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Your first paragraph is incorrect. Ideas are not property, except through "intellectual property" law. There's a similar but separate issue - you wouldn't have the right to sell someone else's work and claim it as your own - this would be misleading and deceptive trade.

There have to be mechanisms where by innovators are
paid for innovating

There are already. I build software because it helps my company function in a way that allows them to make money.

Innovation would still happen, but not the really
expensive, inherently non-protectable kind.

It totally would. Further, you need to consider the opportunity cost we suffer at the moment: the things we're stifling in the name of protecting operations that dependend on the government crimping everyone else's rights for their gain.

Ironically, the freedom zones these days are often in third world countries that turn a blind eye to indiscresions by the sort of smart foreigners they want to attract - the likes of China and Indochina. Those countries don't care if you're breaking copyright or patents, and probably won't act to retrict your personal liberty much either so long as you're helping them towards their economic goals.

A fallen city like Detroit or Buffalo could look to give themselves edge by making themselves into a freedom zone - seeking to get an exemption from the laws as a reserach exercise.

Of you could do one in Mexico or Canada, and try to benefit to proximity to the labour you want to attract.

Update: I've been looking at maps. That region of southern Canada around Detroit, London and Buffalo is screaming out for someone to put in a special economic zone. It's surrounded by rustbelt, has amazing infrastructure, good connectivity to the east coast and Toronto. English speaking, cheap labour, good infrastructure, connectivity.
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ooh nice one!

Hope you don't mind me using that mockup for one of my own experiments :)
That is a false claim. Your logic is faulty.
OK, it might have been an objectively bad response (economists will probably argue for decades on this, and still not agree), but it's still a pretty good excuse. Just like 9/11 can be used to excuse Bush's military spending (or at least, some of it).

Both are black swan events. The real damage is done by things like tax cuts, structural spending increases, and social security, as they are much more structural.
I guess it depends on the specific architecture, if you use something like Mongrel2 messaging is used for everything, even for routing HTTP requests and responses to the processes/servers that handle it.

Also, hasn't it always been the case that a lot of web applications communicate with the database directly to fetch information? What's so "web 2.0" about that?

The major thing that changed with AJAX/Comet and Websockets and such is that the javascript running on the end user's browser can now be regarded as an endpoint for message-passing. This increases the amount of messaging, doesn't it? In so far that relying on just polling a database is no longer good practice in our "realtime notificiation" world...
To be fair I doubt the victim would be comfortable receiving airbnb credit or using the service again. If this happened to me and I was offered credit, I would feel insulted.
Surely he did though. At some point he (roughly) had to add up the weight of the building and make sure the supports were thick enough to bear it. It's just too basic to talk about.
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Does AirBnB offer any help with insurance? I know my home & contents insurance wouldn't cover any of this: I'd need to get (expensive) commerical insurance or some sort, and I'm guessing most AirBnB hosts don't have that.

The idea of renting out my place with no recourse to insurance if it is destroyed is far too insane to contemplate for me.
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Trust me, be it AirBnB or FairBnB, just never hand over your home keys to a stranger - a stranger to "you". Make it a thumb rule.

PS. sad to hear the loss and trauma BTW.
http://forargyll.com/ is a brilliant example of this--they were originally a group set up to launch a community radio station for a remote part of Scotland. This was unsuccessful for a variety of (mainly technical) reasons, so they turned to the web instead.

Now they produce a daily-updated, hyper-local blog covering a huge, sparsely populated area. It's full of pics of local people, debate on local issues and news not covered elsewhere. (People will buy a paper, or read a blog, if you print a picture of someone they know. Why do you think local papers print pages and pages of kids who are starting school every September?)

This is an area that didn't have a local press to speak of before. There was one weekly local newspaper, but nothing on this scale enabling people who might be 50 or 100 miles apart discuss shared issues instantly.
Then all my code is OK by default, thanks :)
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A victim host might be violating the terms of the lease by subletting their apartment, or could be violating local zoning or hotel permitting laws.
Thanks for your reply. I've seen many of the problems you mention in the UK too (except for 3 which is totally evil).

I'm surprised the US doesn't have a charity offering a similar service to what we do in the UK; over here debt advice is a regulated industry and registered advisers work for a wide range of organisations - charities, local authorities etc. A friend of mine even interviewed recently for an gardening club that wanted to hire a debt adviser to help it's members.

With respect to (2) you are totally right. If you phone your bank asking to reduce the size of your payments they will jump at the chance to do it. The reason is simple - reducing payment amounts increases the lifetime of the loan and therefore increases your overall amount of debt.
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Obviously there are a huge amount of scams out there that purport to offer this service but I think it's a little hyperbolic. However this service appears to offer this functionality, as well as making every webpage a chat-room (supposedly).
The 50% capacity figure is from their own website, but I still suspect it to be too generous.

My reason for assuming that the "200" is not the electrical net output is that they write "MW", not "MWe". I have become quite cynical about the numbers on nameplates; they simply stick the biggest number on the thing that somehow appears in the calculation. Maybe I am wrong, and that is actually the peak electrical output.

However, that peak is only reached at noon in june. So, perhaps the actual yearly average output is 80 MW. Perhaps it is even 100 MW. It is still a big toy, and an expensive one at that.
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I suspect home owner's insurance would not cover this since they would probably see it as an unlicensed rental. I've thought for a while that Airbnb will need to develop an insurance system. I'm sure that lesser incidents of property destruction / theft are far more commonplace (carpet stains, cigarette burns, appliances damaged, "borrowing" something that doesn't get returned) and I've thought dealing with such is going to be eventually crucial to making the model sustainable over time.

And then, of course, there are going to be rare catastrophes like this one -- or worse. Eventually, if the system gets large enough, there will be a sexual assault case. I wonder if Airbnb has pre-baked disaster scenario plans. Eventually they'll have to deal with the emotional, PR, legal and political fallout.

It's still one of the things that keeps me queasy about listing my extra bedroom. I'd guesstimate the replacement value of the contents of my apartment is circa $50k and I'm loathe to gamble with such.
I think it has little to do with unemployment on the long term. Humanity has been "automating" jobs since the invention of the steam machine. Some might say even further: since the invention of the horse and carriage, since the invention of the wheel.

If you look at the amount of automation we've got going on compared to 50 years ago, 10% unemployment is surprisingly low. Apparently, our skill in automation is only surpassed by our skill in finding new problems.
subscriber revenue only accounts for 15-25% of total revenues

Ah, that's incredible, I didn't know that. I think it's really easy to connect the dots here. Since news is a commodity and global distribution is cheap, journalism becomes a business of extremes, much like books and startups. A tiny percentage of journalists who are really good at writing will be in huge demand, while the overwhelming majority will barely be able to sell anything. If you couple that with downward pressure on advertising prices, local papers cannot be "saved" - there's just not enough revenue for them in the market to sustain them at all. I don't think the total market size is shrinking, just that small newspapers can't effectively compete.

That means a few big brands will emerge and take the lion's share of the revenue. Or perhaps even one brand that will take everything, "the facebook (or paypal) of news". It was supposed to be Digg, but I guess not...
I (novice) got confused a little, because first I thought you really were into the middleware thing and are sad about web2.0 killing your star. But the article seems to say that middle ware these days is probably not a good solution and also shouldn't be. So, which one is true now?
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Is no one else struck by the peculiar behavior of the tenants?

Scattering bleach powder across the apartment and taking the time to hang up strange photos seems a bit too erratic to me.

I wonder if the renter has serious mental issues or if this was part of some intelligent plan (i.e. hired by couchsurfing).

This is PURE speculation, don't cite this post as anything else.
Grand theft auto of a car that's parked illegally is still grand theft auto. Ie. that renting the place out is in violation of zoning laws does not make any difference to what crime the guest commits.

The bigger problem is insurance, which, as others point out, probably does not cover.
I assumed the drug addict thing too, but to me (although I have limited experience with people on drugs) the fact that they took the time to communicate that "everything was okay" to the host (and had the money to pay for all this (although I guess $500 upfront if they're going to steal $2,000 worth of stuff is an "investment" (I guessed at those $ figures))) makes me think it's something more sinister. They'd have to be pretty eccentric even for drug addicts to go to these lengths.
This is particularly ironic given the premise of your startup is there are some things you don't have time to do that others can do for you.
Yeah, maybe Web 1.0 killed the middleware star and Web 2.0 is bringing it back.
one word explains all of this: methamphetamine. (and I say this as someone who believes in drug decriminalization or legalization)
Nope I live in the real world where software patents don't exist ;) I won't vote however as it will skew your results.

I deal with web, mostly glorified CRUD, on an MS stack. I seriously doubt Im infringing on anything from my own work, I might be good... but I'm not that good :P

Where I have in the stack I'll use MS as a buffer, its amongst the reasons why I choose to go with them. Support, community, my own history amongst others.
Go for it. I'd love to know if it works out for you.
I am pretty excited about windows phone Mango. Definitely going to buy this!
But you really should not strive for this. You will most likely become an expert in some thing anyways, but it usually makes people bad programmers, because they stick to stuff, simply because they know a lot about it. For example it's a very bad thing to know just one programming language and to know just one paradigm. It also causes you to always use old stuff. I guess it's one of the main reasons for everything using C, Java, XML even if there are things they'd actually prefer if they use about them. Same for servers, like Apache, the MySQL or relational databases in general.

You won't learn anything anyway, but I have been disturbed when I realized how foolish it was to stick to things, because I knew how to use them. Learning other things usually means that you gain a new perspective making you better overall, even when it comes to stuff you already knew a lot about.

The problem is also that it hinders you to even know about stuff you'd probably be very good at. IMO that's the biggest problems with this suggestion. Sometimes the thing that what looks hard and complicated to you becomes the thing you can't live without and eventually become an expert in. Maybe the 'sometimes' could even be replaced with 'often'.
The title invokes quite a picture - Lucas' stormtroopers getting defeated in a fierce battle with the Supreme Court as scenery.
So how could he stop playing the game? Simply give up on raising the debt ceiling?

That doesn't seem like it would give a good outcome.
(in the UK) Had the artist been based in the US, he'd be paying legal debts and a settlement fee the rest of his life and maybe serve time.
It is absurd, but I think it's also common sense. I think it's a good assumption that airport security is not going to be that technically knowledgeable.

I wouldn't touch the topic of Bitcoin with a 10 foot pole around strangers, let alone people with the authority to deport me. I still can't explain it to my friends in a way without making it sound suspicious.
"And if we’re going to use a persistent store, why add a layer of complexity (and cost) to the architecture when Web 2.0 has shown us it is not only viable but inherently more scalable to go directly to that source?"

Well, there's a reason everyone and their mom is using memcached: Going directly to the db does not always scale that well ..
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I don't consider myself to be a fan of that kind of music, but I always enjoy the Humble Indie Bundle ad. It's so awesome. :-)
I don't know... you could look it as a data visualization post (and not a very good one, even for the point they are trying to make).
yes there are a few vendors that make an app engine plug-in. I am not sure if Google puts out an official plug-in for Netbeans though. I use a Andrioid Developer Kit on Netbeans that is packaged by a third party and it is as well put together as the Eclipse one.
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I don't think these newspapers realize that it makes the reader feel like he's associating with such scummy people. If you read the NY Post online, it seems like all the comments are from the worst kind of racists. Not a place I want to hang out.
> I don't think someone that leaves their house to strangers while they go out of town for a week is quite as innocent as a rape victim that was targeted for lack of modesty.

Actually the evidence is the other way: women who wear modest clothing are more likely to get raped than those who wear sexy clothing. This is because rapists see modest clothing as a sign of submissiveness and are more likely to assault women they see as submissive. http://clubtroppo.com.au/2011/05/17/does-provocative-clothin...
I always thought that AirBNB seems like a great way for unscrupulous addicts (Heroin etc) to get lots of things and leave.
I'm generally for (soft) drug decriminalization, too, but I don't have much experience with meth heads :)

Would someone upped on meth be able to conduct himself well via email, sending polite thank-you's?
Have you considered doing more to confirm the identity of someone?
This could resolved if airbnb insisted on a refundable deposit of $500-$1000 per visit.
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Hi, thanks for your reply. It's good to know you're trying to provide a comprehensive service.

I'm still pretty sceptical however because I think you will encounter a lot of cases that are difficult to diagnose just by looking at a persons data.

For example, the first ever case I dealt with was an autistic lady who had been scammed into buying broadband when she didn't have a computer. She only understood that she had signed up to the service when she started getting debt collection letters for not paying the bill. If I hadn't met her in person and only seen her data I probably would have just set up a repayment plan instead of writing to the ISP and challenging her liability for the debt which is what I actually did.

You'd be surprised how many odd cases like this pop up.
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Wow, these shitbags need to get help.
This reminds me of the Japanese business word "Ho-Ren-Sou", which stands for houkoku (report), renraku (contact, communicate), and soudan (consult, get feedback).

It also means "spinach", so it is easy to remember ;)
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Thanks to SETUP the event is open to all free of charge, but you do need to register, so we have an indication of the amount of people interested.

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Work is definitely not allowed under the VWP, only "tourism and business": http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#...

Maybe a trip when you work on behalf on a foreign employer counts as "business".
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Interesting, I thought that was exactly what you were talking about :)

I learned about it in numerical analysis. It illustrates the downside of trying to be too precise--you can make a polynomial that will go through an arbitrary number of data points.

As the number of points increases, your function will look less like a line and more like a magnitude 9 earthquake on a seismograph. The function will pass through all the points used to define it. However, it'll be useless when predicting the original data's behavior, as it changes too quickly on small input.

Instead, mathematicians find more useful functions by relaxing the conditions so that the model function only has to come 'near' the data points.
Well, without a Blu-ray drive (or a TV to watch movies with a regular Blu-ray player) and a deep-seated loathing of streaming, that leaves me up shit creek with piracy as the only option when it comes to watching HD movies. Maybe I'll just stick to DVDs.
You are a model railroader and software engineer who vehemently defends his identity as a hacker, and you own three unread copies of Hackers?

s/will wish I had done it years ago when I/should/
I've seen a few decent attempts at this. Particularly the Guardian [1].

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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some more context from http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/steve-jobs-calls-blu-ray-...

"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace."

I wouldn't take that as apple never supporting blu-ray. Although given the quote is three years old, I wouldn't say it's likely either.
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Weird. I still see lots of ads for "alternatives to adsense" and similar things whenever I open up Gmail.

I get them almost every day for some reason
I just want to note that if you use friendly timestamps ("posted 3 hours ago"), you take a big responsibility of having them _always_ be correct in any situation and automatically update without reloading the page, etc. They also need to index to Google properly, in a non-friendly format.
Additionally he has said that Google is proud of their zero-tolerance policy

Seriously? Does anybody think this is OK? If there was a crime, shouldn't it be the legal system that dealt with it, rather than some corporate entity, like Google?

This sounds awfully lot like a witch hunt to me. The least they could have done was inform that they had handed the case over to legal authorities.
So essentially - it's never a victim's fault, but it does make sense to protect oneself.
Same here. I'd be more than willing to use the service as a customer, but as a host? Never. If you're a customer the worst of the worst than can happen is you lose the rental fee and have to find a hotel. As a host, the worst that can happen is this.
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How do you manage your contacts?
As my business starts to build up I'm finding it more difficult to keep track of everyone. I have people I talk to primarily over the phone, some email only correspondence, others via linkedin or another network. What recommendations do you guys have for managing contacts?
Well, ignoring the atypical nature of the HN crowd: most people, really. According to the BBC [1] the average (non-startup founding...) person spends 28 hours watching TV per week. That's plenty of time to do play games.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12651728
I wonder if the hotel chains would hire goons to do this.
> There´s no reason for example to leave valuables anywhere in the residence while strangers are there.

So you're saying AirBnB should advocate against rentals while you're away?

Or are you saying, if you want to rent while you're gone for a week, that you should get a week's worth of self-storage (which I've never heard of, but might exist in a city), move all your important belongings to the self-storage unit, and move them back after the guest is gone? That seems quite onerous.