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Hundreds of comments and votes. But I have not seen an apology from AirBnB on HN. Perhaps I missed it, but they should be everywhere.

Why don't they understand this? Why are they not incredibly active on this and other forums? Have they no conscience? Do they really not care? Is this really still seen by them as a PR problem rather than a a horrible event that they at least partially enabled and thus should feel terrible about and seek to help the victim in any and all ways they can?

The success of eBay, a P2P business, was initially driven by its community, and members treated each other with respect and were happy to trade with each other. AirBnB is behaving as if it doesn't care about its community, its customers.

Is that the death knell sounding? Perhaps.
To me the only recourse now is a new person or team at the top, folks that actually live the desired values of the company.
I just don't think that's a fair characterization. Obviously right in the midst of the police's own investigation airbnb's lawyers advised them not to make characterizations that would get ahead of the investigation. PG wanted to make that clear, and the news coverage wouldn't let that rest.
Also, consider The Well Grounded Java Developer which is now in Manning's Early Access Program (http://www.manning.com/evans/).
This is someone who thought it was a good idea to rent out their home (not just their property, their home) for a whole week, unattended, to a total stranger. The biggest mistake Airbnb have made is not overly trusting their travellers, but also their hosts.
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For the fucking win.
Yea man we live for this shit!
grow a sense of humor.
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It isn't a selling point for the customer. It is a selling point for the vendor, which is frankly much more important than user experience when it comes to getting phones in hands.

Tech nerds need to stop thinking that UX is anything more than at best a bonus when it comes to a platform's success.
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Just in case anyone cares because I did the research on this a few weeks ago (including watching its creator say it numerous times) it's S-Q-L-Lite. Yeah, that seems like a duplication of the L but there you have it.
I played with it -- integration is very good, mirroring the Java API quite well.

I would still use Java directly on Android though.

I do agree with the author that Android's SDK is a little complicated, but it has good reasons for it and whenever I choose new platforms I take it as a given that I have to make an effort to learn it.

I don't see much value in bitching that the learning curve is steep, when once you get to know the platform it becomes easy to make it do what you want -- in general I bitched about Java frameworks because power and ease of use are completely missing, even once you learn them properly, but that's not the case with Android.

And as far as iOS development goes, I work on apps more complicated than drawing Hello World with a couple of buttons -- and to me Android is better because it allows me to do mostly whatever the hell I want; compared to iOS where I always ask myself "is this even possible"?
I think it refers to somewhere between "back-end wizard" and "front-end ninja"

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... attempts made, incredibly, OVER THE PHONE!

Nothing incredible there - had these attempts been made in writing/email then there would be no arguing about what was/was not said.

Lesson: Do your shady dealing in person. Failing that, do it with an unscheduled phone call.
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I was really hoping to see some good comparison here, but all it manages to say is that node is great at handling concurrent requests, Apache/PHP is slower but just fine, and a single threaded server (in Python here) isn't suitable.
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Yup, they have real people employed by, and working in Luxembourg.
You would have a factual point if AirBnB prominently displays on relevant pages "We assume you are not stupid enough to rent out your primary residence. Make sure you don't since we are NOT in the insurance business and take NO responsibility for any damages".
I haven't researched this topic at all, but gut-feeling: it will be very hard. Here are the three scenarios:

1). A central listing of business exists that can be crawled for service/product, location and opening hours information.

2). All local stores have sites that can be crawled for the information directly.

3). Only a small number of stores have that information online and would would have to get that information from the "manually".

I don't know about case 1, case 2 is a no-brainer (not all stores have websites) and for case 3: I think it would be a nightmare. Even if you do get this information initially you must make sure it is constantly up to date, etc. You must make sure all stores exist and offer what you say they offer, etc...

The moment I get out of my apartment at 2am and find out I just walked four blocks and the stores doesn't exist anymore, I will no longer use your service.
It's amazing to me how polarized the comments are even here on HN where the debate is usually very balanced.

Obviously we know very little about what's going on behind the scenes right now. There are conflicting messages coming from all sides.

I am not saying that EJ is lying. But calling AirBnB are completely cynical and lacking any sense of PR seems incongruent with the skills they have otherwise shown and also with the empathy that they at least managed to convey in interviews etc.
Oh if only that were even remotely realistic, what a wonderful world this would be, full of love and joy and happiness, instead of the miserable, hate filled and self destructive reality we actually live in.

Adlai Stevenson said it best: When a supporter told him he "had the vote of the thinking man", he replied "Thank you, but I need a majority to win."

It's funny because it's true. It's also very very sad, because it's true. The vast majority of the voting public are idiotic to the point of absurdity. Let's take a trip down memory lane and look at some of the mind numbingly stupid things many and most of the american electorate believe/believed.

Health Care reform = Death Panels & Socialism

Bill Clinton was/is a serial killer.

Gay Marriage is immoral

Al Gore claimed to invent the internet.
Al Gore invented the internet.

18% of people believe Obama is a muslim. That's up 7 points on the previous year.
34% of people DON'T know that Obama is a Christian.

45% of republicans believe Barrack Obama was born outside of the United States.

99% of republicans believe John McCain was born IN the United States.

Global warming is a myth/hoax.

There is a god.

I'll save the best till last. The following are all conscious lies, that came out of the mouths of US politicians, and were believed by significant amounts, if not the majority of the US electorate:

Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11

Iraq and al-Qa'ida were working together

Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa

Iraq was trying to import aluminium tubes to develop nuclear weapons

Iraq had WMDs

Iraq had missiles that could reach the UK

Saddam Hussein had the wherewithal to develop smallpox

US and British claims were supported by the IAEA inspectors

Iraq was obstructing the inspectors

Iraq could deploy its weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes

Troops would face chemical and biological weapons

Iraq's oil money would go to Iraqis

And the coup de grâce!

WMD's were found in Iraq, or to quote Bush precisely from may 30th 2003: "Those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons - they're wrong. We found them."

All lies, every single one of them. You see, here's the rub: The truth doesn't matter one teeny tiny incy wincy little bit. No where on the face of this planet do electorates vote on truth, or even policy. They have no long term memory. And heaven forbid they ever change because it would be impossible to win a majority if they did.

All the republicans want to do is destroy Barrack Obama. There's no plan B, they have no idea what they would do if they did destroy him and they don't care how much damage they do in the process. It's a scorched earth policy. But if they do force a default and ruin the global economy, come the next election it wont matter whose fault it was because that wont be the story. The story will be whatever the republicans want it to be. It will be a lie, and things will be so bad, people will be so angry, that they'll believe it.
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I admit, I was being trite, but it's a good bet.
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It's also possible he thinks he is acting in good faith. It's possible that AirBnB gave a different story to PG, when he asked what was going on, and they complained about how the press was misrepresenting them. PG then blogs their excuses, having taken them as gospel.

I'm really surprised how definitive PG sounds. He's not saying "The CEO reassured me in a private chat ...", he's acting like he was a fly on the wall, and saw it all take place.
The criminals already know everything about her (real name, likely her social security number, etc), what on earth does she have to lose by "extremely public" blogging?
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It depends a lot on the complexity of queries.

Implementing a B-tree is not easy but no black magic either (I did it for my diploma theses). Same for a hash join. And these two things are really all you need to have reasonable performance for simple selects and joins on tables of almost any size.

But if your queries get more complex, the query execution plan starts to make a huge difference - and a query optimizer is black magic, as anyone who's wrestled with Oracle's can attest. I doubt SQLite can compete in that area.
At this burn rate, it's more like 3 days...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/treasury-cash-drops-15-billion...
No, the biggest mistake AirBnB has is not following PR 101 - get all the bad facts out at once, then start spinning up some positive stories. Feed reporters a narrative, and give them lots of headlines to use, or they will start thinking of ones themselves.

Day 1: A woman had her house trashed by a rogue guest. We do not believe we are legally responsible for this. All AirBnB users, while this is an isolated incident, please take care when taking in guests, especially if they are new users. See our guide to safer AirBnB here...

Day 2: We are working with the police, and have turned over all details relevant to the case. We are also in talks with the unfortunate host, seeing what we can do to help her with through this difficult time. If you wish to leave a supportive note to here, please leave it here:

Day 3. As we have stated, we do not believe we are liable for these actions. However, we overhauling our safety information, and offering support to the victim.

...

Really, it's not hard. OK, it is hard if you think you did no wrong, and everyone should see it from your point of view.
This is the kind of situation that leads to 'Keep away from fire' labels being added to t-shirts.

To me renting your home to a stranger and then failing to check up on them for an entire week is incredibly naive. 10 year old naive.
I don't care if airbnb said that they would provide 100% insurance, I would still not do this, it is simply against how I know the world works.
And don't tell me about the 'good human being assumption', this is a fairytale, anyone making that assuption will get burned sooner or later.
InnoDB. I understand your support viewpoint but both of those dbs are opensource thereby leaving support open. From what I understand when the support comes into play is when you can sue the other party for not providing the service expected but there is company support for mysql and postgres so that still leaves me in the dark and I have never experienced corruption issues with either. Though my db experience is limited and I don't claim to be an expert.
As everyone keeps telling you, you can't attribute that vandalism to mental health problems. It may be the case but you don't know. I guess you need counter examples to stop saying it:

1. Drugs

2. Thieves who knew/thought they'd get away with this, thus
also wrecked the place (Occam's Razor will suggest this)

3. As you mentioned yourself - revenge or bad PR.
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I suppose you are right, if the game were facebook and you could buy a $50 dongle that has facebook and netflix people would probably only run that game.
Let's be blunt: when there's a fire, the first thing that's required is to contain it. They failed at containing their public presence to a specific website/social network and now there are little flame wars sprouting everywhere and no way to adress every opinion.

Unfortunately, I believe the best option at this point for AirBnB is to do nothing about it for this specific case, and brace for the next impact by preparing the field in advance (centralize comments in order to assimilate and answer public questions).

This story should not be bigger than what's happened/happening to the victim - and that's huge enough already. Make her feel better first, then see what you can do about your "image". Tell your side of the story in one place and be receptive for critics. Something good can come out of this mess, but they won't find it if they think hiring more people to monitor/participate in more forums on the internet is a solution.
yes but I'd argue apple is right when they say don't make springboard UIs (which they did @ WWDC). Think about it. If a user opens up a program in windows, and he get another UI that looks like windows, he would be very confused.
This might now end up affecting not only Airbnb but also the image of Ycombinator and pg.

Also the important issue here is not just the (terrible) handling of this specific incident by Airbnb but the fact that it puts into question their entire business model: Is it really smart to rent out your personal residence to a complete stranger? Does the potential benefit($$$) outweigh the significant risks(being completely violated)? Yes, they could put in some more checks but will that be enough to make people feel SAFE?

Personally I think the risk is too high and the problem will only become worse as the service tries to expand to more customers and scammers become more aware of it. That nice "guest" may simply be casing the joint, copying your keys and snooping in your mail. Who needs that risk?
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I was just skimming through their docs and came accross this:

>One major drawback with Advanced Integration is that anyone can see the HTML code for your "Buy Now" buttons, which means that a third-party can tamper with the item variables and make fraudulent payments if they so choose. [1]

Um, no... wtf?

[1] https://dev.alertpay.com/en/integration-tools/html-integrati...
I use instapaper for stuff like that.
IIRC, "PathFinder" for OS X has that feature.
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I dont't think this puts their business model into question at all. In fact you just described what they might do to improve, by making risk mitigation part of their model (offering to sell insurance of some kind, options for getting verified or pre-screened etc.)
The button is pointless, but the feature isn't.

Whenever I type something into the search box and see that the result I was looking for is the first one in the auto-suggest (and on the results page), I just have to hit the right-arrow key and use the "I'm feeling lucky" feature to go there directly.
This is one of the most likely stories.

However, there is alternative that looks possible(not knowing enough about the story to feel sure about the truth) which is that our victim has lied through her teeth in pursuit of Payout From BigCo - entirely possible given Airbnb's current prominence, and given the wildly over-the-top nature of the story we've been told(worst guests ever, worst service ever, etc). The Airbnb team recognized it for what it is, and chose to fight it. So now they have to battle their way through the bad PR.
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Screw it, I'm psyched! It's a great time to be a mobile developer! I was going to write a whole response regarding iOS vs Android until I realized the debate is like religion or politics. Currently both platforms are great and only getting better with each iteration. I'm developing for both platforms and loving it. Just in the latest iterations look at what we can do.

iOS
* AirPlay - My phone will be my gaming console and media center, genius!
* iCloud - Good, no more transferring files back and forth.
* CoreImage & AVFoundation - 30 lines of code to add video editing and filters to my application, sounds good!
* GLKit - High-level 3D libraries for a game developer noob like me. I'm in!
* TwitterAuth - I'm still going to integrate FB authentication but this is cool too.

Android
* Ice Cream Sandwich - No more fragmentation. Unifies hundreds of devices (not just phones). Brand new UI library. I can't wait!
* ADK - My home, car, and toaster will soon be at my mobile command while giving me status updates. This is so awesome! I foresee Android powered cleaning robots in the future.
* Face-tracking - So my phone can recognize me and focus in on my face and voice automatically. This sounds like fun.
* USB Host - I can plug anything USB into my Android phone. Hot damn!
Mmm, he's showing a bit of lack of journalistic integrity here. He should have quoted himself and maybe mention the possible mis understanding.

Right now it seems that the whole situation is full or misunderstanding due to massive lack of communication between the people who are actually involved. EJ, AirBnB and SFPD seem to not be exchanging what they know very well. That was echoed in EJ's 2nd post where she says that the police might be giving different info to AirBnB and what not.
190cm 98kg. Not feeling fat at all. Dangerous assumptions here. Weight only tells you how much somebody weight's that's it.
I believe the answer to the question "what can AirBnb do?" is really only somewhere deep within the subconsciousness of the victim, and can't be found in a book, nor on an internet forum. Just move your butt and go ask her in person what she needs. Chances are, the first things the victim needs is in the likes of a roof and some emotional council - a cup of coffee, a discussion, a phone number and maybe a few hundred bucks for immediate expenses can help pave the way for the next steps, which are damage assessment and recovery.

It's cheap, considerate and probably much more effective than a simple "sorry" press release. And it has nothing, nothing to do with legal responsibility/liability at this point. When someone is distressed enough to ask specifically for my help, it's the kind of things I'd eagerly do, whether it's my fault or not.
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Diversionary tactics. Not admirable but I'll still be impressed if he pulls it off.
I think the point is, they should have been made in person.
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Couldn't agree with you more. I started off doing iphone dev part time just over a year ago. Since then, I've managed to quit my job, become a full time indie developer, and travel the world. The opportunities for independent developers in the mobile space are just incredible right now. I'll have my first android app coming out in a few weeks too. To quote some 90s hip hop, "damn, it feels good to be a gangsta"
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> Why, if, as you say, airbnb was being as helpful as possible from the get-go, did the victim write that second post?

Speculation:

Airbnb offered money and support if she agreed not to sue them and not to feed the press the negative story about the service. She refuses to commit to this, they refuse to pay her without it. None of the two parties wants to be transparent about this part of communication. Technically, no one lied.
Hearing about that guy getting arrested for "transmitting porn online" makes me wonder how many people are going to jail right now because of Internet-related laws that will be proven to have been absurd, 15 years from now?
Your post is a bit cynical. Most people are good in most interpersonal matters. This doesn't mean that you should take the gamble, however, on something as personal and important as your primary residence. We should recognize that while most people will not trash your home if you let them stay there without any supervision for a whole week, some people will. I don't know the exact proportion, but even if the chance is small, you may want to think carefully about whether you want to take that chance.

It's important to have a belief that most people are not looking to screw up your life specifically. It's also important to not be so naive that you take dangerous gambles, like the ones made in EJ's story. Better safe than sorry.

There's an important equilibrium to be struck here.
Sometime ago i watched a video, a panel directed by Arrington and said to myself "how could PG like this guy"(i see the Arrington way) because PG said this several times. TC really supportive and give good reviews for Ycom startups so its normal to say that i think.

But for this event TC is a bit prolonging the situation. Why not talking millions of happy transactions instead of a unlucky bad one? In 2011 bad news still sells.
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