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Here's my question. In this (somewhat ungrounded in Android reality) article the poster makes the claim that on iOS, you 'just get' a few seconds to finish off everything.

This does not seem like a sustainable model. If my app and the next app a user launches are both memory heavy, I expect my app to be killed to make space. How does this process work on iOS?

Also, nobody really seems to understand how amazing Intents are before they use Android :)
Maybe it's as simple as being angered when you see someone outrageously victimized and then doubly wronged by a startup that you previously had a lot of respect for?
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I meant for the company. It's not needed to involve the company's money in this case.

As a side note, how big are those appartments in San Francisco? Here in Paris for that kind of money each month you get 60 square meters and no single person can afford those. Most live in a third or a half of this surface.
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> Official word is, that the YellowBox for Windows is gone now, though, and AppleComputer revoked any license to develop third-party applications for it.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige

Call me old fashioned, but I personally believe that we, the technical elite who effortlessly can integrate new tech into our lives and understand the deeper implications of technology being used -- here is looking at you Google founders in context of privacy -- are a form of a pseudo nobility and have responsibilities to our less fortunate brethren (who yes, sometimes DO need big warning stickers on comforters and coffee cups containing excessively hot liquids).

imho, this affair is simply a manifestation of a larger problem:

the profit motive has diluted hacker ethics.
OK, but you could do iPad-style games. All you need is a cool input device. I'm thinking a webcam, and gloves with a specific bandwidth of color. Though the image processing might be too much.
Could you give me an example of exactly why the claims you've made are true?

Why would your app need twice as much code? Why is using the Android ui designer so much harder than iOS's equiv?

What is so undocumented about IBinder? It's basic IPC?

I would really like to hear reasons, not abbreviations.
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I said more cash, not more worth or value. Thanks for the downvotes, great to see everyone is using their noggins these days.
If she's scared out of her wits, shouldn't she remove her blog postings, other than the last few that pertain to the episode with AirBnB?

It's not that difficult to figure parts of her identity from her prior postings and personally, if it happened to me and I was concerned for my own safety, that's what I would have done.
Greedy, not just selfish. And it would harm them as well, since everyone would do it.

No, they profit much better by making sure Vegas is a thriving place with many casinos. If they DID manage to drive out all the other casinos, nobody would go to Vegas because it only had 1 casino!

Instead, it's much better to work together and share knowledge of the people who would rip them off.
Did PG ask for EJ's contact info and express interest in her well-being, or did you pass it on unrequested?
Give it time, and people will get out in the streets again (terrorist attacks), people will eat meat again (mad cow disease), people will buy cucumber again (killing cucumber), strangers will shake hands again (H1N1 influenza), hell, people will even go visit Chernobyl as tourists.

It's not a "real" issue, it's more of a temporary difficulty. AirBnB's business exists since the dawn of time. A setback, if you prefer.
He had me until the last line: "I don’t know what Paul Graham means by 'typical Arrington fashion,' but I do know this. It’s not my job to fix it when companies do stupid things."

Bullshit!

No, it's not your job to fix the mess other companies create through stupid policy or bad decisionmaking. But it's also not your job to pile on and stir up everybody's passions when something goes wrong.

Michael Arrington is a huckster -- Walter Winchell and Drudge mixed together. For years, he's picked fights and written stories that destroy reputations. Then when he's called on to the carpet for his behavior, he reacts in the 'typical Arrington fashion,' by protesting his innocence and calling on his readers to save him.

I'm not an apologist for what Airbnb did here. But Michael Arrington and TechCrunch helped fan the flames. Not because they reported on it, but becausse of the WAY they reported on it. And now when they're called on it, he reacts by wrapping himself in a flag of righteousness.

Yep, smells like bullshit alright.
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Wouldn't the Airbnb guys have already given her contact info to PG if they had wanted to?

What made you decide to do so and did you ask her for permission to pass on her details to a third party?
Unrequested, I passed it on because in another thread he wrote that he 'doesn't know her'.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822877

I figured PG needs to hear both sides of this story and needs to be able to ask questions to get to the bottom of this.

If he doesn't want to get involved at that level I understand, but then it probably would be better if he didn't comment on the matter at all, lest this somehow ends up reflecting bad on YC.
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Analytics is here to stay. Unless this practice is regulated (which in turn can end up being heavy handed and far reaching and in turn could discourage innovation) analytics will remain a big piece of what IT will focus on, mainly in getting a 360 degree view of their customers.

Instead of regulating everytime we see a practice that we may not agree on, how about we treat it like when the "iPhone location" fiasco broke. Do not criminalize the possession of customer data or even tracking, criminalize distribution or malicious use of it. If Company A wants to know where I came from, so that they can share their ad dollars effectively, I am ok with it. But do ensure that they dont share it with other companies in that network (whether Kissmetrics or someone else) for any reason. My online identity remains my own, it does not need to be dissected for further analysis by doubleclick, kissmetrics et al.
> Wouldn't the Airbnb guys have already given her contact info to PG if they had wanted to?

Maybe.

> What made you decide to do so and did you ask her for permission to pass on her details to a third party?

I think that PG is a very smart guy and I have some personal reasons to believe that PG has his heart very much in the right place when it comes to things that are this personal. I can not go in to details there, you'll have to trust me on that one.

I did not ask for her permission, but I think that her information is in very trusted hands with Paul and I am 100% sure that he would never ever abuse it.
The people she would be scared of already know her identity. In fact, they may have stolen it from her.
> If she's scared out of her wits, shouldn't she remove her blog postings, other than the last few that pertain to the episode with AirBnB?

She's already lost her home and her possessions, I think that to ask her to wipe out her online life as well would be a bit much.

I've given her some hints about the ways in which she could tune her postings and some other little details that will make it much harder to track her.
I see airbnb as a match-maker and consider it quite naive to entrust a 'facebook-friend-like' stranger my appartment without proper checking who this person is.

Typical America were drinking hot coffee leads to lawsuits.

(Which doesn't mean i'm not sorry for the person, or that risks shouldn't be stated (more) prominently, or that insurances should be here)
Happened to me once (in 10 yrs), I just let it go.
Ok but doesn't Airbnb have much bigger fish behind them now that could help with this? (Ashton Kutcher, Andreeson, DST, General Catalyst)

I would be surprised if these companies have not offered the support of their PR teams to help Airbnb dig themselves out of this hole.
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Yup.

I think the original sin in all this was yanking the original AirBnB support person who was helping EJ and replacing this contact with CYA bullshit. From EJ's perspective it probably looked very much like AirBnB turning their back on the problem and clamming up. At that point, any offer of financial help just looks like AirBnB trying to pay her to go away.
One question remains to be cleared: how did the guest got inside the apartment? What was the system used for the key transaction?

I don't know how it usually goes, but I'd like this blind spot to be cleared. She published a number, an email address and a nickname on her blog, but no postal address. So the keys weren't shipped.

She never called the number, and can't tell the gender of her perpetrator. Only the neighborhoods acted as mere witnesses of a "group of people" coming in. This suggest that nobody else was involved in the transaction, no friend or neighborhood to give the key and see the guy.

So the guys "came to her house" and got inside, but it doesn't tell us how. Nobody has been in physical contact with them, and the keys weren't shipped.

I don't want to sound insensitive, but this blind spot buggers me a little. Wonder if she can tell more about it, even if it doesn't sound relevant to her horrible experience. I believe her, maybe the key transaction process was bit naive as well and it wouldn't be relevant (hiding the key somewhere), but it could also mean that the burglary might have happened after the host left (while still being an improbable hypothesis, it would just open a new possibility). It's just a small bug that I'd like to be squashed.
I'm not sure whether she is more scared of the robbers or the consequences of her publicity because of this event and going up against a well-funded company in a potential legal battle.
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Possibly.

PG to me is the 'father' of all these start-ups, and as I wrote I have personal reasons to believe that he is exactly the right guy for this.

What is needed most at this moment in time is someone with a capacity for empathy and some adult supervision.

PR can come afterwards, my own view of PR is that is mostly about putting something bad in as favorable light as possible, right now there are two parties that simply need some help and some mediation.
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I love it when our overlords refer to us as minions. Plus, it's a double-treat when concern for the feelings of others is perceived as being a weakling.

I'm actually kind of glad that the world of software development is filled with people who pride themselves on ignoring the soft skills of working in a team. That makes it sooooo much easier for me to get a job, since all I have to do is show a teeny, tiny bit of humanity and congeniality in a job interview and I'm way above the other candidates.
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Wow, with everything that's going on, this kid has the nerve to do an FT story that's more about him than the current situation. Absolutely baffling how bad his judgement is.

You should put the URL in the header.
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How is this anything but rude to the parties involved?
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Stupid is as stupid does. AirBnB sells 'free lunch' to the gullible, who QQ like mad when they get what they paid for.

The short attention span generation is so pwned.
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Give me a break - this is not Exxon Mobil we're talking about.
As far as damage to the apartment, pictures with some proof would help (and would indicate the extent of the damage), and if the truth is to come out about the interaction with AirBNB then someone would have to dump their email cache.

Visual proof has already been obtained by the police. Why does the victim have to provide photos to the general public?

For that matter, why does she have to "dump her email cache"?

Are we putting her on trial on HN?
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I don't think she needs to explain every technicality of what happened. The police will deal with those matters. She's not on trial in the court of public opinion.
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From her perspective it might as well be if we're talking about a company with a $1 Billion valuation versus a woman who is sleeping at friends' apartments to keep herself off the street.
I figured PG needs to hear both sides of this story

Oh, wow. I don't think you could be more wrong. From her point of view, PG is a going to come accross as a concerned airbnb investor. She is already upset about brian chesky complaining that this incident will affect his ability to raise money for the company which she mentioned in the blog post. A phone call from PG could be like adding petrol to fire, even if he is genuine and wants to help.

What this lady needs is to have one point of interaction with a single person at Airbnb. That person needs the ability to make decisions about financial assistance etc, so preferably one of the founders.
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Nah, probably because EJ is most likely female.
> "I'm not sure whether she is more scared of the robbers or the consequences of her publicity because of this event and going up against a well-funded company in a potential legal battle."

The companies exist because they have customers. Therefore, your statement is self-contradictory.
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> Are we putting her on trial on HN?

Obviously not, maybe you should re-read that sentence in context.

Pictures of the extent of the damage would go a long way towards explaining why she feels the way she does in a way that words will never be able to.
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I downloaded my first few MP3's in 1998. I was either on 33.6 or 56k. It took like an hour.

So the problem was clearly limited to university networks. The existence of MP3's doesn't indicate the advent of modern "piracy."

No, that began a couple years later of course when everybody began getting cable modems. And napster was written.
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To profit from MY computer tracking me against my express commands? Incognito mode, cookies turned off and they're tricking my computer into tracking me?

These are people who have lost all perspective of what's right and wrong.

Analytics is a solved problem, there's no innovation here, there's cookies and a way of opting out of it. If regulation is what's needed to stop scum like Kissmetrics from violating my privacy, then regulation's what's needed.
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Actually, she chose to make this public, and she chose to do so apparently because AirBNB refused to move on terms that are acceptable to her.

Nobody here is claiming that she is 'on trial', but when you go public with a story there will always be questions.

That is because people will align with your story and your interests if they consider you to be the party that is speaking the truth.

This is a fairly normal thing and has nothing to do with trials. You are seeing this much too black-and-white.
Actually I think her words have done an excellent job of explaining why she feels the way she does and I don't want anyone else invading her privacy any more than it already has been violated.

For that matter, I think you've got some nerve tracking her down, handing her contact details over to an Airbnb investor and claiming to be helping her to find an objective independent mediator.
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I use the word evil as a descriptor of people without guilt or shame when hurting others. Maybe they are down on their luck, addicted to drugs, or just hateful, but I don't think you have to be religious to believe in evil.
So this is not a trial but she needs to publicly provide documentary evidence for everything she has said up to this point, including photos of any damage and her entire "email cache"?

Please tell me who she owes this responsibility to?
1. Victim is not on trial here.
2. This is not the time to score link bait points.
3. Several layers of communication that are not direct here..let the parties come to their own way of helping and implementing solutions. I would imagine it does not help the police either ..

above all else. MA you are not helping just shut up.
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Paul is not just 'some AirBNB investor', if you want to picture it that way, sure go ahead.

AirBNB has - in my opinion - been doing the very wrong thing here for much too long and this will blow up at some point if something isn't done pronto.

Tracking her down sounds like it was real work, believe me it wasn't, and as I explained below I gave her some hints on how to make that a lot harder than it was last night.

I figure that if by Monday this hasn't been resolved to everybody's satisfaction that it could get really ugly with losers all around, and EJ who has already lost more than anybody should go through still stands to lose the most. Once lawyers get involved all bets are off.

If you don't trust Paul to be objective when given the opportunity then that's your call.
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Actually she is, and she has already won by a landslide against AirBnB. She's the victim and I wouldn't want to be in her shoes, but I also find the reaction disproportionate toward AirBnB. It's only fair that those "techicalities" are made public as well before everyone trash them to death.

AirBnB gives tools to pick your guest, the first one being the track record and ratings. Was the rating of Dj Pattrson Good/Bad/Virgin?

They also have a pretty straightforward safety tips page ( http://www.airbnb.com/safety ), but not a single precaution was taken. It appears she didn't even try to call her future guest. No neighborhoods or friends warned, nothing.

AirBnB is taking all the shit for an objectively irresponsible behavior. Nobody deserve what has happened to her, it's just horrible. On the other hand, AirBnB taking all the shit for this doesn't seem fair as well. They handled the crisis in a poor manner, but the perpetrators should be the ones paying for the damages.

AirBnB aside, she doesn't seem to take some responsibility for it (the rape victim analogy), and it's just not fair or reflective of the whole picture, if you're being objective for a minute this is the simple truth. I truly hope she will recover and learn from this awful experience.
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