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I'm looking for (preferably) remote work. If you have an interesting project, I am interested. :)

As I mentioned in the other comment, I used to live/work in SF. I'd ping you, but I need some contact info!

EDIT: Are you triggit.com? I also know quite a bit about advertising/marketing (CPM, CPA, CPC, PPV, affiliate, incentive, etc.) and I'd love to work with it again.
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I love seeing your (and others') submissions! I've had a cueyoutube-like site in the back of my mind for a few months and a) it's cool/now maybe there's no need to do it and b) it just goes to show that your right: doing small projects and releasing them can be hard and i should make an effort like you have!

The amount of time usually just doesn't factor into whether the project is worth anything or not. Did you spend 2 minutes on it when you should have spent 20? Or did you spend a weekend when you could have spent a lunch break? Did you think about your project while driving to work every morning for a week and then type it out 10 minutes, or did you truly spend 10 minutes from conception to publishing?
Maybe it is because I live in a 3rd world country where we dont have enough security (Brazil), but I would never think about renting my place to a complete stranger. I would think a lot to rent it even after a lot of interview and research, but I would remove all personal and expensive objects.

That said, I feel really bad for the girl and I hope she recovers. Most people are good, but there are a big number of bad people around to justify some level of security concern.
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Here's the source: gpmin.googlecode.com
How does Google handle the intractably undesirable projects like internal apps for performance reviews, cleaning up huge legacy codebases, et al?

It seems unlikely that there aren't any projects that have to be done but that no one wants to do.
> It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~Voltaire

Our governments have no comprehension or understanding of the prospects or implications that the internet has on modern civilization. When an individual can take down an organizations method of operation (mastercard/visa/paypal), it isn't the individuals fault (regardless of their actions) it is the organizations fault.

You don't blame someone for stealing from a bank when they pile gold bullion in the entrance without a guard in sight. You blame the bank because that's fucking stupid.

Being able to dDOS mastercard isn't the individuals fault, it's mastercards. I've never heard of someone dDOSing Google, why? Because Google only makes money when people access it and their system can support insane amounts of instantaneous traffic. It's a simple fact that sooner or later mastercard/visa would have been taken down by a normal traffic spike.

Is it the users fault when mastercard gets dDOS'd by a few million people placing midnight orders on Black Friday?

Seriously, look at the world rationally. If I can spend $5 on a padlock, it's my fault when someone steals my $500 BBQ from my back yard. Someone committed a crime, yes, but I'm going to be buying a padlock like I should have in the first place.

Why didn't mastercard/visa/paypal/sony/sony/sony/(sony x 27 fucking times) front the goddamn cash so they wouldn't lose hundreds of thousands.
Let's say for a moment that AirBnB let you exchange private info prior to booking. You've then released you're information to a stranger who could do what they want with it. I've never rented with AirBnB, but sites like Homeaway do not restrict the passage of contact information, so I had to give my credit card information to a complete stranger. By bypassing AirBnB, youve no one on your side to protect your credit information and address from relative strangers. at least here, they were able to assist the investigation because of the payment and personal identification info the no doubtedly used to help the police actually catch the guy. yeah, it benefits AirBnB to maintain control of their revenue, but it is also a safeguard for all users.
He never mentioned the width. I ffound this house in the paper, it looks ffine, it looked good. Now I have a broken keyboard and a ffour ffoot house.
Can you elaborate though on the exact timing of the exchange? EJ's story makes it sound insufficient:

"Thus by the time this reservation was confirmed and I was given Dj’s email address and phone number, I was on a plane heading East, and he/she was armed with my welcoming instructions on where to pick up the keys to my apartment."

For the rest of it, I'm not saying that the response is inconsistent. I'm saying that keeping information private is inconsistent with safety (which is what EJ's argument was). This is especially true (and concerning) when they say that keeping information private is a safety feature, but it seems everyone thinks its a driven by financial motivation.

It's slightly frustrating when someone says "we do this for safety", but the reality is they do it for money and it reduces safety.
But the thing is, a lot of these "new Web communication tools" are "new" only in the sense that they aren't very old, not in the more important sense that they're novel in a useful way.
It's best to ignore anything coming from FOSSPatents.
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I'm working on a side project related to this, but in the mean time,

# of users on HN:
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/users/_search

Filtering on karma is possible then, and more.
Early 2009

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/launched-google...
Can anyone guess who the VCs were in this case? (Create a throwaway account to answer if you need to.)
This is a great example of how journalists will shamelessly jump all over a story and selectively represent the truth to the point that, taken as a whole, the article becomes a misrepresentation.
Airbnb's review system sucks! Why are there no dates on any of the reviews? What determines the order of the reviews? In my experience, I've seen more recent negative reviews get pushed below older positive reviews. Why are we not allowed to sort the reviews by date or rating like on any other reasonable review system? This is the opposite of 'transparent'.
I don't get the fuss. It's a website that says "Chrome experiment" made by Google Japan in collaboration with some artists. It is clearly a promotional piece. The creators have every right to do whatever the hell they want with it. This has nothing to do with the openness of Google or Chrome. It is a demonstration of HTML5 concepts IN CHROME. Not in Firefox. Not in IE9. Not in Safari. This is why it's a CHROME experiment and not an HTML5 experiment.
That's generous of you, at this stage.

I'd say they got off to a rocky start on this (both in the initial response to EJ, and the subsequent response to the public disclosure of the incident). AirBnB could have tried to get in front of the story, but didn't.

I can chalk a lot of that up to a green team running scared, though trying to do the right thing. I'm reserving final judgment on this until more is known.
Can you elaborate though on the exact timing of the exchange? EJ's story makes it sound insufficient:

I used to work for an AirBnb clone wannabe, so I can't speak for the exact site itself, but the way ours operated was that you could cancel the booking at any point after it was confirmed- if you do it very shortly before arrival there were financial penalties to doing so.

Of course, if someone sends through a booking for tomorrow, or tonight, you're unlikely to have the time to sufficiently vet them. Perhaps people should be able to say "I need [x] days notice for bookings".
I think most people are good but not because it's innate. I think humans are like electricity, seeking the path of least resistance. Attracted to pleasure, averse to pain, people judge circumstances and weigh their options according to what they think will be the most pleasant / least unpleasant set of consequences. Skewed by their predilection for short-term or long-term consequences. This results in people being essentially good, but not because it's intrinsic but rather because "good" generally has more positive consequences associated with it than evil.

"Should I steal this?" is always weighed more heavily against "Will I get caught?" and/or "Will this cause me guilt or affect my self-worth?" rather than "Is it wrong?"
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> they didn't know whether to slap the cuffs on me or give me milk and cookies.

Sounds like good cop, bad cop to the extreme. I think I'd deal in 5 seconds if a cop offered me milk and cookies over handcuffs.
Dorms don't have kitchens, not even in the common areas, for fear of our kidults leaning more on the "kid" side and setting fire to their naughty bits or some such nonsense.

Liability concerns suck the fun out of even the most basic rites of passage to adulthood.

If they want the real taste of adult life, the kids have to go off-campus to apartments and such. That's where I perfected my famous "bachelor chow" (Instant mashed potatoes with hot dog cut into it, smothered with Cheddar and American cheese).
I'm not sure where credit card information comes from, but there's a middle ground to the two extremes (AirBnB's where nothing is shared and yours where everything is). AirBnB can still process the payment while providing the other private information people need to truly verify potential occupants.

No one's asking for credit card details, they are asking for emails, telephones and other basic contact information.
Quite certain.
But getting emotionally attached to particular positions (ideas/trades/etc) is a hallmark of the kind of money-losing paradoxes that humans get themselves into. Being able to step back and be self-critical is extremely important to trading well.

Simple example : Suppose you bought Apple stock 2 years ago. It has been a home-run. Do you sell it now? (record your answer). Now look at the facts : You didn't actually buy the stock 2 years ago (most likely). If you said 'sell now' would you short Apple stock now? If you said hold, would aren't you really saying that you should buy it now? It's a trivial example (wrong in many small ways, illustrative as far as the first-order argument goes, IHMO).

Of course, if the example is bad : tell me why. The whole point is that not attaching ego to the argument leads to a better discussion : And deeper understanding. And that's what the company is trying to get at.
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Well Appe will just use Nvidia chips in the new set of mac airs. I think the author overstates the damage by saying the ruling will impact the entire mac line up.
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Google+ is too late to win the social media throne. It's boring and only superficially different.

The only way Google+ can survive and not shrivel up like Wave is to stop trying to be Facebook 2.

Be different Google. Don't be boring.
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Is this spectrum encumbered by any regulations that would prevent an enterprising individual from leasing some land near a backbone connection and setting up a startup ISP?

Would LOVE to see the regional cable monopolies face real competition. 22Mbps is about 30% more downstream and 4000% more upstream speed than I get from Time Warner Cable in NYC.

[Edit:] Before you give away the answer to my first question, apparently you can sell it for $410: http://www.techstreet.com/standards/ieee/802_22_2011?product...
What if the bitcoin wallet isnt on your laptop but in the cloud?
Rationally speaking, sure. If we replace 10% of jobs with computers running at 10% of the cost, that should mean that 9% of the workforce can now sit at home for all the economy cares.

The fact that it doesn't shake out this way in real life is quite straightforward to explain.
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"Before booking, AirBnB does not allow you swap personal information, primarily so you can't go outside their system to make your arrangements."

That would be a selfish act then. (But from a business point of view an understandable one.)

But on the other hand, I'm not sure what we would expect them to do? There simply isn't a way they can guarantee you don't get a nutter.

It's a gamble that you choose, you may win, you may lose.

I for one would not rent anything other than a steel box with a blow up matress on the floor that cost less that the rent I was charging.

But on the other hand I'd love to visit some of the places they have available. I'd treat those locations with the upmost of respect, but would be mindful of the fact any number of camera's could be filming me.

AirBnB is a fantastic idea, if people were not people.
This post is in the right direction and I applaud Brian for stepping up, but this has taken too long for this to happen. If you note in EJ's post, she states that she would not be compensated for any damages and she was on the hook. Airbnb didn't step up to the plate until it was posted on Techcrunch. This has been simmering since June and they really could have gotten ahead of this and handled this entirely different. Imagine had they come out in June and fessed up and said this is how we are going to handle it. EJ we are taking care of everything, we are instituting new policies, looking into insurance and we will have a dedicated 24 hour hotline for customer support. They would have set the precedent for how to handle these situations. Instead they did like everyone else and only dealt with it once it became a much larger issue.

/sidenote if I was Brian I would by no means be quoting EJ's blog post as proof to saying they handled this correctly. Because they didn't.
"* setup numerous honeypot ... tor gateways"

What would that achieve?
The Milgram Experiment doesn't indicate that it in any way threatened the participants for non-compliance, yet these people were willing to knowingly endanger someone else's life. I think why they were willing to do that lies more with the belief that the authority would take the blame rather than any reasonable fear of punishment from the authority.
One of the key things that Goldman has (as a hedge fund) is the ability to see what all their clients are doing. Because they really are a sell-side shop. Hedge Funds, OTOH, are used to being spokes, rather than hubs, and so don't expect to know what everyone else is doing.

Goldman's prop days are numbered (theoretically) with the new legislation that inhibits banks trading their capital so vigorously.
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Can we agree that the host here is at least partially responsible for what happened?

First, let me say that what happened was horrible, and the person who did the damage should go to jail for a long long time. AirBnB should cover the cost of all damages as a gesture of goodwill.

It's really a shame that this kind of stuff can happen, but the reality (that I'd hope most people understand) is that not 100% of the population is good and decent (maybe it's 99%, maybe it's 98%, but it's certainly not 100%) Given that every mature adult is aware of this, the way the host acted was pretty irresponsible and was kind of inviting disaster.

She literally left a key for a total stranger to her home, without doing ANY due-diligence. Someone basically sent her an email, and she said "okey-dokey, here's the keys, have fun." What are the odds that if you do that 50 or 100 times that something like this doesn't happen? Also, how many people would be careless enough to do that?

Seriously, it's pretty tragic what happened and I really feel for the host, but it rubs me the wrong way that AirBnB is getting this massive amount of bad press when in fairness they just posted a listing and handled the transaction. Could they have more security measures in place? sure, but the way the host acted, I'm really not convinced anything would have made a difference here.

If you give keys to your place to a random stranger without so much as meeting them or getting basic information about them, then you're going to get burned.
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It's a one liner. Once a page is loaded into the browser:

page.render(path_to_output);

I think it can save in PDF, GIF and PNG formats (it checks the extension on the filename to determine format)
If you don't think the people developing software have a direct impact on the rest of the human race, I just have no idea what human race you're talking about. Sure, cancer researchers don't have any use for the latest Node framework, but that doesn't mean their field doesn't benefit from new technology just like everyone else.
Here's what you see when you search the term "insurance" on airbnb.com: http://www.airbnb.com/help/search?q=insurance

Something like this would be more reassuring: http://support.getaround.com/kb/insurance-infractions/how-do...
None of this sounds like it addresses the underlying problem: you're relying on them to vet the guest yet you're the one with the most to lose if they get it wrong.
How ironic given that they built the business on spamming craigslist and circumventing users' requests to not be solicited.
You've got to be kidding me. Are you not aware of AirBnB's history and how they built their userbase?
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Don't kid yourself. Side projects can be done in your spare time. But a true startup will require full time dedication.
I know I'm not the first to suggest thing, but the name just sounds so creepy that I would never use this service. Yes, it is That Bad.
My co-workers have very diverse backgrounds - PhDs in bioinformatics all the way to folks with a BA in history.

They all seem to be hackers. So I would say, if you're already a hacker, you can probably find a way in somewhere given enough time regardless of your current degree level.

If you know you are going to head off to grad school, don't do another undergrad before. Many CS programs take on students who need a little remediation in math or CS background. I would guess that would be much more difficult for a MS program in biology.

You might even find that a MS in bioinformatics is the appropriate choice. There seem to be several of these programs floating around, they are multi-disciplinary to begin with, and if you can crank out a good GRE score, you can probably get in one without too much effort.

You will probably find it easier to break into the academic research world with at least a MS. But, I hear lots of buzz about commercial companies wanting to get into the sequencing business. Maybe you could just give yourself a crash course in python or ruby and a little biostatistics and sneak into one of those? Especially if you can find someone in your network already working in the field.

I recruited a friend to work with me who had a BS in history and a MBA (I teased him). But he was working in the software field already and I knew he would pick up the simple tech we were using to get work done.
like who has the highest price wins?
Unfortunately, no matter what safety mechanisms Airbnb puts in place, messes like this are still going to happen. Even if there were a reliable rating or karma system, and you could exchange messages with a potential renter before accepting them, you will still have the "Ebay problem" - where a malicious party gains access to a trusted user's account and uses it to fool people into renting to them.
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Why can they not be activists who seeking to increase the lulz?

Far better cause than saving whales or impeaching presidents.
Moving out to Seattle next week, would be great to meet some HN users
No, I did not. "As [pg] states, it was changed for me."
I want to believe that people are fundamentally good as well and there is definitely evidence that supports that.

But this incident has left a bad taste in my mouth, and their response hasn't made me feel any better. It's not like Ebay where if you have a bad experience, your loss is stemmed to the material good you have given away. On AirBnb, the potential harm in the worst case for both a guest and a host are massive -- total material loss or even rape or death.

I'm sure many people find value using their service, but after today, the risk is so clearly present that I don't think you can pay me to use it.
I once considered building a lakefront house limited to 6 feet wide by zoning restrictions. I'm delighted to see someone is implementing such a design.
People are always too afraid to air dirty laundry in public, because it might get them blackballed -- "you'll never raise money in this town again!", "you'll never get a job at a VC-backed firm", "we'll never do a deal with you again!", etc.

I can only think of one case off the top of my head where all the nasty details were revealed and all the names were named - the mid-2000s lawsuit by the epinions founders against Benchmark and August Capital, for similar 'let's wipe out the common' hijinks.

When the lawsuit became public, there was a ton of talk about how the lawsuit would ruin their careers, and they would never raise money again. But Naval Ravikant, one of the plaintiffs, seems to have done just fine. Mike Speiser, another one of the plaintiffs, also did pretty well for himself. Don't know what happened to the rest, but I'd be willing to bet they're still quite comfortably in startup land.

The consequences of naming names aren't as dire as you think they are. For the love of pete, if someone really shouldn't be funding entrepreneurs, tell us who it is.
"She literally left a key for a total stranger to her home, without doing ANY due-diligence. Someone basically sent her an email, and she said "okey-dokey, here's the keys, have fun.""

I don't use Airbnb from either side, but isn't the big problem here that you can't do due dilligence? As I understand it (and again, as a non-user maybe I am wrong), Airbnb pretty much blocks you from knowing too much about your temporary renter as a measure to avoid you using them as a match up service and then doing the deal directly to avoid paying them their fee.
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Uh, Buyah? :)

Do you know about http://LaunchUp.org? There's an awesome and growing startup scene here in Utah. I wonder how many people we could get for a meetup.

My CoFounder and I were part of the first group to go through Utah's startup incubator last year (http://BoomStartup.com). We made the jump to go full-time and we haven't looked back!

Check us out - http://iactionable.com - Our office is in Orem.
She pointed out in her post that AirBnB makes it close to impossible to do better checking on people, and she had the impression that this was because they were doing the vetting.
An activist need not be an effective activist to still be an activist.

PETA nailing people with red paint on the street is incredibly counter-productive to their cause. Hell, it probably actually increases sales of fur. They are still however activists.
Why does their valuation matter for the number of employees they should have?
As of 31st May, 2011 there were 67248 HN Users.

Source: http://hnarchive.in
I was thinking more like he carding and identity theft websites they've shut down, but sure
Depends on the type of moment... I like Lord Acton's exhortation to "judge talent at its best and character at its worst".[1]

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