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we change people's thinking by gentle persuasion, not by public mockery

I think this is wrong. I was just reading a book[1] about this actually, and historically convincing people that some practice is wrong does a bit, but if its social convention then people are actually mostly going to keep doing the same thing because "that's what people do" until it becomes a matter of public face or mockery. See dueling in the UK, or foot-binding in China.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Honor-Code-Revolutions-Happen-ebook/dp...
I don't think they did it wrong. Imagine if he decided to roll it's own functionality when there is a 3rd party service offering the exact same functionality. Then he would be in real trouble because somebody could catch up by using the readily available 3rd party service.

He should build his advantage on being the first and having a better product. Techical services he's using are not part of his core product.
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Ah, Thank you! That definitely brings a lot more context into it and I can see how some may get offended by it.

I still question whether this is offensive to myself. Compared to the ads I hear on the radio and TV for local clubs and bars and how they're touting their female attendance or "hot bar tenders" as a reason to come, this seems relatively tame to that...
Is this really much different than current time-of-flight cameras / flash LIDARs? It looks like a slightly modified version of one of those with a lower frequency pulse or something to bounce backwards towards the stick person.

Cool, definitely. But maybe not as novel as it may seem.
Merged into your DNA?!? Have you read the same article as me, or did you get the year 3012 version by accident?
I suspect this would only show up if the request's Accept-Language is not "it" or "en" - see also http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/whats-wrong-with-tu...

Anyway, signed up for the beta; thanks for the quick response :)
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There are many places in our society where kids can do stupid and immature things but I don't think the adults in our engineering profession need to support or sponsor them. I respect Heroku etc for pulling their sponsorship dollars. I'm a huge fan of supporting adult standards of behavior to participate in adult society and I have no patience for sexism in our field.
It would be nicer if it had and actual globe with the highlighted zone.
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What an entitled, spoiled view. He's not being "forced" to pirate it, he just think it costs too much.
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It would be ok to lose signups from people who would not ever buy your product, but I don't think that's the case.

I for one, subscribe to a lot of SaaS but would never put in my CC number just for a trial.

And what about corporate customers? I think many subscribers can come from corporations where someone somewhere tried the product and liked it, and then made sure his company paid for it. If he had to enter his CC# before he could even try he would probably not do it.
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Why not get a magnet ring? It's nondestructive and gives you access to many of the same sensations.
time.is does it better in their "here & there" function. choose a few cities, shows a tabular comparison of all timeslots. this is what you need to determine the best time slot for a telco with multiple international participants.
I also think it's too confusing. I prefer http://time.is over it.
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I think this line really needs to be preserved in its context. "Women" was listed as a perk. To me, it reads as this close to a wink and a nod that they will procure prostitutes for attendees.
Is texting really easier for people than hand writing on a sheet of dead tree? Kids these days..

Personally I would much prefer writing over texting a random number (with a follow-up text for my email), but I guess an advantage is that it avoids queues at the sign-in sheet.
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I really hope this change how our politicians view computer applications and electronic data. Last year, they decided to implement the data retention directive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive), arguing that the odds of a security hole was close to zero due because "technology development" has removed those holes.
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Yes, I remember this when it hit Ajaxian. It's worth noting that the code was done by Thomas Fuchs, the man behind scriptaculous. A true pioneer in Javascript programming.
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I've actually heard this suggestion a lot. For me, wearing a magnetic ring is completely different from having the implant.
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I'd say most of the people don't care about those. (Even if we do in HN.)

So, yes, WireOver guys should put some more information, but I don't think it's a dealbreaker anyway.
There's nothing wrong with it, certainly. However, the correct way to have women around at your conference is to make your conference interesting to women in the field, not hire them to serve beer.

From the perspective of wanting women around, this "perk" basically says that they've given up on getting women in the field to want to come to their conference, and the only way to get them there is to hire them. It's pretty lame.
At first I thought you were talking about a business partner, but after the comments I'm not so sure.

If you're talking about marriage or something of a similar flavor, no but it came very close several times. It can be very frustrating for someone on the other side of the equation to take the answer "I don't know." to so many questions for so long. Some people abhor that reality, and while I am not one of them, I can understand where they're coming from, especially if there are other aspects of the equation (a mortgage, children, a mountain of outstanding debt).

If you're talking about business partner, I would say certainly. My most recent venture folded up because within four months my (business) partner got engaged, started putting in about 1/2 of the hours needed to get the job done, and the abruptly moved two hours away. He's since found a day job and I'm ready to move on to something different. Sometimes, no matter how long you know someone, they change.
Here are some other things that have been considered abominations at one point or another by a dominant culture: homosexual sex; Jews marrying Germans; property right and suffrage for women; atheism (or virtually every religion, in fact).

I am pretty sure that people who held the view that those things were abominable were not Dr. Evil caricatures, but honest people who sincerely believed that these things were utterly wrong and no-one should speak in support of them. I don't say this to illustrate that I think slavery is the moral equivalent of atheism, but that I don't believe that I am smart enough to forgo all my cultural baggage and assert that I have a privileged insight into what is "truly" abominable and what was just bad stuff other people believe.

Even if you do choose to assert that, I think that slavery is an interesting choice because there are arguments that can be made for it. Athenian democracy was essentially built on the backs of disenfranchised slaves; the lack of technological sophistication of Ancient Greece wouldn't have permitted enough free time to nurture a rule by the people without it. Is the world better off for Athenian democracy, slavery and all? I don't think you can answer that with a pat yes or no, but that's the whole point, it's a complex question, not a "slavery is bad, fire everyone who thinks otherwise" question.

Libertarians would question whether the state ought to have the power to ban certain kinds of life-long contract between consenting adults. If you want to stretch the definition of slavery, the standard of living in the West is only supportable by labourers working in other parts of the world under authoritarian systems they don't have political power to change. Is that bad? Sure! Is it a very similar situation to the Industrial Revolution of the 18th/19th centuries, which is essentially the underpinning for every single employment right we have? Yes, it is. Are we then doing good by supporting slavery? I don't know, but again, I don't think these questions should be shut down without discussion.

I don't mean here to speak directly in support of some of the very hateful opinions that you can see expressed every day--I think most of them are vile and I wish their holders didn't do so (and I pity them for the emotional turmoil that must have engendered them and that they engender). But the solution is never to ban or restrict speech, legally or socially, even when a majority agrees that it's desirable to do so, because we are not smarter than everyone else who will ever live.
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This article is very misleading. They neglected to mention that in Norway your taxes are public information. The tax list is published in the newspapers and online. Anyone can see what everybody else earned and paid in taxes.

Update: 2011 Norwegian Tax List http://skattelister.no/skatt/
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I run out reading material pretty quick on HN and then I'm left wondering where I can find submissions just like on HN. Where do you go after you exhaust HN?
Perhaps I should have been clearer. You are correct. We can and should encourage adult behavior. Heroku and the rest did the right thing -- from an adult, socially-responsible position. There is nothing new about this, it's the way professional groups have conducted themselves since forever.

From a longer-term view, this incident will still be around 50 years from now when these guys are grandfathers. This is completely new and has never existed before in the history of humanity.

I don't think it's an either-or situation. The immediate response could be exactly correct and the long-term impact could be entirely out-of-whack.
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Finnish people quite often find it easier to spell their name without the umlauts when appearing online. The situation used to be much worse when email headers and BBS usernames were still ASCII-only (before Unicode), but you still occasionally run into problems.

Most recently, I've had trouble using a street address with umlauts for Amazon AWS billing. Bad web apps tend to convert the umlauts into HTML entities and then recursively escape those entities with &amp;s when editing data or resubmitting forms.
There's a reason I have a Rod of Asclepius and "DO NOT MRI" tattooed on my wrist. Apparently it's quite possible to go through an MRI with implant intact, so long as the techs know about it.
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Giving graceful criticism is as hard as gracefully accepting criticism. That's what I liked about this article -- decoupling the person from the code on both sides of the equation. My favorite line is "Criticize the code, not the developer".
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It is threadsafe in jruby (as of 1.6.6)[1]. It is a decent feature, and it would be great if matz would reconsider.

[1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3194
This actually looks like - let's build an api "because we can". Not "because it's reasonable". I presume, that process of suing still requires some kind of human approval and post-processing. An idea of e-court is great, if restricted to small and simple claims, though.

Edit: I am astonished by these numbers. I don't believe that this is court per se. Can somebody elaborate? 1.6 million issued payment orders is huge number even for Poland :)

The adjudicating personnel of the e-court comprises four judges and 96 court officials (referendarze-officials adjudicating independently in certain categories of cases) who are supported by 70 clerks. As of October the 1st 2011, 2 000 000 lawsuits have been lodged in the e-court, and in some 1 600 000 cases payment orders have been issued.
I've attempted it. I use Panic's Prompt to SSH back into one of my machines and program from there. I do not have an external keyboard for the iPad, but using the on-screen keyboard is just a pain. You have to think how you are going to be switching between the different on-screen keyboards to find very frequent used keys like brackets, parens, semicolon, etc. This works in a pinch but not for long periods of time.

With having an external keyboard it's another pain to reach up and touch your screen to switch apps. Just stick with a laptop, you will thank yourself in the end.
As tashmahalic explains in another comment, they use UDP hole punching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching) for the transfer, which the receiving side must understand.

It is indeed a bummer to have to download an installer when you receive the file, but there's no way around it!
Congratulations on your game, it looks pretty smooth, nice graphics too. According to http://topappcharts.com your game is #36 today, is that accurate? dummy defense is climbing the ladder, would be interesting to know the downloads per position in the charts.
Anecdote: the only fraudulent credit card charge throughout my entire life occurred shortly after signing up for Google Checkout. There was a $300 adwords charge on my account, and I do not even have an adwords account, so this clearly defied account physics. I asked $GOOG but their black hole customer disservice never bothered to explain what had happened. I no longer trust Google.
> So you built your business entirely relying on third-party services.

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Neither Twilio nor Stripe are in the same business line as RollCallMe and thus are offering services, and thus not competing, therefore they have an incentive to keep prices down in order to attract more customers. I cannot speak for Stripe, but Twilio has lowered their rates in the past and does a wonderful job in regards to both technology and customer service.

Yes, there are no technical barriers to entry into this one-service industry, aside from knowing a Rails person who can wire up the app, but time-to-market, initial pricing and the potential for add-ons that can engage more users and augment the revenue streams give them the advantage. Choosing Twilio gives them that advantage.

Not a rock-solid app by any means, but one that's needed and doesn't compete directly against more mature and properly funded platforms.

Great idea. I wish them good luck.
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A more relevant and recent example is whether you support software patents. Those opposed to them rail against those in favor of them pretty hard. Some are now making hiring decisions based upon that. Should I not be allowed to express my views on software patents simply because you don't agree with them? You'd like to paint it as a black & white issue, but I don't see it that way.

Sorry for the liberal use of pronouns there. But there's an extremely worrying trend to me whereby it's no longer okay to disagree or have an open discussion about certain topics that the HN mass has decided their stance on. Most of the time I, and many others, just bow out and let everyone here virtually pat themselves on the back as each professes the moral high road they've taken. It defeats the point of having an open forum or discussion on an article. It's our equivalent of political rhetoric.
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About that "Tables market" ...
Well you could start with not letting Accenture do the development.
Yes, but it is part of your identity. That said, while I enjoy my job, and take some satisfaction from it, it isn't the whole of my being. My family, faith, and hobbies define who am I more than what I do.
It is nice but you would like to have the possibility to choose your own towns. Often for example I want to know what time it is in Seattle compared to the time in Frankfurt where I live.
If it can be customized, it will be a great tool.

For the moment I prefer www.time.is which takes a different approach but what I want.
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I'm the developer of the site. Just a quick note, on iPad/iPhone and Android you have the option to customize the list of time zones shown; and we'll add more time zones in the future (and probably some sort of city search and custom labels). There will also be some sort of calendar to select a date in the future, so you can link to specific date with the correct timezone offsets for that date set (because those change with DST).
Once lawsuits can be filed by algorithm, any court system would be completely overwhelmed unless it had a) some system for limiting the number of lawsuits and/or b) some system for settling lawsuits that would involve an algorithm.

Some system for limiting the number of lawsuits could be as simple as charging filing fees. Ones that scale in proportion to the number of lawsuits you file would be ideal (first case: free; 1,000th case: 10 million euros).

Some system for settling lawsuits sounds scary, but I actually kind like the idea of an algorithm that checks the number of lawsuits you have filed, and automatically returns a case dismissal if it is above a certain threshold. I'm sure there are some grave implications for having such a cavalier approach to dismissing lawsuits, but for some reason none are occurring to me at the moment.
You are right. That's the point ;)
That does not change the fact that Altinn (the website) is a portal for over 700 forms, ranging from changing your home address, signing student loan contracts and applying for social services.

Taxes aren't everything and I really do not care if people see how much money I make, but when something like this happens this easily (this is not the first case of problems with Altinn, although not so severe before) you begin to worry, is accepting the lowest bidding contractor really is the best option for a website that holds the information for nearly every citizen of Norway the best idea?

But on the other hand if the website was run by the private sector the company would have faced bankruptcy a long time ago and we would all be filing our taxes on paper :-/

I do not know what is worse, I would prefer they at least separated different systems so that we did not have a SSO solution for everything. I would much rather have one for taxes, one for forms and documents and one for whatever else, separated by the level of severity if they were to be broken into, or in the case something like this were to happen.
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Somehow charging at trial signup doesn't _feel_ right to me. Even if you are able to charge once and then users ask you to cancel, this means they never would have paid if you had not asked for their card at the beginning. What use is revenue if customer isn't likely to have used the service or doesn't need it (but simply paid because you automatically billed them)?

However, as a way to weed out non-serious users, I can understand the rationale (but then again you would let go of publicity effect).
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I fully understand the idea of using peer to peer keeping costs down etc.. my review was just from a users POV.

When using the service to quickly send a file to a coworker or customer I would not expect them to download a 'downloader' to get my 'attachment'
Maybe the problem was with the example? One application I could see for this is maybe being at a conference and entering into a drawing. Instead of filling out a paper form or standing at a kiosk or having to go to a web page and type in some auth code, you just have to send a single text message and you're done.

I can see some applications, and knowing the cost of the administrative portion of promotions, making it easier to be an expert at it definitely has monetary value.
Nate (http://feelingwaves.blogspot.com/) recommends supergluing a small neodymium to your fingertip as the best model of how the implant actually feels; I haven't tried it, myself.
I partially agree. Some stackexchanges I feel are overkill. Bitcoin doesn't need it's own site and some sites should be merged (Web Applications and Web masters).

However I agree that there should be a CompSci stackexchange for those questions that don't fit in SO or Mathematics.
I did not say that iTunes was the answer. I said that a startup that offers inexpensive distribution services to entertainers and artists using this low-price, no-DRM model could be the answer.
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Google also works well.

http://www.google.com/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&...
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But for men, the ultimate perk is a good woman.

I'm a man, a mostly hetero-normative one, who disagrees.

The idea that there is something undesirable about a situation that gets it called a sausage fest is not about being male per se, it's part of a very large set of assumptions about gender and sexuality that are fairly pervasive and ingrained and present enough that they are part of identity for a lot of people.

The idea that the term sausage fest, and the idea that it implies -- that there too many penises in the room and not enough vaginas, and that this is making the penises sad, in the context of a hackathon is sexist. It has a sexist nature. It makes crass and sweeping assumptions about a group of people who are passionate about a topic on the basis of their genitalia, when there are plenty of people with other sets of it that share a passion for the topic, and no ones genitalia is relevant whatsoever to the purpose of the event.
Sounds great. I still find it mind boggling how slow MSN 'p2p' transfer can be, I would love a great solution and will definitely give this a shot.
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This is so true. I welcome criticism because it forces me to evaluate my work critically and make changes if need be.

I agree with your comment about hiring the best. Would you rather have the 'best' [1] programmer who is also a team cancer or a group of good programmers who individually aren't better than the best guy, but as a group deliver better results?

[1] 'Best' can be defined so many ways that without a definition saying they only hire the best says very little.
I'm the author, and no, this was not in response to that post. However I don't see them mutually exclusive.

I'm fine with Github being someone's resume, and in fact the less concern you have over other peoples' opinions of your code, the better code you'll actually write. It's like anything, practice makes "better" (not perfect) :)

I think code is a qualifier for evaluating a candidate, but that's not the main indicator. In fact, I suspect someone won't go very far if all they do is plagiarize other peoples' well written code.

I could be wrong though, I just don't have the balls to pull it off.