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To be fair, I think it's a decent smile, but the lighting, combined with Brian's dark eyebrows, creates this shadow which is easy to interpret as slightly sinister.

If his head was raised slightly and lit more strongly, I don't think you'd feel the same way.
browsing in an incognito window should reproduce the error.
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I agree with you, but it's not a zero sum game. Airbnb (and its competitors) are counting on people who wouldn't previously have participated in short term P2P rentals. Hotels and hostels are at least as much their competition as is craigslist.
thanks, I appreciate it
Classiest reply in this whole discussion.
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BART has been advertising their RSS feed and developer services (on BART) for a while now.

I have been very impressed by BART's real-time train schedules on their mobile website.
I just like the power requirement %. Knowing how much power some servers put out and their overall utilization would be more impressive stat-wise to me. I've seen far too many systems sit with a sub 1 load average that sucked up way too many watts of power needlessly.

But you're 100% right about what matters is the overall application and its performance. The devil is in the details. At my job we only have 5ish k linux boxes, so an order of magnitude smaller. But still fun. Except the z-series nodes. /shudder
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At the time I implemented the system I use, I was receiving 600 spam messages per day. The challenge-response system was an excellent and necessary solution.
It must be cool to apply a performance patch that lets you decommission thousands of servers.
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Way back in the day I used to earn money on the side tutoring students in math and physics. I've long thought about advertising around the University to recruit a grad student or someone to help me with my efforts in Chinese or Python. I think there's a tremendous untapped and wonderfully useful space here, and one that you guys look like you're building a great handle on.
That is a great quote, even if it does feel like some bizarre entry in a comma/run-on-sentence contest.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson is tangentially related to Information Theory. More abstract/concepual math and general philosophy than CS/InfoTheory.

An excellent novel, highly recommended.
Best explanation of why rendering on the iPhone uses the GPU and Android can't. A great article to read.
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I wrote a Pandora clone using django and last.fm for recommendations. Because of the licensing issues I plan on open sourcing it on github in the near or distant future.
It's slower with less features.
Huh?

Are you pushing to a local repository? When pushing to a local repo, dulwich calls a local git binary. I don't see any calls to git-index-pack in either hg-git or dulwich in a cursory grep, which matches my memory.
I'm sorry, I stand by my statement: this is puff piece journalism. It's advanced, well-written churnalism.
Good response. Though a bit late and seems reactive, far better than never.

I guess we have all learned lessons from this.
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Looks similar to the technology being developed at ByteLight (Boston University startup/spinout)

http://www.bytelight.net/
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No, they'd have to steal just enough income from Google to slow its growth rate. Google's high P/E ratio is based on an expectation of rapidly increasing revenues over time. If its revenues became flat, its stock price would plummet.
Well DARPA also does defensive work which is meant to deter and protect lives. Also the Internet was a defensive project by DARPA to enable better communication across the country in case of a emergency. Just reading a book on DARPA, what about projects like creating better artificial limbs for wounded soldiers?

Not saying DARPA is all saint like and all but a lot of their project are meant at protecting and saving lives (heck they are funding energy research to avoid wars based on oil etc)

Just going to say without military spending we wouldn't have a lot of great things. A non military way of funding these things would be even better.
you missed the step where they build profiles of users who haven't opted into having their information and details discovered in order to serve them advertising

tv advertisers don't have my email, don't know which websites I am visiting, don't know what I am searching for etc. etc.
Works fine in Opera!
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Working somewhere less than a year is a yellow flag to future employers, but it is not a big problem if you have a reasonable story. If you switch jobs again, you might even consider omitting the defense contractor job from your resume. Not because a short job is bad necessarily, but it would give you more room on your resume to highlight your other work experience (and present a simpler, more linear "story" for busy recruiters reading through tons of resumes).
i'm pushing to github. reason i ask is that it segfaults -- see https://github.com/schacon/hg-git/issues/216
Have you ever tried to collect a claim against insurance? They will find any loophole possible to avoid a payout. Have fun trying to turn that $50,000 guarantee into something real.
Depending on what you meen by multithreading. Is multithreading when you use threads (and locks) directly or if your using multible threads in your programm in some way.

Acctully using threads probebly went back because of Actor Framworks, better understanding off developers, STM ....
Go and read about what a paragraph is and how you should use it
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Thanks! I assumed that was the intent, I just found the way the threshold dates were described a little buggy.
Wow! My first question on HN, has not been answered for hundreds of years! My friend made ​​me a fish of April, four months late :)
It doesn't seem to me that the candidate's response for #2 is "correct" (as you say). The most simple refutation being a 5:12:13 primitive triangle scaled 199,999x (such that the smallest side is less than, but not equal to, a million). Result: 999995:2399988:2599987, which would not be uncovered by the above solution as both j and k exceed the upper bound of the loop.

As a more general critique of your test: which method is the best use of programmer time? The functions you request return static results, thus the performance hit should be one-time and cached. If so, why do you care?

Finally, yes, I agree that we as a general population are not well-prepared enough in math. Still, I think you're putting too much weight on it. (I've had university CS graduates—supposedly—deliver 100+ lines of nested ifs that mathematically resolved to no-op, so I feel your pain. I'm just not sure that you're approaching this in the best way.)
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Does a "music app" mean that Bjork's album will not integrate with users' iOS iTunes library? No playlists? The article is not very informative.
At least in the short-term there is one big risk for them: They don't know how many users will claim that there have been damages. So they don't really know how much this insurance will cost them.

By outsourcing the insurance to an insurance company it's not their problem. It's the task of the insurance company to assess the risk and Airbnb knows beforehand how much it has to pay.
Except all those projects are about serving ads. Android is about serving ads on cellphones. Chrome about making browsers better, so consumers will use more Google products, and see more ads. G+ is about harvesting social graph data to serve ads. Self driving cars is so people will check their mail on the way into work, and see more ads.
You remember correctly; in the 8/8.5 days, Apple's HIG was considered a must-read for any application programmer, and deviating from it was guaranteed to get you lots of criticism. IIRC, about the only 'non-standard' common widget in applications was the floating windoid, which started out as a hackish WDEF.

As an (at the time) longtime Mac programmer and enthusiast, my disappointment in the OS X UI was one of the reasons that I walked away from Mac programming and never went back. In fact, OS X drove me to more seriously try out Linux and learn to appreciate Windows. Now, I tolerate OS X, but still find myself pining for good ol' 8.5.
I didn't say you were lame or that they were bad points, I was more on the side that (a) you can't always win, (b) if you wait to start until you are sure you can win any situation, you'll be waiting forever.

We're not really thinking that the AirBnB founders, if asked last year, would have said "don't communicate sensitively to a crime victim" or "good customer service means responding slowly" of "don't work with the police", and now they've been hit by this and learned these lessons they know better, are we?

Planning to do everything right first time is a common failure mode and procrastination mode, that's all.
Facebook could do a lot with advertising which they're choosing not to do at the moment. For example they could target ads based upon status messages which are much more transactional than profile data.
an unsophisticated fix for an unsophisticated exploit

if the exploit supported cookies and could mimic IE it would bypass this form of blocking
The lighting actually makes it look a lot like a Jill Greenberg photo:

http://www.google.com/search?q=jill+greenberg+photo&um=1...

I wouldn't be surprised too since she's also a RISD alumn.
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yes, more efficient - not a perpetual motion machine
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> Whether they make that money by selling ads, or selling a product, or selling a subscription, or whatever else is irrelevant

The OP is making the point that, for him, the method of making money is entirely relevant to his sense of fulfillment when working for a company. He does not make the claim that a business cannot be doing lots of other cool things alongside making money - in fact, he points out that Google and Twitter and Facebook are indeed achieving fulfilling goals, but he objects to the income stream and therefore would not feel fulfilled by working for those companies. That's completely fair.

Substituting the claim of the OP about "serving ads" with "making money" distorts the entire message, and of course makes it sound ridiculous.
I must be the only one who thinks this isn't Airbnb's fault.
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4) Start in a small geographical area. A city. On the basis that most people are looking for a date close to them. Saw within 20 miles? Get it right there, then move to the next few closest cities. Use geographically targetted advertising for this - facebook perhaps, for online. Local papers could work for offline....or even maybe LoveFilm subscription drop-in-fliers?
Yeah, I liked google, twitter, and facebook back in their early days, before they sold out and went mainstream. I use a different search engine and social network now, they're pretty small, you probably haven't heard of them.
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One of the nice things about gift cards is their atomic portability. I don't see that here. If someone gives me a starbucks card I can re-gift it to a homeless guy on the street. Also how would "any business" work if that business has no physical location?
I recently met him at the Startup Weekend Amsterdam and was amazed to find out what a nice guy he is. He is really straight forward, develops ideas on the fly while being totally honest with you.

I'm really glad i could meet him, he is really an inspiring person.
Would be a little more 'powerful' if Apple weren't one of the largest software patent abusers.
Sometimes what actually happens is that people get used to the change and get tired of fighting against. But they still don't like it at all. It's hard to see the difference from outside.
Hm, it's definitely not as clear as I thought, thanks for clearing that up.

I'm typically suspicious of "average" when it comes to income as Bill Gates into a bar makes the patrons much richer on average. But at a glance those seem to be pretty good faith. Dunno why I was so certain, I'll have to dig up that Greenberg book again.
Apparently, these panels work on the thermoelectric effect (different from the photoelectric effect), they're Peltier piles working in reverse. Thermoelectrics are Carnot-limited, but photovoltaics are not.
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Massachusetts has the worst drivers in the the country - that is a fact - MA has the highest accident rate in the US.

A high accident rate is not proof that Massachusetts "has the worst drivers in the country". I've lived in Massachusetts (and New Jersey, California, and a bunch of other places that like to call themselves the "worst drivers"), but everywhere I go, it seems apparent to me that road conditions and layout account for the huge majority of deviations from place to place.

For example, in New Jersey there are a ton of highways that don't have onramps (or about 15 feet of it). Because of this, there are a lot more (I mean a LOT more) collisions on the "onramp" and people generally are used to swerving in front of 65-mph traffic from a complete stop.

In California you have just as many people (or maybe more) who swerve in and out of lanes at unreasonable speeds, but since there are so many lanes and since they're all so fantastically wide, that sort of behavior doesn't get punished as it might, say, on the Mass Pike or the Garden State Parkway. At the same time, city roads in California (at least in OC) tend to have much higher speed limits. This causes a marked increase in fatal collisions at these types of intersections...not because the people are inherently more aggressive, but because the roads shape their behavior.
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Where is anyone pontificating about what people should have?

I also don't see any mention of whether people's preferences are coherent or not.

I didn't use the words 'genuine demand', but I did talk about genuine need. This isn't a true Scotsman fallacy because I am talking about the buyers ability to get their needs met, and not debating what qualifies as a genuine need - which is as you say, a revealed preference.
Yo man: f these haters. Even the well meaning ones with their rubbernecking advice, even the fellow YC alums who don't understand that when a man has just been through hell and back that the last thing he needs is more people piling on with "constructive criticism" in an open forum. A lot of people tried to kill you just now, with a few like Melinda Byerley openly admitting that this was just an opportunity to express their envy and hatred.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/31/another-airbnb-victim-tells...

For PR reasons you need to smile, even as JimmyL critiques the sincerity of your orthodontics. Smile on the outside and ask them in a chipper tone how you can be of service, but in the end, seriously, f* em. There's an insane amount of implementation work to do to get this 24/7 support and insurance program operational. F* em all and just plow. Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And your real customers and fans will thank you for it.
I don't think that's true.

- Python
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- Django
- Coffeescript
- Node.js

Were all results of people challenging the status quo of language/platform capability. Developing new languages/frameworks/platforms is NOT unproductive, and has proved very successful in the past.

While java may not be a good excuse to avoid android, it's certainly a good excuse to improve upon the stack (as another commenter suggested, strapping Scala to it would probably be a huge productivity win).

Alas the OP took a pragmatic approach and just built the product. That's fine, but it isn't "better" than someone who (rightly) thinks java is junk and attempts to improve it.
iOS developer here. Releasing first android version of my app this week. Even though I didn't do the coding, I've taken a look at the code and done quite a bit of testing. The part about animations is totally true. Animations are much faster and smoother on my iPod 3rd Gen than the equivalent animation on a Droid Incredible, which has much better hardware! We've tried to optimize as much as possible, but we are realizing that there is just no way to match the iOS version's speed and responsiveness.
Note that "let's run OSX on non-supported hardware of the same architecture" is very importantly distinct from "let's find and exploit security bugs"
Nice well-written article. I just did the same sort of article myself telling about my experiences going from IOS to Android:

http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/apps/articles/410-crossing-...
How can she be satisfied with that? AirBnB lied to here and now they insult her dignity with a $50k price tag on top of that. Not mentioning what happened in the past.
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But when those students arrive at Big Corp they're most likely to be issued a PC laptop. A more interesting stat would be the market share of purchases where the person paying is the person who'll use the machine.
It's strange how mobile the UI appears, but when you visit on an iphone/mobile device, it's a landing page that points you to the main apple.com sites.
Where are these Android phones [on flickr]?
Just as with MobileMe, iCloud Web seems to be done with SproutCore and a bit of jQuery[1]. Though it feel funny when they recreate the iOS-style scrollbar with JavaScript, despite Lion already has such a thing... (not to mention the scrollbar is inconsistent between Contacts and iCloud Calendar)

I'm honestly surprised at how "complete" these apps are. At least with Calendar and Contacts, they works exactly like its iPad/OSX equivalent.

[1]: https://www.icloud.com/system/cloudos/en-us/640/javascript-p...
It's partially their fault because they prevent owners from doing proper background checks on tenants, and don't offer the service themselves.

But it's also partially on the owner for not watching their place carefully enough, and not being prepared for people who are less than honest. You can't do business with the public without having a plan for that.
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Thank you. All someone had to tell me was something like this. Now I understand much better.
I prefer hir rhetoric of trust and encouragement, an interpretation remixing "not taking things away" into dispolar non-conflict.

Also, original page title is "Björk trusts pirates will crack Biophilia", wonder why it got changed to Hopes? Just watching your language..
It's not. And modular walls are quicker than chain-link. Army SF commonly uses framed plywood walls with locking, thick metal drop hinges on each side, roughly how a ranch gate works.

They're modular so that they can be quickly re-arranged, not to hide from satellites.
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Assuming the government is still going to fund a TV station, not having a license for BBC would just mean it was funded out of general taxation revenue. Having a license system or not is irrelevant, it's still being funded by taxation either ay.
which is interesting since appengine uses protobuf in python throughout the api

you'd think they have nailed the implementation
Absolutely, I couldn't agree more - the devious way they've tried to manipulate this whole situation, I would honestly be shocked if normal victims (i.e. people who don't have the energy and determination that EJ did) ever got to see a cent of that $50,000.

Effectively, what we will see in the future is that Airbnb will make quick assessments and zoom in to shut victims who have the potential to attract publicity, while the less savvy will be swamped in insurance red tape until they give up and quietly slink off.

The $50,000 means nothing - after the incredible amount knocked off their value this week, Airbnb was obviously going to have learnt the financial wisdom of paying off some people, that is the only real change.
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why let facts/data ruin a good narrative -- "google is lying to us":

Another data point that highlights the discrepancy between the incredible
device activation numbers claimed by Google and actual real-world usage
of mobile devices. Example: Flickr’s stats on popular camera phones.
Where are these Android phones? How many of them are used for little
more than phone calls and texting?

http://www.flickr.com/cameras/apple/ ...
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/htc/

if you just add up current top 4 models from one (of top 5) android manufacturer, you get 5+ million photos, half the number uploaded by iphone4 (the four models have been on the market roughly the same amount of time as iphone4).
Perl is easy to start with by learning something like "Hello World!". Probably just because of this reason, most people stop at early learning stage. Perl was originally created to bridge the gap between C and shell. At the end, it is a language hard to grasp, yet very powerful.
or in comic form, http://xkcd.com/192/
I've just installed Taazr on our machines, and it's already helped. I got an email alert when a user hit a function where we expected an object to always be defined but it was not (undefined is not an object). I was able to fix the problem right away because of Taazr. JSLint will catch syntax errors, but Taazr will catch everything else.
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Also, from what I've heard little or none of the funds gathered from RIAA piracy suits actually get to the artist anyway.
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Oh I see what you're saying, sorry. You mean that the writing would be ambiguous to those not as familiar with the concepts, they might take it to mean that all the energy would come from the heat.
They doubled the basic prices, but added two more people. I think something similar happened with the rest of the packages.

Still seems good, but a little less of an "impulse".
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None of that nullifies the direct value those products provide. If self driving cars mean I check my mail on the way to work and see more ads, it's still a self-driving car. I don't see the problem in staring at a couple of electronic billboards if I can live in the future (and not have to stare at real billboards whizzing past me, for that matter).
Oh my why would anyone want to lean Perl anymore? Unless you are working with a legacy codebase learn Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Erlang, Scala, Haskell... in other words run the f away from Perl if you can unless you are into S&M.
Erm... Okay, so I want to move all my mail (and my address) over from MobileMe. Where's the button?
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