skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. If your web app doesn't work in Lynx on a 56K modem, it's defective.
Although im male i also had a late diagnosis (33) which brought about several "oh now that makes sense" moments. im not really surprised i wasnt diagnosed, i grew up in a tiny middle of nowhere village in the 80s, autism was pretty much unheard of i was just the "problem kid" of the village.

ive also always had various quirks that id always previously just put down to me being "weird" the most pronounced of these is that i am a vegetarian, however not by choice, i just cant see meat as edible, i can and have killed/cleaned/cooked things before so that doesnt bother me, i wish i could change it but i simply cant.

its not all bad though, yes i lack empathy and im socially awkward to say the least but i also have an excellent memory and a solid affinity for electronics and IT, i didnt need to be taught, ive always just sort of known.

so while a diagnosis didnt change anything about my life it did answer some questions about why i am who i am
> My idea of a good time is reading up on quantum mechanics or the ordinal hierarchy.

Haha, same here!! Does it mean I might be an "Aspie" too???
Spanish police arrest suspected mastermind of $1 bln bank hacks
I am the stepfather of a 14YO girl with rather severe autism (non-verbal, significant self-stimulation or "stimming/stims", multiple comorbidities like OCD behaviors), and about a month ago our adopted 3YO daughter was also diagnosed based on interviews with us and a couple/few hours with a doctor.

The diagnosis of the 3YO will provide access to several services where I live (NY state), and she's already been enrolled in an early education class with others on the spectrum. Before turning 3 she was receiving about 2 hours of in-home speech and therapy per week.

Get her to a doctor for diagnosis, as early services can be very helpful in long-term outcomes. We also had early services for the 14YO that unfortunately were not entirely effective due to the seriousness of her condition, but we're optimistic that the 3YO could be in general education classes by elementary school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfkNvOOiZ_8&feature=youtu.be...
Autism, like cancer, is not a single thing. Toward the start of the spectrum, including Asperger's, it seems to be essentially "clinically-significant weirdness, not otherwise specified" (on the later end of the spectrum, it's "major or profound mental retardation, not otherwise specified").

A more productive discussion might be why we feel the need to pathologize so much about ourselves. Why do we need a person to look us over and say "Ah, none of what you are is your fault" to feel OK?

Worse, why do some parents need to hear that about their children? I've known kids who've been paraded to several "mental health professionals" until one would finally give the parents what they ultimately wanted, a diagnosis-as-scapegoat. In the 90s that scapegoat was ADHD. Today it's Asperger's.
Apple's Tim Cook Calls for More Regulations on Data Privacy
I’m not sure what you’re trying to argue here. So your value proposition is to make it harder to organize events and find out what’s going on?
This is great news, but I bet you the media like CNN will still focus more on Stormy Daniels as clearly that is more important news :)
Whether the algorithms seem effective to you, as a single consumer of the advertisements, is irrelevant.

Facebook ad campaigns most definitely work (though I'd imagine there's some variance of effectiveness based on what exactly you're trying to sell with the ad campaigns), and lookalike audiences are an effective way of determining who to show your ads to.

It's really quite simple, as a company you can spend money on Facebook ads and you will get traffic/conversions/etc.
I really wish HN used basic markdown, so we could at least quote properly.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-stock-bounces-sl...

I mean, something like 80 percent of Fortune 500s from a generation ago are out of business.

So yeah, it seems plain Facebook will die "someday".

Doesn't appear to be any time soon, though.
Porn star Stormy Daniels opens up on her fling with Trump
I remember the process, it had nothing to do with the dev support. Actually, it was the other way around - IE had all the dev support and websites broke down on Firefox but people were fanatics. There were extensions that let you render the page in IE if it's not working on Firefox.

When the Chrome came along, Firefox already put a dent in IE market share and it already became socially unacceptable for techies to use IE but regular people still used IE so the devs were forced to make sure that everything works perfectly on IE too. For the masses, thanks to the developers, IE displayed the websites just fine up until the bitter end.

Friends didn't let friends use IE and it was killed.
Young people might be able to adapt to new technology quickly, but they also have some of the strongest social pressures to remain on the technology all their friends are at. The difference between being in the "cool" message group and someone having to message you separately is a much bigger hurdle for them to face than where all your photos go.
Since the causes of autism are not really understood, it's defined and diagnosed based on behavior, or symptoms, if you will. Thus, is there an actual qualitative difference between "shy, socially anxious/clumsy" and autistic, except for the extent of those properties?
>No, they don't. They could make this an optional feature, and they choose not to.

If adding such an optional feature causes Uber to leave the Android platform, adding the optional feature is a net loss to Android users. "You are not the user" rings true here.

To put this another way, if your "feature" harms the ecosystem, it is not, in fact, a feature.

I asked for examples of Google lying about data collection, which was the accusation you levied. You responded with Google being transparent about responding to legally binding government requests.

While you may feel that handing data over to the government is a misuse, Google is not secretive about this. They're very straightforward about the fact that they will obey lawful requests, and they're transparent both with affected users, and the general public, about when and how they comply with those requests, as evidenced by the report you just linked.

So I'll try this again: since you accused Google of lying about collecting data or lying about what they do with it, can you substantiate that accusation, by giving examples of Google lying about what data it collects, or lying about what it does with that data?
Dependency hell is NP-complete
Also:
Why use get and set accessors for private fields at all, when you can just use:

int foo;
float bar;

That can later be changed, when the need arises.
I was only diagnosed at around 30, and so I also just kind of figured out how to 'pass for normal'.

One of my biggest frustrations when I talk about this stuff is that people will 1) insist I'm not autistic, as a compliment of sorts, 2) insist I'm not autistic as a sort of attack/defense, lest I 'use' it to victimize myself, or 3) start treating me like a 'broken' person and assigning all 'oddness' to aspergers.

At first this really bothered me, as I was also trying figure out myself what this diagnosis meant, either taking it too seriously, or forgetting that this rather massive piece of lifelong puzzle had now fallen into place, and dealing with the consequences (some bad, some very good).

Reaction #2 was surprisingly common and painful, especially from people that I didn't expect it from. I'd feel hurt because it never crossed my mind to 'excuse' myself. Even though I do think it provides a legitimate 'explanation' for past behavior that I felt, and sometimes still feel, deeply ashamed or embarrassed about. A certain amount of self-acceptance and forgiveness, I think, is crucial for many people who are on the spectrum, because they often deal with severe social anxiety to begin with, and the tendency to obsess/ruminate does not go well with guilt and embarrassment over the past.

The way I see it now, or try to, is that we're all (people in general) just too inclined to overvalue labels, in particular in the field of mental health, and as a result either reject them entirely, or let them form a wedge between 'the real us' and 'the disability/disorder'. When of course in reality such a distinction is not always very useful outside of the realm of the profession (whether diagnosis or therapy).

Normalizing these kinds of labels, without ignoring them entirely of course, strikes me as a very good development. The more we accept that we're all different/weird/'disordered' in various ways, but that some of us suffer more from this difference than others, the better we can actually come to positive outcomes, whether that means changing society, changing or coping through therapy, or the use of medication.
Another option that works very well is this:

ret = thing1(...);
if (ret == 0)
ret = thing2(...);
if (ret == 0)
ret = thing3(...);
if (ret)
<handle failure>;
<common cleanup>;
return ret;

No ever-deepening if/else ladders, and no goto-fails.

Alternatively:

if ((ret = thing1(...))
goto out;
if ((ret = thing2(...))
goto out;
if ((ret = thing3(...))
goto out;
out:
if (ret)
<handle failure>;
<common cleanup>;
return ret;

This has a goto-fail, but only one, so it's Go-like.
It seems that the gun homicide epidemic is winding down!

Oh wait there was never an epidemic: https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/the-gun-homicide-epidemic-isn...
I currently do exactly what you describe, for the purpose that you describe, with fastmail. This feature is called aliases on their system.

I also used to do be able to do it with migadu when I was hosting with them.

The aliases are routed with a longest-prefix-match sort of algorithm, so you can blacklist specific addresses that have gotten spammy by aliasing them to some inexistent address.
Yeah apparently they provide chat popups, didn't realize since reader view killed it. Thanks.
Yup. Same thing happened to me. If i program really hard for many hours right before bed, it seriously prevents me from falling as sleep. The solution is to meditate for a little while before bed or read a light magazine.

And youtube is awesome with it's 6 hour meditation music: to help you do meditation.
He said "open mind", not "empty head"! :-)

Still, that's a risk, yes.
This goes against best practice as proposed by Steve McConnel in his "Code Complete."
Which tools are you referring to, exactly? Some citations would be helpful.
Seems very similar to the classic, "Luck favors the prepared".

I was at a board game conference this weekend and someone was kind of looking at my game prototype but hadn't engaged me. So I just started explaining how it worked and what was unique about it. Turns out he is also a designer and a publisher had previously asked him if he was interested in designing a game like X. He didn't have the time or interest but that is exactly what my game is. I now have a hot lead to get this game published because I got lucky. If I hadn't talked to this guy or even gone to the conference, I could never have gotten "lucky".
Personally I would want them to not keep any records on me at all.

They are a financial stalker for others
Good question. A big difference between the former and the latter is that the former is mostly a social matter, while the latter can have a pronounced effect even on the isolated, personal aspects of a person (in particular, obsessiveness in interests, but a whole bunch of other things too).
But you don't have to get another one because you need it. You get another one because you can. It's just like getting
a new iPhone.
News headlines training data for sentiment analysis on Facebook data breach
Technically, yes, you're right.

But in practice, the higher the visibility of the code you're relying on, the more likely it is that other people have caught something fishy. And POST is higher visibility than lockbox. This is also the reason why even though I trust Mozilla very much, I don't use Sync. It's lower visibility than the vanilla stuff.

Also, attack surface.
Can you refer us to any papers or analyses that support your claim?
This is fair. But if users flee from FB, or just start using it less, it does have an impact on advertising: it becomes less effective.
Thanks. Reader view killed the chat popup, so I didn't notice anything untoward.
"I'm skeptical of a definition of luck where you can be trained to be lucky. That's not luck, that's skill. There is no skill to luck by definition."

On the other hand, by that definition, no one can be luckier than anyone else. And yet, some people seem to have an easier time navigating reality than others.
Every positive integer is a sum of three palindromes (2017) [pdf]
I'm pretty sure I was on the spectrum until my mid 20s. All social interaction was very painful - I couldn't look anyone in the eye, and didn't say anything to anyone. I made weird sounds and movements that others noticed, got lost in daydreams without realizing it, bright light sensitivity, obsessed over meaningless objects and toys, etc.

Then I forced myself to travel, take lots of hallucinogens and empathogens, and do projects that involve working directly with multiple people throughout the day. It was a very painful process, but by the time I was 35 I don't think I had many symptoms left.

I do think some minor cases are highly treatable if not curable if the sufferer takes matters into their own hands.
I'm not sure what to think of it. Either it's a case for gun supporters saying "see, their jobs are at stake! gun law supporters endanger the economy!!1!" Or it's a case for gun law supporters saying "making guns is bad business anyway, and your business model sucks!" At this time Remington basically says "I'm done, buy me! I'm cheap now, because you have to deal with my inflated business model". Remington could continue to make fewer, more exclusive guns, but with this debt? I think the financial managers have been busy being incompetent, so do not hire former managers of Remington.
Nothing in your description is specific to Asperger's Syndrome. You sound like an introvert with some social anxiety, which is not a developmental disorder.
this is basic markdown.

use asterisks and put your quote in italics.
This is the exact feeling I get, for some things I just don't get why most people do that. I realise that for some people it may be hard to cope with or people might be intolerant or ignorant, and not to put those on the spectrum down or anything but I kind of think that everyone is on "the spectrum" with "normal" people just on one far side of it, it's just another part of being human. Someone I know very well is definitely Asperger's based on what I know and I have read, yet he was never diagnosed and would be offended if he had some label attached to them, and whilst he is terrible in social situations, he is completely independent and has always managed to hold down a job. I think in a way a diagnosis is a bad thing, if it then means that person is coddled for want of a better word.
Can't have your cake and eat it too my friend. Although i'd take the opportunity and then if it works out, retire in the East Coast where you'd be happier?
Indeed. Collecting a "type of data" tells you almost nothing about what the company collecting it could do or is going to do with that data.

I think regulation around this idea may be most effective. Companies should have limits on what they can do with the data by default. If they want to use it for more, then they should not only offer a much greater degree of transparency but they should have to abide by much higher standards, too, similarly to how medical companies have to abide by much higher standards when collecting your information.

So if a company asks for location data just to use it for weather information, that could be obtained with a single click from the user. If the company intends to use that location data to allow advertisers to target you, then it should be made very clear to the user that this is what the purpose of collecting the data is. And they should need to do more than just click once on a button.

If the same company intends to give the data to electoral campaigns, then higher standards still should be imposed on that company.

The point is we need to start regulation the use of data, and not just what type of data can be collected.
Yes. Please ask any of the marginalized persons in the us. About half of ALL transgender youth commit suicide - they would rather die than experience hate.

We also forget that their are people still alive today that experienced racial segregation. Many will gladly tell their story.
It’s just like “sorry are you busy, I just have a quick question”
The problem is that for any rule you come up with there are cases where that rule is just too rigid and too inflexible.

There are times where early return makes a ton of sense. Usually that's the case when you can derive the return value from a shallow interpretation of some input values (i.e. check preconditions) but still require more complex processing for other input values. In that case, return early, but constrain the rest of the method to one return point.

On the flip-side, there are cases where an early return makes it incredibly hard to reason about the function. This usually occurs in dense, nested conditional logic. In those cases, I found sticking to rule that a return value should be initialized once and only once, and return from a single point, beneficial in even reasoning about the problem.
I think we should go one level deeper and build an open low level decentralized protocol. that allows others to create networks and 'feeds' on top. The data should belong to the person and the app/website should provide the features.
CatBoost vs. Light GBM vs. XGBoost
Sure! Do no evil, right?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17011266/google-chrome-ad...
> Go hasn't had mature dependency management since its inception and this constant thrash is really starting to make things difficult.

What constant thrash? In the 6 years since Go 1.0 the only dependency management related change I'm aware of is the addition of `vendor/`.

Update: sounds like "thrash" refers to the variety of community vendoring tools. I guess of the few I've used they all felt fairly similar/interchangeable, so it didn't feel like thrashing changes.
ok, changed now
Love the idea! My only concern would be to ask them in 2 separate emails to post on IG and then post a review for our website, but overall its a great idea. Unfortunately we are still too small to afford that (my website is Cambio & Co.) but hopefully we can one day!
It's not about deities, it's about whether there are ways to use consciousness to manipulate the material universe. Are there laws of the universe that are knowable through experience and intuition that do not yet have a scientific explanation? The traditions I mention say "yes", I would imagine an atheist-materialist would say "no". I would have said "no" up until just a few months ago.
Most likely the latter. Facebook is for "old people" according to younger family members. However, they're all over Facebook's other properties.
https://www.spamgourmet.com/ allows you to create any number of unique addresses which then forward mail to your regular mail account
+1

I actually also liked dep with the vendoring approach, it is just better to ci a repo with vendored dependencies (no more Broken Building because of Internet/Proxy or github Problems). And in Go it was/is Even simple to upgrade them. Sadly go is slowly moving away from that Part.

the new approach is Bad, because they still pull Sources from Github, this Makes their approach unsuitable.

E: damn iPhone autocorrect
I was totally ready to call you out and that the rebranding of IE to Edge resulted in no change in adoption and Microsoft wins by default but apparently I am totally incorrect. Chrome is _by far_ dominating the browser game[0]. And while I'd rather FF take that spot, dethroning Microsoft makes my nerd heart pretty happy.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...
Sam boyer had a take on this which is worth reading considering he is the current developer of dep: https://sdboyer.io/blog/vgo-and-dep/
yeah absolutely this. They tried to make their factory in Upstate NY 'lights out' in the 1980's before the technology was ready. It failed miserably. Since then I don't think they have done anything to advance their manufacturing operations in any meaningful way.

Add in that a long history of treating their union employees like garbage has led to a lot of internal disconnect between management, engineering, and labor and you have a situation that is not tuned for long term growth.
Remember that universities pay for the research to be created, but the researchers get to walk away and sell it. Really this is just helping turn more tax payer money into private wealth.
Actually, Scratch is being used in colleges for CS 101 class as well.
...by Richard Wiseman, mentioned in the article.
Please let me know when the spending increase is on open source and open educational platforms to help fix generational poverty and socioeconomic issues caused by the stealing of the land and exploitation of minorities. Also, let's make sure to celebrate their attempts and help them restore God back into school, while we take away science and promote bullying on social media platforms.
The market remembers Uber. Why do you think every single little negative they do turns into a "scandal" and why everyone pounds them in the media?

Uber will likely go into bankruptcy soon, if everyone remains very vigilant about their failed self-driving car project. Because without it, Uber is done. The self-driving car project was the last thing the investors hoped would save the company. And it won't.

People also remember Equifax. There is just little they could do, because they don't directly deal with Equifax. It's their banks or credit card companies that do. Plus, Congress almost immediately saved Equifax from lawsuits, and people haven't yet had an opportunity to "respond" to that. They will this fall.
The first Chrome OS tablet is here
There have been many packages for dependency management, which is not "official" thrash, but thrash nonetheless. Granted, mostly it's been thrash over the last few years. Especially bad since `go dep` was hailed as the king, and then recently abandoned entirely.
Yes there is for example:

"Hyper‐or hypo‐reactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of environment"

If you want to know more, read the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria about ASD: https://depts.washington.edu/dbpeds/Screening%20Tools/DSM-5%...
How to Launch Your Own Crowdsalable Cryptocurrency
This has been posted around, and I always feel I should point out: this is a ludicrous headline and generally misleading framing of an idea that's actually pretty interesting and plausible. (It doesn't have much to do with quantum mechanics, for one.)
It was incompetent financial and product management that did them in long before the protests happened. If anything, 8 years of Obama just helped them survive for a longer period of time than they otherwise might have.
HTC and Nvidia Give Major Boost to High-End VR
To point to as evidence of a firearms company brought low by their movement in action. I doubt many people, if any, in the post-Parkland protest wave are aware of Remington's quality issues, or that there are distinctions between firearms companies at all.
I've recently moved from Lastpass to using Pass[0] & BrowserPass[1], just as convenient and allows me to manage the storing of passwords myself. All files are PGP encrypted. Storing my passwords in my self hosted GIT allows them to be checked out on to my tablet and phone for convenience as well.

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1] https://github.com/dannyvankooten/browserpass
In short: they follow the Rust's approach. Great!

Update: no, I'm wrong.
I thought they were adding support for vendoring? Was it abandoned again?