skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FBA takes a huge chunk out of the sale's proceeds. It easily converts what would otherwise be high-margin items into losers. That's not really a scenario that your average person trying to sell a used phone would expect. The seller is also responsible for collecting (done by Amazon) and remitting sales tax (NOT done by Amazon, afaik) on FBA transactions.

The best option is to go local as a parent commenter already said. Ask the person to unbox and demo the item before you pay. If the product doesn't clearly work, leave without paying.

Yard sale groups on Facebook, Craigslist, and an active region-specific classifieds site if there's one in your area are good places to make such arrangements.

Don't meet at either party's home. The police station parking lot is best. Some police stations even have parking spots reserved for people who are performing transactions arranged online.
My grandparents grew up and lived under Hitler. I was practically raised by my grandmother in fact, and I asked a lot of questions. To compare the two is an absolute joke. If you took any politician, I guarantee you could make comparisons. That does not mean they're the next Hitler at all.
This is such a disturbing thing, it almost makes one to loose all the hopes on academia.
I hate how much the authors of this article imply causality.

>There also, interestingly, was less activity among the runners in a part of the brain that tends to indicate lack of focus and mind wandering.

Could it not be that people who have the willpower to run regularly also have the willpower to stay focused?

>In essence, the runners seemed to have brains in which certain cognitive skills, including multitasking and concentration, were more finely honed than among the inactive men.

"Honed" definitely implies that running hones those skills, when in fact having those very skills could be a confounding factor.

All of that said, I have yet to see a compelling argument against running regularly.
I avoid meetings like the plague. Even when I was running a company with 80 people I would ask if I was necessary or my input was necessary. If not I wouldn't accept.

Meetings are like teamwork trips. They are the illusion of progress.

There are situations where they are necessary but nothing beat ongoing discussions around actual work.
I really want WebVR to work but when I tested with a Chromium WebVR-capable build I ran into a bunch of aframe samples that claimed my browser was not VR capable, some that were really choppy in performance, and a handful thay worked correctly.

After that I started thinking I should just build in Unity because there was a much greater liklihood of people actually using it with a client they download that actually works rather than hoping they would have a working browser for WebVR.

I also would like to have browser windows available inside of VR for interfacing with remote desktops or any existing 2d interface. Which you can do that with Unity using a browser component from the Asset Store.

But I would prefer using JavaScript/A-Frame if it would actually work for most people.

It seems that Altspace maybe is some custom build of Chromium build because they support aframe.
Why wouldn't you want to give a bad rating for bad driving?

I almost always give 5 stars, but with the notable exception being distracted or aggressive drivers.
Tell that to the LinkedIn employee whose stock went down ;)

Stock is hit or miss. The big 4 had tremendous growth in the past few years and that made some people lucky. Don't count on that again in the future.
Picture of the Trump Silicon Valley Tech Meeting
Film made up entirely of US movies scenes where Ukraine is mentioned
https://popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-damm...
The same happens in Mercadolivre, an Ebay Company in Latin America.

They protect buyers, because where there are buyers always will have sellers. Dishonest people paradise, unfortunatelly.
Here the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4
Tokens have in-built expiry dates (cryptographically signed by the server upon issuance). Once that date has passed the token becomes useless.

If you meant "how can you prematurely invalidate a specific user's JWT without needing a server side lookup", you can't.

I think the best you can do is issue different classes of JWT to a user based on what actions you wish to grant them. This lets you reduce load going to backend lookups to only a subset of JWTs where the ability to invalidate them earlier than planned on a per user basis is necessary/desired.

For JWTs that aren't tied to backend lookups the only solution if one or more users are accessing resources they no longer should be via one of these tokens is to invalidate all of them.
The publisher has already sent the original author a formal receipt for the manuscript, and a keeps a dated copy of the letter to the plagiarist asking for a review.

This has been standard practice for a couple of hundred years, and is well understood legally.
I am in the same boat as you. I use a package forwarding because the customs in my country are a nightmare, so the company takes care of them. Also, I bought books in quantity so it is cheaper to use free shipping in US and then pay for weight.

By the way, I never had a problem and never a seller put a complain on this.
I wouldn't worry tooo much about earthquakes in any country with good local building codes. Background: I am from Christchurch New Zealand; my parents live on top of the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and my sister lives on top of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake.

Avoid living or working in brick buildings (they fall apart).

If worried, perhaps avoid high tsunami risk zones (that lack high ground, roads are less useful since they will be unusable during large earthquakes).

If you catalog your risks, earthquake death or disability is probably low in scheme of things.

From my experience, if you work in software with a laptop, earthquakes are not likely to affect your work too much.

Unless you have a neurotic partner, in which case avoid earthquake zones, because they lose the plot when the earth takes control.
Once the debt has been sold and resold a few times, I doubt collections companies have much incentive to actually sue for this amount of money, let alone an ability to actually win the case.
As someone who casually sells their old computers/phones on the internet, eBay is completely useless for something like this. It's frustrating that they advertise it on TV as a place to sell old equipment, actually trying is futile.

Their fee structure is pretty bad (10% of the the sale price?!) compared to just selling it locally on Craigslist if you are in a big metro. The eBay UI to figure all of this out is even less so, and I had to resort to Google to figure basic information.

Less than 24 hours after listing an iPhone 6s for sale, it was 'bought' by someone who was an obvious scammer.

They reached out and asked for my direct PayPal email, citing that eBay was broken. Of course, I told them to pay through eBay or I wouldn't ship the phone. Immediately after this, I reached out to customer support and reported the account. This did absolutely nothing - the sale was locked up for a week "pending payment" until the buyer 'reported their account stolen' and the sale was reversed. Nobody responded to my ticket, absolutely nothing happened.

I ended up selling it in that time frame locally in less time than it took to deal with all of the eBay BS, and I was able to get something like $50 more.
Many research papers are so obscure that approximately zero people site them. Yet if you are a tenured professor it's publish or perish and there are often significant incentives. I suspect most of them would have gotten away with it if they changed the title a bit.

There are also sometimes incentives for when your paper is cited, thus citing your own papers... even if they were stolen as well.
The Evidence to Prove the Russian Hack
Having all the video, witnesses, and documentation in the world can't help you when eBay refuses to review any of it.
WebVR and browsers and library versions are very much in flux. It is definitely early-adopter and experimental mode, although WebVR is on clear tracks to get to release versions of browsers: https://iswebvrready.org

Totally fine to not want to deal with all of that now. We're all eager for the day that WebVR is stable and in the hands of hundreds of millions.
There's about a thousand different ways the authors could prove they did the work. Many are listed in the actual post. Unless you did all the work yourself, didn't apply for a grant for it, kept all your work quiet from your colleagues and institution, didn't hire anyone for the project, didn't request materials from your institution, didn't have coauthors, sent it to an editor with a bad memory, didn't use the proper submission system, didn't back the files up and lost your computer, didn't send preprints to any of your friends or colleagues, and the editor reviewed it themselves without sending it to anyone else, you aren't going to have the slightest difficulty proving it is your own work. On the flip side, the plagiarist isn't going to be able to do any of that.
CA DMV also requires companies testing autonomous vehicles to report all their crashes and disconnects. Here are all those reports.[1][2] 20 companies have signed up. This is basic data collection to help decide when a system is safe for deployment.

Uber apparently tried to evade this minimal level of scrutiny. Looks like it didn't work.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...
[2] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...
> in light of projects where people can actually get killed.

Compared to what? Most states give out licenses to 16 year old kids with a few hours of driving school. Once you get a license you never get retested for vision or driving ability. There are very dangerous elderly drivers on the road and car accidents are the leading cause of death of 1-44 year olds.

Some allowable risk has to be accepted in order to have progress and a thriving society.
What about the plagiarist's other contributions? Will there be any additional investigation into whether or not those papers were his own?

I found it a bit puzzling that the plagiarist's name was not mentioned, although it is easy to find from the links provided in the article. Why the professional courtesy in light of such an egregious violation of same?

Edit to add: The second link in the comment by jonchang answers my question. Though, I don't fully agree. It ought to serve as a warning to those would-be plagiarists that if they are caught, there will be real professional consequences.

In addition, the verbosity of the retraction is a bit annoying.

> As corresponding author I ask for retraction of our article Finelli et al. (2016[1]) with the consent of all co-authors, because of unauthorized reproduction of confidential content of another manuscript. The data in the retracted article actually are from a cohort of patients from the Boston, MA enrolled in a trial registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02454127. We deeply regret these circumstances and apologize to the scientific community.

"unauthorized reproduction of confidential content of another manuscript" and "The data in the retracted article actually are from a cohort of patients from..." ought to read: "This manuscript was plagiarized, and the data falsified."
Web App Penetration Testing – Unrestricted File Upload Testing and Check List
Analysis of Algorithms, Algorithms – A Time Complexity Question – Codingeek
Thanks. I really appreciate your contributions and it has changed how I think of Rockefeller; it makes me ask the question of his genius, if that's the right word. I'm still not seeing anything that distinguishes, for me, between genuine genius and much more common hagiography and myth, but I know very little about the subject and now will keep looking and asking.
Isn't it a fun fact that throughout history, (barring the morally exceptional[0]) each human only ever chose to do things that were in their best interest. However, since humans existed, we have continually seen a consistent improvement[1] in the average human's life.

[0] Funny thing about the morally exceptional: I can't think of any which continue to improve our current day-to-day lives.

[1] Improvement is subjective. But objectively (compared to centuries past), our housing situation has gotten better (more roofs, less exposure to the cold/heat), the average human doesn't worry about getting sick from bad water or getting bitten by a snake while in their bed, the average human dies less to disease and overall dies at a later age, and the average human is able to spend more time on hobbies rather than necessities.
I said "handle". Especially Unix programs almost always have a way of going beyond a programs limitations.

Elm and pine support mailcap files. IIRC (n)mh does as well via mimeview (or is that only the GNU version?). But a program where scripting is a part of its core design, there will certainly be ways of calling an external program for converting HTML to be viewed.

Mail and mailx, do they even support mime types? AFAIK they don't but then you just need to set up PAGER with an intelligent enough program I guess.

Now if you said telnet or netcat, I would truly have been at a loss.
Unfortunately, lawsuits are rare unless a user can demonstrate that the hack led to measurable harm.
They just introduced keymap modes, including emacs.
Related,

How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/04/how-neuroscientists-exp...
Would you mind providing a summary of your position based on the link you provided.
If you pull the loops of a standard shoelace knot, you wind up with a square knot. Do the same with Ian's secure shoelace knot and you wind up with a surgeon's knot.
Why we switched from NPM to Yarn
Your problem was checking the box that said you would ship world wide. You can eliminate 99% of fraudulent ebay buyers by only shipping within the US or your local region. also keep and eye out for package forwarding addresses those can be problematic as well but not as bad as a straight foreign shipping address.
Strategic Communication: How to Develop Strategic Messaging and Positioning
Google also allows you to use google authenticator, but I don't believe they allow third party services.
I learned a while back to never, ever sell a phone or tablet on eBay. I only use Swappa for this service now, and I've bought and sold several devices on there with zero issues. Anecdotal, I know, but they give equal protection to buyers and sellers, and their employees are actively involved in each sale.
>not consuming enough iodine. iodine gets added to salt to ensure people consume it.

source?

Also, it's ridiculous to argue that genetics don't affect IQ. There are many genetic disorders that impair cognitive skills.
I'm fond of: https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze
Vision tests depend on the state. Colorado and Texas both require vision tests every X years (depends on age in some cases).
I only sell on ebay rarely, but I buy stuff all the time, big, small, expensive, foreign and domestic, from big sellers (lots of feedback) and new ones. I have never had any problems, some times I am disappointed by the cheap junk I buy from China, but generally I am quite satisfied. I have had to request a refund once or twice because something was not as described, but I don't think I have ever had to escalate to ebay or PayPal on anything.

All this being said, anecdotes aren't data, and I worry every time I read an article like this that I am going to get burned bad one day.
Founders Questions – Stack Overflow, but for Hustlers
Could you record the opening of the box and then go after eBay for allowing the fraud to occur?
I've had R01 proposals turned down, then seen the same proposal, lightly reworded, submitted by a person who was on my study section, the next year, get funded.

that's when I knew it was time to get out of academia.
It was shipped to Delaware.
More Adults Can Legally Smoke Pot–but the Kids Aren't So Interested
Nice to see someone still reading this. I again agree with almost everything you're saying here. Plenty of companies flourish in difficult climates, but the margin for error is much greater in a rising or static market. In a falling market there's just less room for failure (like there is for most things). Put another way, in reference to my previous comment, I'd be more comfortable betting that this new, more efficient residential real estate market will emerge sooner if there is not a housing bubble (or rather a bubble that bursts).
My little sister tried to buy an iPhone on Facebook a year ago only to have the seller (a 15yo kid living in a village 6 hours drive away) try to scam her. Unluckily for this scammer she had used a real name and had a reasonable amount of public information on her profile. 6 hours drive away probably seems a world away to a 15yo but unfortunately for her my parents had relatives living only 20 mins away and they knew many people in her village. They simply went down to the local supermarket where they determined her mother worked and told her what happened (they also knew the kids address/school and social clubs but decided the mother was better to approach). Suffice to say the money was returned in full with an apology and a 15yo scammer hopefully learnt a valuable lesson. Nothing like this could ever happen on eBay and it was able to happen without access to the private information that Facebook would have if they implemented a reputation system.
It's buried at the end of the article, but the buyer shipped the phone to a Delaware address. The scammer was using that address to buy the phone, and then returned the scam phone from outside the US.
> I managed to file a claim with the credit card company and reverse the fraudulent charge.

The power of the chargeback is unappreciated by many, I think. I'm guessing a large chunk of people who use that power are people who've lost money in their business to it to scammers and scammers (which is not to say the chargeback is always a scam - there are scammers who charge credit cards, too)
Future of Design
Its sad to see how far Ebay has regressed. I was a seller of lots of random (and sometimes very expensive) things (mostly collectibles) on Ebay for many years. I had 100% feedback, often going out of my way (and taking a small loss) to deal with crazy and/or difficult people in order to keep my perfect feedback status.

I would pinpoint the time Ebay went off the rails to many years ago, when they changed their feedback system. The whole beauty of Ebay was that it was based on reputation. If I was selling something for thousands of dollars, I would only allow buyers that had plenty of good feedback. This simple system allowed you to avoid 99% of scammers. The only scammers that got through were people who spent a long time acting legit and building up lots of positive feedback, then "going rogue" and using that built-up goodwill to pull off a scam. This risk was small and worth taking (happened to me twice after hundreds of sales).

At some point, though, Ebay changed their feedback system so that sellers could not leave buyers negative feedback! You could only leave positive feedback, or refuse to leave feedback at all. Overnight, the entire reputation-based system of buyer/seller reputation was destroyed. Within three months of the change I was hit by three scammers, after selling less then ten total items. This was more scammers than I had to deal with in a decade of prior Ebay sales. There was simply no way for me to figure out which buyers were legit, and no way to warn other sellers which buyers were scammers. As evidenced in the article above, Ebay has absolutely no interest in blocking these scammers. Contacting Ebay inevitably results in a canned response that has nothing to do with your issue. Shortly after they changed their feedback system I stopped selling on Ebay all together. It just isn't worth dealing with the scammers, and Ebay seems to think that their current business model is fine.
Yeah. Went to a clinic because I couldn't put any weight on my left foot without collapsing. Referred to a podiatrist. "Peroneal tendonitis".

Flat feet. My legs are like ><. Got custom molded inserts. My legs look like )( with them. Didn't realize the amount of everyday pain I was in 'til I used them.

Doesn't really matter though. I've already developed arthritis in my knees and ankles at the age of 27, any sort of impact exercise is verboten.

Thanks for letting me vent.
Brave gets first partner in push for privacy-protecting ads
Some variation of that comment has been oft-repeated on this thread and it's exactly what Uber wants.

One of the main functions of that human is to accept blame (or at least obfuscate culpability) and absolve the tech in the event of an accident.

There are a ton of scenarios wherein it would be virtually impossible for a human--especially one lulled into inaction and passivity for most of the ride--would be able to intervene quickly enough to avert an accident once it became apparent that the tech was failing.
Yeah, eBay is not a place to casually sell anymore. The 10% fee was bad enough but now you have to place a bond account even if your account has a long reputation of happy customers.

Facebook marketplace is the way to go. You get way more exposure and can usually sell something in minutes.
When you have a VR headset plugged to your computer, navigating to the urls with WebVR compatible code will add an extra button.
Clicking on the button will display a scene inside your VR Headset. This scene can be interactive (using the remote control). It can be a full game, a video, anything...exactly like any experience you can download on Steam.
What is a "code fence"?
I enjoy working as a software engineer because I have fun building new things, because I find the science behind it intellectually stimulating, and because I feel the work our industry is doing is building the foundations for the future.

Speed is important, but isn't the biggest priority to me. It's best when things move quickly, of course... but my first priority as a professional engineer is to do things correctly, ethically, and safely. It's a point of personal pride.

I don't think there's any part of that that's in conflict with changing the world for the better. Move fast and break things; just don't break other people in the process.

Of course, there's a big difference in what's at stake when building a website, versus someone building a rocket / self-driving car / nuclear reactor / life-critical system. The engineering practices need to be adjusted accordingly in each case.
Leveraging Functional Programming and AWS Lambda to Drive ChatOps
> eBay is an enormous company with over $8 billion in revenue a year, so naturally it's difficult to talk to anyone there who is not a computer

It's not naturally difficult, it's just a decision by eBay. With that kind of money they could pay and train people to provide service to you. Larger companies than eBay operate tech support services, and my guess is that tech support is higher-skilled than the customer service eBay needs.
>The point I'm trying to make is that if you want professionals (and thereby, businesses) to come and stay, you have to make your city a nice place to live. Tax breaks don't fix a lousy commute.

Moving is easier and cheaper than ever before (mostly also because of the cheap communication technologies that allow us to stay connected to whatever or whoever we might leave behind.)

Therefore the competition of cities for talent rises to a complete new level.

Sites like https://teleport.org make it super easy to compare cities worldwide for life-quality data, costs of living, salary levels whatnot...
Algorithms could help you to optimise your life regarding on one of the most important life decisions: "Where should I live?"