skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you plan to source alcohol?

In most countries, alcohol importation is tightly regulated, with duties and taxes payable on any amount of import (see [1], [2]). It isn't the duty itself which is expensive--it's the paperwork processing fees and the time and effort taken to fill out forms.

There could also be problems if you are expected to verify that the importer (recipient of the package) is at least 18/21 years old (see [2]).

If purchasing online in the country of destination, I calculated that in Australia, the average cost of a single 330mL bottle of craft beer shipped would be AUD$15-25 (approx. USD$12-20, €10-16) depending on the cost of the beer and delivery address. Most online sellers at least in Australia do not ship single bottles due to the high overheads of shipping. The minimum order size is typically 6 bottles (and quite often 24).

Also worth considering is packaging restrictions if you plan to do your own shipping. As an example, the postal service in Australia accepts liquids only if certain packaging conditions are met (see [3] D10.10). For a single bottle of beer, this would likely equate to a strong cardboard box filled with enough absorbent material to absorb all the liquid in the bottle.

The best case scenario I can see is that you find a niche market of beer connoisseurs interested in sending rare or hard-to-source bottles of beer to each other, and don't mind paying at least AUD$30 per bottle for that experience. For everyone else, they'll just continue to make a 5 minute drive to a nearby liquor shop to purchase 6 bottles of comparable beer for a total of AUD$15.

[1] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/Factsheets/Documents/alcohola...

[2] https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/212/kw/mailing alcohol

[3] https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/docume...
A common topic I see is the surfeit of trained scientists, and how many of them are unable to find employment in their field (professor or other acceptably remunerative research position). Maybe many of these guys out there are simply not good enough to do science, and we should raise the bar for entry to these training programs if so many of their graduates fundamentally misunderstand the mathematics their analyses rely upon.
$5 is not a sustainable amount of money. It just isn't. I don't know why people in this space keep coming back to this ruinously low rate.

Charge. More. Or. This. Will. Fail. Too.

Sincerely,

(theoretically) a competitor.
> You should work on a product that solves YOUR problem

I think this popular advice is flawed. It's survivorship bias in advice form.

If you happen to have a good profitable problem you go solve it and become successful and then turn around and say "Look! I solved my own problem".

There exist many people whose own problems are terrible for turning into a product for many reasons. They would be better off if they attempted a more practical problem that was not necessarily their own.

I also see founders reverse-engineering their story to mask the fact that they just went after a feasible profitable idea.

For example they create a customer support software (as an example of a crowded competitive field).

But because it's not sexy to not have a dreamy story they manufacture some forced story line like "We were running this small consultancy company and needed customer support software. After trying tens of existing solutions we just weren't happy with their X,Y,Z so we decided to solve our own problem for good!".
I'm under the impression that the general public understands that casinos and lotteries are not charities. Do you really need a PhD in physics to figure this out? The reason people gamble is not because they're dumb.
While the light-years-ahead would imply compared to current available navigation systems such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, etc, the actual tweet in the article notes he's saying it's light years ahead of their own current system. So doesn't necessarily mean it will be as good as Google Maps nor any promise it will be better and certainly not light years ahead of Google Maps or Apple Maps presumably.
> it's dangerous to continue stoking that narrative.

What, even in cases where it is right? You are steering dangerously close to saying "We the Elite should close ranks". And that sort of thing is the fuel of the very fire that you are trying to put out.

The fact is as humans we have no option but to trust our own judgement on things: either by studying them directly or by judging which experts to trust. And this article shows you can't assume experts are right just because society puts them in a particular position.

In the article we told that Nick Brown, an IT guy who knew high-school level maths, who discovered that an important paper by well respected psychology prof was BS when it was presented to him at a university psych class.

Why had the profession swallowed it? Apparently because their maths is so bad that they just swallowed what they were told, and (according to The Guardian) the few with qualms didn't feel anyone would be interested in hearing the contrary view.
> The unknown danger here is that there might be some underlying generic exploitable structure in our systems or processes that we are not aware of yet.

You would need more than an exploit, you need an exploit that allows you to parse the message in a turing complete fashion to bootstrap an AI.

Otherwise, I don't see how identifying the exploit transitions to being a significant risk to humanity.
Firefox tunnel, the way to use Firefox to make a tunnel to remote communication
Oh sure they could investigate, I didn't express myself well enough. But they're not going to get much without internal server data. They wouldn't be able to undertake any action against the site, much like American officers can't come to Russia to arrest suspects. They would be wholly dependent on cooperation with local authorities, who wouldn't care at all because it's not illegal in Russia.
Early enough to catch the transition to mainstream of the electric car and mass adoption. That is at least 10 years away.
That article wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be.
Here's hoping it gets even better in future so they can win us both back ;)

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Great article OP. Thank you very much. I remember using Bluebird and sharing the sentiments of the comment which I am replying to.
>I've been in a number of supermarkets where they use this to beam ads at you while standing in line for the checkout.

This is more than creepy. It should be made illegal along with using cameras for anything else than security.
People gamble for fun, but they get into trouble because of the dopamine rush.
Psychiatrists don't have special powers when it comes to choosing an SSRI, the process is almost entirely trial and error.

There is nothing wrong with going to a general practitioner, trying Lexapro, and if you don't feel anything on that, trying Wellbutrin, and then on down the line.

If you administer the Beck Depression inventory to gauge your own mood on some consistent basis before and after starting antidepressants you will be introducing far more of the scientific method into the process than most psychiatrists will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory
You can build one yourself if you want:

https://hackaday.io/project/9085-ultrasonic-directional-spea...

Its reasonably well known tech in the maker community these days... I first saw one demoed at a Dorkbot meeting 10 years or so ago.
I don’t for the life of me understand the people who write about programming on Medium when the CMS doesn’t even have native syntax highlighting.

I wish I could tell people it’s straightforward to migrate from Medium, but it involved a lot of annoying copy-pasting when I did it.

Sooner is better than later, though. Call it markup debt if you well.
By IP address, referer and api key.

I'll mock up something really simple that does just that in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks!
I oftentimes reach for my 'call the regulator' button when I read these articles. Whats odd is how many people say "god no..." as if there was some consequential downside to using the very government entity we created (in law) to make corporate entities "do the right thing" when they don't appear to want to do it voluntarily.

So.. here we go. Explain to me, why we don't want to enact law to require (through regulation) this practice to cease.
I do think Product management is more people facing than project management.

You can't really build a product without talking with the customer or talking to other departments especially sales/marketing/customer service. They know what the users want, what the bounce rate is, what metrics the company is lagging at.
As for Duniter, I invite you to do more than just watch the train pass by. ;)
In fairness, you can find psychologists seriously asking that question too, going back decades.
I attended a convention with a bunch of probability & statistics experts. A number of them absolutely cleaned up and it wasn't at all surprising to see who - but I suspect the casino's losses to them were quickly subsidized by their less keen peers who were also playing (albeit badly) and the dozens who were watching and ordering drinks like our plane was going down. Honestly if I was hosting Defcon, nerds winning at the Blackjack table would be the least of my concerns.
YouTube / Google should let us provide it with a list of keywords
I like to get suggestions for videos to watch, things to read, music, but (perhaps because my tastes are not that mainstream), it doesn't provide me with much I can use. This goes for ads, too. I like to see ads that are relevant to me - new music, new products, equipment - but it doesn't show me these often enough.

So YouTube / Google should let me provide it with keywords - a list of things I'm interested in at the moment. It could send me a reminder to update parts of my list every month or so ("Name, are you still interested in blank?") or offer related keywords I might be interested in, which I could check off in boxes or not.
More handwaving.

Still no audits. Still got lies on their homepage.

And seriously, are you twelve? You sound like it.
Ah I see. Still, your statement that extensive lobbying has won is pretty much a blanket statement for any contentious legislation. Both sides will extensively lobby and whichever side wins will be able to attribute it to lobbying.

In GMOs case, it appears that the traditional lobbyists (the corporate lobbyists) have actually lost in the EU. GMOs are subject to dumb shit like mandatory labelling which only reinforces people's ill-founded fears and will inevitably poison debate going forward. After all, "why would they force labelling if it were harmless?"
> This issue is not only limited to Emirates, a lot of airlines like Lufthansa, KLM (last checked on October 2017) suffer from the same issues.

Still, god bless Emirates. Hands down, best airline.
I guess, but that's a bit of a firehose. Is there really nothing intermediate between the NYT and just scouring all the journals? Something like the AMS notices or Terry Tao's blog, but slightly more frequently updated?
Thanks for that insight, now I’ve got some more reading material to work through!
"...a documentary I’d seen a while back, where some science-minded gamblers proved that a roulette wheel could reliably be beaten with a timer and a pocket computer.."

I suspect those two gamblers were Claude Shannon, founder of information theory, and Ed Thorp, a physicist who developed a card counting method for blackjack [1].

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/claude-shannon-the-las-v...
Interesting thought, would be really curious to see the outcome for that. AFAIK, the link that Emirates is sharing allowed me to add my own miles number. What I am not sure is, if there is a check at the backend (Emirates side) which compares the miles number with ticket holder email ID.
Richard Rhodes' book on the physics and history of science behind the bomb goes to some length to explain just how much information about fission and fusion is a matter of public record. Yet, small details remain redacted. mostly if I recall correctly, about 'levitated cores' in fission bombs, and the exact composition of the 'lens' in a fissile igniter for a fusion bomb.

Another source I believe comments that with one infinitesimal change to fundamental universal constants, fission and fusion would be impossible except at stellar scale. Odd, that we live in a universe where the boundary between existence and annihilation is so thin, yet we continue to exist.

Personally, I think the proof here is a divide-by-zero instance. Conceptually, a design of information that can be communicated, such that it cannot be comprehended or enacted but its consequence ensues. Isn't that a kind of meme?
Thanks for the term! Yes, in literature and in other culture areas is exactly where I've seen it most often too, and it has become a pet peeve. It is conceivably more harmful in science (not to mention politics) however. Harder to spot though.
They can guide our behavior somehow.

For example, they can safely assume that the moment we catch a glimpse of a message we will point all our receivers towards the source, thus they got us to amplify their signal and look for it all over the spectrum.

Then, they can guide what sort of analyses we run.

For example, they might embed a lot of prime number structures into their signal, thus we will apply a lot of our prime number expertise and methods on their numbers. What if you can bootstrap a turing complete machine by doing various statistics on prime numbers?

They could alternate, one week the signal is prime-number heavy, the next week it has vary weird spectral distributions, so we will pull out all kind of Fourier transforms.

We don't yet know all the possible places where a turing machine might hide.

In a way, you can consider the whole network of research facilities and researchers applying statistical methods on a signal some sort of a predictable controllable machine. Maybe not turing, but maybe you can go by with a weaker kind. Think how you can do good computations with non-deterministic machines. Couple that with psychology (social engineering) and game theory.

It seems to me highly dangerous to let our signal analysis be guided by the signal itself, and in general to do anything with a signal form an intelligent source.

Even if it's just clear text ASCII English, who knows what kind of social havoc you can wreck with just a few carefully constructed sentences from a very advanced intelligence.
No, because in most cases the program requires the passenger's name to match the FF account name.
> Ioannidis' claim to fame is writing a hand-waving, philosophical argument in order to cast doubt on all research at once.

It's solid probabilistic reasoning about the dominant statistical methodology, and its conclusions have been empirically demonstrated in multiple fields.
> The entire paper assumes we get a certain type of communication and in the course of decoding it destroy humanity.

"Assume" is a bit of an odd way of putting it. The paper is a discussion of the risks of receiving a certain type of message.

> but the paper presents no proof whatsoever that "message decontamination is impossible."

That's a bit harsh. The paper provides several arguments which I find quite solid. Which of them did you find unconvincing? The existence of message that can't be parsed by hand? The risk of manipulative AI running on an air-gapped computer? The difficulty of containing a message given that we can't turn off the source? The difficulty of containing knowledge/information over longer time scales?

I didn't think there was much particularly new in that article. It's mostly a re-hashing of other people's arguments. The most interesting point the article made is this conclusion:

"As we realize that some message types are potentially
dangerous, we can adapt our own peaceful transmissions
accordingly. We should certainly not transmit any code.
Instead, a plain text encyclopedia (Heidmann 1993), images,
music etc. in a simple format are adequate. No
advanced computer should be required to decrypt our
message."
ah - "Citation cartel". Thanks!
Ask your questions or statements here: https://forum.duniter.org/latest
Their support is as bad as it gets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347525
The New York City March for Science Is Here
Hard to block all analytics because you can also shuffle them through as first party traffic too.
From the submission agreement (https://studios.amazon.com/help/submission-agreement):

> You will have no right to compensation in connection with the exploitation of rights you grant under this Agreement.

So, why would anyone participate in this program, if the best possible outcome is that Amazon uses your idea, makes millions, and does not pay you a cent?
I'm waiting for someone to state "when you're not paying for something, you are the product", except in this case, you are paying for something, yet you're still the product.

This is just...disgusting.
Try applying for a job that doesn't ask for people who are passionate about code frameworks or have github repositories "for fun".
It's worse than that.

0C is at least special in in that important human systems of measurement are based on it. The 3-to-1 ratio is just some ill-fated psych superstition. It resembles the Celsius scale only by being a cultural construct. But by that measure it also resembles South Park and the MS-DOS kernel.

And that's ignoring the fact that 0C is actually physically significant, since it is (to a good approximation) the melting point of water over a very large range of pressures.
A recent innovation we thought you should be aware of is related to the ability to provide for increased spatio-temporal resolution of the underlying EEG data set as a pre processing step prior to feeding the recorded EEG data into machine learning algorithms. TRUUST has pioneered this and is seeing fantastic results Pre-Clinically on MEA's in drug discovery research for Fragile X and Epilepsy indications. The technology was developed with Epilepsy in mind however. If anyone would have an interest feel free to reach out to us info@truustneuroimaging.com and below are related publications and resources. We thought it made more sense to enhance the data quality first rather than trying to optimize the crap out of algorithms given the problem generally results in better outcomes when better data goes in; garbage in garbage out sort of deal.

Published paper in Journal for Neuroscience Methods: https://www.clearslide.com/view/mail?iID=3f3TTfMPJNBRhXhRDJD...

Published Poster with Scripps at SfN for Fragile X:
https://www.clearslide.com/view/mail?iID=C5dp3gjmMWnMxKktk44...

Cool video showing what is possible with recorded EEG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRwpAA1KeA
What's the benefit of this over react-bootstrap Table which uses an actual <table> tags.
Is it not equally likely that the source of high intensity, high frequency RF modulation lies inside the US communications infrastructure associated with an Embassy inside a declared enemy state? I.E. the reason there is no external source, is that it was a product of faulty US SIGINT in the first place.

Is Guantanamo Bay reachable by microwave link from Havana? Day traders prefer RF to complex internet routes, if they can show speed advantages. Direct RF might have some SIGINT advantage over other choices here, to talk between US assets in the economy.

I'm not a cuban or a russian, and nobody pays me for my opinions btw. I just find it strange everyone externalises the source, when we probably all believe the investment the US makes inside its own communications is actually sufficiently at scale to be the source of the problem.
Wasn't that the plan since iBeacons were introduced back in 2013? With GPS probably even earlier? TBH, I never saw the business case and always thought it's way to intrusive and a huge privacy issue.
That is for tax reasons, the same reason lng conversions where popular in Italy (where evading / reducing tax is a national sport).

Btw this is a quote from my Italian driving instructor at the time
What "value" are they trying to add with all these partnerships? Security issues aside, is it as simple as these companies are paying them and they don't ask questions?
It “just works” as long as you don’t install any themes or plugins. The moment you start adding stuff to it... oh boy...

That and the fact that most themes/plugins are coded by juniors, in the best case...

So, yeah, it “just works” as long as you don’t actually pretend to use it for something useful.
Nope.

<spoilers>It's about two things. First, an alien race that give's humanity a "weapon" which is their language. Anyone who learns the language starts to perceive time in a non-linear (probably deterministic) fashion, ie. flashbacks and flashfowards. They did this so that humanity would save them sometime in the future from something unknown to modern day humans. And second, it's about how a translator lives through the life and death of her child while understanding said language. She makes the choice of conceiving her child even though she knew the child was going to die in the future because it was worth it to her because of how much she loved her daughter.</spoliers>
This comment is spot on. Do you mind if I use it as a caption on the artice aswell(with due credits)
https://dev.to is such a great alternative to Medium for programming posts. I really wish it catches up and becomes more popular
Organize. A proposal to control our life
Fair enough, but again...

2) Depending on where you stand on the cause of climate change, I think it could be argued that aiding renewables isn't a subsidy in the traditional sense, as much as inventment in hopes of mitigating future expenses due to climate change.

I don't want to assume, so I have to ask: Do you understand the difference between an expense and an investment?

To clarify, it's not narrative if $X today aims to save $X x Y and Z lives tomorrow, to say nothing of the social and sociopolitical disruption. That's still a subsidy? I don't agree; at all.
One of the things I can’t understand as a Chrome user and developer is how limited your options for explicit extension permissions are. Either people will not install extensions (basically my case), or the Chrome team will teach people to ignore warnings and extensive permissions not unlike what we used to do with SSL/Mixed Content warnings. (Which I guess is what they already do on Android, but still.)

Firefox also had to learn about the vulnerability of Firefox extensions the hard way, but training users to scrutinize permissions would be a great opportunity.
On your point about the IDE helping you, there are two use case.

object i = new object();

I agree you only type once, the IDE will suggest object after new. But in that case the type is needlessly redundant, var could be use without making the code any less readable.

object i = myfunction();

Here the object is sementically useful but given that you have to type it before you type the name of the function I don't see how the IDE can possibly help you. Not only that but unless you know the return type of that function by heart it forces you to go check it out before you even start the line. And if you are using generics (or valuetuples) that could be a long type name.
Also how would they get to hospital in an emergency - your not guaranteed that the local hospital is where you need to go.
If you're unaware, this is the origin story for the EFF.
Nicely put github comment, well done. Thank you. I feel sick in my mouth seeing PL in his username, which clearly indicates my home country. I am beyond baffled.
Fortaleza x Ceará – Segundo clássico rei 2018
I'd pay to see that movie!
Apparently it was a similar story for a convention of anti-money-laundering/compliance specialists in accounting.
Ideally then those politically unpopular organizations and their members would move to Sprint, ATT, or another carrier who would love to have some new customers.
Don’t worry and just do things you enjoy