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Would your dad have continued to have gainful employment, had he not tried to organize the drivers?

If so, it sounds as though it was his own actions that led to his financial predicament.

The other question that crossed my mind is, was he unable to find another job as a driver anywhere in Europe or the U.S. (wherever he was based)? It seems as though there has been a continuing shortage of long haul drivers in the U.S. at least. As far back as I can remember, about every other 18-wheeler I see has had a "drivers needed" sign prominently displayed.
You probably want to investigate your consumer protection laws rather than spend your time ranting on the Internet.

Most people ignore those XSucks! websites.
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Nah, it's not that bad. Pop some snow tires on there and it's fine. The vast majority of vehicles on the road are FWD. I would've preferred AWD, but there were none for sale with my requirements (stick shift, physical HVAC/radio controls, non-garbage HVAC/radio experience).
From 2000-2003 I worked for a product strategy consultant; we helped computer companies (what today we would call tech companies) decide what hardware products to build ~5 years out.

The Internet-connected refrigerator was predicted and/or introduced, in some form, at least once a year even back then. It became our punchline when talking about poorly conceived converged devices. Reality continues to bear out that opinion.

The problem was never the cost of the computer part--people will pay ridiculous amounts of money for "high end" appliances. The problem was always: how will the manufacturer meet consumer expectations, and then keep meeting them over the typical lifespan of a refrigerator?

People even today have a hard enough time managing the computer they know they have--how will they manage a computer buried in a fridge? Answer: they can't, as illustrated by that Google support thread.

And worse, appliance manufacturers are no better at managing computers than consumers, again as illustrated in that thread. Samsung did not plan to support their fridge computer, and now that they are being asked to do so, they can't find their ass with both hands. Every appliance company is this bad or worse with software and networking.

So, an underpowered embedded computer that doesn't function as advertised is not shocking at all. That doesn't mean it's not amusing how stupid/terrible it is.
INSTEON documentation is actually somewhat decent. But fragmented. There's some great third party software, there's some great third party hardware. The thing that excited me into building my own INSTEON controller, is that you can directly control a light with about 20 lines of VB .NET code: http://madreporite.com/insteon/plm_basics.html

Since I've been so unhappy with home automation software I've found, not doing exactly what I want, I've started building my own in VB .NET. The basics, plus what I specifically want it to do.

X10 is outright terrible. It was designed before nearly as much signal interference existed on powerline, so now you need tons of phase couplers and filters to get a good signal. INSTEON's mesh network (and dual-band powerline/RF) jumps signal issues far better. INSTEON's newer devices also drop support for X10, FYI.
Generally, the agreements you agreed to allow them to do this.
Those agreements tend to be held valid (despite what folks want to happen ;p)

If someone you bought it from made implied warranties around this, you may be able to sue them (They often cannot disclaim implied warranties in consumer transactions)
They teach it now in business schools as case studies.
Also, it sounds like you are talking about (software) engineering, rather than basic science (e.g., astronomy). There are plenty of questions humanity would like for science to answer for which there is no financial incentive to a corporation.
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It actually is not that easy. 'Free' for some extent but you also need food and a roof over your head.
Not "somehow." It's written into federal law.
The implicit answer was probably along the lines of "I don't block ads on Google and such, because those ads are tolerable. I know Google has tolerable ads, and so I willingly allow those ads to display, and use Google and such".

I'm not them though, so I'm not certain.

If you had tried a bit harder, I think you could probably have determined what answers they intended for the questions you asked.

Well, not whether they used specific sites, because that was probably irrelevant to what you wanted to know/the point you were making.

But for the actual point of your question, you could have probably determined how they intended what they said to correspond to your questions.

I mean, obviously it's difficult to do that when talking to someone one disagrees with (sometimes it will take me a number of paragraphs of my response until I figure out a way to interpret what was said in a way that makes significantly more sense than the first interpretation I noticed). So, it's certainly understandable to not realize a more reasonable interpretation. But at the same time, it's I think generally better to look for one, to see if one can find one.
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Would have to throw in Couchbase Mobile for comparisons too. It is Open Sourced as well and it provides the offline component with abstraction to sync-ing which is one of the most difficult features/problems it solves.

http://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/mobile/1.1.0/de...
Oh my, "Rawson" is really Eliza! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Rawson: I see that you are facing issues with the calendar app.

...

Rawson: I understand that must make you feel upset.

Rawson: If there was any other option, I would have definetely provided you with that. I hope you understand.
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Can't agree more. We had more interoperability a decade ago than we have today. People wanted to open up their APIs and let you DO things with their services. Today it's all about the lock-in, DRM and not-invented-here feature breaks. It's horrible and backwards.
The thing that deters me from ever writing something for iOS is that you have to own a Mac to do it.
Ubik reverses cultural causality: a product, UBIK, travels back in time affecting the aesthetics of the present by altering the past.

Or rather, advertising makes you feel it has always been this way.

Ubik is a Madison Avenue version of Orwell's 1984, rebranding the past. In this everyday dystopia, we've never had it so good despite having so little.

But Dick was not just prescient, he was writing what it was like where he was, when he was. All the dystopian elements of his Sci-Fi were his contemporary struggles.

Paraphrasing Gibson: Dystopia is already here, it just hasn't hit home yet.

Dick's protagonist argues with his fridge, he wants the milk but the fridge is demanding money it claims he owes the refrigeration company.
I've had Ubuntu running on my old desktop for a few years now. It's literally a 50% chance as to whether I'll be able to get the GUI login screen to come up, and be able to log in successfully on my first try, without having to ssh in from another machine and fiddle around with things.

This isn't an exaggeration. 50%.
Why not CouchDB + PouchDB? It's offline first and replicates over HTTP.

For more fine-grained permissions and other features I'm also developing a small Go database compatible with PouchDB at https://github.com/fiatjaf/summadb

I hope it will be able to sync through websockets soon.
Guess I'm just old then. When I was learning, most models would barely fly, and then only if you flew them perfectly.
I'm not convinced this was a hostile decision by Philips. It would be reasonable for the company to want to advance their own technology which would often entail a changing interface. If the third-party products are implementing an older interface, how is that the fault of Philips? The moral thing to do would be to standardise and publicise the interface...perhaps this is the situation already...?
"There were $150 million dollars that went into designing this special-purpose hardware for this D-Wave machine and making it as fast possible. So in some sense, it’s no surprise that this special-purpose hardware could get a constant-factor speedup over a classical computer for the problem of simulating itself."

I kinda wonder how much money scott thinks goes into most chip hardware ;-)

(I think the special vs general purpose argument is certainly true, but citing the money numbers to bolster it seems ... silly)
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You won't be able to SSH into a server/box/machine, from a server/box/machine not built by the same manufacturer.
It's would be very good guess, but that problem occurs with small scale wood too.
It is but anyone who can afford to go there probably works for a place that subsidizes partially or wholly their membership. It's kind of a funny system when you think about it.
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I wish the car companies would take that attitude too. I keep my cars a long time, and I don't think it will be useful to be running a 10 year old version of Android on it. Just let me treat the car (or other appliance) like a peripheral, which would require minimal ongoing support, and let me upgrade the smarts as needed.
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This is 100% spot on. I have been in meetings just like this in a past life.
Whatever you think, if I can save just one person from wasting their money like me, then my job is done.
The fact that no theatre nearby will show a movie that has a 3D version in non-3D does.
Rank African countries by "years of colonization" then rank another list by any metric like literacy, mortality, homicide rates, GDP per capita, etc.

I think the case is much stronger that it was _lack_ of colonization in Africa that was the problem. But these are unthinkable thoughts...
Actually most the cables used aren't that old.
I don't see how this helps people who are the most fucked: the working poor.
This is probably the point where it all goes wrong. Like the game of deaf phone, by the time the idea reached the mind of students, it's twisted into an abomination, having lost the entire essence in-transit.
It is actually an outdated view, to split a compiler into dedicated monolithic front-end and back-end parts. The more modern approach is very much the opposite. It is a nearly continuous, very long sequence of very simple transforms, rewriting a code seamlessly, all the way down from a front-end (i.e., a parser) to a back-end or multiple back-ends. And this approach is very alien to anything you'd find in the Dragon Book.

As for parsing, as I already said elsewhere in this thread, all the techniques from Dragon Book are not practical any more and are not used in the modern compilers. There are far better ways, which are not covered in the book, and they're far simpler, not even deserving a dedicated book at all.
That depends how this is enforced. If it is something like [1], you might need to device's public keys signed by Phillips.

[1] http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/security-ic/device-au...
Regulation isn't necessarily the answer, but the general theme here seems to be "regulation isn't the answer, because there's no risk of collision, and a small aircraft colliding with a 3lb drone at 150MPH won't suffer any damage anyway."

This being HN, more likely it's "all regulation is morally evil".
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Sorry to just jump in here, but I'm not getting why not allowing subcontractors matters. Isn't that still under the "lead generators can pick the terms they offer" umbrella?

Have a reasonably decent car, do the job yourself, maintain a certain level of customer satisfaction. These all seem like relatively reasonable terms under which to offer contract work.
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We recently purchased ten Zumo robot kits from Pololu for our high school kids. They all learned a lot and solved a maze using Arduino programming.

Check out https://www.pololu.com/product/2510
Yes, totally agreed. I would love to see how these flows are performing from a conversion/retention standpoint, in particular the more... perplexing parts.
You can try this in court one day. "Well, there were only 100 million people in Roman times, and there are like 6 billion people now, so on a relative scale, so me brutally murdering someone is an order of magnitude less serious. That's like killing 1/60th of a human, like a field mouse or a small puppy or something?"
I unfortunately just got my Hue Bridge 2.0... I guess I'll just return it back, but what a pain in the ass that is.
Maybe they tried but from my experience GitHub does not care one bit about cybersquatting. On the other hand I'm not James Bond so who knows ;)
Ah sorry, I thought you were referring to the Spanish Civil War as discussed by the original poster. I failed to notice the thread had shifted context.
At the moment Phillips refers to traditional-style bulbs as Hue and less traditional lights such as the Bloom lamps and LED LightStrips as "Friends of Hue".

There certainly is an interesting question if they would start adding third party vendors to the "Friends of Hue" list, but right now its still a first-party designation for Phillips, so far as I've seen.
Hmm, any suggestions on what those metrics would be?
PSA: Gaffer's tape makes the best ad-hoc mouse pad for surfaces that are not mousable... (at a trade show and your new shiny glass counters are acting weird with mice... make a small square with gaffers tape, which you already use to secure cords under carpet...

Its my favorite tape for general use.
I'm really sick of "investors" thinking that trimming every little cost here and there is going to somehow fix things. As if they didn't have dozens of historic examples to show them what penny-pinching will do? Employees will be pissed off! The ones that stay will basically reduce their enthusiasm and valuable work output to 0%, if not actively sabotaging you by aggravating your remaining customer base with incompetence. The rest (probably the most talented ones) will leave, dooming all projects so that in 3-6 months the company will want exactly the same cuts again.

Here's a different approach: cut at least one big idea or product line that isn't going anywhere, that your competitors have long since dominated. Then, aggressively refocus the company on making the remaining products great. And that doesn't mean being cheap; indeed, they may want to hire dozens or hundreds to help the focus areas become as unique and valuable as they possibly can be. It may even be necessary to make some pitches to attract new investors around those products. And yes, keep giving those people iPhones and free food; don't be ridiculous, you need that to offset the fact that there's a dozen other places they could be.

It also sure wouldn't hurt if they could at least try to get back into the public eye. When's the last time you saw a commercial for Yahoo, or could even name what it is that they do?
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Didn't Keurig just get valued at $shitton BN? If anything, this case teaches us that being customer-hostile and abusive pays off. Which is sort of obvious if you think about how the market works, but people still act surprised.
Plenty of movies are made only in non-3D versions, so, no, that doesn't either.

If no theater around you shows non-3D movies at all, that might, but that's more a consequence of your decision to live in an area where 3D movies are apparently unusually popular (or non-3D movies unusually unpopular) than anything else.
Oh, it definitely is. I just haven't gotten to it yet. Slingshot was a Facebook product, though: http://www.useronboard.com/how-slingshot-onboards-new-users/
Why does the safety net subsidize Walmart but not Costco, which hires far fewer employees per $ of revenue? Walmart is paying their low income workers something. Costco, where many of those workers would probably love to work instead, is paying them $0.
There isn't an absolute limit on submissions, only a rate limit. The rate limit is probably somewhat arbitrary but it has a purpose: the aim of the challenge is to measure and compare algorithmic progress in machine learning, that's also why the test dataset is kept secret.

Without that, it becomes possible to pre-tune the algorithm to more closely match or better recognise the specific dataset ("hyperparameter optimisation") but not work any better in the general case, so the submitter does better on the specific challenge, but doesn't actually advance the field.

The limit is there to skew incentives towards algorithmic improvements, the specific rate doesn't really matter as long as it makes hyperparameter overfitting less convenient/efficient than algorithmic work.
They're going for vendor lock-in. Someone peered over Apple's garden wall and liked what they saw.
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We have no speed problems using this in production at FastMail (we're kind of known for our speed in fact…). We use it at render time, both on desktop and mobile.
"If so, it sounds as though it was his own actions that led to his financial predicament."

Yes which is the very essence of the discussion here and why it makes sense to protect people trying to organize in some situations. Unless you think it's fair that he got released from his contract from trying to do that. In that case it just means we are politically in disagreement about what is fair and what isn't.

These weren't long haul drives, these where day to day deliveries very hard to do physically and got harder and harder as the company asked them to cover more and more on less and less time and for less and less pay.

And sure he found other work it just never paid enough to cover the expenses of having a family and a house to pay. He worked at times 3 different jobs a day just to cover.
If I'm in a park or public space where it's legal to fly and I'm not a hazard to the public, the police shouldn't come over and ask to inspect my paperwork. The government should not assume I'm breaking the law by default.

If I'm at an airport where it's not legal to fly, it doesn't matter if I have a registration or not, I'm already breaking the law.
Most people won't bother threatening them with some laws, especially if they are from another country. Just $100 spent for a useless thing.
Fine strategy until the universal controller app arrives.

After that, the same Boss would hope they should allowed their app to control third party bulbs, since that way at least they would have a brand presence, and by that way that would have allowed them to sell their bulbs better than others.
The same thing that happens every time you change a piece of software or technology?

You find a new one to replace it. Import your slack backups on it (someone who asks the kind of question you ask surely has backups, right) and get rolling.
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http://fetching.io/ is a tool I once used but had issues when we did a local or cloud option with no way to pull my cloud data to the local while also not being willing to pay for cloud one out of beta. The dev seems like a good guy and if I were to try it again I would use it.
It sounds like you're suggesting that his father deserved to be fired for attempting to support unionization. You can advocate for whatever you like, but understand that this position is in opposition to generations of workers-rights efforts.
Occam's Razor favors 'we want more money so wall in the garden'.
Rest in peace, Tubby...

As are most Seattle natives, I'm waiting for 'the big one' to bring down our other terrible bridge-ish thing, The Viaduct.

But this is probably all for nothing once they find Cthulu as the Bertha drill starts moving again, only three years behind schedule on that one!
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This seems like sensationalism and conspiracy theory going nowhere. Is this what Pando is all about now? I don't read it much.

Uber and AirBnB face political struggles in upending the establishment. It is wise to have your top comms employees and strategists those who have had some success in the political arena already.

That is only a part of these employees backgrounds though. Let us not forget that they have also worked for Google, Snapchat and likely other tech companies.
> Aircraft regularly operate below 1,000 feet in urban areas when taking off or landing.

The very first line of what I said is: "If the drone pilot is flying outside of controlled airspace (e.g. airport, major event, etc)."
The thing I want most when driving a vehicle is the joy of having to look over at a touchpad to remember exactly where the controls are, and if they've moved significantly since my last software update.
Does anybody know about databases that talk WebSockets rather than HTTP? For frontend apps it seems more logical to use WebSockets. Dealing with AJAX and understanding how to manage all of that on the client is still a huge dilemma in the React/Flux/Angular community.
Get rid of the incompetent CEO, forced diversity was a mistake.
Are you attempting to make a counterargument, or are you hoping people will read your comment and go "yeah, corporations bad, down with corporations!"? Yes, voluntary unions have to fight against the ability of a company to simply fire people; they depend on the willingness of the entire group to stand together and take the risk together, win or lose.

The whole point of a union is that employees have more power collectively than individually. A company can just tell an individual "no". If all or almost all employees get together and say "the situation is so bad that we're willing to quit (and make a lot of noise and bad PR for you) rather than let this go on", then that's harder to ignore. If the company is willing to fire everyone and deal with the bad PR, and that's cheaper than the union's demands, then the union doesn't actually have the power to effect change even as a collective.

I don't see any reason that either the company or the union should be artificially given more power in that scenario.
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Bombs. It's bombs.
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> This is like Apple saying "Laptops from other brands are no longer supported on Airport wireless networks so that we can ensure devices are fully compatible."

Didn't Apple do that with Bluetooth once? I recall reading that at least one iteration of iPhones could not send files via Bluetooth to non-Apple devices.