skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you accept abuse with a smile, then you're just going to keep on receiving abuse. The reason companies get away with providing this kind of appalling customer service is because too many people put up with it out of politeness.

By the time I've been treated like this by a company, I've already made up my mind to stop using their service ASAP. When I finally get through to an operator, my aims are:

1. Get a fix to my immediate problem.

2. Waste as much of the company's time, money and goodwill as possible. They've wasted my time by putting me on hold, but every minute I spend arguing with an operator or, better yet, a supervisor, is time the company is paying someone for, and has an opportunity cost, because they're not speaking to some other customer.

3. Piss–off the operator enough that they'll consider quitting their job. I do feel sympathy for people who work in these call centres, but only the same way I'd feel sympathy for the soldier of an evil regime. It doesn't stop me viewing them as the enemy.

Right now there is a metastasised corporate approach to running customer service that has focussed on cutting costs and outsourcing to the point that the actual service provided is totally dysfunctional. The result is that if you have any problem, with any large company, it is a crapshoot whether you will ever get it fixed. This situation is a deliberate choice on the part of the companies involved.

This won't change by people being calm and friendly and swallowing their anger, any more than politics ever gets fixed by people voting for the marginally less corrupt/incompetent candidate every four years. And anyone who tells you it will is either naive or dishonest.

This situation will only change through a revolution in consumer behaviour that makes it too difficult and/or expensive for the companies to continue as is. Companies that think it's OK to treat their customers like garbage need to be met with concentrated and directed anger at every opportunity. Giving their customer services employees such hell that they can't retain them is just the start of it.

When it becomes impossible for companies to act like this without unleashing a tsunami of fury from every direction, you can bet they'll change their approach pretty quickly.
To be fair, it's not like the holiday home-rental market didn't exist before Abnb. My family spent 15 years using that market - you only needed another family to share a house or large flat, to make it extremely cheap compared to hotels. My guess is that Abnb has killed the advertising industry in that segment (some of which was/is state-funded in many Euro countries).

People also travel a lot more these days thanks to cheap flights (which have just gone through years of low fuel prices) and higher disposable income, so the holiday market as a whole is expanding.
I think it's also flawed when applied to "anything". Realistically, you can only become "best" at a handful of things, even under relaxed scope. You cannot be best at all skills you require to function. However, it often suffices to be reasonably good. Be reasonably good at cleaning. Be reasonably good at cooking, or accounting, or programming, or exercising. Then take these things off your mind, and divert your attention to those skills that comprise your focus.
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What if they were the last three years of your life?
It gives some context to the death, before I read the article. Knowing that he was born during the First World War tells me that he was already older me than me when he started working on ARPANET.

If the whole article focused on his age, I'd be disappointed. But it's just in the headline, and the article does focus on his life.
I have never seen one either, but I don't use Google search anymore.

Perhaps you don't use it either?
It's possible more people are traveling than before, or using airbnb/vrbo/others vs cash transactions, or that providing more capacity, especially at high demand times, brings more supply online at peak times.
"Perhaps Germany should instead focus on the pensioners in their country who have worked hard for 45 years and now live on the minimum pension."

Yeah, I agree -- that's exactly what should be done! :-)
A great part of the Germans' anger at the way politics is dealing with the refugee crisis is the fact that, for decades, they were told that there was no money for schools / infrastructure / pensions / child rearing / etc.
Now, suddenly, there's BILLIONS of € available for people who have never (and probably will never) paid into the social state money pot.

It's totally understandable that this creates resentment, even without taking into account the other issues surrounding the situation (culture clash, religious beliefs seen as a "higher law", slowly creeping no-go areas -- which don't exist, according to the government :P, etc.).
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Because x86 instructions can cross 4/8/16 byte alignment boundaries, you can't safely set a multi-byte breakpoint in all cases. CPU might execute (bytes [0xCD, x] -> int x) instruction before the parameter becomes visible and trigger some other exception, whatever happened to be at that address before.
Could you elaborate on (or link us to examples of) those 'quite a lot of ways'?
"Romania should not feel responsible and should not do as Germany dictates."
Yes, I agree, and that should be the case for the rest of Europe. The problem is, when the rest of Europe does not do what Merkel wants (=accept tons of refugees without any security checks or plan how to deal with them), they are accused of "inhumanity" and "lack of solidarity" ;-)
If he's so dirty then why the most damning thing the MSM could pin on him is a locker room conversation?
Access to information and the ability to quickly book will also lead to increases in efficiency
The Thing (1982),
Slither,
Dark Skies,
Intacto (spanish),
Another Earth,
Coherence

Primer is on here a bunch, but really worth watching if you like time travel conundrums.
> which according to some people is a little bit defunct

The blog is active. http://blog.laptop.org/

> Now tablets have largely overcome laptops as an inexpensive computing device for children.

Children get exposed to horrible devices a lot. The One Laptop Per Child project gives children a device that is sturdy, energy efficient, easy to repair, and comes with full editable source code and no ties to brainwashing data thieves like Google and Facebook.
Was this the only source of geotagged photos that show in Google Maps?

Since time ago, I added semantic web tags to my photo album, hoping they'd then appear on the public map. They already have location data in EXIF tags.

Nothing happened. I don't know of any site that indexes images in this way.
Wikileaks confirms Ecuador cut off Assange internet access
You might ask about their daily routine. (I'm assuming you want to create a software to solve these problems. )
"What are the first two tasks you perform everyday?"
"What are the most repetitive tasks you find yourself performing during your day?"
"How do you use Microsoft Excel/Number/Google Sheets/...?"
"By looking at your inbox, what are the most compelling task you need to perform today?"

Pain is often found in repetitive and reoccuring task.
Asking them about how they use excel might opena whole new scenario about how they're struggling to solve some tasks that could be easily solved by a software
How do you know if they have cut back on the car project, or if there really is a car project? The latter seems clear from their job listings, but as near as I can tell there have been no public announcements or SEC offerings confirming any kind of a car project.
Technically a 'state actor' but actually quite lame.
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I've said this for years, but the simple fact is you can't build a unicorn business by taking market share from other businesses. You have to grow the market. AirBNB have done this by lowering the cost of staying somewhere, and offering something different to traditional accommodation, to the point where lots of new people have started entering the market and people who were already occasional travellers have started travelling more. Their marketshare isn't coming from other businesses, it's that the market is $billions of dollars bigger.
Apparently Ecuador agrees with you and it appears that he didn't have a private internet connection.
Sure. Here's the slide-set for a pretty good rant (although in Norwegian):

https://kly.no/presentations/2016-09-24_Ignite-talk_Docker.p...

The good news is that Google Translate understands PDFs and mostly gets it right:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev...

That should be a decent start for further discussion :)
How is this kind of authoritarianism any different than those that feel (based on science) that support for abortion (beyond reasonable medical issues for the mother) is tantamount to declaring said individuals are supporting murder and therefore should not be employed, should not be worked with, should be shamed and cast aside?
Just to clarify my opinion on progfun: The lectures are good.

The coding tasks could have been okay - if there was any guidance. I don't even get to see any sample solutions. So even if I make it work, I don't know if that is a good way to do it, the "functional", the "Scala way". And the performance issue I mentioned, it was a major one, the difference between the code even being usable for more than a thousand elements in the list or getting a stack overflow, and the difference was extremely minor, in one case the order in which you called "union" on sets. All of that had to be found out by the students, and even after they found out nobody really had a good idea or explanation for why it was so.

Also, there only was one (small!) opportunity to actually practice what you just learned per week - and that came without any feedback apart from "works/doesn't". Since the course was about a particular programming style that really wasn't enough.
Bye then! Plenty more fish in the sea.

I really don't understand what the increasing number of sites which demand I turn off my ad-blocker before viewing their ten-a-penny content hope to achieve:

1: 99,99999% of the time I'll just go and find the same content elsewhere. Let's face it, the vast majority of 'news' on the internet is rehashed from the same handful of news agency stories, or from press releases. Very few sites are offering truly original content.

2: That 0,00001% of the time when I will comply with your demands, there isn't a snowball's chance in hell I'm going to click on any of the ads you're forcing me at [metaphorical!] gunpoint to download, anyway. Now it's a matter of principle, as you've made our 'relationship' antagonistic. You're now 'the man', telling me what to do.

So why bother? I really don't understand the thinking behind it.
So, it appears Assange's internet was in fact cut off, and that the 'state actor' was Ecuador.

Disingenuous even if technically true.
Oh, that makes me quite sentimental. All the time I wasted on Google Earth exploring lonely islands, Antarctica, and Kamchatka volcanoes... Panoramio, you will be missed.
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"The new prompt [to disable ad blocking] will appear on the Atlantic’s site Monday but will not take full effect until the site is finished transitioning from HTTP to HTTPS, [...] once complete, ad-blocking users will no longer be able to read content on the site without disabling their software or buying the new subscription."

I'm just really excited to see how on earth they plan to follow through with that vague threat. I don't believe I've ever seen an ad block plugin get successfully thwarted in a way the plugin couldn't just filter out itself.
I used to work in call centers and I would try to de-escalate angry customers. When they settled down and were decent in return, I'd do everything I could to help them. Sometimes, I'd even bend the rules to help out a decent person with their problem.

If the person continued to heap abuse upon me, I'd do everything by the book. I wouldn't bend the rules. I wouldn't provide helpful suggestions to help people get what they wanted from a manager.

Be nice to people and more often than not, they'll be nice to you in return.

LK
The missing space between `N` and `O`
I don't see an answer to my question here.

Let's take a few highly profitable corporations as examples. How do workers seize the means of production of Apple or Google?

Particularly, how do they do it without destroying the said means?
I suspect there's also more demand for ceramic in something you wear against your skin all day than something you carry in a pocket. I don't see ceramic having the same appeal in a large, flat form factor.
If the data only comes from Airbnb, I'm not sure how much I trust it given their suspicious behavior with New York data - http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-deleted-rentals-before...
And therefore, he's a good guy now? lol.
You were spot on.
Interesting - I would have gone with "Doo Doo", but I don't think there are standard English phonetic rules for this particular name. Mentally though knowing that it has French origins, I think I just compared it to other French words I know with "ou" when written out in english.
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but writing software is not like creating the design of a gun. Creating an algorithm is like creating the design of a gun. You can implement an algorithm poorly, and you could build a gun from a blueprint poorly, for example, using a soft metal. I am not trying to be pedantic. I genuinely do not understand your point.
> AirBnB's marketshare is coming out of someone.

In Portugal, it seems to be coming from the rental market. In the sense that there's been an increase in tourism and the increased demand for short-term accommodation is being fulfilled with properties which were previously for longer rentals.
Firstly, be sure to draft the agreement from first principles rather than reworking another agreement, especially not an agreement provided by the counterparty. This may go some way to save you from toxic clauses creeping in. Also, offer to do the work of drafting the agreement yourself, or pay for and manage the lawyer yourself.

Secondly, positively reiterate again the obligations around data security and confidentiality that you are already willing to provide, and which are industry standard, and leave it at that. You do not need to convince them that their request is unreasonable. You are right, you definitely should not be responsible for compensating them for "irreparable harm". By definition, "irreparable harm" cannot be corrected through monetary compensation in any event. The agreement should protect both parties equally as far as confidential information goes. The agreement should enforce limited liability for the safety of both parties.
that's called "artistic license" ;-)
I watched a video essay on youtube the other day that presents the argument that Mr. Smith is the One and not Neo. It was quite convincing.
I agree with the lawyers cited in the article that once the ex-wife filed private information in court filings that were not under seal, they became matters of public record.

But god, what a shitty article. The "judicial reform advocate" angle is a total red herring. That's not why the guy was jailed--he was held in contempt because he violated a restraining order not to discuss private information that came to light in the context of a court proceeding. That restraining order would have been totally enforceable if the ex-wife's lawyer hadn't screwed up by filing that private information without seal.
I know about spacemacs, and don't like the idea of core editor. Tried it and ended up using not emacs, not vim, but mix of both, and commands from both. And I do not like that.
I''m curious, why did you move away from Spacemacs?
i don't think that's strictly true - while you're correct that i [as a homeowner, specifically a freeholder] don't own the land, but i own (i think) a title to this plot of land, it's not a 100 year lease - I "own" this land for an unlimited period and i don't need to renew anything ever. not to be confused with leasehold properties (eg flats) where you have a lease, typically ~100 yrs, to the freeholder (who owns the block of flats), that you have to renew.
His book:
http://lucifersbanker.com/

As secretary of state, in an unusual move Hillary Clinton intervened with UBS to help it out with the IRS and DOJ. He seems to imply that Hillary brokered the treaty to release the 52,000 names -- a deal which they backed out of citing Swiss law after only providing 4,500 names -- because of the global corporate elites tied to our government, politicians from all over the globe and CIA who would be implicated. He notes that the CIA funneled the money from Iran-Contra through a Swiss bank account, and the plane used to deliver the 400 million in unmarked cash to Iran came from Geneva. He also thinks it was the CIA that leaked the Panama Papers, selectively exposing names.

After Hillary's deal, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according the foundation and the bank.

There is no evidence of any link between Hillary's involvement in the case and the bank’s donations to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, or its hiring of Mr. Clinton. But her involvement with UBS is a prime example of how the Clintons' private and political activities overlap.

It should also be noted that in 2011 the Clinton Foundation announced a partnership with UBS on the CEO-UBS Small Business Advisory Program which connects "small businesses" with
- One-on-one pro-bono strategic financial and business counseling
- Access to the entire suite of UBS's resources, including senior leaders within the firm's marketing, human resources, operations and Investment Banking divisions
- Opportunities to network with industry influencers and major decision makers in both the private and public sectors.

The ten small businesses enrolled in the program had average annual revenues of $8.44 million in 2010 and together employed a total of 400 people at the end of 2010. The entrepreneurs and their companies who participated are: Julie Azuma, Different Roads to Learning, Inc.; Dinesh and Josh Boaz, Direct Agents, Inc.; K.Y. Chow, GM Printing; Richelieu Dennis, Sundial Creations; Kenny Lao, Rickshaw Dumpling Bar; Tamara Mangum-Thomas, Sharpened Image, Inc.; Mike DiMarino, Linda Tool; Marjorie Perry, MZM Construction & Management Company, Inc.; Jeffrey Smalls, Smalls Electrical Construction, Inc.; and Larry Velez, Sinu.
Looks like it has already been archived by Archive Team, good job ! http://tracker.archiveteam.org/panoramio/
> On the other hand count(1) takes an argument and PostgreSQL has to check at every row to see that ts argument, 1, is indeed still not NULL.

I expect that's the same for all function calls like this? Surely pg has a concept of constants and doesn't needlessly re-check parameters?
Time Crimes and The Jacket are the only two movies in this thread I haven't seen. Thanks!
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As in "as dead as a Dodo".

1. naming things
2. ...

Etc.
The phrase I use is "balance of cares". You can care a whole lot about a single part of the job. But to do a good job overall you have to care about a broad swath of concerns, else one of those unaddressed concerns will turn into a critical error.

Employees who are well-specialized can avoid betraying their lack of care about some aspects because they aren't even asked to think about that part of the work - they can go in for massive depth instead. But someone who wants to operate the whole business is in the position of "caring about things I don't want to care about". A lot of businesses are weakest where the owners are unable to muster sufficient sympathy.
> To an extent this was probably true in the US, but the reason was something temporary: there was a huge economic expansion going on in the aftermath of WWII

Not only that, the economic expansion was tilted in favor of America as there was little competition from Europe and Japan, as they were rebuilding in the aftermath of WWII.
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It is not strange at all. Some languages have a whole way of speaking only used by children.
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That's fine, scrypt was designed to defend against the eventuality of scrypt ASICS.
The Matrix
Terminator
Terminator Genisys
Inception (2010)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Mad Max Fury Road (2015)
Captain America Civil War (2016)
The Dark Knight
Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice 2016
True.

I think author's point was that if you're not happy to talk with Max for 15 minutes, you should not agree to the call.

Since you already decided that this endeavor is worthwhile, you might as well enjoy it.
You can create an AI that never makes mistakes and always defeats the player but the point of the AI is to make the game fun not impossible to win.
As someone who works in the games industry - what is shown at E3 usually doesn't even exist in the game yet, and is usually directed by hand, unless the release of the game is like a month away(in which case, the game was already sent to submission some time before). In some cases whole features only exist as a design draft, but are still in the E3 demo because that's what we want to achieve in the end. So showing "procedural content" that was assembled by hand is not really dishonest if that's what you want your procedural code to generate after you are done with the game. It's a bit like showing a new model of a car, but cars shown at car shows are almost always assembled by hand, because the factories are not set up to build them yet - which means that once the actual assembly process kicks in, the final product might look different than what you saw at a car show. Doesn't change the fact that the model shown at a car show is what the manufacturer wants to achieve.
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> Do you have any source for that, or is it just something you know?

If you really had any interest in the subject, you would've googled it by now. Open up google and type "radioactive waste storage cost" if you really have any interest in the subject.
The link points to another blog which points to http://hotelnewsnow.com/Articles/77191/New-Airbnb-data-sheds.... Still very unconvincing.
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Why is it worse than sending a separate packet to each of the participants? If we're using multicast router can send packets to all participants in any order (when links become available) while storing one copy of it. If we're sending separate packets, either router has to store multiple copies of it in memory or it sends the packet to different participants in a constrained order.
I was born in Friesland and although I don't speak Frysk fluently, I can say that Google didn't do a good job in translating this text. Partly that is of course due to all non-standard words such as 'uncleftish' and 'bernstonish'.
But also a lot of normal English words were not translated to Frysk, e.g. 'early' would be 'eardere'.
Is there an option to avoid it from an end user's perspective? It's made google news so frustrating for me, it will go back a page in history or slide to the next story for no reason whatsoever. I have a Nexus 6P, use Chrome so there's no reason for it to act like that other than just being shitty.

I kinda just stopped reading Google news rather than try to fix it (:
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