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It seems possible once the stars are up, though I'm not sure how well I would trust using a transformable stair as a floor.
A slightly better search estimate & 10% lower:

http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator...

(search phrase with wildcard and range in it, I didn't even knew this combination was possible)
you lost me at 'set of "classes"'
And really, with the advent of programs that automatically search for and download .torrent files, you can actually end up with basically your own auto-updating home theater system.

I configure something like TED (Television Episode Downloader) or similar to watch for shows that I like, have my torrent client download them, and have them copied to the fileserver all automagically and for less money, higher quality, and less bullshit (adverts) than cable, satellite, or hulu.
It will take somewhere between 30 minutes and the rest of your life.
> and its permissive license

Other variables such as licensing are context dependent. In my context, I generally use embedded databases in shared library form to store arbitrary serialized Lua (much faster to reload than JSON, no need to compile protocol buffers) on my own servers, so in my development context LGPL vs BSD is irrelevant. But perhaps not for an iPhone developer. TokyoCabinet already has excellent bindings for nearly every language I've used, but thats irrelevant to a developer whose application is also C.

> Compare today's benchmarks with these http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/benchmark.pdf, it looks like random reads in LevelDB are quite faster than BDB.

I'd bet BDB is a snail, BUT the benchmark you just linked tests 0 databases in common with the one released by Google. What can be observed is that using a hashmap (TC) was over 7X faster than randomly accessing the fastest ordered data structure by the same author (TC-BT-RND) :)
Well, I'm pretty sure this would be covered under "Don't be naive", actually.
It seems that those who have entered the tech world in the last 10ish years under appreciate how frameworks have changed the way people get work done and the scale of projects they are able to undertake. Even the existence of rich operating systems which provide robust APIs to networking and filesystems is relatively new. The impact of creating new frameworks that enable people to address broader problems more easily cannot be underestimated.
airbnb has had the advantage of having a mainly "geek" clientele so far. As it expands it's going to get less savory users.
"Did you see the chart? That's what the empirical data shows."

It doesn't show any such thing. The whole truth is that from 1940 to 2000 average taxes paid including state and local went from 18% to 32%. Plenty of governments around the world and a number of US states are over 20% in federal taxes alone.

"Tax avoidance behavior increases as tax rates increase, you have moving targets."

This is obvious but, unfortunately, does not get you to "it's impossible to collect more then 20% federal taxes"
Not only that, but trash the project in public.
For anyone who actually understands how the "scene" functions and how pirated content ends up in consumers hands, this article is laughable at best.

You can use torrents, online file hosts, etc, whatever wets your whistle they all come with the same types of risk. Unless you are a member (using member loosely here) of the "scene" where this content derives I personally am not convinced you are safe.
For a truly excellent counterargument: https://plus.google.com/115423900555666892711/posts/aT2qvouG...
I'll freely admit I don't know that much about insurance fraud. But I suspect the majority of people attempting fraud wouldn't be loyal Airbnb customers, but rather people of questionable ethics who hear that if you go to such-and-such website, and file a claim, you may end up getting some money. If there's any weakness in Airbnb's insurance system, given the scale at which Airbnb wants to operate, people WILL find and exploit it.

It is, of course, very possible to set up insurance so it has few loopholes - insurance companies do it! My point is simply that it's not trivial, and Airbnb would have to invest significant resources to make it work well - while still potentially failing to gain the goodwill they need (few people actually LIKE insurance companies).
It personally reminds me of 2d side-view games (like later castlevanias) where you can't walk around objects like tables or boxes (you have to jump over them to progress). Perhaps level designers for these sorts of games will become architectural consultants when super-thin houses start springing up in other places?
Not to cry wolf, but imo Google+ is close to deadpool. To understand that, you have to realize how high of a ceiling anything like G+ coming out of Google would have to meet. It's incredibly high: they were taking on facebook.

Unfortunately, from their behavior and celebratory posts about the success, they seemed to act as if the ceiling was a lot lower. I can understand if the team needs some internal celebrations but fueling it in the media imo does not help google plus. The media would go crazy either way. A more mature response from google would have been "this is nothing" - instead they prefer their PR hacks to to push a mostly useless stat like signup numbers.

Celebrating 10 million users? Give me a break. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how social works. Facebook has always been about usage. And sure, you can argue that they only talk about usage because people use facebook a lot. By the same logic, when google+ does not talk about usage(preferring to talk about the less relevant signup numbers), what does that tell about G+? Hmm.

Going gaga and fueling the tech media to give you more coverage? I'd argue any tech coverage of google plus hurts it more than helps it.

Meet Google+, the new twitter - unless they do something radically different.
As many of the comments are, "how does it compare to xyz?", the real question is, why the fuck do we need another key-value store?
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Summery: They put in a special error code that only shows up if you pirated it. Then, when the pirates go to the valve forums to ask for support with this error code, their accounts are banned.
Author here. It's still early days for this project, but I'd love to see people trying it out!
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This is already happening. The world of science woke up one day and realized that the C++ and Java their CS friends were talking about weren't helping them solve problems. So they switched to Python and Perl and now we have the human genome.

Oh, that's how it happened? Weird, I thought they were using lots of C++.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/ToolBox/CPP_DOC/

http://www.seqan.de/

I guess I'd better go remind them to cancel their conferences and close up shop.
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Let alone apartment complexes. The one time I used Airbnb the person whose room I rented told me I could use all the facilities of the apartment complex for free (laundry, exercise rooms, pool, etc. etc.). I'm sure the folks managing the apt complex would love it if they knew that was going on...
There's no proof whatsoever that this arrest was politically motivated. aaronsw's furtive behavior really muddies the waters here - if my sysadmin found a similar laptop in a server closet I would also have called the cops.
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FWIW, as someone who transfers millions of dollars through PayPal every year, I will note that it normally is not possible for Apple to unilaterally decide to keep billing the user like that: unless the user sets up a recurring or open-ended payment of some kind (which would be quite clear in the PayPal UI that you are making that larger authorization during the process), they would have to manually tell PayPal to accept every single payment made from their account. In essence, I am betting that Apple is right here: this was a PayPal bug of some kind.
If I were AirBnB I'd be talking to an insurance company right now about offering supplemental insurance to renters. AirBnB could make a nice chunk, the way Best Buy does when it gets you to purchase those stupid protection plans, and simultaneously offer users peace of mind that this will at least be taken care of if it happens to them,
That's a fair point. I'll be more careful next time.
Do you have to offer migration initially? I don't think it's something that every service has launched with. And there's a steady stream of new email users every year.

A few non-techy people have asked me if there are email services that don't read your email for contextual ads, and they would be willing to pay. So I think there's a market there, albeit a smaller one that the free email provider one.
I disagree. Google's going to take inspiration from how they became to be as a reason to try taking lead.
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Is this not common in large companies that do lots of things?

It seems like a terrible waste if the only way to get off a bad project is to quit the company.
Steve, if you plan to do more public speaking, and promote your videos, please spend more effort on your public speaking skills....ya know? 'K? I was bored. Right?
"written in Node.js/Coffeescript and runs MongoDB on the backend"

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Nice
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Great idea! However, AirBnB should not only post the photo, but also be in charge of verifying over Skype that it matches the person posting it. If it'd be too expensive to verify every single new user, they could just verify them once they make their first booking.

AirBnB should be the one matching photos to real, living individuals since not everyone renting out their home is likely to be as through as a company with a well-established procedure.
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No they're not that good, if the arrests are correct then they're actually pretty bad. For the little value that they are worth, they're worth far more as an example to be made for others.
I'd like to code more, and work less hours in total. (25-50%)
That's an unfortunate name.
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perhaps a more pertinent question would be "how many companies would let Steve Yegge choose to stop working on the project he's assigned to?"

freedom like that is earned, and i'm sure not everybody at google has the same status he does.
Why is it a headache when an employee compares offers, but ok when a company tries to pay as little as they can get away with?

BTW, this only works if you're willing to leave for the much better offer. It sounded like the OP was unhappy with his pay. Nothing wrong with that. From what I've seen, though, substantial raises come from switching jobs and counter offers. If you're happy with your work and pay, then by all means stay.
I think the cure for cancer will certainly be aided by software. I do not, however, think that current or even previous generation languages, editors or other development tools are holding the cure for cancer back. I do not believe for one second that the cure for cancer will fundamentally rely on getting software written more quickly.

Development tools have a direct impact on one set of the human race: people developing software. A cure for cancer will have direct impact on every human being who ever lives. You simply can't compare the two in any meaningful sense.
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Gnash your teeth mainly. I suppose you could also "[run] around at parties trying to change the world, blindly threatening violence against the “status quo” with protests and false threats of violence." Or blog about it.
I doubt it.

The people who are worth catching for the sake of their minds ... don't get caught. At least not nearly as easily as this group.
glad to hear the most powerful and connected office in the world has begun to admit to having a sense of humor.
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large-scale enterprise is probably a long ways away, but SMB is a big market that they could get into without nearly as much work.
Right, exactly. I moved from NY to the Valley shortly after college, mainly because I was looking for something different, and the west coast interested me. Having a thriving tech scene was just a bonus. Now I live in SF because I love it here. If I really wanted to, I could be just as successful back east. I endure the high cost of living because I like the area, not because I'm driven or ambitious or something (which I am, sometimes... and sometimes not).
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I can back this up. I've used AirBNB before as well, and good hosts generally ask for some details about you before they approve your request to stay in their home. They generally ask a few background questions, why you are visiting the area, etc.

You can tell them your name, and they can look you up on FB if need be to do a background check. It is false to say that AirBNB does not allow hosts to communicate with guests, and it is fully possible for hosts to check up on the background of their guests.
Anybody still using Dropbox needs a head check. They've made too many mistakes that showcase a broken undercarriage. Dropbox is the epitomy of succesful failures in my book. only the unknowing masses will stick with them for lack of understanding.
This is really stupid. You're attributing the human genome to Python and Perl (and that's beside the fact that they still use lots of C++ and Java).
it looks awfully like "hey, we need x and y done, I (worked with you before / was recommended by a friend I trust / follow your open source contributions / blog) and think you would be a good fit, interested?
Sorry if this is a bit off topic but it seems to me like most of Google's opensource projects are more source available than open source. Do they actually take contributions from the community or are they all like android, source made available when its "ready for public consumption"?

LevelDB sounds like something I would like to contribute to but if the reception is going to be chilly I won't bother, maybe pick up mongo or redis instead.
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Hi, I'm the submitter, and this was my first submission to Hacker News. Thanks for letting me know (both you and pg) about it being frowned upon to change the title - I'll know that for the future. As he states, it was changed for me. (The original I put in was "AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host".)

I do have to disagree on the likelihood that this particular scenario would've happened to the host through other rental agencies. For her explanation as to why, see paragraph 14 overall - or paragraph 4 under the heading "This was my home" - in her post. She addresses Craigslist; to add to that, I know that VRBO and HomeAway (the two major entire-unit vacation rental sites) accept payment for the host's listing only but absolutely everything else is left between the two parties, including verifications, contracts (if any), and payment method. The key relevant difference between those sites and Airbnb is that Airbnb blocks both host and guest from exchanging outside contact and identity information until a reservation is completed through their system. The reason for that is obvious, as Airbnb is a different business model, and needs to ensure that they receive their percentage for leads they provide. But one result of that policy is that taking independent security measures are impossible until both host and guest are already obligated and on the hook (hosts are penalized by appearing lower in the listings if they cancel a confirmed reservation from their end). The victim admits her naivete in thinking that because Airbnb demands to handle several aspects of the booking, that there are other levels of safety and verification implicit that in fact do not exist.

So yes, hosts can get ripped off using other listing services as well. But it is also made readily apparent that one should protect themselves on those sites, and users aren't actively blocked from gathering information to do so.
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No actionable information in this rant. Why not either skip the name calling and give us a factual account of what happened naming names; or tell us what to look for to spot an asshole VC ahead of time.
So I definitely got partly scammed in NYC a few months ago by a friendly-seeming girl who found an apartment for the weekend on AirBnB and then promptly turned around and posted it for sublet on Craigslist as her own, raking in thousands in cash "security deposit" money from a number of un-suspecting apartment seekers.

I love Airbnb but there are so many loopholes for disaster like this. As Airbnb goes mainstream, I expect there will be many more similarly unhappy stories on their way...
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Agreed. While interns are just a piece of the puzzle, it's a great one. And when they graduate, they're also more likely to relocate than many other people, if they don't live nearby.
Generally, no. There is usually a meal plan you purchase per-semester. Then on the weekends only a limited collection of dining halls are open, so most students either order in or go out to eat.
It is definitely possible for the host to pre-screen and validate the guest's identity. I've used AirBNB as a guest before and I was screened by hosts. They asked questions about why I was in the area, whether I smoked/drank, etc. I told them my name, allowing them to look me up on FB, Twitter, find my personal blog, etc. You'd better believe I looked up their names as well to make sure I wasn't inadvertently staying with someone who was a felon.

If your argument is based on the assumption that hosts can not screen guests then your argument is wrong.
> I think you are dramatically overstating the risk at 0.01%.

Perhaps, but the chance of losing >$100 one way or another (negligence, accidents, outright theft) is going to be a lot greater than 0.01% anyway.
Why? And How?

Are they going to require faxing in photocopies of ID? Run credit checks? All this would do is to verify that a person with this information exists. This wouldn't stop a bad guy from using someone else's identification to register, and none of this addresses whether the renter has the legal right to rent the property.

And, once they are that deep in the process, if Airbnb is making any representations to their customers about this kind of vetting, then they are exposing themselves to liability if something goes wrong.

Right now, they are content to verify that the customer and landlord have valid credit cards / bank accounts, and that's that.
I suppose I take a sympathetic attitude in general, but it's heightened because these guys are doing something I, and other people around here, aspire to. In a relatively minor way, I relate to them, and as I said I bet they feel awful. I don't feel as bad for them as I do for the victim, obviously, and I agree that they haven't handled this the way I might have. But having something you've worked so hard on lead to something like this because of some random asshole kids must be really, really frustrating and upsetting. You can sympathize with people without agreeing with them.
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"They then asked me about a time where I disagreed with a superior and how I handled the situation"

"I told them that every situation is different and that to me... there's no one right answer."

I would have made the same mistake right out of college. The right answer would have been to "tell them about a time where you disagreed with a superior and how you handled the situation."

The question was not designed to produce a report on how you handle disagreements with superiors. It was not even designed to see if you could follow instructions like a lemming.

I suggest you look the real reason you didn't want to give an answer: the fear that it would be the wrong answer. The fear that these people would listen to how you handled a single situation and determine from that single data point whether or not you are suitable for a job. So the answer you gave them was "I don't want to give you an answer because I believe you to be short sighted fools who have no experience of human relationships and will therefore judge me by this one answer".

The question was designed a) to start a discussion on interactions with superiors and b) to determine your level of fear of giving a wrong answer in an interact with superiors.

Instead, you had a disagreement with your superiors-to-be about the quality of their question and demonstrated that in such situations your response is to be defensive and provide no information, instead of getting the ball rolling.
App Script just sort of showed up one day. How long have they been working on this?
I was surprised there was someone in the Shetland Islands?
you would just hope that the competition between two adjacent gas stations would drive the cost of gas down!
Raising awareness for privacy and security issues is a good thing. Doing so by creating more privacy and security issues is decidedly counterproductive.
I really don't understand why people are laying blame on AirBNB for what happened to her. AirBNB did not help the criminal destroy her home. On what basis do you make the statement that they helped "tear her life to shreds."? The fact that they helped her list her home and conduct business with this individual? That is like blaming the ISP for allowing a DDOS or a malicious blackhat attack on a server.
OK, now add a third hot dog stand. What's the nash equilibrium now?

With 3 hot dog stands, they have an incentive to spread out - if you're in the middle of the other two, then you move to the outer side of one of the other two to capture everyone on that side of the beach. This repeats - there is no stable equilibrium.
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Unfortunately, as this article points out, not everyone knows that. That's what I was trying to get at.
He made it pretty clear that he was quitting "that job" and going to study more bioinformatics. As far as I know Google doesn't do a lot of bioinformatics. Peppered with a couple of his midlife crisis comments it seems like a fair assumption that he was leaving Google. At no time in the video did he explicitly say that he was staying.
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