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Blickfeld | Senior Embedded Software Engineer | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time

Founded in 2017 and based in Munich, Germany, Blickfeld is a provider of cutting-edge LiDAR technology for autonomous mobility and IoT applications. We give autonomous systems the eyes to see the world by developing revolutionary scanning LiDAR systems and detection software for environment perception. Our proprietary solution enables countless scenarios like autonomous transportation, mapping, robotics, and smart cities.

We are looking for a senior embedded software engineer to help us develop the firmware for our LiDAR device.

Our embedded software tech stack includes: C, C++14, FPGA/VHDL, Python, Node.js.

You are familiar with Linux, not afraid to patch u-boot and know C++14 by heart? We would love to hear from you!

Apply here: https://www.blickfeld.com/job/sen-embedded-software-engineer...

Or get in touch via email: career-at-blickfeld.com
56 here and still pounding away. Number one piece of advice: stay technical, contribute well, be part of the team, and enjoying coding!
I'm in Canada, so I emailed creelightingcanada@cree.com. Looking at this page, it appears the US one is info@cree.com: https://lighting.cree.com/resources/warranties
I think this is just a subtle semantic issue. In my previous post, and what I think the original article is talking about is the act of romanticizing something that is not romantic (or not entirely so). Parts of it may be so, but automatically extending that to a larger context is fallacious and potentially dangerous.

The moon landing example you made is a good one. It is a grand achievement, and is rightfully a romantic vision of what humanity can accomplish. But over-extending that romantic view to the entire area in history that it occurred in would mean ignoring the cold war and the ever-present threat of nuclear war.

I'm not saying, and I don't think the articles authors was intending to say, that you shouldn't have emotional and romantic responses to things, but rather that we need to not let those responses (and perhaps our desire to focus on the positive/romantic) blind us to the wider contexts that may not be so romantic.
Gmail also inappropriately spam-filters Stripe emails. I have received thousands of these messages and have a rule set up to file them away (skip inbox, apply a label). I don't want them in my inbox, but I like to know how many are coming in each day because it gives me a sense of payment flow for our most popular product.

You would think that gmail would be smart enough to realize that if I've received thousands of emails from an address and NEVER marked as spam/deleted, it probably isn't spam. Also, if I have a rule set up to file these messages (and keep unread), that should also throw a flag that it's not spam. But I've had to go in and create another special rule to never have this mail marked as spam.

I then had to broaden that rule because the Stripe customer service emails started getting marked as spam...
> More than just minorities, the wasted talent problem extends even to the elite. Ivy League students aspire to work in investment banking and management consulting. The finance industry is one of the biggest modern-day brain drains.

The elite is supposed to be a net drain on society. Or else they would not be “elite”.
Not all of the high-skilled workers are highly paid.
If we use this logic then there will never be an alternative. We need to create a vacuum and that might negatively affect the shoppers in the interim.

Edit: It looks like Instacart is making some kind of amends and changing policy.
I've just worked hard and tried to find opportunities to keep my skills current.

So far, I haven't noticed any problems. Less than a decade to go!
The monetary supply schedule is deterministic, for one.
couple years ago I spoke with the gentleman behind these: https://www.countryliving.com/home-design/a37788/granny-pods...

and I think I remember correctly that they were designed to be ADA compliant and such.
Very few, the "welfare queen" idea is largely unsupported by actual evidence, despite chain emails claiming to document someone buying [luxury food] on food stamps.
I have conflicted feelings about payday loans. When I was young and broke with no credit, I've used payday loans in emergency situations (medical bills, car failure etc). I knew full well I was being gouged but my only other options were illegal loan sharks or catastrophic failure (eg loss of job because no vehicle). I was happy to take the loan even at usurious rates.

OTOH in the payday office there were obvious addicts on benefits who were being skimmed every month and could never get ahead of their debt.

Does the need to protect vulnerable people who make bad choices outweigh my need for a high-risk emergency loan? It's not a straightforward ethical situation.
In some sense, that isn’t age discrimination by the employer, but you no longer being willing to be exploited.

It would be age discrimination if employers wouldn’t even invite you for an interview, thinking “(s)he’s 50, so (s)he must be wise enough not to fall for the crap story we tell the gullible”.

As long as there are employers where work-life balance is a better match with what you want out of life, I wouldn’t worry about it. And I think there are, certainly in Europe.
I've got an "OpenDoc Kamp Kodabunch" sweatshirt.
This seems a bit tongue in cheek, but there is some truth to it. You have to at least be able to seem like someone the 20-somethings can hang out with without feeling awkward. This is less about appearance than attitude. If you are enthusiastic and keep up with the youth culture a bit, you can probably fit in ok.

I'm 49 and have gray hair, and have since I was in my mid 30's, but I've not had any trouble getting work when I had to (or wanted to) change jobs. That said, I dress fairly youthfully (in typical Silicon Valley jeans/untucked shirt) and am told I don't look my age.
Hey guys, OP here. Still in beta but looking for feedback and if anyone wants to kick the tires, let me know - ryan@deltatrail.io.
Apple Removes Useless 'Do Not Track' Feature from Latest Beta Versions of Safari
I think a component of the "problem" (if one considers this to be a problem) is the low level of financial literacy of a large part of the adult population. An ecosystem of a variety of lending products is wonderful for a population of educated consumers that make smart financial decisions.

It is painful for me to watch individuals who consistently make poor financial decisions spiral into providing the payday loan industry with a large amount of revenue. But is it really more painful than watching compulsive gamblers lose their pensions on card games or video poker or speculation on regulated index futures?
How many are paying for unnecessary electric bills? Or cars? Or water when they could be digging wells like our forefathers did. Poor people should maintain a 16th century lifestyle.

/sarcasm /sorry
USD inflated 2.44% last year. Satoshi can dump his alleged 5% of the total supply once, and then he can't do it again. The fed can keep inflating at whatever rate they want year after year. That's the difference, and it's huge. The fed's power approaches infinity, but Satoshi's does not. Gold doesn't become inflationary just because the pope owns a lot of it.
Don't be afraid to learn new things. I started my IT career almost 20 years ago doing Struts and later Spring MVC. I felt a bit stuck in the enterprise java realm, but I branched out to Pylons and then Spring Boot. Now I'm doing Laravel/Vue.js and I have to say it's a breeze having worked with MVC frameworks for all these years. If you have a hot skill, which reactive/SPA apps seems to be these days, you'll always be in demand.
It seems to me like the CEO should be fired. Not even from a moral perspective but just from a PR perspective.
> probably the next logical step but maybe could be highlighted better

It's definitely not a "next logical step". A next logical step is "create, test, and deploy a clojure program". For some reason these important topics are given a total of maybe 5 paragraphs inside a section on CLI tools?

> I think a lot of that is there but I'll take your point that they aren't guided well enough

"A lot is there" is a total of two paragraphs on writing a program outside of REPL, a total of two paragraphs not even on testing but on how to include a test directory. And that's it.

As a beginner I wouldn't even know where to look for this (Google is often not enough).

Clojurescript is slightly better in this regard. At least after the quick start guide I have some understanding on what goes there.

I may open an issue if I don't forget tomorrow :D
You would have to have people's rent, mortgages, car loans, etc do the same or else people will not have enough money to pay them. The rent due at the beginning of the month right when people get a pay check is a very good idea to prevent defaults.
In my experience, the opposite of the aforementioned 50-something hoodie wearer would be someone with a Oxford shirt and jacket, ie well-dressed, but not hip. And they might dress up similarly in their free time, when they're not with their co-workers. So the "Han Shot First" tee might be as much an unwanted disguise as the "business casual" dress code the startup bros avoid.

I'm not saying that one shouldn't adapt a bit, but dyed hair and "How do you do, fellow kids" clothes overshoot the goal by a good bit.
I wonder if they use it to indicate the quality of the customer.
That was the point :)

But it does contain some water, and detergent. So straight methanol works better.

Just don't drink it. And it's very biodegradable.
TL;DR: The tax withholding calculations changed, so less people are overpaying on taxes (withholding from each paycheck is lower), and thus less people are getting refunds, or are getting much lower refunds than last year. The overall tax burden still went down for most people.
I'm 60, and going strong. Most important is bring not only depth and breadth of knowledge but also wisdom to the work. As a graybeard, you're expected to add value because of your years. For example, when my office was going nuts about Kubernetes, devops, etc., it got me a raise to compare this new tech to the original Unix philosophy and point out some lessons learned in Unix design that would help with our containers. Everybody reinvents everything, every 5 or 10 years; use your history to add value, and you have a unique selling point that can't be duplicated.
If we amended the Constitution of the United States to state that only corporations count as people then our politicians would no longer be lying when they say they support the people. We would finally be living in a country in which the peoples' will is done and be a country in which the peoples' voice was regularly heard.
And rest assured! The responsible parties (i.e. the ones complaining loudly) will be sacked... just as soon as we get out of this spotlight.
Learnings from the Redpoint Free Trial Survey
Almaty spills its secrets: lost Soviet art discovered behind wall
Could you share some examples of the things you learned but then became irrelevant? I wonder if we could find some pattern to help people avoid learning modern stuff that will have the same fate.
Any bulb with switch mode hardware to control the LED drive current will exhibit RF emissions.

The cheaper bulb in the original article has linear current control. Inside the ASIC, this could be as simple as a BJT or FET in saturation with a (somewhat) controlled base/gate voltage, maybe with some temperature compensation.

The linearly regulated bulb will have less RF emissions, though you could theoretically still have a bit of rf trash from edge effects depending on the rectifier and filter cap.

Any bulb that has passed FCC Class B will have an upper bound on conducted and radiated emissions, but you can pass such tests on a wide range of margins, and therefore certification isn't useful to clarify which bulbs have the lowest emissions.
Some day, after every language has taken its bits, we might actually see Eiffel in the real world.

Meanwhile, any of this available for Elixir, too? One of the languages on my 2019 list…
Sounds like G Suite really just isn't suitable for a larger enterprise.. I'm enjoying it, but my company is just myself and 3 others
Started my own company with a bunch of other geezers.

Helped that all of us had previously started companies and three of us had good exits. But then again we'd each had 30+ years to get that experience.
AMD Market Share Gains Accelerate in Desktop PCs, Servers and Notebooks
No. I have family who have/had payday loans. From my personal experience they're taken up because an emergency happens, not because the money ran out 2 days before payday. A daily payday drip might make sense for some consumers, but what's really needed are accounts that start to build up an automatic emergency fund, and perhaps also look at past banking history to quickly give an emergency loan that is automatically repaid when the next direct deposit hits.
Forgive me for lol'ing, but the LAST thing i'd want to see is payroll done like most software places do version control.

I've tried to teach teams of analysts version
control, the xkcd panel is a documentary, not a joke.

https://xkcd.com/1597/

Also, its 'totally possible' only in the sense that it really isn't: i.e. if like many tech people you ignore actual social, infrastructure, law and cultural issues and start blaming the users for why they don't use your brilliant tech product/live their lives like they're supposed to, or talk glibly about things you don't understand.
Why can they not afford to live? Payday loans may be a factor in some instances. Better to have a small piece of policy that does some good than no policy at all. Keep in mind Obama was limited by the GOP congress from 2011-2017, he couldn't have necessarily gotten larger steps through legislation. It's commonplace for modern presidents to try to fulfill their agenda via executive branches, as the other branches are often independent or adversarial.
Estonia's e-residency website lists several companies who can provide a legal, physical address in Estonia. Wouldn't that work for EU domain registration?
What do you think "fake news" means, and how would this statement qualify?

"[...]the official, who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity, said that if the rule had kicked in, some two-thirds of borrowers wouldn't qualify for a payday loan."

Unless you want to insinuate that NPR completely fabricated this story to drive engagement, you should probably just say "incorrect" or something like that.
> Most borrowers use payday loans to cover ordinary living expenses over the course of months ... 69 percent used it to cover a recurring expense, such as utilities, credit card bills, rent or mortgage payments, or food;

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2...

Pay day loans are primarily used as a way to prolong an unsustainable lifestyle. That is not banking. That is selling people a fantasy and helping them dig themselves deeper into a hole of debt.
Interesting. I'll have to read up on HyperLedger.
Personal attacks are for those who know they've lost the argument.

Keeping stuff up to date is exactly the kind of "simple thing" that no amount of sophistry will replace; in practice it has a better cost/benefit ratio than any amount of "thinking holistically". Those who only their things up to date and do nothing else may be foolish, but those who don't keep their things up to date are even more foolish.
So regarding the idea of charging high rates to compensate for the extra risk

Looking at the St Louis Fed (I assume a good source of data)
[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/32440] credit card defaults average around 5% and mortgage defaults at 2.5% (handwaving 2008 recession)

So ... even with my bad maths ... if I am going to get 95% of all my loans back, I need to charge the 95% and extra 5.25% to break even

To avoid the unbanked problem, that's moving average 25% credit card rate to 27.5%.

It does not seem to me that 'the unbanked are too risky" is really an issue.
That brings back memories...
Labor doesn't necessarily generate income. Factory workers are an up-front cost converting one set of resources into another. No income is realized until that second set of resources (i.e. products) are actually sold.

Also, realize that the government does promote both labor and investments, just through different means. Lowering taxes isn't going to affect how a fully employed individual produces labor; they are trading their time for money. Lowering taxes on investment will promote more investments, since the money for those investments have already been taxed, and since the trade of investments is money-now for money-later, taxes have a much more significant influence over the extent to which someone will invest in a business. Someone fully invested in other things (non-stock commodities, etc) might move some of their investments into businesses instead.
I agree with you when it comes to "no one is just entitled to the fruits of someone else's labor". Certainly there is no inherent right to health care, food, housing, or anything else produced and paid for at others' expense. However, you're really confusing the issue by throwing in "on the backs of second and third worlders". It is not their labor which is being taken in order to provide these "entitled" residents of first-world countries their free stuff. They are getting paid for their labor, at rates better than what they could otherwise obtain, and would be strictly worse off if the first-world countries insisted on buying only from those with first-world standards of living. That would eliminate their comparative advantage, and take away what is currently their best option to earn a living and improve their situation. The workers in countries with second- and third-world standards of living are actually the main beneficiaries of this middle-class sense of entitlement; it transfers money from consumers and taxpayers in first-world countries directly into their wallets. If anyone is in a position to complain about having the fruits of their labor stolen away it's the net taxpayers in the first world, the ones actually paying for this "free" food, housing, and health care out of their own earnings.
I'll upvote THAT sentiment!
Phoew that's cool! I have to say Opendoc always smelled wrong to me, so I stayed clear -- But I did implement the 'whose' descriptors in Applescript once, and I still have the scars to prove it :-)

I wrote a lot of "Apple Telecom 3.0" that ran on most "powerbooks" back in 1995+ or so, you know, modems, faxes, voice mails and all these very high tech stuff :-)
Cell phones are a necessity and cable provides enormous entertainment value for the money.
Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls
>1/10th the performance and 1/50th the experience

>(numbers mine)

Yeah right, they better be.

For a car analogy, you're saying that a supersized SUV getting 25MPG is "amazing mileage".

It's not.
The very fact that parent comment is getting downvoted shows what a bubble this (the HN) community is. If you think the average US working-class person is able to save, let alone have investments, I'd love to see some data to back that up.
This matches my experience too (47, been programming since childhood).

I think you'll see some survivorship bias in this thread — we may end up answering a different question:

"How can you tell who is likely to still be programming 20 years after they start their career?"
Literature? This is a blog post. It’s not like I’m losing a critical piece of the Superbowl advertising zeitgeist by ignoring the identity of the authors. The Superbowl is not a figurative tool to be used as the backdrop for religion in modern advertising. If this was reposted anonymously and still stood on its own, would we have to do this song and dance?

The content of this article stands on its own or it doesn’t. Ignoring it because it was written by someone with different values from your own is puerile. That was my original point.
BondLink | Junior/Senior Software Engineer | Boston, MA, US | ONSITE | Full Time

We are a small team of Scala engineers who care about rigor and proving our code correct. We use advanced functional tools and techniques to ship reliable, rot-proof software. Presently that includes things like scalaz, generic type-level programming, free monad based programs, and monadic logging among others, and we eagerly embrace new approaches that help us to do our jobs better. If these things are familiar you will feel right at home, if they are interesting to you and you want to learn, you will find a safe and supportive environment to grow on the job (many of us have learned most of these things here at work.)

About the company:

BondLink provides a SaaS platform to bond issuers in the $4 trillion municipal bond industry. We have recently raised a large Series A, we have strong revenue growth, and we are already working with many of the largest issuers in the country.

The company was founded by a former Massachusetts Assistant State Treasurer who raised nearly 25 billion in funding for the state and set the gold standard in the industry for transparency and investor outreach, partnered with a multiple-time startup founder with several successful exits under his belt.

We have deep expertise and credibility in the industry we serve, great product-market fit, a strong footing with a ton of momentum, and a great handle on our software delivery.

If this sounds like something you'd want to be a part of, shoot an email to brian(at)bondlink(dot)com
There were 5-Million BTC in 2011, and there are now over 15-million BTC today. BTC has inflated 300% in the past 7ish years.

There will be 657,000 BTC added to the system in the next year, or roughly 4.5%. Which means BTC is "inflating" more than USD right now (with your definition of 'inflation', which isn't very good IMO). The next halfening won't happen until 2020 or so.
> They also have stains on their t-shirts, are overweight, and act morose all the time.

Describes more than one 20-something developer I know. Being a sloven does not correlate with age.
My understanding is that in a lot of cases its that some emergency spending event sets these people back and there is almost no way for them to recover from that.

In NYC Neighborhood Trust helped to develop this app in an effort to serve these people and help them avoid that type of circumstance.

http://finlab.cfsinnovation.com/challenges/2015/paygoal/
The Data Science of MathOverflow
being good
Amen.

Tools that let you work with version A and B of a db schema would be great.

Then you could update DB independently of code release. Its one of the things that I fear the most (and prevents me from loving RMDBs) is the thought of doing a big DB upgrade then having to roll back because of software not performing as expected.
Not to mention, he didn't even address the customer's who were defrauded when instacart told us that our "tips" were "100%" going to the shopper.

I'm glad he's making things right for the shoppers, they were hurt the most. But he didn't even apologize to us customers who thought we were tipping our shoppers well, and instead we were paying their base salary (instacart would just make up the difference if we didn't "tip" enough). WTF? That's not a tip!

After seeing his response, I'm glad I closed my account when this news broke and I won't be returning. They had one opportunity to nail this PR disaster and they forgot about their customers!
55 years here. Fight complexity and sell it. Avoid head counters like hell. Go fast and steep. There is a market...
Insurers typically don't insure for correlated risk (natural disasters, war etc) because no insurer actually has the reserves to pay it out.

Which is why water damage from a burst pipe will likely be insured but water damage from a flood is unlikely to be insured, even though from a homeowner's perspective they are effectively the same damage.