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The UN in even worse, Russia, China, and Brazil are lobbying to get control over the Internet via ITU.

Current multi-stakeholder model has functioned diligently since the beginning, all these attempts to control the Internet by governments are politically motivated and with the aim of protecting legacy businesses and business models.
Thanks for honest answer :) It's interesting how there is so much evidence for whatever approach you take on foods :D I guess one can only try and see how anything works for him.

Well, there is no consensus about common name and there are more than one approaches to this kind of eating (high carb, low fat, low protein) I will list you some references so you can see what I'm talking about. In no special order:

http://www.heartattackproof.com/articles.htm
http://www.drmcdougall.com/health/shopping/books/starch-solu...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVf36nwraw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wfMNNr3ak
http://www.nealbarnard.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/PrimitiveNutrition/videos
http://nutritionstudies.org/
The textbook case was about first sale doctrine, which is a copyright concept. This is about import/export restrictions. You do not, in general, have a right to ship whatever you want in and out of the country. Once something crosses the U.S. border, it becomes the subject of U.S. customs and trade regulations. It's very different than buying something within the U.S. and reselling it within the U.S., or validly importing something from abroad and reselling within the U.S.

I happen to think these particular regulations are stupid, but I also don't know the rationale behind them. They could very well be something we conceded to Germany (we won't let people reexport cars imported into the U.S. from Germany) in return for them conceding something else in a trade agreement. It's easy to blame "lobbying by industry <X>" for anything and everything, but think about it: what the hell do we care about profits that wind up in Germany anyway? Germany is the government with the strong interest in BMW/Mercedes/Audi's profits, not the U.S.
Bitcoin hit by denial of service attacks as regulators prepare clampdown
The upside to this is that, by choosing to only support corporations that share one's values, you can still have a positive effect. Voting with your dollar has long been known to be more effective than voting with your ballot.
I believe you can update what labels you wanna see by selecting them in the setting pane on the right (as well as re-ordering them).

As for the lightbox part, there's indeed a bit more work in representing the content of the issues.
Thank you for putting into words what I was trying to think of. Different bodies operate at different metabolic/thermodynamic efficiencies depending on level and type of exercise and nutritional intake. (including non calorie nutrients like vitamins, minerals, flavanoids, etc.)
Docker grows to harbor innovation
The source of this would be useful to integrate such features in other apps (like editors). An API might do as well at least for online tools like blogs. As a standalone site it's too much hassle to integrate it into your daily workflow I think.
Don't contactless payments usually have a (low-ish) limit on transaction size?
Facebook is violating the user's right to their own software.
Dual Query: Practical Private Query Release for High Dimensional Data
Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms
Take a look at https://github.com/spencertipping/cd. It will let you cd to local or remote machines the same way, and will take you back to your local machine on "cd ..". (It mounts the remote fs instead of SSHing there.)
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What shell and theme is he using?
I don't know if this man's views on sugar are accurate, but things like:

>''Reviews of the body of scientific evidence by expert committees have concluded that consuming sugar as part of a balanced diet does not induce lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and heart disease,'' he says.If you look up Robert Lustig on Wikipedia, nearly two-thirds of the studies cited there to repudiate Lustig's views were funded by Coca-Cola.

really disturb me. I think there is something wrong with are intellectual culture when we give completely undeserved credulity to studies with obvious biases.
> Before vitamin D fortification which began around the 1st great depression (1930s not 2007), bone deformities due to lack of vitamin D were the norm.

The UK doesn't fortify milk with vitamin D, yet they also saw a fall in the number of cases of rickets etc. That would seem to cast doubt on your causation.
Financial pain is a proven way to affect companies, and in turn affect the government. But causing financial pain to organizations that are compromised by NSA action may not be feasible without a serious cost to ourselves of lost time and productivity.

Although I have not been pushing the concept much, I would invite you to consider the model of my side project [1], wherein we use donations to charity to illustrate the importance of action. The donations can either be made immediately or pending completion of the task.

This gives a bit of financial weight to the activism, if not direct and acute. It also benefits charities and in some cases gets the charities involved in providing pressure from another angle.

To date, it's only been modestly effective with local tasks, but I've not been able to build the momentum behind the model to test it with something larger scope.

[1] https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/task/386/stop-unwarranted-su...
Imbalance.
You know what's fun? Pasting in text from Ernest Hemingway and seeing what he did wrong.

But seriously, this is a nice, simple way to point out some general rules of thumb for improving writing, although I would love for it to be less proscriptive. Not every long sentence is a bad sentence, not every passive-voice sentence is a bad sentence, and not every adverb is a bad adverb.

Oh, and by the way, the copy editor in me can't help but notice that an app that's intended to help you improve your writing tells you to "Aim for 2 or less" adverbs, rather than "Aim for 2 or fewer."
When I edit, your app should give me a unique url that is chained to the original. I can't send someone a link to what I have edited. How did I do?

Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear.

Hemingway highlights long, complex sentences and common errors. If you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is dense and complicated. Your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic. Try editing that sentence to remove the red.

Adverbs show in helpful blue. Get rid of them and pick verbs with force instead.

You can use a shorter word in place of a purple one. Mouse over it for hints.

Phrases marked in green show a passive voice.

Paste in something you're working on and edit away. Or, click the Write button to compose something new.
If they really want to stop this, they should double the US price of the cars, and compensate the price hike with a mail-in rebate. This is how it seems to work with electronics: many newegg deals posted on slickdeals involve small mail-in rebates, which I presume are there to prevent the retailer from selling them abroad in bulk.

That said, I don't believe the car companies have a right to separate markets in this way. It's much simpler with services (e.g. child vs. adult cinema tickets), but if you're really selling goods you shouldn't expect to be able to maintain such large price discrimination, and certainly shouldn't expect government support for it.
What's your main differentiator compared to other similar recently launched services (eg. getlambda.com) ?
It's all about location, location, location. Good message or bad - you have to advertise. Ask the FB poster from this week about engagement. :)
Or, I could send an email with my signature line, which includes most of that information. Am I missing something?
As a consultant, I've seen a fair share of people building their own "ultra-secure" authentication, authorization, and encryption algorithms. One project simply took plain-text passwords, Base64-encoded them, reversed the result, and called the passwords "encrypted". Plenty of others would execute raw SQL without validating user input. This is an education problem.

Last winter we saw Ruby on Rails vulnerabilities that likely came about because the focus of the Rails framework has not traditionally been security. Rails is "optimized for programmer happiness". I'm cool with that, just know what you're getting in to when you choose to adopt a new framework (stay up to date with security patches and otherwise secure and monitor your web servers as best as you can). Any new framework that becomes widely adopted will likely go through the same type of problems.

With all of that said, I learned nothing about code security until I had to. University did not really touch on it, so most of my education on security came later in a workplace setting when I desperately needed it.
I don't recall ever hearing about people lacking fingerprints. Here's an article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09obprint.html
These noises are inevitable and will grow.

The root problem is the load of nonsense that was peddled about the net being resilient to nuclear war etc. When really it's too centralized. The killer transition that needs to occur is to move DNS from being authoritative to being a matter of opinion. (Rather like having multiple got repos instead of a central SVN server). This would solve a lot of problems, but prevent the US from projecting a lot of soft power around.
Americans also used to use a larger proportion of the workday to do physical labor, walked more, and didn't use computers, among other things that have changed over the past 40 years.
So the revolution wasn't televised? Wake me up when you slacktavist get as frustrated with your audience as I have with you guys. You don't just settle for indirect action after they've started sneaking around in front of us.
I think the real news here is we are selling something to China for a change, which I have never heard of.

Half the parts in those cars or at least their raw materials probably came from China.
The EU commission has several directives MANDATING member states implement internet surveillance. If you think "human rights" means no surveillance ... Where do you even get that idea ?

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

The EU commission mandates that any ISP and/or Telco stores for 6-24 months the full list of everyone you've contacted, on phone, on the internet.

They are proposing, right fucking now, that that information is mandated to include all searches done one the internet (that such is technically not possible - currently - does not bother lawyers, and I think you'll find all EU commissars are lawyers. They'll just force search engines to give them their ssl root keys).

Note that they also had a court case against Ireland when it refused to order it's ISPs to spy on everyone, and won. In other words they forced internet surveillance on the one country that wasn't already doing this.

Likewise this proposal would enable them to force this on non-member states and you can bet that's exactly what they're looking to do.
Nothing says "I love you" like a valentine made of dollars signs.
A lot of folks are writing that this is bad for employees. Is it worse for employees (who may have been sold a bill of goods joining) or worse for customers (who may have been sold a bill of goods signing up)?

My sense is there is a little bit of "Let the buyer beware" on both because both employees and customers know what they're getting into with a startup. That said, the employees should at least get some stock out of it. Should early customers ask for stock too?
News Ycombinator regular Marxist folk is very excited to hear about internet regulation!
Emails, banners and "click here to occupy" is a yawn.

But 70,000 annoying calls to legislators that cannot be ignored and/or attributed to telemarketing spam is probably the most significant result that might actually been noticed.
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Then we're in trouble.
Show HN: just launched Uppwireless.com and we're on Techcrunch
Rabbit Proto: print 3D plastic and capacitive touch sensors
I'm continually amazed at the number of ways the current US system is centralized, usually in an arcane manner e.g. prices that hospitals can charge for things being set by a committee.

You've got all the bad parts of centralized bureaucracy without any of the good bits.

(edit: also, it's hard to tell how many layers of sarcasm your post has, but economists generally agree on centralising certain aspects of healthcare. Insurance is a fairly well studied topic in general.
I agree, but your wording is wrong. They provide default filtering, that you can optionally disable.
Great ideas, I look forward to them in your fork of HN.
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I would imagine that 1980s Steve Jobs thought no one would be using a mouse by now.
AirBnB Matches Apartments, Castles And Igloos With Guests Using Big Data
I think you over-estimate the impact of universities. Many (perhaps most?) CS professors think of themselves as Applied Mathematicians. It's unrealistic to expect your linear algebra teacher to worry about style.

Negligence is the first. Sometimes it's even willful. "Get this out in 3 weeks under budget, I don't care how." That leads to human error, which is more likely when you have underqualified people working on unrealistic deadlines.
Klackity Klack
NASA Evidence Reveals Possible Water on Mars
"you won't believe what happens next"
You missed the point of the backlash. It's not people rejecting the ads per se, more rejecting the manner in which the changes are presented as being 'pro-user'. If the marketing guy had any sense of what the Mozilla fanbase is like he'd understand why he should've just been honest about wanting to ensure Mozilla can get funding from multiple sources.
> > Apple/Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/AOL/etc are after your money, they only protect your rights if it means "more money", not if it threatens to impact their profit.
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> That's a wild generalization and baseless accusation.

Global surveillence is (part of) these companies' business models. They don't support privacy, they just disagree on who should be allowed to do the snooping.

> They are forbidden to be honest about NSA's demands and therefore this has hurt their image in the international market-place.

The problem is that these demands are possible to fulfil in the first place. Solving that problem would force these companies to find new cash cows.
This is what a competitive broadband market looks like
Ha! I love re-targeting... it keeps reminding me of companies who's products I've decided not to purchase automatically! And even better the company is paying someone to remind me not to do business with them!
Numbers? Memory addresses? Subleq is rather baroque compared to the ascetic world of combinators... ;-)

NB: As a final year project on my CS course in the 80s I did benchmarking on the efficiency of different sets of combinators for executing a toy functional programming language - the simplest set of combinators I used was SK and that was quite impressively awful to do something like multiplication. Quite interested to see how bad a single combinator scheme would be....
I like the idea, but the server appears to be melting right now. :)
> Ignore the headlines. The best diet advice I've heard is Michael Pollan's: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

So it's better to accept these fuzzy arguments from authority than to try to develop a model of optimal nutrition from actual scientific research?
Just under 2 years, it was a nightmare. I gained weight and became depressed. I left and will never sell a company like that again. If there's an earn out it'll be 1 year, otherwise I won't do it.
That was pretty neat!
> Chemically it is insulin that triggers the signal in our body to store fat.

A misleading oversimplification. Maintaing a net-energy-surplus is the causes of fat storage. Insulin is just one piece of the mechanics of how surplus energy gets stored as fat. There's no need to worry at all about insulin; just don't eat too much, and you don't get fat.

> Carbohydrates trigger a large insulin response while fats cause no insulin response (protein is somewhere in the middle)

ORLY? Show me a biochemistry text book that dares to tout this nonsense.

Bust insulin mythology: http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319

Gary Taubes again.... sigh....

> The nutrients in dairy are all fat soluble

Sorry but I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
It would be kind of hilarious to buy a BMW as "European Delivery", pick it up in Europe, drive it for the maximum period there, then send it back to the USA (cost included), drive it (or store it) for 6 months, then ship it back to Europe. I wonder for which models this actually makes sense.

(US doesn't get many nice models like the 550d, though)
I use Byobu on top of that for some extra useful features.

http://byobu.co/about.html
"But there are technical reasons for systemd to run as init: A key feature is to precisely track whether or not a service is running or not"

This is not true. Tracking a running service doesn't require being init. Any process can do it.

"sysv init can not do this."

Nor should it. Services running under sysV init can, however.

"More importantly, since there's no ordering or dependency control"

Yes, there is -- it's implemented by the rc system. It's crude, but it's also just a bunch of shell scripts and completely pluggable. The systemd logic could trivially be inserted here either in place of /etc/rc, or by something that sits directly under init and drives the rest of the process.

"In practice, while Daemontools for example is well written and as stable as it can be, by virtue of running outside pid 1 it is not immune to the effects of the surrounding system. It can, and does, end up orphaning monitored processes in a variety of circumstances"

Any process can daemonize away from a process manager. systemd adds cgroups for tagging or containing process trees -- this is possible under runit/daemontools and it would only take minor changes to the supervise process to instantiate the cgroup and supervise accordingly.

To be clear: Any process can add cgroup support to track forked children. Solving this problem by adding cgroup support has absolutely nothing to do with becoming init.

"By running as pid 1, systemd is protected against being killed."

No, that is false. There is no such protection -- killing pid 1 is easy. Rather, by running as pid 1 systemd will cause a kernel panic and bring down everything with it.

"By then applying cgroups it can precisely track whether or not what was spawned is still running, even if it forks more stuff. By applying this to the boot process, it can provide this functionality to everything that gets started during boot."

sysV already exports most boot ordering into subprocess. It is trivial to achieve these tasks with systemd as a child of init.

"This is functionality that init does not provide, and none of the process-monitors running outside of pid 1 can provide."

It is true that init doesn't provide these features, nor should it. Your second statement is false -- a common misconception as I've hopefully explained.

If you have any further technical questions about how one CAN perform all these actions as a child of init I would be happy to explain in detail.
It's interesting and important to know that money is an abstraction, sure. But it's also worth knowing how belief functions in society, even if no one in the society personally believes. Our abstractions can be more real than reality. This is why money works even though it's fake.
The biggest threat to internet is from governments. Time to think of an independent, autonomous internet that is dynamically formed and cannot be controlled or monitored by design
Just read again and if you still don't get it, keep reading.

And no, Government regulation isn't more important than people.
The completely anarcho-capitalist solution is that someone owns the river. If you want to dump into that river, then you have to deal with the owner; if you want to take from the river, then you have to deal with the owner. The owner would have a vested interest in keeping the water clean for people buying the water coming out of the river.

I'm not saying there aren't externalities to free markets, I think there are. I just don't think government is any better at dealing with them than markets. Friedman always says it better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHFIbfUi5rw
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Thanks for clarifying.

So, when tourists enter the US, do they need permission to leave with souvenirs?

I was (falsely?) under the impression that once you purchased something you were able to do with it what you please. So the manufacturer of an item wouldn't be able to stop you from reselling it, domestically or otherwise.
Interesting business concept. From their copy it seems like their goal is to remove a lot of the pains developers have associated with doing freelance. My main concerns would be

1. How much does the service cost. Is it a percentage of your rate? Is it flat?

2. What is their vetting process for clients/freelancers. They claim to "only represent the most talented designers and developers". That's quite the claim.

3. How do they provide payment protection?

I'm fine with the contract negotiation, representation, and customer relations but the other business offers need more details.
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In the South Pacific island story, when the gold was lost, the money was lost. That was a loss of a physical substance with a unique combination of specific physical characteristics. If it had been silver, copper, platinum, rhodium, or iron, I doubt they would have said "Oh well, we didn't really lose anything." The loss was real.

Some say that gold is useless, but I find it hard to imagine that any substance which is so durable, ductile, malleable, divisible conductive, rare, pretty, non-corrosive, and non-reactive could ever be "useless" to human beings. For example, it is excellent for electrical conductors in a salt water environment. Human beings have also found that those same physical characteristics make it useful as money.

There is no irony in expending effort to dig it up and then putting it back underground in vaults. That's because it is more useful in the form of bars than in the form of raw ore.
This is stupid. I had my car imported to Poland from the US, and paid at least $20,000 less than I would here for a brand new Land Rover Discovery 3 V8. That's including all taxes,import duties and legalization for European roads. If Land Rover wants to sell more cars outside the US, then they should offer similar prices - I find car companies trying to control the market through the government to be disgusting.
The first and obvious reason would be that developers and companies alike simply don't have the skills/mindset or don't care, must rush to release code, etc. It becomes an afterthought (usually after something bad happens).

I would say the second reason is very similar but applies to frameworks. Developers usually choose a framework and think they are done. This is something quite difficult to fight. So if frameworks would be more careful with security by default, the net result throughout the industry would be greater than the uphill battle of educating developers on security.

Microsoft has an internal term for something like this that they apply to Visual Studio (I forget the specific term) but it's something like ensuring the common path to do something automatically ensure best practices will be followed. That by using VS, you would have to go out of your way to do something outside those best practices. I think this works for the general population of developers.