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This is an interesting answer because I wasn't expecting anyone to tell me that business is easier than MIT. Then again, you owned the majority of a business that had more than $1m in revenue. I have trouble finding money to spend on lunch.

I'm a CS major now and I'm strongly considering switching to an Applied Math/Computer Science double major. Are you a developer? If so, what about your math degree helped you most? Did you focus on pure or applied math?
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For sure. Though, I was impressed that he got through every paragraph without even a hint of the snark that this deserves.
Probably one of Android's biggest issues is the fact that the carriers keep messing with the phone - slowing it down, installing crapware, making unnecessary UI changes, etc. For example, any given Verizon Android phone has a bunch of crap apps that I can't remove or move to the SD card despite the fact that they are the primary reason that I am running out of space on the flash memory. And they completely reskinned the Droid 2's UI, and it looks ugly.

If the carriers would ship their phones with stock, performance-optimized Android software, people wouldn't have so many complaints about Android. No one buys "Visual Voice Mail" or "ThinkFree Office," and all it's doing is ticking people off.

However, at this point I have given up on finding motivations for the actions of Verizon and AT&T, and have concluded that they are just evil.
It's really hard to understand all this crippling branding imposed by the manufacturers and the carriers in Android phones. Do you really want people to wince every time they see your brand?
> Let's assume that Brian's quoted 2 million nights of rentals is accurate.

The reason they haven't done anything is that 1 in 2 million isn't accurate. 1 in 50,000 is probably stretching it. Consider the accidental AirBnB trespassing/squatting reported by another HN reader here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820644

It's starting to look like AirBnB's business model relies on tricking people into making a bad financial decision[1] and then ignoring and intimidating them when things go bad.

[1] 99.99% chance of gaining $100 with 0.01% chance of losing $50,000 is positive expected value, but if losing $50,000 would bankrupt you it isn't a game you should play.
If this kind of thing happened before, the lack of preparedness is even more damning. You have to know that eventually this would happen to someone influential enough to cause a storm of publicity.
I looked at all the mentioned and they look like they provide coworking center system for offices(daily free seats, reservations and to on). My idea was more simple - something like directory with "I am rails developer and looking for place to work next 3 months in Prague" or "we have 2 seats in office, for $XY a month". Thanks for ideas, I will have to think about it more.
Yes, the emotional attachment that founders have with their startups is pretty crazy. I think that rational founders learn to normalize it over the years though, at least that's what happened to me.

Criticism sucks, but with a company like Airbnb that's the deal, and the founders knew it from the get go. This is the price (one of many) they pay for their eventual big payday. Overall, it's a pretty good deal though =)
How can you turn it off?
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This reminds me of Paypal, where the founders said they won the online payments game because they figured out how to deal with fraud.

Maybe that's one of the keys to success here, figuring out how to deal with these cases at the business plan level.
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Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government
I know a person who routinely says "I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. It doesn't affect my health and I don't have lung cancer, so the doctors must be wrong."

The truth is your habits will catch up to you. Eventually.
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BS. They will know about it, and know that it carries large risks.
new Android devices should come with MIUI Rom right out of the box. ;)
The real issue here is not the hardware and not Android, but what device manufacturers and network providers cram down the throats of their customers. Custom UI enhancements/replacements, useless bundled apps that can't be removed, and the removal of standard, OS-delivered features. None of this should have been new or a surprise to the writer's mom, who was coming to Android from a feature phone. Feature phones have been plagued with the same crap for years, except they don't have a marketplace full of replacement apps that range from the serviceable to the remarkable.

I'm glad the author's mom found a smartphone she likes, but this isn't an Android problem. It may very well be a Google problem, since Apple was indeed successful in keeping the kruft off the iPhone, but Android devices come to market in a completely different way than iPhones, and as long as we sign over our rights in exchange for a $400 device discount we're going to have to deal with some of it.
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That was pretty misleading. Not Android was the culprit, but the carrier's crapware.

I never understood why people would not actually buy their phones and then decide on a contract or prepaid to go with it? I even bought mine off Ebay in excellent condition and almost full warranty (2 years in Germany) so much cheaper that I still have not reached the difference to the "normal full or subsidized price" with my monthly contract payments.
Cue GOB's "I've made a huge mistake."

As much as RMS gets on my nerves sometimes, I have to admire him here. I feel like his reactions are over the top sometimes, but this shows me that at least they're consistently so -- even when he's the one at fault.
Then the offense should be "endangering the public" through wreckless actions than the speech itself.
How is he the one at fault here?
It's all about money and greed. Sad indeedy.
My take is that the carriers know that differentiation is crucial to keeping a loyal customer base. And since they are having a hard time adding value, they're trying to differentiate by removing value.
"does most of her emailing on an iPad"

If she already has an iPad, isn't an iPhone the obvious choice? I love my Android phone, but if someone is already used to iOS and likes it, why not get them an iPhone?
Some discussion about a mini-map plugin for Vim came up when Sublime 1 came out. From what I can remember, it was either impossible or very hard to do in Vim, but there was an Emacs implementation done.
GOTO doesn't exist?

Good sir, I think you're forgetting how to abuse break statements.
What happened to paying her for damages? After the initial blog post, you said you'd do it. Then this post by her makes it clear that you didn't, and are not going to. So which one is it?
The discussion was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813118
It's also usually just a part of the course- like putting units on an answer in physics. You don't have to say so in every problem because you are taught from the start how to make your responses correct. I built a lot of content for a student math problem system and this is what the teacher wanted. 6/9 is an incorrect answer in elementary mathematics.
You cannot kill a language, unless everyone stops using it. The chances of that are nil.

But keep on with the hyperbole.
From what I understand, the mobile phone system in the EU works differently than in the US. In the US, almost all phones are bought at carrier-subsidized prices - i.e. much cheaper than buying the phone standalone. The catch is that you have to sign for a 2-year contract with that carrier to get the subsidized prices. The prices for mobile phone plans in the US are much higher because they include the phone subsidy.

And while in theory you could just buy a phone and then decide on a contract, if you do that, you don't get a discount on your plan - i.e. you're still paying for the phone subsidy that you never used. So, buying a phone then buying a contract for it costs even more.

It's a stupid system, but unfortunately the carriers are all evil and don't want to change it because it lets them overcharge and deliver crapware.
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I never discussed the appropriateness of AirBnB's response, neither to defend nor to accuse them.

I only said that if one wants to destroy them in possibly illegal ways, making such an event occur looks like an excellent move.

Bonus point, from the attacker's point of view, if AirBnB reacts inappropriately of course. But even if they had been faultless, people would still have remembered this story every time they considered renting their home. Notice that the focus is on the emotional harm rather than the financial one, i.e. the one AirBnB cannot fix even if they want to.
I didn't think you were trying to make fun of the issue, but I have to admit that I replied because it bugged me a little that the topmost comment (which your GP comment is as I'm writing this) was about RMS's lack of humour.

I'm not an RMS fanboy, nor a GPL or GNU fanboy for that matter, but I do admire him for being principled and taking a stand in spite of his position becoming less and less popular in the past few years, if I detect the prevailing sentiment correctly. And I'm getting a bit tired of seeing many people taking cracks at his beard, hygiene, lack of humor, etc. instead of taking him up on the specific issues he's raising.

But again, I didn't think you were trying to do that, your lighthearted comment in a prominent position just prompted me to reply.

Cheers!

EDIT: oh, I see now, it's because of the bit about "spoiling a good joke". Sorry, I mainly added that to make it sound a bit less dry and pedantic, nothing worse than that when replying to a comment about lack of humour!
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Technically, it's only everyone but GNU that (re)distributes emacs with the generated code that violate GPL, so you are correct in not calling that particular part a problem.
Shouldn't this be "Why my Mom Bought a Samsung Charge from Verizon, Returned It, and Got an Apple iPhone" ?

Kind of strikes me as similar to writing "Why I bought an American car, junked it and bought a BMW M5" - the american car part isn't half as important as which one specifically.
"... (iPhone, iPad) which was totally new under the sun."

No, the iPhone and iPad and all of Apple's products have been built upon ideas and inventions created by others outside of Apple. If I was made of time and money, I'd wander through the patents held by Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Intellectual Ventures, Nortel (Apple only recently got rights to their patents), HP, HTC, Samsung, Nokia, and the hundreds of other companies (trolls and product companies alike) and document the thousands upon thousands of patents that cover aspects of the Phone and IP

Then I would go through all the public records and and to the best of my ability guess how many of these patents were actually licensed by Apple prior to selling the IPhone and IPad.

My guess? (It is nothing but a guess, but still) I'd expect Apple incorporates 100,000's of thousands of patented features. And I would be shocked if they licensed anything over 50 percent of these patents.

Why do I think their license rate would be that high? I would guess they have a cross license agreement with IBM, TI, and Microsoft, which might cover nearly that many of the infringing patents.

Anyway, I had to respond when someone claims these products were "totally new under the sun".
Actually that was apparently not sanctioned, rather the work of some contractors acting off their own back.[1]

[1]:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2815183
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I've known a few people who moved from a BB to an Android, returned it, then went with an iPhone.

While I love love love my Android phone, it's definitely a geek's phone that offers a much more capable mobile platform, but at the tradeoff of more exposed complexity. And most of the additional capability are things that most people don't care about (yay! I can add more home screens, and I have a tricorder app! and I've hacked my phone to run emacs!) vs. having access to more and higher quality consumer oriented apps.

I know that the BB platform is also complex, but most people just use it as a phone with a nice email client and one or two very basic (and very common) apps -- like facebook. That's really all they want.

When they buy a phone and it's loaded with crap, and they don't know how to get rid of it (or they can't for some idiotic reason that only the carrier could ever explain), they get turned off. When they go to the Apple store they can get a phone with just the main stuff they were looking for on the screen, and it's relatively easy to get their facebook app or whatever and be done with the entire experience.
dogpile is still around? didn't know that.
> Don't you think it's a bit insightful that the two most sophisticated OSs widely available are either direct descendents of or largely inspired by AT&T 60's technology?

It's meaningful, I agree, but I get the same feeling when I drive my car running on an internal combustion engine (although my car runs on ethanol) that my grandfather would easily recognize and, quite possibly, be able to repair.
For contracts, I think carrier-subsidised handsets are significantly more popular than the cheaper handset-free ones; but both are widely available (a contract of, say, £30/month will be half that price if it excludes the handset).

More popular still are pay-as-you-go deals where the handset is purchased at full price, though this is more popular in the feature phone segment.
Oh come on, a 50% success rate is pretty good.
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For Pete's sake, compensate the woman for her loss already, and get a signed NDA in exchange. This is your chance to show (a) you're not evil, and (b) you can handle the situation.
Really? Um, which body of pre-modern folk wisdom relies on citations to evidence? To be fair there are a few, but their cited authorities of preference are scriptural. I cited a scientific review of large studies of specific health outcomes from specific dietary habits in my other reply, but that itself is the practice of science. If you don't find that explanatory power a convincing epistemological clue, there is no end to the venues more willing than HN to spend time debating the equal dignity of traditional folk wisdom with the scientific method - churches, humanities departments, newspaper op-ed pages, etc.
I think grandparent was chuckling at suing for "liable" not "libel".
Fuck the model, it's broken.
It'll take a lot to convince me to switch to a new text editor (coming from a perfectly-customized MacVim experience). Sublime Text 2 is the first that has even caught my attention, and each new build has given me more to love about it.

That said, it's going to take real vim bindings for me to actually switch. Of all the amazing features ST2 has been adding, none of them increase my productivity while programming more than vim's modes right now.
I feel like it's going to be a bit late for that, but yes, please do something for this woman before the PR damage is irreparable.
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Right from the beginning, it seems Verizon is the problem, not Android. They went to the Verizon store. Then they went home with an unactivated phone, and went through Verizon's crappy activation.

I bought my Epic (Sprint) at Radio Shack, and left the store with an activated phone. I deleted the minimal crapware at home and have no complaints.
Stop standing by and start taking action. Don't ask the victim to come to you for help, start offering help. Be proactive. Be a man about this.
I couldn't agree more.

Deal with the "if I give you a cookie, everyone else will want one too" problem if and when you actually have it. This isn't about business. It's about helping someone who needs help.
More generally, don't use anything on the day of release... Wait a week or 2 for the bugs to be ironed out.

Surely we've all learnt that by now...
I would bet dollars to doughnuts that a traditional holiday apartment will only be able to get insurance that is viable if they meet a number of criteria (removal of valuables, cheap furnishings, inspection etc) that would not be available to someone putting their primary residence up for piecemeal rental on AirBnB
I can confirm that the Samsung Galaxy S2 also suffers from this.

Worse still, it's not just removing stock apps and loading Samsung ones, they've gone and removed the stock Android keyboard too.

My girlfriend hates the Samsung keyboard, and the only other alternative on the phone is Swype which she hates even more.

As a direct result of the keyboard not being the one she knew and loved her use of the phone has plummeted.

She still uses the phone, but not for anything that involves touching the keyboard. So SMS, email, web... all useless in her eyes. She uses maps still to see where she is, and she reads Twitter (but will wait until she's home to respond to things), but that's about it.

This current top of the range Android phone, with it's carrier dictated keyboard, has made the smartphone a paperweight that she lugs around just in case someone calls. She's even asked me if we can dig out the old Blackberry gathering dust in the shed just so that she can be in touch with people again.

I searched the Marketplace, but the Android stock keyboard isn't on there. So until I can afford a replacement for her, it looks like she'll just do all of her communication when she gets home each evening.

The big problem: As much as I explain this is the fault of Samsung, she just associates it to being an Android issue.

I'm just hoping it won't be too long before Cyanogen Mod is available for the S2 so that I can fix it for her.
Many people are saying its not Android but the carriers and manufacturers that do not understand user experience. The average user simply does not care. To her the biggest motivation to buy the phone is Android and it will receive the majority of the blame whether its deserved or not. That's just the way it is. Windows received a lot of flak because of dumb users which more or less it did not yet recover from. So that's just how it is.

The Android brand is being diluted and sullied by experiences like this and Apple is benefiting with its insistence on one model per device type. Google needs to tackle this very soon. If they get a bad reputation the markets in Asia will suffer. Android is expected to sell tons of phones in Asia and any bad reputation couple with Apple's growing image as a high end phone will be bad for Android.
According to this BBC article about the Tommy Sheridan case
:

"In Scotland, only compensatory damages are allowed. Punitive damages are not competent."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/5246716.stm

There are a lot of differences between English and Scots law - the most obvious being the extra verdict of "not proven" in criminal cases.
She basically called you a liar...does this outreach statement by you mean that her claims about airbnb's reaction are true?

FTA:
“On June 22nd, we learned that the home of one of our San Francisco hosts was vandalized by an Airbnb guest.”

-Based on the delay in their response time, I have reason to believe that Airbnb did not learn of my situation until June 23rd.

...

“We have been in close contact with her ever since, and have worked with the authorities to help find a resolution.”

If the “her” he is referring to is me, then the first part of this statement is false (the second I cannot attest to).

...

I blogged my story, and all these kind and supportive people just ... disappeared.
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which is maybe not saying much :oP
A lot of people have been talking about switching from TM to BBEdit, but I found Sublime Text 2 to be much closer to a successor to TM than BBEdit.
This long? The initial blog post went viral yesterday only... So to be in todays print edition I guess they wrote it last night or during the night...
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Attitudes like this are what cause giant, unmaintainable spaghetti-code front-end applications to be born.
It's not unclear, and you're right. It has to be encrypted on the wire and in storage. This paragraph does not say you must hash, or must not be able to get the plaintext passwords back.
I think you need to act on this, rather than just keep making promises. I also believe you would have helped already if you really wanted to.

You're essentially asking her right now to be a beggar, and putting her into an even more degrading position. What do you expect her to do? Write you that she needs $1000 for a new laptop, $100 for a new door, $50 for new locks?

Put yourself in her shoes. Doubt you would do that.

EDIT:
Also, you can't have it both ways. If you state you're going to help her, then help her. Otherwise just state it's out of AirBnbs' reach, and the hosts should have insurance and pay carefull consideration to who they rent.

You're coming of as disingenuous in your remarks.
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The first release of new tool is not perfect, even if it has been extensively tested during the alpha and beta stages. This happens to each product, even if it is built by great developers.
I love this editor! Once it can open files over gvfs or similar I will definitely buy it!
I think the real problem is that too many people are all in on believing that the blogger's version of events are 100% accurate. Please note I am not saying she's lying, omitting or otherwise distorting the truth -- only providing her perspective on the relationship between herself and AirBnB. Just for the record, I also think AirBnB has utterly fumbled the ball here.

However, I don't think this type of tone is appropriate. If you review my comment history, I am firmly on the side of AirBnB sucking it up and making this right. Unfortunately, this is starting to smell like a witch hunt.
> RMS doesn't strike me as a very cheerful person either, at least in email conversations...

Actually, in person, when he's not discussing serious things, he's a very jovial, laid-back chap.
I guess the article was written by Steve Jobs.
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I guess I'm weirdly cynical, but I never though airbnb had a viable model. Perhaps for rental properties, but I would never rent my own home. I see a certain analogy between this and hitchhiking. Hitchhiking used to be safe in America, but now you rarely see it because it's perceived to be dangerous. I always figured airbnb would follow the same trajectory.
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A very convenient place to store and retrieve them is under a "passwords" folder in your private mail account or your Dropbox, both of which get synchronized with your unprotected smartphone...
And while in theory you could just buy a phone and then decide on a contract, if you do that, you don't get a discount on your plan - i.e. you're still paying for the phone subsidy that you never used.

When I was looking a few months ago, T-Mobile was the only carrier that actually gave you cheaper plans if you brought your own phone (i.e., they were sane). That's why I'm on T-Mobile now, and couldn't be happier. It's too bad about the AT&T deal...
This. Most of the time I am on linux but occasionally on windows and its great to have the editor on both