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You hear the horror stories in personal conversations. No one wants to blog it because people are so interconnected. That VC who screwed you is probably still good friends with lots of other people who you don't want to risk alienating. That said, reputations matter. Entrepreneurs talk. The stories get out eventually.
True i will agree to that, though the author has summarized it well.
I was made an offer by BW but could not take it for personal reasons. Here is my take.

a. It did not strike as a cult to me. It is pursuit of excellence.
b. I met some of the smartest yet simple minded people there.
c. The whole idea is that the focus should be on productivity and pursuing truth.
d. People spend inordinate amount of time in proving their conclusions, rather than seeing things objectively. That is what the culture tries to tackle; head on.
e. I saw decisions being made with egos put aside. It was like watching a flock of birds move together. They all understood where they were going, implicitly.
f. Read ray's principles and see if you can find a hole in them, I would be glad to hear your arguments.
g. If I founded a company, it would take inspiration from this culture.

PS: I have currently no vested interest in them.
The risk has always been there. Have you ever seen/used a lock-pick gun? They'll open anything non-specialized in less than a second. Failing that, a lightly skilled (50h practice) lock-picker can open most household locks, even "secure" ones, in under fifteen minutes.

Beyond that, the lock/deadbolt/wall is pretty weak. A sledge hammer will open almost any door in a single blow. Windows are essentially just big gaping "serial-killer's enter here" signs, as you can easily break them and gain access to the domicile. Where, presumably you would feed on the brains and organs of the residents.

And worse, the phone company publishes a book that lists your name and address. No longer do serial killers need to drive endlessly, trying to stumble upon a Stuart or a Fred, they can just pick up a phone book and they'll find a perfect list of people, indexed by name for easier killing.

PANIC!

But seriously now, you're over-reacting here. These risks are everywhere and AirBnB was just another way to meet another person.

What I'll consider unethical is if they do anything differently for this lady, who got the media attention first, than they'd do for anyone else.

I don't necessarily think they're liable, even morally. It depends on how they represent themselves. If they purport to offer screened participants and don't, that's a problem. But if they don't it simply means they're offering a lesser service, pay accordingly.

I want a market to exist for cheap and potentially dangerous things instead of offering only padded kid-safe versions. For instance, Lithium-polymer remote-controlled vehicle batteries. Essentially the same tech as the laptop/cellphone batteries that occasionally catch fire. But they don't have protective circuitry built in to prevent this. If you overcharge them they will catch fire. But they're far cheaper and you can draw more power than if they had safeties built in. If you're clear about the trade-offs what would cause a recall and lawsuit in one market can be perfectly acceptable in another.
I've always wondered why people feel they are able to hold constructive conversations about "God" without first having a mutual understanding of what the word means.

Alan Guth sort of addresses this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47ArcQL-XQ#t=4m04s
You'll likely get a lower valuation from Foundry than you would from valley or NY firms. But they're worth it. Hope to have them invest in one of my companies someday. Those guys are awesome.
I'd say so, if its features + spam protection are as good. People (not only me!) dislike having all their eggs in the Google basket.
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Ah, I take it back. I just saw the long rows of cameras and figured it wasn't possible. I couldn't quite last the whole video...
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IANAL, but this sounds like the idea behind Mens rea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
But it would be so convinient for Google if they have less competition working in communication tools.
and more working on projects that Google is not working on.
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I was recently talking to the home owner for the property I am renting and they told me that out of everyone they are renting to I along with my room mates are the most patient and most caring and following up than any of their other tenants. I actually care about the property, I talk to them when something happens, I follow up and make sure work gets done that is supposed to be done.

The homeowner was telling me about one of their tenants who they are currently attempting to evict, would call up and leave a voicemail and just about 5 minutes later would send an angry email and not even 20 minutes later have a lawyer call them regarding a simple issue (screen door broke, house has AC and perfectly good functioning windows). When they last went by the place it was packed full of all kinds of crap (à la hoarders).
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Does anyone know what the average salary of these employees is expected to be?
cool that you encourage people to speak up on the internet, not only in private talks
Well, nice feature, but doesn't work for me. Maybe it works in some countries only.
But they are approaching it from the standpoint of rules and a framework. The rules are called ethics and the framework is society. Laws and government regulations are a different set of rules, and much newer and more transient. What should be guiding all of us, I hope -- regardless of the current state of legal rules & regulations -- is whether something is ethical and what the impact is on society. By some standards, what hedge funds are doing is unethical or parasitic, and may in fact be a chaotic force which on the net creates more hardship than benefit to most of society. Thus, the details of whether they are currently legal or not is not important, in comparison. We can change laws to better reflect our ethics and what we think is best for society. So talking about social value is precisely and massively relevant: it's one of the main reasons we have laws. And it's quite possible that hedge funds are exploiting a temporary state of affairs where technology and the legal context allow them to do certain activities, and they'll continue to exploit until and unless we make changes to their environment.
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Wherever money's involved, there will be people willing to screw you. Too bad he didn't out them - it's an unhealthy situation when assholes aren't named and can continue their assholeish ways without any retaliation
> AFAIK they take standards compliance pretty seriously.

As long as it doesn't interfere with their performance benchmarks.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/archives/020267.html is an example; that issue is alive and well in WebKit, as are various other "optimizations" along similar lines.
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This question has actually been on my mind for a while now. I'm usually sitting at work trying to figure something out or scrolling through my code looking for where something went wrong. I definitely don't have as much experience as a lot of the coders here, but I'm rarely ever typing.

I need to think about the flow of the program/function, and what the essential pieces are. When I know what I want, I start typing it out, and it usually only takes me 2-3 minutes to type out what I'd been thinking about. Usually, I'll have spent far longer than 30 minutes thinking about how I want to structure and attack the problem at hand.
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If there aren't outside investors and no-one is getting diluted the 5% you mention in your write-up is reasonable since there is usually around a 20% total allotment to employees. All I meant otherwise is that from the owner's perspective it can be psychologically difficult to give significant equity to a new hire if you've been running the business for several years. It is always easier to agree to something generous if it is funded out of growth and conditional on business improving generally, so arguing for conditional options or whatever based on performance can be a good way to align interests.
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In fact, the Riak guys are planning on doing exactly that: offering LevelDB as one of the storage back-ends, perhaps even the default.

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"Goog" has been doing just that (except calling it "CSS Animations" and "NaCl", say), in case you missed it.
I imagine that some patent trolls are getting ready to file a patent application for a communication device that analyses interference and transmits an optimal signal based on all the currently present signals. That way, when Perlman has done all the work of bringing this to market they'll be ready with their hands open to receive their share.
How do you propose they pay for the development? I personally doubt they will suddenly have businesses with deep pockets knocking on their door with fistfuls of money.
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It depends on the goal. If the goal is to have an open source mobile operating system, then maybe. If the goal is to have it not matter which exact mobile operating system you use, so new mobile operating systems have an easier time entering the market.... then no.

In case it's not clear, Mozilla is not building a kernel or anything here. They're just building capabilities for web apps to be able to do whatever mobile apps can do now.
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Generally, people are not "fundamentally good". Generally, most people are only good when they believe the reward for being so is >= the required effort or discomfort (rewards aren't always monetary and could be as simple as feeling good about yourself for helping the crippled-orphaned-widow-beggar across the street). An example of this is airbnb's own policy of not disclosing renter contact information. Despite what they say, airbnb believes that people are not fundamentally good as their concern of users circumventing their payment system is greater than their concern for the safety of said users (at least to the extent that stories such as this don't hurt their business more than payment bypassing would).

If airbnb believed what they espouse, they'd quit trying to outsource their trust in humanity to their customers whom they aren't liable for and instead actually trust that people in general won't sidestep the payment process.
I've yet to see a Lucky next to a Safeway. Why are supermarkets different from gas stations?
I think this is the highest level of tinfoil hattery I have yet seen on Hacker News.

Google gets Steve Yegge to encourage coders to work on bioinformatics because it gets rid of the competition!

(I doubt that)
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Sounds like an oxymoron to me...
"Offline streaming" is kind of a kludge term. To me, if I don't own the songs and they're not immediately accessible to my other software, "syncing" seems slightly inaccurate connotatively. So I went with "offline streaming" because it seems to connote what is going on: localizing my stream, very local.

I haven't had a problem with the Premium service, so I'm not sure which one you're describing as AYCE.
Oh, yeah, my experience as a landlord makes me a fantastic tenant. Last place I rented before buying the current house, I was working on fixing the roof in my spare time - mostly because I really like to be fixing houses in my spare time anyway and, as we were in Puerto Rico, the roof was concrete and thus a really new and fun experience.

All it takes is just a teeny bit of responsibility. Landlording somehow filters out some of the people who really have none and drags them through your life.
This is art, not engineering. They used cameras because they wanted cameras.

Inspired by the song's lyrics, "not to make it a memory," Party created the video using 250 Canon still cameras

Memory, e.g. photograph. A bunch of flashes with no cameras is not going to make the metaphor.
I definitely agree. There will always be a place in the market for face to face consultations. After all, credit "counseling" is an act of counseling, not just hard financials. To us the four pillars of financial stability (for customer already in financial distress) are Education, Budgeting, Counseling, and Community. We can obviously provide some of these but not others. The idea here is to leave the counseling to the experts, but be able to offer something to the vast majority of Americans who go through credit counseling today but only really need a little extra push to get them on the right track again.
I think it wasn't used - the wraparound shots appear to be from cameras arranged in a circle, but the wall is linear.

Such a disappointment. I would kill to have a camera wall like that.
I thought the same but it does not matter wether this is a setup or not. What matters is that it could happen. airbnb can't do the same: sending somebody in a Hotel and destroy the room? That would prove nothing.

Hotels/dedicated accommodations are run by professionals and the business model is sound.
Airbnb is maybe too ahead of its time and will work greatly when our online identities are more "stable" if you see what I mean.

Right now it's like finding a good developer by asking my friends in Facebook because it seems cheaper and cooler.
It's not.
Hosting somebody is not as easy as pointing the bed and the bathroom.
It's way more complicated than that.
Safety is just one aspect that non professional hosts have troubles dealing with.

Disclaimer: I run an accommodation reservation system in many ways similar to airbnb and I love their idea.

But we are going in the opposite direction: only professional hosts renting places dedicated to tourists (they don't live there), local Managers meeting and selecting the owners, visiting the accommodations (I often even test them sleeping there) and supporting the guests locally.
It does not allow for fast growth but it's much safer for all the parties involved.
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Isn't this basically the start of the new planet of the apes movie? Could be bad news...
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You can do 95% of this (excluding Apache configuration) automatically with Rails templates.

My example is here https://github.com/prognostikos/rails_templates/blob/master/... and if you search github you can find many more.

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How well does LevelDB work for a mobile device? This might be a nice use case.
The text uses the term "research" with respect to Dyslexie. The only research performed was an M.Sc. thesis that showed that it is slightly easier to read than Arial.
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I did find it easier to read... but I really wonder how much of the effect comes from the size of the sample text. It's huge!

The scaled down version is a little harder to read: http://imgur.com/Xh3Mt. (ctrl + mousewheel to resize the image on the page direct)... and here again, I'm not sure how much of the difficulty to read the smaller version comes because of quality lost from scaling.

It would be nice to see a screen-shot the font as it is rendered in a smaller typeface.
> ...a case study demonstrating that people are fundamentally good

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

The reason why Airbnb doesn't let people "reveal private information" prior to booking / paying is so they won't circumvent their system and exchange money without paying Airbnb's fees.

So in fact Airbnb isn't so trusting of people's "fundamental" goodness and honesty; the matter of fact is that Airbnb assumes every single one of its users is a potential cheater.

Instead of the marketspeak / ass-protecting / legalese response we've witnessed so far from Airbnb about this incident, an interesting experiment would be to lift this restriction and let people exchange personal information from the very beginning: how many would actually try to game the system?
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I can't read this without discomfort; it really feels like the letters are swimming/waving back and forth as I read.
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Having worked closely with a Mcdonald's franchisee for some time, I'm pretty sure your observations are merely anecdotal. If you look at Mcdonald's revenues by average franchise, and adjust for number of hours served, breakfast & dinner revenues are roughly equal (in the simplest case just measuring rush hour breakfast revenues of 7-9am with rush hour dinner revenues of 5:30-7:30pm).
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My dyslexic wife just found it unnerving but that doesn't mean it's not better in practice :-) I found it odd, myself, it seems to "move" about, which is weird since I'm not dyslexic and am fine with ordinary type. Almost like the situation has been reversed!
As a private company, Facebook is free to set any standards they want but I guarantee that if FB imposes some kind of identification process to create an account they will lose to a social network that does not have such a requirement.

Moreover, if she is calling for any kind of government-imposed internet-wide standard she should be vociferously denounce. The whole internet "bullying" is a red-herring and the real problem is that people's feelings get hurt when on the internet. Well too bad, no one has the right not to be insulted or denounced by people who disagree or even hate you and your ideas. It does happen that misbehavior crosses the line into harassment, stalking, etc. and there are plenty of laws already on the books to deal with it though granted that law enforcement is still catching up with the internet. I think that on net, in a free society, that anonymous profiles is a good thing. Just ignore the trolls and morons -- how hard is that? The last thing we need is to create is government regulated internet driver's licenses.
Funny thing is it works for sending mails for change to Gmail accounts too!
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