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SpikeGadgets | C++ Software Engineer | San Francisco | REMOTE | Full-time

SpikeGadgets is trying something new. Our hybrid approach is to design and sell powerful hardware that interfaces with an open-source software platform supported by a large community of scientists and developers. Our goal is to support the efforts of the open-source community in a commercially sustainable way.

We strive to make hardware and software with ease of use in mind, but with minimal compromises in performance or flexibility. We are looking for a Qt/C++ Software Engineer at the earliest possible date. The position is full-time remote.

Requirements:

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- experience in C/C++ and CMake

- experience developing Qt-based software

- comfortable working with git

- bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related engineering field

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You should answer the following questions in your email(or cover letter):

- Have you ever contributed to any open source project? If so, what's your GitHub/GitLab/etc profile?

- What do we need to know about you?

- What qualifications do you have?

- What kind of salary do you expect?

If you are interested, please, send your CV and cover letter ASAP to magnus.w.karlsson@hotmail.com
Asimov's "The Last Question".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...

Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who...

google the title and find a PDF on https://philosophy.as.uky.edu

And I'd better stop before I remember another.
Okay, fair points. 2007 and 2008 respectively. I'm not sure that changes much.
> One of his friends adds that email address to his contact.

And what a user creates a fake account without adding his real or current/old friends to it?
Clever way of avoiding the question.
I would say the opposite: Porn killed the internet I loved.
> People really need to get off of the "income analysis" trope with Amazon.

What does this have to do with the article? Percentage margins aren't mentioned anywhere. It mostly talks about absolute dollar operating income which, unlike GAAP income, isn't too different from free cash flow. For example: "Operating income for AWS was $7.29 billion in 2018, up from $4.31 billion in 2017. [...] And AWS is the lion's share of Amazon's operating income: Nearly 58% in the fourth quarter of 2018, and nearly 59% for the full year." So AWS is certainly a major driver for Amazon's free cash flow.
Dynamic Kernel Debugging with Ftrace and Kprobes
I feel like you’ve fundamentally misunderstood how insurance works here. Yes, on average, across the entire risk pool, claims paid out average below premiums paid in.

As an individual though you only really need to make one non-tribal claim on a home insurance policy to end up making a profit on the deal. The pathological example is a fire gutting your entire home, destroying everything - in that case you’re going to see $25k paid out to you, on average in the UK home insurance costs about £130, which would be about $170. You’d have to pay into that policy for almost 150 years to end up making a loss on that deal.

Even a fairly minor issue like a burglary requiring the replacement of $5,000 worth of possessions you only end up making a profit by self insuring after 30 years.

The other misunderstanding you seem to have is a pretty common one: “I lock my doors consistently”. Burglary is the thing insurers pay out least frequently on. Everyone locks their door and takes basic precautions to avoid it, even if someone does break in you’re not going to lose much in most cases. The big risks are fire, which is infrequent, but expensive, and flood. Flood is much more frequent than most people realise, and can easily result in paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace contents, rip out all your floor boards and replace them, redecorate the house, and if you’re in an upper level flat potentially to do the same for everyone below you. Flooding is what keeps insurance pricers awake at night, wondering if they’ve accidentally under priced an unknown flood plain.
Over-index in your first few months
I'm sorry your import fees are so high.

But those import fees are not going into the production of the board. It's a very cheap board to manufacture and the recommended retail price was (and continues to be) one of the core principles behind the products design.
If you leave kids alone they also “play doctor”. What’s natural is a poor indicator for what’s a good idea (that said, it’s generally agreed that kids playing doctor is generally a healthy activity — the same is decidedly not true for hitting each other, or other forms of violence).
On that subject (following a recommandation on HN) I started reading the Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo [0]. It is an account from a conquistator that was a member of the expedition that discovered the Aztec written in a surprisingly modern style and full of nuggets.

[0]: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32474
I bet you heard of Arduino?
Because insurance companies are generally in the business of insuring unsystemic risk.

The entire model breaks down in cases of systemic risk, unless that has been accounted for and dealt with. Which is why it's a major element of insurance policies.
It boggles my mind that an exchange's entire value could be dependent on the life of its CEO. How could he not have made arrangements to have the cold wallet keys accessible by a trusted partner in the event of his death? This seems criminally negligent.
+1 - the Zero is about five quid, about as much as two bottles of beer at a supermarket. It's the cheapest machine on the market capable of running FreeBSD.
This article is really spot on. It feels like we're in a big speculative mess in Bay Area. The home-price-to-income ratio in SJ is about 20x [1] Anything over 3x used to be considered "risky". Let's say in Costal Areas it was be allowed to double, then you have 6x. That's good, not great, but ok. And that's about what pricy DC and NY cost. SJ is 20x. How is this possibly sustainable? Not even going to get into the dual income trap that only makes it marginally more realistic.

How is this good for average folks, like the ones that keep society running? How will this work in the long run? There will basically be two classes of people, the rich and the ultra poor who barely survive. I suspect poor don't have the money or the knowledge about elsewhere or they would be moving out in droves.

[1] - https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/where-the-house-price...
* I should note peak home prices in the last 12 mo were in mid july and houses have fallen by about 5%, so this ratio might actually be lower.
I don't know anything about planning that document says 'up to' 15 feet (which is about 4.5 m), not 'approx', and it also says 'based upon average of adjacent buildings', so if the rest are already against the sidewalk then new builds can be as well.
time to get real and buy esp32
Your assumptions are massively overestimating the probability of loss. If insurance premium is only $139, then the probability of loss must be correspondingly low such that the insurance company can make a profit (on aggregate) before having to pay out $35k.
probably talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Time_Capsule, which works with time machine (the software)
Manhattan DA busts hacker in 'SIM swapping' scam that hit 50 mobile phone users
I liked pretty much anything in the early days because it felt something like a small exclusive club, and a global discussion network like Usenet was just so unique. That experience of helping someone across the globe while sitting at home was just really cool.

The sweet spot technically for me was probably later Solaris with things like zones and dtrace that nobody else had. The popularity of Solaris also made it much easier to find help from other people, Makefiles that just worked, SSL accelerator boards, etc. Ask anyone that worked with zones, for example, and we find all the buzz about docker and linux containers quite funny.

I probably hated AIX the most. It was tantalizingly close to other Unix implementations, but with enough differences that things would sort-of work, but not really. To be fair, there was a "right" way to do things that worked, but I was naturally trying to use knowledge I already had. It was also the platform most likely to bomb out when trying to compile open source software. Lots of tweaking makefiles, environment variables, compiler flags, etc, to get things to work. They had a sysadmin tool called "smitty" that I particularly hated.
So what? There had been hundreds or thousands of faces in the recommendations you didn't recognize.
Snapdocs (YC W14) Is Hiring DevOps Engineers – We Power Homeownership
There was talk of this, but it went away. The last suggestion I’ve read about were some kind of ‘containers’ which emulate HP-UX

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3196353/data-center/hpe-offe...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/08/hp_ux_on_x86_projec...
Breaking the chain with Photoshop is a good idea if you are a web developer rather than an artist. Most of what you need to do with images is best done on the command line or even within your IDE. Creative endeavours are also best done with HTML + CSS instead of the desktop publishing way.

I could not imagine life without Photoshop but nowadays I much prefer process rather than Photoshop wizardry. Everyone mocks Gimp and Inkscape for not being professional, same with Open Office Calc. I think that in web developer world it is the other way around, these open source tools are far better if you are fundamentally dealing with data that you are going to be coding with. They also obfuscate, for instance with SVG graphics it is much better to do them with the open source tools for HTML elements such as logos and icons. You don't get to actually understand the principles with the Adobe product so that 'magnifying glass' icon is some path made of hundreds of points listed to nine decimal places instead of two lines - one for the circle and one for the handle.

Ubuntu is also a good idea, your webserver is running native and there doesn't have to be some waste of time building a 'vagrant box' or whatever. All the instructions work too, so if you want to get things done with some linux application you just install it as per online instructions rather than find a paid for tool/software as a service workaround.

There is a lot of FUD regarding what works for Ubuntu and who would spend $$$ not knowing if they have wifi? In reality it is fine on linux whatever box you get.

The consumer Lenovo devices are a better bet than the Thinkpads, you can do well with built in Intel graphics if you are a mere web developer and the screens on the Yoga things are gorgeous. If the keyboard suits you and has backlights then you should be fine. As for the Dell, go for the refurbished and save yourself the $$$. You won't regret the saving particularly if you can get th 4K display for the price of a non-touch lame-display.

Don't even bother with dual boot as Windows is a waste of space on a dual boot Ubuntu machine as you will never use it.
Joe Rogan – Jack Dorsey
They shouldn't have killed an excellent processor (the Alpha) which already had tons of software and history and was already being used in the fastest supercomputers in the world for a product that was never (and still isn't) proven. The Itanic was never best in its class at anything.
You had facebook app in your phone -- what is it you're surprised about?
Of course he was manufacturing them. He explicitly talks about the art of having an adventure in the book.
>isn't it possible that if sex was more commonplace and less censored it would be less arousing?

Evidence of this is the female nipple.
I think nothing new, but much improved.

5G has a few legs. One is a gradual improvement on 4G telephone service. Another is millimeter-wave, which is mainly a competitor for cable.

Another leg is support for greatly reduced latency, not
just from the "air interface" but from the network
interconnecting towers and other infrastructure in the cellular network to the internet.

Once they get it down to less than the latency (maybe 30 ms or so) that it takes to reach major "cloud" datacenters, there is the issue that you can only get the value if your services are running on a server that is physically close to the cellular network.

Discerning gamers might notice a difference, but will they pay AT&T and American Tower prices in a world where people think AWS is expensive?

Factory automation people have been frustrated for years with their wireless options. They are as averse to running more cables as householders are, but they have much tougher requirements in all respects. Something based on 5G could
be better than what they have now.

As for IoT the 3GPP (organization behind 5G) has some standards for low-performance access with cut-down LTE radios which have are great in terms of compatibility with existing networks. They will continue that.

Personally though I am more interested in long-range IoT protocols that are more related to ZigBee and ZWave than conventional wireless.
i'm an arch linux user and i was happy to learn that i can use the system (package manager, lightweight install process, and other arch specific tools) yet limit myself to FLOSS software.

so for arch users, it provides an opportunity to use the OS we love, but limited to FLOSS packages.

in fact, the way to convert an arch linux installation is just to switch the mirrors (and obviously de-proprietary your existing system, but that i don't think can be done automatically)

edit: yes i'm aware that some pacman licensing flags or some such could be done here as well to achieve much of the same effect, but you can imagine situations where you want to ensure those options aren't even possible.
Indeed. Several years ago over lunch two coworkers were debating whether Leica or Nikon made better lenses. So I said: “Take a look at the photos of your last vacation. Then look at any random issue of National Geographic. Ask yourself: Am I really being limited by the glass?”

Blessedly the topic of conversation changed.
Toronto has long been the premier Canadian University. I have no UT affiliation, but am a Canadian. It is not isolated in academic CS circles. It is not left field. It's the most prestigious university in Canada.

Consistently #1 in CS based on mainstream publications, for example, with a smaller faculty body than Waterloo:

http://csrankings.org/#/index?all&canada
I sure hope we’re not trying to spend China into bankruptcy the way we supposedly did with the USSR. China’s economy may not be as amazing as the official figures show, but it’s in vastly better shape than the 1970s USSR. Considering how US defense contracting loves to overspend to an absurd degree, I think we’d lose that fight badly.
> the argument for comparative advantage has nothing to do with the redistribution of income

But it has.

Comparative advantage shows you that the country as a whole can afford more with free trade than before.

But one of the theoretical consequences of the Heckscher-Ohlin trade model [1] is factor price equalisation, ie in once country wages might fall while returns to capital increase. Inevitably, there are winners and losers.

Now, since economics rightfully shies away from inter-personal utility comparison, that does not tell you whether the country as a whole is better off; unless you invoke redistribution, such that everyone has at least as much as before (now you can say that everyone is (weakly) better off, and some strongly, and thus the country).

This is well understood (see eg [2] for some more on this issue, quoting James Kwak, & I'm pretty sure Krugman has articulated the same). (This, btw, is not an argument from authority, but an answer to "I don't know where you got the idea")

> Of course there are economic winners and losers, but by attempting to fully protect everyone, everyone becomes a loser

How about comparing to northern Europe, and not some dystopia nobody is arguing for anymore?

My point was that the case for free trade is good and valid, and it rests on (and should go along with) redistribution/compensation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckscher–Ohlin_model

[2] http://www.samefacts.com/2015/05/everything-else/free-trade-...
> It would be much better if there were some kind of equally popular open source platform that focused on actual microcontrollers, with the associated focus on efficiency and performance.

arduino is certainly a popular open source platform that uses a microcontroller, but it is increasingly distant from the practice of actual embedded work.

in the unlikely event anyone is interested, i see embedded projects developed every day. STM32 parts with STM32CubeMX-generated projects using the HAL is quick, largely painless, and ships real projects on a regular basis. get a nucleo board. they're subsidized by ST so they're both more powerful than any arduino, and also cheaper.
The problem with this attitude is that withholding that information could be seen as a sign that you’re a problematic employee. Even if the company really doesn’t care, an applicant has no way of knowing that. So by not answering the questions you could be eliminating yourself from the job right away.

It’s easy to be pithy and say “well that’s not a place you want to work anyway”, but that’s counter to the reality that many places don’t have a lot of employment options, and people simply need every chance they can get to find a job on merits as opposed to artificial elimination criteria that some incompetent low level HR person came up with.
A touch interface can make editing much easier than doing it with mouse and keyboard (proper hardware excluded).
"The groups of atoms in crystals repeat at regular intervals, just like the five known patterns."

What is "five known patterns" a reference to? I found [1] but I don't see five of anything here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure
I still don’t know any good reasonably priced routers which supports Openwrt.
Which is pretty disappointing considering the original plan of a $5 computer. I think they lost sight of their original goals pretty early on.
I find the bay area TINY compared to the NYC sprawl.
The “excessively concerned with sexual propriety” part of the definition applies to what you’ve written. You’ve got some very clear and quite restrictive ideas about how sex is to be enjoyed, and you view other ways as harmful. And, to reiterate, that’s totally fine. But most people with differing opinions about sex will recognise yours as prudish.
Upgraded all my devices at home, worked flawlessly.

Any news about 19.01?
Tribal hatred for "out groups" is a human problem
Zurich can pay out a hundred million dollars and shrug it off. Yes, it’ll hurt for a bit, but this is nowhere near the sort of thing it would take to bankrupt them.
Absolutely fascinating analysis. Makes the hardware engineers at Apple look like rookies.
I assume the title is meant to be "Cargo's next few years"?
So on Windows it feels like a Windows app and on Mac it feels like a macOS app? All of the widgets work the same as native controls with accessibility devices like screen readers?
Just wait until they have gaze tracking... they'll have real time interest/boredom (image order, time spent, ignored) detection along with an almost unmaskable biometric probability match (sequential novelty boredom detection on e.g cat pictures).

You don't have to click for them to know you like dark long haired angora goats... in compromising positions.

Hmmm are you jealous of that perfectly cabled rack next to him? Maybe we could interest you in... or we could just let your your mom know, if you don't pay for protection... she's not always so understanding these days.
So you mean when it means something entirely different?

If it were "force others to give money to orphans" or "steal money that's set aside for orphans" then you'd perhaps have a point.

Unless, you're trying to say it's impossible to have someone hold a [superstitious] belief that doesn't impact others negatively?
You can buy cheapo routers on Ali Express that have OpenWrt pre-installed...
You can insure just the more expensive parts of a collision, such as liability for others' property and medical care.
did they say american hegemony began post-9/11 or that google's biases are deliberate? those claims would certainly be ridiculous.

i think you may have a point but i'm not clear on it. you're saying that there are other factors besides US cultural hegemony which would've contributed to the shift in sweden's media norms?
Great work, many thanks to WD. As far as I see only a subset of the SystemVerilog features is used. Is there a "coding standard" somewhere available specifying this subset with a rationale? Is it mostly to be compatible with Verilator? Is there information available why they used Verilator and how it has proven itself?
Highly recommend the book Doomsday Machine by Ellsberg for those interested in this kind of thing.
Hey. Also Dutch. Most of the things being asked are pretty normal to me (but it's more than I would expect a company to ask for...). I only find the IBAN weird to ask. Did you ask the company why they want your IBAN already? If it's a valid company, I'm pretty sure they're able to answer you.
I did, too, and never heard it. Maybe you're confusing the idea that you shouldn't have sex not for procreation (ie the stance against birth control) with the idea that sex is only for procreation? IOW the Catholic teaching is that procreation is a necessary but not sufficient reason for sex.
Wilderness Labs are working on the Meadow, which is a microcontroller that can run some .Net Code. This sounds closer to what you're looking for - https://www.wildernesslabs.co/meadow

They've got a record for delivering as they've also made the Netduino a .Net version of the Arduino - https://www.wildernesslabs.co/netduino
It is good enough for my needs even if its stale. I just want the top 100k sites and dont care about trends, and precise rank. I can see how someone else would want to pay for it though.
still running DD-WRT on an ancient Linksys WRT54GL
I've heard that a man and women are having sex, facebook already pre-creates a profile for their future child.
In Chile the insurance companies have fine print saying they won't cover injuries resulting from paramilitary activities (reasonably sensible, OK) or anything nuclear, right down to a nuclear bomb.
Enhancing the Linux kernel with BTF type information
It’s also possible that there is such a pent-up demand for housing in San Francisco that no amount of building could realistically do enough to make things truly affordable.
You also rarely need to replace TVs, massage chairs, and solid oak tables.

The other aspect is the need to replace. You can live without a TV while you build up savings, you can live without a solid oak table, but you can't live without a vehicle to get to work, or a home to live in.
Is it? The privacy effects of a person are fairly localised, while the effects of having a spying, data collection machine are potentially unbounded.
I would like to add that Italians tend to borrow English words a lot. (In the 19th century it was the same, but with French; ancient Romans were similarly fascinated by Greek).

There may be multiple reasons for that. In IT, English terms (kernel, firmware, bootloader, driver, etc.) are usually preferred because translations might be more ambiguous. In other cases, English just sounds more exotic/sophisticated to the average listener.
I thought the original poster was asking if it was legal for the company to ask this - 'some countries have laws regulating some issues like what a company can ask for a job applicant' - yes they can there's only a few protected categories they can't ask you.

One of them was 'physical address'. I can't think what law someone would think would mean it was illegal to ask this.

It's not an attitude it was an answer to the question.