souprock

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by souprock 9y ago
We pay some people far more than 115K. Not everybody has the same level of skill.
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by souprock 9y ago
There are no red flags here. We proudly fly the American flag. One in our cafeteria looks to be about 8x15 feet. Our veterans hold an annual Flag Folding Ceremony in honor of Veteran's Day. Many employees choose to go shooting together
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by souprock 9y ago
We are hiring at multiple levels and in multiple locations, so it's a big range. You don't want an upper bound on it, do you? That would be limiting. :-) It's possible to beat typical Silicon Valley pay while living out in a
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by souprock 9y ago
Nope, we're a wholly-owned subsidiary (several hundred people) of a vaguely similar company. I could go into the details (better benefits for example) but it gets complicated. People make wrong assumptions about the work environment. W
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by souprock 9y ago
We've allowed remote work for well-established and valued employees who need to be remote for personal reasons. For example, we did that for an employee who moved to be close to his cancer-stricken father. We aren't at all likely
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by souprock 9y ago
It's an old personal email address, already well-exposed to spammers due to being in the man page for Linux's ps command.
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by souprock 9y ago
It matters a great deal, though you might imagine otherwise: my company makes bombs. I feel that I make a difference with my work. I can see the results in the news. Being unethical would include things like selling duds, billing the custom
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by souprock 9y ago
Southeast USA including: Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), South Carolina (Greenville), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), and possibly others, all ONSITE.
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by souprock 9y ago
I have a few thoughts on why you "don't see a ton of job postings" for security. First of all, would you notice one if you saw it? For example, my posting on the "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)" thread is thi
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by souprock 9y ago
They could cover: bash and typical shell tools, make with markup languages, octave, spreadsheet scripting, R, Julia, and possibly version control. That does a good job of supporting the fancier math and science classes, both there and in co
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by souprock 9y ago
Yes, you seem like more of a target. It looks like you've decided the risk is worthwhile. I hope your luck holds. I think I'd be completely terrified. I found big cities scary even when I was a strong/fast 20-year-old male.
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by souprock 9y ago
For the oddball crimes, that is true. Kids aren't actually getting swiped off the streets. For more normal crimes, the lifetime chance of being a crime victim is serious. For stranger-on-stranger violent crime, there is a total lifetim
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by souprock 9y ago
I'm sure it varies by family. Some people have fully flexible time. Some people have a part-time job or two, so they simply don't agree to work shifts during the times they need to drive the kids around. Some people don't wor
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by souprock 9y ago
Are you suggesting that a footpath is safe? My father got mugged at knifepoint on one. That is 100% not acceptable. It is a major reason why normal non-poor people encase themselves in cars. My father wasn't even blind. He was just sli
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by souprock 9y ago
Well, I'm an American. I might feel differently if I were Japanese. Here, children are driven to school by their parents. When school ends, the parents are there waiting in their cars. Kids mostly don't even play outside anymore.
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by souprock 9y ago
On public transit, wouldn't you be unusually vulnerable to crime? Why would you want a service that isn't safe for you?
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by souprock 9y ago
Having a fully automated solar cell fab locally would be wonderful. We'd reduce the need for big ships burning sulphur-rich heavy bunker fuel oil. We'd be more resistant to China cutting us off without warning, as they did for rar
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by souprock 9y ago
The more of those things you can deal with, the better. We certainly don't require a person to know about them all. We're trying to redundantly cover all those skills with a few hundred people. Hmmm. Maybe I'm scaring people
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by souprock 9y ago
How about blowing it into the air? My father had a book that instructed kids to do that. It was some sort of project book, with a title roughly similar to "Projects for Boys" or "The Boy Engineer". I'd love to know
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by souprock 9y ago
Low-level hacker roles are hard to fill. For example, my posting on the "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)" thread is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16057016 We get a little bit of luck with people
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by souprock 9y ago
That may be the whole point of the competition. Toronto could be the winner from before the competition even started, but holding the competition is still worthwhile. It is a way to get Toronto to cough up some goodies while simultaneously
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by souprock 9y ago
All of that has been illegal for many decades. At some point, you have to stop holding a grudge for the sins of long-gone people who happen to look sort of similar to some other people.
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by souprock 9y ago
Nobody wants to waste a core, and passing cache lines from core to core isn't cheap, but yes... using a separate core is in fact more secure. From one user process to another user process is already solved. The CR3 register gets reload
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by souprock 9y ago
Southeast USA including: Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), South Carolina (Greenville), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), and possibly others, all ONSITE.
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by souprock 9y ago
My real-world use case is a hypervisor. That turns out to be some pretty wild code. Intel's VMX documentation is not well-organized or complete, processor models vary, the hardware has bugs, and some things we have to do aren't ev
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by souprock 9y ago
Southeast USA including: Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), South Carolina (Greenville), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), and possibly others, all ONSITE.
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by souprock 9y ago
If you want to walk/bike to work, why would SF be your choice? About the only good thing is temperature. The hills... OMG the hills. It's also a decent-sized city, so not safe to be exposed to crime like that. One needs a car, not
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by souprock 9y ago
I think we can do better. How about a /proc/bin/yes for this? Like most /proc files, it would appear to be empty. Executing it would involve a fs/binfmt_proc.c file in the kernel source, which would be a handler for
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by souprock 9y ago
So, about "locations"... can you handle my free-form post now? (should be easy except possibly the Florida location, since all are in the first sentence) If not, how would I keep your regex from lumping them together? (I tried var
960.
by souprock 9y ago
Southeast USA including: Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), South Carolina (Greenville), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), and possibly others, all ONSITE.

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