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I hope not. Let Tokyo host it. The cost for Chicago and US will be enormous and we will be left with elephant structures.
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Just to add to the article you posted, I've heard that scorpions, if surrounded by fire, sting their own head.
I haven't read/seen anything that proves it though, so it could be a myth.
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Interesting... its possible though that the ip mapping data that google uses is different\more accurate from the ones used by ad delivery companies. My notebook was on my local wireless network unconnected to anything else and it found my location. I can't think of any way its doing that other than ip address. And even with a 3G wireless, Chrome\Firefox almost certainly doesn't have access to your cell tower location information, right?
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I found the same thing. My google-apps account was overcharged ~200$, nothing much, but finding a contact button was next to impossible. Lucky I have some google-fu!

I sent an email about a month ago now, still no reply - it's quite shocking really!

Edit: I'm not quitting gmail, regardless :)
> PHP, Ruby, Python, Scala and even Java are under active development so you will have to make choices about which version you are going to stick to for the time being.

Java probably shouldn't be included in that list. The language is evolving, but I don't think I've encountered anything that breaks between three major version releases (i.e. Java 1.4 code works equally well with a compiler for Java 5 or 6). All of the other languages (possibly with the exception of Scala, which I have little knowledge of) have radically changed the core language between minor releases. The PHP project has been particularly guilty of changing subtle semantic interpretations of things in releases that are on the order of "bug fix" updates.

This is the fundamental difference to me. Java has a published spec for the core language. Some of the libraries might move around a little bit, but even most of those are relatively stable.

There are plenty of other reasons not to use Java, but if you want a language that is fundamentally "stable", then Java is best-of-breed.
I enjoy his writing style. But I think people have been putting him on a pedestal for a while, in terms of the advice he dishes out. The fact that he's made mistakes in the past would be a non-factor, if it weren't for the fact that people are following his dicta-- and how do we know that the advice he gives now is not going to be the fodder for next year's "I-was-so-much-dumber-then" article?
That feels like Mark V Shaney is active again.
Each user could pick how many other users they want in the forum. They would get a random sample of all the users. Not happy with the selection? Kick that person out of your forum and get another one from the pool automatically.
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Ask HN: Pitching startup concept at an exhibition/showcase
Hi,

We have to pitch our startup concept at an exhibition/showcase among other startups and based on this (in combination with our concept proposal) we may be looking at a business idea prize (competition similar to the MIT $100k but on a smaller scale).

So far in preparation for the exhibition we are looking into perfecting our basic elevator pitch. Time constraints prevent us having a prototype to demo.

Howver, I'd love to hear people's advice on this kind of situation - i.e. what would you take/show, what would you make sure you know, what questions would you make sure you are ready to answer? etc.
I actually think his "clueless behavior" is one of the reasons his stuff resonates with people. Everyone makes mistakes, some of us make them a lot. Lots of people in Joel's position are tempted to leave out the mistakes they made when telling their story. By detailing all these blunders, Joel connects with the average "Joe Programmer". Instead of making himself out to be a super-human, he comes off as a an informed peer. It makes his stories much more interesting.
Unfortunately I have to agree with you ;-) My experience has been so good with them that my default option is to shell out more money and keep using them.
"From my experience, improving your product (which is not equal to adding more features) is the best way to get new customers"

How can customers find your product and understand what it does if you build stuff and don't market it?
I'm not sure why you don't buy it on this basis. Your "obvious" response was evidently not that uncommon, as the first graph of adult responses shows (many more adults suggest bucket than basket or vase). The important part is the difference between this and the following graph, which shows that when adults know the ball is in the bucket (as opposed to any of the other containers) they are even more likely to answer bucket.
There's also "See mediocrity"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle

and "See yourself"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

I love the tension between these two ideas. The universe must be organized in a way that supports your existence, because, well, you exist. But your existence is just a fluke, made possible by the fact that the universe is what it is. The universe wasn't created for your convenience.
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> or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to rush to the hospital,

Yes, you can choose what your mind does, but this is simply playing make-believe. No self-respecting mind is going to eat this for more then 10 minutes. Changing your thinking works, but it has to be a bit more subtle (and complicated) then this.

I really liked this:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/minsky07/minsky07_index.html
Readable version: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090901/joel-spolsky-setting-th...
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1. pitch it to us.

2. iterate based on feedback.

You asking us to give advice on something we know nothing about. Is this an entrepreneurial-based contest? A technology one? Do they want financially sound concepts, or change the world ideas? Who are the judges? Peers, technology figures, academics, business owners ...

Relativity and scope please!
Ask HN/PG: Is my IP banned?
Since about two days I am unable to connect to Hacker News. My problem seems to be comparable to the one reported here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775381

Firefox shows simply a blank page (0 bytes), curl says "Empty reply from server" and Google Chrome notes "Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): Unknown error."

My IP address can be viewed at http://yfrog.com/el64282782g. I have maintained only this account, which is still available and I have never posted anything controversial. In fact, I haven't submitted or commented on anything in the last three weeks or so at all. I ought it highly unlikely that my family with whom I share this IP would be interested in Hacker News so that can't be it either.

Can PG or someone else please check and see if my address is in fact banned or if it is a problem at the client's side.

Thanks,
Daniel

P.S. I know recall having recently installed this userscript:

http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master

Might that have triggered an automatic anti-dos/anti-scraping ban?
I did install this userscript recently:

http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master

Might that have triggered an automatic anti-scraping/anti-dos ban or something?
I'm suggesting the same approach as the one the other author used (it turned out to be a peering issue there)

- check your DNS resolver, make sure you get the right IP address (174.132.225.106)

- do a traceroute to the server and make sure you can actually reach it

- try telnetting to the server and see if you can find out anything by observing the response

If you find there is a peering issue (a router somewhere that drops traffic to the subnet HN is hosted on) then a whois on the ip of the router will sometimes give you contact information of the party responsible in case your own ISP gives you the run around.

Oh, and last, make sure nobody is pulling a prank on you, check your own iptables!
+1 linode. Been using them for about 4.5 years. Solid service, knowledgeable staff, consistent improvements. "Just works(tm)".
Definitely. that's what was warned about in the announcement.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779157
Oh, in that time, they've upped my ram and my storage space multiple times, FWIW.
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Voted up as I wasn't previously aware of these specialized services.

I'd consider outsourcing PSD->HTML work as I'm not particularly good at implementing HTML and CSS. Confidentiality is a concern but I could always 'tweak' the product description on the pages to get the designs I needed without leaking the ideas.
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I just started reading this yesterday after seeing the author do an interview on The Daily Show - it's extremely fascinating so far.
It was quite clearly spelled out on this page... anti bot mechanisms are pretty much a must for any site that is 'above the radar' otherwise you end up serving bots 90% of the time and users 10% of the time. If the service survives.
> Also for the related comments, trees, garden walls, and jalousies are here to get you privacy as you desire.

Again that works fine when you live in a forest, but less so when you live in Manhattan.
And, if your competition is doing something really, really wrong (as in "illegal"), report them to the authorities immediately.
Could work... As long as you don't have do/while constructs in your code. It's not as common as a while() but people still use it sometimes.
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If Denise moves the ball to the bucket then perhaps putting balls in buckets is more common than putting balls in other containers. Sally being a child is likely to mirror Denises behaviours and therefore is probably more likely to place the ball in the bucket herself. She is thus more likely to look there than in other containers in which she herself would not place the ball.

If one knows that the ball is in the bucket this reinforces the concept that balls go in buckets or reminds one that more often than not people put balls in buckets.

Similar to the way that lots of people pick the same number in a given range or pick the same fruit when asked, etc., the most likely container for people to pick may be a bucket. People could be responding to an innate understanding of this fact; possibly without realising it.

Speculation, but still a decent logical explanation IMO.

A pre-experiment should be performed by asking people which vessel a ball should be placed in; the experiment in question could then choose only vessels with matching preference as ball receptacles as the options.
This is an interesting line of thought... anonymity being bad for a community.

But... what the heck does a CAPTCHA have to do with anonymity???
What a horrible UI for such a vote. Click these 5 links to go to separate pages to go through a slideshow (why can't I see them all at once?), which will all be on separates pages, then come back here and try to remember what number was worst, while never being able to see them side-by-side.

I'm not surprised there's only been 6 total votes.
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Hm where would you put that house in Manhattan? You must be really rich. That would work not only in a forest but in most of suburban America.
Whatever you might think of Apple's TV ads, Steve Jobs is rather notable for not being afraid to slam Microsoft.
OPs main gripe is that he has to choose between versions.

For java that's relatively easy (latest stable release I would say), but even then you run the risk of forcing your users to upgrade from an older version, so the choice issue persists.
I'm not sure why anyone would want to build an ECG machine but it's damn cool that you can!
It's very simple, actually. Anyone who blindly follows another man's advice, without checking everything and bringing their own judgement into the formula, very well deserves all that happens to them.
+1 for this book, although you either need to use Rails 2.2.2 or find the great site I found where a guy created a pdf with all the screenshots of working through the depot program with Rails 2.3.2. That saved me.
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This was a bug and it has been fixed. We do not consider CRSF attacks to be a feature. This is completely different from allowing legit users to post HTML/JS from inside the application.

We now also have a dedicated email address and public key for reporting any similar issues. See http://37signals.com/security.
At what point does a casual conversation become illegal collusion?

Unfortunately, the law provides no clear definition, just as there's no clear point at which competitive behavior become "anti-competitive."

I'm not sure I'd agree with the statement that it's "VERY hard to make an anti-trust case stick" -- the antitrust laws are used a lot more than you hear about in the regular news (and the government doesn't have to be the one who brings them since you can be sued under the laws). For instance, in 2003 Nestle and Dreyer's Ice Cream were blocked from merging on antitrust grounds because the government defined the market they would gain a large share in as "The Market for Superpremium Ice Cream" (not the market for desserts or the market for ice cream). Many other deals aren't even attempted for fear of antitrust.

Not only that, but you can be found guilty of price fixing even if you didn't have a conversation about prices.

But if you're big enough for this to be a concern, you're already thinking about hiring Washington lobbyists to protect yourself and not reading Hacker News.
It would label each one and then another coworker and I would star the interesting ones. Did this for about 6 months until I decided the stuff going on behind the scenes meant the company was screwed and we both moved on.

Well, it still sounds like you were eavesdropping on e-mail conversations. Was that the case?

Real Friends yes. I do not consider people I work with close friends, nor should you.

True, colleagues aren't often close friends, I'm aware of that. They can become rather close though, if you just happen to be compatible to that extent. True story! Happened to me once.

Friends and work don't mix.

Work and being "like friends" can mix though. I've experienced a working environment where all the people in the same room talked to each other just like they'd talk to their personal friends. Before I heard the first casual fucks thrown around, I didn't know what I had stumbled upon.

There'd be dialogue along the lines of:

-"Hey the build is fucked up! Who wants to confess?"
-"What does it say?"
-"<error message>"
-"OK, I want to confess. I'll fix it now"

(Someone looking at someone else's code)

"What.. The.. *FUCK* is going on here?!"

Then the (potential) culprit would explain what was going on, and we'd always reach an agreement of what should be going on, all the while talking in a casual and friendly way.

-"Fucking Java Server Faces is a piece of shit"

(It was causing us problems all the time)

All in all, it was quite awesome, in fact. I hope I'll be able to work in an environment like that again some day. Everyone was sensible and intelligent too!

As for Real Friends, I can talk about absolutely anything with my best friend, and about almost anything with a few others.

I wouldn't have messed with their personal lives.

Their personal lives are just that - personal. They're not a source of entertainment for you.
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Sounds like he got a call from a lawyer.
I'm traveling right now so I don't have access to my library, but if you're developing on Windoze, [first I'm sorry for you] ...but there's a really good book that I think is called Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers. It has a lot of insight on the challenges you will face setting up your box up through deployment.
Is a leak like this something that a journalist could get a second source for?
Everyone overgeneralizes from extremely limited data. At least, I do.
The really silly thing about the No VoIP deal is that even though it is an agreement with AT&T, it is still enforced on non-AT&T networks.

For example in The Netherlands all the big telcos have no problems with users doing VoIP. Yet, my SIP client (XSPhone) is only allowed to work over Wifi.
Yes, it's a lot better than nothing :D

There's another problem though, I don't live in the US and the only way to buy the books is through something like Amazon, shipping from the US. If you add shipping and taxes (local taxes here), books become really expensive.
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I have no idea about the banning status of your IP address. I do find it somewhat disappointing that a hacker news type could not do a little more low-level troubleshooting to try to at least approximate the root cause.

Have you tried your same PC/browser but going through a proxy? Have you tried your same account on the same PC in a different browser? Tried logging in from a free/unsecured wifi somewhere? Tried deleting cookies in your browser? Tried a different PC (library, friend, other family member, etc.).

Perhaps it's just my mood this AM, but it seems rather "do my homework for me" of you to post this up without having done some research and troubleshooting on your own.
Using gmail only as a convenient web interface for email addresses belonging to a domain you own and control, and backing it up elsewhere is a sensible step for any geek.

Similar applies to any of their other systems that you put anything valuable into. And not just Google, Twitter etc. too.
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You're implicitly giving a lot of credit to the stories he calls out as 'claim chowder'. They're pretty much always unsourced bs speculation from hacks and trolls who would never call attention to their own mistakes.
In the normal world, "would not take affirmative steps to enable an iPhone to use AT&T’s wireless service to make VoIP calls" would mean stay out of the way and be a passive observer.

In the iPhone-world however, because of the app review process, I suppose allowing an app onto the Store would count as an "affirmative step". But this also directly flies in the face of "if a third party enables an iPhone to make VoIP calls using AT&T’s wireless service, Apple would have no obligation to take action against that third party."

The way I parsed that (what I perceive to be) lawyer-speak is: Apple should not be bundling or giving away VoIP apps for the iPhone, but if someone else does so, whatever. Or does the third-party stipulation only protect Apple from VoIP apps being installed in jailbroken iPhones via Cydia?
> How can customers find your product and understand what it does if you build stuff and don't market it?

I already said that ... you have to do some marketing, but you shouldn't depend on investing marketing resources for survival. That's a big difference. Good products are their own marketing, and you can rely on a networking effect ... people usually tell their friends when they've found something hot.

And I'm not even talking about viral web 2.0 apps here ... I have a management app specific to pharmacy-shops (doing a couple of crazy stuff others haven't thought about) and it sells itself (I only had to do marketing for the initial 5 sells or so, and now after 4 months I have 30 customers ... which for the price I'm charging is really good).
Suddenly? DF has been around for years, and it's been Gruber's only source of income since 2006. The irony of bitching about histrionics...
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A google search for "Switzerland Voip" yields a few results, one being:
http://www.voip-list.com/voip_countries/voip_providers_switz...

My suggestion, find the cheapest Voip option you can, if you start to build up a client list, and all they have is the phone in your dorm (which I assume you have no control/ownership over) you will regret later not having established your own phone # in the beginning.
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