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From someone who had building burn down: back up to offsite locations, ideally off-state, ideally off-continent, over the Internet, and CHECK YOUR RESTORE PROCEDURE PERIODICALLY. A wifi backup to a time capsule hidden up in the rafters (digital rat line!) isn't going to help you if crackheads break in...and then burn your place down with an errant crackpipe.

(also, envy on the car journalism; being an equipment reviewer for stuff you really love, like cars, guns, scuba gear, computer gear, headphones, etc., would be a really fun paid hobby)
Well, this was timely.
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Remind me not to rent in your neighborhood ;-)
I haven't use AirBnB before, but I do use CouchSurfing a lot. CouchSurfing's system of verification, vouching and references makes a big difference to how much you feel you can trust someone who asks to use your home. I do still sometimes accept guests with no references, particularly if it's a last minute, but I check their IDs first, and only give them limited access to my home.
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It's yet another tragedy of the commons. As AirBNB becomes more popular I expect this is going to happen more often. Unfortunately I think this is only going to have to happen a few more times before people start to seriously question the wisdom of inviting a relative stranger into their homes.
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RSS feeds for individual stories. (The feed would notify me of any new comments on the story.)

Better yet, RSS feeds for every item, story or comment.
No links. Just first hand stories from people I trust.
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If you had cut out the "Admittedly I stopped reading the article when I got to" part of your comment, you probably wouldn't have been downvoted. I think the general perception is that it's difficult to add to the discussion of an article if you didn't even bother to read that article, especially when your comment merely echoed the article.
Always bound to happen. Up next, the host who fits spycams in his shower and posts pics of his naked visitors to porn sites.
> Then it sounds like the Feds already had all their
> stuff in place to collect the data while the attacks
> were happening.

[citation needed]

My read says that PayPal had some sort of network monitoring system in place which allowed them to capture data during the attack. They then handed this information over to the Feds.
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Sorry for you.But,this post has brought to light some serious loopholes with Airbnb. Now its up to them to come up with a fix for these kind of issues not to repeat. Probably they need to do some background checks,referrals,FB connections,SSNs etc. Its a lesson for any host also to ensure that they keep their personal things safe before renting it out.
Not really. Often copies or stolen birth certificates, SS cards, and passports are sold to forgers that can use them to make fake passports and identities. So it isn't to necessarily impersonate you (although it can be used for that).

You can get a new SS number, and you can get a new passport which makes the old ones null - but as far as a birth certificate goes - I'm not too privy on the security features of those documents. I do know though that they are rarely used to impersonate and more often used as forgery material.

(please correct me if I'm wrong)
Geez, why did they even bother? I mean it's plain as day that they know what they're doing. These guys are credible technologists who sold their souls to the devil. It's one thing for some business guy looking for a quick buck to become a patent troll, but it sickens me to my very core to even think about Myhrvold and Detkin and what they are knowingly doing to the industry. Even with all the double-talk, Detkin was still acquiescing in the interview about where "most" of their money comes from. The astonishing thing is how they can't even produce a single example of an inventor whom they helped or a product that was brought to market as a result of their "research".

Man if ever I wanted to believe in Hell, these guys are the ones to inspire me.
If there were links, wouldn't that disprove his point?
Um, this is incorrect. Hotels are vandalized all the time... having a "reception-like place from where you can monitor the situation", and "inspect[ing] the place when they leave" doesn't prevent people from trashing your room/apt.

It sounds like the person who trashed the OP's apartment /enjoyed/ trashing it -- it didn't sound like someone inconsiderate, or in a hurry; it sounded like someone who deliberately and knowingly ruined the place. The security measures you suggest won't stop that sort of attacker.
It's not the Dyno cost that will hurt, the database cost is the one where you will end up paying for an intensive site generally.
I would not say that he had to do that, or that it was a particularly good idea.
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The article's pretty short on analyzing what game best models the current debates. My vote would be for the ultimatum game, but that ignores the element of time in their decisions. Time is a huge factor in this game, so it probably isn't even that great of a model.

Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_in_game_theory
AirBnB's policy of "disallowing the exchange of personal contact information until the point in which a reservation is already confirmed and paid for" seems like it makes this kind of story inevitable.
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My father got his break in a similar way.

He had been working in steel mills for all of his teens, and after high school went into the Marines. After getting out of the marines, he went to get a job at GM on the assembly line.

He was well dressed and presented an air of confidence (thanks to the Marines), and so the receptionist assumed he was there for a managerial position instead of an assembly line position, and gave him the managerial application form.

He got the job, learned management and then moved on to other companies as a manager before finally starting his own company.

One chance is all you need to prove your worth.
1. Sounds like a fairly thorough email screening happened

2. Locked closet
This sort of thing is bound to happen when you have helped over 1 million stays between two people who are usually strangers. I think what's more impressive is how long it took for something this big and this public to happen. Human beings act in strange ways and you take a risk anytime you interact with one. I feel awful that this happened to this woman but I don't think it means Airbnb has a flawed business model or needs to dramatically change the way they sign up users.
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Yeah, offsite is the way to go, I think. We're due to get fibre broadband here in December, and that's when the whole lot will go up to S3 monthly if not weekly.

That said, I guess I'm talking about ~2TB of stuff (work data and personal data) -- wasn't there a thread somewhere that discussed the various options? I'm in the UK, rather than the US, and would rather keep my data in the EU
Airbnb should willingly do MORE to verify users than CarFax, Paypal, Facebook, etc.

Screw your bizmodel.

Run a credit and criminal background check - and charge 4%.
I don't get it. I am an Erlanger and I don't understand in what sense is this supposed to be like Erlang. The provided documentation is to be insufficient.

What is hook.io all about? Is it mainly a framework for sending/receiving events (messages) between different processes?
I've said "to prevent and offset". It's about managing the event (offsetting the bad cases when prevention fails). Having a reception area allows you to have their signature on the contract, to validate their identity (name, nationality, passport) based on the photo ID and how they look in real life and to have on record a lot of validated information about them (which will sure help with police and insurance in case something bad happens).
What happened to this person is awful and it´s understandable that she/he is very emotional at this point, but I don´t think the lesson is you can´t ever trust people, or that the AirBnB model is flawed. It´s more like: hope for the best, plan for the worst. There is always going to be some black swan risk even if AirBnB does do more vetting. There´s no reason for example to leave valuables anywhere in the residence while strangers are there. You can´t be 100% protected unless you´re willing to get insurance, which probably doesn´t make sense for the occasional provider, but you can at least remove the low hanging fruit risk-wise. Perhaps AirBnB should take a more active role in educating its providers on basic precautions.
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First time I got robbed, they took my CD player, moved my stack of CDs, but left them all there! Way to insult my music tastes.

They also stole my dinner suit. Which I had bought the week before, worn to a party, soaked with my dance sweat, and not yet cleaned. Insurance repaid me the full value of the suit, so essentially I got a "free suit rental" out of the experience.

(Plus the cost of new bars on all my windows. And the experience six months later of, presumably, interrupting the same guy trying to climb in my bathroom window at dinner time. Thankfully he never returned after that.)
I was in Seattle a month ago for AMD Fusion conference.
Here my dialog with the Immigration Officer:

I.O. - "What's the purpose of you visit?"
me - "I come to the AMD conference"
I.O. - "For how long do you visiting US"?
me - "8 days"
I.O. - "How many days is the conference?"
me - "3 days"
I.O. - "So why do you come for 8 days??"

;)

Re: "Dr. Nefario" - I can't believe he has no credit card.
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Well the way I see it is it's something that would be nice but in no way should be demanded from a service like Google+.
Here the analogy breaks down. Sit ins are nominally illegal. DDoS is also a crime. And whereas a sit-in doesn't involve any special equipment and happens outside someone's home the equipment and the act itself of a DDoS happens in the home, so using strong probable cause to obtain a warrant and collect evidence is perfectly legitimate I think.

As far as sit-ins vs. DDoS, it's patently ridiculous to say that scale is irrelevant. If I steal a single penny that is a much different crime than if I were to steal a penny from everyone in America. And if I stage a sit-in at a place of business and deny one or a handful of customers the opportunity to do business that's incomparable to if I deny a thousand or a million people.

One of the core reasons why sit-ins are a respected form of civil disobedience is because it preserves an important aspect of scale. One person one seat. The more popular a cause is and the more people are dedicated to fighting for it the more effective the sit-in can be. But unpopular causes will find it tough to use a sit-in to advance their agenda. The public will ignore their cause and turn a deaf ear to their arrests. And no one will take their place at the sit-in once they're gone. That sense of scale is important. In contrast, a DoS becomes very much more akin to a bomb threat or breaking windows. Because a far smaller and less popular group can effectively disrupt the business activities of a very large number of people. That is not in any way a good thing.
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You can also get it at Wolfram|Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+national+deficit (scale for last 10 years).

I note that the deficit peaked in 2010, so it's starting to come down.
I hear you on this one. I think it's fashionable to not have to know anything. Look at our role models, for example - celebrities. Not so many scientists or mathematicians, mostly glitterati or athletes. It's a bit worrying.
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I loved this quote of his: "I’ve made so many countless mistakes...being as someone who isn’t particularly bright, I have to make them several times before I learn." That quote coming from someone so accomplished puts things into perspective for me.

I sometimes struggle with the capacity of my own intelligence. I am trying to change my mentality that intelligence is something that can gradually grow through experience/practice instead of it being an innate quality. I do believe geniuses such as Terrence Tao, etc. are exceptions and are born with the innate ability. For the rest of us, I believe we should emphasize hard work and just getting things done.

I also believe that this is a source of my procrastination. Sometimes I struggle to work on some of my side projects because of my limiting belief that the task at hand is so huge/complex that I am just not smart enough to complete something like that.

Does anyone else have similar thoughts or comments along these lines?
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Really good examples - I agree there's more we can do, in terms of content, on our FB page.

We can give samples of playlists to spark conversation and also as a taster of what to expect on Super Owl. Our editorial team put together the playlists so it's going to be a balancing act of how much we want to give away for free as the Super Owl service will be available for a small monthly subscription when we launch.

We've been quite active on our blog, writing our own articles so it sounds like more of this type of thing can also be done on our FB page.
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> a rape victim that was targeted for lack of modesty.

That's not really how it works.
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Interesting. I wonder what percentage of Fields medals have been earned by women mathematicians?
Yes it depends. There might be legitimate complaints that arise when you "have to stare at it all day long". I'd take syntax complaints from people that have used a language for a long time far more serious than syntax complaints from people that see it for the first time (and still have to train their pattern recognizer :-). Those are shallow.
Encrypt locally (tarsnap, crashplan, etc.) and who cares really where the data goes (except for availability/reliability)?
But if you have their passport and secured their credit card info, you can report them to the police, and perhaps keep them from leaving the country if the place was trashed totally (ie burned down the building maliciously)
You said "can be used without issues".

I agree identity validation, and being there to hear loud noises/odd behavior makes it harder / less fun for an attacker -- but this is not what allows hotels to operate effectively. Some percentage of hotel registrations surely occur with stolen passports, etc. Hotels rather build this cost into their business model in a manner similar to an insurance company.

Because hotels rent so many rooms at a time, they can treat these costs in the same way that your car insurance company treats accident risk -- something that is always happening that can be offset in real time by honest people using the hotel as per the contract.

Letting people into your home does not have that risk-sharing property -- it's insuring a single driver instead of tens of thousands -- you open yourself up to a very real risk of losing a lot of money.

(Not to mention that hotels are not personally attached to the rental rooms).
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The guests sound like drug addicts. (Maybe meth? Tweakers do bizarre things like move furniture at odd hours or burn fires without opening the flue.)

I've been a happy AirBnb guest on a few occasions; the one time I had someone's whole usual studio apartment I found it a bit strange how much of their life was left on display for me – like the host's prescriptions still in the fridge! – but of course respected their privacy.

Each time I've been a guest, we've seen photos of each other on the site, and the keys were handed off in person. While I didn't expect anyone to stop by and check on me during my stays, I always had the impression the host or host's friends were nearby.

A guest with criminal intent would try to pick a place for a longer stay, in a more anonymous building, with a host known to be out-of-town. But then again, that's also what someone seeking to burglarize any vacation-emptied residence would do. More or less this same sort of crime could happen without AirBnb, or perhaps be enabled by nothing more than tracking public tweets/'check-ins' to predict unit vacancy.

(Another development I eventually expect in this progression of tech-mediated sharing: a bad-faith host who surveils their guests.)
It'd be awesomer if AirBnB just replaced all the material things that are replaceable, relocated this person, and in general made them feel happy/safe again. One time only, introduce a better model to prevent/mitigate/insure (as you suggest) for future occurrences.
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so this kind of abuse has happened so frequently that multiple people you know and trust are able to give first hand stories.

That is shocking.
Theres a definite difference between a framework description and a buzzword over loaded blurb, placement in the ad for example can change the tone of the whole message.

So starting with "we are an HTML 5 AJAX shop..." I would roll my eyes, where as compared to "Our stack makes heavy use of REST methodologies..." I would mull the description.

I guess its a level of understanding that goes into the use of the terms.
As a Canadian with a reasonable working knowledge of international news and economics who happens to be geeky about data visualization... this is a confusing jumble.

I'm not sure the average joe would put time into figuring out what this is supposed to be telling them.

Americans, do you think this is good and I'm just out to lunch? I'm happy to be wrong on this, I'm just looking for input.
Why not taking some security deposit from the customer ? Like normal rentals do .
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Is there anything stopping the renter from taking extra precautions? Like for example photocopy the tenants passport?

I am finding it hard to believe that somebody would drop off the keys to his own apartment to a total stranger, regardless of any guarantees the site does, without even wanting to briefly meet them.
But the most common explanation is that the rise of personal computers led computing culture to be associated with the stereotype of the eccentric, antisocial, male “hacker.”

I think that's right, but the question is why girls did not use the opportunity that presented itself and put their own cultural stamp on it.
With internet almost run over by all kinds of scam artists, spammers, pedos etc. is there any surprise that such a thing can happen? You have crackers trying their level best to install keyloggers and other tools to read the passwords to your accounts. And in this environment if you hand over the key of your apartment to some complete stranger, I think the writer should also take some blame for his naivety. Just because airbnb is current flavor of the month it does not mean you throw your basic common sense out the door.

Even if you are present in an apartment yourself, it is still too risky to allow a complete stranger to sleep in the room next to you. How much verification can be done by you or airbnb? The Norwegian shooter had no criminal history that could have been caught by any verification. So how can you be comfortable with allowing a stranger into your home with no verification done at all from your side?

I think there should be a service which will allow you to rent the room only to your friends or to friends of friends but no further than that. This friend list can be from facebook, linkedin or Google+. This will reduce the chances of getting a rental but give peace of mind that you are not letting some hardened criminal into your home.
Mpeg,h264 series of patents. I'm not sure any one would invest the same effort in these particular domains if they knew every one can copy them (though current crop of internet companies like google have an incentive to do it).
Markets clear. What you get isn't what's justified or fair, but what somebody else would have been willing to offer. The guys signing your paychecks probably know better than you what the competitive market price for your labor is (because it's part of their job, and they talk to a lot more people about it). There's a good chance that having you full-time, loyal, readily available, and ramped up is worth more to them than what they'd save by only hiring you in times of need, especially if they have to convince conservative customers that long projects will remain predictable and under control. They might think only having you part-time is a bad deal, if it adds risk for them.

Work is a big part of your life, and you should leave if you think you've found or created a more rewarding job. But don't leave just because you don't think you deserve what you're paid. By that standard they probably aren't any more deserving of that money.
This is probably the graph you want:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=1gU

Here is the rate of change.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=1gV

Normalizing for time (though not the military), both administration's debts do not seem equal at all.
So if you register and book via AirBnB you will see that much of that information is required (email, credit card, and billing info specifically).

The attacker in the story must have somehow gotten stolen credit card information...
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A hyperthreaded cpu actually emulates an extra core. A cpu with a single physical core and a hyperthreaded core is seen by the OS as two cores, it doesn't know anything about the hyperthreading. This means that the load average 2.0 means the system is fully loaded, not 1.0.

Although, it is much easier to go from 1.0 to 2.0, as opposed to 0 to 1.0 on such a cpu, because the cpu can't handle much more work before it gets overloaded.