skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The talk is time sensitive, as it is live, but there are other commercial space talks being given as well (Pacific Standard Time):

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Commercial Space Panel
Gwynne Shotwell, President, SpaceX
Jeff Greason, President and CEO, XCOR Aerospace
Ronald Ramos, Vice President, Exploration and Launch Systems, Pratt & Whitney
Daniel J. Rasky, Director, Emerging Commercial Space Office, NASA

4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Opportunities and Challenges for Small
Businesses in the Energy and Aerospace Technology Fields
Chair: Michael F. Pisczor, NASA Glenn Research Center

EDIT: I seem to have submitted the talk at the very end of his presentation, here's to hoping there will be a recording soon.
Adobe surrenders to Jobs, builds Flash alternative
The tabloid presses seem to have blunted Occam's razor. I have used AirBnB in the past and have come to realize that a lot of renters lose enthusiasm in time and simply don't respond - sometimes they respond half-apologetically after a week or two. Also, given that it's summertime, I wouldn't be surprised if a number of New Yorkers are on holiday (and perhaps ignoring their e-mails).

I am pissed with AirBnB for how they've handled the recent events but speculating like this is just kicking them when they're down.
This debate has increased significance in Michigan where the state police are using a device that dumps your phone. It doesn't matter whether its password protected or not.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20055431-1.html

Note this began during the previous Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm's rein.

Its been reported that one interesting development from this practice has been that drug dealers no longer conduct business using iPhones.
sizeup works great, i evaluated moom for only a very short period of time (their trial period is too short IMO).

i have been using sizeup for a long time now, started using it when moom wasn't all that powerful. i think nowadays i would go with moom and customize everything. on the other hand, sizeup does everything i need except for shrinking/growing a window and is extraordinarily stable.

disclaimer: i use Witch => I have nothing against Many Tricks.
Smart match is undergoing revision because, frankly, it's too smart. I don't mind that he left it out, and I'm one of the core devs.
I wonder if this will be killed like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834066 ...
You may not have heard of this, but a union of companies is called a "trust", and there's an entire division of the Department of Justice devoted to preventing them from forming, and destroying them when they do arise: http://www.justice.gov/atr/
New to most people; I haven't driven through one yet. And on the timescales of road engineering, pretty much anything novel in the past 20 years that's not yet widespread is still 'new'.
No. While there always is a difference between someone claiming a certain property of a thing and that thing actually having that property, some properties are easily verifiable but others are not. For example, "offline capable" is easily verifiable.

For "intuitive" on the other hand, even the meaning of the word is not clear. I think that it means "aligns well with one's previous experiences". That, however, means that it is idiotic to say that "this UI is intuitive", just as it is idiotic to say that "this line is orthogonal"---you have to specify _to_what_ that line is orthogonal, and _to_whom_ the UI is intuitive.
Yes, but I guess they're rather looking for people who value the goal and not the path.
There are 2 absolutely bad side effects to this:

- You must be always online, no offline mode at all. ///
- Mods are expressly forbidden, no mods at all.
I think you're waaaaay undercharging for the private customized tour.

This is a decision worth thousands of dollars. Have a set tour you do with dates, and have a private tour option that is X per private tour at a much higher rate.
I don't think you are missing anything. There are advertisers who prefer other networks like Chitika, Adbrite, Clicksor etc because of the lower competition/lower click prices there (and not only).
>The Obama administration doesn't care whether you or anybody else believes them.

True, they behaved like an unaccountable empire given that 1) Americans have paid a lot of money to exact revenge on Bin Laden and 2) the hit squad operation was illegal under international law.
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Isn't it funny how the more glacially slow the pace a language takes, the more things break when a tiny little change happens?
Yes, the police try that against drug trade. This, plus drug dogs (are there copyright infringement dogs yet?) and their successes are moderate (if you look at reducing drugs availability, not the number of people put in jail.)
Well, this certainly drags AirBnb into the eBay and PayPal sized fraud prevention industry... and I wonder how this will affect the vibe of the website. Certainly, AirBnB will survive this ordeal, and gain more name recognition from this event. Hopefully it doesn't do things like kill their profit margins or harm the ease of renting through AirBnb.
It wouldn't be very interesting, since this sort of stuff happens to hotels all the time. Really, the only suprising thing about the incident is that Airbnb got to 2 million stays without something like this becoming publicly known.

Hotels don't have a financial interest in taking down Airbnb -- the type of customers that would use Airbnb are the type of customers who wouldn't stay at a hotel in the first place, or who would make such poor guests that they wouldn't be worth the dismal revenue they bring in.
Every single one of his search examples "that breaks Bing" works for me just fine.

Either Bing fixed this the same hour his blog post was made, or he just ran into a temporary snag.

And his Google search of the error code on Bing is just that, a snapshot of a temporary error that has no correlation to any particular keyword in the url.
If Cali-based, form an LLC in California. You derive no tax advantage from organizing an LLC out-of-state.

You cannot form an S-Corp if you have non-resident founders (anyone who is not a US citizen or permanent resident), which sounds like the case here. This is a strict legal requirement which cannot be avoided. They can hold ownership/equity in the company as long as its not an S-Corp.

As for how to become a Corp or LLC:
- Go to the secretary of state website for the state you choose, then their Business Filings section
- Download the Articles of Incorporation (for a Corp) or the Articles of Organization (for an LLC).
- Fill the form out.
- If any of your founders live in the state of incorporation/organization, just mail it in or drop it off at the local office for your secretary of state. OTHERWISE, find a registered agent in that state and pay them to do it for you.
- Take care of the remaining corporate/LLC formalities: get an EIN from the IRS (free, takes about 5 minutes), and write up your Bylaws or Operating Agreement, have a company meeting.

Sorry about the late reply. For some reason, this showed up on my front page 12 days after your post.
If a company has access to hundreds of millions of profiles, can figure out an effective way of delivering targeted ads, and can effect a fundamental shift in the way most people find content on the web (i.e., a shift from keyword search to social search/sharing), then Google's advertising revenue could fall significantly. The obvious existing threat is Facebook. Facebook ads are not good enough yet, but could be relatively soon. I think the question for Google is whether it can catch up on social before Facebook catches up on search and ad targeting.
What I want to say to all MBAs
Doing a SWOT analysis of a business opportunity is nonsense. It gives an unrealistic view of who your customers are and what really matters to them.

Your customer isn't a walking database of businesses and their competitive advantages. They're working from incomplete information. All they care about are their wants, and their needs, and their aspirations.
Ask HN: Good Sci-Fi involving CS/InfoTheory?
Recently been enjoying books by Vernor Vinge (ex CS prof at SDSU) and Charles Stross.
Seems like a pretty good response to the situation, especially the host insurance, 24-hour customer service, and improved guest verification.

For Brian Chesky's sake I hope the SFPD actually have a suspect in custody this time.
Im genuinely surprised that you'd even ask. Does no one see to the horror that is Flash in this things lineage? I guess not, so here's my thoughts...

First of all, don't dismiss ads and crappy splash screens out of hand. They're a cancer that the web is still undergoing serious therapy to remove. If this gains any traction, the cancer will come back, only this time it will mimic "standards" making it much harder to kill.

Content Hierachy will be thrown out the window.
We can talk all we want about web standards and accesibility, but the keystone to it all is content hierarchy. Up to now, we've never really had to sell the concept, which is good because it's a difficult concept to sell. The attraction of being standards compliant, running on iOS devices and meeting accessibility requirements was enough to create a situation where the importance of content hierarchy was ensured.

The wrong tool for the wrong job:
As with Flash, this thing will be great for some things. But as with flash, people will use it as an über tool for designing and implementing entire sites. I'm not going to list the reasons why that's a bad idea because you should know already.

Adobe, given half the chance, will push this to be a "complete" design and development tool, because that's their business. That's the type of software they make. Attempting to replace flash with HTML5 is an insanely stupid and destructive errand. And make no mistake, this is the intention.

Then there's the Amateurs, people who will forego learning the fundamentals and start knocking out half baked web sites built with this monstrosity. Dreamweaver is bad enough at enabling the talentless to inflict their creations onto the world, but this thing is going to be too much for people to resist. I'm talking about the kind of people who don't think much beyond whizz bang zippy animations. People who are essentially Magpies. You know they exist.

And then there's Adobe, who haven't made a decent product since PS6. I use Adobe products every day and have done for almost two decades. They're the worst applications I have on my system and I avoid them whenever I can. Now it looks like there will be another one I have to put up with and I don't relish that thought.

I've been designing and developing websites for more than 14 years now. I'm quite good at it too. I've worked in small agencies, big agencies, small corporations and big corporations. I spent my early years working exclusively in Flash. I believed in it, I though it was the future and I'd have fought in a holy war with anyone who didn't think flash was the best of the bestest things ever!

I was wrong. I was idiotically, stupidly and arrogantly wrong to the point of absurdity. If only we knew then what we know now.

I've seen how this movie ends, they all drown in a sea of pre-loaders.
We launched http://ElectronicMedicalRecords.com in an effort to store and manage medical records for small medical practices.
It's arguable whether an algorithm implemented inside your program was published or secret.
Apple's rise continues but few others are getting a bite
Have you read Cryptonomicon? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
That's a very American attitude, one that, as a Canadian, I simply can't understand. It always strikes me as odd that Americans prefer a system in which each state has almost total control, up to and including its own constitution. You're left with things like California being insolvent and practically unsalvageable, Arizona mandating racial profiling and giving retarded cowboys like Arpaio free reign, Kansas banning science, most everywhere banning gay marriage... it's just a very strange and haphazard system. My best friend in high school was from San Francisco and his father hated our system, saying we had ceded all our freedom to the federal government, were socialists, and all manner of other invectives. Given how messed up everything is down there, I wouldn't really be complaining.
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What specifically was cumbersome?
Agreed, I think this shows where government spending is a primary economic force more than anything else. New Mexico for instance is full of federally-funded labs and nuclear facilities, and has a low population - so per capita government spending looks huge. The tradeoff here is that other, more populous states don't have WIPP in their backyard. Not to mention all the useful environmental factors NM offers (like White Sands).

With so many other factors affecting where overall government spending goes, it would be a mistake to link this to politics at all.
They'll find plenty of those.
Airbnb: We screwed up and we're sorry
Short answer: As long as the portion isn't dominant in your portfolio, and you re-evaluate it at least twice a year and rebalance, its all good.

Longer answer, looking at Googles rates of return on capital is like watching a very, very, fast train driving along straight track. Google's nominal operating mode burns a lot of money, that burn rate leaves them vulnerable to down turns. What the most likely scenario is not that they get disrupted so much as others meet them at parity but run at an operationally much more efficient way. Say that M$/Bing inexorably creeps up into a neck and neck race with Google in terms of search reach, and the combination pushes down advertising rates. The spending brakes go on at the 'plex, the company changes, the bean counters rise in power beyond reasonable measure, and the company 'flips'. Out go the creative, inventive, people and in come the 'lifers' who know how to make their job look important without actually doing anything. The mechansim which makes this happen is really hard to avoid since from the board room things look fine, even after they aren't fine. And there is a fine balance of disbelief that is held between the employees and their condition that, once disrupted, cannot be re-established. Cisco, HP (Tandem), Sun, and Intel are all places where I've known folks who lived through the flip. Nothing is the same afterwards, if you can't re-invent yourself like Apple did, it gets a lot harder.

That being said, there is (as others point out) usually some time to cover for that.

I cannot stress enough however that financial planning is serious business and you should take your time with it. I believed them when they said if I started putting money in my 401K in 1986 that it would be worth multiple millions by now thanks to the 'miracle' of compound interest. They missed the part about the 'miracle' of the nations worst economic debacle deleting that value in a heartbeat. I don't believe them any more :-(
From AirBnB source: http://blog.airbnb.com/our-commitment-to-trust-and-safety
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I suspect that's partly due to its proximity to Winnipeg; a great deal of the cross-border traffic with Canada flows through MN. But MN has a disproportionate number of big industrial companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Minnesota
While Apple's decision to not include Flash in IOS devices arguably accelerated its demise, Flash is going to be obsoleted by HTML5 at some time in the future anyway. So I wouldn't put it this way.

Flash going away is beneficial for Adobe as well, as they'll have one less cross-platform virtual machine to maintain that they distribute for free anyway.
I'd be interested in which browser you're using, and if you could check with a different one. I mention in the article that some browsers seem to be redirected before the bot filter kicks in (IE9, for example, but not IE8).

You can see the results of the bug on about 50 browsers here:

http://browsershots.org/http://www.bing.com/explore?q=topic+...
I don't really understand the downvotes. Please explain.
It's not supposed to be perfect.

But you'd bloody well suck it up and get used to doing them and pitching them, because they're expected.
Sure, but it still sucks for the guy in jail, and law enforcement doesn't seem to be discouraged by your numbers.
Wow, I must be a cheapskate (well, I am) but would never pay $130 for a pair of jeans, shirt or shoes in 2011 dollars. I probably wouldn't even pay $130 for all 3 combined.

Do average people really spend $130 on a pair of sneakers?
Those articles were killed because they essentially added nothing new to a tired plethora of similar or same articles.
I think the only part of it that wasn't inevitable was the up to $50k reimbursement, that shouldn't bankrupt them if the incidence rate stays low. Their support team growth was almost definitely going to have to double (and prob more) this and next year anyway.
Explanation: submissions on the move. I found something I thought was worth sharing and posted it.

Typically I've had good luck with not being able to post duplicates (i.e., it'll just upvote the existing post). I assure you that I in no way intended to pollute the new stream and that whenever possible I read everything on the front page.

Please accept my humble apology.
Ask HN - are we allowed to post stories criticising YC companies?
User swombat posted a link to a CNN story summarising the AirBnB ransacking episode (post id=2834066 - I can't post the link as it is dead/expired).

This story was about 45 minutes old with approx. 50 points, therefore it should have been near the top of the first page. However it did not appear on the first page, and after about 50 minutes it was killed off.

Are we not allowed to post links to stories criticising YC companies?
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202022 : harpers.org - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004743 : dangerouslaboratories.org - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542905 : wikipedia.org - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611583 : harpers.org - many comments
Are you kidding me?!?!

a) Airbnb needs to recognize the risks they are creating for guests - this move is purely a reactionary response to placate public perception about the risks to hosts. They do not care about safety so much as the supply of the product they broker.

b) $50K is a pretty good prize for anyone who can game them on this one.

The "apology" says: "There have been a lot of questions swirling around, and I would like to apologize and set the record straight in my own words. In the last few days we have had a crash course in crisis management."

If crisis management is something you're only just now learning about, in this highly risk inducing business, what does that say about your founders, investors, and your investors' funders?

I honestly now wonder if there aren't already any guest victims who we haven't heard from because, well, they're gone. I seriously wonder if this company hasn't already killed someone.
I bet the vandalizer feels pretty smug about himself right now.
If the average is currently $X after N purchases, that means they have taken in $(N * X). When the next person pays $(X + 1), the total is now $((N * X) + (X + 1)) == $(((N + 1) * X) + 1). The new average is $(X + (1 / (N + 1))), which is guaranteed to be higher than the old average.
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Best comment so far, the search monopoly guarantees AdWords.
The only way to do this is by breaking search and this is incredibly difficult.

Google is a single pony like Exxon is with oil.
Google buys The Deal Map and ventures into daily deals aggregation
Don't you have to prototype it to "reduce it to practice"? I thought you couldn't patent ideas that hadn't been reduced to practice.
If you see something, say something!
Or look up Fractional Factorial Designs (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fractional_fa...).
That argument is pedantic and does not contribute positively to the discussion. Do you believe that the person talking about unsubscribe really means email from his mother-in-law?

Let's use our common sense, shall we? Do you think he marks as spam emails from his coworkers because they don't include unsubscribe links thar onl require one click?

If you don't think he meant that, let's not discuss it regardless of how one might twist his words out of context.
If the average is currently $X after N purchases, that means they have taken in $(N * X). When the next person pays $(X + 1), the total is now $((N * X) + (X + 1)) == $(((N + 1) * X) + 1). The new average is $(X + (1 / (N + 1))), which is guaranteed to be higher than the previous average, even if $(X + 1) < $10.
big question: Will EJ settle for $50k or will she try to get more in court?
They all consistently fail for me, Firefox 5 on Linux.
A $50,000 guarantee seems a bit low. Condos in OK neighborhoods here in Chicago start at around 200K so theoretically a lot more than 50K in damage could be done.
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Awesome response and the right thing to do for everyone's sake.
I'm sure you'll still find people who can't get used to the touch screen keyboards.

Often it's the vocal minority that we hear loudest.
That piece of paper makes all the difference. Hang in there for the last year and you will be happy you did. It is tough to land a good job without a degree.

Good luck with whatever you choose.
That's an appeal waiting to happen. Forget the $500,000.00 requirement, you can't use that evidence against me if you seized it illegally. I don't see how the contents of a cell phone can be seized legally.

(The only - horrible - exception is if a person doesn't have standing to contest the seizure. For example, if they extract the data from a user's phone & use that to bust the dealer, the dealer might not have a remedy because the dealer doesn't have any expectation of privacy in the user's cell phone.)
>I suppose one could work up a conspiracy involving dozens (hundreds?) of people in the administration from the president down to rank & file soldiers

It wouldn't just be the people involved in the execution of the operation that would need to be kept in check?
I wonder how they're now going to prevent fraud.
hi!

if i connect a monitor directly to the displayport of the x220, the monitor realised the computer put doesn't display anything. if i do so with the vga-port all works fine!

did you ever connect a monitor to the displayport a get it work? if so, can you give me some help?

thanks alot!

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Filing a patent application is a constructive reduction to practice.
Incidentally, the second most frequent contributor to hg-git after schacon is Augie Fackler, one of the Google engineers who helped with Google Code's git implementation (and also a frequent hg hacker).
The only clock a mathematician needs.
Interesting product. Do you accept folks that are looking for telecommuting opportunities?
Will this submission have it's title changed to the original post ("Our Commitment to Trust & Safety"), as was done for the original submission of EJ's blog post?

EDIT: Here's to consistency! Title has been (presumably mod-) edited.
I like it when startups / companies learn from their mistakes and make an effort to improve things. Nothing is perfect, but striving for perfection is a good aim. I posted my own lessons learned from this affair in hopes that I'd never experience the same. Some people thought my lessons learned were lame, but it's clear that there are lessons to be learned by everyone in this, whether you are AirBnB or just a growing startup.
Dulwich is a real town in the South of London, with a relatively large school called Dulwich College, where I studied. A bit spooked to see a library named after it...
The point of that article was more that this had hit CNN than any new information about the event itself. Pretty meta, but not unreasonable.
Finish college and work on your startup on the side for a year. Also, if you need to do a major research project or dissertation, choose something that will be of use for your startup.