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Embedded Software Engineer, presently for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems, with knowledge and experience from firmware to bootloader, kernel, and application framework (esp. U-boot, Linux, and Android). Wide-ranging experience solving challenges in areas of board bringup, device drivers (creating, adapting, debugging), framework customization, solving performance/resource issues, testing and validation. Experiences span Product, R&D, and Factory Automation contexts.

Have worked extensively across geographies, cultures, and time zones.

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Speaking of a voice in the wilderness, any way we can stop saying stuff "is broken?" It's glib, imprecise, far too easy to say, and is becoming cliché. It's provocative kind of like clickbait. And it's self-evident - Everything exists on a continuum of "brokenness" a.k.a. entropy and is therefore at least partly "broken" at all times.
"I'm sorry that you're so oppressed. I grew up in a very conservative, rural state, and I think being LGBT has almost nothing to do with success. Here's a paper that supports my opinion..."

Your paper doesn't refute the the studies done by others which shows LGBT people are more likely to be unemployed and physically/sexually assaulted. These are reported even by the police in major cities in the US as a significant problem. It gets worse when you factor in race as part of the background in these studies. So, you'll have to excuse me if I don't take your one study as the biblical truth on the condition of LGBT people in the United States (of whom I am a part).

"I respect the fact that you hold an opinion that opposes mine, but you haven't convinced me that you are right and I am wrong."

Not my job. Open your eyes and look at the world beyond your comfort zone is all I can tell you.

"But I see mandates on pronoun use (and other issues of that nature) as the government forcing an ideology upon people."

New York is one state with such a law. No other state with anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people have such provisions in theirs. So the tone of such laws goes against your hyperbole. Also, if you think addressing someone (trans or otherwise) by their preferred pronouns is such a bad thing I think you got your priorities mixed up. Me being trans myself I think pronouns are important as much as getting my legal name right, but slip ups can and do occur (hell, my mom still mixes up my name with that of her grand son's, no clue why) which is fine. But if you willfully call a trans woman a him then you're just being a dick. And don't expect said trans woman to be kind to you in any setting (professional or otherwise).

"And I certainly don't think being LGBT holds anyone back from reaching their goals in this country."

You have your view versus thousands of LGBT people who aren't having such a fun time looking for work. Especially transgender people. And the fact you side with Donald Trump, who is the Republican Party's candidate makes it worse. Not so much because Trump, but because Trump represents a repugnant political party that even refuses to acknowledge that sexual orientation does not need to be cured. That's a bare minimum to get the mind-share of the majority of LGBT people in the United States. Drop the anti-LGBT reparative therapy plank in the platform then you'll get many more of us LGBT people considering your platform. Otherwise, we'll just vote Democrat since they oppose such therapies in their platform. If that's too hard for your side to do (BTW, even Log Cabin Republicans aren't support the GOP at this point) then expect to have bad time with your LGBT siblings. We're not backing down, ever.
> They could submit that but they choose to divide it up into pieces and submit them piecemeal

It's common practice in OSS to request splitting of large patches into smaller as-much-self-contained-as-possible pieces, to make reviewing more feasible. Same goes for non-OSS products in companies with good development practices, I guess.
No, nobody commutes on Amtrak.

People commute using: NYC Subway, PATH, NJ Transit, LIRR, MetroNorth.
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Did anyone else not enjoy the actual writing in Three Body Problem? I enjoyed the book from a speculative science and "well this is different" perspective, but the writing style and plotting were very difficult to parse through.

"Show-not-tell" isn't much followed. Character development is light, to say the least. Most of the story takes place from the perspective of one of two characters, but then there's one incredibly jarring chapter where the author goes, "Oh by the way, I'm sharing a bunch of classified documents with the reader that neither character has ever seen." And apart from scenes with a single non-viewpoint character (the cop), most of the dialogue sounds more like a post-modern philosophy lecture than actual conversation between real people.

Some of this could just be cultural differences between Western and Chinese writing styles, or maybe things got lost in translation. I haven't read enough Chinese literature to say though. For those who have read more, would you say Three Body Problem is typical of modern Chinese writing, or Chinese science fiction?
This is basically where I am. I have a VPN appliance I have to maintain. It's a manual process to update the certificate. Just about everything else I use runs LetsEncrypt, but this VPN box has a nine dollar cert from Namecheap because nine dollars is totally worth not having to manually deal with the certificate replacement more often than once a year.
Lots of interesting roles -- any of them open in an internship capacity?
Nope: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/frequently-asked-questio...
Looks nice!

I would suggest to enable import from ORCID. Seems to be the best initiative around to give a unique identifier to scientists.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-623X
That handshake, or the initial exchange of public keys, is the one thing that seems to stymie general adoption of encryption for personal communication.
Capsule is great!
I am on mobile now, and can't provide a simple link, but it is given in Cover&Thomas "Elements of Information Theory", in the episode that discusses entropy of markov processes. I can find pages in google books but they won't zoom big enough to read...

IIRC, the proof requires the markov chain be irreducible, and extends to the general case by summing over the irreducible parts; and that entropy will stay the same or increase while converging to the stationary distribution over states.

(Although it has now been 20 years since I dealt with these things so I might be misremembering. Time to retread Cover&Thomas I guess...)
Just use wallabag. Its the FOSS / optionally self-hosted alternative. Haven't we learned what storing data in proprietary services leads to?
From section 1.5:

It must be admitted that many aspects of HTML appear at first glance to be nonsensical and inconsistent.

HTML, its supporting DOM APIs, as well as many of its supporting technologies, have been developed over a period of several decades by a wide array of people with different priorities who, in many cases, did not know of each other’s existence.

Features have thus arisen from many sources, and have not always been designed in especially consistent ways. Furthermore, because of the unique characteristics of the Web, implementation bugs have often become de-facto, and now de-jure, standards, as content is often unintentionally written in ways that rely on them before they can be fixed.

That kind of says it all when it comes to web standards!
There's always HN's very own Charles Stross

I also immediately thought of Ian MacDonald and Paul McAuley, but neither of them are actually Scottish
That's awesome, I can Tweet this out for you. My lowly account has 1600 followers, but concentrated amongst academics. https://twitter.com/codonops
To be fair to it, it does describe itself as "A shitty attempt at a honeypot/sandbox that uses docker" and contains a fairly large & up front "WARNING WARNING WARNING" section :p
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According to much of the Western world.

And even if you don't accept that, just consider: most crimes aren't murder. They don't get people sent away for life, but for a period of 1-a few years.

They will be released back into society. If we do not rehabilitate them, we can expect recidivism from either failing to counter the errant impulses, exposure to similar or worse criminal elements while incarcerated, or failure to reenter society (due to ostracism, failure to adapt to changes, lack of social structure like family and friends). We are literally creating the problem by failing to rehabilitate criminals, and instead focusing on "punishing" them.
I can appreciate the irony calling it "web of trust"
>>> I can't deploy my demo apps to services like Digital Ocean, G Cloud, etc

Why?

Personally, for all my demo apps, I have a couple light (T2 Micro which qualify for the free tier) AWS instances lying around, on which I run applications on a random port, and then specifically open up only that port for the external world. So I end up with a pretty ugly looking url (http://ec2-123-234-123-234.ec2.aws.amazon.com:1337), which can be put behind a nice looking route53 entry if needed, and horizontally scaled by popping an ELB in front of it (for say a HN release).

For automated deployments, jenkins is usually my one stop shop, since all I need to do is configure a new job and trigger (usually github pushes) to build, test, deploy and restart my service.

It's one time effort, but really helpful in the long run I feel, especially if you have multiple demo apps over time.
I believe a distinction could be made around the second law of thermodynamics being emergent rather than, well, fundamental.

Put another way: the second law of thermodynamics is not required to fully describe a universe that acts like ours appears to. It will "take care of itself" based on more fundamental descriptions of matter and its interactions.

I'm also comfortable with what appears to be fundamental today no longer being fundamental tomorrow.
From work I have both a ThinkPad T450s, and a 2011 MBP. I work on the train at least an hour a day.

I greatly prefer the ThinkPad for the following reasons: much better battery (even after a brand new battery for the MBP), it is much lighter weight, non-glossy screen (better to counter train window glare), and the keys requires much less force to actuate.

I miss the smooth MBP track pad, but I rarely use the mouse anyway. I'd never buy a Mac for personal use, even without any price either way I prefer the Thinkpad.
:)

Think of it as more of a brainstorming exercise than a real-world, production ready app.

EDIT Also I would note that in the true sense of open source, PRs are always accepted.
Thanks, replied on there. Appreciate it!
But even carrier unlocked phones connect to other carries, hence what they call "roaming charges".
It's foolish to believe that real humans, driving real cars, will treat these technologies as mere "driver-assists." Autopilot is used -- shockingly enough -- as an autopilot. And even if they /were/ used perfectly, these systems are exerting physical control over the car -- something that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a distinct interest in managing. The NHTSA would be grossly negligent if they did not attempt to regulate these devices.
MIT 2006 Integration Bee (over 3 hours of calculus/integration contest)
> Wait, you run the Steam apps from a compressed folder? Doesn't that kill performance?

No. In fact, it may improve performance, by virtue of transferring less data from slower I/O devices. Yes, slower, even if it's a SSD.
New MacBook Pros are unsurprisingly difficult to repair and upgrade
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As well, its fairly clear that the compensation offered is better than nothing. Sure, it may not be a 1:1 ratio of bad to good (rape to cash) but its clearly a step in the right direction to offer someone a "plus" in recompense for the negatives wrongly imposed.
The justice system is - in principle - not about revenge but about balance, a balance between running a safe society and one where people that misbehave are placed in a spot where they can be re-habilitated and then can re-enter society. That path is closed in an extreme way by killing someone, there is no rehabilitation from that no matter what.

Deterrence and punishment have very little to do with each other (but deterrence and the chance of being caught do have a lot to do with each other).

So fundamentally the justice system is not about punishment at all, though from the victims perspective that might seem to be the case.
Very neat. I hadn't seen this before.
That could be the case on consoles, but I've never seen an engine that didn't strongly recommend preloading triggered effects on platforms with a RAM budget.
Yes, if there's a compiler that compiles from C/C++ to WASM, then it should be possible, I suppose.
I like how seriously Brian answered a post by someone named AdmiralAsshat
I think about this when I am using XMLHttpRequest in a web worker, and can't actually get an XML document back because you don't have access to an xml parser because there's no dom in web workers.
Try scheduling a job with "at" in that crontab entry, some systems have it installed by default and jobs persist across reboots. The at jobs are executed through cron themselves.
You don't have to flag anything you don't want to.

Generally, if all I have to say about a submission is that I flagged it, I'll refrain from saying that. But that's not all I had to say here.
How about threading? And a concurrent garbage collector? Would it be possible to code these things in WASM?
I've been seeing breathless "could be!" announcements from TIGHAR in the news every year for what feels like my entire adult life. So color me skeptical.
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> That disk space is still worth 18 bucks on a ssd between 1/3 and 1/4 of the purchase price of the game new. This isn't an inconsiderable sum.

To me it is. I delete games when I'm done with them. The disk is reusable.
The relationship between the city and Robert Moses is far more complicated than that simplistic take. One could make a coherent argument that Moses contributed to literally destroying major communities of the city. One could also make the point that the city would simply be unworkable without many of the things he pushed through. Many of his public works are absolutely treasured today. And so on.

It's possible to see his legacy as a series of lessons and pros and cons.
I don't know if it was HP, but my favorite malicious printer was one that scanned documents and then randomly changed numbers in them. This was the byproduct of an overly clever compression algorithm saving bytes by replacing parts of the image with other similar parts. God only knows how much important information was corrupted by that 'feature'.
Soul Basement – Noise Pollution
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By serverless I mean version of the wp which could use Google functions (https://cloud.google.com/functions/) or Amazon Lambda (https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/) or Microsoft Azure Functions (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/)

It would provide unlimited and automatic scaling, simplified setup/architecture and we would pay only for what we use.
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I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Would you mind emailing me at a@kaggle.com? I'd like to look up your profile to see what happened. I'm in charge of recruiting so it's my fault if your application slipped through the net.

ps. The way we have historically known that the postings came from HN is by using a custom URL: http://kaggle.applytojob.com/apply/GjSjOi/FullStack-Engineer....

I just noticed that the URL was missing from this month's link and last month's link. (This month I just copied last month's post.) Again, Glad that this was pointed out.
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Any startup looking for Scala developers in London?
But as they're frozen, the ratio of possible microstates to each colder, dryer macrostate increases tremendously. S = k log W. Entropy sets in well before algor mortis.
Although it's not really intended for this sort of thing, I wonder if you could shoehorn Let's Encrypt into Patreon. If you're just trying to diversify your revenue it seems like Patreon would provide a more predictable cashflow than doing periodic crowdfunding campaigns.
Sure, but calling for others to flag a post is - especially with your rep on HN - akin to killing an article and imnsho way across the line.
The SIM includes a list of preferred and forbidden networks, but I'd guess if a non-preferred, non-forbidden network is significantly stronger than a preferred network, the phone would ask if it could connect.

Also, the fake tower could just claim to be networks that are commonly preferred.
Would be very surprised if there is a CIO/CTO without a public/private/hybrid cloud adoption roadmap to show...well maybe if your main business is operating legacy data-centers. Even the later gang is wondering how to turn the decade long infrastructure investment into a cash cow. But need to be careful, cloud does not mean AWS or lockins into popular public cloud. You are right API driven architectures are the way to go in any combination cloud you build. Be it provisioning, scheduling, orchestration, scaleout...APIs are the new delivery bus.
The if(0) trick in switch() {}
Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf]
Waiting on interesting read on Coca-Cola giving cancer...
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