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>I used to have a knee jerk reaction and email people asking them to take things down.

And how well did that work out for you (and your dad)? The knee-jerk reaction is as primitive and counterproductive as it is understandable. The AirBnB founders aren't naifs to the Internet. They understand the Streisand Effect. It might be understandable for them to want EJ to take down her blog post. But to actually go out and ask her? That's inviting trouble, and the executives at AirBnB had to have known that.
Any ambiguity in item 3 is not a problem, because no matter how you parse it, the number of letters will always be a positive integer.
Email can be a hazard when you're in the fast-and-furious discussion phase.

Then it's useful to have a F2F meeting (or conference, or whatever), with someone designated to take notes and post a summary. If there are conclusions drawn in the meeting -- and the meeting should be specifically scoped to do:

1. Reach a conclusion, or
2. Identify what additional information is required to accomplish 1, or
3. Determine that the problem is intractable

.. then those conclusions must be nailed down in writing immediately after. Bury your hatchets and grudges and get stuff done.
I think one of the major problems with "CFS" is that it's an umbrella term. Seriously. If you have persistent fatigue and they can't diagnose you with anything else, you have "chronic fatigue syndrome". It's no wonder research is inconclusive and hard to come by.

My brother and I both got CFS at the same time, with similar initial-diagnoses (tested positive for Mono), and we've been fighting off the effects for quite a few years now. For myself, I went from soccer-playing high-energy kid to going between bed and the couch for about a year and a half, in the span of a few days.

What changed after a year and a half was that I was getting ever-deeper in a depressive cycle, and managed to recognize it and escape - I realized it was literally a lethal path if I didn't fix something. Very good motivation, that. From then, I basically spent 5 years wasting a little more energy in everything I did, and very very slowly got some stamina back - it took me about 5 years from the start of it all to get to the point where I could go back to school for a couple hours a day. The remaining year and a half got me back to almost regular hours.

I still have some problems, but am able to get around most of them now because I have very acutely learned the difference between being fatigued and literal physical exhaustion. And I've become extremely patient / stubborn in my progress - a few years to make a small improvement isn't all that long any more. I still waste energy left and right, but it's no longer a necessity.

I am a rare exception, and I count myself lucky, not strong-willed. Getting to where I am now hasn't been entirely my doing - it has faded on its own to a fair degree.

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So, throughout all this, I've kept watching the research a bit, and one thing sticks out like a sore thumb - the umbrella term. Studies have a hard time finding individuals, and a hard time finding ones with possibly-similar causes, because it manifests so many different ways (my brother had and has severe migraines, I've had digestive and muscle pains). And if it doesn't help everyone, it's not a cure. It's disorganized and counter-productive, and the same thing happens to almost every umbrella term in every field.

And due to all of this, we've had tons of blood tests, left several doctors who take the stance that it doesn't exist, and found a surprising amount of people with similar experiences. Doctors who can't accept things they didn't learn in school disgust me - I'm very glad we've found a couple that don't. They've been wonderful.

For my brother and I, I can say this: we don't know how to manifest positive tests for Mono using our minds. The rest of it is possible, but I find it unlikely, and neither of us were under odd stresses prior - both good at school, had friends, no real family troubles, etc. No doubt some of it is psychosomatic, but it varies by person, and there are definitely other factors in play in many cases. I very highly doubt many (most?) CFS cases are entirely psychosomatic. I have no problem with it being psychosomatic (really, it wouldn't bother me - it'd mean less wasted on tests and more on attempts), I just doubt it's the main cause.
You do realize that if the dollar crashes, the Euro will not be far behind, right ?

Buying euros to guard against dollar default is like buying riyals. If one crashes, so will the other.

At the very least I'd go with AUD, but perhaps better to go with Yen or Signapore dollars. They certainly won't be immune, but they have a decent chance of surival if the US goes.
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It's an interesting idea but the notion of using a selector syntax as a creation syntax seems to break down rather quickly.

Where xpath is loose, you end up being strict. For example the sibling syntax creates two of something. But there's no syntax to make three. It might have been better just to leave that out.

Also, the syntax to remove something is truly bizarre; you put() the negation. Would it really be so bad to have another function, like remove() ?

Anyway I appreciate a totally different take on the problem here. A templated approach seems like a cool idea. jQuery can be a little wordy when creating structure, since their creation syntax simply is HTML, and if you want to make it dependent on other data or ensure that data is well escaped then you end up switching paradigms in the same line of code, e.g. $('<a>').attr( 'href', foo );
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The problem is not this researcher doing his research. The scientific process can deal with several opinions on a topic, since the better theory will eventually yield better results, more publications and more acceptance in the global scientific community. Everything should be fine.

But he's not just a part of the global scientific community, but also a researcher at a prestigeous university in the UK, where the poltical climate of the last few years has happily called everything off mainstream antisocial. The UK is a country where there was a serious discussion about not calling obese people obese anymore, because it is not insulting enough, but that one should call them fat. In such an environment, a theory among many, stating that CFS is caused by mental illness, can easily be spun into CFS sufferers just being lazy folks who don't want to work, because science says so. (Ignoring that mental illnes, like a physical illness, is actual illness and not a bad character trait)

This is a problem with the UK, not with this researcher.
I'm trying to ignore the name calling for a second. What really struck me is this, though:

The post says:

"2. Have a single point of contact: the CEO. Part of this crisis got worse because numerous people have been speaking to the press. The first thing you should do if you are in a crisis is appoint ONE PERSON to speak to the press and represent the company. That person should be the CEO. Not Paul Graham. Not the PR team. Not some VP. Not friends. Not off the record sources. Not anyone else except the CEO. (...)"

I'd argue that

- posting this thing in general was already a violation of that rule, i.e. public advice as someone close to the company

- continuing the discussion in the comments, after posting that there shouldn't be any communication except through the CEO.

I mean.. It sounds like he wrote 'Shut up everyone, including PG' and then he continues to comment..? Am I misreading the initial statement (certainly possible) or is this a ~mismatch~?
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Some great background reading here:

http://distantwriting.co.uk/howthecompaniesworked.aspx

The idea that management would disapprove of the informal exchanges between operators is strangely familiar today.
> That is the latest report from pg/airbnb.

And TechCrunch has already commented on this (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fau...), which is why I said there are conflicting reports:

> 2. Airbnb’s Christopher Lukezic told me on Wednesday that the company was not responsible for EJ’s losses, that they would be paying anything for her losses, that they are just a service to match people and that they were helping the police find the people who did this. This was on the record, and it was a call we emailed about first. I didn’t take him by surprise. And I read this back to him before I posted.

> 3. Paul Graham says instead “The spokesman, who’d been told by their lawyers that he couldn’t go into detail about that because of the precedent said “I can’t comment on that.” So Arrington, in typical Arrington fashion said “Well, unless you tell me I’m going to write that you’re not willing to do anything for her.” And he did. Really not cool.

> That’s a lie. What he said is what I wrote in no. 2 above, and what was in the original post.
I stand corrected. The fact remains that nothing she's said has been disputed by anyone, the only people who have been inconsistent are airbnb and pg, and yet she's still the one being attacked.
An external library? Some sort of linear algebra, I assume? I believe that a very simple algorithm that solves problems like this was featured on HN something like a week ago.

I hope that's not too much of a hint, but anyone who can figure it out from that was probably a good candidate, anyhow.

I should also mention that I did code a solution in Perl, or at least most of one, though I did not submit it. I have a grandmother to care for and that limits me on relocating, even though I would be interested in finding more interesting work.

Assuming I don't eventually go crazy in a futile attempt to explain to corporate that methods which turn a 9/2272 inch rounding error into a piece of glass that's half an inch too big do not qualify as "validation."
One of the problems with taking the "in your head" route though is that it discourages research into causes. And it doesn't explain why so many people have similar cases while coming from wildly-varying lives.

Sure. In-your-head diseases exist, and they're very real. Placebo effects, for instance, have been very conclusively shown to be extremely powerful - there's no question about the reality (though some still do...). But the odd recurrence of Epstein-Barr is very odd if it's all in your head.
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No, it doesn't.

It's used frequently in corporate mail systems. This doesn't mean it works well.

Threaded mail clients FTW.
I've noticed what I was doing wrong. I'm onto more interesting bits of the challenge, I hope. Thanks for the offer, though.
Sounds like someone who has trouble with logic: the middle of something, by definition, is not one of its ends. Someone heard the compounds "high-end" and "low-end", which refer to the actual upper and lower ends of the range of prices in a market, and coined "middle-end" by analogy — either humorously or without being able to figure out the meaning of the other phrases.
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Like without a specific item (Coffee, a tent or a sweater, or even a baseball bat) or when you needed someone at the last minute like someone to play ball with you, or help you clean up that mess right NOW?

Would you use a service that will help you solve those problems?
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>Ideas are cheap.

As a reasonably competent programmer with no good ideas for a startup, I look forward to your forthcoming list.
"intense pain to its users" "completely powerless" "flailing about" "drowning in money coming from his mistakes" "slow-motion train wreck"

You my friend, have a way with words. Comments like this make me sad that a "lol" response is not an option.
It depends on your target audience. Perhaps if it is HN readers, but there are many markets that are not saturated by this type of launch site.
Surely the fundamental problem here is more that Microsoft have never had to learn how to keep users happy. They had their monopoly handed to them on a silver platter and their technology was only good enough that users didn't abandon them (not that they had a lot of other practical options).

Apple had to do this stuff right, because if they don't a Mac would be just like Windows with a different logo and nobody would bother. The necessity of having a better UX was baked into the company ten years ago. Microsoft seem to be doing better with Win7, but I'm not sure they've really learnt that lesson yet.
On top of all this, as far as I can tell, Airbnb is not doing anything to help the Somali famine. The cheapest listing they have in Kenya is $10 a night, well beyond the scope of any of the thousands of refugees pouring out of war-torn Somalia. I think we should criticize Airbnb for their lack of action in Somalia.

Corporate 'ethics' is one of the greatest modern disasters. The most powerful and wealthy people in society routinely crush individuals, wreak ecological havok, sell harmful products, manipulate the law and just plain cheat, lie and steal. By those standards, it doesn't seem that Airbnb has done anything particularly unexpected.
On the Feature Requests page, the idea of improving the detection of duplicate submissions is mentioned (and funnily enough, many different times). In the last few weeks, it seems a lot of stories have been over-submitted like this one. It seems that fixing duplicates should have higher priority, for the sake of keeping discussions together and for the sake of keeping the front page cleaner.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041

Some people don't want anything to change, many people don't want cross-references like this, and many, many people want the ability to merge stories. The discussion on that page has more details, options and suggestions.
If nothing else, the application process may help you refine your ideas.

I would recommend you (the OP) go ahead and start filling out the application even if you don't submit it. I did this, in part to help me clarify my own ideas and in part to help me clarify whether or not YC was right for me. It's not but filling the application out, even only partway, was a good exercise and very helpful food for thought.
Personally I'd rather have a check signed by Donald Knuth than a $500 bounty.
The real point is that the AirBnB situation is untenable regardless of who's telling the truth.

Suppose EJ is lying. Well, then, this business has a profound reputation risk which can be exploited by any given individual using (or claiming to use) the service. A risk which is going to tie heavily into some fundamental problems in vetting both guests and hosts.

Suppose AirBnB are lying. The company is exposed as being ungrateful, etc., as Paul Carr's excellent piece notes (conflict of interest or no, he captures the situation well).

Suppose EJ and AirBnB are both being truthful. Neither disputes that the house-trashing occurred, there's been some contact between AirBnB, and apparently at least partial assistance in finding accommodations, etc. We've still got a woman who's been hugely inconvenienced, has suffered real, physical, and psychological losses, and needs to put her life back together. And we've got a company with a real and apparently intractable problem with its business model, possibly running scared.

Inviting strangers off the Internet to come stay at your house is going to involve some very real risks, and some percentage, however small, of AirBnB experiences are going to end very badly.

As I noted in an earlier post on this subject, what happened to EJ isn't the worst possible case. A guest copying keys, returning to the home, raping and killing the host, would be ... a pretty bad day.

I think AirBnB are going to have to re-think what they're offering, whom they're catering to (for both guests and hosts), and what they can do to mitigate risks (guests are also assuming risks, though not to their real estate as hosts are).

Disintermediation via the Web is great when you've got a happy, happy crowd of people involved. The lesson from history is that this isn't a stable or scalable situation. Woodstock was followed by Altamont.

I've got my own suspicions as to who seems more credible, or at least is acting to type. None of us will know until more facts are known, police and criminal investigations are concluded (and perhaps tried), and the dispute between EJ and AirBnB is settled (perhaps also going to court). Even then much may remain vague, under seal, or otherwise obscured.

None of that changes any of what I've said: AirBnB simply involves too much risk exposure to all parties: hosts, gusts, AirBnB, and its investors/creditors.

It's going to have to restructure fundamentally, or fold.
Or the one provided by the spec:

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As I said in my first post this particular example seemed so stridently wrong that I thought I'd missed something, that there was a level of irony in the article that apparently doesn't exist.

> "locate" rather than "find"

As it happens... I disagree this example is any better. To locate is to "discover the position" of something; to find is to "meet with or discover by chance" (that's my emphasis, but both are primary definitions from Collins English).

Could be it's just hard to meaningfully extrapolate those class-based connotations forwards 1000 years in an enjoyable pop-sci article.
What does he actually want to say?
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I'm not sure I follow. How can getting (for free) a long list of people who may be interested in the product once it launches be a bad thing?

I think the OP's main point is that instead of having a landing page you should be concentrating on product/market fit by describing the product. I think startups with these coming soon pages are already doing that, just not on their public website.
What is really bad is wasting months building software no one wants. Or finding out after the fact that your cost of acquiring a customer is too high to make the idea viable.

Sure there are people doing it wrong, but done correctly its a powerful tool that raises the odds that your startup will become a success.
Philosophically, you can blame Capitalism, at least in the abstract. Every man for himself is why they have these problems, and that is the heart of Capitalism. Because they don't think of society and really only their own rewards, they are oblivious to the experience of their users. Yes, Capitalism is the very essence of the problem, at least our current version of it, which is why the groups with the greatest amount of capital are generally the worst at concern for customers.
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Verbose is putting it mildly. Objective C isn't a bad language, but the syntax is just horrible IMO. So much extra typing to do something simple.

That said, the app I'm writing at work does a lot of stuff with strings, which you did mention specifically as a problem.

Properties also drive me crazy. just a ton of extra annoyance just to declare a variable.

I also prefer eclipse to xcode, and visual studio to both.

oh and good point about the simulator. The iOS simulators are MUCH better than the android simulator. So much faster.
I'd be willing to consider any cash offers to keep it secret that the US Navy might be willing to make. But how do I approach 'em?

They approach you.
Also check out the demos at http://jsil.org/

The developer has implemented very basic functionality[1] of the XNA library (so there are games :D).

Programming a complete game in .NET (super-powerful IDEs, with code-completion and integrated debuggers, profiles is nice), then deploying it to the Web is a pretty cool thing. Of course this project is not nearly as mature[2] as GWT.

But I like the approach of compiling bytecode better, than GWTs Java compilations. Many cool .NET languages exist (like F#), which you can use that way.

[1]: that's basically it https://github.com/kevingadd/JSIL/blob/master/Libraries/JSIL...

[2]: page says "JSIL is still in development. You will hit bugs."
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From a social perspective, isn't this counter productive? China has a ton of people they need to transition from rural economies into urban employement - building robot factories does nothing to address this issue, which is a big deal in a country with compulsory military service (youth unemployment -> civil unrest).

For a competitive perspective, if the labor component is being automated - why should it be cheaper to run a robot factory in China vs. the US? Sounds like you a difference in legal climate...that need to be evened up.
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Nope, actually, it should present you with a choice between a normal install and a customized install, so that people who don't want to make any fiddly little choices about links and start menu crap just have the thing install itself and then run the program, getting you down to about 4 steps.
The thing about programming is, to be good you need to do it. You wrote a lot of things like "I can do this, I can do that." But I guess a lot better to find a job would be "I've done that". Hell, even if you write a Snake or Tetris clone for the iPhone/Android Market, or write small patches for documentation errors for opensource stuff you use. Even projects where you just helped a friend to finish his master thesis would be better then nothing.

And if you are out of money stop looking in one direction. Open up in many ways. And if you fry burgers at McDonnals, who cares. Pay your bills and in your free time get going with doing anything programming related.

My point is: I think the US is the most developed IT market these days. People who actually do things should always be able to get a job. If you didn't get a job until now, it is probably because you didn't really look for it, or you still don't have "what it takes".

Also I think through doing things you automatically learn to know like minded people and thus find entrance into companies.
Come on folks, how is all this half-information bashing better than trial by media?

We don't know exactly what happened. There are various incentives for both parties to say things that may / may not have happened. AirBnB needs to be careful to make sure they are not the target of a lawsuit. The conversation that they had with EJ can be misrepresented. Or they may even be worse than what this shows.

Who knows? Why are we, a bunch who would normally need citations to believe that humans need water to survive, engaging in such ludicrous trial-by-media with hardly any validated information?
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Collecting email addresses is fine, but make sure you're really getting people who are genuinely interested in your product. My point is that people shouldn't focus on hoarding emails. The focus should be on testing certain message, certain angle of the product, whether they like the future vision, etc...
Bill should have put his vps in line:

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