skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already offered to pay for a new apartment and new furniture as well as anything else she needed to assist her in recovery[1][2]...this story is really getting old.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822721 "Airbnb has been offering to fix it, from the very beginning. From the beginning they offered to pay to get her a new place and new stuff, and do whatever else she wanted."

[2] http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html "I would be remiss if I didn’t pause here to emphasize that the customer service team at airbnb.com has been wonderful, giving this crime their full attention. They have called often, expressing empathy, support, and genuine concern for my welfare. They have offered to help me recover emotionally and financially, and are working with SFPD to track down these criminals."
On the contrary, searching for "mainstream", "ft", "financial times", or "media" in the comments for the ft article suggests that people actually are discussing the fact that it is now in the mainstream media. It might not be the majority of the comments, but at least those subjects are broached in there, and much more so than in the other threads.

But regardless of whether people are discussing something new, my point is that the story reaching the broader media is an interesting information point in of itself. Whether HNers choose to discuss that in an intelligent manner is an entirely different thing.

That being said, like you, I am also bugged by the repetitive stories -- both in this instance and more generally. And although I think that sometimes multiple submissions are warranted and useful (when the story changes, or there are new sources, etc.), I think that often new threads add very little to the discussion.

I still love it here though. But I only lurk, so...
From Airbnb's comment: and have confirmed with the SFPD that they have a female suspect in custody that they are investigating for vandalism and theft

Sorry.. Color me jaded, but why the mention that the suspect is female? PR maneuvering to plant the suggestion that this wasn't all that big a deal, cause after all.. it was a girl?

Just saying. I don't get it.

[Edit: Downvotes certainly welcome, but I'm assuming downvoters are the ones who might have an answer to what was very much a real question.. I'd really like to know, please. Why include the gender of the suspect? Why include any details in a tiny blurb where the only relevant point I can see is that someone was arrested, and why is the gender more important than the person's age, height, race, or say... criminal record or charges?]
Just SQL dumps they say? And how about the prose this time?
Someone who would do that is more likely suffering from some sort of mental health problem than simply being mean. Do you know any normal, healthy, reasonable person who would do that?
No one has been arrested or persued for downloading AntiSec releases. It's a further example of the industry/governments lulz-iness.
I know when I receive "FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: RE: FWD: FWD: LOL" emails from my boss, my morale goes way up.
According to the founders, Airbnb has offered to cover her losses all along, from the very beginning. If that's true, and in fact she rejected the help and rejected meeting with the founders as she claims she did, then Airbnb did everything it could do in its power to help. Airbnb has nothing to apologize for if all of that is true.

As much as I sympathize with the unlucky and unfortunate circumstances of the victim, the ultimate responsibility lies on the renters. This is going to happen again as Airbnb grows bigger and more people join the site; it's inevitable, just as there exists crime in people's homes now. If you're planning to rent out your apartment for a week, you really should meet the rentee in person, take steps to secure your own possessions from possible theft in advance, and secure the proper insurance (whether that's obtained through a future Airbnb offering or privately through an insurance company). When you rent a hotel room, they typically provide a safe lock because the same risk of getting your possessions stolen exists; this is no different.

I'm not trying to be dismissive of the victim, it really sucks this happened to EJ and the Airbnb team has been very open to offering help from what I've noticed lately. Fortunately, justice was served to the perpetrator, which is the important part. What EJ needs to do now is press charges and sue Faith Clinton for emotional damage and theft. I don't know how much the press will pursue this, and who knows how much it will affect Airbnb's reputation. I have a feeling this will blow over and I think Airbnb has made it clear they're willing to help as long as EJ will accept it; it wouldn't affect my own willingness to rent personally because I know after 2 million nights you're probably bound to have a few lunatics. Interestingly, someone in the previous threads accurately predicted it was a meth tweaker who fit the profile of the ransacking.
The prosemof this note strikes me as somehow different from the previous. I can't really puot my finger on it, though.
> As a fun exercise, you could rewrite this list so it sounds helpful and polite rather than rude and egotistical.

Okay:

-----

Hi! I bet you're super nervous about meeting me, but please don't be -- I'm just a big dork. And don't take it personally if I'm terse or appear impatient with you. 99% of my time is spent in meetings, so it's extremely helpful if we both skip straight to the point .. or "cut the bullshit", as my grandmother used to say. Here are some other tips:

If you have bad news, please just come right out and tell me immediately. I promise I won't blame the messenger, and I might even know a quick fix. If we have a regularly-scheduled meeting, don't wait for it; interrupt me with time-critical issues. Also, don't be afraid to ask questions or disagree with me; I promise I won't get upset. If, post-meeting, you find yourself regretting not having spoken up or asked a question, come right back and correct that problem. I'm a big follower of the philosophy that there are no stupid questions.

I've found note-taking to be extremely fruitful. Please bring a pen and paper anytime you meet with me; it impresses the heck out of me when someone catches everything the first time and I don't have to repeat myself.

If you have an appointment with me, and I'm in another meeting, go right ahead and interrupt it. Your time is important, too. But be prepared for someone to do this if our meeting runs late.

Often, there's only about five minutes of real content in a meeting. If so, there's no need to stretch it out. I appreciate such micro-meetings. You can foster them by identifying in advance what decision needs to be made and sending it around in advance. And don't be surprised if I make everyone stand.

I don't really like long emails. Instead, consider a micro-meeting, and set an agenda if it's a complicated issue. Then stick to that agenda!

Micro-update emails are great, though. I've found them to be effective for confirming commitments and mutual understanding. This is especially true after a meeting: It's super-helpful to get a (brief!) list of your agreed-upon commitment echoed back to me. I don't always respond to such messages, but I read every one. Oh, and to save time, please skip the greetings, "thank you"s, etc. (You'd be surprised how much time this saves on my phone's "message preview" screen.)

Finally, a few quickies:

* Instead of "It's being worked on", tell me when you expect it will be done. That's what I really want to know.

* List all the options, and tell me which you recommend. This is especially important if you come to me with a problem -- but if you don't have a solution yet, skip this step rather than delaying the news.

* Economic analyses are the best supporting arguments. (I insist on them when money is involved.)

* Don't worry about making reports for me, but if you do, check out the spreadsheets I've made and try to copy their design.

* Don't send me long documents. (Yes, I realize the irony.)

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You might think all the "please"s and other friendly words make my version too fluffy, but it's actually about 500 words shorter than the original.
Airbnb is a Y Combinator company, so that is a big reason why this story is generating a lot of interest on Hacker News. It's quite on-topic for this particular community.
This attitude is the right one.

No, it's not. You have to learn to read between the lines. The things he's saying aren't necessarily wrong. It's the attitude he's saying them with. It's very much a "Here's the way things are going to be. Don't like it? Tough." attitude.

Ok, so maybe you agree 100% with everything on here. What do you think is going to happen when you don't agree with something, and for valid reasons?
Looks a lot like the BlogFire app that the Notifo guys put out.
airbnb needs some Tom Peters Wow tactics. If they had jumped on this thing as dave1619 suggests in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824374
And as others, including edw519, suggests in the main thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821280, imagine the blog post ej would have written and it would have turned this shite into gold.
I live in NYC. My garage will revoke my spot license if I were to do this.
Can you run it without root?
In a vacation rental house, other people will spend far more time in your place then you will and you plan accordingly. You might have a locked closet with your own stuff, but it probably consists of towels, toiletries and clothes - not electronics, birth certificates, financial documents, and highly-personal information.
I say "S-Q-Lite".
"Later on that evening, officers say they arrested Faith Clifton, a 19-year-old white female of San Francisco. Faith has been booked into San Francisco County Jail on possession of stolen property, methamphetamine and fraud charges."

That sounds like someone was arrested and charged to me.
That Can't Be Dodged

Very interesting article, but the proclamation you can't avoid it seems a bit too far. When my browser exits it both deletes cookies and clears the cache, which looks like it's enough to break the tracks.
It's functionally identical to an Xcode installation of GCC.
电算化论文
"Can you do a single user install?" is the question.
I am going to try out the piano fundamentals book. I have 4yr old taking lessons. The preface seems to promise a lot. I am skeptical that you can hack the basic 10,000 hr expert path. Starting 10 yrs older than you.
Simpson's paradox is amazing, it's worth reading all the examples in the article and really understanding it.

Another good source is Martin Gardner's "Aha! Gotcha" book. He presents the paradox as a woman trying to find eligible bachelors at a party. In room 1 her odds are better if she goes for guys with mustaches. In room 2 her odds are also better if she goes for guys with mustaches. But when everyone goes into one room, her odds are better for guys without mustaches. It's incredible.
That's because it is :)
How to work with me:

- Don't boss me around.

Thank you very much.
ej's latest post seems to indicate airbnb did not follow through.
There is nothing more evil in modern business than marketers. Between real life experience and MBA classes I have come to despise most everything involved in modern marketing, especially in the technology space.
> "I am defining software as a tangible thing, existing as a pattern of matter and fields."

Ok, but that means you're not talking about software patents any more. The U.S. patent office currently cares nothing about patterns of matter and fields.

> "And that [a complete physical timer] is exactly what is covered by a valid software patent."

No, wrong. That's how it should be, but it's not, and that's the problem. Officially, patent law isn't supposed to allow patents on "abstract ideas", but due to incomplete guidance from the courts, the requirements have been diluted to nothing. Right now in the U.S., a software patent application can satisfy the requirements by specifying any trivial physical step. Most software patents specify only a "computing device" on which the software is used. Well gee whiz, guess what that covers? You got it, everything! It's useless language; there's no narrowing, no added specificity. It would be just as usefull to specify "software in Her Majesty the Queen's service". As a result, for the past 20 years the USPTO has essentially been granting patents on pure software.

A patent on a laser interferometer that encodes instructions is no longer a software patent; that would be covered by a mechanical patent. And this patent certainly would be in conflict with any software patents that covered the software encoded thereby, if the interferometer were ever put to use in a product.
No, this is a system installation.
IT Salaries Rising Slightly; Raises and Bonuses Coming Back
I'm aware that it's a YC company, but I still don't see why such a random event counts as a data point... Sometimes weird and twisted stuff happens... it doesn't mean anything.
That's what I mean by context - if he is giving me this sheet after recognising the type of person I am, awesome. If he is handing them to everyone indiscriminately, uh oh.
Calm down a bit, man. I've got a MongoDB mug sitting on my desk. I think you'd agree that even if the data structure fits into a key-value model more so than a relational one, that still doesn't mean you need NoSQL, and if you take a common definition of "big data" to mean "your data needs exceed the capabilities of a single machine", then a lot of people don't need all that scalability. (And if it did, you'd use Hadoop anyway. =P ) (There's also CAP Theorem considerations for added fun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem )

There was a presentation up here a few months ago on how the guys at http://wordsquared.com/ used MongoDB; they basically made the choice since they knew it already, instead of using postgres with their great geo libraries. And that's fine. What's stupid is when people who know one or the other pretty well spend a lot of time learning about the other for a use case that's most likely not really necessary anyway, or their current choice could handle with tweaks.

Of course, once public CS starts moving forward into innovative big analytics rather than just managing big data storage (such as the theta-join paper I linked elsewhere on this page), things may start shifting in favor of one of the NoSQL systems and the above quote would be equally suitable when comparing the Hadoop ecosystem or Mongo with some fancy new relational DB.
I'm probably gonna come off as sexist here, but whatever, maybe I am...
How is this article
a.) any way related to hacker news?
b.)sex clearly sells (gonna be honest, only clicked the link cuz it had sex in the tittie...er, title) and
c.) Does the author this she's the first person to ever ask this question or make this point?

also, the comment "“But my company has nothing to do with sex, I’m confused”.
Well, neither do car, airline, beer, computer, camera, gaming, rental, truck, heavy duty machinery companies and neither does the superbowl, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Burger King, KSwiss, fabric softner, MTV, racing or any of the millions of companies who lack the brain power to think of a proper advert."

irks me a little. if you think beer, sports, shoes, "music tv" sold to adolescents, and cars have nothing to do with sex, then you VASTLY underestimate driving factors of human nature and you are clearly too introspective to lack the ability to comprehend and/or make an attempt to understand motivations of people other than yourself.

also, boobs.
From what i gather it's basically just an evercookie. Block kissmetrics with a host file, firewall, Ghostery (Not the chrome version, though), RequestPolicy, etc or defeat evercookie through usual means and you'll be fine.
That they would do that to Liz is ... disappointing. (Otherwise biting tongue, for her sake.)
The entire traditional music licensing world is based on scaling up pennies and it has provided real income for many for a long time.
Allegedly ten years of experience is more than anyone on Stack Overflow. I had no idea the site was populated by only teenagers.
I'm sure that she was. The question is, were those charges related to EJs apartment? EJ claims not. That the police made a statement that someone was charged for something, is most emphatically not a statement that someone was charged for the crimes committed against EJ.

That this over-one-month-old, ambiguous statement is the best that AirBNB has to offer, is pretty damning and leads me to believe EJ, not AirBNB. That AirBNB keeps sending it out lends credence to EJs belief that AirBNB doesn't give a shit and is just PR-ing the whole thing.

Either way, this "journalist" did nothing but reprint a PR blurb with zero fact checking or even awareness that there is another side to this story.
The goal isn't actually to make the turns sharper. But to make the rolls quicker.

If you can change between maneuvers faster than your adversary you can cause him to be confused, giving you the advantage. This all comes from energy maneuverability theory which is the theory that modern fighters are based on.

Build planes capable of fast transients and a natural buttonhook tendency.
Their share price has been going badly. Employee stock options are no longer an effective way to retain people, and they are losing long term employees to the likes of FB and G.
Tried this earlier and didn't work -- today it did (yeah :-)
Some people think hiring hitmen to whack their enemies is part of the game of business too. This attitude bothers me. Morality doesn't suddenly cease to exist just because you happen to label the specific activity you're engaged in "business."

I would agree with you if you'd just said a lot of people take business more personally than they should. Businesses are not charities or friends. But at the same time, saying "It's business" doesn't absolve you of acting like a scumbag. (That's the generic "you," by the way — no aspersions meant towards Ken.)
ChexSystems is pure evil.
Why have I been downmodded?
MTV News covers "The Internet", video from 1995
Because EJ's 2nd post cast doubt on the currency and accuracy of AirBnb's original statement about a suspect, it's only natural that they add more (but not all) details. That's a way to signal that they are in fact talking about a specific, current, still-in-custody suspect.

Kudos to AllThingsD for getting an actual police statement, with more details and more hints methamphetamine abuse was involved.

As far as choosing gender as the extra detail to mention? Some might find that detail comforting, as it could indicate less risk of further victim harassment, while others will find it offensive. AirBnb is in a no-win situation at this point; all possible choices will cause some subset of the commentariat lynch mob to raise objections with tone or substance.
Could someone with more expert knowledge explain how the isolated DNA is different from DNA already in cells in the body, in terms of chemical structure and information (ACGT) content?
It's a little less megalomanic commie "viva la revolucion" than some of Anon's other announcements and much more in keeping with the LulzSec releases. I'm fine with that.
3D printing: The world's first printed plane
Good call to the people who speculated that there was meth involved.
no love for my pydoc.vim? https://github.com/fs111/pydoc.vim
Ask HN: Review my side-project DomainPolish
I realize, but reading Techdirt for any length of time is a really, really quick way to kill any faith you have in the idea of an open internet and/or fair IP laws actually going through, at least in the US.
Standing during meetings is hugely helpful for keeping things moving. This is a common, but not common enough strategy.
Note: I know that there isn't SSL encryption on the checkout page. I use Stripe as my payment processor, and their JavaScript payment API means that the transaction is secure even without SSL server-side because your card information never touches my server. Would love your thoughts!
I am no Lisp expert by a longshot, but when I want regular expressions, I use this library: http://www.cliki.net/CL-PPCRE (available for easy install via quicklisp) Since I like to pick on Perl... This library's logic is, as it happens, allegedly faster than Perl's regular expressions. That probably is not difficult to do, since Perl is interpreted, whereas most CL implementations are a both interpreted and compiled: you get the extra advantage of the expression being preprocessed.

CL has a nice variety of libraries that extend the language. It is certainly debatable what constitutes good "core language" features vs what should be in good "language extensions" or libraries, but I should make one comment on what I have seen of Lisp libraries: they have high quality, and wherever there is lack, it is documented. There is even a humility about it, a distinct lack of attempt at showmanship or marketing, as if the community cares more about really good theory than the next buck. I suspect this faithfulness to the reality of the various algorithms is part of what turns away people who are on the hunt for shinies.

As a counter example, Perl is well-known for having a huge base of libraries via CPAN, but the signal to noise ratio is very low. There are few libraries that have any quality and a general lack of consistency and interoperability between them with the notable exception of packages like Moose.

From what I understand in reading about this lack of built-in regexp support, it has something to do with regexes being a theoretically weak approach towards parsing. I have some ideas on what that means, but I have no strong participation in such discussions, so I am cautious about proceeding into that territory.

It is possible what allowed me to get to the point where I was confident I could solve any problem I wanted in Lisp (web, database, random scripting, 3D game application, etc) was the fact that I spent a lot of time playing with Lisp and shifting my mental model several times. And I still feel like an egg compared to what some of the folks are doing on some of the Lisp forums. It seems like the people who are breaking new ground in programming theory (and not just rehashing the same old concepts in different syntax approaches) are in the lisp communities, although I should give a good nod to Haskell's continuation of the ML line.

Anyway, I am a little hung up on this definition of "practical". Maybe I am lucky and happen to look in the right places? I did start off on the wrong foot and dig deeply into ASDF stuff a while back when it was messier, but that kind of thing is outdated now with the introduction of the QuickLisp library.

One last note: when you said "scripting", did you really mean "programming"? There is a connotation that scripts are more for one-offs, for hacking stuff together, and Lisp is more oriented towards serious, large applications, for managing huge and complex problems.
You might have to use a lawyer to get it done, but probably yes.
But that is true for most of the stuff involving termination fees. The same is true for if you bring in your own cellphone to a plan. They make a lot of money betting you will decided it is not worth fighting for a clause in the contract in your favor and will write you off versus paying a cooperate lawyer their minimum fee.
I have another idea from a bad experience today. Why is it we are still using the same check routing system from the last century? The routing transit system was created a CENTURY AGO! Does anyone here use a candlestick phone? Do you get your stock quotes off ticker tape? How's the fuel economy on your Model T? There is absolutely no reason it should take days to process a check when I can send a text message anywhere on the planet in a matter of seconds. There are billions of electronic payments made each year and they total several hundred billion. If you can invent a system where payments are made instantaneously, the world will beat a path to your door.
looks an awful lot like forrst (service-wise). how does it compare?