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Fox-IT | High Tech Embedded Software Developer | Dutch | medior/senior | Netherlands | Delft | full-time | Onsite | must: C, Python, Embedded | pre: crypto, electronics, hardware, microcontrollers, Assembly, network protocols

• Field: cyber Security.

• Our reason to get out of bed (mission): To derive satisfaction from helping to create a more secure society with the help of our technical and innovative solutions.

• How you will contribute: develop products in our R&D team for clients (a.o. government, defence, etc.) with the highest security requirements and the most well-equipped opponents.

• You fit the team when you: turn secure coding into an art form and feel that ‘good enough’ just doesn’t cut it.

• Culture: open, honest, respect, knowledgeable, sharing knowledge, high tech, security DNA.

• Process >>> Phone call (max 0,5h) >>> Personal interview (+/- 1h) + technical interview/challenges (+/- 1,5h) >>> offer >>> screenings >>> start

Contact: Laura Voorsluijs >>> laura.voorsluijs[at]fox-it.com More info: https://www.fox-it.com/vacatures

Other roles:
DevOps Engineer (Threat Intelligence) - Dutch: https://www.fox-it.com/nl/werken-bij-fox-it/vacatures/vacanc...

Security Expert (Security Operations Center) - Dutch: https://www.fox-it.com/nl/werken-bij-fox-it/vacatures/vacanc...

Product Owner (CTM) - Dutch: https://www.fox-it.com/nl/werken-bij-fox-it/vacatures/vacanc...
Ask HN: How do you find a bug in a software?
Context: a system is divided into micro services.
You don’t need standups
BlockPunk | Blockchain Engineer | Singapore | On site, Full Time | www.blockpunk.net

BlockPunk is building a next-generation entertainment studio that is decentralising anime, film and TV. We are backed by EF & DLE Capital.

As Blockchain Engineer, you will architect & implement Ethereum smart contracts used across our suite of products enabling filmmakers to merchandize & finance their movies. You will also participate in designing the BlockPunk decentralized protocol and BlockPunk tokens.

Full Job Description: https://angel.co/blockpunk/jobs/374489-blockchain-engineer

We will cover relocation to Singapore & sponsor visa.
BookMyScan | https://bookmyscan.co.uk | Cambridge / London, UK | REMOTE (Europe) | Full-time | Python/Django/PostgreSQL | Senior Full Stack Developer | £40-£50k

I am the CTO at BookMyScan, and we develop online booking systems for diagnostic scans. We have a number of exciting opportunities, and therefore need to expand the development team.

I am looking for my first developer, reporting directly to me. We are using Python, Django and PostgreSQL on the back-end, Javascript and jQuery on the front-end, all deployed on AWS. As the first developer in a start-up, you will be involved with all aspects of the development process: specification, development, testing, release, support.

Ideally, the developer would work core-hours of 10-4.30 (UK time), with a brief stand-up at 10 each day. I have grown development teams successfully in previous start-ups, but I am still open to ideas for improvements.

Interview process consists of: short coding test (should take no more than 1 hour); 30-minute remote interview; 60-minute remote or face-to-face interview, depending on location. I have hired successfully from Hacker News before.

We have ambitious plans to grow quickly in an environment where data is sensitive, so any experience of scaling, security and robustness would be helpful. Any experience of start-ups and medical information systems would also be useful, but is not essential.

Please apply by sending your C.V. to me, with a short paragraph about why you would be a good fit for the role. Feel free to contact me with any questions. paul.redman at bookmyscan etc.
"MOVE JOY STICK TO FORMAT DISK"

That seems...stressful. I'd hate to accidentally move it while trying to press the fire button and delete all the stuff on my disk.

Its also interesting to see the desktop metaphor work on such weak equipment, at least outside of a lab. I think this is also further evidence that GUIs just couldnt really work well with such low resolution.

Two years later you had GEOS which looks like something I could tolerate today:

http://toastytech.com/guis/c64g.html
I'm in San Diego, and with the housing prices, I'm sure it's a constant search for areas that gentrifiers can afford. The last neighborhood to pop was Barrio Logan, which used to be a very rough neighborhood. Now it's yoga shops, art collectives, kombucha, and other stuff hipster yuppies need to have around them.

Sure, there's still graffiti and taco shops, but it's commissioned art and mango-chutney-glazed-pork-belly-kimchi tacos now.
MBAs.
The idea that anyone (including me and you, dear reader) is free from bias, especially when discussing politics, seems painfully obvious after reading lots of history. And yet, the claim that this or that person or organization is 'neutral' is very common.

Further, the desire to create a 'neutral' 'encyclopedia' online is presumably what drives the entire Wikipedia community. I'd wish for a Wikipedia that consistently allows all viewpoints to be given an opportunity to be presented on any given topic, but I have no faith that such a thing is possible given the pervasiveness of the idea of neutrality and the interests at work to preserve that myth.
Uh, the name "BEAM" is taken for the Erlang VM, more fully known as "Bogdan’s Erlang Abstract Machine." Fully history here: http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/
The thing I'm wondering about with the seniority of the dev team and what the code commit and code review process is. It seems like with a senior dev reviewing commits, someone would have caught that redundant work was being done.

I worked at a startup in the Mission for a few months and I remember seeing a quadratic query that ran for every customer that was logged into our application. The CEO and team lead wondered why our app worked great in Dev (with only 5 users) but was terrible on premise (250 users). When I tried to explain the issue the two devs before me didn't really understand what I was talking about. It was a quick refactor and caching solution that fixed the problem, but it was clear that the development was still new.
Business Intelligence for Travel Should Offer Support for Every Business User
An artificial material that has negative refraction and no reflection
Being a dick in a professional setting is quite different from being it in a personal setting. I think it is okay to be ruthless in business, on the other hand, with your own daughter, that is something different.
My own experience feels different than yours like how friendship is different in some areas.

In the good community games usually things are not deep: people are nice but no one will really risk anything or inconvenience themselves for you.

In more "hardcore" games where everyone can be hostile and gain to fuck with you, finding people who help other has a lot more meaning. I'm used to play with a guild in multiple PvP oriented MMO: I know most of them will risk their hardly obtained gear to help. We have good relationships with some other guilds and know we'll all go out of our ways to help each other in different games. When you could kill new players, take their loot and camp their corpse, being one of those who don't but will help with some gear and tips can snowball months later. When you can scam and cheat people, getting a trustful trader reputation can mean a lot.

If everyone is nice, no one really is.
Typical statist mindset.
A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
Calculus Blue: Multivariable
I’m surprised to not see 2580 in the top 20, given that’s straight down the center and all unique items.
Location: New York, New York
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Full Stack Javascript, Node/Express, PostgreSQL, React, Redux
Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/chung-lin
Email: chunglin87@gmail.com
This is just how bureaucracies work. In other contexts, it's hidden from public view, and often hidden from internal view as well. Many careers have been knee-capped by bureaucratic factors where the subject never even knows.
How to CHARGE Your MOBILE PHONE INSTANTLY
If you can have "airplane mode" you can surely come up with some type of "school mode" (apps locked and calls in/out to certain specific numbers). Also nothing in the article re: smartwatches.
I guess this is one of those many laws of bureaucracies, any time there's enough power and hierarchy the top is self serving tribal warfare. I guess the question is to what extent that warfare is isolated from the interests of the members. If you look in parallel to the government, I guess you're talking about separation of powers - political leaders vs independent arbitrators, does this exist in wiki? There's no overall elections right more a kind of election at each level for the one above?
Well, just as I said before, it's really not hard. Ban bribery. Plenty of other nations don't have legalized bribery (such as just about any western European nation), so it's not like it's an impossible task.
I always liked the story of Agloe, NY. It became an actual landmark after being invented to catch plagiarism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement
There was no law about this but school staff sometimes enforced it anyway.
Building a Kickass Portfolio
holy crap that's an amazing idea
体面
在拿到《前任3：再见前任》剧本之后，于文文就产生了音乐创作的想法。随着电影《前任3：再见前任》越来越深入的拍摄，让于文文对于角色林佳产生了更多的情感共鸣，而沉浸在人物里的她，需要用音乐创作去宣泄情绪和表达态度 [3] 。于是，于文文以“林佳”为创作灵感 [4] ，为影片量身定制了该曲
Smartphones and tablets are GREAT learning devices.

My experience is certainly the opposite. I do all my best learning without smartphones and without tablets.
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I'm not sure it is security theatre, these sweeps may well be very capable of finding hidden cameras. Then their failure to find anything demonstrates that the danger has been severely overstated in several locations, that seems like valuable knowledge to me. Decreasing uncertainty is an important aspect of providing security.

Of course, the scans could be incapable, either by neglect or incompetence, and then they do provide only false security.
Turing machines are not very good handling uncertainty? the key pond is on physics ? yada, yada? I thought this was 101 already!
I don't think you understand. Theoretically with an efficient grid there should only be one "market rate" for power. Bitcoin miners would pay market rate regardless of where they are geographically. Certain places pay a vastly reduced marginal rate to generate power, and there are a number of ways to handle the delta between the generation cost and the market rate. One way is to give those who paid for the generation infrastructure (locals in this case) cheap power. That results in bitcoin miners becoming locals. Another way is to just sell it on the open market at market rate, and give the money back to locals. In this latter scenario, the market rate would likely drop a small amount due to the increased supply, and the locals who are now being compensated in dollars rather than an energy surplus, could use those dollars for more productive things like food, or startup capital.

There are actually (at least) two distortions being exposed here:

1. Power being sold for below market rate

2. Someone being able to join the original investor pool (i.e. become a local) and reap the benefits of an earlier investment by the municipality
If the local systems sold the electricity on the open market and used the funds to subsidize public services or just keep taxes lower, the locals would still benefit and there'd be no bitcoin mining incentive.

The market distortion here means that the overall % of green energy in the country is lower than it otherwise would be.
I guess it is used as a synonym of unique here.
An old house that is rewired would have a permit on file if it were done properly, and includes the name of the contractor if there is one. But there is often no proof on site.
1) As the other poster said, how do you take real estate out of the country?

2) Where are they going to go? Somalia? Other countries are going to tax them at least as much. These rich people aren't idle rich, they're rich because they're working in some capacity. You can't do that in Somalia. They get their wealth from being located here. That means they can be taxed here.
A CHICKEN SCHNITZEL COMING BACK TO LIFE
Kind of funny that you say this when smartphones and tablets are fundamentally designed to consume whereas a laptop is designed to create - but somehow a laptop is not included as a "great learning device" - what kind of "learning" are we even talking about?
Wikipedia is like a microcosm of public politics, large version of a high school social system, or maybe a cult.

There's cliques, arcane rules, and always always an agenda. It would make for a fascinating study on human behavior and how it relates to politics in the real world. Wikipedia internal politics are a scary beast fraught with peril. And the actual content suffers horribly.
There is a "school mode": Off.
New candidate for Most Confusing Chart of 2018 right here folks:

https://quanticfoundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/overal...

Even the explanation doesn't help:

> In this chart below, the y-axis is showing the percentile rank of each motivation. That 50th-%tile line represents the average among the 350,000+ gamers who have completed the Gamer Motivation Profile. So for example, the 74th-%tile in Competition among Hardcore gamers means that the average Hardcore gamer scores higher on Competition than 74% of the gamers in the full data set.

I genuinely don't think there's anything useful that can be said here at all without knowing what fraction of gamers make up the different catagories. Beyond that, all we can say for sure is that "hardcore" gamers like gaming more. Ugh.
Cool! I hope other manufacturers will follow. There is so much cool stuff you could do if you had full control of the camera hardware.
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As a user, I want to be notified by todos that only have any pending actions on them
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Can you explain further what you mean by "pending actions on them"? We are working to simplify and streamline our notifications and todos in GitLab. In particular, the current thinking is that they are very similar. A "notification" is an email, and a "todo" is a something that GitLab calls your attention to in the Web UI to take action on. So mechanically, they are very similar and we would like to harmonize them.

Our latest discussion is in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/48787.
From the article:

> The East Cut name originated from a neighborhood nonprofit group in San Francisco that residents voted to create in 2015 to clean and secure the area. The nonprofit paid $68,000 to a “brand experience design company” to rebrand the district.

> Mr. Robinson said his team asked Google to add the East Cut to its maps. A Google spokeswoman said employees manually inserted the name after verifying it through public sources.

The residents voted to create a non-profit to improve the area, the board of the non-profit voted on the name and then asked google to add it to the map. What is the problem here? How is google in any way at fault?
That would be more forgivable. This is:

SELECT * FROM payments where paymentID = 1
SELECT * FROM payments where paymentID = 2
SELECT * FROM payments where paymentID = 3
...
SELECT * FROM payments where paymentID = 14986

Each of those in its own API request over the wire, then sum them on the client.
It's this easy to spoof commits on GitHub
Isn't the solution to charge more?

One could have a tiered rate system, where the first N kWhr are inexpensive and the rates rise after that (just as we do in Seattle)

http://www.seattle.gov/light/Rates/docs/2018/Jan1/Schedule%2...

If supply is constrained, and demand grows, it won't stop growing until the price goes up.

An imposition of a quota system is interesting, just because it might yield free residential heating for homes that welcome miners into their basements.
At least it's not corporations that are corrupting wikipedia like everything else.
As a technology, I've had far better experience with snap over flatpak. It does bother me though with snaps that it all seems tied to a proprietary store. Does anyone know if it's possible to run the server side components yourself.
The same old problem with Google's dominance. In this case, Google is just another publisher of such a map, there are others with equivalent services; that way it doesn't seem troubling.
> as long as there is value in mining there will be miners.

I'm gonna get a bit Marxist on value here.

Transaction value, or intrinsic value?

A bitcoin can be exchanged at the current exchange rate, as can any commodity given unit of exchange.

What is the intrinsic value of that commodity? The amount of wind needed to blow through a windfarm makes it virtually free aside from the depreciation and cost of producing that windfarm, which is the cost of production.

What is the future discounted future value of Bitcoin? That will depend on the Bitcoin interest rate, for which there is only a transaction value, there is no yield on Bitcoin. Not yield means no return on capital. Given it has cost to produce, yet to yield (intrinsic return on capital) it is a negative sum game, so zero.

If the power's there, why not use it, even at below market rates? Because Bitcoin may be using cheap power, but why does that power even need to be there? Paying little / subsidising producers to over-produce for negative-sum good is still paying something, and encouraging over-production and inefficient production.

Bitcoin is interesting, has some transaction value, but negative intrinsic value/opportunity cost.
My only issue - Where were the metrics around firebase request count? That could have been a simple dashboard.
I've found this is entirely dependent on your audience's biases.

An appeal with facts, reasonable viewpoints and what not is effective if your audience is already heavily biased towards your viewpoint.

Appeals based on emotion and whining are likely to be called out by an audience that's inherently skeptical or believes very specific ideals surrounding the nature of discussion (the "debate to reach a higher truth, not to win" crowd).

Unfortunately, I've found what you said to be true with audiences who remain on the fence or don't really care about whatever issue is at hand.

Many posters here fall into the camp to whom discussion is an attempt to reach the truth so they fail to see the rhetorical forest for the trees.

That's not to say we don't have our blind-spots when it comes to emotional appeals, however. That's just human nature.
What kangaroos can teach us about saving lives
To me, banning smartphones at school is an urgent measure taken to face a fundamental, but misunderstood, change in society. Why not use smartphones to improve education rather than seeing it like a threat?

My guess is that 1) most teachers have no idea how to teach using smartphones, and 2) the new digital economy is threatening the job of teachers.
> An industry proven Equihash algorithm was chosen to ensure broad adoption among existing GPU miners.

In other words, GPU miners are explicitly supported so that 50% attacks can be mounted for only the marginal cost of renting mining gear. Thanks.

The new-cryptocurrency industry needs to catch on that the only reason that Bitcoin is secure at all is that the market for mining gear is illiquid, which is mostly a result of the dominance specialized ASICs. In a fully efficient market, proof of work blockchains are insecure.
>The Trump administration contends that, by promoting the manufacture and sale of lighter cars, the Obama standards could lead to nearly 13,000 more auto fatalities.

What is this madness‽ Light does not automatically equate to being unsafe.

Edit:

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/climate/trump-fuel-econom...

""This can potentially affect road safety in two big ways: On average, smaller, lighter vehicles can be worse at protecting their occupants in an accident. But lighter vehicles also cause less damage to other cars on the road. The big question is which effect dominates.

Experts who have looked at this question have developed a rule of thumb: If automakers are mainly reducing the weight of their largest vehicles, like S.U.V.s and pickup trucks, then that makes the roads safer overall. But if manufacturers were to focus more on reducing the weight of their smallest passenger cars, that could be worse for overall auto safety, since those cars would be more vulnerable in crashes with bigger vehicles.""
> Smartphones and tablets are GREAT learning devices.

{{Citation needed}}

I believe studies have shown that gadgets do more harm than good in school environments.

> If we keep blaming the ineptitude of teachers on devices the quality of education will never progress.

Even if smartphones really are a hindrance?
> You can blame the culture for not using communication efficiently, but saying a "null" answer to the demands of surrender was sufficient reason to one-up the violence by becoming the first and only country to use nuclear weapons and the first and only country to use nuclear weapons specifically against civilians, is absurd.

I have trouble understanding why killing a few hundred thousand civilians in a nuclear attack is in some way qualitatively different in a moral sense from killing a few hundred thousand civilians in firebombings. The only difference was tactical: now we can and will kill you with even less effort and risk. The US had bombed out most Japanese cities and countless civilians had died in the bombings. The firebombing of Tokyo alone killed as many as many as 200k, easily the same scale as the nuclear bombings.

I think the intense focus on the nuclear bombings is misleading. There was no "one-upping" or escalation. The same level of violence was perpetrated by a new method.
Agree, Chargify. Of course, get trial accounts and try everything out there under the sun to see whats a good fit for your style and what you want to offer.

I like Chargify since the support team is really easy to get a hold of. I use them with Stripe also and haven't had any real issues ever.
Phone etiquette: How not to lose friends
Sure but they also use Google and Wikipedia etc.
I really wished snaps worked well on most distros but as of now I always run into a bunch of bugs when installing stuff from it.
Upvoted, but wanted to point out that transmission losses do mean that power should be cheaper closer to the point of generation.
You seem to be looking at this through the lens of best case scenario. These are kids, many if all of them are probably mid puberty. The phones are not being used to take notes. They are playing fortnight, doing whatever replaced texting at this point, and generally just ignoring the lesson.
I don't really understand why people of a certain political leaning take comfort in burning as much fossil fuel as possible and find all kinds of excuses to justify burning more fuel. I really don't get it.
It can also do strange things to outage reporting equipment that assumes power to be flowing a paticular way.
That is nihilism, plain and simple.

You can recognize bias and try to avoid it, like Wikipedia, by requiring credible citations and having processes to avoid editorial bias from impacting the end result (which it obviously did, eventually, as we're reading about here). Like CNN, the WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, WP, and many other sources of information (across the political spectrum) do every day.

Or you can go the route of Fox news, take a pronounced editorial bias that takes clear precedence over reporting facts. I would post video of Jeanine Pirro or Hannity, but it seems unecessarily crude.
The case for puns as the most elevated display of wit