skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's a truth-in-labelling law rather than an exclusive right to make a product. "Champagne-method sparkling wine" can come from California, "Champagne" has to come from a particular region of France.
>A more depressing tale of regulatory woe, given the rocketing suicides and unemployment in Greece, is that of the bookstore/café that can't sell coffee and frequently can't sell books.[3]

To be fair, that's a greek thing and not an EU thing.
I think you've been slightly misinformed.

You can get raw milk and cheese all over New Hampshire, including in supermarkets, and apparently many other states for that matter[1]. I never even knew there were restrictions in some states until your comment.

Apparently, even where raw milk/cheese is banned in the U.S., cheese produced from raw milk is legal as long as its been aged for more than 60 days.

[1] http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/raw_milk_map.htm
All seven practices relate to animal foods, with the exception of a possible trickle-down effect on rice arsenic levels. Whether a vegetarian/vegan diet is a 'good way' is up to your taste.
How are you pulling the elevation data? I ask only so that I can go collect elevation data where it doesn't exist.

EDIT: Disregard. Found the elevation data:

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/03/25/google-launches-m...

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/03/aint-no-moun...
Integrate Chrome with your iOS app
How Statue of Liberty was almost shipped to Egypt.
I do not understand why people say this. The zoomed experience is often absolutely terrible.
This is what happens when we let machine constraints trump semantics.

When you say int, you usually want an actual integer, not an integer with an arbitrary limit. In this day and age, having that limit there is simply premature optimization.

I think having a nice bignum type--one that looks and feels just like a normal numeric type--is very important. It should also probably be the default; you should only switch to a machine type if you have a good reason. With gmp, big integers perform well enough to be used widely.
FWIW, everyone knows that the Syrian government is an evil beast. However, Asaad and his father have mercilessly controlled the religious factions, holding together an otherwise fractured society, and made it possible for minorities to survive.

The power vacuum it leaves behind will be much worse for Syria than the regime. And that's not even counting the damage that all the external forces will be doing.
I just wanted to join the choir. I think its pretty clear that photo management has not been solved yet, which is quite surprising given the cultural importance of memories via photos/videos.

I actually think the same discussion arised 265 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388242

My story:
I used to keep everything in iPhoto since it is quite intuitive and allowed me to manage my photos (60 Gig, videos take a ton of space). However, since there are more and more devices, I have been looking for a more future-proof solution. It didn't help that the export opportunities (metadata-wise) diminish with every version of iPhoto.

So right now, I have returned to folder-hirachy where the metadata is saved in the open iptc standard. Lightroom makes it really easy to keep your assets as future-proof as possible. Which is one of my biggest pet-peeves with most of the mentioned providers/solutions. They just don't have sufficient export options, and we ought to realize that any of them could die any day. Or video support is lacking which I cannot understand in the 21st century.

What I'm now looking for is a solution that allows me to backup my folder structure (I'm heavily leaning towards AWS Glacier), as well as allowing me to access them from a variety of devices. Like even a simple web-inferface would suffice. If someone could help me with my single biggest technical problem, I'd be forever in your debt.
Failed transaction rates - comparing payment gateways
Please, please do yourself a favour and read Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - a breathtaking tour-de-force backed by strong, robust, varied evidence.
A potential market (evolving and growing because of the ubiquity of cameras and video cameras) has stated what it wants. A company that can deliver solutions to this market can scale with the the market. The OP's point is that no one (specifically Apple in his situation) seems to be really excelling in this space because of a pre-smart phone and pre-'video cameras everywhere' view of the world.

What you so condescendingly refer to as an 'entitlement attitude' is frustration with the widespread and accelerating ability to create content but the lack of ways to manage and organize it. Full stop.

HN startupers always talk about changing the world; instead of CRUDing more status updates, selling more ads or selling cheese graters online you could aim higher and solve the problems that the changing digital world is asking for. You could even use Node.js to do it!
Yep, misleading headline ahoy
> Ideally, a well-organized project would have a copyright assignment process to resolve those sorts of issues.

A lot of projects, notably including Linux, intentionally avoid copyright assignment to make it impossible for anyone to relicense the codebase. Making sure that there are thousands of copyright holders from hundreds of jurisdictions, many of who are not easily reachable or even knowable, all bound by common license terms protects the project from situations where some project participants would do something not agreed by the rest, either willingly or because they were forced to (eg. through bankruptcy).
"The number of zeroes doesn't matter"

Did in this particular case ;)
Stripping kernel/uboot source to 10% for code reading
You assume that human cognition has an algorithmic component. Maybe you are right, but we still have a pretty shaky understanding of how Neurons work, let alone how the brain works on a large scale. Who knows, lets investigate by trying possibilities but lets understand that we are still in a position of ignorance.

We have some probabilistic models of that successfully predict various future states of the brain from past states or stimuli. This is not the same as understanding it or even approximating it.
From the same article, it says there were 16.5 million background checks during 2010. Perhaps the ratio between the number of new guns manufactured/imported into the U.S. is relatively stable with the number of background checks. If so, 168M background checks since 1993 would mean about 90M new guns in the United States during that period.
Do you means something like WebCL[1]? It's not stardized, and caniuse.com hasn't even heard of it, but it's definitely on the horizon. Wikipedia[2] says there are already some implementations.

[1] - http://www.khronos.org/webcl/

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebCL
Agreed. Unfortunately, we've proven remarkably vulnerable to video/film as a persuasive medium.
The problem arises when it isn't the same. Black forest ham, for instance.
Huh? The selection of both pasteurized and raw-milk (local and imported) cheeses at the little local co-op here in northern New England is astounding; far more options than I’ve seen in all but the best cheese shops abroad—-I can get all of my favorite foreign cheeses here, whereas I’ve never found my favorite american cheeses while traveling.
What MySQL is really good at
You made this up, loosely based on the number of news stories that you've seen lately. Chicago's homicide rate is half of what it was in 1993.
Baseball bats kill more people per baseball bat than do "assault weapons".

What font of imaginary statistics are you pulling this ludicrous claim from? Do you know how many hundreds of millions of baseball bats there are in the United States? If we're discussing the confused, exaggerated stats that originally kicked this off, add in the billions of other "club-like" objects in circulation.

You are making absolutely ridiculous claims.
Exactly. I grew up with guns in the house. My dad would take us out shooting all the time. But as a kid, I would never even think of going into my dad's room without permission. And if I did venture in there, I certainly would not have touched the rifle he kept under the bed or the .357 he kept in the sock drawer. It was called respect. Respect for authority. Respect for the fire arms. Respect. We have a lack of that these days.
let's say, hypothetically of course, that a colleague sent me a password to a server via email (gmail), so that password is then retrievable without a warrant from my email account because it was "shared" with the transmission medium? such a broad interpretation would apply to any and all communications where anyone delivers something on your behalf...so literally everything if fair game, i dont see a reason to specifically exclude USPS in such a case.

that's pretty scary.
That's true. Looks so much better without that background.
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It's not across-the-board illegal for a child to possess a gun in the US, although it varies by state.

Age-based gun restrictions are usually about non-parents selling or giving guns to minors, or carrying in public without adult supervision.

Firearms accidents are not a common cause of death; according to the CDC they amount to about 1% of all accidental deaths of young people.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/deaths_2010_release.pdf
I really don't throw in video like it's nothing. What I intended to highlight was that for 99% of users, the perception of what they get should be unlimited even if there are fair-use policies.

I don't expect that a $5/user/month model is going to support Chase Jarvis' needs. However I do imagine that at $5/user/month 90% of users will actually be very profitable for Apple as they'll use way less than the available amount.

The fair-use limits can therefore be relatively high as they're subsidised by the majority of people who don't use that much.

My point about wanting "unlimited video" was not that I expected to store my entire film collection on there - only that as a 90-95 percentile user I want to be able to do the stuff I do every day without worrying about low limits. I don't mind if there's fair-use limit I just want to be sure that I can do a "fair" amount before hitting it.

All of this is also putting to one side the fact that this is a 20 year investment for Apple. Data costs don't seem to fall inline with Moore's law but they still fall crazy fast. It was only 10 years ago we didn't have S3. Even now if the RAW files were stored on an Amazon Glacier equivalent ($0.01/Gb/month) while screen-quality versions were stored in a hot cache you could provide high dataplans with much lower costs than putting things in tier 1 S3.
Probably. I'm not a huge fan of Blizzard's business model and design choices as of late, but I do trust that they would not straight-faced lie versus fakeable screenshots. They know their back-end.
If you liked Diablo 2, Torchlight 2 was made by the same people, and is the spiritual successor to Diablo 2.
Imagine a copyright that lasts only one day. Would you ever write something to appeal to an international audience? There wouldn't be time enough to translate it.

Imagine someone lives beneath a volcano and knows that at some point an eruption will destroy his house such that he no longer extracts economic benefit from it. Do you think that the way he builds his house (e.g. using straw, or stone) will differ based on whether the eruptions come every 10 years or every 100?

If artists are motivated by the economic incentive afforded by copyright, then the level of that motivation is variable based on the length of copyright.
I've always viewed it as similar to a regional copyright protection in that a region is allowed to advertise that only it produces the "real" product. Much like any shoe manufacturer can create a shoe exactly like Nike, but only Nike can advertise as actually being Nike.
I feel like the dmedia library made by the Novacut team solves exactly this use case.

Alas, it's tightly integrated with Ubuntu.
In the USA, you can't sell onions as "Vidalia onions" unless they're a specific species grown in a certain part of Georgia where the soil has very low sulfur content. It produces a sweet onion that you could only get with specially prepared soil anywhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia_onion So, you can imagine with something like sausage, where there are many ingredients that are subject to local conditions, it would be impossible to regulate all the criteria for being identical to sausage made in that region, and it's easier to just limit by geography.
I a nutshell, the legal definition of organic (in U.S.) means that organic foods are produced using non-synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. In other words, if the FDA (EPA/USDA? Not really sure what organization handles it) classifies a pesticide as organic, then it's allowable for organic certification in the U.S.
find being asked out flattering even if they're not interested

Maybe if it's a rare occurrence, but I think it would get irritating before long if a lot of people took the advice of asking out random strangers.

It also imposes an externality on any other potential ask-outers, in that it makes them less likely to be taken seriously.
Homicide rates in the US are still significantly higher than other developed nations, so there's a long way to go:

US 4.8 per 100,000 in 2012
UK 1.2
France 1.1
Germany 0.8
Japan 0.4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

I wonder why this paper doesn't use the statistics from 2012, which show an uptick to 4.8?
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It doesn't to me. You're factoring in all Canadians of all ages (newborn->elderly, men, women) in all areas. 1 in 20 of every single human being regardless of age/gender seems pretty common in context.

If I were to perform the same sort of blanket percentage on Americans that actually watch baseball games regularly, I bet I'd reach a similar percentage. That doesn't mean that baseball fans are rare.

A citation for your 5% figure would be nice, because it might contain some meaningful context to lay a better picture than it does by itself.
My wife and I made strawberry ice cream from raw milk and raw cream just last week. It's easily available in California, just like unpasteurized cheeses.
Rather than trying to ridicule the "banana regulation" and "sausage naming rules" you should do a bit more reading on the true advantages for consumers of classifying fruit and vegetables by quantifiable and tangible aspects (size, shape, colour, etc.); and stopping scams by implementing designation of origin legislation on produce such as sausages. The economic impact of these are measured in billions.
In Larry Niven's Ringworld we learn that the Puppeteer's fleet of planets are arranged in a perfect pentagon, fleeing the inevitable eruption of the galactic core.
Or perhaps short-scale should be retired instead, since pretty much all other languages use long-scale anyway.
Not to belittle your point, but you're not necessarily dead if someone comes at you with a gun. Many factors dictate if the shooting will be fatal. For example, in far too many cases police officers and others defending themselves have had to fire multiple shots to disable or kill an attacker. And in some cases have failed. So you might not be dead.

With that said, people do have guns in the UK, just not law abiding people. Gun crime is apparently up 89% the UK since the ban as well, so there are guns in the UK:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-viol...

So the points being:

1) you may survive an attack with a firearm, according to the OP it appears a majority of gunshot victims do (30k shot vs 8k killed in the US)
2) there are guns in the UK, and more gun crime since the ban went into effect. Infer from that what you will.
This kid's projects are cool, and I wish the author wasn't so condescending.
How can you take such decisions while considering only the purported benefits and not the costs as well? Let's take antimicrobial sprays for example. They presumably protect some consumers from food-borne illnesses. Shouldn't this be balanced against the risk of rashes and such? If say we estimate antimicrobial sprays save a hundred thousand salmonella etc. cases a year at the cost of ten eye irritations, maybe they're not such a bad deal after all.
I am not sure if average page load times are a good way of measuring site performance. I wish they published numbers like median, 75th percentile and 95 percentile load times.

Please see here for why average is not a good metric.
http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

It is especially dangerous for 37signals to do this because a large percentage of web developers look up to them for best practices.
Then it isn't an AK-47 in the same way that an AR-15 isn't an M16.

The point is, nobody is making or importing full auto AK-47s and selling them to gang members. A semiautomatic-only AK-47 is just the functional equivalent of a hunting rifle.
The 0mq extension included with Akka has serious design problems, so I'm happy that mDialog has let us open source this. (I didn't write it, but I've worked on issues we've had using the original Akka extension). The Akka actor wrapping each 0mq socket sends itself a message to trigger a poll, which blocks for a configurable period of time. Messages easily queue up both in the actor's mailbox and on the 0mq socket. The default settings for the extension leave you with very high latency and poor throughput, but even if you modify the polling frequency and timeout you end up trading heavy CPU usage for what ends up being increased but still capped latency and throughput improvements.
I'm a voice user too, but I've been thinking about trying https://callingvault.com/
Whole Foods. Whatever else you say about them (or their prices), they've made these issues easy to deal with as a consumer.

http://wholefoods.com/about-our-products/quality-standards/a...
If that's the case, why not use a 1TB USB 3.0 flash drive? Cant get more "hyper-portable" than that.
> Brie de Meaux honks like stale feet anyway!

Not sure what your point is, it's still delicious. Also brie is not the worst smelling cheese by a very long shot. Maroilles is way worse and used in tarts (a common saying is that after you make a maroilles tart you have to throw out the oven).

And of course they have nothing on (non-cheese) surströmming or hákarl
John McAfee interview
"This would then perhaps change our perception of the roles. That was what I was after with my question, and whether that would change the way we assess the girl's actions.
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Other than that, I've been basically asked "why bother about hypotheticals", so it seems that not a lot of people find such a thought experiment as interesting as I do."

We all have filters (of varying weight and severity) set up in place to check veracity of the facts streaming into our heads. I don't think we've all "made up our minds", but I'd rather not devote much more effort and headspace to this until any new news comes in.

The problem isn't that people necessarily take presented facts as reality, myself, I consciously go through your process for every article I read. I suppose I'm downplaying your posting it here because I find outward discussion of a situation with limited but fairly striking facts from fairly trustworthy sources (multiple court records). All is possible to be skewed, but I don't have the energy to call up the "attacker" and the "victim" and perform independent research in the matter.

Does that make sense?
Way to endear yourself to the entire internet, dude I never would have heard about otherwise.
[original article edited to clarify this]
Those sound like debatable edge cases.
I posted my first mac app yesterday.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668813

It got just 20 downloads (USA) and it went to the Top 75 in the Utilities category. I guess I missed the inflection point by just little bit.

The surprising part here is, all except 75 apps in the category gets less than 20 downloads? Whoa! Very little people on the top can make a living out of app development.
Buy local.

I live in central Illinois, so it's fairly easy to find local (within 30 miles) producers of most raw foods (meat/veggies/eggs), with the exception of milk. While this may be difficult in some parts of the country, I find getting to know local farmers and buying directly from the ones that do not use these practices (farmer's markets are great for making those connections) is the easiest.

Though, as I said, I live in a farm rich region, so it may be much easier for me than others.
I'm well aware of Therac, though Boeing was my representative example. Thus why I said most.
That's still 1,724,138 people.
I've been forced to do something similar, except I'm a little more aggressive than you.

Because I like to keep my entire Aperture library on my laptop, I really have to watch disk space. For a time, I was floating over 200GB for my library until I forced myself to spend 20m a day for a few weeks culling. I'm still at 180GB but rate of disk space consumption of the library has slowed down significantly.

I try to keep 10% of my shots or less. These days, I only keep "high sentimental value" photos (regardless of how well they came out) and shots I'd consider putting into a printed album or on the wall. It means throwing out a lot of otherwise good pictures.

And now that Apple finally introduced "unofficial" support for Fuji's EXR sensors (it only took 2 years :( ), I've been shooting RAW on my X10, which are basically 18MB for 6MP images (it's complicated, there's pixel binning and other stuff going on, so the files are inordinately large).

Going RAW was actually a bit of a godsend - I was a digital hoarder that kept 80% of my files. It wasn't until I came to grips with the fact that I really only do look at 10% of them that I forced myself to overcome my hoarding mentality and start culling.

--sidebar--

I now use a USB gamepad to do my flagging for deletion on large photosets. I use a $5 app in the Mac App Store called Joystick mapper, and have mapped key operations to the game pad's buttons. If you're the console gamer type, you'll find yourself going through a set incredibly quickly by using a gamepad instead of mouse/touchpad plus keyboard.
It's tough to shell in $150 for a product that is simply putting a flat skin over bootstrap items, but I guess there is a market for that.
Agile helped Adobe make hardware that people want
I feel sorry for the players who were amused by this and will now likely get banned. I don't know when video games started to be like a bad elementary school where you get punished for experimenting or finding a loophole, but it seems like it's punishing one of the fundamental joys of games. Or at least one of the joys I remember being particularly rewarding as a child.
If I were, I wouldn't be discussing it here on HN.
I toned down my language to 'little access'... this was all just a tongue in cheek reference to another EU - USA difference.

Your link is good information... there are many states where it looks quite difficult to get unless you have a local farmers' market
Mental illness and the "chemical imbalance" myth
Except that many outbreaks of salmonella occur from greens sold loose and packages in super markets. Quite a few large scale farms use animal waste in one form or another to fertilize crops.

I would prefer they settle the irradiated foods disputes and use that to clean up much that is done with chemicals. I have seem far less its unsafe than safe yet radiation is a boogeyman that is hard to beat.
Not so fast. For now, it's a helpful indicator of shallow ideas.
Do keep in mind that the parent was specifically referring to assault weapons, which are presumably much more rare than other firearms, and also very rarely used in crime.

I have no statistics, and I have no clue how many baseball bat deaths occur annually. I just thought maybe this would be a useful reminder.
And picasaweb.google.com now redirects to Google+ Pictures.