Published in The Airbnb Tech Blog · 10 min read · Nov 11, 2013 -- By Spike Brehm This post has been cross-posted on VentureBeat. At Airbnb, we’ve learned a lot over the past few years while building r
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, details the charges against Liberty Reserve in May (Reuters). Money laundering, that staple of films, both comic and thrill
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I love a good argument. No really! Even ones online. The problem is, so few of them are any good. They tend to go nowhere andoffer nothing of value. They just consist of one side attempting tobrowbeat
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There’s a strain of triumphalism coursing through the blogosphere today, on the grounds that the bonkers wing of the Republican party is going to have achieved exactly none of its own goals, while inf
One in 10 Americans have used a dating site or app, including 38% of people who currently describe themselves as “single and looking,” according to Pew Research Center’s first survey on online dating
Will the usually obscure Internet Engineering Task Force – that open-to-anyone group of engineers who design and keep the ‘net functioning – step up and fight back against mass surveillance? That possibility is now in the air, following a talk in Vancouver today by cryptographer Bruce Schneier (see…
General YC Advice -Ask for help (rather than try to have all the answers) -Everyone is basically scared of everyone else at first -Make a conscious effort to meet everyone in your batch and know his o
By: Brian, Live Free Live Natural. July 29, 2013, a sperm whale was stranded on Tershelling, a northern island in the Netherlands. A rescue attempt was attempted, but unfortunately the whale died. A y
I quit my my last job after a little more than 2 months. Why? Did I jump into a position I was not excited about? No. In fact, I faced major struggles trying to persuade myself NOT to take that offer
Nov 07 2013 At their core, Everpix and Snapchat are both well designed, super hyped software services centered around photography. For the unfamiliar — Everpix is a freemium photo hosting service that
This is probably the most painful bug report I’ve ever read , describing in glorious technicolor the steps leading to Knight Capital’s $465m trading loss due to a software bug that struck late last ye
Julien Nov 3, 2013 Added Flipboard who’s not there yet, but the post valuration of the last round was 850M. fredwilson Nov 3, 2013 that is fine with me because we can and will revisit this list. but i
The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by ov
MongoDB is easy to make fun of. The global write lock (now just a database-level write lock, woo). The non-durable un-verifiable writes. The posts about how to scale to Big Data, where Big Data is 100gb.
It makes more sense when you look at how the underlying storage layer is implemented. Basically,…
Developers seeking to create apps for Google's Glass headset have had limited options so far, but the company will break things wide open during a two-day hackathon -- like the ones held earlier this
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Ron Dollette/Flickr Updated, 4 p.m. This weekend, on a blustery evening, his tummy full of steak and apple tacos, journalist and technologist Dan Sinker embarked on a spiritual journey. Which is to sa
FORTUNE — Pinterest last week announced that it had raised $225 million in new funding, just eight months after raising $200 million. Then came a $60 million raise by Nextdoor, which also had secured capital back in February. And then there is Snapchat, which is seeking new funds a scant four months…
This essay is inspired by this week’s Startup Edition topic, “How do you prioritize?” To do: Respond to support emails Fix bugs Send email newsletter Update pitch deck Write a blog post Update homepag
How to Virally Grow Your Network in 5 Steps I will teach you how to be super connected. 4 min read · Oct 31, 2013 -- Want to be popular online? Want to have a network that is so vast and incredible th
Nokia is switching Dopplr.com off this month (they said 1st November, but as I write, it’s still there…) Marko asked me and Matt B to a pub (somewhere on Charlotte St I think, might have been The Fitz
This is both the craziest and lamest outcome for the three floating mega -vessels covertly assembled by Google. San Francisco's KPIX 5 news team says the barges will serve as private showrooms and floating party zones for rich clientele. A Super-Close Look at Google's Mystery Barge A Super-Close…
Only a few months ago, the tech blogs were marveling at an investment that valued the ephemeral messaging service Snapchat at some $800 million. It's just a silly toy for teens to send naked pictures
WASHINGTON — Government safety rules are changing to let airline passengers use most electronic devices from gate-to-gate.
The change will let passengers read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music — but not make cellphone calls.
The Federal Aviation Administration says airlines can…
October 15, 2013 I know none of my passwords. I tweeted the other day that I no longer know any of my passwords. People seemed to think it was a joke, so I decided I’ll go into a little more depth on exactly how I’m doing it. Okay I think I’ve finally configured by internets for maximum security. I…
Imagine: After months of saving, you fly to Vegas for a little gambling at a new casino. You're not into anything serious: Just some slots, diverting and not too risky. So you play for a few hours, dr
YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according to several sources familiar with the plans. The service, designed with
Last year, when a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit challenging federal secret surveillance provisions, the court relied on assurance by the U.S. Solicitor General that defendants who were prosecuted based on this sort of surveillance evidence would have their own distinct opportunity to…
Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief, on Tuesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple’s much-hyped product demonstrations used to end with an emphatic “wow!” I’m not just talking about the entertainment, lik
As a freelancer or small business owner, you probably know that one of the most pressing issues is late payments and chasing customers months after a job was done. Meet Satago , the online platform wh
If you’ve read my “About Me” section, you may or may not have seen these two little sentences that I squeezed in there:
“I have also been living a sober life for 8 months. Alcohol was playing a huge role in my battle with depression and although it has been tough, especially since I’m in college, I…
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington kicked off his interview with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at Disrupt Europe with the obligatory ragging on Armstrong for firing him, but eventually, he moved on to ask i
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