skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just can't work on a logistical level. Let's look at diapers. There are lots of reports of counterfeit Huggies and Pampers. In some cases, it's true -- they're counterfeit.

Recently, though, Huggies changed the 'movers & poopers' line or whatever they call it. Since consumers didn't know about the change beforehand (new leg-hole shape, for instance) there were many reports that those were counterfeit, and Huggies had representatives deployed to answer Amazon reviews that showed the legit redesigned diapers and falsely called them counterfeit.

Moreover, what would happen to Amazon if they stopped selling Huggies and Pampers? Collapse! or maybe just a 20% loss of revenue! Do you know how many people go Prime purely so they can get their diapers autoshipped? and the formula, and the breastmilk bags, and the wipes? My family signed up for Prime solely because of baby crap, and once that baby crap is not needed, Prime ends. But for most people, Prime continues from baby to toddler to whenever they remember to stop auto-renewing. This is a huge market.

Amazon cannot afford not to fix their supply chain legitimacy issues. But they can't just stop selling the product. Agree that it's fraudulent to keep selling counterfeits, agree that they need to fix it or all those Prime parents are going to switch to Target for their brand-name diapers. It's not simple, though.
I think one will see more growth in a year or two. They are looking at offering (almost free) internet access to IoT devices across the country. Let's see how that goes.
Definitely would have a good amount of friction losses, the issue I have ran into is that I am not sure how you would raise blocks and add them to a stack with low friction.
Google's AI Hate Speech Detection Tricked by Typos
Apple review process is a joke, they reject and accept apps randomly ...
I'd be interested in the 141 as well, but since my interpretation of the post is to highlight that bio and hard tech companies are actively funded by YC (and have been for years), I think the permissive definition is probably appropriate.
Are you really asking me for a source to prove that being caught doing something massively illegal will result in negative consequences? I'm going to assume that when we talk about running a study, we are talking about using marijuana in humans in a study, meaning a clinical trial.

In order to perform a clinical trial with marijuana, by law investigators would need to get an IND (investigational new drug) application approved by the FDA as FDA does not recognize marijuana as a safe and effective drug for any indication. Part of this involves DEA review, and DEA will almost certainly say no. Let's assume for the sake of argument that you do not care about getting approval to run your study. If you do not get an IND approval and you run a clinical trial anyway, your physicians will almost certainly lose their medical licenses, all participants will be subject to multiple criminal offenses, the group will lose all their funding, they be slapped with enormous amounts of fees, and participants will likely lose their university and / or hospital appointments.

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421163.h....

https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/ucm2681....

I don't have a concrete example for as to what will happen because to my knowledge no one has been stupid enough to give the FDA the middle finger and run an unlicensed clinical trial. FDA would never let this go unanswered because it would completely undermine their regulatory authority and set a horrible precedent. In effect, this is a perma-ban level offense, and people that do it should expect to get massively punished.
Sorry, that's not close enough. Can you do better?

(For the record, the person you originally responded to did not share that question with the intention of you actually trying to answer it. The point was the illustrate how ludicrous some of those questions are. You don't have access to any of the information that you mentioned in your response in the interview.)
There have probably been many past threads about this.

There have been. The following is a good search to use to find other discussions.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...
Ask HN: What do AAA games use for their chat and other “real time” stuff?
Sorry for the newbie question. But I'm really curious. Is it something like RabbitMQ or XMPP?
Amazon search and non amazonbasics products are approaching garbage-level. How about half a page of advertising to buy some Chinese knockoff of a product that will break in a month.

My mom wanted some new lighting Apple headphones (earpods). Good luck finding actual Apple products on there.

I bought them from B&H instead. No tax + free faster shipping.
For those wondering, TIC stands for testing, inspection and certification.
> Amazon came with an additional 8.25% sales tax

You are supposed to sum up those purchases and pay the state the 8.25% of use tax. Nobody exactly is doing that, and the cost of enforcement is high, but that’s what the state wants https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/sutprograms.htm
You probably serve your (IMO just) argument well by learning to discuss controversial topics with at least some semblance of respect for those who disagree with you.
Are Tech Companies Breaking the Law with Pay Secrecy Policies?
It's likely less about "earning your keep" and more that you're being punished.
In the long run, we're all dead.
That's why I'm not a software developer any more, even though I greatly enjoy the creative aspects of the work.
Having just moved back to Denmark after a few years in the states, I'll admit I miss Amazon... The small webshops feels sketchy, and I never know when something is going to arrive..

I did a lot more online shopping in the US, because delivery was better, the experience was better, sorry to say it but from a consumer point of view Amazon does an amazing job.

Today, I feel like there's many products I can't get hold off... Or it takes too long to order online, so I find a store :(
Should we be hoping for the success and spread of a corporation who's successfully lobbied to keep their workers from being paid for hours they spend waiting in security checkpoints at exit? [1] Where bathroom breaks and conversations are counted against you, to the point that workers pee in bottles to avoid being chastised by managers? [2]

I hope the Swedes manage to keep them out.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-ru...

2. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-hav...
Well, the article is from 2005. And it wasn't the first to describe increased new neuron survival in the hippocampus from CB1 agonists. But it's always nice to inform those that missed out. Hell, some people still believe in continental drift. Old ideas are persistent.
That answer doesn't really hold up because the people coding the system aren't the ones doing the trading, and most jobs that use similar "stressful" interviews don't have anything like that anyways.
It happens because the types of problems software engineers face are random and require active engagement and creativity to solve.

There's no book that you can read that says "if the program crashes, try these things". Yes there are basics but theres no real formula that always leads to the solution. Each program is unique enough that you have to study the internals of how it works and then test hypotheses about the root cause.

In engines, they all follow the same predefined models. Software does have "models" but most people don't use them or they blend models together and don't document how they work. So we end up with having to solve many problems on the fly. Not everyone can do this (crucially, even people with cs degrees) , so to avoid hiring people who can't, they try to test for the ability during the interview. This is fraught with an entire slew of issues. Some of which are non-technical people asking the questions, applicants sharing the answers and gaming the system, or as the article says, sadistic interviewers that enjoy the feeling of power. To date, nobody has found a universally effective system to hire good programmers.
As someone else noted Google has disabled this behavior.
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I still think that's vulnerable to timing attack. Timing attacks are the voodoo that should keep us up at night, a clever attacker can extract information that seems impossible.
Also Amazon vendor here - co-mingling is really a lot better these days because of the new brand registry. Basically as the manufacturer you can restrict the other vendors from even hopping on.

If you turn off comingling you have to (? not sure if anymore) apply Amazon ASIN stickers instead of the manufacturer barcode, which is really annoying.
Less generous bailouts for one. A lot of creditors were just straight up reimbursed for making bad investments with no penalty. Having them be wiped out would be a disaster, but asking to accept losses in exchange for not being wiped out would have been a good compromise. The other option, which we didn't have at the time but do now, is for the federal government to take over failing banks to keep them afloat long enough to be dismantled. It's called orderly liquidation.
At least where I live in the US, Amazon same and next day deliveries are usually through their in-house logistics service
I'd like to see that ample evidence. On the contrary, I know even fairly experienced developers who get burned with memory issues in C - and I have never ever heard of even the most junior developer to have any problem with double frees in Java :)

Plus..... even if you could do that, WHY? C is a simple language, close to the "metal". If you want a language that has every-feature-and-their-mother, and can be close to the metal when needed, and can be used to blow both your feet off, just use C++.

Adding functional closures to C is somewhat akin to adding "asm" and "volatile" in Haskell.... even if you could do it, why would you? It just breaks the very essence of the language.
Because there's no law allowing that currently, and Constitutionally you can't just make it up after the fact
Obligitory OMG So Many TB (seagate 14TB HDD)
Pakistan: New Government Fails to Support Minorities
First page, 1st non-sponsored result:

Apple MMEF2AM/A AirPods Wireless Bluetooth Headset for iPhones with iOS 10 or Later White
by Apple

can't get any more legit than that.

"Apple airpods":
1st non-sponsored result:
Apple MMEF2AM/A AirPods Wireless Bluetooth Headset for iPhones with iOS 10 or Later White
by Apple

wait wut?
Orbitz did it a couple of years ago, showing more expensive hotels to Mac users for example.

http://business.time.com/2012/06/26/orbitz-shows-higher-pric...
It's called "being an asshole" and there's lots and lots of people like that out there!

I am currently running interviews at a Fortune 10 company. We get a ton of fake outs. Even using Webex, they have clever schemes for getting assistance answering our questions and some of the tricksters are so slick that it is nigh impossible to detect the fraud.

Another tactic we are running into right now is when the interview is by phone, we talk to someone really great who sounds like an excellent fit and then the recruiting firm sends a different, low-skilled cutout over in their place. Now, every contractor gets re-interviewed onsite or Day 1 we assess skills and let them go if they aren't a fit. It's horrendous.
I read a story about someone who used a step-to-talk setup for their game comms: the motion was so ingrained that, one day while driving in traffic, they inadvertently floored the gas pedal while having a conversation with a passenger.

I don't think they hit anyone, but they did unplug the foot pedals from their PC the moment they got home.
But then shouldn't the rewriting be like this?

var foo = 5;
var tmp = 6;
var tmp$1 = foo;
foo = tmp;
tmp = tmp$1;
> All forms of the anarchist argument ignore the fact that governments grew out of necessity and need.

The fact that governments grew out of a need to regulate social cooperation does not mean that governments are the only, or even the best, method of meeting that need. We have learned a lot in the past 10,000 years about the downsides of using governments to fill this need; that experience means we are not in the same position as the people 10,000 years ago who first formed governments. Governments exist today mostly out of inertia; that's how we've always done it. Maybe it's time to re-examine that belief.
Amazon vendor here: pricing is not discrimated across platforms, BUT most vendors of a certain scale use repricing tools that dynamically change prices over time depending on inventory availability etc. (Think Uber "surge pricing" for products.)
I wonder how the "guess how many dog leashes there are in Kansas" kind of questions would compare to more job-relevant estimation interview questions - i.e., would the paper find the same sort of conclusions?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fCnqs3RkoefuJZEF6
Finally! This looks great, there was a way to get access to Google Photos via the Drive API but a dedicated one is a nice surprise.

However... I noticed a clause that requires a "Commercial license" if your app prints photos:

> If your product transfers a user’s photos onto physical goods (such as photo prints or t-shirts) and you charge money for this service, you must have a Commercial license. For more information, see the Google Photos partner program.

Anyone know how much this costs or why this is the case?
Blockchain Does Not Mean Cryptocurrency
Class 1 Controlled Substance - No known medical use
No, that's not entirely right. Many of us that hate it and don't want anything to do with it still endure it, because the alternative is not getting a job.
Filter by "New" and "Buy It Now" and eBay effectively becomes an Amazon clone. A better one, I think.

Also, the "daily deals" page is hand-filtered by eBay staff to guarantee no shady sellers.
I've interviewed at places with a pair programming part of the interview, that didn't use pairing during actual development.

It is an enormous help toward glimpsing the mind of the programmer as they program.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ships openssl 1.1.0, with the intention to upgrade to 1.1.1. Does anyone know the timeline for this upgrade? I would like to just have TLS 1.3 without building stuff myself.
A Template for Understanding How the Economic Machine Works (2011) [pdf]
This link leads to a 404
Given the size of the universe and the fact that it's not entirely observable makes it... impractical to even consider measuring gravity. Where we can measure it it's done with accelerometers or doppler shift and measuring the orbital perturbation [0]. Objects close to home are studied more intensely.

You can't really conclude there is no gravity acting in some random point across the universe but you can use other methods to determine when it is acting even if you have no chance of putting an instrument there. Like gravitational lensing. [1]

There's definitely not enough space in a comment to discuss general relativity and measuring gravity of an object in free fall. But if you're curious for more and have time to read Wikipedia has one of the most accessible explanations that don't involve a pile of imperfect or misleading analogies. [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMdjAKn_uXw

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity
“Why would I need to estimate that if I worked at Google?”
The counterfeit detection problem is one of the hardest problems that exists, fake branded products is much easier to solve, but at least in the world of fashion, the only proven way to detect fakes has been through leveraging teams of experts to inspect each item individually.
I found this article to have zero value and zero cogent information because he boils the whole thing down to “gut check” (instinct — no real information here) plus “dealbreakers” (a nebulous category that he makes clear is always changing for everyone so there’s not really any useful info there either).

This reads like a long hemming and hawing written by some dude who probably shouldn’t marry his partner but he’s trying to convince himself it’s a good idea and seek validation for his bad decision by writing a long abstract post justifying it.

Pro tip to the author, if your relationship prompts you to write a long article justifying your decision-making process about whether or not to marry your partner, then your partner has failed the gut check and you shouldn’t marry them.

4/10 article, interesting concepts but zero actionable or new info that isn’t already common/universal knowledge in western societies.

It’s also just plain weird that he would write an article that long which is clearly based on his life experiences but not share any of his specific life experiences or anything about him. Maybe he thinks subtracting the self from the article makes it “more universally applicable,” but really his decision not to include any info about his personal relationship history just makes it less relatable and thus FAR less applicable to anyone.
I think that it is not useful to build on Ousterhout's definition as his definition of systems programming language is mostly meant as contrast to Tcl with it's everything is a string memory model (in that view one could very well conclude that Python is a systems programming language).
Thanks for the feed-back! Never had any insight into pricing, so I again learned something!
Medopad acquires U.S. rival Sherbit for AI-driven disease detection
I never really thought that Amazon was the cheapest. The draw for me was always the free shipping and convenience. I actually don't remember Amazon ever marketing their service as having the cheapest price but I could be mistaken?
Why Is It So Hard for Men to Believe This Former Model Is Also a Pro Coder?
Show HN: Birthbook – Never forget birthdays again
There is a lot more area in the ocean and seaweed grows very quickly. Perhaps we could even accelerate the sequestration by building large seaweed farms over the deep ocean, then sinking the seaweed once it grows large enough, & repeat.

Related: https://oceana.org/blog/seaweed-could-be-scrubbing-way-more-...
Dry Water
You know you can filter out non-NewEgg results?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fCnqs3RkoefuJZEF6 Look at that. Microsoft is trying to use a dark pattern to get the user to switch back to edge. Then I get a popup on a ms knowledge base article about edge.

This is annoying.
I was a little excited for 4G, because while 3G achieved respectable throughput, the latency was terrible- 4G seemed to dramatically improve.

IMO 4G is pretty solid all around, and for the first time people are going, "5G? Why?"
Exactly. I was looking for a waterproof iPhone case. Finding a "reputable" brand on Amazon is near impossible now - their search results bring up pages and pages of the same rebranded knockoffs.

Any camera or electronics gear I order now comes from B&H or dare I say it - Best Buy. Better shipping options, better return options and just easier to find items overall. This is coming from a prime subscriber of years now.
I wonder if Amazon will offer local sites elsewhere in Central (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama) and South America (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru) in the near future?
Huawei is bigger than Nokia and Ericsson combined in telecom equipment market?

That does not sound right.

Do you have some numbers to back that up?
> Since the U2F model assumes that the browser is trustworthy, any browser in the OS is able to access any key stored on the U2F token. The user has no way to know which keys have been accessed by which browsers for which services.

Note that this should be treated as a "mental shortcut" as keys are never directly exposed to browsers or any other devices in U2F. It would be more precise to say that the browser can ask U2F device to sign any request with any key.

Of course internally the key storage can be optimized. For example Yubikey and Feitan (Google Titan Key) generates private P-256 keys on demand by HMACing a burned secret. That's how they can provide "unlimited storage".

Details here: https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Key_gener...
Even better are the drop shippers, who just scrape retailers online and create marked up listings on Amazon. When a user orders from their Amazon shop, they just place the order immediately on the boutique shop with the buyer's delivery information. Get a lot of these scripts running, and you can make a good bit of money.
I like this paper on dark patterns: http://colingray.me/wp-content/uploads/2018_Grayetal_CHI_Dar...
"I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they feel humiliated them."

This also explains when people chew out service workers for petty things.
PS/2 is actually the better interface since it's interrupt-based. USB is polling-based, hence the latency issue. A lot of non-Apple laptops still use it for their internal keyboards and mice due to interrupts using less power.

As with the headsets, it boils down to the right tool for the job, for sure. I refuse to buy a phone without a 3.5mm jack because I know that it'll work with any possible headphone or speaker combination I could possibly encounter.
Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 (now 100, with the follow up) years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields.

- General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use them as proxies.
Using IQ is effectively illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy.

- Work sample test. NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing. Try to make it apples-to-apples comparison across candidates. Also, try and make accomidations for candidates not knowing your company shibboleth/tools/infra.

- Integrity. The first two won't matter if you hire dishonest people or politicians. There are existing tests available for this, you can purchase for < $50 per use.

This alone will get you > 65% hit rate [1], and can be done inside of three hours. There's no need for day long (or multi-day) gladiator style gauntlets. Apply this process to EVERYONE, including that elite cool kid from the "right" school/company. You don't want to exclude part of your sample population!

[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%....

[2] Technically IQ tests are not "illegal", but the bar courts have decided companies have to climb is so high it effectively means they are. There is existing case law directly covering IQ tests in hiring. You should speak with your lawyer before you decide to try IQ tests.
[3] 2016 update of Hunter Schmidt: https://home.ubalt.edu/tmitch/645/articles/2016-100%20Yrs%20...
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Ray Dalio's LinkedIn post, with context and summary of the new book (available as a free PDF) - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/understanding-big-debt-crises...

Direct link:https://principles.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f81713...
Amazon is free for uncompressed, though.
Australian universities hold the patent on Wi-Fi. A fraction of sales of all hardware Wi-Fi devices goes to fund higher education in Australia.

I find it odd that we have state run/non-profit universities fighting over this. Something about the funding model at the academic level is truly fundamentally broken.