skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the communities. For web developers, which depend on few compiled dependencies, this works well. For some other communities, like scipy community, not so much. Incidentally, mac os x is the worst platform to support ATM in that aspect, because of incompatibilities between OS X versions, python versions (mac os x vs python.org, all ABI incompatible), etc... Even windows is easier to handle at this point.
I agree with the overall sentiment of your statement. I think people have blown this situation far out of proportion. People touting their model is broken or that the company is going to fail over this one inciden... Same with Dropbox. It does have something to do with their successes.

That said:

People attacked the founders because, for better or worse, they got directly involved in this. And if one of the co-founders really did tell her to take down that blog post to make sure their valuation doesn't take a hit, that'll draw a lot of ire.

Plus, Airbnb has millions of dollars. They have the PR capacity to deal with these scenarios. If they aren't framing their true side of the story, whose fault is that? Like it or not, people are going to speculate especially when there is a long history of corporations side-stepping responsibility. (I am not at all suggesting that Airbnb is not trying to help. I'm saying why I can see how people can assume the worst) The fact that PG has to publicly defend them is ludicrous. It's like a father defending a fully-grown son.

The core issue here beyond the Dropbox security folly and the previous Craigslist/Airbnb debacle (which both sparked a ton of vitriol) is that this exact scenario this woman went through was bound to happen and should not have gotten out of hand. Credit cards get stolen. The process is: phone a 24-hotline, cancel a card, get a new one in the mail, challenge the fees, hopefully get money back. With this Airbnb scenario, the woman had to contact Airbnb through a freelancer who worked for them because no one initially responded to her e-mails or phone calls!

Craigslist does a very good job of warning people of the dangers all across the process. If you click on sublets, there are huge links at the top warning of fraud, scams, and personal safety tips. If you click on a post, there is a giant yellow box that warns the user of scams. On Airbnb: Nothing on the homepage, nothing on the lists of properties, and nothing on the listing itself. Airbnb isn't liable for the damages (as stated by their agreement) but they should have made more of an effort to educate the users of the potential hazards of the site and liabilities for the buyer. Hell, I used Airbnb in Paris and I genuinely thought that Airbnb would have a very responsive team in case shit hit the fan. With Craigslist, there is no false sense of security: every step of the way, they warn you.

The whole situation far bigger than it needed to be.
Wow, are you kidding me?

Based on the data so far, many people would agree that EJ seem spooked by he fast moving world of innovative startups, social networking, and venture capitalism. Based on the fact that she has been saying how terrified she's been to release even the basic info about the situation yet didn't have the foresight to remove past entries from her blog, I'd say it is also safe to say that she is naive about the state of privacy in the online world.

So you take it upon yourself to not only track her down, but give her personal details to someone with a financial stake in what has been described as a billion dollar hyperstartup.

Think about that, from her perspective and from the perspective of her sympathizers.

We saw yesterday how she interpreted what may have been the sincerest of emails by a cofounder to get coffee as a calculated uncaring attempt to quiet her.

And now she receives correspondence from someone with no apparent connection to airbnb who, btw, sent her info to a well known backer of a billion dollar company.

What the hell do you think she'll do? Spend an hour siting on whatever couch she has managed to find for temp residence and read yours and pg's HN profiles and threads and see that you and pg are indeed standup guys??

Look at her past behavior She has already insinuated that airbnb has tried to overtly intimidate her, a tactic, that until yesterday, very few of HN readers would have thought possible of the savvy founders of airbnb.

And now you have faith that this reluctant participant in the ycombinator world will give you the full benefit of the doubt and take the time to learn from secon hand sources that you're not some creep?

When journalists new to this whole debacle come across this thread, how much benefit of the doubt do you think you'll receive?

Do you think that there's a way to fit in "Some hackernews user tracks down fearful airbnb victim and gives her contact info to airbnb backer" AND "airbnb backer had proven track recor of bring unbiased and kindly" into 140 characters.

People thought EJ was naive. I think you've set a new bar.
Never let your receivables get to a point where you can't just write it off. Collect early and often.
Ask HN: What is the 'hacker news' for politics? 
I was reading a series of nonsensical, ranting comments on blogs like politico, sites like NYT, and WSJ, guardian, etc... and it just struck me - why is there no "hacker news" for politics - good debate, differing opinions, a general attitude of respect for differences. I'm most interested in US and UK politics but as I live in South America would appreciate a site that covers other countries. And if it doesn't exist, is it a startup idea worth building?
While you sit back and watch the show? At least he's _trying_ to do something to help EJ[1] and has enough strut to take this up to pg. It's called compassion, not self righteousness.

Also, take your language back to 4chan whence you came.

[1] Other than offering pitty.
Arbitrage. Buy something cheap on one exchange and sell it higher on a different exchange. The trader with the lowest latency gets a big chunk of the market just by being fast. You get even more if the algorithm has any ability at all to predict the future. The average profit per transaction will be small, but you get 10 million opportunities a day to repeat it.
You will get your app of the ground faster, but you're selling yourself short if you're a technology-based company thinking that you'll never have scaling problems. Competing against Twitter or any other social-based app you'll probably never encounter that level of scale, but any financial application will need to be both fast and handle the complexities that only the JVM can address.

Like he states at the end of the video, when describing the 7000+ tpm during the WWC:

"...we do things like Forex spikes upon our standard baseline growth. So right now the JVM is really the only mechanism that we can build upon that gives us the flexibility to do something like that."
What's ambiguous about "please bring a pen and paper any time you meet with me"?
I've found that sometimes, but have also found the opposite, where 30 minutes of reading has cleared up many, many hours of confusion borne of experience. Most often it takes the form of: 1) run into variants of some minor difficulty on and off, develop a solution or workaround; 2) run into another edge case that breaks my solution, patch it, start wondering if this problem is more subtle than I'd first thought; 3) try to determine if what I'm doing is an instance of something more general that has a name; 4) finally find a chapter in Knuth that exactly explains why I've had the problems I've had, in addition to giving me a solution that covers a more general case I hadn't even run into yet.

(On the other hand, having run into the problem in various forms 'irl' probably did make reading the description/solution in Knuth more intelligible and well motivated, compared to if I had just sat down and read every one of his books first.)
Also, twitter is at a point where they can afford the best programmers, and where hardware efficiency becomes a big issue. In my experience, a lot of web-based small companies are more limited by skill, development practice than language and hardware usage. Only once you solved the former can you focus on the latter.
Exactly. This article was completely one-sided.

He also failed to see the huge amount of community support there is for Android developers too. There's so much information inside multiple forums you would almost never be unable to find an answer to a problem.
I was recently in a quandary over the choice of technology. I started RoR and I really like it. However I was concerned about long term implications of that choice. The thing that I am taking from this talk is that I shouldn't worry about that, right now. If and when I need to scale, I will have enough resources to make a better choice. Resources that I don't have right now.
I'm sure they have less "unhinged" publications as well. But this site echoes how a lot of people think, and how those who fund CFACT want them to think. I doubt anyone works for them without realizing this. Ultimately, their job is to sway the opinion of the general public into this direction, and I suppose they see this as covering all their bases.
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You get notified when the user switches apps away from yours, so at that point you quicky get your shit together and assume you could be killed at any time.
I'd be surprised if lawyers were involved, even if the 'gag' description is accurate. The most likely 'gag' would probably just the woman's boss pulling her aside and saying "you can say anything you want internally, but when you badmouth the company in public you are hurting the company".

I mean we really have no idea, but it seems far far more likely something like that occurred than Google sending a formal C&D to one of it's own employees.
Apple has more cash than the US government
On my bill it says: 16m Business Class HSI Preferred, for $89.95. The 5 static IPs are $9.95.

I don't remember there being a specific name for it.

I would not be surprised if they don't offer the exact thing anymore.

My advice, get some relatively low speed (16Mbps) and hope it's much higher, like I got.
This is clearly contradictory to what the actual customer wrote yesterday. The customer is the source here we trust. Not Arrington.

She states she has only heard from two founders since posting the blog article, she received no offers of help, and no one has even asked how she was doing. From my point of view, it is quite clear the Airbnb team is lying to you or simply has had their communication wires crossed for far too long.

Airbnb may mean well, but meaning and action are different things.
Just a word of advice on Android, polish your app really well before launch. The Android Market comment system is relentless. If you don't have a smashingly nice app out of the gate, you'll probably get a couple 1-star "sucks"/"rubbish" reviews before you can finish your post-launch exhale.
Instead of taking a brute-force approach to software development, the R&D team concentrates on putting enabling technologies in place that can be leveraged by others.

and

If you want a sneak peak at NEXTSTEP's future, says Hullot, you have only to look a little closer at the present version.

This remains true to this day.
Calculus was discovered, not invented.
iTerm2 -> Dislike, it doesn't offer me any benefits to my current workflow.

Alfred -> If you don't have this installed before upgrading to Lion, which the article is about, then I think you might have something wrong with you :)

Witch -> Never used it.
I dont know you but I can only guess that you are indeed a sincere person with a good heart who wants to cut through the crap to right a wrong. I'm making this judgment because a devious person would never do what you just did and try to justify it publicly on HN.

But I hope you see how you have potentially mucked things up, and that if this doesn't add more fuel to the fire it's only because all the interested parties are enjoying their weekend. I admire your idealism but there are way too many moving parts and potential for miscommunication for someone to make an act of intervention based on his personal faith in one of the investors involved
Hm, I thought the general advice was to bill by hour, not by project. Is this wrong?
Why not develop for iOS in Flash/Air too and have one code base? I personally think the Air download requirement on Android is a still a pretty big deterrent for most users.

I really wish Adobe could have found a way to build Android apps so you basically distribute a small Air runtime bundled with your AS code as an App instead of requiring the Air system be installed separately.
Hey Jesse, thanks for this post. Your notes on Python / OSX development have helped me out several times over the past year or so.
(really) understanding JavaScript Closures
I buy the kids $20 gift cards for their birthdays now and they end up buying 10-15 games.
Exactly, which is why I made the 1985 remark. It feels like the helmets all over again. Why not have Max Headroom do an ad for the 3DS and we're all good.
I bought this computer. I pay for my internet connection. And someone like KISSMetrics wants to spy on me using MY stuff?

You may pay for your computer and internet connection but not for the (vast majority of) sites you visit. This popular sense of entitlement is problematic when "your" stuff live in 3rd party servers running 3rd party software that you're not paying for.
Here's a link to some interesting theoretical work by Hernan Makse titled "Identifying Influential Spreaders in Complex Networks."

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1001/1001.5285v2.pdf

They actually used some online networks for their simulations:

"We investigate (i) the friendship network between 3.4 million members of the LiveJournal.com community [15], (ii) the network of email contacts in the Computer Science Department of the University College London (Zhou, S., private communication), (iii) the contact network of inpatients (CNI) collected from hospitals in Sweden [16], and (iv) the network of actors who have co-starred in movies labeled by imdb.com as adult [17]"

They found some rules about how the structure of the network influences the spreading ability of each node. As you may suspect, they find highly connected individuals aren't necessarily the best spreaders.
Quora has a stack of answers to the question "what do people think of AngelList?"

http://www.quora.com/AngelList/What-do-people-think-of-Angel...
> This article was completely one-sided.

It was one person's subjective experience of switching platforms; it's not intended to be a balanced examination of API design across platforms.

Why so tetchy?
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It is always a good idea to have your own domain name and web site. I have used one domain for about 15 years to collect "stuff I am interested in" and as a home for open source and writing projects. My site has helped me get connected with a lot of interesting people over the years.

Participating in sites like Twitter, HN, G++, and perhaps Facebook has always, at least for me, been about getting pointed towards interesting information - basically to help find an hours worth of interesting and useful technical reading each day. It is not about creating a personal brand or identity. I think this is the right approach so I agree with the article.

So, have your own domain, make your blog a subdomain, communicate about what most interests you, etc.
Maybe for the input device just attach it to a big multitouch screen. Toss in a battery, wifi (maybe 3G?), ~32GB of flash memory. Then people could use one portable device and developers could write games and publish them to a central store for only ~1-5USD a piece.
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I do get that a dynamic language like Ruby will always be slower than a language like Java, which has primitives and where many things, including static method calls, are solved at compile time.

But citing the Alioth.Debian benchmarks? Really?

Dude, take a look at the source-code of those benchmarks sometimes -- they are completely useless ;)
Google Summer of Code is a great way to get involved with open source projects.

Look here: http://code.google.com/soc/

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

Edit: formatting.
It's not a matter of questioning people you admire or not, it's a matter of reserving judgment and not making personal attacks until you know all the facts from both parties.
What tools are you guys using to measure this on a web application?
> This might now end up affecting not only Airbnb but also the image of Ycombinator and pg.

That is already happening:

http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-ransackgate-paul-graha...
Guess what? When you have a situation which involves a potential billion dollar company and all of the stakeholders that come with that money, the police, the mass media, and terrified victim, trying to sort out a traumatic incident that occurred weeks ago...the most you can do as someone not in the aforementioned groups is nothing

This is not a movie. This is not a case of a burning house and you're the only one in the vicinity to rush into and rescue a child stuck in his room. In fact, if there is a burning house and the firefighters have already arrived, your well intentioned actions may put their lives at risk

Not all "good" actions remain "good" in every context.
"On the other hand, having run into the problem in various forms 'irl' probably did make reading the description/solution in Knuth more intelligible and well motivated, compared to if I had just sat down and read every one of his books first."

That's definitely the case for me. I find that I don't have the internal motivation to sit down and read a lot about a given subject until I've been faced with some real- world problem that turns out to be really hard without more knowledge of that subject.
I don't know anything about this particular propaganda site but I have done research in the past that showed there are a lot of just pure propaganda machine organizations that get funding from the likes of Exxon Mobil and who all write off all their budgets and funding for tax-free "education" purposes, that just spew out the stupidest and most unscientific bullshit you could possibly imagine. I have interviewed scientists who are quoted in press releases by these propaganda mills who vehemently protested to me about how terribly their research had been misrepresented. There is literally nothing to the entire worldwide "global warming skeptic" movement that is not completely based on and funded by these well-funded and completely unscientific propaganda campaigns. I found out the people running these propaganda mills, who are by the way total morons, are paying themselves in the quarter-million-dollar range for annual salaries for their Exxon-Mobil and Mellon / Scaife Foundations funded "educational non-profits". And the reach of their propaganda bullshit machines is at least enough to brainwash a whole lot of dupes even on Hacker News to place downvotes in the past eight hours to anything that discusses global climate without saying that every single scientist in the entire world is party to a global conspiracy to smother john fucking galt.

And by the way there are an astonishing number of exactly the same organizations and exactly the same people in the propaganda machine against global warming who also raked in millions of dollars in the failed campaign to convince the world that smoking cigarettes was totally awesome and completely harmless to human health. Get a fucking clue people. TO YOU HACKER NEWS DOWNVOTERS: IF YOU THINK GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT REAL YOU HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY DUPED BY A NOT EVEN VERY SMART PROPAGANDA MACHINE AND YOU ARE NOT A COOL REBEL SMARTER THAN MOST PEOPLE, YOU ARE A DUMB AND COMPLETELY BRAINWASHED PAWN. Deal with it.

EDIT TO ADD, funny how nothing I've ever posted on HN before has ever been downvoted into negative territory except calling out global warming "skeptics". Good job, you clever and not at all duped rebels who can't be bothered to try to propose any actual rational thought or commentary in the process!

EDIT AGAIN to say I am astonished by the sheer volume of downvotes being rained down on every post in this one HN page without one single comment of explanation by the downvoters, which is like nothing I've ever seen on Hacker News. Where are your ovaries and/or balls to explain yourselves, downvoters?
The insurance company technically had no obligation to be as humane as they were. That's the point :D
If you want a fast dynamic language, take a look at Lua. It's surprisingly fast, especially LuaJIT, and pretty straight forward (almost boring really). The main downside is that there isn't the breadth of community around it.
Shopify is still 100% ROR and we serve hundreds of millions of requests. You will be fine :-)

It's a competitive advantage for us, we move faster then the rest of the market.
He's giving you another damn perspective: that from his personal experience, he's seen the AirBnB folks to be good people and that maybe we don't have the full story; so it's unfair to launch an all out attack on them. And how do you respond? Yeah, well, good people can be bad, too! Now you're just finding any way to rationalize your jugement of the situation.

He said there are valid concerns here, but is urging people to consider that there may be other factors.

Come on, people.
In fact what Google and Vrizon put forward was only a proposal far from being a binding agreement. Their joint proposal was intended to bring more clarity in the area of net neutrality as opposed to void in the absence of any law in that respect.
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In some ways worse because there is a certification process that allows you to use the Android name, but does very little to ensure someone didn't wreck the user experience with their customizations.

In other words, "Hey, let's make it somewhat exclusive to use our brand, but do nothing to ensure quality from the end-user's perspective!" All the disadvantages of exclusivity, with none of the advantages.
this is my argument: take care of your customers. contrary to your statement, it has gotten me somewhere since that is how i built my business. we've made mistakes and our partners have made mistakes, but we always put the customer's interests first in these situations, regardless of profit or precedent. solutions can be simple. this is one of them.
Coming from a Java workshop, I have noticed the exact opposite - the majority of Java developers I have worked with are unwilling to touch or experiment with anything other than Java, even languages on the JVM like Scala; alternatively, I have noticed python developers are much more open and agile when it comes to moving in and out of other languages.
I recall reading an interview with Evan Weaver that the problem with moving to JRuby was in client libraries they were using, not JRuby itself.
My new 'about' page written in psudo-symbols
The Form I-9 is one example: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf
The Form W-4 is another. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4p.pdf

For employers enrolled in the E-Verify program having incorrect name data on the Form I-9 can start a process where an employee is flagged as possibly not being eligible to work in the US.
They show the right order-of-magnitude differences. Taking them more seriously than that is a mistake.