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You should try the vertical tabs option in Chrome's about:flags page. Tabs move to the left side of the window and don't become squished when you have many of them. You can just scroll up and down the stack.

If you are proud of your country it means that you associate value with everything that is connected to the country. This value is intrinsic (for example everything manufactured in Germany has an intrinsic value because it is of German origin and you are proud of Germany).

The problem is that this line of thought automatically devalues everything not from your own country if it can be compared to something from your own country. Since everything from your country has an intrinsic value to you, everything not from your country lacks this value and is therefore less valuable to you. This would be OK if it was limited to manufactured products but sadly it includes people as well as whole cultures.

So being proud of your country makes you devalue everything from other countries before even considering its real value.

The question remains: Who needs this?

I am still not really convinced that it is possible to integrate handcoded schemas for a wide range of use cases into search results in a meaningful way.

The solution Google proposes here will also restrain the content of websites in a lot of ways if it becomes widely adopted. Look at the recipes-example, it defines markup for including nutrition information for recipes:

"Can contain the following child elements: servingSize, calories, fat, saturatedFat, unsaturatedFat, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber, protein, cholesterol"

Every company that serves recipes on the web and decides not to offer this information because it deems other properties of recipes more important is now at a disadvantage. Google will show more information about the recipes of their competitors and presumably also rank them higher because they have included 'valuable' markup information in their recipe.

This approach favors shallow information ressources over complex ones as the former can be more easily parsed by metadata-crawlers.

Does anyone know how they can match these so fast?

First thing to pop into my mind is xkcd. Certainly Munroe didn't need professional equipment of any kind when he started the site, still I'd argue that it is a work of art. By making a distinction between 'professionals' and 'amateurs' you stipulate that nobody can cross this border by chance, it would always require a directed effort; and that's nothing I'd call constructive.

"History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes" -Mark Twain

I second the praise, however you could really use some kind of tour that presents the functionality of the site without the need to signup first.

So is this the beginning influx of reddit jokes on HN?

I wonder what the discovery mechanism for new services is supposed to be - i.e. how could I know about your service without reading your comment here on HN? They don't seem to include all projects there are on their services page (which looks rather empty to me for such an interesting project).

and don't mark the box titled 'Let him keep the files'

I am currently learning Prolog as part of my artificial intelligence class and as far as I know it's used in many contexts in ai research in my uni.

US coder gets sent to the middle east for a bunch of money

Reminds me of Ken Follett's 'On Wings of Eagles' - definitely a recommendation if you're into thrillers! It's about a team of coders from EDS (now part of HP I think) who get sent to Iran to work for the government and are then refused to leave the country.

Any experiences with Amazon Payments? They look like a viable PayPal alternative to me as most people already have an Amazon account.

Especially for Dropbox since I don't think that their 50 and 100 GB plans are even attractive for most users. At least for me they would have to offer something for $5.

Isn't Dropbox hosted on S3?

At least I remember them talking about a plan to allow users plugging their own S3 instance in (that was years ago).

I found the following approach very interesting:

* Generate a random price in the acceptable range (but don't tell the user about it)

* Let the user know that you made up a price and let him enter what he would pay

* If the user entered a higher price than the random one he gets the product, otherwise he doesn't

Of course this only works if you keep the user from trying to do this multiple times, for example by offering an invite-only system and giving every invitee only one chance.