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Stasis | Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | https://stasislabs.com

Stasis | C++ Firmware Consultant | Bangalore, India OR Los Angeles, CA | ONSITE

Stasis Labs is hiring an experienced infrastructure engineer to help us improve the quality of medical care through smarter patient monitoring.

Our monitors are currently live in hospitals in India, and are built for a global distribution. We have teams in Los Angeles, Bangalore, and working remotely. We just graduated from the first class of the Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in Partnership with Cedars-Sinai.

We are looking for someone excited by the idea of building a well-tested, reliable web infrastructure stack with modern technologies. We're a node.js + PostgreSQL stack on AWS, currently using Terraform + Capistrano + Sprinkle for our infrastructure stack.

More details here: https://angel.co/stasis-labs/jobs/198773-senior-infrastructu...

We're also looking for a temporary consultant (2 - 4 month duration) on our device firmware. This position is onsite in Los Angeles, CA, or in Bangalore, India. Your role would be building features, fixing bugs, and unit & integration testing our C++ firmware. Experience with FDA verification testing for medical devices is a plus, and any experience developing safety-critical software is great.

For either position, reach out to careers+software@stasislabs.com
Teradata | Teradata Unity | San Diego, Toronto | Onsite | Full-Time

Teradata Unity is heading to the cloud, and we're seeking good people to help us get there. If you want to be part of a team that is driving change within Teradata and with our customers, this is it!

We're looking for skilled, passionate people who enjoy highly technical challenges and play well with others. Tech stack includes

- Python - C/C++ - Java - Node.js - Angular - React - Covalent - AWS - Azure - Scrum - Linux - Test Automation -

for multiple positions

- architects - developers - testers - automation - devops -

at a wide range of experience levels that probably include yours. For more information about these opportunities or how to apply, please contact me:
david.glick [at] teradata.com.

Teradata Unity is an enabler for the Teradata DBS, providing capabilities such as high availability, synchronization, fail-over, routing and other critical services that allow customers to get their work done when bad stuff happens.
Really can't understant why Lua isn't more used. It play the same role as Ruby, Python and JS and is very fast, at least, much more then Ruby and Python.
The government can be sued. If they loose the suit they (or rather) taxpayers have to pay. So in theory if you vote for politicians and policies that cause these kinds of failures you the voter are held liable.
What is the proof for our brains being Turing complete? That we can in principle compute any algorithm, given writing tools and enough time?

I'm not sure a human can compute any algorithm beyond a certain complexity. But maybe if that human never aged or got bored and had an endless supply of paper. But then you're not dealing with a real human being anymore. Even if you had a super patient, super long lived human, what's to say they wouldn't get indefinitely stuck with really involved calculations?
Yes, they do. Python does. I'm sorry but your wires are getting crossed somewhere. You also completely ignored the comment you where replying to and the sources he cites for you and repeated essentially the same thing you said before. This is quite rude.

Python has a GIL, so only one thread can interact with the Python interpreter at one time. You can have any number of threads running at one time if they release the GIL and don't touch the interpreter (i.e if they are doing IO or calling a C function).

They, however, are still real OS threads, running (waiting for a lock) on separate cores and sharing process memory. That's the definition of a thread. They are not fake threads. They share memory. They run on separate cores (perhaps).

I'm not sure what your last sentence means.
That depends:

- do you have a VPro enabled mac (probably not) or laptop (could be)?

- if so are you running AMT (check bios!)?

- if so is it running one of the affected versions?

- and even if not check if the machine is running LMS and if it does disable that.
I joined because it was free now it's now been a year and they're trying to bill me for a new year. They never said it was free for only one year or they buried it in the tos. I have unsubscribed from the service I find Yelp much more useful.
Having not heard of Angie's List before I decided to check their website out. If anyone working on that is reading HN, you might find it interesting that I didn't understand at all what the website was for until reading all the way down to the testimonials.

Until then it was all about how happy users are and how many solutions it provides.

Might be a good idea to put a one-liner explanation somewhere very visible.
> I was surprised to see that almost every audio industry professional had no idea what Opus even was.

Assuming you mean people who deal with audio production, I'm not surprised. Opus is primarily for real-time audio streaming, not for streaming music or for general audio compression or storage.
Ugh. Someone should set up a github page of affected systems.
> [Kendall Jenner] stands as part of, and representative of, the Fyre tribe.

Well...yeah, that's about right.
I think you might be reading more than is there.
As I understand it, this is the year that the last of the MP3 patents expire, nd some already have, but there are still two left. One of them expires on August 29, and the last one expires on December 30.

It seems kind of odd to do this so late in the patents' life, though. I understand the general theory behind a last-minute cash grab, but you generally can't take "last-minute" quite this literally. Why wait so long?
Caching can happen in a number of places, with a variety of degrees of success. In psql, a lot of caching is deferred to the OS filesystem layer. In MySQL, apparently, they have a additional cache in the MySQL address space.

There's two sides to this. Generally speaking, an general purpose OS will use cache management algorithms that suck compared to what an application could do, because the application has more structured knowledge. In the case of a DB, it knows about indexes, and row sizes, and is less likely to evict half an index or row.

On the other hand, the OS is sort of the last authority. Varnish, in particular, argues that programmers should rely on the OS caching algorithms, because you have them whether or not you want them. A poor interaction between userspace and kernelspace caches can end up increasing I/O activity if kernel pages something to disk before the userspace does (varnish had a doc somewhere explaining this better, which I can no longer find). The penalty here though is context switching. A userspace cache is available in memory, whereas a filesystem / buffer cache will incur a context switch to retrieve the data from kernelspace to userspace.

Finally, both have a number of caches, so this is more about how much and what type of userspace caching.
Was curious, it's this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14237266
No it isn't. Wealthy people just have more options for staving of misery, which isn't the same thing as being happy.

I am friends with a few super-wealthy people, one who had access to great wealth through business and another who's a prominent aristocrat. When I say friends, I don't mean that we hang out to drink champagne, but that I'm privy to intimate details of their family/personal lives. Wealth does not inoculate you against crippling emotional problems.
Sorry, I like SV but this is childish. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.
So the new way to secure your private keys is in a location you DON'T control and validation by text message? It's May 1st not April 1st.
I think a lot of the criticism has come from moves he made on the business side, like having SpaceX buy SolarCity bonds.
Hamas Moderates Talk on Israel
Looks interesting. However, it seems to maybe assume you're using bash? Using the fish-shell it seems to have simply broken ssh and git operations with incorrect syntax. I had to run `kr uninstall` to get things back to normal (it fails when it's running fish or if I drop into bash so it's somehow looking at my default shell.)

I submitted a ticket on the repo.
Heat is a big problem but given that they barely seem to want to be in the pro business at all these days given their laptop choices lately I doubt they'd want to have 2 different desktops.
You should post this in the "Who wants to be hired?" thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238007

Also, read the "Who is hiring?" thread in case you can find something that is interesting for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238005
Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Communications-Based Train Control
> under a full-CPU load they have fairly similar performance-per-watt to Broadwell-E.

Do you have a source for this?
> Most will not break userland

That's exactly what I meant. It usually works the same. Apart from when it doesn't. For example arch's linux-grsec kernel requires pax changes for common KDE apps, and every separate python virtualenv. Restricted runtime CPU registers stop powertop. Something (can't remember details now) affected sysdig.

It's not critical. I used to run grsec kernel all the time on a laptop. But I can't imagine someone dropping, for example paxd support into a popular distro and expect people to deal with apps suddenly not starting.
I had totally forgotten about this. I'm still not sure if it's a joke or not.

The fact that this cost 1M is what takes all the fun out of it. My guess is a mid-level designer scratched something out in a few weeks and then they said: well, shit; we need to make it look like we spent a lot of money and time on this. Get some nerds in here and have them write down some geometry phrases.

It's actually depressing once you think about it how much companies will pay for bullshit like this and very little for other things. Salesmanship I guess.
Developing Discord Bot with Asyncio
Why We’re So Hypocritical About Online Privacy
Socratic | Generalist Engineer + Android Lead | New York City | Onsite, Full-time | https://socratic.org

Socratic is a top education app where students take a picture of a homework question and we instantly teach them how to answer it.

We're one of the top iOS education apps and our Android app is launching this week! We combine cutting edge machine learning with high quality custom content. Students asked 10 million questions last month, and we're just getting started.

We're looking for an experienced Android lead to own our Android app.

We're also looking for a generalist engineer to work on all aspects of our backend and dabble in mobile.

Descriptions of both jobs are at: https://socratic.org/jobs.

Reach out to jobs@socratic.org
Amazon Kinesis | Software/System Engineers | Seattle, WA | Onsite | Full-time

The Amazon Kinesis Streams team is growing and looking to hire software and systems engineers. The service is growing at breakneck speed and has spawned an ecosystem with sister services like Amazon Kinesis Firehose and Amazon Kinesis Analytics. You'll have opportunities to work on a range of domains like

- Hardcore distributed systems

- Challenging scalability problems

- Open source libraries and stream processing frameworks

- Customer facing features and new APIs

- Performance enhancements

As a core AWS service, your work will have high impact and high visibility. Your customers will be other software developers and you'll have ample opportunities to interact with them (search for Kinesis on this page just to see a few of our customers).

If you're curious, or have more questions, feel free to reach out to me at rohinair(at)amazon.com

Apply via the job listings linked below

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/461249

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/456686

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/448623

Some of our open source libraries - https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client

https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-producer

https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-connectors

More about Amazon Kinesis - https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/streams/
> If you reboot you should see a brief firmware splash mentioning the ME. Hitting ctrl+p at this point should get you into a menu which should let you disable AMT.

my Lenovo T450s's vPro/AMT setup menu (MEBx) requires a password from me. The default password ("admin") won't work -- which is wonderful, as I have no idea how to reset it. Yaey.
Switch DJI 4K videos to Instagram compatible MP4 format
Hello Flax – A Reactive Architecture for Android
What do you mean by "prove"? Yes, you can define the earth as stationary, but if you're taking that definition seriously – rather than just doing it to make the math easier within that frame of reference, or for rhetorical purposes – if you're taking it seriously then you've got a whole host of implications that you have to explain. For example, why is Earth stationary, with the sun rotating around it, while all the other planets rotate around the sun? Given what else we know about gravity, how do you account for the sun with its huge mass orbiting the relatively tiny mass of Earth?

One response is that you throw those "known" things out as well, and so on down the rabbit hole.

We prefer theories to be coherent with the rest of our knowledge. Depending on the extent to which you're willing to dispense with that – and to dispense with a huge number of claims we take as settled – sure, you can choose to hold on to basically any view. The question is why you're holding on to that and throwing out the rest.
Is it public (or common) knowledge what an IB like JPMorgan takes home in terms of $$$ for a deal of this size?
Eh, not necessarily, I've heard that one thing patent owners do is keep the thing ticking over by patenting something else sufficiently close to the original that they overlap and sufficiently different that they can be argued as distinct. Sure it's infringing - but it's infringing their own stuff. So, not invalid.

Note: as to whether any particular tactic like this stands up in court or not, you'll find out if you fight it in court. You and your huge heap of cash, that is. Don't have a huge heap of cash? Then the question is moot, isn't it, peasant?
Thanks, will fix this asap. We have tested on bash, zsh, and fish on macOS but it seems we missed an edge case. I'll follow up with your ticket.
and their children will experience greater longevity, clearer thoughts, greater stamina and overall physical fitness than the families that can't afford canned fresh air

worth itttt

also dont try to equate too much to share price after earnings. a large market participant decided that this latest information no longer justifies the current share price, which had floated around at a price while there was no information.
I hired 3 service providers through Angie's List.

I went with top 1-3. One was amazing and professional, though quite expensive. He more than earned his paycheck by fixing installation errors left behind by two providers before. The other 2, were just average in workmanship, which surprised me based on their high ratings. You can clearly tell were making up through volume.

If you are the type of person who doesn't mind paying 20%-30% extra for higher quality job without cutting corners, it's not easy to spot them in Angie's list.
I see -- so how is performance? I see that there are no published numbers for e.g. TPC-C or YCSB.

(For the record -- in case I seem to be especially pessimistic -- I'm actually extremely hopeful that CRDB will actually make scaling OLTP applications significantly easier for everyone. It's just that this probably shouldn't be FDB all over again.)
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Can't wait for Naples. I have been pushing the bare metal teams at my company to consider when it comes out. If anyone works for AMD and can provide samples I would be happy to sign an NDA. We are one of the larger cloud companies and I am definitely excited for what we could do with Naples chips.
The standard needs a few things like:

* Easy, unambiguous way of determining whether you're affected

* What risks are for each condition (have an AMT ready CPU, have AMT enabled, etc)

* Which patches fix which risks

And more. This will require some thought, and hopefully some UX people.
Oops, I didn't mean to imply it's unique to the south, just that I'd never had it growing up in Miami. The delicacy there (which has no equal) is key-lime pie. :-)
If I remember correctly, one of the developers of GNU Emacs removed Mac-specific functionality as GNU doesn't want these type of patches in the software that they release as it goes against their core ethos.
Qventus | Software Engineer | Mountain View, CA | Onsite

Qventus mission is to simplify how healthcare operates, so that hospitals and caregivers can focus on delivering the best possible care to patients. We think that data and analytics should make it easier for hospital teams to do great things.

We use machine learning to create solutions that help healthcare organizations and their people adapt to the variability of the healthcare system and make the right decisions from the most complex data. We believe that small, day-to-day decisions can, over time create massive improvements in healthcare.

We have several positions open:

-- Full Stack Engineers

-- Front End / Mobile Engineer (Android, iOS)

-- DevOps Engineer

-- QA/Build/Release Engineers

For more information, visit http://www.qventus.com
If you are interested please submit your resume to jobs@qventus.com
to be fair, not for reputable tech companies, which pay interns well
It's not just Intel that does it. HP Storage solutions use iLO which is pretty much the same thing for SANs.
I think you may have misunderstood our architecture. SMS doesn't play any role in Kryptonite and all communication between the phone and computer is encrypted and authenticated. Check out a full explanation of the architecture here: https://blog.krypt.co/the-kryptonite-architecture-a385e7aaa3...
> They added that they intend to make sure all of the features are on every chip

Interesting that useful stuff like ECC RAM isn't treated like that.
Symplicity | Software Engineer, Full Stack | Washington, DC (Arlington, VA) | ONSITE, VISA, https://symplicity.com

Symplicity has helped guide more than 26 million students to their dream career. We build the world’s leading campus recruiting software deployed at over 1,100 colleges and also tools to help recruiters land entry-level talent at these universities.

Our stack: PHP, Typescript, Slim, MySQL, Angular, ElasticSearch

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite interview with a take-home coding exercise.

Learn more at https://www.symplicity.com/about/join-us

Interested in chatting? Email engineering-careers@symplicity.com
Diller is the chairman of the board. Levin has been CEO and running g day to day operations for a bit now.

That being said it's important to understand that IAC businesses are run fairly independently. Many (most?) have their own CEOs, etc.

Barry Diller had tried to get an acquisition of Angie's List before IIRC.
Neither.

I know the solution to most problems, but I can't seem to properly communicate them. As a result, I'm consistently miserable.
I've heard it from a friend working at one that it's 0.5-2% of a deal (the bigger the deal the smaller the cut), and here's a Quora discussion that corroborates that figure [0].

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-typical-M-A-fee-for-an-acqui...
Yes, this was really good and very motivational. It's amazing to hear success stories like "so I started selling this door to door".

I think it can be a great brain food to start the day. Any other resources you would recommend like this?
why though? in my experience, people don't really care about that, especially big entities buying in bulk. just give me what's fastest per dollar.
Leadup: Dr. Thompson used a genetic algorithm to program a FPGA to detect one of two tones. The result was:

> Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside was baffling. The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops. Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones.

(from https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/)

Granted, the results were probably due to the quirks of the FPGA gates on that particular chip (and that particular area of the chip) but without further (potentially destructive) investigation, Dr. Thompson (or us for that matter) may never know the actual reason that circuit worked the way it did.
For those playing the earnings:

After-hours: 12.10 -11.16%
Agreed. Indifference to politics (by someone intelligent enough to have meaningful choices, obviously) is the ultimate privilege, resting as it does on the assurance that one is unlikely to suffer any kind of personal inconvenience.

My wife has an electrical engineering degree and she had to take ethics courses and pass an exam in them as part of her credentialing process, which in turn shaped her career decisions significantly. I find it troubling that ethics are not considered a very important topic in software development or indeed many spheres of business activity.

It's not that I expect people to necessarily share my opinions; what distresses me is that many arguments I encounter from contrary positions are so utterly shallow that you can tell the person hasn't really thought about such issues very much. Positivism has a great deal to answer for.
Lol! Thanks! I'm proud of it. Now, if only I could get this thing going! :-) Cheers!
Just to be sure—you're both doing a double tap, right? It has to be a double tap. Mine responds just fine unless I hit it weird, which has only happened a couple of times.
FWIW, Intel published this: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
Agreed. While I thought the Southwest airlines story was very interesting (fighting court battles for years before operating their first flight!), I could barely make it through the show on 5-hour Energy.
For public deals, banks will give a fairness opinion and they have to publicly disclose their fees in the relevant securities filings. This data is aggregated by various services (likely behind a paywall), which would let you slice and dice it by deal size.
Working with Seeds
"We've crafted a team of rockstars ... Combined we've sold 60 MM records worldwide"

Glad to hear they're giving the whole team credit for those sales numbers.
Overthinking it. The internet is great because it is as simple as a bunch of computers talking via socket connections. Do that but with encryption. Let everything else grow the way it wants to.

This sounds like a framework. Not a good idea. You'll eventually find something that the framework cannot support, but you've over thought everything, so adding that is next to impossible, so time for a rewrite.
It's a sales funneling technique. By the time the user has reached the bottom, he has been prepped with all the glowing testimonials and ready to sign up. For a casual visitor, as blunt as it is, you are not their target audience.
Ask HN: Has any legislative body passed software as law?
Does anybody have examples of laws on the books anywhere that are executable as software? (i.e. intended to present an automatic procedure to follow without interpretation or human intervention).

Decision trees don't count if the evaluation conditions are subjective.

If you know an example, was code review involved? Are there bugfixes?
I didn't know about this 3d point objectification. This is ridiculous.

Tuning is required when you start to install mods. Or even texture packs.