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I always see these people commenting on how they don't see the value in Airbnb. I've gotta say, after staying at a few places, I don't see the value anywhere else.

* Hilton Worldwide has yearly revenues of $9.7b.

* Marriott International has yearly revenues of $11.8b.

* Best Western has yearly revenues of $6b.

Now, I don't know what their current revenues are. Based on how many people from all over the US I've spoken to that use them frequently already, I'd assume they're growing at a decent clip. Furthermore, they have virality on their side, where their competitors just plain don't. It takes years to open a new hotel. If Airbnb wants to deploy to Casper, WY, they only have to make the effort insofar as basic background checks. If they want to do a stronger deployment, they find maid services and anything else they might need to support local hosts.

Furthermore, as much as there are local law issues in places like NYC against them, I don't anticipate those lasting long or having a large effect on their revenues. The same way that if you're in Uber's way you get painted as being anti-jobs, Airbnb gets to say the same thing. And that's in the few places that have them.

I think they've got a long way to grow. I look at $13b, and part of me thinks that might even be soft, especially if they look into starting their own hotels, to provide a higher 'minimum' to a given city, which allows Airbnb to maintain itself as a premium brand(as yet, I've never stayed or heard anyone else staying anywhere that wasn't a much better deal than anything else nearby), even if their prices don't reflect it.

Remember: These valuations aren't for what a company is currently worth. Otherwise, there's no point to investment. They valuations are for where they see the company going, and more probably, growing past.
"... C++ and C developers are few today."

In a web/js/Ruby/mobile echochamber that may be true. But in the real world C/C++ is very far from being a minority skillset. Take a look at [1][2][3]. C, C++, and Java are the main languages in use today.

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

[2] http://langpop.com

[3] http://lifehacker.com/the-top-programming-languages-ranked-b...
If you have loads of engineers, special hardware of your own (ARM), and secret insights into other hardware from your suppliers (Intel), then I can see it could make a lot of sense.

That doesn't mean it's a nice thing to do. Was this derived originally from FreeBSD code? This could be why the GPL is a good thing.
Original discussion, about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348025
Before the 6, I had a 5 and I must admit I wasn't fond of the size difference at first. However, after using it for a couple of hours it was brilliant. Just the right size for a "bigger screen" in my opinion.

A friend went for the 6+ and after using it for half an hour I hated it. But again, that's preference.
Ebola can spread only after a person begins to show symptoms. And that takes ~21 days. Or putting it straight, for it to spread from one person to another it would take 21 days of period in between getting infected and spreading it to others.

Though the growth of number of patients with Ebola is definitely exponential. Please note it takes 21 days for the each multiplication to happen. It started in March and has been been spreading since, 10K is pretty large for a 7 month period.

>>but the sky isn't falling just yet.

In things like this you won't know when the sky will start falling apart. And generally when that happens its already too late, and you would be staring at a pretty big damage.

No body knows how many people have been infected, or will be infected in the next multiplication.

Which is why WHO suspects ~1.4 million could get infected by January. By then it would be too late.
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Getting maths correct is actually a hard problem to solve. Reading the problems that engineers have had over the years with floating point numbers will give you an insight into the situation.

http://floating-point-gui.de/xkcd/

A good quality math library that is optimised to take advantage of new processor extensions whilst still being correct is worth a lot.

I would imagine that there is a lack of engineering time to make this open source, rather than some nefarious purpose.
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You said they had the most interesting project. That's less uncertainty in your life. They are giving you a shot: even less uncertainty in your life. What do you have from the other companies? Interest, but still uncertainty.

Always move away from uncertainty.

Edit: taking your update into consideration, still move away from uncertainty and take the (next best) offer at the place that suits you best. What could you do in a week anyway? Or what could you learn about their processes in a week? A good test drive takes a month.
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Yup. There's ample data from metrocards and security cameras to follow his route. The more difficult challenge would be finding everyone he had come in contact with on those trains since data granularity of which cars he took would likely be unspecific.
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nginx/1.4.1 (Ubuntu)

(edit: non sequitur)
> a fairly sophisticated client side application
is it actually an full blown IMAP client? Most likely it uses AJAX to fetch JSON from Google's proprietary APIs
> you may not be evil, but it would be logical to think that your ambitions coincided with a few of the ambitions/priorities of the Naval Surface Warfare Lab.

As a threshold matter, I don't think developing new technologies for the purposes of defending the country is "evil." Besides that, perhaps the majority of the military's interests coincide with those of the public as a whole. The technology that helps stabilize injured soldiers in the field so they can be brought back into a hospital also helps people who have been in serious car accidents. The military's need for survivable, distributed, communications infrastructure gave rise to the internet. Its work into reconnaissance and attack drones is giving rise to the delivery drones Amazon is looking to put into the market.

Medicine, logistics, automation, data analysis, communications, etc, are all areas that the military has a huge interest in, but those areas also happen to have extensive, totally innocuous purposes.
I'm wondering whether they are using bandit algorithms to mitigate this

edit: probably yes - http://www.quora.com/What-large-tech-companies-use-variants-...
The FB stock dive was largely emotional investing and happens every time when you get an IPO of a brand the general public identify with. I saw it hit about 19 and bought, even if a bit too timidly. I don't think you can read too much into that initial cock up RE facebook's value.
To really disrupt anything vision comes first. Think about google, facebook, amazon, spaceX, etc.

Then, to optimize, learn how the market works.
As I understood it, it's not the credentials per se you have the problem with, it's the way people bring them up. You two might be talking about different kinds of people.
Facebook is a free website, and it has massive technical advantages over all its competitors. It's integrated everywhere, the feature set is incredible, and it basically dictates our model of online social networks.

Airbnb ultimately depends on how much renters, and indirectly seekers, are willing to pay. Its brand is not as well established as Facebook's (at least in my country). If a compelling alternative came up with lower fees, what would that mean to Airbnb? I'm not sold yet on its permanence.
Market in London is pretty good at the moment.
He's an end user, not a programmer. He doesn't care about your pedantic terminology. He's asking for us to come up with a better solution.

What you are looking for is a windows manager or theme, not an underlying OS

He most certainly is not. There's a lot more wrong with Linux than just the window manager, which is easily changed. Graphics and wireless drivers, for instance. The impossibility of maintaining a system without falling back on the command line for another. Dear god, the audio subsystems. And there are more.

I feel for the OP because I'm in the same boat. I don't want to use Windows because it's too bloated and uses an ancient filesystem. I don't want to use OS X because each release it gets a little less stable and the performance is erratic. I don't want to use linux because of the weeks I inevitably lose trying to get my NVidia card to work.

Unfortunately, I don't think yet another OS is going to help. The lack of graphics and wireless drivers will still plague it. Even if we start now, it'll be years before it reaches parity with the other major OS's, if it ever does. It'll need its own package scheme for applications (linux's is too complex and OS X's is too proprietary). Unfortunately, this means we'll have to convince app developers to support yet another OS target, which will be a major political undertaking.

The current solutions work well enough that it's hard to justify yet another OS.
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Are we honestly surprised? Apple has a history of being quite hostile to consumers despite their image as a trendy company. Nothing they do is done unless there's an actual threat to their bottom line, whether it's finally offering larger screens for the iPhones, finally making iTunes (partially) DRM free or closing up code/eliminating venues for cross compatibility.

Apple is about anti competitive as they get.
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I found this to be the case as well. Especially on a busy system where there are a lot of events, when you're trying to find the cause of an issue and constantly opening and closing logs, the lag is definitely noticeable.
Apple was involved in a similar 'honey pot' case in the 1980s [1], only with computer code instead of place names on a map.

(The description below is from memory; I can't find the court opinions on-line, and I think the honey pot was discussed only in the trial court's opinion, not on appeal.)

Back in the day, Franklin Computer Corp. made a clone of the Apple ][. Franklin claimed to have used a clean room [2] to develop its own ROM and OS, without copying Apple's code.

Apple disassembled the Franklin executable --- and they knew exactly what they were looking for: One of the Apple programmers had created a no-op variable and set its value to be his own name. (He didn't just put his name into a comment in the source code, because of course that would have been stripped out during the build process and wouldn't have made it into the executable code.)

So guess what Apple found in the Franklin code .... That's right: The Apple programmer's name in the no-op variable.

Franklin then changed its position and admitted that they'd copied Apple's code, but claimed (unsuccessfully) that doing so was not infringement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankli.... [Note: The period in the URL might mess things up when you click on the link.]

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
The first striking thing is the diagrams have a "magic box" ("Global Front End") that turns serial code into threaded code. Skeptical. On the other hand, they claim they've had $125M funding, taken 7 years, have filed numerous patents, and have (at least a picture of) working hardware. Interesting times.
Please read up on Ebola. It is only contagious when the patient is experiencing symptoms, not earlier. He got fever Thursday morning.
So he knew better, just hackers have no idea. "Since returning, he had been taking his temperature twice a day". Or maybe they just cannot read. So no, they don't have to disinfect the bowling area. But people are hysterical, so they did.

Even the NY Times got it right this time: "People infected with Ebola cannot spread the disease until they begin to display symptoms, and it cannot be spread through the air."
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what about future competition? what's to stop 100 other people starting similar websites?
You need look at the growing data.
Maybe the number of people that know c or c++ are more for the ages of the languages itself.
Try to look any statistics about github[1] [2]

[1] http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/05/02/github-language-tren...

[2]http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2014/02/repos...
Apple keeps touting itself as the only company able to offer such end to end integration between hardware/software/services. If this is true, it would be nice to see them make a real effort to open more of it's code base to help improve the software ecosystem overall. Hell, they could open source all of OSX and I doubt it would have any effect on their overall revenue/market position, while gaining them serious brownie points in tech circles. I know it's not a huge incentive, but a geek can dream.
I have an opposite sort of experience: I can't learn things fast enough if they aren't mathematical in nature. I used to think programming was disgusting because of Python(heard Java is even worse) till I came across Clojure. I immediately appreciated how the latter imitates pure math so well :) Never going back to Python. Once in a math mindset, learning anything imperative is painful.
Is moving to somewhere like London an option for him? There's a lot of demand for good developers in London and the companies tend to not discriminate. I'm talking about more established companies especially.
Source: I previously worked for a company that hired a 55 year old developer.
Hate to break the news to you, but that's how every modern x86-64 processor works.
The hash is not for cryptographic purposes, it's to detect corrupt downloads. Ideally you should provide both the hash and you should pgp sign your releases.
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In Europe the term "executive" when applied to a job title may mean something different to your perception. e.g. a Sales Executive is less senior than a Sale Manager.
I wonder how many data processing bachelor degrees were awarded by the subset of postsecondary institutions that were accredited at the college level by an agency recognized by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education. prior to 1990? Thousands seems unlikely, but I don't have any data.
What an uncharitable response to someone who had a legitimate revelation and used it as a catalyst for personal growth! Software development is intimidating to outsiders - of course it's a privilege to be on the inside. (Or at least it appears that way.) This isn't a complaint about an unlevel playing field - it's an awakening on how to get better at doing something you love.
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Not a single occurrence in the 154 previous comments of the words rape or rapist. I remember when that number would be 30 or higher. I guess it's not so believable anymore?

edit: voted down to zero but with no responders. :-)

/me waves to the NSA propagandists & apologists among us. I remember when many of us would have labeled that a whacky conspiracy theory, not so very long ago. Now we have the evidence that we were wrong we should remind each other of it whenever these stories come up.
Critical mass.
DRM in iTunes was solely at record companies request. Not an Apple choice. This has been repeatedly covered before.

http://news.cnet.com/Apples-Jobs-calls-for-DRM-free-music/21...

I would argue that Apples strength is it's ability to make daring technology choices which drives the whole market forward. (Adoption of USB, dropping floppies, CDROMs, introducing iPhone, iPad) and in the long run that is very pro-consumer.
thats what I thought of when I saw this.
I don't even have an esoteric setup and every time I want to read logs I'll have to wait 30 secs. Even though there is absolutely no activity.
I think this explains why I hated school.
Great, ANOTHER cloud storage startup...
Having had a bit of empathy during my college years, I spent a lot of time complaining about how my instructors and my program leaned heavily on the fact that a large percentage of students would be hobbyists, and used that as an excuse to not teach.

I'm sure it would have been easier to lean on the fact that I'm the son of two computer programmers, always had a computer (and various manuals) in the house, and started learning C when I was 10 - and to look at the plight of people who were less fortunate than me as a "first world problem", as education and employment are normally rarely described.

>But still, we should all take a moment to recognize the plight of the comfortable, generally satisfactory lives of those among us struggling silently with the burden of "technical un-privilege."

Because everybody who goes to college must come from comfortable, generally satisfactory lives - they all must have grown up with the internet, owned computers, went to good schools, and couldn't have come from crushing poverty or from the third world. They must have all been exactly like you, except lazy.

I must be misunderstanding your post, because it seems exceptionally cruel, in an cocky, stupid way.
Unfortunately it seems to me that consulting is not really a thing in Spain.

There are a lot of consulting jobs, but they are usually the domain of consulting companies (known as "cárnicas", meat factories, among developers), that do little more than acting as a middlemen between the hire and the actual company, pocketing the substantial difference between the consulting fees and paid salary.

But I work in a more traditional environment and possibly this is different in the case of web development.
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Quarantine is not imprisonment, and is certainly not illegal. In fact, it is customary if you, for example, sail a boat from one country to another.

The point here is that it's not clear that there's a reason to enforce a quarantine- yet. But if it becomes clear, then we need to have the balls to do it.
The other interesting thing is that the NVidia Denver 64 bits core is also supposed to do some dynamic code optimization to map ARMv8 machine code to an optimized representation running over a very wide implementation. I'm sure the details are very different, but from a very high point of view it's two companies claiming to extract higher IPC and performance/power efficiency with some form of code translation running on top of a very wide underlying implementation.

And in a slightly different way, Apple CPUs seem to be very wide and have a very good efficiency (no talk about dynamic code adaptation though).

Maybe there's something cooking, with different people independently coming from different angles toward some new rough optimum? We'll see. I'm more interested in Denver right now, we'll get the Nexus 9 soon with real benchmarks to see the actual potential.
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I wonder how many more are going to try to copy a model that doesn't work for small companies
This is such an excellent example of how to actually approach what you don't like about another project. It also has the potential of actually being really useful (despite the name): there are lots of _good_ bits in systemd which are out of reach for people who disagree with so much else in it.

I really hope this takes off.
The problem with graphics and wireless drivers on Linux are that the manufacturers choose not to bother supporting their hardware on Linux. That's not really a problem with Linux.
But it does solve their biggest issue - ultimately enabling Unity projects to publish to the web without plugins (WebGL / javascript).

Once all code in a Unity project eventually ends up as C++ (even if it started as C#), they can leverage Emscripten, asm.js and related technologies to enable Unity devs to use C# in the editor, which is converted to C++, and ultimately Javascript. It seems crazy, but it might just work!
I spent my morning bus-ride wondering about this and my conclusion is that there's not much to say ... I wouldn't want that job and I doubt that anyone else would either. The question of why we feel guilt and/or whether we should is a bit ambiguous:

1) If I'm viewing moderated content, how do I even know that? And should I feel guilty for only being shown that which meets certain guidelines? I'd say no. If I'm disturbed by something I see on the Internet, should I assume it's unmoderated content and/or somebody didn't do their job? I don't.

2) If I'm running a business and feel the need to provide moderators, should I feel guilty that they're exposed to the content that's deemed unfit? Assuming I'm paying them what a wage that's mutually acceptable, I don't think so. If the wage wasn't acceptable given the job, people would simply work elsewhere. If I'm seeing high turn-over, that might indicate these employees decide the job isn't worth the psychological trauma only after they've spent time working. Should I help these workers maintain their sanity (through training, counselling, etc as well as designing the systems to minimize the content's impact)? Absolutely! Should I pay them more than the market rate? That doesn't really fix any mental issues the job is causing, it just locks employees into a role they can't take longer.

3) If I'm posting content that needs to be moderated, should I feel guilty that someone has to moderate the garbage I'm spewing? Nope ... I'm the five percent or so of the population that rarely considers the consequence of my on-line actions! In fact, I find it funny to cause other humans discomfort (excuse me while I go DOX the latest underage rape victim).

So the problem is that those who are guilty will never be stopped, and can't easily be blamed. Those in the middle have decided to apply quality standards (which might mean moderation) and are probably clinging to razor-thin profits (if they're not just burning VC money) and it's simply a business decision - do I make more with moderation or without. And those of us viewing any given web page don't know whether or not moderation has happened.

I think it's a lousy answer but my opinion is that there are a lot of jobs in this category - jobs that people don't really want to do. Does anyone really want to be a garbage-man? If you watch "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, I think you find quite a few that aren't desirable but are made viable by the market.

Sorry for the long non-answer!
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If you maintain a social graph database with a billion+ nodes, a feature like this will be a great tool for determining the more relevant relationships among users.
I'm not currently using Linux, so I might be wrong, or misunderstanding what you're trying to do, but could you just have journald write to syslog?

ForwardToSyslog=yes in /etc/systemd/journald.conf.
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Yup, EC2 instances should be issuing a gratuitous arp on startup. I've seen the same thing on subnets with a lot of DHCP churn due to constantly rebooting embedded devices.
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Thread on their latest release: https://forums.darknedgy.net/viewtopic.php?id=4659

Still very early days though.