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Person rents out apartment to an individual who ended up lying to him. Is furious at AirBNB service for some reason.

Does this logic work with other middleman services as well?

Some examples:

* Buy high priced item from (high ranked, but does it really matter?) individual on Ebay, turns out to be fake. Complain that this is Ebay's fault.

* Make some kind of deal on Craigslist. Deal falls through. Claim all the fault of Craigslist.
It's not really in 4D. More like: 4 games at once.
So what's the deal here...is Airbnb going to keep forking over money for everyone who violates the terms of service, not to mention the state law? Is this covered by Airbnb's insurer, or is Airbnb paying this out of pocket because it turned into a social media blowup and it's worth eating the loss?

There's just something about this comedian's indignant attitude that is a real turn off...the way he carefully worded his original post to make it sound like the orgy actually took place, omitting the details that made it clear he prevented the party. And his laughable claim of "this is a family building"...yes, I'm sure the families really appreciate you renting out your apartment to total strangers with no vetting. I wouldn't be surprised if some of this was a setup to provide material for his next comic routine.
I agree completely with that, and did in my first response. Non violent criminals should never see prison.
> Also, ironically, bigamy is not a violation of christian morality;

While the Old Testament contains many examples of polygamy, all of them are neutral or bad examples. Jesus strongly implies that a man should have one wife and Paul explicitly says so, at least for leaders of the church.

From a practical standpoint, widespread polygamy (which usually means polygyny) can lead to imbalances in marriage opportunity between the rich and poor, men and women, young and old, etc. Banning bigamy is a way to regulate the marriage market, in a way. If tax evasion is harmful to society, polygamy is harmful to ugly, poor men.
maybe, except that I try to improve how I do things on every iteration.

i've been finding that it helps me to think about these things in a more concrete manner, so that i can vocalize to myself what I didn't enjoy in the recent experiences.
Maybe her argument is that she's less technical than the engineers (and therefore looked down upon unnecessarily, leading to this article), even if she has to be far more technical than the average person, just to get the job.
This pattern shows up in a great many industries. And not always in favor of engineers.

Almost always, the divide is right along the profit center/cost center line. In finance, traders are revered and engineers are their support staff. In the Air Force, pilots run the show all the way up the chain of command and engineers -- as critical to mission success as they may be -- are support. That's okay. Those jobs can be even more rewarding than working in "tech".

Remember, the same reason you might choose to work as an engineer in $awesome_field is why your ops/admin/qa team came to your company.
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Bigger than government? Arguably at least the military and internal-to-government overhead is a direct parasite on everyone else, and its only value is fighting other parasites (other governments). Some parts of government seem to be very useful, but it's a big enough sector that just the parasite parts are probably the biggest parasite.
I largely agree, but to act as a devil's advocate, what about cases when a police officer needs to resort to more heavy-handed methods when their life is in danger? In a dangerous area, a camera cannot capture the entire environment that a police officer must take in, contextual clues to a possibly dangerous situation drawn from a career of near brushes with disaster. So you might see corner cases where a police officer either (a) disregards their gut feeling to exercise caution and speed when apprehending a suspect because they fear being captured on camera, and the officer is injured as a result, or (b) follows their gut feeling, exercises due caution and speed, perhaps is rough on a criminal who has violent intent, and then must allow the criminal to go free even if that caution was necessary, because the jury was more sympathetic to the video of so-called "brutality" than they were to the officer's justifiable mental model of the situation, which cannot be presented so elegantly.

Would this system work for less dangerous areas? Probably. For more dangerous areas, I wouldn't want to be a police officer and have this forced upon me. Because corner cases here can be deadly.
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Let's rephrase the question. Will a right leaning supreme court make a decision that will potentially cost big business millions if not billions of dollars per year ?

I don't think you need a magic eight ball to answer that one.
Really I have a lot of experience in hr/ir it's a complete CF
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What the hell? Fingers off my beloved MacBook! They spent so much time perfecting it (and continue doing so). I want Apple to do that, not flashy fashion bullshit.
I was the PM who led Outlook for Mac 2011; so I know many, many of those tricks. We rebuilt the thing in Cocoa with an entirely new Exchange client codebase—it was a beast of a project done in a fairly short period of time.

For better or worse, there were a lot of edges we didn't get a chance to smooth out by the ship date though I believe we made reasonably solid trade-off calls based on the team and deadlines we had. Updating the Export feature was one of those trade-offs (it's just not a super frequent user activity); that part of Outlook leveraged code from the much-despised Microsoft Entourage. The app was far from as full-featured as some users wanted (especially Win Outlook switchers) BUT did make enough progress to avoid the backlash of other "rewrites" out there (e.g. Apple Final Cut Pro X).

Little insider history: we did a lot to try and make sure data didn't get locked-in... we really wanted a place where, even if your app crashed, you could always get the data out of the app. During development, we even had builds where the entire underlying database was exposed as XML docs (one per item in your db). We couldn't get the perf we wanted out of that system. We ended-up with Outlook 2011's database which still bites folks from time to time but has a lot more "recoverability" than previous products such as Entourage (where it users often cited being locked-out of their database).
QA, design and management is where I've noticed a greater proportion of women outside of HR. What is it about those roles which makes them amenable to women but not tech?
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I think that's the author's perspective on it (which I don't think is wrong). The way I see this is that lots of geeks are absolute slobs and they leave dirty dishes, food, etc.. on their desks (and their neighbors desks). I regularly see - female - office managers clean up after the slobs by doing their dishes and throwing out their trash. I've never really considered the "mom" aspect of this before. I just view co-workers like that as disgusting and self centered (the bugs they attract into the office impact everyone not just them).
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Which I think is pretty revealing about the state of Twisted and gevent.

I know from experience that gevent is not in a healthy state of maintenance. There have been some recent commits that indicate it might get better eventually, but I would not design new code to use gevent.
Snarky, but the IRS isn't a danger, they'd need to see evidence of a vast fortune before wanting to tax it. Given his lifestyle, they wouldn't look twice at him.
You can also patch the binaries of proprietary software, technically possible, but exactly as unfeasible as your solution when you want to get stuff done.
Very cool, thanks; I've added two-finger swipe for the extra two dimensions.
It's pretty remarkable how the tone here has changed in three years' time. The first ransack-gate led to all sorts of calls for AirBnB to compensate the victim [1]. This time around, people seem to be blaming the guy who rented out the apartment [2].

Aside from the shift in time and the "orgy" angle, the situations are identical. Either HN has dramatically changed, or the collective attitude toward this kind of thing has shifted to a decidedly anti-host (or pro-company?) sentiment. Interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813956

[2] More commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407796
Yeah and sometimes they just drop the ball on the ID check. I didn't have a bill ready that has my physical address on it (none of my bills print this info) so they said they'd send me a piece of mail with a code in it. Never showed up, all attempts to contact them were ignored. Ended up just getting an $8 cert somewhere.

I will say that once you do get into StartSSL (which I have through a previous company), it's nice to be able to create/sign unlimited certs.
I found Rich Hickey's dissection of simplicity to be dynamite as usual: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
for those who think these type of office manager roles are essential I'll just leave this here:

https://37signals.com/remote/
> If you choose to make decisions that hurt you, you must suffer the consequences; it is not the state's place to protect you from yourself.

1. Not ever? Surely you don't think that the age of majority/consent is 0-years-old?

2. Taxation for Military defense falls under that same umbrella! Normally, people would never pay any taxes to support it until they feel threatened... And then it's too late, and they suffer from their own short-sighted penny-pinching. Are you saying the government should not collectively protect them from their own decisions?
You cite a source but it doesn't really back up your claims. "Kubeck and Hazen immediately asked air traffic control for a return to Miami due to smoke in the cockpit and cabin, and were given instructions for a return to the airport. One minute later, Hazen requested the nearest available airport."

I have yet to hear of a single midair aircraft fire that was not reported over comms.
You didn't leave religion or sex out of the discussion, so getting ticked off at someone else's pandering seems a bit hypocritical.
Who keeps pushing this meme? If anything, the worst parasites are lobby groups and politicians.
Yeah, the first time I heard this, I was totally confused: how in the world is it AirBnb's fault that somebody else lied to the guy in this story. AirBnb seems related in only the most tangential of ways.

I'd understand if he wrote: "Yeah, so I rented a place out on AirBnb and the guy renting was dishonest and I got burned; moral of the story: check out your renters." That would be totally rational.

Instead we got: "Yeah, so I rented a place out on AirBnb and the guy renting was dishonest and I got burned; moral of the story: AirBnb is a bad company because this is someones fault, and if it's not me (it couldn't be me) and it's not the renter (he's scary), then it must be AirBnb's!"
Don't even need JS. Just use three CSS transforms.
Thats for AWS which is listed as supported further down the page as Amazon Web Services under the "Developer" section.

The Amazon they list above it is for the consumer store which AFAIK doesn't support MFA yet.
Warren Buffett's Gotrocks anecdote is an interesting take on this: http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/05/news/newsmakers/buffett_fort...
The situation described at the tradeshow in this article has also happened to me, repeatedly and consistently. The difference? I AM technical. I just also happen to be a woman.

I love the tech industry. I've been in it professionally since 1997, and I've run tech startups as a CEO for the past 13 years. And if there's one thing I can count on, it's the consistent, pervasive assumption that I'm not technical.

I hate going to tech events with my fiance (or for that matter, any man), because people will come up to us, acknowledge me, and then ask him brightly: "So why are you here?"

I once thought it would be funny to time it and see how long another person could go talking to only him and not making eye contact with me, even when he mentioned that he was at the event because of me. Current record? 13 minutes. 13 minutes of not looking at me, saying a word, or acknowledging that I was there.

Every male that I've ever told this story to can't believe it until they go to parties and see it in action. It's so consistent, yet it's unbelievable until you see it.

This is what it's like to be a woman in tech, even when you're a technical one. It's assumed that you're non-technical. But don't take that into account and lead with your credentials--whoops, no, that's "aggressive" and you shouldn't do that. Don't go to tech parties with a guy because you're assumed to be "the girlfriend." Don't go alone because you'll get hit on. But don't NOT go to tech parties, because that's where you'll meet investors and other potential contacts.

Being a woman in tech is like walking through a maze with minefields at every turn and never knowing which one you'll hit. I'm here because I love this industry and I couldn't imagine doing anything else. But I hate that my physical appearance and gender connotes so many (invalid and ridiculous) assumptions.
The military has been worse historically surely? At least the financial sector has some function you'd miss if they didn't exist - banks, insurers etc are useful although I'll give you that about half their activities are parasite like. I'm basing that number on Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=...
It does when it comes to not leaving your views in an ugly string representation of html - you use a build process of some sorts to get around that fundamental flaw so that you can still use a nice html template file. That alone was enough to sour me on Backbone, hence the comparison.

This flaw in Angular isn't nearly as deep was my point.
>Is furious at AirBNB service for some reason.

Well, that's the crux of this business; whose responsibility is it, then? If AirBnB facilitates the deal, the liability is at least partially theirs. Otherwise, what's the point of the service? I may as well post to randoms in the classifieds.

And your two examples are nearly identical, but in the first case, eBay WILL take responsibility for the sale, and if you have paid through their payment service (Paypal) you can dispute the transaction. I've done it, and it was seamless.
Only naively. Since the user is incapable of inputing that number of bits, it does not require that number of bits to store. In this case, one need not even be that fancy; a fairly naive sparse algorithm would do fine. It would take a user a long time to have enough tiles laid down for the time to calculate the new board state to even be perceptible, and the computer will still be able to compute the next board state faster than a human can comprehend the effects of the previous move.

Your far, far, FAR bigger problem is UI. :) Again, you need not display all dimensions at once, so you can treat it as an n-dimensional problem, but that still calls for some crazy UI pretty quickly.
I meant both. I've talked to guitarists/electronics engineers who design amps for their guitars, but they're still in use, I think. If my memory serves me well, Marshall still uses them.
> There's just something about this comedian's indignant attitude that is a real turn off...the way he carefully worded his original post to make it sound like the orgy actually took place, omitting the details that made it clear he prevented the party.

Where was it mentioned he'd prevented the party? It sounded instead like he showed up right in the middle of it.
> If tax evasion is harmful to society, polygamy is harmful to ugly, poor men.

It's less than desirable for ugly poor men, but doesn't mean victim. There is no victim involved in not being chosen as a mate by a women. If 5 women choose to marry the rich man, that's a choice between consenting adults and it harms no other party.

No one is victimized by some other people getting married, whether it's because they're gay or because they're polygamists.
Glassdoor annoyed me so much that I wrote my own webapp – lemonfy.com
not true, since WASD move tiles in the 3rd/4th dimensions (try it out)
The financial sector provides no services? What?

If I want to sell my company, the banks sure as hell provide a service. They provide a valuation, put together a pitch book, shop the company around and close the deal.

How is that not a service?
QA seems really split (even in other industries) between non-technical/non-quantitative QA ("we'll react to faults when identified, handle customer communications, etc.) and highly technical, highly quantified QA (the whole TDD crowd, SEI, etc.)

Even in stuff like pharma, you have people who want to do manual physical inspection and handling recalls, vs. people who want to build statistical controls. Somewhere in between there are human-executed procedure development.

Design seems like a clear case of the "designer pipeline" not having big roadblocks to women anywhere from birth to being a competent designer, unlike (until the past 10 years) some more math-based fields. Pure print design and art are fairly gender balanced, so there was a pool of people there when computer design became a thing; it's probably more likely a great generalist designer early in career would learn about computers and become a computer designer, vs. a math programmer becoming a designer.

Manager, no idea.
This is really great!

I'd be very interested in the data and the code behind the generator function. I'd love to integrate it with my bracket-generator module (which is very basic and only does lower seed, higher seed, and random currently).

https://github.com/tweetyourbracket/bracket-generator
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Software patents might not be so bad if 1) Patents didn't cost much nor required renewals and expedited service fees, and all that crap; 2) were first to invent, not first to file; and 3) officers at the USPTO actually had a clue and didn't hand out patents for trivial things like wildcard matching with a `*` character (yes, that happened just a few years ago).
Lebron James does not make 10 times the contributions of the other players, but he makes the team incredible. The number attached to the 10x engineer is largely bullshit as well as not measurable. I've worked with engineers who make everyone around them much more productive through excellent library code or laying down dope infrastructure that everyone else can leverage. I've also worked with engineers who mentor other engineers extremely well giving those productivity gains in turn. That doesn't mean she is slinging ten times the code or tickets or whatever every one else on the team is; she is just enabling productivity gains by being an excellent team player. The notion of 10x is a misnomer at best and at worst cause people to focus on other measures that are ultimately meaningless...leading to burnout.
Didn't the pilot have a penchant for allowing attractive young girls into the cockpit? That's was front page news here in the UK.
To be fair, I think that part of the reason he's salty at AirBNB is because 'David' was a verified user and vouched for by AirBNB. It seems like there was a level of endorsement from AirBNB to indicate that 'David' was on the level, and that turned out to not be the case at all. So it's less like buying something on craigslist, having the deal fall through, and claiming that it's the fault of craigslist; it's more like buying something from Amazon through a third party and then complaining to Amazon that the item wasn't advertised honestly. While I don't buy a lot of stuff from Amazon third party sellers, I believe Amazon does offer some level of protection for the consumer.
Lets just be really clear about one thing, focus related drugs have been pretty common in academia and highly intellectual professions for decades now. Similarly, drugs like Ritalin are legal in Israel and can be had by anyone if they just get a script from a doc (no need for a diagnosis). In the long run I think we as a society need to grow up about this stuff, as use of some of these meds in moderation is fine either for light occasional use by those without severe focus issues, or prescription based moderate use by those that have ADHD.

Instead of sitting around and writing articles about 'omg millions of college kids and high intellectual work professionals take drugs, holy shit no one has ever taken drugs to create things before!', we just need to get real and be responsible about the reality. Don't stigmatize it, and allow people to responsibly explore the option with their doctors and see what works. Now if you disagree with this approach, you must argue that the health effects of moderate use is too severe, or the medication gives people an unfair advantage.

As far as changing careers, sure, that's an option an individual can explore. If they feel like they can deal with life acceptably with some medication, what's wrong with that? Are they assholes now? Frauds? Phillip K Dick was a anphetamine abuser (which no one advocates), but incredible writer. I would never dare suggest someone limit their potential if there are options they can reasonably try.
It's on WordPress.com now, so just find what you want to RSS ingest and add feed/ to the end of it. Case in point; if you want all of Down Goes Brown:

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It might not work for everything, but it should work for a lot of things.
This is an opinion and not based on any real evidence.
I agree with you, and I regret posting this now. I found the article shocking, and I wanted to elicit some comments from this community. But now I see that it's better to leave articles like this out than to thrust them on others.
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It's a populist call to arms. You'll be seeing a lot more of it over the next few years, expanding ever more loudly toward the rich, wall street, bankers, and corporations, with calls for much higher tax levels and minimum wage. The Fed's asset bubble-based fake recovery did absolutely nothing for the bottom 50%, but has vastly increased the wealth of the top 10%, the future social consequences of that are obvious.
Here is one I have not seen listed in this discussion:

https://grouptalent.com/welcome/
Yes, I do.

I think it's perfectly fine to objectify a role though... An accountant is an object after all.
You can be a parasite and still provide a service, no?
>stealing from your fellow citizens who are paying their taxes.

You are confusing who is stealing from whom.
So, you're advocating putting cigarette manufacturers in jail? If not, why not?
> extremely addictive and harmful drugs

Like alcohol? Should we make it illegal again to protect its victims?