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I recently cancelled my netflix (streaming) subscription because the selection isn't very good. Until I can watch the current a-list TV shows and movies, it just seems like a constant compromise not worth making. Instead I watch hulu or other online streaming for TV shows, and rent movies from amazon on demand (much much better selection for recent releases). Then again, I have a mac mini hooked up to my TV so it's no problem watching any internet streaming video on it.
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Suicide bummer.
No, definitely not, it's only the public folders and not the rest.
Outstanding, thanks!
That's not exactly true. The SA80 isn't exactly new. It was in use during the Falklands for example. And the British Army used a version of FN FALs before the SA80s were adopted, and those were also automatic rifles.

Now, I'm pretty sure 'automatic' fire was burst limited. But that's pretty much nearly universally accepted as a good idea in main infantry rifles.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.

This complaint seems to come from the recent attitude absolutely everything is on the web. But tightly controlled products inherently don't have much web presence since their producers like control and all the search terms in the article seemed to involve terms pointing to these.

"NFL Jersey" - That sounds like "spam bait" already. Lots of (rather unsophisticated) people want these and the NFL itself controls its authorized products.

If you tried "cheap viagra", your results wouldn't be encouraging.

Sorry if the Interwebs are not meeting your expectations...

Perhaps Google should rate the quality of its own searches... That idea is serious.
Actually, I'm not sure they learned anything from Betamax. Other companies avoid format wars; Sony launches them, always hoping for license fees. Minidisc, ATRAC, Memory Stick, Digital8, UMD: all formats launched into crowded markets, usually with little or no advantage over the incumbents.

(I thought Blu-Ray was an example, but a quick Wikipedia check says Blu-Ray was announced 2 months before the DVD Forum voted to develop HD-DVD.)

They've won a few, too; most notably, 3.5" floppies (where Apple crowned the winner by choosing Sony for Mac).
They are likely being watched by whoever has the detonator, and (reportedly) the bombers often coerce the bomb carriers into participating by threatening their family.

Alternatively, the thought of directly disobeying authority figures never occurs to them. Remember that most of these 'bombers' are women (in societies where women are oppressed) or children.
Hotkeys working, thanks!
it looks good so far, and the idea is really good and intresting.. however do you also run socialeak.com? as this seems to be very similar but has content and more information and details? maybe you should link them togther if you own both?keep up the good work but i agree with whats been said about the facebook connect you need to explain why you need to sign in so people feel safe.
I'd love to see more stories about app developers - I'm getting a little tired of only hearing about web services to be honest. :)
He did insult them (or at least paint himself into a luser corner) by saying they had no export functionality.
TCs comments suck - look at what boingboing does for moderation that might be helpful. Also I am probably in the minority but I rather read and respond to one really good article a day than 10 spammy articles. I think focusing on quality is key (just my 2 cents).
No one posted the funniest comment in the Quora thread, from Dropbox founder Drew Houston:

> http://www.zumsteg.net/2009/03/08/further-comparison-of-drop...

> (kidding -- mostly)
This is a situation I've seen many times in the past. Often the right site is on top, but it's showing the wrong result, meanwhile the scraper site surfaces the correct one.

It seems like just showing a few more results from the "real" site would solve the problem.
If you've been to the South, the comparison is stark, and it's hard to believe the two were one country a few decades ago.

That said, if re-unification, happens I imagine the progress in the North will be rapid, and the country as a whole will become an even stronger regional power.
What I never liked about Quicksilver (and I really liked Quicksilver) is that I always had to look at it. I never knew if pressing "m" would get me Mail, Mozilla, or "Mail selected file as attachment". Quicksilver was often too smart and tried to do too much.

I have Twitch bound to my Option key, so I know that I can tap Option, then hit C, and I'll get Chrome, every time. It breaks my flow much less, and it's faster, to boot -- I timed that I can get Twitch open, use it, and have it closed in 600ms.

As to a more informative website: I'm considering this a minimum viable product, enough to get on sale and get feedback (like yours, thanks!). More everything is on the way.
Ask HN: When trying to open the door for a job, what is your major pain point?
Is it updating your resume/CV?
Tailoring your resume/CV for each job?
Dealing with recruitment agents?
Fear of cold calling?<p>How do you feel that the process of matching you with the right job could be made easier?
I think this is great. My first impression, though, was that the name "g0atbutt" does not inspire confidence. Just my 2 cents.
Yeah, this isn't what HN is for...
There is also a very good french comics book :
http://www.amazon.com/Pyongyang-Journey-North-Guy-Delisle/dp...

The author describe 3 month of life there.
I agree with you on this - long lines of text are hard to read and break the reader's concentration. Narrow is good for reading. Maybe you could have another column where people could choose the content that they wanted to see? ie, the "Comments" or "Ask" pages?
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Apple certainly could have made it easier to put any old video you want into iTunes, I think they made a strategic decision to coax people into purchasing video through iTunes by making it hard to just drop AVIs into it. If they had tried this with iTunes - come out with the music store before the player and limited you to only listening to music you bought through the store, they'd have been dead in the water. I'm sure they're more than happy with the sales of videos in iTunes but they certainly left a pretty wide hole where iTunes could have been the default video player for everything instead of just their own stuff.
> As an American, I am glad that the arab youth is escaping the imperialistic shadow that US has casted over the middle east.

Have you done any studying of the history of revolutions? The track record on what usually happens after them ain't so good...

Sometimes Americans underestimate how poorly and bloody and vicious revolutions usually are. Something like 80%+ of them wind up worse than the original regime they overthrew. If you've never looked into, I could try to compile some sort of list of revolutions. It really wouldn't be a pretty list. And revolutions led by angry youth have an even worse track record than the general one...
William is friends with the owner of PostDesk according to his description - knowing the owner is very different, and I think it's important to hold on to that distinction. You may, of course, be of a different opinion about the relationship - and know better about it than I do - but I think it's relevant that William himself describes the relationship as a friendship.

If there is a conflict of interest that should stop you from writing a story in the first place, you don't write the story.

If you are affiliated in some way with one side in a story, you write a disclaimer, so people don't jump to conclusions when they discover the relationship after reading the piece. Case in point.

Disclaimers/disclosures are as much about journalistic objectivity as PR on the writer's/s' behalf.
Ha... so you need give people karma if they voted early (in the first 5) on an article that becomes popular, and penalize them for voting early on an article that goes nowhere once it's on the front page.
My impression of Al Jazeera is that they're closest in principles and journalistic ethics to our own Fox News. They have a specific narrative that they reinforce through reporting of specific details, while omitting others. Though their facts are usually "correct", they are chosen to fit the narrative, rather than used to construct/change the narrative as it develops.

My impression comes mostly through direct conversations with Israelis who were at certain reported-upon events and have a very different account of how the events transpired than were reported on Al Jazeera. Of course, my sources could be mistaken and/or disingenuous, and are certainly biased.

The NYTimes shared comments (and criticisms) about Al Jazeera today: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/middleeast/28jazeera...
As much as I agree with you on your observations of Indian bureaucracy, I think this case is slightly different.

The RBI wants to treat PayPal like a bank and subject it to the same regulations as other banks (whether those regulations are fair or obstructive is subject for another discussion).

PayPal wants to run around and be bank-like, but not really a bank.
I guess this goes to show that geography does matter, even for the survival of the internet.

On the other hand, the Egyptians who cut off their country's internet were wise enough to not just black hole everything that went through their routers and trash a lot of world-wide traffic. They can still position their actions as a local police action, instead of a disruption of global commerce.
Let me address these points one by one:

1. We don't expect our SEO to outrank the original source, I was very clear about that in my original post. SEO is a tool to be used among many other tools to ensure that content is properly "classified", nothing more than that. When a search engine visits, you want that search engine to immediately know what any given page is about, and we do that very well.

2. The Vodafone image concern I don't understand - we identified Vodafone as one of the main entities in the story (Vodafone shut off service to Egypt), and that is why the image is showing up there. If you visit the Renesys blog (the original source) you will see that Vodafone is mentioned there. The Vodafone image is not an ad, it is there to identify what the story is mainly about - context.

3. Regarding adding insight, opinion or value - we believe that the role of algorithmic news aggregation is not to have an opinion, but instead to uncover news that you may not otherwise have been aware of, give you context in the form of links to the main entities in that story, or other stories on the same topic. We believe we do that very accurately, and are always working on making it better and smarter.

4. Regarding the comparison to Techmeme - everyone has their favorite aggregator, and I am a big fan of Techmeme as well. I would, however, point out that Techmeme also displays ads in order to make a living, and they also have "content pages" that you can find through Google search. Indeed, virtually all aggregators run ads against the aggregated content they display on their sites, and all aggregators have "content pages" above and beyond a homepage.

The issue I am trying to uncover is not whether you like our sites or not, but rather what exactly we have done wrong, when compared with other aggregators, that caused us to not just have our pages bumped down in ranking, but to be totally de-indexed and have our PageRank stripped away (from a respectable 5 on Celebrifi). That, and to understand better what the future of content or news aggregation might be - should we expect all aggregators to become de-indexed? Are there guidelines that should be followed, or changes that should be made, to not fall afoul of Google? Are all aggregators on a level playing field, or will the lesser-known ones be shut off while the chosen few with established brand names survive?

These are valid concerns, not just for us but for many others in this space, and we are more than prepared to put in whatever changes might be needed to get back into Google's good books.
Indeed it works. I switched the search term to a file name present in my shared folder and there it was.
The version of the iTunes Music Store where people can put whatever media they want up for sale sounds, to me, as a consumer, less valuable than the single place I can go now to get almost any album on any label I normally listen to, or get the most recent episode of Parks & Rec. I'm sure there's great stuff on sale at flea markets too, but I don't want to shop there. Sorry.
I'll make a wild guess. The previous title was "Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident". That could easily describe a situation where the planners sent the text too early. Also it mentions the text was sent by the carrier, perhaps adding some credibility (as opposed to some apocryphal story about a friend of a friend getting a wrong number.) Just guesses.
Excessive use of font bolding in this article.
Without commenting on your theory as to why Israel's favored by the USA, I'd like to point out a bigger reason that Israeli leaders won't be sleeping well: whoever ends up in charge of Egypt is quite likely to be a lot more hostile toward Israel than Mubarak's government has been.

Israel has been able to count on relatively peaceful relations with Egypt for the last few decades, meaning that since the treaty with Jordan they've only had to worry about one hostile immediate neighbor. Suddenly having to worry about Egypt as well as Lebanon would represent a big change.
Coincidence or not? This has just been posted on TC 50 minutes ago. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/karp-tumblr-quarter-billion...
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Personally, I prefer to keep my audio quality merely decent (I have two Infiniti speakers, $100 each in 1996), so that I can still enjoy it when all I have handy is the $10 earbuds I keep in my belt pouch.
There used to be some others but they mostly have been bought up by bigger companies.

dabbledb.com

coghead.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coghead
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I've had a hard time posting questions to quora with band names because I keep getting bounced by the automated capitalization and grammar rules.
I really hope that's what it will end up being.

But I fear that the actual end result will be an Egypt ruled by one of the Muslim extremist groups that operate there and which are far more organized and poised to take advantage of a power vacuum.
I completely understand why you'd question my motives. I thought really hard about whether I should post this example or not. I tried to find an alternative example that would demonstrate the same problem, but this is the only one that I could come up with. I'm sure if I spent significantly more time looking I could have found something similar, but this example is very apparent to me because it's in SERPs that I watch closely.

I'm not trying to "out" this site. I don't think they've done anything wrong or manipulative—they just have some pages with no content that are ranking well. I think that this type of issue should be on Matt's radar. Most of the site is of extremely high quality, and it deserves the high rankings that it gets.

It's a page that is solely navigational structure, yet it ranks very well for a very specific keyword because of title tags and anchor text. We've already seen that Google has a problem (that they're working towards fixing) with low content from low and medium quality sites. What are they doing about low quality content (or non-content) from high quality sites?
I wasn't trying to undermine the importance of the revolution. Just explaining some of my worries of actions afterwards and using the National Museum as an example.

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Also, while I get what you're saying, Russia did lose a lot of priceless artifacts from the Winter Palace.

Instead of travelling to St. Petersburg to see Raphael's Alba Madonna, I now have to go to the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The Winter Palace also lost other great works of art from Botticelli, van Eyck, Rembrandt, Titian, among others.

We've had a long history of that happening to us. The Rosetta Stone's in Britain, Nefertiti's in Berlin, and out of 36 Ancient EGYPTIAN obelisks only 9 are actually in the country of Egypt. The city of Rome, by itself, boasts 8. 9 if you count the Vatican.

So, no. I'm actually really worried about our relics.
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I'm a not born Aussie who lives in CA.

The post was fun to read and I can pretty much agree with everything.

One difference that I spotted was the accent barrier. For non English speakers Australia can be painful it doesn't matter how good your English is you find yourself repeating your sentences, or spell out every name in the family including my boys English names (no Aussie could understand the name Dean when it came out out of my mouth). In California no such issues (I felt vindicated when I moved over here) only comments that my English is too British (which is the result of the effort I put to get Aussies to understand me).

Another thing that I miss about Australia is that life aren't serious, every man is with in his right to make an arse of himself any now and then and that's just fine.

One thing that I don't miss is the property obsession, everything in Australia is about the property. We don't build proper highways because we can stuff in a few more units, we don't build a railway because it will generate noise which will hurt the property market in that area. If you want to build a startup it will sense only if it will: speed up building property, help people pay the mortgage on the property, help banks claim the mortgage on the property etc...

All I want to add is that I do wish the Health / Education to be here as in Australia.
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ah, much easier to see, thank you
This is a pretty good idea. I googled for something similar and didn't find anything, but the search terms are pretty tough "google" "feed", etc :)
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You can pretty much get away with anything in Newtown :-)
What you are describing is similar to the 'intelligence' feature in GA.
The proper answer is a bit longer. When you have more then one entity with this knowledge, sooner or later you're going to have an arms race. Which has, as a byproduct, all sides getting better and better.

So it's not really a question of one or the other. Having manipulation will, long term, lead to corresponding vaccination.
My mistake, my eyes glossed over Afghanistan.
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I think from a larger view, it has always been easy to beat SONY. SONY as a company doesn't care about the customer AFTER they have purchased the item. Look at ANY software that comes with a device, it's simply awful if it works at all. Even the PS3 has iffy UI. I had a fantastic device for recording for my podcast, but getting the recording OFF the machine was almost impossible. The last version, ver. 3.2, had menu options that didn't do anything. Absolutely NOTHING, and that was version 3!

Beat SONY by making the inside as good as the outside. Simple.
Not sure what your are trying to say or if you even use an iOS product. You can easily play music/movies not purchased through iTunes and there is other software out there that allows people to manage music/movies if they don't want to use iTunes. So no, it's really not the same thing at all.
Two words: good headlines. Non-link-bait headlines that are accurate and descriptive, now written to incite. TC's major flaw (or as some might argue: TC's major strength) is what might be described as arrogant Arringtonism

A couple examples from the top of my RSS feed:

"Five reasons the PSP2 won't succeed"
"... the Dystopian Hellscape"
etc, ad infinitum.
Interesting idea. Perhaps even do it in a 'readability' style where the main article is in your own voice with injected opinions and the 'readability' version is just facts.

Maybe even allow the 'readability' version to be edited wiki style...
You're missing the point of 1. It's not simply "you can use globals", it's that you can rebind them in a thread-isolated way that stacks.

Ruby blocks aren't really first-class without getting converted into procs, and it's pretty un-idiomatic to pass these around like actual values. Even then they're not "first-class" as most calls happen via method calls rather than function invocation.
Except it's not the same: on a warning, you click OK and then A) the warning is gone and B) you can't get it back.
Be Inspired (By Everything) 18
So it’s been over a month since the last Be Inspired, but it’s finally here; number 18. Hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year, though there is still plenty of 2011 left of course. Anyway I’ve been busy with a placement and enjoying the holidays but now I be able to resume regular posting. Anyway, enjoy this month’s collection.
... And Apple forums would be rife with explanations about how kicking is a better way to interface with puppies than petting them.
Yes, as I mentioned you have to actively go through and set that up which few take the time to do. It doesn't "just work".
Elisp does this; it has no language-level lexical scope, but you can get it using the lexical-let macro. From a functionality perspective it works surprisingly well, but if you look at the macroexpansion you'll go blind.
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Spam gets upvoted to the top of reddit on a regular basis. Most people are pretty apathetic to legitimacy most of the time. All we ever have is proxies for quality, the hope is that we have enough of them to cover the space.
Consider switching to a more neutral nick for the extra professional look and/or flesh out your profile.

I realize you mean well but my first association was with goatse and that can't be your intention.
PayPal wants to run around and be bank-like, but not really a bank.

I agree this is true, but I say so in a completely neutral tone, devoid of any judgment. Running around and being X-like but not really an X is the entire point of creating disruptive products and services. For example, Amazon wants to run around and be bookstore-like, without really being a bookstore.

This is obviously bad when they do bad things, and good when they do good things. But it's really the heart of the value proposition for a disruptive service.
Yes and if you believe their data, Pascal and ADA are also on the ascendancy.
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There is no shortage of banks. There is only one Paypal. If Paypal's customers wanted a bank, they would go open an account at one of India's many actual banks.

Who exactly is being helped by taking away the Paypal option from consumers (besides bankers)?
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