skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon.de closed our selling account with no warning
We have been selling on Amazon for the last 6 months and we worked hard to develop account and earn customers trust. And it is really hard to fulfill on 100% when you are depending on so many other 3rd parties to manage your business like delivery companies, Amazon payment service and etc.
Reserve has been put on our account for numerous times with no detailed explanation why and money was withheld by amazon for extensive time. Imagine all this small business who are just starting on Amazon relay on their payments so much and suddenly you receive a message that your money will not be available for another month or more.
I don't think it is very legal to withheld someone's money by not providing a valid reason for this.
We knew we pass through this and carried on running our business by relying on our own money to keep financing it because we could not access the money from our recent sales.
Then it was the issue with Royal Mail around Christmas time. Lots of orders were delayed for no reason and especially the international shipments to Italy. Try to get an answer from Royal mail it is like winning the lottery :(
We got 1 or 2 negative feedbacks because of the late deliveries and when tried to explain to Amazon, that it was down to the Royal mail to fulfill their duties after we sent the orders on time, the answer was - you are responsible for delivering your orders on time. But how can you be responsible when you hand over your shipments to a delivery company and it is in their hands to deliver on time according to their targeted time frames. Again we managed to work things out and save our reputation to certain extend.
And finally after all our efforts to develop a successful business Amazon sends us the message:
Your seller account has been suspended.
"Good day,

You have created a new account, after we had the option to sell products on our site, blocked for you. This is in violation of our policies. Therefore, you can not sell on Amazon.de. We have removed your offers from our website.

Please send any open orders. If you have credit on your account, it will be available when all A-to-z warranty claims or rebates have been deducted. This usually takes 90 days, but credit can sometimes be retained longer.

You can view your credit balance and payout information in the "Payments" section of Seller Central. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to payments-nachforschungen@amazon.de.

If you want to disagree with this decision, click the "Request" button next to this message. It is located on the Notifications page in Customer Satisfaction in Seller Central (https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/gp/customer-experien...).

Sincerely,

Seller Performance
Amazon Services " -

no warnings and no further details.

We never used another seller account to sell our products on Amazon.de or Amazon.co.uk

Seller accounts on Amazon get mistakenly flagged by an algorithm created by humans but running on its own and not making human decisions.

Other selling platforms like Ebay have email addresses and online chat systems and phone numbers answered by actual humans who provide actual details about your case. In many of the Paypal horror stories that circulate, the worst material comes from bad customer service reps. But when you deal with Amazon.com, at least as a seller, there's no customer service rep to talk to. Cold emails like this are all you get.

Advice to sellers:
If you can look for an alternative to Amazon, the sooner the better.
The bigger they become the worst their customer service will be as you will be just a product to them not a customer.

Amazon.co.uk staff: more transparency, more decisions made by humans based on human factors.
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Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace: Truth, History or Opportunity?
But it is not just the solar system, and the time frame is a bit tight...
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
The initial load of the site takes more than 4 seconds on a Wifi on iPhone 6s.

Also, edge swipe from right or left on iPhone completely doesn't work.
Maybe he was bragging about being dominant? After all, sexual assault implies lack of consent, which is something you just assumed...
Hmm... I'm trying to say in every election that was manipulated, it was not subtle fraud that was the problem. I have little doubt that some fraud happens. I just don't think it typically matters. In most cases where it was not detected, it had no bearing on the outcome.

Now, overt manipulation of the voting populace through propaganda or other means is very common and has definitely happened. Ballet fraud, though? Are there any documented cases of that being a thing that mattered?
Best disclaimer ever.
I certainly agree that reasoning by analogy can only go so far in conveying the complexity of the situation. Startups do not exist in a vacuum.

That said, while I agree with you that there are lots of reasons a perfectly functioning, operationally cash flow positive company might choose to stay private. None of those reasons apply to companies that are diluting themselves with additional investment in order to stay in business.

The money gets more and more expensive from investors, and more and more people get screwed, and then all that's left is to write the amazing journey blog entry.
I really wish they'd change designing to configuring in the title on this.
I'm glad the FCC is taking this stance, but I'm curious why the hotel can't make "you consent to receive wifi deauth frames" a condition of entry. They let corporations put "you will not sue us" in EULAs, after all.
House of Blues was actually what I was thinking of when I commented. Again though...

> one of the biggest conglomerates

House of Blues is 10 locations in 9 states.
No 3D Monster Maze - well, that is a disappointment!!! That was my favourite game on the ZX81 and it actually was terrifying to bump into him even though the screen was very blocky pixels with a very slow refresh rate. We are talking seconds per frame.

I am also amazed that you can buy a replacement ZX80 keyboard. This required someone out there to know what it was and to bother to put it on ebay etc. for someone else to find. This is trade at its most obscure, yet this is also our key survival skill - trade. It is what enabled our variation of the human form to survive ice ages where other human varieties perished. We could trade, they could not. Once we traded in things like salt, nowadays it can be in anything including a ZX80 keyboard.

The UHF modulator was replaced in this article, the original modulator was ubiquitous and found in all computers of the era that needed a TV for the monitor. At the time this part was taken for granted, however, it was the component that enabled the home computing revolution, without it and screens would have been an extra £400 or so (as per BBC/Acorn monitor). There must be more information out there on how these UHF modulators came into being.
lol. I forgot to say look at the github code, not the site, because I have minification turned off right now, and I do have all modules loaded into a single file (so, big initial download right now). The app is not ready for users, it's in development. I will edit to show the github link instead. thanks. (It's the architecture of it that I'm bragging on, it's not fully production-ready code yet.)
Not really. Swimming, bathing relaxing and spending nude time in saunas with other people will still be an important part of our daily life. :-P
Aaronson specifically addresses this in section 1.2.1, on page 6.
I mentioned one such example about 6 hours before your post.

As the other reply stated, when you mostly want to keep the base class but over-ride a small specific subset of what it does.

E.G.

The base class uses class member functions to do save/load records from a store.

You want to implement a variant of that class which instead works well with a database engine you like.

You can then derive a class and define JUST the storage and recall functions, and inherit everything else.
People rely heavily on software in many aspects of their lives. They entrust it with their personal information, their money, and in many cases their physical safety. Engineers building software and companies selling it are ethically obliged to make a good faith effort to prevent defects that might betray their users' trust and cause harm. Languages designed to enhance the safety and security of software written in them are one tool that can be used in this effort.

Are engineering standards for public buildings evil because they stifle architects' freedom to design whatever crazy structures tickle their fancy? Should power tools not include safety features like blade guards because their users' freedom to accidentally kill or maim themselves must be held sacrosanct? Probably to both questions, the reasonable answer is "no".

If you're building something for yourself, and offer it to others only with clear warnings, then go nuts and make all the mistakes you want. Nobody's saying you can't do that; that sounds rather dystopian, a society where pointer arithmetic is illegal! But you can't treat a project people are meant to trust and rely on as your personal art project.
What are you talking about? Where does he say he throws anything out? The guy built Grooveshark, one of best SPAs ever so I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing.
Ok, but what it is? The page doesn't explain it. The top page explanation refers to spacemacs and most vim users don't know spacemacs.

Is it a vim plus a bundle of plugins?

EDIT: Cleaned up the spacemacs sentence.
I remember as a teenager hearing in the 80's about "The Population Bomb", and idea popularized by the book of the same name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb. It didn't happen. In fact, we are facing a crisis in the world where many countries are not seeing their populations replacing themselves because families are not having enough babies http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/11/03/141943008/when-...

Societies and cities are complex entities, as are economies. Perhaps "premature optimization" is a problem in civics just as it is in software development. Better to solve real problems rather than those that might or might not happen.
And Guix.
Articles like this one makes me wonder if dad's ZX81 clone is still sitting in the basement.
Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?
I think GP was referring to the conductors on a standard stereo+mic 3.5mm plug, which of course really has four conductors, but three prominent dividing marks.

These are unbalanced mics. I've never seen balanced mics outside of recording studios.
That is awesome. It puts them back in control of their destiny. Their larger investors could still screw them but at least they have some leverage. I would guess if they can put together 3 quarters in a row with positive growth and cash flow they will drop an S-1 to allow their major investors to liquidate their holdings.
Ad blocking will never go away. The time for that has passed; the trust has been lost. Regardless of what the industry does, you will never convince anyone who has discovered ad blocking--which can now be properly known as a part of malware blocking--to open their computers to these same people that fucked them (or people like them) over already. This is purely fantasy.
Actually cube sats can be pretty damn cheap. A cube sat test rig with off the shelf components could be cheaper than a custom ground experiment.
Turing tarpits aside, people speak very highly of C, just as they may do the same for assembly, but depending on context.

Languages fill a niche, and outside of their area of utility it's easy to notice weaknesses.

But arguments in favor of functions are similar to those in favor of objects. They both joust for the award of being adept at doing more with less code, in terms of mythical-man-month project scalability.

I've experienced that problem with huge OOP code trees, and I still don't foresee Pure Functional programming supplying a cure for that problem. Maybe I'm just not one of the lucky ones yet. I don't know.

But when I read Pure Functional code, even though it's tighter, with less boiler plate, it doesn't feel like honest improvement. It's like Coke or Pepsi, McDonalds or Burger King.

OOP might yeild thousands of source files and hundreds of lines per some files, but if a Pure Functional project does the same thing with fewer lines of code in fewer files, it's still doing the same thing.

So in a decade you'll probably find the same complaints, in the same places, but at least people will have different hair styles.
What is your favorite SPA? Do you feel HN isn't smooth?
The greatest dev timesaving tip that someone gave me was to clear my .vimrc and start off with a blank slate. vim is a language in itself [1] and it's easy to try to mimic someone who has conversational fluency in it, but as with languages, the only way to learn in practice from the start. Projects like SpaceVim try to create an IDE like environment, but because of being terminal driven, it's difficult for anyone to "discover" features. You end up with a large distribution with barely used features. Instead by growing and maintaining your own vimrc, you get something that can be both used everywhere (dotfiles and Github FTW) and work FOR you. At the end of the day, vim is JUST another tool to make you work more efficiently.

Trust me. "truncate -s 0 ~/.vimrc" and take the time to learn. You won't regret it in the long run.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10315645
> Trying to pass the Turing test is unrealistic

I agree.

But beating an equivalent Google query should be the goal IMO. Otherwise what's the point? Unfortunately, I don't think business specific chatbots are able to; Google just gets many orders of magnitude more users (even when narrowed down to Norwegian Bank X), so their "dumber" algorithms work just as well.

So I reiterate my question: can you give me one example query where this chatbot outperforms Google search?

The same goes for site-specific search engines, especially MSFTs Bing (neé Fast) that universities etc. seem to love spending money on; I've always found it to be worse than plain Google search with a "site:univ.edu" suffix. So you can definitely sell this tech to non-tech-savvy companies/institutions and make money, but users won't like it.
So, you want MORE middlemen between you as an advertiser/buyer and the publishers? How does that improve the awfulness?
What is your favorite spa app?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_modulator ?
Does mean that aircrack-ng is now illegal?
The Frankfurt Correspondent for the Magazin "Capital":
"Hey we have to do something, Frankfurt is in the news with their 10000 Bankers!" "Let's just say 20000 to Paris."
https://twitter.com/kirchnerchris/status/816196993517289472

Which kinda summarizes the facts this is based upon.
Digital menu for beer and beer ratings on TV in your pub
Almost all property in the Bay Area for the past few years has multiple bids over asking price. Many of them are also all cash from foreign investors. Rich Chinese are trying to move money out of their country. Many are also investors looking to rent it out or flippers. Many times, flippers sell to other flippers, so a property will have gone through multiple bad "lipstick remodels" in a few years, and each flipper will want to make a profit. You'll get a $1m 1800sqft single family house on a block next to a bunch of rundown POS properties that's been sold once a year. It's crazy and idiotic.
Doesn't France have fairly strong labor laws and high taxes?
I recall not long ago seeing headlines about "the rich fleeing France".

I wouldn't think that would be a big draw for finance types, especially when there are other markets in the EU that seem like they would be more tax friendly (Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Frankfurt), while still being close enough to other centers of power.
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I like Delphi. I used to play a lot with both Dephi 7 and VB 6 back when I was in high school. The nice thing about both of them was that they made GUI programming really easy, but Pascal was just a nicer language.
One answer is because in practice, we very rarely see large constants anywhere. While theoretically x^1000 algorithms exist, it's hard to actually find a reasonable example of one. Ditto for e^1.00000001.

Of course, why this might be the case remains to be investigated.
It is if you use it to maliciously interfere with someone else's network.
The rules you create are completely artificial, and IRL, people will rarely perceive "If everyone gives 2 points then everyone gets 2 points", even in the case it's true. They will see what they loose. Then you will have the ones abusing the system in some clever way. Then you will have people trying to scare others, or rule others, or both. Sub group will forms. Situation will changes, some old resource will become scare, some new resource will become in demand. Power play will come in. And Ego.

We are not ants.

Now in emergency situations, my experience is that we ARE hardwire to help each others. It works almost automatically, and is quite magical.

But as son as the immediate threats wears off, all the stuff I mentioned come into play.
Being familiar with RTOS's is certainly useful, since there's a decent chance that your future automotive/aero/industrial job uses one.

For a reference of stuff to learn about, go grab the manuals (usually massive) for a recent embedded CPU and see what common topics are foreign to you. Just reading the TOC should prompt some ideas. You may not be applying for one of the lower level "board bring-up" type jobs, but that team will be delivering you libraries that assumes familiarity with IRQs, timers, memory paging, processor modes, DMA, lots of I/O types, etc.
I used to work for HP, and I'll never buy anything from them after they screwed me in the pay department: -5% pay adjustment on hire/transfer from EDS; also they did not pass on shift differentials of 15% for 3rd shift that they were payed for my work.

Paying your workers may not motivate them (above a certain baseline), but screwing them certainly will!
> The problem of journalists misrepresenting a company (either by mistake or on purpose) is as old as the hills. It was as true back when the media was widely trusted, as it is now.

Perhaps what's happening is that established bad practices are becoming more noticeable as technology advances (in this case, the subjects of stories can post at little or no cost a widely read rebuttal)

> There are stories that were completely made up by Estonian teenagers, with no connection to facts at all, which were widely republished and shared

It sounds like we agree that factual inaccuracies, both on the detail and summary level are harmful. However, in my view, connection with the facts of the matter is only important in that it represents a commitment on the part of the journalist to educate the public on a specific topic. Education toward a more accurate position is the key here.

For example, it was recently pointed out that flossing has no RCTs to support it. This is to not say that flossing has no supporting evidence. Flossing has a tremendous amount of longitudinal evidence to support it. There is also little to no evidence of any kind to discourage flossing. Despite this, the New York Times reported the story as "maybe there's no need [to floss]"[1]. That's a very misleading representation of expert opinion, presumably done to increase readership.

I fail to see how the NYTimes' version of the story is somehow preferable to a hypothetical fact free version written (as in your example) by an Estonian teenager. At least the fact free version is easier to discard as rubbish. One can only wonder how many dental problems the NYTimes' spinned version of the story will cause.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/health/flossing-teeth-cavi...
Accenture and Infosys
Not until you linked me. :) They look like good steps but not quite what I need, for different reasons. I'll have to check when I get back to the office next week.
Oh, sure. Like I said, I wasn't refuting their point.
Nope, I skipped windows 8 almost entirely. I'm talking about windows 10 in 2016, it's still a kludged together mess of a touch based mobile OS and a full desktop OS.
A page refresh is what I call "throwing things out". Once you load your page, you don't need to load it again. Just make ajax calls to server from then on, and use the JSON response from the server to update the DOM. A page-refresh blows away the entire DOM, and is just a bad design IMO.
C++/FORTRAN77
FORTRAN77 allows use of a code base that has the bugs beaten out of it years ago. Aerodynamics doesn't change. Also older Engineers can still comfortably write new routines.
C++ allows use of Qt4 and all that it offers. Graphics, networking, SQL, etc.
Intel Linux compiler makes it simple to mix and match. Also to pass complex data structures back and forth.
At one point we had the same programs compiled to run on SGI IRIX, Linux and Windows. #ifdef made it easy.
But what about it do you think is better than a traditional quickly rendered sever HTML? You have to do all this work that the browser would do for you via complicated JavaScript frameworks, merely to simulate a traditional HTML rendered page.

Compare your site to Wikipedia for example. Which feels smoother, especially on a mobile page?
There are people who want more than just the within-a-day (air) or within-a-month (sea) options. When you ship something cross-country (for the US) by Ground, that's going by train for most of the journey.
Visited your thing for half a minute.

- Can’t open any of the pages in a new tab.

- Can’t go back.

- Can’t close the page without an “unsaved changes” prompt even though I didn’t interact with it at all.

- Doesn’t maintain state when restarting the browser or navigating through history.

- Doesn’t keep my scroll position when switching between tabs. Very painful if I clicked one accidentally.

- Doesn’t seem to be possible to focus or activate tabs via keyboard.

- Takes 3 seconds to load on my network. This is mostly up to latency, but making 119 requests totalling nearly 3 MB with no design to speak of yet probably doesn’t help.

- Takes a further 7 seconds to start fading in (why does it fade in?) on my device (2012 MacBook Pro 13") on a cold start, 4 seconds if just hitting Enter in the address bar.

- “Processing request” flashes on for a fraction of a second with an animated progress bar. How many progress states are there?

And it doesn’t even do anything in this state except let you flip between tabs. If things that are not this way are obsolete, I will gladly hang back and be obsolete with them.

But hey, the menu animation is very smooth!
Except that the recent work is by new people who were skeptics trying to refute the idea and failed. That's why people are so interested now while no one cared 15 years ago.
Is there a linter yet for markdown?
This, and other geopolitical implications. The 'New Silk Road' effort has been China's focus for a while, and envisions two corridors along which overland trade can flow: the status quo through Russia, and an alternate one to the south that avoids Russia and remains resilient should their partnership sour.
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While 200 containers is not much compared to a container ship it is sufficient to carry all of the material for a Combat Brigade :-)

More seriously though, it seems like an awesome rail trip if you can convince them to pull your private rail car.