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This point has been debated for quite a while: entire conferences have been held on this topic! Perhaps 20 years ago you would have found plenty of people who agree with you. But the emerging legal consensus, in academia, in Congress, and in the courts, is contrary to your view.

Excerpt from the 6th Circuit's Warshak opinion: "Since the advent of e-mail, the telephone call and the letter have waned in importance, and an explosion of Internet-based communication has taken place. People are now able to send sensitive and intimate information, instantaneously, to friends, family, and colleagues half a world away... By obtaining access to someone's e-mail, government agents gain the ability to peer deeply into his activities."
As someone who uses both OSX and Linux, I am more productive on Mac. Seriously though, get over your grudges - use what makes you happiest.
Most of them involve animal products, so eating vegan would help.

The first two would be more difficult to avoid. I think the first one can be avoided by buying organic corn. Avoiding rice fertilized with arsenic manure would be more difficult. You could try buying rice at a farmer's market and asking the seller what he fertilizes with.

FWIW, I've been trying to eat vegan for a few months now and it's surprisingly difficult at first. A surprising number of the weird ingredients in everything are derived from eggs and dairy. I was vegetarian before, and I still had to make some big changes to my diet. I like that it's made me think about what I'm eating, though.
The scary thing is that integer overflows are considered rare so unlike things like null-pointer dereference no one really checks for them (heck, it seems impractical checking for it).

In this case, how should they defend against an overflow? Impose an arbitrary limit on gold?
battles over who has the right to make certain types of sausages

What do you mean? There are people in England who think that the EU is going to ban British Sausages being called "sausages", forcing them to be called "emulsified high-fat offal tube".

It was actually a joke from the political satire show "Yes, Minister" from 1984 (watch the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzeDZtx3wUw ). There are a lot of euro-scare stories in England of similar levels of ahem reliability.

The European Commission in the UK has a blog where they try to rebut false stories in the UK media ( http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/blog/index_en.htm ). (The UK's Health and Safety Executive also has a "things that are mentioned in the UK media which are wrong" section http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/index.htm )
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>Or the feta cheese I buy from Germany that can't call itself feta and that anyone in day to day conversation will refer to as feta.

And that anybody that has eaten actual feta will tell you immediately it's a bad imitation (often with the wrong process and/or ingredients).

(Same goes for any "feta" sold in American supermarkets, at least Kroger, Walmart etc that I know of (as in the US the point of origin protection doesn't hold). Also real feta is NEVER sold in crumbles, as you often find it there).

Whereas American may like their food standardised by restaurant chain (I can walk into any X chain and get the same food), in Europe it has traditionally be standardised by region (local cuisine, etc).

So think of it the same as Burger King being unable to name a product "Big Mac". Only instead of protecting/benefiting just some private chain, it protects/benefits a whole country/region where the food was first developed.

Those protections, besides having rules for the "point of origin" also have strict guidelines on the ingredients etc. So you know your feta is X% milk etc, fermented for Y time, etc, and not some random cheap knockout.

Of course, nothing stops a company from selling the same product, or a different mix. They just can't name it feta. They can include a sign like "feta like product" though.
Because it's FOREIGN!!!

(unfortunately accurate satire....)
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The M16 has been semi-auto (single fire and three round bursts) since the Vietnam war with the rare exception of special forces weapons[1]. Fully automatic mainline rifles are inaccurate, wasteful, expensive, and less effective.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle#M16A2
"Warrants? We don' got no warrants. We don' need no steenkeen warrants!"
Use 64 bit integers everywhere.
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The lack of a requirement for truth in advertising, labeling, news, etc drives me nuts.

*"After being fired, the couple successfully sued under Florida’s whistleblower laws. However, Fox won on appeal as courts found FCC regulations against news falsification was a policy, and not a law. Fox then countersued in 2004 for court fees and legal costs."

http://consumerist.com/2006/08/30/fox-news-reporters-fired-f...

Meaning it's perfectly fine to knowingly lie. Some tortured rationalization about free speech. I'm sure that's exactly what the founding father's had in mind while writing Second Amendment.

I'd take the free market zealots a lot more seriously if they were spear heading the fight for consumer protections as a precondition to deregulation.
What has he spoke about for the past 35 minutes? Anything on the latest kerfuffle?
Did the future of wireless charging get decided by a coffee cup?
>The same effect could be created by just using proper hygienic conditions in the slaughterhouse

That's a pretty strong assertion. How did you find out that equivalent hygienic conditions could be created in slaughterhouses at a moderate cost? Aren't antibiotic sprays just getting the germs that got through, despite reasonable precautions being taken?
Anything called "synching" makes me cringe.

Synching to me means that there's a 50% chance it'll add the data, or delete it. And I've seen "synching" things delete things.

The only way your data can survive decades, is in a file system, with a backup disk, moving from machine to machine as you upgrade. Imho at least.
I think that healthcare providers would have to start this process. The bills and statements are far too opaque for the end user to properly decipher.

As an anecdote, I was treated for cancer several years ago; trying to wade through the morass of bills, statements, treatments, third/fourth/fifth levels of providers, was simply unfeasible.

And hospitals naturally have a desire for this type of billing info to remain opaque since it dissuades any criticism of fee schedules.
HN kicks up an almighty fuss about any attempts to regulate our industry (see online payments, sales taxes, etc.) but we are happy to pass judgement on others.

In Europe we can barely stop people from selling horsemeat as beef. I'm not sure how effectively we are implementing any of these rules, and I'm sure a farmer who wishes to do so can flout them at will.

One positive thing to come from the rise of supermarkets and chains is that their own brands suffer when their suppliers fuck up. They alone have the power to police their producers. And we see this in this article with McD's et al pushing for higher standards.
Thank you for responding.

What I have been doing wrong is charging a flat rate for projects that is too low. Then the clients hold the final payment hostage while asking for unending changes.

I got smarter in my latest jobs, but they were only very small ones for low money. I have only been earning $15 per hour.

I would be incredibly happy to make $50 per hour for 3 months. I think my next best bet is to contact dev shops in my city that have clients already.
I think this is a much bigger problem than photos -- there's massive fragmentation in personal data storage. The thing is we all have online storage to put the photos in and there are companies that will give us more for a fee on the scale you're talking about (GDrive, Box, Dropbox). It's just tricky and a lot of overhead for developers to connect that storage to their apps.

We're working on this problem right now at http://stashkit.co/. We're trying to solve it by building a drop in cloud file browser where saving and loading file is just 2 lines of code and users can see all of their data in one place.
Frustratingly (as a frequent Whole Foods shopper), the top of the page raises the question of "What about added hormones and antibiotics?" and then never provides an answer.

Found the answer on another section of the site though: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/our-meat-no...
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer: Personal attacks are just 'noise'
Backup the HDD and you'll be fine. Copy and paste and walk away. Personally, I have private pictures that I would never want put on any cloud service. Nothing in the world is 100% protected. There could be a bomb that drops on the building housing the servers. A fire could burn down your house/dwelling. It happens.
Check for them. There's no lazy way out.
Would you have trouble if you had a picnic in Wisconsin and forgot to pack some ?

http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/raw_milk_map.htm

simonsarris kindly helped me out ( myself being in the UK )
The only meaningful measure of the server's state is in how it expresses that state via the communications protocol. As a client, what the server does internally is irrelevant, so long as it behaves consistently when I talk to it.

I find it farfetched that the spec authors would specify that an HTTP-compliant server should not do something completely unexpected in the face of a DELETE on a nonexistent resource. What's the alternative to "internal idempotency" here? To randomly restore the deleted item? To delete something else instead? Anything other than "note that the item is already gone and return" would be a bug. So why would anyone put this in the spec? They wouldn't, which is why the spec is clearly discussing idempotency with respect to the communications, and not with respect to the server's internal state (which again is not something the RFC mandates).

On the other hand, the RFC does specifically call out that clients should automatically retry idempotent operations in the event of a closed connection, which makes no sense if the communications will not be idempotent. The RFC also calls out that internal state may be changed in the face of an idempotent (and even a safe) operation, another indication that what's being specified is not internal server behavior/state (because if it's mutating state it's not internally idempotent).

> the client does something it shouldn't (for example, calling DELETE on a resource that no longer exists)

You're begging the question by assuming that a client should not call DELETE on a nonexistent resource. It's perfectly valid to interpret "DELETE" to mean "make sure nothing exists at this URL" (I believe the RFC does), in which case a delete of a nonexistent item is a successful call.
Am I overlooking a setting, or does the Trovebox iPhone app only allow me to take square photos, and force me to crop pre-existing photos I want to upload? I definitely hope not - I'd like to be able to make that call myself.
Externalities, unintended consequences.

Regulating for public safety must consider the global view.
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Whoever you choose today to store and keep all your photos is probably not who you're going to be using in 10 years. I'm surprised that HN doesn't really zero in on this. Closed systems are just a temporary solution for a problem that's getting exponentially worse.

Some of us are just less vocal than others, especially when we tend to get shouted down by those who can't be bothered to run their own web servers and then resign themselves to let others control their data. FreedomBox is making things better in this respect, though, and I can't help but think that they would love to hear about Trovebox (hint, hint).

I would just like to thank you very much for OpenPhoto/Trovebox. Even though this is the first I've heard of it, it seems to be something I could really use. I'm currently generating static web albums with gPhoto, then uploading them by hand, but had been thinking about automating the whole shebang for a while. There are plenty of open source photo albums (even packaged for Debian stable, my distro of choice), but so far I hadn't found any that offer mobile clients to automate things. While I'm not on Android, the wife is, and this looks like an awesome way to let her share photos, while still keeping them under her control. I'm also very glad to see that Trovebox is open source, and will be mirror cloning the repos soon :)
This is very similar to pressureNET, my open source Android app that collects pressure data and sends it to atmospheric science researchers. I'm quite excited that there's competition and that it looks good! If you're reading this, good job WeatherSignal!

pressureNET: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
|"You know how arsenic goes inorganic—and thus poisonous—in chickens' guts?"

Correct chemistry but perhaps misleading to non-chemist readers. This is one reason that I oppose product labels advertising "green, organic, natural" products. I cannot help but think that some fickle readers will draw some association between inorganic and poisonous.
The FDA banned interstate commerce of unpasteurized milk products (except cheeses aged past 60 days). This means that companies cannot produce unpasteurized products in one state to sell in others.

However, despite the interstate commerce ban, some 29ish states have various states of unpasteurized sales, ranging from allowing it in grocery stores to only allowing it to be sold from the farms.

In my state, raw milk products cannot be sold at grocery stores except where allowed by federal law (cheeses past 60 days).
For context, you always have to keep in mind why those laws exist.

What is the goal that is towering above all else for the EU? The one it has actually been relatively successfully implemented? Creating a common market, of course!

For a common market to exist it is obviously not enough to open up the borders to people, labor, goods and capital. It is also necessary to have common rules and regulations for the goods and services sold throughout the common market. If that weren't the case, individual countries could easily erect trade barriers between them (through rules that are mutually exclusive, e.g. so that a Spanish manufacturer of wine harvesters can't export her Spanish harvesters to France, at least not without massively changing the production process and in essence opening two manufacturing lines, one for Spain, one for France).

So the EU parliament gets this stack of laws on fruits from 27 countries and is told to turn that into one unified law for the whole of the EU. That's basically what's happing. The EU is not so much in the business of making new regulations, it very often just unifies.

Now, it's important to stay vigilant throughout this and pay attention and tell the EU when it screws up, but I do not see any kind of systemic issue. I think it all works pretty well for what it is.
Robotic exoskeleton turns everyday houseplants into sun-seeking cyborgs
Technical solutions might seem "faster" but only for the people at the head of the movement - usually the more technical people. You won't see the majority of the people start adopting those solutions anytime soon.
My first thought is that you blatantly copied Stripes layout for your homepage.
My second thought is maybe that works since the business could be described as "Stripe for t-shirts".
Oh well, at least it's not a bootstrap site.
Of course this thing is supposed to be connected to your phone, so do you really need all of those sensors on glass? How much does pressure vary between your face and your pocket? (I honestly don't know, feel free to tell me if you do). Orientation sensors make a lot of sense, but I would imagine they can get away with putting more sensors elsewhere.
Thanks @billycoover. When I ran my business, I opted to use the web interface provided by Stripe instead of downloading PayPad. It just didn't do it for me, so we created the app we wanted to use. Not a whole lot more to it.
And that leads to perverse incentives; If you have no incentive to help control costs, then it falls upon the NHS to control costs through delays and denial of service.
It's rarely "exactly the same". Champagne made in France and Feta made in Greece has specific ingredients, requirements etc, defined by law.

In places where those laws don't apply, they make cheap knockoffs with different ingredients mix, laxer process etc, to sell cheaply. Danish or American feta, for example, is nothing like actual feta. At least Denmark cannot name it "Feta", whereas US companies can, thus misleading the consumer.

Second, even in cases where it's exactly the same, it's a "point of origin" protection, meant to protect the original region that made the product.

The same way that BK cannot name one of their burgers "The Big Mac", but for a whole region/country, not just one private company.
It's a commonly used word over here in the UK, no one finds it offensive/painful to hear - it just means fast/quick.
Controlled by Guns: This is about Defense Distributed’s plastic gun.
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Your point is that one site out of millions doesn't spam people. That's not a particularly valid point.
Lots of cities are theoretically built on seven hills:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_bu...
> "the measurement, in millimetres, of the thickness of a transverse section of the fruit between the lateral faces and the middle, perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis"

Oh, look, a good definition in a legal document. Don’t people normally complain about ambiguous laws leaving interpretation open to the courts[0]?

> Regulations over the official ingredients of jam

So that consumers can buy jam everywhere in the EU and get more-or-less the same rather than (possibly annoying) surprises. The problem here arose because the word ‘jam’ (or more precisely, ‘marmelade’) was used differently in different parts of the EU prior to regularisation. I am happy about it.

> battles over who has the right to make certain types of sausages

Everybody can make any type of sausage, what they cannot do is claim that said sausage was made somewhere else. What exactly do you find unreasonable about that?

> It's harder for legal systems other than the common law because of the way they work but I'm of the opinion that we should at least trial putting a word count limit on the total body of law and regulation.

So you prefer to have such regulation spread not only over a defined body of laws but also over each and every court decision made within the last n hundred years? On the contrary, I would argue that civil law is inherently superior to common law, as it puts the legislation where it belongs (the legislative, i.e. parliament, and, by extension, the various ministries) and gives consumers and businesses security that, if they follow said legislation, they have a reasonable chance of doing everything correctly, rather than having to take into account court decisions on the other side of the country or hope that the court in question will invent new laws according to the way they want, rather than their legal opponents.

There is absolutely no reason to impose a total word count limit on the body of laws. There is a reason to keep that body of law reasonably organised, accurate and easily understandable, which is usually the case, and more so in the EU than the US (otherwise, legal fees would be much higher in the EU, as people would require more help understanding the law, right?).

> 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]

Well, that’s what you get for becoming less and less competitive and instead extending bureaucracy more and more to accommodate more and more public officers, paid for by cheap credits, assumed to be backed by more sanely operating economies. Greece’s fault, you could only blame the EU for allowing them in.

[0] Or are you just annoyed that this is measured in millimetres rather than imperial attolightfortnights or similarly ridiculous unit?
You think full-auto weapons aren't used on the streets of America?
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The environment is shared for a consistency, if I'm sshing into the environment to do my work then that means I need the environment updated with my config and that either means that we need to share configs on the vagrant user or setup the environment to provision settings for every user of that environment which sounds unmaintainable. It's easier to just work locally through the share directory.
There's a graph of "non-fatal violent firearm crime" right in the article. It looks flat to me between 2001 and 2011.

Are both true somehow? Those facts seem to be in conflict.
It doesn't mean you have to make it easy to do impulsively.

You can also legalize euthanasia in case of severe, chronic depression, like in some European countries.
The specifics of the data are not important here. 37s has a real knack for creating a continuous stream of positive buzz using status updates like these in addition to their blog posts. It's less about their average customer rating or whatever increasing by 3% this year, and more about knowing the company is still alive and doing well with a good product and happy customers. What's particularly smart is that, excluding their books, their articles and reports aren't long or comprehensive, but have the minimal amount of information to offer enough value to keep them relevant and in a positive light -- like when you kick your feet periodically in water to stay afloat. It's not easy by any means. I think it's quite clever.
You certainly do have access to those APIs. You can use DirectShow on windows, libva on linux, OpenMAX on android, whatever Apple picked on iOS, etc... But be careful to probe correctly, because not all backends support all the features the same way. And not all hardware supports all profiles the same way. But it's certainly not a problem of "access".

I know what you're really thinking is a little pushbutton Javascript API where you can hand it an url and say "play". The real world doesn't work like that, sadly. Media handling is wildly complicated, and I didn't even need to invoke DRM here.
If you tell someone "Give me X and I'll give you Y" and you never intend to give them Y, then I presume you'd be guilty of fraud.

After all X bitcoins does have a monetary value, since people will trade you money for it.
The app doesn't do any cropping (unless maybe you apply filters, I have to check on that).

The home screen on the app shows square cropped photos and the Gallery view does a little bit of cropping as well on display.

But the photos themselves are not cropped. A look at the web version shows this a bit more clearly (for example, see the panoramas) -- https://current.trovebox.com/photos/list

Valid point though. We don't want the app confusing people into thinking it's cropping. We're big on retaining the original, unmodified.
> It's basically a very pretty slot machine.

I didn't see the connection so clearly until now. How is D3 even legal?
This is encouraging, have been working on my game in Haskell for last few weeks, it is fun. Hope to see more insight & progress from John soon.
The article asserts that the increased usage is to compensate for speeding up the kill lines - so less precaution.

Bacteria-related food poisonings due to spoiled meat are pretty rare in germany and since the practice is forbidden here I assume it must be perfectly viable, albeit properly more expensive to create proper conditions.