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I had someone set up an amazon.mx account using my credentials somehow.... they ordered a bunch of online books, include a $1200 textbook. I have no idea how they were able to do it.

I was able to get them to reverse all the charges pretty quickly, but I still get messages from amazon mexico saying i should buy stuff, and for a while amazon.com would ask me if i wanted to go to amazon mexico when i logged in.

I have only been to Mexico a few times in my life, and my spanish is really bad. I have no idea how it all happened, since they didn't seem to be able to (or didn't) change any settings that would lock me out of my account.
And here's the exact source of the businessinsider.com article -
http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/turbulence/
So become a federal officer by monday? I need an extension.
Lucky?

Read the Ravikant v Tolia complaint where Bill Gurley defrauded the employees of Epinions:

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2005/02/ravika...
I understand I'm arm chair lawyering, but the purpose of a user agent is to display what the user wants it to, not what the site wants it to. I can't be sued for not watching commercials.

Actively circumventing access restrictions is another issue entirely, but if I'm sent data, there is no reason or guarantee it must be displayed as intended. What about blind folk, or those who don't run JavaScript? Is turning off just now illegal? What about not downloading images?

If a site can't make me pay, and doesn't want it's content to be viewed unless I pay, simply don't send me the content.

Again, circumventing access control, even terrible ones, is one thing, but if you send me the data, then you sent me the data, what the issue?
You know, I am no security expert. I was posing a question.

I frequently see HN comments question security of a number of applications, none of which are as critical an interface with production servers as the lowly terminal. For example, a recent replacement for ls was highlighted on HN, and there were questions of whether one would want to install use an untested application due to security concerns. In the case a terminal, it seems to be even a bigger potential issue since it is what one frequently types passwords in for sudo. I am quite surprised at the tone of comments.
> I never buy from third-party sellers in Amazon

Does it actually make any sense now? Wasn't it confirmed many times that Amazon just ship it to you from closest warehouse even if it's item by 3rd party seller?
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Social issues is quite a clearly a problem, I just guess we disagree on the degree of biological influence, although there are some interesting points you bring up.

This whole memo thing has certainly led me down the rabbit hole. Not being an actual scientist with insight into both biological and social factors, I find it hard to be to sure of where I stand on the issue, and the current political climate is certainly helping to muddy the waters.
Yeah, and I think it also has to do with weight of the user (more points = higher weight). That's why I'm asking this question because we give an outsized weight to higher karma users who effectively have censor power (which is a good thing when used against spam). But I'm worried we're curating our own "echo chamber" here.
> It is really worth it for Amazon to have them? I struggle to see how.

I think the main reason is that it gives Amazon huge amounts of market data essentially for free. For example, they can easily identify best-selling new products even if they're not sold directly by Amazon. If you're successful selling stuff on Amazon, it's only a matter of time until Amazon will compete with you and possibly destroy your business.
Computers were able to perform some tasks better than humans since they were first built in the 40s. Computers are only used for things they are better at than humans. There is nothing to suggest, however, that there is anything closer to "intelligence" in recognizing images as in compiling census statistics, and no software is as adept in "general problem solving" as insects.
That's a neat distraction from how crypto-assets will ultimately shift a lot (an unreasonable amount) of wealth to early adopters simply because they were early adopters, if it gains a legitimate status as a currency throughout nations.
And in one feel swoop they've managed to destroy any good will towards their mission and business model.
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Whenever I see comments about how "Company XYZ deleted my account after I issued a charge-back!" I ask: Why would one want to continue doing business with a company that made you issue a charge-back? Charge-back is pretty much the nuclear option of last resort when you have exhausted all avenues of redress. You're basically doing it to get your money back and "salt the earth" as you leave. I've done a few charge-backs in my life, and not once, ever, under any circumstances would want to do business with those companies again.
Well, you have people flying aerobatics for fun, which provide much greater negative G forces than quite extreme turbulence. It's just a matter of personal preference; turbulence is completely harmless if you're strapped in reasonably tight :)
I wouldn't mind favicons in the url bar when the cursor isn't in it too if we are adding things to safari.
How much traffic are you getting on those sites? I'd say don't try so hard to monetize the mailing list, try to monetize the sites (membership/patreon, premium services, new paywalled content verticals, paywalled podcasts) and use the mailing lists as an audience to bring to your sites.
Any way to get behind the paywall? Not able to read on mobile.
I found it quite interesting to tour an alt-right newsroom, not what I was expecting at all. Many of their viewers want simple, effective solutions, eg. reject all Chinese imports until they cease producing Fentanyl despite that it is apt to not work.

Ignoring that the working class is badly hurting in this country is what has gotten us to this place. Where Trump and Bernie offered hope of a brighter future, Hillary stated she was out to kill industries[1]. People are being forced to the right as that is all that is on the ballot, you've got the Democrats running Corporatist Republicans, while the Republicans have gone toward Fascism with a strong bootlicker mentality.

1 - http://www.weeklystandard.com/clinton-were-going-to-put-a-lo...
These are all just savings numbers for simplified problems, like vehicle routing problem or simple pickup & delivery problem.

Points below properly define problem above:

* capacitated pickup and delivery with time windows (NP-hard)

* capacity of around 20-60

* every child has to stay maximum T minutes in the bus from the moment it is picked up

* each bus can work simultaneously on delivering to multiple schools (covered by standard p&d algorithms)

* additional routing/map constraints for roads/vehicle constraints - like minibus drivers being constrained to ares with different housing etc.

I'm pretty sure the third point is a tricky one, implementation and speed wise, last one too. I'm skeptical that your API could solve the problem for 600 vehicles off-the-shelf. Not to mention that pickup&delivery slows things down extremely compared to capacitated VRP.
Each optimising step is a venture into heavy graph theory. Or one can use easy heuristics and fail miserably by exploring too little of constrained space.

I'm skeptical of these large savings. I've personally worked with some top logistics people that did amazing things with pencils and rulers. Trumping these methods gained savings of about 10-15%.

Not to mention the optimizing time. It is impossible (if algorithm is not heavily optimized) to search through enough space for these heavily constrained problems in short amount of time (couple of minutes) to get 60% savings. I might be too critical, but I doubt that Common Lisp algorithm can achieve those kinds of speeds.

What if a child was forgotten, how much will the replanning time impact the real world workflow. All sorts of invisible issues.
Both Amazon and Ebay make huge fees off this and really that is why they do it.
Tangentially related, the author of that project has also created uMatrix. Well, it's the micro symbol, but you get the idea.

uMatrix is pretty much like an old school software firewall, except it is just for your browser. It works by whitelisting, instead of blacklisting. There is a bit of a learning curve, but after you've visited your most visited sites, it becomes a fairly easy solution. As you fist visit sites, you configure it to only allow what is needed to get the functionality you want. Once done, you don't generally have to muck with it further.

As stated, there is a learning curve. There are many choices of what to allow and block, but you can surely figure it out. You can even export and share your configuration.

I am not affiliated. There is a version for Firefox, Chrome, and my beloved Opera. It'll probably work in Pale Moon, Vivaldi, etc...

It eliminates the need for multiple extensions. I've been very happy with it.
On the contrary I've been trying to keep to my chosen topic and you've been doing your best to steer the conversation away from what I was talking about and towards me and what you command me to do.

It's boring. Please, stop.
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there's a far greater diversity of Libertarian thought than you seem to be assuming, and ultra laissez-faire capitalist ideology is a very very narrow slice of it that I think is a position discussed loudly by undergrads and dismissed quietly by everyone else.

The reason this form of wealth distribution is favored by many Libertarians is that it far more free of encumbrances and complexities than any other form of redistribution you might think of. It's not means-tested, everyone gets it, so that avoids the moral hazard of treating the wealthy differently than the poor. It's not restricted in what you can do with the money, so that avoids the moral hazard of picking winners and losers in the marketplace by government fiat. It's not linked to unenforceable nanny state monitoring of people's behavior, so that avoids the moral hazard of intrusive bureaucrats monitoring your spending habits.

It is a policy that can aim to provide significant humanitarian improvements in people's lives while avoiding many of traditional pitfalls of government policies intended to provide humanitarian relief.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14993683
You can even middle-click-and-hold the back button, bringing up the tab history so you can go back to a page several steps back in a new tab!
AFAIK there are three kind of items:

1. Sold and shipped by Amazon

2. Sold by third-party, fulfilled by Amazon

3. Sold and shipped by third-party

I never buy (3) and generally avoid (2) when there is a possibility of counterfeit, but otherwise I agree with you (2) is fine.
That article is circulated because it showed up here and, unlike a lot of the blogspam, the author has the credentials to have an informed opinion about the current research. Here's another one, but from a Psychologist rather than a neurologist.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...
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I actually tried that last week. It seemed to work at first, but a couple of minutes after ordering they sent me an email that they blocked my (second) account due to suspicion of fraud, and invited me to FAX THEM (I'm not making this shit up) a bunch of documents, and they'd get back to me in a couple of weeks or so... Well, fuck you too.

No details for the fraud scoring given, of course, but I'm guessing the dup credit card combined with an overseas delivery address must have done the trick.
>eg. reject all Chinese imports until they cease producing Fentanyl

Haha, seriously? That'd be the diplomatic equivalent of dropping an atomic bomb on Moscow; our real MAD with China is economic.

I guess that's the issue in a nutshell, huh? Insular and stubborn facetiousness on one side, derisive sneering on the other. What d'you do about that? How do you engage in an atmosphere like that? Is it even possible anymore?
Yeah, the article flips between somewhat sensationalist black-and-white statements that imply to the less savvy reader that LIBOR is an arbitrary number decided by a secret cabal of bankers to more reasonable statements like interbank lending is falling and LIBOR is an increasingly poor choice to measure interest rates.
This is how you never move up to high paid positions. You need to develop relationships with people across the business to do well.
How much of Uber's income comes from the US market v. overseas? As long as Lyft is US-only, they're potentially going to have a hard time equalling Uber.
And since the only ostensibly pro-consumer voice with any power (the FCC) is acting in the interest of major industry players right now, we should give the major industry players complete control forever, even if a pro-consumer administration takes power sometime in the future?
> The only true solution is compassion and outreach.

It's way too late for that. The battle lines have been drawn by the right and the rules of engagement have been set by the left. The country will continue to fracture until one side wins or cries uncle. I can tell you this much, the right are not going to be the ones to cry uncle. The left continues to back them father into the corner. They have no other options left.
> a recent-ish study that compared test performance of various minority/gender groups...

You are referring to the idea of "stereotype threat" which, alas, did not survive the replication crisis.

Quote "After correcting for publication bias, this literature shows very little evidence that stereotype threat has a notable and practically significant effect on women’s math performance (Flore & Wicherts, 2014)."

Some analysis:
https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/hidden-fig...

Direct study link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022440514...
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He neither suggested women shouldn't be hired, nor that they are unfit for the job. Read the memo.
>> Yeah, they're toast.

> That is just a bias

OK. Later:

> We can debate the long list of HBS graduates that have been amazing operators in tech companies

How is that not survivor bias?
Regarding the supposed discriminatory hiring practices, I discovered a video where Damore mentions two scenarios: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin...

1. Giving multiple attempts at interviewing.

2. Once an interview is passed, a connection to a manager is ensured. (Supposedly, you can pass an interview but never get matched up with a manager to work under, in which case you won't actually have a job there)

It would seem there are three possibilities (though I'm open to alternative interpretations):

1. Damore is lying (or at best, misinformed)

2. Damore is telling the truth, but such discrimination is deemed ethical

3. Damore is telling the truth, and such discrimination is deemed unethical (and arguably illegal)

If what he says is true, I imagine there would be great outcry if the discrimination was instead in favor of white men, and so it would seem that leaves us with either possibility 1 or 3.

... unless one supposes that, for any unethical discriminatory act, there exists some sort of "counter-discriminatory" act that is then both ethical and somehow no longer discriminatory (a necessary condition for being both ethical and legal in business), despite clearly meeting the definition of the word "discriminatory". As is probably apparent, this strikes me as absurd. However, if one finds error in this reasoning, I'm certainly open to an explanation of what I'm missing.
It's a prime example of what happens when you deal with a large company with reps who are not empowered to think for themselves, and often times are incapable of doing anything other than following a very rigid process, and have extreme apathy.

I had a similar experience with NewEgg. In these cases it is sometimes helpful to use LinkedIn and contact people high-up in the company (Directors and Sr. Managers). Send them an inMail, it goes directly to their personal e-mail in many cases.

In several instances, contact like this via LinkedIn has helped me. Other than that, don't waste your time and just file a charge-back.
I don't get how this could happen. I used to sell on eBay and PayPal was very strict about only shipping items to the address given to me on the PayPal payment. A way I'd been scammed as a seller was when the buyer asked me to ship an item to their work address. I complied, and then the buyer did a paypal dispute saying they never received the item, and I automatically lost the dispute because I didn't ship to the address on the payment. I just don't see how Amazon isn't siding with the customer in this case.
Maybe you truly weren't being sexist and you were so shocked as to create this thread because it deeply wounded you. Then again, maybe you are sexist and created this thread to have a trail that makes you appear distraught and violated when this thing blows up and say "See! Would I be so vexed as to create an HN thread if I were sexist!", playing the long con (it takes a special kind of mind to think like that)..

Joking aside...

Have you read Robert Ringer's "Winning Through Intimidation"?

As the name doesn't imply, it's not about winning through intimidation, quite the opposite, it's about how to detect attempts to intimidate, manipulate, and take advantage of you, and what to do about it. It exposes some patterns many abusers use (appeal to honesty, accusations to entice apologies and guilt, etc).

The author talks about many instances where he got screwed and what he learned from his master manipulators.

A good week-end read.
> The left continues to back them father into the corner. They have no other options left.

I'm unsure how this is the case based on both houses in Congress and the presidency controlled by Republicans.

Democrats control a few states and major metros, but that's it. The left is who is cornered at the moment. And it will only get worse if establishment Democrats don't recognize the serious damage they've done to their party and step aside for populists (like Bernie Sanders and others who pass his litmus test); given no other option, those who are desperate in the US will continue to vote for whomever offers them a lifeline, regardless of the chance that lifeline is legitimate.
> Companies keep asking my students to drop out to work for them.

I've been told Berklee College of Music makes it very easy for students to leave and later come back, even years later, exactly to enable students to grab transient professional opportunities without sacrificing their education. I wonder how engineering schools stack up in comparison.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I run an asset-management fintech company and a lot of our clients (particularly institutional investors) are looking for a strong track record. For them, seeing we've been around for a few years adds credibility and confidence in management.
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I am so jealous! I hate turbulence, and I can't even explain why. I have a USPA C license - I've flown in enough rickety planes to get certified to skydive into public venues - and turbulence still causes my blood to boil.

You would love this: one time I flew from Chicago to Ithaca on a small commuter plane, and the pilot told us it'd be bumpy due to area storms. It got pretty bumpy, and the girl sitting next to me was a lot worse off than I was, I didn't know her but she grabbed my hand and was squeezing so hard it hurt. Maybe ten minutes into one of the turbulent spells, the cockpit door flew open and the pilot and co-pilot were going "YEE-HAW" and doing the rodeo rope. My chin hit the floor, and so did everyone else's when we all realized they'd been hitting the roughest parts of the storms they could find on purpose.
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I would guess a large part of the issue is these sellers are often not even in the USA so probably a bit of legal hoops to jump through. There's also an issue of manpower to track all of these scammers down-- there's a lot of them after all.
happened with paypal too for me. looks like all these systems are wired the same.

1. ordered an item off http://henpilab.com/graco-pack-n-play-on-the-go-playard-go-g... using paypal

2. no shipping for a week. emailed seller.

3. updated shipping info

4. track shipping says delivered to wrong address

5. open dispute with paypal saying delivered to wrong address and seller unresponsive.

6. paypal immediately closes dispute saying we are not able to resolve on your behalf since it shows shipment is already delivered.
I can definitely see this relationship, especially given America's past dynamics. There are some interesting evolutionary perspectives on the utility of altruistic punishment and the link to egalitarianism. Rather, inequality can be one of the main drivers that explain collective punishment in addition to drivers for group cooperation. If you really think about it, a lot of hard-left and hard-right policies could be presented in this way: I, along with my group or associated groups, are at a significant disadvantage compared to "some other group of people or individuals". Or in another sense of the perspective, there is a subgroup that is taking advantage and freeloading off of some advantages that are meant for our group to which we have certain standards of behavior. Altruistic punishment might be considered one of the tools for punishing and reinforcing behavior that is ideal to the group(s).

I've also come across some research on how a lot of this can be drawn from how a society sits on the individualism-collectivism scale.
So much this, but I think Amazon could still allow outside sellers through some sort of verification. I honestly often by from ebay with a high seller rating than an Amazon seller that has no transparency. Amazon needs to figure out a way to get sellers verified and rated better.
I can't tell if yours is a spam account or not...

I understand I'm swinging through late but do you have time to expand on any affiliation you have with the company, but more helpfully share any details on why this particular $21/month tool helps you better than say, Skype?
Outlook is another terrible offender. Maybe for mailboxes in the sidebar it didn't add much, but the icons were really helpful if you're using the CRM integration.
It's somewhat understandable that people can't keep democratic socialists and social democrats straight. But most Democratic figures they call socialist are just so far from any of that that it's unbelievable.
I got one of these circuit board pens. I think they are pretty cool. https://www.etsy.com/market/circuit_board_pen
> pretty well documented elsewhere

In a strange place no one can seem to name.. funny how the existence of this "documentation" is so often assumed, but not so often referenced..
For example, if you host this list in Russia DMCA will not do anything because (sorry for my French) Russia does not give a shit about U.S. copyright laws.
It's very trivial to signup for a online bank account with a stolen identity. FBI won't get involved in the case unless it's over 150k in losses and local police don't have skills or desire to do anything online.

Source: work for an online bank
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