skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out the BATF has a metric in terms of tools, skill and time needed to turn a semi-auto gun into full auto

The metric is absurd. As one gunsmith noted, he could turn a VW Bug (car) into a machine-gun well within the BATF metric.
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> On the other hand, the question of what all those folks will/should do once their economic value plummets...

We as a society need to figure this out quickly. There's a video called Humans Need Not Apply that everyone should see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
That is a great read. It has been posted several times but didn't get much traction, unfortunately.

> Admissions to Ivy league schools is not as objective as it should be. There is too much focus on fluff and not ability/potential (e.g., meaningless "volunteer work").

To expand on this a little bit: he describes the current admissions systems as "eye-of-newt-wing-of-bat mysticism that jerks teenagers and their moms around and conceals unknown mischief" and he laments that "test-based selection used to be the enlightened policy among liberals and progressives, since it can level a hereditary caste system by favoring the Jenny Cavilleris (poor and smart) over the Oliver Barretts (rich and stupid)."

(aside: I don't understand why the parent story was modded into oblivion over the course of 10 minutes)
Where are you getting that IQ data from? I go to one of the Ivies and have never had an IQ test nor have most of my peers I would imagine.

(That said I agree with your premise, my peers at school aren't significantly more intelligent than my high school classmates who went to good, but not great, private and state colleges).
I'd say - finish. A diploma is not necessary to be successful in life or to provide for your needs. But later in life you will compare yourself with others, your colleagues, your friends, and you might feel inferior, unfishied. Something will be missing, especially that you are at the end of the road, you're almost done.

The things you talk about are quite ambitious. Let's make a comparison with filmmaking world. If you are about to graduate from a film school, you are not supposed to make your first movie as good as some of the Old Masterpieces, or a big budget Holywood movie. You are supposed to make a soap opera episode - just get things simple and right - correct shots, correct lighting, well paced, clearly structured plot. And so should be the graduation work you are facing now.

And finally - there are many moments when the formal diploma is required from you. For instance immigration and changing countries. Being an engineer opens a lot of doors, makes it A LOT easier to get a working permit/visa. There are certain types of jobs that require formal education - and without it you will not even be considered a candidate. Right now you are probably young, single and it's not a problem for you to be a contractor and have less stability, but later you'd get married, have children, take a mortgage, and then having a well paid job and organised life in a big corporation is not a bad thing at all.

And moreover catching up with the degree later in life is really difficult.

So, honestly, just finish it. It doesn't have to be spectacular. I've made this mistake, you don't have to.
Adobe is hiring a ton of frontend/backend engineers right now.
Wow, we've tried to solve this problem inhouse and our results are much worse than this.
One question, how hard is to detect that kind of expresions inside a random text? Like gmail does for suggesting a calendar appoinment within an email.
I'm the author of the non-accepted answer to that question. For what it's worth, I think cgrand's is weak in describing both zippers and lenses, but ultimately lands on the wrong distinction.
We're big on Yesod for web apps, so we end up using Haskell for both presentation and crunching the analytics that are shown to teachers and administrators. We have a bunch of internal Haskell tooling for our content pipeline. Upcoming ETL work is going to be Haskell-based as well. Still trying to figure out what to do with our monster Clojure codebase we have our API in, really tempted to port it, but there hasn't been time yet.
Garbage collection could be automated tomorrow if we wanted. Fast food is just a matter of us not trying hard enough but plumbers is a difficult one.

Not saying it couldn't happen. Two scenarios I could see are everyone lives in a prefab home, when things start to go wrong you just replace it. That leaves all the plumbing to just cutting and bending pipes to pre-built designs and installing it in prearranged steps. I could see that being possible.

Another interesting case could be that all houses are 3d printed, with cavities for plumbing printed right into the fabric of the building, and possibly sealed in someway.
It doesn't even have to be recession. Slow growth and high unemployment (such as what we're seeing right now) also indicate that there's plenty of room to mobilize idle capacity.
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There is a Drop trait that has one method, drop(). It's like a destructor. It's called for you, but you can also call it yourself.

fn foo(x: &something) {
// stuff
x.drop();
// more stuff,
} // if we didn't drop, x gets drop()-ped here

If we had non-lexical borrows, after we drop x, we could have it be un-borrowed. currently, x is still considered borrowed until the end of foo(). This is sort of a contrived example, but if you check out the ticket it has better ones.

There's also good examples here: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2hy06n/a_fresh_look_at...
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You're not wrong :). It's for getting feedback on projects that are in progress or not launch ready-- which I believe is most of them.
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As someone who dug in far enough to write a simple plugin and then backed straight out again with no wish to go back I agree completely. If the plan is that LT should survive then I do not think simply open sourcing it is going to be enough; it needs the core team to do at least a final push on getting the fundamentals right, clarifying the internal api's, and documenting the way forward. Then maybe the community can take over. As it is, I'm not hopeful.
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Not saying this isn't valuable, but I believe that Google did this a year or two ago: https://onetoday.google.com/

What's the differentiation?
The problem is that the reason for getting a degree isn't to become "educated" it's to be come employable. And until employers start to look at an online degree or an apprenticeship as comparable in value to attending college for 4 years it won't make sense for any rational person to take that path.
Why not include those "fun toys"? They are extensively used for hunting & home defense, and are used far less in crime (on a per-item rate) than mundane handguns.
however what?
50 PG Quotes from the lecture all, 140 characters or less to make it easy for people to share.

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You can find more from Sam Altman and the rest of the lectures there as well.
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Point me at a second incident where a spree shooter had an accomplice watching his back. It's not something that's happened before, to our knowledge.

Heck, the Columbine incident is very rare in having two shooters. Per Wikipedia and my memory this only happens every few decades in the US and no other time at a school, and it's equally rare in the rest of the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_(Ameri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_(schoo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_(workp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers#Religi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_familicides_in_the_Uni...

Whereas we know of tens of incidents stopped, or so we suspect since a spree killer/mass murderer who's stopped early by definition doesn't succeed in killing lots of people.
I _love_ the idea of getting a daily email that tells you about a worthy nonprofit that you might not otherwise hear about, and this system makes it dead-simple to make micro-donations to each charity.

However, I _hate_ the idea of donating to a black box. True, Dollar a Day publishes its criteria for selecting nonprofits, but those criteria are highly subjective. And, according to the FAQ, there's no way to opt out of donating to a particular featured nonprofit that you don't want to support. Heck, even if you cancel your monthly "subscription," your money will still go to all of the nonprofits that are in the queue for the rest of the month.

I understand the organization's decision to make things simple to start out, but I hope that it soon offers a way to opt out on a charity-by-charity basis (it could be as simple as a link in the daily email), and pro-rated refunds so that if you decide to stop donating on Day 1 of the month, you're not on the hook for days 2-30.
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I don't think just anyone can become a great artist or designer and if you think this I think you miss a great deal when it comes to evaluating these skills.

I'm a designer, trained as an artist ;) I do agree motivation is key though.
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The plan is integration by git hooks like close issues/task/us by commit message, but isn't planned a git browser of features like this.
I don't know if I'm the only one experiencing blurry font, but it distracts me from reading anything said.
One suggestion from a use-case standpoint.

On iOS, "tomorrow at 6" is parsed as 6PM instead of 6AM. This makes sense because usually people really mean 6PM. This is context dependent--in chat logs etc this is desirable.

Semantically speaking, the Duckling library does the right thing by parsing it at 6AM, but if the goal is ultimately to parse human expressions, then the iOS approach is probably better.

EDIT:

Another issue I ran into is that it correctly parses:

"tomorrow evening at 6"

but fails with:

"see you tomorrow evening at 6"

It would be nice to pass it the entire sentence since that's how most people will intend to use it.
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They aren't encouraging you, it is being demanded (by you, by everybody). This is how cheap, reliable, redundant computing is offered, and it will always be cheaper than paying for and maintaining entire physical machines.
I have stated from the beginning that I'm more than happy to get people more involved. When it has come up before I've said I'd gladly give people commit rights. There are only a couple of people who have contributed with any degree of frequency where that would make sense - Josh Cole and Mike Innes come to mind, for example.

I will certainly not stand in the way of the community and we're more than happy to help maintain.
> In this case it doesn't seem fair to tax people who are poor to pay for something that is mainly of benefit to the rich.

Even the uneducated tend to be better off in a country with a high education average than in a country where everybody is on their level. I'd rather be an illiterate in the Sweden, Switzerland or the USA (to take a few samples from all over the spectrum between welfare and market) than in any of the many countries that never succeeded in building a true culture of education.

You may question the causality of this (does education cause wealth or does wealth cause education?) but i doubt that it would even be possible to bootstrap high education with a market-only approach even under the most beneficial circumstances otherwise. I'm no expert in the history of American education institutions, but i'd be surprised if they were not founded with intentions more along the lines of the greater good of the colony or whatever local scope the founders were thinking of, than along the lines of offering even better opportunities for the rich. At the time, most of the truly rich were probably quite happy sending their offspring back to England anyway.
What's also missing in this discussion is that you can get programmers to get their companies to pay tons of cash.

Building a consultancy company around a technology product is probably on of IT's most classic business models.
You need to understand that people like to complain about stuff. If they complained about the $50 and then you dropped it to $15. They got exactly what they wanted. Why would they not just keep complaining to get it down another $5?

People pay for stuff that is useful to them, the problem with light table is people don't understand why it is useful to them until they think about it/look at it. You should have completely ignored every complaint related too money.

VS costs hundreds of dollars (going into the thousands for MSDN). And it is used by hundreds of thousands of programmers.

If product A results in a increase in productivity people will pay for it.
I see, thanks for clarifying. Perhaps you can use your superior education to explain when and where the terms "right" and "left" were defined; and then help me understand how liberalization of education and training over time has been counterproductive to society.
Hiring person tutors once in a while in this situation is miles ahead in cost/benefit ratio compared to an american university. And with the Berliner comment, it sounds like you can still get feedback and questions answered.
I'm no fan of how enormous college sports have become, but fwiw they are enormous sources of income and despite the extravagant stadiums and suchlike, they often pay for valuable research, courses, and amenities.

What's troubling about them is the exploitation of the student athletes; the ones that make money give a lot back to the university as a whole.
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'To' is the most common version in British English.
A few things come to mind.

Each use case—typesetting and word-processing—have enough standardized tools to fill an entire application's interface. I think making the compromises needed to do be able to do both adequately would be too much to make either task worthwhile. Maybe that wouldn't necessarily be true for digital, like ePub, but I think that would quickly become true for print.

I don't feel a typesetting interface/context is amenable to writing long-form documents. When I take into consideration multi-column layouts, running headers and footers, art wrapping, page flow across multiple pages, there are what appears to be a lot of potential distractors from the writing process. Word processing documents, when I hide as much of the interface as I can, allow for the tight focus needed for long-form writing. Someone else in this thread suggested having writing and editing happen in another window, but that's still creating an abstraction from the layout, and not really having edits happen "in real time" if only because then editing is not happening actually within the layout.

Finally, I think there would be a significant barrier to training for many authors trying to work in layouts. There are applications, like QuarkXpress, that enable word-processing-like tools in the layout. But I couldn't imagine asking an author to learn enough about the above to ask them to write a long-form paper, much less an entire book, in that environment. Fonts are handled differently, styles are handled differently, etc.
I wish there was something like this in the US.
There are usually a variety of modules

- lectures: final exam that accounts for 100% of your grade, and sometimes (possibly obligatory) regular homework

- practical courses / labs: how grades are assigned vary, sometimes this will be a "do a project in a team" kind of assignment, sometimes it's experiments where you are expected to write one or more reports

- seminars: you'll be assigned a topic (usually some recent, narrow scientific result, no wildcard giant topics here) and expected to write a report on it & give a presentation

The exact mixture depends on your course of study.
Hell, I don't know what a fortnight is either!
How would you compare Inbox to Context.IO from a REST API functionality perspective and overall goals?

Seems very similar to me - except Context.IO is either free or $0.05 / month / mailbox.
I think these features are really what sold me.. project managers might like having a visual interface to work with (webapp) but I would much rather just be in my terminals
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I had read, someone had made their parrot click the confirmation button. Or maybe it was a cat. I don't really remember the details.
I wouldn't exactly say those are readily available parts. The guy needed all sorts of metal working tools and a kiln to melt the shovel down.
An interesting take on this would be each day having to say "nope" to the nonprofit if you wanted to skip it. Make it an opt-out donation each morning (or a chosen time).

You could defer all the "no" dollars into a pile so the user could add a bonus dollar in the same way for another day.

Edit: I think you added this to your reply already! I love the idea, though.
Compilation is much simpler than interpretation, especially an ad hoc one, in a Haskell or Ruby idiomatic style.

Compiled DSL implementations are much more declarative - they simply define how a DSL is mapped to the other DSLs or a host language.

Compiled DSLs are more efficient - you don't want an interpreted regexp engine, don't you?

Compiled DSLs are IDE- and static-analysis-friendly, at no additional cost.

Compiled DSLs are more modular and reusable - by sharing the same runtime environment, they can be easily mixed together, their fine grained properties can be picked individually and mixed into new DSLs.

Having said that, I see no single advantage of the interpreted DSLs.
Any examples of the video conferencing feature?
What are their data sources? How reliable is it? How do they keep it fresh? No mention.
I would subscribe to an app that sends you a daily push notification of the charity of the day, with an option in the app to donate your dollar or not. Automatically donating my dollar isn't something I would sign up for.
Haven't used the Google app, but it looks like Google may present you with an opportunity to donate once a day, whereas this plan donates by default?
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