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You cannot take everything with you, you have to leave stuff at your _home_ (all the documents mentioned for example).

In light of this article, if I ever rented my apartment out for a week, I would box up any sensitive documents, or particularly valuable items, and leave them at a friend's house.

I don't even know if 'did not meet them in person first' would've helped.

Getting a scan of a photo ID, matching it to the person, and possibly getting a current photo of them, along with a license plate number all would be reasonable measures that you could take in a five minute meeting. Not only would they give you more leverage in police investigations, they would probably deter people from trashing/taking your stuff.

The violation/emotional troubles seem to be worse.

Some of the violation comes from the feeling that she can't really do very much about it, and that she was totally unprepared for it. AirBnB offering a few tips, of the "here are some things people to do protect themselves, you might consider them" variety, seems totally reasonable.
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Please take into account that this is a kind of story that the agents hear all the time. "Really, officer, I've got this cousin who owes me 3 grand and has the cash ready." To them it doesn't matter that the famous(#) Bitcoin is involved here.

(#) Among techies only and even here the discussions about it being a Ponzi scheme are lively.
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(other than not linking outside the site, which is of debatable consequence to site revenue)

It may not directly increase their bottom line, but linking to sources increases access to information and allows the public to get more informed and more knowledgable. Many newspapers say this is one of their goals.
It sounds like AirBnB need to educate first-time users more..

It obviously is not for those people who have property that cannot remove personal items from said property before doing a earn-my-trust AirBnB person trial run..
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This is so true. Does that mean that unemployment is not so bad after all?
As I said on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807824 ...

Clearly not much has changed in the 414 days since this story was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408813 : 88 comments

It's been submitted more recently as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439742 : 403 days ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233443 : 158 days ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305491 : 138 days ago, with 42 comments
Or a prepaid debit card (do those work with airbnb)?

The interesting thing will be the gmail account's IP history. I suspect SFPD will get the IP history and I hope this DJ Pattrson logged in from an identifiable location (or that the phone number, presumably a prepaid, is linkable to location and identity somehow).

SFPD is one of the better police forces to have to work with on this; I'd sure rather be dealing with them than Oakland or various other East Bay police forces. You might also want to involve REACT (http://www.reacttf.org/), the Silicon Valley (incl SF) high tech crime task force. They'll be good at tracking someone down through online identity, compared to local police.

I wonder if AirBnB has offered the host/victim some AirBnB credit to stay elsewhere while her place is being de-trashed.
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Absolutely, only a non-obvious solution to a problem should be patentable.

But if they at least only granted patents to specific almost-obvious solutions, and not just to any solution (which is the same as patenting the problem), it would be a little better: You could at least try to find a different solution...
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Interesting point -- I wonder if people who enjoy breaking things are more likely to use AirBnB, since they're destroying something that really matters to someone.
The linked-to OP did not talk of deserving to be raped. You have inverted her point.
His blog post itself had already been discussed before here, but it looks like the link is dead.

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I only criticized your choice of words: "I don't think someone that leaves their house [...] is quite as _innocent_ [...]" implies that this somehow makes them guilty.

I believe that both the homeowner and the figurative rape victim are equally innocent.
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Hey everyone - we were shocked when we heard about this unsettling event. We have been working closely with the authorities, and we want to reassure our community that, with the help of our security infrastructure, we were able to assist the police in their investigation, and we understand from authorities that a suspect is now in custody.

We've created a marketplace built on trust, transparency and authenticity within our community, and we hold the safety of our community members as our highest priority. We will continue to work with our users to stamp out those who would put that community at risk in any way. The vast majority of our community members genuinely respect and protect each other, but we urge users to be careful and discerning with each other and to hold others accountable through reviews, flagging and our customer service channel. Our hearts go out to our host and we will continue to work with her and with the authorities to make this right.
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Has anyone tried to read SFGate, the online division of the SF Chronicle?

The stories are good enough -- the comments are a trash heap and a den of cluelessness, and this has been the case for years. The editors have done nothing to curb the nastiness, which even Chron bloggers themselves have complained about.[0] The least they could do is post the geographical region the commenters post from, as it really surprises me to think that there is so much negativity in SF. I don't even need to entertain the idea of them using the FB comments plugin.

My point in bringing this up is to add another data point to the "newspaper editors are clueless about how to run a website" narrative. But it also corroborates the idea that these websites are such messes because of their extreme financial situation -- the trainwreck comment sections are also an attraction, in that they are frequently so outrageous and inflammatory that people feel compelled to respond, and somehow that equals dollars.

Personally, the spinelessness of the SFGate editors has turned me off to ever giving them a penny. I've gone from reading it daily to only occasionally reading articles which are forwarded to me, and then, resisting reading the comments.

[0] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cwnevius/detail?entry_id...
Our website is written in CakePHP. That decision made sense ~2 years ago when there was no express, npm, etc. combined with the fact that we were former CakePHP core contributors.

If we were to do it again now, we'd do the website in node.js as well, as that would allow us to share domain logic. In fact, if we find the time, we might migrate even now.
I might be biased, but everyone tells me this is a good read. I like the comment by @Orpion "Very interesting piece, with lots of quotable content"
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> And "as any fule kno" [sic], this is idioicy during a design or hacking or greenfield phase of development.

When you write something you run it to make sure it works. Bottle that and call it a test. And then merely do this before you write the code. "What will I be done when I get this code to do?"

Don't plan, and spec, your whole API before you've written a line of code or anything, but do write a one-liner to check whatever it is you're going to do so you know when you're done.

Ideally you'll write a test (still just a one-liner) for every corner-case that you cover in code, because you need a failing test to know if your fix actually worked.

And face it, if you're doing "real" development work you've got business goals, and a spec with features intended to deliver on that, and you need to cover every tiny detail. If you don't have the spec ('fail on values over n') directly linked to the code that implements it, it will get lost, and if you aren't testing it you can't legitimately claim to be delivering it.

A spec, such as you'd get by performing useful TDD, is a requirement for modern software development. You could write it all up-front in the planning phase (waterfall style), or all after in the testing phase (waterfall style again), or you could interleave it with research and development, which if you think about it, sounds kind of agile by comparison...
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Wow.. that's terrible! I really enjoyed all my couchsurfing and airbnb experiences so far, they resulted in the best travels i ever had.. it's sad to see such a thing happen, and i hope the criminaly will be catched and punished.

Still, i am looking forward for my next airbnb trip, it's a great way to travel!
I agree, I am suggesting that "no pointer = no speed" is not demonstrated by the benchmarks provided. The developers who wrote the benchmarks which were faster than the C/C++ ones didn't appear to agree. i.e. when they has the optional to use them, they didn't and were still faster.
Hey brian,

- what's your side of the story on being unreachable 14 hours after the event?

- did you offer AirBnB credit or compensation to the victim to stay elsewhere during this?
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If there were no intellectual property, companies producing software, music and the like could enforce their rights with contracts and laws against the receiving of stolen property. You still would not have the right to distribute someone else's work.

Well, it would work that way in a world that respects contracts. Not sure about 21st century America where people don't even read them.

Patents are another matter though. Would I not have the right to make a thing and sell it without your consent, especially if I've never signed any contract with you restricting such rights? I think I would. We would have to use bounties like the X Prize and I see no reason why that wouldn't work.

There have to be mechanisms where by innovators are paid for innovating. If we don't have them in the US, innovators will go to they exist. Innovation would still happen, but not the really expensive, inherently non-protectable kind. And no, I do not mean one-click ordering!
If the 1000 people did it in coordinated manner with the intent of causing harm to the one person then it would seem like a crime to me. Of course, it's the leaders who should get the severe punishments, but you still have to punish the others too (to a lesser extent). Otherwise you're just saying that it's acceptable to help people commit a crime.

And why are people complaining about the FBI going after people anyway? It's their job to catch (probable) criminals, so they can't really start deciding which ones to pursue. It's the judges and jurys (and lawmakers) who make that decision.
Well, you know perfectly well what I meant. If you release a baseball at 10,000 feet here on Earth, it's a weird way to put it but you could say that the ball's objective is to fall towards the Earth. I could have said that there are physical forces that make DNA survive into the next generation and spread. At the end of the day, it's just chemicals interacting. Is this not true? Could have life spread on Earth if it didn't work that way?
Perhaps by permuting your code the system could determine if there was anything that wasn't required to make the test pass and exclude it from the check-in.

I often code three or four commits worth at once when on a roll and it's a pain doing multiple staged adds, stashes, tests, and commits to store each sub-change on its own. Having a tool to help with this would be great.
I presume AirBnB got some money from the person making the booking, so you're probably right that they went in with some plan having had to pay up front (?) for the opportunity.

I'd also be curious (but not enough to look into it further!) to know whether the lister made it clear in their profile that they would not be meeting the renter in person.

Could be a mixture of theft and then opportunistic/drug-fueled mischief. Backtracking, I wonder if someone put a group up to it, or suggested that AirBnB listers could be soft targets - opportunity for the thieves and also for someone putting them up to it.

Short of having the blog post taken down, even if a follow-up is added to the top of the post, this will be very damaging for AirBnB. I've used the site a few times successfully (though ended up thinking it was often more trouble than just using a cheap hotel) so hate to see this happen.
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When they first talked about ultrabooks they showed one that was $999 and said they are going to be "under $1000". Well considering the "under $1000" meant $999 then, I knew they won't be able to hold that price for long. Intel wants ultrabooks to be above $1000, because Intel cares a lot more about profit per unit than they do about volume.

Intel's DNA is to sell expensive chips. This is why ARM will disrupt their low-end/mid-end laptop ranges within the next 2 years, when Chromebooks, Windows 8 machines and even Macbooks will start having ARM chips.

The whole point of the ultra-books was to make reasonably priced, decent performance (ULV chips )but slim and good looking notebooks, but they are now turning them into "premium" notebooks.
At the risk of sounding harsh: it's an incredible failure of time and project management for you to have written your own Python web framework as part of launching a startup.
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> Maybe here's a valid, easy-to-swallow change to the patent system - everytime a patent changes hands you halve the amount of time it is valid for.

Nice idea!

> It's not like they make anything that can be infringed on.

Or, require the patent holder to prove 'damages'. Since they don't make anything and don't actually use their patents there are no damages lost.
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There is no "gaming generation", and while you are not missing out on philosophical discourse by avoiding the Halos and Call of Duty's out there, I think you might be surprised by the intelligence and depth available in other places.
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It would be a good idea to encourage the user to pre-authorise the necessary security stuff before the call is made, I think.
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I know this is a horrible and shocking event, and my thoughts are with the person who has had their life violated, but I feel compelled to comment that you are wrong.

The internet is not "almost run over [with] scam artists, spammers, pedos etc." They are visible and use anonymity to do what they do on the internet, certainly, but it is far from overrun.

Secondly, is it really too risky to be asleep without a locked door between you and the world? That is a scary, closed world to live in. You are also wrong to blame the victim; they say themselves they made a mistake not to do more verification, but the blame can only be on the perpetrator †.

Finally, let's not forget that most sexual assaults and rapes [1] are carried out by friends and acquaintances, so limiting your contact to friends of friends is unlikely to make you significantly safer.

Overall, I think your conclusions are the worst to draw from this attack. Take care, but don't go crazy keeping out the "other".

† It might be useful to make a distinction between casual responsibility and moral responsibility. The victim may have done something that helped cause the attack, but they are not at fault.

[1] According to (admitted a random googling) the American Centre for Victims of Crime, 77% of rapes are committed by non-strangers. http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&...
The thing is you have no guarantee that the Windows binary have been generated after the port was done. Also, no guarantee it's the same source tree and not different forks of the same base.
I don't see what users would have to gain in not going to the police and reporting these crimes. Unless he's implying airbnb is buying their silence
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I believe he meant that IP won over, say, X.25 because OSI stack was overcomplicated. In a same way SMTP (67-page RFC) won over X.400 (a huge book).

Hackers think, write code and then they may consider to document something about it. This is in contrast to engineers, who think, document then implement things.
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The local press here in the UK seems to attract the same sort of vitriol - there was a fairly humdrum story in my local paper the other day about nuisance pigeons in the town centre being culled. It took about twenty minutes for the first comment to appear suggesting the local unemployed and immigrants instead be culled. More seriously, a friend of a friend died during a cycle race a few weeks ago, and it didn't take long for messages to appear saying it was his own fault for taking part.

I'm sure this is great entertainment for the five or ten people who sit on the internet every day, waiting for stories to be published and then posting their spiteful right-wing rants. But for the vast majority of readers, the thousands who visit to look at the news and click on the ads, it's highly likely that the unpleasant messages are offputting, are a blot on the good reputation of the paper and discourage them from visiting again. I visit the sites to read the news, as written by skilled, qualified journalists. I don't visit to read the unmoderated opinions of "BigMan69" in "Britainistan."

I run a tight ship on the local public radio station site I'm in charge of, which publishes local news stories daily--I encourage people to leave their real name if it's at all possible, and anonymous hateful rants are swiftly removed. Station staff also regularly engage in the comment discussions, which seems to help people self-moderate. If they can see that they're being read and responded to by the people writing the stories, they aren't as likely to go off on rants.
Thanks for taking care of it, also good to know they got a suspect.

What can you say on the 24/7 "urgent" line, which sounds like an important feature even for cases less dramatic than this one?
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That's what I would do. I once got a letter from my management company that said, "we are conducting random apartment inspections tomorrow. be aware." This bothered me because I don't really like people in my house, and they didn't give the 24 hours notice required by law. So, I set up some cameras, broadcast it to the Internet, and told my twitter followers to watch my apartment for me while I was at work.

They never showed up.
This actually rings true with my own experience. Let me share an anecdote:

Last year, we built a search service on EC2, which used SQS[1] and SNS[2] as a way of feeding data from our core architecture into the index.

So, user creates/updates/deletes a message, that information gets sent to a particular SNS topic over HTTPS, a subscribed SQS queue receives message, then search index polls the queue.

SQS and SNS are cheap, scalable and highly available, so we thought it was a great system. We knew that messages were going to disappear occasionally, though (network partition, etc), so we had also decided to spend time building a simple API to resolve these issues.

We would occasionally poll the API directly to effectively perform a diff, by storing a hash "fingerprint" of the data with each entry. Fingerprints would be compared, then a full request would be made for any entry which differed.

At some point, we realized that we actually had obsoleted almost the entire SNS/SQS message queuing mechanism by building a system which made API calls inexpensive; so we removed it from the equation.

If you have a situation where a message has to get there (eventually), in our situation at least, it seems an unnecessary extra step.

Would like to hear if anyone else has had a similar (or completely opposite) experience.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/sqs/

[2] http://aws.amazon.com/sns/
I guess the middleware does less and less. You still need notifications, but most of the data can be taken directly from the database.
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Excuse #3 - Isn't it QA's job to test my code?
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It's a lot easier to do routine stuff well than to deal with unique situations like this. AirBnB has done the latter, and has proven again that they're a great organization with excellent customer service. Congratulations and best of luck with resolving everything successfully.