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As if autism is a "thing" that you "have". HIV is a thing that you can have. We check your blood and say "yup, you got HIV in there" or "nope, you're clean". Autism, like many terms, isn't a thing. It isn't even a state. It's a description of a state. But it's not a complete description of that state. It's really just a loose description of part of a state. Every case is different. Every autistic person is unique.
This is very good advice.

My wife is an Early Years Speech and Language therapist, so she is regularly exposed to children with autism.

Your daughter is lucky to have a proactive parent. Even when cases are identified within the system, by nursery staff for example, it seems to be more common than not that parents become very defensive about the idea of seeking further help. And actually, as a parent, I can understand it - but having seen first hand the difference professional help can make, especially in those early years, I would do everything in my power to get expert advice.

In the UK we have the NHS, and even though the waiting lists can be long (because these are the areas that tend to be the first to go during budget cuts), help is freely available. And it's not just autism we're talking about. There could be all manner of things that can contribute to a delay in those early years. There are people who can literally make the world of difference to the rest of child's future, and they really want to help.
To be fair, air travel become routine because of a couple of wars.

I don't see people spending that much on leisure. People spend on food and energy, then tools they need for work. If any money (or credit) remains, then they spend on anything else.
Coq is an amazing language. Learning to use it, and understanding the theories that underpin it, give one a far richer sense of understanding of computer science. In that sense it's akin to Haskell, but with an even more (much more!) powerful type system. I'm still a beginner but even with my limited expertise, it's a real breath of fresh air. I would love to see a world in which logic, type theory and functional programming formed the foundation of computer science education, rather than the comparatively arcane and clunky paradigms of object-oriented and imperative programming. I'm convinced that the quality of software would improve drastically.

(And yes, its name is truly unfortunate. It's hard to have a conversation about the language, especially in person, without giggling over the name. Pronouncing it "coke" helps, but it's still the elephant in the room.)

(Also, I'm not sure if the fact that this pdf is entitled "coqasm" is a pun or an amusing coincidence.)
Agreed. Is this pronounced "coke"? Regardless, this is a very interesting paper.
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To be fair, the US has always been at war with Eastasia.
Gmail's email search is already the best in the space, by far. I'm sure there are improvements to be made, but zero external pressure to make them.
You are right, I'm not the potential client but damn I would like to use this. I'm lucky only a minimal part of all web services use this pricing system.
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> Also this argument of good programmers don't have to rely on X as a crutch is more about pride than productivity. In the real world, most teams have code touched by developers at a variety of skill sets and everyone's contributions affect quality of code so tools should be measured across levels of expertise.

Not to mention that sometimes even Homer nods.

If something needs to happen in a certain way and you have to manually ensure that it happens every time, sooner or later even the best of us will slip up. Now, the tradeoff in power and flexibility might be worth the risk of shooting ourselves in the foot, but it's still a tradeoff.
Truth!

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>> "If it's only about safety and consumer protection, well shouldn't it be a consumer choice anyway?"

Ideally BUT it's unlikely the consumer will have the full information to make that choice. Is the taxi going to provide it and wait until they've read it and made an informed decision?
I've always been overweight, and struggled with it. I was unhealthy physically and I think it made me unhealthy mentally in some ways as well. I've always been the geek kind of guy, wasn't much into sports and had no idea how to take care of my own body. And this book made it all clear to me.
I think you'd be better off designing a scheme for generating secure, easy-to-remember passwords in the first place rather than using hipku. I had to make a lot of compromises to make the entire IPv6 space fit into a haiku. For example, hipku uses many one-syllable words which are relatively obscure, and it uses some words that are very similar to other words it uses.

Without the constraint of fitting an IPv6 address into a haiku, you wouldn't have to accept these compromises. I think it would be better to generate passwords that were a little longer (while still covering a 128 bit space) but much less ambiguous and easier to remember.

It would be pretty easy to do.
I am really amazed how it's already smoother than Google StreetView
This varies depending on geography. In some cities UberX are regular citizen drivers, but in others UberX are professional drivers.

Here in New York all UberX cars, and their drivers, are licensed in the same category as black cars and limos.
Sad that he blew £1000 on an "editor" incapable of tidying up the hyphenation mess.
> Game developers, take note: to ensure a 16ms frame time (required to achieve 60 frames per second), your application must make zero allocations, because a single young generation collection will eat up most of the frame time.

And this is why GC isn't the be-all and end-all solution to memory management.

(As as for people that are screaming "pauseless GC" - it has throughput issues [generally due to fine grained locking / other synchronization], and also often has a performance hit on your main thread [due to locking or read barriers, generally])

Now, if someone combined a pauseless GC with proper cleanup (i.e. skipping GC altogether) of variables where the compiler could determine when they can be thrown away, matters would be different. (So, in other words, the compiler inserts `malloc` (or whatever) calls, and ensures that every variable created is either `free`d exactly once after it becomes unreachable or is added to the set tracked by the GC (or is a constant - especially pertinent with strings). With (hidden) local variables to track control flow when different branches cause different allocations.)
Philadelphia has VERY little 24 hour service. Last I checked two bus routes operate along the same path as the 'orange' and 'blue' subway lines and nothing else. The regional rail service shuts down by midnight.
Thanks for the pointer. What I really wanted to understand was do you need to have an incorporated company to offer a simple subscription service or you can offer it as an individual
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Honi soit qui mal y pense ;) A coq is a rooster in French, as can be seen from the coq logo. One of the author is called Coquand, the rooster is the emblem of France (where it comes from) and the coq language is called gallina (rooster in latin). So it's a multi levels pun, and likely here to stay.
There's a grand tradition of goofy names in open source, but in this case I feel it's safe to say it won't be the main barrier to mass adoption.
As an indian, living in India and working on Odesk is not illegal. I don't need a visa or anything to work via Odesk.
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Unless they're really making claims about the person's sexuality, I'd guess the intended word was dunce, or something similar?
Calling his statement "Faith in science" doesn't change the validity of the claim in any way. It is useful to assume there aren't limits, meaning that it can produce physically observable and usable predictions. I'd say that is a pretty decent reason to hold a belief.

There seems to be a negative connotation to the phrase "faith in science" because faith and science are pitted as opposites here. The only difference is I can see plenty of reasons to have faith in something that has repeatedly given useful feedback, so I'm not even sure the phrase deserves all of the negative connotation it receives.
The French extreme right wing takes its root in Poujadism. The closest equivalent would be something like Peronism. It's basically a mix of protectionist ideas mixed with a lot of welfare programs. It tend to be reactionary on many social issues, but it is anchored firmly on the left. Most supporters of the FN today are blue collar, and it's not surprise that one of their 'thinkers', Alain Soral came from the far left - they're pretty similar.

As far as the attitude of French people on economic issues, just look at the polls instead of making ad hominem an quips
http://www.latribune.fr/actualites/economie/20110125trib0005...
http://www.croissance-responsable.fr/commissions/sondage-les...
http://www.ifop.fr/?option=com_publication&type=poll&id=2637
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Oversimplifying a bit, I'm going to tell you that Perl was initially conceived as a mix between C, sed and awk. So, there are quite a few awk idioms that are directly translatable in Perl. As a matter of fact, there even is a section dedicated to awk in perltrap[1], enumerating the differences between the two languages.

1. http://perldoc.perl.org/perltrap.html#Awk-Traps
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In Massachusetts, and many other state, there is free therapy available to children under 3. That applies to any developmental delay.

I encourage any parent to make full use of these resources. Having experienced them first hand it's been nothing but positive.
I think you'll find that that's not, in fact, a science. It's a philosophy at best, and a religion at worst.
We set out to create a holistic monitoring solution that "just works" with absolutely no configuration required. With one agent you can monitor everything - real users, applications and servers. Our belief is you should not spend any time configuring or calibrating your monitoring tools to get valuable insight into your applications.
Ah sorry, I misread. It looks like there is 24-hour subway service, but only on weekends, with bus replacements on Sun-Thu: http://www.septa.org/service/all-night.html
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If your workplace was just 10-15 minutes away, straight down the road I just don't understand why you didn't took the countless public transport opportunities.

Paris has IMHO one of the most affordable and pleasant metros I've ever used in Europe. I'd almost like to guarantee you that you would have reached your goal faster, cheaper and more relaxed if you'd taken the metro!
As is the case for AirBnB. The capital risk of the hotel purchase and maintenance.
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Your assumption is that producing a recipe is easier than producing food. It's not.

Writing a novel is incredibly difficult. It often takes years of absolutely thankless work. Your friends and family think you've gone mad, or you're just wasting your time tooling away on "that book." (Eye roll.)

Music is the same: hard work, endless practice, stop energy. "When are you going to quit that band and get a real job?"

Culture is not free. It's created by the blood, sweat, and tears of people who are willing to stand up against their own doubts and the subtile discouragement of others to channel some intensely personal muse, refine the signal in thousands of hours of dull practice and repetitive revision, and finally deliver something that we can enjoy.

But hey, we're all entitled to their works for free because we're the all-important consumer!

The "information should be free" ideology elevates the passive consumer above the active producer both morally and economically. The consumer has all the freedom and all the benefit for none of the work. Once I saw the injustice in this, I could not un-see it.

Fundamentally I think it's a half-baked ideology that comes from people who are looking only at the Internet in isolation from the rest of the socioeconomic system. Most of these people are well-intentioned, but the ideology fails.

It might work if we lived in a post-scarcity society where income wasn't strictly necessary since the marginal cost of everything is approaching zero. But we're nowhere even close to that.
"I wouldn't expect a conservative think tank to frame the issue any other way."

You do realize that's a symmetric slur, right?

Besides, from what I've seen in general the US is already the most progressive taxing country in the world. Like so many other "liberal" issues, there's never any stopping point, never enough, which is an incredibly dangerous way to operate (and is a great deal of the reason why we're in the final 10 years of liberal dominance as it is now tearing itself apart, because there is never enough, there can't be enough, there mustn't be enough, and if that means it must push beyond all bounds of reason or rationality, so be it...). And also, if the taxation level is a problem, given that our government spends radically more than it is taking in on taxes as well, maybe the government shouldn't be spending so much? Maybe the reason we are in such an economic funk is that we route too much wealth to the government, for it to expensively and poorly try to figure out what to do with it for us? Here's the symmetry: But of course I wouldn't expect a liberal source to even consider the possibility that handing all the money over to a centralized entity to disburse remains something that we have neither evidence nor experience to suggest is a particularly fantastic way to get things done at this scale.

I'd also observe the numbers are from the CBO, not the think-tank in question.
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If anyone is even marginally interested in GPU internals, you'd do yourself a favor by checking out John Owens' UC Davis class on the topic[1]. I once watched the first lecture just to fill an hour and ended up going through the entire course within the span of a week, following up with my own research later on. Superbly interesting.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/graphics-architecture-w...

or on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A8BA1C3B38CFCA0
I upvoted you twice, in case you care.

You raise some good points; the problem is, they both point the way to using languages other than C++: You essentially advocate using a subset of C++ (everyone does, even Stroustrup), and the subset of C++ you advocate is the high-level one with a maximal amount of automatic resource management, whether by templates or RAII.

OK, if I'm doing that, I obviously don't care about the manual resource management part of C++, so why shouldn't I use a language which gives me all of that and more? Are the performance gains from using that subset of C++ compared to something else even perceptible?
I'm not arguing that you need to avoid dynamic memory management to write "reliable software." I'm just pointing out that a lot of reliable software is written that way, and thus the idea that you need garbage collection to write reliable software is so obviously false that it's silly to think anyone believes it to be true, making it a terrible straw man to argue against.
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In short, cryogenic liquids, especially Hydrogen, is incredibly destructive to any container. It's pretty much the smallest molecule around and will wiggle into and make anything brittle over time.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2006/01/x-33venturestar-what-...
This really confused me as the article ended with " On its French driver recruiting website, it assures applicants that they do not need any insurance beyond what is standard for their vehicles. All UberPop trips are covered by commercial liability insurance with a $5 million per accident maximum, it says, that covers any damage or injuries caused by the driver." So which is it?
Thanks. The previous discussion was titled "Bay Area storm" so I assumed it was a local service/event only.
I feel the same about Uber, had some not so good experiences with UberPop but still hope it will stop those taxi licenses jokes (apparently costing 200k to 300k EUR).

But I don't understand this decision since the government has to do something anyway because of the VTC (kind of taxis but they can't pick you up in the street, i.e. other Uber services. They do not need a taxi license) which have been authorized. A really good news for the poor fools who just invested in a taxi license...
> The word "patent" sounds especially weird to me in that context. Are they seriously "patents" for taxiing people?

"Patently" is a synonym for "obviously" - nothing to do with patents.
This company uses green cleaning products, all organic. How many of you are using green cleaning products and is this important to you? Would love to get some feedback. I suppose for instance, if you are cleaning a toilet and flush the cleaning products down, it all must go somewhere which in the end goes back in the earth. So do you agree this is a help on the environment? Thanks, Scott
What routines am I slipping into?

For example, why am I still reading HN? I don't mean to imply all routines are bad, but awareness is ~60%. Why am I reading more lately?, etc.
Agreed, Taxi service in Paris is outrageously expensive. Rivaling Toronto even.
I'm in a quandary: doesn't the bookstore have a right to set a quality standard (not a poetic one), and a right to protect itself from chargebacks from unhappy customers?

Is the phrase "self published" really correct for Amazon and others to use? It could be argued that Amazon is the one publishing it, and they're really letting you bypass the editors and sales reps from a print-based publishing house to get your works onto Kindles.

I really don't know. The situation makes me uncomfortable as a creator of content, certainly, but the author's railing against the company for protecting its customers and defending against liability from credit card issuers ... That just feels like someone bitching out of a sense of entitlement, and history shows (all over the world) that people who thoughtlessly feel entitled are rarely able to be convinced that they, in fact, are the ones that need to change.
No, I meant his comments are ironic because of where he lives.
Left and right politics both have trade offs. I wouldn't give up my free health care or education for anything. But we get stuck with stupid regulations in certain areas which hurts job growth. On the other hand look at the USA. Compared to many European countries it's on the far right - however their taxi industry is still heavily regulated in most major cities. I've come to the conclusion recently that governments in general will always suck. Despite my high opinion of free health care the recent revelations on government spying have had to make me think whether I can tolerate big/left government.
If you don't lock, you can get a situation where the file on disk is in an inconsistent state until all writes have completed (for example, half of the second write applied but the other half not, etc)

As far as I know, at least. If (when) I'm wrong, please correct me.
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Anecdata: at my current gig, I almost never run into any memory-related issues with the C++ services that I support, and I've never written a "delete" because everything is managed with smart pointers. The one time we ran out-of-memory wasn't because of a leak.

On the other hand, one of the most frequent problems with our Java services is "GC thrashing".
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It's actually pronounced more like "cock". Coq is the French word for rooster.
Yes, auto will save you:

std::vector<bool> features(const Widget& w);

...

auto highPriority = features(w)[5];
processWidget(w, highPriority); //whoops, undefined behavior

This is from Scott Meyers' new Effective Modern C++, in the chapter about why you should use 'auto'. Even the new 'safe' and 'convenient' features are loaded footguns.
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Your link does not work. This S/KEY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY
If it is useful, I don't know a lot about autism, and for me your comment is super cryptic. What are you trying to say? Isn't autism sort of a dimension? I've heard about "the autist spectre", and the prevalence in males, and that's the idea that I got.
I think these uber wars are going to be interesting from a historical perspective. We're kinda seeing which governments are unusually protectionist and resistant to change. No surprise France, Netherlands, and Spain are on this list. Considering those countries have fairly weak to poor economic growth, one would think a bit of economic liberalisation would go a long way. That's the funny thing about protectionism, it keeps voters happy (cab lobbies, unions, etc) but it tends to kill innovation, the economy, and job growth. How do these countries expect to improve their situation? More deficit spending and EU bailouts like Greece?

How companies like Uber are treated may be a canary in a coalmine situation for hurting economies. If companies like Uber can't be allowed to compete, then who will? Who will make the new jobs and create new value?
Since no one is responding...a major character gives birth to an illegitimate child fathered by a married co-worker, has a sort of mental breakdown, and her family takes the child away and tries to cover the whole thing up. Don finds her in a hospital and gives her that advice.
Net-net, we need to boldly strategize a new mission statement, bringing to the table our best and brightest outside-the-box thinkers. Let's set up a series of weekly meetings to best discuss how to monetize the paradigm.
I especially appreciate that his TL;DR was a reference to one of the more dense pieces of literary theory that I was ever forced to digest...
Anyone interested in how GPUs work should read the series of blog posts by Fabian Giesen "A trip through the graphics pipeline": https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
You're not looking very hard, and you're seeing discount hub connections. It's incredibly easy to get a 600$+ ticket for that many miles. [I'm not talking about business or first class tickets.] The cheapest you can go is about $60 on advanced LA-SFO OW tickets. (Outside of Southwest or the discount flights).
This is an animal control issue, not a law enforcement issue.
Very true, except when laws of the land prohibit that practice the brilliance of the opportunity is questionable.
It once cropped up for seemingly simple everyday problem that I will describe here:

When I was still a graduate student (1980's), I was helping out some local businesses. There was a need to print a lot of receipts, and these receipts would be of some size, measured in number of lines. Say 10, 35, 20, 5, 12 etc. The paper size would be about 60 lines.

And then, we thought we should reduce the number of papers actually consumed for printing, by fitting as many receipts in single paper (We had cheap manpower to cut the pages manually.) Ordering of receipts was immaterial.

So given a simple list of (receipt no, #lines), how do you re-order them and create groupings so that each of that group size is less than 66 (in this case), and yet, the wasted size from all groups is minimized?

It is famous Knapsack problem.