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Case in point: In some European countries (e.g. Germany), a wifi provider is liable for all the stuff that happens on his network. Which means that there are next to no public wifis. A shame, really.

Another step from democracy towards corporate dictatorship. Sometimes I wonder if we are currently experiencing a fatal flaw in commercialism that will ultimately subvert democracy.
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There seems to be deep ignorance of what it's like to be an old fat bald guy in our culture. Who do you think had the worse night? My guess is that it's the old fat bald guy who had to go home with his right hand, got publicly humiliated in front of all of his friends by getting rejected and physically pushed by a girl half his size. Not to forget his wallet is probably much lighter after paying all those drinks to women he won't ever have a chance with.
This is a great news, thanks for your efforts on this!

However, it's really sad to have to pay the Microsoft toll over FreeBSD (afaik Windows EC2 Instances are a bit more expensive because the cost of the OS licence is factored into the hourly cost).
I hope Amazon will do something about this, like providing HVM-based Unix instances.
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If/when browsers have good support for WebCL, it would enable computation-intensive web apps.

For example, photo manipulation, real-time video manipulation, simulations, mining bitcoins in your browser, physics engines, ... and so on.
I've always had the vision that the Windows hosting community were the more serious type of developer. Since they need to invest upfront in additional costs theirs likely funding involved and the 'hacker' attitude fits in less.

I'm not sure a company with a name 'Epic Win Hosting' serves the intended community at all, and especially without enterprise-grade services -- who are the intended customers?
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i don't see how an option to hide your gender solves randall's problem. if most people who are hiding their gender are women then hiding your gender is a credible signal that you are a woman.
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Some might prefer the gender-neutral pronoun "they".

However, I think doing things this way is going to be quite difficult to implement when you consider multiple languages. Male/Female/Other with an option to hide this information is much easier a solution.
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Ask HN: good examples of discussion voting systems?
The recent post and HN comments about social knitting network Ravelry got me interested to understand better what dimensions and approaches there are in discussion voting systems. I'd be interested in any kind of examples and analysis of successful discussion forums with different voting systems.

As we all know, Hacker News has upvotes and flag for posts. For comments there is up and downvotes . If I recall correctly, downvotes and flagging are disabled until you have enough karma. The etiquette is to use downvote for posts that do not improve the conversation or are incorrect, but not for the disagreement.

Ravelry has Agree/Disagree, Educational/Interesting/Funny and Love. It's interesting that the only negative one is Disagree, which is quite polite, but still causing occasional heat on Ravelry forums. I don't know if long-time Ravelry users have some flagging capabilities.

What else is out there? TED has Like and Flag for comments, more rich system for videos.

I don't remember all the details of Slashdot's moderation system, but there was labels like Informative, Funny and scores, but ability to give score was somehow based on how much score you had got.
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The user specifies what pronouns to use, and perhaps there would be default values (or you could fill them all in by selecting a "traditional" option). I actually really like this idea. Users would be able to hide their gender if they wanted, and if they wanted to use something like "he or she/him or her/his or her" or "ey/ey/eir", they would be able to just fill it in, and the system would use it in its automatically generated notifications and stuff (Alex posted a comment on eir webzone). This would give us an easy way to gain exposure and experience to the various attempts at creating gender-neutral singular third-person pronouns, and maybe figure out which ones are good (or whether it's worth bothering about).

Also, it might allow for funsies like this.

Possessive: His Majesty's
Subjective: His [random from: Awesomeness, Sleepiness, Whimsy]
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Apart from this, and quoting the Ars Technica article, it's a prime example of "guilty until proven innocent" and a really sneaky tactic by the government to go around the political / democratic process and form "voluntary agreements" with ISP's and media companies.
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"We raised from nearly every friend and family member we could get excited about our idea. The joke is, if Earbits fails we won’t have a friend or family member left."

Something is very wrong here. If people invest in anything they must take on the associated risk.
i'd love to know what makes "Radall" the expert on what "Many women grow up with"
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I used to work for a gay dating site where instead of presenting a table of data about each person, we generated a natural language text that described the person's age, location and sexuality. At the beginning you had a radio-button to select your own gender (male/female/other/none) and checkboxes to select which genders you were interested in.

With those limited options, it was fairly easy to construct this profile text, even though we were using VBSCript. (Yes, it was that long ago) Sometime later we wanted to expand and cover all the trans* options which resulted in that piece of code expanding into a horrible mess of weird cases, and those users not being happy with the result anyway. We got a lot of complaints of the type "I am an X looking for Y, but I don't want to be called Z".

I'd rather program date and time functions than that, ever again. :-)
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As a random suggestion for the WOW raids, might it be possible to use software to distort your voice so that it sounds male (or at least androgynous)? Come to think of it, even males might want to do that so they can have, like, a really deep voice that sounds like the big heavy warrior character they're playing, or maybe an old gravelly voice if they're playing a wizard--or a female voice if their character is female, for that matter.

Does anyone else think that would be a cool idea?
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That's why it's a joke.
I would argue that it's better to rate something based on how it should be, not on alternatives.

It drives me mad when people say "<so and so country> is better than <other country> because they only lock up gay people, not kill them" or "country A is better than country B because women there can go outside without a man, even if they can't vote". Sure, it might be better, but can we not agree that it's still shit?

I can't really speak to sexism in America (I'm English, and on my trips to NYC/LA I haven't personally experienced it at all) - I'm not saying you should hate America because of problems, but don't brush them away as being fine just because there are far worse situations elsewhere.
IIRC, the general wisdom during SourceForge's heyday was to design the backend before the frontend. I recall reading a zen programmer story about someone writing a finance package, who was mocked by the "wise" programmer for designing and writing the UI first, before having any finance-related code.
sounds like a good way to ruin the web..
> until you've been in a bar and had a fat, bald guy

Since when is being bald become a derogatory term? How do you expect to get sympathy for your position if you at the same time totally deadheartedly debase a group of people purely on their looks?
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Fend themselves off from what attack? Oh yeah, a straw (wo)man attack. How is your argument not part of "the culture that breeds feeling of ownership by men of women"? Simply spectacular invocation of rape culture arguments, not that I've ever seen this topic discussed rationally.

No one needs to be trained to a military standard to fend off any type of vicious attack that might occur, because except in ultra-rare occasions they do not happen in first world countries. The true danger in our society is not physical at all, but mental- fear cuts down many lives by silently shaving off a million tiny slices, and those who fall victim to it never even knew they had a choice, or a chance. They just listened to the unspoken messages on TV.
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I pity the people working on localization if you have that system.

Also, some languages, for example Finnish, doesn't have gender-specific 3rd person pronouns, so giving them that option wouldn't make any sense to them.
Good. When filing bug reports you should try to work with the team and be as helpful as possible in solving the issue. Being a dick does not help anyone.
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Wow, just wow. It's almost as if you didn't read what Randall wrote. He's not saying "all men are ogres". He's saying "ogres exist and some women wish to avoid them".

"I take great offense to my culture being defined ..."

Total straw man, he didn't define any culture as this, he noted that it's one characteristic of our culture.

"Yes some people do that, but VERY few."

That's irrelevant. Baghdad is still a dangerous city for Americans to walk around alone at night despite an overwhelming majority of the populace not being insurgents. Do you want to walk around Baghdad at night alone?

"As to being bigger and stronger, perhaps we should look to the nation of Japan and the feats its military was able to achieve with men roughly the size of north american women"

Maybe in this context you should look at Japanese men and women and find that in this case, as in pretty much every culture, men tend to be bigger and stronger then women and violence from one to the other is heavily weighted in the same direction.

"Women are perfectly capable of defending themselves."

Nonsense, they are not "perfectly capable", hence the omnipresent criminal justice systems in modern societies.

"Also, keep in mind that a man is twice as likely to be assaulted as a woman so from a statistical perspective it is men who should be fearing for their safety as they post their gender online."

Really you're quoting generic bar fight/domestic statistics when stalking (esp cyberstalking) is obviously far more relevant? Easiest thing to find showed women as 3-1 more likely to be stalked:

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/svus.pdf
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Expressing frustrations is not being a dick.
He was being a complete idiot in his bug report. The moderator stated that he has been warned many times before. He completely deserved to be banned after being warned that his actions will result in being banned.

Sure, he is submitting bug reports, but his childish behavior shouldn't have to be tolerated because of this.
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I agree with you, but in this case it seemed that the author was putting emphasis on his own culture as opposed to other cultures. Replace "Our culture" with "America" here:

> America's relentless treatment of women as objects teaches them that they are defined by the one thing that men around them want from them

I might be wrong though.
Did this for about a year. It was easily the best experience of my life. Once you get to actually "feel" the ramifications of everything you do at work only then can you really understand how a business operates.

This was for a 2-person founded start-up btw.
Expressing frustrations in a completely smart ass way is being a dick.
yid's scale doesn't propose conflating homosexuality with gender inversion, and ver[1] examples put the "gay male" at the same place on the gender scale as the "hetero male". That's the whole point of proposing two numbers.

[1] I normally don't use these funny gender-neutral pronouns, but here it seems called for.
I've considered it! I used to play with someone that liked doing that to poke fun at someone else who had one of the deepest voices I had ever heard, too.

I think the problem would lie in that the distortions might make it harder to understand someone. The primary goal of talking is to draw attention to a problem or strategy, not to make it harder to understand someone. Hard enough time doing that with accents and varied dialects and fluency of English :(

Usually when I am in a situation where I don't want to talk, I just say that I'm listening but I don't have a mic. It's usually not a problem because I type fast enough that I can yell in text without needing to pause playing my character.
I wish more people read this, notably *nix platforms, and finally understand that long isn't 64bits on all 64bits platform...
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And related this previous HN discussion on different SO question RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487695)
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Correct - it was a great bug report. Without the expression of frustration then the nature of the bug would not have been clear.

Reports like this from my customers would be brilliant.
How on earth does that deserve a ban?

Mozilla would hate to have Linus Torvalds as a contributor.
Regardless of whether he was being a dick or not, the issue is still there. A helpful dick is still valuable, and banning him is really only hurting the project as a whole.
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We don't know the earlier instances where he was warned.
IMHO, this particular bug report doesn't seem to be out of line with the rules here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
Not if the negative vibe driving volunteers who might actually fix bugs away outweighs the help provided.
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When it comes to databases I would advice using PostgreSQL but I guess anything will work fine, so you may stick to what you know best.
There is a lot more to it than "old fat bald guy". I don't know why so many people keep missing the extra clues, including in this past weekend's skeptic/atheist brouhaha over Richard Dawkins being ignorant. In short, it's the same damn situation. "Nice guy" (which is an unknown to the woman) approaches woman, gets rejected, is pissed off. Nice guy forgot to look at the situation, which was woman alone with man hitting on her in elevator at 3am.

> fat, bald guy 20 years older than you grinding his crotch up against your leg even when you've physically tried to push him away

When you're a fat, bald guy that does exactly that, you don't get to be treated like it's all okay and the girl is obligated to spend time with you because you bought her a drink or ten. It's the attitude that is the problem, not the fat or the bald.

If you are a considerate, nice, polite, friendly old fat bald guy that can respect boundaries and that people just have differing ideas of attractiveness (it goes both ways, and I know this as an overweight girl), you shouldn't be treated like a dirtbag, ever. Anyone that does treat you as such is a dirtbag in their own way.
> except in ultra-rare occasions they do not happen in first world countries

...That sounds a lot like you're implying that rape and assault don't happen very often in first-world countries... which would be a statement quite divorced from reality. Care to clarify?
That there also exist objectification of the male sexuality doesn't justify any objectification of sexuality at all.

Also I don't believe by harassment and assault nor Randall nor anyone referred to being slapped on the ass. If we take domestic violence as the example, woman are a lot more often, and also more brutally, subjected to domestic abuse than men. I'm not being reductionist and suggesting that all of this is because we say "don't be a pussy", what I'm implying is that both are current examples of how western culture is violent and denigratory towards women.

I value your insight into overcoming detrimental gender biases as an example, and I'm not being overly polite, I really mean it. Life is both about the hand you were dealt and about how you play it. Arguing in favour of gender equality and trying not be sexist is about trying to give everybody a better starting hand, because not every single other one is going to be able to overcome things they way you did.
Really like the idea of this, but I'm not sold on the accuracy. The example pic for 'angry' looks very much like someone pretending to be angry and is actually having a laugh, all you have to do is look at the eyes.

Would be interesting to hear from the developers of this on the extent to which the eyes and eyebrows are used in the analysis.
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They're measuring completely different things.

Number of raw searches != number of users

That said, Compete numbers have always been hilariously random.
This all could be have been averted had Google not forced its users to make their profiles public.
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Sigh! This article is probably a few years too late. It would've been handy when alot of people like myself were doing ports a while. Having said that it may still be useful for late adopters.
If this report is representative, I don't think a thousand similar reports would deserve a ban. There's some exasperation, some sarcasm, some foot-stomping while expressing strong opinions. But there's no profanity or insults. The strongest negative word used is 'stupid', and it's applied to a question in the UI, not any person. The details and rationale for considering the software's behavior an interaction faux pas are strong.

It's hard to even see which part of 'Bugzilla Etiquette' this report violates:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

If other reports are worse, that's another matter. But if so, it seems odd this relatively mild report would be the final trigger that brings down the banhammer. (If there's a reliable pattern of abuse, just wait for the next non-mild incident.)
Seriously? This is mail server 101. Virtual hosts? Why is it here? And worse yet why did someone up vote it?
> Total straw man, he didn't define any culture as this, he noted that it's one characteristic of our culture.

From Randall's post: Our culture's relentless treatment of women as objects teaches them that they are defined by the one thing that men around them want from them [...]

> "Do you want to walk around Baghdad at night alone?"

An American man's likelihood of getting killed in Baghdad is a couple of magnitude higher than a woman's likelihood of getting killed by a sexual predator in NYC. In fact, my educated guess is that far more women die from car accidents than from crazy murderers.
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Most people don't tend to respond well to these types of complaints.

I used to work as customer service for a website and would constantly get sarcastic help requests. It made me hate them and I certainly didn't want to help them. In fact, I either ignored the ticket or just responded slowly as I handled tickets with more reasonable people.

The people saying this is a "great" ticket and wish more reports were given this way are full of it. You will very quickly get tired of it because you realize you are doing everything you can to help them and they really don't care enough to give you enough respect to speak with you as a human being in a conversation. Instead choosing to be sarcastic and insult your efforts to help.

I see this the other way around. I am thankful a huge bunch of volunteers spend many hours of their day creating software I use daily without having to pay for it. They don't deserve to be treated like this.
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except in ultra-rare occasions they do not happen in first world countries

You've scuttled your own argument here.
I am kind of surprised that you think the best way to amend a problem is to avoid it. How about asking Google to implement an anti-stalker program and to actively ban/restrict those who engage in such behaviour?
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