skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my employer's support model, and it works pretty well - all customers get unlimited ticket/email support, and you can upgrade to phone and live chat support for a percentage of your monthly bill.

It's like the saying that 20% of your customers use 80% of your support. This way you can incentivize those customers to pay a premium for even more of the support package they obviously want. Everyone else can have the minimal support interaction they prefer.
Microsoft still does though it hasn't been $195 in quite some time. The offering you're thinking of is called Professional Pay-Per-Incident (instead of Premier). Current price is $499 though you're guaranteed to spend virtually the entirety of your incident on the phone with an outsourcer in India.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/offerprophone
If only programming had gone that way. It almost did. The original Macintosh was programmed mostly in Apple Pascal. Wirth's original Pascal had some serious limitations, which led to far too many Pascal variations. Unfortunately, none of them won out over C.
> But the current anecdotal evidence is that those companies _can_ pay very little, and yet, no catastrophe has happened. The only valid business conclusion is that the highly paid engineers aren't needed there!

They pay in other ways: increased layers of management, decreased development speed, decreased software quality. One argument is that they manage to stay in business anyway — but I think we're actually seeing places like that start to go out of business, or at least be surpassed, by nimbler firms. The world is all about information, and those that can do more, faster with it are at a tremendous advantage.
It made me smile that I was reading this in digital form on a computer that fits in my pocket and is always connected to the "information highway".
Uh, if there were mandated service levels then Google would have to live up to those too...? Presumably this would be an acceptable-or-you-get-fined deal, not an acceptable-or-nothing-at-all deal.
Yeah it's 1.5 times larger. It was a joke though because Japanese people always say it never stops raining in the UK, it's like the first thing they always say.
> Pittsburgh and I've noticed that there aren't as many homeless people in this city

The sounds callous, but part of it is the climate. Winters in Seattle rarely get below freezing, which means the truly homeless can still survive here even when sleeping outside. Most Midwestern or Atlantic Seaboard cities are just too cold during the winter, so Seattle gets a disproportionate number of homeless.
Google owned duck.com redirects to Google.com. How is this legal?
Here is the DNS information:

https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=duck.com

How can this be legal, since clearly the name is similar to a rival search engine?
the niche of "software written/licensed for itanium"
As far as I know, in Croatia you can stay as long as you want if you can prove you make at least 4000 EUR/month. In Brazil you can stay as long as you want as well if you invest about 25.000 USD in your own Brazilian company. That does mean paying 25.000 USD, but opening a company and putting that amount in it's bank account. You can always close the company an take you money with you afterwards.

The thing about tourist visa is about working in the country. That means "stealing" a job from a citizen of a country.

Nobody cares if a person during his/her holidays answer emails from his/her job in his/her native country.

From another perspective, even if there is not law saying so, for the guest country it's nice to have telecommuters. They spend money on the country, they (probably) won't use the health system (an maybe must have their own private health insurance), and they don't "consume" any of the country's jobs.

But the best part about having a telecommute job is country hopping. A big plus of switching countries at least every 179 days is that unless you are from the US or Eritrea, don't have to pay income taxes nowhere.
A smaller response time actually leads to more requests from customers IMHO.
Customers are more likely to contact you for "mundane" tasks when they are assured of a quick response.
Yes, probably down to historical lack of contact. I don't think that tones are part of the reason. There has been somewhat more borrowing from Cantonese into English, e.g. ketchup, dimsum, kumquat, and cheongsam, and substantial borrowing from Chinese into Japanese and Korean. The tones are simply dropped.
English is very interesting in that if a word makes sense to use (rather than a phrase) then English will borrow that word without hesitation.

Actually because the language of science and technology is English there are lots of concepts that can’t be expressed in any other language. Sure any emotion a human can feel can be expressed in any language, but most higher level scientific concepts can’t be expressed in any language other than English. Out of the total number of human concepts that have ever been communicated, the majority are only available to English speakers.
Limit the maximum percentage of a person's salary that can go to "loan" repayment, and put the school on the hook for anything over that amount - they have to repay the bank or government. The problem to me is that the schools, who decide who gets in, have very little on the line if they make a bad decision.

I think the percentage should be fairly high - say, 33% - but only on the amount of money a person makes above what an average high school graduate makes.
isn't that RSS news readers in a nutshell?
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Never done business with Facebook, can't help you there sorry!
> It's a problem that the feature is called "autopilot,"…

Why is that a problem? An autopilot system is designed to assist, not replace, human operators. And that's exactly what Tesla's Autopilot does.

> … but the larger issue is that the car does not enforce what the company often says in press releases, which is that you need to remain alert and with your hands on the wheel.

Cars without Autopilot (i.e. every car ever manufactured in the past 100 years) also do not enforce that the driver must hold the steering wheel. I don't see anyone complaining about that. It's the driver's responsibility to place their hands on the wheel.
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The rainfall is given in 'mm', right - this means area has been controlled for?

I.e. its the amount of rain, in milimeters, that would fall in a given area. This is how rainfall is normally measured.

Unless you are trying to say something more subtle, or making a joke?
It's even got a line to it on http://cablemap.info/ !
Hah. I would give my left nut to have competent helpdesk people on the other end, and I'm a vendor who's dealing with the higher-level management and IT people in these organizations. I can't imagine how poorly trained and skilled the front-line techs are.
He is talking about moving but still working in the US, Singapore's taxes have nothing to do with it.
The amazing thing was that as late as 1994, Bill Gates had a public email address.
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Some companies (I know Amazon does for one, and I'm pretty sure GEICO does too) now have "call me when an operator is available" functionality. I suspect this is relatively trivial to implement in a modern phone system, and probably saves money since you aren't tieing up circuits with people sitting on hold.
Huh. I've actually found the "Discover Weekly" feature to be remarkably good at picking music that I like. I'd say I affirmatively like about half to three-quarters of the songs per week, with only a couple that I find myself skipping.

I wonder if it's better at certain genres than others.
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But that's 1.07/100M in all conditions, while the 1 in 130M is in ideal conditions (suited for autopilot), so I doubt this is a valid comparison.
Old news:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/30/we-bet-you-dont-kno...
| "The less violent side"?

As I said, click around wikipedia for number of rocket attacks, number of terror attacks, etc. initiated by the Palestinians, mostly against civilians. Regardless of how many more Palestinians are getting killed as a result, it's Arabs and Palestinians who rejected every previous set of borders (including "pre-67"), and Arabs and Palestinians (OK, it's not just Arabs and Palestinians, many other Muslim nation states join in with anti-Semitic diatribes) who continue to say right out loud that their intent is to push Israel into the sea, and who continue an armed struggle against Israel's citizens and Israel's right to exist.

Israel today is an advanced, modern, technological country, so yes, they "win" the conflicts with the Palestinians (and Lebanese Shiites) if you measure "winning" in terms of bodycount (which you brought up). But if you measure unprovoked attacks, it is the Arabs by a landslide, and in case where Jewish extremists attack Arabs, Israel follows a policy of prosecuting their own citizens. BTW, Lebanese Christians are Arabs, so are the Druze, and so are the Bedouins, and they largely prefer the Israelis to the vicious treatment they receive from their Muslim neighbors, cooperating in many ways with the Israeli armed forces.

Is Israel perfect? Not by a long shot, but neither is any other people or nation.
Would this work for you?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-closure-compiler
Anyone who has gone to the gym after a protracted absence and loss of fitness will have some intuitive understanding of this. Your brain hasn't quite gotten the memo that you're not in the shape you used to be, and it's really easy to over-exert yourself. You feel fine during the workout, then throw up afterward and take much longer to recover.
>> and I deeply apologize I can't find the free PDF version, though sci-hub may help here)

https://sci-hub.cc/10.1007/978-3-540-77535-5_5
> love weird great-in-Kiwiland stuff like wild pig shooting, buried BBQs, boats, gardening, learning to fly or building houses in remote, windswept natural locations or something.

Your idea of "popular" Kiwi past-times is kind of hilarious.

I'd say a significant portion of the population has never been any kind of hunting or had a hangi in the past decade.

I'd say we're very similar to Vancouver. Nature, sports, bars, mainstream media.
> Then it would also be pretty cheap for the lender to insure against borrower's death

It would. It would be so cheap for them that they might as well just cut out the middleman and self insure.

AKA just forgive the debt and that's all. Which apparently everyone else does, except NJ.
The driver is compelled to keep their hands on the wheel by the relevant laws/regulations, not by the car, same as every other car manufactured in the last 100 years.
Japan recently released this program for highly skilled workers. http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/
Eh, 'circuits' are essentially free in these days of VoIP PBXs and you probably save money (at least in the short term) by people who get tired of waiting on the phone and just hang up.
"Autopilot" is understood to mean "the plane flies itself" by the general public. Here's one human pilot who's ticked off by it:

http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/automation-myths/
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> Imagine if the entire world spoke a single language. Would we ever want to invent new languages [...]?

First: Very few languages are invented but a lot of individual languages fragment over time - the more widespread they are, the more they fragment[1]. Sranan Tongo[2] and Papiamentu[3] are two nice examples of new languages that were quite recently created by speakers of some dominant language. Influences mix, people adapt words from languages spoken nearby or just make up their own words and they stick.

Second: Wittgenstein said that "the limits of my language are the limits of my world". Different languages allow us to think different concepts. Trying to translate something from one language into another that does not have a 1:1 translation is usually a very thought-provoking thing for me and forces me to reflect on my own culture. Great examples are the Japanese "tsundoku" (pile of unread books [4]) or the German "Feierabend" (the time after finishing work for the day).

In summary: I think the desire to have one "global" language is only a technocrat's unrealistic dream and its pursuit would be the attempt to streamline thinking at the expense of everyone's culture and philosophical potentials. Rather, at least superficially, learn a few more languages.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580745/English-will-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sranan_Tongo

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papiamento

[4] http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the...
I don't think there are any restrictions since as far as I know, the town's website just links to local realtors, anyone that is qualified to buy property there can buy property, no need to sign up for a job in the town. It looks fairly easy to get a NZ work visa if you're in a high-demand occupation, but I don't know what the Visa requirements are for a remote worker, so you'd need to investigate that.

But there are thousands of small towns just like it across the world, so it's not clear why you'd pick this particular one based only on this plea from the town for more local workers.

If cost of living is important to you and you're ok in a country where English is not the native language, you can certainly find areas with much lower cost of living (while still having good internet access)
Perhaps drivers overestimate the capabilities of autopilots in aircraft? A pilot still has to practise see and avoid when using an autopilot.
Let's say I run a US company and hires an American who works remotely in Thailand (illegally on a tourist visa).

The other alternatives are:

1. I hire an American who works in the US

2. I open a Thai subsidiary and sponsor work visas for Americans to work there

3. I open a Thai subsidiary and hire Thais

Obviously option 2 and 3, while unlikely, provide a bigger boost to the Thai economy and result in higher tax revenue for the Thai government.

Yes, it's nice for the guest country to have people telecommuting on tourist visas, but it's detrimental to their IT industry.
Yes, that's what I vaguely recalled. But we don't have enough observations to test that hypothesis. I wonder, through, whether alternate-path gravitational lensing could provide enough snapshots of some other galaxy to be useful.
Nicholas Negroponte: ‘The internet shouldn’t be affordable. It should be free.’
"duck" also is a common english word, and quite far from any of the trademarks or domains owned by DDG. They don't display content that could confuse a user. If this were illegal, a single trademark would block way to many different words.

It's not particularly nice of Google (e.g. they could sell the domain or just leave it pointing to nothing if they don't have fittingly named product/project right now), but it shouldn't be illegal.
> "Autopilot" is understood to mean "the plane flies itself" by the general public.

Just because people mistakenly believe something doesn't make it right. The general public once thought the Earth was flat, and how did that turn out?
Coming from a tech support background. I used to be a top performer at a support company and set most of the records for call times etc. I was hated by most of my peers, and many of my supervisors because I set numbers to low for most of the other teams and they were under preforming. I am not saying this to brag but to state how awful most support workers are. Most of my co-workers had no idea what they were doing besides reading off a script, any question outside of the box and boom, off to tier 2.

One problem is: I found that the quicker I answered questions the more questions I received. If the customer knew that I knew what I was doing and I was able to help them efficiently they had more questions. This led me to ponder how to solve the problem. I ended up getting my supervisor to create a FAQ page based on a ton of the questions that I was constantly asked. I was then able to refer customers to this page and actually say honestly that it would answer their questions.

A lot of the problem with these tech giants like ATT, Comcast, etc, they have horrible interfaces. For example Comcast has on demand, but once you watch a show you have to literally go back and search for the TV show name again before you can watch the next episode. It's horrible. I called multiple times trying to figure out how to get around this. They said there is no fix and it is how the system works. I googled it and millions of people have the same issue. It's absurd, yet they haven't fixed it. I don't think they even care, or it cost them money for customers to watch on demand so they want to make it as aggravating as possible.

Another interesting aspect of being able to help people quickly is you never get good reviews or people asking to speak to your supervisor. People are so pleased that they were able to get their answer solved in a manner they could understand in a really fast time they just breath a big sigh of relief and say "thank you so much", and then get off the phone.

I had co-workers who would spend 20-30 minutes on the phone with someone sitting there trying to explain something to them, and since they were so patient, the customer always asked to speak to supervisor to thank them for their patience. For some reason the customer always thinks they are the problem in this situation. It really boggles my mind.

Just a view.
One of the authors of that paper, Philip Guo, created the invaluable Online Python Tutor.

http://pythontutor.com/
There's a big difference between teleworking for a French company (i.e. taking a French job) and teleworking for an American company while staying in France.
> "The pioneers of personal computers including Jobs, Kapor, Lampson, Roberts, Kaye, are all great people but I don’t think any of us will merit an entry in a history book."

I don't think that will prove true for Mr. Gates or Mr. Jobs.
That's just not true. There are space lines still - more recently, space police, galaxy squad.
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Yes, methane leaks are a huge problem. But is it really accurate to consider methane etc used in ammonia production as waste?
I worked tech support for 6 years for a large telco in the northeast it was the most miserable, mundane part of my life. They were so poorly managed and so focused on bottom line that customers wants and needs were not important. Helping customers was the least important thing as long as you didn't talk to them for more than 8 minutes and you didn't appear to be rude.
As another example of this is Tesla "Bioweapons defense mode" which is pure hype and the testing they did in no way justified calling it that.
Funny enough, that is one of the core messages of the Lego Movie, that it is okay to be creative and mix and match things, as opposed to the collector's impulse to keep everything mint.
> The problem is that it's not an autopilot…

An autopilot is a system that assists, but does not replace, the human operator in operating a vehicle. Tesla's system does exactly this.

> … and nowhere near autonomous driving…

Nobody ever claimed it was autonomous.
Who is going to serve that latte at Whole Foods Los Altos? Where are they going to live?
Maybe I'm a little clueless on how radar works, but how would something that is lower than a car's height be mistaken for something as distant as a overhead sign?
Where do those people who serve you fancy food in restaurants and coffee shops on Pacific Avenue supposed to live?
So, trade schools? Reintroducing shop class and welding into high schools? An optional 2 year program similar to national guard, but for domestic efforts?

I'm in favor of affordable higher education for those who want it, either way.
What is the difference between gonzo journalism and memoir? Neither aspires to objectivity without personal context.

P.S.: You're right, I know nothing of literature, that's why my thesis is a question.
There are other options inbound rapidly.

Osiris Therapeutics for example has something called Stravix, that they're targeting at tendon repair first. It'll be on the market in November -

"Stravix is a cryopreserved human placental tissue designed to address surgical needs for soft tissue repair"

"Stravix was developed as a pliable allograft cover with tensile strength that is ten times greater than amniotic membranes alone and designed to offer durability, elasticity, and conformability for surgical procedures. In addition, Stravix retains the properties inherent to the native fresh tissue as a result of Osiris’ proprietary cryopreservation process, BioSmart"

They have a bunch of products in the regeneration space. Cartiform for cartilage repair. Menvivo for meniscus repair. etc
What does that have to do with this topic?
In light of this article, wonder what type of psychological training could be used to complement the typical physical training to improve athletic performance?
Thanks. I didn't notice either. I just lucked out, catching it in time to comment ;)
PS. for mobile game developers:
I made a RPG game render example[1] last night to verify if is this library enough for supports a MMORPG game development.

[1] https://github.com/huxingyi/libphone/tree/master/samples/rpg...
There are some good reasons not to use it. Primarily the lack of API stability and that, as you mention, the people making it caution against it.

But to answer your question, why would someone choose to use it anyway? One reasonable justification is that many people believe (probably myself included) that the quality is superior to openssl or libressl. The APIs are unstable but the flip side of that coin is that they're probably better. Also the engineering practices behind boringssl have lead to what I would call relatively high quality code. It's well structured, clear, and maybe less likely to suffer as many serious bugs as the alternatives. Time will tell.

Not that I'm recommending it for everyone, just answering your question. Quality is often in the eye of the beholder, use what works best for you.
If you pay for Google Apps they do. I've had to call them a few times, and they were actually fairly helpful, even calling me back the next day to make sure the problem was resolved.

Judging by the number they called me from their call center is in Ireland.
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That's a pretty rare and extreme example you're using though. 1% of dental patients need to or do spend more than $2,000 in a given year on dental work. The average person spends less than $500 per year out of pocket on total dental care.