skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of asking us what you should do, why don't you look inside and figure out what you want to do, and pursue that?

At 40 years old you should know there are no right answers to questions like these, and life is what you make it.
I would skip the entire step of sending in a resume that has to auto fill that type of information (if possible; not sure what industry you're in).

Almost every single time I've submitted a resume through whatever process a company has to do so (which almost always includes one of these systems) I RARELY hear back in any decent amount of time (if at all; the amount of technology companies that have never sent any type of response to me at all is absolutely staggering).

However, if you can find the recruiter's email address, the email address for the head of a group you want to work for or even a hiring post (like HN's Who's Hiring) where they give you a direct email address to send to, those are almost ALWAYS the best.

I'll never forget applying to one company a while back where I submitted through their online process then, later that day, saw their email address in the Who's Hiring on HN and directly emailed them. I went through two interviews as a result of my direct email then almost a month later got a call from whoever received my first application. The crazy thing is that one was FAST and actually responded to me; most are super slow or never respond to me.
It's better now.

And if No Man's Sky is worse than Starbound then honestly I think I don't want to play it. Starbound is still on the level of "fun at first, but quickly getting repetitive" in terms of procedural generation. It's much more engaging than it was - but that's because authors invested a lot of time in adding non-generated content.

My complaint about all the attempts at procedural generation I've seen so far is that they lack depth. You have plenty of randomized stuff on one level, but obviously repetitive patterns on a meta-level. Take Starbound, again, for an example. Sure, on every planet you'll encounter a slightly different set of creatures - they may differ in sprites, stats or attacks. But after visiting a few worlds you quickly notice it's always the same combo of one non-hostile ground critter, one weak and one strong hostile ground critters, one or two flying critters...
> Working class wants to work.

One of the principal selling points for UBI as a replacement for existing means tested social benefit programs is that it eliminates the perverse incentives created by means tested programs in which benefits are reduced by outside income (especially from work), at a rate that, in aggregate across the programs a person may be eligible for, may even exceed the after-tax income from work.

A selling point it has as a replacement for minimum wage is that it provides a quality-of-life safety net without preventing work that people would willingly do, and which would be economically valuable for employers, by setting a floor on minimum hourly pay.

UBI is, arguably, more in line with "working class wants to work" than the status quo it is offered to replace.
There is normally still plenty of O2 left in the air, so you are conscious and panic when too much CO2 is around (actually, in your bloodstream rather than around).

If a huge amount of CO2 displaces everything else quickly, there is suddenly no O2 at all and you just faint, then die.
That only really works for companies local to you. Plus, it ignores that at many large companies a referral just means an extra tag in the ATS that might or might not help you bubble up.
i can't think of any reason why basic economic principles wouldn't apply.
They cannot split out Android or Youtube from Google for regulatory reasons (but not only), specially in Europe. The thing is, both Android and Youtube rely on its ads business and users need to accept the privacy policy of sharing their search history accros all platforms so that google can optimize ads for them. Splitting Android, Youtube and Google Search into different companies would make it very hard for Google to share user data between the 3. Also, it makes sense to keep them together given that they are still highly integrated, Android has great Youtube integration and Google Search integrates Youtube videos directly in results and of course Google Search is at the center of Android (Google Now etc). It would be more troubles than necessary to split them all.
Understood, but sounds like the job I had in high school, not a senior position.
The Election Won’t Be Rigged. But It Could Be Hacked
Denmark - Crass, potty mouthed but entertaining kid shows.
USA - Clean, preachy, educational kid shows.

Denmark - No gun crime, low homocide rate, high Human Development Index (HDI)
USA - High gun crime, high homicide rate, lower HDI.

So - What exactly do kid shows have to do with long term success of the kid, or the general society they contribute to?
If they are willing to fake reviews what makes you think they won't fake receipts?
I initially planned on using Lambda for things like this, but in this scenario, it does not seem appropriate. I'm a total noob to Lambda, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I need a system with Qt installed to use my PDF library, and it doesn't seem like I can accomplish that with Lambda.
"Hi, sorry, no I can't attend the Skype interview, lima on HN told me to stop using it"
So I tried running my file through Pandoc and it failed, so that's kind of a bummer.

Apparently U+3C1 is not set up for use with LaTeX and that seems to be a prerequisite for pdf. It helpfully suggests I try with --latex-engine=xelatex and that fails after a while because xetex.def isn't in the repositories anymore.
I'm not sure what the impact of $5k a month is on a site that needs to scale to 125k requests per minute (I really do mean I'm not sure, I'm not saying this to dismiss the cost). Total costs and revenue might put this in perspective, there are a lot of factors here.
Hmm. Well it seems like it's possible the cars i've had have shared the same indicator for multiple brake notifications. But i've not noticed a dedicated light for brake fluid. There's one for the e-brake engagement, and one for ABS, for no particular reason, because it's a non-critical brake feature.... but i've not seen a dedicated brake pressure light.
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Crack addicts also get withdrawal symptoms, it's not necessarily a sign of being in a good situation. I'm glad for you that you're in a position where your urges steer you in a healthy direction, but that doesn't make "listen to your body" always good advice.
and now you wouldn't have a job.

in the uk, the plumbers/electricians are lucky to make £20/hr.
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Clinton Foundation Donors

$1,000,000-$5,000,000

Carlos Slim - Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder

Can't see that mentioned on the page

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundati...
LOL! Yes, that could work. The tricky part would be to keep it from being blown up during some battle, like the Mostar Bridge.
Preparing for a formal launch here soon, but wanted to get some feedback on this from you guys. Any and all thoughts ( even if they hurt my feelings ) are "appreciated". If you want to sign up and give it a go, I trust you're smart enough to figure out how ;)
Polls suggest Iceland's Pirate party may form next government
Yep. After going through the configuration, this looks like exactly what I'm going to be getting at some point soon. Thank you.
This seems to be true of like at least 90% of music streaming services, just with varying numbers of songs per station. Like with slacker it was 50 songs, and then a small number of extras put in. Or amazon music playing the same song 2 or 3 times during the same listening session.
I was on a team with tedious, competitive standups. It was horrible and I dreaded it every day. If I kept my contribution to about 1 minute (as it is supposed to be), I would be interrogated. Oh the memories.
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A way that I have had the idea of this explained is this. There are two ways to experience most colours.

Take yellow. You could experience yellow by seeing pure yellow light which is at the yellow wavelength. The other way to experience yellow is by seeing a mixture of red and green wavelength light.

Your eye can't tell the difference between these two types of yellow. The yellow as reflected off a banana is "real" yellow. The yellow you see coming out of your computer monitor is actually just a mix of red and green.

Magenta is interesting because the only way to experience it is by a combinations blue and red. There is no "real" magenta.

This video explains this concept very well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3unPcJDbCc
I wonder if breaking up a monolithic company like Google has similarities to breaking up a monolithic legacy Java EE app :P
The objection to shooting animals in order to scan them is interesting: it was the first step of Audobon's process.
"Something something anecdote something plural something data," someone invariably said, having not yet realized that most people live anecdotal lives in an anecdotal world.
The Soviet Union had only this system, nothing else. I'm proposing is using this kind of a system to provide government services (e.g. filling in potholes) in return for money we are already spending.

In the Soviet Union, there was no private sector. I'm proposing no restrictions on the private sector - in fact, one explicit goal of this system is to make government dependence less pleasant (you need to go out into the national park and build trails rather than sitting at home playing video games) so that more people enter the private sector.
Not a bad article, but the piece as a whole appeared to be an exercise in justifying the author's own populist, conservative ideology.
Whether one likes it or not, simply by visiting or looking at a site, you're agreeing to their TOS.

"By accessing or using the Site, you are agreeing to these Terms and concluding a legally binding contract with Yelp Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California ("Yelp"). Do not access or use the Site if you are unwilling or unable to be bound by the Terms."
This syntax is not supported by the tools I use. If we're going to add to the language, why not just add a true intersection operator? My question was meant to be more theoretical - what was the rationale behind incorporating union into the basic syntax, but not intersection, when regular expressions were first adapted to text processing?
I have been down that road. Freelancer for a long time (15 years)with a resume like yours. Lots of experience but not really an expert in anything. I got a full time job in a corporation a few years ago as senior engineer. I started there as contractor and showed leadership and architecture skills from the start so people noticed quickly that I am not just a coder but can bring something more to the table.

From my experience going through the whole resume sending and interviewing process you won't get much respect. You will be competing with fresh college graduates. Best is probably knowing somebody you have worked with and who is hiring.

Addition: That's the nature of the industry. Most of the current javascript, inverted binary trees hotshots will be dinosaurs in 10-20 years and face the same situation.
Not asking what I should do. Asking what others have experienced.
> now age 40 with two young kids in tow,

You are still a kid yourself. ;)

Don't sell yourself short. All that experience is valuable beyond the technical aspects. Just think of the soft skills and business knowledge that you have acquired. Also, you have demonstrated that you are open to learn new things.

> I don't have a ton of the management experience

But you have worked with a lot of managers and have learned the good and the bad from them.

> 2-year veteran with that specific skillset could offer.

Not everybody hires by buzzwords. I would say that the best companies hire the best "athletes" regardless of the specific skills.
I am a scholar and a gentleman, double MSc, but I couldn't help myself. Too much reddit lately I guess.

I have been in the Linux camp for 20 years and seen their subterfuge, so a little schadenfreude is in its place. However I totally agree, this is not the place.

I stand corrected, I'm sorry hn.
The 1/4" hole is in the steel of the safe door, and then behind that is the hardened steel body of the lock-proper, so no, I don't think that would be feasible.
I've had a lot of success using Bees With Machine Guns

https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns/

(Also, the name is awesome)
In what way is this comment helpful?
They do fix it when there's a complaint, because they have to.
Employers in the United States over a certain size (I think it's 50 employees, but i could be wrong) are required to report demographics of their applicants to the Federal Government. The responses must be voluntary and they cannot be tied to any specific applicant (so, they can't see that applicant A listed themselves as White and applicant B listed themselves as African-American).
I'm not really sure what the intent is here. Alphabet is a holding company and you rarely hear anything about them. Outside of the annual shareholders meeting, is anyone really writing about what Berkshire Hathaway is doing in Omaha day to day? No, they write about their businesses. There's really not much to add to the conversation regarding the holding company itself, since it's really a top level entity meant to compartmentalize business units, often for risk purposes.
We really need someone to convince all these ATS's to use a standardized format (i.e., hResume). I would think Linkedin would have both the clout and interest in pushing their one of their own design.
bad choice of ads - at the end of the article there was a little date widget to "find a hotel near lake Nyos" and choose your departure date and return date.
Parity, an Ethereum client beat new records
I don't understand why there's so much hay being made over Alphabet's reliance on Google to fund its other ventures. Wasn't that the whole fucking point, to provide a way to separate the moonshots from Google, to ensure Google's profitability gets reported accurately, and not hit by the losses from the other projects?

Furthermore, aren't these project designed and expected to not be profitable in the medium term, with the hope/prayer of huge, life altering payoffs for humanity "eventually"?
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You seem to be splitting hairs and I'm not entirely sure why. Following the flow of conversation it should be pretty easy to infer the parent was referring to programming languages. Originally you said you don't think there should be a solution to the reflexive problem, and that in reply to a comment mentioning that Javascript was ugly (which is where the context of _programming_ language came from). I, and I believe the parent as well, took that to mean that you consider Javascript ugly because you don't believe it should operate the way it does. However, the point the parent was trying to make is that this is something common to all (programming) languages which follow the IEEE 754 standard and is therefore not some special case which makes Javascript any more ugly than another (programming) language.

It may not seem obvious and it may seem logically inconsistent but, like you said, this is computer science and things don't always work exactly the way we think they should. Usually because the obvious logical solution has problems when implemented so we change things around. In this case, NaN != NaN because of some of the limitations at the time IEEE 754 was proposed.
Will driverless trucks be a job killer? Yes, they will
Once I found out that food calorie count today is still determined by literally burning the food in a calorimeter and measuring the heat, a practice started in the 1800-s, I realized that I am on my own.

I get that the laws requiring calorie content on labels have lead to finding an efficient way to measure and provide the numbers, but it is obvious to me that the measuring system is completely broken or very inaccurate at best.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-food-manufa...
Very briefly - then you'd be dead.
It's code golf. Try to do it in less than 4 characters.
What is the likelihood of this voting machine (or ones like it) being used in an election in 2016? From the article's picture, I see several 8-bit EPROMs in sockets. As much as I love this technology, I would expect that something newer is being used that may be a little less trivial to muck around in.

That said, a "more modern" solution might mean (Windows XP Embedded | a Web front-end | any other un-formally-verified horror show).
I have worked in FSIs and the DBAs I met were absolutely paranoid about consistency and durability of writes to core banking databases. Curiously it was atomicity and isolation that took a back seat, errors due to those would be corrected by applications (or by hand in exception processing) with reversing transactions.
Why would an operating system need special support for a more modern CPU? Aren't intel's CPU backwards compatible anymore? Do they no longer boot in 8086 real mode?
I find No Man's Sky to be much more engaging than Starbound, but I attribute a lot of that to it's newness.

I really liked the concept of Starbound and the games it descended from, but it didn't really feel like it added anything to the formula.

No Man's Sky certainly inherits a lot from that genre, but it feels substantially different and it's been engaging for me in a way that the genre hasn't since I first started playing Minecraft.
While I can see your point in only capturing the positive reviews I wonder about something. Obviously consistently horrible shops just wouldn't show up but much of whats bad is much less consistently bad and this isn't just true of restaurants.

Bad reviews don't just help me find the contractors that would light my house on fire, rob me and piss on the ashes they help me find the ones who only deliver without difficulties 90% of the time so I can avoid being part of the 10%.

Also people would still be able to write negative things while giving what amounts to a 4 or 5 star review on your site. People after all love to complain. Being able to filter or sort for the bad reviews helps me obtain that information whereas it would be harder to do. In effect all the same negativity would likely be there just without the extra metadata.
I'd like to see an additional question asked: How did you go about designing the interface of your app?

I'm blown away by how good these and so many "show HN" entries usually look. Everything I've put online is functional but looks so obviously "designed by a programmer" that it's embarrassing to mention.

Do people first work on a prototype and then run it by a graphic artist/UI designer to make it look decent? Where do you find these people?
That's the fifth time this month that I just want to try a simple app but can't as iOS 9 is required. Why?
"The current road Alphabet is on doesn't seem to me to end in a happy place"

I think it's a natural (good) road.

Alphabet should be a good opportunity for Google owners to invest in outside business with a lot of potencial, like Space X. When you are "just" Google, it's hard from a business view point to invest in outside business. It's more like acquisitions and fusions. But with a strong group like that, you can make more moves with investors money. And Alphabet have a lot.

If your bets isn't giving you good results, let's start put some coins outside. But it's just a teory (don't have actual facts to support).
Well, you seem to subscribe to the mindset that says - as long as you're very intelligent and highly educated, you're probably right on any arbitrary topic, and your opinions trump those of less intelligent and/or less educated people regardless of the relative degrees of experience involved on that topic. Particularly if combined with a narrow range of life experiences, or a young age, or both, it's a difficult view to change.

I've worked at some of the biggest names in the tech industry. I've also literally beaten iron with a hammer in a dirty factory. I've lived in some of the most advanced democracies in the world. I've also lived under true-blue communist dictatorship. I've seen the life of some pretty fancy, posh suburbs in the Silicon Valley. I've also seen the life of the traditional Eastern Bloc peasant. I know it's hard to believe, but with a broad experience comes the understanding that intelligence and scholarly education alone don't automatically provide all answers, nor do they grant you the Always Right card. No matter how smart or polished you are, if you don't walk into the humble folks' shoes for a while, your understanding of what their lives truly are will be necessarily incomplete and warped.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything. A neural network that wasn't provided with the necessary training set will not "see" the right answers no matter what. All I want to do is plant the seed of "what if". Perhaps it will grow into a broader understanding, later. But that can only come with experience.
Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251162 (4 days ago, 38 points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789 (7 days ago, 29 points)
Actually physics is the one I'm least worried about. You see tons of small studies with very weak methodology everywhere that never get replicated, yet people base recommendations on it and think they are true.
What's trivially exploitable in an up-to-date windows 7 installation?
Also installed only to see the only option to login was Facebook. I don't have a Facebook account (sorry, not creating one for this).
I didn't have a bad experience, but just got tired of it after a while. Here are a few reasons:

When you're an expat you meet a lot of people, but it's hard to form anything but superficial friendships because everyone is always on the move. You can always become friends with locals, but cultural/language differences get in the way.

While it may not seem like it now, your digital nomad life will eventually become predictable and ordinary just like life at home. Especially if you're working. Work is the same no matter where you are.

And the big one for me....it's hard or impossible to do a lot of things while you're nomadding. For example, growing a garden. Cooking barbecue. Fiddling with electronics. Playing in a band.

That said, there's no reason not to try it. Just don't assume it's a rest-of-your-life choice.
If someone tells you that it's terrible, or the second coming, they're probably wrong. It's "OK", but not at $60. That is the one statement I feel very confident about making; wait until it's heavily on sale, about $10-$15 sounds right.
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>But intellectuals are supposed to be above that. They're supposed to be objective, or at least able to honestly see their bias. And they're failing at that.

Really, no, absolutely not. The bias is assumed, that's why double-blind is the gold standard too. I'd argue that at its best, intellectualism is all about building a deeper awareness of our limitations and foibles, while developing systems to compensate for them.
That is interesting because I did it the opposite way. I started with python and switched to ruby. Ruby IMO has more introductory material than python and I was terrified of the idea of reconciling python 2 and 3 which many books I found alluded to.
To be sure, part of the problem with learning to program by ones self is that a lot of background material is lacking and the toolbox is incomplete. For instance, what is an API and how does one learn about it? What are threads? What does runtime really mean? Command line invocations and PATH?
ASCII? and so on for all the entities one will require.