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Im a real cynic when it comes to lego. it has increasingly become a product that is sold to parents and then foisted upon children. I know a few parents who claim their kids love lego but empirical evidence seems to be far from that. We bought lego for our kids but they were (briefly) only really interested in the characters and we built a few things but minecraft is a way more interesting way of doing the same thing. Secondly isnt Lego just a business that becomes obsolete because of technology and 3d printers. How long before you can just print the thing you want - plastic or not. It seems to me lego is destined to only have made sense during the late 20th and early 21st century. we should all get over it... maybe they should have bought minecraft?
Not drugs, but I would recommend Neil Fiore's "Power of Now" because it really helps understand and address some of the psychological underpinnings of procrastination.
And/or load less of the stuff onto a ship. I'm surprised that wasn't suggested either.
Tolerance levels off pretty quick, and goes back down with short breaks.

I’m pretty sure addiction is very rare, and not comparable with other prescription narcotics.

I’m not sure what you consider abuse. I guess college kids use it to help them get homework done, which sounds like a congruent context to me; only without the doctor approval. Taking too much has direct and uncomfortable side effects, at least for me. Whenever a I took adderall, I was extra careful to never accidentally taking an extra dose after doing so once on accident.
Its important to remember that different countries have different customs, even if we share a language.

In the USA, people have the right against self-incrimination, aka the 5th Amendment ("Pleading the Fifth"). I'm not entirely sure if Britain affords the same right to their citizens.

Ideally, this kind of article would have some analysis and background for the American audience. Legally understanding the promises our governments make to us citizens is important.

Anyway, its clear that self-incrimination is an issue, otherwise this wouldn't be news at all. But I can't help but wonder that my ignorance of British law is making me misunderstand an issue, or otherwise make me biased. In particular, I know that British citizens have a completely different relationship with their Police force compared to US Citizens with our police force. (Ex: British police don't normally carry guns).

But I really don't know the full scope of cultural or legal differences that are needed to even understand this short article.
Ask HN: Am I missing something by not learning JavaScript frameworks?
I did jQuery, Knockout, and a little Angular. It was shortly after that that there were an explosion of frameworks and at the time I was far more interested in studying math.

I still code entire projects in raw node.js and client-side JavaScript. I have half-way been keeping mostly up to date with a lot of C# stuff and I see some pros and cons in the way that is evolving.

People really love their JavaScript frameworks though. Is learning React really a mind-blowing experience? Does it teach you anything new other than how to use it?

I feel like the number of revolutionary programming concepts that I'm supposed to keep up with is beyond not only my will but also my ability.
It's far simpler and less cynical than that.

The majority of people in this world want the world to be clean and free of the effects of climate change. Companies are comprised of these people. Hence there will always be internal struggles to "do your part" from employees. Especially since that often ends up making products that are more sustainable not just environmentally friendly. And so win-win for everyone.
Certainly, clojurescript makes it possible to do productive React development without having to resort to JSX for syntactic sugar- This comes from the "create your own language" nature of lisp languages, which is leveraged by the many different frameworks to easily generate DOM elements in a natural way. (This also makes it easy to implement graph query languages BTW that are more elegant IMHO than graphQL.)

Another big payoff with clojurescript IMHO is the use of async channels and go blocks in lieu of promises to handle asynchronous operations- It's nice to have what is essentially a form of cooperative multithreading right inside your client javascript code, without the need for web workers.
It was a very direct and blatant rip off too. See [0]. Lego completely redesigned what they were intending to produce after seeing Page's product.

Page committed suicide after the business failed in the 50s.

[0] http://www.hilarypagetoys.com/Images/articlestock/article875...
The claim was:

> And then the parties have flipped ideologies substantially

Strom Thurmond was one of three Southern segregationists who switched parties. The rest of the segregationists remained Democrats, including such famous names as George Wallace and Robert Byrd.

And the Civil Rights Act had more support from Republicans than from Democrats.
You contacted Google's bots, while failing to actually reach any human. In a way you succeeded while also failing.
No it doesn't, we're talking about insurance fraud here, not actual gender identity issues.
This may be the wrong place, but in response about being a "developer advocate" what about other react projects? react-document-title has a few pull requests without any feedback, I've personally been sidelined since Februrary https://github.com/gaearon/react-document-title/pull/53 when I made a pull request to avoid having to wrap multiple children in a React.Fragment that's child to a DocumentTitle

Maybe my PR was too drastic, I could've just removed the call to React.Children.only
There's also no one spending money getting replacement engines that don't need lead rated.

Like if you wanted to make a safety tradeoff you'd just ban general aviation (Imagine, they poison everyone a little bit, by taking pretty high personal risks).
And what evidence is there of this ? Because it sure sounds like you just made this up.

In most companies these policies have come from the CEO down largely because there has been significant demand coming from (a) employees, (b) consumers and (c) shareholders.
I've done a bit of teaching. My experience has been that some learners (younger primary schoolers and middle aged adults in separate situations) will understand an oral or written presentation, others won't get that at all but still readily comprehend an image, some require actual experience to acquire the presented knowledge.

This could be just literacy and spatial reasoning ... but even so in practice that would support tailored pedagogies.

From the other side, as a student, people use a "memory palace" -- but that is entirely ineffective for me; how does that fit in to the idea that we all learn equally well with the same techniques?

It just seems counter-logical and contrary to my experience (teaching and being taught).

Your examples of self deception/false beliefs are both useless. Teachers have direct and intimate experience of hundreds of student reaction to teaching methods, often across decades. Teachers have no direct experience of orbiting teapots nor Creation.

Did I miss the links to the comparative studies showing students learn equally well across different modes?
It's quite comical that in an age where companies are willing to pay 100s of thousands for their top knowledge workers wrist issues bring all that heavy caliber thinking to a screeching halt.
Further data supporting your point: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Tom Brady is notorious for how unathletic he was during the NFL combine before the draft (in which he was picked in the 6th round, #199). Here is a picture just to give you an idea: https://sports.cbsimg.net/images/blogs/Tom-Brady-shirtless-0...

Now I don't think there is much argument that he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
Everyone, everywhere, including businesses large and small will need to reduce and find alternatives if we are to have any hope of fixing the problem.

The more who avoid the issue and just plant a few trees, the longer it will take, and the lower the chances of us ever having done enough.
I'm an adult and was given a small Lego kit as a gift. Only took me 20 minutes to put it together but it was so fun to problem solve and manipulate things in real life. 3D on the computer will never match the experience for a long time.
This is a great list. One thing I want to add is that when I was suffering from tendinitis, I wasn’t able to really start building strength until I got cortisone shots. They’re a temporary solution but they can buy you the time to be able to function and start exercising. It’s a very powerful tool.
I sympathise with the sentiment, but at the same time, there's something intensely satisfying about the repurposing of technology.

Perhaps as a compromise: in general try to buy hardware directly from real Linux/BSD vendors, with an exception for second-hand purchases (which don't directly benefit the original manufacturer) of Surfaces &c.
I think my new motto in life is "Every bucket of water starts with a drop"

This applies to so many things in life. Voting, bad habits, and companies doing things to make the environment better.
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I loved lego as a kid, and I had access to a PC by 8.

The key, for me, to keep lego interesting was to have a lot of generic legos. In my mind, lego has done a disservice to the power of their own invention by focusing more on the lego minifigures and things like bionicles -- which you use to build that one set piece and then don't use much beyond that.

If you focus on the bigger sets and sets of just the standard bricks, the limit is your imagination. In my mind, if you're using instructions, you're doing it wrong.
In case anyone is curious about the size of the Ethereum blockchain (which the linked article doesn't even mention but seems to inevitably come up in comments), I took some measurements recently: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/1004506114392838146

tl;dr: ~65GB of bandwidth is required to download all the necessary data. The default node indexing and denormalization of this data takes around 100GB after compacting.
The term from Objective-C came directly from Smalltalk, which had almost directly the same concept. Really, Objective-C is essentially "what if the bodies of Smalltalk message implementations were coded in a low-level language?".

I am fascinated, though, by your claim that Lisp also used this term... before reading it I would have been 100% sure that it didn't. I just spent ten minutes trying to find documentation of this, and can't find it... but I am not a native speaker of Lisp and so don't always know where to look; can you point me at a reference? (FWIW, I know of the meta-object protocol, which afaik is a singular thing at a different level of abstraction, and I know about classes and methods and generic functions and mulmethods, which seem like what you are talking about but aren't described by protocol?)
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I've found that Modafinil works for me. Gwern did an excellent writeup here: https://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
In some other languages, a failed write will kill your application with an IO exception. Or at the very least (in Java) the exception will hit a handler that you are forced to write. The point being, those languages are designed to force a different code path on you in situations like failed IO, and people writing standard libraries make sure to check return values of C calls and throw exceptions if they're bad.
I suppose. Though, personally, I have to manually toggle the meltdown patch (and reboot windows) to be able to play certain games effectively. One game that I play frequently has a benchmark launcher and it shows a 40% performance hit for the meltdown patch...
You've misread my comment. I responded to you stating that Democrats like to distance themselves from their past by pointing out that they don't do this with claims about switching ideologies.

That's why I put the word "distancing" in front of the word "claim".

Does that 3 count include an exhaustive survey of voting Republicans or is it just sophistry to get people reading the remark to focus on prominent individuals?
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I think there's a nice middle ground in there. You can make the pirate ship, or the TIE fighter or whatever... And then make a pirate tie fighter, with wings and a sail! What I never got was the "make a set and then glue it all up and put it on the mantelpiece" attitude. That's doing it wrong to me.
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>many ways to deploy to keep costs down.

If you or someone else has some suggestions for cheap media hosting, I'm all ears :)

The one thing I miss from Youtube was all the commenters and people who enjoyed me playing. I got a lot of satisfaction from that and it kept me going and posting more videos (it definitely wasn't the money since ad revenue was abysmal).
Is there any other succinct way of describing "privately owned companies valued at over $1B" besides as "unicorns"? The animal type of unicorn is awesome, and I feel actual unicorns ought to be protected from capitalism (and probably from humans in general). Using the word in a business context seriously detracts from how magical unicorns actually are.
SV was against Trump, but also provided the tools that Trump used to win.
LEGO is already getting all their energy from renewables sources since last year [0]

[0]: https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2017/may/100-pe...
Thanks, I am aware of the unix philosophy but I’m not sure how bat contravenes it; it seems like you can use it non-interactively and use its output with other programs, and it performs one task (outputting files with syntax highlighting).

Am I missing something?
That 3 is the number of politicians who switched. I focus on prominent individuals because history has recorded their actions, so we can actually speak factually about their behavior.

Unless you have an exhaustive survey of individuals who switched parties, let's avoid unfounded (and likely partisan) speculation about what such a survey might say.
Wow, I had no idea. That's very disappointing.

> Page was never aware of this, and his daughter has stated that she "was relieved that my father never knew about Lego before he died.”

This leaves me with a different impression of the circumstances surrounding his death than the initial one I got from your comment, however.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mor...
britain doesnt have a 5th amendment right...
thats one of the reasons there was a little bit of a problem ~ 240 years ago

https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights

you will be sanctioned for not answering questions and later attempting to use facts related to that question for a defense
I think generics in Java works pretty well.

Should it have been there from the beginning. Yes, but it would have delayed the release of JDK 1.0.

People often complain about type erasure, but I have seen very few examples of everyday programming where it would have helped. I think type erasure was a reasonable compromise.

The only real use case I can see is value types.

You want List<int> to be backed by array of ints, not Integer objects. But there are already plans to add this to JVM, once value types are added.
I manage the React team at Facebook. Only a couple of us have been on the team since before Dan, and I don’t think anyone resents his public persona. Quite to the contrary – Dan does a great job representing us. :)
From his comment: "There was other info in the document that I don't think is newsworthy and probably is not worth releasing publicly."

He doesn't literally say it, but I think the implication is that the information is in some way sensitive or private. I suppose he could have written that sentence and it would be technically true if the "info" was like, the weather that day, but I doubt that's what he meant.
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The Surface Go is a good bargain. Costco has the best deal - 8GB version + Keyboard for $549 i believe. (plus you get the extra costco warranty)
What of the ripple effects of their investment in the research? If they are actually able to devise a sustainable alternative with the same properties, I would imagine that would have quite the applicability elsewhere.
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Which browsers are going to trust an ISP signing cert?
So I recently found this fascinating lecture on ADHD. It turns out, it’s poorly named and doesn’t really have to do with an attention deficit.

Based on what you’ve said, I recommend watching the first 20 minutes, and continuing with it if it strikes you as relevant:

https://youtu.be/YSfCdBBqNXY
“The Now Habit”.

“Power of Now” is by Eckhart Tolle.
Wow! never thought, package repo will be the new battle ground instead of dns. May be there should be a policy where if the repo is empty for and inactive for a while should be archived and not be actively hosted ?
I don't follow cryptocurrency news, but the example query of cost transferred sums is interesting. What the heck happened around July 2nd?
I believe it was mentioned, albeit somewhat indirectly:

> Commercial agendas also play a role. For example, pressure to load vessels quickly leads to more hard loading even though it risks raising the water pressure in the cargoes. And pressure to deliver the same tonnage of cargo as was loaded may discourage the crew of the vessel draining cargoes during the voyage.

If crews don't want to dump some cargo to restore balance, they surely don't plan to to ship less cargo.
This is our modern day Enron (except with people potentially dying).
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I thought Blitz in the US mostly had connotations to Football, not Nazi war tactics. Ubermensch was a nazi ideology too but no one seems to be losing their shit over Uber
I agree with your synicism. But I still think it's a good thing. It might be a insignificant amount of plastic but it's a very visible use of plastic. Plus it's one less company using plastic which raises pressure on the others.

Finally if through their research/testing they do come up with durable alternatives to plastic it's a win for us all.
1. get word embeddings from larger corpora

2. rotate embeddings space of two languages for optimal alignment, assuming frequency and neighborhoods of word embeddings are more-less the same in any language

3. iteratively minimize difference in bidirectional translations
You started the thread with an assertion that is on the same footing as my speculation.
Yeah, and that's likely why it's on HN. Or maybe someone has an agenda ;)
Nobody here is saying that monadic error handling isn't good (in case it wasn't abundantly clear, my comment was this thing that people call a "joke"). The issue is pmichalina flippantly disparaging asserts, one of the few good things left in this hell world:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/assessi...
Moonshots.

EDIT: I want a beer if you steal this Matt Levine!
Aren't mythical unicorns famous specifically for being vulnerable to capitalist hunters using pure virgins as bait?
There are counties in the US that have not heard a jury say "not guilty" for decades. Dont assume prosecutors cannot win even a very shaky case. Bargaining is the better bet.
The graphics APIs we use are often just about managing raw buffers of memory -- often different areas of memory that have different performance characteristics (Onion Bus vs Garlic Bus, yo). You simply can't do that under constraints of memory safety.

But beyond that ... "smart pointers" and the like make your program slow, because they postulate that your data is a lot of small things allocated far away from each other on the heap. I spoke about this in more depth at my Barcelona talk earlier this year.
Common Lisp doesn't use this term at the language level - nor does any other Lisp I know, except Clojure. But it shows up around the language. Like, the Metaobject Protocol. Or CLIM - the Common Lisp Interface Manager - has a whole large spec defined mostly in terms of protocols[0].

Where do protocols originate from, I don't know. Maybe Smalltalk. But I first met them in Common Lisp ecosystem.

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[0] - http://bauhh.dyndns.org:8000/clim-spec/2-5.html#_23
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Virtual DOM, one-way data flow, immutable data, and GraphQL are interesting concepts that might justify changing the way you develop. Most of the new frameworks are based on the same concepts and there isn't value to learning multiple of them.
And we know there is a lot of violent crime in Mexico
I don't think it's so much the tolerance that leads one to abuse Adderall, but rather the confidence Adderall gives you. Can't speak for other amphetamine formulations though, just Adderall IR generic brand.

I think abuse can come in two forms; intentional abuse, which is what we think of as abuse, and unintentional abuse, where during the titration period, when you first get on the medication, you titrate it too high, but this feels like the right amount. I think the latter situation happened to me due to life circumstances. The Adderall I was taking was too much in combination with the lack of sleep, because I took too many credit hours and was staying up in the library or bar studying. Diet probably was less than stellar as well.

The too much level for me as 30mg / day split into 2x 15mg morning and later afternoon / early evening. If I ever go back on Adderall (assuming I can ever find a doctor that takes new patients on medicaid and doesn't make you wait months to see them), I would take 15mg / day split into 2x 7.5mg

On a side note, recently I read something about adderall and neurotoxicity caused by some oxidation reaction, which apparently has been exhibited in very high doses in experiments. Apparently Ritalin doesn't have such neurotoxic effects according to that article. I think there was also something in there about combining ritalin with adderall, which causes the ritalin to counteract the neurotoxic effects of the adderall or something. I think it said that Adderall causes more neurotransmitter to be produced, while ritalin limits uptake of said neurotransmitter.
> but any story about the origin of the bricks should...

I see where you're coming from, but in this case the origin is there only to frame what the article is really about: the engineering challenge for the future of the bricks.

Going into the whitewashed origins of the Lego concept would distract from what the article is about.
Sometimes the thought of doing today's work really well is genuinely exciting to me.

And if not that, I feel a certain sense of "honor", for lack of a better word, in meeting my commitments and doing what I said I'd do.
Wait, why would an aggressive takedown procedure be favorable for advertisers? Advertisers just want popular videos on which they can put their ads, they don't care if the content is copyrighted or not.

Now, they probably care more about other types of censorship (for example, taking down offensive videos to avoid their brand being associated with them).
I wouldn't discount him just being more durable as a result of his build. He's 6'8" and 250lbs, which is on the more muscular side for the NBA.

I'm 6'6" and have been anywhere from 180-320lbs as an adult (currently about 290lbs), with the range being due to adding significant muscle mass as a result of weight lifting. I can tell you that I am much more durable at my current weight than I was at 180lbs. Bumps and falls that woulda hurt a lot in past just aren't a big deal any more.