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I agree with that, but I don't understand how e.g. hiding the Library folder puts too much of a burden on those few who really need to access it. They're probably at home on the command line anyway.

Sure, simplifications can go too far some times, but I'd say most self-declared "power users" don't really need what they think they need.

When I saw that the new Safari doesn't display cookie details (like name, expiration date, etc.) in the privacy pane, I at first thought that they took away too much information. But then I came to realize that even though I could understand that information, I've never actually used it or had a need for it. All the information important in the context of privacy settings is available, and much more streamlined than in previous versions. And I shouldn't even really need to worry about any of that, since a good browser should take care of protecting my privacy for me (e.g. by blocking 3rd party and ad cookies by default, which Safari does). The only time I actually needed that cookie information was during web development, and in that context its still available via the Develop menu.
Here's why I believe the economy in the shitters : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

Money needs to move and it's not right now.
Exactly. I use homesick to version and sync all the config files in my home directory across machines (linux and OSX alike), and git submodules already solve the problem for me.
Stop pretending that you're not a dumb pipe and bill by usage. The sooner information is treated like the basic utility it is, like fuel, water or electricity, the better off we'll all be. It's painful to watch every last data provider dance around the subject like this. You're not fooling anybody. All right, you're fooling a lot of people, but not me, and not anybody else for very long.
We shall lay low their towers and sell their engineers to the Shanzhai.
Oh Yea his tweets were pretty annoying and many even unfollowed him
TBH the I love the new Opera, its my browser of choice on Windows now. I still do most of my dev work in Firefox as its a swiss army knife, but opera otherwise.

On OSX, despite its memory leaks and crashing, the OS integrations of Safari can't be beat, the multi touch zooming, and the new lion features... I can put up with a crash or two a day.

And besides I like the feel of a high horse being at the to of that chart :P
Users will use Tor to get around this, so is the order a joke or will BT have to shut down all its internet business (most broadband internet in the UK is just rebranded BT ADSL)?
Funny, this list is about putting ego's aside and organizing work in an efficient way. Yet, your make it about your perception of it and start categorizing people. You don't get the purpose. It does not seem like you have a lot of working experience. It is really not about YOU. I would not want to work with you.
> Usually it's not a problem, because people only vote up the first version of a story.

I'm not sure if this is actually false (i.e. people vote for multiple versions of the same story) or just practically false (i.e. people vote for the first version that they notice, and so multiple different ones bounce around the front page). But either way, it's pretty usual that there are dups of at least one story on the front page at any given time. Or, that today's front page has a dup of yesterday's front page story (rather than continuing discussion on the same submission).
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Have any other start ups dealt with this issue?<p>Any guidance/advice? Currently struggling with the most efficient business model for our organization.
This is the first time I've read a gray comment on Hacker News that obviously does not deserve to be so.

Hacker News is NOT a place for mob mentality and hasty judgments. Nothing in this comment is inflammatory, or rude, or stupid. It's another point of view that deserves to be considered; it certainly does not deserve to be muted.

The fact that you can scan this and the other five Hacker News posts about this subject and can find only one unified interpretation of the event (Airbnb is wrong and evil!) can only signify that the community has sharply steered away from its roots.

Please; take some time to re-read the Hacker News community guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

"The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: both civil and substantial."

It is absolutely shameful that the Hacker News community has degraded this much. If you want to think and act like an average, shallow internet user, then go to Reddit. This is a place for thoughtful, intelligent discussion.
These are very good.

borkt:
> Most of these rules should go without saying and were instilled in me through jobs growing up and strengthened through college.

I agree strongly with borkt - these are common-sense professional behaviors, usually picked up over time. Fresh grads will do well to consider incorporating these behaviors on entering the workforce.

Whether it makes you a jerk for handing it out to subordinates (IMO it does) seems beside the point. The list itself is valuable as reinforcement for efficient behavior in the office.
Given that there are (at least) 2 sides to a story, don't you think you should have spoken to her instead of just taking what you have been told by Airbnb at face value?

Something obviously is off here (disregarding whatever Arrington had to say) and my impression is that Airbnb is still coming off as not being on top of PR given most of the comments in this thread and others.
They're not capping the top 5% each month. They're throttling it. That means that the top 5% could always be a certain range. So if the top 5% is over 50GB/month, then once you hit 50GB you'll be slowed down, but not stopped. You can keep going, and this is why the top 5% can stay the same from month to month.

It's possible that they can hit 50GB next month just as before, unless their behavior changes.

You're right that this plan could bring the top 5% down to 40GB over time, but that's only if the users behavior on aggregate changes. Once you're in the 95th percentile of users, I'm not sure how much extra usage is needed to get to the 99th, or even how much changing your behavior will significantly lower the averages.
He really doesn't, though I can see how you might get that impression. In the post you suggest I re-read, Paul is referring to financial assistance, which will reasonably take a period of days to offer. When Paul says "Airbnb has been offering to fix it, from the very beginning," that may well be true.

But that statement does not dispute or otherwise speak to the fact that it was hard and time consuming for the customer to get in contact with Airbnb in the first place, just to get basic information and to let them know what happened. EJ said in her original post that it took 14 hours to get a call back from the "urgent" phone line -- and even then only after she contacted a friend who freelances for them.

(Edited for clarity)
> tl;dr: Don't be a cunt.

This is interesting. Because my initial though was; "who is this guy, and how the fuck do I go work for him?".

I liked this; simple and clear rules that attempt to force "underlings" (who are obviously historically supposed to ass-kiss) to think critically, force time with the boss, advocate their experience, stand their ground - and so on.

Perhaps this was couched in a fairly direct tone; but then I suppose that is what I like :) Others I can understand wanting it presented in a different way.

But this is definitely the attitude to give your employees.

I love my job, and my boss is awesome. And I can advocate my ideas sometimes. But I often feel bad speaking up - for example his advertising prose is not very good at all, and I have been trying to tell him that politely for the last year (still not got the hint, and this is why having a boss as a friend is a bad move!). But I can't change it when he gives it to me to put on the site... (edit; and, uh, the point I am making here is that as awesome a boss he is, he doesn't give me the feeling I can go to that level of criticism)

I'd love to think that when I become a "boss" I'd be able to have this sort of attitude - the sort that says "yes I make decisions, but if you think I am being an idiot, and can express why then sodding well tell me :)". But I suspect many bosses think like that, and most don't manage it. Fingers crossed huh?
Oh, I'm not really worried about it. I seem to find that most people on HN, even when disagreeing, are happy to stay neutral or upvote for discussion. I suspect it's lurkers weighing in with their opinion that vote. It was pretty disheartening yesterday when a discussion turned nasty and was full of accusations that I was downvoting (and even in a place where it's impossible to downvote child comments).

I thought I'd go for a plea of sanity for those who are downvoting to consider why they're downvoting. It's so rare that I find anything worth downvoting and it's usually someone just being off the wall rude, mean or ignorant. Oh well.
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Flagged? Flagged? You better fucking believe it's flagged.

I flagged this motherfucker like it was the fucking United Nations Building. This article is as fucking flagged as the Apollo 11 landing site. If I could think of a third metaphor describing how hard I flagged this article, I would totally put it here.

In other news, flagged. As politics, in case you were wondering.
Microsoft actively restricts and controls what can be installed by OEMs now. That's why it's gotten so much better with Win7.

The crappy first use experience was ruining Microsoft's image, because people associated the cruft with them.
it depends on who is the boss. Lets suppose that your GF gave your a printed list which says:

RULES FOR DATING ME

1. Do not smoke

2. Eat meat at least three times a week

3. Keep your armpits free of hair

...

would you think that she is an asshole? Nope. Instead, you'd most definitely think that she is a queen.

Thinking back to the original blog and rules - well if your boss is an asshole who thinks about himself like queen - well, in that case such rules seems to be expected and there is no other way around except to change the job.
moo, not sure this is about who you think it is, brito was just blogging about an old boss he had. He told me about this letter and I asked him to type it up so we could read it.
The potential problem here is that the mere existence of details sometimes trips up the 95%. A friend's spouse apparently likes to keep their home directory clean, and once deleted the Library folder because they hadn't put it there, and didn't think they needed it.

When I upgrade to Lion, I know I'm going to try to figure out how to make ~/Library visible, but I think Apple may have made the right choice in making it invisible by default.
More inefficient than heat -> steam -> mechanical motion -> electricity?
Same with a lot of residential ISPs too. They all advertise internet in terms of download and upload speeds, yet if you used the connection at that speed you'd hit the fine-print data cap in under a day.
I use SQLite exclusively in my projects, I love it. Easy to use, easy to backup (1 file), doesn't rely on a SQL database running, no security concern with username/password for the database engine (altho make sure your database file isn't web accessible)..

For any small/medium site it's great.
I agree. The question is: how do you fix it?

In the case of the big corporations, for example, I see no direct, freedom-compatible way of getting them to spend that money. The only way I see that might work (though here Apple might still be a special case) is to create an environment where businesses see an increase in demand as an incentive for increased investment.

Then the question becomes where that demand should come from, and the most feasible short-term answer (the government) is almost universally ideologically opposed (yes, even Democrats these days seem to shy away from direct spending to stimulate the economy).
i used to work at bridgewater as a developer. i liked the culture there and wish more companies had cultures like them. why would you want to work at a place full of problems hidden from sight. no one calls you out because they don't like you. they do it so that you can get better and don't make the mistake again and that your peers also do not make that mistake. if you are not confident enough to be able to learn from your mistakes and make sure your cohort are also not making mistakes then you should look else where to work.

also its not cult like there. cults try to remove you from your previous surroundings and indoctrinate you so serve a leader because they promise you salvation. i was not promised salvation and i was given a pay check and could leave if i wanted to. i will say it is some what like a club in that if you don't fit the mold then you will be fired. by the mold i mean from a business perspective you should act according to proper business protocol (which for them more or less means learn from everyone's mistakes, call out bad business decisions so that others can learn from someones mistake, know your understanding of the market decays so it should always be questioned and updated).

as for the siavosh's comments relating to finance being a "dubious field", i would change that to there are many dubious people in finance. also by dubious i'm assuming he is referring to random walk hypothesis or some such logic. If you look at ren techs 45% return since its inception in 1988 i would not call that dubious, so there are players who understand the market and many dubious people who do not.

i think having a binary opinion about the merits of finance (specifically capital allocation) benefiting society are wrong. You can easily point to bernie madoff and say see...useless! or you can think of all the investors who had the courage and means to invest in apple computers or genentech. was correctly picking to allocating capital to apple a waste of societies resources?
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Interesting — I hadn't seen that.

This shows that what is going on here may be more complex than first thought. (Maybe it is just a Pavlovian response.) It doesn't change the evidence that people and rats put on weight when drinking diet drinks – it shows that the reason why is still unclear.

<side note>
I do worry how many medical papers are based on tiny samples. 5 seems very small to me (when I was doing drug research 100 was a small sample).
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Better to know in advance, sure, but he's saying if someone forgets to bring a paper or pen to a meeting that he might be unwilling to work with that person in the future. Knowing these terms in advance, I think I'd decline to work with him.

"...or remind you of something I've already told you, you will not work with me again"
It's the line that followed that really got me: Another device, powered by a radioisotope that steadily produces heat from radioactive decay, could generate electricity for 30 years without refueling or servicing.

If that can be made safe, we're talking about devices that are self sufficient, under any conditions. Sounds like science fiction.
I don't think they need to worry too much about abuse.

I think part of the value prop here from mojofiends perspective is that they are providing coffeeshops potential new customers. The coffeeshops that are offering them a $5 coffee don't care if the incoming customer has spent only $1.40 on coffee before today much the same as they don't care whether they bought a new tv yesterday. They just want access to potential new customers.

Groupon has proved how much businesses want potential new customers, I think this is an interesting twist and will perhaps generate better leads for coffeeshops than a groupon would.
Sent a note to my congressman too. Was a first time for me in doing so on any subject.

I tried to lighten the EFF verbiage a bit to focus on what I think is the real punchline for me --- Any law mandating the personal data on the activities of its citizens be amassed and centralized, is a problem. Even if this law is only partially achieving this point and it has the best of intentions it seems very plausible or even likely that the data would be misused with possibly devastating consequence. Additionally like so many laws before it, it's likely that incrementally restrictive laws be built atop of it in socially difficult to (but not impossible to) digest pieces until the system is unacceptable all together.

Yes personal information is amassed about people who use certain products, like Facebook (by Facebook), but that pool of consumers has a choice in the use of that service and accepting it's terms. If they don't like the terms, they can create a new great service - in turn, fostering the competitive spirit and trending towards more acceptable terms and better choices for all.
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Yes. I was a member of 6degrees back in the day.
what if you did? that would make you a bad businessman, but I dont think your business acumen is an argument either for or against the minimum wage?
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Just look at what other countries are doing right and copy that. More concrete: Vote for a politician who will force the FCC to create a real market, not a oligopoly of a few large behemoths.

Contrary to most the promises politicians make, this one costs no money and simply involves signing the right bills into law. It will even be good for the economy. Of course, they would have to withstand the rich and powerful lobby of said behemoths, which is of course why such a politician will be very hard to find.
This is the problem with Android. You flee the clutches of one unscrupulous and controlling company (Apple) into the clutches of your choice of many other unscrupulous and controlling but also incompetent companies. Android's advantages are strictly hypothetical when the last mile of the user experience is controlled by exploitative bunglers like Verizon.
Really freaking cool, but I hear about some awesome new energy technology out of MIT every week. Any ETA on when they start using this in......anything?
Just like everyone else, I hope the AirBNB guys will do the right thing.

I don't know if many of you have seen her Jan 2nd post titled 'New Year. New Home.'

"As 2011 sets in, I find myself curled up on a new couch in a new apartment in a not-so-new city, reading today’s (and yesterday’s) New York Times, and listening to the rain fall against the skylight overhead. A Duraflame log burns in the fireplace, a bar of dark chocolate sits half-eaten on the counter, and a lull of soft music whispers from the stereo. I am cozy, comfortable and perfectly content. I am home."

".... unpacking dusty boxes, unloading suitcases and scouring the internet for furniture. Something along the lines of a home began to take shape, and with it came that invaluable feeling of being at peace."

"....For the time being anyway, it's my home. And - surprisingly or not - a pretty great home it's turning out to be."

It is a tragedy.
Reminder Bear, created by a fellow HNer, works pretty well for this - http://app.reminderbear.com/
They have every right to promote their differentiation. Speaking as someone who lives in a great part of Manhattan and is often out of town, I've never used AirBnb because I don't trust their verification. I will definitely look for a competitor that does more thorough screening, even if the volume and rental price is lower. It's worth it to me.
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it depends on who is the boss. Lets suppose that your GF gave your a printed list which says:

...

would you think that she is an asshole? Nope. Instead, you'd most definitely think that she is a queen.

lolwut? Dude, if that's how the power differential in your relationship works then you definitely need a new girlfriend. Or maybe she needs a new boyfriend. One or the other.
agreed!
Being direct = generally efficient
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I can use a custom stylesheet on my end but I wish this web page had better choice of font color so that there was some contrast.
Indeed - and frequently when I point out that a submission is of a derivative article that adds no new information I get down-modded. As of today, I'm giving up, especially in the light of this poll.

I've learned something new and disquieting about the current HN - and I'm fairly sure this has changed. I seem to remember seeing an earlier poll on this, and I'll go look for it later when I'm more awake.
Also, what's the value of the ability to print infinite numbers of dollars? I'd imagine that, in dollar-denominated terms, it's quite large...
As a Windows user, I get more tempted to switch with each new hardware release from Apple. But Apple's historical and maybe just now truly culminating priveleging of 'consumers' over power users scares me off in equal proportion. I'm very conflicted. It seems more and more likely that I'll just break down and get an Air and maybe run Windows on boot camp.

Edit: Any veteran Mac users have misgivings about the issue? If not, what gives you confidence about the future of power users on Apple platforms?
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Sigh. In the old days you'd get modded up for helpfully pointing out the rules against politics stories.
Old or not, it did remind me of how easy it is to manipulate out thoughts. On the other hand he might be just presenting pop-science stuff in a nice package.
What would you do if you had had the same sort of experience that EJ had? I think you might change your mind.

Let's look at your numbers... I'll guess that you charge $150/night (minus the $20 AirBNB fee = $130/night you had 100 nights in 18 months, for an average of ~$722/month.

That's a tidy sum. Is it worth the work, risk and headache? Would the value of the extra property you are keeping and renting provide a better return if you moved to a smaller place and put the value difference in another investment?

These are questions you have to ask yourself, and everyone will have different opinions. My opinion is that being a landlord means having illiquid assets that provide a low return with high risk and a lot of work.
I haven't tried it in Python, but it's worth checking out matchit.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39

matchit generally seems to do a good job at identifying beginning/end pairs in a variety of languages.
Hey, thanks for fighting the good fight, ColinWright! I, for one, appreciate it.
Good point. I was going for SQL-Lite. But being wrong (and hearing enough people say "lie-nux" [and to be clear, I am not mocking ... we read things and form our own pronunciation because we often don't hear them said] ...) I decided to google it.

This isn't necessarily authoritative or well researched, but it appears that S-Q-L-Lite is correct: http://blog.cleverly.com/permalinks/247.html
you could rewrite this list so it sounds helpful and polite rather than rude and egotistical

That's contradictory to what the article is emphasizing. When you're dealing with your own team, openness is essential, and efficiency should not be traded for politeness.

As an employee, I would hope my boss wants results more than my thank-yous. As a boss, I would hope my employees care more about results than thanking me. If you spend all your time making something politically correct, you spend no time getting things done. To me, this article isn't rude: it's to the point, and if my boss gave me this list, I'd smile and jump in excitement.
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Like many things, it depends on the delivery. If I received this as an email, a handout, or a lecture, my reaction would definitely be, "WTF?" But many terrific people I've worked with prefer to work this way and they're pleasant to be around. These are things you might have to learn as you work with them.