skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how it works.

We are the medical industry and have codified the diagnosis of aspergers to be far encompassing and include people who have absolutely no real impact on their lives, but we've convinced them it is a problem and now we're going to provide them with a pharmaceutical and psychiatric therapy to help them "cope" with it -- GIVE US MONEY.
I like it, too. It's definitely an improvement, at least on my iPad2, visually appealing, feels faster, slicker, very refined. Maybe it's a different user experience on an iPhone, I don't know; I use Android 4.3 for my phone and mini-tablet.
Actually a lot of people are saying so.

The sleep-wake fade is going to cause car accidents. All those people that click home button to quickly look down and check new messages now have to take their eyes off the road for much longer while ios 7 gets around to fading in the screen.

apart from the timestamps on messages, I can't find a single new feature. The stupid instagram mode in the camera app (square and real-time filters) is dumb. I can use instagram if I want my photos to all look like crap. The photos summarize mode is totally useless, it's great for demos, but not actually useful, I've had siri off since day 1 so I don't know if that works any better.

And as for the flying icons on unlock, the fact that you can't turn it off is inexcusable.

Basically ios7 is just a theme. It's not a new version. If Apple want to introduce new themes then I'm all for that, but give me more than one every two years. How about actual features that are useful, Apple? I still can't use the music app and search for a song, sure I can use spotlight, but it searches everything, not just music.

and such glaring design flaws like the tumblr shows, and plenty I could add, like swipe down control center and switch off bluetooth by mistake half the time. Or swipe from center down to get spotlight? WTF!

edit: correction, I found one useful feature, block telemarketers! That's worth the update, even if the rest of the update is guff.
I also like iOS 7 a lot. The style finally feels like a good fit for the hardware design of the iPhone 4 and 5.
While I haven't personally played with it yet, this was the first reaction from a nontechy friend I got:

"ITS. SO. BEAUTIFUL.
I feel like I have a new phone. I took off the case for a little bit while on my bed just for the funsies. makes me feel like I'm holding a piece of heaven"
Putting the iPhone 5S on hold: Why I’m Happy With My 4S
While you make good points, all to often I see people use articles like this as an excuse to question those diagnosed with autism. As a father of 2 children with autism (and no, we're not talking about high-IQ introverted children), there is a lot of stigma associated with autism already.

So, this is just a friendly reminder not to try and make armchair diagnoses.
If the DSM doesn't have something to qualify you to be classified, medicated, or even monitored today -- they will, tomorrow.
If I accept the state of the universe as you've written it: Offer a payment plan, appealing to the debtor's better nature to get some of this retired immediately without causing him heartburn due to a large cash shock. Get that payment plan in writing, to keep everybody on the up and up. Collect payments in a timely fashion, embrace warmly when it is repaid.

In the world we're actually living in: the reason that "a firm demand on paper followed by legal proceedings" is the civilized way of raising the temperature is that some people are momos and are perfectly capable of constructing an inner world in which they don't have to pay, absent the external world forcing them to.
> How did we care for people 50 or 60 years ago

Well, in 1950, women were at least six times more likely to die in childbirth.

> arguably care and outcomes were more compassionate in spite of less technology

I've never heard anyone argue that.

> Do we really want the organization that invades brown countries and spies wantonly on everyone to be managing our medical system?

Our medical system is and will forever be managed by the same people who manage the government -- the people.

You need to stop foisting ills off on "the government" as if it is something distinct. We, the voting American populace, are responsible for its actions. If we wanted real change, there would be real change.

We obviously do not. We are a selfish, violent people. Thinking we will be any different just because the word "government" isn't involved is hopelessly naïve.

> Do you want that part of the decision process contaminating the decision vis a vis his or her ability to manage the healthcare part?

Presidents manage very little. Cabinet secretaries and heads of independent agencies who are confirmed by the Senate oversee civil servants who manage the day-to-day operation of virtually everything that happens in the United States government.

Besides, the only system under which no one has influence over something I don't want them to is a system in which I am an absolute monarch. Do you want that?
Where do you hang out online that you get the impression no one is saying it's yucky?
Autism is not bullshit.
This is probably the dumbest post I've seen yet on iOS 7. The default wallpaper is not cyan. It changes depending on phone and user. The number of emails you see in Notification Center is controlled in your Settings and it is not supposed to be a competitor to Google Now. The photo chrome hides when you tap on the photo and finally the Messages bubbles aren't that shade of green. It's darker and just as readable as iOS 6.
One of two reactions from my experiences.

1. You explain over a long period of time (weeks/months?) that you'll be travelling and what you'll be doing. The person is able to slowly come to terms with a change in routine before it happens. You set up a "new routine" for that particular day. Curiosity is engaged, and you have a relatively painless experience.

2. All of the above, but you do it really tough, with lots of screaming and distress.

Once a routine is learnt, it's really difficult to break. But you can create new routines for different environments. Preparation is generally key.
There was a hint in the post about the real solution: he should've been pushed in via wheelchair on his first visit to avoid his having to be accommodated in a different way in the future.

My daughter is "on the spectrum" and we try very hard to not create situations that require us to jump through hoops to avoid her autistic meltdowns. If she makes unreasonable requests, we have to say no and steer her away.

For instance, at one point she asked us to remove the tags from her stuffed animal. Then it became a requirement to remove all tags. It's taken a while to cure her if that trigger.

On the other hand, if we ever need to know the name of a particular dinosaur, she has us covered.
Sadly, I think it's a repeat, though I'd be getting a Surface Pro 2 with 512gb/8gb if the price were say $1300, but $1700 just strikes me as a lot of money.

At the same time, I haven't seen a comparably spec'd ultrabook for $1300, so maybe the pricing isn't that far off, and Microsoft doesn't want to be seen as undercutting it's partners.
> pills and therapy

There's no recognized drug treatment for Autism/Asperger's[1], and I kind of question your skepticism towards therapy. What's wrong with getting help with things you could be doing better.

[1] The only drug treatments relevant are drugs used to treat comorbid conditions. http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/autism-treatment-overview

> Being intelligent does not a disorder make.

Nobody's saying it does.
iOS 7 is REALLY yucky. Why Isn't Anyone Saying So?

Have you considered maybe it's because most people don't agree with you? I think you point out some real UI issues, but to me, they are more annoyances than "really yucky."
The problem is that the people who wrote the code are human. The people who deployed the code are human. The people who paid for the internet connection that lets you connect to their service are human.

There are any number of explicit steps that are taken to put code on an HTTP service on the internet.
Its not about productivity. The net work achieved is totally by any means a wrong metric. What I mean to say is you can't measure human productivity in the same way you measure a machine's productivity.

But there are a few things about star performers that I see. They tend to pick up the toughest problems and work on them. Importance to small yet important details. Extreme importance to quality, relevance and impact of the problem has on the real work and business scenarios.

In most ways, it has nothing to do with education, talent or skill. These are really good habits cultivated and sustained over time.
I get why people like arguments of this form, but they never work.

You see it all the time on Wikipedia. "If only we banned [topic speaker doesn't care about] we could finally make some progress on [topic speaker does care about]." But it ignores how people really work.

If you yell at people doing something good, they're not going to go do the other good thing you want. They're correctly going to ignore you. If you force the issue, they'll leave. Or if they can't, they'll turn into perfunctory drones.

It's not like BA's spending some large amount of money on this. I see no additional expense at all. The people doing it are doing it out of love and compassion. There's no reason to think that this will prevent them from being loving and compassionate to others. If anything, it may help other travelers, in that these people are a) developing their capacity to care about their customers as people, and b) doing something that provides much-needed variety in a parade of hurried, anxious, grumpy, entitled customers.
Ask HN: Does anyone want to hire CCIEs for partime?
Whoever wants a network infrastructure to be built/looked after or a network problem to be fixed, please spend 1 minute to read my proposal:

We have couple of CCIEs working in big enterprise/ISP environment for big companies. Resolving complicated network issues quickly is our daily job. We've seen all kinds of networks and know their problems. We understand network designs better than architects who only do network design works.
Working for big company is boring, but we need it for our job security.
We are thinking about a more productive way to spend our skills, without leaving current jobs: Part Time Freelancing!

So, here’s the proposition:.

We can support your network remotely, how? think about how the famous Cisco TAC works. We can be better and more dedicated than Cisco TAC. I’ve been worked a lot with Cisco TAC and I know they constantly fail my expectation because of lack of dedication to one customer, also because of the ever stopping new hiring.

We are CCIEs but our knowledge is not limited to Cisco like Cisco TAC does, to handle our customer issues daily requires us to be familiar with different vendors too.
We know quite a lot about networks, and we are honest about things we know and things we don't know.

For a start-up company, why hire a network professional sitting around when you only need him couple of days a month? Why let yourself be bound to complicated service contracts from big companies.

Let's find out if you can have better support from us.
> If the desktop is crippled, there is no reason to keep it.

I agree, that's why I said it should be un-crippled.

> I don't think this would make another iPad clone, it still has a lot to offer.

Really? It's a locked down API with apps sold exclusively from the company app store. The biggest selling app is probably Angry Birds! From a software perspective, it's almost distinguishable from the iPad except that the quantity of software is much smaller. That is not a recipe for success.

> That's one of the reasons the iPad is so popular, it's easy to use and manage. That's not a bad feature to copy.

It's a trade-off. The iPad is a very simple device and is very limited; it's difficult to impossible to make a file in one application and view it another! Microsoft can certainly try to out-simplify Apple but in the process they'll be leaving a large part of the market untapped.

> This is the thing I found the oddest about Surface RT. In order to avoid canabalizing laptop/Surface Pro sales, they prevent the RT from joining a domain.

It was a good plan, they made the RT so unappealing that nobody bought it at all! Microsoft should be trying to make the best possible product they can using all avenues they have available to them. Desktop, Metro, everything. Instead they're playing stupid games like this and the market is slapping them down for it.
People's emotional relationship with a company or brand predetermines to a large extent whether they will react positively or negatively to a new product or design. The same product released by Microsoft might have been met by a flurry of negativity and/or apathy, with a few people trying to fight the tide by pointing out positive aspects. With Apple the situation is reversed. The lesson is that actual execution is not so important, it is more how you have built your brand over time. It's just like at school, the same joke said by a cool kid and greeted with laughter, if tried by an uncool kid will probably fall flat.

And it's hard for both school kids and companies to escape the trap of uncoolness - it tends to give people a whiny, desperate element - which people hate. Part of the reason people are so harsh on Microsoft and soft on Apple, because the former seems to try so hard to impress while the latter is effortless and self-assured. Humans can be pretty cruel. But I think it does make a big difference to your sense of self with buying or using products from these different companies - Apple users feel relaxed and confident with their iDevices, someone who uses Microsoft stuff might feel insecure and defensive in comparison.
How much do you think is being paid?
This is a complex issue and is essentially being boiled down to "smart people are misunderstood." A topic that garners a lot of empathy here.

Autism Spectrum Disorder isn't just that the child is introverted. They must show several signs in order to be diagnosed. According to my partner (with a Master's in Social Work), it's also not something one can diagnose or counter in minutes like the author states he did with one child. That seems like a large credibility strike. Here information on how a diagnosis is made: http://www.autism-society.org/about-autism/diagnosis/

Further there's nothing but anecdotal evidence given in the article for making the leap from "diagnoses went up" to "we're misdiagnosing it." This is really just an opinionated fluff peace that resonates with our community.
Doesn't help, because the most plausible number is "0-1000" (which actually means >0 and <1000, since =0 would be handled differently). They're not allowed to report NSL+LE with more precision.
The text is often hard to read in screenshots, but I have no trouble whatsoever reading the same text on the actual phone. Oddly enough the combination of having double the resolution and the phone being much closer to my face than my monitor makes a huge difference.
Completely agree what said in the post, it is also addiction and tiresome day makes one look for little bit chill in the mind. Beer definetly does it. Anyone has any thoughts on "rewarding yourself" other than one mentioned in the post are welcome
No one ever got fired for choosing IBM or Oracle.
"Transparency Report" is such a bullshit term. It doesn't tell us anything. So what if they provide a neat table with rows filled with some random numbers. At the end of the day you are letting somebody else keep your files and do what they want with it.
Can any one who is more familiar with mathematics explain to me the context of this paper? The authors describe some prior research into cubes and non-negative integers. But what was motivating this research? Is it just interesting in general while not necessarily solving a problem? What are the implications of this discovery if any?
Where do you get the idea that 500-1500 CE didn't change much? More happened then than 500 BCE - 500 CE, 1500 BCE - 500 BCE, or really any millenium except 1500 CE - 2500 CE.
It doesn't seem crazy that their target demographic might be people who'd otherwise buy a PS4 or Xbox; and they don't necessarily have a beefy gaming machine.
If you are operating your phone whilst driving then you deserve to crash.

And on your points. Yes you can search in Music, pull the list down and the search bar appears. Filters are useless sure but I don't remember Apple forcing you to use them. And I have not once hit the Bluetooth button whilst swiping control centre so it might be just a personal thing.
My situation is complicated. I am not making much money but I am "saving" millions kind of by not being sick. Long story. So can't really be too terribly unhappy about it. At some point, the dough will role in but I will know I am doing stuff I am okay with...etc...

((hugs)) & take care.
> I still can't use the music app and search for a song

You can scroll up above the top of any list (artists/songs etc) in the music app to reveal the search bar.
Why do so many Americans live in mobile homes?
In Gaben we trust.
> If you are operating your phone whilst driving then you deserve to crash.

Does the same apply to the radio?
I'm not quite that bad off but I do have to stand next to a particular window at one end of my house to get 1 bar on the signal meter. Text message generally work throughout the house but to make a voice call with any hope of clarity I need to stand by that window.
Everything kind of looks bad to me now pre-iPhone – the things was seriously years ahead of its time.
Passive aggressively imagining things and projecting it on others is going to get you nowhere.

If you have something useful or even your own opinion to contribute, do so. I see that you have nothing to contribute except with your imagination
We have to acknowledge the racial differences and interactions: racialism, no racism. Intelligence within one race does not necessarily trigger similar responses in perception by other races.

That's just a "C'mon," y'know?

And it is well established, for instance, that autism diagnosis in African American, Mexican American, and Native American peoples is delayed by ~2 years. So "intelligence" really does no service as a normative guideline here.
In the past few years I've noticed this pattern more and more - flight attendant asks passenger to turn off iPhone, passenger simply pushes the top button to turn off the screen, flight attendant accepts this. So flight attendants either don't know or don't care that turning the screen off doesn't turn off the device.

I'd be willing to bet that most people don't bother to actually turn off devices / switch to airplane mode. On a flight last month I even watched a guy turn off the screen on his iPad when asked to shut it off, then as soon as the attendant walked away he turned it on again and continued to use it throughout take-off.
if you are talking about the knowledge and degree you got, the answer is no. but college also provie you human relationships, this seems very important for most common people, so the answer is yes
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Hello, author. Meet me. I was much like the boy in your article--except in one way.

I was thrown into tests at a young age which showed a high IQ. I had difficulty in school with outbursts. I did not easily read social cues from others. I had strange interests, like an obsession with the Civil War or (in sixth grade) a personal God that I carried around with me because I liked the word "polytheism."

I was an obsessive and voracious reader, but always an outcast. I was ridiculously pedantic--in first grade I refused to write "Mr." with a period at the end of it (I'm American) because in Roald Dahl books, he didn't use the period after "Mr".

I still write my periods outside of quotes, and I argued with a teacher in college regarding two sentences after a period. These and other arguments eventually led me to dropping out of college. Fortunately, I found computers and entrepreneurship--plus a lot of books on how to read body language--and I've done pretty well for myself since.

Oh, and did I mention I'm a woman? Yep, born female, with every issue you describe.

FTA: "Jordan secretly confessed to me that his English teacher must be dumb because she referred to certain assignments as “homework” when she allowed them to be completed in class. She should have renamed them “schoolwork,” he said, because they were being completed at school. In twenty-five years of therapy practice, I’ve never known a girl to make such a comment."

Well, good news for you, then, sir: There's an entire subreddit of us. http://www.reddit.com/r/2x_intj Perhaps you should come visit sometime. Or are you too busy making gendered statements and deciding that it must be "masculinity" that causes these issues, instead of diving deeper into the issue?

I certainly could have benefited from a class on how to understand facial cues. I could still benefit from a class on tact. I still make people uncomfortable sometimes when I talk to them.

I'm a female, an introvert, and I have been diagnosed with ADHD. (A diagnosis which unequivocally changed my life for the better.) Making light of issues like this, or narrowing them to "boys will be boys", is a sad misinterpretation of a real issue. Do I have Asperger's? It's certainly been suggested to me several times by others, but ADHD more fits who I am.

To those of you reading this, I hope you don't take it too literally. There are kids out there who need real help. I wish I would have had more of it. Asperger's/autism or not, school was pretty much miserable for me, and I would have been grateful for the opportunity to learn how to really connect with others.
Basically, there is a problem known as Waring's Problem[1] which asks if for any natural number k we can find a positive number s, such that we can express any other natural number as the sum of at most s natural numbers raised to the power k.

In this specific paper we are talking about when k=3, that is "Is there a positive integer s such that every natural number can be expressed as the sum of s cubes?"

A result by Dickson in 1939 showed that every integer (except 23 and 239) can be represented by the sum of 8 non-negative cubes. This was further refined by Linnik who showed that large enough integers can always be represented by 7 cubes (more details in the paper, I'm just summarising).

This paper provides support for the conjecture that for sufficiently large integers you only need 4 cubes, and find a possible lower bound on what large enough means - greater than 7373170279850.

It's relatively easy to show that 7373170279850 cannot be written as the sum of four cubes. The hard aspect is finding such a number in the first place, and then determining if it is the largest such number.

Their method was to find a number N_1 that is not C_4 (where C_s means it can be written as the sum of s cubes), and then check every number between [N_1, 10.N_1]. They chose the number 10 by simulating pseudo-cubes sequences, which gave them confidence 10 is a good choice. If you find a number that is C_4 in the interval, call this N_2 and repeat the process, if you don't then you have found a candidate for the largest.

There are some more details about number theory tricks they used to reduce the search space in the paper, but that seems to be the gist of the whole thing.

[Edited to include more information from the paper]

[0] direct link to the paper: http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/2000-69-229/S0025-5718-99-0...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waring's_problem
As a private pilot I've had to turn off GSM on tablets and phones to avoid interference in the headset. I still try to keep one cell phone on in case of an emergency.

There has been a few reported incidents with laptops etc causing interference with nav systems. While the rule may be too strict, I understand the "better safe than sorry" approach.