skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damore wanted to discuss a topic, and was fired after a vocal subclass reacted emotionally and called for his dismissal.

I think you might be wrong regarding which subclass is more powerful. It certainly wasn't Damore's.

The subclasses I refer to are not based on gender, but on opinion. If diversity based on superficial attributes is so important, why isn't diversity of opinion?
Vulscan – Vulnerability Scanning with Nmap
We're not animals.
LinEnum – Scripted Local Linux Enumeration and Privilege Escalation Checks
also its funny that even though the mail was sent to Jeff himself, no one in Amazon cared enough to verify the delivery address?
You're saying that disputing with Amazon will pull all your kindle books? I don't think that would fly in countries with consumer rights. Bear in mind this is also a Marketplace seller and not the real Amazon.
How Whales Change Climate [video]
No, haven't bought the list, built it ourselves over the last 11+ years of running well established sites with lots of traffic.
I don't think sf / fantasy / horror genres are strongly related to "speculative fiction". Speculative means "based on conjecture", and conjecture means "formed on the basis of incomplete information".

Incomplete information isn't what I think is at the heart of fantasy, and usually isn't what I think is at the heart of SF either. SF is usually a story about an idea rather than a character; it's not speculation. Fantasy is usually a heightened, exaggerated world - a world with the saturation and contrast turned right up; again, not speculation.

Speculative fiction I'd place in a niche area of hard SF that is more concerned with futurism than ideas per se. That is, it's interested in predicting how today turns out with some reasonable technological advance and specifically how the world deals with that advance, whether on a global level or via a character study.

As to needlessly multiplying entities, I agree, with caveats. It's related to Chekhov's gun: don't introduce elements that don't matter (and similarly, if you rely on something later on, ensure it's foreshadowed rather than parachuted in as a deus ex machina). OTOH, a close adherence to Chekhov's gun can make stories very predictable, for people who pay lots of attention to plots. And other people come for prose style, and still others for world-building; neither of which are overly concerned with omitting details.
I'm sure with the telecomms as regulators they will be promoting competition. /sarcasm.
One year of Master's in Journalism costs $149,000
So far, I haven't found a way to stop Safari from uninstalling an unsigned extension when it restarts. Have you? Because that would be great! More conversation about this issue: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/3675
Uh... isn't it obvious that you should never use your personal shopping/Prime account for business-critical services?
I'm really questioning if they can really do much reshaping with the small amount of engineers remaining. Soundcloud has probably one of the most complex architectures and just lost a significant part of the people that know the system.
Prime doesn't mean it's sold by Amazon. It can be a third party seller using Fulled by Amazon services. And in that case, the item may not even come from the specific seller you're buying from, because of inventory commingling - they put all of the sellers' inventories into one big bin and send you any of them.

What you may be looking for is "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com". But there have been reports that even those products may be commingled with third-party inventory. (I don't have any personal knowledge on that one way or the other.)
This IMHO is the most sensible thing. There I think are a gazillion ways of serving your list which are out of reach of such laws (not necessarily US laws)
How to Identify the Right Testing Tool for Mobile App Development?
Amazon is getting hit with a chargeback on this one, and I see a lot of comments critical of Amazon on here. And this is a tech-savvy crowd. Most Amazon customers probably don't pay enough attention to Amazon to understand the difference between "Sold by Amazon" and "Fulfilled by Amazon" and straight third-party sellers. When it goes wrong, people will blame the one entity they actually interacted with: Amazon.
The A-Z guarantee is actually pretty biased towards the costumer. Something went wrong here obviously, but in part it is a side effect of too much information. There was no need to go visit your neighbors--once the wrong address is confirmed, A-Z should come into effect. Get someone on the phone if you can.

The larger problem is the integrity of the package. For example, as a seller, I've had multiple chargebacks from customers who claimed that the package they received was empty (and A-Z always ruled in their favor). I've also had customers "return" items that were not at all the same as the original purchase. In once case, the returned materials were clearly counterfeit (where I sold the originals)! A-Z ruled in customer's favor in each case. I've since stopped selling on Amazon due to prevalent fraud.

The package is pretty well tracked, how do we make sure what goes into the box corresponds to the sale or refund?
This is the poison in Amazon's well. The average layman has very little grasp of sold & shipped by amazon vs amazon marketplace. Amazon needs to tighten the clamps on all of these awful third party sellers before they become a casualty like ebay.

Anecdotally my father purchased a projector recently and the seller tried the "I can't ship it unless you make payment on my offsite merchant page because Amazon is holding me hostage" scam. My father remarkably recognized this as fraud and reported it to Amazon. He said they were less than helpful in getting a refund to his credit card so he could go make a purchase from a legitimate merchant. They made him wait out the full 30 days it could have possibly taken to ship before they were willing to work with him.
I wonder when, if ever, vertical tabs will become the norm, or even a well-supported option.

They seem to resolve most tab issues while also being a better use of space in many use cases.
You're right, of course. I misspoke.
A good reason never to mix a shopping account with a development account. If you are using Amazon developer services, I never understood why you wouldn't want that as a dedicated development account with Amazon.
Wild hair, Hot Topic, believing in politics contrary to the area you're in.

It's rebellion, but acceptable compared to bombing state offices or somesuch.
It's worth noting that Safari _can_ display favicons. If you pin a tab, it uses the favicon. It's even displayed in monochrome until you hover over the tab so they've definitely worked out a way to display them.
There are numerous groups of unsavory folks who have reached this conclusion, and raft in ways to form a motley political crew we call the "alt right".
In addition, the package (listed on the USPS documentation) didn't have the correct weight, which should have been further proof that something was wrong. The package was 8oz, the lens itself, even without packaging, weighs 3.2 pounds.
I don't have to guess, I read it. Also, I don't agree with him. His whole premise is that he doesn't think there should be major change at Google as he seems to like it like it is. I find his approach to reaching that conclusion somewhat disingenuous.

And I don't get your point on profit. He didn't mention it nor do I think that's the part of the culture he wants to retain particularly. I didn't mention it either. I want my company to succeed, I am a shareholder after all. But I also want it to be a good place to work as I spend a reasonable chunk of my week there.

I also happen to be a father of a daughter who wants her to have every possible opportunity open to her. Assuming this is one dimensional doesn't really fit the facts.
I think it is mostly about maximizing scale (and lower costs) for the shipping and logistics business. It also used to be that buying from Amazon as the seller was safe but that has gone by the wayside as they decided it was worth the risk to not have to manage separately. I think they will soon have to roll that decision back. At least then their brand stays strong and the get economies of scale for logistics for the third parties.

There was also a story recently about the number of people who post stuff on ebay and just drop ship from Amazon directly. Then the customer gets the product and thinks "this is just from Amazon" and looks up the price. The seller had marked it up and the buy say "bullcrap" and returns the original item and buys it direct from Amazon. However, the actual OEM now has countless returns for no reason. The seller was just running a business on top of Amazon. This is something they have to stop.
This whole blog post is about wanting someone to take notice and step aside from an automated process that had failed, and you are suggesting replacing it with an even further immutable automated process?
For the truly paranoid: have two amazon accounts, one for services (AWS, Kindle, etc) you care about, and one for purchases that you wish to protect.
UPS' automated routing system acts a partner with human drivers working to beat the route recommendations.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3004319/brown-down-ups-drivers-v...
I concur, I think until the world catches up with the innovation happening in the US (I'm guessing that's why this content is hosted on US services), we'll have to put up with this

Edit: libertarianism anybody ? :D
Texting on the move turns your walk into an ungainly lollop
>> There are various ways for FB to do business in Chinese market. So sending a message here to make a point to help on the whole agenda.

The Chinese Govt is the only one sending the messages that matter. This "stealth" app is there at the pleasure of the Chinese government. End of story.

They seem to be doing just fine without Google and Facebook
Snap SEC doc confirms acquisition of social maps app Zenly for $213M
I'm done. Shut it down, Elon - we don't deserve to go to Mars. Shut it down!
I can argue my statements (and the underlying memo) do have a nugget of rationality - we can debate on that.

Also, I'm pleased to see you didnt take downvotes either.
What the brand gains at the expense of quality is MUCH more valuable: the notion that "if I only have time to check one website, Amazon's going to have it because Amazon has EVERYTHING." Adding third-party sellers allows it to have a much larger catalog of obscure items.

Any shopper who's been burned will still use Amazon in the way you are, just being careful to filter by Prime and/or Fulfilled by Amazon. So the damage to the core brand is minimal even for rare cases like OP, who even ends his article with "even if it’s through an online retailer as trustworthy as Amazon." Despite this experience, he'll still buy his memory cards and Whole Foods groceries over Amazon Prime.
How does the payment type change anything?
That's what it seems like to me. Am I missing something?

Edit: That's all it does. Check out the source. It's a form that submits to Google Search.

<form method="get" action="https://www.google.com/search">
<input type="text" name="q" size="31" value="" placeholder="E.g. Growth Hacking...">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="WTF is it?">
</form>
Ignorance as a source of pride is particularly vile.
If you're interested in Number Stations the you should check out the Conet Project [1].

[1] https://www.irdial.com/conet.htm
I mean it's unusable to the general public since IPFS network is not accessible via the browser without a proxy.

In other words, one would first have to integrate an IPFS client into all major browsers.
Full stack (web) developers are only on the wane because of the shift towards fancy SPA front-ends. Where UX is less important (vast majority of projects) full-stack is so much easier.
Not exactly safe heavens for internet hosting.
I don't get how this shows that "scams are hard to detect." This scam was trivial to detect. When the seller's supposed proof of delivery shows a different address, then it's not actually proof of delivery. All it would have taken to detect this was looking at the tracking info and looking at the order's shipping address and observing that they weren't the same.

Yes, obviously something is terribly wrong at Amazon which meant that this simple comparison never happened, but I don't see why we should expect this, or why we should be sympathetic to Amazon about it.
Shameless plug here.. I've been working on a service that kinda solves a similar problem, called Postways [1].

Even though Postways also provides a unified API for sending email, SMS and mobile push, the main focus of Postways is actually on managing the message templates. When you work with a team where not everyone is a developer, updating the actual message text can be a major problem, especially when the message text is in source code or various different places.

[1] https://www.postways.com
Various products and services have shown that DL and other ML techniques are useful and profitable to implement.

Very few organisations are seeing ROI on these projects. I've seen figures showing average for every million spent the return is less than half, for the quarter of them that actually get into production...
Unfortunately there is a general trend towards removing colorful icons and I hate that trend with a passion.

Take for example the setting menu from stock Android: Yes, there are still icon but they all have the same color and it is really difficult to tell them apart. Every time I go to settings I have to search around until I find the settings I was looking for. If it had colorful icons then navigation would be easier because my brain would learn "blue icon = keyboard settings"

Or take Chrome on Android: Open Chrome, press the three dots on the bottom right for the menu and try to find the 'search in page' entry. Every time i wanna search something I have to read half of the menu items to find the search function... If it would have a distinct icon it would be much easier to find.
The correct solution to this is a 3rd party escrow service for these expensive items prone to fraud.

Amazon could physically validate the lens with pictures/weight, and verify they shipped it directly. This blocks fraud by both the customer and the seller/shipper.
Yes I would agree that we shouldn't expect all industries to have 50/50 gender representation, and in fact aiming for such a goal is misguided. However, I am not convinced that the status quo in the tech industry reflects a "natural ratio" so much as other factors (that are worth correcting).

Would you agree that, if the gender disparity in an industry is caused by factors outside of the "natural ratio", then correcting those factors does not necessarily imply perpetuating discrimination? Or put another way, if you are holding a race where person A starts at the 0-yard line and person B starts at the 25-yard line, and you make them start from the same place, you are not actually favoring person A and discriminating against person B, but merely equalizing the playing field?
There are any number of reasons for bus drivers to have to change, from route optimization to school redistricting to, back in the old days, having to pick up all the children, not just the White children. People aren't horses. They can accept change.
... a rigged system can’t be sustainable ...

is this even true?

aren't legacy admissions to Ivy League schools, the government protected status of Wall Street banks, generations of nepotism in Hollywood, Ticketmaster, the red-blue lock on politics, prosecution-protected city police officers, and Time Warner cable all dandy examples of sustainable rigged systems?
Many people were worried when Wheeler was appointed, but Obama told us not to worry. Later his statement would prove justified when Wheeler turned out to be a strong advocate for consumer protection at the FCC.
Yeah, we offer an upgraded membership that allows people to directly send books from our site to their Kindle.

Affiliate links in general have not worked that great for us in the past though. Perhaps as has been hinted on here, it was a targeting problem and we were sending too general of an ad to the list, instead of more targeted ads based on list segments. We might give it another try with more focused ads.
I've started paying attention to AI (again). This ML hype cycle feels like when I did optimization stuff 15 years ago. Huge interest, lots of monkey motion, then it just fell off everyone's radar.

Not equating ML to OR, directly. With today's horsepower and data sets, it is a brave new world. But we're in the elevated expectation phase of the hype cycle.
It's not specifically about the DMCA; it's about legal issues in general. Intent matters in the vast majority of law. You'd be hard-pressed to argue in front of a judge that your intent wasn't to block this specific site, based on the sequence of events:

1. Site added to block list.

2. Site removed from block list due to DMCA takedown request.

3. Site block by new rule added that doesn't target it directly.

I can't imagine any judge or jury looking at that sequence events and then taking you seriously when you say "I didn't intend to block the original site".

The parent's point was more along the lines of: people in the tech world need to stop looking for technical solutions to all problems. Some problems are social problems, or legal problems. They should be solved directly, not with awkward (or possibly illegal or at least tort-worthy) workarounds. We talk about chilling effects and corporations engaging in anti-social behavior when they threaten open source and the open web in particular, but attacking social/legal problems with technological workarounds is itself also anti-social.

Not saying that technological solutions are not useful sometimes. In the short-term, you can often make a bad social or legal problem less bad by using a tech workaround, while simultaneously taking the long slog toward fixing the root of the problem. But putting tech band-aids over our problems and then walking away will only hurt us in the long run.
The memo was not some sort of mass email sent to all employees. It was posted on an internal message board that was purposed for discussion and peer review. The media is absolutely to blame as they blatantly doctored the original document with their own publications.
I'm in the middle of building https://minihero.org/ and hoping to ship next week. I hope that in the future volunteering will be as easy as hailing an Uber.
What entire industry? Advertising? And how is the world worse because of it?

Do you realize just how much advertising funds? It's a 12 figure global industry and 99% of the content you consume is funded in part by it - and that's before we get to how advertising drives the economy by efficiently matching businesses to customers. Every company relies on advertising (whether paid, word-of-mouth, etc) to succeed.

It's irrational to see so much hate and it's likely your complaint is really only about intrusive ad formats and data privacy. That is something I agree with and I'm for every change that makes for safer, better, and more private ads, but that is vastly different than calling for the elimination of advertising in any sensible reality.
I dont get why you are being sympathetic towards Amazon. They delivered the package to a WRONG address and then closed the case just because it was delivered to the SAME town ? Don't you see an issue with Amazon's system here ? This is just incompetence and nothing else. I love amazon but this particular case is just incompetence on Amazon's part after the fraud happened.
> If the user tries to text zoom.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I missed that part. That makes absolute sense. :)

> The concept of text-only zoom makes sense for documents, but not for images, where the position of the text is far more important.

> SVG is fundamentally a absolutely-position image, not a laid out document.

svt text is a fundament of svg that is incompatible with absolute-positioning. The OS's font stack might render px-sized mono-spaced font text at width x, or it might render it at x+7.

Edit: typo
Side-scrolling tabs are one of the worst UI innovations I've suffered in recent years. They wreak havoc on spatial tab organization, make it impossible to see how many tabs are open, and slide out from under the mouse cursor unpredictably when clicking.

The original Safari behavior of a vertical overflow list of tabs, favicons included, keyboard searchable and navigable, was much more usable. https://i.stack.imgur.com/eyXum.png
I think you mean "sold by Amazon"? Third parties can take advantage of prime shipping, and people have been scammed via that method as well.
"Apple is secretly working on her own Siri-based Echo competitor: Homepod." … this is not a secret.
switched on firefox and can't look back!
We had looked at PowerInbox before but can't remember why we hadn't given them a try. Hadn't heard of LiveIntent. I'll look into both of them a bit more. Thanks!
she's
Is there a way to just turn third party offers off?
That's not necessarily going to protect you if they can link the two - same address, same card, etc.

https://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/

> We have found your account is directly related to another which has been previously closed for abuse of our policies. As such, your Amazon.co.uk account has been closed and any open orders have been cancelled.
Chinese Quantum Satellite Transmits First Ever 'Unhackable' Code
3 Ways VR Is Changing the Games Industry
I didn't know about this before myself, so I'm afraid I'm not in a position to help clarify your questions.
The notion that "Amazon has EVERYTHING" only works if you can actually count on the purchase to work. Once it becomes apparent that third-party sellers are crap and those items don't count, you're back to "Amazon has certain things."

And I'm not merely careful to filter stuff. Amazon is no longer my go-to in general. I do buy stuff from them sometimes, but they're not the first place I check for most things.

A less savvy buyer probably won't even do that. If they get burned too badly on an Amazon purchase, they'll just abandon Amazon, not learn which checkboxes mean "hide the scams."
Yeah, definitely! I'm planning on writing a blog post about how it was built, and I'd be happy to release the code (although I'd like to clean it up some, and I'm not sure how much of it would be of general interest).
It's not advertisers as much as a complex supply chain with bad incentives in a 12-figure global industry.

We say the same things with government waste over military and healthcare. And we can fix it in the same ways with better trust, accountability and regulation.
Yes, I assume the same. There doesn't seem to be a large need to update the dex format so my assumption is this change enables faster compilation, perhaps by better integration with the Android Gradle plugin or incremental support.
Technological Surge Cycle: Patrick O’Shaughnessy – Jerry Neumann Conversation
I used to sell some items on Amazon and paying them %15 - %25 of sell price. I think this is where Amazon makes its major money. I was costing Amazon very little, unlike Prime and free one day shipping, 2 hours shipping, etc.

I think Amazon lose money on lots of its own services to drive customers in, and force 3rd party sellers to use its service for a nice commission.
"edible" in the sense that they can be processed by mastication. also in the sense that after you've consumed enough, you no longer care about the flavor or ... tenderness.
Since there isn't much difference in required skill or credentials or prerequisites (let's assume there isn't) we are back to preferences. What do we observe? The top three are high-social-interaction, nurturing-type jobs, the bottom one is technology-heavy and more solitary.

So we are back at the point that the document made - differing preferences are a far more likely explanation than discrimination.
To elaborate, iirc Softbank wants to buy at a 30% discount to the latest topline paper price (which is entirely fair).
Why I Was Fired by Google