skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to calculate anything, 1 rem is 16px by default, but you can set html font size to 62.5% and it will be 10px, so if you need something to be 20px (if you are used to px sizes) - you can just set it to 2rem and it will render as 20px. It's not a matter of calculation but just a matter of getting used to how big is 1 rem.

The biggest benefit is that you can target specific screen sizes with different html font-size values using @media queries, so for example for bigger displays you can set html font-size to 120% and it will result in automatic increase of size of all the elements where font-size or paddings etc are set with rem. Same goes for mobile devices, for examples all the headers will go from being 40px font-size to say 25px, just by changing an html tag font-size value, you don't have to target any elements individually, it will be automatic.

For me it was one of the best discoveries to increase productivity, when building responsive designs.
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Redux for State Management for Polymer Web Components
> No student in any language learns by writing production ready code.

OTOH, many students of programming languages learn by pushing their code (EDIT: ready or not) into production. Oh boy do they learn.
This article disagrees with you: https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-the-introduction-of-guns-chan...

"It is common to deride early modern firearms as slow to load, inaccurate and undependable in wet weather. Indians had a more favourable opinion of these weapons, particularly of the flintlock muskets that became available at the beginning of the 1630s. ...

Flintlocks were still cumbersome. They required about 25 seconds to load, and were accurate only to about 100 yards. Yet Indians did not intend to use the weapon in open-field, pitched battles. Rather, they wanted flintlocks to fire on human or animal targets from ambush at close range. After firing, they would rush in with hand weapons. The manner in which Native peoples used guns is critical to understanding their demand for them."
For political reasons, in the U.S. this idea is a non-starter -- many people won't accept the idea of paying taxes to support special programs for the gifted, but are willing to do it for those below average. So in the U.S., the expression "special needs children" is a euphemism for handicapped, not gifted, children.

There are noteworthy exceptions, usually in large cities with well-educated taxpayers, but for the majority of locales, earmarks for the gifted are just too controversial.

An interesting side effect of this anti-intellectual bias is today sitting in the White House.
VW Stashed Hundreds of Cheating Diesels in an Abandoned NFL Stadium Parking Lot
Yep, v0 doesn't count, it's a legacy Chrome-only feature for now.
>> If the current project has been poorly managed so far & dates keep slipping, that is likely to continue to be the case.

If you leave, it would give the management one more valid excuse to push back the dates further, this is what they might be looking for anyways.
If you're just doing a google search then yeah it's reasonable. It's less so when you're a professional who's supposed to be an expert on these things. If you can't spend more than 5 seconds double checking the accuracy of your research why should I trust it?
Elon Musk preparing to announce a neural lace next month
Ok, we changed the title to say that.

Is there a better source for this material? The submitted article looks cribbed from elsewhere but I don't see a link to the original source.
Get the doctorate. Don't feed the trend if you don't want it to grow.
It is definitely NOT public info that 2170's are low energy density. Elon even says they are the highest energy density and lowest cost cells.

https://electrek.co/2016/11/02/tesla-panasonic-2170-battery-...
That's certainly the altruistic choice. But it would be foolishly arrogant for anyone, even Bill Gates, to think they had more controllable influence on the fate of the world than they do on their own safety.
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1. Who cares? This is not an argument for or against this. It's totally inappropriate to decide the best way to educate a child based on your personal theories about how wealth should be distributed, and your untested wild ass guess about what effect some educational policy would have on that theory.

2. You get better teachers and a stimulating environment that is challenging.

- Small classes: maybe, it's not necessary at all.

- better curriculum: well, yes, smarter kids can cover a topic more quickly and in more depth. The less smart kids can't keep up, so they have to skim less deeply and/or cover less material.

- more practical: ??? did you feel like you needed 3 bullets or something?

You should have separate schools because there aren't enough gifted kids in one regular school to even fill one class. This comes directly from the definition of gifted, if gifted is say the top 1% of students, a large high-school with 1500
kids would only have 15 of them across 4 grades. You have to do something like a magnet school to have enough kids at the same level in the same room for it to work at all.
> you're looking at a 10-20% time penalty

Running the route I'm describing through a trip trip planning website, the travel time goes from 11:12 (h:m) to 15:52 (3:53 charging)... so more like a 40% penalty. In my particular scenario, it would have translated into 4-5 hours of (minor) detours and waiting at Supercharger stations in the middle of the night with sick family waiting. For me, personally, the flexibility to avoid that kind of delay is something I've found valuable at particularly important moments of my life.

Aside from the fact there are fewer Supercharger stations, some of this is just an inherent limitation of the technology. Even a Supercharger station (145KW) is slightly more than two orders of magnitude less capable of transferring energy than a gas station pump (16MW). Even if the battery technology got to the point it could handle that level of power transfer, I'd hate to be anywhere near a 16MW electrical charging station. (>2K amps at 7,200 V, not to mention the required >100MW feed INTO something like an 8 car station with that capacity per car.)

This makes me wonder about the idea of swapping out battery packs. It seems like that could possibly be made just as fast as filling up on gas.
Oh, my mistake
How I Made a Minimalist and Affordable Sit-Stand Desk and Home Theater Combo
> adorable

Do you mean admirable?

I have a hard time thinking of an economy as being adorable, except maybe if the whole thing is very physically small (like, a city of miniscule people, or something like that)
I don't know if it just this article or am I getting tired of these "startup heavens".

"you probably dream of working in a start-up"

no

"awesome platform and changing the world"

Oh yes, changing the world indeed with your awesome! product. I think not, or do words mean anything anymore if everything is awesome and world changing.

"Lunch Random Meeting"

Sounds horrible. And how many developers like to socialize and do (or watch) presentations all the time.
Some maybe, but I think not most (and not the ones who like coding).
I rather read about new stuff, and don't like doing presentations, I would rather "blog" about it but that also sounds forced if it's some company blog advertising how cool and hip and in touch the company is.

* edit
Had to edit this one more comment. Check the last image on their main page. Are there really guys driving around with pedaling cars (or something like that) at the office. Looks ridiculous. Must be a startup without any actual customers stopping by at the office.
1. You didn't respond to his point. How do you decide who is "gifted?" How do you untangle that from race and economic class?

2. How do you untangle race and economic class from the sort of segregation you are proposing is okay here?

3. I don't think that this is really a response to the point. You're just saying it's unfair to the families who would rather their kids go to a good school instead of needing to fight for their kids to go to a good school. Which ... something something "government handouts." Also: private school vouchers to take "smart kids" to "good schools" aren't social engineering either? This isn't a coherent point.

You sound very frustrated. I'd be interested in reading attempts to debate the points themselves instead of appeals to emotion.
How exactly would we lose the electric grid? Nice thing about a distributed infrastructure is that it's, well, distributed.

Also, (nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines|jet aircraft engines) can be (very|relatively) quickly brought into duty producing electricity locally in every city, way before any pandemics and mass starvation.

Longer term, converting from the refrigerated fresh food system of today, to a system based on pickling/curing/canning/iceboxes/etc. is hardly black magic.
> All in all, I'd like to hear what others think and why this sort of thought isn't widely circulated.

Except a lot of things I've seen predicted about Trump so far (for one a total market crash) haven't come true. I see that maybe it takes longer... But presumably investors can also go through the same analysis you are and we should see a failing trend already. I've heard of a complete market collapse, a disaster, people losing their retirements (heard it on NBC right on the election night).

I think a lot of what the market does is unpredictable and attributing this to Trump or other political moves is probably a good way to lose money. Well at least I am not going to and buy gold and bitcoin or reshuffle my investments just because Trump is here.
That's interesting. Guess that might be a problem for the people who use http://www.vpngate.net/en/ which I know the Softether guys created expressly to help people circumvent Governmental level firewalls.
Stupid question, but Ionic is not native, or was not at least. But react-native is actually using only native APIs through Javascript. So if you want to have a native look and feel, why not go with react-native?
I'm pretty sure everybody here can read. We are asserting that your sentence:

"These are obvious flaws in design, in my opinion, that warrant re-looking at, but to which no real improvements are being made for some reason. (Incompetence? Politics? Both? Who knows.)"

sets a very negative tone and makes your "list of problems" look like a "list of complaints that these incompetent losers should fix asap". In my opinion you may just not be the best writer for some reason (Lack of education? Incompetence? Both? Who knows).
RE 1., your analogy to food is both misapplied and unhelpful. The choice here is between "better education" and "standard education", not between "better education" and "no education at all". You can't test the logic of that argument by applying it to the food case and expect a sensible result.

Unless you can disprove GP's three arguments, we're talking about a trade-off. Trade-offs should not solved by rhetorics and ideology but by a careful cost-benefit analysis.
On the contrary, you should be thankful these people aren't actively stripping your house of valuables to afford necessities.
I wonder if community was more central to life back then. With the world being so large I'd speculate/imagine that "place" and the people in that place were more unique. Maybe more intimate at times.
Electing a president, for example. (paging Scott Adams)
One of the biggest Python issues I see is the inability to hide or protect Python source code.

'Compiling' into byte code is easily reversible using pip packages like uncompyle2. Various pip packages offer code obfuscation but from my tests cause problems when running the code. Encrypted bytecode seems to always be decryptable due to the very nature of having an interpreter. Moving Python code into modules implemented in C somewhat works but is time consuming and makes me consider just rewriting everything in C/C++ :(

I would be curious to know how other folks hide/protect Python code? I see this issue as a major barrier to getting Python adopted in paranoid tech companies!
Who made pretty much no mention of it and who's got some serious Christian fundamentalists on its team?

Personally having a position is different from putting it in your political agenda.
You're making a case for government action, not coroporate. (I also happen to agree with you)
Can anyone elaborate on how AOT is a beneficial feature?
I found your blog post (the learn more button) but I'd love more info on this if it's available somewhere.

How does it handle differentiating different types of bread, which have differing carbs?

How does it handle a thick layer of butter or another fat put on the sandwich in the Avocado Toast example, which would presumably be below the visible avocado?

A long time ago my friends and I offered a manual version of this as a service via sending pics / emails to us and us then manually going through and guessing. It worked well enough, so I have high hopes for a ML version!

My biggest pain point doing it manually came from pics of things like pasta where I couldn't really guess how much oil was in the sauce.

You can definitely get far with just estimating the macronutrients from a photo, and the absolute accuracy matters less than consistency in measurements over time.
Funny, because as I remember it the dumb kids just devoted their efforts to beating the shit out of everyone else, and disrupting the class as much as possible. No amount of punishment would change their behaviour.

20 years later some of them are now labelled as 'criminals' and they attend a different kind of selective institution. Maybe we should see what our kids can gain from spending time in their presence? :p
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Just to clarify: a white person in a supermarket speaking Polish is necessarily an immigrant?
Don't forget mandatory surfing lessons and having to listen to how AWESOME everything is while watching your dorky boss stumble around in five fingers. I figured I'm better of starving...
I don't think people fully understand yet the potential of self driving cars and AI traffic management to massively increase the density and flow rates on highways.

I'm fairly certain it will be quite easy to double the density while simultaneously quadrupling the existing flow rates - with much better improvements coming later.

Which means right now we are at the "peak delay" point for the next hundred years or so.
We can't agree on what "too clever" is.

It's not absolute. It's something to be negotiated at a particular shop.
I kind of like the vocabulary they're using. Everybody knows politicians lie, and I don't think that word would have much of an impact. Repeating the term "alternative fact" and using terms like "believes... won't provide any proof" draws attention to just how absurd these particular lies are.
Sadly this is very true. I think that ego plays a big part. It's hard for some people to accept that their achievements rest on a wider platform - especially if someone is used to operating in a relatively autocratic domain (i.e. in their own business).
Forget about watches and chocolate. Switzerland is one the three most industrialized countries in the world. That is, the industrial output per person is one of the highest (if not highest at some moment). Not services, but real things produced. Maybe this is what makes them quite a strong economy. Surely, their culture adds a bit to that.

Is it scalable? I'm not sure if this is the properly framed question. It implies that other nations are not predestined to be like Switzerland. I think the more appropriate question is: what policies should we implement to be like Switzerland?
If you are going to make that joke, the correct reference is Johnny Appleseed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed
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I think there's 2 different questions: Which one makes people happier? Which one makes people more successful? I was at a company where a CEO with deep experience in our field effectively stepped aside as they hired a CEO with deep experience in business. A lot of people didn't like it, even though the old CEO stayed around and was very involved. But looking back, the new CEO helped the company do very well. As I stated in a different comment, you need a balance. You need technical leadership and business leadership, and sometimes they need to be different people working together on the same team.
I worked near a 'nice' high school whose parking lot was filled with BMW's. Which is not really 'rich' but dual income in that area often meant 300+k family income by the time kids where in high school. Economically this meant a 5 year old car that might have been 50k new was not really unusual.

In many ways the gap between 30k / year and 300k/year is larger than the gap between 300k / year and 3 million per year.

PS: I actually know several people that inhered low to mid 7 figures. But, they are really more upper middle class than the kind of 'Rich' you see in a Hollywood film. But, plenty of people would consider that rich.
Ok, this just seems a bit unbelievable. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
But that's not what this article is about.

It's not that these people don't accept (that is, comprehend and agree with) basic facts. The photographic evidence is irrefutable.

The conclusion is necessarily that they're knowingly lying,
which is something else entirely.

It'd be equivalent to showing someone a globe of the earth and asking them if the globe itself was flat or round, and their responding "flat" simply because that's the position of their team.
I won't respond to the first point. If you're seriously asking "who cares" about income inequality then I don't think discourse will be productive.

In any case, you didn't seem to refute my main point that gifted schools would also benefit regular students.
But they did engage in grand designs (like the Aral water diversion project, and more recently the three gorges dam project) and lax environmental concerns. So it's not clear to me that they were "better" however they were perhaps worse because ideology dictated what they did moreso than some other considerations.
One problem with mixing gifted with average students is that the gifted start coasting, not trying, not developing their abilities, because it's too easy to stay ahead of the rest of the students. Then, when that person gets to college, he/she is totally unprepared for real intellectual competition.

There are many positive points to mixing the gifted with the average, but their personal scholarly advancement tends to suffer.
How we handled a roadblock in a dependent library in Elixir
Thanks for the LMGTFY link, but since Google customizes results per user, perhaps you can point me directly to the source you intended to direct me to?

Note I am talking about original theological discoveries made by Newton, not just his beliefs in general, since we are discussing the influence of Newtons theological research. If a viewpoint was also held by Copernicus we can be pretty sure it didn't originate with Newton!
Wikipedia [0] shows US military expenditure at USD 1859 per capita in 2015, and Switzerland isn't on the Top 15 list, which bottoms out with the Netherlands at USD 759 per capita.

You may have a better reference than Wikipedia, though - thoughts?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
Hi everyone! My name is Ryan and I am a founder at UpKeep (www.onupkeep.com). I am a bit of an HN noob, so please excuse my noobiness :)

I started UpKeep in 2015 to mobilize and modernize maintenance software. I used to work in the manufacturing industry where I saw this type of software being used, but all on a desktop. Technicians, as you may know, are always out in the field, but the software they used was all desktop based. I started UpKeep to give technicians the ability to record their field data from anywhere without needing to be tied to a desk.

If you got through that full paragraph, you rock! Most people think maintenance is boring, but I tend to think it’s pretty awesome—heck yeah.

Anyways, I am happy to answer any questions!

We are currently in the Winter 2017 YC batch. And if you aren’t in the maintenance industry or have any facilities to manage, here are some things you can ask about that I think might be more interesting to you!

-I am a solo founder in YC (there are some in YC so it’s definitely possible!)

-I was a chemical engineer turned iOS developer

-When I first started UpKeep I literally had no idea how to code, but I learned over the last 2 years (it was slower for sure)

-I worked on UpKeep during the crack of dawn hours while I still had a job to pay the bills for about 1.5 years before jumping into it full time about 7 months ago

-I was working out of my mom’s garage for the past 2 years until YC (now I am working out of my girlfriend’s parent’s guest room—I would say that’s an improvement)
> Degrees themselves will become a thing of the past, Gelernter writes as they’re “gradually be replaced by certified transcripts.” Rather than a university conferring the degree, a “transcript” — that is, coursework showing that a student has successfully learned a given set of material — will be “vouched for” by a trusted institution like a think tank, newspaper, museum, or research lab.

Interesting. Would it be a travesty or a blessing for people to start promoting themselves in the job market with credentials backed by Breitbart, a climate change denying institution, or a creationist museum? The benefits are obvious but pyrrhic.
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"Which is more culpable: stupidity or malice?"
Totally agree, it is hugely subjective.
I still have the problem of upgrading because not all of the libraries are cross compile or do work. At the end of last year we've upgraded one library which cost us many days.

Next is upgrading Lift to 3.0 which will be a nightmare (again).

"We've also invested heavily in incremental compilation in sbt."

Yes, I read this over and over again, and I see micro benchmarks posted.

Using SBT with continuous unit testing I can't feel a difference - or it is so slow with a major code base that it's still much to slow and I judge it having no progress. Either way, after years it is still too slow (newest Scala + newest SBT).

"I rarely have time for office chair sword fights anymore."

Today I expect Kotlins practically instant compilation. 10 seconds for compiling some changed files is already to much for rapid development with TDD/Web, it breaks my flow, but YMMV.

"We'll have some graphs to show you soon,"

See above, I've seen dozens of micro benchmarks that claim improvements, in the end it doesn't show up in my real projects - at least in mine and the person who migrated to Go in the linked article. And all the other blog post authors that moved away from Scala towards something faster (Kotlin, Java 8, Go, ...)

But as I've said, I've moved on to Kotlin for new projects because for me Scala is a lost course.
Stopped reading after "stocking bitcoin and cryptocurrencies". For the love of god, who will maintain the internet access and enough peers for a transaction to be made? Golden coins sounds better, but a hundred thousand liters of good old diesel and high octane petrol is even better.)
If you push back your start date for any reason other than a personal emergency, the hiring manager will wonder if you are fishing for more offers and whether you really are an appropriate hire. You don't want to start off a new work relationship on such a note.
Curious why you think it was a waste of time. You can still make perfectly functional products using Angular 1, and most jobs (at least in the bay area) won't look down on you if you're not fluent in their framework of choice - they'll expect you to learn it on the job.
Funny, in CT we had a bunch of these in our yard, but they never bore any fruit in our yard. We had some in Walla Walla where I went to college that would make so many you eat cherries for every meal for weeks.