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This reminds me of the second mover advantage aka fast followers. You are essentially letting the first mover do the hard work looking for validation while you use it as an opportunity to iterate. If one is only considering payoffs, the Nash equilibrium is clear. However when taking initial costs into account, these fast followers can generate higher profit margins just by this scavenger mentality. For more on this concept, check out the area of economics known as judo strategy.
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That was a joke re: his username. Thanks for the down votes.
I think if the broader public knew about this it could damage AirBNB but at this point I'm guessing 90% of AirBNB customer base doesn't follow TC or HN and therefore will not be aware of the substantiated risk to their possessions.

Maybe after the 10th or 11th serious robbery/rape/murder then This American Life will make an interesting show about it.
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I am new to ruby, played with Sinatra now want to try Rails 3. I am setting up my environment and came up with a checklist.

How would you improve it?

Here is what I have installed

Rake .9.2
Compass 0.11.5
Rails 3.0.7
Passenger 3.0.7
+ a host of dependencies. My goal is to create an environment with Compass Framework, Passenger and jQuery.

Here are my steps -- Thanks for the feedback!

Create Rails App, Database & Server Instance
(1)
Run rails new prjName --using blueprint
(2)
Is httpd.conf file pointing to right file?
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Delete /public/index.html.erb
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Update Rakefile if using Rake 0.9.2

module ::applicationName
class Application
include Rake::DSL
end
end

module ::RakeFileUtils
extend Rake::FileUtilsExt
end

(5)
Run rake db:create:all (optional)

(6)
Run rails g scaffold modelName attr:DataType..

(7)
Add to route.rb root :to => 'resource#action'

(8)
Run rake db:migrate

(9)
Go to migrate folder and confirm contents of date_create_resource.rb

(10)
Add gem "rake", "~> 0.9.2" to Gemfile

Set up jQuery, Compass and Finish Up

(11)
Run compass init rails add generated statement to Gemfile

(12)

Add gem "jquery-rails", "~> 1.0.12" to Gemfile
(13)

Run rails generate jquery:install --ui
(14)

Run compass init rails (to generate a sass folder)? I should not have to do this? Any Compass Users please help me understand why this is the case...

(15)
Place js references in ERB file
<%= javascript_include_tag"javascripts/jquery.min.js"%>
<%= javascript_include_tag "javascripts/jquery-ui.min.js"%>
<%= javascript_include_tag "javascripts/jquery-ui.min.js"%>

(16)
Review, update Gemfile (jQuery,rake, compass)

(17)
Update the compass.rb file

(18)
Run bundle install

(19)
Restart the server sudo apachectl graceful
Why do you think it's like that? (To anyone who knows).

Does it really come down to weather? Boston < Seattle < SF
Startup land is the land of many hats. I've seen some seriously shoestring-and-bubblegum prototypes that were cobbled together by people with little to no relevant background. Both engineers and investors will respect that way more than your PowerPoint deck, even if it has to be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch.
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They're usually surprised. Some were faintly rude, others were nicer. My canned reply is that they should understand "hacker" in the MIT sense, and that it's not necessarily related to computer security or even computers in general. They usually lose interest at this point.

The most articulate chat that I had was with someone who asked me if I was into social engineering, and explained that he had read _The Art of Deception_ and found it quite inspiring.
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Kind of like how HN is full of startup porn every day?
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True, but with Ebay, space separates me and the other party, so I still have (or feel like I have) some level of control. Could I still fall victim to random acts of hatred? Sure.

Call it a bad taste or a pit in the stomach, but the incident only reinforced my worst fears about the service. It's something that will be difficult to forget.
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Personally, I give Airbnb the benefit of the doubt. No question. I think very highly of the company and the founders.

However, when I read your comment, it bothered me (specifically the bit about the rogue contractor). It gave me the exact same feeling as seeing Rupert Murdoch on the stand saying something to the effect of - "No, I do not take responsibility for my companies wrong-doings, it was a rogue employee.."

The only time I've really learned from a mistake as an entrepreneur is when I've had to look at myself and take 100% responsibility. 100%.

Who hired that employee or contractor? Who hired the people who hired the contractor? Why were they hired? Who put the hiring processes in place? Why did your systems not weed this behavior out as soon as it started? In every organization, there is only one answer to that question - the leader.

An entrepreneur must be ultimately accountable while they are being relentlessly resourceful. I feel it is so important to communicate this message to our current and future leaders - both for the sake of their ability to grow, and for the sake of the lives of those they touch.
I think he's already past the point of deciding where he'll be involved in a lawsuit or not -- holding out to force them to get a court order to bar the talk wouldn't make that materially worse.

I agree in a lot of cases about (especially individuals, especially people who aren't very wealthy) backing down from legal challenges, even if they have a good chance to ultimately prevail, due to the cost.

For a startup, getting involved in a major lawsuit can be a huge distraction too -- so even if it the startup wins the lawsuit, the company still is stunted and dies.
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Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don’t do the obvious thing.

- Fred Wilson (@fredwilson)

http://startupquote.com/post/8159225017
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From the victim's post:

"...came into my home earlier this month (apparently with several others, according to witnesses)..."

So there were several of them. If this were a hotel industry conspiracy, I think it would be very difficult to pull off this way. All you need is for one renter to do this. Adding people to the conspiracy puts your conspiracy at risk of being found out.

However, it's not too hard to imagine a random group of renters doing stupid stuff like this. Think about some immature people who weren't raised well and who are also drunk, on drugs, and/or slightly mentally ill.

tl;dr It stretches the imagination less to chalk this up to a group of thugs than to a conspiracy.
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I am sure Airbnb has / is thinking about this already. Still the best solution is transparency and badging. Much like eBay FB system.
Yeah its tough. Try to at least validate the market your going after. Ie get 10 people to say they will buy your product without actually coding it or coding very little of it.

IF you can do this then you can quit and start it fulltime.

Yes this is much harder than it sounds but by doing so you would have de-risked your business as much as you can by doing it part-time.
I think the answer is "quite paranoid" -- here are a couple possibilities I think are more likely than yours:

- Early adopters were less likely to vandalize apartments, so as AirBnB becomes more mainstream we will see an increase in vandals.

- Criminals are starting to realize that AirBnB lets them get around mandatory hotel registrations / ID checks

- AirBnB hosts, having had many good experiences, have become more lax than they previously were in their screening/supervision of guests.
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I think San Francisco is moving past traditional tech and gearing up to be the center of bio and green tech as well.

The new UCSF campus is a true monster and with Stanford and Berkeley a stones throw away, if bio and green tech are the future, Silicon Valley will reign supreme for decades to come.

I'm not sure offering real estate to an existing school is going to give them what they want. Does anyone believe that say, Stanford East Extension is really going to compete with Stanford itself?
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You would have it that any arbitrary theologian is implicitly informed and unbiased?

This is not about religion, this is what people think about religion in a profession which stereotypically tries to keep religion at arm's length despite individual opinions.
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Someone elsewhere (in another related discussion on HN) suggested the place was probably used as a meth lab. They could have been destroying evidence or some such.
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"we've made sure our customer is whole." - why do you assume this statement refers to monetary compensation?

Might be just me but i didn't read it like that at all.
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Yeah, I don't think they owe her anything, given that they never misrepresented their terms. But I also agree with those who argue that they should help her out as a gesture of goodwill. Sounds like they're indeed doing that.
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"You profit from creating value."

I really wish more people, especially SV-esque startup people, approached business this way.
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I think I'd keep drug patents. Not sure if much else. Drugs take a long time and a lot of money to create. But copying a drug is cheap is quick. But I'm not sure if anything else meets the bar.
Internet companies in the Valley make something like $1 million per employee, per year (mean, not median unfortunately). The industry is almost a pantomime of creative destruction (zero to world domination, to the butt of all jokes takes what, 10 years?), so startups are essential. But you don't read that in mainstream news articles (which are meant to be unbiased), just on this little VC-run discussion site.
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Thank you for coming forth with a statement on this. I don't remember seeing one from you when this issue first cropped up, which really didn't look good. A lot of people referenced your "founders should push the envelope" phrase in your absence to explain it, which in my opinion made it look even worse. I value your word a lot more than I do theirs since they don't have a known reputation (with me). Culpable or not, that incident still left a bad taste in my mouth.
> It's stated in the Wired article that "much of what Swartz is accused of downloading from JSTOR is copyrighted".

I'll ignore this for the moment (or at least regard it as "dubious"), and I hope it's obvious why. If we do ignore it, let's see if it's possible for the other two citations you provide here take on a different character in its absence:

> It's stated in JSTOR's statement that "The downloaded content included more than 4 million articles, book reviews, and other content from our publisher partners' academic journals and other publications".

> The indictment states that downloads included "approximately 4.8 million articles, a major portion of the total archive in which JSTOR had invested. Of these, approximately 1.7 million were made available by independent publishers for purchase through JSTOR's Publisher Sales Service."

The claims about partners only means that there were publishers and other organizations supplying content to JSTOR (and were probably selling that content through their own, unrelated channels.) This does not preclude the content in question being entirely public domain content. Given the other characterizations in the indictment, I suspected it of being an instance of deliberately giving an impression of something that doesn't match what really happened while carefully skating on the edge of truthfulness. (I.e., "Yeah, partners were making it available for purchase, but, oh, did we fail to mention that it's public domain anyway?")

A closer reading, though, lends credence to still-in-copyright works being in the mix, if you treat "major portion" as being synonymous with "majority" (used correctly), and even more starkly and convincingly, in light of the numbers you provide.

Here are some more numbers provided by JSTOR: 7 million items online across 44 million pages as of February 2011 <http://about.jstor.org/about-us/jstor-numbers >.

[In case you can't tell, what I'm really saying is you've got me convinced.]

> However, it's hard to fit any explanation about his intentions to the facts as we know them without making major assumptions about information we don't have.

One such assumption you could make is that he was operating under the modus of grabbing what was possible and sorting it all out later. It doesn't seem to even qualify as a stretch. Given a similar line of thinking of mine in the past for a similar operation (involving databases operated by Gale Group), I certainly don't have any trouble maintaining this assumption for myself (and to myself). There is a detail that gives me pause, though...

> but then, why does a Harvard research fellow need to covertly access JSTOR from MIT

Damned good question.

> And not just access, but download two thirds of it?

Well, is there really any question here? I think it's safe to say that, were it not for a thorny interruption, Swartz was probably aiming for something closer to three thirds of it.
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I think stating in that way; "Science tries to keep religion at arm's length" makes science sound biased and negative. Really Science is just founded in evidence that can be observed and measured which doesn't mix with faith based beliefs nor should it.
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I don't think this was an industry setup. However, I would be willing to bet that the real burglar just did the physical and ID theft part, and then let in a bunch of tweakers to wreck the place and throw the subsequent investigation off track.
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I am not arguing against myself. People had been trying and failing to get insurance for car sharing for decades before Getaround succeeded at it. My co-founder is one of those people. Yet, even today, if you become a Getaround subscriber, your insurance company can cancel your policy. If that doesn't convince you about the slow moving nature of insurance companies, I don't know what will.

I know of few disruptive markets for which actuarial data sets are available.

Obviously you should think through the risks of starting a business not endorsed by insurance companies. If you have an appetite for such risk and believe the rewards (to yourself and/or to society) outweigh the risk, you should do it. Do you think Google could have bought insurance for their self driving cars before they started working on them?
Let's say the US population breaks down to 50% Democrat and 50% Republican. If I am a D candidate, I want the Ds to show up and the Rs to stay at home and same if I were R. If I defend the Ds too much, the Rs take it offensively and vice versa. Assuming they both use equivalent tactics to harm the other while improving their own popularity, how does that not lead to a Nash equilibrium? BOTH populations are riled enough to support their chosen candidate (and prevent the other from winning) or be apathetic enough to stay at home (and let the other candidate win). With voting, candidates cannot be satisfied with just 50% of those who voted i.e. become a commodity and split it. They need to use the fact that belittling someone has a more visible reaction that just praising themselves. The balancing act that BOTH candidates need to play leads to the Nash equilibrium. But really the fact is that the population is not 50/50 and there are regional/demographic differences which just makes candidates' strategies that much more complicated.
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This is clearly says Chrome experiment, so this is sensationalism for me. The HTML5 spec is still in editor's draft and browser vendors have different interpretations in some areas. Video is an issue but criticising Google when they open sourced the VP8 codec is unfair. If I were a journalist I'd focus on patents as blocking the open web and innovation rather than fabricate an agenda like this.
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I used to get annoyed with pushy religious people, now I get to wade up to my neck in pushy atheists.
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