoid about the dorm option.
I think it depends on what you are doing. If the app has a single logical thread of execution, then sequential code is easier to understand than a series of callbacks. If the app executes steps in parallel with forks and joins, then a state machine implemented with callbacks can be easier to understand.

The typical web app falls in to the former category: validate input, read from cache, maybe read from database, maybe write to database, generate response.
Even by the standards of Techcrunch, this is a particularly egregious exercise in begging the question.
So, do you think the board of health should no longer inspect restaurants?
It's a famous Mozart duet for violins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpktS4rNZC8
Horses' hooves will stomp you dead just as quick if you ignore the sound. The point is: get out of it for a while, since stress is the most probable culprit. If that doesn't do the trick, then look deeper. Don't minimize real symptoms if they persist; they could indicate something really serious. And don't take idiotic advice[1] from random people on the web -- it's far better to spend an unnecessary half-hour with your head stuck in an MRI scanner and feel a bit foolish later than to wait until a real problem becomes irreversible.

[1] "Don't worry, it'll be okay" coming from someone who's never had personal contact with you counts as idiotic advice. If you don't know the before-and-after, if you haven't had a chance to notice other behavioural changes, then even considering an attempt at diagnosis is irresponsible.
Hah! I was just about to make the same comment! (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html, for those of you unaware of the reference)
How would you test that? How many people would have to die in fires or slums before we consider the hypothesis "proven"?
I agree, but it's easier said than done. Living closer in a house in a non-ghetto neighborhood is going to cost me at least $600-700K or more and will probably lose value in the next few years due to deflation. Renting the same would cost me $3-4k/month. I'd rather live farther away and save the money.
Hostelworld says privates in New York start at $15.

http://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/New-York
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All Monads are, in theory if not in practice, Functors (there happens to be an instance of Functor defined for Maybe). fmap is not a functor but an arrow, in this case a function, that lifts f into the context of the Functor.
I thought the finding that the insurgents are using US provided stinger missiles against US aircraft was fairly damning... it shows that past US intervention has unforeseen consequences.

Also, it's pretty significant (to a lot of people) to observe that all this continued under Obama... that there has been no improvement in the way the war effort is being waged.
... it's far better to spend an unnecessary half-hour with your head stuck in an MRI scanner and feel a bit foolish later than to wait until a real problem becomes irreversible.

Is it? Do you have any idea what MRI sessions cost? Money for risk mitigation is limited, just as it's limited for everything else.
If motorcycles were invented today there's no way they'd be permitted on public roads.
You can move to California where non-competes (at least for employees at your level) are unenforceable. Unless, of course, there's some way for Ohio law to reach out to another state, which I think would pretty much require taking it to a Federal court (difficult at best). If you choose this route consult a lawyer.

(I strongly suspect Silicon Valley's long term success has more than a little to do with this century or so old policy.)
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Has anyone on HN donated to Wikileaks? I have to admit I'm afraid to do so.
If the typical successful response takes 10msec, don't send response for at least 15msec. So whether the authentication challenge succeeds or fails, the response always comes at 15msec or later.
The original encrypted version of the video that WikiLeaks claimed they needed super computer time to decrypt would be a start towards the transparency they claim to value.
A motorcycle's risk is almost entirely concentrated on the occupant(s), not its neighbors. That isn't a good comparison with transients imposing on resident neighbors.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/misc/driving/driving.htm

I tried to find a non-druglibrary.org link to this study, but wasn't able to find freely available .gov links for it.

http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB94173630

I don't advocate driving while stoned.
That part had me puzzled - does 'owner' include renters?

This does seem to alleviate any legitamate concerns about the bill, as long as renters count as owners (ie, if I have a free room in my apartment, I can put it on AirBnB)

If its only _owners_, though, its quite draconian, as most NYC building owners don't live in their buildings.
Doesn't an Intrusion Detection System stop such attacks? Assuming there is one.
OK right now I have a little trouble taking your position seriously because you have seriously misinterpreted the Constitution. The full quote that you were looking for would be: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

What that doesn't mean is freedom to gather with a bunch of friends where and whenever you want. What it does mean is the legal right to stage peaceful protests or gather in public (with reasonable restrictions).

If needed I can run over to the library and grab you a list of cases on that, but I think you'll have trouble finding any for "couchsurfing."
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ad absurdum, meet slippery slope.

I don't think this is a totally absurdly black and white case, it's no oppressive regime rearing its ugly head. Both sides have ulterior motives (AirBnB and the established hotels), but their arguments aren't totally without merit. And one thing that people keep forgetting, is that this law isn't breaking new grounds, both renting and hotels are pretty heavily regulated, mostly for a good reason. Yes, for the hard-core magical hand of the market libertarians this is another nail in the coffin, but I bet that a lot of people that get too angry in this discussion don't have problems with laws against arbitrary landlord decisions or hotel health and emergency codes.

Let's keep this reasonable…
Ask HN: How do I retain ownership over an app I developed while employed?
As part of my employee contract, they own all inventions developed while I'm employed. I would like to present the boss with a document to be signed to make sure I keep all ownership. How should I go about doing this?
Agreed. I loved the Amiga. Owned 3 of them. But due to it's unique video architecture, the Amiga was in trouble once VGA displays became mainstream on PCs. Only the high-end Amiga 3000 was capable of a non-flickering 640x480 display as standard and you were still limited to 12 bit colour. There was no networking, only 8 bit sound and the vast majority of machines sold had no hard disk. What had been a groundbreaking platform in 1985 was looking decidedly long in the tooth by 1990. The day I saw Wolfenstein 3D on a friend's 286, I knew it was all over for the Amiga as a gaming platform too. That was the "last nail" I recall.
The hosts on Airbnb don't get your credit card info...Same as, you know shopping on Ebay.

I just moved across country. I stayed at 3 different places of Airbnb over the course of 2 weeks while I looked for a place with roommates off Craigslist. Each host was great and I never felt anything but safe. The only reason I stayed at multiple is because they had other bookings coming in so I couldn't extend.
It actually happens fairly often on couchsurfing. Couple A from New York wants to spend July in San Francisco and swaps with Couple B from San Francisco who wants to spend July in New York. I've seen it happen with entire families too.

Less likely to work internationally, but domestically, it happens. It's the key exchange that's the hard part, but the safest is to leave the key with a neighbour and then call them from the other side to give them the okay.
It's funny that no one picked up on the fact that ROBIN SAGE is the code-name for an Army Special Forces qualification exercise.

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