skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised Amazon was not suspicious that a service request had come from a location where the account has never been logged in from before.
A tl;dr from a skim through: after WalMart of Mexico paid millions in bribes and had a whistleblower which prompted and an internal investigation that found supporting evidence, WalMart stopped the investigation and did damage control rather than damage prevention. And it continues. This story in particular deals with the WalMart near a Teotihuacán pyramid, which only cost them about $80k in bribes.
> ...users could have a decentralized store of the private data, and merely gave websites or applications access to the data.

I have to ask, are you familiar with Tent? (https://tent.io) You just described exactly what they are setting out to do (and on a basic, somewhat limited level, already do).

I agree the effort faces serious challenges, but as I hoped to illustrate with my email analogy, it doesn't require every user to set up their own server to benefit. You could choose between keeping your data with a hypothetical GTent, or Yahoo! Tent, or Fasttent.fm, whichever one had the best policies, ad-supported or, if you prefer, paid.
LUA might be good for this too, it's pretty fast on it's own but from what I've read (not tested mind you) their C API is supposed to be pretty great.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#C_AP...
Perhaps the CSRs use the email to pull up a history of previous chats, and by using a "new" email they can avoid the new CSR knowing about the previous ones?
Lua has some areas where it excels in performance, but using Python you can leverage 10 years of work on numeric libraries that unrivaled in any other general purpose language. NumPy and SciPy are extremely powerful.
I like this idea. When I call my online brokerage, they ask, "For security, can you please name a stock that you currently own?"
Stack Overflow has reams of bad advice for Objective C. The dominant suggestions (that I encounter, anyway) routinely come up at the next-year's WWDC as things you should not ever do for any reason (and then they continue to be the dominant suggestion for another year).

Not that there isn't a lot of good, free resources out there. Apple's documentation being the most important and valuable example. But someone has to fill in the gaps, and I will happily argue that it can be worth quite a lot of time and money to learn something correctly rather than waste many hours due to bad advice. I haven't looked through these in particular, but yes, people pay for things like this, and they can definitely be worth it.
So all they did was reword it, and take out "without any paid compensation to you" - as to not trigger people or make them realize they're not going to pay you, anyway?

Re: http://instagram.com/p/TWWqa2tmGb/

EDIT: I stand corrected. http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/updated/ - this quote still shows up on a different page. Redundant, however I'm guessing they direct media and other people toward the less-hostile feeling version..
It's a scam, certainly, but it's actually great customer service policy. If the only risk is the loss of value of a product to Amazon, and there is no personal data loss for a customer directly, then it's actually an acceptable loss policy to Amazon.

They (and most good businesses) would prefer the majority of their customer base be able to get refunds and deal with order issues swiftly than have to jump through hoops to prove who they are. Certainly an SMS PIN or other authentication method would make it more secure, but there is no further customer benefit. The monetary loss to Amazon is basically a rounding error so why make things more complicated?
It seems to me, it wouldn't be that hard to make up a header that says, "Hey, you're GETting '/'. If so you'd probably also like to GET …" Then you send a list of which of those URLs you want (while the HTML for '/' is still being sent), then it sends the rest of the files as one big old MIME blob.

Then again, I don't know much about HTTP, so maybe I'm missing something obvious.

Edit: Hmm, just learned about SPDY's server hinting, which is pretty similar to my idea.
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Oh, I agree that it's unethical. And, frankly, detrimental to our society.
What are you advocating here? This is a very disturbing statement.
That's my thinking. I assume they figured that because the account they were "chatting as" was so close, it might help. Or they thought it had a dot initially and found out they were wrong when the rep said there were no orders.

Amazon lets you chat without signing in and you can claim to have any email address you want at that point, so it's tricky to say if this was intentional (hoping the reps were "dot blind") or if it was just a mistake/bad initial guess.
Seconding Matt's suggestion of Meteor. I haven't played with it very much since it first came out, but even at its very earliest versions (from which it has progressed amazingly) I would have suggested it as a perfect fit.

It doesn't "bypass the database" like the GP asked for, but then neither does Firebase really, as it just moves it to the cloud.
I completely agree. But it would sure be nice if there was an option that said "Terms of Service A is free; Terms of Service B is $X/month". Then I could make the decision about whether the service/privacy/cost tradeoff is important enough for me to shell out either cash or privacy. This is especially true at points like this, when a service is trying to "go to the next level" in terms of revenue.

Use the free stuff to get people hooked, then let people decide how to pay for their habit. If you can make $25/year off of me through my private info, let me decide if I want to pay $25/year for your service (which is, quite literally, pocket change). As it is, I'll just stop using your service (like I'm going to stop using Instagram).
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The title of this link is very misleading. Amazon is actually going out of its way to provide excellent customer service, and is being exploited by a scammer. It is therefore not "Amazon's Scam", but a scam perpetrated against Amazon.

As to whether or not something should be done, this is a sensitivity/specificity tradeoff. Too far in the other direction of distrusting customers and Amazon ends up like Paypal.
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I shop at Walmart (or I should say, used to). This is a compelling story, and I feel so sad for the people of this town that lost some of its culture to Walmart. Why is Walmart refusing to comment?

Walmart should close that store, level the place and return it as something beautiful to the community. They cannot be allowed to profit off of this grave crime.
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So, why is it important to have a fixed deltaTime? Except in cases where determinism really does matter. I.E. lock-step based networking. Why is this important?
GMail has a nice 2-factor scheme. While the SMS might need external services, the app-based verification keys are based on open standards and open-source code, and can be added to any web application with about 10 lines of code: http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

There is even a Unix login module for adding it to SSH.
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Yeah, no mention of cartridge, sorry. Still, among the plethora of problems with this article, this is a strange one to pick out. I think the idea comes across just fine despite incorrectly using bullet and ammunition interchangeably. In what ways were you confused? In what ways do you think someone else could be confused?
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> but it's only now that we see blogs pop up on faith

I'm not sure what "now" you're referring to, but blogs on faith have existed for a very long time now. By relativistic Internet measure, anyways.
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3:9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God: 3:10 And they
knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the
temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which
had happened unto him.

3:11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the
people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's,
greatly wondering.

3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of
Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as
though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our
fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and
denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let
him go.
Agree with you on Instagram, but Facebook had the benefit of one-at-time rollout to universities, which upped its exclusivity and draw. (Granted it was also good product.)
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tl;dr

Comments suck, documentation rocks.
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Amazon use the same two factor auth too. I've got my AWS account secured with the Google Authenticator app using TOTP codes as well as passwords.

It worries me that "consumer friendly" customer service leaks information like this, that could potentially lead to my AWS account getting suspended while fraud is investigated.
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He is basing his business model off of Railscasts: http://railscasts.com/

Which is a highly successful screencast site.

For $9/ month you get vetted solutions to real world problems found in the Ruby and Rails domains. I see a similar offering in iOS land to be a win.
I have heard that most of the viruses found on internet are produced by the antivirus companies. How far this statement is true?
Most of the letters are readable. However, 'P' looks exactly like what I'd expect 'E' to look like.

This presents a problem.
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Awk is part of the POSIX specification, so yes, it's going to be present on pretty much any Unix-like environment. Even those which don't aim at POSIX compliance will almost certainly have an awk interpreter. Busybox includes one, which means that many minimal / embedded systems will include awk by default (as they use busybox to provide core utilities).
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This exactly. The net benefit to Amazon from improved customer service is likely worth the potential for a few lost products. Sure may be wrong, but to them it may just be a cost of doing business. It's not unlike many department store's policy of not targeting a shoplifter-in-action in a mall, especially once they've left the store (mostly for liability reasons).
Go to the page and search for "Curry's paradoxical combinator"

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combin...
Sounds like something that should be possible with http://unhosted.org/
keep in mind the state of internet speed at the time back then too. Its easy to look nice when you dont have to worry about it taking 30 minutes to render a page on a 2400 baud modem.

Also the tools are so much easier. I remember setting up wordpress about 6 years ago and compared to today it is so much easier to set up and also so much easier and cheaper to make it look nice too!
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Scary? If it's not owned by Apple, it's scary?
What is the computer? The cell?

Python code is not DNA.

Even to say binary is DNA seems a stretch, and of course it's quaternary.

With cells, there is no single "front-side bus". There is Brownian motion, geometry (e.g. at the level of DNA, A,T,C and G each have their own geometry), collisions and a poorly understood process of geometrical "recognition". We know how to build circuits and registers and construct computers from them, but we don't understand how RNA builds up a cell from scratch. We can only speculate that RNA can do this... the origin of life.

Perhaps Python would be a protein, but certainly not one that is required for the cell to function. Some interesting exogenous protein perhaps. If you want to control the essential "cellular proteins", the basic machinery of the cell, e.g. the enzymes you allude to, then you need to learn assembly. Python, like an exogenous protein, only acts to influence the machinery of the cell, including the proteins within the cell: in the case of the computer, circuits, registers and an assembly language.

Processes could be analagous cellular processes, i.e. what the proteins may take part in, their various roles in the biochemical reactions that drive the cell. Proteins are not the running processes, they are running the processes.

I think, with respect to coding, more important than the accuracy of the metaphor is simply the skill of being able to think abstractly and derive metaphors. So just the exercise of trying to come up with a comparison is something a programmer would instinctually do.

All of our attempted comparisons are likely flawed in numerous ways. But it's the exercise of making them that makes them worthwhile.

Good luck.
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Not just bribery, which from what I understand is a common way of business in many areas. This is more like out and out fraud, public deception, and gross ethics violations. Horrible stuff. Maybe that's just how high level bribery works. Much worse than the type of bribery I've heard of in the past.
This customer service model, where the CSRs go above and beyond to help the customer with as little hassle as possible, is what built the initial customer base for Newegg. Those customers have largely remained loyal even though other online retailers have caught up in price. This is also what made Zappos very popular (eventually bought out by Amazon). So the strategy clearly works. I assume Amazon has calculated that the number of frauds is greatly outweighed by whatever business is generated from returning customers and great PR.
I definitely do. Being reimbursed by my employer helps make it easier, but I find value in things like this, Railscasts, Destroy All Software, etc...

It's not that I couldn't google for the answers when I meet with a specific problem. Often I'm not aware that there is a problem because my software works but I'm missing out on a really awesome design pattern that I don't know about.

These productions help serendipitously introduce me to new knowledge.
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But then one has to wonder why NASA's technology has not improved during the 37 years that came after 1975 despite a budget of over 10 billion dollars a year.
It's not as if it needs to become opaque to developers. If people need a way to introspect a SPDY connection, someone will write a tool.

This is in the same vein as TCP, TLS, or DNS. Developers use these technologies all the time, and it exposes a simple interface to them, but all of them are quite complicated under the covers. I don't believe that Nagle's algorithm or the UDP framing for DNS is common knowledge amongst the majority of developers.

Similarly, SPDY or HTTP/2.0 will expose a simple interface to developers, but internally transport the content in an efficient, if somewhat inscrutable, manner.

While I appreciate the sentiment that HTTP is easy to understand as it stands, I'd rather not optimize for "developers of almost any skill level". While it would be totally OK for you to write a HTTP/1.1 parser as a toy, it would be somewhat crazy for you to use that implementation in a production scenario.

There, everybody uses a small set of implementations that have been vetted: Firefox, Chrome, Apache, Nginx, etc. These guys work extremely hard to make sure that their implementation is solid not merely "compatible-ish". I'd rather optimize for them, rather than the beginners. I'd rather make it easy for them to write correct implementations. I'd rather jettison the "fault tolerant enough that compatible-ish is ok" design of HTTP/1.1 that makes their life so difficult.
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Yeah, fair enough. Job is how I was first introduced to it too.

They could potentially use it to organize you into teams.
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Any sufficiently advanced C program has redefined LISP poorly; any sufficiently advanced LISP program has redefined C poorly.

I can't recall where I first read this conjecture (booze; mobile).
Can someone explain the jumping parabola graphs? I can't make sense of the description.
K, T, X, and Y are also tough at a glance. But I must admit, I do love the notion. There just has to be a better implementation.
Paypal's customer service isn't bad because they don't trust the customer in terms of authentication - it's bad because they have horrible policies in place, and their reps are unintelligent, untrained, and unhelpful.

In any case, some authentication aside from "Full Name" would be nice. When I was with Liquid Web, I had a pass phrase set up, which I could pass off as regular conversation even in a crowded room without anyone suspecting it was my authentication. That works best. Even a birth date and city of birth would be better than a name.
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My point was that dismissing centralized services by equating with dictatorship was useless. In a true dictatorship, the dictator rules over by means of force, and has no commitment to subjects other than to keep the fear going. Equating that with a capitalist centralized service such as Facebook, twitter etc is not accurate since for them the product is the attention of their users and it is in their best interests to keep the users happy.

Now that is naively optimistic and considering that the people running these organizations are rational. I for one will happily switch to a decentralized version for a service as personal as Facebook ( so long as my friends are on it ). My intention was to balance the argument since it is very easy to take your comment and interpret it as de-centralized is the "total awesomeness".

Clearly, you have strong feelings about this, as you are working on tent. So my question is, have you asked yourself if there are cases where centralization is better ?
> This is still Euler integration

Actually it's a form of Verlet integration, which performs much better than Euler's method while being much cheaper than RK4.

Euler's method does not perform well with any form of acceleration and should not be used when acceleration is present. The equations here will remain accurate under constant gravity.
Pretty good, though:

- Shortest route from Chicago to Rome would be west->east, not east->west.

- 1930s air travel/mail delivery would likely have been by DC-3 (introduced 1935). Early models had a range of 1000 miles, later extended in the DC-3A to 2100 miles. Military C47 A/B aircraft had a 1600 mile range. So you'd have to introduce a few more hops on the map.

- A package would more likely have traveled via ground route, mostly ship. A trans-Asiatic route would be highly unfeasible (or would make for another Indian Jones movie: "Delivery of the Misrouted Journal").

Still, nice touch.
Isn't windows RT is for ARM cpu? MSFT just does not bother to port desktop mode to ARM chips. Two possible reasons for not porting desktop mode are:

1.x86 and arm architecture are different and it is not easy to port.
2.No existing desktop application for ARM.

Windows RT seems to be windows 8's partial port for ARM chips as I understand.
"many department store's policy of not targeting a shoplifter-in-action in a mall"

Citation? I've never heard of such a policy. Every mall I've had knowledge of had a very extensive security organization that was pretty effective at targeting shoplifters-in-action.
Many seem to be missing the point here. While native in the mobile context, has the potential to be faster, it's a necessary, but not sufficient condition for superior responsiveness and usability.

Even with the native app, the same poor design decisions are being repeated once again. For example, not caching data locally between screens - an especially egregious oversight in the context of mobile networking.

I think the broader issue however, is just how out of touch Mark Zuckerberg was with regards to mobile and perhaps even emerging web technology in general.

He eventually admitted to screwing up (great!), but then got it so wrong again, by declaring HTML5 as the culprit. The problem was almost certainly more attributable to people and management issues, rather than a technological misstep, irrespective of whether that resulted in a more palatable conclusion for Mr Zuckerberg's ego.

As for the Sencha demo, after installing it on my iPhone 4s it works really well, and installing it as app on the home screen makes it virtually indistinguishable from native. I think it's fair to say this is a rather significant achievement by Sencha, indeed considering it's a part time effort.

Which makes one wonder what a full time team, with the right leadership and resources, could have achieved at Facebook.
Paul has just had epic incidental marketing.
You forgot the "get off my lawn" bit. But, honestly, young kids these days want the fast feedback, and the likes of Ida help make the hobby approachable.
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I wouldn't say it's so much as driving click traffic. It was a response to an event that happened somewhere else. I mean, he could have just renamed the article as "Response to the Sandy Hook Shooting", but it's not as close to what he actually wrote about.
My issue with HTML apps (like your issue) is many developers think it's perfectly okay to use that iOS interface on Android because Android does not force you to change it. The Android ecosystem is so polluted with apps like this that it almost makes me long for Google to put their foot down and start forcing UI compliance like Apple does.

It's bad enough Android users have to deal with legacy apps on their own OS that still use pre Android 3.0/4.0 UI conventions (or worse, poorly slap them on top of their old interface without consideration). The only apps that should be allowed to get away with rolling their own UI are games.
I ordered a TV from Amazon last week that never showed up. I don't know if UPS messed up or if it was stolen off my front step. Either way, I appreciated Amazon trusting me and dropping another one in the mail without making a big deal out of it. While it seems like Amazon have ignored this issue to date for all the right reasons, they may need to start addressing it since it obviously affects their real customers with worrying emails & the chance of being viewed with suspicion later on.
I've found that writing critiques of other people's sites has helped me clarify my thinking about my own. Coupled with good feedback the site has been very helpful! A low friction way to get outside feedback.
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