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Take heart: if it was lawful to send Heady Topper (or Pliny or Dreadnaught) across state lines, there'd be no market for your service anyways; there is so much demand for those beers even in their home markets that the interstate distribution problem would be saturated with offerings.

(If you're wondering, most people get their out-of-state beers by 1:1 exchanges. There's probably a market for solutions that make those swaps easier!)
Hi there! It seems as if today you've decided to post comments without reading the article correctly. I would suggest you do not do this today, especially in this thread.
long story short, stackexchange didn't want to lose a potential ad sale. It's not good for their business to have users question products advertised on stackexchange network.
> Active control groups control for the placebo/Hawthorne effect.

Easier said than done:

"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" : http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

> As I see it, the only meaningful question is which methods work in practice ...

That's a dodge around any requirement for scientific evidence, because without rigorous science, anything "works in practice". Astrology, as just one example -- many members of the public would be surprised and offended to hear that astrology has no evidentiary support whatever.

When the studies you funded have been replicated by independent laboratories, then you will have crossed the threshold of science. Until then, it's not science, it's marketing -- especially when you think it's constructive to say, "the only meaningful question is which methods work in practice".
Well maybe it's advisable not repeat Twitter rumors on HN as foundation for your analysis. That's just contributing to misinformation that hinders the police ability to safely handle mass casualty situations.
not to derail your derailing, but "nation state" has a specific definition that I think is different than what you are referring to. China, India and the US are not nation states. Neither is Belgium. Japan is the largest.

> The state is a political and geopolitical entity; the nation is a cultural and/or ethnic entity. The term "nation state" implies that the two geographically coincide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state
Just because enterprise customers are keeping old versions around on their desktops to run applets doesn't mean that they aren't using newer versions on their servers, or even also on those same desktops.

I'm really not seeing why they should care.
tl;dr;

Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and other former Soviet states are just the same to Russia as most central american countries are to the USA.

i.e. the super power killed several legitimate presidents, ruined/poisoned most of the people for cheap labor and nobody learns about that in school.
Good for you! Good for me too...I've always liked third person shooters and side-scrollers better anyway.
You're very, very lucky. Hopefully you've learned the entire applicable lesson; there are licenses for reselling in addition to limitations on selling some things in some ways.

As has been said, you definitely need to be careful about the legality of your business; more importantly, though, you need to step back and get a much more informed idea of intellectual property and how you can and (mostly) can't use other people's products.
No, the only trolling I'd accuse anyone of is the author. I really bore of hearing these tropes. Most of these things haven't been issues in years, certainly on PC hardware. Even on my MBA2012-> make ubuntu usb stick -> insert usb stick -> click "next" a few times, type your name, and a half hour after you started your project you have a Macbook Air, running Raring, fan, brightness, wifi, key backlights, good battery life, suspend/hibernation, etc, etc, all perfect.
This MAY be worth exploring. I am pretty close to New York, so I could register a business there and personally transport product easily enough. That being said, I'm not sure about the legality of transporting beer across state lines or the potentiality of making amends with the brewer of Heady Topper (The Alchemist Brewery).

That being said, there is a major online beer seller:http://www.halftimebeverage.com/browse.cfm/long-trail-ale-12...

That does sell a Vermon-based beer online...

To be honest I'm pretty scared now of trying to sell any kind of beer online. It just seems so risky after having been threatened with legal action.

On the other hand, I do have Jen's direct email address and could easily inquire to her about selling Heady Topper in New York...
Interesting... I was just wondering that after seeing the first video - yeah, that's cool, but what are they going to do now with a soaking washcloth and drops of water floating around all over the place?
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"Half the performance" what the what?
What, exactly, do you think they meant by the word 'appears t be'?

It's not naivety -- it's just not interesting to get sidetracked by philosophy every time you talk about a particular scientific theory. For the sake of brevity, all that stuff can be shoved to the side in this context.
I'm assuming it only for the purposes of making my argument here on HN, not for determining the guy's guilt or innocence. I have to make some assumptions because I haven't seen any photographs or any evidence myself, so I have only a 3rd hand opinion based on news reports. The people who arrested him, by contrast, are in a position to identify him as the person they saw shooting at them earlier.

If I was sure they had arrested the right guy and that he was guilty of all those things, I wouldn't have put the 'assuming...' in there at all, but just stated what came after as fact.
Nice write up, this will definitely come in handy if I ever decide to go the Chromebook route.

However, as much as I like the thought of trying something new, I'm still having trouble justifying the purchase. In other words - why develop on a Chromebook as opposed to a lightweight notebook?

I guess it's a question of typical use case, but I don't find myself too often developing in areas without wi-fi. A 100mb /mo plan also felt like fairly sparse offerings, but it sounds like that's NBD in practice.

As far as the price point is concerned, I'm pretty sure there are refurbished lenovo x220's / 230's available for the same as a Samsung Chromebook (~$500).

Especially with regards to the latter, I guess I'd feel a little weird spending close to the same about on $ on a 3g browser with a terminal.

I'd love to hear thoughts from anyone who's moved to a Chromebook for on-the-go development.
> ... as most central american countries are to the USA

I would include the whole america there, not just central.
what does jigsaw bring to the table? what does its existence imply?
Hi, Mr Troll. This kid shot a college security guard to death, so the armor came out so he wouldn't kill 20 more.

I didn't see you volunteering to chase him down in your tshirt and shorts. Considering that you do your police work from tour computer , I would predict that he could outrun you anyway.
* There are states such as Utah that forbid shipping alcohol directly to their residents.

* There are states such as Texas that forbid the unlicensed shipping of alcohol from outside the state to residents.

* There are states (I think IL is one of them) for which large classes of alcoholic beverages are controlled by distributorships, which are licensed monopolies for shipping.

* Both UPS and FedEx require a special license to ship alcohol through them.

* It's illegal to ship alcohol using the USPS.

A lot of these issues are in flux (and are tending to be resolved the "right" way), but there is still a lot of prohibition baggage in our liquor laws.
Read about it and ask more specific questions: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
Dude, other things exist in the world beside Unity. Also, Unity, and the Gnome settings as part of the GNOME DE are pretty unrelated, not sure what you're on about with the Proxy talk.
Let's get to making some real fucking games

What kind of games do you like playing?
As another data point, me too.

I've owned various MBP's and Airs since they switched to Intel processors (whenever that was). I travel heavily, and port my laptops between the office and two houses when I'm not traveling. I don't recall any problems with any of my power adapters ever, other than 1 which apparently just up and quit one day. I have a couple of MagSafe adapters that are 6+ years old and going strong.
I'm not a developer, but I do have a pretty long list of people that trust me to do fair business and would be interested in such a solution.

I wouldn't be able to develop a platform like this, but I'd be more than able to help launch it.
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I follow Starcraft 2 pro scene and it is not so bad, although, many players are young, so immature behaviors happens sometimes. I guess that competitive strategy games are different from competitive FPS.
"However, a recently published book about the events by a Stanford University academic indicates that the horrific attack was most likely organized and financed by Putin and his henchmen"

So, how does people in russia read that? Anyone?

i'm guessing it's the same reaction as an American reading that bush financed the groups that led to 9/11. or not?
Can you note if this was under linux? Your description makes it sound like you were using Windows...
This a viewpoint that needs more echo's.

Every libertarian gun fan is just jealous that the cops got to use the big toys this week. In their fantasies, the bomber would have been in their boat, and they could have shot him themselves, and they would be the hero.
And we would never get a proper investigation into how this all started.
I think that's the point: He can't, and if he did, it wouldn't be relevant to anyone else. Figuring out what entails "enough" is exactly the exercise that makes the question useful.
Oh god, US bigotry and puritanism is the worst I ever encountered. I wonder how many jobs could have been created with a more relaxed and less religious-fascist look on life.
This kind of things makes me shiver when I think how much awesomeness author injected in his project. I bet he also had tons of fun.
I really hate saying this, because I find it offensive in general, but: Google is your friend.

Any kind of research would have turned up these problems. If you live in Vermont you probably should already have an inkling that the state laws can be touchy about alcohol.

Before starting a commercial website, one should be moderately current in copyright and trademark law. You very likely broke both.
Well, it is damn boring.
Don Lemon of CNN just now did a segment on how America can start to "heal" with Dr. Drew, so they do have that going for them. Then Wolf at CNN spent about 20 minutes describing how cool thermal imaging of the boat was, while failing to mention the kid was actually discovered after the owner of the boat noticed his boat cover was ripped and went to check it out.

I'm not sure that news outlets like CNN are "broken" per se as they had abandoned "news" a long time ago (would OJ be a turning point?). Just like the History channel is "broken" cable news is "broken". They just don't care about news, it's really about audience retention and ratings. There's really nothing wrong with that, it's just up to us to abandon them just as they have abandoned their original intentions.
This is not an USA only problem.
I only attacked the source after making my greater statistical point, which was obtained in a couple of minutes of using Google and comparing state murder rates (I originally thought MA did have a high murder rate, colored, I suppose, by living next to Boston for dozen years. Should have paid more attention to Somerville, where I perhaps spent the most time, which has a fairly high crime rate but a quite "reasonable" murder rate, at least when I was there).

And I attacked the source because I've actually done serious research on their work (well, as one of several minions of Clayton's). It's hard to retain respect for an organization when you track down incidents of "Concealed Carry Killers" and find out many never even had a concealed carry license. Or the guy with the licence didn't hurt anyone (albeit he was an idiot). Or the license was irrelevant, a fumble plus a defective weapon resulted in a true accidental death. Etc.; did you take a glance at the paper I linked to, like I did at the VPC paper?

Not to mention I know their history of deliberate lying propaganda, Josh Sugerman is a twisted genius, e.g. he had the whole campaign against "assault weapons" planned out a year or two before Stockton. The VPC is by far the best "think tank" of the gun grabbers (compare to the Joyce Foundation squandering millions trying to establish a "collective right" interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, which 9 out 9 Supreme Court justices disagreed with).

To your latter question, no. The traditional historical definition of a citizen in a republic was one who bore arms in defense of it, at least when called upon to. To bring this to American particulars, if you're a citizen or have declared an intention of becoming one and are between 17 and 44 years of age inclusive, you are a member of the unorganized militia (10 USC § 311). But if your state denies you the right to keep and bear arms, or makes that hard, expensive and legally dangerous, so very few do, including I gather you ... I call you a subject, not a citizen.
Gosh, I could never do this. some interesting stuff.. I'm gonna refer to this sometime in future. thanks mate!
Can I listen podcasts with it?
Congratulations that you are capable of handling a threat profile (mass shooting event) that is completely different from what actually happened in DC.
Lucky for the rest of us, the police in Boston are capable of handling a wider array of threats.

And BTW, DC was partially locked down for weeks, by civilians: my outdoor rec sports league cancelled itself out of fear of snipe threatsm
As a counterpoint, I think this is a bad business idea. Legal compliance is going to be expensive (you're going to need to involve pro legal from day one on this, or else forfeit your right to a sob story about the [state] government[s] shutting you down). Even after you shell out for that, there will be large classes of customers who you won't be able to service because of idiosyncratic state laws. Customers will always be uncertain about whether they can use your site.

Meanwhile, you're selling a product with a well-established price point. Your overhead is substantial (it's expensive to ship beverages). Heady Topper happens to come in cans, but most of the high-demand brews (besides Surly) are bottles, so you'll have breakage to deal with.

There is a reason that there aren't a lot of good ways to click a button to get Pliny The Elder: the market conditions for it suck.
What exactly do you mean by bridgers? Essentially CPAs who do the accounting in tech companies? As someone in the exact same position as OP's friend, I'd like to find out more. To what degree do they need to be tech savvy?
I switched to the 550 from a eeepc (running debian). CrOS is the real added value, if you ask me: it's the closest thing to the "linux that just works" dream.

I'd be curious to see how the cheaper ARM Chromebook performs with these tools (especially crouton). Anyone have experience with that?
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Of course he doesn't. Facts interfere with nerdrage.
We Illinoisans, hailing from the land of Three Floyds and Half Acre, surely are bigoted against the unclean Vermonters and their "ethnic" Alchemist beers.
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they've also always been used as scapegoats...
As a Russian, I find the article very biased and misleading.

It gives no historical perspective on the roots of centuries-old conflict, and tries to expose terrorists and religious extremists as freedom fighters without mentioning their involvement in such events as Beslan massacre or the theater hostage crisis. For everyone living in Russia, this region is the source of all recent terrorist attacks and a major source of crime. I did not expect to find an article of such low quality and biasedness on HN.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1coamb/chechen_te... > This comment on Reddit gives more or less accurate description of Chechnya, I won't copypaste it here.
What I don't understand is that US was actually on Chechen's side - both Clinton and Bush were hard on Putin on how was he was handling Chechenia war.
Try opening a beer business in Kuwait :)
- So this company sells a laptop that works as a browser for a online site and nothing else.

- great, i will buy one and waste a lot of time to make it work offline.

... genius. just genius.

I would just write it off as a good hack or something, but the chrome books have ZERO advantage. it's hardware is pure garbage if you compare it to anything on the same price range.
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Hi! I made this project over the couse of a week to help teach myself more about Django and web app development. I am studying computer security in school and web security is one of my passions. It is a tool that helps web developers ensure that they have implemented helpful security mechanisms like HTTPOnly flags, X-Frame-Options, etc.

There are hundreds of tools that offer to scan websites for things like cross-site scripting, mySQL injection, etc. This tool simply looks for information that is available via one or two GET requests (the headers, protocols, body, etc.). It does NOT attempt to fuzz or otherwise target the site (test parameters or try XSS payloads). I did this because I wanted to lower the barrier of entry.

Other tools require you to upload a file to your site, add some code or prove ownership. Since this site isn't exploiting anything, none of that is necessary. It's super simple to use and is aimed towards non-security people who still want to develop secure web applications.<p>This is a quick project! There's probably a lot of errors or things that behave weirdly (I once got a score of 110% but couldn't replicate it). If you want to check out the code, here it is, free and open-source: https://github.com/matthewdfuller/Web-Security-GUI

Feel free to leave feedback! I'm not looking to make any money (just learn!), so this is free and there are no ads.
Yep, pretty much. I am amazed that The Atlantic has published that drivel.
I like the '90s RPGs for their storyline. They weren't on the same level as great literature, but they did an admirable job of creating something fun to play that had a story to it. I also like the fact that, after about 30-60 hours (which is the right amount of time) they're over.

These days, I prefer playing games for the social experience so I'm more into German-style board games.

I also wrote a card game called Ambition (which I linked in this thread) and that's pretty fun.

I can't stand most of the derivative stuff that comes out of the major studios. It's so formulaic.
I personally remember running Windows 95 on a 33MHz laptop, although it had a Math Co-processor to be fair. :P
And when such a party is apprehended, there will be no more parties to start trouble.
no one says it has to be software. The problem you are detailing is much more of a legal compliance problem than software.
I've been saying this forever here but Marco says it so much better. The majority of the times I see an article on HN getting popular about how awful some app or site is its usually this kind of scenario that Marco describes in effect.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen an article here about some poor guy complaining that his favorite app changed a feature or price or policy that's often pretty trivial and turns it into an opportunity to start drama and shame the company because he didn't get the memo. Except everyone else did.

When we see something we don't like it isn't bad to complain about it in and of itself but what isn't okay is this self-righteous attitude people have started to acquire. It's this phenomenon where we think that we can not only publicly shame companies on our blogs and believe we're important enough for them to change it back for us but, worse, we seem to think we're objectively right. This sort of mentality doesn't seem to carry over into the real world nearly as often. It seems that if you do business online your customers expect you to cater to each and everyone one of them individually. If I have oddly sized feet and can't get a pair of good fitting Nike's I don't try to publicly shame the company for not providing a shoe in the style I want in the size exactly tailored to my odd foot measurement. But when it comes to the Internet you had better be all things to all people it seems.

Even stranger, for a community like HN where many of us are working on online products, we seem more guilty of this than the average person. How is that? Is it that we think because we know how to build things that our way is right? I don't know but I'm really glad Marco wrote this and I'm really glad people here are reading it.
We decided to switch to Java 7 simply because Java 6 has reach its end of life. There will be no more security patches for it (IIRC). I think Oracle still offers paid support for the older versions, but I don't know how much it is.
What I feel makes us different from animals is not being able to adapt, as you pointed out (many animals exhibit learned behavior and conscious decision making), it's not even being self-conscious (it's been proven animals can be too), it's in my opinion the ability to observe and act on your own thought-streams.

And this is deeply linked to language, as language is a way to receive informations you don't already have and coerce your thoughts streams (or not) along them to make predictions that are not based on experience. In my opionion it is very important to make this distinction between predictions learned by experience and predictions learned by the books. I think we here can measure this difference very well.

To me it looks like this added layer of brain cells we have acts as an observer on life happening on the floor below, kind of a god of your own brain, acting not on experience-learned behaviour but solely on a combination of representation learned from others (connections created willfully from other's discourse) and abstractions made from adaptive learning done on signals coming from the layers below (I envision an isolated system whose only object of observation is regular thoughts and whose only sense is signals coming through connections to layers producing those thoughts).

It feel likes what makes us apart is first this simple fact we learn from our own though patterns. This enables us to make what (at least) feels like free decisions based on abstracted representation and not mere immediate experience. This enables us to think outside the box of our own experiences and form models of other's. This enables us to delibarately picture in our minds things that we have never experienced, or things that cannot be experienced (think abstract models in sciences). This finally enables us to accept information from our peers as valid signals to model our though-paths on. If this layer was anything real, to me it would mainly be an experience or information-sharing device. This thing that makes possible, and makes useful, the kind of social structure we know and live in.

I may be rehashing common knowledge, I don't know.
The matchmaking problem for 1:1 beer exchanges probably doesn't have a whole lot of legal risk attached; the shippers should bear the legal risk (they're breaking the law, but in a jaywalking sort of way until they try to make money at it).
It tells them that if they pull a stunt like this in Boston, half a million people will cooperate to catch them and they won't escape. Good.