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I'm the developer. I know how you feel, and I recently complained about it myself here: https://www.clickerheroes2.com/paytowin.php

We never tried to abuse people with F2P.

The irony is not lost on me.
This is an interesting demonstration how fiddly and UB-happy FFI boundaries can be... Fortunately the UB → abort change will land in the future, it will be for the better.
Full disclosure I work for Amazon (on the web services side).

The author of this article clearly doesn't know much about selling on Amazon, because what he is asking for is possible. It's called the Amazon Brand Registry. You can contact the infringment team using the details here and initiate the process of getting your brand / ASIN locked so that other people can't sell it without your permission: https://www.amazon.com/report/infringement

Also check this out: https://services.amazon.com/brand-registry.html

If you have a popular product then counterfeiters are unfortunately inevitable, but you do have options to fight back and stop them.

There is also Brand Gating which is a little harder to get. Look up ASIN or Brand Gating for information. Basically you can order the counterfeit product and report it to Amazon. It can cost a couple thousand in legal fees to register your brand and get all the paperwork unless you are capable of doing it all yourself, but it is possible.
By whom and why?
This sounds awfully like we had to destroy the village to save the village.

No one expects it will be easy to end discrimination, but it is hard to see how it will be solved by piling on more discrimination.
What do you think is so painful about styling in React? Genuinely curious. The scoping of stuff? The organization?
also, 23,000 people disclosed their private key to a third party.

a) in a sense maybe they thought they were disclosing their private key to a their CA so in a sense it didn't really matter because their CA could issue certificates for their domain anyway (... ignoring certificate transparency/other external verification)

[... we know this is not true and it's mostly people don't know/don't care/it doesn't matter what they are doing in the scheme of things]
That's not difficult to reconcile at all. A person with nothing has way more than a person with debts and other obligations. A person with nothing has no trouble changing their circumstances, because they have nothing to lose.

Compare that to a person who is the sole caregiver/earner for family that is dependent on them, $20k in debt from medical bills.

The sort of person for whom a one-week disruption in pay pushes them across the line from just barely keeping up to unable to pay their utility bills.

Would you really counsel them to move on at full speed, damn the cost to their loved ones?
Jeeze, looking at the product page it's really hard to spot the seller and make sure you've chosen a legit vendor.

Also, Anchors are a great idea. I'm a VR developer and my desk is pretty crowded with headsets, so I just ordered a few to try them out. Hopefully the real ones arrive!
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Last year I had two products I bought on Amazon arrive that were obviously previously opened. No warning at all when making the purchase. They didn't appear to be counterfeit but I still returned them. Now I avoid Amazon whenever I can.
>if amazon's customer service wasnt so good i would have dropped them already.

And this is why Jeff Bezos is sitting on (maybe) the biggest pile of money anyone has ever had, and why counterfeiting is not a problem Amazon will ever be interested in solving. It doesn't matter. People either don't notice that they've wound up with a counterfeit, or they don't blame it on Amazon. They just return it or write it off and remain customers.

...this and AWS.
Total scumbag management- got what they deserved
It could be, but to what end?
The things which really get my goat are the awful-quality print-on-demand facsimiles I sometimes accidentally buy when I'm looking for an old book. Seriously putting me off Amazon. Nationalise and break them up already!
Is it?

Customer service is independent from the primary business transaction being executed.

They are fucking up but compensate through good cust. Service.

Seems like a policy decision, as fighting it costs more than the break fix
Isn't it possible to bring a class action lawsuit? This is precisely the kind of things that a class action suit is a good remedy for.
The usual definition of fungible is that one coin (more precisely, one spend output) is as good as another (e.g., the same amount coming from a different UTXO) and they are not distinguishable from each other due to their provenance.

Put more simply, if the coins can be 'tainted' because they were transferred to you from a ransomware hoard then they're not fungible because a merchant could say: "I'm not taking those coins, I don't want to be associated with ransomware. You have to pay me with other coins."

Neither BTC nor BCH has this kind of fungibility, though Monero does.
>The quiz was pretty easy middle school math that would take 15 minutes to complete.

Racist, discriminatory, or whatever you might think this would be, I cannot imagine being any type of manager in any type of corporation and wanting to hire someone above retail clerk-level who could not pass such a test. I just wouldn't want any company business passing through the judgement and perception of someone that never learned mathematical reasoning beyond single-variable algebra, even if it seems like math abilities are irrelevant to the position. Innumeracy might be less of a big deal than illiteracy, but it is still a fundamental gap.

If it was being pushed on international hires, it could have just been a trivial check against unreliable international standards and qualification reporting or something.
These conversations should really be about overall easily-liquidable compensation (RSUs count, options don't) rather than base salary. At the big tech companies, $150k is a medium-to-high base salary, but most people are making much closer to $200k or more in overall compensation.
We're compatible with all the major launch vehicle families-- SpaceX Falcon 9, Atlas V, Ariane 5, and some of the other foreign launchers. Part of the great thing about where things are in the industry today is that ride shares for micro-satellites (where you fly as a piggy-back alongside a traditional satellite) are pretty much a solved problem.
Companies are only required to "avoid discrimination."

So documenting attempts to hire and attract underrepresented people (POC), is a way to avoid discrimination lawsuits and satisfy court judgments for prior bad hiring practices.

Recruiters need to get POC into the pipeline. Then, merit based "scoring" is introduced. There's no guarantee they'll be hired.
They see that the people they "want to hire" can't pass some standard so they call it discriminatory.

It's as if they think people can't do math based on ethnicity. Those people are the true racists.
The writer advises people to "look at the seller," but Amazon's commingling of products means that doing so is often useless. I believe I've also seen mention that there's a way to prevent that by assigning your own numbers and paying Amazon more, but for something like this where there is only one legitimate supplier I'm not sure it would do any good. (edit: NathanKP posted relevant links as I was posting)

What's amazing to me is that these days I'd consider eBay a safer option for a lot of purchases - at least there I know what seller I'm dealing with.
You don't solve the upstream problems by doing the exact same wrong that made the problem to begin with. If the institutions that preceded yours bred inequality and bias then yes, you get a biased candidate pool, whether you are the NBA or Google. But the solution is never to get an input of biased applicants and select not the best candidate but the one that meets a racial quota to try to make yourself feel better about racism in the world.

In both cases I imagine there are capable young non-black men who don't pursue basketball because its a "black sport" and there are technically minded young black women who don't pursue software because its a "nerdy white man industry". Regardless of if the NBA is actually biased, or if tech companies are actually sexist, what matters is the average normative cultural perception of that industry or discipline. If you are told your whole life by opinionated outsiders that only white men can program of course you are going to have a hard time finding the willpower to fight that presumption as a young uninformed anything.
Many aspects of how we categorize humans fall apart when you start asking questions like this. Best I can say is there are no logically satisfying answers.
Andrew Ng’s older machine learning MOOC class was excellent. I took it once, and took it again a few years later. In the last 8 months I also took his new deep learning set of courses. All really good stuf! (I have been working in the field since the 1980s, but constantly refreshing helps me. And Andrew’s lectures are great fun, he is a teaching artist.
Amazon should do what they can to weed out this kind of thing.

But consumers can also be more aware of the sellers on Amazon.
Why is Amazon not actively seeking out patterns of counterfeiters and suggesting this to sellers.

Just doing simple image machine learning should get 90% of scammers.

He AWS team is great about this. Looking for abnormalities. Looking for posted AWS keys. Proactively. The retail guys need to get some of the cloud guy smarts. Or ethics. Either/or will help stop this.

I don’t sell, but I can barely buy from amazon because of all the scam copies and fake reviews.
What kind of writing do you have in mind?
What part of selling a fake and probably dangerous appliance is good customer service?

My favorite thing about Amazon is that they screw up and ship me things that I don’t order a few times year.
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So hire a Chinese company to manufacture it on the cheap to begin with. Isn't that what everyone does anyway?

The market doesn't care about who has the best idea, or who had it first, it only cares about who comes to market with the best deal for the consumer.
You know, I believe you. I wish the industry had more like you too. Good luck!
It's not a big deal as described in the article. The effort to apply to YC is nominal, not terribly distracting, and probably a good exercise even if you don't get accepted.
Doesn't LVM solve this? I know this might not work as well in some cases with multi-disk arrays, but I'm not sure I'd call that "casual use".
I have actually worked with people to pursue this and we got nowhere. The counterfeits just came online under a fake upc and amazon wouldn’t take any more action.

We gave up and just tell customers anything with our brand on amazon is a fake.
but they're not actually equivalent, in spite of tables like this [0]. type ii error is a false negative result in the context of a test, where you have to understand which hypothesis is which and exactly what you are accepting or rejecting (hypotheses are not always as simple as hotdog/not-hotdog); if your listener doesn't know what statistical tests mean or wasn't following the setup, they have to stop you and ask.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors#Tabl...
The Bloomberg article specifies them as "real wages", which are, by definition, adjusted for inflation.
The article mentions that there was a hiring freeze of white and Asian candidates and shows in a demographic breakdown that 56% of its employees are white.

The US is 76.9% of the US "white alone" according to its Census data. The corresponding figure for California is 72.7%.

It's interesting that YouTube (allegedly) made the decision to freeze hires of a racial group already underrepresented and that the text of the article never touched upon the point. The ethnic group truly overrepresented in US tech companies is Asians.

It's an unfortunate trend of treating people as members of groups rather than individuals to begin with, but it's doubly unfortunate that so many Americans are struggling even to speak openly about the what the current numbers are.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217
Cool, then open source it to screw the scammers and make a harder to fake product next time.

Sorry.
I remember a while back there was a kickstarter for a phone case that folds out into a selfie stick, it got successfully funded.

Within weeks of the kickstarter finishing, before the kickstarter had even delivered or even started manufacturing the cases, they were for sale on Aliexpress.

It seems so easy for someone in China to do this. Look for successful product kickstarters and you already have market validation. Something like a selfie stick case would be so easy to set up a production run for.
In my youth, these things were simply not done. They were inexcusable. Now, people think nothing of blowing you off.
nevermind, hn is not the place for discussion of race.
Keeping nazis off of servers one owns/rents themselves is not censorship.
It’s not a simple as you make it out to be. Amazon launched a new Brand Registry last year and all the companies in the previous version were dumped and told to re-apply.

Source: I’m a seller on Amazon and I actually bought one of these counterfeit headphone holders.
Asian males are generally, without knowing them, considered to be smart, hardworking, nonviolent, helpful, family and work oriented, and stable. And they likely (I would guess) on average be more likely to be raised by both parents, who model school and work and family to them. So, in terms of what is termed as priviledge...theres that.
Agree on the AJAX calls. Modern web apps are a mess. Thankfully mobile apps are built quite differently, so that's an improvement. And the biggest potential market out there to serve is new users that will be coming online for the first time mobile-first.
All you have to do is make another listing under a similar name, buy some fake reviews to pump it up, and sell it for cheaper than the real one.
> "She's gone now, instantly, after working there for 20 years and rising to senior executive VP. What is going on in our industry?"

Her crime was not having ideological purity...
A friend of mine tried this. Chinese company delayed shipment to US and flooded amazon with counterfeits made on the same line.

By the time the product made it through customs his “partner” had sold thousands.
at this point i think the problem with system() should be blamed on the language and not the people using the language. how many legitimate uses of system() functiona call are there. a primitive that does fork() execv() on an array is a much better alternative. yeah, it doesn't 100% fix problems you might have issues with - style flags but you are in a much better situation. like if your users want to do system() maybe force them to do the extra work.

system() style functionality -> should be the hard thing to do
execv() style functionality() -> should be the easy thing to do
That candidate showed remarkable common sense.
I think I'd settle for having a proportionate amount of the conversation being about discrimination against white men. So, perhaps, for every thousand comments about discrimination against other groups, we could include a word or two. I am a white man - I have never to my knowledge been meaningfully discriminated against. I think only a fool would suggest that if I was black, or a woman, I could say that - or even say that for a more limited time period.
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> The thing I hate about actions like this is what it does to talented people who fit some diversity quota checklist, both in the perception they have of themselves and those of other people. If you are a talented melanin-rich woman you are going to face both heightened impostor syndrome and dismissal by others that you only got the job because of some quota.

The thing I hate about it is that it involves rejecting candidates on the basis of the colour of their skin.
Agreed, I no more want to hear hate from the far Left tham I do from the far Right. Neither side seems to understand that the existence of the other isn’t license to drag people into the mud. Fortunately I think the loud minority is a minority; most conservatives I know aren’t hateful bigots, and most liberals I know aren’t “kill the white men” crazy.

...and frankly work can be stressful enough without crazy in both ears. It’s important to distinguish between hate/crazy and a real and present issue within the workplace though.
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> Every indication has always been that this was the problem with tech ...

I agree completely, and it's incredible that so many people with exceptional critical thinking skills could dismiss the universal, consistent reports of the witnesses to these events, in favor of the analysis of people who have no experience at all - themselves and other men. And that includes me: WTF was I thinking? Everyone who experienced these things said the same thing, people who had no direct experience said otherwise, and I believed the latter? If everyone in Honolulu said the grass in Hawaii is dewy in the mornings, and everyone in Ohio said it isn't - why would you even ask the Ohioans?

The same applies to the treatment of African-Americans by law enforcement. African-Americans have been talking about it for generations, the same stories over time and across the U.S. Why did it take videos for me to believe it?

My guess is that it comes from accepting social norms of the people around me, and dismissing people I didn't interact with. The solution, IMHO, is interacting with people outside your group and people telling their stories, as they did in this article. If you want to know what's really happening on issues like these, forget all your theories - just ask and listen (and zip it). The most ardent theories suddenly become insubstantial in the face of evidence.
Was this UIL for computer science by any chance? My team and I have to do the exact same process!
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I second this strongly. Have basically stopped shopping from Amazon entirely.

Haven't ever read a single word from Amazon to reassure me (as a buyer) about counterfeits. At least nothing beyond completely cookie cutter PR stuff that my brain just dismisses.

Let's see some stats. Let's see some action plans. Let's get all these sellers' horror stories out of my various feeds. Where's all that?
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The field morphing in to being male dominated and the existing women dropping out are two different things. Sure, what you're saying has been discussed plenty on HN. As far as I know the other posters statement hasn't.
Since you work on the web services side it's forgivable that you would think that link to reporting infringement is an effective solution / something that Amazon pays close attention to. We've sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of product on Amazon, found a company selling a counterfeit version of our product, and submitted a complaint to that URL. That was on 4/5/2016. We have yet to receive a response. The only solution we had was to call up the infringer and tell them to stop, which they luckily did.

But, as I said, from the outside, that report link does seem like a viable "option to fight back"; in reality, it's a customer support black hole.
Seems like you've presented a false dichotomy.

It's of course rude to insert yourself into many conversations. That's just a social convention.
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