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Github is the least functional source-code hosting service. Everything from search to issues to wiki is sub-par compared to Gitlab and others. It's massively unprofitable and its main advantage is the large mindshare and community that keeps it around.

Microsoft with its rich resources can easily improve the platform functionality which will benefit anyone using Github, along with likely making several features free (like private repos).
Yeah, and that's a big part of why (high functioning)autism is such a serious disability in the first place. I'm really glad that society is starting to recognize and be aware of it so that autistic individuals can get a pass in this area.
Facebook has much more data on you and the data is a lot more private. What is the most private data google has? Gmail? Locations? AFAIK fb has access to a lot of people’s gmail accounts.
> There is something extremely simple Amazon could do about [counterfeit products]. If you have a registered brand in the Brand Registry and don’t sell the product wholesale – there could be one box to check for that. And anyone else would have to get approval or high vetting to sell the product, especially if they are sending large quantities to FBA. I imagine there are some algorithmic solutions that could catch most of it too… Why Amazon doesn’t do this is mind-blowing

Because producers would immediately check any box that needs to be checked in order to become the single supplier of their brand on Amazon. It's immensely valuable to control all sales on the largest online store in the world, while at the same time maintaining a discriminatory pricing structure on various markets without being undercut online by your own distributors.

Amazon would effectively let brand owners gouge their customers and reduce Amazon overall competitivity and appeal.
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Cocaine is to coca leaves what heroin is to opium. Different beasts.
I used it a lot on holiday. Super useful.
That is insane that they asked this during an interview. Wow. Either HR has no sway over things or they are complicit.
Okay, I'll go ahead and agree with you that it can be a factor. My opinion is that it is an insignificant factor for a person in a store buying a computer.
Also hard because of the requirement to have crew and not kill them, both of which go away when all you’re doing is dropping e.g. one ton cylinders of mildly purified gold wrapped in a steel tube.
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Like any good interview question it leaves a lot of room for the candidate to take the lead, ask questions and define the scope of the problem. These are all useful skills to assess for a senior position.

Of course an hour long interview is not enough time to implement the full Promise spec but it should be enough time to gauge the level of a candidate.
What makes you arrive at this conclusion? Apart from the issue that I would call that a misnomer. But don't get me wrong, I know what you mean here.

But I believe that this article makes a very good point, because if you followed social sciences a bit in the recent past, you could get the impression that they seem to reject the theory of evolution almost in its entirety.
I love that they wrote a tool to automate cracking. I'd be curious to know more about it, like specifically what kinds of protection it could break. IIRC a lot of copy protection on the Apple ][ was pretty straightforward, they'd just change the marker bytes for where sectors began to something nonstandard. I imagine that's pretty easy to automatically reverse. But a disc with something weird like spiral tracking or software with a deeply obfuscated "look up a word in the manual" system must be harder to crack.
They have all your health, money, law and job related problems from your search history.
I don't get it either. I guess people like to have a single villain. Facebook is bad but there are so many other companies that play fast and loose with data (Equifax for example). I hope there will be more legislation like GDPR instead of going after specific companies.
If I don't like it, I can protest it. Also, I don't own any property myself. I'm upset by limiting my opportunity to visit cities cheaply.
I still don't see why wishing someone dead or expressing he should die should be treated differently than empty threat to kill him. Or why you should allow people or corporations to enforce a ban but not government. There are already things you cannot say. Why not add wishing someone harm to them? What useful purpose does it serve?
I'm pretty sure we can and do exactly that all the time. Case law established a very long time ago that ignorance of the law is not an excuse for illegal activity. The burden of crime is always on the person committing the crime, not the person inciting it, expert or not (there's a small exception here for entrapment, but that's completely separate from this situation).

I could be wrong here, so if you or anyone else with more legal background than I have can point to specific prosecutions related to this kind of situation I'd love to read more.
Zuckerberg has much higher face & name recognition
Hm, I found that interview but the link to it said it was a SuperFX chip so I didn’t watch it. That teaches me.
I personally think that instead of organizations trying to show how diverse they are, they should try to show off the neutrality and lack of bias in their decision making process.

I think it's unfortunate that the response to countering discrimination has been to discriminate in the opposite direction instead of working towards pure meritocracy.
This is a frustratingly common but utterly confused viewpoint stemming from the naturalistic fallacy. Facts about our evolution do not entail that we should strive to embrace every human tendency which it has imparted to us.

People are appalled at the suggestion that we have innate tendencies toward aggression, for example, because it clashes with narratives about all social ills being caused by culture, and if you suffer from utopian notions of humanity in its natural state, it seems like endorsement of violence to acknowledge that it is an evolved behaviour, as opposed to a brute fact which we can use to better understand and combat the problem.

"Social Darwinism" is a misleading label, because it refers to the idea that we should allow the weak to perish because it improves the quality of people in society, but this principle does not follow from the fact of human evolution. It is deriving a highly questionable "ought" from an "is", and it's a line of thought which long predates the discovery of evolution. Socrates argued against Callicles' belief that the strong dominating the weak was the justice of nature more than two millennia before Darwin was born.
I first stopped buying memory cards, camera batteries and so on from Amazon, after I received a counterfeit battery.

Having found other retailers for those items, they now also benefit from other purchases. I haven't bought anything from Amazon for over two years.

I've also told my parents not to use Amazon for electronics. They won't notice if they get a counterfeit charger that could burn their house down. It's unlikely, but not worth a $2 saving.
If I want cheap generic headphones I can go to monoprice and get something cheap but safe, legal, and decent quality - their $10 are surprising decent for what they are, throwaway headphones.

If I want nicer headphones I can go to a brick and mortar retailer (or their online counterpart) and get a selection of curtailed products from known brands provided by known suppliers with all the information about the products listed with a good search so I can compare. I have a choice but I don't have to slog through dozens of private label brands or poorly listed products with missing or incorrect descriptions/information. Or irrelevant products listed in the wrong product category.

If I go to Amazon I have to wade through pages of bad search results full of junky unsafe products from questionable sources (paradox of choice) with bad/missing information just to roll the dice that I don't get something counterfeit and/or unsafe.

What purpose does Amazon service now in this situation?
It isn't specifically said, but I assumed that the parent was implicitly suggesting a switch back to private loans with market mechanisms instead of the current government loan mechanism.
> Roman historian Pliny the Elder recorded a story about a metal that was bright as silver but much lighter, which was presented to the Emperor Tiberius (reigned 14–37 CE), who had the discoverer killed in order to ensure the metal would not diminish the value of his gold and silver assets. Some sources suggest a possibility that this metal was aluminium; this claim has been disputed.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aluminium#Early_his...
> it actually takes care of for you behind the scenes

Reminds me of the early days of the Spring Framework in Java when the entire language required sacrificing goats to get all the XML configuration, environment variables, and boilerplate code right. I checked up on the project last year and was pleasantly surprised to find Spring Boot made the process as simple as Rails.
You might like this talk [1] about building a better regex library using dependent type style features. It is really great! The regex is parsed at compile time and then can return better typed information about the capture groups to the lib user. There is also this interview I did with the author on it [2]

[1] https://thestrangeloop.com/2017/dependent-types-in-haskell.h...

[2] https://corecursive.com/015-dependant-types-in-haskell-with-...
Does this find videos that haven't been linked anywhere and that somehow leak, or only shared ones? If it's just the latter, the article is IMHO a tad sensationalist.
I've wondered if Amazon co-locates its own stock with that of Fulfillment By Amazon stock which would mean you could end up with anything as long as it looks similar and has the same SKU.
As an ML engineer & former data scientist, I use awk almost everyday. It's indispensable to pick columns, run simple stats, parse unstructured files, convert between two formats... Hacky, but often the fastest tool.
> Also: For a small company it helps to be part women or minority owned because a certain percent of contracts has to go to these.

There's a lot of Federal contractors in my neck of the woods, and a few friends have joked that if they could just find a minority, female, combat-injured veteran to partner with they'd have a license to print money as you're effectively guaranteed a contract at that point.
Amazon's commingling of items from different sellers is simply insane.
I'm skeptical of your claim that Amazon is a customer-focused company.

They're definitely a growth-focused company. At times in their history, and for certain aspects of the business, that has made them customer-focused.

In many other regards (like making sure the customer gets the product they want) they're clearly not at all customer-focused.

They won't address this until it begins to visibly impact their marketplace dominance.
And potentially embarrassing information about people's preferences in pornography.
So auction the tourist lodging right like taxi medallions, to hotels and home bnbs alike. The move you describe will likely enrich the hotels that already exist downtown without any benefit to the city.
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I thought that was debunked already. (If here is credible
https://freeross.org )
That video about the 6-year-old complaining that their whole life is online without their consent is spot on.
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On a similar boat sometimes I feel most companies worth my work. Really love to start my business. I am a Software Dev too
There's a bit of a difference between a platform company not being willing or able to rigorously monitor the behaviour of all their users and a retailer profiting from selling counterfeit goods and having a policy of intentionally continuing to profit from selling counterfeit goods in any jurisdiction the brand hasn't formalised the trademark after formal complaints...
I generally support grey markets - including works-well-enough brand-imitating goods, and free trade that undermines unjust cartel/vice laws. Like when it clicks that the domain ipwatchdog.com isn't about the Internet Protocol, I just ready myself for the entrenched-interest crybabying.

But I can't figure out why Amazon is undermining their own brand with this co-mingling scheme! The idea of a trustable supply chain is basically the only thing a retail brand is in this day and age, and Amazon goes and directly undermines their own!

I can only surmise the sales on things where it doesn't matter (say fashion) dwarf the return shrapnel for things that it does. Or perhaps that Amazon's internal market-service based approach doesn't account for the externality of arbitraging away their own brand.

I think the only things keeping Amazon so prominent are the sunk cost effect of Prime, and most people not really understanding how many other easy-to-use web stores there actually are.
This is one of the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve the illegal immigration issue.

Republicans get to use ‘illegal immigrants taking jobs’ as a stick to beat democrats with, and progressives use cries of racism to rally support amongst Latino voters.

Meanwhile anyone who espouses common sense ideas such as reforming our immigration policy gets called a racist and ‘anti-immigrant’.
Actually co-mingling in the same warehouse bin is of little to no benefit to Amazon. The benefit is derived by having the same item in different bins, which are in geographically diverse warehouse locations. Amazon saves big bucks by shipping from the most cost effective location in relation to the customer.
you will be blacklisted in many circles

One revelation of the Damore affair was that Google managers a) participate in blacklisting and b) are utterly brazen about it
No, because despite the deceptive title it does actually use server side processing. It relies on https://www.jsonstore.io/ for the actual data storage.
Over the past 5 years, Amazon had turned into a veritable minefield and I've come to treat it like I do when ordering from direct-from-China sites, like dx and banggood. Every department has their own unique problems riding on top of the problems that exist across all departments.

Since the start of Amazon carrying non-books, I've been perpetually amazed by their absolutely terrible product category breakdowns, lack of category enforcement, and piss poor filtering. They left these problems unchecked so long that they basically screamed "Game me. Nobody's watching."

I'm surprised that no one had been sent something dangerous because of these issues. Maybe a concerted community effort to get rat poison listed as the #1 best seller in all the candy categories would be a good wakeup call. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if it happened.
The point is that unlike things like race discrimination, when all other things are equal, there IS a real difference, no matter how small, in term of risk (and in practice, it's really not that small). I worked at a large company where most employees were women in the 20-35 yo rangeny for a while on HR project and saw some of the data. It was not pretty.

As a society though, we shouldn't let that be ground for discrimination. As you mentioned, not all women want or will have kids. Of those who do, many will have supportive significant others, and the difference in productivity will be negligible. Even if it wasn't, I don't want to live in a world where people have trouble getting a job because they might end up doing something a very significant portion of the population will do.

But it's still a fact that, given 2 exactly equivalent candidate, both in their mid twenties, one is a guy, one's a woman, there is a well known, significant short to medium term risk in the later, if only looking at it from a local maximum perspective. We as a society need to find a way to artificially make up for it.

My personal favorite solution is to give both men and women equal (mandatory?) parental leaves, and no difference if its an adoption, same sex partners, or anything like that. Yes, women have an actual medical need, yes it might not be quite representative of reality, but that equalizes the risk from an employer perspective. No difference between the man and the woman (bonus point, it will help even out parental contribution and responsabilities at home).

That still leaves the age discrimination, but considering ageism is often against older people, that might really just even things out a little.
I was just going to say that. I'm guessing what was meant was maybe the redirection logic is all happening in the client, which is true. However, when you just read the title I assumed it meant everything, even the storage of the address itself, was being stored in the client. That didn't make sense to me, because you need to be able to share the links. Then I saw it was using jsonstore.io under the covers and the world made sense again.
I think it's simply that it's obvious to people that Facebook has a lot of data about them. Most of the general public does not think about things like search history, ad targeting, click tracking, etc.

Of course Facebook does those things too, but most people appear to be outraged that things they shared with Facebook ended up being more public than they expected, and were shared with an organization that might have helped elect Trump. Most people probably still don't realize the click tracking and stuff like that is going on.
After the first, let alone the second counterfeit item, why did you spend another dollar at Amazon?!?!
Sounds like the start of a good idea; but a few implementation issues.

1) Steal one QR code, it can then be duplicated.

2) Works well for the situation where Amazon is not simply connecting you directly to the seller, but not when the seller ships directly to you.

(2) could be potentially modified to have brands insist that amazon themselves act as the final shipper (so it would be sent to their warehouses and verified).

(1) is tough one to crack. A transaction ledger would prevent the duplication problem; but may have scaling issues since you'd potentially need to verify the physical objects on receipt. It also doesn't deal with the situation where the product itself can be decomposed for parts and sold separately (like some electronics). Then the QR code can be used to sell an inferior replacement product (an empty box).

Though the QR code + transaction ledger is probably a necessary first step to dealing with this issue.
Negligence in general isn't a crime - it does become a crime if gross negligence directly causes death or major injury, but as far as I know, you can't prosecute someone if their negligence merely costs someone some amount of money, no matter how much. It may cause liability for that amount of money, but that's not a crime that the government can prosecute and threaten with jail time, that's a civil case between them and whoever suffered and may sue them for some money.
I always thought it would be cool to angel “invest” with coding time and expertise instead of money. Any ideas if that’s ever possible? Maybe that’s a good business idea to match up coders with free time to start ups?
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There are some websites that you can join for a fee where they aggregate local and state contracts.

Federal contracts are published in a handful of places as well like FedBiz.

Federally for small businesses it very much helps to be women, veteran, disabled veteran, alaskan based, or minority owned, to win work. But don't listen to haters and bad PR, you can do it if you don't fall into that category as well.

If you want to get into military or intelligence community work sometimes you need a clearance just to see the bids.

What'd I'd recommend for a lot of people is to reach out to larger, small businesses (like 300 person) and see if they have any work to sub out. Then try to go from there.

I subbed to a company that was on a large IC IDIQ and it was easy to grow under that, but that situation is unique and anecdotal.
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Interview with Freeman Dyson
The low gravity of the moon isn’t the problem, it’s the high gravity of the earth: it will hit hard even if you had a lunar space elevator and gave it the minimum possible delta-v to reach Earth from that Lagrange point.

The other problem is that even if you intend to use it safely, you have just built a massive gun which is too far away to shoot back at and which has the capability to target specific locations on this planet.
I, too, have more and more frequently been running into these issues with Amazon. I've been extremely dissatisfied with my last handful of Amazon purchase - all of them were clearly used items that were being sold as "new." I can no longer tell if I'm going to buy something from Amazon or a legitimate Amazon seller or some random company. It's really a shame, because Amazon used to be such a great place and I'm still having problems purging my trust for them since its so heavily supported by the years of great service.

Thankfully, many places now price match with Amazon, so the need to use them is becoming less and less.
The fraud itself is the crime, but the system set up to profit from it and the inducement to commit the crime are not part and parcel of the act itself?

Perhaps we need better prosecutors who can credibly charge crimes that have broad networks of profiteers eagerly pushing dupes into committing crimes that are precisely arranged so that the profiting entity has no liability for the narrowly construed criminal act other than having engineered a situation where it was incredibly possible and only indirectly soliciting the act itself...

We could have such prosecutors were the system not already hopelessly captive to the interests of the criminals.

But what can you do when law is lawless.
1) Doesn't the US military have chaplains who could
perform marriages? Why don't they?

2) What additional value does a married service member
provide to the taxpayer that is worth an additional
$40/day over what an unmarried service member provides?
Any independent sales agent who specialize in Govt sales/contract? . We are telecom service provider who can use your expertise and skill to bid govt contracts. feel free to email me.
MI2 is also in my list. I recently purchased the special editions... yeah, I might be a bit late to the party, I know!
Somehow the rest of the country manages to regularly increase property taxes as property values go up...
Is it really discrimination if the system is already known to have a per-country limit, and yet more and more people from that country continue to file for Green Cards? Indians who come to the US these days know for a fact there is a 10+ year wait for a Green Card, so they're the ones taking their chances. If they scream discrimination, I call BS on that.

It sucks that the system is the way it is, and I think a point-based system like Canada is far more efficient, but it's not discrimination. If there are already known rules, and one particular country comes in an adds a massive amount of applications, you can't turn around and yell discrimination.
fossURL

Easy to use url shortner which does not need any fancy database or server side system

The project uses jsonstore.io as a backend. I think the author would agree that that's a "fancy database" by their own definition. Also jsonstore.io is not open source.
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Everything you searched for. Every place you've been (along with the times of each). Every tutorial video you watched. And for most people, every email correspondence you've ever done. Add in google drive and google docs / calc, and it has far more insites into your life than FB.

I don't see how FB would have access to Gmail accounts...