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Ettus Research (National Instruments) | Staff/Senior Software Engineer | South Bay, California | Full time, Onsite

We build software radios! And we're hiring another software developer to help with our code base.
If you're familiar with open source code development, hardware drivers, FPGAs, C++11, microcontrollers, SoCs, embedded devices, logic analyzers, GNU Radio, or a subset thereof, go check this out:

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Same with HTML. Need validation server side no matter what.
Honest question: does this also mean that Earth Science departments should go out of their way to hire climate change denialists, and Biology departments should go out of their way to hire creationists and anti-vaxxers? I suspect you think the answer is no, but many US right wingers likely disagree with you. It's difficult for me to understand how things are "just different" for the history, psychology, and sociology departments when it seems also very possible that widely held and well supported positions in those fields might also inherently contradict the US conservative worldview as they do in the biological and Earth sciences.

Also, have you considered that academics don't select for liberalism, but liberals select for academia? In my field (Biology) it seems like it'd be almost impossible to find a well-qualified faculty candidate who is an average US conservative without applying some truly outrageous "affirmative action" for conservatives. Difficult to see how that sort of thing would do anything but dilute the quality of a department's faculty.

Honestly it's funny, because usually conservatives seem to reject the concepts of relativism: have you considered that there are certain truths in these fields that simply contradict the conservative worldview? If that is true, wouldn't departments be throwing these truths aside in a quest to be basically be "politically correct"?
Reminds me of some of my own side projects: great vision, massive effort, but then it just might not be 100% on point / what "the market" needs. You've accomplished a lot - as you know finishing any project is not easy at all and this one has quite a few clever and unique ideas in it!

Best thing imo is the idea to go forward and backward through code and see the results live. I'd love to have this to study or debug code, and to really see and understand the magic of some operations in a visualization like this.

The thing is, algorithms like Quicksort are quite involved. In order to understand I'd need at least 2 intermediate steps between the animation and the code:

- The core concepts, like "recursion, in place sorting, complexity/performance average/worst case, trouble when list already sorted" etc.

- The programming ideas, like "we pick a pivot, we use a random element from the list but you could use any", "our recursion stops when there is only 1 item in the sub-list" etc.

If these things were linked to a) the animation and b) the code and I could experience it all at once, that would be amazing (but a lot of work for you of course :-))

Also:
- I kept sorting the fruits by size somehow, and due to the language barrier a "P"ineapple would be an "A"nanas for me
- If I commit to learning something I like to go to a place that has comprehensive information, even if various places to one thing well.
- Preventing zoom and the scrolling code is not ideal imo.
- Code could be simpler and clearer.
- Maybe the task to explain Quicksort like this is just too huge
IIRC, one of the central points of Innovator's Dilemma is precisely about why this is rarely as straightforward as it seems.

All those existing companies are probably up to their collective ears in work satisfying and growing the lucrative markets they already operate in -- it's hard to justify focus on much smaller markets with much smaller margins.

Then, sometimes, those smaller markets end up being really big, and oops you've been disrupted.
Wait, because its concert tickets its less of a violation? So price gouging and depriving people of a good or service is OK as long as its not life essential? Where does that line stop?

Tell that to someone who was shut out of seeing their favorite band because 492 of the total 496 tickets that were put on sale went to this guy.

Is that the little perspective that would help?
> who buys a cheap nosebleed

What does this mean? That the person gets punched in the face? Do you just mean mugging people?
Restriction of freedom of speech only applies to the government and not to communities or private organizations. Just because you believe everyone should have the right to say these things wherever they want doesn't make it true. You're free to say these things, but you're not free from the repercussions of saying them in a private community.

If you're unhappy that a community implements a code of conduct, you're free to not join it, and if you're someone who does any of these things I'd recommend you not join any open source community.

Really, seriously, the entire point of a code of conduct is to tell people they can't be shitty people and continue to be in the community and it shows people joining the community that it cares enough about shutting down trolls that they're willing to advertise that they're willing to shut down trolls.
Or twice if you wake up early I guess.

Funny that with all the wisdom you'd think a deity possessed, he made the deal pretty bad for those followers who live in the very northern latitudes and happen to be born in the wrong century. Not eating for an entire month (or even a week) is extreme in itself, but not drinking anything either is just impossible.

Or maybe Muslims were not intended to come and live here.. :-)
Why not ship your phone to yourself at your destination?
Bridging CSS and JavaScript with Custom Properties
You do need at least someone who really knows what "ops tools" need to do, someone with sufficient experience to know the difference between "good ops" and "the first idea some non-ops experience developer had that looked like it solved the problem on his local machine"...
I'm curious about how you have MySQL configured. If the query cache is enabled you will see MySQL plateau. There's also the all important innodb_buffer_pool_size and innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit. See this for more info https://www.percona.com/blog/2013/09/20/innodb-performance-o...
Because unless last year was a good year, making no money this year means you will be out of business next year.
And I lead 5.11c walls. It's a big sport.
> What kinds of debts are you thinking of?

Mortgage loans, student loans, car loans, credit card debt, taxes paid in service to national debt, ...

> I don't know any workers with long-term debts which aren't inflation adjusted (even if indirectly).

Interest rates are somewhat inversely correlated with inflation.

Typically the only time you see high inflation and high interest rates together is when the economy is booming and people are willing to borrow despite the high interest rates. Then that borrowing, since banks create the money they loan you (they don't actually have all of it they just credit your account), causes inflation.

When inflation is caused by the government creating money, it causes interest rates to go down. Because the supply of money goes up so by supply and demand the price of money goes down. The price of money is the interest rate, therefore lower interest rates.

You would think banks wouldn't loan money if the interest rate is less than the rate of inflation, but remember again that they don't actually have all the money you borrow, they just credit your account and collect interest. Even if they had the money, it does them no good sitting in a vault depreciating -- 1% interest against 10% inflation is still more than the 0% they get by not loaning it to anyone.

The main problem is that the lower interest rates cause people to borrow more money, so the key is to combine the inflation with policies that would otherwise be deflationary. Increase the housing supply, eliminate mortgage and student loan interest subsidies for new debt, etc. Discourage new debt in general -- even tax loan interest on new debts. That allows the market to correct against historical bad policies without causing disastrous deflation.
When I visited Nepal, a lot of the street vendors had these bowls made of leaves (perhaps banana leaf, not really sure). I have no idea if they are financially better off or cost effective but thought I'd mention that I've seen something like this before.
In the specific case of Rwanda, it's also important to realize that the plastic ban, as well as the universally celebrated higher participation of women in administration and politics are also fantastic PR of the regime essentially aimed at the West.
There is such a thing as working a single 1/2 or 2/3 job in a permanent position. It's not a bad way to live. More people ought to try.
I usually say it the other way -- optimization is just one part of machine learning.

ML includes optimization/search, dimensionality reduction (aka unsupervised learning), prediction (aka supervised learning), and reinforcement learning. And I'm probably forgetting a category.
Some of my favorite commits come from Rusty Russel, who wrote the lguest toy hypervisor documentation as a story:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f938d2c892db0d80d14...
SumOfUs looking for organsiation to hire Shopify talent
Have you considered starting your next company back in St Louis?
If it was more cost effective, that would happen already. Produce prices will likely rise if this becomes an issue.
- First outcome => Working for a startup is riskier than working for an established company.

- Second outcome => Do I want to work for a startup again in the future? No.

- Third outcome => If a startup is successful, the outcome is disproportionate between the founders and the employees. But, it if fails, we're all equally unemployed.

Do I really want to be an employee at a startup? nope.
Here's a few links to get started, but I haven't kept up to date with the field for 2 ro 3 years so they're probably not ideal.

http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj329_0.pd...

http://www.mirelproject.eu/members.html

http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/sites/all/files/EuroVocConfe...

I got really into semantic web stuff for a year or so several years back. I was disappointed that SW doesn't seem to have gone anywhere but I still think there's a lot of great work being done that's worth people's attention.
From what I read of the early caloric restriction studies on animals, it tended to greatly increase the healthy adult portion of the lifespan rather than adding a lot of geriatric time. That was the great hope for the human version too, but all the accounts I've read do indeed sound miserable.

I'm curious about fasting though. It's very easy for me to believe that our bodies are designed to go without eating for a while, much like we need to sleep. In nature we wouldn't really have needed any prodding to miss some meals so there wouldn't necessarily be a corresponding drive like thirst or sleepiness. I haven't tried it but personally I've never suffered much from missing a meal or two... seems like it wouldn't necessarily hurt quality of life if you were used to it.
Real life pikachu
This guide is really, really awesome. I maintain similar guides for companies and am excited to see a public version of most of what I've written.
Wall Street's interests are diametrically opposed to workers. Wall Street wants to turn good jobs into shitty jobs and ship them to more desperate poor people in poorer countries, whereas workers want the exact opposite. We've had 30 years of free trade and basically no border. A nudge in the other direction isn't going to be the end of the world. A blip on the jobs radar which comes along with stronger worker rights is gonna be okay.
Can you share any revenue / growth numbers that resulted in your decision?
Biodegradable alternatives already exist: http://www.ecoproductsstore.com
My apologies for mis-reading you.

I have a bee in my bonnet about (PR) people who send me images of things when I have to retype the contents ;-)
Transcoding... x265 CPU encodes on even a 2hr video can take several hours on a very fast intel CPU. I've been playing around with nvenc vbr 2-pass which has been giving me good results, not too much larger than the cpu encode in minutes.

But if you want something hosted/online, then it gets harder.
Yeah, it look interesting. I wonder how it could be for a full realistic app.
Nokia 3310, 'the most reliable phone ever made', to be re-launched at MWC 2017
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciated it.

Is there anything in particular that you would suggest to add to the landing page to clarify it? I was hoping the graphics would give users a basic idea on how exactly it worked. I would like to focus on making the intent as clear as possible so I'm all ears as far as suggestions go.

I would like to make the process more clear with an example, I think this will be much easier to accomplish once I can get a few vendors to agree to use the service for some small items. The site was just released today which is why it's difficult for me to implement this currently. I do agree that having instant feedback of being able to sign up and immediately use coins is crucial for people less familiar with Basic Income to grasp the idea quickly so I will make this a focus of mine.
I think the point is not that it's driving off huge corporations but that it makes life difficult for every business. It doesn't seem to make life easier for workers either.

I believe in the principle that the unintended consequences of any policy usually wind up outweighing the intended ones.
The number is right, the command is just misprinted:

titan:~/src/linux geofft$ git log --oneline 566cf87 | wc -l
649306
> Employment is stressful because the business world is stressful.

The business world has always been stressful; my point is that current and upcoming market forces (i.e. automation) are adding onto that stress more and more.

Without figuring out some plan, people are in for a lot of misery as jobs are replaced with automation. It'll be a mistake to suggest we constantly reduce the requirements on employers to provide for fair compensation for work.

If today we are saying labour laws should be relaxed to allow employers to employ people full time with reduced compensation and benefits (which seems to be the response to the article), what is the next axe to fall? Lowering of minimum wage?
I've considered making it remote.
How we mocked improving JavaScript
For the wages and working conditions of illegal immigrants?
This is all part of their campaign to get Shopify to drop Breitbart News.

As they say "employees are starting to quit their company. We want to help them land in a values-driven workplace. Are you that workplace? Let us know below! We'll publish this list online. "
Considering the failure rate of startups, I think the data shows that we just have a representative sample :-)
That's interesting. Thank you.

I realize that I am doing that thing where you try to rationalize your preconceived notions, but here are some high-level observations:

* Looks like there are normally setup fees associated with provisioning new servers, although they are suspended at the moment.

* Support seems next to non-existant, which I suppose is not surprising considering they're a low-cost provider.

* SSD-based servers appear to be frequently out-of-stock.

* If you need a KVM attached to your server, it is $30 for 24 hours or $200+ for a week.

* 250Mbps bandwidth (presumably in and out) cf. Linode which is 40G in and 1-10G out.

All that being said, my interest is piqued. I could see this being a good fit if 1. you have a more-or-less dedicated sysadmin, 2. need a lot of storage and/or memory and have solid sizing requirements ahead of time, and 3. cloud (VPS or otherwise) isn't an option due to cost or other facts. It could be great for running your own VM or container cluster. Thanks again for sharing!
Mobile data is expensive and slower than WIFI. There is a reason people connect to a WIFI with their phones.
... rise to a level that reflects a fair and honest competitive market, as opposed to one where the labor pool has two populations following two sets of rules. Sounds like progress to me.
Betel leaves work for the Pann wallah, but I'm not sure I want my pekoras the same way...
For at least most people.
Looks like he is retaining at least some of the investors for his next attempt. [0] I'm sure giving them some of their money back made that discussion a lot easier.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13648162
Interesting read. I'm glad this work is being done, but I remain skeptical about its efficacy... particularly the "plug and play" options. I think that hiding the details, and making things turn-key, will only make it easier for the NSA and others to subvert them.

Perhaps the news organizations need an in-house crypto-ops paid position to give them direct access to expert knowledge. Rely on that expertise rather than try to automate and abstract something that is inherently complex.
Which is why people tout going fixed rate
It's going to take a while. Unfortunately there is still a huge gap in terms of energy density and $ per kilojoule or Wh stored between a $650 (equivalent value in PKR or INR currency) two stroke motorcycle, and an electric motorcycle with equivalent engine power and range. Just the batteries for a decent electric motorcycle alone cost 8x more than a typical developing nation locally manufactured motorcycle or motor-rickshaw.
These are all really good. I would only add to keep good habits and take the opportunity to cut bad ones. Work out more, eat better, talk to friends and family, etc.
I suspect that there is an initial hump where investment in automated farm labor will need to take place, but after the hump it won't be rational to go back.

Of course this is all speculation on my part.
Dead tree magazines, yes...newspapers, no. For me, anyway.
The sad thing is that they most likely would choose to continue being abused; being that the alternative is starving.
Are we powerless to stop it? Should we bother?
It's common in a lot of Git UIs (GitHub, for instance) to prompt you to create a README when you create a new repo. I think this is because when you're actually starting a project, older versions of git would get confused if you cloned an empty repo, but using `git clone` to get a directory to work in is much nicer than `git init` + do work + `git remote add origin` + `git push -u` or whatever the command is. So, the hosting tool generates an initial commit for you so that a clone works smoothly.

My guess is that Nvidia has some internal Git hosting tool or a private GitHub account, and this developer clicked the most obvious "create a repo" button and tried to push their local git clone of Linux it. That push was rejected because it would have clobbered the auto-generated commit, so they did a `git pull` and a `git push`, i.e., they merged in the auto-generated commit.
Couldn't agree more with tabeth.

And don't be discouraged by a bad interview. It was good interviewing practice anyway. Keep moving forward.
If lync introduced its own font, what would it be? I had no idea this was the genesis of comic sans, but I'm so glad I do now.
Start calling recruiters and/or submitting resumes, etc. NOW. It seems like it always takes longer for things to happen than you want, so don't waste even a minute getting the job hunt going. That is, unless you have plenty of savings as a buffer.

You may also want to immediately do the math to see exactly how much money you need for things that are absolute "musts" to pay... light bill, gas bill, rent, etc., and figure out how much runway you have if you do nothing but pay the essentials. If worst comes to worst, there are always things you can just stop paying and fall behind on, and then catch up when you're back working. Hopefully it won't come to that, but better to make informed decisions than stumble around in the dark.

You'll probably also want to lower your burn rate as much as you can: cut out the daily latte at Starbucks or any other frivolous expenditures that you can do without.

Those are the first things that come to mind, given my experiences having been laid off in the past.
That would explain why the commit frequency seemed to improbably high. I just updated it with correct numbers. Thanks.
Well, but ...

> But anyone testing the beta who links their iPhone to iCloud and wants the same level of privacy Signal has always offered should consider an extra step, too: Disabling a setting that uploads a call’s metadata to Apple. The beta upgrade to Signal will use CallKit, Apple’s framework for allowing VoIP calls like Signal’s, to be integrated more completely into the calling functionality of the phone. But that also means calls will be recorded in the iPhone’s call log and, for iCloud users, shared with Apple’s server. “iOS treats CallKit calls like any other call, however that also means some information will be synced to iCloud if enabled,” Open Whisper Systems warns. “This information includes who you called and how long you talked.”

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/encryption-app-signal-enables-...
If you can take the person aside and ask them in the right way, they can tell you everything about what's not working - both what is blocking them today, and also the smaller problems that have been haunting them for a while.

The first part is to try to learn from them - how do they normally use the system, what isn't working today, and any errors that are (or aren't) showing up. The hard part in this is in actually wanting to help the person and/or solve the problem, and not getting caught up in your own superior ability to avoid the problem. The first step to good troubleshooting is checking your own ego at the door.
Dictatorial regimes that implement actually beneficial policies I can tolerate. Less good than a democracy in terms of social and political freedom, but better than dictatorships that don't implement any benign policies.

That said my knowledge of African politics is limited to a few news articles a week so I can't form a meaningful opinion about how well or badly countries there are run except in really obvious cases like Zimbabwe.
The article is about temp work never turning into full-time. That's a different symptom of the same problem you replied to, and it's not solved by regulating across borders.
Yeah, many of bowls/plates are made up of mango tree leaves. All my childhood I have eaten village feasts on those leaves plates and earthen bowls for gravy/yogurt.
That's interesting. Shouldn't professional athletes have a lower resting heart rates?
It's because I care about people that I want more fairness and honesty in the economic situation. The consequences you describe reflect how the market should have been, were it not for the destabilization of inconsistently applied labor laws.
In America's Heartland, a Power Company Leads Charge for Electric Cars
Wonder how it compares to using Antigrain Geometry. I once had to implement text rendering in a game engine a bunch of years back and I used FreeType to load font glyphs and then fed the geometry data into Antigrain and had it rasterize (FreeType rasterization is meh while AGG is heavenly). Even on very old iPhone hardware I was able to render in the main update loop and not encounter any frame rate hiccups.

Unfortunately AGG 2.5 is now GPL so if you need to stick it into anything closed source you are stuck using 2.4's modified BSD.
Oh man, where to start...

- Environment Consistency

- Secure Networking

- Access Control

- Load Balancing

- Failover

- CI/CD Setup

- I could keep going...

There's a lot of services out there help to alleviate many of these. Companies like Heroku, Codeship, Engine Yard, etc. One of the newest services to hit the scene is Nanobox (https://nanobox.io).
The tree-grown fruit that is sold in the UK has been harvested before it is ripe, it is still too hard to eat when you throw it away.
And they generally help the industry members protect themselves from new competitors.