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Would you:

go into hiding at a friend's place and lay low? ... for a month, and then

go extremely public and take on a startup? ... after a month.

Yeah, I think I might just do that.
From what I can understand, that's actually a difference between Commonwealth and American English.

I'm Australian and always spell out acronyms when speaking them - saying something like 'sequel' or 'scuzzy' just sounds weird to me.
PG has come out in explicit defense on AirBnB's behalf when they are very clearly falling short in the ethical and "right thing to do" department

Well, he is invested in them, and he is only human.

While I am not saying that is why he is backing AirBnB, it's good not to forget where people are coming from and where their interests lie.
I'd definitely buy a couple, just to use them for streaming video around the house. Plug one into the screen, use a WiFi dongle or the 10/100 port and with a bit of code you have a streaming video receiver.
Since I recall you being a Common Lisp enthousiast: do you see, for example, ECL ever becoming a viable alternative for making Android apps?

I've been exploring iOS using Objective-C and I'm about half-way done with my first real app for the Appstore and I can't wait to try and rewrite it using ECL once it is done.

Otherwise it will probably be Unity for me since my main interest is games and game-like apps. I really don't have the time to become and expert in each and every differing mobile platform.
> Trying to “buy my silence” would raise my hackles

Same here; if I were in such a predicament I don't think there's any amount that would justify signing a NDA.

I'm wondering if this is what happened? As the story stands, one side is clearly not telling the truth, or withholding a part of it.

What could have happened could have been, Airbnb offered compensation + NDA, victim said she wouldn't sign it. Back and forth a few times, and in the end she went ahead with her blog post. Seeing this, Airbnb stopped all communications.

If this is actually what happened, they should have offered compensation anyway, no strings attached.

It'll be very interesting to know the real details; I don't understand how they could let this blow out of proportion like this.
Mono on Android sounds tempting. But how much overhead does the core runtime on the platform add? What is the impact in KB's and runtime performance?
This level of economic ignorance is mindboggling. Read some Mises, or even just any mainstream Econ101 textbook.
How then are they able to track the same user using a different browser?

Flash cookies. Presumably Silverlight has an equivalent.

(And I even heard once that Windows Media Player shares cookies with IE regardless of the browser that it is embedded in.)
Just a point that needs clarification: how is any of this comment relevant to the points raised in the OP? That is, how does this help against the fact that Android has:

* A much more complex set of (good!) abstractions that are poorly documented;

* and, if I might add alongside the OP, requires a much higher workload in terms of code length and complexity, debugging, device configuration management and tools for what seems to be a much lower payoff?

I have a successful iOS app out, and I tried to rearchitect it in a manageable way to port it on Android. What I found out is:

* The code would be roughly twice as much as the iOS version.

* A proper UI effort would require roughly 2.5x work than the iOS version, as I need to prep up a flexible layout that will work on phones (the buckets 'small' to 'large'), and then another for tablets (actually up to two: 'xlarge' and Honeycomb, which may require some rethinking to accommodate the new action bar). Contrast this to two, fixed-size layouts for the iOS version.

* I already have a path for implementing backgrounding on iOS and it requires minimal change to account for services not available while backgrounded; otherwise, code is exactly the same. On Android, I would have to plan for it from the beginning and set up very poorly documented IBinder stuff to have my Activities talk to a background Service.

* The general unwillingness of Android users in the face of paid apps, and a use model that does not lend itself easily to the insertion of ads, would make my (more costly) effort go unpaid.

I must admit I have never used resources other than developer.android.com and Google, and the latter didn't help me as much as (as little as) developer.android.com did. There might be an excellent book on all of this, but I haven't bought any — any recommendations are welcome.
Your very welcome. Like Smalltalk, its a beautifully designed language.

Some quick examples:

10 repeat("Hello world" println)

(y < 10) ifTrue(x := y) ifFalse(x := 2)

if (y < 10, x := y, x := 2)

More example Io code can be found here: http://iolanguage.com/about/samplecode/
> Airbnb's real problem here is EJ, not Arrington.

No, Airbnb's real problem here is their own behaviour. (Unless EJ is simply lying outright about what they've done and what they've not done.)
Journalists get in fights. They drink and make up afterwards.

I think MA's been treated worse by others. If he's worth his stripes, he'll report on other YC ventures as they deserve to be reported on.

Human nature may creep in, and if YC ventures continue to act in the manner of AirBnB (as reported), I can see a justified negative slant.

Now, if PG wants to sue MA and see what sort of press that generates ....
Cache clearing doesn't affect Flash cookies [LSO's]

This is coming soon to a Chrome near you: http://blog.chromium.org/2011/04/providing-transparency-and-...

Presumably other browsers will follow.
I genuinely don't know the truth, but this reminds me of something Sivers 'wrote http://sivers.org/the-mob ( if I was Brian Chesky then I would ask for his advice. That man has a way with people. )
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I would too. The person had been playing psychological games with her via email. This is not some teenager stealing a TV, this is a psychopath that plays long games with the victim the way a cat plays with a mouse before mauling and eating it. We are not talking some routine crime, there is a very sick component here that goes way beyond normal robberies. I carry (a gun in case it's not clear) in public and know how to fight, and I would feel extremely uncomfortable in my apartment until the perps were caught and in prison, not out on bail after something as twisted as what happened. ... Oh and yeah, I would also publicly trash the company (the two things are definitely not mutually exclusive) in order to warn other innocent people so they don't have to experience the terror and abuse that I went through. Unless the company fixed things. But obviously not knowing the identity of the person that was renting means they were a major contributor to the problem so I would definitely complain loudly, from wherever I was hiding out from the psycho killer.
I really look forward to reading a Paul Graham essay about his experience here, once the dust has settled. I know he has written about PR before, but this is probably essay-worthy in of itself (perhaps something like "in the eye of a shitstorm" or similar).

I'd like to know his philosophies and how he came to his decisions to do what when, his thought processes etc.
I think you're spot-on regarding bandwagons. With each new story there have been armchair critics speaking outside their areas of expertise. Not to diminish the value of well-deserved outrage, but it's a potent weapon.
Why, other than for fairness? I have far more confidence that Apple will spend the money in a way that benefits me than that the government will. They certainly have so far.
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Not brilliant, but not rubbish. Pretty standard phrase, at least here in the UK.
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My interest in AI is purely practical. The fist reason (very generic) is that I am (nearly) a lone contributor on a project that grew large. I have been using every trick in the book to make my code more abstract and manageable by one person. The next step in code reduction requires declarative programming (aka Prolog, though doesn't have to be) which requires deductive reasoning, which is a major topic of AI.

The second reason (more specific) is that I need to use an ontology (stored as a database) which is basically another topic of AI.
It's 2011, and iOS developers are somehow persuaded to accept a crude imitation of Smalltalk and waste time on "do I need to box this int in a NSNumber?" and "did I get a SIGSEGV because I called [super dealloc] before [field release]?", when the first Smalltalk implementation handled this minutiae automatically on less powerful hardware nearly forty years ago.
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that would be nice.

they are afraid of it to become systematic, that's why they are trying to keep it secret that they are helping her materially etc, but it really doesn't need to:

such a thing happened for the first time, the next times anybody suffered would have to blame only themselves, because they knew the EJ story but handled their keys to stranger without the extensive check.
The pronunciation of 'Linus' is pretty much the same in Swedish and Finnish, though.
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So how would they help this person? Reimburse her? AirBnb is technically not liable for those damages right? So how much do they give her? If it's too little it might be insulting. Too much and people would still complain about irreparable emotional damage.

They said they're trying to help catch the perpetrator right? In my eyes that's all they really can do and the only thing that matters. The damages are primarily the girl's responsibility but the criminal is partially Airbnb's fault.
I agree entirely, and I think you have made an important point.

The person who did this is mentally unbalanced, and needs help.
Well, topiary was supposedly the one who wrote that distinctive prose, so if it's different now that would be a clue as to whether the feds have actually got him or not.

IMO this is definitely not written in the same voice as previous statements. I am confident that experts would confirm this, it seems obvious. There is a cursory nod to maintaining the same style, but the voice just isn't there.

Now of course that's what we would expect if we believe topiary was arrested. However, the other possibility is apparently that he was not arrested and is in fact a swede pretending to be from the UK. In that case, the original voice was a very good imitation to start off with, so it would be trivial for him to drop it and sound more generic.
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Compare Arrington's original writeup:

I spoke to Airbnb about EJ’s situation. They won’t reimburse her for damages, they say, and they do not insure against losses. They are helping police track down the person who did this, but their help ends there.

...with how Arrington now casts the spokesman's statement...

Airbnb’s Christopher Lukezic told me on Wednesday that the company was not responsible for EJ’s losses, that they are just a service to match people and that they were helping the police find the people who did this.

There's a subtle but very important difference: 'not responsible' is not the same as 'their help ends there'.

Did Arrington choose to punish the 'no comment' by using words carefully chosen to make AirBnb look worse? His latest post does not disprove that hypothesis!

And when Arrington says, "What he said is what I wrote [above], and what was in the original post", well that's not true. The original post had a stronger implication AirBnb wasn't helping. Which is exactly what PG was objecting to.
And this is the industry lobby's take on that article: http://www.climatedepot.com/a/12115/Paging-Warmist-Polar-Bea...

How very eloquent and fact-oriented...
Yeah, my last PC around 2004 came with Norton. Though I consider myself pretty computer savvy (C programmer) I couldn't remove that thing without reinstalling windows.

Maybe it's different now?
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Is there any webservice for searching w.r.t. store hours?
For example, if I need ice-cream at midnight, only those stores around me should be listed which are open at this time! How difficult will be to build it?
Unlike voice, video calls is a real minefield. Think about how long voice calls have been around. Most of the patents for voice calls are on the compression algorithms. Most of the video call patents are for the act of making the video call.

And they could open source it and leave it to the community to handle licensing but you'll eventually end up with fragmentation as some clients implement features that others won't.
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Regardless of how much fun lamenting the assumed technical incompetence of enterprise software development can be, I strongly doubt that this has ever happened. Oracle is very expensive, and SQLite is very limited outside its clearly delineated use cases.

Oracle versus PostgreSQL or possibly MySQL -- maybe. But don't think Oracle sells snake juice; their reporting tools, for instance, are top-notch and way beyond what the open source world can provide.
I disagree. Assholes can potentially do a lot more damage than someone who's merely worthless.
Well, it seems I'm getting massively downvoted for calling out the inappropriateness of a title. How the hell is this my fault?
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I'm baffled as to why radio communication is excluded. What could be the reason?
Believe me, I wasn't trying to have fun at someone's expense. I think factors other than incompetence can account for this, like just simple ignorance.

I was more speaking to how easy it is to underestimate SQLite's flexibility and power and not realize how wide its use case actually is.

Of course for many use cases Oracle's tools are the best choice, but SQLite can handle quite a serious dataset in some use cases. A million records sounds like a lot. I can easily imagine crews used to working with Oracle using it for project far below its ideal capacity when they can buy licenses on a big corporate account.
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FF5 and IE9 function similar. Non-private and private sessions will not cooperate on the same cache, cookies, ETags, etc. Closing a private session will destroy all local cache, cookies, ETags, etc and is not reinstated when starting future private sessions.
And how well integrated into Android 'proper' is it? For example - intents and fragments?
I would love to see some scripting language in Android AND iOS which is Officially supported. Something like Python,Ruby or JavaScript which will make app development much easier.

Hey Google,
Give us a nice scripting langauge. Pretty Please?
> Airbnb has been offering to fix it, from the very beginning. From the beginning they offered to pay to get her a new place and new stuff, and do whatever else she wanted.

Paul, could you clarify how you know this? Were you told this or have you confirmed this with the victim or some other way?
Maybe its a design problem. Just now the first thing you see is the upvote link. People could be upvoting on the basis of the title (i dont, i always read the story then forget to go back and upvote if i like it). What if you put the upvote link for the story in the bottom right corner of the comments page. Then it's presented as something you act on after you've read the story/comments, which is how it should be acted on.
Oh, thank you. I was wondering about the email thing myself. I generally prefer to have complex discussions over email, because I find the medium much more concise and with the added benefit of a written account of what was/was not agreed upon.

Face-to-face meetings are good for brain storming and being creative, but for decision making, I prefer email.
Then again you won't find such names in iOS SDK
https://plus.google.com/101253020771610439991/posts/YKKyGFdq...

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"There's no reason [AirBnB] couldn't be as big as Ebay." Paul Graham in published email to Fred Wilson. http://paulgraham.com/airbnb.html

PG is a thinking man, and an effective one at that. Reading (not that deeply) between the lines, clearly every sensible person initially "has doubts" about the concept, but then apparently meeting the team is supposed to address those doubts.

Sounds like the AirBnB team are excellent as bs'ing people.

And dear PG:

Cheering for AirBnB to become as big as eBay circa 2009's business plan seems to indicate that even the adults here were not giving any weight to the safety and security issues inherent in an eBay scale operation. I would very much appreciate hearing your thoughts about this topic (if any) that informed your decision.
And there is nothing from stopping other companies from using the same techniques to sell individual browsing data.
Sorry but what a bunch of crap... Privacy people are so annoying... If your concerned about this kind of tracking stop using online porn - otherwise As you were
The best way to read this article is to start at the end and read backwards. I didn't at first recognize the recently and Orwellianly rebranded name (in the wake of disastrous publicity) of the federal government's agency that's supposed to be in charge of regulating companies involved in offshore drilling, but this is the same agency whose personnel has recently been implicated in not just being figuratively in bed with, but literally having sex with, people from the offshore drilling companies they're supposed to be regulating (and snorting cocaine with them too). You just can't make this stuff up.

And so extreme is the apparent regulatory capture that a scientist who works for the agency and reports seeing dead polar bears gets interrogated and then suspended by his employer.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11royalty.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...
I didn't look into any "alternative" ways of doing things. I tried to port ABCL to Android, but for my current needs, the standard-way is good enough, at least then I can hire help and focus on what matters, instead of doing everything myself.

Our Android apps are all on the galaxy tablet, we plan to roll out a deployment of 50 devices by year's end.
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You might want to remove all caching. Though deleting cache on exit will disrupt tracking if you exit often.

The etag mechanism will return each user a different etag for a piece of content, so the browser will send an etag changed request with that etag in. This will be stored with the browser cache.
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I the comments section of the FAQ, one of the team says:

"We haven’t made a decision on open hardware yet. We have SPI, I2C, UART and a fair bit of GPIO at 3.3V if you want to do interfacing."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=8#comment-89

So it sounds like it has as much I/O as you're going to need for embedded funtimes.
I stopped caring about the environment, when I saw that being an environmentalist meant stopping any and all human development.

When environmentalists get together and start building power plants and oil wells, then I'll know they're serious about saving the environment.
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I'm a Brit and have never heard "middle-end" used like that. "Middling", yes. "Middle-end", no.

And to answer the grand-parent:

building infrastructure that will help other parts of the project -- part of why I call myself a ‘middle-end programmer’.

It seems that the author is using "middle-end" in a manner analagous to the more common "front-end" and "back-end".

Exactly what this involves is not entirely clear, but building frameworks, perhaps.
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You missed the joke. He's spending 17 points to say that you should be concise. That's ironic.
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I didn't even mention Android. I just gave an example of what's possible on one type of mobile device.
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It's not a matter of hoping Twitter are feeling kind because they haven't taken any technical measures -- at least not yet -- to stop new third-party clients being developed. They own and control what I assume to be the most popular clients on every major platform (iOS, Android WinPhone, Mac, and, now that they own Tweetdeck, Windows). The whole point of the "don't make any new clients" announcement was to communicate their desire to control the user experience (i.e. the clients) for the majority of Twitter users, so I'd be surprised if they felt the need to discourage third-party developers further.
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"(the rentees are not as big an issue to identify since their names are on the deeds)"

Keep in mind the other story doing the rounds here about the guy in Germany who go stuck with fraudulent rentees charging him money to stay in a house they didn't own, and having to deal with the house owner showing up and asking what he was ding there...