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`So you're saying there's nothing airBnB could and there's no need to worry about it`

No I said

`The best they can ever do is provide you with support and advice on preventative measures.'

AirBnB should worry about the who-har going on in the media yes. About the crimes committed to an individual, bluntly no. Not beyond a empathy, support and goodwill. The rest is for the police and courts to deal with.

`And yes, of course any system can be circumvented by a sufficiently motivated individual...it's about making it complicated enough that it's not worth it given the reward.`

Hmmmm prison is the known punishment, if that isn't enough to stop people, my guess is knowing their name isn't going to deter them either.

* Nor should you expect them to put systems in place that violate the rights of the majority*

`This makes no sense. How exactly would AirBnB violate anyone's rights?`

By putting in requirements for overly intrusive personal information. To satisfy the rants of an irrational mob.

`It's a voluntary service you can use if you so desire.`

That is true, so while the irrational mob thinks that it's a good idea as a response to a bad individual. In practice, when confronted with handing over such information they will be less than eager to comply. For that reason it marks a very bad business decision for AirBnB.

The best suggestion I have heard is that AirBnB should look at providing some form of insurance policy to Hoteliers/Guests.

They have already stated that they are ramping up customer service and providing support areas on the AirBnB site.

Don't forget that the problem of criminal activity is not one way. It is not only criminals who can attack Hoteliers. The reverse is also true, and it is far more dangerous for a person to give their home address, name, telephone number etc, to someone posing as a hotel.

If your booking a hotel it's an irrelevant argument, it's a matter of fact that you need to know the address, telephone number and point of contact for where your staying.

Please think rationally....
> Please tell me who she owes this responsibility to?

To the people, if she cares about public opinion.

> That is because people will align with your story and your interests if they consider you to be the party that is speaking the truth.

This summarizes it all.
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OK sorry to comment on my own comment but I've been reading up on this the past couple hours and I once again call total bullshit on the Obama administration.

I made several donations to the Obama campaign but like so many others I have been terribly disappointed at what a flimsy useless ballsack he has been at actually walking the walk and even ensuring a halfway decently basic level of adult functionality in the federal government.

How hard is it after two and a half years in office to have an agency that isn't still figuratively if not still literally spreading its legs wide open for the industry it's supposed to be regulating.
If we're taking it seriously then we need to know which specific characteristics of the wizard, ninja or rockstar they feel they share :)
The naive level of trust on which they've built their business is gone. I think they can survive this but not without some significant structural changes.
My rule of thumb:
- if you see "java.awt" or "javax.swing" in any package import, run away.
- if you need to download a native library to run a hello world, run away too.

The rest is/should be fair game. Try to run a hello world on the device.
Not considering this case in particular, but it is rather shameful how every single unusual weather event (and now 4 polar bears) is being exploited to promote the global warming political agenda. Not saying that the science is bad or that the policy objectives are wrong, but there should be more willingness for objectivity and reasoning.

Extreme events in isolation are saying nothing, the same as the isolated death of a few bears.
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HAVE A DOWN-VOTE! --A big, fat, and ugly DOWN-Vote!

At this moment, you're probably mad and probably wondering what you did
wrong as well as wondering if I'm just being an asshole. You're also
looking at the score of your post and wondering why it is what it is;
"Did he down-vote me and someone else up-voted me? Or is he just trying
to make a point?"

I was just making a point, so no, I did not actually down-vote you. The
thing is, you and many others have fallen, "For exactly the same traps
marketers set." The trap, even if entirely fake, is the reason for the
your initial anger, confusion and pondering.

This is an odd and harsh way of both supporting your point and refuting
it. You are only human, so you'll get angry if you fall for a trap. None
the less, you are correct; often the answer is to stop interacting with
or buying from those who would try to trap you, but unfortunately, you
do not always have the choice until after the fact.
I have been to restaurnts which refuse to cook steak well done actually.
Maybe I am going off on a tangent here, but... why not just use an AsyncTask with a synchronous HTTP petition inside? I am a novice in the Android SDK, but it just seems easier.
Well, the manner of his defense doesn't help his image as a drama queen, but he's probably fine with that.
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The nagging issue for me is the extremely unusual eloquence of the victim. I wanted to believe this was just another online echo-chamber shit-show until I read her blog posts and found EJ to be a level-headed, articulate and eminently reasonable person.

EJ says that AirBnB didn't offer to help and stopped communicating with her after the 25th of June. That's in direct conflict with pg's report to TechCrunch.

It's one thing for AirBnB to say "hey, buyer beware – you know the risks". (In fact, that's a perfectly valid response, albeit not a great business move.) But it's an entirely different thing to dispute the victim's story.

Now we're in a situation where someone is not telling the truth. On one side, you have a group of people with a lot of money and time invested into a business. On the other side, you have an extremely sympathetic victim of a crime. And somewhere in the middle is the fact that these kinds of unfortunate eventualities should have been obvious to both AirBnB and to their users.
Being the 'ebay of spaces' means that you will be doing the same things that ebay spends the most of its time on: battling fraud.

This is the most old-school HN insight I've seen so far, thanks. Quite often, what a business appears to do for it's users (allow you to read your mail on line, hook landlords up with renters) and it's competitive advantage (spam fighting, ad targeting, fraud detection, &c.) are very different things.

Back when I was young and rode a nice, sporty dinosaur to work, I made software for publishing classified ads. On the surface, it's a publishing business. But in reality, it's an operations business, because classifieds used to have very high revenue per column inch, but the transaction costs were also very high. So the profitability of a page of classifieds was driven by how efficiently the paper could take ads.

Anyways, I agree with your speculation. Running a c2c business is going to be all about fraud and other bad actor detection as well as operation efficiency.
The companion cube was selected because cubes are often used to test a 3d printer (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:477) while the enterprise was selected to test whether the script was capable of handling something on a rather large scale with high complexity.

Now that the tests are out of the way, it's time to print the lairs and cities of which you speak.
Me too, I'm frantically googling so I can get the name of the company and add it to my "NEVER Take a Job At ..." list.

EDIT: Ah, think I've found them.
The irrational exuberance has come to an end as airbnb and hopefully many of these startups that while facilitating many great things also mask an exposure to danger.

I remember when anyone on Craigslist was in the top %5 of nice humans. Of course that is gone now, but airbnb seemed like it was living in the early craigslist bubble.

I am saying those bubbles shouldn't exist. They are naive. And most American humans don't have the street smarts to build their own trust metrics.
Always sign a contract in conjunction with a statement of work. There are plenty of boilerplate docs out there for the sow, hire a specialized lawyer for contract docs. They can give you a blanket doc for short money. Even if the client tries not to pay, at least you have a binding agreement from which to negotiate or take them to court. Companies big and small renege on their contracts all the time, don't victimize yourself; it's how some business is done.

But if don't have a contract:

I'd have to evaluate the client first. If they're already a deadbeat, shame on you for doing business with them and like petervandijck says, just let it go. It's not worth the time and effort to chase them down as they have no means or intention of paying. Blackball them in the community is the worst you can do to them.

But, if they're a going concern and they've stolen your time and work and are making money from it, I'd have to engage the services of an attorney and send them a strongly worded letter indicating your intent to sue for unpaid services, a portion of the proceeds of your work corresponding to what you see as adequate (always over 50%) along with damages, legal fees and court costs. Usually that's enough to get them to write you a check, but make sure that you allow them 30 days to pay at first, remind them every week after that and at 60 days have the attorney send the letter. Just because they're not conducting themselves in a professional manner doesn't mean you don't have to. Always take the high road, be firm yet polite and document all communications.
I think the big issue is whether or not AirBNB offered assistance or not and if they did if it was unconditional.

If it turns out they attached a bunch of conditions to their offer (for instance: you have to remove your blog posts or you have to write something positive) then they might as well not have made these 'offers'.

An offer of help should be unconditional. And from EJs point of view being muzzled would obviously be unacceptable.

That's pure speculation on my part, but it is one interpretation that would be consistent with what everybody has said so far with nobody having told a falsehood.
Had this happen twice in the past 4 years. Three times in 10 years. First time was small amount, and they didn't really stiff me completely, just said they were closing, and they 'paid' in some hardware. Wasn't all that useful to me, but better than nothing.

Second time - I drove up to NYC (from Raleigh) to file in court. It was for > $5k, so it couldn't be small claims court. That was Aug 2008 - it's now almost Aug 2011 - still on the docket last I looked. Court will take a long time. Even if I 'win', I still have to collect, and if the guy won't pay when he's supposed to, collecting will suck. In retrospect, I wish I'd have told the client whose project I was working on for that guy - they'd have at least known what they were continuing to let themselves in for by dealing with him.

Last time was more recent, and it was just a bad project all around - sorry I took it, sorry the end client didn't get what they wanted, etc.

Lesson learned for me is to either never subcontract for someone else, or be very cautious. I'm doing it now for one other client, but I'd met them multiple times, they have a good reputation in their industry, and I was assured by another sub whose worked with them before that they pay (and pay pretty well). And they have - been one of the fastest payers I've worked with.

If you file a lawsuit - small claims might go faster than regular court - but file and forget. In my case, my suit was for $8700. It'd certainly be nice to get it, but I eeked by and moved on, and don't spend much time thinking about it now. It'll tear you up waiting - move on as best you can, even if you file a suit.

btw, are you on the lsc mailing list? bettermeans looks familiar.
> I've passed her contact info to PG

This is the creepiest thing I've ever heard. She's had her personal space and privacy violated in a terrible way, and you're passing around her contact details? Did you ask her permission?
She is, she confirmed it in her followup blog post.
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So, by this reasoning, who does airbnb owe responsibility to?
This is probably the most useful comment of the bunch for me personally and my startup - I'm trying to learn from other people's lessons (it's the cheapest way to learn), and I think what you said above really helps. I made the comment elsewhere, but here's what I learned:

* Respond quickly

* Respond in the open so that there's no he-said / she-said

* Be fair, and err on the side of the customer

* Don't spin the company line - be thoughtful, especially if someone has lost money / time / confidence / data / faith in humanity

* Think "This could be me / this could be someone I know & love"

* If relevant, get the authorities involved quickly so that you can be sure it's not a shakedown.

* Assume the customer is telling you the truth unless you have specific and verifiable reason to believe otherwise

* Get insurance

* Don't let others (especially those with interests) speak for you.

* Try to establish a single point person for all contact with the customer, and make that person easily and quickly available to the customer at the customer's behest

* Try not to respond to what's said in the press

Did I miss any good lessons here?
OK but why does a scientist suddenly get interrogated by agents from his employer's Inspector General's office and then put on administrative leave for happening to mention in a report that he noticed dead polar bears. How do you even expect "science" to be done under those kinds of conditions. And the "global warming political agenda" is the thing you're worried about here? Seriously?
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I must admit that this strikes me as rather dull: make the equation complicated enough and you can obtain any shape you'd like. I would far be more impressed by a simple one-line equation that drew this shape.
I suspect pg will not misuse EJ's contact details, but I sure as hell would be pretty pissed off if my personal contact info was passed around in this manner.
I worked with a thirty-million-row dataset for my thesis (after MongoDB famously choked and ate half my data more than once) with SQLite and it didn't bat an eyelid. It was fast as hell, too.
"I did not ask for her permission, but I think that her information is in very trusted hands with Paul and I am 100% sure that he would never ever abuse it."

Wow, how exactly is that your decision to make?
That story originally carried a title like "AirBnB scandal makes front page of the Financial Times". I thought it was interesting from the perspective of "How does bad press about a startup spread and what are the effects of various ways of responding?" rather than "Let's keep piling on AirBnB." This is the first big YC crisis management story I can recall; it's not surprising other founders would want to learn from it.
> She's had per personal space and privacy violated in a terrible way, and you're passing around her contact details?

I passed her contact information to the one guy that I think can keep his head cool enough to solve this in a way that is beneficial to her. You may disagree with that but that's fine with me.

> She mentioned in both blog posts that she is trying to keep her personal details private.

Yes, and I helped her doing just that by pointing out which parts of her blog allow people to figure out who she is.
Is it just me or is this whole industry starting to feel increasingly sleazy? I guess it's inevitable when so much money is on the table but I don't feel as proud to call myself a developer as I did a few years ago.
I just don't understand why we need a single monolithic product that is at the core of the system. When you use any language specific API you are locking out possibly useful tools.

The overhead of asking each component to use HTTP is an acceptable price to pay for native compatibility with the Internet.
Jacques, listen: Airbnb already called the grownups, and he made an even bigger mess. You're telling us to calm down, to not be so brash, but you should have asked for her permission.
The issue is clearly not that they're tracking. The issue is that they're going to extremely devious lengths to prevent you from removing their ability to track you using standard tools.

I've quite a few /etc/hosts entries, blocking third party cookies, clearing cookies & cache on close, no flash cookies, and so on, but I always expect they'll be something they can find still.
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To be just a little contrarian to this post, I've become at peace with the idea that you should probably always spend a great deal of time, and maybe or probably even more time than you feel totally comfortable with, learning about all aspects of something new that you're trying to understand and do something with, and maybe even mentally iterate through different ideas and through a wandering exploration of the idea space while you're building your understanding of it, before you try doing the something with it.

That said, I also love the post and I've bookmarked it to look at again on the committed date to see what they've come up with.
If it is at all possible, it is best to maintain enough control over the system so that you can deploy it to their production environment upon payment. No pay, no deploy.
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I wonder what the equation would look like if a 3rd dimension was added.
It may come as a surprise to you, but I generally do what I think is right in life. I've been wrong on occasion in the past but in this particular case I feel that this is the right thing to do. Feel free to disagree.

With what I know about PG and the situation as it has been presented to date if he gets involved he will resolve it, if he does not then it will quite probably blow up with as the only winners the lawyers.

Note that technically EJ is not entitled to any compensation, but morally she definitely is.

Someone that can influence AirBNB to do the right thing here and that has a very good idea on what the public opinion on this thing will do to AirBNB when - not if - it will hit the mainstream is what's called for.

Judging by the speed with which HN has turned from 'gung ho pro AirBNB' to ripping it to shreds I think that there is evidence enough that the public opinion will not be favorable to AirBNB and that PG is well aware of this.
It sends malformed SQL queries carrying the payload which in turn forces the servers to exhaust their own resources.

SQL injection and sending slow queries? Or hammering regular HTTP pages which run slow SQL queries (such as an unoptimised search)?
"So Arrington, in typical Arrington fashion said ..."

I don't think the ad hominem helps your case, at all.
> Jacques, listen: Airbnb already called the grownups, and he made an even bigger mess.

I figure PG not talking to all parties is what caused the bigger mess.

> You're telling us to calm down, to not be so brash, but you should have asked for her permission.

I don't like witch hunts.

AirBNB has obviously done a lot of things wrong here but I think they can still recover from this if it gets handled 100% good from now on forward.

I agree, I should have asked for her permission, it never crossed my mind because I feel that it was the right thing to do, and because since PG is an investor he might as well have that information, it's not like he is an outsider to this whole affair, but he is uniquely positioned to see both sides of the story.
I had experienced db corruption with MySQL years ago, when the disk became full. To be fair, I think it was MyISAM.
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jacquesm, you sound like a reasonable man.

Consider that:

- the basis of your very questionable action [1] is precisely the type of taking-shortcuts-due-to-x-factor reasoning that this event is all about.

- the 'perceived cost' of your asking EJ "May I forward your contact info to a man who I fully trust and believe well positioned to address this to all parties' satisfaction?" was apparently deemed [2] to be excessive in the same way the simple prominent and bold statement "AirBnB takes NO responsibilities for actions of either providers or renters".

[1]: forwarding identity to PG.

[2]: you seem like a very smart guy. this can not have been an omission.

[edit: fix notes]
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