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re-post of my earlier post:

>I'm not sure why companies over-list [job requirements].

It's not companies, it's the individuals.

Consider this: in a corporate environment, a person that is responsible for hiring but that is not a stakeholder in the success of any particular project, is incentivized to prove that:

- she or he made an effort ("I've posted N ads on top ten websites")
- she or he didn't cause any particularly bad hires

The first incentive favors cookie-cutter hiring requirement lists and ads, in the "nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM" sense. Copy-paste an ad from a different project, adjust a few minor points, file it away.

The second incentive favors over-specifying requirements, in the hopes that no particularly bad hire will be made and then blamed on the requirements / ad author.

Suppose for a second a hiring manager or HR specialist were told by project stakeholders "certification X and skill Y are requirements", but figured out they aren't actually key to success - perhaps learning on the job would work out just fine in this case. So our brave hiring manager or HR specialist puts the certification and the skill in the "nice to have" section instead. Now suppose a candidate hired without the certification or skill ended up disappointing and underachieving. The manager or HR specialist would shoulder the blame for not filtering the hires well enough. Thus they play it safe and over-specify.

It doesn't help that there's a persistent, lingering narrative[1] in the press that pretty much all the skilled specialists are in high demand and in very short supply on the job market. This provides a cover for anybody who failed to attract candidates due to over-specified requirements - "the specialists are in short supply anyway".

Source: having been doing guerilla-style hiring with carefully redacted ads for a long while, with repeatably good results.

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[1] the narrative seems mostly created by the prospective employers in hopes of driving the worker supply up, and thus prevailing wages down
The owner didn’t want to maintain it and gave it to the attacker when they asked.
I don’t know. Carriages and wagons with wooden or iron-rimmed wheels rolling over cobblestones don’t seem to me like they’d be quiet.
It goes much further back than that.

Psytrance came out of early german trance from labels such as Sven Vaeth's Eye-Q.

Eye-Q 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lApfaxi0QZw

Harthouse 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d146LKl2ixU

This was Goa in 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fnBz6IOolk a very special period in time
>My tutor definitely spoke Spanish to me, but the first several months was all in English. I hate the teaching method where a teacher just yammers away in the target language, as if (again) by magic and special miming gestures, the students will 'pick it up.' Bleh.

This is usually the difference between a trained teacher and someone who's teaching to earn a bit of money. When English speakers go and teach English abroad, it's normally to give already-fluent people conversation practice. They don't have the training to be able to teach beginners effectively.

It is remarkably difficult to drop your language to a beginner's level. You need to remember exactly which tenses the students know (which may just be the simple present) and their extremely limited vocabulary.

The best lessons I had were where the difficult concepts were explained in English, but the majority of the lesson was in Spanish. I think a lot of teachers view dropping to English as cheating or breaking immersion, so they don't do it.
Consider AI which is an academic field for over 50 years and has had billions thrown at it. What's the best we've got so far? Alexa? Watson?

Blockchain is very promising but it's an immature field with plenty of room for growth. Most of the people I've met in the last two years are brilliant scientists and engineers but few are experienced at building products with mass appeal (myself included...).

In 2019 we'll see plenty of developments in privacy (Zk-SNARKs/STARKs) and scalability (Plasma, Sharding) and hopefully we'll be able to prove if Proof of Stake is as secure as PoW. With all these new building blocks, I'm certain there will be second generation blockchain products that are closer to regular users.
I said "significantly quieter", not "quiet." Surely a carriage makes less noise than an eighteen-wheeler.
The cross group transactions are a little limited - https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/datast...

I don't think it's fair to compare them.

However, the more recent Google storage offerings based on Cloud Spanner do seem to offer this. I don't see how Amazon can make this statement - that doesn't stop it being an excellent enhancement to DynamoDB though.
The funding required to train swat teams is high. A course I volunteered at was over a thousand per person not including the costs of sim-munitions, actual munitions, and experts in specific areas. That was the costs before the program decided to hire more trainers instead of utilizing volunteers. Funniest thing was though was how awful SWAT teams were against unprepared volunteers.
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Your underlying assumptions here is that the the brains material implementation details are a dominant driver in the computational function of the brain. I’ve studied networks that suggest the function falls out of the topology (circuitry) not the material implementation details.
I'm trying to learn all this, I have the same issue. So far my best interpretation is that order means energy-transfering organization, a solid is ordered, a gaz is not. It's not to be seen as complex vs simple, a machine is more complex than a bunch of cold molecules, but it's would be less chaotic in that sense.

Another definition is the number of possible microstates that can be reached. A cold universe of evenly distributed particles would be the upper limit of these microstates.

ps: coursera just started this https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-thermodynamics
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Personally, I don't like the description of entropy as disorder.

Mathematically, it's a measure of spread of a probability distribution (the more spiked a distribution, the lower the entropy, which is an 'ordered' state insofar that things are arranged in specific places instead of randomly thrown all over the place).

Depending on your point of view, I would describe entropy in physics as microscopic indeterminacy (essentially the number of microscopic states that are part of your statistical ensemble defined in terms of macroscopic constraints), or as microscopic freedom (essentially the volume of microscopic phase space accessible to time evolution of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium).
From the article:

> The findings by the National Transport Safety Committee (KNKT) suggest that Lion Air put the plane back into service despite it having had problems on earlier flights.

Seems this implies there are at least two parties involved: airline and aircraft manufacturer.
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I once was at a huge car expo, and French and German halls were adjacent to each other. For some reason, all French car makers had extremely loud music at their spaces, like if they were trying to be louder than each other. It was basically impossible to be there.

The German hall (all three major makers) had complete silence inside. So this is also a cultural thing, and a pretty strong one as this happened in Moscow, and most of the workers were Russians of course.
Ah yes, ReBirth! Had a lot of fun with that. A friend of mine once threw a party where ReBirth was the only source of music. The whole night was basically one long communally made acid track. Guests would stroll up to the computer, fiddle with the knobs a bit and the music would slightly change. Good times.
Kids that grow up associating libraries with fun are much more likely to want to visit them after they learn to read. Libraries are closing down because they don't have any readers.
What language is that in? Conventions tend to follow with programming languages.

In C, snake case is historically the default, but I tend to use UpperCamelCase for functions, UpperCamelCase for file-level static variables, lowerCamelCase for function-level static variables and ALL_CAPS_SNAKE for #defines.
Good luck taking a Gutenberg bible or a Shakespeare first folio away to read quietly at home.
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I always considered this a bizarre argument. Chinese characters are more alike English words than English letters. English also has thousands of words, prefixes required to achieve competency. Chinese characters consist of only around 200 radicals, more than 26, but hardly thousands. I would say the smallest unit in Chinese is a stroke, of which there are 10. Theres just an extra dimension about where strokes are placed relative to each other that makes the characters seem complex, but if you study it for a few days you would find that there arent actually that many degrees of freedom. In other words,
- strokes to letters
- radicals to prefixes, suffices
- characters to words
Libraries find their roots in academic institutions, a context in which they are absolutely intended to be a place of study, not just a repository of books.
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There are some open source router OS projects. I bet they could be convinced to consider such a suggestion with some pull requests, emails and/or a few sponsoring $$$.
But people could still ride horses when cars came about and they still can, the transition happened over decades. But this change is happening over a matter of years, the reasons for which are not utilitarian.
Are they rare in the UK? Common enough in my city for the last couple of decades. I think I first saw them on Friends (USA tv show), or a similar show.

At our regular Chinese takeaway the kids only get them if they come in with us; other places just include a handful.

To me the biscuit is really vile.
What's the average completion time of a singleplayer maze?
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A gun is more effective and practical than a knife or an RPG. It is easy to use, relatively safe and reliable, affordable and easy to carry. In a very rural area not every threat is a person, for example a bear, and guns aren't exactly exotic technology. They've been around for hundreds of years. Trying to put the cat back in the bag is hopeless.

In particular in the US there are more guns than people. Attempting to confiscate all those guns would inevitably fail and likely lead to massive civil unrest. It would also fail to prevent criminals from still having access to guns.

Perhaps an arms-race is unfortunate but unilateral disarmament on one side is not a practical solution to the problem.

FWIW the US is not the only country where citizens are allowed to have guns. Look at Switzerland for an example.
The official documentation used that as an example, and because I wanted to steal their image, I did that too. Of course, please don't use Ubuntu 15.04 for containers you care about.
I don't understand. What makes you think it's easier for NoSQL clients (versus SQL clients) to correctly implement connection pooling and async networking? For example, MongoDB and Cassandra wire protocols are not based on HTTP. And even if they were based on HTTP, connection pooling and async networking still requires a specific effort. Which libraries are you thinking of (as examples of good and bad behavior)?
Clickbait, Duolingo is mentioned 3 times more than Italian, and there’s nothing specific to that language in the post.
Yeah that's unfortunate. Luckily on HN are also many people who live in more developed countries. ;-)

And on a more serious note: Even in your situation a self-hosted solution might be more free. Then don't host it at home, but discuss with universities, hacker/maker clubs and companies in your surroundings and host it behind their internet connection. Usually you need one member of such an organisation to support you and then you can simply do it.
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> In which case all of your effort was for nothing.

I thought people maintain open-source projects if they use them themselves. In which case, all your effort was for solving particular use cases that you had.

When developers have no further use for a project (e.g. when they've moved on to a different technology), then the project will likely die. I haven't seen many people keep maintaining a project after they've stopped using it.
In the UK my partner and I have started going to Wetherspoons pubs. They're reviled in middle-class circles as a cheap, chavvy chain that buys-out traditional pubs but they're clean, friendly and QUIET.
What makes you think this is a secular trend, and does it apply to domestic grad students too?
I really love how an obscure topic like Acid House can trend on HN and then a whole bunch of people who've been fans of that topic for years just emerge in the comments out of nowhere. It's really testament to the diversity and quality of the HN community.
70% into an index fund

20% keep in cash/gold

10% into some startups via a crowdfunding site

please do NOT get the FOMO and punt it on Cypto!!!
Just remember: in low gravity, always sleep with a fan on or you can die of suffocation. Just in case that ever comes up, you know.
I'm confused.

The journalists have been paid their tokens, so theres already tokens in circulation, why does it require civil to make a sale?

Surely that's worse from the journalists point of view because it increases supply of the tokens.

Surely it is also worse for readers. I want to support journalists by buying their tokens, not support Civil by buying theirs.

But that just brings up more questions. The flow of tokens in one way. I give money to journalists to buy their tokens. What do I do with my tokens now? Do I give them back to journalists, maybe in payment for articles???
Some early Goa was very influenced by acid.. Take Cosmosis for example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGxgZh0SkNE

But sadly and much to my dismay the 303 didn't last long in the scene. It's really hard to find any acid lines in goa/psy tracks after about 1998 or so..
It might be easier to view entropy of a state as sort of the probability that that state would occur after randomly arranging all of its parts (usually particles). In fact this is pretty close to the actual definition.

Here's an example: Suppose you had a container and you put some marbles at the bottom such that there are reasonably large gaps between the marbles. Now if you close and then shake the container hard (this is the 'random arrangement' process), then it is with high probability when you open the container that the marbles will be arranged reasonably spread out across the bottom. In this sense, when the marbles are spread kind of far apart in the container, it is in a state of high entropy (probability).

There is also the chance that when you open the container the marbles form a perfect straight line at the bottom. However, this is much more unlikely, so that you would consider this a low entropy state.

Now, consider the universe in place of the container, and subatomic particles as the marbles. Randomly configuring all of these particles, it would be really hard to end up with a stars, galaxies, humans. These are like straight lines in the marble example. It is much more likely you just get a soup of somewhat uniformally distributed particles (as in the marbles just being sort of randomly spread out from each other). This is what you describe as "a perfectly uniformly distributed of zero temperature mass (or maybe absoute zero, not sure) of grey energy is the perfect order". It wouldn't really be 'perfect' in some senses of the word though, which may be your cause of confusion. It would be more like if you took a snapshot of the static on an old TV.
Sounds the same than Samsung annoncing a foldable smartphone in 2012 and doing the same every year until it inevitably becomes true. I highly doubt we are that close to air transportation but I truly wish I were wrong.
I don't go to libraries anymore because I can get any book I want for 3-4 Euros shipped to my door.
Researching Slack-Alternatives I actually at least subscribed to some newsletter of yours which arrived a few days ago.

I think to make money you need to focus on B2B, but it seems like a tough market right now. Anyways you'd have to focus your landing page on that.

Privacy? meh. Compliance stuff and no US servers or any 3rd party servers you'd need to make contracts with? Yay!

The 6 Month content limit feels off for B2B.

How does it differ from slack usablility wise?
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The purpose of libraries has been completely ousted by the internet. It is no longer a place that makes vast knowledge attainable to the average person, that's the internet now.

You can either have no libraries at all or libraries that cater to a different purpose, one that they can offer better then your phone.
If children grow up associating libraries with a place that is not fun, support for libraries will die after that generation.

The Berlin city libraries absolutely have spaces for children to play (loudly) and also make point of events with readings for children, and so on. A generation will grow up associating libraries as part of their life.
I don't think people in civilized countries even remotely understand the level of desperation poorer people from those countries go through. VICE's documentary about krokodil is actually quite good. Except when people watch it they think it's about someone particularly far away from the average - but it's not.

The chance of getting a visa to move out or starting a business, which can only be oriented towards civilized countries if you'd like to make any money at all... Is particularly low.

IT is one of those areas which you can still learn particularly well without any access to textbooks or academia.
As someone who started producing just that, electronic music and mainly ambient and techno without any musical knowledge or formal training except for a little bit of playing the drums as a kid I'd say just jump into it and see if you like doing it.

Try a few DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) such as Ableton Live (my DAW of choice) or FL Studio and start following tutorials on youtube to get the basics down, how to use the DAW, how to play around with samples, loops and premade sounds to get a feel for actually making something to sound like a song, beat or anything really.

Expect and accept that everything you'll create the first few months or even the first year will sound like shit and that's just the nature of learning and improving.

Do not buy a bunch of hardware or midi controllers right of the bat. Stick to learning the DAW and working "in the box" until you feel that you're ready to take the next step. Personally I've gone from working in the box, to using hardware only and now I'm back to a much more streamlined studio with basically no hardware at all.

Like I said, just jump into it and see if you like it and if you do you're mostly likely going to stick to it for the long haul.
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Rare enough in my experience, perhaps I shouldn't generalise!

But I've never had them from a takeaway, and only once or twice in a restaurant. My experience is almost entirely from London and the South-East though.
>> ETH is used outside of the blockchain ecosystem

This claim seems a stretch.

How can you not require the basic elements of a "blockchain ecosystem" to be in place in order to actually exchange vouchers based on ETH for food?

>> by giving [refugees] cryptocurrency-based vouchers that could be redeemed in participating markets.

Can anyone explain what value was specifically added to this project by basing these vouchers on a cryptocurrency?
I'm surprised that sort of work environment can survive. But then freed slaves also have kept others as slaves, so ...
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How much time have you spent in the woods? It's definitly far, far from quiet. At least where I grew up. Maybe in the dead of the night, but here in the middle of the city, on a Main Street, it is also so quiet in my room that I can hear my la croix fizzing from 8 feet away.
Thanks! I really like those articles too. With this topic, I found many posts online just stated information about containers almost like they are trying to rewrite the documentation, which didn't seem like a good use of writing an article. This experimental process is what I went through to learn the content and I felt as though it would be helpful for others to go through it too.
Libraries aren't supposed to be "fun".
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And I'd say that Italian is the least problematic

It seems it improved, but almost all Duolingo German students would eventually ask a question that Duolingo wouldn't answer. (They wouldn't understand genders and cases)

But the article touches the main core of the issue with Duolingo:

"You’re at the airport outside Rome, she said, and you want to get downtown; how would you ask? I gaped like a fish. ... “Do you have a table for four?” “I’d like two glasses of red wine.” I knew I had seen all the pieces in Duolingo’s sentences. But I was utterly unable to recall them and pull them together."
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I have been learning Spanish for 3 years and have played around with a number of different techniques.

I think Duolingo is awful at helping you retain the vocabulary you have learnt. It doesn't give you a good grounding on context or grammar so you'll end up in a situation where you may know a lot of words but not how to string a sentence together. Exactly as detailed in the article. I will normally put Duolingo in the same category as Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone and not recommend them at all.

There are three apps that I do recommend:
1. Italki - You can book lessons with tutors or teachers in your chosen language and have structured lessons online.
2. HelloTalk - A language exchange app that works better than on Skype. It has a large userbase where you speak to individuals in your chosen language and practice what you have learnt.
3. Lingvist - A vocabulary app that gives you words within the context of a full sentence. This has helped me remember words a lot easier plus my level of reading comprehension went through the roof after using it.

Aside from the apps, it is always a good idea to visit the country of your target language and just try speaking. You will find out what works and what doesn't much faster than any other method.

Finally it is important to remember not to be afraid to make mistakes. It's only words and not the full amount of how we communicate. Keep trying.
you know what else is stupid? to assume everyone has a quiet home they can read in.
Would you consider someone who doesn't have any of the listed abilities a senior?

Take someone like Linus Torvalds - he's famous for not being particularly nice to 'junior' developers who are new to the Linux ecosystem and don't follow the rules, he's not really a "specialized generalist" because he's always deep in the kernel and that's pretty much it, and he doesn't do politics to the point where he announced he was taking stock of the way he's treated people and trying to do better. Is he a senior developer? Of course he is. You don't get much more senior.

It's easy to think of senior developers we've all worked with who don't meet some or even any of these criteria. Consequently, in my opinion, the criteria are not right in a lot of people's circumstances. They may be right in yours, but that's not very useful.
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When I was in Indonesia, about 8 years ago, Lion Air had the ominous badly translated slogan “We make people fly”. They had a bad track record at that time, too.

Edit: Apparently they still do, https://mobile.lionair.co.id/