skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fatal firearms accidents are running at about 600 per year.

While the population and number of guns owned by them has increased ~50%, the absolute number of fatal accidents has dropped by 1/4th, from around 800 per year.

I suspect not all of this is due to medical advances, a lot are hunting accidents where getting to a trauma center in the "Golden Hour" (for what that's worth) isn't possible.
The problem here is not the level of access they get to our information. The problem is how they are allowed to use that access. The 4th Amendment doesn't really prevent the Feds from snooping on anything they want to, it just prevents them from acting on any of that information.
Really? I eat lots of organic food and have previously researched this, I tried google and its very easy.

Pick up any organic product. It has a sticker "USDA Organic" with white on top and green on bottom. Wikipedia has a great article on "National Organic Program" which is run by the USDA. The NOP website is at:

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/nop

The blanket reg is CFR 205.105 which references each class of substance separately. Its like the overall flowchart. Then other regs list specific stuff. Like "205.603 Synthetic substances allowed for use in organic livestock production."

So CFR 205.603 says you can use ethanol as a disinfectant only but not in the food, so no white lightning in the food bucket. Aspirin is OK. Vaccines as a blanket order are OK.

(whoops edited to add I think you want CFR 205.601 Synthetic substances allowed for use in organic crop production. Whatever. Nothing is really unexpected in these CFRs and for a guy with a chemistry background I think some rules are a little weird (Ethanol is synthetic and allowed, but Arsenic is non-synthetic and forbidden? Really?) but the writing style should be understandable by the general public)
1. Being from UK where we have just had months of "how the hell did horsemeat get into every burger and lasagne meal?", the idea Europeans have this food business sorted is laughable.

2. All western countries have high standards in food processing. The differences are arbitrage not horrors that will kill us all, as this article rather lazily implies.

3. processing food is mostly the problem. Processing meat is almost the whole problem.
It's a big turn off to me to see these kinds of purely political articles on HN. I like my life somewhat compartmentalized -- I'd like to be able to discuss technology, science, and startups with people without getting dragged into "OMG the US government is bought by industry!"
Be aware that there's a psychological cost to untracked vacation days. An award of vacation days with your compensation is formal compensation; your employers are obligated to make reasonable accommodations to let you spend those vacation days, and, in most cases, to reimburse you for them when you leave the company. That's not a bad chit to be holding, especially if you're not the type of person who was likely to take huge amounts of vacation anyways.
Sure that's not the red ring of death?
Wait, let me guess... As such, they are not allowed to buy weapons, right? How convenient...
> 'Blitz' name is a bit tasteless.

Not at all. Like others have said, its common meaning is understood to be something else anyway. Nearly no one I've met is touchy about it, if any. As a society/culture in general it's not the kind of thing we get worked up about. We make jokes about it. We see it as a sign of our spirit as a nation. If it had been something more recent, then people might be offended a little - but this was quite a time ago. Most of the people alive here were born after it happened or were too young to remember it.
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The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business
Limiting suicide is a noble goal, but that's not the issue being fought politically and in the press (as per TFA).
" The game was also balanced around the auction house - meaning fewer high quality items drop, with the belief being that you're selling those few high quality items & kitting yourself out from the auction house."

AFAIK, Blizzard collects interest on each real money transaction, so if they're optimizing for maximization of that interest (I'm assuming they do) they aren't minimizing occurrence of the rarest of the items. They should behave like diamond cartel...
Yeah, because you would actually read & physically sign an employment agreement, and that agreement actually has some bearing on how you relate to your job. OTOH an EULA is not read by most people, and their enforceability has been challenged in court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license_agreement#Enf...
You just stop working with them (which you should probably have done many years ago, given the market).

Incidentally, what your employer paid your recruiter is their problem, not yours: if you're underpaid, demand a raise or leave.
Prions absolutely terrify me. Primarily because they are so difficult to kill, er.. destroy. They are basically the zombies of infectious particles.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080701/full/news.2008.926.ht...
I know, I was correcting the title.
The anti-wiretapping laws are needed to prevent non-government entities from violating our security. The Fourth Amendment already clarifies that government must not violate the security of ourselves and our communications (papers), without a warrant naming the person being searched, and what is being sought.
How To: Migrate Encrypted Procedures To Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD)
Someone could do it, I'm sure. Use a bignum implementation that has no limit.
Google would never add encryption to gmail. As a business decision it's pretty atrocious.
Was it perfectly edible? My understanding of the fiasco is that it was not simply calling horsemeat beef or some other meat. My understanding is that the horsemeat found in packages originated from meat labeled as not for human consumption, meaning that particular horsemeat had not gone through the same safety inspection normally given to meat which is labeled as for human consumption. To me, this seems that the horsemeat might not be perfectly edible.
Increased resources and a desire for stability from the parent company.
Can you code? Can you work in SFBA, Chicago, or NYC? You could contact me directly.
That's a good observation, some inefficiencies are quite intentional. I didn't even know that about Linux until just the other night, when I was looking for non-GNU GPL projects that didn't require this process.

LWN.net has covered both sides of this subject quite well, in recent months, with the tedious process of relicensing VLC [1] and the GnuTLS copyright assignment controversy [2].

The politics of OSS make for some excellent reading.

[1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/525718/

[2] - https://lwn.net/Articles/529522/
Thats a pretty good way, but it's not dpi independent.
Yes and I got both of them.

But giving them up is a small price to pay for fewer dead kids.
Even in the iOS store, I'm often surprised at how few downloads it takes to chart in the top 1000. So there may be 80,000+ apps in a category, but clearly the vast majority of them receive very few downloads.
No version of GPL is compatible with the App Store, because Apple requires that you take away rights from users that GPL protects (users must accept 5-install DRM, Apple ID with geographic restrictions, etc.), which is forbidden in section 6 of GPL.

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...

I have verified that first hand by asking Apple to remove derivative of my GPL-licensed software that they were pirating and Apple complied.

In case of Wolf3D my guess is that ID Software got commercial license from the author(s) of that software (copyright holder of GPL software can choose to also license it under another license).
It sounds like you haven't done digital photography in a while... File sizes are much larger than your "generous" estimates--if you have a Nikon D800 your RAW images come off the card north of 75MB (over an order of magnitude greater than your estimate). You do get a ton of resolution for that (7,360x4,912), but those files add up quickly. That would be 1,638 photos or less than 5 a day.

That's shooting one frame at a time, if you're bracketing or capturing sports, you'll be shooting many frames a second and the math gets all that more complicated. Of course you can delete photos, but it's extremely easy to fill hundreds of gigabytes even keeping only your best shots.
Testing the first Firefox OS phones in the wild
Because it could seen as online gambling. You spend money to buy items to then grind to find more items to hopefully cash out.
Tearing apart a $500,000 DNA sequencer
I don't like this article's groundless speculation about Albert Einstein, who is used as an unwilling poster child for dozens of causes without support in Einstein's actual biography. I have carefully read Einstein's longest autobiographical writing, and cite it on my personal website,

http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html

and while it is indisputable that Einstein blew off some of his school homework, it is not at all clear that he would meet any of the DSM-IV or new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for any of the conditions claimed for him.

More generally, there is a better call for improvement of psychological diagnosis

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

already up on the website of the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States, the subject of much news reporting and commentary in the last week. So I won't take this opinion piece by lone blogger as the last word on what needs to be done to improve psychological diagnosis.
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Wait are you advocating we lower the drinking age to produce more responsible drinkers?

I think you'll find most irresponsible drinkers started before 21 anyway.
Kinda weird that the phone image shows a Galaxy S3 with physical back and home buttons, but then shows the software buttons...
Auto mount partition on Linux
Yes, lets teach users to type their passwords into "checking" tools. Great.

edit: on the plus side, "CONGRATULATIONS!
It would take about 2546476408336 years to crack your password."

(I typed in a password that was roughly equivalent to a very secure and memorable one I memorised but have never found a use for. It's a correcthorsebatterystaple style password.)
I've noticed this about iPhoto too. I was a mac user, but recently switched to linux on my laptop when I realized iPhoto/Aperture were the only things keeping me on OS X, and I didn't really like how they worked.

Does anyone have suggestions for a linux photo manager? I'd like an easy way to view/rate/tag/delete pictures, a sane file system storage structure (i.e. not like iPhoto), and a way to make "albums" out of a bunch of pictures that aren't in the same directory. I'm not too concerned about sharing/etc, as there are plenty of other web-based tools for that.

Open source would be nice (and maybe I should write this...), but I'm happy to pay for something if it will do what I want.
As in on device X don't sync folder Y. If you have a photos folder with 100GB of images you can set it so that your MacBook Air does not sync that folder but does get your other Dropbox folders.
Calling up someone who has completely ripped off your website
Thinglist: a want to-do list for iPhone
> git ls-tree HEAD -r |pn 4|xargs touch

What's pn? I've never heard of it, I don't have it, and simple searches don't tell me anything about it. It looks like it might be a simple replacement for awk argument parsing, but I'm unsure...
Not sure I understand completely. But I'm taking a stab...

For something like photos the interface is a very big problem. The UNIX file system, for example, doesn't help to visually organize tens of thousands of files (photos). There has to be a layer on top of that.

FYI, OpenPhoto supports a variety of "file systems" including the local file system or anything which can be mounted.
If you enjoy your pentesting role enough to continue doing it for awhile, start a side project (you don't have to publish it on Github if you don't want to) that's more ambitious than a pentesting tool.

Are you a network penetration test person, or primarily an appsec person? Another step you could take (talking my own book here, admittedly) is to move to an appsec firm, which will have you working in software full time. If that's something interesting to you, you can ping me directly; I probably know firms working wherever you are.

Most of my career has been as a software developer, actually shipping software. If I thought longer I could probably generate more advice, but my basic advice to you is to realize that most employed software developers are not all that great; you might be making things harder for yourself by applying for "junior" roles. Can you code? Can you build working systems? Apply for dev jobs. You'll eventually get one.
I don't know. I don't picnic in Wisconsin all that often. If you're not from the US, you should be aware of Wisconsin's peculiar relationship with dairy; they wear it on their heads as much as eat it.
Are Party Affiliation and Educational Social Impact Related?
Users R Us and Community Journalism
XBMC 12.2 - Even More Frodo
Why on earth do you need to confirm your password in order to check it?
Thanks for the knee-jerk anti-British rant, and I am very well aware of Yes Minister as well, but I was actually referring to this case.[1]

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17706290
Achieving 5ms Response Time
Does this take in account different hashing algorithms and estimated brute force speed for each?
I think Shotwell is pretty good if you're looking for a desktop app.
AOL Is Still the Weirdest Successful Tech Company in America
I'm looking for a VPS that costs no more than 6EUR/$8 a month.
2TB Bandwith / 512MB RAM, should be hacker friendly, ie custom sysctl settings. But I fear there is no such VPS for that price.
There are a few theories (I've not seen mentioned here) as to why crime is down so much. Not certain how valid they are but are food for thought. Some external reasons crime may be down:

- The ban on lead in gasoline and other products, the contamination of which tended to create dumber and more impulsive people.

- The legalization of abortion, resulting in fewer unwanted, unsupervised children.
Yeah, it was called the crack epidemic.
Burst fire is NOT semi-auto.
Experiences about running a startup from the founder of glipho.com
If You Plan On Hiring Top Talent, Make Sure You Look for These 8 Critical Traits
Typesafe Interview: Scala + Akka is an IaaS for Your Process Architecture
The Cancer of Optimism
It's much easier to run your own Basecamp than pay $20/mo for it.

All you have to do is:

- maintain your own server

- design the interface

- write the code

- test the code

- fix bugs on a regular basis

And that all easily costs less than $20/mo.
Looks like a great target for phishers to knock off.
All the more reason to support projects like BitMessage: http://reddit.com/r/bitmessage
I've made a point of buying textbooks when they've been written by the person giving the course (and when they've taught me something).

Like many here I can afford it, and it's my way of saying "thank you" for the effort.
I completely agree it depends upon your threat model. But I find the term 'threat model' isn't that useful when a simpler answer is possible. The term is great for leading you to ask more questions.

One huge advantage of the paper system is people have thousands of years of collective experience dealing with the security of paper documents. For example, the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution reads "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, ... shall not be violated...".

The question "is it safe on my desk next to my computer?" illustrates how users tend to discount their own experience and common sense once computer security gets involved. This is certainly reasonable from the users' perspective. We've all had absurdly counterintuitive experiences with computers, heard astonishing stories about hackers, and gotten plenty of nonsensical advice from the 'experts'.
Most of the app developers we're working with plan to use CardFlight for sales of real world goods/services, which are usually OK within App Store guidelines. The typical use case is where CardFlight is installed on a merchant device and the consumer's card is physically present at the time of purchase. For example:

- An event management and ticketing solution. As part of their event management app for checking guests in, they will give event organizers the ability to seamlessly sell an event ticket from within the app.
- CRM apps looking to handle field sales while keeping the payment and CRM solution integrated.
- Non-profit/fundraising apps looking to take donations on the spot.
- Tablet POS software developers looking for an easy way to integrate payments (without having to do their own hardware SDK integrations, building secure/PCI-compliant payment handling from scratch, processor integration, etc.)
Absolutely necessesary to share it along with http://runningastartup.tumblr.com/ :P
Vieux Lille FTW! I have family in Nord Pas De Calais who dip it in their coffee in the morning.
Ubuntu SDK apps to get own package format
>Trust me, out of all the customers whose data you don't want to muss with, it's hardcore MMORPG players.

Welp, that's what happens when you have only online play on only official servers. Single player offline wouldn't be affected - cheat all you want! Online play on unofficial servers means server admins can take whatever action they want - ban offenders, leave offenders alone, or rollback - depending on what the admin and the players want.
There are clearly some problems here.

"bacon giraffe coffee paper head": 2 weeks

"coffee banana tourist nose": 15368 years

Or even worse:

"i like salt": 18 years

"i like pepper": 9 hours
>I wonder what would have happened if some part of the constitution called for the "right to own slaves".

I suspect it would have been amended when the states agreed to ratify such a proposal..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...
Alzheimer and other dementia are also probably the result of an a priori prion-like phenomenon.
Yeah and all those other problems probably have solutions that could reduce the numbers too. Such as having much more stringent driving tests in the US.

Firearms are still responsible for 3,007 out of the 16570 non-natural deaths listed. Or 18%. That's not insignificant.

The solution is not to throw up your hands in the air and say "Oh well there's a bunch of reasons why kids die. Let's not bother doing anything."
The saying is "if it bleeds, it leads."

Because of course people are interested in this. And it doesn't have to be a stereotypical, cowelled people meeting in caves conspiracy. Instead it's an "auto-conspiracy", simply a large group of like minded people doing things in the same direction. Not even a "conspiracy" in the usual "it's secret" sense, many if not most gun grabbers are open about what they're doing enough of the time and often about their intended end goals.

That's one of the things that's driving the "counter-revolution", the gun grabbers have let their masks slip so much, have expressed so much hatred towards gun owners, that they and many many people who were just thinking about buying a gun have been buying everything useful in sight.

E.g. Illinois FOID card applications have quadrupled; that's a absolutely solid metric of people who haven't legally owned a gun up to now.
A hacker could do some real damage with a little fake paperwork. Can't wait for it to happen and believe me it will happen eventually.
The hub of information is the police and if they hand it around without any concern why not mine them?
The backlash may be a bit too much to handle though if he gets caught.
Empirically, this is false. Perverse incentives and perverse pricing pervades the US system. Whereas the UK system provides equivalent health at half the cost.

Certainly your thought is a common one, the idea that individuals can be incentivized to cut costs was the motivation behind high-deductible plans. High-deductible plans were initially priced much lower than they are now, because the insurance companies thought that individuals on those plans would control their costs much better. However, that was not observed, and the insurance companies have raised rates faster than with other plan types, and HDHPs are now not nearly as good deal as they once were. (At least in my area.)
I'm kinda still missing Demonoid. Was somewhat like a very helpful buddy over all these years
Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup
Please check it out. I spent all of 2012 learning to code to launch what would eventually become Uncover. I'm super excited to announce that we're finally live.

Here's a blog post I wrote on how we got there and a little story behind the startup: http://spencerfry.com/introducing-uncover
It is not possible to assign copyright in German IP law, it is non-transferable and tied to the creator of the work or his heirs. There are some ways around this for purely software projects, e.g. the FSF Europe has a license agreement, which covers pretty much everything and should be enough for nearly all uses.

However, similar agreements (i.e. an artist allowing a record company to use his song however they wanted) signed in the 70s have been found to not extend to ‘digital’ uses, of e.g. music, by German courts as this use case did not exist yet at the time the license was granted.

I’m really saying that this is an annoyingly complicated matter and best avoided by not requiring relicensing – and I’m not a lawyer, of course (and also too lazy to find references now).

And, naturally, there is the issue whether you trust the FSF enough to do the right thing.
Briefs: iOS Prototyping software launched.
India-nigger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknkKIX4ikE
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Please tell me you don't actually want these folks armed.
Sure, they are.

I'm not sure how that translates into an argument either for or against high income correlating to high wealth.

We're all using the same variables for time.
Wonder if things are any different if you are on a vegetarian diet?
Ask HN: How much do you pay for rent?
I'm curious about cost of living around the world. So...

1) Where are you located?

2) How much is your monthly rent/mortgage/treehouse fee?
They could still do targeted advertising and client side encryption. You just have some of the words hashed and sent to a third party web service that compares hashed words against ad words. With the right level of noise you could preserve both the security of the communications and offer targeted advertising.

Or google could offer ad free encrypted gmail that costs money.

There are plenty of business solutions to this problem and we will see many of them tried.
seemed like a matter of time before something like this came up - really smart to team up with Swipe too and take it to the next level
I do see a fundamental difference between the two regulations, at least on a moral basis.

One compels you to provide health insurance to your employees, the other requires you participate in a wiretapping program in the name of "national security".

Not to say anything about the outrageous cost of healthcare in this country...
Caesars Palace casino, others to ban Google Glass
https://github.com/darius/ung/blob/master/c/regexpoid.c was my solution; it handles a slightly more useful subset (including escaping) and saves some code by calling segment_matches at the top level.

(I'd seen Pike's code years before in _The Practice of Programming_, so it's not independent.)