skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Including Load Testing in your Continuous Integration Environment
hmm.... lawyers..... from your divorce...... to figure this ooouuuuuuuuttttt....
That doc is dated 2003 so I guess the regs have changed (and there have been some pretty major changes recently like CA2006 and FA2011). I certainly don't get VAT invoices from the US suppliers I use (linode and digital ocean for example).

Edit:
The 4th paragraph here seems to settle it: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatpossmanual/vatposs14300.ht...

The reverse charge mechanism places the burden for accounting for VAT on the recipient if the supplier is outside the UK.
The NSA is becoming Skynet
The last time that happened to me, collections took one look at the notes on the account, apologised, informed me that his manager was now writing an extremely annoyed email to billing, and had it fixed before I was off the phone.

Collections tend to be more likely to play hardball, but they often also tend to contain smarter humans. Sometimes this helps.
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I only had a little bit of difficulty canceling my comcast service. After I figured out what the customer service guy was doing, it went a little like this:

- I don't owe you an explanation.

- I'm in a hurry. Cancel my service now.

- I have your name. I will call back to complain about you.

- If another bill comes, I will not pay. If you send a collection agency and it affects my credit rating, I'll take you to court.

- You have 30 seconds to comply.
"I an in the Navy, and will be in a submarine for the next two years"
Clearly, but "you're lying" doesn't get you any further.
You can also try out UnQLite, an embedded key/value store and JSON document store:

http://unqlite.org/

I wrote some python bindings using ctypes if you happen to be using python:

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/python-bindings-for-unqlite-an...
Too Big to Fail – InfinityMQ – With Full JSON-over-XML-over-YAML encoding
A representative cup of coffee costs $3-$5 and is not the same as a cup of coffee you would enjoy at home, which is not measured in cost per cup.
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For small countries with mostly ground based threats it's a perfect buy. Not everyone can even afford a used F-16 and its extended costs.
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Exactly. Another horrifying example of this is eFax: never ever EVER subscribe to that thing :(
I'm working on the assumption that if they suddenly started offering services in GBP, they'd price at £5 rather than $5 (like virtually all companies do). Meaning the same service would end up costing £2/month more than it does atm with the current exchange rate.
What usually happens to me is that they'll put me on hold, and after five minutes, I'll get disconnected.
> UNIX's never had a concept of a limited length file extension

AFAICT, UNIX never had a concept of file extensions.
I don't understand the whole "it has to be capable of making bombs to be viable" thing.

I mean, the local coal power plant can't make artillery shells, but we're not shutting it down...
Alternatively, call, say you want to cancel, and if they give you shit just claim firmly you are unhappy with the service representative and hang up. With any luck they were recorded / reviewed. Just move on to the next guy.

Of course, usually these numbers are paid, so you pay a small fortune just to get to call someone that will do his job.
Disagree. Religion is the vehicle. Inequality is the driver.
Under twenty minutes is short? Seems like this blogger got it taken care of in 8:14, and that was still frustratingly long for all of us to listen to.
Yes, that is usually what bare metal means.
"I've recently discovered God, and decided to disconnect from the Internet, as it is the tool of Satan. Tell me, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your savior?"
Visualization of the missile attacks on Gaza
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/gaza-home-destr...

869 homes ruined, at least >160 people died
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28281880
I told TimeWarner I was moving to Manitoba to get them to stop hastleing me to move my service to my new address.
"We will need you to send us a high quality scan of a government ID or passport in order to verify your account. Please send the picture, or a link of the picture, to:"

No thanks.
GitHub notification emails have tracking beacons
To be pedantic, from compiler design point of view, that is also a runtime.
Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
KDE Plasma 5.0 Released
Yeah, I should have specified the eval board, which includes peripherals. This Zinc project already has support for several of the peripherals, including a few TFT drivers, which I want to be able to try out.

I don't always buy eval boards -- if a chip comes in a DIP package, I've just breadboarded it in the past. As a hobbyist, I haven't yet tried to build a breakout board for any SMT-mounted chips, but it's on my todo list.

The one I'm looking at (by RioRand) is not a bad deal, since it actually includes a 2.8 inch TFT on the board as well as Ethernet interface. But I did consider just buying the chip and breadboarding it. I may still do that and buy the LCD separately.

$60 would indeed be expensive for the chip alone.
From the article:

> If private companies want to throw their money away on the Myers-Briggs, that's their prerogative. But about 200 federal agencies reportedly waste money on the test too, including the State Department and the CIA. The military in particular relies heavily on the Myers-Briggs in deciding on promotions, and the EPA has given it to about a quarter of its 17,000 employees.
But why should I have to waste my time playing that game?
If anyone can truly report a review, perhaps reviewers of companies who flag every negative review - in an attempt to silence them with the hassle and apparently inefficient and time-consuming proof process - should go and flag every positive review.
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A lot of companies don't have that option. It is either customer service of one kind or another, tech support, complaint department, or a more formal approach like mail or contacting legal department.
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Almost kicked out for using Sublime Text
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Maybe. But he says he started recording 10 minutes into the call, and that he and his wife (who started the call) were answering the rep's questions, but not getting anywhere.

This is a great example for how setting goals can do more harm than good. If you start measuring people, they'll optimize for what you are measuring.
CloudBees programmer to give talk on massively scalable HTTP server
Sure, intervention should also be designed in a way that works, and monitored/adapted so it continues to do so. :-)

What I have in mind as "romanticism" is the more American idea that major societal problems just need some Ingenious Great Men to fix them (maybe together with something vague like "startups" and "innovation"), rather than actual policies.
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Me too, used iTerm but went back to Terminal.app. People are pointing out a few bugs and maybe I will try it, but Terminal is just easy enough.
That's because IBM Watson is a gimmick that doesn't do much besides search.
AWS customers can now use Nginx for media streaming
I had an issue like this with Three in the UK, everyone in the office who was listening for 25 minutes of my lunch to the conversation.

-Hi, I'd like to cancel.

-Cool, we are upgrading your account so you don't need to.
-Umm, just cancel it please.

-Today only, you get 5GB for free

-I don't care, I want to cancel.

-Why?

-Because I don't need your service anymore.

-But what about the free data!?

-I don't need you, I am moving country.

-What country and when? Do you want another month before you leave?

-I am leaving tomorrow.

-But what about the free 5gb?

-If I say yes to the free 5gb, then what happens?

-Well we can't make more than 1 change to your account in a day, so you can't cancel if you accept our upgrade.

-Then just cancel.

-Ok putting your through to the right department

line goes dead

Next attempt, they take my number in case line goes dead, it does, they ring back, after one ring, line goes dead.

Third attempt, they cancel it.
I've had lots of trouble with ISPs before. About a decade ago Bulldog Broadband were the first to offer 8Mb service in London, and at a reasonable price, and they oversold so massively their staff couldn't cope.

After a month of no service I called to cancel, and after 45 minutes on hold I gave up. I tried again. And again. Eventually I got through to someone who processed the cancellation. I got an email saying "To confirm your intended cancellation, send an email to cancellation-confirmation@..."

That address didn't exist. The next month they started to charge me for a service I wasn't getting. I had a different ISP by this point. I called and got the money back. They took it again the next month. I called and got the money back. The third month I got a letter saying I hadn't paid for three months, so they took three months money from my card. This time I called and got the money back and demanded they remove me from their systems. Eventually someone said OK.

Six months later I got a demand for 9 months service charges. I called and told them to stuff it. Another six months later they started demanding even more money and making threats. That's when I started the official (UK) complaints procedure. You start by writing a long email setting out your demands, end it by saying "This will also be sent by registered mail, and you have 30 days to resolve this until I report you to the communications ombudsman"

The first response I got to that was a letter saying "We understand you'd like to cancel your service?" So I sent another letter, stating my demands and that no, there had never been a service to cancel, and by the way this is being sent by registered post and you have 18 days before I contact the ombudsman.

I think by the third letter it had been resolved, almost 18 months since I first tried to cancel the account. I had to move house shortly after that though, and I've worried since then that one day they're going to turn around and say "hold on, this guy owes us for ten years of broadband! Let's ruin his credit rating!"
Ubuntu 14.04: Is Canonical taking on too much?
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> This is a major problem. This is why so many services allow you to sign up in seconds online, but require long, drawn out waste-of-time phone calls to cancel.

And that is why businesses should push for legislation making it illegal. It is rare for me to sign up for a service using my credit card, and I'm not the only one. The bottom feeders make it hard for legitimate companies to get customers.
I've tried iTerm and a few other alternatives periodically over the years and I keep coming back to Terminal.app for performance and stability. It'd be interesting to see how far a performance sprint could take iTerm…
I wonder how long I could manage to get that guy to stick on the phone... I love being an asshole.
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Rap Genius consolidates sites as Genius.com
I don't think that's fair to the caller. He was polite, and was clear in what he wanted. Had the Comcast agent said "Okay, I understand that you don't want to tell me that, let's move on" the call would have moved on and not ended up on the internet. He wanted his service cancelled, and did not want to engage in a conversation about it. How else could the caller have possibly handled it?

Also, the caller was not a "crank who refuses to play by the rules." There is no rule that says customers have to fill out a survey upon canceling service. It was clear to me that the Comcast agent was also not asking those questions honestly. He was using them as a rhetorical trick to get the customer to eventually say, "Fine, don't cancel my service."
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"It's interesting how society unanimously view 'work' as a concept that is undesirable and as something to be reduced."

Because a lot of us are only productive at work for 4-6 hours per day. But we waste the next 3-6 hours in the office trying to look busy. What a waste of our lives.
Your leave personal data on your smartphone in the form of bacteria
This makes me sad for three reasons:

1) you are spreading FUD with your fad after fad comment, it's simply not true. There is a lot of crap info out there but it's trivially easy to sort it out with the internet at our fingertips. News headlines are not the best way to get your nutrition and exercise information.

2) A whole hell of a lot has changed in just the last 10 years or so, never mind 1996. Pretty much every single bit of "conventional wisdom" about diet and nutrition has been tossed out now that there are actual controlled double blind studies being done on things that were previously taken for granted like "fat makes you fat" or "whole grains are healthy" food pyramid nonsense that was never, never, based on any good science at all.

3) You know so little yet are so willing to comment on it. That just makes me sad, I expect that on other sites and discussion forums but supposedly we are all smart people here.
He should provide links to purchase each print with its corresponding toy. The print would be a cool thing to hang in a kid's room (or even a big kid), but it would be way cooler if the kid also had the corresponding toy.
Can you help guide me sell something that doesn't work to the government for massive profits? I'd like to be able to buy a house in the Bay Area.
I believe a more formal way to do it would be by registered mail. In Europe at least. Mail gets a timestamp that is trusted.
That, and incredibly unfortunate timing. I dare say that had the incident happened two weeks earlier, or several years later, there would have been no uproar - but for it to happen several days after Chernobyl, and for them to then try to cover it up... couldn't be worse.
This being HN no one likes to talk about regulatory solutions, but the silence on this one is startling. Wasn't there a day in the US when companies would be fined for this sort of business practice?

Why can't we go there today? Is it simply the triumph of free-market orthodoxy and a tacit acceptance that to be a consumer today one must subject oneself to this sort of rapaciousness?
Better throw some acid in there or you run quite a significant risk of death from botulism.
This plan seems to assume that there is a low or zero cost with the hassle of having to deal with those future billings.
But evidence doesn't matter!

Really!

If Comcast sues you for payment then you go to court (or more likely to an arbiter chosen by Comcast since that's what you agreed to in your contract) where evidence matters.

But instead of that, Comcast simply reports you to the credit bureaus for non-payment. The law gives them immunity for doing so -- even if they submitted intentionally false information for malicious reasons, you can't sue them for libel. And you credit score affects your ability to function in US society: it is used for all granting of credit, for deciding whether to allow you to open a checking account, for deciding whether to hire you at a job -- it is so significant that you are forced to care. You can open a dispute of facts with the credit reporting agencies, but be prepared to spend large amounts of time doing so.
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If doing the job IS wasting time, that means the incentives are all wrong. But still, who says that re-election is the goal? What about the places where they are limited to only 2 terms? How could re election explain ther second term actions? Or are people going to claim that at that point they're all captured by te industry using the revolving door?
Just don't get caught lying on a recording about being a military member. That's a felony. ;)
Not all of those projects are legit. For instance, J.A.E.S.A. is obviously a fake product. It promises Jarvis, holographic interface and AI, without any explanation of how it works. Even one of the several technological advances it promises would have been revolutionary yet no mention of their existence can be seen outside of the Kickstarter product.
Unfortunately we deal with a large amount of abusive and fraudulent signups which leads to a bunch of abuse on the network such as mining, port scanning, and flooding. We do everything we can to filter out abuse automatically and then determine whether or not a customer is legitimate outside of that but unfortunately that information isn't always available or conclusive.

We'd love to hear suggestion on how we can improve that without resorting to requesting an ID because obviously that isn't something that's ideal.
Rap Genius signs to Warner/Chappell Publishing, changes name
1. If you regularly have passwords, keys, PII, etc. in terminal windows, your workflow should change.

2. If you care about security in any way, you should be using FileVault rather than cargo-culting it into apps (there's no way for that "encrypted file" to be secure unless you have to type in a password every time you shut down the system). If you do that, anyone who can read that file has already compromised your account and there's no additional exposure from this.
Nice job! You've got a lot of quality, consistent writing going into this.

I assume you're trying to build a readership. Have you considered curating links to supplement your writing? I recently subscribed to Pycoder's Weekly [0] and really enjoy the curated content they sent out every week. They have a big user base, too, and have been able to monetize it with job postings. It seems like you're in a complementary niche and could probably apply many of the same principles.

[0] http://pycoders.com/
GCHQ leak lists UK cyber-spies' hacking tools
We are in the process of opening up in datacenters in NYC and AMS which will also feature IPv6 and then we'll be retrofitting the remaining datacenters for that.

Thanks!
I begin to suspect going nuclear is the only option.
"Hi, I'd like to cancel my service"
"But what about X?"
"Ombudsman and or Lawyers. Cancel. You have been instructed, the next time I say this will be in court/writing/etc".
I didn't say it was hacking. There is a little difference and they are not equal.
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How about fish? I would like some of the fish features implemented in iTerm.

http://fishshell.com
The screws make it easy to see where pieces join together, along parting lines or edges.

I'd love to see shots like this on my site: https://www.takeitapart.com
Does anyone who works in Comcast know what the incentive is for keeping someone from disconnecting?

Maybe there is a bonus involved for the employee with the least amount of disconnections per phone calls received?
Bureaucrats don't want to lose ther jobs. But for elected politicians the job is to do what they said for a specified term. If doing their job properly means losing it, then maybe the incentives are all wrong. We already have term limits for presidents, what about senators and congresspeople?
Lessons from big businesses when they were still small
There you go, just learn from this guy:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-...

He was selling a device that literally had a battery connected to an LED, and that was it,no active component what so ever.

"McCormick had spent three years selling the Iraqi government these devices, sometimes for more than $30,000 each. The best estimates suggest that the authorities in Baghdad bought more than 6,000 useless bomb detectors, at a cost of at least $38 million."

But it's not like it's just the Iraqis that got tricked:

"By the end of 1995, distributors across the U.S. had sold about 1,000 Quadro Trackers to customers including police departments in Georgia and Illinois and school districts in Kansas and Florida."

"Kelly instructed his agents to bring in an example of the device, ran it through the X-ray machine at the Beaumont courthouse to see what was inside it, and sent it to the FBI labs in Washington. “They said, ‘This is a car antenna and a plastic handle. It doesn’t do anything.’ ”
Cue Comcast statement to the effect of "This behavior is not company-approved, and the service representative will be reprimanded" in 3, 2, 1...
As others have pointed out, it's just an inappropriate comment.

Yes it's open source, and yes, anyone can hack on it themselves. But 99.99999% of the time it's not realistic.

Nearly every piece of software on my computer could be enhanced to fit me personally, but there's no way I could justify the time and energy to work on it. Also, in most cases I have no desire to learn the stack/underpinnings for a particular enhancement.

Lastly, the comment comes off as condescending. Are we really not allowed to wish for things? Must we personally fix everything we find an inconvenience or problem with?
If you're so obnoxious that they go away, they might not call back to cancel again for a few days, and maybe that means you can charge them for an extra month. Or maybe they just give up all together.

Customer retention strategy for assholes basically :)
This appears to be talking about phone apps. Not _real_ development :) /hides :P
Sweet, thanks for the reply!

You say pre-release, is there a set release schedule for Rust?
There is a new law here in Brazil since last week [1]: a customer has the right to cancel any subscription of phone, cable TV or internet contracts without talking to a representative, by automatic system. Just press some keys on the phone or fill a form in the company's website and it's done, with confirmation code and fully cancelled in two business days.

If the customer really wants to talk to a representative to cancel the services, the cancellation must be effective immediately.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev...
I use it exclusively for the visor mode. Which I have set up to be like full screen mode on a laptop, but is limited to half the screen when I plug into an external monitor. It's also bound to show/hide on ctrl+`.

Unlike most others it seems, I don't utilize the tmux integration, despite using tmux heavily.
So call their bluff. Unless you're dealing with the support for some small/fly-by-night company, phone support is going to have someone overseeing them. If they absolutely refuse to connect you, hang up and get a new agent and ask to speak to the supervisor from there. Make sure to provide the supervisor with the calling agents details.
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Patent trolls now account for 67 percent of all new patent lawsuits
Yeah! I get pycoders, postgres, data science and devops weekly newsletters!

What I've found is that I skip over the long list of links, thinking I'll get to them later. However, I never do! I wanted to make this one have fewer topics, but get more in depth with them.
Some CPUs do not have a built-in mul operator, only add and sub.