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Even now though, hold an iPhone 4 in one hand, and hold the Nexus S in the other. Both are fine, fast phones with a wide array of features...

But one feels dated, awkward and like it belongs 5 years ago with some light finishing polish to cover it up. Seriously dated. Do. Not. Want.

Samsung doesn't need to get their shit together. Just look at the Samsung Galaxy S II preorders. They are the highest ever recovered for any device. I think Samsung is doing just fine with their so-called "cheap-feeling" phone.

So sure. If things like the physical finish matters more to you than the actual capabilities of the device, then sure, continue buying Apple stuff. In a world where every competitor is cheaper, more open and offers more choice, this is really the only reason one could possibly have for choosing Apple these days.
I don't think that the services mentioned want to exclude non-Americans. All of them deal with music or video, both of which require country-specific licensing.
I would try to outsource a lot of the trite admin stuff to other sites such as yelp, opentable or a Google Places page (hours, parking, etc.) and have the page mostly defining the brand.

For a restaurant, more important than the information is the feeling. The style. The occasion that is evoked by the fonts, graphics, transitions, everything.

Best minimalist design would integrate some high-quality shots that define the ambiance of the erstaurant, show/tell about the chef / owner, and then link to other sites that had all of the admin data.

There are my $0.02 - enjoy.
Enrollment is free for the time being. I guess this is just an out of date page. They make it very clear that you don't have to pay anything, but this may change in the future (I assume once they get enough developers to justify having to pay full-time app reviewers). If you go through the registration process the checkout is $.00.
And likewise none of the streaming options for American shows are available in the UK.

Now, with American shows, I think there could easily be a good business model - we've seen English TV channels pick up American shows (sometimes running almost in sync with America, more often than not running a year or two behind) with success. Examples include The West Wing, Friends, Glee, Will and Grace, Family Guy, CSI and so on. So I think there could be enough of an audience over here to be worth doing it.

But iPlayer for non-UK viewers, it just isn't feasible. Firstly, BBC have the content licensed for UK viewing only, and they can't pay extra for international viewers because they are funded by the public (TV license over here). For the BBC website, international viewers see adverts, but that model can't be extended to iPlayer for a few reasons. Firstly, and least importantly, BBC never puts advertising into its shows, and they don't want to go against that, even for an international audience. That could be got around quite easily. Secondly, selling video adverts is a lot more complex (from a sales point of view, not technical) than shoving them into a website, it would take more work from them. And finally, if they were to sell adverts and open up iPlayer to an international audience, I doubt they would make enough revenue from the adverts to justify internationally licensing the content, i.e. there just wouldn't be enough people watching it.
This is by far the most difficult problem in startups: Should you persevere or pivot?

I think Paul Buchheit's advice is probably the best way to decide. He says to (paraphrasing) "find 100 people that love your product".

It's not enough for you, or a tiny number of people to say your thing is good. You need a sizable (but still very small) number of people to love your product.

It's kind of a "wisdom of the crowds" solution. You might be wrong, your friends might be wrong, but if 100 people love your product it's very likely that you're on to something.
As an English speaker in Germany I was particularly interested in using things like iTunes (which is available here) to access TV.

What do you know, it is exclusively German language content. And it is also only released when it airs in Germany rather than when it first airs in the US or the UK.

Where is the logic there? If I wanted to get German language TV when it airs on TV, I would just watch TV.

The whole system doesn't make sense.
TFA uses the metaphor of a ten year old movie, not me. In fact it presents the plot twist as part of its main argument - people don't realize that they are trapped in a dead business model, and are shocked when they find out.

The fact is that these "twists" are not particularly surprising after everyone talks about them all the time. If you are shocked by the possibility of having a dud business, then you are a fool.

And no, I wasn't bragging about figuring out the plot. I was pointing out that a "twist" loses effectiveness, if everyone knows that it exists, and is looking for it.
Ditto for France. I assume it's mostly true for all european countries, with maybe the exception of the UK? At least they probably don't have the dubbing issue...

Also, we do have the playstation store (well... used to) but all the movies there are dubbed and we can't get the original version (with or without subtitles). I'll stick with bittorent for now...
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And a lot of videos on youtube are blocked as well and you get that "Sorry, not available in your country" link.

I always cringe hard and scream inside when I see that since I am trying to view a link online on a website so it should not make ANY difference which country I am coming from. Please keep your pre-historic distribution and business model out of the web!!!

Doing something like that should just be banned by law.
It's not that they don't care but I get the feeling that they have conceeded the phone market to Apple and Android. All the information I've been getting lately is they are going to push into the tablet market really hard. It's still relatively untapped and (except Apple) the competition has been very slim.
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Oh, the The Linus Circus is in town again. Good times.
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Ask HN: Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?
So I submitted a few gigs to freelance sites like Odesk, freelancer.com, elance etc. I used the handy guide provided by Derek Sivers on how to write up a good "help wanted" ad.

I was looking for a skilled designer to produce a simple UI.

After about 2 minutes, I received around 8 applications on odesk and freelancer.com. By the end of the day, I had around 40 applications in total.

Problem is: almost all of them sucked. Very disappointing indeed.

Has anyone out there actually found a good designer / developer on one of these freelance sites? Care to share tips?
He's wrong. Security bugs affect people who might not be using the system at the time, while ordinary bugs only affect the one user.

If a server with credit card information permanently corrupts the filesystem, and bricks all the hardware, and more or less does the worst that a non-security related software failure can do, the server gets reimaged or replaced. It costs maybe a few thousand dollars to replace. Nobody is really affected because failures are expected.

If a server with credit card information has a security bug, then credit card fraud and it's associated costs have to be dealt with, identities might have been stolen, and in general, large numbers of people are affected, possibly severely.
Not if they paid you a sufficiently large sum of money for the privilege of downloading your app. :-)
You can design languages that have only iteration, such as Dijkstra's guarded command language extended with data types, or have only recursion, such as the lambda calculus, and each can code up the other as an interpreter. So there is a basic sense in which neither is more expressive than the other.

But there is a sense in which recursion is more expressive than iteration, in the sense of being a flexible local abstraction: in a language with tail recursion, iterative loops can be directly encoded by means of recursive calls. And indeed this is how iteration is expressed in the Scheme language. Trying to encode recursion in terms of iteration cannot be done so directly.
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Maybe I could appreciate that, maybe, if it weren't for the GEICO ad on there?

I can't even take it seriously. If I didn't know what that company was to start out with I would certainly never, ever, invest in them.

Which I think means the website absolutely sucks.
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books.

printed emails.

checkbooks.

the list goes on.the man is unstoppable.
I don't want to be a Debby Downer, I really want to help you out, so please know this comes from a good place.

Have you talked to any merchants? If you had, they would tell you what would be required for them to participate. They would say "What is the point of this?" or "How will this make me money?" And you could talk to them (your customers) about it instead of polling the Lords of Ether.

And then you would start giving reasons why your app would drive sales, and they would help you to frame your message to make it compelling for merchants.

It seems that you have stumbled upon the two-sided network chicken-egg problem.

To conquer your problem, you need a small band of folks on both sides (consumer and merchant) who are in love with your system and will provide you with precious feedback,referrals, and case studies. They will make or break your service, so find someone who really needs you.

I had more, but I hope this gets your train of thought going in the right directions. Best of luck!
Why? I mean under what circumstances would you (a YC alum) rinse repeat?
ha! free amazon prime... yeah, that change my opinion on one click.

without that, good riddance.
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Josh has been on HN since the beginning: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jkopelman
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That was really annoying to me even as an American as well (though I currently live in Denmark). When I embed Youtube videos in things like blog posts, I want to know that all my readers can view them, not just me, but Youtube won't tell me which videos are region-restricted. I ended up having to use a proxy in another country to test for myself, so I could avoid unknowingly embedding US-only videos.
Why do you think the private ssh key would be sync'd with Google in first place?

There's no background sync of your Android phone's contents to Google, just things like Contacts and Email (which are optional)
If you're willing to pay that much, sounds like you just need to grab a $20/month server in the US and use it as a VPN endpoint, then use whatever services in the US that you like.
That's not the intended audience. They are not going to sell shares on the base of the website alone.

The web site is there to inform fans and shareholders.

By the way:

"If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can either write us at the address shown above or e-mail us at berkshire@berkshirehathaway.com. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response."
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I didn't realize Zumocast (Zecter, Inc) was acquired by Motorola.

That explains why the ZumoCast download has been disabled for so long

Anyone know if they plan to work on ZumoCast more, or did they give up on it?

If not, someone should really seize the opportunity (or is someone already doing that and I just don't know about it?)
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yet people buy more capcom games than clicks on this site ads. /thread

see "why I get my entertainment via bittorrent" thread to understand why this rant is pointless.
These are all typical symptoms of anxiety.

There's a bunch of physical approaches to reduce anxiety, better sleep, more exercise, eating better, less caffeine, less alcohol, applied relaxation or the relaxation response (two non-spiritual versions of meditation), yoga, gardening, any physical hobbies.

I'd recommend reading some books on anxiety, particularly the science-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) stuff, as often people's panic attacks and the avoidance they cause are literally because people are frightened of fear itself, and the way it makes them feel, and so understanding the basic chemical responses that your body undergoes can be handy. E.g. no-one has ever actually gone crazy or had a stroke or a heart-attack as a result of a panic attack. It's hard to convince yourself of this during one but having that knowledge at the back of your mind helps to prevent you worrying about that outcome and escalating things. Try "When Panic Attacks" by Dr David Burns or some of his other books for some sensible advice on this topic.

The CBT stuff is based on logically addressing irrational thought processes like "I never succeed at anything" and facing up to stressful things so that you'll not fear them similar to the rejection therapy stuff that was popular here a few months back.

SSRI's are popular drug treatments with much reduced side-effects and addictiveness compared with previous tranquilizer type drugs, but they'll still only mask the problem, not cure it like CBT can. Handy if you need the help to get started with CBT or just cope at all, but not necessary for most people and they do have side-effects and risks worth reading up on before taking them. Beta-blockers are a low-risk medication (taken by many people every day of their life for a variety of physical ailments) for controlling the physical responses to anxiety, though it sounds like your suffering more from the mental side (though of course they feed into each other in a vicious circle) but I don't think they're officially prescribed for anxiety in the U.S. so you may have to find a doctor willing to prescribe "off-label" if you think that they'll help.
There is no need to rationalize why you use Bittorrent, there is no argument to win and nothing to defend.

It's not stealing, it's not not stealing it's just a fact that people will continue to use bittorrents as long as there is too much friction to get it legally.

Bittorrent will be around as long as the content owners insist on localizing copyright and not offering their content to a globally oriented customer base.
And that's why the European counterparts of MAFIAA shouldn't be able to appeal to lost sales in many of these countries because don't have any fucking sales to lose.

I've long advocated a fair-use rule that where a copyrighted work in some format isn't readily for sale in some geographical area, then people in that area should have the legal right to produce a copy of it in that format for themselves. The format is relevant because if people want CDs or uncompressed FLAC albums but they can only buy a lousy DRM-ridden 128Kbit/s MP3 instead, it shouldn't count.

Same goes with old music or films: if nobody's selling, people have the legal right to copy. If the copyright holder decides to start selling again, the legal right to copy goes away. Then the longevity of a copyright would matter much less.
The whole system makes eminent sense. Content that has been permitted by the owner is released in your country, when the owner permits. If you are resort to piracy because of this, you are still stealing.
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I'm working on a .NET project which uses SQL Server or Postgre or Oracle or MySQL and backend and I'm looking into making an "offline" version of the relational database. What would you recommend? Any specific ideas/showstoppers about using SQLite, Firebird, SQL Server CE or something else completely?
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For Netflix, he'd also need a US credit card.
And even if the content is available today, that does not mean it will be available tomorrow.

Recently I found a new music video posted in the official channel of a record distribution company (nuclearblast), which a couple of days later was blocked because one of the big music labels intervened. By now, they seem to have resolved their differences and the video is available again here - but for how long?
You are not stealing, you are making illegal copies.
Shamus Young is an excellent games blogger, and does the occasional interesting post on graphics programming and procedural content generation. Have a scroll through the backlog!

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True, why would I want to get an iPhone when I know it won't be serviced in India. India is a very smartphone hungry market, and Apple is doing itself a great disservice by not selling here.

PS:- Apple does sell, iPhone 3GS and iPad 2 in India. Except the iPhone, every other product is available within a week of the US launch. So the iPhone situation is quite strange.
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Why couldn't the BBC charge international viewers directly? $(License_fee/12) per month, say.
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Thanks for this advice. Sounds good...except I run into the same issue of 'not in the industry'.

I got a lot of interest and people checked(ing) it out, but they don't experience the pain that I am solving so they aren't my 'target market'.

I am trying to get to Product/Market fit. I have the product, now I am trying to get to the market :)
Technically they could, but it would mean creating and managing a new license fee system.

Right now there's no enforcement of the license fee, just the knowledge that, to watch live broadcasts (either on TV or online) you must have a license, and if a TV license inspector catches you, you'll be in trouble.
If you are searching for a designer, the sites listed above are not the right places, i'd try with 99designs.com or manually searching a designer from dribbble.com.

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Agreed, CoffeeScript is much more extensive, and in most cases (from what I can see) prettier. Kaffeine piping seems cute though. Maybe the author could join forces with the CoffeeScript project?

Note on CoffeeScript: it took me _one_ .coffee script to get used to the syntax, and I'm never ever gonna write vanilla JS again if possible.
Ah, didn't realize that. Maybe gifting or something would work.
I have tried that route, but for a variety of reasons they never lead anywhere (as in, never got the referrals).

Mainly because my old colleagues are very busy, and disorganized.

But you know how people are, they always say they will refer you (and probably do have the best of intentions) but it just never works out.

So my network is pretty much tapped out. Trying to get beyond the network on my own...that's the tricky part.
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The good ones stay away from this kind of sites. The only chance is to catch someone good and promising before he gets buried under piles of works, raises the prices and no longer needs those sites ;)
I'm curious about the overhead of the entire thing. How does this compare to the FastCGI interface?
They are too young of a company to be pulling this sort of seedy stuff.

Also ‘privacy’?! I hope the irony isn’t lost on anyone. It wasn't very well thought-out, as when a net privacy panic starts spreading like wildfire through the media the consequences in political grandstanding and potential legislative action would hurt them as well.

So they come out of this looking like data-locking propaganda spreading assholes. Good job!

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> What's wrong with a dead end?

No new phones, obviously.
iPlayer isn't a commercial service, it's funded by the UK tax payer though the license fee.

I agree that this is something the BBC should look at making available more widely as a revenue generator to fund it's operations but it's not a priority for them.
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I'm going to guess that a lot of the reason these services aren't available in a lot of other countries is not that they don't want your money, but rather that your governments either have ridiculous regulations to navigate, or there are concerns about their ability to protect intellectual property rights.
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> Even facebook has a "feature" like that - does no one think about the implications when they do that at all??

No, generally people don't and are not encouraged to enough, and I take it as one of the signs that facebook really doesn't care about security any more than it needs to in order to be able to give appropriate sounding lip service when they are asked a question.

Handing out your authentication credentials to a third party in exchange for a little convenience is more often than not a ridiculous action, and anyone who encourages such behaviour (by providing such a feature) is simply irresponsible.
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I like this alot. Is it just me, or is the recording missing audio?
My only issue with this solution is the hosted page. I don't want to hand-off my transaction to a third-party generic page - no matter how good the rates are.

But looks like a solid offering for those that don't mind that one kink.
I agree Keyle. This is exactly what I said above and got greyed out for (deleted post above). I don't have time to read useless crap on here. I come here for good, useful content about startups and tech.

HN is very easy to shill vote up on own posts though, and I suggest thats what is happening here. A large part of its quality came from its obscurity.

It's becoming famous and its time to make a new one.