skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they don't differ much from lead generators for other businesses (plumbers, roofers, landmowers).

There is significant difference. I'm not privy to their requirements, but as I understand it drivers have to commit to a certain amount of rides in a month, availability at certain times (peak periods), and must meet certain criteria in execution of rides. IIRC, it's the dictation of how a job is performed, time schedules, etc. that have caused the courts to consider whether or not drivers are employees.
I have 12 LIFX bulbs that I really love. No base station needed and it has a local and web API.
Zigbee isn't hard to implement within a Node-Red network. You can use an Arduino-Zigbee bridge to talk on that network, and then control the lights however you wish. In that case, it opens up using all the lights you choose from the cheaper_than_phillips category.

I also use Node-red on a Raspberry Pi. It's slim and as small as a base station. I also have Bluetooth, wifi, and nRF24L01+ boards on it, talking all those protocols. No reason for Zigbee, but it would be doable for $15 (I assume the price).

I've found the "from anywhere", at least for Node-Red is to use a static IP. If you dont have that, a dynamic one will work. If that doesn't work, a ToR hidden service works well.

My control over my hardware is always advantageous over control by a 3rd party entity.
Having been involved in a couple of these discussions, I'd say it is more like "Shouldn't we control this? Are other people doing stuff with our products that we don't control? That's bad isn't it? Let's stop them."

I.e. it's more about paranoid control than actual reasons.
Automation of Docker Image Validation
Basically, you need a service running on a separate server to implement these sorts of integrations. If Firebase is a long-term part of your stack, I agree that sounds unappealing, b/c the reason you're paying Firebase is so you don't need to wrangle a server.

You may think differently if you're using Firebase as the fastest way to get an MVP up and running (that happens to be my use case)
> You cant threaten to replace a union worker if everyone who does that job is in the union

If an employer did something like that, the FTC would go after them for abusing a monopoly to dictate pricing, for anti-competitive practices (e.g. contracts that prevent doing business with competitors), etc. But somehow it's OK for unions to do that?
Amusingly, I think the non-free-market-uber-alles advocates feel the same way about profit maximization vs. economic prospects for the country.
An unprofitable side gig is still a side gig.
No, it seems like anyone can do it, without any relevance to your citizenship. I think the fancy new website is the only part that currently limits to US citizens, but that seems only temporary until they fix it.

> Q. Who is required to register on the new online UAS registration website?

> A. Only individual recreational or hobby users who meet U.S. citizenship requirements are able to register their unmanned aircraft using this new streamlined web-based process. This new, faster and easier system will be available for other UAS owners soon.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/registration/faqs/
A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW V. DEA
Curious if the author has read anything by Watts Humphrey? He spent his entire career at SEI arguing this point and attempting to develop the tools and processes to bear it out. This article reads like a repetition of his arguments from A Disicipline for Software Engineering (1995).
Antidepressants taken during pregnancy increase risk of autism
indeed. what is shameful is about 1-2yrs ago it seems like yahoo was on a hiring (well.. interviewing/recruitment) binge. to be fair, anybody whos been at yahoo for the long haul, or recently hired in should have known it was a risky environment. it's not like investors have been silent
> Oracle appealed this decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("CAFC" or the "Federal Circuit"). Because Oracle's case included patent claims, the CAFC had jurisdiction over the appeal, and so Oracle was able to avoid review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

I think this needs to be changed. I can't think of any good reason why in a case like this, where it has both patent and copyright claims, that the appeals need to go to the same court. Why not have the copyright issues appealed to the Ninth Circuit and the patent issues appealed to the CAFC?

At trail court it makes sense to join issues that would normally be heard in separate courts together when they involve the same underlying facts, because there will be a lot of overlap in witnesses and evidence, and a trial court is both a trier of fact and a trier of law. Holding separate trials in different courts would be wasteful, annoying, and could get complicated and troubling if different courts found different facts.

Those considerations mostly do not apply at the appellate level. The appeals court does not determine facts. It does not hear witnesses. It just deals with the record from the trial court and the arguments from the attorneys.
Another similar submission that got a few comments is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10533975
Anthelion, Yahoo's Open Source Focused Crawler
John Romero's demo of Super Mario Bros 3 for DOS [video]
Aren't there already email solutions out there that treat email as a to-do list, divide it into discrete projects and so on? I believe there should be some, based on Allen's GTD method, if nothing else. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done)
Consider returning it and writing a bad review if you bought it from a platform like Amazon.

Maybe they aren't doing anything illegal, but you can still rate them if the product is different from what you expected.
> "If I'm allowed to buy/build this, and I can't see any glaring safety issues, there must not be any."

That actually seems like a reasonable thought, despite the logical fallacy that "if I can't see any problem, there must not be a problem".

Unfortunately, another line of reasoning may soon be common, "X seems safe, but I better double check with the government to ensure I wont face several hundred thousand dollars in fines and years in prison if I do this."

I have flown kites higher than I ever would a model drone, and they are heavier and take up more space because of the string. Of course, I was a child at the time; kites are primarily a cheap children's toy. Even so, better watch out for those several hundred thousand dollar fines. Even if its safe and reasonable, better just double check.
Consider writing a review if you bought it from a site like Amazon.
I unfortunately don't know the entire history here, but it really comes down to what was purchased.

If Philips sold the Philips Hue hub as a generic controller for all Zigbee lights, then yeah, I'd agree: they essentially did a bait-and-switch after purchase, and this is totally wrong. Like class-action lawsuit wrong.

If they sold it as a controller for Philips bulbs without mentioning Zigbee interoperability, then it's customer-hostile, to be sure, but not necessarily wrong, in my eyes.
I think the main reason Uber/Lyft have made it this far is that "taxi drivers" in general aren't politically connected at a state/national level, so can't compete with the funds that Uber has thrown at "community building" to sway legislators.
Your original comment was about _third parties_ getting access to ads, and that was what I was claiming doesn't apply to basically any large ad network. It sounds like what you're saying now is that all the handling of user data happens fully on device and the ad network itself doesn't have access to demographic data, which is definitely not true for Google/FB/etc.

That's interesting if true, but I'm pretty sure that's very, very wrong. Do you have any source for this? I tried Googling it and was unable to find anything saying that, and I would be pretty surprised if that's how it works (especially pre-downloading inventory), given my passing familiarity with how ad networks work. Especially since their privacy page (which talks about iAd)[1], makes no mention of something which would be a drastically different way of operating an ad network (and thus excellent for marketing onself as the privacy-conscious alternative).

[1] http://www.apple.com/privacy/
Given that the protocol is a standard by the Zigbee Alliance (Light Link), I doubt that implementing it causes a DMCA violation. Unless you are claiming all companies making compliant products stole Philips code to do so?
Nice, thank you for the reference.
https://www.dresden-elektronik.de/funktechnik/solutions/wire...

This one works with Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 (not zero)
Different Year, Different Partner – Apple and Taylor Swift's Partnership Deal
A more direct way of hitting their sales is to write a review.

Philips Hue Hub (4.5/5 stars currently):
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-426353-Personal-Wireless-Light...
It looks like this was an update to the software in the Hue bridge? So people who THOUGHT they were buying a zigbee-based bridge now find that many zigbee products can no longer be paired with it.
The 2015 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
I bought some bulbs to create a light alarm -- automatic wake up by slowing increasing the light in the room (and nice soft coloring too). I actually use the wall switch to turn them off an on the rest of the time.

I might get some more bulbs (mi.light) if I start finding more uses but for now it seems pretty niche.
I certainly use remote activation when I'm not home, for instance, I have cameras so I can check on my pets, and I turn on the lights so I can see better when it's dark. (They're infrared cams, but that's questionably useful sometimes.)

But yeah, 90% of the time, if I am turning on a light, I'm hitting the physical switch. So a bulb that is ignorant of my switch's position isn't a lot of use to me. Because if I want to turn that bulb on... my switch is probably already off. And the bulb can't work if the physical switch is off.
I was trying to guess if it was 'shopped or not. I can't imagine that someone in Syria would just "happen" to have this plumbers name and number nor did it seem likely that they just grabbed another picture of a truck with similar positioning.

It's much easier for me to believe that folks have discovered a way to arbitrage the difference in price between used cars in one market and their price in Syria effectively.
Because Microsoft implemented random_device correctly while MingW / GCC hasn't?

Its a bug in MingW. Which isn't a big deal because Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition is an excellent IDE and compatible with OSS projects now.
Love it.

"The Commodore 64 version had extra features to support the hardware on that PC. In particular, I added stuff to let you handle sprites, the colour screen, and the sound chip. This extra stuff took about another 4 Kb, so I think the whole G-Pascal took up 16 Kb."

kOS is my hope for a smaller and more efficient future: http://kparc.com/o.htm
DMA is nice, no doubt, but it's not the ultimate solution to every problem. Have a look at my problem above... DMA wouldn't have helped. In fact, I'd probably have ended up starting with a DMA implementation, reverted back to a non-DMA implementation while debugging, and then would have stuck a bunch of nops into the DMA interrupt to make sure that I waited enough cycles before de-asserting CS.
But aren't they way more expensive for given specs than regular consumer TVs? I looked one time and they were like twice the price for a given size/resolution.

I couldn't tell if that was because they are engineered to be on all the time, or if manufacturers just jack up the list price so they can maintain margin on discounted bulk pricing for 3,000 panels or whatever.
What are your fitness goals?

I have a Jawbone Up 2 and use their Up app. It does step and sleep tracking very well. It also has food and weight tracking, but because they have to be done manually, I don't use them as much. The app also has some helpful suggestions (a reminder to go to bed earlier or get X more steps to hit your weekly average.)
or people will just take off the tag before doing something shitty with it.
Is that true in right-to-work states as well? I thought right-to-work was specifically to prevent involuntary unionization.
The article is certainly nothing if not well cited.
No. I didn't ask for a replacement, because I don't think this product is ready to be sold to public at all.
Once, you install the Coin app it shows the map of merchants that has had successful transactions with Coin, and it's hard to find.
Basically, this product does not work at this stage, and they are selling it as 2.0 version for $100.
I am very offended by this, and feel like this is a scam.
Url changed from http://nofilmschool.com/2015/12/disney-research-software-sea..., which points to this.
So why was the 2014 you were test driving no longer an option?
It's the other way around. People want to use their non-Hue lights with the Hue bridge, which is no longer possible. Now it means having to buy another bridge that supports both.
What do drones get blamed for that aren't drones, exactly?
How do you see that working for CSS?

Is this:

/* This should have round corners */
.this {
border-radius:2em;
}

any better than this?

/* Make this have round corners */
.this {
border-radius:2em;
}

Really, I look at the boilerplate how-to-comment discussion thread here, and it seems utterly irrelevant to CSS.
Smart refrigerators exist? I don't know why I'm surprised. Even more so that people rely on said refrigerators for their daily workflow.
But what are we talking about re: "near miss" here? The phrase itself defines as no actual impact. How many actual problems are we talking about here, vs "close but no harm done"? I'm just trying to bracket the issue.

close but no harm done

Are you serious? This is an airplane we're talking about. I don't care how close you think you are or aren't when you're flying your toy around the airport. I don't want the pilot of my airplane to be distracted by your asshat-ery no matter how much distance you think you have from the airplane.
Open source java Paas with enterprise support
"they should still have that choice as they cannot choose what happens with their union dues"

This isn't true.

"far too many unions spend inordinate amounts of money on political activities instead of their own membership"

If you believe that, then start getting involved in your union's leadership and change it.

" then top it off with all the bureaucratic bloat and high paid leadership"

As opposed to the leanness and crappily paid leadership of the company?
What happened to the new TLDs? Is there not interest or not user understanding? I remember explaining them years ago to some end users who objected to the idea; they wanted to hold onto the familiar ".com", even though it did nothing for them.

I thought they would greatly increase supply of popular second-level domains. Also, I thought large organizations who could afford it would setup their own TLDs and leave behind registrars and the associated issues. For example, why doesn't IBM use .ibm instead of ibm.com?

But it looks like the vast majority still want only .com.
You're right, my experience stems from Homejoy-like services. The ones I had in mind were 1-800-DENTIST and similar, but looks like they steer away from specific pricing, and so do Amazon and RedBeacon.

Franchise owners are independent businesses, which doesn't prevent McDonald's and KFC from advertising $5 special and requiring franchisees to accept that rate.

Large trucking companies are attracting independent owners/operators at advertised mileage rates with a "take-it-or-leave-it" implication. The owner/operator stays independent while accepting a truck load at a pre-determined rate.

On a broader scale though, nothing prevents me from posting a Craigslist ad "Looking for a ride to the airport this Saturday, my budget is $40". It does not constitute an employer-employee relationship, and an argument could be had that Uber/Lyft are just proxies for posting and fulfilling such requests. Extend that to moving, plumbing, etc.

Or am I completely off?
Navigating around XCode with keyboard shortcuts
So if I understand what you're saying, it's that since there is no legal definition of art, I could call anything art if I wanted to prevent people taking photos of it. People would be afraid of the court fees, so they would just roll over. Is that a fair summary of your argument?

I think you're right that this could happen, but this line of thought can lead you to doing nothing about anything due to the way it might be abused in the future. In this specific case, I don't understand what specific problem the law is trying to solve so I can't balance the positive and negative effects of the law against each other. However, it does seem to me a narrowly focused law with a reasonable definition of the subject.
Lead generators to drivers?

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?

If they where just lead generators then uber would take a cut of whatever price the drivers decided to take for their ride but the actual price negotiation would be between the driver and the customer.

So not it's unfortunately not that simple.
The Story Behind “Fulsome” (2012)
Homework is fine, thanks!
I saw this headline and immediately thought "that's some pretty special paper."

It's been a long day.
Agreed that this is only research prototype with significant limitations at the moment. Dynamic changes to the graph should however be something in particular a dynamic optimization framework like Truffle can cope with.
And yet, lots of people don't avoid Apple.
Hm,

I guess that's probably the most polite response, at least.

The main motivation I can see for an ad blocker-blocker-blocker would be for like, if the ad-blocker-blocker has claims than using an ad-blocker is immoral. Because, well, it could be sorta insulting.

But if it's just a statement of like, "don't use our website with an ad blocker please" (and not displaying the content), then, using an ad-(blocker^3) is I think probably rather rude.

Probably not outside of one's rights, but still, rude.
Uhhhh... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_bridges

I'm not sure if the original designers intended for these to have multi-millenia design lives, but I bet that they could have been made much cheaper...
Sure, but perhaps they'll do what Lyft has done: partner with a company that already owns a fleet of vehicles [0].

[0]http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/09/ride-hailing-company-lyft-par...
Here's a hacky version of one of their examples, with "reactive Tcl", which is essentially powered by the trace command.

proc timeB {varname seconds} {
upvar $varname x
set x [clock seconds]
after [::tcl::mathop::* $seconds 1000] [list timeB $varname $seconds]
}

proc onChange {varname empty op} {
upvar $varname x
puts $x
}

timeB foobar 1
trace add variable foobar write onChange

vwait forever

Tcl - doing cool things before they were cool since 1990.
I don't see how collective bargaining is some special thing that should require special protection or permission. It seems like a logical result of the freedom to negotiate the terms of one's own employment (which hopefully isn't controversial) and the freedom to assemble with other people (which hopefully isn't controversial). I'm free to tell my employer that I want $x per hour, and the employer is free to say yes or no. Similarly, I should be able to tell my employer that I want $x per hour for me and a bunch of my friends, and the employer is free to say yes or no.
This is wrong on a couple levels.

1. The protocol is open. It's not Philips' IP.

2. Even if the protocol were closed, and Philips put some DRM on it to lock out 3rd parties from reverse engineering the protocol to make compatible bulbs, the third parties still wouldn't be in violation of the DMCA, even if they had to include small copy/pasted bits of the Philips code that are necessary for interoperability. This was the holding in the Lexmark case back in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_International,_Inc._v....
> I'll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions.

Because they can. John Doe will think "oh, I just need to shell out some money to get it working again", or "oh, the system needed an upgrade anyway".

The mobile bonanza (well, that one company who gets majority of revenue from hardware) in last couple of years perverted the word "upgrade" from "a software upgrade, which adds new features and ads value to existing purchased product", to "needing to buy a new device to keep on going with existing performance". I'm happy to see this hasn't spread to the desktop PC. Yet.
Well, sort of. I would have gone back anyway (I had a girlfriend in Pune, as the pictures sort of hint at, and no reason to be in the US), but my return trip would have been slower and passed through more interesting places.

The OP is absolutely right that it would have been more difficult for me if I knew nothing whatsoever about India. However, I probably could have paid a couple of thousand USD more and OnP (the hospital I stayed at) would handle things for me. I know they have a medical tourism office, albeit catering primarily to gulf residents.
I have heard similar discussions, mostly around support. Which is to say when a third party bulb doesn't work, who gets the support call? When you compute the cost and margin of a consumer device you have to include the cost of support as a burden on overall profit margin. If support costs eliminate profit margin then you start losing money and that sucks. What is worse, if you raise your prices to cover the support cost, the 3rd party bulbs look that much better and that just increases your cost. Sort of a catch 22
No. Just no.

Any argument you make will always come back to, "The company will threaten and fire people who don't go along with what they want."
This is like asking a chef to make new food based on what you like to eat.

You will never discover anything really new, your experience will be narrowcasted. Avoid this and let dj's, friends, musicians, people, and just surfing around the internet help you find new music.

Whenever I hear someone excited about automated music discovery a little voice goes off in my head going ..."ohh no".
Of course you can use firebase also in combination with server side code. It is no reason not to use firebase because you use server side code.
I use firebase and SQL at the same time. It works quite good if you know what you do.
So I found this article [1] about domain name transfer. Which clarified one doubt that I had. As I was under the impression that you were hopelessly stuck at paying rent for life middleman (to a reseller or in this case a registrar).

This raises another question. Is it worth starting you own registrar? Or it is fee prohibitive?

[1] http://lifehacker.com/5794507/how-to-jump-ship-from-godaddy-...
How do you measure intelligence? If we take an IQ score as the measure, we will will see that many individuals with high recorded IQ, are not that remarkable when it comes to their activities. Usually they don't make huge advances in any fields, or become ultra rich.

We don't know if humans are 1000 times smarter than rats. Maybe we are 10 times smarter, or a 1000000 times. We don't know how much smarter Perelman or Obama is than a Joe Sixpack. We don't even know what "smarter" means. So talking about some hypothetical "sentient entities", and how "smarter" they can be compared to anything, is a bit premature, IMO.