skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What society loses is an inefficient but largely accepted legal framework for compensation in the event of injury or death. This framework right now is balanced by individuals accepting culpability in the event of an accident. An individual has certain limitations to obtain and use legal leverage to evade financial responsibility. A massive lucrative corporation has far more leverage and interest in avoiding financial responsibility and you have shifted the obvious blame away from the individual. You've disrupted a finely honed set of checks and balances that enable global highway transit.

What's needed is a big pot of money for the greater good, and that means government. Government means regulation. Regulation stifles innovation and adds overhead that scares away competition.

And now you've got yourself a catch-22 that requires a company with a very specific set of parameters to achieve any progress. Which is what we've got.
IndexedDB is not limited to 5MB, its essentially unlimited in Chrome and Firefox. It can be tricky with mobile browsers but they often also have the option of using an unlimited web app wrapper (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/quota-researc...)

And as for WebSockets, HTTP is easier to debug and experiment with, in my experience the performance difference for the typical use cases is negligible and when needed it is trivial to wrap the communication in a socket.
My thoughts exactly. Kinto is a database with an API that you have to configure, deploy, manage and scale. It's not really an alternative to Parse/Firebase, as it is an alternative to Mongo.
As you yourself point out, birds outnumber drones a million to one. So obviously the available number of examples is much smaller. That doesn't, however, change the potential danger.
I've had pretty much the same experience. Bought Coin via pre-order over a year ago, couple month ago found out that it's very unlikely to be supported in my country ever. Asked them for refund - got some template response, asked again - silence.
"Collective bargaining can absolutely be a component of a voluntary union, if everyone agrees to it."

That "everyone" has to include the leadership of the company. All they have to do is say "no", and the whole thing goes up in smoke.

"If people agree with the union, they'll go along with it"

Unless they're afraid of getting fired.
Lots of what we're doing right now is luxury earned by our current level of development. It's nice to find an emotional example like maimed children, but if you tried to run 19 century industry with all of today's regulations and benefits, you's simply fail.

And from that we go to "was _this_ particular thing really necessary?", which doesn't really change the main argument. Sure, they could've done without maimed children. Add 8 hour workday, weekends, maternity leave, minimum wages, social security, pensions, health care and pretty much all the things we take so much for granted I can't even think of them. Like I said, it's about wealth - some things you can afford as a country when you're US and some you don't when you're Moldova or Albania, not to mention Congo.
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Watts already express energy over time, so the /day is redundant. The article you linked to gives a good comparison:

> [three bulbs + bridge] is the equivalent of leaving a 60W bulb on for a little over an hour and seven minutes per day
Yes, you can do this. And for the most part you can control your lights from your own software. I was looking at the protocol using a HackRF One to see how easy or hard it would be to build a replacement hub controller. I don't know if there are any patent issues however, that would be something that you couldn't really code around.
I wish I could check email in Evernote. Or a Gmail where I could edit notes. If somebody from Evernote is listening..
"A voluntary union could still collectively bargain."

And as someone else said, the company can fire the person who brought the demands to them and tell the rest of them to fuck off and get back to work, or they're next.
My girlfriend is a doctor, and often goes for the branded versions, saying they will be better quality, and absorbed better.

I have read before that good quality vitamin pills are bigger so that they crumble / break down and get absorbed better that hard compact ones.
And I think the person you responded to is implying his exit from childhood did not in any way slow down his use of advent calendars for chocolate-eating purposes.
In and of it self nothing. Though I have to say I have never registered for anything that didn't include receiving a set of rules. I would be really surprised if registering didn't get you a pamphlet on how not to get arrested while flying a drone.
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Regardless of this (assuming this is even true), I can't imagine that a finance company would want to store their data inside something like Firebase - The risk of data theft is too high and the value of the data is also too high.

When you store everything in a big centralized system, the risk of that data being compromised increases greatly. Right now, the reason why no one is hacking Firebase is because the data which is being stored in there is low-value.

If banks and hospitals started storing data in Firebase, you can be sure that it would attract the attention of hackers and you can be sure that they would find an exploit eventually.

You can't possibly place all of the world's high-value data inside one or two systems. Every single change made to the codebase is a potential security vulnerability.

Also, I imagine that employees of Firebase have access to all your data - What if one of them decided to share your data with a competitor. Humans are corruptable - This is too much power to put in the hands of so few people.
3rd argument: non certified bulbs may cause damage to the hue system, and be a hazzard risk.

Curious what the process is to be listed as Friends of Hue (or w/e).
I wish they had mandated the algorithms used in the distributions. Even with the same generator initialized with the same seed, the normal distribution, for example, will give different results across platforms. At least the results of the generators are consistent across platforms.
Or allocate more towards pushing lobbying, technical and business efforts on self-driving cars harder.

I don't have anywhere near the expertise to guess at how long the legislative meat-grinder for self-driving cars will take to hammer out, but an amoral minimax might be to just double down on firing all the drivers, and let them have a few more shekels for a couple years. But they have the money to walk and chew worker-bees, so we'll probably see both.

( This is getting further afield, but. Do we even have a semi-reasonable comparison for a bundle of legal and societal changes involved in self-driving transport? I can't think of one outside of the original introduction of cars. And on the legal side, that was mostly new law, not revising the assumption of human action across criminal, tort, insurance and whatever other categories. The analogous social changes - at first, demonizing pedestrians to get them off streets; later, suburbs, the propaganda tying the car to U.S. American notions of freedom, towns becoming dependent on violations for income, etc. - are somewhat harder to make bets about, but more interesting.

There certainly have been bigger changes (I'm guessing, of course, but I don't see auto-autos as a bigger deal than agriculture), but I don't know that legal codes were as complex then, and I know we don't have extensive records on the changes. The social upheaval of ag was worthy of the name 'singularity', which I really don't see self-driving cars as matching.)
In their business it's actually risky not to make the next Minecraft.
I wish it was clearer when/how/where to fly. I envision an app soon that lets you 'report' your planned flight activity in advance which notifies the appropriate ATC facility based on your GPS, and logs that you've notified the appropriate agency.

Aside from extending the runway center lines on a map to predict approach and departure paths, you may have seen the heli route on skyvector https://skyvector.com/?ll=42.2662102318687,-70.9130790877564... regarding the harbor islands.
Last.FM used to have an amazingly accurate and helpful music discovery system, and great similar artist recommendations up until roughly 2 years ago where they either limited the amount of similar artists, or put some sort of blanket filter or whitelist for a smaller pool of "approved similar artists".

Last.FM was so ahead of the game it's mind boggling how they just seem to have fizzled out while Grooveshark, and Spotify came in.

Last.FM had a huge user base with great info on individual music tastes, had a functioning streaming service, a whole functioning ecosystem of music fans and musicians that just seemed to have layed dead in the water after it was bought out.
I thought customer ratings helped with that, meaning, if someone has a cheap ass car, is sloppily dressed, is rude and smells, they'll probably be ubered out of a job. The opposite case usually means they have some decent income. Meaning, Uber won't stand up if it doesn't have good service, meaning good employees which kind of works itself out in a self-rating community, no? This isn't the days of old where a corporation can mask treatment of its workers and they must outcry and protest or is it? I'm not an Uber driver but just thinking out loud.
When presenting this to someone, is it helpful to use a human language analogy? For example: In english, when you refer to a "car", you are talking about a machine that moves people on roads. Whereas when you refer to a "boat", you are talking about something that floats on water. What Oracle wants Google to do, is to make up a new name for "car" and "boat", and try to get all developers to adopt these new definitions when using Google's products.
From where do you get the idea that Uber requires any sort of time commitment or schedule? Not doing that is the basis of its argument that drivers are contractors.

All contractor relationships include meeting certain criteria in the execution of the work. If you "contact" with someone in a way that doesn't give them any obligations, it's just a gift.
I see very little wrong with this simple registration step. As a drone owner, it costs me a minimal charge, doesn't impair my drone's operation with onerous rules. (Some were considering things like geofencing being MANDATORY!) It merely asks me to tag my drone with a number, which isn't a big deal at all.

I'd argue this has been actually a fantastic example of the government working in moderation. They involved drone manufacturers, commercial operators, and hobbyist groups directly in the discussion process, you can see it throughout their documentation. The community was well-invested in this entire process.

They've avoided any sort of crazy burden that would kill the drone industry, but they've offered a clear step to say that they're watching, and put in a basic framework that, while imperfect, gives them a starting point in an investigation.
That's horrible. I am terribly mad at how this company is abusing their customers with their ridiculous refund policy. I wonder if this is even legal.
If you really want to compile something on an embedded system, you'd be much better off with something like Forth anyway.
> Why can they then decide which car you should buy? Why aren't you allowed to hire sub-contractors? Why can't the driver just set their own price?

Any lead generator can choose who they deliver leads to, right? Uber can't literally force any individual to buy a certain type car, but they can choose to not do business with people unless they have a certain type of car.
main feature of firebase for me are the "realtime" updates
I wrote a parser-generator in C and it took less than 42 days. Your mileage may vary.

https://github.com/gregtour/parsergenerator

Most of the C code is less than 1.5k LOC for the functional part, and this minimal, self-compiling C compiler has a parser that is nearly 3,000 lines long.

Even if it took 1,000 lines of extra code for the non-LR aspects of C's grammar, I think it would be the same amount of work.

This just leaves you in a better position to write a C++, Go, or Java compiler at the end.
I found this after a bit of searching:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-histo...

Note: I haven't tried it and it's last update is from 2013.
>Ability to set rates does not define the employer-employee relationship.

It could. In the US, there's no hard/fast definition that gets down to that level of detail.

The IRS says: "In determining whether the person providing service is an employee or an independent contractor, all information that provides evidence of the degree of control and independence must be considered"

Certainly "who sets the rates" would be a consideration.
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I'll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions.

I think it's because Apple more or less proved that the walled garden approach can be wildly successful and everyone is trying to copy them. Seems however that they are the only ones to have success with it.
There are lots of non-3D movies made; the fact that 3D movies are also made doesn't stop you from watching a "normal movie" like a "normal person".
I got a job offer at Uber ATC that was exactly that. Working on logistics for self driving cars. They have an enormous amount of money and they are throwing some of it at the problem. What use is an economy if so many people live in poverty?
I'm assuming the big name products here have carefully measured, A/B tested, etc. every screen and they are at their best (other than Apple Music, which is a whole other creature). That said, product teams should still periodically audit onboarding content, ideally with a set of fresh eyes. Does everything still make sense? Is there a logical flow from A to B?

It would have been interesting to be "a fly on the wall" and see how some of these evolved over time. I suspect some of the oddities initially started with a good set of screens, but then a new piece was later tacked on without a full audit or without the resources to change everything else.
No, it is not. No idea where you got this notion, but I've been answering this question for almost 3 years.
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Which makes them more than simply a lead generator. Add to that some of the other things and it's obvious that it's anything but a simple lead generator. For examples why should they care if I hire subcontractors?
A bit late to the party but I found this video illuminating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmoFzbZYEM

Basically (if I understood correctly) it has to do with confining the plasma within the torus without the need of an electrical magnetic field (which is what the Tokamak uses).
The irony of this situation is that Uber and Lyft would probably never have gotten this big, had they hired only full time employees with benefits.

Their business model works. That's why they're bigger than GM now. And that's why suddenly they're being perceived as unfair and exploitative.

In the Western social democratic system that more or less pervades the old industrial nations of Western Europe and the U.S., financial success is an invitation to lawsuits, unionization, and government fines.

The unionization is couched as a class warfare thing -- the management/owners are making big bucks and we workers are making peanuts -- but in reality, it's all about fighting for a piece of the pie.

The Teamsters rep in Oakland summed it all up: even though Uber's buying a big building there and employing 2,000 to 3,000 people, it's time to unionize and make them "give back".

I just hope that Seattle and California don't set a national trend, or this may be the beginning of the end for the sharing economy, just as manufacturing ended, and just as outsourcing has hollowed out the computer programming field and other domestic professions. What will there be left for Americans to do, if we keep shooting down every innovative business model like this?
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Seems comparable to http://deepstream.io
"Ability to set rates does not define the employer-employee relationship."

By itself, no, but it is one of the larger pieces of it.

"In that sense they don't differ much from lead generators for other businesses (plumbers, roofers, landmowers)."

Except lead generators for those other businesses don't have any say in how much you charge.
Technically one is allowed to exercise the so-called 'Beck' decision [1] and only pay the union what is required for contact negotiation and related fees. In practice I wonder how difficult it is to actually leverage Beck.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Workers_of_Amer...
Some kind of datatable showing key observable metrics would be great.
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Boss: We introduced Hue back in 2012 w/ a plan to lose money the first 3 years developing the hub, subsidizing partners, and getting our product out in the market. Tell me we're seeing a positive ROI now.

Hue PM: Hue is profitable, but only marginally so. Our strategy of making up the initial investment on $60 per bulb hardware is being undermined by cheap 3rd party lighting fixtures. Plus we're incurring costs responding to all of these non-hue connectivity and reliability issues.

Boss: We control a large enough market share now and most of the market is already heavily invested in our ecosystem. Cut off hub connectivity for these 3rd party products. People should not be using non-Hue approved hardware with our software. We're a for-profit company, not a government or a charity.

Hue PM: That won't go over well with the early adopters and the tech community.

Boss: I've already run the cost/benefit analysis. The tech community might be mad for a little while, but we've got our sights set on industrial and commercial contracts now that we've proved Hue's viability in the consumer market. Do it.
If they are working as a driver for Uber or Lyft, they are an able bodied workers by definition.
ML got ADTs and static type guarantees, but Lisp got macros, which allows to implement things like http://andykeep.com/pubs/np-preprint.pdf - which is significantly less boilerplate than in ML. An ideal language for compilers would have combined both properties, but to make it happen, an expression problem must be solved first.

See a relevant discussion here from not long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712566
There was a game for the original Nintendo called "Lunar Pool" which was a pool simulation, with tons of different table shapes. It wasn't the best simulation, but I loved the variety of tables, and have always been a bit disappointed that it doesn't happen in real life.
the term callback hell comes to mind, although I'm not sure that's the entire problem you quoted
Also the digital transition, which was a significant effort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition_...
Perfect. Part of being a union means being willing to collectively strike. When the company fires one person the rest of the union needs to have the resolve to stop working. This forces the company to negotiate. Or if the company can trivially replace those workers that's fine as well.

Not seeing anything here that requires legislative intervention.
That means that you have to put all your unlocks and deallocations there AND you have to check them to see if they were allocated/locked in the first place.
Interestingly I posted this on HN the other day. No love though :) But very relevant.

http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/post/134547527433/why-theres-...
> And yet, lots of people don't avoid Apple.

On one hand, having to use Apple's proprietary Lightning connector sucks.

On the other, having Apple be heavy handed with iOS App Store submissions means I have a higher confidence with my iOS Apps behaving compared to those I install on my Android Device.
I've seen some cool mods where someone took a USB hub or a wifi dongle out of its case and soldered the pins directly to the USB pins on the Pi itself. That gets around a lot of the mess.
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It was out of production at that point and there were no used manuals in the neighboring-state-area.
Couldn't agree more. Forwarded it along to my team at work; I'm sure the designers will enjoy some of the most "painful" on-boarding experiences.
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> that one company who gets majority of revenue from hardware

I hope you are not referring to Apple, because compared to other companies , iPhones and iPads are the one who can run current software on older devices with almost no issues. Samsung and other android manufacturers on the other hand have not supported older devices at all until recently (and even now not as good as Apple does). My first gen iPad still runs perfectly fine
I don't care how fancy your software is, I require PHYSICAL KNOBS AND BUTTONS. No exceptions.
I was surprised to not see Facebook in the list. Or that not a “web app” in peoples’s minds?
Engineering a Compiler 2nd edition, by Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon

The dragon books are better used as references to those who are already familiar with all of the high-level concepts in compiler writing.
"Thanks to the continued growth of Africa’s population, however, the peak will be more of a plateau. High birth rates in Africa and low ones elsewhere will more or less balance out. Africans will make up a bigger and bigger share of the world’s young people: by 2100, they will account for 48% of those aged 14 and under."

Yes, thank goodness for Africans doubling their populations every 25 years! We're saved! It's going to be totes awesome, like Detroit, but more "vibrant."
What about airports located within city limits?

The things that are going to get people in trouble are flying their drones way too high

The people flying the drones aren't getting themselves into trouble. They're getting others into trouble. They themselves are perfectly safe. They're dumping a huge externality onto anyone who flies in an airplane.
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jroseattle is probably referring to Uber's attempt to add liquidity on the supply side by forcing higher-class vehicles to take lower-class fares (or else!) https://pando.com/2014/09/04/uber-continues-to-screw-its-par...

There are also rumors of required percentage of accepted requests (i.e. they don't want the drivers to be logging in and sitting idly), but I can't find a link handy.

Both of these practices, if continued, are likely to land Uber in hot water, so my (uneducated) guess is that it's no longer happening in US jurisdiction.
It's simple, but I've found Google Fit to be great just for staying active (especially as an Android Wear owner -- though that's not necessary). It's great about subtly notifying you about how active you've been all day, and works pretty well at seamlessly detecting walking, running, and biking.
Yup, smart devices are stupid when they should be dumb.
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Registrars need to pay a yearly fee to ICANN (in the $xx,xxx range if I recall correctly) and significant startup fees as well.

This qualifies you to pay 'wholesale' prices for domain names. Wholesale prices are set by the registry. (e.g. Verisign sets the wholesale price for .com, Afilias for .org, etc.)

It is worth doing if you register a very large number of domain names, like 100,000+. Some large corporations have their own registrar, Google for example. (More recently Google has also entered the registry business, with their new TLDs.)
Me too. Hue gear is absurdly expensive, but I was sold right up until this. To make matters worse, it looks like the apps I wanted to use the bulbs with (sleep as android, f.lux) only work with the Phillips hub. I hope the developers of those apps use this as an opportunity to learn about the dangers of vendor lock-in. This is just the FTDI debacle all over again.