skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guarantee is probably handled by pure insurance companies, who have been dealing with fraud successfully since before the Code of Hammurabi.
We know their "evidence" for Iraq was multiple kinds of shit. They didn't even go out of their way to conceal that once they got into there. Why should they worry about protecting the lies of a disgraced ex-president this time?

And I believe the reason that you are being down-voted is 1) you sound like a wingnut, 2) your claims are unclear. It is quite hard to work out what exactly you are trying to suggest.

And comparing rolling eyes at 9-11 conspiracy theories with denying evolution probably isn't helping you either...
Sure, just in case you really want to learn Perl...
if hg-git uses dulwich, and it's all pure python, how come i see it running git-index-pack amongst other git (what i assume are shell) commands?
Great response but there's still going to be a ton of damage done to the brand that will really hurt their long-term growth. How many millions of people are hearing about Airbnb for the first time in a negative light. That's hard to overcome. They raised their round to fight off any potential competitors, but they just made a huge opening for one of them to exploit.
I don't know why you got downvoted, but yes, insurance fraud detection is gonna be a significant problem for them now, especially since they don't have any expertise in it.

No doubt they'll need to hire some claims examiners. But if I say "omg, the person who stayed here last night has run off with my $30,000 necklace" then what evidence do I have to provide?
It seems a little pricey to me. 10,000 page views (for $30) isn't all that much. It's not convenient enough (for me) to justify $99 per month for the next tier of 100K page views.
Wheren I search "I Owe You" on my 118,000 unread emails
After mentioning EJ specifically in this post and very specifically mentioning that they will take care of her not taking care of her would be 'suicide by media' at this point.

If you thought what happened so far was ugly I'd hate to see what would happen if that were the case. Can we move past this?

Sure it is all words but they are on the company blog this time, not in a forum and to me they come across as written by a man that has seen the Elephant in person.

Specifically: "We will extend this program to EJ and any other hosts who may have reported such property damage while renting on Airbnb in the past."
AFAIK, Hadoop is converging on Avro -- not sure about the state of each component within Hadoop with respect to avro, but in long term, I expect it will be the protocol.
You could spin it as Republican-leaning states support smaller government out of principle even though their short-term self interest favors the status quo.
Wow. Usually we try to keep things a little more civil here. This filing fee is the smallest portion of what you need to pay in order to file a patent. First, you need to get a patent attorney to help you put your filing together. I don't know what lawyers you use, but this can typically run more than $15k and up to do it right.

Edit: Since I don't seem to be able to reply to your comment, thank you for your sort of apology. You can read at length about this particular bill here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Invents_Act. It's not all sunshine and equivalencies.

Perhaps we can have a discussion about it some time, but as someone who has both been in startups that have pursued patents and been in a company sued by a patent troll, you're just going to have to accept that we have different views on the issue.
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This isn't just HR BS, we work pretty damn hard to ensure that the dev team is doing interesting stuff and getting to push the envelope with new and interesting technologies. We know that when you are challenged with something fun, you write better code - so that's what we do.

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I thought it provided something new, in that it has a more useful headline. I clicked on this one before "Our Committment To Trust And Safety", which was much less informative.
I was in a very similar boat two months ago and went through Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial (http://railstutorial.org) and found it to be a great resource. You'll be able to get through it pretty quickly with your Django background, you'll learn some good stuff about workflow and testing in the process, and you'll know enough to build your own basic Rails project when you're done (with lots of reference-checks back to Rails Tutorial of course).

I also played with Rails for Zombies but found the pace to be a bit slow with the emphasis on cool multimedia and the simulator.
Been using this for a few months. I love it so much, so many amazing designs being posted every day. The site functions extremely well too. Thanks for building it :)
That negative press means nothing anymore. They haven't just fixed it, they've come around spectacularly and destroyed their competitors. From now on this is a story about what could happen if you go with a service that doesn't have Airbnb's $50,000 Guarantee.
i drink brämhults ( http://www.bramhults.se/ ). at least they taste different every time.
Exactly. I'm certain the adults in charge know that some level of hacking is inherent to the game at this point. My guess is they're treating the set of all consumers as another corporation: an entity to do battle with in the ongoing pursuit of the best possible ROI.
Show HN: SleepOnIt.me - Make your decision tomorrow
Try to open them in an incognito window on chrome.
That way the error shows up for me.
simply:
$ sudo cpan Devel::REPL

also you can do this:
$ perl -e 'print "Hello World!\n";'
Are you sure?

In a low-fraud world, it's probably cheaper for airbnb to insure against it themselves than to outsource that to somebody else. You don't insure against a large number of small losses, you insure against the possibility of one big loss -- this is why you buy car insurance but Avis doesn't.
True. I should have prefaced with "from a business standpoint".
There tends to be a tipping point when stock prices drop, from what I saw. But there are years of warning signs and slow decline before this happens. If you were watching RIM, for example, their trouble started when the first iphone came out, but it took years for it to reflect strongly in their stock prices. Nokia was in a similar state -- they had problems for years, but it was only recently that their stock dropped heavily. It was declining, but there were warning signs in the company long before.

However, it should be mentioned stock prices already go up and down like mad. Diversify, regardless of how solid a company is.
why did this need jquery?
I would like to move across the country to join Tutorspree.
Hmm, is this some cosmic hint for me to get my client work done today, as I promised? The timing of this post is a bit uncanny, but very motivating.

Time to get back to work.
VeriSign CEO Mark McLaughlin to Join Palo Alto Networks
Its pretty amazing that these netflix engineers had NDAs just in case they talked to some guy with a blog:)
Verizon, American Express Partner on Mobile Payments
Bjork Hopes Pirates Will Crack Her New Music App
Citation needed?

Low-to-middle income whites are the Republican bread and butter in red states. They split college degree whites, lose masters+ whites 3:1 or so, and lose blacks 95:5. But their base in red states are typically not the big-ticket taxpayers, aside from maybe in Texas. (cite, stan greenberg's book from 2004).
Corporations must follow the ethical standard set by the law just as any other legal entity. Corporations actually have more stringent ethics than other legal entities such as persons. A person does not have any fiduciary duty to others unlike a corporation which is incorporated with a set of documents explaining it ethics and responsibilities to other parties (such as shareholders). As a person under the law I can act completely in my own best interest (negligence, power of attorney, and other corner cases excluded) and there is no ethical problem whereas when a corporation puts it's own interests ahead of those of its shareholders it is acting unethically.
Open Source Gamification Platform: UserInfuser
I would word it "from a self-interested standpoint", which is hopefully different than "from a business standpoint". I prefer to live in a world where businesses aren't laser-focused on just their own interests.

Ideally, a CEO would try to align all of the goals of the parties relating to the business so that the dynamic is synergistic, not win-lose.
The Art of the Finish: How to Go From Busy to Accomplished
Realistically, you'd really have to try hard to do $50k+ damage

I think tipping over a candle should do that nicely. Not much effort needed.
There's also tons of Blu-Ray players with built in streaming capabilities as well that would help justify the cost of investing in a new device.
Indeed. Here's how from the command line:

protoc -o schema.pb schema.proto

The meta-schema for compiled .proto files can be found here [1]. In fact, I know of several protobuf implementations [2] [3] that avoid parsing .proto files by working with their compiled message form.

I use protobuf as a storage format for record streams. It's nice for binary data (documents, images, thumbnails, etc) where JSON string escaping would be wasteful. Each protobuf record in the file is preceded by a length and a magic number specifying record type, and the first record in the file embeds the compiled .proto schema.

This means it's possible to read and work with a record stream without specifying the schema separately, and without generating any code.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the lwpb Python protobuf library.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/source/browse/trunk/src/go...

[2] https://github.com/acg/lwpb

[3] https://github.com/haberman/upb
Sorry, not really trying to be a dick. But your article reads like you're trying to stir up the (already considerable) patent hatred around here, without really understanding the issues.

And yes, I know the filing fee is insubstantial compared to the legal fees. The point was that you should know that too, if you're expounding on patent law and policy.
Vimeo adds business account
While the emulator may be slow, it's got a lot more features than the iOS simulator. The Android emulator, for instance, has built in support for GPX tracks for the GPS, very useful for location-based functionality. There's an iOS lib for it but it's not quite the same.
The problem is that a lot of people have read the negative story, and a smaller number of people have read the positive ending, simply because it's less interesting.
in the event of someone owning a condo or house, damages to the structure would probably be covered by homeowners insurance
Software, no. Hardware, fairly often.
Works fine for me on the mobile site. Also the api returns results http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=Phpbb+%2Fbing
It's the words 'affiliate' and 'link' combined - 'affililink'
Ask HN: Links expiring *really* fast ...
Normally I don't mind about the "link dead or expired" message, but at the moment the links seems to be expiring really fast - sub 10 minutes in one case.

Has something changed?
For the forrst guys (looking at this), this is triggered by not serving scripts over ssl, while the rest of the page is sent through ssl.
Is this situation really better under the current law though? If you change the situation so that B had the idea first, but the rest of the facts are the same, then the current law produces the same problems.
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

An arguably more-informative headline isn't worth bifurcating the discussion.
Very neat. Did you purchase the PDF or the screencasts or did you read it online?
A lot of what people are trying to protect is stores in the clear, though: I personally don't want people piking up my phone and stealing my address book and photos. Google's approach to this, a supported "jailbreak" (fastboot oem unlock) that formats the phone as it does its job, is tome the best solution, as it guts the incentives of people like comex to weaponize an exploit so well that any evil idiot can use it (in essence, the only people with the technology would be the "larger evil", as opposed to people like your nephew, ex-husband, or business rival).
They're in the process of building one of these here in Lexington, KY. The link the the video simulation was definitely enlightening. We'll see whether drivers will actually be able to pick up how to navigate it.
My short 2-second feedback: "we'll email you it back tomorrow" should probably read "we'll email it back to you tomorrow".
FileVault full disk encryption overhead on Lion
it's going into effect in 15 days. that's pretty good.
You really can't please everyone, can you?

The man tried admitting his faults, and you're still trying to read in-between the lines, questioning his motives.
The key sentence from this article: "Realistically though, this is just a best guess made by Stanford professor Jonathan Koomey."
FTrain takes on what it's like to buy a house.
Ah, the old enterprise mindset strikes again. If somebody cracks the DRM on Windows, the movie producers have someone to yell at: Microsoft. Then they can make Microsoft fix it, and everyone rolls out new player software that requires the update to work. We've already been through some iterations of this on consoles, too. If somebody takes five minutes to crack the DRM on Linux... now what do the movie studios do? Go yell at Linus? The net effect of that will "an entertained Linus Torvalds" and not much more.

Of course we all "know" that DRM is fundamentally impossible, but there is a qualitative difference between trying to do DRM on a proprietary platform and on an open platform.
Just to make sure no one gets the wrong idea, it should be noted that the law requires:

The specification shall contain a written description of the
invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it,
in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable
any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with
which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same,
and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor
of carrying out his invention.

(35 USC 112). So, even though filing counts as constructive reduction to practice, that doesn't mean you can just come up with a vague idea, write it up with no clue how to actually make the device, and get a patent. (Well, you aren't supposed to be able to--the examiners sometimes slip up!).

You don't actually have to have built a working prototype, but you have to be telling people in the patent how they can actually build the thing.
Thanks for this I will definitely get a hold of these guys and see what kind of stuff their up to.

Do you attend any of these meetings?
Blizzard has said that PvP in Diablo 3 is explicitly a lark. It will be given no priority for balance. The game is the PvE experience.
Huh, I always associated that with the Dakotas (eg: http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Articles/Credit-Card-Gift-Ca...). I can't find anything referring to that happening with Minnesota, and I haven't noticed a particularly large amount of that sort of activity here.
NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers To Launch Of Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft
I have. Their meetings are on Saturdays and I usually have plans on Saturdays
you can't just snap your fingers and self insure. there are a tangle of regulations to think through, claims processes to setup in a variety of languages, adjusters and investigators to train, policies to write, etc.

the fact that this is the first major incident to make headlines after 2 million nights being booked means that they have probably been doing a great job handling exceptions. mistakes happen. especially in fast growing companies.
Is a big insurance company going to be willing to insure people that are illegally subletting their apartments?
The reason I suspect my situation is more common than the one you describe, if the first two lines are chronologically reversed, is that the time it takes A to go from idea to practical product and filed patent is assumed to be greater than the time it takes B to go from idea to filed patent, since B didn't wait until he had a marketable product before filing. This new system gives B a corresponding advantage over A.

Perhaps another assumption is that by the time the seeds for an idea are drifting in the ether, A would be more attuned to receive them, and would have started before B.

Though of course the situation you describe should be addressed, this change in policy may be an additional check against abuse that we are losing.
It sounded like sensationalistic hyperbole when I read it. Is the code really that good?
It would be completely and totally awesome if all status were relegated to the Web. I would estimate the probability of that at at around 0.1%. People who were denied status on the Web would try to find some other means.
I think the supposition is that the syntax errors are worked out of the JavaScript by the time you deploy it to customers. This is most likely intended to catch runtime errors from unanticipated conditions.

A `try/catch` is most expensive when used in a deep function called many times. Wrapping the typical "click" handler isn't going to cause performance issues. The biggest issue is that browsers have inconsistent support for stack and line info in a `try/catch` block.

Another options would be to use `window.onerror`. I've deployed apps that use the latter to report Javascript errors via the query string on an `<img>` element and it's been very useful.
DailyJS Code Review: Burrito
Only in facial recognition would it be considered a breakthrough to have a 30% chance of coming up with one successful match plus nine false positives! It's kind of amazing how poorly this stuff still works.
Some of these states (Florida, New Mexico & Arizona I believe) have an odd distribution of money partially due to large retirement communities.
Wow, I would have liked to listen to them come up with this plan. Nobody else is concerned at this announcement? Good for being aggressive, but retroactive $50k pseudo-insurance? That seems like a bit much to commit to right now.

edit: the new customer service operation sounds fantastic, btw. Nice assembly in just a few days.
Can Airbnb’s safety program rebuild user trust?
I respectfully disagree.

For one, the fix will not get nearly as much coverage as the initial problem. Many people will not hear about it and will be left with a negative impression of the company.

Second, for those carefully following the story, I think it's clear that they've handled this very badly up until now. Maybe I'm being unfair, but I award only partial credit for doing the right thing only when your back's against the wall.

The Guarantee would have been spectacularly more powerful had they announced it before the story got picked up by CNN and USA Today. I think it's silly to argue otherwise.

Finally -- and this is just my personal opinion -- I think even with the new insurance policy it's a net loss for Airbnb. This episode has highlighted just how bad the worst case is for someone using the service. The personal value of my home and safety is considerably higher than it's appraised dollar value. Bottom line, I am less likely to use Airbnb today than I was last month.
Huh, I thought "everyone" used perlbrew now?

It has been on my todo to try the REPL for a long time, but since Perl is the most powerful command line tool in bash, I've never seen a reason to use an interactive tool.

alias p=perl
p -e '...'
p -ne '....'
# etc.

Edit: With powerful I didn't mean "rm -rf", etc. :-)
Okay, so, it's a major u-turn, so major that they're now denying they even ever had the previous policy of simply denying all responsibility. But the past is the past and the $50,000 is, well, $50,000 more reassurance than their users had before.

It's just a pity that in this final coming clean with their customers that they couldn't, you know, come clean.

"... we weren’t prepared for the crisis and we dropped the ball".

How is it possible that no-one predicted that something like this might happen?

With multiple founders and employees thinking about the business day and night, this never occurred to anyone? Really?

And what about the investors? Not one single investor, these Gods of fine detail, raised the question of what contingency plans were in place for just such an event?

I don't buy it.

Airbnb had a plan, and that plan was to boldly deny all responsibility, to flat out ignore the human consequences of their flawed model - a flaw that affects only a tiny fraction of their hundreds of thousands of users but one that, nonetheless, has massive, life-changing consequences for the unlucky few who get caught beneath the wheels of statistical inevitability.

Brian Chesky knew this, every employee knew it, every investor new it and Paul Graham damn well knew it too.

Unfortunately for all of them, they didn't think about the possibility that one of the unlucky few might have the communication skills and, more importantly, the sheer tenacity to tear down the illusion that they have so carefully crafted. In the past few days, she became a victim again as a panicked company and horrified investors, watching $1.3bn start to swirl down the drain, launched a concerted slur campaign against her, casting aspersions on her sanity, as if that had any bearing whatsoever on the tragedy that befell her - they owe her a quite separate apology for that nasty, mean-spirited assault.

Hilariously, they also owe Michael Arrington an apology, but you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for that one.

So, yesterday is yesterday, we stride bravely into the future with a somewhat more humane policy in place. What hasn't changed is that the model is still fatally flawed and, sorry to be crude, but how is $50,000 meant to be applied to a serious beating or, God forbid, a rape?

We all hope that won't happen but, again, I look at this whole concept and I know in my heart that, eventually, it will. Does anyone really believe that this model has a future? Are we in that much of a bubble?

P.S. Just for the record, and Brian Chesky take note, this comment "reflects my true feelings".