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Interviews for software engineers are the most nepotistic bullshit and full of every variant of petty bias and discrimination possible.

I'm no special snowflake and I am definitely not a White male and I can say with almost certainty that I haven't been discriminated against in all of the many interviews I've had. I know because I've always gone through recruiters, my resume never went down a "black hole", and my success rate from being submitted to a job to not being rejected (I've taken myself out of the running after getting an offer is high). I'm also not in Silicon Valley.

What training does the company need to provide software developers? All the training I've needed I taught myself. It was for my benefit.
Even better, you’ve given ~15 people a real life before and after data point you can never un do, this is great since you also said how much better the team performed as a result
Zendar is hiring FPGA engineer in Berkeley
About Zendar:

At Zendar, we are working on a high-resolution imaging radar system that allows self driving cars to see through fog, rain and snow. We are a team of software engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and researchers pushing the boundaries of what a radar can see.

Job Description:

We are looking for a lead FPGA Engineer to join our growing team in Berkeley, CA. You will lead the acceleration of our radar signal processing algorithms on a custom FPGA platform. You will be responsible for major design decisions on architecture of this platform and own its development roadmap. This role includes developing software and toolflow infrastructure, integrating interface/logic IP blocks and implementing custom signal processing accelerators in RTL.

Required Qualifications:

MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
2-5 years experience working with FPGAs.
Excellent digital design and hardware fundamentals.
Excellent Verilog/VHDL skills.
Strong familiarity with FPGA development flow and design tools/infrastructure.
Experience with accelerating signal processing algorithms in digital hardware.
Experience working with and integrating third-party IP.

Desired Qualifications:

Designed and deployed FPGA or ASIC based signal processing accelerators.
Strong background in signal processing algorithms.
Familiarity with low-level software engineering, including firmware and drivers.
Familiarity with electronics design principles and high-speed signaling.
Familiarity with Python and Tcl scripting.

What We Have to Offer:

Daily catered lunch and a stocked fridge.
Convenient location in Berkeley, CA.
Competitive salary, benefits and equity.

Please send your application to jobs@zendar.io

Zendar is an equal opportunity employer.
Zendar participates in E-Verify.
You’ve never watched the Angry Videogame Nerd[0], have you?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbQ-gSLYQEc6IWgKJNOMU...
Jimmy
nice to meet you
Tương lai học phí các các trường Đại học như thế nào?
A Sound Card Before Its Time
Fast hashes are not inherently insecure - in fact you want hashing to be as fast as possible. You may be confusing the general case of hashing data, with the specific case of hashing passwords.

The goal of the former is to provide a hash such that the likelihood of any arbitrary objects hashing to the same value is proportional to the square of the hash size (I think?), for cryptographic hashes their are additional goals like the hash output being uniform across all inputs, and that changing any single bit in the input should on average change half the bits in the output, etc. that’s because the use case is validation of a single input - eg verifying your download isn’t corrupt or whatever.

For passwords the goal is different - you’re generally dealing with small objects, and so the cost of an “expensive” hash being measure in milliseconds is acceptable - the expectation being that people generally don’t get them wrong. But the attack scenario here is an attacker with a password hash wanting to brute force a large number of passwords to find the one that hashes to it. Given large is potentially very large, it doesn’t take a huge amount of time per hash to make the attack non viable.

This particular version is hashing of the former type, without cryptographic concerns. It’s goal - to my reading - is to be a hash function that achieves something close to a single bit change flipping half the bits, while also guaranteeing that no two values hash to the same value.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Mexican_...

Mexican passport is really good for visa free travel.
This seems to be quite hit and miss when I've looked around at work cultures in Seattle, free beer at work correlating with working much past 4pm is a weak sign at best.
> Beverages are being selected to not only improve hydration

They don't need new types of beverages to improve hydration; water is already optimal. What they need is to give people sizeable plastic water bottles with a screwtop on request rather than a tiny plastic cup. I always end up waking at 4am parched from the dry air and weighing whether I should wake both my poor neighbors so I can get up and track down a flight attendant. And then bring three spillable cups back to my seat.

(Bringing your own bottle is great if you remember to do it, but it's often hard to refill on the plane depending on how they are serving water.)
I've had countless number of times where I've had to sketch out an architectural design both during an interview and during my job with CxOs. Being able to communicate your ideas are important in the real world.

On the other hand, I had one whiteboard interview where I had to write psuedocode for a merge sort. I was offered the job but I turned it down.
Finally someone putting education before money; maybe these kids can get educated without having to worry about taking crap jobs outside of their career taking up their time to pay for loans that will tank them otherwise instead of looking for a job in their career or ramping up as an intern.
Guessing business analyst and account executive

More to the point did they want to be the ones to push it? :-P
Tuple, duple, and Quadruple sounds like "oo-ple."

Triple has a short "i" sound.

Every-other "-ple" sounds like "tuh-ple"
> + How do you attack problems + How do you communicate and collaborate + How do you deal with rainy day scenarios + How do you learn and grow + How do you teach and mentor + What do you need (and not need) from your teammates + What type of work enviro do you thrive in

This is exactly what I (and hiring managers in my company) mean when we say "cultural fit". The thought of having a beer with them or other social activities doesn't even cross my mind during the interviewing process.
These valuations are driven by huge liquidation preferences which will totally wipe out common stockholders in any down round or distressed sale.
Is this a recent change? Last summer my teenage son was given Precheck randomly. My wife and I did not and had to go through the regular line. We gave him all of our electronics and all three of us sailed through security even though two of us had to go through the standard line.
> PLEASE try to convince your employer to subsidize training and prioritize that over hiring

I would add mentorship to this. Even an informal program would be fine, as long as it means hiring more junior candidates who are then mentored (i.e. internally trained) by the more senior staff who were hired partly for this purpose. Even the mentor tends to learn from this arrangement, so everyone benefits.

> Startups are frankly lying to themselves if they think they hire hyper-qualified people anyways

Whether or not that's the case for an early startup, the credibility of such a conceit wears thin as a company grows. Unfortunately, the attitude of "we don't have the resources for training or mentorship" doesn't seem to dissipate, even with dozens of engineers.
Deleting Facebook
No one was expecting it to disable tracking, you do that by disabling Location Services. What they did expect was that Google would stop saving their location to Google's servers, but no, you have to also tend to some other seemingly unrelated toggle (from the article "Some location data may be saved as part of your activity on other services, like Search and Maps.")

Also, if I turn of location history on my phone, Maps won't show me what I last searched for. Has Google forgotten how to store locally? I don't mind my device saving my location, what I don't want is it being stored on servers out of my control. Google knew exactly what they were doing here, and pretty forcefully persuade you to not switch any of it off.
TOML/YAML:

You could read a truncated TOML file and not realize it.
I don't believe it will lower medical costs, but would drive students to consider the much needed general practitioner which generally pays less.
Wheat's DNA map discovered after 13 years
TSA precheck is not about security- it's about allowing the privileged, wealthy, etc to not have to wait in line with everyone else. It's one of many "pay for access" systems growing around us today.

$20 per ride toll lanes on the highways. "Express pass" at the amusement park. Global Entry at US Customs. They're all just more ways of saying that the rich don't need to wait around with the plebians.
fwiw I travel frequently and have observed the exact opposite : one or more pax on the same locator as me have "Pre" status on their boarding pass. TSA staff make me go separate from them, through the regular line.
Me too. I think 'vet' = 'veteran' might be a peculiarly American usage.
Windows Server vs. Linux Performance on the Threadripper 2990WX
The QAnon snowball gets bigger: A visit to the GreatAwakening subreddit
Soon: Spotify vs. Major Record Labels
Because you were claiming that I was advocating for violence. The things you quoted? Those are the results of what you’re advocating for. If Google employees cannot decide not to associate with Damone after what he said, then they do not have freedom of speech. And you said that you were fine with that.
I think you're right. In the UK context, the first incarnation of fees appeared to work OK and not bring the negatives that are becoming clear after the introduction of high fees. Even the overseas students paying higher fees seemed to bring less expectation and entitlement to a first whilst standard fees were only £3k, which I can't explain.

Of course the other aspect when fees were first introduced was the policy to significantly increase numbers attending university. This brought its own set of problems including harming standards (unavoidable of course) and vocational institutions, and no end of colleges remaking themselves as universities.
You need a "Beibehaltungsgenehmigung". You need to get it before applying for citizenship of another country and justify that you still have reason to keep the German citizenship. For me it was family ties.
Reim: Not just another Redux
And then doesn't disclose the breach to its customers.
Women bring different perspective on a vast variety of issues. It has obvious bearing on the technical work.
Follow-up on the recent Windows 10 (non-server version) vs. Linux Performance benchmarks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756266)
You can still find the repo on github
It isn't that complex and to be 100% honest, once you know how it works, its very easy to test for yourself with extremely consistent results. The bans are more a result of me testing their belief in the first amendment for my own curiosity rather than anything you need to apologize for. I intentionally bait conservatives that claim they are pro-free speech to watch the hypocrisy and to confirm my belief in their dishonesty is correct.

The loophole used to "justify" my bans is almost always:

User who doesn't agree with conservative narrative posts facts viewed as damaging -> Conservatives report you as "spamming" -> powers that be ban you as a "spammer" due to moderation mechanisms based on N reports.

Sometimes it involves human intervention as well, sometimes not.

For instance:

https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/96h0dy/pc_case_...

> PC case maker CaseLabs says it has been 'forced into bankruptcy and liquidation' by US tariffs (Prices went up 80%!) -- Thanks Folks and I await your censorship ban.

I know they are going to do that after I posted that, even included it in the title, and was banned. :)

I was also banned for similar posts on a couple news sites.

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Pretty much any major "Conservative" subreddit has banned my account (or another one of my Reddit accounts) at this point. Voat/Gab, I'm banned platform wide.
Blackbeard was killed by an unlawful act of a Virginia lieutenant governor
All congested systems ration access. Price is a pretty straightforward way to handle rationing. It's not very interesting or novel to notice that a lot of systems ration this way.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070206052102/http://taossa.com...

First archive of the dead link
The parent made no claim that it would be a technical improvement.

That isn’t the only consideration.

Edit: removed duplicate words
Coming home recently I was somewhat surprised to see that US Global Entry card holders can now skip immigration at New Zealand airports via a fast lane otherwise reserved for diplomats, even though New Zealanders are not eligible for the Global Entry programme in the States. Whoever negotiated that asymmetrical deal... sheesh...

It so happens that NZ's regular immigration is now just an electronic gate that takes your photo, if you have certain passports (NZ, UK, Canada, Australia, US, some European countries etc). So it's already pretty close to the preferred entry schemes in the US and other countries and they're not missing much. But if you didn't have one of those lucky passports, but you did have one on the Global Entry eligibility list (which now includes India) I wonder if Global Entry would be a nice upgrade that would get you into several other countries more smoothly (effectively outsourcing the vetting process to the US, which seems kinda weird to me, but that seems to be what's happening).
Me too, Easy Peasy with a PI and button can be made as scary as you want :) Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgK-g3neTc
Particle accelerator research has resulted in theories and equipment as a byproduct of what they found - either proving or disproving specific theories, or by producing new or unexpected results. The last of which results in new theories to explain those results. Those new theories producing “useful results”.

MRIs and PET scans were the result of theories that only came about as a result of data that came out of particle accelerators. The goal of the accelerators was never specifically “develop new medical imaging devices”, it was simply the “basic research” that makes thing like that possible in the future.
Banana hack sheds light on clever produce marketing
It's different when these things are provided by the government, though.
Yeah, except now we have Linux distribution wars instead.
That is a very interesting prospect actually, any plans on making python integration simple? Some parts of my pipelines rely on very large python modules I don't see being rebuilt in anything else in the next few years.
This is the whole point of the article btw : there have been "non-Mylan" EpiPen products on the market in the US for the past year (that are low cost) but they aren't magically associated with the SKU "EpiPen" in the Pharmacy -- you have request them by name. This news is about an alternative autoinjector being approved for that special "Pharmacist can substitute for the real thing regardless" status.

Source : son with severe peanut allergy and insurance that doesn't cover epipens. Made several trips to Canada (for other reasons); bought Epipens there for us and various friends.
I disagree about joining a startup worth over $1B. First, compare it something that actually is de-risked, a big company. Amazon has grown 6.5x in the past 5 years. Google has grown nearly 3x in that period. So in addition to have basically no risk of failure, you get high compensation, fully liquid stock and pretty decent growth if you are lucky.

Let's compare that to unicorns. I own some shares in a unicorn that has been worth over $1B for nearly 3 years. In that time myself and all the other shareholders have had exactly 0 opportunities to sell the stock. I'm not saying the valuation is made up, but I certainly wouldn't say anything is de-risked. Taking a lot of money in investment just means the outcome is expected to be bigger and bigger. It doesn't mean less risk and it doesn't mean more liquidity.

If you want upside, there is just going to be so much more potential if you join a really early company. If you want to de-risk, join a big company.
There's nothing new or sinister about price discrimination. What is suspect, however, is that the source of the delays and inconvenience in the airline security regime are introduced and controlled by the same actor who sells the upgraded access -- and they have a conceivably unlimited mandate to make the unprivileged experience bad, in the name of security.
Sure, for Coca Cola, not for a 50 people startup in by far most cases.
It's a bit weird when governments do it, though, especially for matters of "security" (or in the case of Global Entry, actual security!) There's a bit of a difference between waiting in line at Walt Disney World and having to go through customs.
This would certainly be an effective strategy, but it would be harder. Maintaining a single "brand" (in addition to a full time job) will probably be a lot of work , more or less two. Then again, I suppose I could always put more work into the "fun" identity while merely keeping up appearances with the "professional" one.
Personally, I am a big fan of Pilot Petit 1[1], which you can buy in packs of 12 with multiple-color ink. Always amazes others as well.

Ergonomically, they are great; they don't take much space - and they are easy and pleasant to write with. They don't have a character (like some of my other pens do) - they just write.

They are nearly indestructible - I've left one in a shirt pocket and did the laundry, and both the shirt and the pen were fine - and cheap, at $2-$3, depending on where you buy them.

The only problem with them is that getting the ink cartridges is harder than getting these pens (the Pilot cartridges are incompatible with Pelikan, which is the most popular standard, as well as the popular-in-the-US Sheaffer). But at $2 a pen, their economics are approaching the ballpoint pens - easier to buy a new one than refill at times.

[1]https://www.tokyopenshop.com/fountain-pens-c-51/petit-1-foun...
I'm not sure - as a common stockholder, I'd be very worried about the liquidation prefs on a lot of these high flying companies. If we see their valuations come back to earth even a relatively modest amount, common shares become worthless. Also, unlike a BigCo, it can be very hard to get any liquidity unless they're friendly to secondaries.
Good work with finding all these interviews!
Note that the capabilities introduced by telephone-based technology also presented issues that were seldom entertained by the minds of people. This was also true for the car and horse VS the mere walking traveler.

Telephones/Telegrams allow for quick communication at the cost of guaranteed integrity of the information (in the case of an eavesdropper altering data in transit), at the cost of privacy and at the cost of reliability. None of these issues have to be problems faced by the users but all have the capacity to be introduced by the service providers at leisure or as a byproduct of their foresight.

Telephones, telegrams, cars, horses, houses, boats, schools and governments have all brought with them new forms of dependence -- and people have thus far been able to perform cost-benefit analysis of and bring innovation to these technologies. However, it seems that today more and more people are incapable of coming to true results when performing an analysis on the integrity of today's technologies and service providers, perhaps out of naivety -- and this is likely the product of not understanding the technology well enough to move on, to develop an alternative platform, or to properly govern one's activity on the platform to mitigate perceived risks.
Why its hard to know if we're living in a computer simulation or not?
Worked for me on Delta.
> Compare health outcomes of countries with socialized medicine to those without, for example.

Socialized medicine is likely better than the current state of US healthcare, but US healthcare is by no means a free market. In fact, it's probably the most regulated and otherwise distorted by government policy. It all started with the introduction of medicare and the wage caps of the WWII era leading to employer-linked insurance. Before that, it was much more affordable.

> How many regulations exist because private companies couldn't be trusted to do the right thing on their own? The Civil Rights act.

The civil rights act was created as a response to other state distortions, like Jim Crow laws and segregation. It isn't necessary to prevent discrimination: incentives against that already exist in the marketplace.

Give me an example of a regulation, and I'll tell you why it is either unnecessary or actively harmful.

> the point that "freer" economic structures have also led to serious power imbalances between employers and employees

To the contrary, freer economies led to the reduction of child labor and improvements to worker's lives before any policy actions were implemented.

> many of the rights employees have today in the US are only due to regulation imposed by governments

If by rights, you mean privileges.
For a great many products that technical teams make, women are on the order of half of their users.

I can not comprehend why you would not want them helping to build that thing.
There will be no trial: “In June 2018, it was announced that Winner would change her plea to guilty. In late June, she pleaded guilty to one count of felony transmission of national defense information. Winner's plea agreement with prosecutors calls for her to serve five years and three months behind bars plus three years of supervised release. She is yet to be sentenced.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
Facebook and Google want China, but China doesn’t want them
It is often said that it is a very bad idea to go into business with friends and family. Your situation is a good example. If you had hired a programmer and he did work like your brother does, then you would probably fire him after a couple of warnings. But you can't fire your brother -- well you can fire him as a programmer and keep him as a brother. Other people have done that and once they get over the short-term upset, things tend to work out for the better.

If you want to go down that path, it might be advisable to have a trusted and respected family member to mediate. If there is no such person then somebody independent would be a good idea. But do not try a friend for that role, it would only cause rifts.
Does this apply to citizens of other countries with Global Entry too? https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
Globster
>It's a system that provides for the few instead of the many, unlike Germany that provides for the many instead of the few

That's a silly argument. US citizens make more on average than German citizens. Both systems provide for the many (with the US arguably providing moreso for that middle of the curve).

The problem is the unfortunate people on the left side of the curve who get hit with medical bankruptcy, a loss of industry, etc. Those people get screwed in the US where there is a better safety net in Germany.