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summery of linked twitter convo

- this is an invasion of privacy

- we only use it to mark an issue as read just like if you read the issue on our site

- so you admit you encroach on people privacy?

- you can disable it by turning of image auto display like your reader likely does by default

- I already do, this doesn't affect me, random comparison to facebook and insults to
githubs ethics

- we actually do have ethics, IT'S JUST TRACKING IF YOU READ THE ISSUE
It often works to ask to be put on their courtesy do not call list.

Systematically, they don't actually want to spend effort on people that don't want to talk to them and the 'courtesy do not call list' line says 'stop calling me' without inviting an argument.

It's probably more effective if you don't mind talking over their initial spiel.
I'd like to own one InkCase Plus, and you?
Google Phytohaemagglutinin and you will realize why you don't want to skip the pre-soak, it's for your safety not just for making them faster to cook.
I would imagine it depends a lot on the weapons systems. Air to air missiles would need to be able to stay locked and catch the F35, unless they were lucky enough to hit it with one of the canons. My money would be on the F35.
This is not true. All Mastercard and Visa cards charge a rate that is specified my Mastercard and Visa on a daily basis. I've been tracking this rate for a few months now, and it's consistently been awfully close to the rate I find on xe.com.

The CARD Act of 2009 mandated that credit card issuing companies clearly describe the fees associated with foreign transactions.

Visa/Mastercard charge a cross border origination fee of 0.80%. However many credit cards (all cards by Captial One for example) waive this fee, and do not charge any fee of their on on top of this.
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I'd strongly disagree with "developers like complexity", or at least that successful developers like it.
This is a great example of how technology can amplify existing inequality, because the voices that speak loudest are the ones who already have power.

186 people have so far been killed in this conflict. All of them in Gaza. Creating this site is bordering on a lie of omission.
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You know what is really funny...

These people have a problem with github's email tracking img. But they have no problem posting their live all over the internet for anyone to see...

https://github.com/hfiguiere

https://twitter.com/hfiguiere

http://www.figuiere.net/hub/

https://www.flickr.com/people/hfiguiere/

https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/hub/

I know WAY more about him based on those 5 links then I ever would from a tracking pixel which barely tells you anything.
Even if that's true, Comcast's bad metrics aren't our responsibility.
>I was able to cancel my account with comcast, just two weeks ago, in under twenty minutes.

It's hilarious how you say that like it's a good thing. Hint: No it's not.
It was probably deliberate. It reminds me of Dresden Codak's "Caveman Science Fiction" http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
That people think it works enough to pay money for it isn't proof that it does. I dub this the 'Ion Bracelet Effect' (though there's probably a better name for it already).

"'American Crossroads, the super PAC founded by Karl Rove, spent $104 million in the general election, but none of its candidates won. The United States Chamber of Commerce spent $24 million backing Republicans in 15 Senate races; only two of them won. Sheldon Adelson, the casino mogul, spent $53 million on nine Republican candidates, eight of whom lost.' It was, as the paper noted, 'A Landslide Loss for Big Money.'"[1]

"When a candidate doubled their spending, holding everything else constant, they only got an extra one percent of the popular vote. It’s the same if you cut your spending in half, you only lose one percent of the popular vote. So we’re talking about really large swings in campaign spending with almost trivial changes in the vote."[2]

[1] - http://reason.com/archives/2014/07/14/dear-liberals-stop-fre...

[2] - http://freakonomics.com/2012/01/12/does-money-really-buy-ele...
me too, seems a very good design product
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And those countries want to build their own industries and employ their own people as well, same problem.

Take the recent failure to sell the SuperHornet and the Rafale to the Brazilian Air Force: they lost the bid because both Boeing and Dassault refused to do a complete technology transfer to the Brazilians. So the BAF went with the Grippen because Saab gave them the blueprints and code to everything, to the point that Brazil can make their own Grippens in the future and their own weapon systems without sharing information with the Swedes.
I often don't have time to check out Show HN posts in real-time. So, I built this app to email myself a daily list of yesterday's Show HN posts. It's ordered by points, easy to read via email, and links directly back to HN for easy access to the posts I want to learn more about.
AI is artificial, it doesn't have to be a copy of a human brain.
I had an experience similar to this last week. And I was trying to cancel my business account SO I COULD OPEN ANOTHER ACCOUNT TO REPLACE IT. Comcast is so bad at service provisioning and customer service, I'm thinking that it's actually their superpower.
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There must be a business opportunity here. Connect people who hate dealing with this stuff to people like you who love being an asshole. They get their service canceled without dealing with crap on the phone, you get to play the bad guy, everybody wins.
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At some companies, reps are trained to trigger on phrases like "talk to my lawyer", "i'll see you in court" and "i'm going to sue you" and transfer you IMMEDIATELY to a legal department.

I learned this the hard way with a car moving company; from that point on, my account was tagged with a "transfer to legal" and I couldn't even talk to a rep.

YMMV, but mentioning legal action is one way to get yourself into limbo.
“take a step back” is also the right thing to say in a lot of situations; it's very easy for people to get lost in the details of one proposed solution instead of deciding which solution is best or even what the exact goal is.
Well the idea is that anyone can run for election and in order to afford to do so people can pool their resources and help out. So if I want to run for mayor and you really like me a lot better than the other person you can pitch in in different ways. You can help me reach out to voters, you can make calls for me, you can help me with social media, or you can donate money to me so I can pay people to do those things. This by itself really isn't a problem especially when there are caps on how much money people can donate, which there are. But if you donate as much money to my campaign as you are allowed what's to stop you from calling up the local TV station and paying them directly to run an ad for me? I might not even necessarily be involved at any point.

The big problems come when we do things like decide a multinational corporation qualifies as a person and therefor the rules around how much money a company can donate don't apply to them. And we do things like change the rules around what the limits are. And then people do things like fund PACs where they pool their resources and promote a candidate on their own without actually donating to the campaign itself directly. Some of these are just outright stupid decisions that never should have happened in the first place and others are loopholes. Campaign finance reform in the US doesn't have a single silver bullet that's going to fix everything. There's a lot of things that are wrong with it. Citizens United (the corporate personhood ruling) is probably the biggest but it's still just one problem among many.
> Downvoted

You can't downvote a story. You can only flag.
If you don't like it, turn it off.
Just think of the potential PR fallout if someone important clicks on an ad on a Google site and their computer gets exploited. What is mitigating that risk worth to Google?
Wow. I like the design.
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Nope. That's why I said it's not a direct replacement. The A-10 can carry a larger payload than the entire dry Scorpion airframe weighs.

But it fills the slot better than the JSF which is just plain too fast a design to fill a loitering CAS role well. The fact that the Scorpion's so cheap to run means you could could sortie a lot more of them for the same cost as even a single A-10 (which is one of, if not the, cheapest to operate combat aircraft in the USAF inventory today).
Could be because Pingdom is a Swedish company and AWS is Amazon, which has a presence in Europe?
>http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/stm32f4

Very cool page! Great links to some amazing projects on the stm32f4.

I see you mention Lua and JavaScript on the stm32f4, have you seen micropython running on it?

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Board-STM32F...
So damn fun fighting w/ media mercenaries to cancel/get out of service/contracts - add these dummies to the "Ass-Clown Bin" w/ Airliners, Politicians, Anti-Vacciners, etc.
I like it. where can I buy?
I wouldn't expect Brazil to be a market for this sort of plane, but rather more countries which currently primarily purchase used or refurbished soviet fighters.

But then again, given their low development costs, who's to say that Textron wouldn't approve such a production model for this plane? It's not like Saab is losing money on the Brazil deal.
All of them have a supervisor or superiors of some sort. But in some companies they do not touch the phone, they overseer the process. I can tell you from personal experience that if the customer support doesn't solve the problem then there isn't a next "level" of support called the supervisor, but only more formal options to communicate remain; think complaint department, mail, lawyers.
> If you have the sense to know you are being strung along, become the questioner and outflank the rep every time.

Seems similar to the anti-callcentre flowchart: http://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html

I've yet to use it, but it's bookmarked for some fun day...
I have trouble feeling bad for Gaza when they throw the first punch. If I threw rocks at my neighbor's house, I shouldn't be surprised when they retaliate.
They'll just transfer you to legal. Worst case, they tag your account and do this every time you call, and you're in limbo for months. Ugh.
Libcore doesn't use the (entire) libc runtime; IIRC, it essentially just needs the memcpy and memset symbols to be defined.
You must be a saint.

I don't really care much for the commissions, or the livelihoods, of people who knowingly take jobs that make other people's lives worse. I know in some locales call-centre jobs are the best (in terms of compensation) they can get, and I'm sorry that that's the state of affairs the world is in, but if they're willing to make my life miserable to make theirs a bit better, they can put up with being shouted at from time to time.
> Daymak Beast - the problem with these is always that the battery doesn't have enough juice and the solar panels are only strong enough to power a pocket calculator.

In the specifications they say their solar panel is "15 W/hr". They even calculate that again in their update. I think that's enough to say they don't know what they are talking about.
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Get. A. Better. Job.
My friends who did internship at Google were paid almost like engineers. The main differences is that the recruiting process is lighter because you work there for a few month only and of course you have less responsibilities.
The difference here is control. When I push a patch to github or post a picture on flickr , I decide what happens. If someone updates an issue and github tracks that I read the email without giving me the ability to opt out, I don't.
Yeah, I know I can probably get the eval board a bit cheaper -- I've bought chips from China on ebay and frequently look at TFT LCD displays on aliexpress while dreaming of a commercial product I'd love to do some day.

But in this case, I don't want to wait 2-4 weeks for delivery. The RioRand will be here in 2 days since it's on Amazon Prime.
It doesn't help them out by saying "The customer service is poor." They know their customer service is poor. Comcast is legendary for having poor service. They are one of the most hated companies in the US and consistently have the lowest customer satisfaction ratings among ISPs. They're not blind and deaf, and they're well aware of where they stand. That they haven't improved means they're either unable to, or (IMO more likely) they've determined that good customer service isn't important to their bottom line.
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This one is my favourite:

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."

Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.

It's often not this dramatic but I see this happen all the time, when someone doesn't know the source of a problem and tries to solve it by brute force (with C, it's usually "adding and removing * and & until it works") when stopping to understand what's going wrong would have lead them to the issue directly.
I don't understand why you put up with them charging you so many times. After the second fraudulent charge, I'd just deal with my credit card company directly. Call them up and have the charges reversed. You get your money back and they get punished by their card company for the fraudulent charge.

If more people did this, instead of waiting on hold for hours to fight with customer service for your own money back, the ISP would likely lose their merchant account for their fraudulent activity.

Edit: one other note when cancelling, make sure to take down the date, time and operator name & number during your interactions and note what was said. When I've had trouble with managing accounts, referencing that information strengthened my case dramatically.

I have a Google Doc that I keep for all these notes. While I'm on hold, I open up the doc and get it ready. Be clear that you're taking notes and they'll take the conversation more seriously too.
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If you had read the article properly, you would have seen that he did answer that question. The call went for 18 minutes, he answered the question at the start if the call: he states this.
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I'm in the Bay Area. I recently switched from a Comcast business circuit down to a residential circuit. The Comcast Loyalty Rep was fierce. Insisting I owed them 60 days notice, even though I was in a month to month contract. Told me he had to have me sign paperwork to cancel that was going to take up to a week to e-mail to me. I put up a fight, insisted on a supervisor, whom conveniently was in a Chicago office for another week.

So what did I do? I called 3 other times in a row, got 3 different people, asked to speak to a supervisor. Each said I would have a call back within 24 - 48 business hours.

I did. They called.

I explained all about the paperwork and supervisor out of town and it was literally all made up. All of it.

EDIT: My better side is resisting not calling out the guy who gave me the hassle by posting his name and e-mail.

EDIT 2: I forgot to mention that the rep tried to tell me that the "Terms Of Service" I signed the contract with wasn't valid anymore because it was to old. I asked well I didn't get any new paperwork to agree to the new Terms Of Service. His reply was that paying my bill every month was agreement enough, I didn't need to be told about changes. Doesn't make any sense.
It rather depend where you are. [Yes the assumption here is North America / USA, not sure on Comcast's reach?]

In the UK under Seamen’s and Soldiers’ False Characters Act 1906 Section 1, due to a technicality (excision of restricting terms) any [im]personation of HM Forces' seamen or soldiers is illegal.¹

It's been superseded by the Fraud Act 2006 which is more strict in needing a fraud to be committed viz "he false representation is made dishonestly and with the intention of making a gain".

1 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/5#commentary-c578...

2 - http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/docs/lc308_Statute_Law_R... at page 39 (PDF page 43)
They actually got one result wrong actually. I believe they predicted 15 out of 16 match results correctly.
Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find?
Call to cancel Comcast service descends into desperate, hysterical fireworks
Nope, I get it. What I'm saying is that a backdrop of consumer protection legislation can deal with the reality of this situation (which, sadly, doesn't look like it is going to be fixed any time soon), without being intrusive when the market is allowed to work.

A company that presents only the choice of paying for service one doesn't want or being put into collections and having one's credit destroyed should be fined until it corrects its behavior or goes out of business.
> Because clearly the presenter doesn't know enough to give you the most pertinent information on their own slides.

Actually this is often the case. Most people who have never worked in management consulting are terrible at building presentations.
This plane and it's described mission profile remind me of the A-10 Warthog ... I'd love to see a relatively cheap and virtually indestructible plane to replace the beloved A-10.
Google's (GOOG) interns held coveted positions even before being featured in the film "The Internship," which hit theaters this weekend. On average, interns there are paid $5,800 monthly, while specialized software engineer interns make as much as $6,700 per month, according to the job-rating website Glassdoor.

Remember that Google pays interns fairly well. It's not like he's running copies and picking up coffee for people at some random office.
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Obviously Google makes more money when the web and 'software' has a better reputation. Even 'altruism' itself can be a business model for a company the size of Google if this improves their image and therefore their product sales.

The amount of money they hypothetically make from this initiative is so hard to quantify that at least it doesn't seem to be a business-driven decision. It seems to qualify as 'altruistic' to me.
This is a bad argument. Just because the user decides to share certain information, doesn't mean they give up their right to privacy.

That being said, the GitHub tracker is not a privacy concern in my opinion and enables a useful feature. If it makes you uncomfortable, then you should always be using text-only email browsers.
That's not how it works. They won't transfer you to a lawyer: those are damned expensive.

In Australia, if you threaten to go to an ombudsman, companies tend to listen. Ombudsman cases are very expensive.
D-Wave to bust 1,000-qubit barrier with new quantum compute device
Absolutely. The idea that JSF can fill the role, even with UCAVs in support, is laughable.
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Upon my departure from the Marine Corps I received a Ka-bar with "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless" etched on the blade. One of the greatest things ever.
They may have it rough but there is no way I would take the kind of abuse that was on the recording.

Raising his voice and getting audibly angry would have likely shut down her incessant line of questioning pretty quickly.

It doesn't even have to be a genuine anger...I've done this quite a bit. If I am in a hurry and a service rep ever starts to pry questions into the conversation I just make a little huff and puff and they will generally decide to move the conversation along by just doing as I asked in the first place.

You don't have to be abusive to get your point across...just let them know you aren't listening to their bullshit.
Agreed. I am not looking down on Swift. It seems like all the human capital could go into making existing languages more awesome.
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That's pretty funny. Like the author said, it may not be true, but it's a fun piece of analysis.

I can almost remember doing math like this at school.
The aim for 1.0 is for the end of this year; it will offer backwards compatibility at the language level (syntax and semantics of language constructs), and a subset of the standard library. The rest of the library will stabilised progressively.

(The compiler warns/errors when using a nonstable language or library feature, so it will be easy to stick to the stable parts, or at least know what may need to be adjusted when updating. The goal is to a strict semantic versioning plan too.)
Thanks for the reply. Good luck with everything.
Chances are they were getting better commission on a lower tier. Or some internal contest to see who can sign up more people on a certain plan.
Thing is, some of these are genuinely useful and smart things, in very specific contexts :P

To paraphrase a recent experience of my own, a manager calling a meeting with the dev team "we need to re-arrange the javascript in our headers" "step back a bit, what problem are we trying to solve?" "pages need to load faster, rearranging headers makes pages load faster" "step back a bit, why do they need to load faster? Why is javascript the problem?" "Clients have complained about graphs not loading" checks the server logs, sees internal server errors causing pages to crash (those which don't crash on the server side are loading instantly), goes to fix the actual problem
That's a pretty rude way to put it. Someday when you aren't "healthy" I hope someone makes a comment like this to you.
This looks really cool, thanks for doing it.
> Firstly: getentropy(2) is a /dev/random substitute, not urandom.

Mind though that under the BSDs, there's no functional difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom.
You can pay bills with credit cards?
I agree about A-10s being transferred to Army. The A-10 ground support missions are too "unsexy" for Airforce.
Yup. He had no CS education/work experience but he'd just finished a fairly solid side project(cocos2d ios game) so we hired him as a junior dev. That was about a year ago and he's still with us and doing fine.
With not a single mention of a female programmer (but many he's and him's), I can't get behind this. Let's be an inclusive community, please.
It sounds like you're applying journalistic standards to this site. There is no obligation to tell both sides of the story here; it's just a neat visualization, useful as an aid to other pieces of journalism which don't contain such information.
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Fish is a shell & iTerm is a terminal emulator. Just use them together. Or am I missing something?
I thought the end goal with Watson was to develop something that can effectively diagnose medical issues or some such?
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It's a common ruse in Brazil to call cancellation in order to get to the retentions guy and bargain a better deal too.

I can't do this anymore because I have a small, few-channels package and 14-inch analog TV, and cheaper internet packages are bundled with HDTV cable plans. But thanks to anti-bundling laws (and a general sentiment that makes even McDonald's sell their toys independently of lunch boxes), internet-only packages are not unrealistically expensive.
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