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Part of the reason for actions against Al Jazeera are because of where it is and where it focuses on. The BBC and CNN are Western-based media, and they toe the line when it comes to western media principles so dictators know what to expect.

For Al Jazeera, it's based in an Arab state, focuses on the Arab and North African world and many of these countries are either in a state of dictatorship or are relatively unstable. It also adopts what can be described as a mostly pan-arabian world view, much to the chagrin of the west. Therefore it's not surprising that a) given it's location and orientation and b) it's relative youth compared to the BBC, CNN et al and c) it's willingness to go against the grain in various countries, including against the will of the west, that it's attacked.

It's also important to note that while it's based in Qatar, it doesn't tend to provide the same level of criticism in Qatar as it does elsewhere.
Enh, I got burned out on Thailand months ago -- I was living there most of Q3 and Q4 2010. But I actually was mainly using HN on an iPad or iPhone while sitting on the beach, or at a restaurant, or going to/from dive boats, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
I think if I were buying satellite Internet service from Egypt I would almost certainly choose a UK/Europe hub. There's some benefit to another middle eastern hub for access to middle eastern sites (which might be local due to language and customers), but for me, most of my traffic could be going to the US or Europe, so may as well get a hub in Europe to avoid the somewhat-expensive Egypt to Europe fiber portion.
Good to see someone channelling their inner child and really enjoying themselves!

The footage reminded me of this article: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/12/how-a-rc-airplane...

I really want to get a setup like this. Looks like the closest thing to being able to fly!

p.s: Love the 8bit arcade music.
As I understand it, he is genuinely massively interested in technology, almost being like a kid in a sweet shop.

Having said that, he's also the prime example of why you should get off the Internet and start doing something.
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Standard procedure in the industry - the Times have the Educational supplement, the Graun have the MediaGraun (Sky, for example, also pushes the majority of recruitment requests through it. I'd also argue that the T is the more direct competitor.). Much is also put in trade papers like Broadcast.
I'm doing my MSc at potentially the same "top 3" uni in central London, after getting my undergraduate from a school much lower on the league tables. The biggest thing I've noticed, not considering any sort of academic rigor/quality differences, is the amount of on campus recruiting and outreach from big name employers in finance and engineering.

It seems like there's someone on campus from DB, Barclays Capital, EY, Lehman, etc, everyday for the first month or so of the year. There's also things like opportunities to apply for McLaren racing sent from the department office -- things like that didn't exist at my old uni. It's not necessarily the case that these things would be unattainable, but you're much more aware of these opportunities at big name schools.

The biggest boon comes if you're interested in entering the financial sector, or if you're really set on following the whole "graduate scheme" path. But like you suggest, it doesn't really matter outside of that.
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You just made me throw up in my mouth a little. But I do see your point.
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My account is apparently too new for me to submit this, which I guess answers my question as to how to post it (on its own or as a reply):

http://www.novemberwest.com/blog/?p=136

Perhaps this will foster a little conversation here.
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You need to look for a news source that is financially incentivized to do "just the facts". Organization such as Reuters, AP, AFP etc sell "raw news" to TV stations and newspapers, which then put their own editorial on it. The same Reuters feed goes into the BBC as goes into Sky News. So if you really care, just read Reuters and make up your own mind.
There's always sysadmin work.

1) You need to keep current on your security patches.

2) You need to upgrade your OS when it reaches end-of-life.

3) You need to make backups, and more importantly, verify that those backups will actually restore. (For git, this is most critical if you have a large team and dozens of repos.)

You can ignore a server for years, but eventually you'll get compromised or loose a hard drive. (If you use RAID, you'll eventually lose or an entire RAID array. Not fun at all, nor cheap.)
I doubt that Ahmadinejad or Bashar elAssad have anything to fear from al-Jazz. In fact, I'm pretty sure that those two would agree with your glowing assessment of their activities.

President Obama has expressed his disdain for Fox News on several occasions. Wouldn't that make Fox a network that is hated by the ruling class?
Hah! Worker 17494 is just a few meters east of the national Christmas tree! Maybe it was a WH staffer on his/her lunch break?
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I feel like the secession/partition ideas you most frequently hear floated in the last 10 years or so are in a lot of ways the misguided desire to hold constitutional conventions. Splitting up gives you the chance to do that 'reset' and fix a lot of institutional problems that seem daunting otherwise, but you have the opportunity for the same 'reset' with a convention, although there's nothing to keep a convention from making it even worse.
You have a rather simplified picture of things.

A good bit of that extra money Eastern Washington gets back goes towards things like maintaining irrigation canals that make it possible for farmers to grow food for the rest of the state. Some of it goes towards maintaining the dams that provide a lot of power to the state. And some of it goes towards cleaning up Hanford - the federal government hasn't picked up the entire tab for that, even though it should. Some of it goes towards education, of course. --Let's be honest, agriculture has brought a lot of immigrants to that side of the State, and the Pasco School District, for example, has the highest percentage of ESL students than any other school district in the state.

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with the political leanings of much of Eastern Washington, and even now I have no desire to ever move back there, but having grown up there, I can certainly attest to the fact that things are much more complex than you seem to believe.
In the author's defence, the Fu.JS syntax is much nicer than the jQuery syntax, so I can see why someone would want to build this.
I went to a major US research institution and double degreed in CS and East Asian Studies (Japanese, basically). The quality of the Japanese program was life-changing for me. The quality of the CS program -- meh, I'm not unhappy with it, but neither the instruction nor the brand name was worth substantially more than the equivalent degree from a less prestigious institution.

Sevenish-years later I can guarantee you that no one who I do business with cares a lick about the name of my university. They don't ask, I don't tell. (Same with GPA, major, and specific wording of the degree, by the way. My professors and advisors carried on as if these were really important when I was in school. I actually cried when some minor academic rule looked like it was going to knock my degree from $ARBITRARY_LETTERS to $EQUALLY_ARBITRARY_LETTERS. I strongly suggest college kids have a professional mentor outside of academia in whatever industry/culture/etc they want to seek employment in, so you can figure out whether the things academia are so obsessed with actually matter at all.)

This is, obviously, influenced by my career choices. If I had done what many kids at my university did and gone into investment banking, management consulting, or the like, I would have a 4x scale replica of my diploma made so that one could not help reading the name when one entered my office.
One of the core ideas of Mao in the mid-20th century was to divide China into completely self-sufficient entities of about 3 mln. people, who should produce EVERYTHING without any trade whatsoever - because trade breeds wealth, which breeds inequality. They were supposed to mine their own iron and smelt their own steel from their own territory, for example.

Unsurprisingly, didn't work too well.
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> The military draft does not apply to certain ethnic groups, because Israel doesn't want most of them in its military forces.

Absolutely fascinating. Where did you hear this?

The draft doesn't apply to non-Jews because Israel doesn't want to force its Arab citizens to fight other Arabs. However, Arabs, Muslims, and Christians are encouraged to join the military or civil service and they serve alongside Israeli Jews or in their own units. In fact Druze men have mandatory conscription.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces#Minoritie...

> The Law of Return only applies to Jews.

Many, many countries have a Right or Law of Return. I always find it interesting that it is particularly bad when Jews do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return
Preventing old people and sick people from dying in the streets is just one of those costs you're going to have to pay for, like it or not. Raise Social Security to 68, maybe. Cut it off, though, and you'll find that the country will still pay, one way or another. (Maybe force kids to support their parents - it could be a completely different solution from Social Security, but that money is going to get spent.)
I was just imagining how different hacker news would be if there were tags on each comment/post indicating what levels of disagreement hierarchy are contained within. I can't imagine a practical way to implement it but imagine the effect it would have on discourse if people were constantly reminded what they were reading/writing.
Just pointing out that relative poverty and relative wealth could both come with increased risk of suicide.
Looks pretty peaceful. ;)
It depends on what you want to do, I think. I found my undergrad university's reputation useful for a few years; it wasn't very "big-name", but it was well-respected in its area (hmc.edu). I wanted to do sort of media/humanities oriented AI, artificial-creativity/etc. kind of stuff, and the fact that I came from a school with a solid technical reputation made people take me more seriously, and kept me out of the "guy who wants to do AI and read too many sci-fi books but doesn't have the technical chops" category.

But either way it only matters for a few years. Once you've done something for 3-5 years since college, it's unusual for anyone to care greatly where you went to college.

The other main factor is whether a university has strong recruiting relationships, which isn't identical to big-nameness, but can correlate with it. If lots of companies come to the school's career fair every year expecting to hire N graduates, it can make it easier to get in the door.
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Hi, I'm just wondering if I can get feedback on something that's just crossed my mind.

Inspired by the post about Ticketmaster, I was wondering what your opinions would be on a similar, but smaller, service with the focus on small-indie labels to unsigned artists. The charge wouldn't have to be as high as ticketmaster and there is a lot of unrepresented talent out there which could possibly do with some kind of organisation in this regard.

I'd be really grateful for some feedback on this and if anyone would be interested in using such a service. It's understandable if you'd rather see a prototype so I'll start working on one as soon as get home from work.

Thanks.
I don't think "nothing like jQuery" is really correct here; its API is very similar to jQuery. In fact, it behaves a lot like a very small subset of jQuery, as a neighbouring post to this one points out.

I can imagine it's handy if one wants something like the jQuery API but doesn't need support for all of the CSS selector features, or for older browsers, and wants to save a few bytes on downloads, given that it's much smaller (the uncompressed jQuery source is something like 60 times the size of this library, although in its defence that includes inline documentation).
Hi, Yii framework looks very promising to me: http://www.yiiframework.com/

Which framework did you use?
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Right. At least, there is a blob server in the architecture and a blobref in the reference document. In Camlistore, they have something called "schema blob" that looks more a generalized version of the specific "tree", "commit" and "tag" in Git. I hope they could have a sample skeleton in their schema to support the Git Object Model. In that scope, they could host standard git repository in their store and maybe benefit from existing git tools...
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Huh! what is this ? some kind of a marriage proposal porn ?
I wondered the same thing so let me save you the search:

> http://help.dottoro.com/ljlumkqh.php

The page implies that there is limitations to the IE8 implementation, and that it's only available in relatively recent browsers. In addition, I believe that sizzle implements a set of selectors larger than most or all browsers support natively, although this I am less sure of; the Sizzle documentation certainly implies it strongly:

> https://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/wiki
It's a marketing thing, if you make your customers think that you're selling a completely different category of product they'll eat it up. People will see through anything you try to say about your brand of soap, but when it comes to "cleansing body wash" they can't immediately claim knowledge, and they will be at least temporarily open to whatever you tell them. Here the product is his mediocre restatement of things mostly everybody already knew already.

Full disclosure: I am not a marketing major, so this may be mostly made-up.
It's worth mentioning the HN Daily link: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
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It's interesting (if not disturbing) to see just how big of a gamble Americans are forced to make with their college decision. I'm lucky to live in a country (Switzerland) where college is practically free, making the whole thing a non-issue.
>>ErrantX only stated his opinion.

Go back up, here is his first comment to the racist sermon asking for genocide:

>>See, you have one incident - it's a bad one, sure, but definitely not representative of the channel. And, as it is, I accept their explanation for it

That was a claim of facts.

But he obviously has never seen any explanation for it. And had no idea if it was one or more incidents (it took me seconds to find another -- I have no idea how common it really is for Al J in Arabic).

>>on the other hand seem to have no actual experience with English Al-Jazeera

I know enough that no one really knows their agenda. (Well, except that they don't criticize the country they are sited in.)

Edit: I might also add that ErrantX acknowledged that point.

>>Now you're saying that everyone that disagrees with you is stupid

How do you get that from "intelligence and rationality isn't really that connected"? (Edit: If you really don't get it, I'm writing the opposite.)

I have been voted -30 or -40 here. That doesn't happen on HN if you are just wrong, which happens to everyone.
> where free speech isn't a concept rooted in law.

Actually, it all makes sense now. In the West we're used to having free speech as a given right. We don't do much to protect, expand, or enhance it.
Fox is a Republican outlet.

Al-Jazeera does indeed endorse certain "causes", if that's what you're hinting at. Usually that cause is the freedom of the people. They don't support the governments of Syria or Iran nor run any of their propaganda. They regularly interview opposition figures.
Have you seen any criticism of the Iran or Syrian regimes on al-J? Have you seen any criticism of Hamas or Hezbollah? Are these guys really beyond reproach?
You made an account for that? Wrong site buddy.
> Have you seen any criticism of the Iran or Syrian regimes on al-J? Have you seen any criticism of Hamas or Hezbollah?

All the time.

> Are these guys really beyond reproach?

What?

Have you seen anything of Al Jazeera? probably not.

Now, does any western media channel regularly host speakers from Hamas? I doubt it.

Al-Jazeera always interviews people from the Israeli side (and they get a lot of heat for it).
> In the author's defence, the Fu.JS syntax is much nicer than the jQuery syntax

How? No, seriously, how is

ƒ('body').style.background = '#f4f6f8';

much nicer than

$('body').css('background', '#f4f6f8');

?

fu().body.fu('ul').appendChild(ƒ().createElement('li'));

than

$('body ul').append($('<li>'));

?

document.body.ƒ('ul li:last-child').innerText = "I'M THE NEW GUY!";

than

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?

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}

than

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?

ƒ('ul li:nth-child(2n)', 'style.background = "black"')

than

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?
I don't have any insider info, but just from having followed Miguel's blog for awhile, my impression is that the Netflix stuff is more related to DRM than anything about Moonlight/Silverlight. I believe it boils down to there not being a PlaysForSure (or whatever their DRM is called, hard to keep them all straight they are so similar) implementation available to them, particularly on non-Windows platforms.
Whatever problem you had posting, it wasn't because your account is too new. It's all too common to see submissions from accounts that are like ten seconds old.
The Asahi beer vending machines in Japan (which you put a glass into, and it tilts then pours then adds extra foam).

Also, interesting hacker types at the Quora party. Especially amusing watching Yishan (a former director of engineering at FB) riding a mechanical bull, then talking with someone about ksplice and kernel security.
Can one be a better programmer as a result of training in a specific way?
HN is quite helpful on similar thoughts expressed in the past and I have read some of them. But my question is somewhat different. Suppose you have a decade. Is it possible to use that time to "train yourself" to be an increasingly better programmer?

Or is it more like no matter what happens, your "scale as a programmer" is constant?

Philip Ross argued (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-expert-mind) that getting better at chess is possible with "correct" training. Thus, 10 years spent without correct training and the same time spent with correct training can make a vast difference.

Would that apply to programming?
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I don't think the usual definition involves leverage, though that can certainly contribute to bubbles; a "bubble" is just any speculative run-up in asset values where they temporarily deviate greatly from intrinsic/long-run values.
I'm glad that was awkward. If he got 1600 on his SATs, started a 50bn company, and was a gifted comedic actor...I'd be pissed off. And a little sad for myself.
This project has been inspired by a Hacks/Hackers meeting in Brussels. After the meeting, I looked after interesting data sets and found out that it was not easy to find population pyramids for every country in the world, while the needed data was available on one UN website.

There a lots of interesting points to see in there :

- one can easily spot the future public retirement plans problem in Europe (with more and more elderly people ). See here for example : http://populationpyramid.net/?country=Belgium&year=2050

- I am still wondering what is happening in countries like Qatar in 2010 (http://populationpyramid.net/?country=Qatar&year=2010) How come there are so many more men than women ?

- Near 1950 in Europe, you can spot the "dent" made by WW2 in the population, plus the baby boom. Example : http://populationpyramid.net/?country=France&year=1950

- It is already interesting to compare the shape of the pyramid for countries like Afghanistan in 2010 (http://populationpyramid.net/?country=Afghanistan&year=2...) VS the US in 2010 (http://populationpyramid.net/?country=United_States_of_Ameri...). One can easily see the difference in development, to say the least.

And so on...
I'm curious why that's never caused legal trouble for them. They have a dominant position in the ticket-sale business, and companies with market dominance like that usually aren't allowed to try to extend or defend it with exclusivity agreements. Microsoft and Intel both got in trouble for exclusivity agreements with OEMs, for example.
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> Have you seen anything of Al Jazeera? probably not.

Please do not make any assumptions about me, I have seen plenty. For example, when al-J threw a birthday party to Samir Kuntar and called him a hero. Samir Kuntar is a guy who was doing time in Israel for killing a 4-year old girl by bashing her head with a rock.

> Al-Jazeera always interviews people from the Israeli side (and they get a lot of heat for it).

You're comparing guys like Samir Kuntar to Israeli government ministers?
> I can see some people saying they are being shut down because they are supporters of radical Islam but from what I've seen of them this is pure nonsense.

"pure nonsense" is exactly what it is :)

The only reason it seems that way from the western perspective is because:

1) They interview Islamist figures
2) They don't portray them as evil

But they also interview people from every color of the political spectrum.

> given that it comes from a part of the world where free speech isn't a concept rooted in law.

I was shocked that most channels in North American report mostly on local news (e.g. man bitten by a dog), and if they ever report on global events, it's usually brief. And that's when they run any news at all; most TV is focused on entertainment 100%. From where I stood, it sounded like some sort of a conspiracy to keep the people ignorant about what's going on in the world around them.
I got a message saying something like "You are posting too fast. Please slow down." And my post did not show up. (I thought it was the most lovely rejection I've ever seen. And I write polite letters of that sort as part of my job.)

Perhaps my inference is incorrect. Or perhaps policy recently changed. <shrug>