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Re:How My Children (N=2) Acquired Absolute Pitch on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:46PM (#36424194)
I have AP and I'm a terrible musician but it's a great party trick!
Re:Overture Maps Foundation on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:12AM (#34001685)
All of the founding members generate their own mapping data, and are top tier contributors to OpenStreetMap https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/5/232
Re:I hope distributed is not the new default on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:43AM (#31038618)
Amen!
Is it worth it to try to get real news to Russian citizens? Apparently people are trying to post about the war in places that Russians can still access (e.g. reviews for high-end restaurants on Google maps). How much impact can this have?
Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:06AM (#29162669)
2) yes. I follow NYT coooking and there are definitely authors I avoid.
by god, please share this secret of getting your 4 year old to be quiet on her own for extended lengths of time! :bow:
do you categorically think working in SEO or fintech is a net negative for the world?
this +100000. The huge-ness of this contribution to making openstreetmap better is underscored by the fact that you're not allowed to do this with Google Street View (Section 10) https://developers.google.com/maps/terms
Re:Introducing OpenStreetView on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:31AM (#12336172)
Is it free to use OSV images and data in commercial projects?
Re:Zenefits Loses Over Half of Its Value on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:41AM (#12015921)
Zenefits screwed up a bunch of our state registrations and payroll taxes. The worst thing was the hideous customer service in trying to resolve this.
Re:Zenefits (YC W13) Just Raised $500M at a $4.5B Valuation on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @12:39PM (#9499906)
Agreed, and it's a running theme in most customer service interactions with Zenefits (Aetna's fault, Intuit's fault, etc.). There's also tends to be long delays in response times because of the back and forth between Zenefits and the provider, and sometimes conflicting responses which make things really frustrating.
Re:Zenefits (YC W13) Just Raised $500M at a $4.5B Valuation on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @12:32PM (#9499843)
Yes, this is 100% true! My main point was not about the cost of the plans, so much as getting access to better plans. E.g. with Trinet we were able to get access to PPOs that had some out of network coverage. With Zenefits, as a standalone company of our size we only had access to EPOs (i.e. no coverage if a blood test or something got accidentally sent to an out of network provider.)
Re:Zenefits (YC W13) Just Raised $500M at a $4.5B Valuation on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @09:28AM (#9498403)
This is also true of a PEO (e.g. Trinet).

Yes, Zenefits has a gorgeous interface which feels much more modern and sleek than something like Trinet. The trade-off is that the healthcare benefits are inferior for a small company - because unlike a PEO, Zenefits is NOT pooling together tens of thousands of young, healthy employees across many companies and getting a good deal from insurance companies. Yes, as an employer, you don't play the hefty admin fee you pay Trinet - but you just don't have access to better plans for your employees.

The other pain we've found is that at the end of the day Zenefits is simply a wrapper around third party services (healthcare insurance, payroll etc.). If everything is smooth sailing, there is no problem. the moment something goes wrong there's this super frustrating finger pointing session where you have to call Aetna directly, or Intuit Payroll and Zenefits blame each other, or no one wants to cop to a payroll tax filing error. If you have an employee waiting for some critical healthcare reimbursement, this he-said/she-said is the worst. Never had to deal with that with the one-stop-shop PEOs.

Zenefits has great software but the customer service needs some catching up. Maybe this round of funding will do it.

Ask HN: Conference phone/hardware recommendation?

Does anyone have a recommendation for hardware for conference calls? Most of our team is in one location with the occasional remote member or client calling in. We love hipchat, uberconference, hangouts etc. but sometimes we just want that person who's WFH that day to be able to hear what everyone else around the table in the office is saying. We currently use a polycom soundstation2 which...

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Re:New York Times APIs on Sunday September 14, 2014 @11:10AM (#8315327)
What do view as the purpose of the API existing?

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