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Right, but even if you exchanged your name and email or even phone number, how is that going to lead you to believe who the person "really" is? Now, more than ever, it's so easy to hide behind fake digital personas, so why does exchanging basic information mean that youre somehow safer? Because of Facebook? Or Twitter? Is a thief really going to broadcast their intentions over the internet and if you get their information sooner, you can find out before you become a victim? Why does it matter about when you get the information? How would having this information sooner protect her from this situation? Not to mention that you cant always predict what people are going to do. AIrBnB is a community that is supposed to be built on trust and I cant imagine that this is the norm with them. Shit happens, and it's terrible, but sometimes you just can't prevent it. I'd imagine that the company will come up with some sort of verification process soon to help add security, but there's only so much they can do.
Can anyone tell me why HN is so obsessed with G+? This is a real question. I've mostly forgotten about it, and I work there.
Great article. Though I would compare him to Nikola Tesla instead of Edison because he seems more interested in changing the world rather than improving upon existing technology and creating moneymaking widgets.
Wait to see what attribution.org has to say about all this.
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Because the Republican party has been infiltrated by an ideological fraction that is impervious to arguments and unwilling to compromise. At least that's what it looks like to me.

I think most people are not worried, because they believe that the responsible parties will raise the debt ceiling in time. I think those people underestimate the the reality distortion from which the tea party suffers.

The other reason is that the US debt is reaching worrisome levels, and at some point needs to be curbed. That is not a political problem, though, that is a problem of society.
People in the US want everything, but nobody wants to pay for it. The US debt here is just an extension of willingness to go into personal debt, which is much greater here than is most other western countries.
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This could have great potential to bring broadband speeds to the countryside.

Right now there are really two America's with a large swath of the country limited to 28.8 at best over aging rural phone wires.

But it's really hard to say if this could be truly the solution without knowing the economics.
And in the (lets face it, relatively unlikely) case that you have some degree of fame already, that will likely work. However in the general case, elude arrest for the first initial hours after a non-news worthy crime and you will never be arrested. The best way to do this in the worst case scenario? Run.

People have the tendency to greatly overestimate the usefulness of security camera footage in solving crime. Personally, I blame Hollywood.

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Something that really bothers me about the startup V.C. ecosystem is that I never read things like this from founders. There are lots of blog posts of horror stories about investors, usually from the point of view of other investors' (or people like Steve Blank).

I've heard Fred Wilson say that V.C.'s can't afford to be assholes anymore because it would end up on twitter and their deal flow would dry up overnight. Well... where are they? Where are the scorned founders? Do they not know how to blog? When they get fired unfairly and screwed out of their stock (which does not appear to be that rare) are they banished from the internet? Is there something in their contracts that says they can't talk about being fired or they would have to give up what little scraps of compensation they are left with?

As an outsider, the lack of anything but glowing recommendations of investors from founders makes me think not all is as it seems. Is there an implicit fear of being black listed if you speak up, ending your career as an entrepreneur? Does hackernews, techcrunch, etc all suffer survivorship bias (and not waste a single digital word on the losers)?

Where are they?
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I don't understand why it matters one way or the other. If they raise it, great. If they don't, then spend less money government.

The government does it's budgeting all fucked up. It makes a list of everything it wants, then sort of argues a little and writes a check for the total.

Every other entity in the universe starts with how much money they have or want to spend, and then divides it up according to priorities. If the government switched to this method, they would just have less money to slice up.

I was in the army, and I worked for defense contractors. 99% of federal government employees do no work. I mean literally don't do anything. They show up around 9 and leave around 4, and surf the internet in between. Every once and awhile they have meetings and plan things that don't get done, or figure out who is going to go on some trip. Meanwhile contractors are running around doing the little bit of work that is being done. The hilarious part is, 99% of that work doesn't matter. If it just stopped tomorrow, nobody would even be able to notice.

So, if my calculations are correct, and they are only based on empirical observation over the course of 8 years, we could reduce the size of the government expenditures (excluding programs that just write checks, like medicare and social security, which we should keep) by 99.99% and nobody would care other than the government employees, but I don't feel sorry for people who's entire contribution to society is to be physically present at a specific location for 35 hours a week. Lets cut the budget but keep the programs that help old people and poor people.
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I'm surprised your brief rebuttal is not floating higher, as I think it is a far superior explanation for the phenomenon. In rural areas where zoning laws do not account for clustering of services like gas stations and fast food restaurants, there are many other factors that can confound a game theory based solution to this sort of question (availability of utilities like communications, electricity and water for example).
As I always am quick to point out, it seems like some of the up-and-coming Silicon Valleys outside of North America seem to also be in Mediterranean climates (Santiago de Chile and Cape Town).
I mean, if you get a sketchy feeling about someone you're talking to, I feel like it may be worth the risk of a few points. It's not like everyone is a bad guy.
Similar thoughts from last year..
http://rrajkumar.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/why-freemium-prici...

Software is turning into a commodity and will eventually be priced like one.
My imperfect understanding, from studying other sources, is that this is not correct at all. What the poster is describing is, in fact, what the government has been doing for several months -- using cash inflows to keep paying the bills, while rolling over expiring debts into new ones. August 2 is the date when we will no longer have enough cash on-hand to keep paying our obligations.

In addition, a large raft of monthly Social Security checks are scheduled to go out at the end of next week, so even if the estimates are wrong and we can make it a few extra days, that singular large expense will be enough to push us over the brink.
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I'll take a shot at this: I think G+ is possibly the most comprehensive (in terms of design and functionality) new product in the social space right now. Since it comes from Google, who have the history of "revolutionizing" various aspects of the web, hackers want to learn more and put G+ in perspective of existing (competing?) products. This makes it very interesting not only to read about how to fit G+ into the current framework (Twitter-but-longer? LinkedIn-killer? Facebook-killer?) but also follow the minutiae of the growth, adoption, and evolution of G+ (much like they would have taken to GMail, if the timelines had overlapped, imo).
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I for one know that much my web traffic on G+ has converted to iPhone traffic and at 10MM+ users, 3% might be less than the margin of error for an external estimate!
Except you can (and often have to) petition to get zoning changed. Zoning plays a role, but it is not 100%. I would also bet (but I have no evidence; I'd love to be proven wrong here) that in areas without rigid zoning, you will see the same behavior.
The map looks cool but is misleading. There are many more gas stations in San Francisco than that (and the prices are more variable).
They did. Those frozen wrap around Matrix style shots are from the wall of cameras. They don't use those shots until the latter half of the video. Also, those particular shots don't really look that great, there wasn't enough overlap on the cameras so the motion is kind of choppy.
What is the point of this article besides attracting pageviews and presenting statistically insignificant and unconfirmed data?
Your comment is full of ridiculousness. Please stop.

I wasn't making the claim that "Google is about open standards at all", or that they are "some benevolent open source company". I would argue that they are not. I was in fact pointing out the author's own misunderstanding of this, as they seemed to expect Google to "be about open standards" and what not, which is ridiculous; they are a business, you should expect them to try to make money. None of what I have said is in any way "justifying" anything about Google, merely providing an obvious explanation for a trivial situation which the author of this article apparently couldn't grasp.
I dunno this seems like a hoax to me. Something is fishy about it. I suspect it is a negative PR scam aimed at airbnb.
Auto-expire should be very easy, it's fairly similar behavior to snooze. Re-ping might be a few more minutes work, but app script does expose every thing necessary for these. The only problem is that GAS can be very very slow.
They may be world-renowned scientists and philosophers but none says anything that you wouldn't get by asking a random bunch of people on the street the same question. They also seem to share a Abrahamic view of God and religion.

To me the best argument for an intelligent creator is the simulation argument (see http://www.simulation-argument.com/), to which there is some vaguely supportive evidence - eg. http://is.gd/iv04do.
I don't see how this makes Google's lack of openness perplexing at all. On the contrary, I would be surprised (and pleased) if they were at least as "open" (which I don't think is the right word anyway) as to include a "Try it anyway" link as they did in ro.me
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It would hardly ever matter, that's true. But I can certainly contrive something that would require it, such as:

if (something) f();
else delete x, x = NULL;

Of course, I don't personally use "else" without a block, so it's just an example; I'm not suggesting it's a good idea.
That's essentially the situation in hardware. All the big players have portfolios of patents which they swap in cross-licensing deals. As a newcomer you have no chance of breaking into the business since you don't have a portfolio of your own - you'd get sued out of business.
not necessarily all of the thugs had to be in on the conspiracy. perhaps only one was paid off.
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The description of what happened, supposedly, is so weird, that I'd bet most likely this was an astroturfed (setup) incident. On the other hand, never underestimate just how stupid, mean, random, evil or rude a human can be. The more I live the greater depths you see. Also, even if this was a faked/fraudulent event, regardless, it would still be true that this kind of thing could naturally happen to anybody that makes their place available via AirBNB. It's statistically inevitable, given the nature of the service and the nature of humanity.
i guess i feel like this is totally unsurprising, except that a similar incident hadn't been publicized already. i felt exactly the same way about Getaround, which is AirBnB for your car - hobos will definitely rent my car and defecate and copulate in it.
That's not a bad idea. In fact you don't need this for doing that - you will probably _not_ want to avoid the obvious catches (like clicking from same ip many times, too frequently, etc.).
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I think that the choppiness has more to do with the fact that they aren't using any CGI. Some sort of image based rendering (morph effect) to fill in intermediate frames would smooth out the pans significantly, and give it more of a matrix like look.

I'm surprised they didn't do any vertical pans. Perhaps they didn't have enough cameras stacked vertically to give a good effect.
They're not unheard of. Check out this classic of the genre from Philip Greenspun:

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Because we're human, we anthropomorphise companies, and G+ resembles a power/status move in a monkey troupe.
You know, I don't really care about AOL - but I normally wouldn't find this little Googlism all that much a hot-button topic either, were it not for this mess surrounding Google+ right now, including the deletion of a child's Gmail account when he gave a truthful date of birth when Google invited him to Google+.

Which is to say, you're not wrong, but maybe not seeing the point I was going for. Google's drawn my negative attention an awful lot lately in terms of whether I'd feel comfortable recommending them to somebody who had somehow remained untouched by Google, and I found the "intervention" conceit to be going too far in terms of tone-deafness.
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Or, perhaps, even a bobcat.
WebKit e.g. (Chrome & Safari) doesn't support the <blink> tag; though it can be recreated quite easily using CSS transitions. Not that you should though.
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I think it's presumptious to assume AirBnB owes anybody anything. The renter knew (or should have known, if not retarded) the risk she/they were taking. And AirBnB cannot literally be responsible for every single human being's action who is a party to their service. The person that, allegedly, trashed/robbed the place is clearly the person who did something evil and illegal. Blame the perpetrator, not a middleman or scapegoat.
Yeah. There's a big difference between patents and copyrights. It's clear to me copyright is necessary for creative works - you couldn't make a living as a writer, musician, or software company if other people could just copy your finished work.

But patents are a different beast. From what I can tell they've become an impediment to progress instead of an aid.
well it was also an interest rate reduction as well as a payment amount reduction. I was able to take 6-8 points off from my various creditors at the time.
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I guess that not all parents teach you to obey. I always knew that you never should talk to police, never whistleblower to teachers or anybody, be positive and keep to yourself until you asked for help. It is just people, especially authorities are negative. If you say something to the police, they will use it against you.
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Google employees care because Larry Page said your bonus depends on the success of social.

I care because if it fails, then it will be demoralizing to the company. Google will quickly become the new Microsoft, where investors and potential hires see the company as a stodgy old company that can't innovate. The press will pounce on google for Google+/Wave/Buzz. Android will be seen as the only bright spot, and even that is out shined by Apple.

If it is successful, then it means that other social businesses aren't nearly as valuable as VCs thought they were. If Google+ is successful, no one is going to pay close to $50B for facebook when it comes time to IPO. It will be the end of the social tech bubble.
Swartz is a genius. His writings are brilliant. This is just stupidity.

JSTOR didn't get those documents through magic or witchcraft. However they collected them, a motivated, brilliant millionaire genius might be able to collect them as well. If they are in the public domain, then he could distribute them for free. Or, he could run around hiding laptops at MIT, and get arrested. I guess the latter is probably more exciting and more likely to get you laid.

To be clear, I think it's obscene that they are prosecuting him for this, and I think it will get thrown out in the end. Maybe he just wanted to make a political statement to get the discussion rolling. Maybe he just doesn't give a fuck.
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On the other hand, if the partner has been doing lines of coke during his last few dozen meetings with startups, he's screwed...
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How about something like concealing cameras through the house? There's so much potential for dangerous and creepy behavior.
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>Sure, you can do that. That, and arrest the person too because, you know, they broke the law.

I think it's more relevant that what they did was willfully malicious. I probably regularly violate laws that I'm not even aware of, but the fact that I'm not intentionally doing harm to anyone establishes some kind of innocence.
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I agree with this. I think better ways could be found for them to repay their debt to society. It would be cheaper also.
Picking a lawyer that only serves start-ups, and not VCs, seems wise. Hacker News favorite Grellas (also my lawyer) does it that way.
it would help, because users who don't want to be bothered can just create a new account on the fly.

you're already collecting all the information necessary to create an account when somebody completes a purcase, so just make an account for them. include a temporary account password on the email receipt, with a message telling users they can use that pw to log in to the site to check the status of the order. once a week, run a cron to clean up all the accounts of people whose orders have completed and haven't changed the password.
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Second answer to the same question: while it's almost certainly not a conspiracy, it's equally certain there are champagne corks flying in certain quarters.
"They don't use those shots until the latter half of the video"

ah... caught me red handed. :)
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This is about a band named "Party" not about a music video with a party.
My opinion is that the service is questionable. The fact that there is no way to contact a person until they accept your credit card. My friend paid for the stay, contacted a person via website, the person replied yes and asked to call him to make arrangements. Ended up, that nobody realized that nobody can see contact information. The day was waisted. So when my friend wanted to delete profile from airbnb, it is not allowed. So all we could do was telling about the horrible experience. They do not have detailed terms and conditions on the site, and all what a person should be aware of. I guess that they really do not care about customers. Like I heard from other people, this is like a typical startup from silicon valley, a new bubble. I guess we need to look at that in a positive way. So they just need to get enough money to get a lot of advertisement. Nothing will kill a horrible product faster that a good advertisement.
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Actually, the band is named Androp and the ad agency is Party.
I was with you until your final paragraph, which seems to me only to address payment problems by making payment and planning more difficult, without actually addressing the asymmetric trust or renter-vetting problems.

The renter-vetting problem is a real one. A past history of good experiences at AirBNB would probably be a good mechanism - a new member of the community would then be scrutinized a little more closely. (Maybe they already do this, I don't know - I haven't used them and won't, because I travel with a wife, two kids, and a dog, and there's no freaking way I'd leave somebody in my home without supervision if it was Jesus Christ Himself.)
Your first paragraph contains a deductive error.

Your second paragraph has enough industry lingo and insider info that it strongly suggests you work(ed) for a hedge fund, yourself. So your opinion on whether it's a dubious field or of value to the society is going to be a wee bit biased. :)
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