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We think printed electronics allows for three key features in new products:
- Freedom in design. It used to be that electronics was about designing square rigid boards to put inside square rigid boards. That doesn't have to be the case anymore.
- Low-power applications. Printed components tend to be very low power (electrochromic displays) or to provide that little bit of power while still being flexible and printed (printed OPV, printed batteries);
- Cost feasibility in high volume. These technologies, taking advantage of printing processes already available in the printing industry, can reach price points feasible for a lot of applications where traditional electronics are not.

Lets say you have an idea to make intelligent boarding passes for airports. With Printoo, you can make a prototype using electrochromic displays to tell you how long you have before boarding and/or how far away you are from your gate. You can have printed batteries powering the system. You can have Bluetooth for positioning and synch with the servers. It's not going to look exactly like a boarding pass, but it'll be a much closer approximation than would be possible with any other proto board and it will use technologies that would make sense for that. You would most likely be able to make and code a mock intelligent boarding pass, looking reasonably good, in under an hour.

At a second stage then you could design a custom board integrating these technologies and have concept prototype that would be much closer to a true boarding pass. We want to also help people have access to the right tools for this stage.

We thought that the current existing prototyping kits didn't offer the right form-factors to prototype product concepts for things like smart wearables and the high-volume internet of things (where intelligence is added to stickers, labels, packages, and so on).

Sorry for the long reply!
It would worry me if I were Phabricator, or if I were trying to get others to buy into using it in a professional environment.
You might want to learn awk and rc before making claims about them. In particular, awk is significantly more powerful than you seem to realize, it is not analogous to sed at all. It is a specialized programming language for manipulating tabular text data.

And nobody names something new on unix rc. It is the plan 9 shell.
That's not particularly relevant because Knockout doesn't need to do diffs--it uses the observable pattern, so in most cases it knows what changes have been made the moment they are made.
Fair enough! I'll keep that in mind :)
From the sound of it this seems very similar to Capture https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/capture-quick-video-camera/i...
First RFC draft: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Looks like you can tell by the jumps in latency.

Source:
https://www.tolaris.com/2008/10/09/identifying-undersea-fibr...
I wouldn't say that a photo like [0] sucks any less than something like [1] at all. In fact the images listed on http://littlevisuals.co/ are just plain bad imho.

The only difference I see is that the images listed in this article come with 'filters' already applied. I think for most use cases this is actually a negative; I would never consider using an image like that for something serious - it comes off as really cheesy, even more-so than the shutterstock photos. At least with those I am in control of the post-processing.

[0] http://designrope.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/stock-photo...

[1] http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/637321/1...
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I often found it discouraging to contemplate how much time and energy is spent thinking and arguing about PTO (paid time off) policies. It turns everyone into a FlyerTalk forum member. Worrying about how to game the system, or prevent it from being gamed. Worrying that someone else is getting a better deal. It's a huge time and morale suck.

Sometimes I wonder how much of the problem is the "P" in PTO. When you're paid not to work, you're effectively getting a bonus -- being paid more for the time you do work. This also makes it a hot button for labor law -- if you leave with unused PTO, you need to be paid for it. Because it was never really about the time off. It was about the money.

Instead, what about simply having "UTO" -- unpaid time off? Take as much time as you need or want. Everyone will understand you're not getting something "extra" they're not getting. You're simply choosing to work somewhat less and to be paid somewhat less.

And to be clear, if an organization switched from PTO to UTO, they should give a one-time equivalent raise to make people whole.

I definitely don't claim this will resolve all the issues (humans in an organization will always find something upsetting). But wouldn't it eliminate a very big chunk of the ill will?
For starters, there should be unlimited sick days. In fact, that's the norm in most Western countries, but not in the United States.
Yes, investors _hate_ IOUs and often demand that they get wiped out before they invest. This is one of the reasons why Spolsky's advice is bad (in my opinion.)

If a founder can't live with a slightly unequal share distribution, he is probably going to be the kind of guy who measures office sizes with a ruler. You're doomed anyway.

It's probably good to avoid a hugely skewed share distribution, but if you really have to pay people different amounts of cash, the loser in that deal ought to get shares.
I had the "motives made public" line in there but moved it to the top of my comment.

Suppressing leaks of top-secret military technology is acceptable, suppressing secrets that could harm the image of the US government or individuals because they did something bad is something that shouldn't be allowed.

People must be accountable for their actions, otherwise they are cowards.
React is ie8+. I think it could be made to work on 7 fairly easily, we just didn't need it for FB so we never tested it.
The firmware can be built with what we have provided, and will run on the WRT1900AC successfully. It is true that it would lack wireless support, but that would not stop the firmware from actually working.

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-April...
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> In theory you could use React with Angular but frankly I dont see the point.

The idea of react as a better compositor for angular keeps iterating back around in my head, which makes me wonder if a sort of 'final answer' will turn out to be somewhere between the two - a $watch isn't that much different to a reactive stream if you squint, after all.
>This was brought nowhere better to the front than in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbv9L-WIu0s where they showed that the tools written because gnu tools were too big when measured in a running computer take up just as many resources.

At what time in the video does that happen? I didn't have time to watch the whole thing, but it doesn't appear that what you are suggesting was even brought up much less demonstrated?
Also the working memory and a certain willingness to sit there doing purely mental work for significant periods of time (well I guess the latter is part of 'math/engineering ability'). The working memory aspect is what makes this sub-thread not a complete digression.
Agreed. "Show him ice" is closer.
That's absolutely true, but again, my perception is that the company backing the project is very fragile.

Also the tools they produce are an order of magnitude better than their main product, which I can't wrap my head around either.
> I find it peculiar that you still imply the US government's moral authority by using the phrase at least. What gives? What makes you think the other governments are intrinsically more evil?

I didn't say anything about morality, nor about evil. As Rayiner has correctly noted more than once, in international affairs the world is ultimately a Hobbesian state of nature. Morality plays a definite but limited role --- especially when different people adhere to drastically different views of what's "moral" or "evil"(cf., e.g., Crimea), in which case the stronger side will win.

The brute fact is that a government that daintily claims to be morally "above" gathering intelligence about potential threats is one that likely won't be in power for long. By and large, the people in charge of other governments tend to know this. Apropos of that, note that the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits only unreasonable searches by the government.

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> The other governments probably don't have the tools, so they can't be at least as evil, so the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

Life isn't a snapshot, it's a movie. Other governments might not have particular tools now. If history is any guide, they will, soon enough (cf., e.g., the nuclear-weapons programs of various countries).

EDIT: BTW, I'm not the one who down-voted you.
It's not to "incentivize inventors" (you) it's to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (the US constitution).

It comes from the USPTO, for one place. It's called the "Enablement Requirement". It requires that you enable other people to make the invention.

That's where it comes from, and that's why people always bring it up.

"The purpose of the requirement that the specification describe the invention in such terms that one skilled in the art can make and use the claimed invention is to ensure that the invention is communicated to the interested public in a meaningful way."

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2164.html
Ouch, that shift back to 20% is gonna hurt them bad with drivers, and the $1 adds insult to injury.
appstore description and advertisement (ah!) post title I mean, is a total mismatch...
Are any other projects doing Summer of Code programs independent of Google?
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None of the logic in the comment you're replying to has anything at all to do with NSA, so your objection to it says more about your biases than mine.
Many years later, Colonel A.B. faced a firing squad while remembering that distant afternoon when his father came to show him ice.
Marquez pointed out that he was able to assist some political prisoners but he knew that with Castro he could only go so far.
Stock photos suck by definition. They give an unrealistic and overly edited/positioned view of reality. If you are using stock photos, you are in line with infomercials and false claims.
"Generally people act in the company's best interests"

This is exactly the reason this policy is bad. People need to act in their own interest and take vacation they need, which may not be in the company's best interest.

Your language here is a huge red flag for this policy. This policy presumes, incorrectly, that what is good the employee is good for the company. While that is sometimes true, it is often not true.

The basic premise and expectation is that people should take only as much time off as they need to remain good little not burnt out workers. That is not something I agree with.
CSP as Tony Hoare invented it specified a static set of processes where communication was also synchronization, and first-class channels didn't appear until years later -- so it's understandable where that claim came from. (AFAIK Concurrent ML was the first practical language with that feature; Wikipedia says Hoare coauthored a paper some years earlier).

As long as we're in a well-actually: in the Actors model each channel has one receiving thread. If it were that each thread has one input channel, that wouldn't keep different threads from consuming from the same channel, which is different. Also, the original papers talked about an implementation spawning threads to handle each message -- even two threads to a message, one to compute the messages sent in response and one to compute the next state to handle the next message with, etc.

More comparison of the two: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces...
> I'm mad because I can't rationalize how a company I dislike can make something of value so I'm going to make butthurt posts on HN about it.

Keep it up buddy.
tamagotchi 2.0? (a very sophisticated one)
"Simple, HTML-based AJAX"

That's perfect. I'm gonna change it now.

I love that the internet is smart.
Even if everything is immutable, sharing data between threads adds memory management overhead that isn't worth it for most objects. For GC, you have to walk the environment of every thread to free anything in the shared memory. I dunno how big of a difference that makes for fancy concurrent GCs, but for regular ones, you'd have to stop every thread during collection. For reference counting, it's a bit simpler; so long as each thread keeps its own reference count, you can decouple the reference counting from freeing and have a hybrid scheme where you "GC" the shared object heap by scanning for objects with reference counts of 0 in all threads. Still not free, though.
Take a look at Pebble Reports. It is exactly what you are describing. Although it is a Windows app, not web.
Google play web multiplayer feature unusable despite being released a year ago
As an American the phrase "chiefly freedom" sends shivers down my spine. I'm sure you don't mean it as such, but it sounds so narrow minded and "rah rah" patriotic. I wish America was "chiefly education and free thought".
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We've been doing exactly this for our antispam app, we started off with a working custom filters web app (Angularjs) which you can see at http://209.213.221.169:8080/ using text or regular expressions (the regexp has a bug in it). This also shows the query in plain english as you build the query. Original design credits for the test app to https://github.com/kindohm/knockout-query-builder/

This is the design we've come up with so far, which incorporates grouping of queries. We've tried to make it readable, but we also display the query in a sentence as you build it.
http://cdn.firetrust.com/images/misc/customfilter.jpg
(In one case, the government withdrew its gag order application after Judge Facciola invited Twitter's participation.)

...and? How did this play out in the context of the original subpoena?
> judges? What about the leaders? The people we elect into office?

Judges are appointed by the president, and confirmed by the senate[1] (I guess that means voted on by the senate after a high ranking civil servant decides they would make a good judge) so if this person disagrees with the policy of the senators, there's a good chance he's not going to get into power. The people who are in office are normally so caught up in this sort of thing that they would end their own careers by speaking out about it, or worse, be called traitors of their own country and hunted by the NSA/FBI (see Snowden). The problem is once you know about it, you're already in deep, and your head will roll if it rolls. For many people, that sacrifice is too much to make. If you have a family, you ruin their lives too remember. All your friends, parents, relatives lives will be turned upside down at the same time... Is that something you would risk and give up if you were in this position?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge
The problem is a cultural one, not a technical one.

What makes you think this community of people who work for the very companies that are being gagged, backdoored, surveilled and bribed are the ones who are going to fix it with a magic voting program? This community can't even come to a consensus to admit that Dropbox quite obviously has the hands of the Powers That Be rammed firmly into its asshole now (I apologize - maybe Condoleezza Rice had a revelation after advocating for the invasion of Iraq on false premises, and now deeply cares about the security of the world's porn backups).

Besides, I'd argue the system we have now is better, because it's hard to forge votes when you have hundreds of people across many municipalities counting votes and thinking for themselves. If you implement a national voting system in software, it would be much easier to corrupt by virtue of being centralized.
You definitely weren't banned for posting about malloc. Posts about malloc are good! But yes, the account was banned, and I just looked through the log and I can't figure out why. The IP was banned as well, which suggests to me that your account might have gotten caught by a spam filter that had previously tagged that IP. I'm sorry. We've unbanned the account, obviously.

(If it was a spam filter, I have an idea about how to fix the problem which I haven't yet had time to get to.)
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Part 2: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&...
You might look at how Wufoo's rule system works. Designed for not-very-technical users and it is pretty powerful.
Shameless, but I wrote something concerning this a while back[1] if it interests anyone.

http://www.belmarca.com/2014/02/26/mt-gox-failure-and-opport...
> The tricky part is striking a balance between usability and power.

Yeap, this is indeed the big issue. One thing that helps is to tune the UI for your specific domain so that it has just enough power to be usable in that domain, but no more. We had to build a query tool for retailers in my last gig, and tuning the UI just for retail helped a lot.

For example, make it easy to specify a BETWEEN operation in your UI if that tends to be used often, provide commonly-used domain queries as templates so your customers can learn by looking at and modifying these templates, etc.

For inspiration, you may also want to look at other products that have query building as core feature. Two that stand out to me in terms of usability are mixpanel and chart.io:
https://mixpanel.com/segmentation/ (see "Goodbye SQL" section)
http://chartio.com/product/tour (see "Drag and Drop Chart Creation")
First used phabricator as an intern, and later brought the toolset for class projects (Compilers and now thesis-work). It's been massively helpful, and like others have commented, their IRC is active and helpful.

FWIW, a friend who'd never used the tool got up and running (after a kind of messy install) in less than 2 hrs. For any other undergrads out there doing any serious project work with people, this is worth your time. I mostly use it as a personal task-manager (asana would do the job), but I like how good its command line tools are, and how I can do just about anything from terminal.
I completely agree, while at the same time I wonder if they're not being too ambitious--are there simulations like this but for simpler organisms, preferably that is open source as well? I would love to be able to just inspect and toy around with a cell and its organelles, protein production, etc, in a visual as well as programmatic way. I think that's what's missing (as in I haven't come across it) in getting me into "diy biology" as a hobbyist.
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There's a great book called Little Bets by Peter Sims:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1439170436?pc_redir=1397720852...

He demonstrates how big ideas come from making lots of little bets, which can be imprecise but begin to give shape to a solution.

Ie you start wide to get your operating field then hone in as you get more feedback or data.

So there's huge benefits in being imprecise... at the right time.
I'm sorry, but that's wishful thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojS4zGDc4JI - QWest

http://www.wired.com/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted/

Does QWEST CEO going to jail for refusing to cooperate ring any bells?
You can't submit text with a link.
Am I the only one frustrated by the seeming lack of communication and mindshare between devs working on React and those working on Web Components (polymer.js).

There's so much overlap yet I can't find a detailed comparison or discussion of the two directions. The mailing list discussions I've found the devs seem very dismissive of each others projects.
Two phrases to keep in mind: fiduciary responsibility and shareholder lawsuits... and that is assuming the government doesn't go after them.
It would make no sense to let the provider say "we're monitoring Al Capone", as this would alert Al Capone. But they're not even allowing the provider to say "certain users are subject to wiretapping at government order". On a huge service like Twitter this would not alert anyone in particular.

Even the above is not as much of a concern - but the same mechanism can silence the providere about more drastic intrusions which compromise the whole service - such as coercing private encryption keys. Lookup the whole Lavabit thing.
Corporations generally don't do civil disobedience but individuals do. The chief reason is that corporations are responsible to their shareholders and disregarding the rule of law makes for a very easy shareholder suit if profit is impacted. That's one reason that B-Corps now exist in many jurisdictions. They allow for officers and directors to avoid liability for "doing the right thing."
Power grab by Bitcoin old money. Let's put all alternate chains on SHA256 miners with two-way BTC pegs but also let's not enable generic cross-chain trading. Sigh =[
Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly?
I'm a web developer and UI/UX "adventurer". I understand the idea behind the HN's UI is simplicity and that's cool, but, sometimes too simple is too simple. I wake up every morning to HN and my eyes hurt. Let me just mention a few things I notice so you see what I mean:

1. Leverage Mobile: See HN in your mobile, can you read it to me please?

2. Padding: Look at the numbers to the left (numbers inside <td> tags, are you using a for loop? hehe), can you see they are 0 pixels from the side of the page, why? Are those numbers needed anyway? I find it difficult to read and click the article I want to read, the posts are too close!

3. With more padding and a bigger font everything should get much better to read and process, not just for mobile...

4. The colors seem old-fashion and not in a good way if you ask me but if that's the branding that's fine, just do it right. For instance, look at the top-menu, open up your browser's inspector and change the color to white, much better ah? The "active" can be something else.

5. I would underline the article links on hover, it makes it easy to see what you are clicking.

6. The gamification controls are weird. Example: 126 points by user 1 hour ago | 26 comments ... See how it looks like "user" gave 126 points to the article? What about: by user 1 hour ago | 126 points | 26 comments ?

7. Separation: Maybe enclose the articles in boxes of some kind or just throw a line between the articles, it is so close and compact...

8. Submission form: why not adding some optional WYSYWYG goodies? If the limit is 2000 characters why i have to hit submit to find that out?

9. Ah, TABLE seriously?

These are just some of my findings (2000 chars limit). I would recommend other kinds of ordering, ability to curate the listings somehow, etc, but for now let's focus in the UI/UX. I'm hereby offering my services as developer to make this happen, let me know!