skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone is high-functioning, why is a diagnosis necessary? Why pathologize personality? I think that was part of what the removal of Asperger's was about. It's unclear if there was any effective therapy for what many don't even regard as a disorder or disability.

There are many personality traits which might be uncomfortable in various situations, but aren't classified as medical disorders. It doesn't mean they aren't worth exploring as part of self-discovery.

With that said, there are some captured into this category who really do need help, which is what the ASD spectrum diagnosis can capture.
They might get better if they know the consequences of bad behaviour is bankruptcy.
yes, an example of one of the many unintended consequences of trying to interfere with market forces.
This is especially true when one confronts the simple fact that, particularly in a political context, terms immediately lose their meaning in the sea of rhetoric. Just look at the term "liberal." Hahah wow. What a loss of value that word has had. It's practically become a slur, when ironically it should be a word that describes every single person with the slightest preference towards American style democracy given we enjoy a LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

But I digress. The point is, the words equality and fairness mean nothing in a rhetorical context. One can not possibly approach the idea of correcting the audience's perceptions of those words. So if switching the word you use in your "sales pitch" of policy gets you closer to the idealistic end, then that is what should be done and it should be done without hesitation.
I'm a moron. Forgot about the SC decision.

Still, the state gov't isn't kind to LGBTQ people.
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https://ourworldindata.org/literacy/ gives literacy rates of around 75% in Great Britain and the USA in 1851.

I would guess that's not _that_ low that it would have made an impact on those reading those reviews.

Chances are this has more to do with the limited, high-brow, circulation of these reviews. Harper's, for example, seems to have had a circulation of around 50,000 in 1851 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine#History). The USA had a population of about 23,000,000 at the time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850_United_States_Census), so it would have reached less than 1% of the population.
I was writing a small but semi algorithm-heavy library in C# that didn't rely much on other libraries. I later decided to port it to Java and realized that the more C#-like I had written the original code the harder it was to port. Later when trying to port it to JavaScript I ended up re-writing the C#/Java code to rely less on the standard libraries since each standard library differed so much. At that point my code started to look very procedural in the OO languages possibly similar to what you've been doing in Java.

I came to the realization I didn't even need a lot of the language features for what I was doing and decided to switch it to C to not have to maintain various versions of the library and it was a steep learning curve but I've come to really enjoy the simplicity but powerful capabilities of C.
The thing is that other forms have been tried. It turns out that unless a form of society does not have enough capitalist underpinnings, it indeed thrives in misery of most people: North Korea, Soviet bloc, religious tyrannies, aristocracy with indentured servitude, etc.
I work for the company that fabricated and installed this project: http://www.displaydevices.com/ in Colorado. Although I didn't do much work on it, seeing the modules being run through their paces during testing was an amazing sight to behold.
It absolutely does not say that. If there are patented works in React (and even FB has said they don’t know if there are) then the React code is still covered by the license.

Basically this whole topic is FUD (the Apache situation most people don’t actually under and just repeat incorrect information around).

Let’s say you remove the patents license, as most people here seem to want, what do you have?

The exact same situation as if you sued FB over patents and they revoked it that so many ppl are complaining about.

The license without the grant has an implicit grant anyhow. This is less strong than what they added: an explicit grant.

The hullabaloo over this is just silly.
Casting is a bit of a wrong term here, since that's not at all what happens. `ignore` is just a function that takes any argument and returns `()` (unit). That's useful because sometimes you want to throw away the result of the computation (usually a side effect), so you can just call `ignore` on it and get a `()` value out.
The developed world really needs to start building new cities. People shouldn't be deprived of the opportunity to live in an downtown area just because the people already there feel entitled to their way of life. But, people can lose everything if you economically force them from their homes. That's not desirable either.

My proposal for new cities involves strictly limiting the foot print to enable it to be completely walkable. That would mean you don't have any cars, which is good for many reasons. A lot of what local governments do is complicated by having to service so many different residences over a wide area (think sewage and water, mail, policing/fire protection, road maintenance, etc). If you mostly just build up, then that all becomes much easier, which means government can be much smaller and cheaper. And I think the city becomes much more livable, as a large area around the city is green space, and the streets can be taken over by open air restaurants/cafes/bars on weekends.
Correct.

The HP 41 had something called "synthetic programming", a flaw that someone once found in the calculator that allowed access to a lot of its internals, including brand new opcodes and capabilities (even graphics, which the HP 41 didn't officially support).

The downside was that doing the wrong thing could cause the calculator to shut down sometimes for days in a row. I once did that to my father's calculator and these were the longest days in my life, dreading that I might have broken his $300+ purchase for silly programming antics.
The parent just explained why there is not much support from either the people or the politicians for a national ID in the US. Even if you don't agree with him, the assertion that "there is no reason US can't have a national ID card" is clearly false. Of course, an individual can obtain a passport if he wants, but that is only required to travel out of the country and only a small percentage of US citizens do that.

P.S. if you don't drive, your state probably offers a state ID card equivalent to the driver license. It is generally cheaper to obtain and replace.
To be fair, the comment from DuckDuckGo in the Reddit thread[1] says that they will continue to put resources into it ("staff are still improving the Instant Answers we have, and will create any new Instant Answers we see are needed"). Which means the only change really happening here is to shut off the contributions that DDG receives from others for free, which doesn't really make sense as a business decision, either.

On the other hand, if you view it as an announcement that they're going to be taking Instant Answers closed source to keep future changes in-house, then it makes sense.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/6ymjj8/duckduck...
You mean the exact same situation as if it didn’t have the grant in the first place?
I see. It seems like that would still make calling supporting routines annoyingly expensive, but perhaps that (and the extra tag memory) doesn't matter as much as I think it does.

Good luck with the project.
I've written almost entirely object-oriented code for two decades. My programs have almost no global variables.

I've tried functional programming in Rust, but it's not going well.[1] I don't like the "x.and_then(|foo|).if_even(|bar|).except_on_alternate_tuesdays(|baz|)" style. Rolling your own control structures is not good for readability.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/rust-rssclient/blob/master/src...
The value of science is in the foresight [pdf]
They aren't rich? Let me get my tiny violin out!

It's not about whether they are rich but about whether they produce income that can be taxed to pay for the needs of the poor.
Yes, I mean if it is something like toxic waste like Love Canal, that's one thing, but if it's dumping trash, that's easily remedied. Also, once the trash is removed, nature will typically revert to it's natural state all by itself. Humankind has to actively prevent nature from engulfing cities.

But to say, "they left trash everywhere, FELONY!" is a seriously emotional reaction. Criminal justice should be a rational not emotional thing. Is dumping trash the same thing as rape, robbery or murder? Certainly not. Felonies should be reserved for the harshest crimes against people, not littering or ingesting things.

The US has more people incarcerated, not only per capita, but as a total number than any other country in the developed world. This includes China. That statistic shows a serious, systemic problem with our justice system.

http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-popula...

The American prison system is massive. So massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations.

https://smartasset.com/mortgage/the-economics-of-the-america...
He also suggests that even with process isolation in the application layer, the database is likely not going to be isolated and you'll be breached anyway.

The qmail architecture would likely be very inefficient with 100M+ users.
Python with tricks from Erlang, PHP frameworks, Lisp.
Do FP for most of things, using OOP to structure the code when reuse is necessary: e.g. connectors to external APIs
The Denver-Boulder train isn't going to happen for a very long time. IIRC the current target date is 2044.
Two reasons for vegetation

1. Stop people driving straight across. As ridiculous as that sounds it happens too often.

2. Makes driver focus on the traffic approaching from the right Vs traffic entering opposite. (For nations driving on the left)
I do love PyTorch as well. I'm also somewhat confused, isn't PyTorch controlled by a single company [Facebook] too?
Do I really want a startup doing this stuff? Iterate fast and break things? I would rather just have a heavily regulated industry with a lot of checks and balances handle very important data like this. Why could you even access the core databases from the front end? Why isn't the data on completely separate server where all queries are completely scrubbed and verified?
This is a common argument but it's based on the incorrect assumption that existing difference must dictate the way we shape and envision a future society. It's based on the naturalistic fallacy and is also historically blind.

If you look at history of mankind, you will see that at any stage the existing differences seemed insurmountable and later nevertheless changed. You can look anywhere from the Roman empire (i.e., essentially a fascist militaristic society for a long time), over women's rights, slavery, colonialization etc., it's always the same pattern. The status quo has never defined how a desirable society should look like. As a typical example, many women used to agree that it's pointless for them to vote, since they don't know anything about politics. Maybe these were even in the majority at some time. Nevertheless they've changed their mind.

To cut a long story short, history is full of alleged anthropological constants that were used to justify inequality and all of them turned out to be false and nonexistent. Heck, landowners used to say about peasants that they are just too stupid to own their own land and would immediately gamble it away...
The problem with civil servants taking high paid jobs when they leave is that it can be a payoff for being biased for the company. If companies can dangle the carrot of an eventual job the civil servant will avoid actions that sink their chances.

There's a lot of stuff on real revolving doors in the UK in the magazine Private Eye. Stomach turning really.
Mosquito's don't shunt blood between different creatures. Mosquito-transmitted diseases are transmitted via the mosquito's anticoagulant saliva or their poop. Mosquito-transmitted parasites must also be able to reproduce inside the mosquito and many go through one or more stages of their life cycle inside it.

This is why you can get malaria from a mosquito but not AIDS.
Bank transactions are eventually consistent. How do you think you can get an overdraft fee? Ever use a gas pump and notice it took a $1 authorization on your card then later settled for what you pumped?

Eventual consistency is not all that scary, try putting on a business hat instead of a technical one. Its about risk management.
Well here's your chance to agree with Donald trump: he made everyone sign an ethics pledge that they would not lobby within 5 years of their tenure in government. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/execu... getting Congress to pass a law that puts some teeth behind the promise is another question.
The housing prices in Colorado are high because of a specific reason that is soon going to end:

1) Land is available, but labor and building companies are still not fully recovered from the 2008 bust, and this has created a sharp supply issue with new housing to accommodate the hordes of newcomers.

2) This issue is quickly on the way to being remedied, because the housing prices are high enough to produce huge profits for builders, and the national companies are quickly getting their infrastructure in place.

3) If anything, housing prices are going to retreat downward, (probably not a crash due to demand) and Amazon would help cement the decision for big building companies to devote more assets to correcting the supply issue.
i didn't say they deserved your sympathy, you projected that onto me because you have a political agenda.

good luck with the taxes thing though.
If universities were serious about reducing campus assaults as well as false accusations it seems as if cutting down on binge drinking would be an awfully good place to start. It seems to be implicated in every reasoned discussion of the subject, this article included.
> browse the first HN/Reddit threads; they weren't rosy

This is usually my bell weather than something’s going to be massively popular, btw.

HN/Reddit communities both have massive blinkers on and hate change. Pretty much every major advance in spaces I follow has been loathed by both.
A slight correction -- in the book, he says explicitly that we think it would come with elevated signs of activity. But 1/ we have no idea, since we have very little knowledge of the last eruption; and 2/ there are large variations in activity currently -- we have no idea if we would be able to differentiate the current "everything seems okay" increased activity from "SHTF" activity.
> Why should a software engineer make $250k+?

Because people are paid for the value of what they produce, not the effort they spend producing it.
Correct. I think Amazon would be ok for Denver. It would probably boost tech salaries across the board here.
Capitalism thrives on misery only as much as it alleviates it. That's what an increase in prices is - a sign that people are desperate for something and willing to handsomely reward whoever will provide it.

It's why I'm in favor of legalizing price gouging - if someone goes to great personal effort, risk, and expense to buy electrical generators and drive them into a disaster area, that's a good thing and should be rewarded. And when the area has enough generators, the price will fall and the gouging will stop.

The thing we do have to watch out for is deliberately creating a need so that the entrepreneur can swoop in and fill it. I suppose this also applies to many forms of advertising, game design, and website design though, too.
Houston was the first city in the US to elect an openly lesbian mayor.
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But the illusion is trong enough and you could just reframe this problem avoiding the free-will problematic.

Someone who puts all his energy in to getting somewhere should be able to get there (within the reasonable). No matter the underlying origin of his motives or circumstances.

I still see your point though, but I'd say that's a further step: to acknowledge that nobody should be held responsible for himself. (EU-law is a bit further here than the US though, no retaliation by law like the death penalty)
This is why markets spring up in societies that developed past mere survival of subsistence farming or hunting. The society of Germany is way past that phase, just in case.
Don,

You're quite aggressive in this thread about someone who just died in a multitude of comments, and it's not like JP will rise up to defend himself. I don't like his politics either and I'm sure that some of what you wrote has merit but please have some respect. This simply isn't the time.
This sheds an interesting light on the referee process in that referees are given an inordinate amount of power in the scientific process.

Suppose I am a referee, then I am a mathematician and I generally want new and interesting work released having to do with my subject area because I want more students interested in those topics validating my general area of research. If I dont plan to personally build on this work (because maybe its too confusing or doesn't shed light on what I am working on), then in a case like this where the paper is so confounding, whats to keep me from simply saying "I understand this and its correct" even if that is not the case? Its not like if you referee and approve a paper that is later proven wrong (especially in a case like this) you are run out of the mathematical community. Do they need to provide detailed explanations as to why they think its right?

What would stop a referee from simply going along with it and approving this paper, especially when the community is confounded by it and doesn't want to do the work itself.

Does the rigor of scientific process ultimately just come down to unrigorous consensus?
You can have a system that is somewhere between "capitalism in its purest form" and "communism". When both extremes thrive on misery, why not try some kind of middle ground?
Supply-and-demand describes the value that humans place on goods and services that by their very nature are not infinite. In that, it is a description of human behavior, and because it is based on human action in aggregate, acts as a law of nature just as surely as if there were some "nebulous" unseen force determining the economic outcomes of a society.

To change the law of supply and demand would require changing human nature itself, and human nature as it relates to the supply of goods and services, has been constant for all of recorded history.
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I'm using it (Nightly on OS X with stylo enabled) now, for the first time and I love it, it's faster than Chrome or it looks like it's faster, anyway, I simply want to use it even when almost all best plugins doesn't work currently. In the meantime stable version is almost unusable, I tried it couple of times, it was always lagging on page scroll.
Not as bad as Google punishing sites that host conservative/controversial authors and viewpoints:

http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/google-issues-ultimatu...
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> But I think housing is definitely a thing capitalism struggles with because it is a good everyone needs and there is a finite amount of it

I think municipalities that can support high density development are in short supply. High rises are just concrete and rebar. But if there's no transportation, not enough energy, security, etc - then no development will take place. We've left those roles to local government, and I think we should challenge that decision.

The supply of land rebar and concrete isn't that scarce (thanks capitalism). What's scarce is the organization and infrastructure that can sustain a town - and the limited land around it. If there's something that needs more capitalism it's city planning.
What if blockchain technology revolutionised voting? [pdf]
It isn't capitalism that prevents abuse of power by the wealthy. It's liberal democracy, and human rights enshrined in laws that are enforced.
Thanks justboxing, I appreciate the feedback, at the moment I wouldn't be able to support hundreds of clients on a free or reduced priced plan for one domain
While I hate ads, I also think google has way too much power already, and this is not a healthy development.
I'm actually in the process of (poorly) implementing my own proofs engine to try and gain a deeper appreciation for the notions behind type theory (and how eg Coq operates):

That a function is the same thing as a proof, with the theorem it proves being the type it constructs and its assumptions being the types it takes in. (Functions are proofs (which in this case, are things that take witnesses of their assumptions and produce witnesses of their theorem), values are witnesses that something is true, types are theorems, etc.)

I have an interest in topology, and want to understand HoTT, but my intuition around type theory wasn't up to par -- so I'm trying to tackle it in a constrained setting (ie, not proving theorems about mathematics as such, but a narrower problem space). Figured there was nothing to do besides get into the messy bits of it.

Can you tell me a bit more about what you're trying to do?
Societal resilience doesn't protect much against the massive widespread death and suffering that can happen. Preventing a Yellowstone eruption does.

It's just a different objective, although they overlap.
How is test code related to theorem proving?
Even without lobbying, large corps can still use sweetheart positions in the private sector as a "reward" for friendly legislators who retire.

Obviously targeting lobbying is an improvement, but it's not enough.

And also, I'm wondering how that impacts a not-for-profit that a politician decides to champion after retirement... Is that "lobbying"?
Have you used his greenarrays chips? If so I'd love to hear anything you have to say on them and your Forth experience in general.
I call my both my senators and my congressional representative almost daily. It's important to do, I think more people need to be active in that sense.
Looks like you skipped over this part of my comment in your attempt to be condescending:

> At least, it's how I would have entered it if the figures weren't so small.
Boston has colleges and universities, and yes, they are amazing.

But guess what? Recent college graduates are happy to move to places with better weather and lower costs of living, and they do. We interview top tier people looking to relocate from Boston all the time.

I say that as someone who loves Boston, and especially like the culture and people.
Wrong. Do you seriously think that a cross-bank transfer is operating inside a distributed database transaction? Furthermore, what did banks do before they had computer systems available?
While there are a variety of ways you can conduct a programming interview, the goals typically are the same:

Will the candidate be able to write working code if they join the team?

Can the candidate discuss code and problems with the people they'll be working with?

Can the candidate reason about arbitrary problems and constraints?

Is the candidate someone we would enjoy working with?

All of these can be solved directly by asking the candidate if they'd be comfortable doing an actual task on the actual codebase, having them sign an NDA, and then giving them a bugfix to perform. They're compensated for their time, of course.

I'm doing it right now as a candidate and it's by far the best interview experience I've had. The others were all artificial.

A lot of people have a problem with this model for one reason or another, but in terms of effectiveness it's probably at the top 1%.