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Airbnb intentionally obscures the exact location - for privacy reasons, I believe. It makes much more sense to do this for a suburban neighborhood.

If the rentals number in the search results is correct, Boulder, CO has 1,864 listings on Airbnb. The population is somewhere around 104,000 people, with around 42,000 households. …

This is particularly true in sports. There is a chapter in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers all about it.

Are you talking about this TED "presentation"? http://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_why_google_glass?langua... Don't bother watching it. TLDR; Sergey stands awkwardly on stage for …

I've got a Roku HD (model 2500X) and just did some measurements: Starting up: 3.5W Sitting idly on menu screen: 3.15W Sitting idly on screen saver: 3.3W Streaming Arrested Developm…

I've heard over and over that Boulder (county, which is around 300,000 people) is #1 in the country for software jobs per capita - but unfortunately I don't have a tangible source …

Corporations get taxed ~15% + 14% hotel tax. Individuals get taxed ~30% already on their Airbnb income (plus Airbnb charges the guest 6%-12% and the host 3%). If they're going to c…

MapQuest - Denver, CO Looking for junior/mid level Rails & javascript developers. 9-5, great benefits, & excellent team. Email: ryan.wanger@mapquest.com

Blocking any spam that contains a link is helpful, for sure, but doesn't get everything. Every few months I see waves of comments like: "Really graet article. We need more people l…

You won't use a site that doesn't have a favicon?

...assuming that thieves will actually be punished.

It blew my mind when I learned about d-pad patents for video game consoles. Ever wonder why Playstation had to use that awkward combination of 4 arrow-like things pointing towards …

I don't understand why people think it's fair to criticize a move like this without offering a plausible alternative that will sustain the business. Sure, letting other people buil…

In a support email, someone demanded that we refund his money because our app was a piece of crap. The app has always been free. I told him this and he retorted that he had jail br…

I'm sure there is a market for this, but that saddens the non-consumer in me (that someone would feel as though they can't wear the same piece of clothing more than once).

If you seek only comments to agree with the post, go to Reddit. If you seek only comments that disagree with the post, go to Hacker News. Frankly, both have been a HUGE turnoff for…

Just saw this one: http://www.missilebases.com/denver It was flooded for years (isn't currently), and would be insanely expensive to refurbish.

Can you elaborate on what isn't interesting to you about this show? What you described is nearly the same thing, only following YC instead.

Also, in a lot of costal cities, you can get on a scheduled floating casino, sail 7 miles out to sea, and start gambling.

Interestingly, a lot of people who were making a living from online poker WERE paying taxes on that money. Come April 15th, the IRS doesn't care how you got it.

Boulder, CO Not sure if this is appropriate here (please let me know if not), but over the last two weeks I put together a page of over 50+ jobs in Boulder across 20+ companies. Mo…

Incredible. I thought you were going to link to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awK0NrgHUbk