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Agreed. In the end, I want the best resolution possible for EJ, given that something terrible happened to her.

But in a more abstract sense, I'm very interested in how AirBnB (as a semi-responsible party) and YC (as a seed investor) handle and respond to the situation. Here on HN we talk a lot about treating your customers well and being as transparent as possible.

But something here is amiss. The victim is saying one thing, and the company and investor in that company are saying things that don't quite jive. We may never know where the truth lies exactly, but AirBnB doesn't seem to be handling this very well.

Regardless of whether or not AirBnB is legally responsible, they need to step up. Personally I think the best thing for them to do is to just fix the problem. They need to reach out to EJ, and not just in the "what do you need?" sense. They need to just do things for her. She's traumatized and in a very bad, vulnerable state right now. Who wouldn't be? Asking her what she needs is not the best approach, because she likely isn't really sure what she needs. They need to just go right out and help her find a new place to live, and help her replace some of the things she's lost, to the best of their ability.

I don't know if PG is checking his facts or is just trusting the AirBnB founders and telling us what he's been told by them, but, frankly, in this case, I don't care what he has to say. The AirBnB founders need to go all out on this, probably accept more responsibility for what happened than they are really responsible for, and just make it right as well as they can. It won't be perfect, but they have to show the community that the community comes first, and AirBnB's bottom line comes second. Because perhaps non-intuitively, putting the community first actually does put their bottom line first. But from what I've read and seen so far, they haven't done that.
Let's engage in a little thought exercise. Pretend that you are the Airbnb victim. You live in incredible fear of psychotic criminals and identity thieves. The fear is so uncontrollable that you "spend [your] mornings recalling nightmares and breathing through panic attacks."

Would you:

a) go into hiding at a friend's place and lay low?

b) go extremely public and take on a startup?
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Well, they don't do anything except cause the problems he was complaining about in his post.
I think perhaps the more important question here is with pg going to bat for Airbnb against Arrington, is this going to affect the long term relationship between Y Combinator and Techcrunch.

Techcrunch have always provided favourable coverage to YC companies, but if that relationship is going tepid because of this affair, the negative fall-out could be far worse for YC than for AirBnB. Most consumers will forget about stories like this after a while, journalists tend to hold grudges (see Arrington vs Calcanis).
Machine learning in particular is hugely important for startups--for example, given a rich training dataset of deals you've bought from a deal site (with predictors such as type of deal, location, price, datetime, number of friends who've bought them, etc), can we train a model that'll rank deals by likelihood that'll you'll purchase them?
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We are Sendgrid customer (whitelabel) and tonight we have received notification from Google that our site has been removed from the SERPS due to phishing. Quick examining revealed that CNAME we have pointed to Sendgrid server resolves to some weird site.

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If somebody wants my feedback, they can ask for it, and if I have the time and like/value their service, I will gladly comply. Simply 'taking' my feedback doesn't sit well with me.
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Seconded. It is hard to write a defense of TC given past events. However in this case they are SPOT ON.
None of the stories are overtly "drama" or "editorializing" on TC's part. EJs posts are dramatic enough.

PG has come out in explicit defense on AirBnB's behalf when they are very clearly falling short in the ethical and "right thing to do" department, not to mention trying to censor somebody by pressuring them.
Taking about closing funding rounds to a person who has their house burgled and trashed is beyond ludicrous.
Disappointing...all in all.
This is a silly oversimplification. If the facts are as stated the victim is justifiable in their outrage at the company.

Take a step back and stop the tinfoilesque blame the victim game that you've decided to engage in.
People come in a wide variety of personalities.
I've seen companies use in-house ticketing systems for tracking work quite well, unfortunately no-ones built a good generic ticketing system for the enterprise.
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Well perhaps google search style online suggestions for existing posts will help.. i don't like forcing people to search, besides, people might just learn to hit the search and skip buttons from muscle memory.
We can already get a hint from real life, in Asian countries that have an artificially high male/female live birth ratio, in part due to China's One Child policy. This is the opposite of your "solution," in that men are favored for survival, but it has serious social consequences, including unreported pregnancies and increased mother and child mortality at birth due to birthing secretly at home, potentially severe social and mental health problems due to large numbers of men unable to marry, increased kidnapping of women for marriage and prostitution, increased HIV infections, the "4:2:1" problem and other interesting phenomena.

When you poke at something as large and complex as "people," you sometimes get what you want, but you also sometimes get what you didn't expect.

This article is worth the read: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhpr051833#t=article

The 4-2-1 problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#The_.22four-tw...
Unless you really like programming like it's 1985

Care to elaborate?
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Hortsman & Cornell's, two volume "Core Java 1.2". I only read the first.

Gosling's "The Java Programming Language".

And Josh Bloch's "Effective Java".

After that, Java Concurrency in Practice.

Langr's "Agile Java" is good for just that.

Bloch, Goetz, and Doug Lea have each written excellent books on java concurrency.

That's just about all the java books I would want to recommend. Many j-books are trash.
I don't know how relevant it is for mobile development but I'd recommend Effective Java by Joshua Bloch (http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/032...). It's essentially the equivalent of Effective C++ for Java and it does a good job of explaining how to properly use the language. It also contains quite a few general programming advises which are applicable to other languages.
Just keep in mind that it assumes that you already know the language and have a bit of experience under your belt.
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This is my little 2 cents on this whole fiasco that seems not to go away.

All this would not have come to this if Airbnb guys asked themselves a simple question. How would I handle this if this happened to my sister of wife.

The main problem is Airbnb had about a month to fix this before it became 'viral'. It was only the post by TC that made me realise this issue was about a month ago (30 days!).

As a fan of Airbnb, (I have not used the service, but i have given them a few customers), I am a bit disappointed in the response. I do not blame them for waat happened to EJ. The problem that has happened is as a result of their reaction to what had happened.

I am kind of amazed that after a month, not one of the founders has gone to see the house (they have the address) but rather they have been doing "everything" to help. This is politician talk, not startup talk. Why startups were really cool was the possibility of getting in touch with the founder of it rather than the "automated customer service of big companies".

The only actionable thing Airbnb have done during the last few days fiasco is try to cover their asses. i.e change the security page, write a blog post on TC and defend themselves. Now anything they do will not be perceived in good faith but in reaction to the angry mob (as PG calls it). It is never good to be reactionary.

If I were the CEO of Airbnb, I would do this:

Go and look physically and look at the house.

Go and look for the victim and be sincere in my apology and request for another chance to start again.

Behave as if it was my sister this thing happened to.

I really hope some good "no win no fee" lawyer has not got to her first.
When you are successful, people are out there trying to hang you, please Airbnb, do not give them a rope.

I wish you guys all the best!
Agree. Airbnb have a big problem but it isn't Techcrunch. And I don't see why Arrington shouldn't defend himself.
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> Jumping on them because they didn't have a chance to give a complete response while handling a crisis is really uncalled for.

The main issue I've seen is that a co-founder is quoted as asking EJ to censor herself (remove or restrict access to the blog) to protect AirBnB, even mentioning their rounds of funding as a motivation. A co-founder is also quoted as asking her to add a positive spin to the article after a couple weeks (despite there being no positive spin to add). Those quotes haven't been refuted at all and we don't have any reason, especially given the careful writing by EJ, to doubt them.

Those quotes, if accurate, are disheartening. They reflect the worst of entrepreneurialism. So it's not surprising that that's what I've seen the most outrage about.
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I agree. Articles about spats between Silicon Valley insiders are not going to determine how customers view the company.
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Downvote trolls on a critique thread are sort of pathetic. If you don't agree, provide dissenting feedback. It will be much more useful.
To not stand too long on my soapbox, causal Bayesian networks are, I think, the most important tool for high level statistics users. I wish Pearl were more popular.
You know, I assumed that much of what she said was a misinterpretation of events based on emotional stress like you say since their public face was completely different from the aggressive stance they (at least one of them) were taking in private. However, that changed after reading the Arrington article because it is now corroborated that they do in fact have people there taking an aggressive stance, and who are lying to PG since what PG said is definitely not true.
Would MPEG-LA bother to spread FUD over a random obscure proprietary codec rather than the single biggest threat to their protection racket?

If it still belonged to On2, MPEG-LA (or rather, its member companies) would just sue if they actually had anything. Here, the threat of a lawsuit does the job they actually want, but they'll never actually file a lawsuit until they find a defendant they know will settle rather than fighting.

Hopefully Google does the same thing Apple did for Lodsys: indemnify to neuter the FUD.
They aren't falling short on being ethical. If you had read the very first story airbnb came out with a pretty decent explanation. I believe they were too ethical in the first place. They gave out a lot of info to be exact. To put it blantly they were overly nice and this chick is takin advantage of that. But TC did nothin wrong though.
You know, I am no cheerleader for Michael Arrington, we've certainly banged heads a few times in comment threads (it's a fun way to spend an evening) but what Paul Graham is doing here is pretty cynical:

Once it became clear yesterday that the empathically-challenged kids in charge at Airbnb had no clue of how to manage the problem, and that the company was hemorrhaging tens of millions in notional value every time Brian Chesky opened his mouth and a bunch of lies and half-truths came tumbling out, the investors called an emergency meeting and tried to figure out a way out of this mess.

Clearly, as the situation had been left to rot for a month, giving the victim plenty of time to become more upset and alienated, it was too late to pretend that the situation itself had been handled in any way properly.

There was also no longer any subtle way to silence to victim - that bridge already been burned by the ham-fisted attempt to bully her into deleting her original post... attempts made, incredibly, OVER THE PHONE!

And, as those attempts were now part of the another blog post, it was too late to act like fucking professionals, meet her in person, put her up in five star luxury while they arrange and pay to have her home cleansed, fumigated, redecorated, refurnished, blessed by a witchdoctor, whatever it took to shut her up.... it was too late for all that.

So, Paul Graham, an intelligent man with a good eye for small details, noticed the one and only sliver of a chance Airbnb has to get out of this mess with it's valuation above the billion mark, rather than far below it: the universal antipathy towards Michael Arrington!

So, now, the course is set and, from here on out, Airbnb and their investors are going to completely ignore the truth that it was the victim's own account which contradicts Airbnb's rapidly shifting assertions, and, instead, they are going to pretend that the whole controversy is a link-bait concoction by Silicon Valley's favorite super-villain, Dr. Arrington. What actually happened will not matter and, right now, you can bet the Paul Graham is down on his knees praying that Jason Calacanis will take the tasty Arrington bait and run this story in the other direction.

Of course, the only reason this story has legs is that Chesky's article turned out to be so astonishingly and needlessly untruthful that the victim felt compelled to sit down and write a practically line-by-line rebuttal. It was truly one of the most remarkable own goals I have ever seen and, if you weren't already questioning the sanity of the CEO of a supposedly $1.3bn company not identifying, a month ago when it happened, that this could be a serious IPo blocker and, as such, promptly nailing it down, you have to wonder just how psychotic he is to have written something so bold, to have put himself in the position of being publicly exposed as a complete and utter bullshitter.

So, that is why Micheal is getting it in the neck and, on this occasion, undeservedly so... but you shouldn't let that spoil your enjoyment of it ;)
I agree with your general sentiment, but as far as visiting the house that is a very bad idea unless they are specifically invited by EJ. Otherwise they could get accused of not believing that the damage really occurred and checking up on her. It could look very bad, and would definitely be made to look bad by aggressive bloggers. There would definitely be posts and comments saying things like, "Why are their lawyers searching her house? Don't they believe she was robbed! Look at the police report you dolts, you don't have to invade her privacy! Not at a time like this you insensitive clods." If on the other hand she does invite them to see the damage, they should definitely go.
I don't agree with everything DeChristopher has to say, but that was a good read.

I find it really scary that lobbyists have the ability to destroy an individual's life if instigated. At least that's the impression I got.
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Mobile devices != iPhone+Android. I find this trend pretty disturbing.
Yes, unless I've totally misunderstood that Self/Smalltalk code!

Also instead of between method with two args you could also create an and message/method:

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In this scenario, posting the actual patents would allow everyone (including Google) to publically debunk them: find prior art, show that they don't apply, show that Google has patents essential to the claimed patents, demonstrate cross-licensing arrangements, or in the worst case work around the patent via technical means. None of those tactics work against nebulous bluster, hence the concept of FUD.
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I agree with you that is a smart approach.

I think the reason they don't do anything to really fix it rather than lip service and lawyer wrangling and dirty PR tricks is they are afraid of setting a precedent. However, they should have thought that through a bit more. They are saying they've had a million rentals or some such with no incident. If that is true, covering someone's damage for the 1 in a million case should be something they can do. Let's say it costs $10,000. That's nothing compared to their profit for those million cases where it didn't happen. By not doing this they are sending several possible messages. One is that they believe that a lot more robberies are going to happen and they have been lucky so far. It's not going to be 1 in a million it's going to be 1 in a 100, and they can't afford to fix 1% of all stays that turn into robberies. This message also means they believe it is impossible to fix, they give up on the idea of ever being able to truly identify renters (the rentees are not as big an issue to identify since their names are on the deeds). I think that's crazy since it's really obvious they have been severely legally negligent in not actually acquiring real identities of renters, though they have certainly implied to rentees that it was safe as if they had. That's probably going to end up being determined by some court or consumer advocacy agency like the FTC to be a misrepresentation. The other bad message they send with this is that if they truly believe it is 1 in a million and they don't want to help her out by finding a place to stay and fixing her apartment, then they are obscenely greedy. There are costs to doing this sort of business after all, you can't just starve the business and take it all for yourself. Some money needs to be set aside for these sorts of 100% predictable and inevitable occurrences.

Whoever is on their hack legal team is should be fired and they should get some real lawyers in there. Obviously they are obsessed with CYA and avoiding responsibility. If that is where they want to be fine but then they have no business running this sort of business. This business is going to have robberies, rapes and murders from time to time. They should have had a plan. Yelling "it's not our fault", threatening the victim, playing the hypocrite, and attacking people who reasonably comment on the story (and through a third party, what cowards) is absolutely not the right approach. What you mentioned is pretty good though, but it's pretty clear that was brought up and dismissed as something that might cost a couple hundred bucks they were too greedy to let go of.
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> If Mozilla does FUD against IE -- well it's "just the facts".

You can't FUD with facts; facts preclude uncertainty.

If MPEG-LA provided a specific list of patents they claimed essential to WebM, that wouldn't qualify as FUD; however, they don't want to do that, because then their claims could get deconstructed and refuted.