skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People with Aspergers often have to turn off emotions because they are too intense, the rationality is a coping mechanism. People perceive a lack of emotion, but really it is just that it is easier to view the world as rational than it is to cope with accepting the irrationality. I say this with three psychiatrist-diagnosed (pre DSM revision) "Aspies" in my immediate family.

Feeling emotions, feeling empathy and having a sense of duty towards others are three different things. Lacking emotions would probably be considered an affective disorder or unipolar depression. Lacking empathy can be antisocial personality disorder or other personality disorders at the most extreme end. And lacking a sense of duty towards others could be anything really.

I have found that Aspies actually want to help the world, and that the hard part is actually doing the interfacing with the world. Phone calls with neutrotypical people, pretending to be extroverted enough to keep a job, trying to explain things and take people's fear response into consideration without just reducing it to a question of binaries and logic. That is the hard part.
It's a tough one, because technically I think polyvalent may actually be the most correct word by definition (albeit from a different domain), but this thread would indicate that understandability and not technical correctness is more important.

Polyglot, as has been suggested elsewhere, probably fits best even if it's very slightly inaccurate (normally pertaining specifically to multi-language use)
I've done the same. In production, I've used jQuery, Dojo, and ExtJS. On side projects, I've used React, Clojurescript, and Angular 1. I don't like any of them. I'm back to using pjax.
Strongtowns I think was my first introduction to it. Here's a good recent article on it

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/5/22/engineers-shoul...

Note his definitions are a little different than what I used, but have roughly the same point
It has been a pleasure and a privilege watching these arrogant, morally bankrupt fatcats get their just desserts.
That's what I thought. So maybe we need to work on the word flexible, and apply it to his library.
One of best forewalls, the old Sidewinders, were a BSD derivative as well. I imagine a few more showed up after McAffee acquired SCC.
Curious to know of your company's experience. Why did you lose?
What you describe about Rome seems to apply for many many European cities. Many of them seem to have "mini-downtowns" scattered about, as opposed to the downtown-in-center-and-suburbs-everywhere-else that is common in North America.
But this only supports creshal's point about computer illiterate users. If you hadn't been there to help, would your friend have been able to resolve this on his own?
A long time ago I saw how my friend writes code. Since then I started to learn how to write code too ) Live coding has something special..
Paul Graham had an essay once where he suggested the critical element was a university:

http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

Build a top-notch research university and convince a dozen of the smartest professors and a few independently-wealthy angel investors to move there, and you'll soon have a city. Because where top professors go, students will go. Where you have smart & ambitious students and adventurous money, you'll have startups. Where you have startups, you'll get jobs. And where you get jobs, you'll get cities.
Well if you scroll down to the comments section you'll see the quality of readership that site draws in.
You reported the issue 11 days ago. I'm surprised they just announced it with such a basic use case being broken. It doesn't bode well for F# as a first class citizen in their ecosystem.
Thanks a lot Peter.
I love how a famous forefather ( turned 3:16 experimenter and muser on metaphysics, etc ) suddenly throws in how he wanted to role play cheating in a hotel during the course of research in Oslo, and that was his wife's expectation if he was going to squeeze composing another book into their marriage.

It was so nonchalant it was just thrown in as if he was describing the napkin with the theory on it:

https://youtu.be/mPn2AdMH7UQ?t=5m31s

"Because we liked to have an affair in the hotel room."

"So that was the plan."
A strong brand costs so much to build, is such a valuable asset, I can't think of any commercial motive that would come close to making up for trashing the brands of the company and product like this.

So I'm going to conjecture a non-commercial motive: maybe the US government has asked Microsoft to do this to assist with surveillance. No proof, of course, but it's the only scenario I can think of in which this would make sense. The truth will probably come out someday; I'll be interested in seeing whether I was right.
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Good thoughts. Riffing off of this, you can view successful-but-dysfnuctional cities as having what is an analogue of technical debt.
You're missing akka.net there
I have to pay to not be spied on? And you think that's acceptable?
Much quicker and easier than simply forking the code and commenting out the telemetry feature :P
Cities of the future will be built for machines, not people.
Reminds me of Walt Disney's original plan for Epcot, with pedestrian-only on the surface, and trains and supply trucks underground. You can find his presentation (very Howard Stark-like) on Youtube (v=sLCHg9mUBag).
I really enjoy C:S, but even with Traffic++ the traffic simulation is pretty wonky and shouldn't be taken as reflective of reality.

But here's some advice if you're having trouble with traffic jams in your grid systems: use more one-way streets. If you've converted your city over to a 100% one-way grid and still have backups, you probably need to work on your mass transit and freight rail systems. I've made functional cities where every single road was open only to pedestrians, cyclists, and service vehicles. No cars.
Instead of paying taxes people should be forced to do mandatory community service. That will help close the wealth-gap and force wealthy people to intermix with the working class.
Negotiations are delicate things. You can't just go on TV and show all your cards. The UK has months of wrangling with Brussels now. There's nothing to say because this is how negotiations work. Anything said now could change and you'd be crying "dishonesty" later.

Jesus man, give it time. I think you have unrealistic expectations here.
I always suspected that there was probably significant overlap between users of macros and users who opted out of telemetry. Lesson learned: leaving "yes" checked from now on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11982212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980557
Something like living in a flat infested with insects, walls not properly isolated making it pretty cold in winter with the heating set on maximum so you need to sleep in a sweater and a jacket, broken electrical wiring and the lights shutting down every now and again, a mixer that could not deliver a constant temperature water stream. Loud music, smoking, a construction place less than 100 meters away. Was my reality in Stuttgart. Couldn't find anything better. Or, more to the point, I could but that would necessitate a salary of 80-90K to be able to pay back whatever expenses such a rental would incur.

I know of course that even by German standards it's a luxury. Many working people (non-IT) can only afford a room.

Sometimes I think the government really needs to step in and cap the rental prices to 1/3 of the average salary in the area. Otherwise that inflation never ends.
I think, from watching this happen in Berlin, most property investors are not looking for short gains. In Berlin I think the rent-protection laws pretty much force you to be a long term investor, if you are going to invest. I'd assume most property investors in London are also long term. As you mention, gains will be years from now. But unless the fundamentals of international capital change in those years, it's likely anyone with spare capital will find the 10 year wait on a London investment more than pays off during recovery.
Traditionally, in Europe the state saves for your retirement, and in the US you save for your retirement.

This leads to the US general population having much more savings in their disposal, enabling both bootstrapping via founder savings, and seed funding from friends, family and fools.
Doesn't that end up with tons of machines fragmented across security patch levels?
Why is this sorted by standard deviation? Shouldn't it be sorted by success/total to Indicate best place for exits?
We asked this question as a case study in interviews. It's interesting to see what people believe is most important to citizens and how they optimize around it. We found it takes a quality full stack systems engineer who can communicate people's needs and a rational large scale solution in 30 minutes.
To avoid accidents and other dangers, I'd see a mechanism where you park your car in a pod, and the pod is on rails, and it is getting routed automatically to your destination, that way even "dumb cars" could use it. There's already a system in France where you can park your car on a train, but loading/unloading isn't optimized at all, it's like loading/unloading a ferry : some batch processing. A steaming process would be more efficient

That wouldn't remove the need for ventilation and other things you mentioned if that system is underground. But it could be above the ground , on buildings 2nd floors, where the first floor would be retail stores and whatnot
Perhaps you could elaborate on the card provider or what is unique about your card.
A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing #1: the results
FYI the "City of London" is distinct from "London" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
Green arrow is an additional traffic light signal that lets right turn on red. It is usually computer controlled in big Russian cities
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The Monocle is a cosmopolitan magazine with short features on just this sort of thing.

Their journalists constantly travel around the world and evaluate schools, public services, transportation etc., publish a yearly top lists of cities etc. They've collected some of their features in books: here's their latest, "How to make a nation": https://monocle.com/film/affairs/monocle-preview-how-to-make...
Good. I'm sure everyone here has a story about someone we know whose windows machine was upgraded. Say what you want about these kinds of court cases, but real emotional distress has been inflicted on so many people by MS by doing this.
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Now that someone has downvoted me, I know it is the right choice and I must learn Postgres. Thanks for your support, folks.
The president that got elected is the candidate of the green party, which happens to be very pro-europe.

The reason those (edit: austrian) parties got the turnout they got is a consequence of years of misgovernment and corruption scandals, real and perceived, and using the european parliament and the commission as kind of "retirement"-option for politicians that need to get out of the light.

The UK already had a very favorable deal with the EU, it is not imaginable that they get a better deal than norway or switzerland, which will amount to "pay the same, have no say".

What "leave"-voters somehow didn't get: free trade, free movement of labor, unrestricted mobilitiy only go one way. So you either have british retirees living in spain for cheap, and spanish workers in britain. Or you don't.
We have removed all the weapon deployment buttons from our nuclear subs, silos, and bombers, because telemetry shows that they are typically only pressed during unit testing.

Since we only have two recorded events of someone deploying a nuclear weapon in a real-world scenario, it should be safe to relocate those buttons off the main console, and just use the auxiliary functions button, behind the kick panel, next to the row of DIP switches used for selecting the button press function. Since "reorder coffee pods" was the last auxiliary function to be added, "launch nukes" will be next, so make sure you double-check those switches before pushing, coffee drinkers!
> we can not faithfully order a mix of Real and Complex numbers

A mix of real and complex numbers is just a set of complex numbers, because every real number is a complex number. And complex numbers do not possess a total ordering: https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Complex_Numbers_cannot_be_Totally...
So is <insert other modern OS>. That doesn't mean it should be auto-installed.
RE: Those reactions from mrphs and ioerror

Apparently TOR's reputation can be utterly destroyed and result in loss of life by something as simple as a person trying to join the team. Who knew?

They claim that just by approaching them he did damage, why didn't they think of this before? Just send agents to offer to write blog posts, watch the devs flip out and revoke their keys.

Seriously, if that's all it takes, you have bigger problems.
So, a question: last time I talked to one of the Brown PLT profs making this on HN (GH contributor log makes me think ... shriram?) this worked well in Chrome, but not well or not performant enough in Firefox. Has that changed?

(Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262770)

An admiring comment: the fact you encoded into the language unit tests close to functions, which is a style choice for some in Python but not mandatory, was very cool to me.

An admiring comment: you talk about multimedia-centric must be awesome. I am language major and failed programmer many times over. I started with C++ on Solaries boxes compiling with g++ over SSH; I was one of the few who started using Linux, not Unix mind you, in Poli Sci school so it was not so bad for me as everyone who would use VS and msvcc, forget to check g++ builds, and lose points (I still did miserably). When I saw samples where you have stdlib tools for integrating into things like Google Docs and Dropbox, I thought wow; these kids are going to learn to make stuff so early, and that is so liberating.

And finally, an obnoxious comment: as a Lisp wheeny, I wish Racket and its toolkit was fast enough, as one of the few who bought Conrad's book and never got around to really amazing Scheme usage.

Still, this is wonderful work. The idea of people building such full environments in JS, stacked on top of transpilers and compilers, is amazing to me as a novice. Not that it's possible, but that it works at all. Every time Pyret comes up, I smile.

Aaarr, keep hacking matey!

UPDATE: Add my previous Q&A and with shriram. You Brown PLT and Racket people are so approachable and smart, damn you !(He says ironically while shaking his fist.)
>>> it's the first version of .NET that can build self-contained apps

I tried it - it puts 50MB of DLLs beside the "HelloWorld" executable in a subdirectory (on Ubuntu 16.04).

It's like shipping the entire Java runtime with every app.
I don't know what item #2 means (armature prefabrication?) but Singapore is an ideal Asian city. Especially #6—Singapore is so proud of their public housing that they included an image of an HDB building on their $10 bill.
> SF is where the money is.

Agreed, but once you have the money, execute in a place I describe above.

Most tech startups don't make it so why not use the extra capital (because rent is much lower) as insurance to succeed.

I have worked in numerous places throughout the US. My most successful venture has been to licence my tech to a commercial company. I live in a small town and travel around the world each year for fun. Its a nice pace of life. I visit some friends in San Fran and find the talent there honestly not that great. Sure, there are lots of good programmers but you need a lot more than good programmers to succeed.
Why? What do the gain from independence from Westminster that they wouldn't have to give up by rejoining the EU?
And that's exactly what we'll probably see here – 2/3 majority call for a general election. Just read the current headlines.
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not mentioned in the video: conway got the idea for surreal numbers by playing and studying go.
See another of my posts about road vs street definitions. Note that a lot of suburban wide streets are built that way to meet fire codes written to accommodate overly-large trucks. A suburban town doesn't need giant trucks where smaller, cheaper, more maneuverable trucks can do the work. Combined with ubiquitous hydrants - which have disappeared from many US suburban subdivisions - they are more than enough fire safety for anything under 4 stories. Regulations to accommodate these huge trucks have helped ruin the human scale of streets in many places. Also note that existing old cities have become a lot more safe by using superior materials, installing sprinkler system, etc etc.
So assault...using a firearm.
"Workers in 1915 were sometimes required to work too much and other times too little; factory-worker hours could be shortened from one day to the next, leaving workers with a severely reduced paycheck. "

The life of your service workforce today with fluctuating, uncertain hours. I don't completely agree with the economics behind fight for $15, but I salute them that they found balls to organize and demand better working conditions and wages.
The "XP situation" was not because Win7 sucked. Win7 has always been considered a successful and better upgrade to WinXP. I think you are thinking of Vista.
Which is precisely my point -- you might want to look at how the regimes like those in charge of Kazakhstan and China operate. In particular, as to how they "leverage" their populations complying with these grand futuristic visions.

Not to mention the... ironic outcomes of some of these spectacular initiatives:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-18646243
I think there is a case to be made that unit tests can live inside the file under test; integration tests can live outside of it.

Also, mocks are arguably a test-code-smell side effect of too little isolation: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2014/test-isolation-...

In my Elixir one-page code experiments, I put the unit test in the same file after the code under test. It makes sure the test only runs when the file is loaded a certain way: https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets/
MVC 6's name is now also ASP.NET Core MVC 1.x.x. It's really a version number reset. The confusing thing is that it's not plugged through everywhere and people interchange the two regularly.
But Scotland doesn't have its own legacy currency. There's no need/excuse for a phase out period.
These are some of the things that come to mind:

- Prioritise streets for walking / light autonomous electric vehicle use

- Build underground streets or lanes that are designed for an autonomous delivery network. Getting rid of trucks and other large vehicles from the ground level road network will greatly easy congestion

- Zone for indoor / vertical farms for delivery to local stores

- Mix residential and commercial zones to allow for short commute times for residents

- Metro to speed up longer trips within the city

Utopian, yes. Impossible, no.
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Yeah I'm interested in this as well, and cannot find the information anywhere...
agreed. I went there on a tour one time, it was amazing.
> Why do you think so many people choose to drive their own car, when given the choice?

It's just anecdotal, but in my experience most of the people I know who live in places where having a car is an actually choice don't own them at all, i.e. people who live and work in city centers.

Due to the US's terrible public transportation infrastructure, however, that's not a real choice in most places. If you want to work, you or someone in your household is going to need a car and it's going to eat up an uncomfortable portion of your income.
> There is already precedent for criminalizing dissent -- Turkey, for example,

No need to reach so far. New York just made it illegal to advocate boycotting Israel[0].

[0] http://www.salon.com/2016/06/05/ny_gov_cuomo_signing_unconst...
Changing the way cars function inside the city is only part of what would need to change. Near me things just aren't laid out well for pedestrians. It would take me about an hour to walk to the nearest grocery store (not counting corner stores, because all they sell is junk food). Biking should be much shorter, though I can't say I've ever tried. We would need to stop the trend of having a small number of large stores and move back towards having a large number of smaller stores. That comes with it's own trade offs in planning an efficient city.

The other thing worth mentioning is that bikes/pedestrians can go anywhere cars can, but the opposite is not true. If we made streets that were "bike only" cars wouldn't be able to access them. Cars are on a pedestal not only because of convenience and speed, but because they're the lowest common denominator.
Cars underground is a great idea but you'd need to find a way to make GPS work, especially since GPS is necessary for autonomous cars which are obviously a thing of the future.
It's easy for Facebook to say, here's our actual engagement numbers because we have (nearly) perfect tracking! But from an outsider's perspective, say a journalist or a hedge fund bro, it's difficult to perform any truly rigorous analysis involving these unobservable behaviors. So people come up with proxies - Google Trends, polls, or if you're truly adventurous, credit card spend information. [1]

Anyways, using products like Google Trends is worth a shot if only because there's few substitutes to imperfect information.

[1]: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-capitalone-insidertrad...
pjax doesn't get enough love on HN :) Recently I got to use a pjax clone called smoothstate which splits up the pjax change event in just the right places to get fancy transitions going. Really enjoying it too!

Smoothstate: https://github.com/miguel-perez/smoothState.js

You can see how i used it at http://zviwaldman.com when you click any link.
it is self serving on both ways.

There's tons of ways they can make windows 7 continue to be safe. But pushing out w10 is easier/cheaper/more profitable for them.
Although this can be good for privacy, it breaks the GitHub web code editor copy and paste function.
I dont see mandatory updates as a bad thing per se. I think ideally it would be a way to allow users that wants to use older versions to pay a fee to do that (Basically to cover the maintenance service due to keep patching legacy versions). I think its understandable that MS dont want to keep investing in phased out software.
This 'feature' comes at the expense of both.
Two years ago we moved our startup from LA to Austin and I’m glad we did
> A lot of people find this amplification very very useful (parents with children, elderly, people who buy in bulk, etc, etc).

Speaking as someone who has children and bicycles with them I find that other peoples' "very very useful" tool is something that detracts from my quality of life and prevents us from doing things that we value and prioritize.

Obviously there needs to be a balance between these two extremes: On the one hand we have the current situation where you are subsidized to drive your brood of 18 to the Bulk Mall of America and on the other lies my set of preferences which involves the distribution of goods to local outlets by a smaller number of trained drivers/robots.
I could be wrong, but I think this is what you are looking for. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnUpdateOnASPNETCore10RC2.aspx
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