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Ask HN: Writing cover letters for tech jobs
I really hate writing cover letters as I never know what to write or if anyone is even going to read them.
I see a lot of sites offering advice on how to write generic cover letters, but most all of them don’t seem appropriate (at least to me) for tech jobs - more for formal sales, business jobs. I'm interested to know what HN’ers with experience on either or both sides have to say by way of advice - What do you usually write/expect, is it even really a requirement?. Do you attach a separate document or just write an informal email. What tone do you take - formal, familiar. Do you summarize your skills experience or just include a link to Github etc.
(I'm the author of the piece, and am around to answer questions if you have anything to say!)
> As a rough rule of thumb, an increase of 10 points in mean IQ results in a doubling of the
per capita GDP

Alternatively: doubling of the per capita GDP reduces prenatal and child malnutrition and parasite load dramatically resulting 10 point increase in IQ.

ps. Using amateur data collection from Vanhanen and Flynn is not easy do defend. At least abandon their GDP numbers, there are much estimates available.
> 1. Mozilla obtained specific legal / contractual protections around any data that we store in GA, as covered in this adjacent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15932224.

Which requires that users trust Google.

The reason I use Mozilla products is exclusively because I do not trust Google. If Mozilla requires that I trust Google to keep my data safe (which Mozilla transmitted to them), then I have no reason to use Mozilla products.

> 2. We did briefly run an experiment with Cliqz, but that integration was only ever offered to <1% of new, German-language installations of Firefox. I still need to read up on the technical details of that experiment, but it's misleading to claim that Firefox in general has any interaction with Cliqz.

Mozilla also invested into CliqZ, and a family member of mine was affected by the experiment – I live in Germany.
You seem to either not understand or ignore that even in a company like Mozilla, there are decisions made by marketing that end up having to be implemented by engineers. It might be a non-profit, but it's a non-profit corporation with salaried employees, not a loose assembly of people purely in it for the love of a browser. If the incredibly high up people say X needs to happen, you make X happen.
My neighborhood is filled with trees so there is a 5 minute part of my commute that XM can't get a signal for more than 5 seconds in a row. It's as if it only takes a single leaf to block the signal.
I've been running in Skinners for about a year now. I found that they took a bit of getting used to, but I think the necessity of totally changing your stride is a bit overblown. The adjustment is more to do with building up the different muscles you aren't used to using, or at least it was for me.

When I run in normal running shoes now, I feel weighed down and I don't do as well. My times have definitely improved, but I think that's mostly because I've been running more because I enjoy it more.
FWIW the same is true of microwave links.
You could use add-ons to manage optional functionality a la Atom. Users can enable and disable add-ons to customize their browser and some come enabled by default. If you were migrating to this method of customization it would absolutely make sense to push an enabled add-on that replaces functionality you took out of the main app.
Mr. Robot S3: If you abandoned f-society last year, it’s time to come back
You mean something like this? https://youtu.be/YaA3dAJz6sI?t=45s
Holy sh that is incredibly disturbing.
It's cool that you're Dutch :)

But "Netherland" is not an English word, and is likely to lead to a double-take in conversation, if not outright confusion.

English, like all languages, retains a lot of legacy for a very good reason. Some changes are inevitable, but maintaining continuity is very useful in keeping the language readable in the future.

As for the label "dutch", what do you propose for a substitute?
I'm not using the word thoughtcrime, someone else had though.

> I don't understand how you can simultaneously say that we don't have details and that joining these other organizations looks just like this.

What is confusing about that? The government doesn't arrest people for trying to join the other ones. OOooh you think those would count as terrorist organizations too! Nope. Thats the point, it is completely subjective BS. You can join other non-state enemy combatant groups and the US will not care at all. I'm surprised I don't hear more about YPG here on HN more often, you might like what they stand for.

> We don't know what the evidence is against this person. While it's true that the evidence could be crap, it could also be solid.

We agree on this, I simply spelled it out and point out that I can't reserve judgement on the government's side until the evidence is shown, and this doesn't show enough of it to even sound damning to me, the opposite conclusion than what you came to, perhaps its because I am aware of the following:

Syria has been a "choose your faction" videogame for 5 years now, with only ISIS being the hidden character you aren't supposed to access. The allegation, to be convincing before trial, needs to at least show how she was affiliated with ISIS aside from some mere google searches.

Otherwise, AS WE BOTH AGREE, the evidence will just have to wait till then.
I'm just dipping my foot in the pool and building a cluster with a Pi 3B as the leader and 3+ Pi Zero W's. (Three now, expecting to pad it as a lesson.)

Am I shooting myself in the foot by using the Wifi ethernet to handle inter-device communication?
So, it sounds like your argument is that because life sucks for new companies in some ways, it's OK if we make it suck for them in all ways.

Should the same go for people? Are you looking forward to possibly seeing ISPs nickel-and-dime you to death, e.g. with "packaged internets" products that limit the sites you can visit based on how much you pay? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934044
Sounds like a recipe to kill radio in favour of higher quality cell data streaming.
I was talking about this with my son and he said "Of course! I decided many years ago that for most movies it wasn't really worth my time to go out to a movie theater to see it."

And I know for a fact that he truly believes it, we live just across the street from a movie theater complex and he never goes there. The only thing that can make him go to a movie theater is a Godzilla movie.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of doors suddenly slammed shut, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
It's totally a marathon! Sure, the conditions are lab perfect -- but these are also some of the best runners in the world.
This is a neat project! The statistical test used could be a lot more sensitive, by taking advantage of information about the physics of biased dice. They test whether 6 is rolled more often than it should be relative to the other 5 numbers, but they should instead look at whether it's rolled more often relative to 1. Since these are on opposite sides of the die, and unfairness in 6-sided dice comes from uneven distribution of weight, these go together; you get to combine the information from too-many 6s and too-few 1s and get a test that needs only about half as many rolls to reach a given confidence level.
I nearly crapped myself. I thought it meant the London AIM stock market (bang go my investments!).
Wonderful idea, I'm in MTL too. Sounds like an idea for a slack channel.
Am grandparent poster. I also ride and race road bicycles and that means on busy public roads, too. We are aware of the bottom line, as you say. Cyclists will lose a fight with a car or even a motorcycle and there's no two ways about it.

But, while I dunno about other people, I'm not going to let risk prevent me from living my life. I'm going to ride my bike, consequences be damned! However, I probably have what most people consider an unhealthy tolerance for risk, so I'm not a particularly good person to sample.
I will say this: XMPP is far from perfect. But I recently came back to it from a five year absence or so, and I must say, it's gotten really good. I set up a server with relatively little difficulty, and since in my circle, it's common to have multiple messengers on the phone anyhow, asking someone: hey, I want to use this other one, wasn't a big hassle.

Conversations for Android is really good, and on iDevice ChatSecure works very well. Much better than what I expected. With filesharing and everthing. And then there's a bunch more that also work, but not of them at the same level of Quality.

Marketshare is super-low of course, but I like that it's possible to use an open protocol.
I use Pidgin for Microsoft Lync chat, in lieu of the official client. It is so much more responsive and lightweight.
Anyone who's driven cross-country knows that FM will do that just as bad.
Weather will also degrade 24GHz and 60GHz links. A friend of mine used to work at an ISP that relied on wireless links, and he said that even at 2.4GHz moisture was a significant problem (especially concentrated moisture in living things like trees). In general as the frequency increases attenuation due to water increases; at 60GHz particulates will also become a problem (consider that a selling point of 60GHz is that it does not penetrate walls, so you will have less interference in apartments or large office buildings).

(Edit: Looked it up; 2.4GHz is more readily absorbed by plants than 5.8GHz. Still, attenuation due to moisture seems to be a problem for microwave frequencies generally.)
How to stay safe shopping online this Christmas http://www.seyiblog.com.ng/2017/12/how-to-stay-safe-shopping...
We are using microwave technology transmitting over 30 miles to our satellite ground station, and even in a hellish snow-storm we don't drop any more packets than usual. It actually was pretty damn impressive the first time I witnessed that. We're down in Antarctica by the way.
Long Island Woman Indicted for Sending $85,000 in BTC to Support Terrorists
It varies. In a marked crosswalk I think you're generally correct, however if a pedestrian just jumps out to cross the road in front of a car it's likely going to be the pedestrian's fault. At some point pedestrians have to be a little bit responsible and respectful of the gross difference in mass between their bodies and even a small car.
The Innovation Blind Spot and How to Invest in the Right Ideas
you mean the automatic update process, which can change every single byte of every file in every directory under Firefox's control? Because unless you want to live in a world where your browser can't automatically apply security patches and upgrade critical components, the fact that the application can update itself is very much not the actual problem (and with the new web extension addon system rathern than the old XUL system, addons are actually way less security-compromising-in-potentio than updates to the actual browser itself)
I remember the problem they had a few years ago using MongoDB to do their financial transactions, people reported lots of double and triple withdrawals.
Unright. That is not how humans talk to each other.
This breaks the HN guidelines. Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to warn you a lot. Continuing to break the guidelines ends in bannage, so please clean up your act.
Has it already been pulled? I was hoping to do something tonight before it was shut down.
What frequency?
Not but also, but only. Here is the thing, spouses of h1b can only work after getting I-140. For most of the indians, when they are legit, it will take 2-4 years after they start working on fresh h1b to get I-140. For non Indians, they will mostly have green card by then, so for them, all good. for 85,000 (h1b per year) 0.7(70% indians) 3 (years) * 0.5( 50% i-140 approval), families would would be forced to live on single income.
I have to say, I'm surprised by this post and appreciate it. I think the research presented explains a lot of the issues I've had with Facebook over the last few months--when I hit a point where I didn't have anything to say, but kept visiting the site's endless scroll and grew more dissatisfied with it in the process. I even resorted to using StayFocusd to restrict the time I could sink there each day.

I miss the days of the blogosphere. When I would write long, thoughtful well-researched articles instead of throwaway one-liners and photos. I find the experiment mentioned in the article enlightening, where people reviewed their own profile pages versus those of others and the difference in "self-affirmation" this caused. I recently went back and looked over my 10 years of blogging and I got a huge self-worth boost that inspired me to start writing again. Social media gets characterized as narcissistic, but it sounds like maybe we should be paying more attention to ourselves and our accomplishments for our own sense of self-worth.
Why would NULL equal itself? You're basically asking for SQL to special-case the Boolean logic so that if a null value is compared to itself it returns true. Who needs that?
Most treadmills don't go that fast!

Another try is going to a track and running 100m in 17s.
Dark Energy Survey Offers New View of Dark Matter Halos
It's a noble plan, but have you considered the harm you could do to scientific progress - if such a plot were discovered, the negative publicity could set back gene drive science by decades.

The potential benefits of gene drives are so vast that (to me) this overwhelms other concerns (yes, even if you successfully eliminated all mosquito borne diseases).

I'd love to see (biting) mosquitos eradicated, but I've come to believe that the slow process of an "official" eradication program is ultimately superior (despite finding the humanitarian toll of delay sickening).

Happy to elaborate if it might help you think things through.
Overcoming Us vs. Them
You can visit this great site www.seyiblog.com.ng
> I want my browser vendor to be serious and not play silly games that can so easily backfire.

I would not care about silly stuff, like say a christmas easter egg. But this wasn't meant as a silly joke.
Our memory shifts into high gear when we think about raising our children
This is why when I need to enter a lane of traffic on my bike, I make sure I'm right in the middle of it. I'd rather stay to one side so cars (or other two-wheeled commuters) don't have to fully change lanes to get around me, but I've had plenty of experiences like the one in the video and I've decided that it's better to be safe than sorry.
Antibiotic Resistance and Food Safety
Except that's how it works in the US, and voter fraud rarely ever happens.

And the problem is it disenfranchises people. As others mentioned, it really depends on what you want to prioritize on.
Motorcycle t shirt
Same with Zuck.
There are a lot of microwave connections (E.G. 24Ghz, 5.7Ghz) that are in the unlicensed spectrum. We are using these extensively in our network. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band
Nobody cares about the true word of the Koran. Nobody wants a thesis on accuracy of interpretation.

What matters is the most accessible, loudest voice in the space. Just like fake news, accessibility and network effects are the only things that matter. The demand is for one particular religion to acknowledge and tame the spread of this loud, violent "fake" religion/interpretation, if you will
I don't really customise my CV to a particular job, so I just use the cover letter as a brief summary of why I'd be great for {advertised role}.

Not that this is advice. I have no idea either and would like to hear what other folk do.
Thanks for the additional information, I completely agree with your description of coverage and the graceful degradation of FM.

DAB has obviously arrived and is here to stay in Norway, but I'm interested to see what the rest of the world does. My guess is that internet connected vehicles will be a both cheaper and better solution for consumers in many regions. Given the amount of data people use on their phones today, it seems likely to me that providing audio streaming of DAB equivalent bandwidth is feasible - even in Norway.
Fool me once.. I'm not turning anyone into Facebook anything now that it costs upwards of £50 in boosts to reach the audience I built. Email list or bust.
In my area taking a family of four to the movies is a $100+ affair after tickets and refreshments. On top of that, the theaters have all converted to a lower seat count luxury seats, so they preassign seating and it's harder to get a decent seat (esp at the last minute).

The net change there is that they serve a niche better, but there's a higher barrier to seeing a movie on a casual whim some weekend afternoons. That means a reduction in the numbers of people seeing movies in-theater to me.
Show HN: CSS-in-JS 101: All you need to know
I'm the author, and I totally agree!

Originally, I was going to point out other null hypotheses that we could try to reject. This has the advantage that some of them (like the one you propose) model the physics. And it also has the disadvantage that if we propose too many hypotheses to test, then we will be more likely to get false positives. But the article was already too long, and this is a HUGE can of worms to open.
Had a look at the Harvard option and it looks like you need to attend some of the courses on site as part of earning the degree, so it's not 100% online if I read it correctly.

Source: https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/undergraduate-de...
Assessing Bootstrap:Algebra Students on Scaffolded and Unscaffolded Problems
I've actually never played any Mass Effect...
It was the users choice to abide by the user agreement?

I don't get how any reasonable framework can exist to say such detailed efforts at curating my identity must be pushed upon others?

You want a lifelong log of your discourse? Write it in a medium you control.

This is some hyper-active nationalist zeitgeist? You are not owed a say in any and every facet of life that touches you incidentally. It's never been the case "on the ground" in America.
if you're on Nightly, this is literally what you signed up for: all the experimental settings and all new functionality turned on by default so that you can be part of the test bed of users and devs that can report back to the larger developer community through Bugzilla when things aren't working the way they should be. Complaining about the fact that Nightly did exactly what it's supposed to is kind of ridiculous.
Cars run red lights all over in downtown Seattle. Probably every other day I see a near-miss that if pedestrians were simply following their WALK sign and not being extra cautious they'd have gotten run down.

The most frustrating is when cars run red/yellow lights and then block the intersection so other traffic can't proceed on their greens. (Annoying when you see your bus coming but it can't get through an intersection because cars are blocking it). And the police don't care. There will literally be a police officer helping direct traffic out of a garage just feet away from vehicles that ran red lights and are now blocking intersections or trying to drive through a crosswalk as pedestrians are using it.

But boy are they eager to issue jaywalking tickets to pedestrians.
5.8 GHz
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can't you do this without converting the image into an RGB 3D space? (i.e. iterate through the pixels and count the ones within a certain range of what you want)
A Year of Time-Lapses
Why the End of Net Neutrality Won't Change a Thing
What? I'm not understanding your reasoning here.

The issue is not about land area, it's about fauna biomass location. Think more like this:

https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/582c7dd8ba6eb69a01...

On the vaccination issue, I encourage you to look up Jenner and his realization of the link between cowpox and smallpox. It's a good foundation for GP's idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner#Invention_of_the...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/

I'm not certain of mosquito-per-fauna-biomass distributions, nor GP's thesis, but it's not a bad one overall and may have merit.
In 2005 I was in Seattle watching a couple with a small child receive a citation for jaywalking because they were still in the road after the red hand stopped blinking. While the officer was writing the citation I saw the lights change and three cars ran the red, then at the beginning of the next cycle a car jumped the green to make a left before oncoming traffic. The officer didn't even look up.
Mozilla is... both. There's the Mozilla Foundation which is a nonprofit and the Mozilla Corporation which is very much not.

I've never quite understood what each Mozilla does, but AIUI, the Firefox development is all done by Mozilla Corp and the nonprofit does stuff like make those cute videos about how Firefox is going to save the world and make us all smiley and multiethnic.

I've talked to a number of Mozilla employees, and they also seem confused about the relationship between the corp and the foundation.
I disagree.

If it takes consumers 22 extra steps to do something, they won't use it. I feel that's the problem with bitcoin.

The other aspect is it's ripe for a company that already does transactions to take over. Pay-pal, Visa, AMEX, etc.

I can already hear the Visa commercial tag line, "Just remember to take your Visa, because they don't take Bitcoin."
The Oil Lexer: Introduction and Recap
Hypotheticals do not make me mistaken.
I'm not sure why that should give people the warm fuzzies about it.
Sarlacc
> * GA is not a replacement for linear algebra. It's a vector space equipped with a certain product. All of linear algebra still applies to it. There's just more structure. What it does replace is Gibbs-Heaviside vector analysis.

Perhaps GP meant to say "GA subsumes linear algebra". Yes, LA is still valid, but a lot more intuitive within the context of GA if you ask me.
Why can't I vote this comment down, or at least flag it?
I used to cycle quite a lot around the West London parks and an used to seeing plenty of joggers. A few years ago, around the time of the London Olympics, I saw this woman running. I've never seen anyone run so fast and she just kept going. I crossed her path later on and she was still going. I presume she was a top level marathon runner, it was shockingly fast.
Revoice is free.
this seems like a great way to kill messenger lol
When Bitcoin was $1,000 you could have made the same argument in suggesting it would never go to $15,000.

Buyers today are not considering “should I or should I not enrich those who bought earlier”. They are simply making a bet that the value might go up and want to own some if it does.

As an asset rapidly increases in value and the underlying driver of that increase is not well understood, all sorts of unexpected things can happen. The question is not how big will the bubble get, but who will be left standing when the music stops.
What's comments, precious?
Is this a double submission? This user previously submitted this as a “Show HN” yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921427
Do you happen to be a tauist? ;)