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Ask HN: Programming resources for people with poor reading comprehension
Hi,

An acquaintance's daughter is on the Autism spectrum. She's brilliant at math, but has trouble with reading and writing words. She can communicate using spoken language just fine, however.

She'd really like to pursue game design. She took a course to learn, but had trouble making sense of the material. I assume (but don't know for sure) that the class focused on an object-oriented language and I figure that this probably caused her friction in making sense of programming.

I think she could benefit from functional programming exercises that just focus on showing math and programming. (think Duolingo with math -> programming instead of English -> programming)

I want her to be given the chance to succeed in programming and I hope maybe there are some resources that will allow her to excel.

Does anyone have any resources for this kind of learner? I know that everything is case-by-case with unique learning needs, but if you have anything, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks
If a social network falls in the woods and no one's there to log out, did it really go down?
I think this makes sense. It’s consistent with the Mythical Man Month’s concept of building a supporting cast around the specialist.

In a startup it may be faster to do everything yourself. Once you operate at scale, every hour of low value activity sucks away an hour of high value activity. I don’t respect folks who are incompetent without their admins, but I also disrespect managers too stuck in the weeds to lead.
Some schemes stretch credulity and fly in the face of the intent of the law.

If I choose to pay 22% down instead of 20% so I can qualify to write off my interest payments, that's one thing. The schemes revolving around putting out shitty books of poetry or what not mentioned above are an entirely different beast.

My own way of looking at it is that it becomes more immoral the further out of your way you go and the further you stray from the original intent of the law
This seems like a common refrain for most bad things these days, but I doubt it's true in the case of police killings. At the very least, it seems inarguable that related trends like police militarization have drastically increased.
That's demonstrably not true. A 4 year old 4790K stands literally right next to 8-th gen CPUs in terms of both single and multiple core performance. A rather large leap happened when the architecture moved to DDR4, but CPU "performance" has hugely stagnated. I don't know where you're getting the 20% from but its definitely not the case in the last 5 years.
And if you want to go up $100-200 more buys you a threadripper 1950, which is 16 core 32 thread, has twice the memory channels and more than twice the pcie lanes...

Edit for clarification: 100-200 over 9900k price
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You should see the prices here in the UK, we can get a Ryzen 2700X 8C/16T for £300 or an Intel 9900k 8C/16T for £600.

The Intel is probably faster... but enough to justify literally double the money? I seriously doubt it.
You are correct, the article was full of the false idea that species are stable.
My heart goes out to all the victim's families, as these are all very tragic. I have a brother with down syndrome and reading the story about Ethan and how the situation played out sounds exactly like how it could play out with my own brother, heaven forbid he ever ends up in a similar situation. While I agree the shoot first ask questions later methodology is not the best, I think education surrounding common mental handicaps/disabilities would go a long way to helping officers better understand the situations and better equip them to judge the threat level of situations. I can attest that people with down syndrome can freeze up and easily experience a paralysis through analysis as they are put in confusing and unfamiliar situations, especially once someone starts shouting commands at them and they are not sure what do. Just knowing this simple fact and general behaviors surrounding people with down syndrome/mentally handicapped would give officers the knowledge to know "hey person has x or y disability and is acting this way because of z, this is a non threatening situation." It's almost ironic to me, where a profession that's main job responsibility is dealing with all different types of people all day isn't required to know any more specific social dynamics or behaviors surrounding them. I think requiring a psychology/sociology for police officers so they have a better understanding of human behavior might help in this regard.

EDIT: Grammar.
> Hard to put a price on astroscience or cosmology.

It's pretty easy. Did those missions cost more or less than making a copy of Hubble and launching it?
Damn it! I was looking for ideas...

I've lived in the Triangle for 15 years now, I would recommend you come after we have a light rail.
In the article they rightfully suspect there are no real hardware mitigations. And I don't see how it would even be possible to speed up the process so much. We have to wait for at least a couple of years.
Could you please email hn@ycombinator.com with some more details so we can take a look?
Yeah, this looks very underwhelming. I also think you're letting them off too easy with "too early to expect a Spectre/Meltdown fix".

This is a critical security bug that was discovered over a year ago. Intel just ignoring the problem and casually releasing yet another (underwhelming) upgrade that doesn't address it all...

The fact anyone accepts that just goes to show how low our expectations have dipped when it comes to Intel.
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Look at the rate of police gettig murdered on the job in America and compare it with Western Europe. That may play a role in the divergence.
so what you are saying is that in hindsight it's easier to see which side was making exaggerated claims?
I don't think that is the case.
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How do you want them to get better? Single core freq at the top end is the only advantage I believe Intel has at this point. AMD is cheaper, more IO, more cores at roughly equivalent speeds. If you are building a 10k gaming rig, I understand, but in general I don't see why you wouldn't go with AMD unless you need it to be have a better TDP. To that point, I expect Intel to continue to rule the laptop market.

Edit: clarified that I don't see Intel not ruling laptop market.
Best laptop I've ever had. Developer edition xps 13 with ubuntu.
The 35k version is still on track for a few months from now.

The autopilot hardware does not add 5k and the basic safety features are included in the base model (crash warning, emergency breaking) etc. What costs 5k is the convinience of on ramp to off ramp autopilot.
Ford is scrapping selling cars in the American market. Only the Mustang and some Focus crossover variant will be sold. Maybe they are planning to come back with pure electric vehicles sold only at dealerships they own under a different sub-brand? Sort of like Saturn. One could hope that a legacy car company could take such a radical departure from their previous sales strategy, but who knows. It might even be illegal for Ford to open up their own dealerships for an all-electric brand near existing ones.
No it's not. We see linear improvement of c# compilation speed with clock speed.
Don’t get me wrong this is a great article. But I found the analogy with the people and pieces of paper a bit hard to read. (The analogy with the people made me think the author was talking about some sort of prototype delegation chain, https://giamir.com/alternative-patterns-in-JS-OLOO-style, rather than nested function calls.) Who is clicking on this but doesn’t know what a stack frame is?
They are having troubles with the folding space blanket on ground tests.
Can you imagine this system being robust in space?
You pivoted from a poorly-executed reductio ad absurdum to full-on whataboutism in only two posts. Impressive mental gymnastics, but can you stick the landing?
And, while I haven't worked in that department so I can't really say for certain that the team leads don't slight the people they're managing, it's a small enough company that the culture is pretty consistent.
Spotify used to require a FB account when signing up a few years ago, but then apparently stopped. (Once I saw it was required I declined to sign up and have never been back, but that's what I heard.) Is it back to being required on signup now too?
What makes you think this component (if it existed) was visually different from component it replaced on the pcb?
Next stage: "We couldn't possibly know he was not dangerous, so we shot him just in case. He really should have registered with The Vitals™".

Brilliant idea, really.
I think the point was you can get all of that and still make money at it. I live on the edge of a mid-size metro (Portland, Oregon) making north of 140K with excellent work-life balance, while living next to farmland in a little quiet neighborhood with a nice big yard, the school my kids go to is a hundred yards away, etc. So I don't see why you'd need to give up the job you enjoy just to get the things OP wants. You may need to live somewhere other than NYC or the bay area, but there are lots of places in the country where you can achieve these goals without having to live especially frugally. I don't care all that much about the money at this point but being able to sock away a bunch makes it less stressful to contemplate the future, college educations coming up in the future, etc.
From the article:

"What makes this a little different are the eight-core products. In order to make these, Intel had to create new die masks for the manufacturing line, as their previous masks only went up to six cores (and before that, four cores). This would, theoretically, give Intel a chance to implement some of the hardware mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown. As of the time of writing, we have not been given any indication that this is the case, perhaps due to the core design being essentially a variant of Skylake in a new processor. We will have to wait until a new microarchitecture comes to the forefront to see any changes."
>PS: Keeping in mind that this is part of the Murdoch vs. Google war going on for about 10 years:

Changes the facts of the story 0%
Low? How many instances are there of chip bugs being fixed in under a year? It's common across vendors for tape-out to be around a year before they enter the market. This is just the reality of microchip production: the design is set in stone a long time before the enter the market.
No, they would have to issue like 10 reports a day. Bugs that are never exploited in web sites are rarely published for multiple reasons. Definitely not something to blame Google for.
> "After all, when you walk down the aisles of a standard company these days, people are on YouTube, social media," he said. "The modern knowledge worker, the technical worker, is going to focus on what engages them."

If you are not working, it doesn't matter where you are.
Voting can change things (and publicly embarrassing elected officials works, too), but I doubt any of the people reading these comments live in the voting districts of the officials involved in the cases in the article. Even if they are, I doubt they're more than a tiny minority. And even in that case, well, preaching to the choir and all that.

Even ranting on a forum local to those areas is unlikely to do anything useful---when was the last time your mind was changed by an editorial, much less a comment down in the crazy-text.

The power is in the votes of the legendary John Q. Public, who has either never heard this story or caught 30 seconds of it as a sad tragedy that could not be prevented. The effect we need is to force them to stand up and say, "I'm ok with this kind of collateral damage." Or not.
That is the ugliest CPU box on the market
Or maybe it's designed to inflict as much pain and humiliation as possible without permanent harm. Because that's how it's actually used by the police, to punish their victims for disobedience.
There's a difference between being killed by bad luck in an accident and being sought out and murdered.
> to contribute to their nation's armed might

I would extend that to the hope for peace through strength (might).
Orkut too was much popular in India & Brazil, looks like these both countries have similar users.
Apple ratchets up denial on Bloomberg story
How long have you stayed there though? And when was it?

I feel like the last 5 years have been good for the city, it has seen a lot of new restaurants and bars. Also, there are now real chinese restaurants which blows my mind.

It's still pretty hard to find a bar with people during the week though, unless you're going to the vieux Lyon but then it's not that big either.

Check Bordeaux, Montpellier, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Rennes, etc. They have a way more vibrant life and way more students. Restaurants are not that great in Lyon either compared to the rest of France I find.
Yes they should have announced it no matter what the logs said.

Depending on the logs is the worst idea ever in terms of breach determination. I don’t know how many times we’ve had 40 IoCs, but just because there isn’t a log file (often because no one splurged for the SIEM and the syslog collector broke beyond repair months ago) management acts like they’ve won the legal liability / cyber security lottery.

Obviously it’s not as black and white as that, but the burden of proof should be on the companies to show that no malicious use happened right after they go public with a breach.

Going public with this kind of information, even if nothing happened, could have driven much better behavior across the United States if not the world by setting the example. But Google chose the path of self-protection and short-term gain.
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I don't know if it should or it shouldn't, but it absolutely is not the norm for companies to announce those vulnerabilities publicly. Every year, most moderate-and-up-sized tech companies (really, a pretty big swathe of the Fortune 500 outside tech, as well) contract multiple penetration tests, and those tests turn up thousands upon thousands of sev:hi vulnerabilities, none of which are ever announced.

An obligation to announce findings would create a moral hazard as well, since the incentives would suddenly tilt sharply towards not looking for security vulnerabilities.
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Editing note: the first sentence under "Optimizing JavaScript » WebAssembly calls" seems to be repeated twice with different phrasings.
Apple isn't using the instruction (see other comments), I don't know how you determine providence for features, but basically ARM licenses including a space for private ISAs where custom instructions can live, but you still have to get permission for an instruction afaik (essentially ARM may choose to make it part of public ISA, rather than it just being your own instruction).
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There are so many places that pay well but are pleasant to work at. Especially in software development. If someone is unhappy they should pick up and leave, the market is good and the choices plentiful right now.
What happens to all the content and communities on it??
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Religion is the new hipster pursuit because atheism is the norm. Atheism was the hipster pursuit when religion was the norm.
2015 MacBook Pro because of a UNIX-based operating system with a decent UI and well-designed hardware that works reliably with said OS.
Isn't that done sufficiently by just adding all your acquaintances as friends? There are probably a dozen or so people on Facebook whose posts I actually care about. Everything else I could hardly give a shit about.
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The last servicing mission they installed 6 gyros. It was designed to operate with three.
Reject away, but your counterexample doesn't prove anything.

Once again, you're continuing to make the assumption that all outcomes should, prescriptively, be equal for any demographic you might care to examine.

There's no reason to believe that everyone is identical. That idea is a religion to some people, but it's all based on faith with no real evidence. People are free to pursue different goals, and to prioritize different things.

For your argument to prevail, you've got to get past that as an assumption. You need to actually demonstrate that for completely equivalent cases, some demographics are being held back. That's remarkably difficult to do.

Otherwise, I can do this: women compromise 56% of college enrollees, with men only at 44%. There's clearly some kind of superiority position with an interest in keeping men out of college.

I'm not claiming that's a problem, but with your model of presumptive discrimination, you're going to have to come up with an explanation.
Paras and marine commandos are also allowed to grow beards.
He did a amazing job of picking apart the novel but he missed the forest for the trees.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-exposed-use...
Minimum wage laws for tipped employees (in the US) is also why I always tip with cash.
Full disclosure: I am also an AMD shareholder :)

I am not fanboying AMD here either. The facts for me are clear, AMD is going to continue to eat Intel for breakfast for the next 2 years at least. Intel isn't going to be competitive until they release a modular designed chip, which although they haven't announced they ware working on, I am 100% certain they are. Why am I certain, first they now have Jim Keller, who designed the Ryzen chip. Second, they acquired NetSpeed, which has IP around modular CPU design (likely a play to ensure they don't get sued by AMD when they release a modular chip). I know a lot of people are looking at Intel right now, thinking it is a bargain prices and a good time to buy. I think they have a long way more to fall. When the chips that Jim Keller is working on are about to hit the market, that is when it will be time to buy Intel. Until then I have no interest in anything Intel has to offer.
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2017 MacBook Pro 15" (i7/16GB/1TB SSD) running Mojave.

Why? Because my top-end 2013 MBP 15" died and I couldn't find anything I liked better. But it was still plenty fast.

I want to flee macOS, as Apple doesn't truly care about it anymore, but I can't tolerate anything else. I want to tolerate Windows 10 as a main OS but I can't get myself there, yet.
https://outline.com/https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-expo...

EDIT: fixed link. thanks timvisee
Your statement: "Logs show that it has never been used by anyone."

The Wall Street Journal: "Because the company kept a limited set of activity logs, it was unable to determine which users were affected and what types of data may potentially have been improperly collected, the two people briefed on the matter said. The bug existed since 2015, and it is unclear whether a larger number of users may have been affected over that time."
Have you seen AMD's wankery? This is all due to the awful taste of the "Gamer" crowd. Gaming performance, "VR Ready" on every product, big retail experience, etc. - The whole RGB enchilada.

The marketing team does whatever the customers demand and value.
Please note that hyperthreading may not have the same benefits in AMD and Intel.

From
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/papers/p2209-kersten.pdf

"The only significant difference between the two platforms is that,
although both platforms offer 2-way Simultaneous Multi-Threading
(SMT), Intel’s hyper-threading implementation seems to be much
better. On the Skylake, we see a performance boost from hyper-
threading for all queries. On the AMD system, the benefit of SMT
is either very small, and for some queries the use of hyper-threads
results in a performance degradation."
Don't forget that they will need geo-redundancy built in to prevent data loss, and they likely have some kind of offline archive too.

Then there is the running cost to power all those drives.

Also, when you have that many drives, you're going to be constantly replacing dead ones.

I have a feeling this is an expensive operation!
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On any day in the last 5 years there were on average 640,000 people online for the first time.3 This was 27,000 every hour.
Part of the reason for the decrease is the increase in renewable energy. The vast majority of renewable energy technologies are or were supported by government subsidies to jump-start the industry. Most of those are tapering over the next decade or so, but the government (federal, state, and local) was instrumental in getting the renewable energy industry started in the USA.

Taking one example of a specific accord and saying, "because we didn't need this government [thing], we don't need any government [thing]," is a faulty generalization. Truth is, we need the government and the markets and several other things that work together in an extremely complex way (that no single human can understand fully) to solve global climate change.
One of the things that encouraged my programming early on was modifying BASIC programs to do different things - all the hard work was done and I could experiment and learn how the various functions worked, sometimes even develop some new nifty things.

You might try finding a good language with some usable/interesting example source code that she can fiddle with to start. Possibly Python with pygame or Processing might be a couple good start. Besides the modding she might get interested in see how X was done and then she can google it and learn the functions she sees in action.
> It's a big city. There is big city crime.

Compare that to London or Beijing where you feel safe at all time. Being a big city is not an excuse for feeling unsafe.

> Wicker Park and Logan Square are neighborhoods, not single streets

After one or two streets there is not much to see. Again I'm comparing this to european cities/asian cities where you can walk for hours in lively old centers/districts.
So they were in collusion and should both be prosecuted. If there was a will to prosecute feral police officers, there would be no practical difficulty.
>statistical clusters ... as important as the difference between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

No it isn't. Not even close.
All I really want to know is, are they still backdoored? Can we get them without Intel ME/AMT?
Not letting them off, just trying to set realistic expectations. I'm not in chip design, but everything I've seen on the subject suggests that 2-3 years from design to fabrication is the general (minimum) ETA on architectural fixes. The testing needs to be extensive or they risk releasing a worse problem to the world.
Ready? Have you tried out Webflow?
I grew up in the Midwest. I think you’re mistaking my tone. I’m not saying we shouldn’t care, I’m reminding the original parent that we do have welfare programs and they will adjust. It’s equally absurd to suggest impoverished people shouldn’t have access to the same food others do and be resigned to ugly food because no one else buys it...
I don't think that "bullshit jobs" has anything to do with any over-specialization, but instead with jobs that are actually pointless.

The article is talking about tasks that actually are necessary, because they are still being done. But instead of being done well, by a person specialized in that task, they're being done less well by people who are specialized in entirely different tasks, taking away the time they can spend on the tasks that they themselves are specialized in.