skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an opposite experience in Texas (semi-rural Texas no less). The gifted and talented programs (i.e. things sometimes referred to in other districts as "Quest", "Omega", etc...not AP as occurs in later grades) did the exact opposite of focusing on standardized testing. The vast majority of time was spent on "above and beyond" and critical thinking. Granted you tested into it and all of your time was not spent there, but even times in standard classes were not heavily focused on standardized testing.

This goes to show that the problem is more localized than state level, it is a municipal and district-level choice so long as you meet minimum testing requirements. Now when students don't meet minimum testing requirements, most districts unfortunately fall into the trap of teaching to test as opposed to teach.
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So you're taking twenty or more people with you? Requiring a larger aircraft which requires more staff which results in more people. Rinse repeat.

Plus the risk of leaks resulting in additional people or those wishing to take your plane.

When you arrive who is feeding, housing, and this large number of people?
Sorry, but this Trump thing really demonstrated the lie behind all that. His race-baiting and so forth make him unfit as a person let alone a leader. His lies and crimes were clear before he got elected and yet pretty much every republican obediently fell in line behind him.

Obviously their personal power was worth more than whatever platform they ran on originally. The entire party has no integrity.

> Anyone who would say this with a straight face isn't intelligent or isn't honest, so they can't speak for intelligent honest people.

Oh yeah? How many people were at the inauguration? Trump/Sean/Kelly's words are direct and obvious lies that contradict video of the event from multiple sources.

How's that a party for intelligent honest people?

> Identity politics and strong liberal populations in universities has made it social suicide for anyone to admit they have any doubts about the Democratic party.

Says the non-liberal who isn't at university and read it from a Facebook-linked news article. Alternate facts from an alternate universe.

I know you didn't pay any attention to the Democratic primaries but nobody holds the democratic party to be sacred. Nobody calls it the Grand Old Party or in any other way reveres the institution. That hero worship of the past is a Republican thing.
Yeah, it depends on how far down the collapse goes.

Diesel is good if collapse doesn't go all the way down. If it does, plain old horses are better.
I'm on Firefox for Android, it works fine in most cases.
>He may be (most likely is) corrupt but, as has been extensively discussed elsewhere, it is not clear that has done anything strictly illegal, which makes it tricky to say definitively.

Legalized corruption remains corruption. It was when Clinton did it, and it is when Trump does it.
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That's a completely different discussion and problem.
It's awfulllllllllll. Doing web dev work for it is a nightmare. There are always weird issues that pop up for it that don't occur on other browsers.
You wrote rationalizations for the policies you mentioned, but you didn't address my point that the real world example of the economic dominance of the USA would be evidence that you're incorrect.

You'd think that if your policies were good for business, countries that had adopted those policies would be the most economically successful.
A few years ago it was called truthiness.

Face it, we don't have the critical mass necessary to shame alternative facts, our average level of education is just not high enough. That makes democracy itself almost useless. We're slowly sliding into a state where language and words don't have any meaning, because everyone has his own take on things. We're heading into another kind of dark ages. Maybe that's the natural state of human beings, or it just happens when society is twisted by capital and political power. We're optimizing for the wrong thing.
Disclosure: I work on Ionic

Ionic 2 is much more performant and scales much better for app development than Ionic 1. I have yet to meet anyone who has not really enjoyed developing Ionic 2 apps. We take a tremendous amount of pride in the developer experience!

Native apps will always be a little faster but if you can get 60FPS either way, who cares? Ionic is easier to build apps with, and developing in the browser is a joy.

A huge advantage of Ionic is being able to deploy the same code base to the web as a PWA and to a phone natively as a cordova app. Soon Ionic Native will expand to support PWA and Electron, too, so it will truly be a write once run anywhere experience.
I have this - admittedly very condescending - theory that a large part of the middle class is still "financially illiterate". Wages are hardly ever discounted for inflation and thus growing wages (in absolute terms) make most people happy. Even if their purchasing power is declining. As long as there is no sharp increase in prices most people won't complain.
Extracting fingerprints from selfies: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/peace-sign-selfies-privacy-ri...
Not exactly, almost everything you rely upon has a global supply chain. The tractors used for agriculture are probably not made in NZ, as their components, transformers, electrical materials, basic chemical supplies, etc.

Look around you and think where all the aluminium, iron, potash, copper, rubber, basic oils, etc. comes from. All those supply chains will be disrupted, if not eliminated completely. There is barely any self-sufficiency left in the world.
For the love of God, cite something credible.
I agree with you. See my comment from earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13472276
You only need to cash out the amount you can't spend in bitcoins. The more things you can buy in bitcoins, the less powerful politically-controlled money becomes.
I've stuck with Firefox because it works the way I want it to work and is extremely customizable. I've been doing more front-end development lately though and Chrome and Safari have been a lot nicer, and given the incredible slowness of Firefox, I've been thinking of making the switch. However, the new multithreading engine (Electrolysis) has given it a new lease on life for me.
I think it is an incredibly obvious claim that America would be better off. For one, we'd be able to spend that money on other things, or just lower taxes by that much.
You ignore the fact most "gifted" students come from higher income families. There are "gifted" children from lower income families that would be misidentified due to underexposure of educational resources.
> You have to keep checking the extension page (like uBlock Origin), see when there is a new version, download the new version, and re-install it... all manually.

Or just write a script, which isn't that hard, outside of applescript. And the ability to install extensions outside of the dev program seems to invalidate that one cannot install extensions unless in the dev program. That they're not auto updated is a rather trivial thing to work around.
Depends if they do it on your dime and in your country -- the one you're supposed to take care of because you live in it.
Does Irene have a blog/website/portfolio?

How can someone contact Irene in case they would like to hire Irene?
Disclaimer: I am not the author.
> I think the objection today has mostly to do with the fact that they want to tell us what we do in our bedrooms.

Yeah we already see the first signs with Trump defunding abortion organizations. However I don't believe Trump to be behind this, much more Mike Pence.

And I'm really, really afraid that someone will either successfully impeach, maim or kill Trump - because then Mike Pence will succeed him, without anyone to check his powers, given that he'll have the entire extremist religious people in the GOP behind him.
Regarding how do I stay motivated...

Won't lie, there's been some dark days. Especially in the beginning with zero users, negative $$$ (basically supporting UpKeep with my paycheck), and working alone in mom's garage.

But what kept me motivated through this period was just this idea that I was learning SO much in such a short period of time. I loved it. I basically asked myself if I'd rather pay to go to a bootcamp and learn to code or do an MBA or try and start my own thing and learn with UpKeep! I chose UpKeep and I just tried to learn something new and challenge myself every day.

Now, I am really motivated by our current customers using UpKeep. Watching them use our software and seeing how it actually has a significant impact on their business and workflow is awesome. I wouldn't trade it for anything else. When people say they actually "love" UpKeep it gives me all the warm fuzzies :)
> Looking back, the main problem was probably Spring, Glassfish, IOC, XML, Maven and numerous other "EE" things that java-people assumed were a must 10 years ago.

Imagine the fun of doing that in C and C++ before Java was known to the world.

It used to be called COM, CORBA, OLE 2.0, DCOM, SOM.

Any language in a EE environment suffers from space architects.
Switzerland has one of the largest percentages of foreign-born and non-citizen residents, so probably it's not so bad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign...
What does "Here's the 411" mean?
I loved playing chestnut/oak nuts as a kid. You can make all kinds of human/animal figures from the nuts!
It's was a treasure trove of endless play for kids who didn't have access to ready made toys.

Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcyJOIQ8q_4
Let me fix that for you:
"Some societies have policies and tradeoffs that offer significant benefits to the average citizen, and that ruined me for living in other societies (even of similar wealth) that are not that progressive."
>This is basically the same as saying no business person should run for the president, so just leave it only to career politicians.

Damn straight. We want business out of our government. The government belongs to everyone, not to billionaires.
Income taxes are a 100 year old concept, local and national government was decent at supporting infrastructure and schools when it was just property owners paying taxes.

I would like you to realize that it requires indoctrination to agree with you. Indoctrination that the end result of due process is "right". Indoctrination that the word tax is exempt from scrutiny.
One of the major factors in speed is efficient memory layout.

In most applications, I would gladly give up some compute speed to gain some programming productivity.

By Smalltalk standards, Python is pretty profligate. (By 90's C programmer standards, Smalltalk is pretty profligate.) However, Smalltalk still has many of the high productivity features as Python. (In fact, the debugging story is far superior.) I suspect, though, that Python is still a far superior environment for the things you use it for.
Islam defies logic. If Quran doesn't say so, then it won't be taught. Sad watching Turkey sliding into the Wall of the Veil.
Why? Everyone always trots this out as though it's unequivocally true.

I ended up teaching my AP Statistics course. It was ludicrous: as a junior I somehow understood the material better than the teacher and was expected to teach a class full of seniors.

Yes, it was more educational than the alternative (sitting in a corner reading a book while totally phoning it in) but I also have no doubt that I would've learned far more in a course which actually challenged me.

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Also, this notion that our real world experiences are anywhere near as heterogeneous as public schools is downright ludicrous. It's not like we hire random people off the street to be software engineers. The average IQ of everyone I interact with is well the national average.
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Thanks, do send me your thoughts once you get it!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire
Regarding FirefoxOS, Mozilla erred in focusing their efforts on cheap, crappy phones¹ that were only available in places like Spain or India, and not getting first-tier phones into the hands of as many hackers as possible, as quickly as possible.

By focusing on low-end phones and not Nexus- or Galaxy-class handsets, they lost sight of the fact that smartphones are aspirational devices. People want the best phones they can get, with high performance and high-resolution screens. They don't care about libre software or the Open Web if the devices on which it runs are perceived as inferior. (Everyone I know uses either an iPhone or a reasonably performant Android phone, and I don't run in wealthy or tech circles much these days.)

Look at the runaway success of the iPhone. It wasn't cheap, but because it was clearly a quality device, both regular people and developers clamored for them. (Remember the hue and cry when Apple initially said they wouldn't provide a market for third-party apps?)

If Mozilla really wanted to spur interest in FirefoxOS among developers, they should have set up kiosks at every Fry's Electronics in the greater S.F. Bay area (on the doorsteps of Apple, Google, Facebook) to sell decent, unlocked phones directly. People would have lined up to buy them just to hack on them. I would have seriously considered buying one as an alternative to a Nexus phone, if one had been available.

1: Ars Technical eviscerates a $35 FirefoxOS phone: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/testing-a-3
> Apple should be legally stopped from doing this monopolistic garbage.

IANAL but couldn't the MS case be relevant/provide precedent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Talk to some immigrants in those places that are not white/asian and/or successful.
In a capitalist dystopia, I'd agree with you. But everywhere else, you cannot live without impacting the lives of other people.

For example, let's say you choose to eat unhealthy food, become obese, and land in the hospital. You might say "who cares what other people eat" while you are using a limited, shared resource.

If you're able to not work indefinitely because you're consuming a limited, shared resource like the money of other people that live in a country, why should they think that's fair if it's supposed to be a safety net?
RE 1. It has already been mentioned that food analogy is not a good one, since we are not talking of not providing education to smarter kids. And, this is not a binary issue, there is a whole spectrum of intelligence.

RE 2. The previous post does not say "every kind of diversity is automatically good". But I certainly agree that social and intellectual diversity has benefits for all parties.

RE 3. "Smart people do well and often have smart children", well it is not genetic though. While often "smart" parents have "smart" kids because they value education and know what to push. It is an oversimplification to say that education is equal to "smart". And sending a smart kid in the worst school would not affect his smartness. Especially now with Internet, if he is that smart and gets bored, then he can learn what he wants on Internet. Being a free country does not mean necessarily you can act freely against the collective good. I believe that the whole intellectual spectrum of kids can learn from each other and together. I believe that smarter kids should be able to learn more if they want to, but I strongly believe in the benefits of having all kids together in the same school, from kindergarten to university. Some kids might need more time, some could learn more and/or go faster, but they will still benefit from each other.
"gifted track" is rarely a set program. It's usually a mechanism for providing individually paced opportunities and resources [edit: added this phrase] _at a different/specific school_.

Where I live, you get tested whenever your parents want you to be tested, and if they pass the advanced learning at the point, they can choose to elect for the 'advanced school(s)'.

_edited for clarity_
Congrats on the launch Ryan! Upkeep looks great.

Did your previous employer know that you were working on this for such a long time? How did you pull it off?
I'm wondering the same thing. What does having a JS syntax bring to embedded programming?
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In old movies, you definitely see "millionaires" as the definition of "rich". $1m in 1950 is about $10m today, so that seems like a pretty safe bet for "Hollywood rich".
Celebrating being on HN and Product Hunt with 33% off! [$2.99 => $1.99] Enjoy!
especially when they are flying on a plane.
No. There is something one learns by going to public schools and seeing all his fellow human beings held to the same standards.

I grew up in Armenia in the post soviet union era. The one thing they got right was the education part. There were no distinctions. We all learned the same material, gifted or not. Those that lagged got extra attention and help. When I first got here the segregation of "gifted" vs "non-gifted" always felt viscerally incorrect to me.
Your primary argument is that basic human rights can't be compared to other basic human rights because of the magnitude of certain ones you find more objectionable?

The slave trade was abolished, I don't think you really need to write a thesis on it. Everyone accepts that, and now would like to elevate attention to more nuanced inequalities.
Cool, thanks! I will try it out for my next project.
Developers always want this - but responding to reviews hardly every works out in your favor... its either a shallow "thanks" kind of message or a shallow "sorry" kind of message... and it almost always comes off as disingenuous
Even though it had problems, the engine design was incorporated into Merlin engines under SpaceX later on.

Apollo technology - the gift that keeps on giving.
For awhile, Python was one of the 4 approved languages at Google. The answer is "probably no." If it were easily solvable, Google would already have thrown money and engineers at it.
High income families already send their children to "smart" private schools; why not allow gifted children on the public school track to enjoy similar opportunities?
> Start a political party

> Get in power

Almost impossible in a FPTP voting system
Adorable is used to belittle things -- it's even a meme:

“That’s Cute” (otherwise known as “That’s Adorable”) is a sarcastic expression used to patronize or dismiss someone’s self-complacency or boastful statement, similar to the phrase “bitch, please.” It is typically used to juxtapose the capabilities or accomplishments of two comparable subjects
I second that. A Czech child minder told me that she only really connected to the mothers when she switched to Swiss German.
People read their pay stubs more often than their grocery bills. You can suck a lot of money out of the middle class by making the latter go up more quickly than the former.
So someone managed to write an article about the state and future of Firefox - and didn't mention rust a single time? That's quite something.
Easy solution: universal screening with objective measures, instead of relying on identification by bussed teachers.
Many employers have coverage till EOM. But I've done this (no break between jobs) more than once, so I'm not sure what the issues is.

First several weeks will be ramp-up anyway.
> We don't impeach Presidents because a loud group of people dislikes the fact that they lost an election.

As a matter of fact, that's exactly why they impeached Clinton. Face it: America impeaches Presidents for being not-Republican, and empowers Presidents for being Republican. It's a one-party state.
The gender bias in peer reviewing reveals the sexism in academia
On Firefox the footer overlays atop the pricing table. Not sure why though: http://i.imgur.com/O1ost32.png

That aside, looks interesting. Some of the language could be improved. Off hand it's not apparent what differentiates "Request User" and "Requester User".

What's the A/B consensus (asking HN crowd, not you specifically, as this should be a solved question) on the testimonial links at the bottom of the page? As someone with a tech background they make the entire site look cheesy to me though I can understand if non-tech people (i.e. the majority of your market base) may think otherwise.

Is "UpKeep Maintenance Management 2015-6" the name of the company or a copyright disclaimer? If so you're missing the (c) and it's already out of date.
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My Firefox wishlist:

1) Make background tabs completely frozen by default. No intelligent guessing. Simply assign zero CPU time to them. But give the user an easy to use switch to toggle the activity of a tab. So I can activate background tabs and freeze foreground tabs just as I like.

2) One process per tab. Even with e10s, all javascript in all tabs runs on a single core. So at the moment, using Firefox on an 8 core computer is like using Chromium on a single core machine.

3) Make the url bar functional immediately on startup. Right now, every time I start Firefox, it takes several seconds until I can start typing the url I want to go to. In Chromium, I can start typing right away.

4) Don't set a bookmark every time I press CTRL+d. Only set it after I clicked "done" in the bookmark dialog that pops up on CTRL+d.
From a legal standpoint Apple don't have a monopoly in the phone market comparable to what Ms had on the desktop.
One possible use top of my head would be vendor customization. For example Foo Inc is manufacturing some hot IoT widget which is then sold and branded by Bar Ltd. Foo can take care of all the nitty gritty low level details and provide nice high level SDK for Bar to make their customizations.
For reference: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-urban-oil-fiel...
What makes you think that your mechanic and pilot would teach you anything, or even keep you around in that scenario? What do you have to offer that furthers their survival more than your share of the supplies you're not going to be eating?

If you really want this to work, you better learn to be a pilot and a mechanic now, or preferably have close family members that you like who have those skills.
> but I still see judgement here

That judgement is absolutely intentional. How can I not judge the abject surrender to herd mentality in particular, and fundamentalist belief in general? It's bidirectional, by the way, fundamentalists have no problem judging (and doing worse to) me for refusing to submit.

> Huge numbers of people today have no friends and no community.

To be fair, the rational answer might not be to join the Borg.

It's debatable how much say common people even have in the matter when their whole region converts to religious governance. This leaves us with the people who do choose it for themselves, and they're faced with a non-trivial question: "do I agree with these values or do I just join in order to embed myself into a community, any community?"

For those who agree with the fundamentalist message anyway, community is not the driving factor. The message itself is. Those who merely surrender to the message superficially in order to achieve community will probably become disenfranchised quite soon, because the community they chose is a dangerous place, even from the inside. What use is it to be surrounded by people if you still can't connect with them fully? However, by that point, the damage is done: by the rules you can enter, but you cannot leave ever again even if there's still a "you" left. Apostasy costs your life.
How is "getting a good education" a negative effect? It is the opposite. If smart people do the things they need to do to become even smarter, everyone benefits.
Off topic, but is "Launch HN" now a thing? Or is this some reserved namespace for YC companies? Been seeing this last couple of days on HN front page and curious.