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Ask HN: Secure mailbox for homes. Solves package theft and missed deliveries
The idea here is to build a secure mailbox for single family homes to solve the problem of people stealing your packages and to solve the missed delivery problem. The device would be about 1 cubic foot in size (average size of a package).
A similar concept was launched called Mailhaven (https://mailhaven.co/) which is sold direct to consumer. I don't believe consumers want to spend $100+ dollars to solve this issue, which is why our idea is give it free to consumers and charge the shipping carrier (UPS/Fedex) a very small fee when they use it. The key here is that it costs a carrier an average of $15 to redeliver a package (and our fee to deposit the package in the box would be substantially low).

Next steps:

Buy 5-10 ready made safe and put in sensors to detect when a package is inside and when the safe is open

Deploy these 5-10 protoypes in our neighborhood, targeting neighbors who have packages delivered often

Gather data, and continue pitching to smaller couriers in our city (ex: target Fedex route owners)

Concerns we have:

Our business model is reliant on getting UPS/Fedex to partner with us

We can't support bigger packages (and maybe these are the ones that matter most to consumer and carrier)

Amazon could make this faster and better than us

Any thoughts on the overall concept? Any major roadblocks I'm not seeing?
I would argue there is a huge difference in OPs argument and that brought up by most people to claim the US is "special" and what you just wrote.

> The US is special because its cities were either built to be pedestrian-hostile, or were made so during the Depression years when the transport companies went bust.

The original argument is based on "nature", things outside of human control. Your argument is 100% under human control, a self-made problem. What perplexes me is that the "nature" (inevitability) argument always comes first, but when prodded (like I did here) there is the attempt to shift it it elsewhere. I don't like that style, as I said, this seems to be mostly emotions-driven and I don't quite get why there is this attempt at any cost to paint the US situation as "special". Everyone and everything is "special" if you dig deep enough. The point is, are the difficulties any worse than elsewhere in magnitude and complexity? I don't think so. You only argued about the US, but the point of "being special" here has the meaning of "it's more difficult", and I don't think that is justified at all.
“Drug companies rip off consumers”

That is an extremely glib view. There are “some” drug companies that rip off people. The problem with pricing in the Rx world is the high cost and unpredictable nature of discovering new drugs.

Profit margin of tech companies is twice that of Rx companies. Would you say that tech companies are ripping people off?

http://www.businessinsider.com/sector-profit-margins-sp-500-...
If you're in the US (I'm going by the reference to a lawsuit), then I don't think it is. This is just the way this company does business and in the states they are free to do so.
It's more than that. Transit requires more infrastructure costs up front. Trying to build transit effectively in SOV-dependent cities also requires playing the long game of trying to change commuters' habits.

LA is trying to build out transit, and started around 1990. Even now, you see lots of complaints (such as in this article and a few of the comments) about "why are you spending so much money on useless transit when the real problem is clogged roads?"
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> People tend not to understand weak or loose correlations, and they will assume that race, gender, ethnicity or other factors strongly predict IQ, and that, therefore, systems of prejudice built around those factors can be justified as an expression of the natural order.

Whereas really if genetics strongly predicted IQ, it would be a great argument for a bigger support net. If we believe in equal opportunity, and some people were denied equal opportunity due to genetics, it makes sense to help them. You can no longer say that they're just 'lazy', or whatever.
I'm not so sure. For example, the Tibetan adaptations to altitude are much better than those in the Andes... and when last I checked it was thought that this might come from Neanderthal or Denisovan ancestors.

Or last week's news about adaptations to diving -- one tiny niche which happens to be relatively easy to study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16883566
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What a fun read. Interesting to see how often within a single article the author can push the same agenda, without any arguments to support it or objectivity of any kind. Why would you read a magazine full of stuff like that?

Quick peek into the finance of the reason foundation: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reason_Foundation

And for a good laugh, their headlines on public transport: https://reason.com/tags/public-transportation
That's a curious turn of phrase, and immediately makes me ask: how many other people have been killed by Volvo XC90s? The XC90 is a big, tall, heavy car that makes me nervous as a cyclist - does it protect its occupants at the expense of other road users?
oh thanks!

That's my bad.
One solution is to have lines for bikes and scooters.

In fact, for example in Paris (where I live), there is a lot of dedicated lines for bikes, and there are also dedicated bus lanes that bikes can take. When I commute by bike, I think only 1/3 of the road is actually in the main traffic.

Also as a pedestrian, bikes and scooters are a bit of a nightmare. Personally I instinctively rely on hearing when crossing a street, and because bike and electric scooter move silently it's not difficult to miss them, specially as there are also smaller than cars, so also more difficult to see.
from https://www.pcgamer.com/behind-the-addictive-psychology-and-...

Overwatch's loot box is a masterpiece of audio-visual design. "It's all about building the anticipation. When the box is there you're excited at the possibilities of what could be inside," says senior game designer Jeremy Craig. Click the ‘Open loot box’ button and the box bursts open, sending four disks into the sky. Their rarity is indicated by coloured streaks to further build the suspense. "Seeing purple or gold you start to think about what specific legendary or epic you've unlocked. This all happens so fast, but it was those discrete steps that we felt maximized excitement and anticipation."
But one day, in the not too distant future, we will be able to change genetics. And when that day comes, if we have taken the time to understand the relationship between intelligence and genetics, then we can finally take permanent measures to equalize humanity by giving everybody as much intelligence as possible.
Was it also a regression when governments around the world banned children from gambling in casinos?
Most Slavic languages use Latin as primary script. Polish took a few questionable decisions compared to other western/southern Slavic languages (not switching from sz/cz to s^/c^ for example), but it's almost fully phonetic and pretty consistent. I'd argue Polish pronunciation is easier to learn than Russian, because we have no movable stress (we always stress the penultimate syllable - easy).
It's not about taste. It's about diversity. Almost all countries avec a few good dishes.

What used to make france a great place for food is that you could it a different delicious dishe every day of the year if you wished so.

The food quality is seriously going down in my country though.
The cognitive difficulty of the work, I imagine. For instance, consider the scope of the screwup for getting something wrong because you're tired, ie. affecting thousands of people rather than a few people in the shop.
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Does this have to be a physical CDROM or could a crafted ISO upload exploit the bug? Are cloud providers that allow uploading custom images affected by this?
If you're doing that, just use wordpress.com. Wordpress is way out of scope for the term "enterprise CMS".
>Perhaps, they see the Russian language as a threat to their independence?

Maybe, but changin the alphabet for your own language won't change the fact that many people are still speaking russian and many people are actually russian nationals.
For those who didn't know: https://stallman.org/saint.html

Warning: taking the Church of Emacs (or any church) too seriously may be hazardous to your health.
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I'm s full time JS dev too. People keep saying that JS sucks or whatever, but [Rust, Clojure, OCaml, Haskell, PureScript, Erlang, Elixir, Elm, Scala, Nim] jobs are just so rare that picking one and going deep is basically like hoping to win a lottery.
How long ago was that? It's been dumbed down since about 2009 for sure.
Trust matters. It's a tremendous efficiency engine.

One verifies as feasible, but one also punishes intentional violations of trust severely.
Already in your first paragraph you chose to twist everything around. It is NOT more dense overall, there just are more dense areas. I refer to my previous comments, since nothing new was brought up.

> You're taking the "sparse population distribution" argument pretty far out of context.

May I suggest a mirror?

> Thanks, but I think my posts in here have been pretty data-focused and detached.

Not at all, unless you think that going out of your way to find any "data" at all and then pretending that it shows what you say it does (which it doesn't do - at all!) is "data-focused and detached".

There is nothing in the US situation that makes it any more difficult than for the rest of the world. No, the US does not have "special" problems that make transportation more difficult than elsewhere, apart from self-inflicted wounds (another commenter mentioned car-oriented city designs). Of course everybody and everything is "special" if you look deep enough, but this was about "special" (as in more) difficulty compared to other places.

Also you keep moving your target. I still take your ridiculous very first comment as setting the tone - after all, it is what you yourself first brought up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918557

In response to being called out on that argument you came up with ever more elaborate attempts to disguise what you said and pretend you had a different argument. Own up to having made a very bad "argument" and stop this nonsense. We have a "paper trail" of what you said, stop pretending it ever made sense.
Maybe they fix/improve the keyboard on the 2018 model.
its not exactly proof of a concept, there is also a version that allows you to execute anything "as in wget a backdoor" look at the code, with this code you can execute anything at the target/victim.

hell, look right at the message when the target is vulnerable.

Good News Everyone! Target seems to be exploitable (Code execution)! w00hooOO!
You need to take into account that multi-recidivist will be released multiple times, biasing the statistics.

I don't know what's the recidivism rates after the first release from prison, but if someone know how to get this info, I think it would be interesting.
A single communication network with wide reach is very valuable, for exactly this reason.

It's not necessary — and I think it's harmful — for that network to be controlled on the whim of one person (assuming you accept that Zuckerberg isn't a robot or a lizard or something).
> What if the changes are not that progressive ? What is there is a tipping point ?

Maybe there is maybe there is not. His point is that there is no hope, and that is false.

> Then you also assume thzt we couldn't have done overwise

Please tell me all the cases in human history where large amounts of people voluntary restricted their energy use?

Carbon growth comes from the developing world, and we can do nothing to restrict that.

> Your part about self starving is espacially revealling of a narrow view deeply rooted, not only in materialism, but also in rejection of the idea anything else would be good for the human specie.

If you want to voluntarily starve yourself of energy, go ahead have fun. However suggesting it as a solution for a global problem is a non-starter. Even a western person starving himself of energy will still use many X more then most Indians. An most Indians would like to use as much energy as westerners.

> Now i do appreciate the confort of our modern life, but ignoring the price of it, denying the usefulness or even the possibilities of alternatives and promoting the statu quo is very limiting.

I have never denieded the usefulness of alternatives. All I have said about the status quo is that it is actually saving millions of peoples lives and giving them a higher standard of living. That is often ignored and it should not be, because it misses literally the biggest improvement in human welfare in world history.
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They also often enable meaningful communication because you can have a quiet and focused conversation. From my experience open offices and cubicles are terrible for communication and collaboration.
What do think is the motivation for someone to load this app on their phone?
Dyslexia is specifically related to difficulty processing sequences; the symptoms are fairly specific, and have an obvious underlying mechanism, even if we don't understand what that mechanism is yet. It's not just difficulty learning to read.
Node is just C++ with a threadpool under the hood (think nginx). Fast multi-core crypto is not that hard and shouldn't need a separate service.
Not the point. The point is that it's not banned merely because it could contribute to health and financial issues. According to many people here, it should. I'm merely mocking their idiocy to prove a point, hence why my karma went from 20 to 4 within hours.

I'll let you in on a little secret: regulations and expectations don't always reflect reality, and in many cases you'd be surprised what's in your food and how your food has been handled. Ignorance is bliss, and thinking that regulations and expectations have significant effects are naive to say the least. Let me ask you, and any further down-voter, do you live under a rock?

Albeit it's about pollution, it's still worth reading: https://mises.org/library/libertarian-manifesto-pollution

Regulate the amount of calories people can consume to prevent or treat obesity! Enforce it! Don't ever stop!
> LiDAR is short range, low resolution, and extremely expensive.

It was expensive and low resolution. It is already cheap and very soon going to be - super cheap.
I guess they aren't referring to DOs with that remark, there's a field quite like chiropractic that is called "Osteopathy", in the US such practitioners wouldn't be DOs.
Don't know many bikes in my community that go 5mph. They're going 20, commuting miles to work.

Anyway, the pedestrians don't risk either now. So saying "Folks should be comfortable adding a reasonable risk of death, since it could be far worse!" is not compelling.
Not quite startup or hobby project material, but some of the most gratifying work is making non-critical, easy to implement changes in your business's workflow!

Sometimes users will have minor (or major) issues with the way a tool works - database takes 30 seconds to retrieve a certain type of information, there's no clear path from point A to point B in a frequently used business tool, certain jobs take 2x as long as they should, etc.

These issues don't have much of an impact on management or the bottom line, so they won't be assigned to anyone to fix. But if you spend two hours speeding up that tool or streamlining a frequently used process, the 'work done' to 'that look on their face when you make their life easier' ratio is incredible.
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> Does this have to be a physical CDROM or could a crafted ISO upload exploit the bug? Are cloud providers that allow uploading custom images affected by this?

From the article:

> Only x86 HVM guests with a virtual CDROM device are affected. ARM guests, x86 PV guests, x86 PVH guests, and x86 HVM guests without a virtual CDROM device are not affected.
I got some fancy new experimental equipment when I was recovering from a broken arm. I had to sign a paper that if I lost it I could be responsible so I asked how much it was and no one could answer and I was the first to ask.

In the end I signed and was never asked to return the item.
What I hope and see (as a person with a rare disease) is that the quality of information about the human body is increasing rapidly. New trials are much more gene-aware than 10 years ago, so just repeating the same trials help diagnosing rare (mostly genetic) diseases.
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Do you think criminals care about the laws? Do you disagree with what I've said, or are you trying to be fallacious here and imply that because I don't have a solution, it somehow renders my claim wrong and makes criminals care about the laws? Additionally, I did not claim that a society shouldn't have laws. It's a broad subject, if you want to gain some knowledge, perhaps you could start here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Z82avLO14

https://mises.org/library/society-without-state

https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state

https://mises.org/library/lessons-young-economist

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It looks like they don't affect the Qubes OS:

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/04/25/xsa-258-259-qubes-n...
But 20-25% of the time it is more than 3x as volatile. Taleb built his career on this.
Arguing "Sure bikes will hit you, but it will rarely be fatal!" is not terribly convincing. Its reasonable for pedestrians to want bikes off the sidewalk. The chance of collision is far greater.

I know its a hard statistic for bikes to swallow. There seems to be no winning for them. But that's my whole point.
Most people just don't care about almost anything.
the older model that i've got definitely uses a blueish led which only becomes white-ish in color when brightness is set to higher levels. don't have technical data.
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> MMS was already discontinued a few years ago.

Where? In Canada I use MMS every day.
KidBright USA at https://kidbrightusa.org. There's a significant hunger problem in America's public schools. KidBright USA seeks to end hunger in the classroom so all children can learn and succeed. We launched a healthy snack program back in August and are currently serving snacks to 22 classrooms and 450 children. We're gearing up to expand further in the fall.
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It seems like a mistake to extend preventative health care inferences for senior citizens to the general public. They are the largest cohort receiving medical testing and treatment. Also, fee for service encourages over-testing and treatment.
My most rewarding project was as a consultant for a big client that trusted my team completely. It really came down to just that, combined with my team consisting of really, really good people. So we could make any tech choice, work with any equipment and work from remote whenever we wanted. We delivered really good work, but whenever we did miss a deadline the client still believed in us. It was a very inspiring environment.
For something like live video conferencing, it's true the packet loss is worse for audio then video. I was responding to the previous comment about how his streaming experience over TCP was nearly instant. In the TCP case, of course you don't need to worry about loss.
Why do valid posts like these appear 'dead'?
Actually, the measurement of IQ and it’s predictive ability for things like job performance and life outcomes are some of the best replicated research in all of psychology and the social sciences.
And I am very sad about this. Here are my thoughts about why:

https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2015/02/why-open-source-h...
Isn't the chinese government working on that? :)

But more seriously, yes, to figure out how useful the first component is, you want to know something about how much bigger the first eigenvalue is than the second.

For the case of IQ, my understanding is that the answer is "quite a lot". The best studies are from the army testing people and assigning them to roles (and seeing how they do). And it seems pretty hard to come up with tests which are better predictors than IQ. I think the one perpendicular component worth measuring for some jobs is manual dexterity? And eyesight, which is a rare thing anti-correlated with IQ, because of teenage bookworms we think. (That said, note that this isn't the whole population, they set a floor by only accepting reasonably healthy young men etc.)
19th century healthcare was relatively affordable, or at least the costs were streamlined and transparent.

Perhaps keep 3rd party insurance but ban it as an employment perk, that would incentivize the market to play to the greater public instead of just white collar salaried employees.
This is definitely not an answer.
>"our upper bound on p(null | T, normal, iid) small for significant p-values (i.e. p(T | null, normal, id))"

This sounds like nonsense to me so I would like to see an example of what you mean.
The kinds of organisations paying literal tons of euros/dollars/whatever to their CEO's? I have yet to find a charitable organisation that doesn't basically funnel my money into the pocket of someone like that.
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Is that even true? Does the Sargasso sea plastic particulate harm animals? To what degree?

Straining billions of sea creatures out of the top meter of water is an actual harm. It makes no sense to have to argue that's a net loss. Unless we're taking the 'save the large, cuddly animals first' route, which is so often part of eco-theatre.
That underreported stories are overwhelmingly negative does not mean that reported stories are overwhelmingly positive those two have nothing to do with each other.

Negative stores are what we hear most not positive ones.

http://www.journalism.org/2000/10/31/negative-vs-positive/

https://qz.com/307214/heres-what-happened-when-a-news-site-o...
All our domestic bulbs are 6500K daylight-frequency ( i.e. blue-shifted ) and I have no problems falling alseep even after checking my phone just before lights-out.

I wonder if the blue-light problem is the result of its contrast with warm-white 3000K illumination.
Contributing to big open source projects like the Linux kernel since one learns a ton of new things from the code every day and it's run everywhere in the world, which is a nice reward that ones contributions can make an impact.
I've never had a Barszcz made with cabbage as a base. I'm not saying you're wrong - I'm not Polish. But my wife is, so we eat a lot of Polish food and visit Poland at least once a year. It's a biog country though, so it could be a regional variation.

My tips are: barszcz czerwony z pierogi (both red made from beetroot with a good pierogi), barszcz biały (white borsht - basically like żurek, but made with wheat and served with with meat and egg), żurek (a fermented rye soup), bigos (a stew made with cabbage, sour cabbage, lots of meat and sausage and other ingredients), gołąbki (as you said - cabbage leaf wrapping meat and rice filling, served with a tomato sauce), kopytka (a little like gnocchi), łazanki (like a polish lasagne, but with sour cabbage), or just something simple like kiełbasa z cebulą (sausage with onion fried.)

So much great food. This is only scratching the surface.