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> Is the way he describes intensely feeling others emotions normal?

I would also like to know. I feel for people, but I don't usually feel with people. I sympathize often, but rarely to I empathize with anything but the more mundane. It's worse the more extreme the emotion. I'll "feel" more for someone describing an annoyance I share than for someone that explains their parent just passed. I'll feel bad for the person, but in a very detached way. This may be a defense mechanism.

The signals I now picked up about what my fellow humans were feeling overwhelmed me. They seemed scared, alarmed, worried and even greedy. ... As exciting as my new sensory ability was, it cost me customers at work, when I felt them looking at me with contempt. It spoiled friendships when I saw teasing in a different and nastier light. It even ruined memories when I realized that people I remembered as funny were really making fun of me.

To me, the article reads as if his newfound ability to sense emotion was very poorly calibrated, at least initially. Or I'm just not seeing signals other people see. I don't find it likely that a customer would stare at you with contempt, that your friends teasing would be nasty, that people are making fun of you. Then again, if I'm mostly blind to these things, then my perception of how often they happen could be way off.

> Granted, I've also practice stoicisim and mindfulness, which explicitly trains you to not worry about things like someone insulting you (or hearing a comment that might be construed as insulting).

So have I, but not under any specific plan. It's more are trying to have a detached view of the best outcome of my actions. For example, I usually forego the idea of justice for the sake of punishment, when it may also negatively impacts me, and isn't likely to reduce the problem behavior later. Such as responding to bad or annoying drivers. Letting them know their mistake is fine, but making sure they are aware how much they pissed me off (even if it's a lot) is something I strive to avoid in most cases. I figure if they know they screwed up, they'll either feel bad or not, and me pressing the issue won't change that for the better (indignation at perceived overreaction seems to override shame).

> But, I've wondered if something is going on. When I was younger, before learning to read people, I read descriptions of Aspergers and it sounded much like me. Now when I read them it sounds not very much like me, because a significant component of those symptom descriptions involve poor social skills.

I feel the same way. I also had a hard time reading situation when younger, and Aspergers has always seemed like it might fit, at least somewhat. For me, social interactions are almost never frictionless, and take non-trivial effort. I feel I get by well, sometimes better than those around me, but mainly because I had to train myself to that point. I find myself not wanting to be around people as much because I don't want to waste the brainpower in layering the correct context over their words (even if it's automatic now, it's still taxing).
What if you've only very rarely seen a real steeple? I thought of a hand drawn one but almost every steeple I've ever seen was a hand drawn picture in a book.
>The only caveat is that direct consumers of the API often don't behave like regular public users, and that may put a strain on the system and degrade performance for everyone, causing real problems and the need to spend real money to fix if you still want to allow unfettered public use.

I believe that sites can implement technical measures to "enforce" a fairly normal request profile. Third-party consumers will have to comply with that because it will be technically impossible not to do so. Beyond that, there is no need for a legal method to address access. If the data source is concerned about said consumers going through a code path that is more intense on the backend, they will accommodate with a lighter API. :)
this is non-sense. you can find contact info in the newsletter footer most of the times.
Sure - but I think it's always been the expectation that Uber/Lyft/Sidecar before it went bellyup were participating in the sharing economy only as a stopgap until autonomous cars are available.

With Airbnb, I don't think anyone expects them to pivot into owning their own property. There's no real benefit.
Uber's (differential) advantage is not so much in labor organization, but rather, in having already built out a customer network and having solved all the logistical and (passenger-side) UX problems that are specific to this kind of application -- how to store, retrieve, and exploit the data, what UX decisions make the app easier to use, how to manage support, etc.

Other entrants (Tesla or Mercedes) will have to reinvent this wheel and have to market themselves and get users to download/use yet another app that does the same thing.

Personally, I think the right move for Tesla/Mercedes is to just rent out SDCs and focus on their core business rather than expand out into a different one they're new to.

(That's not an advantage against Lyft, of course.)
Hm? Stitch Fix is selling clothes, not software. This is just their engineering blog.
This (s/autistic/stupid/) is how I met one of my best lifelong friends in my first week of junior high.
And you've spent 2x the effort that you would've had you not written the test in the first place.

My initial comment was meant to be a statement about the relative chance that you're solving the wrong problem vs. solving the problem wrong. Prototypes help you identify that you're solving the wrong problem, unit tests help you identify if you're solving the problem wrong. In the beginning of a project, you are much, much more likely to be solving the wrong problem than solving the problem wrong. Go ensure that the system works end-to-end and solves the user's needs before you make it bulletproof.
Sqlite has a really nice solution for this, by the way. Their code is public domain. If you happen to live in a place that doesn't have a well formed notion of public domain and that's going to cause you a problem (SQLite's never gonna come after you, but maybe your own government will?), for 6 grand the sqlite guys will sell you an sqlite licence that is basically just a well formed concept of public domain, and then use the money to fund more sqlite development.

https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
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Thank you. No difference worth making is precisely why I didn't make it.
Using person experience with light, I know there are times when I have to turn down the brightness of my laptop because it hurts to look at it, and their are times when I wish it could be made brighter because even at max it is hard to see. The former times happen at night when I have other lights off (and I hear the doctor telling me I shouldn't use my laptop like that) and the latter times happen in the day when the sunlight is very bright.

So to hear that someone who was in the dark is blinded by the light is not surprising.

But, it does sound like there was a second factor, which is that he also saw a greater ugliness in people that he hadn't seen before. It sounds like he had a sense of naivety that hadn't been seen before.

So really, this is less like walking out of a dark room into bright sunlight and more like walking out of a dark room into sunlight illuminating a tragic accident.
The key difference is that the tax code and the ACA cover very large surface areas of which only a subset applies to any one player. FAR is largely applicable to any vendor, regardless of contract size, and requires onerous documentation at every step.
According to Rayiner, a paperclip won't unbend itself. Now, maybe sometimes it will, other times it won't if it's been subjected to the right historical stimulus.

I'm also not really sure how you can suggest the historical hardships that Korean Americans faced weren't a lot worse than black Americans. Korea was dirt poor (think worst part of Africa levels) since forever, then a war, then refugees into the racist US. Post WW2 Filipinos and post-Vietnam war Vietnamese have a very similar story.

So tell me; why again is Rayiners "nothing ever unbends itself" story remotely plausible?
Based on the fact that the policy held for the duration of my classmate's stay, I'm guessing that he did implement a policy forcibly preventing flash drive use. But the whole time he was a thorn in everyone's side, maybe because he didn't try to explain himself adequately (or maybe because the military is too burnt out on mandatory training to pay attention). So after he left they probably "fixed" the systems to allow flash drives again.
HN isn't the place for strident political rants, so please don't post them here.

Thoughtful conversation is what we're going for. It's possible to have that about inflammatory topics, but it requires a conscious effort at respecting those with opposing views and meeting them where they are. That's not always easy—especially when others appear wrong and disingenuous—but if you can't do it, it's best not to comment until you can.
One thing about the context switching comes to mind as I was reviewing this post a day later. I am capable of being very good at vi(m)'s commands when using vi(m). When I need to ssh into a headless server to deploy or modify a text file, I just immediately use vi. When I try to use a vi emulation layer (VsVim, Evil Mode) I choke, because I inevitably use a set of keystrokes native to that application but do not work in command mode. Just more evidence towards my claim the benefits of a text editor can only be realized if you try to pile in as much as you can.
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The community. As a user and potential contributor, I need that.

Also I am sounding like a downer... I'm sorry about that. My strong opinions can often be too much, and I get that because they might sound negative. I am saying the things as a long time Slack user that gave up.
At the time that I posted, there were only a handful in this thread, too. Besides, there's no objective indicator of 'interestingness' or a rule that states that all discussion must be interesting, or have a minimum length in order to qualify as such.
The way most people get around this is by compiling a setup package that downloads the binaries.
Fuzzy-logic rice cookers are a luxury (online they range in price from $50 to more than $700), but the awe mine inspires nearly matches the quality of the rice.

Is there any inherent reason that "fuzzy-logic" rice cookers are a luxury item? I'd think that the increased cost of manufacture over a simple mechanical rice cooker would be minimal. Is it more difficult than it seems? Is the market for cheap smart rice cookers too small for anyone to bother?
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Alphabet/Google is making an attempt with Nest. There is an entire "Nest works with" page that shows a variety of different IoT devices that use Nest as sort of a base station I believe. I would link the page but I'm on mobile. Not saying this will be the standard, but it seems like Nest is taking a shot at it.
Full-time freelance audiobook editor? I didn't realize that was a position. What exactly does this entail and how did you get started with it?
It really depends on how much they want you, and how you negotiate. I recently changed jobs. I ended up getting multiple offers, and for all but 1 of them, they were willing to wait 3 weeks for me to make a decision. I was very upfront about that if they were not, I wasn't interested in them, however.
For me the beauty of org-mode is I get to write in a feature rich markup language and then export to almost any format my heathen non-emacs using colleagues desire.

Oh, and tables. Having what is basically a spreadsheet that I can manipulate without ever touching my trackpad is a serious win.

Sadly, I doubt these features will ever be available outside of emacs. Org-mode probably deserves it's own app.
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This isn't surprising to me at all. Investors that previously valued the stock at $19 per share likely have a 1X liquidation preference. The employees' shares sold on the secondary market won't have this liquidation preference. So VCs are paying a 34% premium to basically guarantee a 1X return. Makes total sense.
My favorite section in that book is when the Skunk Works guys trucked their stealth fighter prototype out to Edwards AFB for radar cross section testing. They stuck it up on a pole and then the AF guys in a radar van lit it up. And they could see it on radar just fine, and the Lockheed engineers were mystified, and the AF guys were giving them a hard time... until the vulture that had been perched on the prototype flew away and left nothing behind.
Technically, I said nothing about eating them.
tremendously interested, for many reasons - general knowledge, personal empathy, and for many friends and family.

Is there any good, reliable source of information on the treatment described? If it started in 2008, I'm surprised I have not seen it mentioned more recently. Are results as reliably dramatic as described?

Many thanks for joining the discussion - much appreciated :-)
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Something tells me this can't possibly end well.
I'm so glad that this test shows me to not be autistic. Of course my wife will point out how bogus is this test since clearly I am autistic.
I can make tasty bread without a bread machine, too, but there's a place for bread machines. Experts appreciate the convenience of not having to be right there on the spot to take anything off the stove (or out of the oven) and novices appreciate that it's really hard to mess up.
Her TED talk on autism was freaking amazing. Go to about 2 minutes in, and she has a great explanation.

http://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_...

If you'd prefer not to watch it, let me try to explain. For this test, I think of an abstract church-y building (I dunno .. maybe like the size of an old schoolhouse), and then think of a small tower with something pointy on top.

When Temple describes it (see her TED talk(s), seriously!), she talks about how, in contrast, she (and frequently other autistic people) imagine a VERY concrete steeple. Concrete as in, you an describe that it's iron on top of brick, with a wooden border along the bottom. You can describe the pattern of ironwork, the guy holding a wheelbarrow on its weathervane, the color of the paint, and the fact that it's been bent from when some local teens

NONE of those things are in my first imagined visual image of "steeple". Sure, I can make that kind of thing up, but my natural inclination is not to do so, and I don't remember any specific images of steeples. In contrast, Temple first imagines that complex image of a Specific Thing (often a memory of a specific one she has seen) instead of the abstracted image.
In my former job, we did the same.

About splitting: It is at least in Moses/Rafm a big problem to have many people working on the same model. It seems like TW has never heard something about version control systems, and their newest team edition is a big joke...
Very interesting. I suspect that Toyota is a similar result of a visionary leader. I want to believe there's some way to get the benefits of both approaches at scale, but I have yet to see an example.

Do you have anything you'd suggest I read to get a better understanding of the current Japanese situation? Most of my knowledge is about historic Toyota, which I'm sure gives me a distorted view.
While I understand that the conservatism the author refers to might be detrimental to the individual working alone, in a team environment it is actually an advantage. The module the team member is working on is likely a dependency for some other team, and any test-breaking refactoring---however beneficial it might seem---needs to be conscientiously approached and coordinated with other people. There may be very good reasons not to pursue refactoring at the moment, reasons that an individual narrowly focused on the module at hand might not be aware of.
Reading the UN declaration of 1948 helps to put things in perspective. It hangs on my wall.
I think they were referring to back-end part of a application or complete applications that end up as a back-end piece (SQL, HTTP server, etc) of a more user facing application. This is generally where the amount of state easily manageable and well defined.

Front end testing is much harder as you have quite a bit of state you need to manage, and things like "Is this button visible to a user" are hard for a computer to answer as for a computer you need to render the entire page, then use machine vision to look for the button and verify the text is a readable size (not a cheap operation). In the front end, you can't get away with only rendering part of it, since anything could trigger a modal/overlay, or cause some z-order/clipping/scaling issue.
Notice all the hand-waving in the article about mathematics. Mathematics proper, as in the derivation of theorems from axioms by means of proof, was discovered by the Greeks, and unless the residents of Benin City, or the Maya, or any other non-Western society that biased academics seek to rehabilitate were similarly deriving theorems from axioms by means of proof as did Euclid, speaking of their supposed mathematical prowess is extremely disingenuous and misleading.
Really? I've never seen that feature--I know you can have your own local tracks stored on device, but as far as I can tell, those don't carry over if, for example, you're using Spotify Connect.
Yeah, isn't logic where you put the correct conditions defined as "sound" logic? Where does the fuzziness come in?
Depending on how you work, that can be worthwhile, but I usually find I get more useful information quickly by making the decisions that make implementation easiest, getting something up on the screen that I can react to as a user (or put in front of a real user), and then seeing where that initial proof of concept falls short. In general, I've found that pushing off decisions until I have as much information as I can tends to result in better decisions.
> cultural segregation, justice, etc, but you probably don't care about those things, so I won't waste my time

Is this an ad hom?
We actually started building the app before Electron was released. They had just made the split to atom-shell and brightray.

Once Electron got it's footing, we migrated there. It's also easier for us to contribute upstream patches for things like touch events. (We launched swipe-to-archive a couple weeks ago.)

Atom is lagging behind Electron. It's still running on Electron v0.34.5 which was shipped in November of last year. They're trying to keep up, but the community of folks around Electron is growing fast.

If you're based in SF and interested in this, you should definitely check out the Bay Area Electron User Group: http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Electron-User-Group/
For one, it only tests what people say and they answer only what they think they were thought. Secondly, imagining an image doesn't preclude parallel abstract thought.
I mean, Zojirushi isn't passing the code out for free to anyone who wants to manufacture a rice cooker, right?
And I didn't say that the doer always deserves the credit. As an example, who deserves more credit for the success of Apple, Steve Wozniak or Steve Jobs? Wozniak created the Apple I and most of the Apple II. But clearly Jobs' ideas built the current company.

However these cases are the exception, not the rule. As a rule ideas are cheap, implementations are hard. And success has more to do with iterating on the implementation than the starting ideas.
What I meant was that since sitting down all the time is bad, then not doing that is good. So, avoiding sitting down all the time is good (which means you will stand some of the time).
Standard for you means that we live under rocks? Obviously if it's standard we must be clueless. Nice way of phrasing it.
No way. The NIH is strong.
The main benefit of rice cookers is that it does its own thing, while you can cook the rest of the meal. This requires interaction.
I wonder if people like Anna moving in also felt the same guilt that the author of this piece does?

Should they have felt "guilty" because racist whites fled en masse, terrified at the prospect of living next to someone of their skin color?

I don't think so.
Even with a throwaway, isn't that enough info for Amazon to identify you and possibly take punitive action? I understand that Amazon is big, but without adding a certain fudge factor or range to all the numbers, then I would think it's possible to identify a person.
Your "sic" is gratuitous; it's being hyphenated because it's being used attributively/as an adjective.

I guess you could describe the rice cooker as "taking a much larger number of inputs than a traditional rice cooker" but that doesn't seem to work as a marketing slogan as well as "fuzzy logic."
That's like saying RT.com is unbiased when it doesn't involve Russia, which is very much not the case.
Care to share some recipes you use? Or where to find them online.
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