skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kids often share autistic traits with their parents. The parents are either diagnosable themselves or very nearly so.

My son is the third or fourth generation to be likely-diagnosable, for example.

Currently-middle-aged parents without intellectual disability had almost zero chance of being diagnosed as children, because when we were kids autism was defined such that you usually had to be nonverbal or intellectually disabled to qualify.

A very commonly-reported experience is for parents to be diagnosed after their children are diagnosed.
Give it a few more years.
It sounds like a good track to be on.
This can't be entirely surprising given that Apple has lost it's focus on the desktop, and Windows is Adobe's, by far, largest platform. There was probably a lot of incentivization for this from MS as well.
Changes to Trusted Root Certificates in MacOS Sierra + iOS 10
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> Stack Overflow's usefulness applies mostly for novices

I can understand this belief in that the most prominent content on the site is that which gets the most upvotes, and by statistical necessity the number of novices voting must be greater than the number of experts voting.

But when you get into the niche topics or tags, that's when the expertise really comes through. Try browsing the [scala] or [haskell] tags, they may not have a giant community, but the general level of both questions and answers hardly fits your generalization of "novice".

If we were just talking about the "hot questions" of the month (http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month) I could understand why it would seem the site is mostly useful for novices, but there is definitely a place for expertise in the community as well.
How hot does this get? If I just put this in a putty-epoxy will I "cook" it?

Edit: Can I also use this as 2FA for SSH/Desktop login on my Arch install? I've never done 2FA but I've always wanted to.
Traffic Fake, Audience Numbers Garbage, Noone Knows How Many People See Anything
Isn't this a classic case of 927?
The browsers will distrust the CA. Which will, in all likelyhood, lead to their bankruptcy.
DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields (2011)
I hope 'new Microsoft' continues to embrace open source and cross-platform - I'm very impressed and never would have imagined this direction a decade ago, either
> As reported in the article, a patient who over the course of a week became unable to walk at all without shortness of breath. Her doctor told her to lose weight. The cause of the shortness of breath was blood clots on the lungs.

What some docs seem not to have learned is to ask the first question you learn to consider in tech support (and medicine is, in a sense, tech support for the human body) -- "what's changed?".

Unless the patient had a sudden and rapid change of weight that corresponds to the symptoms occurring, even if it is something whose onset was brought on by weight over time (or just made more likely by weight), its probably not the weight itself directly causing the symptoms, and if you don't properly diagnose the cause, you have no idea if losing weight is an appropriate remedy, irrelevant to the symptoms at hand, or something likely to cause changes in the body which exacerbate those symptoms.
The extension can P2P with other instances of itself in other browsers and share data.
A long time ago we used to obsess over the SEI/CMM (Capability Maturity Model), where a software organization is inspected and rated on a level from 1 (chaos, cat herding) to 5 (managed, optimizing).

Managers would read papers about the CMM and declare that they wanted to be a Level 5 organization, causing insane amounts of busywork and document generation and overall grief to realize that their underlying business processes were hopelessly in the way of any positive change.

So then the goal went from "Level 5 or Bust!" to "Okay, let's try to get to 3" and then later "Um, can we make Level 2?" Then everyone just gave up. There were only a handful of shops that ever made 5 and stayed there, the Space Shuttle engineers being the most famous example[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Merge commits don't break bisect. People who submit pull requests that don't build, run, and pass tests at every commit break bisect. Rebasing doesn't fix that problem.

Don't build a series of commits where a later one fixes an earlier one; organize them into a logical series of changes, such that the project works after each commit.
The site breaks on safari for iPad. iOS 9.2
It comes from the aperiodic structure of real numbers (that is a weird and wrong expression but I cannot find a better way to explain it). Nonrational real numbers are inherently chaotic as seen from the inside (even rational numbers might be seen as such).

Real numbers are weird. Totally.

Also the fact that you are defining something depending on convergence makes it even weirder, as limits do not tend to commute with anything unless smooth conditions take place. And for these fractals, there is no smoothness near the "border".
I agree with you mostly.

Not with the anti-skeuomorphism tirade however. That is pure propaganda.

Anti-skeuomorphism picked up momentum only after Apple's iOS7 update -- around the time when Tim Cook took over and Apple (and its fanboys) moved away from purpose-inspired design to selling 'flat and clean' (supposedly purpose-oriented) design.

Whether it was good or bad move for them eventually is another subject altogether.
* GOOGL

They are called Alphabet Inc. now.
I started working on a web based renderer for the burning ship fractal a little while ago. It's far from perfect, I still consider it a WIP, but it works well enough to play around with: http://stevenmcdonald.github.io/fractals/burning_ship/
I am in awe of your complete lack of empathy for other humans, and your ability to be so completely self righteous while dismissing their struggles.
It has happened; just look at how the computer manufacturers consolidated when off-shore production took the bottom out of that market.

Really, anytime a major player has cash on hand, they're going to buy out competition, either through acquisition or buying an equivalent product. When Oracle had liquid assets, they buy Sun. ATT and Verizon consolidated the cell phone market down to ATT and Verizon (and even attempt to merge down one step further). DeBeers buys every diamond producer on the market.
Weight gain cannot occur without consuming excess calories. Your body cannot defy physics. Your body cannot create energy out of thin air.
I have not seen any evidence that Asperger Syndrome or mild autism leads to well-paid occupations. For sure, there is some anecdotal evidence (which I find unconvincing), but I haven't come across anything more solid, like a research paper or study. If you've seen something along those lines, please post a link.

I do believe that children with Asperger Syndrome often see the symptoms grow less severe as they age. Perhaps with lots of hard work and a good support structure, some of them people grow to enjoy above average success. It seems entirely unreasonable (and to my mind somewhat cruel) to credit this success to Asperger Syndrome itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
Can you expand on that? I'm curious
After spending some time with an individual that has autism, I feel like there's an underlying process to 'normal' cognition that spans a gamut from Schizophrenia to Autism. A shaky metaphor to the neurology might be how equivalent logic circuits can be made from corollary gates. It's as if one condition skews toward signal powered gates vs source powered gates. I.e. more concrete vs 'out there'... Just a quick thought.
The genius who grows tiny brains in a lab
Just an FYI, the scroll-hacking on the home page doesn't work with arrow key or hotkey based scrolling (for example, vimium or vimperator extensions for j/k key scrolling) - obviously a small subset of users, but I know a lot of non-dev users that use arrow keys or page up/down to scroll on web pages too.
Not using Twitter.
That's still rather small. For scale here is some of the shuttle's engines for comparison. http://guard-lee.com/img/SpaceShuttleAtlantis.ssme.JPG

Ed: This test is probably ~1/3 scale.
> But they would very likely just sell more tickets, as their 3rd class was now the best in the business.

IMO, you're simply begging the question by presuming that 2nd class won't be cannibalized.

We're also forgetting that one can't simply increase ticket supply, because trains and airlines are capital constrained once you run out of seats. At best, you can hope to charge more for 3rd-class tickets, at the expense of having cheaper, or empty, or fewer 2nd-class seats.

Even if a company manages to raise price of 3rd-class tickets, they face both a 1) lower effective subsidy from 2nd class and 2) the cost of providing 3rd-class amenities. Which effect dominates very well depends on the relative preferences of 2nd and 3rd-class buyers.

The sweet spot is to find an inconvenience that only affects 3rd-class ticket-holders a little bit, but annoys 2nd-class ticket-holders a lot.

The Eurostar is a good example of that -- most people aren't inconvenienced too much by being told their flight time 2 days in advance (so depresses economy ticket prices only slightly), but deep-pocketed business travelers find it completely unacceptable (which shifts effective demand to the business seats).
I think the impact is huge. For a small fish like me who is managing websites close to high 2 digits in number, it is saving us over $500/Year already. Not to mention how easy it is depending on the OS and tools [0] that you can use. On that note, we just donated to LetsEncrypt. Thank you for what you do.

[0] https://certbot.eff.org/

[1] https://features.cpanel.net/topic/provide-support-for-lets-e...
Chrome uses OS CA store. But, it has 'Removal of Trust' cluase which expects CA store to follow some guidelines. Starcom might be in covered in that guideline. So, blacklisting a CA store is possible.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-poli...
I've been using Pale Moon for a few years now and really like it. Faster than Firefox, many of the obnoxious elements of the new UI pared down or stripped out, and binary-compatible with almost all Firefox extensions. Give it a shot and see if you like it.
If you're saying it could be the autistic behavior is learned rather than genetic, then I agree, you'd need a twin study to rule that out conclusively. However, when people say "the autism epidemic is environmental" they usually mean vaccines or chemicals or something, not "learned from the parents."

Despite the quantity of autism research, most of it is quite bad and not that helpful on questions like this.
On the less straw-man extreme, we also make alcoholics stop drinking before giving them organ transplants, and smokers have to quit before receiving a lung transplant. Medical care is a finite resource, especially in countries where it's publicly funded. We prioritize people who don't destroy their bodies because it's more likely that we'll diagnose them correctly and that a treatment will be successful. The article talks about people who have e.g. joint pain, which is almost certainly caused by their continuous obesity, rather than something like diabetes, which won't go away if they lose weight.

> Your needlessly weird comments about equipment betray your bias

What are you talking about? Did you even read the article? That's where I got those examples from.

> your implicit belief that everyone who has a weight issue can do something about it

You caught me; I believe in conservation of energy.

> this line of thinking runs looks pretty awful when applied to other medical conditions.

You clearly aren't familiar with how medicine actually works. Prioritization and triage are unfortunate facts of life.
The examples could have been better.

486dx/sx anyone? Here the maths coprocessor was not wired up in the budget version. Yield had as much to do this as marketing.

Lame Teslas. If you want auto drive and to use all those battery cells then pay extra. The mass production can be extra efficient plus upsells are possible as the customer can pay for the upgrade later.

1000 hour light bulb. The cartel of lightbulbs required bulbs to last a lot less. Worse product, more repeat sales, rigged market.

The smaller chocolate bar. To hit a price point, e.g. a dollar/pound/euro the product can be made worse or smaller.

The cheap board game. Times have changed, people play a board game once and it goes in the bin. Before TV the product would have been played year round and passed on to the next generation. There is no need to build a product to that standard any more.

Patents expire too, this means products get worse.

Changing laws. Imagine that you can no longer use bright food colours, the product gets worse.

This article didn't address anything I didn't know of and made no mention of what is obvious.
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http://www.workrave.org/
The CTRL-U is just the HTML part of the page. Not the CSS, images, or the other stuff.
I'd take any study based on IBD data with a large pinch of salt before applying to the general population.

Anything that improves the state of the colon for a person with IBD/Crohn's/UC will cause a massive weight change. A few years back I had 30 cm of small intestine removed and promptly gained 20 kg in two months (which was a very good thing for me then). That obviously won't happen to someone normal.
Ahh, fantastic. I just tried out the new build. It's a real joy to be able to do things like `rg pattern -g '!{docs,tests}/' -tpy` and have it just work. Honestly, all performance aside, your thoughtful choice of command line options is the big selling point for me. I struggle to find the command line flags I need to make `ag` do just what I want, but `rg` seems to fit my expectations without much training.
In theory you want to support a group of people that are blatantly racist, provide terrible service, and are create a noisy, stressful environment?

This is actually one of most convincing pro-Uber comments I've ever seen.
Part of the job in creating a console is to appeal to 3rd party devs though, you can't put the blame on them. It's likely that since the ps1 had a huge user base it was just a safe bet to develop for the ps2 over the Dreamcast. And I guess you can argue that Nintendo had dropped the ball at this point, but Sega hadn't done anything good since the Genesis, as OP pointed out, that includes Sega CD, 32x, Game Gear and Saturn.
IIRC there is no scientific consensus that computer usage causes near or far sightedness.
No. I loved the games Dreamcast had, as did many other folks.

Unfortunately, the Dreamcast didn't stand a chance because of Sega's crippling debt. Only a phenomenon on the level of Super Mario Bros., Tetris (gameboy), Pokemon, World of Warcraft, Wii Sports or Minecraft could've kept them from closing down production.
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> With industry analysts declaring Windows Server with more than 60% of the x86 server market

Really? Where are such numbers published?
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The fact that they're honoring previous certificates is a good thing. It's a demonstration from Mozilla and Google that CAs with large customer bases have very little leverage in disputes like this: Mozilla will respond with the corrective measure that causes maximum pain for the CA business and minimal pain for the CA's previous customers.
"Premium fuel" is a perfect example of price segmentation in a commodities market. Granted, not many customers fall for it, but it seems to be enough to keep up the expensive ruse.
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Fractals can be drawn by surprisingly small amounts of code. For example, this mandelbrot fractal is implemented in 122 characters of JavaScript:
https://www.dwitter.net/d/123

I wouldn't be surprised if the burning ship fractal could be coded on dwitter (i.e. with 140 characters or less) as well
Those are still tiny. Unless Musk has invented some new radically new classical physics, that bell is nowhere near big enough to match the shuttle engines, not at the published isps. Maybe I'm wrong and he deserves a noble prize. Or maybe his tweets aren't the full story and this is a scaled technology demonstrator.

Perhaps someone should rewrite the raptor's wikipedia page to indicate that raptor is in a different league. Pics from this "test firing" are right beside numbers claiming thrusts above shuttle, which is comical given the size differences between the engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine)

>>Raptor - 2.7 MN (610,000 lbf)
Shuttle main engines - 512,300 lbf (2,279 kN)
Architect of Hayes Valley's Proxy builds one room cabints [NYTimes]
I'm only dismissing the fat logic that's being despersed everywhere here.

Losing weight is hard but that does not entitle obese people to special treatment.

The thing is, no one can help you lose weight. Only you can help you do it. Unless you make a decision to endure hunger everyday, it will not happen.
@runesoerensen: any plans to offer linux /.net core instances in AppHarbor (my favourite way to host .net apps by far!)?
The "Why" section in the Readme doesn't quite explain the need for this. Can someone shed light on how and why this is useful

Thanks
Thank you! Fixed
> Sure, it's pessimistic, but I'm essentially working backwards from an attempt to impose a tax on dietary fat (for health reasons) in Denmark.

Sorry, what? Not to derail, but this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile unless I'm just missing something. The latest science has made it pretty clear dietary fat is quite good for you and simple carbs are what a healthy person should avoid.
I mostly agree for lower and midtown Manhattan, but NYC is much, much bigger than that. Elsewhere cabs are far less frequent, and subways less likely to be the fastest route (especially during weekend and late night service).
I've found workrave to be great on linux, and I highly suggest it for anyone, you can configure how the breaks are laid out in just about any fashion.
Given WoSign's history of backdating SHA-1 certificates in violation of Mozilla's rules, I wouldn't be too surprised if they reuse that practice to get around the 1 year ban, at which point Mozilla will have to consider permanently distrusting them.
Whoops! My intention with that smiley was to not appear negative :-) (I do think it’s FUD.)
Founder of engagedcount.com here.

Facebook hasn't actually announced that they will end shared counts via their API. They have just made it much more difficult for the average programmer to get the numbers.

We're able to work around a lot of the limitations like api keys and rate limits that Facebook has put in place.
It's incredible how small is the Internet.
Just today I went to my optometrist because I have problems focusing objets at a certain distance. Turns out that I had exactly the same diagnosis, and I was recommended to buy a 0.5 glasses and use them when I'm staring at the computer or tablet.
This could just as well apply to environmental factors though, siblings probably share those.

Also the boy/girl factor could be explained by different behaviors, so different exposures.

Not saying I know anything about this, or that this is the case, just that the increased family risk and boy/girl risk doesn't mean it is genetics.
Thats pretty simple to solve though, just decline coverage from the provider with the most limited coverage. This is pretty common as married couples usually only take the coverage from one spouse.
The people we need to have sympathy/empathy for, though, are the people who haven't gotten there yet.

Why though? Isn't sympathy towards people who "haven't gotten there yet" really fucking patronizing?

I'm not on this "empathy" bandwagon that has gotten popular in the last few years. It's really good at being unemphatic towards people the group has already decided not to like, so the whole thing reads as a sham.

I imagine there was a time for you where you hadn't reached the point of understanding your problem, for any of the various reasons of shame, denial, anger, blaming others, etc.

They're adults. I'll treat them with the civility I treat everyone. Beyond that? Fuck 'em.
Is this what gives Microsoft that infinite scalability they are advertising now? I'm still not sure how that works.
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I'm a strong believer in bias lighting, and that it critically needs to be either incandescent or sunlight-based. Putting one flickering light source next to another (perceptible or not) causes more trouble, in my personal experience.
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Also you share lots of environmental factors with your mother, like living in the same house, using the same car etc.
Which is only a value proposition if you're an agoraphobe - the trip takes eons compared to the subway.

There was some good discussion on the NYC subreddit when Uber rolled this out, and the general consensus was against it (including people who used it). Manhattan traffic during rush hour is awful - a cab is already likely slower than the train, even without the additional pooled passengers.

Add the pooled passengers and suddenly your commute becomes a full-hour affair - and some users reported exactly this sort of duration just getting from the UES to Midtown.

IMO the (genuine, deserved) popularity of ride-hailing around the US is less a validation of that specific transportation model and more an indictment of our utter failure to produce working mass transit. Where we have effective mass transit (and the MTA isn't even that good) the value proposition of ride hailing starts to fall apart. Ride-hailing is a local maxima, not a global maxima of transportation.
I must have missed that, thanks!
Whatever blows your hair back, bud.
How Fox Sports is bringing augmented reality to NFL games
To clarify, I'm not trying to argue definitively that these traits are all genetic vs. acquired by watching one's parents. Perhaps it's some mix, though mostly-genetic seems likely to me. I _am_ trying to say that often the traits run in families, which argues against external causes such as vaccines and chemicals.
Which further proves how common this character flaw is.
Tell git? sure. Tell git CLI tools? …
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A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder [pdf]
I thought the hippest spot in '95 was Cyberdelia http://cyberdelianyc.tumblr.com/
They still have to maintain Outlook whether or not it's in the lower cost option. You could argue that they might save a tiny bit in support, but I'd be surprised if it was a relevant amount.
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Perhaps if they make repair too sweet, abuse will skyrocket asymptotically.

Or, perhaps it transforms from "incentive" to "subsidy".
Ask HN: Does anyone know how to get access to Google Cloud Functions Alpha?
I would like to use Google Cloud Functions for a new side project, but it is in Alpha and I have not received a response after requesting access.
The spherical cow is a useful approximation in many contexts. However one wouldn't find many aerospace engineers using it to predict the performance of an aircraft. CICO would be an appropriate approximation for e.g. an ecologist studying food chains. That it's used in the context of human nutrition, however, is nearly as severe an indictment of the field as the fact that all of its studies are sponsored by industry.