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I understand, and I agree. That's why execution > idea. But that doesn't mean there isn't any good value in ideas. Good, great, and brilliant ideas are definitely worth a lot to great executors.

Great execution definitely requires devotion, execution, along with probably 100+ other traits.

If I'm a fantastic executor in the beverage industry, why am I not being connected to ideas like the Coke flavored ice cubes? That's just one example, but I'm sure there are hundreds of other great beverage industry ideas.

If my business forte is the sports industry, why are we not serving up those brilliant sports guys with awesome ideas?

Think of it like Aardvark meets ideas instead of questions.
Think of it like Match.com meets ideas instead of singles.
On Facebook, your list of friends is publicly accessible.
I see no reason to doubt what EJ has said so far. AirBnB/pg have made several conflicting statements, called reporters liars for repeating official statements, and in general, proven to be less consistent/trustworthy than "EJ", which considering her anonymous status, really says something.

The only reason I can see to doubt EJ's story is if you're in the "this is a conspiracy against AirBnB" camp.
Well, modern Hebrew is still like that, to a large extent.
You could use a HTTP header, for example:

X-Cache-Permission: Allow
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Well, yeah, but if you perform financial transactions, you can't just lose 5 minutes of history.

Also, for a DB, LVM's probably just as good as a full VM.
The issue is not figuring out whether the person who you communicated with is the same as the one turning up in your house, but rather whether the person is someone you want to rent your place to. Apparently Airbnb hides their real identity from you until you agree a deal, so there's no way for you to check on Facebook etc. whether this person is someone you want to rent your place to.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Google had numerous discreet licencing agreements with UK copyright trolls in place already

A key difference between Meltwater and Google News is that Meltwater is charging the end user for the excerpts they scraped (I'm not going to contact their account managers to try to understand their pricing structure, but I strongly suspect that it includes a component related to level of usage and or quantity of targeted content served).
Meltwater's service is more analogous to Factiva and LexisNexis, whose licencing structure is almost certainly more favourable to the publishers.

It ought to be of some concern to other providers of SaaS feed readers, media analytics and the like though.
If you are calling EJ a liar, it could be true. But I see little interest for EJ to be lying here. Eventually investigations will be done and such details like "what's been offered to the victim" will be revealed. So no point lying there. (On the other hand you may suggest a huge conspiracy theory by someone who doesn't want to see the company grow, it sounds far fetched.)
"People need to realize that Facebook has a vision for their product, and that they need to be able to follow it unimpeded."

How is this even possible in the social space? Facebook can't possibly have a vision with too much resolution, all the details are meant to be filled in by users. That's the whole point!
I don't think that's especially relevant. She put her belongings in a position where someone had days to get access to them, without any external evidence at all. Neighbors would notice a broken window/door on the outside. A smashed in lock on the inside? Who's to know?
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> What's the argument they're making?

From the article:

And therein lies the real problem of web 2.0 — whether it takes the form of SEO-driven “news” or crowd-sourced accommodation. To make money — real money — at this game you have to attract millions, or tens of millions, of users. And when you’re dealing with those kinds of numbers, it’s literally impossible not to treat your users as pieces of data. It’s ironic, but depressingly unsurprising, that web 2.0 is using faux socialization and democratization to create a world where everyone is reduced to a number on a spreadsheet.

[emphasis mine]

That's his argument. I don't agree with it but that doesn't make this a rant.

[Edit] Add a comment of my own
Is there a better link for that document? Slated.org blocks large swathes of the internet from accessing them. If they think your ISP uses something called "phorm" you get blocked and told to find a better ISP. Unfortunately, their block is not well done. For instance, Sprint the ISP apparently used "phorm" and was blocked. However, the block also caught anyone whose packets ended up getting routed over Sprint the major backbone.

(I can get to slated so don't need an alternate link. Just suggesting one for people who may be blocked).

edit: there's a copy of Gates' message in this thread: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=119340

edit2: and here's the same file as at slated.org, but without the blocks: http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/7000... and if you go up one level, you can get the rest of the "comes" files.
I am not calling EJ a liar. This isn't a football game.
Things are better, but yes, Windows would benefit (and possibly will with rumors regarding Windows 8) from real package management.
Dear Bing,

I went to microsoft.com and entered "moviemaker" (one word, just like Gates) in the search box. The top site search result - powered by Bing - is an XP downloads page, which of course didn't have a Movie Maker download. I tried a Google site search with "site:microsoft.com moviemaker", and and the top result was the (correct) Movie Maker 2011 page.

I also searched google.com for "moviemaker", and again the top result was the Movie Maker 2011 page. Doing the same on bing.com, the page is the 3rd result. That, is why Google is eating your lunch (but I do like your pictures).
I had a different response written, before I decided to start over due to a realization.

The problem is that your (and the OP's) social circles have changed, and you haven't sought out new ones. For some reason, you expected [x], as it existed at [time y], to stay the way it was, for all time.

Change happens. Expecting otherwise is foolish in the extreme. What is around you has changed, and has changed you, and you haven't sought out something better, so you blame your surroundings.

You went to YC Demo Day - why didn't you go somewhere else? Why did you wait for them to come to you, at an extremely famous conference no less? If you want to re-experience the good old days, find the ones who share your ideals - you had to do that in the past. That's how YC started (I'm idealizing it, to serve as an example - I don't know the facts). People didn't simply show up and beg to do something good the day PG was born, they had to be found, the culture had to be grown, until it grew into the behemoth it is now and started attracting all kinds.

Your surroundings have changed, why haven't you changed your surroundings? You had to do that to get to the good old days, why aren't you still? Or did you simply coast into a seemingly-ideal world, and are now forgetting / ignoring that your colleagues (and slightly earlier) essentially created the dot-com boom? Were their intentions really so pure?

If the culture you entered into is what you wanted, but you don't want to do the work necessary to continually re-create it, why are you surprised that you can't find it now? Think about all the time and effort that went into creating it prior to your entry - if you aren't exerting similar effort, why are you blaming others that it changed? If the YC-of-old is what you want, why are you going to the YC-of-now, and not working to create what you want? That kind of risk and effort went into creating it in the first place, if people aren't willing to do so it will not happen.

And that has not changed. And more people than ever are putting in that effort, by sheer virtue of an increase in raw quantity. That you have drifted away from that world doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Usability is hard. This superficially simple example crosses many products / teams (being Microsoft, we are talking about 100s of people involved). A small startup has the same challenges because your engineers build features, not user experiences. It takes a great product manager to advocate effectively for the user.
This is only a somewhat relevant question, but for those that have experience, are meetings with angel investors more or less casual than VC meetings? Or does it vary too much from person to person to make a distinction?
The title should probably say the year at which this happened. 2003. aka. not new.
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Where you do run into problems is with people that have one name, or more than three names. Splitting those up wrong or putting them into the wrong fields can constitue a technical error on the forms, with the I-9 that means accruing civil liability. Also with the I-9 form, if the employer is in the E-Verify program you are increasing the odds that an employee will fail to pass verification. The documentation for employers on how to complete the Form I-9 is 65 pages. That doesn't include the full regulations that are in the federal register, guidance issued by USCIS, or the extra rules that are part of E-Verify.
It's called "knowing interesting people who think about the things they're engaged with but aren't programmers".
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The responses were exactly what I would have expected to see: so many conflicting priorities and groups that nobody can actually solve the problem. This is a standard problem at large companies and one of the reasons they are able to be disrupted by technology and market changes.

There was a lot of jot potato in the thread, but I don't think it signifies anything negative about the people trying to solve the problem. If you don't worry about e "right" way to deal with cross-team issues, your life span at beaurocratic institutions will be very short (spoken from experience :).

However, one huge problem that was identified is that delivering bits isn't seen as part of the "product". Product managers (program managers at MS) need to view getting the bits the same way they would view getting shelf space at a big box retailer. If you don't make sure it is done right, your product will have problems no matter how good it is. If PMs aren't empowered to ensure that process is good, you are in trouble.
Moving to SF/NYC/Boston is really good advice. I moved to San Francisco from Rochester NY after running my own company there for a while. I had NO MONEY left, in fact I was way deep in debt. Surely people thought I was crazy but you know what, I wish I had moved sooner. I waited a year to move out here and I will never get that year of life back. Now, after being here 2 years I've paid off all my debts and have saved up a bit of money!

Don't delay, we have more job openings in the valley than we can find qualified programmers to fill. A full on workers shortage! Don't delay, move out here already, get a job, and be happy!
http://www.djangojobs.org/ has a huge stack of jobs. Perhaps applying the Python knowledge applied to Django web apps might bring home the bacon.
So they're arguing against a straw-man? They're extremely naive if actually believe that money wasn't a goal for others while they had un-sustainably idealized hopes. And they're forgetting the history of all technology. Bow and arrows - great for hunting! Great for war! Atomic energy - great for power! Great for powerful explosions! Electric lights - great for reading at night! Great for keeping people working through the night! Factories - great for improving everyone's quality of life! Great for reducing large portions of the population to near slavery to their jobs!

It's "guns don't kill people, people kill people" all over again. You're a fool if you think something won't be corrupted by some, and equally foolish if you think everyone is corrupted. And if Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and 4chan aren't "web-2.0 social-empowerment", I'm not sure what is.
You don't have to believe in a conspiracy. You just have to believe that there are some extremely difficult customers out there.

Given that AirBnB offered her money and she isn't picking it up or returning their calls, but is talking to reporters, the most plausible explanation is that she's looking to get a huge payday in a lawsuit.

She didn't have to think of the idea herself. A lawyer or family member may have put the thought in her head. "This is a billion dollar company, you know!"

Do you really think she's not going to go for big dollars in a lawsuit at this point?
Jacque,

That you don't see a problem with passing on her personal details onto an investor is somewhat disturbing. It's obvious you have an affection for PG, I've read many of his essays, he's a smart guy who has what I'd classify as a mini god complex. But that's irrelevant and so is his intellectual abilities. What is relevant is his very close association with AirBnB.

Honestly, if he HAD to choose between her well being OR AirBnB's, who do you think he would choose?
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I always think of John Adams' quote:

"It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever."

If you are damned if you do and damned if you don't, what's the incentive to be in the "don't* category?
> If you are under 18 then not only does the CPS have a strong duty to determine if prosecution is in the public interest, it may not even be a crime at all if your age is close.

I'm not too invested in whatever the heck your parent poster was saying, but you seem to have supported his point that "age of consent laws exist to easily convict people pimping child prostitutes." 17 year olds don't seek out child prostitutes.
But the difference between possession and creation is very large.
So, with the anonymizing that AirBnB does, how does one "have eyes and be careful?"

edit: added "how"
I love how all of that stuff is legal, and yet inaction could lead to a totally illegal violation of the 14th amendment. Irony at it's most expensive.
You say it "isn't a football game," but either she's telling the truth on the bullying point or she's not. You clearly believe the latter is a strong enough possibility that you condemned my comments, based on my belief in what she has said. So you aren't calling her a liar... are you calling her "confused"? "Misguided"?

I've made my point why I think she's the most believable currently. You, however, don't want to acknowledge that you doubt her.
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Check out siliconslopes.com -- their job section generally highlights a lot of the startup jobs. Pretty sure that DOMO (www.domo.com) is hiring (they are Josh James', founder of Omniture, new thing).
Talk about being in a glass house...
By what definition is AirBNB a startup?

Edit: downvote me all you want, but a if company with a $1,000,000,000 valuation is a "startup" the word has lost any meaning.
Not particularly... an attacker with a rack of GPU filled machines will only find a valid block every 10 days or so, and blocks are valid for around 10 minutes on average: this is a relatively narrow window for double spending, and not an opportunity to waste on a small transaction.

There are other attacks that rely on the receiver being fenced off from the wider network, but those are even harder to coordinate.
If you're going to argue morals though, why ignore the morality of working for Big Blue while they have (and continue to create) so many skeletons? By working for them, you are actively encouraging that behavior.

Is the ability to do research worth it, when doing so creates a world you're ashamed of? If anything, it seems more like a form of escapism - retreat into the world of research and theory and creativity, and ignore the consequences (helping a giant, where giants are responsible for the crushing speed necessary to grow past obscurity). Where does that fall on the moral line?
This is poor advice. We've met dozens of VC's since GitHub launched to 1) meet interesting people 2) learn as much as possible 3) figure out who we like if we ever decide to go that route. Folks like Satish Dharmaraj at Redpoint have loads of information gleaned from successful ventures and I'd have a drink with him any day.
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> I see no reason to doubt what EJ has said so far.

This is incredibly naive. It could be the case that this was a setup. And it would be very easy to set such a thing up. And there's an entire industry with a lot of old money invested in that industry continuing. That means motive. Nobody here can say yet with 100% confidence what really did or did not happen. Could it have really happened in a non-setup fashion? Of course, and arguably it is/was inevitable. Could it also have been a "hit job"? You bet. Whenever you've got people in one camp with millions if not billions in existing revenue on the line, you have a motive. And the means and method are both easy and obvious.
Reading the last email was gratifying and cathartic. I used to have experiences like this on Windows all of the time. There's some savage pleasure in knowing that Bill Gates had to put up with stuff like this too.
> Given that AirBnB offered her money

There's been conflicting reports about this. Airbnb told TechCrunch - on the record - that they wouldn't pay for anything, that they didn't want to set a precedent.

> she isn't picking it up or returning their calls

She says that they stopped calling her after she posted the blog, except to beg her to take it down and suggest she pretend everything is all better.

> is talking to reporters

She's posted two blog posts - the first one reporting the incident, and another a month later. That's not "talking to reporters." Your framing is disingenuous at best.

> Do you really think she's not going to go for big dollars in a lawsuit at this point?

I don't think that a lawsuit would do well considering she said several times in her initial blog post that AirBnB is not at all to blame for her experience and that she held a significant amount of responsibility.

Here's where you're taking it: she's not the victim, AirBnB is the victim. She's the "extremely difficult customer," or as Robert Scoble put it, "batshit crazy" and a "drama queen." She's not a victim, she's just a bitch. Right. I don't like demonizing victims, but I know in the male-dominated tech world this kind of framing is an easy sell.
> It would be like calling the meat of a relatively young pig “piglet”, or the meat of a relatively young chicken “chick”.

You mean, it would be like calling something what it is, rather than using a euphemism to shield yourself from what you're doing?
My favorite part is where they think they can solve the problem by solving the problems.
I really hate to be bothersome, and I really am finding this interesting, and please do feel free to ignore my responses, but I will ask: isn't that part of the form filled in by the employee? How can you make a mistake filling it out, if you are not the one filling it out at all? The parts of the form you (the employer) are involved with only has blanks for "full name".
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Technically this part of Paul's comment does not contradict the victim's statement; AirBnB has offered to fix it from the beginning (give or take a day), but perhaps just forgot to communicate after that. Any calls from her could have ended up accidentally ignored by customer support or some other gate keeper.

However, that leaves two big issues in my view:

1 - This should have been handled by the CEO from day one. He can delegate the work down later, but the victim should have his phone number in case his minions screw up. The fact that he still believes a blog post is sufficient and that he throws in PR gimmicks such as doubling customer support (in a company that's growing exponentially), is not helping. But that is not at all evidence for...

2 - There needs to be some clarity really soon about whether AirBnB has attempted to cover this up, with Paul being miss-informed (I'm not ready to doubt his integrity), or if it's the other way around. I understand it is hard for AirBnB to disclose evidence in their favor, because they would risk defamation issues, privacy issues, precedent issues and even risk screwing up the police investigation. It's also difficult for the victim and journalists to present any definite evidence.

Perhaps both parties can agree to let an independent journalist with a solid reputation look into the situation? It may be hard to find anyone who considers this important enough though; sadly this sort of stuff tends to fade out in a matter of days.
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Can anyone point me to some interesting uses of Amazon's Mechanical Turk? I've been interested in it for a while but can't see any successful examples of it in action. I'm guessing the quality of the workers is pretty low. What's your experience been with it?