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I agree that the application of the word "homophobe" does not fit with its etymology. Are these people actually afraid of homosexuals, like a person with aracnophobia is afraid of spiders, or do they just disagree with some social positions, like the appropriate context and meaning of state endorsement and support for a relationship? It seems that anyone who doesn't take the envelope the gay rights people are pushing is suddenly an illogical homophobe, afraid that buttsex is going to bite and poison them.

Even an argument that homosexuality altogether is immoral and should not be socially acceptable behavior is not the same thing as being afraid of persons that perform homosexual acts; it's merely ostracizing the behavior, as one may ostracize a person for meth use, though it'd be silly to call one that supports meth prohibition a dopephobe just because he doesn't think meth use should become a social norm.

You can dislike a behavior without fearing it, and you can have rational reasons for that dislike. The term "homophobe" is applied to try and stop people from criticizing the gay rights agenda by labeling them as irrational bigots if any protest is raised.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586460
Brilliant. This is an equally useful application of the block chain concept as the Bitcoin currency, and should be much less controversial.
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Rereading that article, I had forgotten about this part:

"because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I'm sorry. It seems like it should be. But it's not."
No, that's simply not true. Netscape's strategy was always to make money from its server products, I quote Jim Clark "I'm building printing presses, but first I've got to teach people to read" - that's why they gave away the browser, to build a market for servers.

What killed Netscape is that version 3 of their server was a dog, and everyone switched to Apache or Zeus. I was there.
Yep, exactly.

I used Wordpress, and I altered a classifieds plugin to make this work. Not exactly earth shattering, but for someone who has never done this before, I feel good about it.

This prob took me a couple weeks in nights and weekend time. I probably spent as much time researching, reading, and learning (whether relevant to the site or not) as building it.
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Too many unknowns to calculate a risk premium - a burned out clutch might cost me $1000 to replace. What about the time the car is out of action? I could pull out my spreadsheet and begin to work some figures using pivot table, but this is about saving money not practicing for an MBA.
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Hmm, I guess I'm saying, charge $100/hr if you like. It's up to the owner. And it's not about saving money for a car owner, it's about making money. It's only about saving to the borrower.

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Sure but the main competitor here in ZipCar (and its rivals) not rentals. If I want to rent by the hour I'm going to ZipCar, not Alamo.
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At this point, I disagree -- rental is way larger than zipcar. And I think the Getaround approach is more scalable, so that when conventional rental is dead, Getaround will have a large lead, and distribution, over Zipcar.

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I'm in SF, where their beta roll out is, and ZipCar is absolutely plastered across the city. I can't see how Getaround has greater distribution than a ~10 year incumbent. I'm not also not seeing as being cheaper, esp if you compare like-for-like models and factor in ZipCar includes fuel.
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That's where I rented, too. Not sure what to say here, we're both anecdotes, I guess.

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If I charge $7/hr
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Are you saying that because you're fixing on what Zipcar charges? Most of the world hasn't heard of Zipcar. They've heard of car rental.
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This text uses language I've seen a lot in discussion around Bitcoin:

>It allows you to ... be the only person to be able to modify it (no possible external control)

Using the cryptographic algorithms believed to be the best does not make bad things impossible, for three reasons:

1. Encryption is rarely the weakest point in security. How do the authors of Namecoin know that I won't manage my keys incompetently if I use their software?

2. We don't know what unknown flaws there are in our most trusted algorithms. The worst flaws in RSA were discovered a long time after the algorithm were made public; perhaps we will find worse flaws in AES quite soon.

3. Moore's law tells us that keys have a lifetime. The Bitcoin reaction to this and other protocol problems involves something based on network majority consent. This does not sound safe to me.

I know that anyone who uses such language as "no possible external control" is either ignorant or careless. Even careless bothers me.
I've been using Dina - it's designed as a programmers font.

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IIRC Orson Scott Card had his own area on AOL in the mid 90s, and possibly earlier. Not sure when he moved to the big-boy Internet but the name is the same, "Hatrack River".

It wasn't a 'blog' per se, more of a forum, I think ... I only dropped in once or twice and my recollection was that the discussion was (at the time) more about his religion than about his writing.

But if he'd just wanted to speak to fans he's certainly had an outlet to do so for a long time, and had it at the time the review was written. Presumably he chose to write the response in the form of an Amazon review consciously, and not for want of some other venue.
Everything Microsoft does is about the domination of Windows and Office. These are their big moneymakers and they don't want to give them up. Are you sure that a royalty of $50 for practically every single PC manufactured in copyright-observing nations is worth less than their enterprise software? What about everyone that goes out and spends $100+ on a copy of Office? Those are some big markets and I'm not sure their value is so diminutive.

Additionally, such a platform allows tight integration of things like .NET, attracting developers to Windows' platform and allowing MS to sell dev tools and servers. Would .NET be worth less if Microsoft's desktop share were diminished? Almost definitely, imo.

Please don't underestimate the value of desktop dominance.
So does this mean that to keep a domain I have to keep running the namecoin service thereby using up CPU time that could be better spent serving requests from users?
Really? Have you even looked at what Airbnb has to offer?

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/20478

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/62627

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/21031

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/55179

The list goes on and on. I'm willing to bet Kutcher would rather stay at a beautiful private mansion than a tourist-filled resort or hotel. Who else is going to spend $5000/night to stay at places like this other than the super rich?
I think the last thing you mentioned hits it on the head ( wildly deprecating the title "product guy"). Seems to me that were there an engineering discipline that included understanding customers, we'd have some awesome engineers. Right now the current engineer + mba model in education doesn't seem to quite fit that. Maybe product people just are inherently autodidacts.
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This reminds me of the Broadway show producer who let his 10-year old kid watch new productions to gauge whether he should stage them or not. The idea was that the average audience has the same level of intellect as a 10-year old kid, and when the kid liked something, the general audience would too.

Related, but not the same, is the monkey which throws darts at a poster on the wall to decide which stock to buy. Who needs financial analysts?
26 May - Scientists fail to predict earthquake, internet rallies to defend scientists.
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Just saying ;)
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At Bump we use Scala for our the service layer of the application that manages connectivity to our servers and deals with our "business logic". It's a great language when you are within it's rules, and a great way to do succinct state management.

But writing Scala in Android is chock full of gotchas as well. Just today I was dealing with the scala compiler not finding a public inner class in the Android framework, forcing me to rewrite that class in Java. I am fairly new to Scala myself but stuff like this does come up, and can eat up more time than expected.

We've promised a blog post with more details on the pains and triumphs of using Scala in Android. Also if you're going to be at the Scala Days conference next week at Stanford, we're going to be giving a talk about this subject.
Building something isn't the problem whether its a side project or a scalable startup. Having front end and back end capabilities is great but what you really need is marketing skills.

Build a badass product but suck at marketing, you probably won't get many users. Build a shit product but have badass marketing, you'll get a ton of users even if they don't stay users in the long run. You need a balance of both. Rather than focus on just the project, figure out ways to market stuff.
This stuff works great for us. We've put it up all over the walls in our London and Boston offices.

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Did anyone else get a "nerd giggle" out of the exchange: "graph database," "Cartesian graph?" I guess you can never be too sure, but I still found it funny.
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Some of the comments here on HN about this are quite amusing, especially since many of the people who poo-poo Ashton's involvement in tech have no issues with a normal VC investment in a company. How is Ashton any more annoying than the concept of some random dude thinking he knows whether or not your idea will fly, simply because he was entrusted with tens (if not hundreds, or even thousands!) of millions dollars' worth of capital from pensions, wealthy people, and others? He's just another guy with money, no different from any of the rest -- except he has massive visibility, and his public image means he is less likely to pull some of the inane shit I've seen many "respected" Valley investors pull on my friends (which, by the way, never gets called out, as they are the ones who are the "sources" leaking things to scoop-hungry newspapers and blogs).

I know the drama kids didn't sit with the computer club kids at the high school lunch table, but really... guys, stop being a bunch of haters.
I was surprised and impressed by pg sniffing out the last guy. I felt like there was something shady about how he was describing his company… like it was a 'platform' and too general and he had too many 'users' for what he was describing.

Then Paul jumped right to the "is this a penny auction site?" question and nailed it. I wonder if he hears from people running that angle a lot…

Also, I think from now on when someone describes how many users they have, my next question will be how many active users per day/week/month?
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(Scroll to end of interview).
Different field, but I was struck by some of the similarities between Wiles' daily and nightly obsession with Fermat, and Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven development.
Note that I'm not trying to imply that Rich Hickey is the new Wiles, although he's no doubt a truly brilliant individual.

Simply, I was pondering about how those two guys formalize their own way of thinking.

There is value in thinking about HOW to think and sometimes that means NOT actively thinking, but letting your brain find the connections on its own.

The daily obsession, the 'loading' of the brain, and eventually, after a long time, that, seemly serendipitous, epiphany.

Do some of you have that secret 'quiet time' to think about deep problems that you obsess over?
With the amount of followers Ashton have and the demographics of those followers a tweet alone could make it all worth it.

Airbnb is successful but still need much more traction. I think this will help them.
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I as a web developer really like this, users shouldn't be required to do all these chores of upgrading every simple app, especially web browsers, though to be reasonable they should get an opt out option, in case they want to do it manually.
http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586

this is the video I'm referring to.

I wish the Nova program on Wiles was available...
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I didn't see the contents of the comment you replied to before it was deleted. But anyway, I just wanted to note that there are plenty of hotel chains that rent out luxury villas in that quality and price range, although maybe not quite that size. As a random example I just checked out Banyan Tree's Koh Samui villas: http://www.banyantree.com/en/samui/villas/. The higher-end villas listed there would run over $3500 per night a few weeks from now, in June, which is nowhere near the Thai tourist season.
>... by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings.

Yeah, I have to: those poor underground buildings... they just don't hold a candle to infra-red images from space, do they?

Come on BBC, "show up"? We need a Ballmer-like "Editors! Editors! Editors!" chant right about now.
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Meh. Are these for show, or do people actually book them?

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/20478 (0 reviews, N/A response rate)
http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/62627 (0 reviews, N/A response rate)
http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/21031 (apparently the only customer has been AirBnb itself)
http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/55179 (0 reviews, N/A response rate)
I think this is only true with larger teams. On tasks that are't too large, 2 or 3 great "product smart" developers will beat a team of 6 or 7 with divided responsibilities.

It is also a function of how novel the product is. The ability of a team to think and work at multiple levels is invaluable when evolving along a new idea into a usable product. A product leader, would drive his developer team crazy if he changed his mind as often as is typically needed for a novel product.

Since start-ups begin with small teams and typically work on novel products, it makes sense that the HN crowd would be partial to the product smart generalist team approach.
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You could outsource that just like you can currently outsource DNS.
Edward Tufte does leave a deep impression. I stumbled upon his books in my university's library, about eight years ago, while studying design.

Some years later—while going through files on my old computer— I found a pair of schedules. I'd design these every semester so my friends knew where to find me, since I didn't have a cel phone.

Before Tufte (c1999):
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After Tufte (c2002):
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If I'd design it now, I'd take a different approach yet again. In the end, good design is neither a nice style or maximizing data-to-ink ratio, it's about making information understandable and pleasurable to use.
Makes me jealous as a techie in India, where our rich and famous show very little interest in startups. Congratulations and good luck to AirBnb.
I think its just a matter of time. Airbnb is working on establishing itself as a major player in the travel industry, and they're not quite at the luxury villa stage yet. I imagine it takes a lot to win over the demographic who can afford these places, but you gotta start somewhere, right?
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Paul Erdos product guy?

I think of Steve Jobs and PG as brilliant creatives who are great entrepreneurs.

When I think "product guy" I think "used to be mediocre programmer guy".
I'm calling it now: within a year there'll be a romantic comedy movie out called Airbnb (or equiv), starring Ashton, and involving, well, you can guess. Not only will it make for a great gimmick to hang that kind of movie around, but it would be massive "free" advertising for the company's service.

This and his Twitter following are the obvious, most likely wins for Airbnb.
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I think a good product person is a good artist. They think of product as art. And they're able to create good art (in some cases Picasso level art), without necessarily knowing how to paint (e.g. Steve Jobs).
Well, Jobs is not criticized for failing to break into enterprise software because he has had outrageously, unprecedentedly, massive success breaking into other markets. Failure is perfectly tolerable when you are good at something. Ballmer is an all around failure, and there are thousands of better candidates for his position.
Not really. It's bitcoin-like, so "the network" of miners would collaboratively re-enforce your control of your domains. You'd only need to use up CPU (/GPU) time to create new name coins for free - you could also purchase them from people who had mined them previously, and hadn't used them.
At the end, one single company will control the internet. I hope this is not something you want. Like twitter does control twitter and only opens up their data to gnip, etc...

This won't be accepted. And even legally, this is not possible due to copyright laws in different countries.
Prior to such an explosion, we'd have more interest in quantum-resistant public-key crypto: http://pqcrypto.org

One will likely end up being usable, and things will shift to it / others.
I guess it's good news if it means less movies starring him... Did you see Killers? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103153/ I did, and I'm sorry.

There was a great piece about Ashton and Demi by Fake Steeve Jobs; here it is: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/i-just-had-weirdest-meeting...

That said I'm sure he's a really nice guy and all; but why would startups need celebrities? Having actors endorse your products in ads is one thing; having them hang around in the office is another... Isn't that a little distracting?
Scientists make best prediction they can based on three hundred years of observation, experimentation, and careful, systematic application of the scientific method; politician makes idiotic statement based on fundamental misunderstanding of scientists' report; scientists end up in court for politician's idiocy; internet rallies, along with every other person with a brain. Harold Camping makes prediction based on no observation, no experimentation, no method, only madness; Camping is fractally wrong, refuses to admit that he made a mistake; internet attacks, along with every other person with an unimpaired brain.

I suspect you're trollan, but I figure there's no such thing as "too safe".
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In a very technical sense, yes. And miners can choose to not include your transaction in the block (ie, if you don't meet the fee requirement they chose). It's entirely possible for your transaction to be continually pending and never accepted.

In practice, it takes within about 10 minutes for the first confirmation to go through, and 10 more for each one after that. Most merchants will likely be interested in waiting for a few more blocks to be added before totally accepting, but that can be solved by middle-men that provide insurance against double-spending, allowing immediate transactions. And transactions move across the network quite quickly - I tend to see them appear well within a minute.
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