blacktar

Assholery all around, IMO.

Billy is an asshole for deceiving people and breaking the SW rules of no preworked ideas allowed.

Bobby is an asshole for joining a SW with the wrong motivation and breaking the SW rule of no pre-formed teams (and proceeding to whine about being snubbed without any form of self-reflection in the process).

The SW organisers and the facilitator are assholes for breaking the clear SW rule of no cash prizes allowed - ever.

Great to see more startups coming out of my native Norway. Looks like a fun app. Looking forward to see where they are going with this one.

I'd also love to see a version curated for industry verticals. I think that would be an interesting proposition.

We'll see how it turns out. Bring popcorn.

(Mental note to self: Never ever use "clusterfuck" in title when posting to HN ever again. Karma mod trolls do not approve.)

TL;DR PayPal Germany seems to have sent mass-emails claiming German customers have won 500,- EUR when they have in fact not. Kaspersky Labs have verified emails as legit, coming from PayPal.

German law basically dictates that if you tell someone they won a prize, you have to give them that prize, no ifs or buts:

§ 661a Gewinnzusagen Ein Unternehmer, der Gewinnzusagen oder vergleichbare Mitteilungen an Verbraucher sendet und durch die Gestaltung dieser Zusendungen den Eindruck erweckt, dass der Verbraucher einen Preis gewonnen hat, hat dem Verbraucher diesen Preis zu leisten.