skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point isn't to prevent shootings. The point isn't to protect your home. The point isn't to be able to hunt.

The point of the Fourth Amendment is that the citizens should have sufficient arms to be able to form an effective military force. Anything else is a side effect.

Could we do it? Well, let's say that President Trump turns into a tyrant, declares martial law, and suspends all civil liberties. Some fraction of the military would back the president, some would want to sit it out, and some would oppose the president. Ditto for the police. But if the citizens decided that they weren't going to put up with it, they could sway the balance - if the military was divided. Against a united military, probably not - unless there was foreign intervention.
Key to this decision is also the ability to know what future demand for a given profession will be like, and have a realistic expectation of getting a job.

Lawyers were misled by a lot of law schools, and their tuition skyrocketed. With automation impacting some aspects of that field, demand has dropped, and so several classes worth of students have been screwed.

I'm not familiar with the medical field, but in theory the same thing could happen there.

Nobody can see the future, so barring that, for many, taking on that level of extreme debt does not make sense.
That experience sounds remarkably familiar. I know here in Mass at least UMass Amherst has a remarkably good computer science program for how cheap it can be (if you qualify for the right tuition credit programs by scoring well on standardized tests in high school). Though it's a poor indicator of an undergrad program, their CS grad program was ranked #25 in the country.

While I understand your point, I take some issue with:

> the middle and higher income brackets (middle and upper middle suburban class) is the bracket that is hurt the most by college costs

Your points are all well made, but I'd argue that being lower class you're entirely dependent on financial aid and tuition subsidies if you get them at all. In the middle and upper middle class your fear (from anecdotal first hand experience) isn't if you'll go to college (which is a huge indicator today of whether or not you'll be better than your parents -- education), but where you'll go to college. I know a lot of peers who went to state or safety schools because of cost. I don't know a lot of peers whose family is in that same tax bracket that just didn't go to college. I do know many friends who couldn't feasibly go to college at all, and it's stripped their career growth and job opportunities. Not trying to argue, just facilitate discussion by voicing a dissenting opinion.
Yes, they say that but it's not true for everyone. Tons of people leave college and get a fresh start afterwards, without much connection to their alma mater.
So at 17 or 18, with little life experience, students are supposed to make a financed $160k ($40*4) investment which may decide their economic fate for 20-30 years? Even with the help of parents and advisors to make predictions that isn't a good policy for the general case. (For one parents and advisor’s are also often wrong).

There are ways to achieve good outcomes in the current system, but that is not the same as systemically maximizing good outcomes for society at large.

I think the most efficient way to do that is to go back to giving significant direct funding to public university systems so they can offer low to no tuition education options. This puts competitive pressure on private universities and would have an overall downward effect on tuitions.
I recently discovered that I can easily fall asleep to two types of Youtube videos: a) videos about the lore of Warhammer 40K and b) a random episode of Jay Leno's Garage. Both will put me to sleep in 10-15 minutes even if I am extremely stressed.
They need to be unique and unguessable, which don't necessarily go together.

For example, a version 1 UUID is unique, but is fairly guessable, since it's just a MAC address, a timestamp, and a small random-initialized counter.
[Anecdote]
Here in Boston Microsoft built an entire office just to offer a great internship program (Foundry, now Microsoft Garage) to Harvard and MIT students. I think on average recruiters view top tier schools as places where your ROI for headhunting is higher, because more prospects are more likely to make it through the recruiting process -- but that's just a hunch.
Fair enough. Thanks for the input, dang.
Let me introduce you to this thing we call the Commerce Clause and Katzenbach v. McClung, 379 U.S. 294 (1964).
A caring parent would have to assume that in many circumstances, their child could very well be that other person.
interesting article but was it necessary for the authors photograph to be as large as the entire text itself?
This. It's actually quite frustrating!
There was nothing stopping us from eating and going home. It's not as though someone was keeping watch over us and demanding work for food. I always felt respected and appreciated.
You remind me of myself in 2008. #RonPaul2008
Sorry, I wasn't particularly clear. I had intended to say they'd be in the Peace Corps if they didn't have to deal with so much debt in the now. I re-read my post and see how murky that meaning is, sorry.
I've spent enough time in highly customized Magento in my day to both be impressed, and deeply concerned for your well-being after such a task.
If Mars is farther away than Earth from the Sun, how come the scientists believe Mars was once warmer and wetter than today?
Ah, thanks. I guess I never realized that it was private.
Typo on my part, it was L3.
College at its current cost is too expensive for America, period. It has gone up faster than inflation. I still think any college accepting money backed by the federal government should be required to offer courses for a set amount per credit hour. People seem to have no issue with government dictating how much medical procedures and supplies cost, why not college.
I spent my last 2 years of high school getting an AS before going to my state school. I wouldn't recommend it to high achieving students, at all.
Thank you, it is rare that an Internet comment puts a genuine smile on my face, but there it is. I'll keep what you said in mind.
YouTube ASMR videos do the trick for me.
Computational linguist Jason Baldridge on NLP, machine learning and neural nets
Well, children (and humans) are a number 1 environmental problem anyway. So you're doing the right thing.
I made an app to generate .gitignore files, It's as simple as a brick.

https://gitignore.xyz/

but it doesn't make any money though.
The linked article specifically mentions that the CC safety net is fraying as well - costs for middle class income brackets range 11% to 22% instead of 16% to 45% (across various other options and states; unfortunately all 8 states mentioned are different so no direct comparisons).

So yeah, they are cheaper but not all of them necessarily offer the same discount your anecdote provides.
More "textland" than anything else, though that has to do with the medium we're using to communicate "across space and time." What Alan has advocated is that the medium we're using in this particular instance should be a version of "systemland."
> Lawyers were misled by a lot of law schools

Generally a good idea to be skeptical of what someone selling you something is saying, right? I question whether any of these people who went to law school did much research or thinking (or if their counselors at schools did) in advance of such a major decision.
> But that's a relatively recent phenomenon, though. The US has had a strong military history, but the 'citizens need guns to fend off our government' thing has only been frothy for the past little while.

That idea seemed pretty popular as far back as April 17th, 1775...
"Its unusual to see an optimization attempt succeed from so many different angle."

David, Teresa, and Mehdi are really amazing engineers.

(also, this is the third or so LTO system some of them have built :P)
Because there is plenty of evidence she broke the law.
You guys are arguing from opposite directions.

Doom-to-Quake was a bigger technological leap, going from a hacky 2.5D raycasting engine to a fully polygonal 3D environment and renderer.

But Wolf3D-to-Doom was a bigger gameplay leap. Doom could do enormously more with level design and the visual experience than Wolf3D could. Quake being fully 3D didn't really do all that much for the player experience over and above Doom.
Corey, I have sent question to you, could you check your e-mail?
I remember playing QTest with some friends and coworkers every day after 5pm at work. An absolute ton of fun. I remember on the (third, I think?) map you couldn't get out of the water except to go up the ramp into the courtyard. Since the splash sound could be heard anywhere, everyone eventually learned to make a beeline for the courtyard and wait for you to come out.
>I think a reality that will hopefully soon catch up with societal stigma in the United States is that college isn't right for everyone.

That's the problem, not the solution. College should be for everyone. There's no reason why a person who becomes a plumber or peace corps volunteer or electrician can't also go to college and learn those things, among other topics.

In 2015, only 33% of American adults had a college degree [0]. American adults are not over-educated, they're just over-charged for their education.

[0]https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
Hi fellow UT CS grad.

I had to google for an article I remember reading a while ago but apparently over half of UT grads come from families that make over $100k+. It's not as bad as I thought but UT Austin has a much higher representation of (upper) middle class kids than lower class kids.

https://www.texasobserver.org/are-texas-public-universities-...
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/10/14/ut-unspoken-low-i...
I think it would make more sense if counties and/or towns were consolidated rather than being the checkerboard of beggar-thy-neighbor constituencies it is now.
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Me too. What a bunch of goons.
>Most jobs require college degrees

https://www.google.com/#q=number+of+people+with+college+degr...
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I think it's either 5-10 years or never. I am a huge Java user and fan btw, but I am looking to the next 20 years here.

Despite much optimization, GC still struggles with memory efficiency and predictable performance in a diversity of scenarios. You have to tune it.

I guess you could simplify my comment to two advantages: No GC, and elegantly baking constructs that make programming safer into the language as opposed to things you can opt-in to. While it may be possible to get these things with Java, if it's a lot simpler to get consistent performance, efficient memory use, protection from null pointers, and safe concurrency.. then there may be an opportunity for Swift.
Mount a second one, and you've got yourself a Pierson's Puppeteer - and who's less threatening than a Pierson's Puppeteer?
> Not to discredit their results, but what it shows is that users who used Edge consumed less power than Chrome or Firefox.

The workloads Microsoft simulated were held constant for every platform and instrumented via a common command-and-control testing library. It is very much apples-to-apples. The additional telemetry they released is even more confirmation.

Opera replied by enabling a pair of special default-off features, both of which significantly change the workload and the user experience for their browser, put it on a random laptop pair which might not even be from the same lot or subtly different models, and then made a timelapse.
I'd have guessed most families sending kids to college were making upwards of $100K anyway. The headline felt a little misleading because I thought it was already taken for granted that it was hard to afford for most sub-$90k households, particular if they have multiple kids.
Thank god they rolled back the terrible beta redesign.
> So at 17 or 18, with little life experience, students are supposed to make a financed

Well a good start might be simply avoiding majors that you know will go nowhere, don't you think? Like music, art and certain liberal arts. Even when I went to school it was known to be hard to get a job in those fields. But yet people still choose them and tried to "follow their passion". My passion was to learn something where I could earn a living. And I am having plenty of fun doing that.

Of course you can't predict the future. But you can certainly improve your chances by giving some thought to what is not a good choice and hasn't ever really been.
No, none of those ship MSVCRT.DLL (at least, none of the earlier ones, as I said, I stopped paying attention).

Here's MSDN talking about it being a system component:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/abx4dbyh(v=vs.80).a...

At least since .NET 2003. It's handled differently in 2015.
LinkedIn too, if I remember correctly. Underwriters make a killing off these IPOs.

Which makes me wonder... are there any safeguards in place to make sure that companies don't get ripped off? In would seem like it would be in the underwriters best interest to value the stocks at a very low price so they can make a lot of money from an IPO.
How did you tackle internal negativity from engineers who as a whole tend to skew towards the "anti-marketing" sentiment?
So where is your script? Or are we just supposed to trust you?
This means consumers will probably end up having multiple cygwin1.dll files on their system (something the FAQ warns about).
Yes. A top tier college will get you out in front of more employers. I did my undergrad at a lower tier state commuter school, and I got my master's at a top 10 school in CS. It's night and day difference in how recruiters will treat you.
Pretty sure this is the patent?

http://www.google.com/patents/US6117872

If it is, it seems rather absurd. It's a patent for feeding someone something that exists in nature. Boy I'll bet you General Mills would love a patent for feeding you wheat.
For me, Agile/Scrum is about collaboration, not planning or prioritisation
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> Too rich for substantial need-based financial aid, too poor to pay without big loans.

That's the problem with being middle-class. Anybody who really cares will abandon you for those who need it more. -- Mr. Bergstrom
My bad, you're right. A2DP, and I think HID also, don't need MFi.
Even cowboy jobs may not be safe from robots
This is one of those areas where California just plain outshines every other state by a huge margin -- the CC, CSU, and UC systems are generally accessible (although UCs have gotten much more expensive, especially recently -- but they're also among the top schools in the world in specific fields).

For instance, I got in to Cal Poly, which ranks very high on many lists for Engineering, and it cost me (a California citizen) $1400 a quarter.

I also attended the local CC, and prices there were even cheaper, something like $18 a credit. The books were more expensive than the class. It was a pretty common thing among my (upper middle class) high school classmates for people to attend a CC for 2 years, then transfer to a prestigious UC. They'd have to pay that UC-level fee for two years, but the first 2 years of college were affordable enough for people to put themselves through school.
"The factory itself is 5.8 million square-feet, which, if my math is correct, means building the damn thing is costing Tesla $55.6 million per square foot."

Sigh, I hope this was a joke.
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I did CS undergrad at UMass Amherst and I can tell you A LOT of students (and probably the OP) confuse a competitive program with a qualitatively better program. UMass Amherst rejects a lot of applicants, but that doesn't make it good.

Recently UMass started to take Computer Science seriously, gave it its own school and is accepting a lot more students. I went to an alumn event last year and the enrollment numbers of the last 10 years shows hockey stick growth.

We'll see if these moves improve or dilute the brand.

In hindsight going to UMass for CS was a good decision, but back then my world was small and didn't know all of my options.
Shameless plug: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
The C# and PowerShell specifications are written in Word ;)

In any case, there's a lot of things people use in-house and never bother to tell the outside world about, and you'd be surprised how far that is from what people on HN or Github habitually use.
> The factory itself is 5.8 million square-feet, which, if my math is correct, means building the damn thing is costing Tesla $55.6 million per square foot.

Your math is incorrect, $332.6 million divided by 5.8 million sqft is $55.60/sqft.
Led Zeppelin did not steal 'Stairway' riff, jurors say
College/University has not solely been about education in a long time. It's about signalling [1][2], and therefore it's a competitive advantage. The accessibility of signalling is inversely proportional to its value -- it's no longer exclusive. This happens with certifications too.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1882010
[2] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/04/bryan_caplan_on.htm...
It took me a while to really _get_ the difference in mentality between different types of gamers and this difference would go a long way to explain what one person finds enjoyable vs another - of course everyone wants to win but if you didn't have to put in any real effort to win then it's not going to be as rewarding.

In a nutshell there are two types of gamers:
1) casual and
2) serious

FWIW (which may not be all that much), certain games cater more to casual players by having a shallow learning curve and a low skill ceiling while others are more favourable towards serious players by providing a steep learning curve and a surprising amount of depth.

I'd compare games that have a steep curve and skill depth to real sports, like tennis or golf. If you've never played tennis and you go up against an enthusiast player who's played a few hundred hours of tennis, guess who's not going to be having much fun? How long will it take you to catch up if you both continue to practice the same amount from this point onwards? You'll probably always feel that the other guy has a certain edge over you even once you catch up to where he originally was.

If you're serious about wanting to get better then you'll keep practising until you reach a point where you become competitive against players of a given level and things get a whole lot more rewarding and fun then. This is actually the main reason why I loved playing Quake and Starcraft so much (there are many other games, but these are the two I was most involved with), It's also the reason why they were (and still are) great competitive platforms.

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Some hilariously bad math right here:

> 9. The whole thing has already cost $322.6 million.

> The total cost of the contracts awarded is skyrocketing toward half a billion dollars (though it has a ways to go to meet that mark). The factory itself is 5.8 million square-feet, which, if my math is correct, means building the damn thing is costing Tesla $55.6 million per square foot. And that’s just the estimated cost of the contracts so far.

$322.6 million / 5.8 million sq-ft => $55.6 per sq-ft -_-

//edit all 3 of the first comments were about the math. Love you guys!
What makes you say that Apple is dying?
We're actually looking to move away from sylius and just eyeing Magento. Sylius' test suite quality and modularity is one the best I've ever seen; considering features and API stability, however, it leaves a lot to be desired. (It's coming along nicely, so best wishes to all the folks at Lakion.)
I'm personally just as wary of Edge...
I find them both equally fascinating and scary at the same time.
See here is your problem. You think it's fine that college costs reflect the return over a working lifetime for the skills gained.

That is credit creation right there. It allows the pulling forward of demand to capture labour over a lifetime for credit creators (not intermediaries) - the banks.

Until we tackle money creation housing and college, two essentials - that's why they lend into them - will always reflect the total potential income over a person's working life.

If we double productivity rentiers will get the same % of your labour. This means everyone will always and forever be under the thumb of usurers.

By design.
> Nobody's wearing crazy hats or has two-foot-tall bouncing hair.

Clearly you've never played TF2.
So Microsoft is great based on some secret data that we have no access to. Which microsoft collects from my computer without my knowledge. And it is all collected by their opaque closed source os. But hey they may be right. Nothing stops them from adding code in windows 10 that intentionally wastes power whenever the user is running chrome.

The more i read this the more pissed off i feel about using windows 10. Unfortunately, they made it very hard to install another OS on new laptops.
Absolutely. Most of those my age who didn't go into tech and got 'regular' jobs are absolutely filled to the brim with debt with zero way out. Those here in Chicago who have tech jobs aren't able to find jobs that match their skill.

My highschool was mostly in the lower/lower-middle class range with upper-middle in honor's programs. Multiple times per year, they gave presentations about the absolute, unwavering importance of a college education with money rather than success as the reason to go. Just about every student I've talked to who actually went through it is absolutely miserable - especially those who went to a university rather than the local community college. The only people who didn't have this issue were the honor's students, who either received scholarships or had money already. I seriously question the judgement, noise and in some ways, misery caused by those presentations.

Every time career comes up with my family and old classmates, I'm still looked down on for not having a degree... Even though I'm objectively more successful than the people telling me to go to college..

The culture around college necessity is incredibly frustrating. To make matters worse, when the subject comes up, many people say things like "Not going to college worked for you, but it tends not to for everybody else and it worked for me blah blah." It doesn't ever, every push the conversation forward. It's a weird, frustrating form of survivor-bias.
> I think a reality that will hopefully soon catch up with societal stigma in the United States is that college isn't right for everyone

The idea that this stigma exists is mostly a conservative pundit talking point used to justify cutting education budgets. If you look at labor market data, it's unsubstantiated. And if you visit middle America, you'll find plenty of people with disdain for college degrees.

The United States doesn't have an over-abundance of people with tertiary degrees.

The USA in the bottom half of the developed-world pack for 25-34 year olds, less than half of whom obtained ANY form of post-highschool education -- including community college.

More importantly, many high-growth fields are also high-tech and require tertiary education or exceptional self-teaching.

The problem isn't an over-supply of college educated workers. Rather, the problem is an unwillingness to subsidize tertiary education together with the misconception that college without accompanying training in employable skills is a worthwhile investment.
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