skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a similar scam has been going on for a while, with at least video games, board games, and bike gear, from what I've seen on Amazon Canada.

Third party sellers with a "real" looking name will list an item at a ridiculous discount off retail. If you buy it, you get a Chinese international tracking number. This takes forever to "arrive" and it turns out Amazon only really cares that the tracking number shows to Canada. I'm not sure what is actually in the package, since it's not possible to figure out more than just the city it went to.

Eventually, Amazon will refund you, but it's a bit annoying. It's pretty easy to spot once you get bit the first time, but you'll usually see the third party seller spike to several hundred bad reviews before the entire situation gets resolved.

This seems like Amazon CSR just failed to read the writer's complaints correctly. It should eventually get fixed, because it often does get fixed, even for hundreds of customers at a time.
Not in Germany (and I think also other european countries). People here love using cash, and so a lot of the startups go with it, or they would lose out on +50% of the market.
Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time
Quirk – A drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator that runs in your browser
My worry is that the current regimes of Russia and China are on the political upswing faster than the European experiment and struggling or young democracies in the developing world can stand the test of time.

Enthusiastic participation by America in upholding the idea of liberal democracy (even when it's imperfectly executed) can tip the scales.

The way that happens is by the head of the government reversing course as smoothly as possible from admiring and praising autocratic regimes to giving hope and comfort to democratic allies. Whether it's President Trump, Pence, or fucking Mark Zuckerberg doesn't make too much of a difference in that regard.
When I say "this account" it means the one I'm directly replying to.
Bitfinex – Service Changes for U.S. Customers
I don't get your point. The author just used some funny metaphore to explain how our brain works. And yes, our brain still works with ancestral habits, this is not a big news after all.
Hamilton 68 – A Dashboard for Tracking Russian Propaganda
California Court Orders Vinod Khosla to Reopen Disputed Beach
Suprising to see a recommendation for QUIC by someone who seems to ackowledge djb's contributions and incredible attention to detail. http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201103#28

Correct me if wrong, but QUIC was inspired by djb's CurveCP?

Would you rather have djb implement your trusted UDP congestion-controlled overlay or a company with 70,000+ employees who are paid from the sale of online ads?

@hashbreaker
Apr 15
CurveCP's zero-padding (curvecp.org/messages.html) was designed years before ringroadbug.com, explicitly to stop that type of attack.

http://ringroadbug.com

Ring-Road

Leaking Sensitive Data in Security Protocols

What is Ring-Road?

The Ring-Road Bug is a serious vulnerability in security protocols [e.g, QUIC but not CurveCP] that leaks the length of passwords allowing attackers to bypass user authentication. The Internet Engineering Task Force for HTTP/2 led by Google is working to create a patch to protect security protocols vulnerable to Ring-Road.

Researchers a part of Purdue University identified a major security issue with Google's QUIC protocol (Quick UDP Internet Connections, pronounced quick).
In practice that "when using" stuff doesn't work. The DMCA request is denied by most providers if they can't see "the text in question".

This is from experience. Scrapers that change one or two words in a long passage of text getting away with it because it doesn't match. Or very lightly cropping 1000's of original photos. I will cede that it depends on the provider. Google and many others do some rudimentary checking for sanity before allowing a DMCA request. They would never have passed this one, where just a short piece of text was claimed as infringing.
I like how this list is zero-indexed.
As a future feature, it would be pretty awesome to have SC be some sort of free DAW, or tools to help the musician create tracks, rather than just hosting.

That would be a differentiator between them and uploading to youtube with a static image.
Maybe this sort of fraud becomes impossible if we had cryptographic ledger based delivery confirmation systems (keyed to sender, recipient, delivery address).
Edit: Because apparently technological solutions aren't to be discussed if they involve recent, trendy tech?
Yes some will. But you should look at it like gambling for those that do. They lucked in to FileCoin and will probably make money, but perhaps they've also lost money on other ICOs. If they get out now, they might end up ahead but for each one of them, there has to be someone that loses equal money (assuming it truly is a bubble).
I look at big companies road map, and do what next thing, only better.
Our decentralized marketplace, OpenBazaar, uses IPFS for storing stores' content. Visitors to the store seed the content so other users can interact with the store when the vendor is offline. But that means you have to wait for people to visit your store before you can shutdown the software. If Filecoin is successful they'd be able to pay to ensure their store stays available on the network without actively running the software.
Just had this happen to me with a video game. Luckily amazon just gave me a refund
Most people think depression is caused by, "an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain", and don't know much else about it.

Thanks for the papers, they're interesting and I hadn't seen all of that research, despite being somewhat familiar with the field.
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Outrage Addiction?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=outrage+addiction
Why would they not go after the guy with the private key? Any way he can escape that so could git.
It could still tie their hands later on. Once it starts crashing they'll lose a lot of the early adopter enthusiasm that they will need to catch on.
That's actually a really good idea. Thanks. I'll do some research there and then see if I can get in touch with some potential advertisers.

Good insight about companies having existing vs creating a budget - will remember that. Thanks again.
It has a hole (it only checks the town and has no closed loop to verify that the shipper shipped to the right address in that town), but none of the existing employees actually know that it has a hole.

This is an entirely predictable outcome, especially for the brains at Amazon. This was implemented according to specifications and designs that involved several people, meaning that it was a conscious and deliberate decision to only check the city, which is obviously imprecise. This imprecision does not even require computers to recognize it.
Have a transaction with some dead man switch logic that moves it into an account of your children? Let the timeout be 1 year. Of course someone could remove you from the internet for 1 year, but they always could could kill you too.

Or use a secret sharing scheme, similar as the article suggets, to leave keys with notaries and family members.
This is a good question. At least at a location where the US does not have an immediate jurisdiction. It's kinda lame, really, that the whole world has to bend over because all of these services are right there in the US. Make them work, at least. Germany, Sweden come to mind.

*edit: removed a redundant word
They shouldn't send the content before they check if the user has paid to view it. Otherwise if they send the content to anyone who requests they can't complain when I choose what does and doesn't run on my computer.
Confirmations are quite different from legislation. Most confirmations had already been reduced to only requiring a simple majority. Supreme Court was the only remaining position for which a confirmation still required 60 votes.

There doesn't appear to be any movement toward changing the rules for legislation. If they were willing to do that, they wouldn't have tried so hard to squeeze the AHCA under the budget reconciliation umbrella.
I like that you like that.
Ask HN: Curated learning guides and links?
I'm constantly trying to learn, but with so many options its difficult to string together resources that actually are effective. I was thinking about making a curated learning website where users can upvote links to learning javascript, physics, music and essentially have a meta map of the internets learning resources. A lot like HN but purely for learning/how tos! What do you think?
I've done this with FB.
Mode collapse in GANs
I think this was largely the business model for BookBub - take a look at them
Don’t Be Evil
The strange thing about Woz is that I don't know what he worked on at Apple after the Apple II

https://www.theymadethat.com/people/31em5b/steve-wozniak
How Does the Government Regulate Exchange Rates?

https://www.thebalance.com/how-does-the-government-regulate-...
Since you haven't done it in this thread, I checked your comment history to see what you have said about the memo itself.

The only thing I could find that begins to be a direct reference is "In this memo's case, perhaps you're mad at someone for saying you're genetically predisposed to be less capable of individual action (e.g., don't worry I am sure if we set up pair programming that will make it fair for you social women types)." The only thing I found in the memo that could be interpreted as women being less capable in something regarding tech work was, "This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading." Granted, I did not interpret "having a harder time" as meaning "is less capable of," but I do see how you could think that. However, that statement is analogous to something like "black Americans in the 50s generally had a harder time running businesses, getting quality education, and finding quality housing." Empirically true, and has nothing to do with capability.

Another point of confusion I can understand is while it mentions the fact that men and women have biological differences, it never says anything at all about what those differences are. Further, he goes on to say "many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions." Now I certainly agree that raising the topic of potential biological differences, only to instantly drop it, is poor writing, and if you justly continue reading the memo expecting more references to that topic, you could be left with a certain level of confusion.

It's fine to not agree with something or someone. It's also OK to be wrong about something, or misunderstand a given piece of material. It is not OK to dismiss out of hand perceived others or to take an emotionally vested interest in your misunderstanding when it's been pointed out.

This is a discussion board. pharrington literally and solely exists to discuss things with KirinDave (and any other accounts posting on this site).
> Only a small minority of investments, aka a portion of seed rounds, are done with the technology (and subsequent business model) merely in a hypothetical whitepaper stage.

There are occasional exceptions [0].

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/25/khosla-ventures-leads-50-...
> Difference in preferences usually results in difference in abilities due to a difference in life choices, that is how I interpreted it.

Indeed, but the relationship is not necessarily simple and requires argumentation rather than handwave.
You're most welcome. It's good you're getting ideas but the key is understanding what resonates most with your members.
If i would have signed up for a mailing by a bookstore, i'd only really care about specific recommendations for me. Just a single title, based on set preferences/previous purchases and not too often.

Bit like parties as Netflix do if they release some new series they strongly think you'd like. It feels more like a 'reminder' then an ad, but its an ad of course.
For cryptocurrencies the appropriate forum for this is http://reddit.com/r/Buttcoin

(frequented by spectators and speculators)
I think the /idea/ of IPFS is very useful. On the other hand, I think the creators are way too interested in bikeshedding and writing new white papers for less useful things. They just aren't interested in providing real value to end users. They have this early adopter bubble that seems to be quite popular but I don't think it's going anywhere.
lol blockchain.

It'd only work if they wrote the APIs in Rust and the management UI was isomorphic React.
Nice! I like that basically now you have an e-mail interface to Evernote. What I like about that is that you get all operating systems for free and crazy robustness in terms of forwards compatibility (at least, on the client-side).
> hard

> messy

Yes, but that's why we entrust it to a half-trillion-dollar company. If it were realistic for everyone and their dog to set up a trustworthy marketplace on their Wordpress site, that's what we'd have.

Amazon should be solving hard, messy problems, it's their job.
Hmm.. that's from 1989. 3Com would have still been a fairly respected network hardware vendor.

I have a strange feeling '3com.com' would have been a consideration when this change was proposed.
Also

> 3. Circumventing a publisher’s paywall or copyright access control technology is not OK

Would any technologist who doesn't work for Admiral consider javascript a "copyright access control technology"? (I'm assuming their product is javascript.)
Someone should make a separate explicit list with such kind of domains. Let them get the Streisand effect.
Admiral's product is so poorly designed that it requires cooperation from the browser to work? That violates rule #1 of client/server programming: never trust the client.
Instead, they have to abuse the DMCA to cover for their uninformed engineering choices.

This is despicable.

"Here hold this copyrighted content in memory for me, but don't make any other copies of it because, uh, you don't have the license to make copies of it. Except for, uh, the one that we sent you? To hold in memory? Look, computers are magic.

Nevermind. DMCA!"
Umberto Eco talks in Foucault's Pendulum about how when you believe a conspiracy theory, evidence against the conspiracy theory becomes evidence for the conspiracy theory because you believe it's part of the cover-up.

In this case, I think the easier dismissal would be to simply say, "I think that Kalanick's relationship with Benchmark soured over time."
Not OP, but pretty much. Works much better if you can investigate and assemble most of the evidence yourself so all they have to do is make an arrest.
I presume you mean that the SBC prohibits female pastors?
The author appealed, stating that the delivery address was incorrect. Amazon's rejected the appeal on the basis that the tracking information "shows that someone at your address signed for the package." That's not a mysterious hole that low-level employees are unaware of, that's just inattention on the part of whoever was handling the appeal.
- Scaling down a company is generally hard and (lately) not done as often. It's pretty difficult to spend 6 years where hiring is your biggest priority (from executive level on down) and then all of a sudden it isn't.

- It's quite common for investors to push hiring more people as a way to get more stuff done. The general refrain you will hear from many investors on how to (move faster|fix problem) is to hire for it.

- The default thing to do with capital to invest is to acquire/hire.

I guess to summarize, staying lean just isn't a priority for these companies or their investors. The expectation is enormous growth or failure. The reality is often quite more nuanced.
You bring up a great point that this is not a black and white issue. It is possible to push an idea so far that it harms the students. I don't think we should try to "correct" the bias students have towards toys. If a boy wants to play with dolls or if a girl wants to play with Lego, we should encourage them. If a boy doesn't want to play with dolls or a girl doesn't want to play with Lego, we shouldn't push it on them.

My point is that we shouldn't raise children in an environment where a boy never has the chance to play with dolls or a girl never has the chance to play with Lego. We should expose children to all different types of toys and ideas, and let them decide what they enjoy.

It's clear that Karen Keller shouldn't have discouraged the boys from playing with Lego in the classroom. These "women in tech" events don't discourage girls from playing with toys or makeup. These events expose girls to tech related toys or ideas and if the girls enjoy it, good for them. If the girls don't enjoy the event, they aren't pushed into attending more "women in tech" events. I don't see any harm with exposing young students to ideas they might have not been exposed to before.
My friends and I worked on this problem for a hackathon and even managed to get 3 letters that could be recognized! The judges were unimpressed and the win went to a group that copied a project off of instructables.com :)
Communication complexity of approximate Nash equlibria
Including tax and fees with no caps?
It's the latter. Too much abstraction for no good reason because it's "what you do". I wasn't throwing out an opinion on the primary concern of the topic. In my experience, good devs write good code.
I'd like to hear more about it, but maybe there is too much content behind it for the editorial. Are women more likely to accept a bad work environment? Are women more likely to be encouraged to keep quiet? Is being encouraged to keep quiet more likely to be effective on women than men?
So glad that Jeff's assistant isn't even able to read an email. This sucks man. Appreciate you taking the time to document it and share it.
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Hang on - Brutalism didn't allow literal facades, but I don't think anyone was claiming that.

The specific complaint is that Brutalism is utterly dependent on reinforced concrete. The outer faces are largely cladding and support for the rebar which makes the entire structure viable; concrete alone has terrible tensile strength, and so can't possibly support high-tension structures like Boston City Hall.

That's not just a mechanical observation; it's a major source of criticism for Brutalist works. Rebar ages terribly. Its lifespan is perhaps 10-20% that of pure concrete, and the Brutalist style actively shortens that range. The lack of paint and cladding enables the moisture damage that destroys rebar; concrete is not actually impermeable. (It also tends to create unsightly stains due to rust.) Brutalist buildings need repair quickly, and tend to fail in particularly unpleasant ways - repair is expensive and urgent once decay starts.

I agree that extensions and elevated structures can add value. I'm told Boston City Hall's overhangs and plaza produced a welcoming sitting area for many years. But at the same time, it's currently a foreboding stretch of wasted space in the heart of the city. I don't know how much of that is a changing relationship with political institutions (City Hall is less 'local' and more 'political' today) and how much is the changing role of public space, but it does leave a lot of Brutalist works failing at their original goals.
I don't get why he kept hammering on them for the fact that it was delivered to the wrong address. The bigger problem here, and a better basis for a refund, is the fact that they sent the wrong item. If they sent the wrong item to the correct address it should be eligible, right?
it would be cool to have them written in typescript.
So, I don't know, but if we're down to quibbling amount the amount of money taxes represent, I think the argument that Europe has drastically better Internet access than the US is over, isn't it?
Ah, yes, the blockchain, notoriously impervious to fraud.
Uber board member Bill Gurley resigns after leading effort to remove CEO Travis Kalanick

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-bil...
Lambda School (YC S17) Is Hiring a Lead Computer Science Instructor (Remote OK)
Lambda School is a computer science education that's free until our students get a job (see https://lambdaschool.com). We find really sharp people all over the US, train them remotely to be software engineers for free, and take a portion of their income for a couple of years once they are hired. We aim to be a risk-free, world-class education that's accessible to anyone.

We go quite a bit deeper than code bootcamps, and we want to bring someone on that would enjoy teaching some of the lower-level topics (we currently use C++): lower-level data structures/algorithms, memory management, operating systems, etc. The full curriculum is here: https://github.com/LambdaSchool/LambdaCSA-Syllabus.

We're in the current S17 batch, have raised a bit, and should continue to be profitable; feel free to ask us how that's possible once we get to that point.

If you know someone that is a good engineer but would also love to teach and change lives, please reach out.

Email careers@lambdaschool.com with resumes/CVs.
I genuinely wonder how much of this experience can be attributed to being in Stanford CS instead of Random State U CS.
There's also a question about if the ads are collecting any tracking info or not. There's a specific exception to the anti-circumvention clause in the DMCA for anything that can be used to collect personally identifiable information. If the ads being shown are of the typical variety then it's perfectly valid to circumvent them per the DMCA.
Even if we take for granted the absurd premise that this is "copy protection circumvention", it's still nonsense for the same reason that gun manufacturers aren't sued for murders.
The books on our sites are free, so while we do our best to email interesting content to our members (with our hand selected weekly picks for example), it doesn't bring any revenue in and of itself, unless they decide to upgrade their membership.
"Benchmark's investment of $27M is worth $8.4 billion today"

"We have investors ready to acquire these shares"

So they have 8.4 billion in new funding lined up? Somehow I doubt it.
As the "owner" of thousands of dollars worth of Kindle books, I'm terrified of disputing an Amazon charge.
Olia Lialina has a great piece about the aesthetics of "Prof. Dr. Style": http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
I'm wondering more and more why Amazon hosts third-party sellers at all.

They dilute the Amazon brand to a tremendous degree. It used to be that buying from Amazon meant a certain level of quality and service. Now there are really two Amazons: the old one, and a new one that's basically a shitty version of eBay.

I have to go out of my way to avoid these crappy third-party sellers when I'm searching for stuff on Amazon. It's not a nice experience to go searching for a product and have to step through a minefield of "cheap" items that take two months to arrive, or have outrageous shipping fees, or are outright scams.

It is really worth it for Amazon to have them? I struggle to see how.
> The new CEO is a Harvard Business School grad with experience as CEO of Vimeo, a similar media business.

If you didn't intend to express a bias then what is half of that sentence, other than unnecessary filler?