skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Romania it's legally required to carry your ID everywhere. I am not aware of a minimum distance :)
Using a compiled language is not a premature optimization if you're not sacrificing expressiveness.
With that said, Go is not the best choice. Like, for anything.
I would say Backend For Frontend solves the same problems for most people, and the tooling around REST is available everywhere.

http://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/

We have data repositories living behind very simple REST controllers, an endpoint probably doesn't take that much longer to write than a GraphQL query.
Why don't they mark where the grasshopper is on the big image?
I think there are a couple of really different types of situations these actors resolve.

The fake groom for a wedding is just a workaround for a cultural issue, maybe not uniquely Japanese. The society requires a groom, so here is one. I wonder how many politicians today have fake family lives due to similar reasons, for instance.

But there are other situations, like fake boyfriends/girlfriends. What the company provides here is trust, sort or removing counter-party risk. The client needs to know that the friend will confirm to certain protocol, will be in a certain way. Many people would do that for free, but the actors are guaranteed to do that. If there was some mechanism to establish that kind of trust without the company, that would be nice. Without that trust, its just the usual dating, of course.

And then, there is a commitment aspect. That man acted as a father for 8 years. The must have been growth in that relationship. The actor and the girl developed an inner world in which they exist, are part of each other's lives,
and, the girl at least, relies on him to be there in the future. Many man could probably act as fathers for some time, but 8 years, they'd actually have to want to be fathers.

edit: maybe its worth adding that this is not a suggestion that that business is a good thing overall. Just an attempt at the analysis of why it might be "booming" (if it indeed statistically is).
Can chose to not use heroin and other drugs - like most of society had informed you - and there is infinite amount of data available to anyone looking.
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At least they're still running mysqueezebox.com
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Intel pick the wrong guy and wrong path.It just don't work.

I think Intel should acquisition Nvidia, and let Jen-Hsun Huang lead the new company.
see: http://cryptocentral.info/topic/1794/parity-wallet-critical-...
Great point. Seriously. Wait until all those people who mined it using not their own hardware ( yeah, you know who are ) are litigated by their company and secondly, has the U.S government reconized it?

Blockchain is here to stay, bitcoin is unproven, especially with scale.

Just my opinion.
No, you're right in that I am mistaken. I was meant to provide a negative review to balance a positive review.
+1. It can deal with non dev creating templates. It can compose templates. Manage caching. Embed logic. Debugging.
While at $bigco we halted testing of generation equipment because it was sending DCs offline more often than it kept them up. Lawyers were involved, things got ugly
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This itself is an interesting question. The foundations of the justice system talk about testing everyone equal in the eyes of law but somehow equal access to legal resources is never talked about. I think we need to think over this as a society. There are some countries like Germany where for people with low income the state pays money to hire a lawyer rather than providing a lawyer.
Having looked into it further it looks like at least part of their operation is being managed by The Hut Group - from some contact info - and I found this surprisingly similar link from four years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25330615

Hard to say really to what extent there is overlap here.

Honestly I'm now starting to wonder if I should pull the article - getting it read is good, but this is more attention than I expected and I'm getting a little nervous of what'll happen next now. :-S
This was in April 2017. A more recent report questions the previous publication:

"Although the biochemical decomposition has not yet been disproven, the sensational report of plastic eating caterpillars at least appears highly doubtful in the light of these results." [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170915144156.h...
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I guess I didn't mean to criticize managers who are continuously soliciting feedback through a middleman, just ones who aren't soliciting feedback at all.
That sounds like a really complicated issue without a clear solution and no benefit to whoever solves it.

By comparison I think it would be easier to make a self driving car or automated robot that does most of what a heroin addict does.

Sounds terrible don’t care I’m out of sympathy for addicts in society.
The national sport is still played recreationally: every employer I've ever worked for has a softball (similar to baseball, but with some rules changes for amateurs and a larger ball) team. These teams play in leagues organized by the city Parks Department and play other businesses in the area (car dealership employees vs bakery employees), then everybody goes out for drinks afterwards.

Part of this is that football is a relative newcomer as our national pastime, and is largely a product of the broadcast era (radio first, then really taking off with TV). The first precursor to the NFL wasn't formed until 1920. By contrast the World Series had already been played for 17 years at that point, and the precursors of the modern big leages had been around for more than 50 years.

Baseball simply had a head start on the popular consciousness, and is much more pleasant for adults to play and still go into work the next day (fewer broken bones, black eyes, bruises, concussions).
Very old version of Tensorflow there (1.0). Even Azure Notebooks is more up to date (1.1).
I don't think the FTC cover the UK.
Makes the guy who brought up sources look stupid
Is eight-man soccer a thing?
I think it raises some interesting questions about fulfilment, customer support, and what companies should be responsible for in these days of increasing home-delivery. I've also had problems with terrible couriers (haven't we all?) and, at least here in the UK, there are plenty of potential improvements to make.

Should Nintendo be selling this direct at all? Is it really still worth the cost of whatever systems need to be in place to achieve it?

Anecdotally, I received my Switch in the post in perfect condition, via Amazon.
Care to post any proof? Bitfinex had the opportunity to close shop after being hacked, yet they chose to pay everyone back.
It's not that we don't like jokes - it's that this joke is an easy and boring joke to make. More importantly, it's downright hostile to many people in our community.
Don't be daft. Leave it up. As long as the article is truthful, what's the problem? Their appalling treatment of an honest customer should be exposed.

I do think you're totally overthinking this. They made the initial mistake, they need to correct it and at their expense.

They can't do anything to you. Make a "best effort" to return the item and no more. Keep a log of all your correspondence. Don't waste any more than a minimal amount of time on this, certainly don't take days off work etc to wait for couriers.
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> The mother is paying $200/month for a service that could disappear at any moment.

The real father actually did disappear, after a history of abuse.
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Excuse my ignorance, but last time i checked Atom and VSC are as much as text editors as Vim/Emacs/Sublime/Nano(only Nano having no plugin support). Also Vim and Emacs does have native GUIs.
This is my understanding, too.

Obviously I'd have preferred to keep it if they'd let me, but if they hadn't freaked me out with talk of legal action and been happy to say something to the effect of get it back to us within (e.g.) 30 days, I could've organised to post it at a weekend I wasn't working.

I couldn't include everything in the whole exchange in the article, but they did suggest collecting it from a place of work - but I don't have one, just my client's site, which isn't an option for that, which was explained.

In any case the courier has now collected the Switch, so at least I should be able to put it behind me.
I wonder if this means that super-tasters would be bad chef-cooks, when cooking for not-super-tasters. Everything they make would be lacking in bitter tastes.

Then I wonder if the best chef-cook would be the one with the same taste. I.e. if I am a non-taster, then I need a non-taster chef-cook, etc.

Another thing I'm curious about is if this property is really that black-and-white (or ternary) as the article suggests. Tasting bitter requires a certain gene, but I guess there are other genes for other tastes, and also for smells, etc.
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It's a bluff. Nintendo wouldn't involve lawyers over a Switch, it makes zero financial sense. What happened likely is some tech support drone made a threat, which the corporate never approved.
Because requirements are different. Our admin GUI needs much more data and different access controls than our web and mobile apps. Third party consumers have even more different requirements.

We never need to bikeshed with developers from all other teams to make sure things are consistent or whatever.

We generate endpoints from a Swagger spec. With good abstractions it is not much work. Frontend devs do modifications to these endpoints as well since they are so trivial.
Bear in mind that customer service in the UK is often terrible especially compared to the US (I've been fortunate enough to live in both places) and I've found that some inexperienced or bad customer service people threaten legal action without even being serious about it as a sort of a threat. I was threatened legal action by a car rental company for something related to a flat tire that was nothing to do with me and I had even dealt with the situation at the physical rental place just fine. Nevertheless some representative contacted me several weeks later to threaten me, I told them to stop it and then they never contact me again, several years later I've never heard from them. It's bad customer service. If you call their bluff and say ok, sue me, they'll be surprised. This case (as was mine) sounds so clear cut that why should you feel intimidated. They would lose.
> at least he did something. That's living.

Yeah, true. But...let's be honest, the thing he did was very destructive, dumb, and doomed to failure; he didn't get the outcome he wanted going in, he's not happy with the outcome he ended up with, and he's not articulated any lessons he learned from it.

There's a lot of things he could have done. He could have changed careers, gone back to university, backpacked across Europe, sold his house, put everything he owned in storage, and then circled the globe hopping from port to port on tramp freighters. Instead he cached out a chunk of his pension, sold his house, spent all the equity, borrowed money from friends, and basically spent every penny he and his wife had on pretending to be running a restaurant.

Commiting suicide is "doing something", so I guess by your definition that's living? That doesn't seem very useful of a definition. Meanwhile, I have a rewarding job I deeply enjoy, I spend time with friends and family, I have hobbies, I learn new things. Am I not "living"?

> Put his shoes on and just listen and learn from the experience.

That would be easier to do if he'd learned from it first. I think the point of making mistakes and "living life" is learning from those mistakes, and becoming a better person. What do I learn from reading about someone's fatalistic retelling of something he tacitly admits he knew was dumb? "Don't sell your house to invest in a project with no real upside and an overwhelmingly likely chance of 100% losses"? "Don't spend money you need to feed your kids on a vanity project which you've sabotaged for your own convenience?"
There is no "right" price. There's a limited amount of bitcoin, and a lot of people who want it. As long as more people keep wanting bitcoin, the price will go up. When demand drops, prices will go down.

Bitcoin has the problem that there's no real value backing it up. You can't eat a bitcoin, or use it to make something. It has value only as long as other people think it has. But as long as people keep trusting bitcoin, it could keep growing.

The real interesting question is not so much what the price is, but how much actual commerce there is in bitcoin. If people are merely hoarding it, it's vulnerable to collapse as soon as people start to realise it's not actually doing anything. But if there's actual sustainable trade in it, then that could be seen as the economy backing up the value of bitcoin.
So if I get your argument correctly:

Developers learn a new language that is faster to develop, safer and faster to run than existing solutions (which work but are of increased technical debt) and successfully & quickly port the existing solution to the new tool.

The company doesn't really benefit from it apparently because they never scale enough or because they lacked a target so they had their developers working on sth small instead on working on the company's products.

This skill is highly valued and the developers leave for an other company while the original one struggles to continue.

Do you think that it may be the case that the problem in all these is not within the developers or tool? Furthermore, shouldn't the CEOs and the CTOs know better and to a better job?
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That's a great point, and I'm glad my HTPC screen was a Samsung SUHD over an LG OLED now. The Samsung's uniformity and edge bleed isn't great but I think I'd take that over the permanent burn in I'd inevitably get from eg Win10' screensaver not kicking in.

I noticed the burn in on my button bar of my Samsung S8, and finally understood why they didn't let me have a fully black navbar. I had installed a custom Navbar app to make it black; now that area is lighter than the rest.. fortunately not too be yet, but I'll be careful about apps like Google Auto going forward.
Post it on Facebook with the text

"Einstein said 99% of all people cannot find the grasshopper in this picture. Can you?" ;-)
Thanks!

I already have taken the day off work, and the courier has now collected the Switch - so the hope at least is that I'm now done with it, albeit out-of-pocket.
>it's downright hostile to many people in our community

Such as? Attack helicopters?
I have never, ever dealt with any above mid-sized company that handles customer service and delivery well.

I have. Amazon. Over 15 years now and flawless every time.
Exactly. The volatile price suggests it's all speculation, hype and hoarding, and not actual trade.
This is dumb on the part of everyone involved.

No, you are not taking the moral high ground by calling Nintendo customer service and initiating a back-and-forth on what to do with the mistakenly-delivered extra product. In fact, you are probably costing Nintendo more money than the second Switch is worth by doing so.

There is no reason, ever, unless the cost of the item is extremely high, to initiate a conversation with customer service when you are mistakenly delivered extra goods. The company will take inventory and notice that that it was mistakenly sent. If they don't contact you about it, it's because they want you to keep it because a cost-benefit analysis on their part does not warrant getting in contact with you over it.
I am often willing to participate in surveys, as I realize that, when well-done, they can be useful, but I am often turned off by questions (and answer choices) that are irrelevant, simplistic, based on flawed assumptions, or pushing an agenda. I would urge any organization performing surveys to ask themselves the question, 'does this make us look out-of-touch, self-absorbed or incompetent?' I was half-expecting the article to be along the lines of 'these HR surveys helped me realize that I was wasting my time at this company.'
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Which platform-agnostic GUI toolkit do you use?
This fucking headline. The second sentence literally disproofs the first.
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£60 is a hell of a lot of money to buy nothing. He doesn't need to do any of that, just arrange to return the item and if Nintendo (or The Hut Group, which is sounds like) screw up the collection, it's their problem. Just keep records of all correspondence.
> How much higher can the price possibly get?

A lot. If bitcoin becomes the standard currency for all online and international trade, a single bitcoin could become worth millions of dollars.

But it could also become completely worthless.
When in a contract like this, where you paid for one unit but was sent two units, always be honest about it. Look at it the other way around, what if you paid double by accident ?
I perhaps should have done, instead I took the threat seriously and took the day off work to await the courier (who collected the Switch).

So I'm down another day's income, and honestly starting to feel like a bit of a mug given the responses here.
For anyone that doesn’t remember websites (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631565), this is one of them.
I disagree, there's no code about this that everyone knows about. I think he did the right thing by contacting them. They did the wrong thing, obviously they should just let him keep it but some cheapskate customer service rep decided 'no we must have this thing back' and ridiculously decided threatening legal action was a good idea.
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Actually, some of the biggest companies ever are known for their top notch customer service: Apple and Amazon.
Part of bitcoin price that's defined by needs of settling between different parties is the 'right' price. The 'wrong' part of the price is defined by speculative interest - expectations of bitcoin growth. Of course, any price is right if bitcoin is a pure speculative asset in your eyes.
I hope the story was unfair to him; perhaps reality was more complex.
> There is no reason, ever

There are Ethical reasons

But I've heard of people contacting support for a vendor to hear "thanks for letting us know, you can keep the item" which should have probably been Nintendo's stance in this issue
Do you genuinely believe that what I said is about a plot between a TV Series and the corrupt congress and brazilian justice? Really?

I bet you are these kinds that think Brazil was been "left-wing" brainwashed and the federal universities are all bolivarian. But a TV Series is just a TV Series.
"Developers learn a new language that is faster to develop, safer and faster to run than existing solutions"

Most often only in the eye of the developers with no proper evaluation.

"Furthermore, shouldn't the CEOs and the CTOs know better and to a better job?"

Yes.
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Likely. But there's also a number of reasons why this may not be the case.
Have you kept a record of the courier delivery? Like a collection receipt?

If not, write them a letter, send by recorded delivery, and state that the item was collected and that this is the end of the matter.

They're almost certainly incompetent rather than malicious, so if there's another screw up you can refer them to the letter and then ignore any further correspondence.
True, but unfortunately you'll need the services of an exchange if you want to short. Longing is possible by putting cryptos in a wallet you have the private keys for, but not shorting.

As I think about it, this is actually another benefit of longing over shorting - it allows you to eliminate the risk of putting value on exchanges, at least if you're okay with limiting your ability to quickly react to market action.
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Thanks, I appreciate your comments today as I've been getting a little worried here that the traction this article is getting this morning is going to come back to bite me in the backside.

Whether it's Nintendo or a UK-local entity they sub-contract (it's a bit unclear - either way the address is store.nintendo.co.uk and Nintendo-branded), the policies could use some work.
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Nintendo customer support in Europe is known to be quite bad. I am a day one customer for the Switch, the controller has a defective antenna (it is a well known hardware bug) but sending it back would mean to lose a lot of time with the italian customer support and in the end have all my system data wiped out. I'll just wait for them to enable cloud savegames, buy a second Switch and sell back my current one to a retailer like Gamestop.
Why were the /\ (min) and the \/ (max) operators abandoned in the C language?
The thing about the FedEx guy and his story is that, at least as the story goes, he had a 100% chance of failure if he did nothing, and a possible chance of huge success if he gambled. Betting his last funds was all upside for him, so he made a cold-blooded decision to maximise his expected outcomes, and it paid off.

The restaurant guy...not so much. He took significant assets (his pension, home equity, health, his relationship with his wife), and gambled them all on high downsides and very limited upsides.

> Maybe the only lesson is that he wasn't ruthless enough?

Ruthlessness is not a substitute for making very bad decisions.
No, they didn't "[cost] Nintendo more money than the second Switch is worth". Nintendo could just have said, "Keep it" and only been out the cost of a support call, which is necessarily less than the cost of a Switch.

Nintendo is the one in the wrong here.

The customer wouldn't have been wrong to do nothing and keep it, but calling them and admitting the mistake is definitely the moral high-road here. It may not be the smartest thing, but that's different.
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I had a bad experience with Nintendo Germany, when they fucked up my New Nintendo 3DS Ambassador package address, and it took over 2 weeks to find out what is happening with the item I paid for... Never again buying directly from Nintendo again, learned my lesson.
> Rob DeSalle is curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City

Nothing against the author, but when I see "Sackler," I think of that family's contribution to the opioid epidemic, which I learned from through HN.

The Family That Built an Empire of Pain | The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...

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I would definitely concur on the injury side of things. If you don't take it seriously then it's hard to justify the toll on your body.

I am getting into mountain biking, and not long ago I would have dived in headfirst and likely take a bunch of spills. These days I have better things to do than lay around injured so I am taking it much slower.
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