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Don't you think the CEO has to worry about the people he's paying? Who knows what their burn rate is; that funding could have been a life or death event, and in the event of death then a bunch more unemployed people would be hitting the streets.

Well, how bad is bad PR? Their service has this major flaw that your home can get royally trashed & there is no backup. If they let this stand AS-IS, all it's going to take is a couple news networks to pickup on the dangers of social housing & down the toilet a lot of their potential customers go.

And that wouldn't help anyone, least of all this woman.

AirBnB existing & doing nothing isn't any better than AirBnB not existing and being unable to do anything. Why should she really care about their livelihood if they don't seem to really care about her livelihood?

AirBnB reported this to the police. They said they had someone in custody. What more do you want them to do? Go after them like Dirty Harry?

Recoup her losses or at least make an effort to. Then instigate a plan to cover their asses the next time this happens, because if they continue as a service this probably will happen more often. If they are going to leave the homeowners wholly responsible for any damages without offering some sort of insurance or protection, then they're going to remain niche & their word is as good as dog poo. "Yeah, we provide a safe way to do this, we just won't guarantee it, because that's not really exactly true."

Dollars to donuts this woman is planning a lawsuit and looking for a payday. Not against the drug addicts who trashed her apartment, but against AirBnB. She rents out a room to people she's never met in person and then acts surprised when sometimes it goes wrong.

So AirBnB has a flawed business model. They can't vet people properly, their word is not guaranteed. Why should I ever trust AirBnB again? Let's play roulette with my housing.

A pedestrian is hit by a DUI driver, does he sue or blame Honda? No?

Terrible analogy. If Honda advertised that their cars were safe, but in some cases under normal operation their cars had catastrophic failure despite the owner not doing anything out of the ordinary, then yes, Honda would have a major issue on their hands.

You seem to be pointing at how EJ was a fool for lending her house out to strangers, which just so happens to be the business model for AirBnB. So if she is stupid, what does that make AirBnB? "Social Housing For Stupid People", could win a lot of customer's with that slogan.

I am not down entirely on AirBnB, but when I first heard of them I thought "ehh, sounds risky, what happens if someone trashes your place?" Well now I know what happens & it ain't pretty.
If managing millions robs you of the empathy that is necessary in this situation then there is something very wrong in the whole situation.

A user of your service had their life upended as a direct result of loopholes in your vetting model.
The LEAST you can do is reimburse them in full for their loss, take the monetary hit, and plug the holes in your model. If you are managing this in any other way you deserve to have your job forfeited.
Ask HN: If Airbnb isn't going to help the victim, what about HN?
Is there something we could do for EJ? Could we set up a fund - maybe using WePay - to collect some donations for the victim? I hear a lot of finger pointing at Airbnb and it's obvious they are just playing a defensive game. But, how about the HN community putting their money where their mouths are and trying to help this woman get her life back on track? I'd be curious to hear some constructive suggestions.
That post says they have to delete the old versions, but... If what you've said it true, they could just distribute the parser generator, or something that does the same job.

It's not unfixable.
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A proof that Google is so ethical !
It's pretty amazing that this comes at the end of an extended product cycle - the iPhone 4's been out for well over a year. Remember also that many characterized the launch of this product cycle as a minor debacle - the product leaked, Apple sued journalists, antenna gate, etc. If Apple's sitting on another compelling product (let alone a low cost unsubsidized iPhone), you have to wonder if some of their competition will survive 2012.
I suppose so but it's such a short-term view. If the founders are true-believers (which they obviously are) they really should have tried to think about this incident in chunks of 1 week from now, 1 month from now, 1 year from now, etc. It may have helped put things in perspective instead of going into a panic about the next round of funding. Easier said than done of course.
It looks like they're trying to say you can use it without writing your own conditionals, and it'll do a LOT of magic on the backend for you.
I don't get paid particularly well, but I put in the effort out of a sense of duty.

I think that's kinda the point, obviously if you barely do your job you don't deserve appreciation.
I had another problem - turned up to an ABnB place that was nothing at all like what was advertised and not at all acceptable for my needs (private room, non smoking etc). The photos didn't even match. I had to move out and find a motel for myself otherwise I would have been homeless.

I tried to contact ABnB, to find alternative place for me and nothing. No reply or anything that day, even though it was office hours. Really abysmal customer service. I'd hate to think if it was a more serious case...
it is happening right now, right in front of our eyes. We've got hardware. We've got OS. The 2 building blocks. And now we add 3d component - hypervisor - in between and thus there is virtualization which is the foundation for the most fundamental change which is happening now (with "cloud" being just the most noticeable and the most marketable [today] facet of it)
Having been involved on the periphery of a major criminal case which started off as a defamation case (there being no libel in Scotland) I can assure you that that is not the case. Scottish Defamation and English Libel are quite different laws. A number of people have made good money from arbitraging the difference.
Now this part I think is overdramatic. I agree with jrockway. Criticizing a person for stating he would "enjoy meeting" a person is more than a bit pedantic imo. I'm sorry if she "doesn't care" about what anyone else may "enjoy", but seriously, I don't think it indicates any lack of sympathy. It's not like EJ is bleeding all over her keyboard while people nonchalantly schedule appointments later in the week or something, the crime is over now and it's a reasonable way to request a meeting. What do you want him to say?

Really a silly thing to make a fuss over, and fussing over trivial matters just weakens an otherwise strong case.
With instant search that button is practically unusable because it disappears as soon as you type anything in the search box.

It's currently redirecting to http://www.google.com/logos/

So, yeah.. pointless.

Is Google being superstitious here?
I keep hearing this argument, and I always feel sorry for these people. I see all this new stuff being developed, some of it by me, and I think, "Man, why can't they just go do that?"

It's almost like they're broken. They've decided they need to work for the man, and that they can't do exciting things on their own time. They can see the path they want to take, yet they keep walking the same path they hate.
Sure. And:

a. She's in a fit state to be cold-bloodedly rational

b. She knew AirBnB was about to close a round

c. That closing was within a few weeks, and hence worth waiting

d. In the meantime she has no home, and has to deal with

d.1. the police,

d.2. all the credit card issues,

d.3. all the banks,

d.4. AirBnB themselves

Seems unlikely to me that she planned that. <shrug> You call them as you see them. I'm saying that I think AirBnB did the wrong thing to start with, and continues to make it worse, even discounting the ethics and morals. Add those in and it's even worse still.

| Rock | AirBnB | Hard place |

The real issue, again ignoring ethics and morals and just concentrating on optimal course of actions for the company - where is their risk assessment and contingency plan? If they don't have one, that's tantamount to negligence. And you can't claim 20:20 hindsight, because people have been expressing concerns over this issue ever since they started.

As a director of two companies, one of which is involved in safety and security issues, I watch the unfolding - and perhaps unravelling - drama with interest (in both senses of the term).
Step 1) have home utterly destroyed via Airbnb

Step 2) write a blog post sharing how terrible the situation is, and to indicate you're slightly upset about this

Step 3) get cut off from Airbnb customer service, then receive call from Airbnb co-founder asking to remove the blog post because "it might impact our funding"

No. I wouldn't do the same.
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Ironic this being on Youtube.
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>What you are doing is simply being an asshole.

Everybody needs a hobby, don't judge him on his.
Raising a toast to the sleepless nights when I tried becoming a Sysadmin and failed beautifully.
I really hope you're not a security auditor? ;-)
To my experience, Cake simply does not grow beyond their own blog tutorial.

Maybe they fixed this, but last time I used Cake, for instance, if you were overriding hooks in the Model to e.g. change the data as returned to the view/controller, you had to do this different depending on how the data was collected. So in the same hook method of the BananaPeer, you either got a single Banana, or an array of Banana objects, or an array with a key "Bananas" which had an array of Banana objects. There was no way to figure this out except with a lot of testing. There was no uniform way to implement standard features and constraints inside the model.

Cake was full of this kind of shit. It was, simply, horribly badly designed and to my impression only popular because its web site was pretty. The source code was horribly undocumented and the internal SQL query building process was a disaster.
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It's an one-horse town. I don't comprehend your circumstances though. The notion of Aquascoop has existed for years. Aquascoop has achieved popular acclaim.
which is nice feature for cleaning up logic in templates and making standard logical tests nicer to look at it but is misnamed as 'logic-less'.
I'm glad this post isn't totally greyed out yet, because that's hysterical.
If they blocked Hacker News or Reddit at work, I would be one unhappy employee.
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What is the insurance premium on:

1) A dedicated holiday apartment with little valuables and suitable furnishings

2) My primary residence full of my own furniture, valuables and sentimental items

Who is going to do that appraisal? AirBnB?
Hey, thanks. Would you mind linking to the actual studies so I can read them?

The "sugar-water + food = lost weight" bit is especially striking...
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I love how the GPL lets people not have the features they want because of nonsense like this. It's a clear case for more liberal licenses.
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Wait, what? I didn't think the buyout had actually occurred yet. A quick search on Google News doesn't turn anything up, just a bunch of (very recent) articles about concerns about the proposed merger...
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If they blocked Hacker News (or anything else, pretty much) I wouldn't be an employee.
I met one of the associate directors of Startup Chile last night at a Hackers & Founders event. These people are amazing. They are trying to revamp their economy by changing the culture, and to do that, they want to import startup culture. So, their government has set aside $100M over the next four years to get 1,000 startups to come to Chile for six months and work.

But even more than that, their vision is much larger. They want the program to become a success, so that other, less developed countries start similar programs. Their goal is to try and convince 10 other governments of developing countries to embark on similar projects.

They are trying to hack their economy. And... it's working.

I was shocked to heard that their applicant pool wasn't that large.

Also, they are willing to take people at the idea stage.

So, if you want to build your startup, and take part in one of the best economic hacks I've heard of in years... apply.
44oz of water: $0.00

Put water in a pan, bring to a boil. Meanwhile cut one onion into small pieces. Put oil in a frying pan and heat, then add minced meat. Add pasta and a bit of salt to now boiling water. When it starts to be a bit brown, add the onion, stir. Add any spices, e.g. thyme and laurel leaf. Add 500ml pureed tomatoes (you can but this you don't have to do it yourself). Add a crushed broth cube, and a teaspoon of sugar. Add crushed, diced garlic. Let it stay on the heat for 4 minutes. Now your pasta should be ready. Eat with Parmesan cheese and some vegetables.

Total time: 10 minutes. Number of meals cooked: 2, so 5 minutes per meal. Total cost per meal less than $1.81.

You are not doing it the convenient way.
"Some people excel.... on well... giving good interviews."

The sort of interview that this guy would do well in is a poorly-conducted one. A simple question like "what does it mean to hash a password and why would one do that?" or "what is PCI?" would expose his incompetence.
The articles was about 100% juice. Unless your system of labeling works a lot different in your part of the world you cannot add things to juice and still call it 100% juice.

The blog mentions a ~trick~ to recreate a well-known and stable flavor by adding orange-derived chemicals - but you still cannot add 'sugar water'.

Yes, that stuff contains a lot of sugar. But so does an orange from your own garden (still healthier if you eat the whole fruit, not just the 'sugar water' aka fruit juice).
Part of the problem with movies like the Social Network is that they leave out key details that enabled a company like Facebook to grow so quickly.

Firstly, Zuckerberg continued coursework and took all of his finals at Harvard the same time he was starting Facebook. If you don't have the business and technology acumen to take on a rigorous Harvard course load and run a regional business (I believe Facebook was well into the Ivy league at the time) at 19 years old, then think about taking a different route to success.

Secondly, I don't know many 19 year olds who can pick up and move to a house in Silicon Valley for the summer without having to hold down a job to pay rent and for food and gas. Heck, I don't know any 30 year olds that can do that. Having achieved 3 months of financial independence at 19 is a good indicator you can do some big things. If I recall, that summer in NorCal cost Zuck upwards of 80k.

Finally, for the geek perspective and those who don't think a LAMP website is anything to be impressed by, Facebook had to maneuver a ton of business landmines in those early days. Zuck may not have had all the answers to social patents and investment valuations and expansion strategy, but he found some people who did - Sean Parker and Don Graham. That ability to find people who provide strengths to your weaknesses is pivotal to the success of an entrepreneur.

To be able to do all of this at 19, well, there's a reason there's only one Mark Zuckerberg.
Nope. I'm coordinating political advocacy for the Startup Visa here in the US, and one of our volunteers came up with this list of research on international efforts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rbs3flXfGSfkVH41L3-oiIJP...

StartupChile is almost certainly the savviest and most effective effort out there, both in results and their marketing of themselves, but there are many other international pushes to promote entrepreneurship.
I know this is a very specific case, but as a professional .Net guy I'm finding this book to help out tons: http://pragprog.com/book/cerailn/rails-for-net-developers

Also reading The Rails 3 Way (http://tr3w.com/), but I wouldn't recommend this one right away unless you are pretty comfortable with programming and Ruby already (or you know another language and pick up fast).

Also I second http://ruby.railstutorial.org/, that one is free and super helpful.
The post clearly says they have to add the source or delete them.
Isn't this easily the most popular news about Airbnb this year?

I am surprised that they kept their mouth shut in all their public channels. No mention in the blog, no direct message in twitter. And it looks they chose to talk about this issue in TC only because TC wrote about the original story. This is what they replied to people in twitter:

@joyandjoy EJ's blog post says, "They have offered to help me recover emotionally and financially, and are working with SFPD"

Yeah right. Now EJ's blog post says that they did not keep their promise.

This is what happens when you hesitate to help the victim of an incident like this and instead start plotting and planning PR activities supposed to do the damage control for your next valuation.

What a shame.
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Already posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821072 .
To the tune, if memory serves, of about $1b a year in the late 1990s. Though that number is challenged (estimated at closer to $135m/year): http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=9be3f156-79b1...
There's a project called Newznab directly written for the purpose of allowing people to set up indexing sites easily.
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They should pull a Rupert Murdoch and off the bitch like that dead whistler blower, Sean Hoare. All the cool kids are doing it, plus, people will forget about it in a weeks time etc. Just sayin'
tl;dr: If you're not passionate about what you're doing, it's hard for some people (myself included) to work hard or have what one might call a good work ethic.

For me, college didn't do anything for my work ethic. I was like you in HS: got good grades without trying. I got to college and found that I couldn't skate by, but didn't know how to work hard. I also didn't feel very engaged.

I graduated, and got a job with a smallish (~350 people) public company. It was interesting, but again, not super engaging. I got my stuff done, but I wouldn't really say I had a good work ethic. I spent 5 years there before I finally decided to leave my comfort zone.

Then I joined a 5-month-old startup as employee 16. I was actually passionate about it. For a little over a year I did 14-16 hour days, and I didn't mind. I really loved it, and I loved the people I was working with. This is the first time that I actually realized that I even could work hard.

Of course, that story didn't end very well: I burned out, and the company itself lost its way (in my opinion, though they're still kicking and have at least released a product now). After a total of 16 months, I quit and took 5 weeks off.

Now I'm working for an older startup with around 30 people. The work is interesting, but the demands on my time aren't as great. I don't feel the pressure or desire to work quite as hard, and for now, that's fine.

I'm thinking I want to start my own company at some point, but I lack that idea that I feel like I can really be passionate about and that will drive me to want to work like a madman.

So that's it for me, at least: I have a crappy work ethic unless I all-out love what I'm doing. Maybe that's actually a good work ethic, but I just have a low tolerance for things that bore me. Who knows.
A colleague of mine once had to stand one foot on top of the other and chew his own lip when an SI's "security expert" introduced himself as an 'old-school CISSP' just to stop laughing out loud at him.

There are many idiots in the information security industry (I should know, I are one) - we're doing our best to get rid, but more keep showing up.
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I'm sorry but I don't see why anyone here should feel obligated to help her. Both AirBNB and EJ should have insurance. It's not some kind of natural disaster and she's not terminally ill as far as I know. She was making money by renting her apartment, so the least she could do is to protect herself using part of that money, and AirBnb should do the same.
You fail to understand.

Patents are a mass weapon.

You pursue an infringement claim against some small random sampling of patents in your portfolio.

Challengee has the option of 1) paying your fee or 2) challenging the patents.

Your average patent case cost is $3-$10 million.
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Supposing you can invalidate the patents, challenger returns with another random sampling of patents....

Eventually you 1) go broke or 2) pay up.

If the companies are evenly matched (or at least sufficiently that they could drain one another bloodless), they enter into a cross-licensing agreement.

I don't see any mention of what Google paid for the 1000 patents, but this suggests a very friendly relationship between Mountain View and Armonk.
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He's trying to be self-deprecating there, and saying (I think incorrectly) that genetics plays only a small part. Genuinely curious, what do you think he should have said?
I didn't get the impression it was dependent on the normal Google crawlers and I didn't see any warning about dynamic content.

Maybe it's clever enough to work out what can be cached and grab everything else on the fly?
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The answer to that question would almost certainly be "yes".

Or: duh.
If you are storing passwords properly with bcrypt, then the 1-10k permutations will take far too long to calculate, especially considering that you need to give the user feedback on their new password choice being ok or not within ~100ms

(Edit: so the match might be quick, but pre-comp of the hashes and storing them is not. how the hell would you store 1-10k hashes associated with a user anyway? :) )
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