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I selected "I've used Airbnb and I will keep using them" because I have found spaces to live at for a few days but haven't actually lived in them yet. I will be pretty soon, though.

Everyone I've been in contact with seems very nice and understanding and I'm pretty satisfied with it all thus far. I'm hoping everything works out. I might be SOL otherwise, i.e. spending a hell of a lot more money than planned.

It was only a matter of time before an incident like the one EJ had became a reality. I'm sure there will be more, but that's the nature of this beast. Out of the 2 million places that have been booked, I think having one or two be fuck ups is great. If it stays like this, or becomes >= 1 for every 2 million, I will continue using Airbnb or similar services.

Most people are nice and trustworthy, but there will always be the handful psycho/sociopaths that make a good thing go awry.
Whoop, that's carelessness (or extraordinary good fortune?) on my part. I didn't mean to imply an actual Greek suffix, I was using -o as a theoretical example.

However, just glancing again at Wikipedia I see that "In Modern Greek Ω represents the same sound as omicron". So actually this is a perfect example of the native speaker's bias I'm talking about. You can't tell those suffixes apart in speech because of spelling, you can tell them apart because of context— but you're so used to conceptualizing them as fundamentally different, it didn't even occur to you that to a non-native they sound the same.

It's also worth noting also that headlines follow their own peculiar grammar rules which make them unusually prone to forming garden path sentences— lots of native speakers get confused sometimes too. ESL courses cover headlines specifically, since their grammatical structure is so opaque: http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/4r46-headline-engl...

Don't take any of this as a criticism of your broader point— I'm willing to grant there are levels of ambiguity, and English with its highly lexicalized grammar — and especially Headline English with its nearly absent explicit grammar — is definitely up there on the scale. I just wanted to point out that no matter how we analyze them, all languages are natural to parse for native speakers and awkward to parse for non-native speakers— that's not related, or is only vaguely related, to their intrinsic ambiguity.
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Believe me, I'm pursuing that route as well.
Ask HN: What are You Doing to Prepare for a Possible U.S. Default? 
A U.S. default is sometimes depicted as unimaginable, but as the debate between Republicans and Democrats intensifies regarding how to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, it becomes obvious that the two parties have a certain ego and are unwilling to make concessions to each other. A default may, after all, be possible...

Therefore, what are you doing, as an individual, to prepare for such a scenario? Are you looking to diversify your dollar-based assets into other assets? Evaluating potential risks to your company? Stockpiling food? Or nothing?
I assure you, vastly more sketchiness existed among founders in 1996-2000 (mainly, the MBA types) than either web 2.0 boom 1.0 (2004-2007) or now.
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Good point, I will get on this. Is it bad form to repost once I have a video?
Where is "I haven't used Airbnb before and I never will (because it seems obvious that there is at least a small chance that I might end up with some nutcase in my house)"?
Very simple, reviews and ratings are very important for anywhere I book. If it is AirBnb, which I've used twice in the last 4 months -- once in the city, once in Amsterdam, and I have an upcoming visit in Prague. I look for a track record of decent reviews.

If I am booking a hotel, I hit tripadvisor before booking any hotel. The internet is very helpful for this sort of thing and that is something that people used to rely on guide books for (Lonely Planet and Let's Go guides come to mind).

The current situation in the news is a reason while I will never open my house to a similar situation. If I were to rent out a room, I would make sure someone was around. If it was the whole house, it would be set up as a rental not as my personal home.
Somehow I'm reminded of a paragraph in pg's essay "How to Start a Startup":

"I was great at customer support though. Imagine talking to a customer support person who not only knew everything about the product, but would apologize abjectly if there was a bug, and then fix it immediately, while you were on the phone with them. Customers loved us. And we loved them, because when you're growing slow by word of mouth, your first batch of users are the ones who were smart enough to find you by themselves. There is nothing more valuable, in the early stages of a startup, than smart users. If you listen to them, they'll tell you exactly how to make a winning product. And not only will they give you this advice for free, they'll pay you."

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

There is other good advice for startups in this essay.
How about an option: "I've never used Airbnd, don't care about this event, and have been flagging the excessive number of articles about them."?
Curious what you mean about cross-domain scripting rules and safety. Normally, loading a third-party script via a script tag lets that script do anything the page can do, which makes it decidedly unsafe.

Personally, I greatly prefer the iframe.
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Article is incorrect about Microsoft. They still offer $0. The 250k is a bounty on turning in criminal botnet owners.
You say that like it's an excuse for the current behavior.
but it is a natural consequence of one, right? [i am asking; it seems like it might be, but i have no technical insight]
If your average sea creature could read, they would be ecstatic about any development reducing engine/wake noise... it's getting too noisy out there.
TL:DR:

Paul mourns

" a not-too-distant past where technology entrepreneurs created things to make the world a better or more interesting place, not just because they wanted to make a billion dollars."

And this is in the past because:

"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."

And finally:

"In the final analysis, a billion dollars isn’t actually all that cool. What’s cool is keeping your soul, whatever the financial cost."

Sometimes Paul has an interesting insight, but it's buried so deep in multiple layers of ranting that it's impossible to get there without a significant amount of willpower and spare time.

Please feel free to insert the "short letter" quote here...

EDIT: and please do feel free to add a comment why you are downvoting my comment.
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We've reach the "endless September". How can something that has been on the front page all day, and is still there, keep getting resubmitted.

Read the front page for 20 minutes before submitting.
I'd hope you wouldn't do business on just 1 confirmation. It'd be fairly easy to spoof.
There's a huge difference to being a renter and the person renting out the place. Every story questioning AirBNB as a service I've seen has failed to differentiate from being a landlord and a renter.

Even before this, I would not have rented out my apartment. But I see much lower risks to renting others' apartments - especially when I can choose to rent only places with a lot of positive reviews.

Some may shy away from renting out their place after this, absolutely. But on the tenant side, people who would have considered renting but will no longer consider are either shunning AirBNB's reaction or illogical.
Any comment that has a downward change in score must have been downvoted. Can't you see the scores of your own comments? I thought each user could see his or her own comment scores when logged in.

In the extreme case, any user can tell if a comment has negative karma, because the comment starts to gray out. No comment receives downvotes for more than twenty-four hours.
just curious have you contributed to open source? If you have how did you get started with little experience?
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It's true, Craig Newmark is definitely the coolest founder.
"Secondly, I’m growing extremely tired of America’s prude culture."

America is a very big country. Here in NYC, I don't see much evidence of a "prude culture". I think you may be overgeneralizing.

Also, if I were to go to your home country and make some sweeping negative statement about your culture, do you think it would go over well, or would I be dismissed as being just an arrogant and ignorant American? Think about it.
A comment that broadly accuses the HN community of jealousy, and questions the motives of everyone commenting, is the most intelligent comment you've seen about this?

Actually, it is. Nobody here should be making personal attacks or accusations without knowing the full story. And nobody here knows the full story, yet everyone feels entitled to act as Airbnb's PR team. It reminds me of the redesign attempts where the guy comes in and says "here's what you should do!" and they don't really understand why the decisions were formed or what lead up to them. Weren't we just here with Groupon and Yelp being ripped apart for supposedly being involved in extortion? It turned out to be a bunch of flailing business owners who were on their way down, Groupon and Yelp were just the catalyst. For every one of those complaints, you can find another happy business owner who says those companies have helped them tremendously. What do we see now? This woman is pissed off, and you can see another person who had the same problem happen to his apartment. Everything stolen, horrible experience. With meth addicts. Exact same story, Airbnb settled, he's happy and using Airbnb again.

Airbnb has no financial obligation to this woman. Yet we all still feel entitled to let them know how to run their business because of what happened to one of their customers, and with hardly any information. As if that's bad enough, some people have gone as far as calling Brian psychotic. I hope you realize how absurd that sounds to those of us who know him.
Ivanhoe was quite an eye-opener, I genuinely had no idea Europe was so strongly anti-Semitic during that period.
Unfortunately you are correct, we are not really sequencing the genome. We are simply reading short segments of DNA, and comparing that to a reference sequence to find point mutations (eg. changes from G to C). We cannot easily determine whether there are large-scale duplications with the present technology. Ironically, the older, more expensive tech was better at this.

There is so much variation missed by "genome sequencing" that it is no surprise to me that we can only explain a tiny percentage of heritable human variation with genetics.

See:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7265/full/nature0...
for more.
I don't know. I'm not sure if it's been proven one way or another. Hopefully someone with more insight comes along. I remember Gentry's scheme working this way, but I'm not sure if all fully homomorphic ones do. Some of the partially homomorphic ones don't, I think.

Edit: Someone with more insight came along. This post explains the real issue going on here much better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827465 Read that one instead.
It's not like I'm a copyright lawyer. If I'm misunderstanding something, enlighten me. If it's that huge and obvious, it won't take much of your time. "That's a stupid question" is a useless response.

If they don't pay up, why can't you assert copyright and block them from having the material hosted? I assume it wouldn't work in all cases, but why wouldn't it help in those where another party is doing the hosting?
The lady doth protest too much, no? The guy is using Redis as a buffer to what ultimately ends up just being a central log file. You know. rsyslog. None of the fancy things you have in mind. Which brings me to the same point someone's already made: using Redis buys you nothing, even if you had a more involved use case in mind.

Saying that he can do something by subscribing to an event in Redis is sorta silly, isn't it? You could just as easily tail the logs, as many systems actually built for this purpose do. Once again, there are already things in *nix for this.

The reality is, this is a janky, nubile solution to an already well-solved problem that is now getting thousands of views because of HN and antirez tweeting about it. Instead of learning the correct way of doing things, I bet a bunch of inexperienced developers are now going to say "BOY THIS IS SWELL" and cut themselves a nice fat chunk of technical debt for the not-that-far-off future.
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The posters further down have it exactly right. It was one part joke, one part showing that I read programming blogs, and one part "yes, I really do know how to program, unlike people who fail FizzBuzz."
Really awesome. It's on my page already
The point was that he doesn't need to know the founders and companies that well - asking the woman to take down her blog post or change it was a sleezy move.

Carr is saying that they could be awesome people but that they clearly lost their way here. Unless you think the woman is a complete liar...which I for one - with incomplete information, do not.
It's a kind of stupidity I myself have fallen prey to in the past. One of the things I learned from being one of the earliest users of reddit is how easy it is to let indignation cloud one's judgment. Time after time I'd be led into angrily upvoting some story, only to learn later that things were not at all as they seemed initially.

After many years of being faked out, I gradually learned to reserve judgment when my indignation buttons were (intentionally or unintentionally) being pressed, but I still had incomplete information.
I would illustrate some hardship that company had to go through in the past and say: "I don't apply to companies who had to go through this hardship in the past". Good companies would not have had that problem to begin with.

The problem is that employed people ARE desirable to unemployed people. Just as younger employees are desirable to old ones.
What current behavior? Can you be specific?
I have NO opinion or interest in this matter other than to sit back and watch it all unfold. After everything pg/yc related just in the last 24-30 hours, I just thought people would be interested in seeing pg's only response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826570 It was placed after the main flurry of traffic on that post from what I could tell.
Airbnb cannot put EJ up in a 5 star hotel, get her free stuff and get her house redecorated because that would result in a lot of copycats and opportunists who would rent their houses on Airbnb and then themselves trash it and blame Airbnb for it.

This problem is trivial to avoid, by the simple expedient of requiring a police report. The police don't take kindly to being used as patsies for insurance fraud.
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Why won't IV answers questions about its relationship with Lodsys?
By ordinary issue I meant one not involving a YC company. E.g. software patents.
just one more bit of proof that being first isn't always an advantage
Airbnb saying the word "funding" to EJ was damning.

But they didn't just do that. They asked her to shut down her blog post, or put a positive spin to "complete the story".

And they did that because they were more concerned about their funding than about her home being utterly destroyed via their service.
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Remember that when a wave moves through a volume of fluid, say air or water for example, its the energy of the wave that moves and not so much the medium. This is the classic example given in high school when talking about waves at the beach. (I always thought it was disingenuous because water is obviously moving when the waves break. The power of analogies sometimes breaks down.)

Anyway, if you can imagine a sub moving forward through water it pushes its way through the medium. Water molecules get jostled by all the external jiggers and bits on the vehicle. So if you look at a volume of water say 20m x 20m x 3m (basically a big flat square). Most of the water in that 3m wide space stays in that space as the sub moves through the square. However, all the jiggery bits have imparted energy to the molecues in the space. So as the sub finishes passing through, there's a lot of excess energy left in its wake. That's your noise and turbulence and such.

So if you can put something around your sub that helps to return the water molecules to the same or similar state they were in before the vehicle passes through a particular volume, then effectively its like the sub was never there. You get to move through the water much more efficiently because you aren't imparting as much energy to it, and its a lot quieter.

This even got me thinking about airplanes. So we all (should) know that its not the speed of air moving over a wing that gives it lift. Its pressure differentials created by a wing moving through a volume of air. Air can be perfectly still and powered flight works just fine.

So imagine you could put one of these grid things around a plane. If you can effectively reduce the turbulence created by moving through air (a fluid), then you get better fuel efficiency, less noise, and you can go faster. This is why some designs for newer planes are considering tiny dimples in the surfaces like a golf ball. It helps reduce turbulence.

Edit See my addendum comment below.
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It is said that the Tablet PC, especially now popular android tablet PC may soon seize the netbook market. Low-cost netbooks three years ago debut the Taipei International Computer Show, then became the personal computer industry during the period of the global economic slowdown, one of the few bright spots.
I'm at the point where, if I had an offer with a relocation package in the Bay area, I'd be there. Thanks for your suggestion.
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Not for reporting bugs. For reporting security bugs.

Google also doesn't offer such bounties when merely reporting bugs. I report all kinds of Canvas issues to Chromium. Half of them aren't even acknowledged, even if they get fixed months later.

Google only gives bounties on security bugs, and as far as I know only significant ones (though we'll see, because I just reported an incredibly minor security bug to Chromium - getImageData in Canary is capable of getting image data from outside the Canvas, which is against spec and a security flaw)
"The exclusive modern purpose of a nation seems to be to have a currency"

That is incorrect. The purpose of a nation is manifold, nations provide a lot more than just a currency for example: rule of law, public services (roads, fire service), judicial system, safety regulations, an open and efficient marketplace. Currency is a means to some of these ends not a purpose in and of itself. Now like everything else in life not all of these tasks are always well executed and thats why governments do things like change laws and policies and provide for mechanisms such as the courts and a free press. I believe you are taking a very narrow view of what a nation is and what it (strives) to provide.
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Thanks. I appreciate this, and I'll be following up later.
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Thanks. I appreciate the suggestion.
> The point was that he doesn't need to know the founders and companies that well - asking the woman to take down her blog post or change it was a sleezy move.

My point is that he does not have complete information about the situation. Neither do I. Neither do you.

I don't really get why airbnb is on trial here. Something very unfortunate happened. They might've made a PR blunder. Maybe they could have a system with more emphasis on security, probably at the expense of volume. Whatever... it is their company, it makes us hosts good money and us travelers have better experiences. Nobody is obligated to use airbnb. We the users are not the victims of startup founders, like Carr dramatizes in the post, we're just users. We use the services because we derive more value from them than they cost. There is no "social contract" between founders and users.
"But a security researcher cited in ComputerWorld says reporting Facebook bugs can help budding security researchers make a name for themselves in the tight-knit security community."

"I can't pay you to make my website, but you can use it in your portfolio!" springs to mind
No matter how true it may be, it's depressing that "vote with their wallets" has replaced just being decent and inclusive to other human beings. That feature decisions should be only a monetary calculation and nothing else.

Maybe I'm just crazy, but some things should be more important than your start-up's valuation.
Okay, so they made a very bad PR mistake in asking her to put a positive spin on her writing. That seems to be mostly bad for themselves and their investors. Not sure where the lack of human decency is in that.

Also, there is no applicable generalization here -- this is one very unfortunate instance, not a current breed of wunderkids.
My general feeling is that if this were really practical, there's no way we'd be hearing about it

I figure it's either so far from being realized in any capacity it doesn't matter, or the Navy has already had it (or something) better for years/decades.
I heard "deer meat" relatively often in Georgia and Alabama, when I lived there.

Also, while he said "swine flesh" was widespread, he also said it was widespread in a religious context -- that is, pejoratively -- so that would explain the reaction you'll get at the butchers'. I confess that I heard "swine" quite a lot in church, when I was a churchgoer.
Depends on what you mean by "sequence a genome". There's nothing out there that can take a single chromosome and sit and spit out its sequence from one end to the other (even from organisms like yeast that have much smaller chromosomes). Instead, with high throughput sequencing you sequence between 30 and 150 base pairs at a time, and then stitch several million of those reads together. This computationally difficult problem can be made easier if you know the approximate spacing between two given reads, so you can connect islands together. Illumina (and possibly SOLID, but I'm not sure) lets you do paired-end sequencing, where you get both ends of a particular DNA molecule, and depending on how you set up your samples, you can have mate pairs separated by 3,000-5,000 base pairs. In order to get a really good de novo assembly of a genome, you typically want on the order of 50-100x average coverage of the genome. A single sequencing lane (which costs ~$1300) can get you about 5x coverage of a genome.

It's often possible to tell how many times a gene is repeated because, statistically, you should get fairly uniform coverage of the genome (although there are lots of artifacts in the sequencing process that makes this less true). If you get significantly more reads from a particular locus, it's likely that it's been duplicated.

Glancing at the figures in the article, more than 65% of this "structural variation" seems to be insertions or deletions of less than 10 bp, with only 2% coming from elements greater than 1,000bp.
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