skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many sellers will, yes, if it's cheaper then accepting the return, especially if a return is not sellable or the item requires special handling (hazardous materials, weight) Amazon pretty much forces sellers to accept returns for most reasons, from what I understand.

Some examples from my life:

I've bought a book from eBay that was advertised as the wrong edition. When I complained (I wanted a specific edition and I made sure the listing was for the edition I wanted) the seller told me to just donate the book and gave me my money back. It was a cheap used book, it would probably have cost more to ship it back than the seller would have gotten reselling it.

I ordered cat litter from jet.com. Cat litter was crushed and broke open during shipping and spilled everywhere. I took a picture and asked for my money back. They didn't ask me to ship the litter back even though about 60-70% of the litter was usable (and I used it). It would have been a mess to ship back litter like that plus expenses.

Edit: just thought of a third example. My parents ordered an armoire from Wayfair that must have been dropped badly in shipping, the side was extremely bowed out. The thing was like 5 feet tall and really heavy, it was solid oak. They just shipped them a new one because a return of such a big item would have been totally infeasible without sending a truck or special courier service. Some rando on Craigslist was really happy to come pick it up so he could fix it.
What was the very scary part? you just need to copy and paste a Bitcoin address, it literally can not be simpler :) is it maybe the the alphanumeric hash that looks scary?
But you can turn that game license off. You can't turn off a couch.
It's interesting how each market platform is trying to tweak the equilibrium of honest/dishonest buyers vs honest/dishonest sellers.

Beyond Amazon specifically, the big picture trend is that any marketplace of 3rd-party sellers which includes eBay, PayPal, Uber, Airbnb, etc will always tilt the advantage towards the buyers.

E.g. Buyer scams sellers by claiming he got a bad product and Paypal will instantly issue a chargeback without any investigation.

If sellers try to change the balance of power by shifting to a platform that's more favorable to sellers (e.g. p2p OpenBazaar, craigslist, etc), they'd have to calculate the revenue loss from a smaller marketplace (less buyers' eyeballs). It's going to depend on the type of items if the loss is worthwhile.

E.g. If you're a seller that happens to have the unreleased iPhone 8 prototype to sell, you can use OpenBazaar to sell it because there would be plenty of buyers that don't need refund assurances from Amazon. If the item gives the seller leverage, the seller could also demand more buyer-unfriendly terms such as mandatory payment in Bitcoin instead of Paypal.

When it's not a multi-sided platform, that's when rules can tighten up to favor the seller instead of the buyer. E.g. Costco stops generous 90-day returns on big-ticket electronics and computers because buyers were "renting" video cameras for free.

(Cynical conspiracy hat on: it's possible Amazon expected the sellers' backlash and they don't care because this new policy was their way to cull the "weak" sellers that couldn't take the financial hit from returnless refunds. E.g. The "returnless refunds" policy would drive away shady Amazon Marketplace sellers that scam buyers with faulty USB-C cables: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508494)
There's likely a bunch of factors that go into it. Might even be a score that is updated based on your purchase, return history, length of having a prime membership, amount spent on amazon etc.
The biggest leverage they have is threatening to leave the platform, which they should do.
for science reporting, pretty much everything by Quanta Magazine is good.

the financial times has a reputation for not being awful because you can't trade on bullshit, but who knows? I can't actually evaluate.
So they should create an "Amazon Sellers Association" or something like that?
Here's a good write-up on Boards > https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/05/what-you-need-to-know-abou...

Ultimately, the profile you're looking for is the Old Warhorse who's worked in and around the same industry/niche you're targeting. They want a piece of the action, willing to invest and provide advice. And importantly, trust you to run the day-to-day. Look for former senior operators/builders with deep personal networks.
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Using prime numbers to avoid cron task collision at sametime
I would like to get input from you all. We have legacy system (bit of a pain to maintain) where multiple corn jobs runs (8 to be precise) and engineers who created the system put everything to run at 5 minutes interval. Computationally task is heavy and often results into a crash or running out of memory but business owners are fine if things are delayed by like an 1 hour or so.

My idea was to run on prime intervals instead of every 5 minutes. Couple of them have depend on output from others tasks but that should not be an issue.

Job 1 - Every 5 minutes ( computational less intense )

Job 2 - Every 7 minutes

Job 3 - Every 11 minutes

Job 4 - Every 13 minutes

Job 5 - Every 17 minutes ( computational more intense )

.... and so on

This should put a significant dent in avoiding them running at same time and leaving some room for each task to finish itself. I was just wondering if there is any other alternative that I can explore here.

Thanks for any suggestions in advance.
The popular (> 1 million installs) Chrome extension "Web Developer" was compromised this morning. The hacked version of the extension has already been removed from the Chrome Web Store.

If you have the extension installed you should disable it and reset passwords for any sites you visited this morning.

https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
Does the stock market offer do-overs if there is a significant move against you while you're on vacation?

Would Coinbase normally be held accountable for a significant move in Bitcoin against you while you're on vacation?

Coinbase isn't a company to secure your Bitcoins against the value of the dollar, it's a company that stores Bitcoins and facilitates transactions.
From a consumer POV this is great. The only bad experiences I've had with Amazon have been with crap itmems from 3rd party sellers and then realising the postage to send it back is half the cost of the order and just letting it go.
>If you want to get to determine the rules of the game, you have to build your own playing field.

Amazon is basically a monopoly, I'd like to know how you imagine a small business competing against them. And why should a small shoe/fidget-spinner/alibaba-reselling business need to build their own shopping website anyways? "Platforms" should be free.
Oh, I see. That's unfortunate. Thanks for explaining.
> You can't train a dog to sniff out encrypted data

?? But you can easily train a computer to. I mean, it's expensive as hell, but if all encryption is either back-doored, banned, or weaker than a newspaper cryptogram, then yeah... sure. Encrypted data is easy to find - it's the data you can't read.
On paper, yes. In practice, the company has a lot of distributed-work-friendly DNA from the open source movement, so I would expect the matter to be negotiable even for positions that explicitly name a work site. How negotiable? Mumble. I can say that my immediate work group has a manager and two engineers in Mountain View, and one engineer each in Denver, Toronto, and Manchester.
I would expect that if Amazon stopped listing third party stuff, other sites would pick up the slack there, perhaps sites like Etsy?
For all the people saying this is totally fine and they warned people and they shouldn't have to support every single fork that comes along, I'd like to pose a hypothetical.

All forks are basically equivalent. If I fork Bitcoin today, my fork is just as legitimate as Segwit or Bitcoin Cash. The only differentiation is community buy-in and hashing power and similar fuzzy metrics.

Rather than sticking with Segwit and ignoring BCC, what if Coinbase had ignored Segwit and stuck with BCC? People would have lost 75% of their holdings, as measured in USD. Would you consider that to be OK?

Or worse, imagine if Coinbase created their own fork and starting from some certain date they only supported that fork, and it ended up being worthless because nobody cared about it. Coinbase would have basically wiped out all of their users. Would that be OK?
> with at least some remote experience

See, this is the problem. Many companies are open to remote workers. Few want remote virgins.

I'd also add that it's not that hard provided you are a web dev (particularly front end). Non-webdev remote position pickings are rather slim.
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btrfs requires far too much maintenance to be a good general-purpose FS, and it absolutely crumbles under certain not-too-uncommon use cases (specifically, databases and VMs). I really wanted to like btrfs and used it extensively over the last couple of years, but I've finally given up and moved on to ZFS, and I'm grateful that I did. Give it a try.
Amazon own Book Depository.

I recently had a run-in with their support department when they shipped me a book that was a) a photocopy of the original b) with a damaged cover.

They were not willing to take any responsibility for this and made it very clear that they did not want to replace it.

So I've soured on them.
It looks great but the top GIF makes it seem like you are offering a command line BT client. If I were you I would have it slowly scroll through the code of the client in the GIF or put a few frames of code of the client and or some compiling and then show the current top GIF.
This is pretty cool. Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the point in the initial genre training?

He's taking 185000 samples, and finding similar "looking" samples elsewhere in other songs, and then making recommendations based on that. I don't see what that could possibly have to do with genre labels, unless we're under the assumption that finding a match between a Drum & Bass song and one that seems similar with a tag of Trance is somehow a bad match? (which very well could be the case, but seems like a big assumption to make off the bat)

Are these recommendations silo'd to the current genre or are they allowed to span genres?
for people who need more 9s of availability on a single cloud provider, you have to start going multi-region. aws takes region isolation/independence very seriously, and along with geographic independence gives you effectively two entirely independent clouds which just so happen to have the exact same APIs. Some of the (really great) Netflix blog posts[0] have talked about multi-region services.

If you do go multi-cloud, I would be wary of picking regions that are located very close to each other. While you'll obviously get independent code and (likely) independent deployments, you're still susceptible to issues correlated with the physical location.

[0] https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/global-cloud-active-acti...
That's not entirely true. In our market, there aren't many Uber drivers and it's easy to game the system.

A few weeks ago I took a ride with someone who was trying very hard not to "join the uber mafia". He said that most of the time he also has to turn off his phone, otherwise he gets screwed over.

The reason is that when there are no more drivers, he'll get matched with people on the other side of town. He doesn't get paid for the drive out, and sometimes people still cancel after waiting 20 minutes for an uber to show up after ordering. Even with surge pricing it didn't make financial sense, so he'll turn off his phone too or switch to Lyft during these periods.
I remember dealing with the emergency IT issues that popped up with our NYC offices after hurricane Sandy wrought havoc upon much of lower Manhattan's power grid. We were lights out for at least three days. Had to take lots of taxis to move hardware to places with electricity. Even if we wanted to be creative, the subway was certainly not a transportation option and foot was wight prohibitive. The pickup rules for taxi's were suspended during this emergency period. Taxis could pickup fares mid-ride, turn down any rider going to a undesirable destination, & charge whatever they thought they could get. Lucky for me, despite all other storm-born chaos, I was in a sweet spot for where taxis were more than happy to drive. Even so, seeing the number of people who were turned down for their destinations or who in turn declined a ride because of the driver chosen price hike was fascinating; a sort of real-time, impromptu emergent market in infancy rapidly growing into maturity.

So not to say that these ride share services have moved to remove all these kinds of consumer protections that clearly were quickly dropped and exploited once they were removed due to the state of emergency but to a large extent, I feel like I had the chance to experience the larger forces of gamification that would happen if these protections were removed and circumstances were ripe for profit. Overall I am very happy with the changes ride sharing services have brought to supplement transportation options but there are certainly a lot more of these bumps and kinks to be worked out if these businesses hope to avoid a wave of government regulation.
You're more or less correct. Coinbase is sitting on the keys to customer wallets/funds. When the fork happened, those keys work both on the original Bitcoin network and the new "Bitcoin Cash" network. Which, apparently turned out to have substantial value (currently trading ~$650).

Coinbase made a colossal mistake in outright ignoring BCC and will likely get sued (and lose) because of it. If I had 10 BTC on CB and missed out on the opportunity to trade or sell $6,500 worth of free BCC I just got, I'd be mad too.

They need to act quickly before it goes to court. Someone else commented that they don't even need to support trading BCC, all they have to do is provide a way for customers to withdraw their BCC, and they're in the clear.
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This is great. Not much else to say about it.
It's a bit of a 2 way street. One of the big reason's for Amazon's dominance is carrying virtually every item out there which makes it a great place to go look. That's made possible because all of these other people have built businesses around the platform.

This really isn't all that different than what Walmart has a history of doing. Become your biggest source of business, then force you to lower the price or lose it all.
SoundCloud was my favorite source of remixes, which I have always been a huge fan of (although I guess that market is smallish).

No idea where I'd go next :/

I'd be reasonably happy if I could just download the tracks I've "like"'d
Hey Richard, love this idea. I firmly believe in the notion that once you've paid your debt to society you should be able to participate in society as anyone else would. That this is not the fact is atrocious to me.

Do you need a remote full-stack programmer?
Ideally, confession alone should not be deemed a sufficient ground for conviction, it should be merely something that might make further investigation and, ultimately, establishing "the whole truth" easier. (Looks like the latter is not the goal of the Western judicial system, hence the wide acceptance of the "plea bargain" practice which effectively encourages false confessions.)
The IACR eprint archive, which is essentially arXiv for cryptography. Essentially everything worth reading in cryptography is either in the IACR eprint archive or a conference proceeding. All conference proceedings from the IACR conferences can be read online for a fairly cheap membership fee. More often than not everything is cross-posted to the eprint archive even if it's published in a journal (which there's basically one: The Journal of Cryptology) or a conference.
It's more like, while transporting the pregnant cows, one bird jumped on each cow in the trailer along the way, and now you're demanding X gives you not just the cows, but the birds, too, even though they're hard to catch.
The big internet platforms are very customer friendly and increasingly seller hostile. It is the same thing with PayPal/Ebay for example. I have no problem buying on Amazon or via PayPal, but I would never sell through them.
Thank God they are making this change. I had so much bad experience with returning items to 3rd party sellers that I vowed to never buy anything that is not directly sold by Amazon.
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Indeed, why isn't the entire board, and upper management in jail?
I have a Garmin Forerunner 935. It runs the same basic software as the Fenix but it's lighter and cheaper. Worth considering.
It's even more important for legumes and other foods because it removes phytic acid (one of the things that prevents absorption of nutrients/minerals) and makes it easier to digest. It's similar with nuts too. They all become nutritionally more accessible (and "richer") when soaked and the soaking water is later thrown out (before cooking).
Why would anyone give them money now?
Additional data points:

I've had this happen on a defective basketball backboard (and adjustable armature) that I purchased, and on a car battery that wasn't defective, but was no longer needed because the car it was intended to go into when I ordered it was destroyed in a fire before the battery arrived.

In the first case I expect it was the size/price to ship it back. In the second it may be because of postal regulations but I'm not positive (they shipped it to me without a problem, but perhaps they don't want to risk return shipment on an item that may or may not be defective so they have a blanket policy).

Both cases required me to contact Amazon directly because the items were not listed in the "return this" section of their respective orders.
I think it's opt-in for the seller. Either they pay for return shipping, or let the customer keep it.
Demand to trade them, but it could all come crashing down like an overpriced IPO.
yeah, looks like it meets the guidelines. Should it be reposted or just edited?
>when my mother wound up in an accident, used Hey Siri to call us from her hospital bed when she couldn’t reach her phone.

I actually experienced this same thing last winter, and it was a life saver. I was taking out the trash and slipped on some ice on my deck. I hurt my back pretty bad and cracked some ribs. I wasn't able to shout to my wife inside because of the pain, and I wasn't able to stand up because of the pain. I was only wearing a pair of shorts because I wasn't planning on being out long, but the temperature was below freezing and the wind chill was below zero. I had no shirt or socks on and only a pair of slippers to protect my feet, so laying out there until my wife got suspicious and came to find me could have had some pretty bad consequences.

I didn't have my phone on me, but luckily I was wearing my watch and was within Bluetooth range of my phone. I was able to get Siri to call my wife and have her come out and help me back into the house. Kind of a nice feature.
The corruption of academic medicine
Non-paywalled Article (Vanity Fair): https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/theranos-walgreens-s...

It seems this whole thing was a "build hype now, invent the actual stuff later" policy taken to the extreme. Elizabeth Holmes has done a disservice to the tech community's reputation.
Thank you for your insight. When the dust settles, we should talk.
I've sold a product on Amazon before and had it warehoused and fulfilled by Amazon. Part of the problem with accepting returns is that you can't personally vet it for quality and correctness and when Amazon ships back out a returned item that the first buyer messed with, it would then have a high probability of getting returned again and/or result in negative feedback or a profit-destroying consumption of time trying to make the second buyer happy. It was then cheaper and easier to just have Amazon destroy all returned items, which is what I did.

Part of me says that the person receiving a refund has no right to the item anymore and should return it on principle, but other side of me realizes it's just a waste of shipping and handling resources when I was having the item trashed anyways. As long as Amazon is actively trying to prevent fraud, I'm not really concerned about this policy.
Holy shit, terrifying.

The article mentions that the developer was threatened with contempt of court if he didn't answer questions, didn't give up his passwords, etc. I subscribe to the "you can be the rap but not the heat" mentality - if he had kept his mouth shut, even if the bailiff hauled him off to jail that day, a week later he'd have been let out, email and social media intact and whatever other information he revealed in a 16 hour interrogation safe.
You're right, it's 7 points. However, that means there are still considerable issues (both medical and ethical) with the mass-ingesting of fluoride, which lends more credibility to Mercola's paranoia than your skepticism, in my opinion. And regardless of that, you are still ignoring all the main issues brought up with TVP.
Publishing in a (reputable) journal generally means some degree of peer review. While noisy, this process generally means that really outrageous methodological errors or theoretical claims get weeded out. For a good paper, it means that other researchers have pressed them on specific aspects of the work, which often produces stronger work (new methods, better baselines, clearer argumentation, clearer math).

I adore arXiv but still believe it's a preprint. In my field (cognitive science) it would be great if we had more methods to sidestep Elsevier and the other commercial publishers and have an open stack with rigorous peer review (PLoS being the main way currently).
How do CIA hacking tools for SSH work?
Arrrgh. Auto-playing audio suddenly starts among a forest of tabs. WTF is with that site. :(

And yeah, obviously didn't get to read the article due to that idiocy. :(
None of us can see the future. I first got into bitcoin in early 2011. I have no rational evidence to support this, but my intuition tells me that bitcoin cash will not be the winner. Too much hassle to adopt, few exchanges currently supporting it.
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Actually, this format is much more readable than minifed JS, as it maintains variable names, etc (there is a proposal to also support comments without meaningful loss of performance).

Of course, this does not prevent developers from minifying/uglifying the JS code first, if they so decide.
It was in order to get the CLJS REPL to feel more like the regular Clojure REPL: https://github.com/google/clojure-turtle/issues/15

The CLJS-macro story is still a little tricky -- CLJS targets the JS runtime, but you can't easily define macros in a self-hosted CLJS REPL (ex: one that you'd embed in a webpage). Lmk if there is a cleaner way now.
Thank you, your work is terrific! Good docs, good code, and I especially like the ability to create custom code to write to alternative storage.
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Handling a potentially large of money and keeping it secure? How to store the key? What happens if I loose my phone/computer? How can I protect myself from fire and theft? Which wallet to choose? How can I be certain I don't have a virus waiting to steal my coins? Did i copy my address correctly?

That's a lot of uncertainty for "it literally can not be simpler".