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Iraq Was Made Into An Enemy In Order To "Redesign The Middle East"[video]
Yes, we have EU including Italy.
...unless you're dealing with the government, banks, or car dealerships.
Sarcasm is both unnecessary and unbecoming. Nor does it have any bearing on what i've said. If policy changes regarding the canal we will see an impact on both international trade and governance.
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I was in school as well and i think we were given a half day or something. I came home and i think it was on the news and they were showing it and talking about the fact that the astronauts might not have died in the explosion but might have been conscious while they fell to earth.
Seriously? You took the time to dig up emails for a bunch of employees to whine at all of them, and you couldn't do this?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tumblr+exporter

You then had your friend PR whore on the internet, without mentioning at first that you wrote, "I would move to a different service, but with no export feature [...]".

If a customer is that unhappy, you should leave. And tell your friends that run crap startups to see if the shoe fits a little differently when one of their customers digs up the email addresses of all their engineers to whinge at.
I think the GP is referring to England.

The English head of state (the Queen) is also the head of the church of England.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England
AK of DBs should be used for some Russian DB! or Chinese...

okay okay. i hereby patent the definition 'an iPhone of databases' :)
Didn't Brandon Lee die because someone mistook a real gun and bullets for prop ones?
You're failing to recognize how long this strategy has been used effectively to suppress the people.

There are a number of reasons why this strategy is coming undone now, including waning US power, and the rapid sharing of information among masses of people.
In order to be considered "original" from the search engine perspective, it needs to be around 30% new content. There are websites like http://www.copyscape.com/ that can tell you how original something appears.

Internet marketers use software to "spin" text and make it appear unique. Sometimes the text is annoying for humans to read, but search engines eat it up. You can take one article and turn it into 50 with the click of a couple of buttons.
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http://google.com/#q=kudos&hl=fi&gl=fi

hl refers to the UI language and gl to localized results.
Read up on RSA encryption it might just blow your mind :)

PS: Creating a problem and measuring the solution need not be as hard as solving the problem without the "Key".
Yes - I've been doing a lot of YII related searches the past week, and I've noticed that a lot of times a site called 'devcomments.com' pops up somewhere in the first 5 results. Usually with a bogus page that does contain the keywords you were looking for, but not the actual discussion/forum thread. It appears they have copied their content directly from the official site, yiiframework.com.

Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=Any+yii+way+to+get+the+previo...

In that particular instance it is result number 3 (and the original is number 1), but on more than one occasion it was the top result and it's never what you are looking for.
To try and shed some light here, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the protocol used between routers to communicate which range of IP addresses a router handles. So for instance, my router will advertise to other routers that it handles from 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.255 and the other routers will then send traffic bound for those IP addresses to my router.

From what it seems like in the article, the Egyptian government coordinated with ISPs or forced ISPs to simply clear all of these entries. So for IP addresses in Egypt there are no corresponding routing rules, making them for all practical purposes completely taken off the internet since there is now no way to route traffic there.
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I don't advocate the false dichotomy you're trying to pin on me. Please don't put words in my mouth.

Both povs are short sighted. I do not favor either support for brutal dictatorships, or the rabid furor that Mubarak opponents have begun to spout (either out of a loathing for Mubarak, or a loathing of the US).

But people who support the collapse of the Mubarak regime without an acknowledgment and understanding that there are factors like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are like the Neo-cons supporting GWBs push into Iraq w/o a plan for setting up credible institutions, and defusing tensions after the immediate conflagration.

Mark my words, there will be even more suffering and political upheaval in the power vacuum after Mubarak.
I don't suppose you'll tell us how you know whether a site's content is original or not.

What if you have a blog with lots of quotes from other sites; will that hurt your rankings because Google sees "unoriginal" content?

Is there some ratio of original to unoriginal content that must be met to keep from being flagged as a scraper?
True enough. My point was, a governing body with the right resources could track down -anyone- transmitting, HAM or not. Those concealing radios to listen, however, are a whole other ballgame.
#1 is definitely not meh, it's actually really practical if you're doing real work in Lisp. It seems meh if you're doing academic "basic CS concepts" exercises in Lisp, though.

> #3 re Python (and intial mention that languages arent written in themselves) just sounds like author is not up to date with modern python.

Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

>>> def foo():
x = 0
def bar(y):
x += y
return x
return bar

>>> baz = foo()
>>> baz(3)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module>
baz(3)
File "<pyshell#7>", line 4, in bar
x += y
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'x' referenced before assignment

Is 2.7.1 not "modern" enough? I was under the impression that a lot of people are still on 2.7 rather than switching to Python 3. (I switched to Lua for scripting; it has working closures, lambdas, tail recursion, etc.)
Fave scene: the poor shop assistant serving her first customer in years. She was almost star struck.
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Will Zuckerberg appear on 'SNL' to rebut the satirical drubbing he took?
I can't understand why there aren't more complaints that "tumblr"="spam". Whenever I see a page on tumblr, it's always one sentence and a link to something else. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I never see any content of value on tumblr.
working for UCSD on Fri but from home in SD proper, maybe next time
Well you are right about the sarcasm, but otherwise the only fallout I can see is it would take longer to ship things and cost a bit more because more fuel will be used.

As I mentioned, the biggest ships today already can't use the Panama canal, and yet we keep building bigger ships because despite the extra time and cost of going 'round South America, it is still profitable.

Now would going around Africa be that much different? For huge container ships? For the US navy?
Amidst chaos and riots, Egypt turns off the Internet
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Temporary fix = 3 decades

That's an adult lifetime.
I am a iPhone user for last 3 years and luv it. I wasnt exactly enamored with Android - the software+hardware design didnt really compete with iPhone. But have to admit the UX on Win 7 phone was refreshing and maybe even made iPhone's UX old. But the notion of having contacts central to your mobile experience is inaccurate...you use mobile for much more than just communicating with your contacts. I watch movies, track sports scores and my stock performance...which have little to do with communicating with my contacts
Added (temporary?) mirror for HN people:
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They need to get off their high horses and fix the problems NOW! If they dont people will simply stop using their service.

Is that so? How many people will stop using Tumblr based on the outcome of this controversy? How many permanently stopped using Twitter during (what I call) The Blaine Transition?

Especially if that service develops a reputation as having an asshole for a ceo.

Oh, this is good. Name one time this has happened in the entire history of business. I have a feeling you're indulging in pointed opinions to make the case that site quality affects retention and conversion. OK, but that's not a newsflash. What makes Tumblr different, such that they need to "fix the problems NOW!"? I'm sure they're not just sitting back drinking lattes while they watch the support queue grow.

Taking your tone, one might read between the lines to interpret your attitude as just competitive sour grapes between Clojure and Scala. How fair is that?
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Hey Des,

Sorry if my comment sounded overly critical — I'm sure you know well the frustration you can get from infographics, and simultaneously the urge to just have everything be somehow perfect, suddenly. I want to also mention that I appreciated bringing up the Victoria Secret graphics. Sometimes it is important to lie, much like humor being the best way to tell a sad story.

Anyway, thanks for writing the article. Despite my criticisms, I'm always happy to see more arguments to whittle away abject trust in garden variety infographics.

To round out my comment, I want to mention that I really appreciated the note that there is definitely a time for confusing, artistic infographics even if they are misleading. Victoria's Secret graphics can definitely raise awareness from 0 in a hostile crowd, they also can overemphasize detils to compensate for the audience's unwillingness to consider them meaningfully.
The article only touches on it but I think a lot more has to be said about the young children angle.

What makes the Challenger disaster so relevant even today is many of us were young and had studied this shuttle and its crew for weeks. The plan was for Christa McAuliffe to conduct a class from space. So many teachers (mine included) had their classes study everything about Challenger.

At 7 years old I knew these people's names when that rocket exploded. I knew how many children they had, I knew how many missions they'd flown and so on. I knew more about this crew than I knew about my own parents. And I, along with children around the country, watched them die on live TV.

That has a significant impact on a generation (as you can see from the other comments here from adults who were kids at the time)
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If I'm on a work computer I can't access my email.

If I'm on an untrusted (potentially keylogging) computer, I don't want to type my email password - but I may not care about the security of my Pandora password.

I think the process is defaulting every site to the same trust level as your email.
Nice job. Looks awesome
Interestingly, His name is "trustfundbaby."

However, it should be noted that he may be from another country where $24/month is extremely expensive.
I've been on that long journey. I used quod libet for a while, but never much liked it. Now, I use clementine http://www.clementine-player.org/ Best on Linux, imo.
Again I could be mistaken and would really appreciate correction from someone who knows better by I am much more cynical about the SS trust fund.

As far as I can tell the really scary thing is that that "trust fund" has been largely "invested" in treasury bonds. That is the source of the massive "intragovernmental holdings" portion of the national debt. i.e. the excess income from SS tax has actually been spent on other government needs.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/retirement/social-security...
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I'm guessing it's because they're going to offer their back issues in electronic format for around the same price and want to get rid of their stock on hand. At any rate, I'd love some 2600 sweetness on my iPad. :)
Current discussion from earlier today (including links to earlier discussions from 18 months ago on the research)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151464
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How big an undertaking would it be to implement a Prolog interpreter?
As i stated below, i do not buy into the false dichotomy you and many others keep asserting.

It is naïve to not ask what the potential outcomes will be to toppling Mubarak, especially if one cares about about human rights.

This is the exact same sort of reasoning that Neo-cons used for why Iraq should be invaded, damn the consequences! Is Iraq a better place? Has the lot of Iraqis improved? If you believe it has, at what cost in terms of lives and treasure?
I thought it was a well written article that was a good read. Possibly the author was demonstrating humility rather than ego.
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That strikes me as less "spin free" than "a useful countervailing spin."
The way it was done was like this: information was smuggled out of Belgium, France and the Netherlands by any conceivable means in a slow but fairly steady drip, then broadcast back to the occupied territories from UK soil.

So that's why the radios were so important, and that's why they were illegal.
Funny this is being posted the same day as Matt Cutts' HN post which is currently at #1.

Also per exhibit one of the article: The first hit for "nfl jerseys" I get, even with pws=0 is to nflshop.com. The website that nfl.com links you to when you click on the "shop" link.

More bandwagon jumping about google spam being out of control? I like to think so.
Reading all the other answers with links to translationparty.com, I decided to google "translation party wikipedia" (without the quotes) and the first result was "Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party - Wikipedia".
Thanks for the response, although I think that it was disproportionate response to what I was saying. Basically I believe he made a mistake and it is a measure of someone in terms of how you deal with that. I respect someone much more when they apologize for making a mistake - we're all human after all. Also, I believe my advice was sound. Sometimes you do need to think before acting. Thats the basis of what I was trying to say. I appreciate, from viewing the other responses that you have made on here, that you know David quite well and its obvious you have a strong opinion, but I can only base mine on what I have seen.
I see, so the user is merely "loony," for mass-emailing the entire Tumblr headcount with his screed, but Karp is a mean and incompetent boob who should be replaced and [your favorite punishment here] for responding naturally to that situation? Karp's sentiment wasn't directed at all users, he was telling a loony to not be so loony, but loony man can't recognize the social cues involved and so generalizes Karp's response to the entire universe of Tumblr users. Loony.
Not quite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee#Death

> (...) behind schedule (...) they decided to make dummy cartridges from real cartridges by pulling out the bullets, dumping out the propellant and reinserting the bullets. However, the team neglected to remove the primers, which, if fired, could still produce just enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel. At some point prior to the fatal scene, the live primer in one of the improperly constructed dummy rounds was discharged by an unknown person while in the pistol, leaving the bullet stuck in the barrel.

> (...) the same gun was later reloaded with blank cartridges and used in the scene in which Lee was shot. When the first blank cartridge was fired, the stuck bullet was propelled out of the barrel and struck Lee in the abdomen, lodging in his spine.
Hmmm. The closest I can find is "If people are expected to behave well, they tend to; and vice versa."[1] There's nothing in the guidelines that's even similar, except for avoiding comments with no substance. I suppose that, as long as you're civil about it, there's no need to do anything that the community expects.

However, this was exactly my point; being called out to provide a citation and actually responding to the request (as opposed to saying "No, this is not an academic paper. But I distinctly recall ...") tends to lead to changing the views of at least one person in the conversation. The last time I was called upon to provide a citation, I wasn't able to find a credible one, and adjusted my beliefs appropriately; therefor, I'm of the opinion that refusing to provide a citation is evidence that you know that you're wrong (or, occasionally, that a single search would find the citation; that isn't the case here, I tried. Almost all of the results involve how Gmail was seen as a huge advance for having simple text ads which were relevant to the content of emails they were displayed next to).

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Wow. Just finished reading the entire article. I can't believe how lucky I am to live in a free country.
with the exception of sports and certain “event programs”

Yeah but that's a hell of a big exception. People are willing to pay a lot of money for those.

My household "cut the cord" [we're Netflix-only, no cable/satellite/OTA] and the only thing we miss are the sports - even if I had to pay $20 to, say, watch an F1 race online, I'd still be way ahead of what I used to pay for cable/satellite, so I would likely pay hulu (or whoever) for it.
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VERY NICE!

Any way to make it wider or is it optimized for mobile viewing?

Voting maybe?

Regardless, cool way to look at the top links / questions.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning RoR? 
Hey guys, I've been building random stuff on the web mostly in PHP and I've decided I want to pick up Ruby soon and I want to get good with it.

Last night, I ordered "Agile Web Development With Rails" and "Programming Ruby" (the pickaxe book). I heard both were solid books and I'm sure they'll keep me busy.

Any other resources online that you guys found super-useful when you were starting off? What are some good open-source Ruby projects that I could contribute to? Interesting github repos to watch?

Any random tips/resources would be much appreciated, thanks.
Ha! Agreed :D
I think they need Hulu Plus on more devices, and then their current model might work out better. I'm still waiting for it to be available for Xbox 360.

At the same time, I can't remember the last time I watched something on Hulu, so maybe I'm not hurting for it like it would be if I didn't have Netflix.
His comment is not true. As I've already stated I emailed only those who I thought would respond to my concerns. I never expected to receive an email from David directly.
If you'd like theoretical underpinnings for it in addition to the example, it sounds a lot like the "continual service improvement" step of the ITIL v3 framework--which is an open standard (http://www.itilversion3.com/final/itil_v3_continual_service_...).

I can't really say whether it's MBA wankery or useful business process, though.
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I've struggled with the same thing, and I found that the best way to handle this is to find a wingman.

The guilt of flaking on a friend is heavier than that of procrastination, so you're bound to show up to the gym ten minutes late, but hey, at least you showed up.

And you have someone to work out the details with, so there's that as well.
rest or http api? not limited to java or .net I hope
I believe a prolog-like interpreter is created in the book The Reasoned Schemer. It's on my book shelf but haven't had the time to work through it.
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No, I think they got it. As a rule, pointless jokes that don't add to the conversation don't tend to fly on Hacker News. It's not that jokes are entirely forbidden, just that they have to be insightful or very clever or they will be downvoted to hell. It's part of the site's culture of guarding the signal-to-noise ratio. For the same reason, content-light comments like "Awesome!" or "^ This" will also get blasted with downvotes.

Why yours in particular was considered slightly worse than its parent, I'm not positive, but I suspect it's just because everyone's heard butterfly jokes like that before.
i agree with people who are complaining. this morning i was looking for a docking station for my cowon mp3 player. that spammy-ass website called techframe kept showing 3 times in the first few results. it was annoying.
This could be an interesting table top game for building software if a bunch of rank and file programmers are added along.
For [nstoolbar bottom bar] I see (from an incognito window):

#2) stackoverflow.com/questions/3977343/nstoolbar-on-bottom-of-window

#3) stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nstoolbar

#9) efreedom.com/Question/1-3977343/NSToolbar-Bottom-Window

The #9 result is copied from stackoverflow.com/questions/3977343/nstoolbar-on-bottom-of-window, which is the same as the #2 result.

This actually is really hard to do as well as Google has given that the stackoverflow page doesn't have the word "bar" on it anywhere, while the efreedom page does.

Neither Bing nor DDG seem to have either the StackOverflow page nor the Efreedom page. I would give an uninformed guess that they probably can't match the StackOverflow page because it doesn't contain "bar" and are probably doing some sort of hand demotion/removal for efreedom. As a result, you get no pointers to the information you want instead of two.
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Consider the blog post a conversation starter. You don't have to be an expert in a topic before you can start a useful online discussion about it.
I'll be glad to add features if it gains any traction. The only reason I kept it thin was to prevent having to read long lines of text. I hate that. Maybe I can split it into columns or something.
Part of the problem with "spammy" content coming out on top is often the competition from real content is pretty thin.

To take the example of Pandora jewelery, Pandora is a company that controls it's marketing channels with an iron fist. They're very careful to partner with better-than-average jewelers and each retailer has an exclusive territory. So far as I know, there's no legitimate channel for new Pandora products online (everybody who claims to sell them on Ebay seems to have fewer than 10 feedbacks.)

Thus, other than Pandora's official website there's no legitimate e-commerce presence for Pandora online, so there's nothing to compete with the junk. Somebody might randomly write about them, but there's nobody (legitimate) who's got a feedback loop going where revenue supports content creation and marketing efforts -- which will inevitable come out on top against amateur competition.

Demand Media, ExpertsExchange and quite a few junk sites similarly thrive on the lack of good content. I was having trouble changing the ribbon on an old typewriter a few weeks ago, and web searches asking about this particular model turned up junk pages with advice like:

(1) Buy a new typewriter ribbon,
(2) Take the old typewriter ribbon out,
(3) Put the new typewritter ribbon out

Now, these pages were keyword stuffed with the name of the typewriter, but they didn't even bother to have an affiliate (or other) link to a place where I could buy the goddamn typewriter ribbon, which according to them is 33% of the work!

Once more, the feedback loop doesn't exist to nourish a good answer here, so of course the blight is going to move in.