skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
heh TAAS.

For those not from Texas or too young to have experienced it, TAAS was horrible even compared to other standardized tests.

Other standardized tests at least pretend to assess a student's learning. TAAS assessed a students ability to parse octuple negatives and poorly typeset mathematics.
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> "gifted track" is rarely a set program. It's usually a mechanism for providing individually paced opportunities and resources.

...which doesn't apply when the "track" is a set program at a different school.
I'm calling it today: 2017 will be the year of the Firefox come-back. I recently started using it again after switching to Chrome when Chrome was initially released in beta. I'm more of a second-wave of adopters--not among the very first but before the masses jump on board. I predict that tech-savvy business users will start jumping back later this year and that by 2018, we'll start to see non-technical people (like my parents and in-laws) start to use it as family and friends begin to recommend it.

Why? Battery life and speed. Chrome is just a mess these days. Absolutely terrible on laptops.
The world is a wave function. It’s an element of Hilbert space. That’s it
It makes no sense to inflation adjust the DJIA price index. Because the index discards cash dividends, by adjusting for inflation but not dividends you're ending up even further from the real returns of a DJIA portfolio then you were before.

The same goes for S&P 500.
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I'm not sure how current this story is. As of a week ago, in Pune and Delhi, all the ATMs seemed to have plenty of money. The withdrawal limit has been raised to the normal 10k/day. I suspect things will go back to normal soon.

One thing I've been pretty shocked by is how people are taking it. In India, the ATMs don't work, people are losing their jobs, but it's just a topic of discussion. You can think it's a good or bad idea, all opinions are tolerated.

Compare to the insanity currently happening in the US - riots and political violence spreading, dissidents afraid to speak [1], virtually everyone is angry. It's quite a contrast to see up close. (I flew to India shortly after demonetization, and came back to the US a day ago.)

[1] Just after the election my social calendar was full. All the secret Trump supporters were desperate to talk to someone and I was the only person they felt safe speaking to.
Those who understand, question. Those who don't, obey.
But thats kind of the point isn't it? Some Kanton decides by popular vote to be conservative, and they can do so. They are not forced to follow some politically progressive agenda, and so the people are not alienated as in other democracies.

The downside is that progress is slower, but the upside is that the system remains stable and there are no backlashes against a perceived "liberal hivemind" or whatnot.

Democracy does not mean that sensible things happen, it means the people govern themselves, for good or for worse.

Switzerland has found a feedback cycle that works exceptionally well. So you voted to spend lots of money on a football stadium? Well sorry, we can't afford free kindergarten anymore. People learn from this and retain identification with the political system.
This is nothing more than a sugar high before the inevitable Trump crash. He likes to take credit or stuff other people did. Then when Trump actually does something and it doesn't go well he pushes the blame onto someone else.

The stock market indexes were already up significantly as a result of Obama's policies. I'm just not here for Trump or others assigning credit to Trump for something Trump had very little to do with.

This is what you call speculation. Under Obama people had to prove out their finances. Under Trump gut feeling is enough.
You missed the part where I said they are underexposed to educational resources. These "objective measures" would be biased against low income students that aren't taught the material.
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Malarkey. Apple has excellent security reasons to keep third party apps (Chrome, Firefox, ...) from using JITs on iOS. They've only recently allowed them to use the Apple JIT.
Not sure what you mean by that.
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>Trump is lying

>Press Secretary Sean Spicer said a lie

Is it irony when a click-bait website lies about lying?
I agree with you, but Apple doesn't control the entire cell phone market. Also, if you make them allow 3rd party browsers, why not then allow 3rd party OS's and app stores on the iPhone as well - I can see how Apple would have a problem with that.
Seriously. These "enumeronyms" drive me batty.
>He was voted in by the people, through a legitimate democratic process.

Every part of this is wrong. The people voted for Clinton by a plurality of 3 million votes. The Electoral College is a device for permanent Southern hegemony and, consequently, Republican supremacy -- there's nothing legitimate about it.
My understanding is that building subways in LA is costlier and more labor-intensive than in a lot of the cities you mentioned, but the subway system is currently undergoing a massive expansion in LA.

The main difficulties are the fault lines: Subway lines have to be meticulously planned to avoid the dozens of faults as well as other areas that are susceptible to major movement.

http://www.cccarto.com/faults/la_faults/
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When Firefox started to forbid unsigned extensions it was a dealbreaker and I switched to Pale Moon. I've been happier with it.

I think there's a pattern where products first get into a great state for power users/hackers but then pivot to evolve to be the lowest common denominator for mass adoption.
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Not really. Startups can have people coasting along as well.
They could only get carrier support in select countries and that was what was helping pay for development of the platform. And trust me, even if they had had them available for developers in the Bay area, I don't think developers would have cared. The hard truth is the APIs just weren't robust enough to do anything beyond the same HTML5 apps we already saw across Android and iOS, and it ran like dogshit.

The main problem with Firefox OS and also Canonical's Ubuntu phone was that they treated the lowend market of certain countries like second or third class citizens, assuming the cheap price would make up for the fact that there were no apps and the performance was terrible. What those companies didn't count on (but frankly should have), was that Android would just get cheaper and cheaper and the those countries would be fine with running two or three year old hardware (especially since apps frequently support old versions), rather than running a second-class OS.

I would always ask Mozilla what they would do when Android simply got as cheap, and I never got an answer that was in any way encouraging. And the answer was, they would accept defeat and give up.
It's a new thing we're trying out for YC W17, and we're still fiddling with it. This is the third one so far, the other two being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366964 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13474042.

The idea is to occasionally replace job ads (which have been the content of YC's reserved slot on the front page since forever) with YC startup launches. Since startup launches are more interesting than job ads, and since freshly-launched startups are typically too new to need job ads, this feels like a win/win: HN's front page gets more interesting, and YC's reserved slot can benefit more startups. We'll make sure that there isn't both a job ad and a launch post on the front page at the same time, but that's not done yet.

Edit (years later): In the end, that list bit never happened. Our first implementation put Launch HN posts on the front page similarly to the posts in the second-chance queue (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), and we never ended up changing it. So indeed there are sometimes both job ads and Launch HNs on the front page at the same time, since the two mechanisms operate independently. No one has ever complained about this, but I still worry about it, especially on the occasions when we have two Launch HNs on the front page at the same time, which we try not to do often but which happens during the stampede towards Demo Day in a batch.
Because with this definition of the problem, the "low performers" don't have options to restrict.

My point, as applied to this case, is that giving the option of "smart-only schools" will predictably lead to people taking it, which may lead to issues described by 'habosa here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13483591. It's a reasonable question to ask if this is what is beneficial to the society (including its economy), and if the answer is no, then not giving such an option in a first place is an entirely logical approach.
I think it is pretty ironic that Ionic 2 has a complete set of components for both iOS and Material Design:

http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/components/#overview

,while Angular 2's official material design components are still in the pre-release stage:

https://github.com/angular/material2

Good job on filling the gap for Angular 2.
This may be naive or old fashioned, but could they take checks? Can banks refuse to cash checks based on "morals"?
I'm a bit surprised not to find any occurrence of "SpaceX", "mars" or "Musk" in this discussion page.

Elon Musk stated many times that he wants to colonize mars in order to prevent a collapse of human civilization. I've always found this idea ludicrous as in my opinion for this purpose it makes much more sense to prepare for the meltdown on Earth, and as far as I understand that's precisely what survivalists do, even if their motives are probably much more selfish than Musk's.
It's a convolutional neural net that's very similar to the one that won ImageNet last year. We're doing standard preprocessing with opencv and training the net in theano. Dataset is a mix of images we got from our beta users and stuff that's openly available on the web.
I assume you are talking about "pinch to zoom" ? Chromium has smooth pinch to zoom also just like Safari. Firefox however, does not.

It's basically the 1 reason i stopped using Firefox, zooming (pinch to zoom) absolutely sucks as opposed to Safari/Chromium. Pinch to zoom in Firefox feels like going 20 years back in time...
Maybe the only cars which will be able to use these tunnels will be Teslas with autopilot that they're convinced will not have accidents?
It's not process-per-tab like Chrome, it's just 2 or 3 processes.
How about obsessed and love? Americans overuse these two.
1. Gifted children come from the rich and poor and from all ethnicities. The way to reduce income inequality is to take the brightest students from across these diverse groups and help them achieve their potential.

2. The alternative is equality of outcome, i.e. cut down the tall poppies. This isn't a solution. Keeping gifted children lockstep with their age-mates does them serious damage that can last a lifetime.

Regular students cannot benefit from compacting the K-5 curriculum into two or three years, whereas the gifted can. The reality is that these kids need to be surrounded by their ability peers if they are going to reach their potential.

For evidence, check out the work of Miraca Gross, who did her work in Australia. She has a book called Exceptionally Gifted Children, where she details the lives of several of these kids and shows how devastating the school system can be to them if extra accommodations are not made.
We've been developing an app since the last beta and are happy to see Ionic come of age now. Congratulations, and thanks for all the effort.
I favor Firefox on mobile due to the excellent add on support.

I favor Chrome on desktop when doing webdev.
I think the same about Brazil. Endless amounts of natural beauty and it often seems to go unnoticed (or merely noticed but not fully appreciated).
Non-rhetorical question: Why would I use this instead of the many other approaches to running Kubernetes? Looking through the linked pages gave me no clue what the advantage is. I love Ubuntu, I've been a heavy Ubuntu user (on servers, laptops, etc.) for over 13 years, and I have a 25-node Kubernetes cluster running as part of https://cloud.sagemath.com. The kubernetes nodes all run Debian images, since that's what actually worked by default on GCE (with Kubernetes 1.3) when I setup the cluster. Soon I'll be making a new Kubernetes 1.5.x based cluster, and expanding how it's used.

Anyway, I feel like the documentation I was easily able to find about CDK misses the "comparison to the competition". I will maybe consider CDK as one option, instead of just using the install scripts that come with the Kubernetes source distribution.
Yes, I am aware that libertarians are forced to deny that the freedoms they totally fail to protect -- as I have said and you continue to prove -- are freedoms at all. That comes with the territory of a toy political philosophy that rests upon category errors that don't survive their first trip into the existing world.
Every case I've seen it (about 10y ago) essentially turns into a light-work and ultimately a severance package (ie, 1mo for transition, 2mo collect a paycheck don't come into the office).
> $3,000 for giving birth in a Swiss hospital plus much better care, or $30,000 for bare minimum care in the US

I still find both of these numbers insane. In Canada, I paid $40 to upgrade to a private room because we had to stay overnight. To be fair though, my benefits from work already paid $60 to go from the free 'ward' (4 people) room to semi-private (2 people).

Had we not stayed it would have cost $0 -- that includes a private delivery room, delivery by a midwife we had been seeing for a few months, the midwife coming to our house at 4am before we went to the hospital, any emergency intervention by nurses/doctors (if needed, thankfully we didn't), plus the midwife coming to our house a few times for follow-ups for the first few weeks.

It's the same cost ($0) to get a OB/GYN except delivery is by whoever is on call (not necessarily your doctor), and early pregnancy and follow-up care is by your regular family doctor at their office.

Oh yeah I also had to pay for parking, that was like $30.
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I don't understand. It sounds like you're saying that the South "runs the country" in the wording of the original claim.
This feels like this fills the void between people who don't care about calories and people who really care about calories. I know people (read: myself) who are too lazy to measure everything down the milligram and just want an order or magnitude sense of calorie intake.
I think there's a small but non-trivial chance that, in the next 3 or 4 decades, global weather will become so erratic and severe that we'll lose a good 90% of our ability to grow food, world wide.

That would end our civilization.

It would, obviously, be a long, slow, agonizing, random and exceedingly chaotic process.

Hopefully that's not what will happen.
I live in Indiana, and I've been living under a Pence government with a Republican supermajority for the last 4 years. It's better than Trump. Yeah, Pence picks ridiculous fights that cost the state a lot of money and he's a socially regressive person who wants to impose his views on everyone, but he's not an unhinged, unstable narcissist. He doesn't make all of his policy within minutes of it being shown on a cable newscast. I'll be able to sleep at night when Trump is replaced by Pence.
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Currently, mJS FFI is limited to functions only. And, to simple enough functions.

On how to access memory from mJS: write an accessor function!

// C
void setmem(uint8_t *ptr, int index, int value) {
ptr[index] = value;
}

// mJS
let setmem = ffi('void setmem(void *, int, int)');
let malloc = ffi('void *malloc(int)');
let mem = malloc(10);
setmem(mem, 3, 5);
The concept of privilege is often bandied around by social progressives, but if you strip away the ideological elements, it really just comes down to self-awareness. What are you reliant on? What does your success depend on? Count your blessings, and reciprocate.

The libertarian inclination to portray human beings prospering on their own as Randian ubermensch is one of the worst ideas to have infected tech culture.
>There is nothing 'totalitarian' about being able to sue someone for printing lies.

There is everything totalitarian about being able to sue people for printing anti-Republican lies, but not pro-Republican lies. If you could sue people for printing or broadcasting lies, we would have driven Fox News off the air years ago.
In my few CLJS benchmarks that I did because I had to optimize something FF regularly beats Chrome by about a factor of 2.
LA does have a subway now. It's not the greatest, but to their great credit they are aggressively expanding it.
> Apple should be legally stopped from doing this monopolistic garbage.

mo·nop·o·ly
məˈnäpəlē
noun
1.
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

What's the iPhone's marketshare compared to Android again? You can't just decide to define a monopoly as something that's inconvenient or even abhorrent to you - words (and the laws that use them) have real meanings.
There is definitely a seedy (read: illegal) element to the site which seems to have been going on for years without concrete efforts on the staff's part to eliminate. I'm not talking about kinks, I'm talking about pedophiles and rapists.
He did pull the US out of the TPP. And I'm confused why they did not affect the market like I thought it would.

Did the US just not hand over all its influence in Asia to China by doing that ??
There is one in Stanley Park in Vancouver. I came across it and didn't know what the nuts were so collected several off the ground to look up. I didn't know anything about the tree before that.

For the curious: http://imgur.com/a/eis4a
> I am not in silicon valley, so not sure about there but over here

From what I've seen here there are "product managers" and "engineering managers" and they have very different responsibilities (tho I don't fully understand the former yet).

I've never seen an MBA engineering manager before.
i think managers should be good at observing and linking cause to consequence. and use that experience to make good decisions. in the future we might be able to replace managers with AI.
Wealthy students (or their parents) pay full price, supporting the university and all it's operations. Many of them pay more than full price via donations and such. One of the things they are paying for is support/scholarships/etc for the poorer students.

I don't think a grad student's stipend is a handout, just as I don't think my salary is. Nevertheless, grad students should be grateful to the undergrads/taxpayers who are supporting them, and I should be grateful to my employer's customers (I am).
> In the first month alone after the currency ban, micro and small-scale service industries cut staff by 35 percent, the All India Manufacturers’ Organization said, based on a survey.

> The International Monetary Fund this month cut its projected growth rate for India by one percentage point for the current fiscal year, to 6.6 percent.

What are those predictions made of?
I see that google has open sourced a VMM written in go [1], but I doubt this is the VMM discussed in the article. Has google open sourced this software?

[1] https://github.com/google/novm
A better question would be: what is e10s?
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Sure it makes sense.

I dabble in what sorts of programming languages, but when comes to work, it is mostly C#, Java, JavaScript and some occasional C++, because that is what customers pay for.

Hence why I see a big value in mainstream languages slowly evolving into multi-paradigm ones, as many of us don't have the luxury to move beyond the first class languages of each platform.
So uhh... can users respond to developers responding to user reviews? ;-)
So that makes it OK when we, as a group, decide that brown people don't deserve to live happy healthy lives because they are taking our jobs.
Basically the story behind that was that I used to work as a process development engineer at a manufacturing company. I always wanted to start my own thing and learn how to code, so I took a community college class about iOS after work from like 6PM-9PM 2-3 days a week. In all honesty, the class didn't really help too much, BUT it set some pretty hard deadlines that I was forced to meet. I think I told my boss that I was taking some programming classes at a community college, but he didn't really ask too many questions about it. He probably thought I was crazy cause it didn't have anything to do with chemical engineering.

Anyways, after starting the first version of UpKeep and leaving my job as a process development engineer, I got my first real job as an iOS developer by showing my interviewer (and my future boss) this awesome new app that I was making! My bosses were always very supportive because it pushed me to learn more (plus I have a feeling they thought it was going to fail). Now it's time to show them what we're made of!
> Alerts are generated if any projects that cause an unusual number of Rowhammer errors.

Is that correct english?
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Colleges should probably offer a summer class before freshman year to teach low income students the common sense ways to do well. The class should be taught by seniors who are also low income.
I got it mixed up with a similar site with the same acronym. I don't know much about FetLife.
The US doesn't have the freedoms people have in India.
> When you get an MBA, it's a huge signal to an employer that you accomplished something

What?
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But you still have a choice, which is all I was saying.
How long do you expect CDK to lag behind upstream Kubernetes releases? So far it's been pretty tight, but I'm curious about what sort of expectation you have here.
Okay yeah, send me an email at ryanchan@onupkeep.com and I'll forward you her contact info! She's actually my high school friend's girlfriend so we are really close and she is always looking for new gigs!
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I was using C# as an example of a language that now, as it has developed more features, lets you have your cake and eat it too. Many such languages exist.

Python seems overspecialized and stagnant to me. It prioritizes readability and simplicity, but that often results in weird workarounds that are even less legible and simple than a more expressive language would have.
I know many don't want to hear it, but this is what you get for "moving forward" and not punishing government-approved torture and for not setting a standard for the future that it's not acceptable.

Sadly, even if Trump's administration does far worse crimes than Bush's administration did, there probably won't be many Democratic nominees, if any, that would commit to putting people in prison over those crimes, once in office. They'll "move forward" once again, so they "don't rock the boat", and "unite the country". So no lessons will be learned - again.
It's not a restriction on JITs that's the problem (though certainly it would be a limitation), it's this: “Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.”
I have more faith in the greed of bank CEO's than to believe this is anything other than risk avoidance.