skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Glimmer brings in the entirety of Encyclopedia Brittanica, just to display the definition for the word “glimmer” in its help menu.

Quite naive of the author to assume it's just used for that one definition. Britannica is an old, experienced organization, whose mission is literally "to organize the world's information."

> It is written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors, who have included 110 Nobel Prize winners and five American presidents.

Does the author claim to know the value of knowledge better than these folks? Glimmer is wise to include such information wealth, all of which fits into a relatively tiny 100kb. In this age of "Big Data" and "Wikimedia," I can't help but lament that appreciation for true scholarship has been lost. Everyone's computer is richer for having these resources installed.
Ask HN: Best resume format for auto-fill online job apps?
Numerous online application systems have you first upload a resume in .docx, .pdf, .txt, from which an attempt is then made to pre-fill out much of the online application. This doesn't work very well and basically requires one to complete the entire app. Anyone out there have experience creating these programs? How do they work and what's the best way to format a resume so that they work properly?
What kind of stuff do you ask for?
The isolation of academia from reality is so large that you almost have to say it is deliberate.

In particular, when it comes the issues of the humanities that revolve around "how should you live your life?"; a professor who is tenured has nothing to say to people subject to the "flexible economy" other than to implant false conciousness.
> But the planets all harbor the same kinds of structures. The same alien remnants. You do the same kinds of things on all of them.

Watching this game on twitch and going from one stream to the next I was left with thinking exactly this, it's all the same, and it's all a grind. The game's procedural generation creates superficial visual differences. It doesn't create anything non-visual worth exploring. Outside of wondering what the next thing looks like, what is there to be curious about?

They should add procedurally generated problems to solve in the environment that can affect your life in the game. Different environments requiring unique ways to survive, perhaps some not even solvable. There could be online discussions about particular dangerous places about how one could possibly create a habitable solution for exploring them.
Macy’s to Close 100 Stores as E-Rivals and Discounting Hit Legacy Retailers
The OS X terms and conditions say you can't install it on non-Apple hardware :/
This link is in first position, was submitted 20 minutes ago and has 14 points, yet the host is unreachable. I'm interested in knowing if people actually read the article or upvoted the title?
AWS Tip of the day: Tagging EC2 reserved instances
In praise of failure – Benedict Evans
There is great potential for something like Lyft to fix the rail "first mile" and "last mile" problem. If they can integrate systems with government so that the Lyft cost is part of the rail fare, then it's possible it could be covered by the commuter tax benefit. That would be a big win for everyone, lower cost for commuters, steady income for Lyft, increased ridership for rail.

EDIT: The more I think about it, this is such a good idea I hope Lyft is seriously working on this. With something like Lyft Line, the optimization potential is immense. Assuming each Lyft Line car can have 3 passengers and most workplaces would be within 2-3 miles of a rail station, rides could be very cheap and fast. For example, most coworkers going home would probably share the same Lyft back to the station. The short distance (assuming a 2-3 mile radius) combined with Lyft Line would allow very high throughput during rush hours. If the Lyft cost can benefit from the commuter tax deduction, that's just icing on the cake since the car sharing alone should drop costs by a lot. And there's also networking effect. Coworkers will want to encourage coworkers to do this so they can lower costs for everyone.
How much do you value your time?
Starting strength has you do six to eight sets for each exercise^1. And it recommends "[taking] enough time between sets so that you don’t feel any fatigue from the previous set before you start the next one. For guys squatting 185 pounds in their work sets, this is five minutes between sets."^2. If you're doing six sets, and each takes you, say, a minute, and you're waiting a few minutes between sets, that easily adds up to more than 20 minutes per exercise. Also, if working with a partner (which you do dismiss), you're going to have to alternate. Alternating doesn't quite double your time, since you have your rest period while switching weights and doing the set, but it does increase it.

> When you're starting out and learning the form, sure, a partner to check your form is invaluable. But after that, I never felt the need...my body knew when something wasn't quite right.

I've heard a lot of stories about people who thought they knew they were doing the right thing, but badly injured themselves. I mean, I hope you're right, but I doubt I am. Also there's spotting for bench press (people die from benching without spotters or doing so in a cage), and if, for example, you go down for a squat and realize you've got too much weight, helping the weight go down less uncontrollably. Perhaps I could be more comfortable with benching alone if I did so in a cage, but I've never seen anyone else do that. Perhaps I could be more comfortable squatting alone if I got comfortable dropping the weight off my back. But right now I'm not -- so having a partner is helpful.

And finally, I'm also including changing before/after and showering in the two-hour time, since that's something I have to account for in my schedule. Being able to leave the gym 60 minutes after I got there would be pretty nice, actually. Even a little bit more -- 75 minutes -- would be great.

Perhaps I could try it again, having one personal training session a month to ensure my form's ok.

[1] This is from what I recall. Squats were the most -- a set with only the bar, three or four warmup sets, then three working sets. Deadlifts had only one working set, and everything but squats had only three warmup sets. I could be wrong, but not by much.

[2] http://www.muscleandfitness.com/workouts/workout-routines/4-...
What an amazing project! I use it all the time, for converting between textile (redmine) and markdown (everything else), and also for extracting my company's proposals from Google Drive, and converting them to latex and PDF with our customized template. The code for this is all here: https://github.com/dergachev/gdocs-export

Thanks so much to it's creators and contributors!
This makes me wish I could downvote things on HN. This is not new, nor is there any significant evidence that it's "fastest" (a term that doesn't really mean much without context anyway).
I'm curious about the loss of jobs with this trend of brick and mortar retail being replaced by Amazon and discounters. 100 stores is a sizable number of retail clerks and other jobs. They closed 43 last year.
I keep reading mixed reviews on the game. I want to play but so far have seen nothing but the hyped videos of playing for the first time. I'm wondering how the game will pan out once you have people who know how to exploit it, which will change the landscape for newcomers.
Nope. I also don't think that our statements are at odds with each other. Flutter isn't done yet but that isn't preventing a lot of folks from using it for real work.
Some Weekend Reading: Causal Data Science
Ask HN: If you were buying a laptop now, what would you buy, and why?
Bonus questions:

What laptop do you currently use?
Which OS do you have installed?
What do you use your laptop for?

Thanks!
Interesting, but without any real suggestion of why being statistically rarer than the average somehow makes people blind to broader realities. It's just slipped in there, around the middle that intellectuals, "...tend to be both biased and unaware of their own bias." Well sure, everyone is, that's not a helpful or insightful statement, it's just an incredibly safe bet.
I'm weighing the same decision. It's time to replace my eight year old Mac Pro, and I'd like to go with a laptop + docking station + external monitors, but I'm torn as to weather and get the current model or the next.

I've decided to wait. The current model will be discounted, and I want to know how many USB-C ports will be on the next version and what the impact will be. I've heard it is painful if not impossible to connect older Cinnema dispays to mac book via USB-C.

Edited to add:

>-I want to do iOS development
You can do iOS development on any intel-based mac. My 8 year old mac pro is fine. My Macbook Air is perfectly fine.

>-Want to be able to hook up a external monitor later, >hence the MBP and not air

You can hook up an external monitor to any of the modern macbooks, you just have to purchase an adapter. A mini-display cable will plug into a thunderbolt port, and there are adapters for other cable types (thunderbold to vga, thunderbolt to DVI, etc). I have a set of adapters I carry in a bag just for presentations.

If you want to drive 4k monitors, there be dragons.
They're killing me. I'm going on a three-week overseas trip in September and I want a new laptop (old one is 2011 model with a dead battery on Mountain Lion that can't be upgraded). And here we are in August and no announcement and we're way past the average release date for everything but the 12" MacBook.
it's kind of a tautology. Convincing yourself <of anything> is a self-fulfilling prophecy when it determines your next actions.
there was an article on HN recently about using chemical reactions to do some of the computer processing, with the net benefit that the random nature of the reactions would mask these emitted signals.

edit: the company is http://chaologix.com/
Never happened to me, and I would frankly laugh at their face. Same with date of birth and pretty much everything from your list. The only thing they need: my name and a way to reach me. Later in the process, if the company needs to run a background check sure I'll provide more details.
I agree, and if it were background, I would expect them to need the full SSN.
I don't think you'd necessarily have to know a lot about chemistry, just some observation of volcanism. The ancient Grecian knew that ground vents & volcanoes produced noxious fumes (e.g. hydrogen sulfide), and that volcanoes can explode and kill people in fairly obvious ways.

Not to say you could have figured out the carbon dioxide part, but you could have developed an understanding deeper than "god" or "spirits".
Op here.

Convenient setup and configuration (or DX in general) is what we are focusing on.

We realized we are wasting a lot of valuable time on just configuring tools. Every person does this for every project. We spend more time on fiddling with the tool chain than actually coding (ok that's perhaps a hyperbole).

The goal is to be able to clone a repo and start working on the code 10 seconds later, because everything is already installed in the cloud. You just can't do that with current solutions. Sure, npm goes a long way, but it won't install e.g. fontforge for you, and even if you stick to npm only tools you will have a hard time maintaining all the dependencies across your team or across projects.

On the other hand, we will probably always be a step behind the latest and greatest and that's ok with us. We prefer stability.

We are considering open sourcing the solution in some form (when stable enough), but not having to install any dependencies is at the core of our value proposition, so it would be kind of like open sourcing Heroku. Possible, but kind of beats the purpose.

Edit: I meant to post this as a reply. Sorry.
Either that, or have an even more powerful building/recipe system than other sandbox games, perhaps building a planetary (or even galactic?) fortress and such. This may get too complicated though, even if it were feasible.
Microsoft Flow, the company’s IFTTT competitor, comes to Android
Something is wrong with the drivers for it. There's a long running "sleep of death" issue with Surface Pro 4s, for example, because of this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/4nu355/finally_fix...
Why do you regard UBI as foolish given that real-world context?

I'm interested as opinions for and against it do tend to be from 30,000 feet.
95% of the population needs to be brainwashed means 95% of the children's shows are going to be garbage.

It's just math. Make sure your kids are in that 5%.
I'm not sure if it applies, but in later series like DS9/enterprise we see another side of the federation in regards to section 31 which is effectively a three letter agency that is responsible for all the dirty work of keeping the utopia afloat.

We also see that they are really willing to do whatever is necessary to citizens as well. I'm not sure we can consider the world of Star Trek a utopia, at least I can't, but it definitely is a case of overall better in life outcomes for most of the people within its grasp.
Put a DC barrel jack on it?
some interesting ideas in this article.
Would be nice to only allow upvotes from those who have visited the site, but that would be a privacy problem.
>As a result, my thinking has changed to ... UBI is foolish

Could you elaborate on what made you change your mind regarding UBI? It'd be interesting to hear your perspective on this.
Now this really is 'New Money'
Horseshoe Lake, in Mammoth Lakes, California, had a substantial CO2 vent in the early 2000s:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs172-96/

300 tons per day at the time.

I visited in 2002. There were danger signs everywhere, advising people to stay away from the lake itself, and away from low-lying depressions.

In such forested areas, there is always a background of natural sounds, but that day, there was almost complete silence. Large swathes of trees, especially those nearer the lake itself, were standing, dead and dying. I found a couple of dead birds on the ground, completely undisturbed.

The whole situation was so eerie that I bugged out even without taking any pictures.
I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years. I always used the same distro on the servers as I did on my desktop, just to keep it consistent. I changed a dozen machines over to a new distro, at one point, because I couldn't get my fonts to look good. So, yeah, I'm one of "those people."
Every time I want to get to the menu (Ctrl-F2), so probably a minimum of a few dozen times a day for that one. F11 to show desktop. ⌘-F5 to toggle VoiceOver for accessibility testing. And probably others I've forgotten I use.
So you can even take photos with your phone? Very cool! +1 for DIY mapping
Rock climber Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us
Well, not quite. Showing up is half the battle, maybe. But that sentiment assumes the choice of battle is correct. I thought some more factual objections would help clarify whether this is the battle to show up for.
XPS Developer Edition would be what I would buy now. I currently don't use a personal laptop (I have a couple of old ones not in as much use though), but only a Thinkpad W550s my employer provides.
Cable IPs, while assigned by DHCP, change incredibly rarely in many or most areas, and are thus effectively static.

I've seen my exact address filled in on a pizza site I had never before visited.
If someone wrote a book that was as shallow as this game, it would be a $.99 affair on Amazon. No characters, no story to speak of, no meaningful interaction or progression, and I found that after a handful of planets, it was really clear how Mr. Potato-Head "The Game" worked.

I don't see how it's like reading, when a book offers you a story and then asks you to imagine accordingly, with something that offers you synthetic imagination and asks you to come up with a story.
I think they do help. For constant dollars, each study has to balance the detail of the data captured against the size of the population included. Anything that allows more detailed data to be gathered from a larger population is helpful.

While that population is going to skew wealthy if the study involves the participants making a purchase, that can be counteracted by seeking out under-represented populations and asking and/or incentivising them to participate.
My daughter went through that show for a while, and we found the same enjoyment. It's self-referential enough, and plays their inanity clearly enough that even the youngest kid can tell it's not behavior to emulate.
I recently worked on an extension to disable Facebook's news feed completely since I (and probably many others) mostly use it for chat and groups. Might be helpful for some people in the HN community! :)

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fb-feed-modifier/h...
You're looking at the yield; not the returns. You also cannot directly invest in the index but there are ETFs that track it.
Heh. Probably is. I'm in Europe, but moved from the states. A lot of European countries either have a really strong tradition of giving paid time off and sick time or have those sorts of protections written into law.

There is no such thing in the states. While some companies give vacation, a lot of folks have trouble taking more than a few days off at a time even if they have 3 weeks worth. A few give sick time - paid vacation, but it still counts negatively towards attendance at times. Yet still more folks get absolutely none of this. Admittedly, a lot of programmers won't get this short end, but they probably feel pressure to work even when sick and sometimes have trouble taking vacation time.

There are federal laws that grant some unpaid leave for serious injury only if you work at a qualifying company for a long enough time. A few companies will give partial pay and some folks buy insurance to cover such things.
Should be fine, you may need to update the bios on your mobo, but other than that looks good
I think this should be seen as wealth creation. A novel thing in this day and age.
At least I'm starting to read about inconsistent measurements. I'm always baffled how the only really consistent metric in use is body weight or BMI, which is pretty useless to pay attention to. I mean, you can just starve yourself and your BMI will go down whenever you want to take a test.

Where I get pissed off is that health insurance companies will create policy around research based on shitty metrics. They really only seem to be capable of understanding what might help when things go REALLY wrong - as in you require constant drug use or surgery, because hey, they have patient data on that. But in terms of preventive medicine, insurance companies can't figure out what to do. Thus, it's completely random as to what you may or may not get covered for preventative techniques - like doing physical therapy to prevent surgery instead of recover from it. And if you have to pay out of pocket for this sort of stuff, damn... it gets expensive these days.
Software Engineer Cheat Sheet
It would book interesting if HN tracked which upvotes come from people who actually clicked the link. Maybe that would be too intrusive or brittle to implement, but the data could be interesting and might improve the ranking algorithm.
You can definitely do it with only the last four digits.
hahaha, it would seem the sort of people who immediately agree with an anti-intellectual title are the same people who don't read the articles!
> ramping up education investment is pretty minimal in its returns. Creating real neighborhood community (work, education, family, etc) is the best solution

I'm confused about your stance on education. At first blush you seem to be diminishing it's impact while promoting it. Care to elaborate?
It seems to load again. Stability issues perhaps?
Alphabet is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate
It might be simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy to implement. I'm too skinny, I forget to eat and have a hard time paying attention to when I'm hungry. Not that I never feel hungry, but my hunger drive is not powerful enough to keep me at a healthy weight, I must choose to eat extra, using calorie counting and a rough knowledge of how much I should eat.
Try removing the Intel DDX driver and using the default modesetting driver. It seems to be far less buggy for most people.
Macy’s to Close 100 Stores as E-Rivals and Discounting Hit Legacy Retailers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12277307

E-Rivals === Amazon. Amazon uses lots of robots for their distribution centers -- they even purchased a robotics company and the subsidiary is called Amazon Robotics.

I still think the major issue is trade agreements and the importation of foreign labor in using H1-B visas to replace STEM (think Disney and Abbott Pharma replacing their IT workers with H1-B visas) and H2-A and H2-B visas replacing blue collar workers. Do the numbers. The technology is sensationalizing.

Although Amazon replacing Macy's is Internet automation and Robots in the warehouses.
Am I right in presuming you are living in Berlin?
CRM Startups Staff Up as Larger Rivals Fight
I have (and love) a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, which is expensive but really nice...
I run Arch linux on it....
But ehat does that say about our species' future and existence? :)
What do you mean? Marx made plenty of money off his books.
As the old joke goes 'guns - the original point and click adventure!'
This makes a LOT of sense for the elderly. My grandmother occasionally schedules a pickup from her home in the suburbs, and the system is very lacking. First off, it's based on scheduling a time far in advance. Second, there's no way to get real time updates. Third, the van/bus that picks her up is often EMPTY!

I see a lot of people trying to map the functionality of this onto their non-retired lifestyles, but I think that's missing the point. This will mostly benefit seniors.
The article says they're not sure if it was volcanic activity that triggered the release, or something else.
A second cache miss. That the language almost (1) forces the language implementation to be inefficient doesn't give those writing programs in the language to ignore further inefficiencies.

(1) A sufficiently smart compiler could, in some cases, convert a data structure that logically uses reference types into one that uses value types in the compiled code (I think that's highly hypothetical in this case, as it almost isn't worth spending time on for compiler writers, given that it will be possible very rarely)
Wait, did I read this wrong? Limiting the daily screen time to "no more then 24 hours" reads like a tongue in cheek joke, because there are only 24 hours in a day.
The answer is in your question, I'm afraid: "how can I do X without the X-doing-device?" only has one answer: you can't. Get new hardware, restore from backups, prepare before next incident.
Yes, they need to grow up eventually, but not at age 3. A toddler cannot make good decisions on their own. I'm 100% for the point of view you exposed about letting kids make their own responsible choices instead of hand guiding them, but a 3 year old needs to be told what to do.
I picked up Player of Games on a recommendation here on HN and devoured every Banks book I could get my hands on for the next six months. If Banks had written a phone book I'd read it. I was so depressed when I finally finished all of them (he passed from a brain tumor in his prime, a terrible loss). The Culture novels are some of the few books I've read that really expanded my perception of humanity. Also the best thought experiment on human sexuality I've ever encountered.
Games should be like this. The point of (social) sci-fi is to explore and consider situations. To learn pitfalls before we actually confront these situations.

Of course, must of us don't pay any attention to these lessons.