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> I think I remember reading (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that broadly generalized, microkernels have better security at the expense of performance, vice versa for macrokernels.

that's true, but the "security" is not really what we perceive in the post-google, massively distributed era.

microkernels made sense back when key to uptime was hot-swappable devices. e.g. if your nic goes awry due to a hardware problem, it can crash its driver. in case of a monolithic kernel, this would in turn crash the os, whereas with a microkernel, the rest of the system should continue humming just fine. this makes replacing the failed component possible without causing downtime by shutting down the single node the service runs on.

but nowadays, we know how to set up systems so that taking down an entire node (gasp!) won't harm the operation of the service as a whole. so i don't think microkernels are that relevant anymore.
Not sure if this was an Eddy Murphy imitation or that you mistake me for someone else?
Both Perl & Smalltalk provided lispy influences/features to Ruby. For eg. map & collect being same method (ie. aliases) - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html#M000249
Great idea, and the video is very very well done. The top rated guy seems very kind, considerate and hard working.. Made me really grin to browse around their site. Good luck!!
This was posted 500 (or more) days ago, and the discussion there is interesting. This is a genuine question as to whether people think the situation is better, worse, or nothing to worry about - everything's fine?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1165623
Just backslash-escape the internal right-paren.

(So do I ;\))
A photo op at a $10,000 check presentation would've short circuited all this shit anyway. AirBnB has blundered dramatically here. In no way have they handled this appropriately at any step.

edit: I say this even if the blog author is not representing the truth 100% accurately. A check and some photos of that check would've at least given people some positive news to latch onto. Instead we've just got her out here shooting AirBnB in the face.

This is the kind of story PR people put in slideshows at conferences and use to justify their existence to their boss. Absolutely classic public relations nightmare that has been handled in exactly the wrong way.
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Opera's killer features get copied sooner or later (sessions, DOM cache, speed dial, undo close tab, etc.) And what is a killer depends what you care about…

• It's very good if you prefer using keyboard navigation (spatial navigation is a killer not copied anywhere yet)

• Mouse Gestures are still best implemented in Opera IMHO, although Apple's trackpad gestures make that less of a killer feature these days.

• (Fast)Forward button finds and "clicks" on links with labels like "Next page" which makes paged navigation easy.

• Opera handles lots of tabs in a session very well. I often leave tabs open instead of bookmarking pages :)

• The built-in mail client is a killer for me – has "GMail-like" filters (predating GMail), very good threading, 1-key shortcuts and differentiates between "seen" and "read".
If you just crossed tracks with a criminal known for killing, then raping and torturing their victims. Then YES, you should be very happy that you avoided more terrible things. I thought this was common wisdom among people, but perhaps it is not shared by everyone.

EDIT: Look at the bright side of things.
I would propose that being a landlord, and hosting on AirBNB have the potential to be quite different things. My father is a landlord, he shares similar stories of disaster. He also rents out in a low-income, remote area.

My AirBNB offering is near Boston, where 85% of my visitors are traveling here as tourists from far away. I keep my nightly price reasonable, but on the higher end. I ask plenty of questions about the visiting party, where they're coming from, what they do for work, what they plan to do while here, and I require a photo.

If I receive any questionable answers, they delay in providing the information, or just anything seems off, I call it off with that prospect.

I've hosted well over 100 people in the last 18 months for over 100 nights. With the exception of one of my first guests, I don't believe any of the people who have stayed with us are the kind of people that would cause damage, much less any trouble.
Edit: bring on the downvotes! That's right, downvote a difference of opinion, and forget about logical or reasoned counterargument. Next time the internet lynch mob will come for your startup; hope that someone takes your side when they do.

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Don't you think the CEO has to worry about the people he's paying? Who knows what their burn rate is; that funding could have been a life or death event, and in the event of death then a bunch more unemployed people would be hitting the streets.

And that wouldn't help anyone, least of all this woman.

AirBnB reported this to the police. They said they had someone in custody. What more do you want them to do? Go after them like Dirty Harry?

Dollars to donuts this woman is planning a lawsuit and looking for a payday. Not against the drug addicts who trashed her apartment, but against AirBnB. She rents out a room to people she's never met in person and then acts surprised when sometimes it goes wrong.

It's depressing to see the mob mentality here on Hacker News, and the extent to which Arrington delights in playing the organ grinder.

A pedestrian is hit by a DUI driver, does he sue or blame Honda? No? So why all the hate on AirBnB when it was a bunch of drug addicts who committed the crime? Sell them into old school bondage and send the income to her, by all means, but let's be real: it was the criminals' fault first, her fault second, and AirBnB in a distant third.
Nice in theory, but with so much content these days being dynamic I can't see offsite caching relying on Google's crawlers serving you quickly being all that attractive. The article mentions using them as a CDN, which could make sense. I'd like to see their proposed use cases before making any judgements one way or 'tother.
AJAX will be the lowest layer. Think of it as the database calls in an ORM like activerecord. You have an object, you do some validations or perform some logic and when you want to persist it on the server, you make an ajax call. In backbone you will call save on the model and it will do a POST or PUT request based on whether this is a new or already existing model.
You're right.

But what you're missing is, it's not rash to be extremely upset in this situation. A woman's house was destroyed. Airbnb's response was to worry primarily about how she might impact their funding.

Personally, I don't want to live in that kind of world.
Seriously, I think its time for patents to go, do you agree?
The question is simple, are software patents killing innovation? Do we need them to maintain healthy competition or should we get rid of them to help innovation.

This is something I have been wondering for a while now. Have read many arguments and counter arguments. Nothing conclusive. So, what do you guys think? Should they stay or go?
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How do you do #1? The card you get with many bank check accounts is a bank card, is a debit card, and will auth through your payment gateway as a credit card just fine. AFAIK, you don't know what backs the number someone just gave your web form, only whether your auth/capture on it worked or not. Would they need to require a faxed copy of the card?
Non possiamo utilizzare una GUI per scegliere chi fare entrare nei nostri spazi.
E' necessario utilizzare il 'sentire' l'altro per capire prima se ci possiamo fidare o se possiamo condividere un progetto.
Poi i software, le GUI, ecc... aiutano a coordinare i progetti e gli appuntamenti.

Mi spiace molto per te. Avendo difficoltà con l'inglese temevo che fosse successo qualcosa anche a animali o persone, ma credo di aver capito che se la siano presa solo con le cose materiali.

Spero che tu riesca a mettere in discussione solo i meccanismi tecnici e non la tua visione dell'umanità.
I've owned 2 different iPod Touches over the past 2-3 years, and I've owned an Android phone for a year and a half. I've bought apps for both platforms.

The plural of anecdote is not data. There are apps worth paying for on Android. But for whatever reason -- maybe it's quality, maybe it's customer sentiment -- iOS users tend to spend more money in the App Store than Android users spend in the Market.
Would this be a good MVC framework for Javascript: http://javascriptmvc.com/ ?
Blocked by a registration wall, unless there's a popular hack around this that I don't know about.
So, given that the woman in question has not crossed tracks with someone known for raping, why should she be happy that she hasn't been raped.

Honestly, at this point, why not just admit you're not a particularly empathic person, and other people's problems don't bother you. That would at least be better than this rather facile attempt at backing up an untenable position.
Client-Side MVC isn't that widespread yet, so I'm not sure you could speak of a "common implementation" per se.

But models are generally just objects. They know how to handle and manage data. Nothing spectacularly complex.

As far as saving state goes there are different ways of doing it, the vanilla way backbone uses however seems to simply be making REST requests to the server.
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Paid-for version had mail client too. v6 even had ICQ client.

Since then Opera has been hiding these features, but they're not separating them, as they have no noticeable impact and the codebase as a whole is still smaller than less featured competitors'.
Brilliant! ... and unlisted :) ... not bad Microsoft!

OT: Hey vladd, you did not receive your C&D from Apple yet? (We did, for our App Store)
One code review session is equivalent to 100 debugging sessions, so your statement that [Correctness should be verified by tests not 'looking at the code'] is very misleading.
I have considered Waterloo, but it's far too expensive for me to attend, unfortunately.
The founders should have taken advice from one of their older advisors before proceeding further.
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The same way a hotel does it. Pre-approve a deposit on a credit card or actually remove a deposit on a debit card.
sympy would be another alternative--it's light, it's python, but has a web interface and has a very active community.
I think you're missing the point--the CEO asked the victim to take down her blog because it was bad press. If you were considering funding the company, wouldn't you want to know about potential issues?
I would be bothered and I believe I addressed that. But it's like I said. She is now "passing along" the same torment that the perpetrator inflicted upon her onto Airbnb.

Setting the record straight is one thing and she has every right to do that.

EDIT: Being the little guy is tough and I empathize with that, and I also empathize with the fact that she had something very bad happened to her apartment in by proxy herself whether or not I explicitly stated it above doesnt really freaking matter. I did not show any empathy in my original post because I was trying my best to show an objective counterpoint.

I didn't really speak anything to what she is going through other than, in so many words, offering that she toughen up a bit. I've been in a bad place or two myself and I could have used that advice at that time in my life, to focus on what is still good and move forward, rather than trying to inflict pain on another.

EDIT: downvotes for trying to explain myself diligently for you guys, thanks...
Yes. It is a popular one. You should also look at http://knockoutjs.com/ and http://maccman.github.com/spine/
I would add insurance to this list.
Another Fellow here. Andrew's totally normal.
Putting aside the questions of blame, and the eventual intent of the individual. Putting aside the question of culpability, and whether anyone acted inappropriately.

Thinking about this entirely from the perspective of AirBnB. Doing what a company is supposed to do, by law, and considering only the shareholders.

Given what they've done, do you think it's the best thing to have done to give the company the best chance of long-term survival?

I don't.

Leaving out the morals and the ethics, assuming we only care about the company's survival, this issue has to be dealt with in an open, transparent, and above all seen by all to be fair manner.

Providing for the short term care of this customer is vital. Whether it's right or wrong, ethical or moral, if they don't do it, people will say "That might have been me."

Above all else, that will kill AirBnB, and they are seeming to do nothing about it.

Leaving aside the moral and ethical considerations, working only according to the game theoretic standard of doing right by the company, what they are doing is clearly not in the best interests of the company.

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ADDED IN EDIT: From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Please don't bait other users by
inviting them to downmod you.

FWIW - I didn't down-vote you. I think you're wrong, and I don't think you've thought it through enough, but I didn't down-vote you. I took the time to reply because I think your view is common enough, and you had the courage to say it out loud.

But as I say, the current actions (as we understand them to be) are not in the best interests of the company or its employees - really, they're not.
What more do you want them to do?

Well, for starters: company officers shouldn't be using weasel words to try and take credit for things they haven't actually done.
Related :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2497037
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240081

...and since searchyc is now dead (RIP), there is this :
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I'm not really following USA political market that closely, but is there any investor, politician or economist who has even a slightest doubt that the ceiling will be raised? Or am I too naive?
I really like that you included minimizing overspecialization. Academics is getting so hyper-compartmentalized that overspecialization is not only ignored in most disciplines, but it's even encouraged in many (computer science included). That's one of the reasons I'm starting to rethink my longstanding plans of going to grad school after finishing college next year. People who focus all of their waking lives on one thing will tend to get more attention for how quickly they progress in it than the rest of us, but that's not really good for that much beyond press coverage or your name in a record book. Truly revolutionary accomplishments require much more than an uncanny dedication to memorizing algorithms or chemical names, but those are precisely the sort of traits that will move you quickly through formal education (or get you that coveted expert status from the 10,000-hour rule). Though I certainly won't bash someone with three college degrees by 16, especially without knowing more about them personally, even Andrew Hsu shows evidence of that, with all of the degrees being in biochem-related fields. I strongly suspect that the next discovery that completely alters our paradigms of thought and/or creates a new field of study will come from someone with a broader background, who can synthesize expertise from many fields into insights that everyone else overlooks.
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From a comment on an earlier post by Brian Chesky:

We've created a marketplace built on trust, transparency and authenticity within our community, and we hold the safety of our community members as our highest priority.

I'm really not sure how he can reconcile that comment with the actions described in this post.
Which incident are you referring to?
Not to mention going against the "USPTO cash cow" in which the U.S. government has a vested interest: http://www.osnews.com/story/24987/Microsoft_s_Android_Shaked...
Doesn't exist yet -- but I'd love to start a HN meetup in Umea, Sweden. I've added details to the spreadsheet. Ping me if you're interested.
After studying backbone and other such Javascript MVC frameworks, I realized that they are not necessary.

JS has a wonderful MVC architecture built-in. all JS objects are models by defaults, all views (HTML elements) are models too, and JQuery has a lot of helper functions to simplify events.

These frameworks give you a good idea of how to organize your code better and help you standardize implementation, but if you know what you are doing, you can do it anyways.

Edit: typo
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Obama has said he won't raise it on his own, even though he can legally do so. I don't believe him. I think if we got to that point, he'd just do it.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who think it won't be raised, but are they sane? I don't know.
Well, ok. While being entirely rational, let's also think about a related angle. The woman is out quite some money. She wants it back. The most coldbloodedly rational act on her part would have been to wait till they closed the round and then sue. Which, if you read her post carefully, is almost certainly what will happen in terms of timeline.

A billion dollar co is a real juicy target, much more so than the actual bad guys.
"are willing to do whatever is necessary to make it go away."

I think you're right. But seriously, while it's not his job to be her counselor it's also pretty bad he tried to roll her. I'm sure he's charmed many people but good for her to call him out on this. He'd have been better off letting the CS reps handle it.
The 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button just redirects you to the top result doesn't it?
I'm afraid you are naive.

This is not a lone idiot in an otherwise sane industry. People like this can thrive and remain blissfully ignorant because the entire ecosystem around them is incompetent, from senior executive to junior trainee.

In our industry, entire companies operate in complete isolation, basing their practices on the knowledge of their most "senior" engineer who was there at the beginning, however clueless that engineer might be. Companies like this can continue to operate successfully for many years, moving from one client to the other, and you will find them in any niche of the software industry, including startups.
Ask HN: can dictation software work from the caller's side?
I don't want my laptop or mobile to just dictate/type down what I say, but instead what the caller on the other end of the line says. Why doesn't Google or Nuance enable that functionality? Is it even possible?
Some people excel.... on well... giving good interviews.

Back then, I used to believe that people know what they are doing, but since I've lived long enough know, maybe not.

You gotta be careful, people like that will come to personality attack when push come to shove. When facts are against them, it is now time to yell.
How can you call something logic-less and then immediately proceed to discuss conditionals? True/False is logic.

http://slim-lang.com/logic-less.html

I'm a big fan of logic-less templating systems, I've used logic-less templating systems, I've written a logic-less templating system and this is no logic-less templating system. It does a nice job of making the logic seem less obtrusive, but it is not without logic.
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Of course he sometimes lies.. duh!
Of course he will say whatever they believe will maximize profit. Often this means telling the truth (kind of), sometimes not.

But I agree the article is underwhelming. I wish someone would compile a list of the best lies Apple (and other companies) have told the last decade.. would be entertaining.
tl;dr: Devil's Advocate.

This is not going to be very popular, but I'm just going to go on the record and say that this whole story may be a hoax.

And I highlight "maybe". What we have here are two blog posts from someone we know nothing about who epitomizes a concentration of fears (woman, home, identity, violation) and manages, in two blog posts over the past seven months to bring about a PR nightmare for AirBnB. Is Chesky and idiot and/or sociopath? Probably not, and this could be some crappy CYA on AirBnB's behalf, but the second blog post in response to Chesky's On Safety release does nothing but reinforce and add onto the imagined fetal-curling fears the author expressed in her first post, but also systematically tries to disprove any actions mentioned by Chesky while simultaneously smearing unnamed AirBnB reps.

Two blog posts over seven months. Talented writer with no writing history able to communicate and project emotions and elicit visceral responses from complete strangers.

Am I the only one whose bullshit alarm is going off?

Disclaimer: I have no connection to YC, pg, AirBnB, Chesky, Starwood Hotels nor have I participated in AirBnB's program or any similar crashpad/couchsurfing/hosteling schemes.