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I received one of these emails. It does appear to genuinely be from Amazon.

The interesting thing to me is that some people seem to have received the email from no-reply@amazon.com. I received it from order-update@amazon.co.uk

Perhaps that's just due to being on different TLD but seems interesting to me that I should receive one from the order-update@amazon.co.uk address.

no-reply@amazon.co.uk exists and would seem like the better email to send out such a notice from. I'm curious why they'd use the order update email system.

Maybe the name and email was revealed as part of a mis-configured ordering process? Perhaps revealed to sellers and not a 'breach' in the traditional sense?
The solution is to replace the cookie consents with an explicit form where users select their interests, so that the publisher can request ads tailored to the user. It's a lot more transparent and it can save a lot of publishers in the EU which are now at a dead end. (People who think that donations/subscriptions will save websites are deluded. Tracking is bad , but targeted advertising is not. Advertising is a perfectly valid model but context-based advertising is horrible - i know because i ve been seeing and serving those "russian bride" and "click here to get iphone" ads since May).
It's performative. The intended recipient of the call-out isn't the "called" but the audience the message is broadcasted "out" to, as you get to establish yourself as superior not just to the target but also all the people not as woke who didn't call the person out.

Twitter lends itself to that, as does most social media. Other forms of more direct communication have much less of a call-out culture.
Same as Oracle, they're an excellent sales org with a commodity product.
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Perhaps you could describe your interpretation of the article referenced and why you feel he is trying to trick people by giving away ~$100M.
You might then be interested to know that the Federal Reserve bank has its own dedicated police force/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Police
What core design decisions? It's a real question. I closed my Twitter account when I realised it made me unnecesarily unhappy but without really knowing why.
Ask HN: Why do you read news?
What drives you to check the news, read an article, watch a video, or however else you consume news? What do you get out of it? Does it vary based on what kind of news it is? (i.e. business news vs. political vs. tech blog?)
There's a blogger called “Bike Snob” who has been ridiculing cyclist gullibility and fleeting trends for over ten years. One manufacturer of wooden bicycles decided to just up and send him one, and… well I'll just quote him:

> Before getting the bike: Intrigued by the novelty factor and an excuse to make gratuitous wood puns

> Shortly after receiving the bike: Impressed by the exquisite craftsmanship but also kind of embarrassed by it at the same time

> Shortly after riding the bike for the first time: Wow, it feels great, but what's that creaking? I bet it's broken

> Once I'd solved the creaking by tightening the bottom bracket: I really like riding this bike

> Today: All bikes should be made of wood, metal and crabon is for vulgarians

His whole shtick is being a bit jokey, but anyway he's been writing about this thing for a year now and basically loves it.

I'd also like to point out that people buy bicycles for factors other than speed. Most people, I would wager.
This was one of the poorest emails I’ve received about a breach. I had to triple check it wasn’t an odd phishing attempt.

The email, in full:

——
Hello,

We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your email address due to a technical error. The issue has been fixed. This is not a result of anything you have done, and there is no need for you to change your password or take any other action.

Sincerely,
Customer Service
http://Amazon.com
——

No template; not addressed to me; no details. Capitalized domain name.

The email is checking the “we have to notify” box and not an inch more.
I got one from order-update@amazon.co.uk too. Looked genuine -- didn't seem to be fishing for anything. However, the complete lack of information bothered me a lot.
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> If everybody bought just the grain they needed to eat, and every grain producer simply put their product on the market for people to buy, without a "liquid global market" and price index, without traders in the middle wanting to profit from it, my food would be affordable

This is false.

Commodities futures markets exist precisely so the price of bread stays stable and relatively risk-free for a year at a time. The big players are not traders - they are companies that work in grain, use grain, produce grain, etc.

As for markets creating money by driving up prices - this doesn't really happen. You can make money when prices go up or down, and nobody really has the size or the stomach to try and corner a market (which is also illegal). Typically these efforts fail miserably and lose the trader a lot of money.

Countries manipulating prices is a totally different matter, than "markets".

I'd think hard about it before you attack commodities markets as the enemy of food prices, and do a bit of digging as to the actual purpose of those markets.

Go ahead - sell a couple hundred thousand pounds of grain. "Simply" put it on the market... how do you do that reliably? How can you plan as a farmer ? Budget for seed, etc?
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/tk+scaling

Tk has perfectly good DPI scaling.
Almost everything is a bit political. But yeah, sometimes it's just not really appropriate to comment on those politics. But with enough people, someone is inevitably going to screw up and do it anyways.
Character limit and somewhat unadulterated spread of popular tweets would be my guess.

Encourages "drive by snark" and shows stuff to people that are likely to snark.
I assumed they used PDF because it's a more stable format that is harder to accidentally modify on receipt. They may also need to store it on their end in case they need to prove what they provided, and provide some level of forgery prevention or detection.
>Basically, machine controlled businesses (“slyly self-aware financial instruments”) evolving to the point where their aptitude at understanding and manipulating economics eclipses anything a human can compete with.

I'd argue this is already true to a substantial degree. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, for example, the world's brightest economic minds came together and still couldn't fully contain the fallout.
read: https://avc.com/2018/11/the-overpay-critique/
As the OP, I should say that speculation can be harnessed to produce some social value. A publicly traded stock market is economically useful. Commodities markets, well run, smooth out price variation. Derivatives let people get rid of risk in their business. E.g., if you're a wheat farmer it's handy to be able to lock in a price for your wheat even before it's harvested. And if you're a bread maker, it's valuable to insulate yourself from market price swings.

That said, I believe the industry's total value to others could be produced at far, far less total cost than now. And a lot of those very smart, very motivated people could be out there actually creating value for others.
I too was perplexed to see "http://Amazon.com" instead of "https://" in this day and age...
Fear and greed.
I used this forking trick to speed up the ninja build system too: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/1438

Unfortunately the maintainers didn't like the idea so it won't be merged. But if your project is large enough that ninja takes more than a second to parse your build files every time you build (true for Chromium and Android at least), you might want to try the patch.

On the topic of Windows forking, the RtlCloneUserProcess function does exist and it works. The problem is that Microsoft's implementation of the Win32 API keeps state (such as an IPC connection to csrss.exe) that is invalid in the forked process and there's no easy way to clone or reinitialize that state. The child process will run until its next Win32 API call and then probably die. Since almost every Windows program uses Win32 APIs, RtlCloneUserProcess is not useful for forking Windows programs.

Microsoft could fix this if they wanted to, at least for a useful subset of Win32. But I imagine it requires a lot of hacking in deep, dark parts of Windows that nobody wants to touch.
There's already invisible barcode on some backaging. I had a UV light and used it over a Pringle can and there was a code there!
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Wired: no pairing issues, no battery issues, great audio quality for less money. How "game-changing" is that?

Why buy AirPods again? Because Apple decided you don't get a 3.5mm jack anymore. Nothing else. They've scammed you into it and convinced you they did you a service.
Not consciously! I haven't read that since long before my time in finance. Clearly I need to read it again.
mm been a while since I handled massive amounts of data, but now I start to see how it's useful. Thanks a lot!
It seems optimistic to assume there there was no "negligent or reckless intent" in the financial crisis.
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There are many ways. I've been planning a MMORPG for some time with rules to ensure player cooperation over griefing, without PVP violence. Using self-control and social pressures.
I think there are notable differences between search and news. News is more like HN or Reddit. That's a subtle difference though and I can see why you could say that it's effectively equivalent.

>I call it greed because news websites have always had the option to exclude themselves from Google if they want to. But they don't, because it's actually a net positive for them. They just want Google's money on top of that.

I think that the main reason I object to the word "greed" is because it's no secret that most news organizations are struggling to stay afloat these days, so can you really call somebody "greedy" when it's potentially a matter of life or death? Saying that they're doing it in bad faith or that they're barking at the wrong tree would sit better with me I think.
Tried something similar recently (contentfly.co) where we have writers set a minimum rate and the market anchors around that.

It’s been pretty interesting.... the rates have gone up but not as high as we thought.
Because they're employees, not contractors, and thus don't get to negotiate their own compensation.
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I didn't miss the point. I explicitly said I mostly agreed with him.
I left a boring job at a company that I respected for what I thought was a good, growing company.

The problem was, I worked with idiots and the project that I joined failed. No one had any idea why the project failed.

(I wish I stayed at my old job.)

Even though the project I joined was honest and ethical, the sheer amount of idiocy of the people I worked with had a negative effect on me. Ultimately, the money and time wasted because a bunch of "senior" engineers couldn't figure out how to work with a simple embedded database was shocking.
That 'academic' wasn't the brightest of the bunch I am assuming. You expect a modicum of common sense.

Reading that comment really annoyed me for some reason.
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"Scipad is a powerful editor and graphical debugger for programs written in Scilab language. It is a mature and highly configurable programmer's editor, including features like syntax colorization, regexp search/replace, parentheses matching, logical/physical line numbering, peer windows, line and block text editing, and much more. Scipad can be used along with Scicoslab or Scilab, but even as a standalone text editor."

"Scipad is entirely written in Tcl/Tk and Scilab language."

Last repository commit 7 days ago: [2]

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/home/Home

[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/src/cha...
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I have been thinking about this. If a business pays their employees well they don't look good on the stock market and they don't get PR points for philanthropy. On the other hand if you squeeze out every bit of profit, you look good in the stock market and you get big PR points if you do a little philanthropy. The decision seems pretty clear.
As I've always understood (but I'm no RTOS expert) is that
RTOS does not guarantee LOWER latency. It guarantees A latency.

But again: not an RTOS expert. We had a lab that would constantly test configurations of hardware and software. And I remember them finding RTOS not being helpful.
I actually doubt someone in our community is worth that much. If anything, we're worth less than non-tech-savvy people because we see through the bullshit (when we don't outright block it) where as they don't.

A friend of mine recently fell prey to a scam ad on Facebook and they got some money off her. I have yet to buy anything from an online ad in my entire life; so she is actually a much better investment than I am in terms of ad spend.
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You can stop and continue tasks easily (eg just SIGSTOP them), but if you want them to stop using memory and kernel resources while suspended, then it's equivalent to process checkpointing. Which has proven a hard problem on Linux so far.
The sad part for me is that I don't think they (all) start out unsavory. Our company had a lot of fresh-faced college grads flowing into it. They turned up just because they were bright and ambitious and finance looked like a promising career.

I know some of them have gone on to do good things elsewhere. What if more of them did?
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I'm speaking to before the non-PvP zones and other stuff came about. The reputation system made things feel very organic and natural. The problem with a totally level playing field is that new players without any friends or resources were sitting ducks for the first bad guys to come through. Origin felt this hurt their growth as new players were getting turned off from the game.

I felt the system was brilliant and going on a PK hunt was the best fun ever. My brothers and I played UO from the moment it came out for another ~4 years (basically to whenever the non-PvP stuff came out, that turned us way off from the game).

The best thing about UO was how real the game was. Far more life-like than any other MMORPG I've ever seen and it came out in the 90's.
It would be naive to think Google isn't still tracking you despite you're paying.
> I was once asked by a client if we could capture people's email addresses in a sign-up form even if they didn't hit submit, so we could email them later. I am still quite proud of my response, which was, "Yes, we absolutely can! No, we absolutely won't help you do that!"

1) letting Javascript initiate network connections without explicit user interaction with a narrow set of elements (say, a submit button) was a mistake.

2) not having a browser-provided summary of the data a form is about to submit before it's transmitted was a mistake.

Basically letting Javascript escape from a little box of tightly-scoped input validation handling and maybe defining sort functions for tables was a mistake.
You have at the very least to say that what you are distributing is GPL software and offer the posibility to give the source code if requested.
Integrated circuits are nowhere near what's possible. Brains are possible. Brains send signals at roughly the speed of sound. Copper wires send signals at roughly the speed of light. It's unlikely something much like a brain couldn't use copper wires, it's just too hard for us to build yet.
I've thought along these lines before, and am writing a hard science fiction novel with this premise. I love thinking about the possibility of other advanced civilizations etc as much as the next guy, but it does seem like the _other_ possibility is less represented in sci-fi and maybe in current thought in general. It's so fun to think about life existing and those implications, less time is given to thinking about life _not_ existing elsewhere and what that would mean. I get that to a degree. I feel like Debbie Downer just saying it, but in order of likelihood based on current observation, I would arrange the scenarios like this:

* Intelligent life only exists on Earth. This is what we have observed so far, so in absence of other evidence this is "most likely" with a large margin of error ;)

* Intelligent life does exist and is abundant, but we are among the most advanced. Hard limits in physics mean it is impractical to travel out of one's solar system, much less galaxy.

* We're among the most advanced because of a "great filter" after our current stage.

* We're among the most advanced because of a "great filter" before our current stage.

* We are a simulation
I just paid off my iPhone 7 through the upgrade program. And I didn’t upgrade at the end. I still have the 7. It’s a great phone and works perfectly fine. Seriously, not a single flaw.

I want the iPhone X because I want the iPhone X. There is nothing groundbreaking in the X that changes my daily life. Maybe I’m growing older and more financially conscience but it makes no sense for me to go to iPhone X.

7 is still a gem.
In NixOS containers are just systemd containers with all of the default root breach problems, no?
Awesome article, and I highly recommend reading the manifesto [1] mentioned.

Now the article claims that "gods are almost entirely absent from online worlds" – something I severely doubt. Take for instance this message board: is HN completely anarchistic? Not so likely. Is it meritocratically governed? We'd like to think so. Or do "gods" – those who write exist here as well?

When it turns out Spez (Founder and Arch-Wizard of Reddit) has the power to change contents of users' comments on reddit – and exercises this power for his own apparent amusement – is he not a "god in an online world"?

When I read Lorry's manifesto, about the hierarchies of essentially mods on his MUD, its difficult not to think of all the mods, supermods and admins on message boards large and small across the Internet.

[1] http://arch-wizard.com/confessions.html
Is there a list of the experiments and the effect sizes and how they differed from the original studies?
That sounds like a wonderful way to get backstabbed, and suddenly be the one responsible for all the company's failures before you're fired.
Consent-based personal data processing must be optional. That's pretty explicit in the GDPR. You cannot predicate service on a user opting-in (consenting). That's not consent. That's coercion, and the GDPR pretty explicitly bans it.

"But how can we monetise our service if we can't get paid via exploitation of personal data of our users?"

Don't know, don't care, not my problem. The ad industry has proven itself incapable of self-regulation, so the GDPR explicitly destroys this entire business model. Figuring out a new that works is the industry's problem.
Maybe? I’d rather Elon Musk have his money, the same might be true for Bezos.
Decent read as the manipulative uses of game design are often overlooked. Think about how "fun" it feels to scan your own items at the checkout and hear those nice tones. Uber and Lyft drivers have Pavlovian response when they hear a new ride beacon ready to accept.
Gamification is a new form of employee abuse that people haven't yet recognized as abuse. It's only a matter of time before we all acknowledge it and ban its use in a work setting.
That's a non sequitur; Amazon would still have built its HQ2s somewhere if not NY and VA. My point is the tax subsidies are roughly equal to $2B, so they effectively cancel out the fund.
The BBC hid the name, but the comment is easily available on Twitter.

I too got really annoyed by the comment. But when I thought about why I was so annoyed about it I realised I'd been projecting a bunch of stuff onto it. I'd given the tweet a particular voice and style of talking and I thought I knew what that woman was like -- ridiculous things for me to do from a tweet.

But I'm still annoyed by it.
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> That 'academic' wasn't the brightest of the bunch I am assuming. You expect a modicum of common sense.

Common sense is a superpower, you can't expect everyone to have access to it.
Serious question -- but like looking for an edge in investments/business?
Coincidentally my Dilbert calendar has this on it today: https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-11-23
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I worked full time for a military contractor. When I arrived some of the products didn’t work very well. After I worked on some of these products, some of them became more efficient and effective. It was an opportunity for me to apply math and physics and engineering to solve very interesting problems (variously related to shortening human lifespan or rendering remaining lifespan more expensive).

Then one Tuesday 9/11 happened. That morning all my colleagues turned into homocidal maniacs (they were already that way, the event merely triggered the expression of that personality trait— only much later did I realize that this meant they were and are good decent people) bent on revenge and eager to kill. The stock of the company skyrocketed and we got huge raises. I finally had an opportunity to see some of my work in action and strangely became sick to my stomach when the products functioned well and was oddly relieved when the products functioned less well.

I eventually left the company and felt happy for the first time in years while I was unemployed.

The irony is now that I have more perspective in life, I realize that society truly values killing and maiming (and threatening to kill and maim) other people. People feel safer when they can credibly threaten others with physical harm. I realize I squandered a wonderful opportunity to serve society more by helping kill and maim even more efficiently. Perhaps in a sense I have gone full circle.
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