skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TDD is not going to be a good fit for GUI development unless the application design specifically avoids the "smart UI".
Because the article's author states "as I started implementing a GUI, the tests got harder to write", I'd assume his UI is indeed "smart".
BBC is really a great source of unbiased new when UK is not involved in the story.
My understanding is procurement is and remains broken because there are entrenched powers who benefit greatly from that situation. It is working as designed by the people who wrote the rules, bringing great profit to the intended recipients. No change of the system will be allowed that threatens this property.
However scientifically sound it is I wonder how much sense it really makes to lump together all ASD the way we do; how much does the author of this piece really have in common with nonverbal autistic people, for instance?
For US products, it depends on where it's made and what it is. Most American-branded stuff is made elsewhere (China usually), so that's not really "American". For stuff actually made in the USA, a lot of times it is high quality; if the company were going for lowest cost, they wouldn't make it in the US to begin with. However, this isn't so true of cars still. American cars have gotten better, but they're still not as good as Japanese cars for the most part (Ford is probably the best of the bunch though, Chrysler is probably the worst). But then you have to consider what they're competing against: Japanese and European cars, which are both places with high labor rates and excellent engineering. If your choice was between an American car from GM or Ford, or a Chinese car from Cherry or an Indian car from Tata, obviously the American car is the best choice. So it's all relative.

As for "Japanese" stuff, that's true: there's a bunch of Japanese-branded stuff that's made in China, and it's definitely not of the quality of Japanese-made stuff of yesteryear.
And the absolute winner of a function of telling it what time you want the rice or oatmeal to be ready -- it will figure it out from there. Have oatmeal ready in the morning or rice ready in the evening when I walk in the door, it's incredible.
I agree with EdwardMSmith, it's probably a virus. However, if you're still curious (which I am), I would open it inside a cordoned off virtual box just to make sure.
Some sort of fishing.
Rats, I was planning on zapping myself this weekend.
The human species has a long way to go.
The author seems to have foreseen that response and gone to pains to point out gratuitous bureaucracy, such as the requirement to wait almost a year to bring new medical staff on to combat the ebola epidemic.
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Do you use linux on it? I'm considering this, but I'm wary of the hardware support.
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What is it then? I would have used the same description (I don't mean to be insensitive, but I don't really see why autism doesn't fall in that category).
I'm not really convinced that "autism" in the broad sense is a thing. It seems primarily to be "social retardation not otherwise specified" at the early end of the spectrum and full "mental retardation not otherwise specified", including inability to speak or read, at the late end. I believe that unfortunately, simple intelligence is placed on the early end of the spectrum, and that it's not a defect that requires treatment. It's just a normal variation.
Ditto... the first half of the article was eerily similar; and it makes you ponder some of the very same questions (including, is ignorance bliss?)
Well, I imagine an entire article could have been written about just that but he had to work within the constraints of the piece to convey a multi-year odyssey. I'd guess that was a summary of what his wife said and not the whole discussion.
I thought you could distribute OpenJDK freely.
i've witnessed the same internal hire negotiation imbalance at another company. you're definitely right, external hires have more leverage.
The radio isn't the problem.

The router manufacturers [for end consumer units] found the cheapest route to be locking out open source. That doesn't magically get rid of wifi cards on linux/bsd
Have suggestions or ideas for more examples? Let me know!
I'm not an Amazonian, but I wanted to chime in here to say I think this thread is a great idea and I would love to see more like it.

I write about salary negotiation and coach people through it, and I think sharing salaries publicly will encourage more people to negotiate and get paid what they're worth.

I recently coached a new Amazon employee, and he got a very good offer, which he increased by about 15% using VERY simple negotiation tactics that we discussed. If he hadn't negotiated, he would've still been paid well, but would have left 15% on the table before he was even in the door.

I submitted this link yesterday—it's a Salary Negotiation workshop I did for developers in Orlando last week. It's definitely relevant to this conversation:

EDIT: Here's a direct link to the Salary Negotiation workshop summary to save you a click: http://bit.ly/21zFG5q

Here's the HN submission for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11305683

(Not sure why I originally linked to an HN submission linking to the workshop. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Nice job starting this thread!
Wait, now we don't need a rice cooker, or a stove?

I can throw rice and water into my rice cooker, go grocery shopping, come back 90 minutes later, and have perfect rice nice and hot, waiting for me.

I don't see the point of all the minimalism. It's a tool, an almost perfectly refined one. I can afford it, it has lasted 15 years and running, is energy efficient, and small enough.

Good on you if you want to dedicate an inordinate amount of your life energy to making rice, I guess?
Is that Brian Griffin's new book?
Actually not in this case, as Amazon doesn't provide cost of living adjustments. Location isn't factored into pay amount.
I agree with the swizzling preference.

I wonder if they can go around the Apple issue by using something like https://github.com/UrbanApps/UAObfuscatedString to generate the "UIWebBrowserView" string.

static NSString browserViewClassName = Obfuscate.U.I.W.e.b.B.r.o.w.s.e.r.V.i.e.w;

- (UIView *)hackishlyFoundBrowserView {
UIScrollView *scrollView = self.scrollView;

UIView *browserView = nil;
for (UIView *subview in scrollView.subviews) {
if ([NSStringFromClass([subview class]) hasPrefix:browserViewClassName]) {
browserView = subview;
break;
}
}
return browserView;
}

This generates the "UIWebBrowserView" string at runtime which may get around Apple's checks.
I bought this microwave rice cooker at TJ Maxx, that was marketed by Jamie Oliver for awhile.

Love the thing. It has ridges in the ceramic to mark the measurements. I put in the rice, fill to the line with water, microwave for 5 minutes, let stand for 10, and boom, perfect rice.

I tend to use that thing more than my rice cooker, it's easier to clean.
When I was a kid, I was frustrated by the absence of an RTS or city-building game set in sub-Saharan Africa. I continue to be annoyed by this.
The author's life was radically changed by a procedure that runs a magnet over his brain. It appears to have induced a severe bout of depression and anxiety that negatively impacted his performance at work and cost him 2 marriages. He seems to believe that this "treatment" worked, though the empirical evidence would hardly suggest that. Does he believe that he was reading emotions instead of descending into anxious paranoia just because the doctors told him the first thing is what would happen? The unfortunate thing here is that doctors have probably recorded his case as a success.

I've found that the emotions we read out of people are often exaggerated from their true thoughts. It's easy to feel like there's some harsh judgment occurring when, in fact, there isn't. Someone should've told the author this, and not to take his new "emotional superpower" too seriously.
Definitely not calling you irrational - I really was just curious. I actually find your analysis pretty straight on. I realize now that part of the reason I like Coffeescript is because I like the way it looks! I'm more of a hobbyist, and haven't really had time to keep up with the latest developments in JavaScript, but I do understand a lot of the original reasons for CS may have been covered by the latest ES6.

Anyways, I do appreciate the response.
Good Products Start with Good Questions
We've used this one for years — great results, zero problems:

http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NS-TGC10-Cooker-Warmer-Stain...
This article is about you.
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Yeah, I am from the industry as well. We just keep piling on more machines for Prophet, with pretty nasty runtimes.

But you know whats harder? Splitsing development between actuaries and programmers
As far as I can tell this article is just a bunch of ways that a "nonshared environment" is in fact a "nonshared environment" followed by some reckons.
Okay, now tell your SO or a friend or roommate to make the day's rice.

Rice cooking isn't terribly difficult, but a good rice cooker makes a very regular part of my meals something that is routine to prepare. And more importantly for me, makes it something that anyone can prepare, without supervision or trial and error.

Plus, there are a few other benefits: a good keep warm function that can keep rice in a pretty decent state for hours on end, timers, can cook brown rice unattended, lowering/increasing heat as needed, etc.

If you only eat rice once or twice a week, the counterspace a good rice cooker takes up probably isn't worth it. But if rice is a daily process? Then yeah, for me, a good rice cooker pays for itself pretty rapidly.
> Well, SV isn't exactly perfect, but it's one of the few places where capabilities are more important than credentials.

And also factors that have nothing to do with capability like how much you have in common with the other employees at startups.
The person in the article wasn't growing pot. They had a joint on them and were stopped by the cops. You're trying to escalate it but the point is they did something that we now consider not wrong, served their time, but are still being punished for it.
Machines making decisions due to our own man made complexity, wonder when this will become the norm for all facets of government, until the machines create their own massive complexity making it even more difficult for humans thus we end up completely relying on them.
Known bug unfortunately. It's related to how we paginate DB queries for the threadlist to make it super fast to scroll through. Hoping to fix it in the next few weeks!
I mentioned this below, but I don't think location matters because Amazon doesn't provide cost of living adjustments. Location obviously matters from the individual's perspective, but from the company perspective it isn't factored into compensation.
Remember anytime your see a study that treats autism as a disease rather than a round file of conditions it's bogus.
I might start by ending programs to divert public funds to investors and pretend it's fixing the education system, if it were me.
Do you mean that he's overseeing the entire series? Each of the five installments that are up right now were written by different authors.
IIRC, the general rationale behind the 451 RFC was that this provides a means for a third party to communicate that they are censoring the content, presumably begrudgingly.

So, in the case at hand, GitHub is using 451 to communicate that a government censor has required that they take some content down, not that the company itself has decided to remove the data of its own volition.
Absolutely wonderful book, but in no way does Charlie, a just-above-mentally-retarded adult, remind me of a business owner, married with children, who falls somewhere on the Autism spectrum.

I mean, seriously, Charlie undergoes a beyond belief transformation as a result of his medical intervention, and later...(won't spoil it, read the book), while the person in the linked article has an emotional awakening of sorts, which itself could have very likely been influenced by a midlife crisis and general dissatisfaction in a marriage to a chronically depressed spouse.
The author talks about fuzzy logic as being probabilistic and having to do with natural language, and that fuzzy logic is "the kind of logic we most often use here at FiveThirtyEight." However, the rice cooker is not probabilistic at all, and takes discrete input (not natural language):

> In my current fuzzy-logic [sic.] cooker, however, I tell the machine what kind of rice I’m using [white or brown] and how long it has been soaking [a decimal value]. It takes that [discrete] information and decides what temperature it should reach, and for how long. Generally using what are essentially if/then statements, [emphasis mine] it can fine-tune the process.

Anna, what is your reader supposed to think when your only example doesn't meet the requirements you set out for it yourself? It is especially alarming here since the thing you're trying to illustrate is the way your organization thinks.

> “Fuzzy theory is wrong — wrong and pernicious,” Kahan said. “The danger of fuzzy theory is that it will encourage the sort of imprecise thinking that brought us to so much trouble.”
Difficult to get that sandwich into your mouth through the space helmet.
Could you elaborate on who benefits from a poor procurement system? Does it benefit them in that in conforms to their ideology, or does it do so tangibly? I'm familiar with people being in favor of government being cumbersome, but I can't picture how someone within government who has the power to effect this change would support this.

Edit: 'this' in the last sentence ambiguously refers to the nauseatingly lengthy and tedious process currently in place.
At the low end of functioning, autism is most certainly an illness. There are ASD people with no ability to speak, repetitive behaviors, and comorbidity with other illnesses (such as gastrointestinal issues).

While I respect the desire to not stigmatize those who can function with some adjustments (on both their part and those of society's), it is imprecise to suggest that no ASD person has mental illness. To do so seems counter-productive, since it makes many people dismiss your legitimate concerns.
That's how I currently pronounce "Buddha". This now makes me question how I pronounce "Buddha"...
It's possible that Uber & Daimler are no longer completely separate companies, right? One of them could now have a significant stake in the other.
Topic is regarding Venezuela shutting down for a week since they can't cope with basic needs. Questioning factory working conditions is quite on-topic.
I cook for more than myself, but it isn't a "large" family. I don't cook rice every day, but it is probably 90% of the days on which I cook. (Other household members typically prefer to cook other starches.) I often store rice in the fridge. I find that pouring some water with refrigerated rice into a glass bowl, covering, and nuking for two minutes restores it to an edible and tasty state. I have never cared to eat rice on four consecutive days, although when I lived in Asia and in Hawai'i that was often the case.

I think we have a rice cooker in the back of some cupboard, and I certainly have at least one more in storage. I rarely need more than four burners on the stove at one time, so it's just easier to use the pot that's already hanging next to it rather than taking up valuable counter space and electric outlets with a single-purpose appliance. YMMV.
It's interesting, or perhaps sad, how ripe for abuse this is. Funnel billions of dollars into a black box that then results in some amount of "stuff" being delivered to various places. The fact that they are using a system so complex that humans can't individually understand it means there's not really any accountability.

Maybe a few years from now, we'll be seeing the developers working on Watson deciding to retire to private islands at the age of 40.
I think he was talking about the Minecraft server software not being able to be distributed pre-compiled. Not the runtime environment.

I could have misread it though.
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Possibly interesting: https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython
My Group Text Is Driving Me Crazy
Support the change, retire from government, get a cushy job on the board of some defense contractor.

Edit:

To support what I say check out Raytheon's board of directors[1], maybe a third of them retired from the military, worked from the DoD, and one guy was the principal White House foreign policy advisor to President George W. Bush.

[1]http://investor.raytheon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84193&p=irol-go...
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=autism+abstract+thinkin...
Isn't that what you want in traditional logic? Could you elaborate?
Thanks for the post. I'm a big fan of coveralls (I use it to collate the simplecov reports from 20 CircleCI instances), and I was wondering about the downtime.
Let's say you have one big contenteditable, so there's only one field, and it's pointless to have "previous," "next", and "done" buttons. Or just any situation where you don't think the user needs to be able to switch left and right and can tap instead. Or situations where you want to make your own UI instead of using the default Safari UI.
Life or SLT business? Then I'm truly impressed. Any links?

P&C on the backend is imho a few orders of magnitude simpler (although I enjoy the statistics there more). 30 to 50 year complex contracts and then try to manage your market risks.

Edit: sorry, you mentioned the name. Nice idea! I guess you are so far away from traditional products you actually stand a chance. (For readers from other sectors: Market is cut throat and multiline insurera have lower capital requirements so new monoline in Europe is practically impossible.) You'll have contracts running for hours, not decades ;)
Spectra like size? Are there zero meter tall buildings, Prof. Smartypants?
The Evergreen Aviation Museum near Portland, OR has an SR-71, surely the most beautiful aircraft ever designed. It's worth the short drive if you're in the area. Those engineers were badass and didn't even use those new-fangled digital computers.

This museum also has the Spruce Goose, by the way.
> I eventually decided to learn how to read body language. I did some training to recognize expressions, focused on one skill at a time, and viewed every conversation as practice.

That's doing with intellect, what most people do naturally and subconsciously. This is how an Aspie learns social skills, using intellect to cover up a natural deficiency.

> When I was younger, before learning to read people, I read descriptions of Aspergers and it sounded much like me.

It likely is you; neuro-typical people don't have to "learn" how to read people, it's innate.
True but I find behavior during the hiring process to be a useful indicator. Purely anecdotal of course but I dissuaded my partner from taking a job because I felt that they did not negotiate in good faith. There was some resentment until I was vindicated several years later when said company was fined millions for fraud.
I've also seen ones that don't offer even that; they just block it outright.
What does it mean to “double one key”?
Apple absolutely needs to comply with the FBI's request.

And then give the same capabilities to the governments of every country they do business in.

Our politicians might actually fight for our interests in digital privacy/security if theirs is directly threatened by the governments of China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

If our government needs this to do lawful search and seizure, so do all these others.

I'm tired of our gov acting like they're above reproach and somehow more deserving than any other naive government. History has shown they can't protect us from terrorists 100% of the time, and it shouldn't come at the expense of our civil liberties - at the expense of the principles and detracting from the identity of what makes us American. They can't even protect the information of people who elect to share their privacy with the gov (OPM breach/leak of which I was a victim). They shouldn't have the ability to violate the security of [realistically] billions of phones. It's absurdly overreaching and a massive abuse of the authority we "give" them.

Caveat: Not complying and this other plan of action would both upset stockholders.
It isn't, but it's hard for outsiders compare that pay to their local pay. Ex: if you are making that in SF, then that's different than making it in Billings, MT, or remote.

So for example, that seems about right for Portland, OR.

Additionally, you don't mention how many total years of experience you have which would also let people compare. Ex: 2 years of total experience (straight out of college) vs 2 years at amazon, and 10 years elsewhere.
Oh I know. There's always many sides to these stories. I don't feel bad about it other than in an abstract modern moral way, it's history.

But the number of times something from the 18th-20th centuries like this comes up and you find out it was our ancestors...

I sometimes wonder whether this'll be the same reaction Americans will have in 200 years time. Things always look better when justified in the moral context of their time.
I mean that the author has an arrogant attitude about humanity as a whole, believing that all members are capable of doing more than soon-to-be automated tasks.
The Buddha that can be pronounced correctly is not the real Buddha.
Getting something back is positive, losing something is negative. Negative is obviously more dramatic than positive.
Xdg-app is feature-complete
When I am making a grocery list, I often walked around the store in my head, and check the various sections against the stuff in the fridge and pantry.

You are saying you don't visualize locations you are not at when navigating, organizing things, or trying to remember where you last left something?
I think I have a solution to this: taxes on cities where the jobs are, levied by cities where people live.

If a city wants to have people working there (to run the local businesses: restaurants, etc.), but is so expensive that those people cannot afford to live near their workplaces, and the city refuses to do zoning to support lower-income housing, then the cities where the poorer people live should be able to levy taxes on the cities where those residents work, to help pay for all the transportation issues. Obviously, the federal (or maybe state) government would have to enact this legislation.

This will create a big incentive for cities to do better zoning, and if they refuse, then they'll be transferring a lot of wealth from their own residents (in the form of property and sales taxes) to the places where their lower-level workers live.
We can only hope, at least those decision chains can be audited.
A bit of history helps to understand why vi(m) operates in this fashion. Vi was first released in 1976 as the visual editor to the ex line editor. The networks were very fast in that time period, so it helped to "load up" on commands before you submitted them to gain as much productivity as you could:

"Joy explained that the terse, single character commands and the ability to type ahead of the display were a result of the slow 300 baud modem he used when developing the software and that he wanted to be productive when the screen was painting slower than he could think."

Taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi

An example to me, of how something pragmatic (wanted to avoid round trips) took on a life of its own.
I agree. It's one of the things I always change on a new Mac or OSX install.