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Try "is 100% responsible for"; if (in CA, USA) I decided to defy or ignore the zoning bureaucracy and open a gas station (or any "bricks and mortar" business within city limits), I think the 'crats would apply "corrective measures" (up to and including jail time) within days (if not hours or minutes). Although in practice, they'd notice long before that I was missing the multitudinous appropriate permits, and bring my efforts to a crashing halt.

As to why this most obvious explanation was missed: maybe the authors have thus far in their lives avoided contact with such bureaucracies?
Interesting. I live a short walk from what I believe is the narrowest current spite house in the US, in Old Town Alexandria, Washington DC. 7 feet wide and still proudly lived in. Nearby is +another+ spite house of the same period (post-federal).
I'm not even sure that the precedent it'd create is a big issue. They'd be as much paying to shutdown angles of bad press as anything else and this is so volatile because it's the first big story along these lines for them, it's beyond a basic theft and it's emotionally written. Future incidents probably won't contain those three elements.

Down the track, they can say "Sorry, that other time was a once-off, we have many T&C/suggestions that cover what's happened" and the victim is going to have to be unnaturally persistent with the press to create a story this damaging.
On Safety: A Word From Airbnb
I agree with the sentiment regarding the keywords. I tried for a few minutes to read your on-page copy and distill your products keywords but found it difficult. It could be that I'm not familiar enough with the space/problem that your service addresses. I'd be inclined to identify your competitors and the keywords for which they rank. If a set of keywords can be identified I'd then use Google Keyword Tool to determine a set of keywords to target (i.e. those that you have a shot at ranking well for).
I think you're both right. Like most major crises, this one occurred as a result of not one "bug," but two or more bugs occurring simultaneously.

The first "bug" arises from the fact that AirBnB is much like a pay-for-play dating service, with all of the flaws of that business model. They have to control communication between the parties to keep from being cut out of the revenue loop... which means that they indisputably need to accept some responsibility for conducting the due diligence that they forbid their users to conduct. That's expensive and risky at best, but if they don't step up to the responsibility -- which they don't -- then they don't deserve to succeed. A stolen credit card should not be enough to gain access to someone's home for a week. Cases like this provide the necessary publicity to call attention to the unfair bargain they offer hosts.

The second 'bug' was the almost unbelievable naivete on the part of the host. She was, or should have been, aware of the terms of AirBnB's service and the limitations of their liability, because she would have had to agree to those terms and limitations when she signed up. It shouldn't take a law degree to understand that AirBnB's terms are ridiculously inadequate when situations like this arise. The idea of turning over the keys to your home to someone you've never met, based on the inadequate assurances and warranties offered by AirBnB, sinks to the level of incompetence IMHO. Not everyone will agree, but come on... if what she did isn't "asking for it," then there's no such thing as "asking for it."

To me, it seems clear that the responsibility for allowing this incident to happen falls on the host's shoulders... but at the same time, AirBnB should not be lauded for trying to play it both ways. If they're going to do everything they can to prevent hosts and renters from doing ordinary due diligence on each other, then they also need to stand behind their decisionmaking process when they approve a renter. I think a mandatory insurance policy has got to be part of the answer, just as common sense on the host's part is also a requirement.
Someone mentally unhinged enough to kill his own mother clearly is a danger to society though, unless there was a strong case that she deserved it. In that case, sure. No sense in putting him in physical harms way by putting him in jail.

Imprisonment as a punishment is a horrendously barbaric concept, particularly considering the current state of the American prison system. White collar criminals, or any color collar, if not a physical danger to society, should never be sent into those hellholes.

Prisons should be used solely for isolation. People like Charles Manson clearly need to be detained. Treatment, where deemed possible and necessary, should be done in proper medical facilities. People who don't need treatment and are not a danger to society should be in neither.

If their crimes are financial, punish them financially. Strip them of their assets and garnish their wages. It works for deadbeat parents (who I absolutely oppose putting into prisons).
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The war is over patents, far above and beyond general competition. If that weren't the case, then we wouldn't have so many patent trolls, who have decided that it's more profitable to sue over patents than to actually make products and compete in a consumer marketplace. The Android smartphone vendors aren't just trying to shut out any potentially superior competitors from the market, they're spending billions on patents so that they can have a chance at a fraction of Apple's monstrous profits.
Assuming the 3 hot dog stands start out with spacing to allow for equal coverage, their positions are -2/3, 0, 2/3. Everyone gets 2/3, 1/3rd on each side.

The two on the outside have an incentive to move towards 0 because they can take more market share without losing any. The one in the middle does not want to move to either outside area until moving means he can have more market share than what he currently has.

If the rightmost player decided to move inward from 2/3 to 0.5, he'd have 0.75 market share (out of 2). The middle player would have 1/3 + 1/4 = 7/12 or 0.58. It still wouldn't be in his interest to become the rightmost player, as his upper market share limit would be 0.5 (a little less).

However, there's already an incentive to move to the right player's location, causing the locations to be (-2/3, 0.5, 0.5). The left player gets 1/3 + (2/3 + 0.5)/2 = 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/4 = 11/12 or 0.91. The remainder, 1.09, is split equally among the other two to 0.545 each. Only the left player has incentive to move at this point, since each of the right players stand to lose the right-side market by moving inward, or losing half the left-side market by moving outward.

The leftmost player has incentive to move inward now, and can do so until he takes enough market share from the other two that one of them can move to him and gain more. If they all did this and ended up at 0, they'd again have an equal 2/3rds. However, anyone can move slightly to one side or the other and increase his market share to nearly 1.

Looks like you're right. I would say there's "equilibrium behavior", though--the 3 players will oscillate between the boundaries [-2/3, 2/3], with someone frequently taking the same position as another.
boomerang is going to start charging a pretty hefty subscription fee ($5/um personal and $15/u/m business). this script is well timed.
All I'm saying is that the due diligence to prevent fraud is the same as the due diligence to ensure somebody won't burn down my house for fun. Whether or not they can meet the standard, that's what they should be doing.
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If you're spending more than 5-10% of your time typing, you might want to consider spending more time thinking, googling, or running tests.
App Script looks nice. Does anyone who's been hacking with it know if it should be easy to implement these other features I've been wanting:

Re-Ping: Add an additional field when composing an email that causes the email you're sending to appear in your own inbox in a given number of days if there's been no reply. (It prompts you to re-ping the person if they don't respond.)

Auto-expire: Type “eN” and the message will be automatically archived in N days. This is roughly the inverse of Snooze. Alarm clocks sometimes call this a Sleep feature where you can have the radio play for a certain amount of time and then automatically turn off. Here, if you get an email about some event in a couple weeks you can say “auto-expire 14” and it will stay in your inbox for 2 weeks, and then silently, automatically go away. It’s not that it takes much more time to clean up no-longer-relevant emails from your inbox once in a while. But when you get the email is when it has your attention. If you decide to leave it in your inbox you might as well schedule the archiving you’ll have to do in a couple weeks anyway.

More about the above features (plus Snooze) here:
http://messymatters.com/email
I've heard of 'price wars' between gas stations across from each other.
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Hey, it's where the serious folks live :)
This comment doesn't help:

'And that made me realize how helpful something like Munch On Me could have been to me in college'
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This is what education looked like here in the US when people still took it seriously.
Probably the best legacy of MS-DOS is the number of kids it
taught how to really use a computer.

When I got my first PC (486SX 33MHz FTW!) the ONLY way to run the best games was to get down & dirty with the command line.
Soon you'd learn how to edit autoexec.bat/config.sys and how to zip big files to span several 1.44MB disks.
Before you know it you're playing with BASIC, hex editing save game files & learning how to set up all sorts of ad-hoc networks with friends.
Then came Doom & DEU & things really took off…

Those of us that wanted to see the latest 'cool-shiny' stuff on our computer had no choice but to learn about the ugly innards, & we got pretty good at this 'hacker' stuff as a result ;)
Advice: work hard, learn a lot about a lot of different things. Network like hell. Networking will get you good breaks. It'll also help you recruit once you're running a team. This is vital. Keep a file of every smart person you ever meet in your whole life. You won't regret it.

I'd love to hear your advice on how to network.

I'm smart, I work hard, and I'm very willing to open discussions and help people out when I can. I try to be a good person. I don't know if this is "networking". I guess it is, but the truth is that I haven't a fucking clue if I'm doing it right. I know I can program, but I feel like technical skills are ultimately less important (past a certain point) than social skills. Technical skills hit a ceiling without vision, and vision is useless if you can't sell other people on it.
That was the big lesson I took away too. For many of us who are relatively young, it's valuable to be reminded that often we're surrounded by other players whose relationships go back much further than ours do. I've found that loyalties are often a lot stronger and less obvious than you may think.
I think it's better to save enough money for 6 months to a year, and then quit. This is what I did.

When you work a regular job, it's very difficult to switch your thought process from work to startup. Not to mention the fact that you will pretty much have no free time left over (which I need to be healthy and happy).

I tried to do both..and it just didn't work for me.
The only blessing is that the person renting the property did not return early. If she had and had caught the renters in the act, who knows what would have happened.
Yea that was Aaron Barr's attempt at 'exposing' anonymous after losing his job in disgrace.
I've been waiting for this feature for years. I hope they fully integrate it.

Great name.
I am reasonably certain (but would love to learn more) that a complete description of the strategy used by players in that game is as follows:

1) when squeezed, the middle player will move to just "outside" of the opponent further from a wall
2) otherwise, the player in the middle prefers to be in the middle of the middle (to hedge against new players or take advantage of stupid existing players)
3) an outside player in a good position will move to be directly next to the middle player
4) an outside player in a bad position will temporarily choose to be the middle player, and then /immediately/ choose between strategy #1 and #2

The only rule in this situation that causes player to not be directly next to another player is #2. The two outside players will then either a) invoke rule #3 to put all three players next to each other or b) invoke rule #4 to move all the players closer together. The middle player, when squeezed, just uses rule #1 to move next to another player.

In essence, it is my belief that there will be no stable configuration of the players for this game (unlike the two player case, where "next to each other in the center" is stable), but that at all times the players will be clustered together while they shuffle themselves.
They already have a small business product:

https://www.dropbox.com/teams
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There are a number of browser extensions out there that do this. G+Me and gpMin to name a couple.

Note: I wrote gpMin.

Edit: I hope that didn't come across as condescending or short. I just wanted to let you know there are a number of good extensions already out there that will do what you're looking for and provide extra benefits.
> Creating a dedicated Trust & Safety department.

This sure is where things start to get tricky in managing the organizational growth of a company. Something like this happens and the reaction is to create a new department. That's understandable and demonstrates commitment to tackling the issue at hand. But then another adverse event (inevitably) happens and people will complain complain that the "Trust & Safety" department was isolated from the rest of the company and that those topics now have to get mainstreamed (or insert other buzzword) across the whole company.

Just one of the many challenges that comes with great success.
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If you live in the second driest state in the US with the most saline inland sea this side of planet earth AND you're a hacker/aspiring hacker can get a "Buyah!"?
It depends. I feel like a lot of dev. tools compensate for illnesses in software engineering that should be cured in a way that doesn't depend on one's environment.

For example, apparently Java doesn't totally suck if one uses the appropriate tools and environment. But Ocaml and Haskell are great regardless of whether one uses vi, emacs, or whatever else. Ocaml, for example, has this great static analysis tool far more powerful than all but the most premium SA tools for C++ and Java-- the compiler.
We've considered expanding into this realm in the future. We will probably launch next weekend. Senotable.com.
I like that Etgar Keret is going to be the first resident.

One of his stories is called Malffunction, it's about a keyboard with a stuck "F" key.

http://books.google.com/books?id=un6rKAjevT4C&pg=PA87...
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Some tools are really important; agreed. Languages are a huge fucking deal. Monstrous. I can name one startup that failed because it chose the wrong language when it started, and that "wrong language" wasn't even a bad one-- just the wrong one for the kind of work they were doing (dynamically typed, in a domain where even extremely infrequent errors are unacceptable).
> Update (from Tech Crunch): I spoke with Brian Chesky. He says the company has offered “to assist financially, find new housing for the host, and anything else she can think of to make her life easier.” He says they intend to “go above and beyond” to make the situation right for her.

Good man.
You copied the part of gparent's post that referred to game theory, not zoning.
> If the rightmost player decided to move inward from 2/3 to 0.5, he'd have 0.75 market share (out of 2).

This move would not have been made by theoretically optimal players: if he had moved from 2/3 to 0+ instead he would have had 1 market share (out of 2).

> Only the left player has incentive to move at this point, since each of the right players stand to lose the right-side market by moving inward, or losing half the left-side market by moving outward.

The middle player actually has an incentive to move to the center of the board for the same reason that the original player in the two player case had an incentive to choose the middle of the board (despite having monopoly).

> If they all did this and ended up at 0, they'd again have an equal 2/3rds. However, anyone can move slightly to one side or the other and increase his market share to nearly 1.

In this configuration the two players on the outside would actually each have ~1, leaving the player in the middle ~0. If we call these positions using formats like 0-, 0, and 0+, the 0 player will move to 0++, causing either the 0- player to move to 0 and the 0+ player to move to 0--.

Now we have 0--, 0, and 0++. Now, the 0++ player will move to 0+, and the 0 player will move to 0++, leaving the 0-- player to move to 0-. The 0+ player will move to 0--, the 0++ player will move to 0, and the 0- player will move to 0+. "Finally", the 0-- player will move to 0-.

I am pretty certain that this algorithm does not terminate.
Yes, correct. She said that it wouldn't constitute an admission of liability, just a bad precedent that could easily be abused.
I am relieved that this individual is alright. Just imagine if she had returned home early and decided to check in or something and found the individuals in the act. Who knows what the reaction would be. I'm happy it's (mostly) just things that have been lost. What if she would have returned early and been murdered for witnessing something she wasn't supposed to? It seems like airbnb has a huge exposure here and if this woman doesn't attempt to cash out on airbnb, i would expect to see a case where that does happen. They are a very ripe target.
I think his point is that by doing this we are simply treating the symptom (breach in security), and not the cause (unsound security measures). It appears to me as "security theater" in every sense that I understand the phrase.
The professionals in the insurance industry specialize in estimating the risk associated with any endeavor. Innovation, especially disruptive innovation, is extremely risky in the beginning and is almost always perceived to be riskier than it is. This does not mean that it will stay risky forever and perceptions certainly change. Innovations that go mainstream become progressively less risky.

If you'd like a specific example, consider that insurance companies in 48 states can and will likely cancel insurance policies of anyone who rents their car to another individual, even if they hold a separate insurance policy to cover it[1]. This means that the tens of millions of cars sitting in garages would never be shared even if a startup decided to insure those doing peer to peer sharing.

GetAround, which won the TechCrunch Disrupt audience prize last year, or RelayRides which does the same thing, would never have started if they followed this rule. It's a bit early to claim that they have changed the world for the better, but I am optimistic they will.

I think what I said may be somewhat pithy but I certainly wasn't being glib.

[1] http://travel.usatoday.com/news/2011-06-17-personal-car-shar...
From these efforts, I get the impression that AirBnB really epitomizes the Be Good argument (where Don't be Evil isn't enough)[1]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/good.html
There continues to be a major point of conflict between EJ's concerns and AirBnB's position. In fact, the point of conflict is actually within AirBnB's safety policies itself:

1 - Private messaging that lets users learn about each other prior to booking, without revealing private information

2 - Reservation system that allows hosts to accept or decline guests, giving them complete control over who books their space

I'm sorry, but that just isn't consistent - which is, I believe, a major point EJ is trying to get across.

How can you have "complete control over who books [your] space" while not "revealing private information." It's so blatantly inconsistent that it just comes out sounding like marketing drivel.

The fundamental issue, as I see it, is that as long as private information is withheld, you not only have very limited control, it also simply isn't safe.

What are AirBnB's reasons for blocking the exchange of private information? Is it their form for DRM? Or is there really a good reason that isn't about protecting AirBnB's revenue stream?
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It's not unreasonable to suspect that a user in the Shetlands Isles might have had a POP in Sweden, or use of a connection in Sweden to host a remote box with a better connection than available to them normally.
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Aircraft carriers are amazing at projecting soft power, but I wonder if getting heavily invested in them is sort of "fighting the last war"?
As someone who has watched the silicon alley scene for just about twenty years I'd love to see NYC get a real tech university that was on the level of an MIT or Stanford.
This is a photo of the closet: http://i51.tinypic.com/2v96u61.jpg.

This doesn't look particularly welcoming, and there's no norm at MIT that suggests it's okay to enter locked IS&T wiring closets.

Also, FYI, this warning is on pretty much every door of the Institute: http://i51.tinypic.com/23hlsft.jpg
Sidenote: One has to wonder why doesn't gas buddy make their map interface better. They must realize that no matter where you look the prices overlap.
Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm looking for remote work primarily, though I have applied to many local non-startups. I'm currently in New England, but previously lived and worked in San Francisco at venture-backed startups.
I just got a Galaxy S2 and it's a really good phone. I've shown it to iPhone users and they were impressed by the quality of the screen and the fact that it's so light.

The DLNA App is really cool, you can broadcast your movies, pictures, etc. from your phone to windows media player without configuring anything. Really useful to show short clips filmed with the phone.

Sorry to sound like a fanboy, but I think this phone will, like you said, really give the iPhone a run for its money.
So, I'm still not entirely clear on this - did you change the post title?
Before booking, AirBnB does not allow you swap personal information, primarily so you can't go outside their system to make your arrangements. There are both financial and community-building reasons for this.

Once the payment has been made (well before the guest arrives), the host gets access to all of the private information of the guest. I believe they could chose to rescind the offer of hospitality at this point -- they haven't received the money, so if they are uncomfortable with the individual, they can still do something about it.

I know this is an emotional issue, but their response was hardly "blantantly inconsistent ... marketing drivel."
If he had gone to say the paypal homepage and diddled around all day then he would have had the same impact as a sit-in. Instead he simulated the traffic of thousands of people. That's not comparable to a sit-in.
Name.com (one of the registrars mentioned in the blog post) offers two-factor authentication: http://www.name.com/services/namesafe. It's one of the reasons I really like them as a registrar :-)