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I used traceroute to check where prizes.org is hosted. It runs on slide.com, which belongs to Google.

The TOS also state the following:
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http://prizes.org/tos
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Am I alone in thinking this mildly disgusting mix or prejudice, xenophobia, personal opinions and pop research has no place on HN ?
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"The jurisdiction we have over these sites right now really is the use of the domain name registry system in the United States. That's the key."<p>How far does US jurisdiction stretch? Will this alienate other nations and impair international co-operation for the sake of a failing business mode?
Slide seems to be operating as an independent operation just funded by Google at this point (I mean, their other app is a group texting service that debuted on iOS and has absolutely zero integration with Google services/Google's other group texting service that just was released). While that is a interesting strategy, it really makes Google appear scattershot. Especially since Slide's products all reek of buzzwords and are almost stereotypically Silicon Valley startup products. If this is the plan, why didn't Google just invest heavily in Slide instead of acquiring them? Because right now Slide's main recent success has been creating awkward headlines for Google.
If you only care about the integrity of your server FTP is (can be) perfectly fine. If you actually care about people downloading your software, add GPG signatures (note that SSL+certificates doesn't work well if you want to have many mirrors, which is common). Where exactly is the issue?
Come to think of it, my first calculus book (back in the 70s) was a comic book--"Prof. E McSquared's Calculus Primer"

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If you foster a positive community relationship, you don't get hurt as bad by it. I don't think its really worth the struggle. (See Swype for example, people would just like for them to take their money, I still don't know if you can buy it yet.)
Working hard and hoping you get noticed by the right people is how just about everybody gets ahead, regardless of reproductive organs. She didn't sidestep a thing.

To be honest, this really seems like a sort of True Scotsman style argument to me. A woman handily succeeds where the "glass ceiling" theory says she shouldn't, but this is explained away as "her example doesn't count".
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That's like saying that a resource is implicitly non-restful because its state might change.

If a book is added, the page=x resource is simply outdated and should be refreshed.
I'm not sure enough people on reddit are on twitter for this to be a big hit
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Why would you ever choose to put your real age? Until I was over 18, my age on most websites was around 90.
Quite so! Women, all acting as a single unified force, have never once done anything with a computer ever.

And all Hispanics are lazy.

And all Irish people drink.

Etc.

The trouble with generalizations is that they stop being useful when you're dealing with individual human beings. It's your business if you want to say absurdly wrong-headed, misogynist things but at least sign your real name to them, huh?

edit: Ah, the good ol' HN No Girls Allowed Brigade. Good luck, travelers.
I downloaded a torrent of TNG. It was easy to do, high enough quality, can't be revoked and you know, was actually available to me years ago.

I'd happily have paid some money for them if I could (though I admittedly wouldn't tolerate the terms of netflix myself).

The dvds are £122 for the full set on Amazon - that's £0.69 per episode. Slightly pricey imo. I'd happily have paid £0.30 per episode though. Certainly not interested in paying £122 up front (I didn't know if I'd actually get through them all!) and I dislike having the actual physical dvds.
I can't imagine the US style being cheaper in the short term either. You have to look at everything the "war on drugs" implies and all those costs. Stopping people from using things that naturally grow in the ground is insanely expensive.
Elsewhere in the faq, it says that if you don't choose a winner, the winner will be automatically chosen as the answer with the most votes.
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re: 4, that is because of the namespace collision between fb and tw. ie. if I signin with my fb username and then somebody signs in with a tw account with the same username
> "In January of 1991, Summers became the chief economist at the World Bank, and that spring he recruited Sandberg as a research assistant." I don't care how smart or good you are, without certain connections you're not going to get a research associateship at the world bank.

TIL The current FB COO worked as a research assistant at the World Bank.

Sometimes I want to blame my parents for being just a pair of middle-aged farmers in an Eastern-European country, when they could have had guys like Summers as their friend and a mansion in Hamptons if they had worked hard enough.</sarcasm>
Maybe this would be good in some circles, but for my friends overkill. Just need X/N, with a simple option to pre-assign a portion of the bill to the one guy at the table who drinks 2x everyone else.
Is this really xenophobia and prejudice?

From my own business experience and from discussions with various businessmen that have done business on Balkans as a region. I know only of handful of people that made money there (Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosova, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Albania).

Everybody else got shafted one way or the other.

Are accounts of Chinese shafting foreign investors/businessmen whenever they can also prejudicious and xenophobic?

I would be glad to accept your (although anecdotal) experience that proves my point wrong. Is writing by lewis (Beware of the Greeks bearing Bonds) also xenophobic and prejudicious?

Or are you guilty of wishful thinking?
That is simply western culture and nothing inherent. Whether you like it or not, you'll see women swarming to IT/programming/CS soon enough. Just the smart men are no longer enough. The smart women are needed as well.

There is huge demand for people in those positions, more than ever, and programming is starting to become necessary for non-computer-oriented jobs as well.

In some cultures (for example, India) a lot of women are already programmer. It's also starting here, for example my sister recently learnt Python for her research job.
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> 7. I'm not yet convinced that there's a huge market for paid responses when the Stack Exchange network and Quora both offer large userbases who give their time to answer questions for free.

Perhaps it is this model they are trying to defeat. If an answerer has the opportunity to earn real money for their time, it might be theorized that they would opt for that over the karma systems. It makes sense for a greater breadth of expertise, as respect loses its inherent value as you grow beyond the social circles or occupational circles.
I'm not sure that's the right thing, due to how time_t is (not) defined. First, it can be an integer or a floating number (although the latter is unlikely). Second, the size of time_t is not defined, so it could be 32-bit or 64-bit or something else. And then there may also be endianness issues when storing time from multiple different systems.
So I'd say store it either as a 64-bit value (ignoring the possible floats, converting 32- to 64-bit and handling endianness), or use a textual representation of time_t.
Let me be the first European to apologize for the totally unfounded holier-than-thou post in the parent, and confirm that also in Europe it's complete abnormal to share a public log of your sex life ('abnormal' as in 'the vast majority of people don't do it and strongly object if they found out they had been doing it on accident', not as 'deemed clinically insane' or so).

And if the parent disagrees, I challenge him/her to link to his/her log.
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Her connection with Summers was an academic/professional one that she formed herself. She earned the respect of the right person, and reaped the rewards for doing so.

If it were some sort of nepotism then you might have a point, but since it's not it really just shows the opposite of what you suggest. It shows that women are able to improve their own station in exactly the same way men do. And had it been nepotism, it would show nothing more than women can do it the other way men do it as well.

Can most women do this to the degree she has? No. Just like most men can't.
That's from Google? Nah. Anybody had a look at the end of the source, they used a copy-paste code for the Analytics but forgot to actually put in their own GA number.

>> var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']];
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actually, I did not have to provide a username. I signed in with twitter using my email address. Perhaps the additional username was only required for Facebook connections? Between the two, Twitter is the only one with a true username identification.
Yes, google will automatically pick a winner, as explained here in the faq (http://prizes.org/faq)

How does Voting work?
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It's totally cryptic, not sure what is under the hood,
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"Working hard and hoping you get noticed by the right people is how just about everybody gets ahead"

I'd have to strongly disagree. There are plenty of people in this world (plenty at the top) who were born in to the right position and either worked hard to stay there (+connections/influence) or didn't work hard but still stayed there (connections/influence). Very few people are like Barrack Obama--come from the semi-bottom and are now extremely high up. More common are people like George Bush, Jr. and Al Gore. Both were born in to the right position and stayed there.

Also, it's not that her example doesn't count, she's the exception--not the rule. How do we make her the rule is the question. There are many answers/ideas about that.
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Interesting that you login with Facebook connect and Twitter, but no google login.
Yes, obviously that 4.5bn dollars will be put on a giant pile and set aflame, gone forever.

I'm no fan of software patents but the idea that money just disappears like that is crap.
If I were to rank the attributes that changed him the most, it would be:

1. Confidence

2. Diet

3. Skills

he used to be depressed about playing the same era as Federer / Nadal but he realized late last year that he can beat these guys, and has rarely set a foot wrong since. The diet helped build his stamina, but most of the games this year stamina hasn't played a part (I would say the final in Miami was an exception).

he always had the skills - before this streak he was able to beat Nadal and Federer. I think it just came down to being confident enough to knowing he can do it all the time. He is also tactically the most brilliant player I have ever seen, but that has always been the case as well.

In short he stopped being a bitch
"you'll see women swarming to IT/programming/CS soon enough."

With any luck it will happen soon. I'm starting to grow tired of all the "institutional sexism" articles around here.
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boost::date_time. I've cursed at it in the beginning, but it does things the Right Way, and I've been saved a number of times by its fighting back against shortcuts (like using Unix time - the issues identified in the article are real and a good summary, but the solution only works for the case where you need to work within a limited time span, from 1970 until a few decades into this century.)
> Timezones are a presentation-layer problem!

I want to correct this common misconception that UTC is enough. Calendar time with all human traditions involved is more complex than a simple timestamp.

The advice above is incorrect for calendar and scheduling apps, or anything that has a concept of a repeating event.

An example: we have a weekly meeting occurring 9AM Monday in San Francisco. You are in London and want to attent the meeting over Skype. When is it in London time?

It depends.

On 7 Mar 2011 it's at 5pm

On 14 Mar 2011 it's at 6pm

On 29 Mar 2011 it's at 5pm

To make these calculations, you need to know timezone & daylight saving time (DST) rules of both your current location and the home location of the event.

A "DST zone" of a home location of a repeating event has to be saved together with a time and thus it's not just presentation-layer issue.
This will be interesting to watch as an experiment in intrinsic vs extrinsic motivations. Personally, I think this will become a Mechanical Turk style wasteland full of people charging < $1/hr and churning out dross.
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Most probably, it's compressed (and obfuscated). Therefore, it's just a random combination of letters and hyphens, without any meaningful pattern.
This literally just happened to a VPS of mine. Time was jumping forwards and back, every second the time could jump an hour ahead and back. Everything screwed up, from log rotation to sessions.

My first thought was that this was some kind of prank :-) but seems it was a hardware issue on the parent machine combined with ntpd trying to compensate.
Something kind of odd going on with TNG though. My blue ray/netflix player is missing most of season 6 and 7. Hope they work by time I get that far.
Anyone who succeeds as she has is an exception...

As for being born into it, I consider that to be a form of nepotism and address it in my other posting.
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and for those of you who complain about being born outside of the USA, or living outside of the valley - Djokovic grew up practicing tennis in empty swimming pools in Belgrade while the city was being bombed by Nato and the entire region was at war

his parents bankrupted themselves multiple times and borrowed money from anywhere they could, including the mafia, to support him and to get him on a tennis court and into a camp in Germany.
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Historically (eg Argentina) the government usually nationalised private debt in these situations if it was an issue.
I assume it will prompt you if there is a username collision. that is what I did when I recently implemented it. I wouldn't even show that step and assume that primary username is tw or fb username unless there was a collision

there was a security hole on a site not long ago that would let you login to another account if you had the same username on one of the other logins. can't remember which site
Ok let's get back to the basics of this discussion. I said that I didn't like Sandberg saying that the glass ceiling doesn't exist because she wouldn't know much about it since she got to side step it. You came along and started talking about how I was downplaying her hard work. Not so, she's a hardworking person who is also exceptionally smart. I'm not sure if you're just trying to disagree with me for the sake of disagreement, but you are seeing things in my comments that aren't there, at least not intentionally.
But why not just use OAuth/Facebook Connect to both sign up and log in to the service (where username collision makes no difference)? Why require a username and password in addition?
You're wrong; there ARE arrays: make int a[16], *aa; and compare sizeof(a) with sizeof(aa). The confusion arises from the fact that the VALUE of an array is a pointer to its first element. When you consider that C is a pure pass-by-value language, everything fits nicely into place.
Why not apply the lessons of the netflix prize to this problem? Create a contest to produce a site that provides the most referrer traffic to your product.
Don't blindly follow the advice at the end of this article! The issues he identifies are real, but the 'solution' only work in a small subset of use cases. When one needs a longer time span than [1970-2038], Unix timestamp is horrible - how are you going to represent a date of birth in it for people born before 1970 (yes they do still exist!)? There is no guarantee that negative timestamps will work!

Also it doesn't take different calendars into account, still doesn't work with leap seconds, doesn't deal well with time spans (t1 - t2 specified in seconds can be a lot things in reality), ...

Use a proper date time library to deal with dates and store them in your database in a string format, including the time zone. It depends on your application which time zone (UTC or local), but in general UTC is best, and the local time zone could be a second column if you need the info (or it could be a property of the user, but e.g. many calendaring application then screw it up in the UI layer...)

I'd like to read a book on the UI issues associated with dates and times, anyone know of something like that?
In some professions (especially construction), the workforce is already mobile inside EU. In most others, it isn't. And this is mostly due to language issues.
Orkut, as I recall, had the same requirement; didn't it?
Yes, very correct! I hope the 'lets just use Unix timestamp because it's easy' mentality will go away soon!
sizeof behavior is just icing over what is really going on. You might as well argue that arrays really exist because we have the [] operator.
I wouldn't want them to sell their soil to more powerful nations, sounds like a recipe for war.
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I have seen this claim a few times, but noone ever gives any real reasons as to why.

A monopoly born through a superior product is not the same as a monopoly born through anti-competitive practises. Noone is forcing or coercing anyone to use Google+. Facebook and twitter are only a click away, and both are massively more popular.

Could we say the same if Facebook launched an email service? Or if Twitter launched some sort of search engine?
I'm trying the best I can to explain why calling what she did "sidestepping" is nonsensical. Apparently I'm not doing it well enough.
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There's also the risk that small amounts of money make it less likely for experts to offer their opinion. When I'm selling my time for $250+/hour, I'm not going to put any time into a contest with a $50 (or even $250) prize; but I'm more than happy to share it for free in the right community (like HN).

This is the same offline. I'll gladly give up an afternoon to help friends and family with their micro businesses, but when they offer to pay it becomes awkward - they can't afford what I charge (since my business model and pricing is designed for much larger clients), and I have no energy to sell myself cheaply. Just say thank you / buy me a six pack / click the little up arrow.
From a UX point of view I absolutely agree.

However, I was told by my bank that federal law limited electronic transfers to no more than 6 per month, for all of my accounts at the bank. I was told I could make as many in-person transfers as I wished.

True or not, this might explain some of the thinking behind this particular example.
Have you read the article you comment on? There's a paragraph or two about that there.
Longer term, yes, absolutely. Also: rising personal wealth tends to sort the problem out too...

But, the children who are going to cause this problem have already been born. Takes 14-18 years to grow a girl of marriageable age, depending on where you live...

Maybe a sophisticated market in wife futures will emerge.
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Mexico is paying much of the cost of the US policy, so it might still be a hard sell.
Parent's comment was in response to a generalization, namely "there is a glass ceiling for women in tech", but I agree that fighting fire with fire isn't the way to go.
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If anything you could turn it around and say that ML's approach to control and data effects exemplifies worse-is-better on the purity spectrum. It took a long time for Haskell to solve these problems a la Haskell 98. It's only recently that Haskell has "caught on" relative to ML.
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Germany is also doing well with a devalued currency. If Germany still had the Mark, instead of the Euro (which is being devalued by all these crisies) it would be higher than the Swiss Franc right now.
Women who have to choose between giving their all to their career and having children because unlike Sandberg they don't have nannies or a 50/50 relationship where they can expect their husband to co-parent.

How is this a gendered issue at all?

Men are also forced to choose between non-career activities and giving their all to their career. Men who choose non-career activities rarely become COO of a $50B company.

Women who aren't mentored by the best of the best and don't have parents who are PhD (dropouts) and Ophthalmologists.

The number of women who have parents who are PhD (dropouts) and Ophthalmologists is equal (within some statistical margin of error) to the number of men who have similarly situated parents.
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"Nonsensical?" There's no need to be rude. We're both allowed to have an opinion. And for the record, it's not "nonsensical" to say that she sidestepped the traditional corporate experience most women have because she did just that. She was able to do that based on her exceptional talent/intelligence and the connections she had/made.
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