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Well, yes and no. For the sake of argument, let's accept that AirBnb is worth $1.3 billion dollars. I can only imagine that a large portion of that valuation is based on the potential upside that would come with becoming a consumer success and disrupting the hotel industry etc etc etc.

What portion of that valuation will disappear if the perception that AirBnb "isn't safe" takes hold? To make the math easier, let's guess 10% (although it's potentially 100%). 1.3 billion / 10 is 130 million dollars, which is probably much more than the value of the stuff in your house. All of which is a long way of saying that AirBnb is actually heavily incentivized to get this right.
It annoys me that the tech community always focuses on software patents, as if hardware ones are automatically more legitimate.

The original purpose of the patent system was to improve consumers lives by:

a) Incentivizing innovations that would not otherwise be profitable.

b) Incentivizing disclosure of invention details that would otherwise be kept secret.

These are a pretty rare combination of circumstances for most inventions, whether software or hardware. a) is demonstrably rare since patents are constantly infringed, yet Apple (for example) still somehow manages to get by. b) does not apply to any technology that is distributed, since anyone can take it apart and see how it works.

On the other side, patents of any type actively harm consumers:

a) Products from large companies are driven up in cost due to litigation.

b) Potential innovation from small companies is stifled by fear of litigation.

I'm sure there's some use for a patent system, but it is very small. The US would be a far better place with no patent system than with the one we have now.
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Dropbox is one of the few services I use that I would be seriously upset if I couldn't use again.
Wouldn't it be possible to do this with webdav ? RW+ permissions for you, R for world.
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I'm not exactly sure that you're ready to do the startup thing, with behavior like taking up an internship.
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My guess: It's not about "never raising a dime in this town again". It's about the bottomless pit of money and pain that is a defamation lawsuit.
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Game theory makes the mistake of assuming its the only variable. Another reason for clustering is the congregations of similar stores attract more business. Think of a shopping centre. Now take one of the clothes stores and stick it on a suburban street. It's generally going to do less well by itself because you have to know about it before you go - you have to decide to go to that shop, rather than just show up and see what's on offer, as it were.

Perhaps a better example: I'm about to go to Vietnam. Hoi An is "the city with all the tailors". Everyone says "spend a couple of days in Hoi An and get lots of clothes made up". Now, there are tailors all throughout Vietnam of course, but they cluster in Hoi An - and tourists specifically wait until they get there to purchase clothes.
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Wow,

This is a good information on a pretty sinister approach....

Essentially, ask someone bad question and see if they squirm. Now I understand...

Yes, I'll keep this is mind...
I've once or twice mused about building and selling an app that backs onto tarnsap. The service itself is fantastic, but it's not aimed at the mass market.
How come that comes up with a Content-Type: text/html header?
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I don't know if my attention span has gotten shorter or my willingness to dig for information has, but when I see announcements like this I immediately look for an overview video.

Gnome 3 used them to great effect. WordPress uses them with every release.

They are brilliant methods of summarizing, in minutes, why you should care about what this team has done.

I used to think screenshots were enough, but even now I'm annoyed enough at the time it takes to try and understand context in every screenshot to understand why some random popup/content-assist or hovering window is suppose to impress me (it probably WILL impress me, but I have to dig for context, which takes time).

I'm sure 4.7 has a slew of things in it that are drool worthy, but short of grinding through YouTube, I don't know what.
I have no time and intention to launch into a big discussion about scientific approach to mental states and their relation to the bodily ones. What I can tell for sure - describing and studying them scientifically in separation from other dynamic processes is deeply flawed approach.

You can, for example, find tons of studies about so-called 'attention window' or 'working memory span', but they didn't even mention that those characteristics could be dramatically reduced under stress or any other state of overload. There are a dozen variables on which it depends on, from the time of day to a noise level.

And, of course, calling Freudian works a hack is a little bit naive. Yes, you could call his Interpretation of dreams a hack, but he developed and extended a more general theory of mental dynamics, which, ironically, was known for aeons in the East.
Yeah. I think when you see three corners of a 4-way intersection with gas stations it obviously involves zoning as mentioned and traffic volume enough to sustain the three service stations. Where you have lots of volume in multiple directions, there is enough to sustain multiple stations --they in turn eliminate U-turns and crossing traffic in multi-lane roads/highways.

I don't often see consecutive stations on the same side of the highway/road --tho I do occasionally (19th ave in SF, for example).
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We don't have to ask ourselves. Apple products are cloned everyday, particularly in Asia. Yet Apple is still killing it, even in China. How can this be!?

It turns out it is hard to successfully clone Apple products. And even with a perfect clone, you still have to compete with their incredible brand and consumer loyalty.

Apple does not need our protection. Small businesses do. Unfortunately they are the real victim of the patent system.
Huh? Where do you see a sync XHR in there?
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Not only are 1) and 2) inconsistent, but rejecting a booking negatively impacts your search-rankings and they warn you loudly about it. I've certainly been in the situation where I wanted to decline a booking, but the search ranking penalty made me re-consider.
Those "privacy hurdles" are a bitch, right?
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With respect, your misconception on safety levels are not a fault of AirBnB. It's our trusting nature.

I've read lots of the discussions about this today, and I think I'm the first to post this:

http://www.airbnb.com/home/safety

It is no better or worse than Craigslist, as humans are involved. Some humans always screw things up for the rest of us.
Doing search is fairly easy.

Doing search well is extraordinarily hard, arbitrarily so depending on what approximation of "well" you're willing to accept. There are many factors which scale in computation very rapidly. The entire concept of meaning and relevance is also hard to reduce to a computational algorithm despite many valiant attempts to do so to a useful level.

That aside, if DDG doesn't work, changing search engines is unlikely to help much vs. trying a different query or consulting other humans. The world is not limited to Google. Google is just very large and entrenched to the point that it's hard to take on directly.
A well known Palo Alto law firm I talked to last year made this point abundantly clear in early discussions re engaging them. They wouldn't represent the founders, they would represent the company. Even in those early talks they mentioned there would sometimes be conflicts of interest where it would be best the founders seek their own legal advice.
Don't worry--God is just. If you don't think so, you are calling the Creator lazy. He doesn't like that and you might get shit just because, in that case.

God wants praise. If and only if you do that, then you can call on God and He will rescue you from distress. He hates complaining. Read Numbers 11.

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1. I'm not sure I understand how you're differentiating your approach. More in-person stuff, less online chatting? Why should someone switch?

2. "Real connection happens in person" is slightly hard for my brain to parse, because "connection" is abstract. "Real connections happen in person" is easier to parse (but might sound cheesy).
I know you were being glib here and not completely serious but I'm still going to respond to the general sentiment.

Every day we do take risks by stepping out the front door, however the communities we belong to institute safeguards to help mitigate these numerous risks. We hire police officers, firemen, and construct hospitals. Living in these communities is not free, we pay taxes to support this.

AirBnB is a virtual community that also collects taxes: 3% to be exact. However, they do nothing but mitigate the risks of funds transfer, and in other cases increase the risk by handcuffing attempts at vetting.

So, yes, while I do face these horrible possibilities every day I know that the communities I belong to are attempting to minimize them -- can you honestly say that about AirBnB's community?
Sugar coating email invite is lame. There was a time when I almost always saw google doing awesome things. Now it doesn't look any different from other big companies like microsoft or IBM. I wonder if it is possible to be a big company and still do really cool things?
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I can't stop thinking that this was a top-secret hit job by some shady character working for the hotel industry looking to derail AirBnB's next fund-raising round. Heck, if Nixon could do it, why couldn't The American Hotel & Lodging Association?

So my question to you is: am I quite paranoid or merely rather paranoid?
The trouble is, you can't remain anonymous. You just had a meeting with partner X. During that meeting, he kept getting up to go to the bathroom to do lines of coke. You write, "Met with X. He kept getting up to do coke. Avoid." Guess what? Now he knows who you are.
Reddit is a great community to get feedback and support from. I took a similar approach for a project I had in mind and the response was astounding. I made some mockups, posted them in the proper subreddit right before bed at 3AM, and woke up at 9AM expecting a small handful of comments, but instead was amazed that the number was closer to 70. Because of that thread, I've found a very talented partner for the project and we're getting close to launch date.

Here's the thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/i04lm/who_would_b...
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"Update: I spoke with Brian Chesky. He says the company has offered “to assist financially, find new housing for the host, and anything else she can think of to make her life easier.” He says they intend to “go above and beyond” to make the situation right for her. This is different than what a company spokesperson said earlier (see above). I asked Brian if this sets a new policy, and he responded that they’ll look at it on a case by case basis."

Basically what they mean by "case by case basis" is that if you cause enough of a media shitstorm to make them look bad, they'll step in and help. And they'll look at your case to determine if you are causing enough ruckus to validate them going "above and beyond."

At least, that's what I gleaned from it.
Personally I like being able to back up my entire home directory on a single instance of write-once media. A blu-ray disc holds at least 25GB.
It's not like Ebay where if you have a bad experience, your loss is stemmed to the material good you have given away

If you're going to play the rape-or-death card, then why not also say that an EBay package you receive could contain a bomb or anthrax spores?

Personally speaking, AirBnB always baffled me, even before this incident. I would never have given my home for others to use and would find it weird to use that of a strangers' when travelling, but that's just me.

Other people clearly find value in it.

I'm surprised that this incident would have left a bad taste in your mouth, in the same way that I'm surprised when people who store super-sensitive information in Dropbox find out that maybe its not a secure bank vault.
Saying that things are the hallmark of egos is a hallmark of egos.
Always retain your own counsel. Regardless of your equity position or if the business has counsel giving you advice.

If you have the ability to make material discussions ( vote yes or not ) this should be one rule you never break or even slightly bend for that matter.

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Furthermore, if you are under the impression that your employment / involvement with the company is to result in some form of equity compensation spend the $750 for an hour of a solid business / securities attorney's time to confirm this fact. These agreements are getting more complicated by the day.
Drugs still hurt people. DOSing a library doesn't. Obviously that depends on which drugs and how many, and maybe the laws are a little "one-size-fits-all" here.
I agree with you. I recently took a weekend vacation by the beach and did my very best to use AirBnB. The fact that email is the only way to communicate with the host made it really difficult for me to get a good feel for the place I was renting. I want to use AirBnB, I really do. But preventing me from typing my phone# in the text field really annoyed me. I don't think that renting a place is like buying an item on eBay where it is best that the seller and buyer not bypass the entire auction mechanism.

I don't mind at all if AirBnB gets a slice of my money and in fact I prefer to pay them than a random person. However, I want to talk to the host on the phone before I agree to anything. You can't express friendliness and warmth textually (or at least most people can't) but it is very easy to pick up on the tone over phone. In the end, I found a wonderful beach cottage via vrbo.com. If vrbo had a website like AirBnB, they would get my money every time. I understand the financial mechanism is very different on both sites but seriously, AirBnB, let me talk to potential hosts before I book anything - I will even pay a fee to become a premium-phone-enabled-renter.
No, Gmail is a fermion. Therefore it is impossible for a second fermion with identical properties to occupy the same quantum state as per the Pauli exclusion principle.

Sorry, physics humor. Real answer:

Drive space is very cheap today. It is not hard to offer several GB per user. Email as it is currently implemented only supports messages of about 10MB each at max, while typical messages are text-only or include only a few low-res images as attachments. For typical users, it is therefore not probable that they will ever accumulate data at a rate faster than is currently the case since it is a protocol limit. Historical trends have also shown that larger file transfers are simply routed to other methods, so it is unlikely that email will be overhauled simply to increase the per-message size limit.

Monetizing it as a free service in a way which is not onerous to users and convincing users that they should use your service versus a more well-known and established provider are the hard parts. Solve that, and you've got a good competitor. Don't solve that, and you've got a money sink.
Past that - maybe sys admin paranoid.
You're arguing against yourself here - GetAround obtained insurance even while being disruptive.

More to the point, neither GetAround or AirBnB are in any way deep into territory that insurance hasn't ventured before. Insuring against burglary/damage in rental properties happens all the time, just like for rental cars.

The only times when insurance is unattainable is when the risks highly outweigh the premiums (SEE: Flood insurance in the Mississippi Delta) or when there is no actuarial data available which is tough to come by at this point.

For the first point I'm going to say the parent is very correct in avoiding this type of un-insurable behavior. And as for the latter, you had better have deep, deep pockets because if you can't even convince an insurance company of the risk, are you sure you've thought it through?
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This jumped out at me:

...Microsoft's Windows Server... [is] the entrenched,
professional, high-end solution favored by big business.

And Linux [is] used by smaller and mid-sized businesses,
largely...

That seems exactly backwards in my experience.
Well, he's accused of hiding his face from surveillance cameras by holding his bike helmet up to his face and looking through the ventilation holes. You don't do that if you don't think it's a big deal, no?
At least at Amazon you are free to change projects after a year.

Any large tech company is probably so in need of coders that the idea of having to let one go because they were unhappy with what they were currently doing is repugnant.
It is just me, or does a 35 year old prison term sound CRAZY? Never mind the proposed monetary fine... the punishment just doesn't seem to fit the crime. It's outrageous.

To put things into perspective...

- Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment.

- Anders Breivik killed at least 76 people, and the maximum punishment under Norwegian law is 21 years (albeit with the option to extend it for 5 years each after that).

Who committed the bigger and more serious crime here??
One of the key things that Goldman has (as a hedge fund) is the ability to see what all their clients are doing.

If you have evidence of this, please notify the SEC so they can permanently shut down Goldman's brokerage operation and file criminal charges against the people involved.
I don't think you are even paranoid by thinking about this. It's certainly possible.

Not only to derail fund-raising, it's also a direct PR hit which can cause slowdowns in expansion and feature development.
The support you get from your ISP is quite good -- significantly better than what you get from any webmail provider.
The purpose is to prevent it being left in the hands of users. "Linkbait" is named as such for a reason.

It's just too tempting to not reflexively upvote a juicy title.
While your explanation is generally interesting, and while I'm also not claiming that game theory is the only (or even the primary) variable in this situation, I feel the need to point out that one does not go from gas station to gas station and find that they came home with 30 gallons of gas after an accidental "shopping spree" at the gas mall.
It does sound just too ridiculous. I mean it's one thing to find the safe and steal credit cards, but I find it more than a little odd that he burned a spare set of sheets in the fireplace.
> Due to the gravitational influence of other planets and the significant contribution of chaos to an asteroid’s orbit, it is impossible to accurately predict 2010 TK7’s behavior over more than a 250 year span, so it may not continue the cycle described above.

The erratic behavior might not make this as easy as it sounds.

See: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/27/wi...

> ...As soon as I heard about this, I wondered if it would make a good target for exploration; since it’s not moving much relative to Earth, it wouldn’t take much fuel to get there. Unfortunately, the Lissajous orbit of the asteroid takes it well above and below the Earth’s orbital plane (as shown in green in this not-to-scale diagram; click to odysseyenate), making a rendezvous difficult.
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35 years is the upper limit for wire fraud. Hopefully, that should only be used on people who cause serious privacy violations, national security leaks, massive data loss, etc.

Actually, if he's accused of wire fraud, his lawyers might get him off; as I don't think he did anything fraudulent. At what point did he misrepresent a fact, which was relied upon by the victim causing losses? He lied about his name, but that didn't cause the loss. He lied about his IP number, but I think he simply represented his IP number to be a "John Doe" - any other number than the one that was blocked; not the IP number of a privileged user. I would debate that nobody expects your IP number to remain constant under all circumstances anyway, unless you have a privileged IP which the admins have specifically greenlisted.

So how did his "lies" (dummy name, and maybe a dummy IP number) cause any losses?

And is changing your IP number to some other random IP (once or twice, not in an automated way) really misrepresenting a material fact?
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I can't tell for sure if it caused any damage, but it doesn't seem so. I did restart the TimeCapsule as suggested in the Apple Technote and it came up fine; I haven't investigated the issue more since though. I might dive into it again once I have a bit more time, perhaps there is a way to access some logs on the device?
That's exactly right, and they're also doing their job right to recommend the founders get their own separate counsel. I have seen some really surprising conflicts of interest arise between founders and investors and even between founders before the corporation exists to become the official client. Everyone wants to be awesome buddies and not think about the chance of not always getting along.
Sometimes it's better to be a cult than a mass organized religion.

Seriously, if you actually read the philosophy, it's extremely logical and sensible. I would expect it to resonate with most engineering-minded people. Basically it's just: be realistic about things, base decisions on logic and not emotion, demand high standards, strive to get better all the time. What's the problem? In most competitive disciplines -- e.g., pro sports -- people value harsh feedback so they can improve. Why isn't this the case in most American businesses?

Personally, I'd rather be a part of an organization like this than a part of a typical large firm, where there's constant politics, gossip, and rampant realization of the Peter Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle).

Dalio responds to a lot of similar criticism in a letter to Dealbreaker when his document was first leaked last year (http://dealbreaker.com/2010/05/ray-dalio-explains-his-princi...).