skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understand that applying to jobs where there are many other applicants is a bit like playing the lottery: only a few will be picked up from the pile of applicants.

Now say that you get past this round and that your application gets picked up by someone in HR or the Hiring Manager. They have a pile of others they need to look at as well. What would they prefer to read? This is a bit subjective: some would like you to not waste their time - keep it short and sweet. Others would like to read a love letter.

So, what do you do? I'd say keep it short and sweet for most jobs that you apply to. Two, maybe three paragraphs with two to four sentences each with the last paragraph being an invitation to read the resume and get in touch with you for a meeting. One in ten.. maybe one in twenty jobs get a love letter. It has to be a job that you feel strongly about. But even the love letter - don't waste words - edit it well.

Good luck!
Quantum computing should at some point allow for instantaneous solving of any equation.
The units are for depth, similar to how precipitation is reported in mm. Naturally you'd also need to know the relevant area to find total volume.
This Just In ... Being Alive Linked to Cancer

http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/2015/02/this-just-in-bein...
Scientists Find Elusive Giant Black Hole Pairs
Bluetooth radiation is considerably less powerful than cell network or WiFi signals. Most headphones belong to Bluetooth Class 2 which limits the maximum output power to 2,5 mW (4 dBm). 2.5 mW is pretty safe even in a close contact with the body.

Saying that, I would still recommend to minimize the exposure. The less 2-10 GHz radiation you get, the better your health is.
I've run over 25 marathons. A half-marathon is a weekly training run. I've got a 3:07 PR. I am not insulted. The limits of human performance are fascinating!

> He drove onward, breaking the tape in two hours and 25 seconds.

I just ran a marathon two weeks ago in 3:15:24. I'd only wanted to break 3:20 that day so I was more than satisfied. Yet I still found myself going over my race wondering why I couldn't find just one second per mile to go under 3:15. Just one second! The mental aspect of the marathon is my favorite part of running.
It may be hoped that the next incarnation of this will deal with change better. It's really not enough to just deface every URL with a "/v2/" at the front. That way lies the madness that soured everyone on the great "web services" vision the first time around.
We have been using GraphQL for almost a year now and I'm really pleased with it. In my mind it both solves the type issue, while also providing great flexibility in what data to fetch. I guess this could be used to improve an existing REST API without the big cost of moving to GraphQL (which might even be impossible sometimes).

Maybe there are also some situations where GraphQL fails, I would definitely be interested to hear about that.
I think you are talking about my Mother's handbag.
It probably depends on the type of equipment they buy, that is, how complex it is and what are the maintenance costs.

For example, Turkey recently declared that they will buy some kind of Russian advanced anti-aircraft system so they probably think that it will be cheaper in long term than buying it from a NATO member. Yet, even in this case they had quite strong tensions with NATO and it is not clear if Germany wants to have (and can afford) similar tensions with NATO, even if these Russian helicopters are technically better.
Well, I guess humans are going extinct then.
The paper is apparently utterly without merit.

As for the editors' response, I caught this being shared and commented on by a number of researchers in hard sciences and maths at G+, including Timothy Gowers (Royal Society Research Professor at University of Cambridge, maths) and John Baez (PhD, Physics, U.C. Riverside).

https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0/posts/EamXogFywsM (Royal Society Research Professor at University of Cambridge
There is nothing specific about color here - the same approach can be used for intensity re-quantization for example.

Effectively you are non-uniformly resampling based on distribution, so relative values/distances go out the window but you keep "detail" in the lower fidelity signal.
What a huge joke.
just as well. It's probably useless with respect to health, and kind of silly.
Has anyone here looked at these studies? In what way are cell phones supposed to be dangerous? Do the studies say that they raised mice with smart phones in their cage and they got cancer or something?
Why not penetrating with tanks, starting Kaliningrad, through Poland???

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

"With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the reunification of Germany in 1990, and the subsequent withdrawal of Soviet forces, the Fulda Gap lost its strategic importance, but it remains a powerful symbol of the Cold War."
If you discovered a mechanism by which it was possible for a cell phone to cause cancer, you'd win a Nobel Prize in physics.

Not "you discovered that they did, in fact, cause cancer"; just discovering a way that it is physically possible for them to do so.

This dates back to Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect: it's easy to show (and the only thing consistent with all of 20th century physics!) that light can only cause molecular damage if individual photons carry enough energy, which in turn only happens if the radiation is of sufficiently high frequency (like UV light, X-Rays, or gamma radiation.) Any radio signal from a cell phone isn't. End of discussion.

Unless you are being actually cooked by a microwave, your cell phone does not and cannot cause cancer.

"Radiation" is a scary word for non experts, but the California Health Department should know better.
Huntington's also has an interesting place in the history of genetics, genetic diseases, and heredity.

I wish I could find the excerpt, but the book The Gene talks about the original research and it's an interesting story.

The book is worth reading in general (Siddhartha Mukherjee is a great writer and it's really good).

http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gene/Siddhartha-Mu...
I'm interpreting the question to mean: if you are selling an enterprise product into a competitive industry, how do you do word-of-mouth advertising?

The answer is, to a first approximation: you don't. "Viral marketing" is a buzzword of the B2C sector. It exists in the BB sector, sure but it's never a dominant channel.
I live in SF and I used to use Monkeybrains, but I switched to Comcast about 12 months ago. It felt like using MB was taking the moral high road, but there are some things that a wired connection just does better. MB would have very spotty signal during rainy days. A few of us play competitive games (eg Overwatch) and MB had too many latency spikes.
I only use recruiters and I have never written a cover letter. I also never submit a resume blind through job boards or ATS systems.

As a person hiring, I would ignore them. I only care does the candidate have the minimum skill set to be worth taking time to phone screen. I'll find out everything else I think is relevant then.
Okay, so we've had maybe a good ten or fifteen years or so of a significant portion of the American population carrying cell phones very close to their bodies for several hours a day. If this were a significant cause of cancer, wouldn't we have more concrete evidence of it by this point? If not now, then when?
`Not ionizing radiation.. so _Can't_ give you cancer` may be a bit strong though. (Are there other causes of cancer other than ionizing radiation?).

-some random guy in his underwear.
Just for fun I cranked my treadmill up to 12mph which is the max. Not while I was on it because I know I'd fly off.
Every time I 'run' I think about fast running for a long distance. Then I usually stop my workout and go sit on the couch and think of some things.
Sub 2hr marathon is Stupid Fast.
>I think this phenomenon is the fundamental problem of any two-party system and is one of the issues in American politics

It's a factor, but it wasn't as bad in the past. A larger factor is multiculturalism.
Huh, that's interesting.

I guess this also varies tremendously by region. WhatsApp completely dominates non-work communication in Argentina; we don't use SMS, nor phone calls, and FB is pretty much is second place.

AFAIK, in the US people actually use SMS a lot, and I'm sure it's a bit different everywhere else.

More on topic though; you can use Messenger without an FB account and still find people by username.
> ...you should find out what that distance is

And just how are we supposed to do that? Do double blind testing with ourselves in every group? Wait until we have a tumor?
Hmm,

Levels of competition within a given collection of organisms is relative - the cells of the human only occasionally compete directly - in the rebellion known as cancer (which clearly isn't the norm).

Not all societies compete at the same level but levels of competition also depend on the level of technologies and resources available. English society didn't stay in permanent civil war when muskets were introduced but you can see situations where the introduction of muskets and potatoes cause civil wars in societies where they were introduced [1].

Now, in the US since WWII and especially since the 1980s, an increase in resources has been channeled to allow society to become more competitive. One could easily imagine that if this trend continues indefinitely, things may well reach the level of something akin to civil war.

Edit: whether one see cooperation as a mean of competition or competition as means of cooperation is kind of a matter of taste. An army facing another army can experience toxic levels of internal competition that prevents it from being effective against an enemy (or oppositely, it might experience a lack of "killer instinct" before the key moments I suppose).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars
What about if I don't have a cell phone but I'm standing between a cell tower and someone talking on their phone?
Non-ionizing radiation does not cause health issues.

The definition of non-ionizing radiation is:

Non-ionizing (or non-ionising) radiation refers to any type of electromagnetic radiation that does not carry enough energy per quantum (photon energy) to ionize atoms or molecules—that is, to completely remove an electron from an atom or molecule.[1] Instead of producing charged ions when passing through matter, the electromagnetic radiation has sufficient energy only for excitation, the movement of an electron to a higher energy state.
Combine the e-scooter with the bike sharing concept and you'll have the next big revolution.
However they're experimenting with selling user privacy to 3rd party companies, with small percentage of users in Germany (it's enabled by default).
I don't write cover letters. HR people just look for keywords, afaik.
Actually, physics community agrees just fine that the possibility of non-ionizing radiation causing cancer is real (I am not aware of any papers you can point to that say otherwise, but am happy to read and evaluate if you point me to them). After all, things other than radiation cause cancer, so it does seem unlikely that non-ionizing radiation would somehow be magically excluded from that list!

Yes, I saw you mentioned heating. That's certainly the first place biologists would start, if there were a solid epidemiological case. however, given that your body has tons of receptors, some of which respond to low frequency radiation, so in theory there could be any number of causal mechanisms.

(you should be aware: I personally think cell phones don't cause cancer, through any mechanism, I'm just making the point that there is zero evidence non-ionizing radiation can't cause cancer, there aren't any [reliable] examples of it doing so, either. There is simply no reliable data to make a reasoned determination, either way, because the biology of cellular response to non-ionizing radiation is complex, so making causal claims is very hard without good experimental evidence).
"When they had been set in order and the sacrifices were favorable, the Athenians were sent forth and charged the foreigners at a run. The space between the armies was no less than eight stadia. [Note: One mile]

"The Persians saw them running to attack and prepared to receive them, thinking the Athenians absolutely crazy, since they saw how few of them there were and that they ran up so fast without either cavalry or archers.

"So the foreigners imagined, but when the Athenians all together fell upon the foreigners they fought in a way worthy of record. These are the first Hellenes whom we know of to use running against the enemy. They are also the first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic.

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It's also interesting to note that the Spartan army arrived at Marathon a day late "having marched (140 mi) in only three days."
The water north of the Cape is called the Mosquito Lagoon for a reason...

If you want to see serious bug splatters, try Okeechobee during love-bug season. I drove through that once about eight years ago, and the marks are still visible on the car.
Ask HN: Consultants – what do you care about in a job?
Location, Rates, Problems, Technology, etc.
+10 on the networking. Use LinkedIn, leverage any/all connections. Reach out to people, let them know you are looking.

+1 on the ATS. They are a waste of your time, generally. If you see an interesting position, try to find an "in" to the company via your network, 1st or 2nd order. See if you can reach the hiring manager directly. HR/ATS get in the way of that. They are supposed to be a service, but as often as not, they are a bottleneck of dubious value. Think of this as engineering your way around the bottlenecks.

+1 on writing a personalized cover letter for each application (e.g. resume submission). I spent quite a bit of time reading/listening to what people thought were good cover letters. What it comes down to is, be real, be yourself. Explain what excites you and how this position does this.

After I did all of this, I found myself a) applying to fewer positions (this was early this year), and b) getting a far higher response rate (60+%). This culminated in multiple interesting offers.

YMMV, but good cover letters help you stand out. Show you are a human being that they want on their team.
I will take obesity epidemics over famine, war or some of historical epidemics. Also, holocaust was extension of war itself - the ultimate attempt to kill perceived enemies. For that matter, so was Rwanda genocide.
Quantum Gate Playground
Will they also recommend to opt out of millimeter wave scanners? If we're going to talk about risks of one type of nonionizing radiation, why not that one too?
Ask HN: Thoughts on development process in cloud
I a value my freedom a lot. In this case it's not-heavily-dependable-on-stuff-like-freedom.

Flexible development environment. And means to access it through any type hardware from anywhere in the world.
By development environment I mean: ability to write code, ability to test code, git support, at least basic linux functionality.

I've been researching this topic for a while now and so far I've discovered these options:
- External server: inside some ubuntu, tmux, vim, language-specific packages and connect through SSH/Mosh (Amazing example by Jannis. Just to be able to work pants-free https://jann.is/ipad-pro-for-programming/)
- Docker image with needed configs and download it on each machine.
- Environemnt-based configs that quickly configure any machine to your needs.
- Cloud IDE's

Share your thoughts/experience in developing without heavy IRL dependencies.
Here's some evidence re: non-ionizing radiation and tumors:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-cell-phone-...

> The fact that scientists were able to expose animals to nonionizing radiation (like that emitted by cell phones) and those animals went on to develop tumors but that exposure did not significantly raise the animals' body temperatures was “important” to release, Bucher says.

Actual site: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/
> The statement that non-ionizing radiation can't give you cancer is effectively false.

Do you know of any examples where cancer is caused by non-ionizing radiation, outside of obvious extremes?
I’m 18 years and 5 companies into my career. I was beginning to think I was alone here in never having written a cover letter.
That’s not quite the version I grew up with: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon#Marathon_...

A single man runs from Marathon to Athens, says only “we are victorious”, and then dies. That’s the legend, but it’s confusing two events. Pheidippides actually ran from Athens to Sparta to request reinforcements. The Marathon to Athens run has the hoplites getting there just in time to see the Persians leave Athens.
Why should we trust a physicist's opinion over a biologist's when it comes to biology?
What about calcium channels, then?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014341601...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780531/
Ehy not nominate?
The request of cover letters in certain fields are to me a red flag.

It seems very useful in some fields which require the skills a cover letter shows off and could substitute for a screen or casual interview.

In many technical fields however, requesting cover letters usually suggests to me a lower quality in their hiring process. This undoubtedly bleeds over to my perception of the management, namely more into checking boxes than results.
The trouble with this is that it boils down to "we don't have conclusive evidence that it isn't dangerous". And that can be applied to anything.

You talk vaguely about plausible mechanisms in the plural, but the only one you can name is heating -- which is tiny. We should certainly ban hair dryer and centrally heated shops before we worry about phones.
I share your sentiments but I don't think AIM is an example of this. I haven't used AIM in 8+ years but there was an easy-to-find checkbox in the official client (and unofficial ones too) to save all history as simple text files on disk. I'm pretty sure I still have records of AIM conversations from back in ~1999 in my backups.

Actually the linked article mentions this. Look for "Can I view and save my chat history?". It sounds like the checkbox I mentioned is enabled by default.
California also requires bottles of water to say that they cause cancer, so... yawn.
So? What's the worse that can happen? Some cities slowly get flooded and some storms become more frequent? The worst case of nuclear war is all cities get destroyed and humanity is sent back to the stone age. They aren't even comparable.
BTW, I really am serious that I'd love to read any good papers from the physics community making the case that nonionizing radiation cannot cause cancer. I am unable to find any, after doing some literature search (challenging because of all the non-scientific noise associated with this issue).
This one seems far more relevant, being higher frequency than cell phones. Not a big fan of government-imposed radiation.
I'm not sure i understand the benefits of blockchain here...though if they can pull off the mesh aspect of this, then that's really awesome. I wonder though, if the constant "peer hopping" (via bluetooth) won't drain the batteries of mobiles? Then again, if a mesh-like network takes off, maybe antennas can be tuned not to "catch" signals from far off cell towers but rather the next closest mobile...which might require less power? This is not my expertise, so will defer to other experts...Well, i'll say that the idea sounded cool on the Silicon Vallet show, and it still sounds cool in real life...assuming they can pull it off.
Too late, are you serious? Are you claiming the world has never been more divided? It's clearly not too late, we've recovered from so much worse.
>Seeing most everyone on Earth as ingroup improves collaboration and thus propels culture / prosperity.

Not when this isn't a shared sentiment. Whites are resented, not praised, for their anti-identity politics and inclusiveness. Now we're called racist for trying to ignore race or judging people based on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.

Also it's a pretty radical proposition to overcome nature regarding in-group preferences, since that has a genetic component.
Ask HN: Good Books or Resources for Web Design
I have a friend with very solid design skills, but all in the print world...posters, flyers, etc. Very literate with the entire Adobe toolset, but again, with printed output.

He's been offered a job that will pull him into the web world. He was upfront about his lack of web experience, but they were impressed enough to hire him anyway.

What books and/or online resources should he be looking at to help him make the transition?
There should be another option besides McMansion, townhouse, condo or condo hi-rise. That is small two-story homes. I say split the lots up into two or three pieces.
The share of the wealth creation in Silicon Valley that has been captured by property owners is outrageous.
There's a more practical question here. Perhaps it's possible that such biases could be totally overcome, i.e. requiring no conscious effort. But clearly we're not on the verge of doing so. So, if we accept that our society is going to be composed of Us-vs-Them tribalists for the time being... what implications does that have for social policy?

For example, our "rational brain" tells us that racism is bad, but our "lizard brain" is still going to fail the implicit bias test every time. We can consciously override that bias some of the time, but it's still there. Even if you believe that you can consistently override your bias, surely you don't expect that the average person could. So how can a society comprised of "average" people avoid being plagued by racial bias?

Our rational brain -- the part that tries to overcome bias -- is also the part that is responsible for designing our society. And the people designing society tend to be more rational than most. As a result, society is in direct conflict with our lizard brain. If you are not adept at suppressing your automatic responses, you are a bad citizen. For the most part, this is what we want; after all, your lizard brain generates a lot of unsavory impulses, like the desire to enact violence. But I think it's a mistake to disregard the lizard brain entirely. "Whatever your lizard brain says, do the opposite" is unlikely to result in a perfect society. We should continue to push the limits of what we can successfully repress, but we should also be willing to admit when repression has failed.

Thousands of years ago, we began to experiment with repressing our urges to murder, steal, commit adultery, etc. That experiment was largely successful. In modern times, we are launching new experiments, many of which concern implicit bias. We don't know yet whether we can suppress those impulses. And we don't seem to have very good criteria for deciding whether the experiment has succeeded or failed. That concerns me, because it likely means that things have to get really bad before the experiment can be deemed a failure.
Granted, they have been warning about it since early days.
Intel i7 loop performance anomaly (2013)
96 x 2 clicks too

such modern
Radiation intensity declines so quickly with distance to the source that it's a no-brainer if you are 1-2m from a normally functioning phone.
The slowdown of fiber vs vacuum is about one third. A 33% reduction in latency is fairly significant for some applications. I've heard of financial trading firms using microwave relay towers for this reason.

The other issue is "long fat pipes." TCP is better tuned for it on machines now than it used to be but when you go over a long distance, the latency can decrease the usable bandwidth significantly. Of course, this seems to be more focused on last mile rather than back-haul. There are very few applications where a several nanosecond latency decrease matters.