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Not sure about linkedin. First of all you need an employer subscription to see the data for all the users. Also, for most of the users the data they put on linkedin is not very structured. It is mostly the dates of employment and sometimes a very general description about them. The features that can distinguish such a site is that candidate data can be open and there is more structure to it and the primary purpose of the site is getting a job rather than business networking.

I think there is a need for a reverse job portal which is open. So candidates can post their resumes, profiles, videos etc. to this portal and also select the categories or companies for which they want to be considered. Any employer can search for the candidates on this portal and contact them.

The idea is that the data is open and not in control of a job portal. There can be some security measures to keep the data safe and stop the spammers.

Not sure if something like that is already there.

It is becoming so typical of the modern society to try to put spin on everything for our own narrow benefit rather than trying to get to the root cause and fix it.

This is another glaring example of it. A month after such a gruesome incident, nothing at all has been done by AirBnB. But they have gone out of their way in trying to put a positive spin on this whole sordid episode in order to protect their precious funding. When will somebody from AirBnB step up and say that we take responsibility for what happened and will do whatever it takes to help the victim and fix the system so that something like this does not happen again rather than wasting their efforts in trying to put a positive twist to this story? Doing such a thing will help them much more in the longer term than trying to simply sweep this story under the carpet.

Its a scary thought to have one company control almost all the data for a user. Just think what kind of data Google is collecting using their search engine, adsense, gmail, chrome etc. And now if they have users also move their social circles to Google+, it will give them almost complete information about a person. This is for them THE missing piece of the puzzle to tie everything together. Just for this single reason, I am never going to join Google+ however fancy and cool those circles look like.

With internet almost run over by all kinds of scam artists, spammers, pedos etc. is there any surprise that such a thing can happen? You have crackers trying their level best to install keyloggers and other tools to read the passwords to your accounts. And in this environment if you hand over the key of your apartment to some complete stranger, I think the writer should also take some blame for his naivety. Just because airbnb is current flavor of the month it does not mean you throw your basic common sense out the door.

Even if you are present in an apartment yourself, it is still too risky to allow a complete stranger to sleep in the room next to you. How much verification can be done by you or airbnb? The Norwegian shooter had no criminal history that could have been caught by any verification. So how can you be comfortable with allowing a stranger into your home with no verification done at all from your side?

I think there should be a service which will allow you to rent the room only to your friends or to friends of friends but no further than that. This friend list can be from facebook, linkedin or Google+. This will reduce the chances of getting a rental but give peace of mind that you are not letting some hardened criminal into your home.

Only when there is nothing interesting for me on the front page. But then I first go to the Ask section, if nothing interesting there only then venture to the new section.

Would love to read Hacker news in a similar format.

Any suggestions on the best way to read hacker news on iPad? I tried Flipboard and Feedly but not very happy with them.

The last peaceful bastion in the world has been take over.

Again, instead of trying to some how address the genuine issues raised by the original blog post, people are going to create unnecessary controversy around it till the issue is forgotten. People can't see the forest for the trees. The main issue is that there is rampant cheating going on in the educational institutions. That's where the focus of the universities should be not on issuing these cease and desist letters.

I think Reliance might be the most eager to implement this ban as they have interest in entertainment business thru BIG cinemas and AdLabs. But still what a bunch of idiots this govt is. Trying to show its stupidity to the whole world. Rather than trying to do something useful like bringing billions of dollars of black money stashed abroad they are wasting their time on these useless things.

How about providing a github like interface on top of dropbox? Has anybody done this? The best thing about this will be that 2GB of storage is free from dropbox which is quite sufficient for most of the needs.

Very good and balanced article overall. The hatred of each other has become so deep rooted in both the countries and the mutual suspicion so strong that it is too late that the relationship can be changed. But we still owe it our next generation to work towards peace so that the wealth that belongs to them does not get spent in keeping up the needless hostility. We cannot let the past ruin the lives of the poorest people in the world who live in this region. It is time for the Pakistani people to call a spade a spade. They cannot take refuge anymore in the filmsy excuses and their needless obsession with Kashmir anymore. If they don't do anything now and continue to behave as they have done till now for the last 60 years, it will be too late. Pakistan as a nation is literally on its last breath and it needs an immediate shock treatment by its own people if it wants to survive. India will continue to grow and survive but it is Pakistan whose survival at stake. If Pakistani people continue to behave like ostriches with their heads in sand, then they will have only themselves to blame and not any of their make believe enemies like US or India.

Finally a well balanced article after a week of non stop hyping of Google+. Google+ is just trying to do what Facebook is already doing with a few new features added to make it distinctive. Nothing really innovative or ground breaking. It is just the early adopter crowd trying to make the masses using Facebook feel inferior for still using it.

Regarding the circles concept, if I need to share something with a certain group of my contacts, I will prefer Email or Dropbox rather than putting it on some social network whether it is facebook, google+ or twitter.

If I ever have a company, I will have one email address -

thebuckstopshere@mycompany.com

I will then use a service like Amazon Mechanical Turk like to distribute the emails to proper internal addresses.

I think it is actually a good point. Because there is very little liquidity for facebook stock at the moment and no way to short the stock, it is very easy for 2 or 3 investors to collude and just for $6.5 million, increase the stake of other investors by billions of dollars.

This is also what happens in real estate markets in some cities in India. 2 or 3 property brokers (real estate agents) will come together to buy a plot of land at double the existing price and create a lot of hype in newspapers around that. And with a small investment they increase the value of their portfolio many fold. Something like this can be happening here also as FB is still not public.

So criticism of Google, Facebook or Groupon is ok on HN. But criticism of a no named startup is not ok on HN. And it was not a criticism of that startup but it was just of the wordings in their job ad. What kind of censorship is this? On top of that there is no explanation of why the post was deleted.

Land of the free? I don't think so.

True, if you are incompetent enough to expose your most sensitive data on the internet yourself, why do you expect others to come to your aid. Even if Google does not index it, what is stopping other search engines from indexing or hackers to get access to it directly. There are lot of tools which will automatically index all the content of a website with the click of a button. So I think it is best to put the onus on the website collecting the user data to protect it. If they cannot, then maybe they should just use some third party authentication and minimize the amount of sensitive data that they need to keep on their servers.

Sosasta means "so cheap" in Hindi. Maybe they are too cheap to spend any effort on security of their users' data.

Oops, thanks. I have changed the main text also.

Had to happen one day. Is it a good idea for companies to try to use their abundant spare CPU capacity for mining? If there is an intelligent client that does not impact the existing operations of a server but can run on lower priority then what is the harm in making some extra money on the side to cover the cost of operations. The client can be intelligent enough to understand if it makes sense to actually do the mining based on its estimate of how much effort is needed to get some good returns. In case too much processing is required which it does not have or is bigger than a certain threshold it can wait for the conditions to become more favorable.

Liked this line from the blog -

Some employees are busy figuring out ways to impress their female colleagues using the resources provided by the organization rather than learning and solving problems in a better way.

So these companies are atleast good for something. Giving their male employees opportunities to hone their flirting skills.

If Amazon succeeds with this now then this will be a really good example to disprove the concept of the first mover (or maybe in this case hundredth mover) advantage forever.

This being USA, can the thief sue this guy for violating his privacy? Is the violation of privacy for those 3-4 individuals for a month less valuable than the price of Macbook in the eyes of law?

Hopfully you will be able to bring it back soon. SearchYC.com is the best way to search the treasure trove that HN has become.

Coincidentally I was watching this video from Google I/O yesterday where someone asked Joe Kraus a very similar question and his answer was a clear no.

http://ontwik.com/startup/how-to-get-your-startup-idea-funde...

What about your loyal users? Are they supposed to fend for themselves now? These types of exits create bad precedents for other startups and will make customers wary of using services from the newer companies.

How about open sourcing some of your code if possible?

That would have been so cool. Now thats a movie I want to see.

I agree that Google is within its right to deny them lunch, shuttle services or whatever fancy perks they dish out to their regular employees. But what I can't understand is the discrimination that Google is perpetrating against them by denying them the basic human privilege of talking to another human being.

As employees Vic Gundotra or Marissa Mayer will be knowing more company secrets than these guys will know in their lifetime. Do they also have a phone number on the back of their badge to call if somebody unknown approaches them? Are they also prevented from talking to other employees so that they don't leak those secrets? Why is Google afraid that only the yellow badges cannot keep the company secrets? What if their supervisor simply tells them that what they are working on is a company secret. Like almost any other employees why Google thinks they can' keep it a secret? Why do they have to impose this almost draconian measure of human segregation only for them?

Lots of people are commenting that maybe the yellow badges might be working on something secretive that Google does not want them to share with others. But this does not make sense for 2 reasons - 1) I am pretty sure there will be some software engineers in Google who are currently working on something secretive but they will not be under these draconian restrictions of not to talk to others or call the security immediately if a fellow Googler approaches them.

2) These ppl can go home and can talk to their spouses, their friends etc. and let them know what they are working on. So making sure that they don't talk to anyone in Google during their office hours is not going to help keep their projects secretive.

So there has to be some other angle to this story which does not involve secretiveness of their projects.

But then how do you explain the overreaction from Google which led to the firing of this guy. There has to be something which Google was trying desperately to keep secret.