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The problem that I have with Lego isn't the cost of them, the price-per-brick or whatever. The problem is that when I go to Target or someplace to just buy a big tub of generic bricks--like I grew up with--I instead see an aisle packed full of special-use packages. I don't want Harry Potter or Pirates of the Carribean or super-specialized Technics...I just want a big gallon of assorted, simple bricks.

Seriously, it's like Lego has somehow turned into the same microframework hell that Javascript has--hundreds of toolkits, all useless outside of their niche.
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Yo guys - FWIW, dang is only one letter away from NSAdg...
love tensegrity! I'm working on a springy tensegrity bar stool.
My experience: I never had allergy issues, but after moving across the country (Alberta to Ontario), I started having a terrible time in spring and summer. I read that eating local honey can help, so I introduced it into my regular diet and since the next year I haven't needed antihistamines since. It could be a placebo effect, but I think it is worth a shot. The experience has made me much more sympathetic of people suffering allergies, I wish you luck finding relief.
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Show HN: Image Jar – mobile first, fast image hosting
I made this as a spinoff form DropJar (http://dropjar.com) to allow users to easily share galleries of photos, What’s different from current image hosting sites ?

imgjar gives a near native experience on mobiles and touch pads as it automatically downloads the photos at the resolution which is compatible with the device used and it allows touch and swipe user controls. It also replicates the user photos to 3 different servers at least (more usually) and works on blazing fast SSD servers.
Technologies used on the backend , Nodejs, Aerospike, redis, swift storage, graphicsmagick.
Python bindings for the Socrata Open Data API
Do you have a photo of your face in roughly the same pose for comparison? Also, why does the nose look so faceted?
I would argue that in the western world, especially the US, corporate power and the deep state are intertwined for their mutual benefit. Separation as radical as you describe is unlikely due to the force each exerts over the other.

In other words, no way would the US government let Apple play nation state or otherwise shift the bulk of its loyalty elsewhere.

That said, the notion of Elysium-style humanoid robots resolving modern regional conflicts on behalf of Apple is an appealing one. No longer would violent extremists have to suffer the indignity of being put down by conventional means. Instead, they would have the priviledge of being destroyed by the pinnacle of sleek, elegant industrial design.

As far as AGI, if done properly it may resolve such things peacefully. Sadly, that would mean no robotic Apple armies.
I saw Vytas' presentation at the NIAC symposium a few weeks ago, and as someone whose only previous exposure to tensegrity systems was the typical outsider's view of its use in architecture and toys, I have to say that his robots are damn cool. I'll post a link to the video after I get out of the meeting I have in a few minutes, if no one beats me to it. If you haven't seen this stuff it's worth seeing just for the cool factor alone.

I agree with you that one of the most difficult things about tensegrity structures is predicting their behaviour under stress and failure - and since behaviour under exactly those circumstances is also one of the main strengths of the concept, that kinda sucks. It's like trying to sell a car which gets better gas mileage, but you can't really predict how much. Better but unpredictably better can be a hard sell and especially bad when trying to optimize a plan for.

I see a lot of parallels between the concept of tensegrity and certain concepts of resilient design of complex software. In both cases, testing (and having good test cases) is a vital component of testing. In both cases, even with testing it is hard to have a good predictive model of failure, because at a certain level the complexity of test cases can start to compete with the design itself.

What I see as the really cool thing about what Vytas is doing, is the addition of controls (e.g. motors etc) to tensegrity structures. This only adds to the complexity when it comes to testing, because now there are many more variables. However, if this is a huge issue, it is theoretically possible to set the controls in such a way that it actually reduces the space of possible behaviours, and thus makes analysis more tractable. Of course, I think it's much cooler to go the other way and make the darn things do crazy stuff, but it all depends upon what you need out of a design. It's somewhat the same issue with a robotic arm: it can move in so many ways, sometimes the easy or safest way to do a job is to restrict the possibilities (like not letting it move into a danger zone). But making it dance is more fun!
Absolutely it works. I've been doing acquisition marketing for close to 10 years with 200+ million downloads/sign-ups/purchases etc to my name. If it didn't work I wouldn't have much of a job.

Before going down this process you should know how much a developer sign-up worth to you. You can always buy growth, but you need to know if you can buy growth profitably. Generally look to get a short term value plus a life-time value calculate ROMI. It wont be accurate but do the best you can.

Between Google and FB, I've found Google search is the regular winner but the ROI gap is narrowing these days. There's some good hacks you can use to access your audience cheaply if you get creative. I would recommend you trial display as if done well this could provide better results than search (where most companies go first).

There's a pertinent quote for new products: "A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster."

Make sure your monitoring not just sign-ups, but how long people stick around etc.

Best of luck.
I guess I am confused then about the statement that "[Seniors 85+ are] only about 0.8% more likely to kill an occupant of another vehicle or a non-motorist, over the course of a year." Through some sort of statistical interpretation.
To make this really interesting, have you thought about making plugins/addons for, say, SalesForce/WHMCS/ZenDesk? A plugin there could easily allow this thing to skyrocket.
I have the same "problem". I am interested in everything ... and I also want to get the bottom of everything.

But there is no speed limit! Don't hold back from doing a deep dive into each thing in turn. Promise yourself to do each subject justice, don't use your broad interests as an excuse to become bored quickly and remain shallow.

I have found that many of my weaknesses (like this one) are also strengths. This one is obvious - it leads toward becoming a generalist. Broad interests are a powerful thing to wield, if you don't let them become an inability to focus. One important thing that comes with generalization is the ability to apply lessons from one domain to another.
Thanks! Just finished it. Great insights here.
I think Community was more making a comment about how Lego has become less generic and more based on marketing. You could say this correlates to less creativity in favor of recreating existing properties. The bits about smaller pieces and brand tie-ins line up with the changes mentioned in the article (more pieces per set, more brand specific sets).
I too thought that the 'Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents' sounded like it was situated in the 'Derek Zoolander School for Kids Who Can't Read Good.' I had to skip the rest of the press release and go straight to the White Paper.
Somewhat unlikely. Latex is in LOTS of stuff you might not think about - like bath mats, baloons, etc. Even duct tape contains latex. Anything containing natural rubber.
What I think you're saying is "everything that's wrong with poker" is exactly what I find makes poker great.

So much incomplete information combined with luck obscures the best strategy. If it weren't for these traits, it's likely poker would have been relegated to the likes of checkers by now. Solved and not fun for competent players.

The luck keeps people coming back.

Anyway, I can't agree with what you're saying, which is really just an opinion.
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Ask HN: What would you use to build a Tinder back end?
Starting a side project to play around with some new tech stacks. Recommendations please on what will be best to build the recommendation algorithms for Tinder?
While regex could replace the conditional check in the "initial" (string-only) implementation to allow for degenerate nucleotide matching, it would certainly not speed it up there.

Additionally, I'm not sure how you'd intend to do the exhaustive alignment checks / scoring with a regex. (I want to find all sequences that match my 20-mer with an identity score of at least 14/20 --- what's my well-formed regex for that? There are 38,760 different ways to choose 14 of 20 nucleotides.)

Plus, there's the added overhead of having to come up with a well-formed regex to begin with. :)
Roadway bus or network bus? The former would be rather surprising considering the existence of both stomachs and airplanes.
Not out of the box, no. Sonar makes use of Twilio in the back-end to provide all the front-end functionality that you see.

As for porting your phone number over... a quick search found this:
https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/phone-numbers/i-already-have...

Feel free to send me an email: vishal@sendsonar.com.
This depends on how you define "duplicate". I said "copycat", meaning the plethora of follow-up stories that invariably appear when something big happens that don't include any new information, but either report on what has already been reported or are garden-variety commentary. Obviously, HN's front page doesn't have room for all of those. If you think that there aren't many of them, we must be working with different data.

It's true that during the initial period there were major revelations coming out every few days. But I was talking about later.
That's an interesting analogy with nuclear weapons, but I think there's an important difference. Nuclear weapons have a deterrent effect. That's why the American first possession meant that nuclear weapons would never be used to their full potential.

There won't be any deterrent effect with tools that remain secret and unattributable after they are used. We've already seen that NSA dominance isn't going to lead to a truce in the style of the Cold War. For example, see the Chinese NSA counterparts who were recently indicted in the US, or the suspected Russians who can't be rooted out of the State Department network. The fact that the NSA is (probably) better at that kind of mayhem didn't stop them.

I fear the invention of electronic warfare will be more like the introduction of firearms than of nuclear weapons.
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As someone who was diagnosed with ADD at age 10 and eventually discovered my own ways of beating it, I'll share a few ideas. But note that what works for me, or someone else, may not work for you and you'll have to slough through things to find your own fix.

Band-aids:

- Caffeine (tea is best since it's like an XR version of coffee)

- Testing for any vitamin/mineral deficiencies that may be causing tiredness that's displaying as an inability to focus, like low iron or b-vitamins (just examples, go see your doctor)

More longer-term solutions:

- Read "Getting Things Done" and re-read it until you internalize it

- Use an app like OmniFocus to organize to-dos and give yourself a sense of achievement/little adrenaline rush when you complete something (especially small things, like make bed, read 25 pages of book, one homework assignment, etc)

- Change your study habits: turn off your phone and put it in the drawer, disconnect from the Internet if possible, relocate to a different location where there are fewer distractions (coffee shop, library, etc), give yourself small blocks of time to study (after all, work expands to fit the time allocated)

Longest-term solution:

- Gain enough life experience, self-awareness, and fear of failing out of school that you eventually figure out what works for you.

Hope that helps!
I would think 7-10 year as a MAX to ensure that they could profit.
Open plan is a relatively recent trend[1], ergo it cannot reflect an "institutional habit". Again with the poor reasoning.

One thing the Cornell study highlights is how engineers have a class bias in favor of maximum individual productivity. That is how they are rewarded. It would follow that there would be many "thousands" of comments in favor of private offices. Where these seem to fall flat is in explaining why management nonetheless build open plan offices that optimize for team collaboration, e.g. ascribing it to "greed" or "habit" or "architecture firm conspiracy" -- that is where the logic errors arise.

[1] It is also a very old trend historically, but in the tech sector it is a recent trend following cubes and offices.
Hipster sexuality. We should have seen it coming, nothing to see here.
It's a merge commit, so naturally it's going to have a huge diff even if the actual work was done in much smaller increments.
So if you want to avoid trusting trust, you need to audit not only a C compiler and the source code for the Go compiler you plan on using, but also every past Go compiler as well?
Out of curiosity, what exactly are the other fields that top people would enter? Are you thinking of finance, law, or medicine, or something else?
Here's my real point. I believe, and I'm not alone, that the 0.08 limit is unnecessarily and arbitrarily low, and has more to do with neo-temperance hysteria than sound judgment.

There is a central divide in alcohol use and an individual's response to it. Barring young people inexperienced with alcohol (and lacking a fully developed frontal lobe), most people drink a bit, feel tipsy, and then decide that they need to sober up. They're self-aware, responsible, and careful. That's their response to alcohol.

But another segment of people have a completely different response to alcohol. They have a couple of drinks, feel a sense of euphoria, and want to drink and drink and drink some more. These people are alcoholics. They may be very high-functioning — able to hold down a job and all — but they respond both physically and psychologically in a fundamentally different way.

The first group might get behind the wheel, if they judge that they feel alright, and drive home as carefully as they can. The second group — now drunk — will get behind the wheel and drive recklessly, exceeding the speed limit, blasting the radio, taking turns too fast and so forth. The first group might be at BAC 0.05 or 0.08, or even at 0.10, but taking all due precautions. It's not ideal, but it's a far cry from the second group, now at 0.15 or 0.2 or 0.3 (which takes some practice as you know, since unpracticed drunks would be passed out at this BAC), who are now whipping down the road. The first group occasionally has "too much to drink." The second group is blasted every Friday and Saturday night, and sometimes every happy hour.

It's this second group that is causing the lion's share of the tragedies we see on the roadways. The shame of it is that our whole culture has to suffer because of this. A person who is no real threat to his fellows and who may very well be guilty of no other infraction at the time can have his life ruined by over-zealous prosecution.

I think we would do well to reconsider the problem and what we're tying to solve, rather than simply getting MAD(D) about such things and patting ourselves on the back for making things "tougher," year after year.
"banks and other financial institutions" don't use Gmail. They already have email signing and verification in outlook / ms exchange and it's using s/mime and their internal certificate chain. Same applies to pretty much any corporation outside of finance.

Regarding why gmail doesn't have signing support - you've got 2 options really. Signing on the client side, where gmail doesn't know about the encryption and you have to provide your own browser extension which does it - this is already available. And signing on the server side, which probably nobody ever wants to do, because it means handing over your private keys to gmail.
SP, FP, and PC are all still there. What we did was make the conventions more uniform across all architectures. The rules for certain corner cases for when SP and PC were references to the virtual register and when they were references to the real register were inconsistent. As part of having a single assembly parser, we made the rules consistent, which meant eliminating some forms that were accepted on only a subset of systems, or that had different meanings on different systems.

I'm a little surprised you brought that post up to begin with. It completely misses the point, as I explained in my comment here at the time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990). When I wrote that response I also submitted a comment on the blog itself with a link to the HN comment. That blog comment has not yet been published. If you're going to keep sending around links to such an inflammatory blog post, could you also try to get my comment there approved?

Thanks.
> If there is an effect of 'minimizing awareness' at work, I don't think the effect is very large.

You're assuming most HNers a) move past the first page b) search for submissions, or c) frequent /newcomments. My counter-assumption would be that is not true for a majority of users.
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I thought we already knew that allergies can be activated by exposure and existing allergies can be exacerbated by repeated, intermittent, exposure; what this suggests that is new is that peanut allergies can be prevented by early and continuous exposure (I think that there is already information that at least some allergies that are already formed can be mitigated by continuous exposure, as well.)

What's "missing"?
I recently paid a visit to one of Ivies for a postdoc interview and a group of professors there were discussing the study that this article refers to. They all believed that "cream rises to the top" wasn't sufficient to explain the studies findings, and acknowledged that there are biases built into the academic job search that go beyond selecting for raw talent. Completely anecdotal of course, but it was still striking to me to see how dissatisfied they seemed with the selection process that they (as tenured professors at one of Iviest of Ivies) were the gatekeepers of.
To continue - I had awful allergies of the same type (spring being the absolute worst) growing up and was basically non-functional without Allegra or some other similar drug. I went to Ranger School when I was 22 and we weren't allowed to take any kind of drugs throughout the entire course. So for 3 months I had no access to any kind of my usual meds to ward off the usual misery. For the first 2 weeks it was hell (among other reasons) but then it was like my body just quit being allergic.

Haven't needed anything since, though I'm definitely not suggesting Ranger School as a cure for hay fever.
Quite interesting however the portraits really have almost no resemblance to the subjects.

Yeah they look kinda "similar" but virtually every facial feature other than base racial feature is incorrect. All of the renderings attempt to pretty much render a racially correct "grey face" which can pretty much fit almost anyone.

Everything else from the shape and position of the eyes, nose bridge, cheekbones, lips etc. doesn't match the real photographs.

I really hope that this doesn't reach law enforcement because those sketches will fit every "average" person in their respective racial group, and it even seem to get the ethnic group wrong in at least 1 out of the 3 renderings...
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Police and prosecutors are incredibly hard to sue. There are some good arguments for why that is, but there are also alternatives to making them immune from suits, like bonding them, which would enable price signals regarding overly aggressive prosecutors.
This conflates two different things. You effectively get root-level access if you are allowed to execute Docker, that is true. But things running in Docker does not have to be given root-level access - you can just as well run things inside Docker as a regular user.

I'm not an unprivileged user on any machine I operate in any practical sense, nor are most Linux desktop users, so to me that point is largely moot. That is, even if I'm technically not root most of the time, if I run a malicious app it can relatively easily set up plenty of traps in my home directory to get me to run whatever code it want with elevated privileges sooner or later anyway. So from the outside, having the ability to run Docker does not expose me much more - get my user account, and chances are you get root if you're not completely inept.

That doesn't mean it wouldn't be good to get a better/more fine grained privilege model for Docker for other use cases.

Inside Docker containers, nothing stops us from having everything run as a regular user, though admittedly many Docker containers errs and runs everything as root often for no good reason (especially given that Docker's port forwarding/mapping means a lot of daemons that otherwise at least wants to start as root - even if it could be avoided - have even less reason to be started as root)

But even running as root, assuming an app that isn't malicious, barring me stupidly mounting "/" to a volume in the container, it won't e.g. do things like accidentally deleting [major system directory] (as some app did a while back), even if the app in the container is running as root (which is largely unnecessary, though admittedly done too often, in Docker containers).

It also won't barf files all over my filesystem for no good reason. And I won't accidentally expose ports I don't want to expose. Amongst many other things
Thanks for the feedback! We'll keep the idea of executing code in an article in mind.
Crystalline III-V channels can be grown epitaxially on silicon substrates, with buffer layers to grade the strain due to crystal lattice mismatch. With silicon wafers heading to 450mm diameter the economics would argue against native III-V substrates.

One advantage of native III-V substrates is they are semi-insulating (very high resistivity) so there is no need for transistor isolation wells. However, insulated substrates could be obtained on silicon by means of wafer bonding with an intermediate dielectric layer.
Because he automatically translated all the code using a tool.
In my opinion, software elements in a claim should be treated as means-plus-function claims.

I'm not sold on ending the Federal Circuit. It would just lead to forum shopping and arbitraging circuit splits. That would only increase litigation due to uncertainty.

I'll have to read the EFFs white paper to see why they feel this way. But IMO the Fed circuit + SCOTUS keeping them honest really works.