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SEEKING WORK - San Francisco CA - remote

Technologies: Front-end mostly, javascript, react/redux, backbone.js, node.js, Typescript.

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/nxeYNF

Email: g.polu.shkin@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/proll/

I am a front-end developer with 12+ years experience.
Anyone know more about India's nuclear story? At one time they were focusing on thorium. I wonder what we could do to spur on a little more competition with China.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and...
>A simple extrapolation of this shows they'll double their already huge CO2 output by the end of the decade, far surpassing the US.

You have to look at the trends. India has radically changed directions in the last few years, and we can expect in the coming years it will change even more.
As far as I know when we say AI today we just mean computers that perform various mathematical calculations in a way that makes it appear superficially like human reasoning. That is no where near the kind of cognition that humans or animals do and there is no reason to think we have even touched or started on machines that can do the type of cognition that humans engage in.

Computation is not cognition.
if it were the fault of a single person, that'd be the cto then?
Using Docker in production
It will all be voice driven soon so natural language has an advantage over using hands.
If this follows the trend of what happened to YouTube advertising (TV 2.0) in that certain websites will be targeted for demonetization without any transparency or consistency, this will open a giant hole for competitors to eat one of Alphabet's core businesses. Perhaps leveraging this use of control over Chrome to effectively cripple competing ad networks with perfectly reasonable ads on websites that don't want to provide profit to Google will open them to litigation as well.

This will be interesting.
I think you're taking taking it personally, and beginning to use inflammatory language.

I think you are thinking emotionally about this and that is why you are misinterpreting my thoughts.

Wiczek himself thinks it's an unintuitive notion to question such an assumpion.

Yes the poster didn't pose it as a question. We already agree that is presumptious, and a mistake. Where we disagree is the bigger mistake is in not explaining the poster's confusion.

I don't think you or anyone is being an "ass." Let's take a cooling off period from this so we don't get upset over some small disagreement on the value of deferring to faith in authority.
Normally I don't like Sam Kriss' writing, and here it's because of the civil war comparison that just feels ham-fisted — that said, one can appreciate how "learn to code" is not the universal solution (especially when it's just thrown out as a conversation-stopper).
They have. The reason why Walmart had to raise wages is directly because of this. Walmart was looked upon as the employer of last resort and it was showing in the cleanliness of the stores. The stores were a mess and turnover was huge. Eventually the paymasters had to relent and open the purse strings.
This is sad. When you follow the link they provide for the Better Ads Standard there is a link to the coalition's privacy policy at the bottom of the page which says clear as day that third parties such as social networks are monitoring your use of the site to facilitate "interest based advertising". That says it all, they want ads to be more palatable so them and their accomplices can track your every digital move. This will make Creepy Google tons of money by selling out their most precious resource while they continue to build skynet.

Whatever happened to "Don't be evil"?
I experience intense moments of deja vu probably 2-3 times a year. I'm 90% sure it's connected to dreams for me, because even on one occasion, waking up, I made the mental note "remember this intensely specific dream, and see if you get deja vu", and I actually did, in the middle of a presentation. I'm guessing it's because when dreaming my mind goes through a vast volume of possible scenarios, so statistically I'm bound to encounter something that it's internally 'rehearsed.' Maybe I sleep too much though, perils of freelancing.
Texas is the biggest renewable energy producer in USA and almost all is from wind in the last 6 years. Rick Perry the big fossil fuel Republican did this from a $7B unpopular at the time investment into transmission lines from wind heavy areas to highly populated areas. He was criticized heavily, but is the sole reason for 25% of the entire US Wind power capacity

He did it for economic reasons and most of the renewable energy produced in the Statss are from red states. We have to invest in transmission lines and continue the PTC if we want to continue being #1 in Wind and these are both bipartisan issues. Just not very important to either party right now
Would you mind to clarify what you mean by "X definitely"? I think you are on to something, but cannot fully grasp wha you mean.
Why is this not a problem? In the world of pollution and environmental health, using justification of because another country does it doesn't work.
In Windows Development knowledge half life is 3 - 4 years
In other words; every 3- 4 years half of my Windows knowledge becomes obsolete
The internet wasn't designed with a mechanism to force clients to pay hosts for server time, unfortunately.
No I get that, and I enjoy your writing. It's certainly a valuable niche to occupy.

I just think people tend to underestimate the ROI on buying and working through a textbook.
Agreed. The problem is that Bitcoin wants to be taken seriously as a currency while at the same time not being subject to all the rules and regulations imposed on currencies.

This was predicted years ago by most critics but was most often just hand-waved away by advocates, most responding that it was impossible to regulate the system itself.

Well.. yeah, so you regulate assets and income of the people and companies involved. That's how it works with regular currency too.

It's a problem any currency system has (even barter!)
This was the textbook for my first-year intro to systems and I'd recommend it too!
New browser Brave does something similar.

https://brave.com/publishers.html
> personal responsibility of the states

huh? If the 4 million people of Oklahoma don't take "personal responsibility" for polluting the atmosphere we all pay the price not just them.
This sounds great on the surface, but when one of the biggest tech companies in the world becomes the arbiter of the internet, we all lose.
Definitely worth contacting Jason Scott at the Internet Archive to see.
IMO, this is begging for an anti-trust lawsuit. Google, the largest advertiser on the web, building web browsers that block other networks ads. I believe they're going through with it now partially because they don't expect an active anti-trust presence from the trump admin.
Which "next hot thing" touristic towns are there in USA and Canada?
I hope this applies to YouTube!
you are determined when you unleash a technician with a FIB on the exposed chip.
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Curious what your thoughts are on this:

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5878/...
India is still focusing on thorium. But slowly. Design for AHWR if recently finalized and site selection in progress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_heavy-water_reactor
Disagree. As blockers actively try to thwart ad block detection. Especially for popular sites, it's a losing proposition. And Microsoft is never going to ship a browser that completely steals another browser's user agent.
Well, no. Or at least, when I say "a Ruby implementation", I mean it is implemented in Ruby, not callable from Ruby.

When I refer to a Python C extension, I refer to it as a C implementation, even though the express purpose is to be callable from Python.

I can call Perl (and Python, and Ruby, and Javascript, and...) scripts from the shell, too. So those are now "Unix shell" as well?
Banks have a very profitable spread when buying and selling foreign currencies.

For transfers of money in the same currency... it's just greed, in my opinion.
There seems to be a great need for an Open Source password vault codebase/library that:

Runs securely cross-platform, including tablets & smartphones
Can present a great looking UI across all platforms
Has no licensing issues in proprietary walled gardens
Can securely support plugins to integrate with webapps

This would enable startups in the personal security space to be able to serve user's needs for tracking their credentials without creating a high value centralized store of sensitive information.
"Emulate the neocortex" is at best a metaphoric shorthand that will be misunderstood by many, and quite likely the wrong way of thinking about it. It is certainly not to be taken literally.

There are plenty of things going on in a real neocortex that are not essential to intelligence and Numenta was working hard from the start to pick out the important ones at an appropriate level of modeling.
This distinction becomes especially important in contrast to things like Henry Markram's projects, where people seem to be happily spending major-multi-million-euro sums of public funds to run poorly understood simulations with insufficient detail on a really big computation cluster.

RNN:s are crude compared to the HTM as well as to the more recent CLA model, but they do share for instance the formulation as a dynamical system with recurrence. Some of publications coming from people at Numenta have made direct comparison between the CLA to for instance LSTM-based networks, and in my opinion they are entirely reasonable to do that. They are all suited to sequence modelling.

Having said that, I agree the comparison to RNN:s isn't to be made without understanding some of what goes into the HTM or CLA, and I agree that Hawkins emphasizes biological intelligence.
Yes, that'd be much appreciated!
Why does there need to be more sarcasm in schools?

I'm willing to hear you out, but would appreciate it if you could clearly explain the benefits of increased sarcasm in schools.
The Fireball malware infected millions computers running both Windows and Mac OS
It's hard to compete with evil companies like Facebook if you're not evil yourself.
I can't speak for Muen but I can a bit for this problem area. This attack has been known for a long time. It's why physical separation and CPU's with separate caches were used in high-assurance security. Anything shared is a potential, covert channel. Timing channels are the hardest to mitigate so share nothing if you're worried about that, right? Well, some sharing is needed so what to do.

1. Since security kernels of the old days, any shared stuff is supposed to be cleared before the next thing uses it. That principle here would be register overwriting and a cache flush when a separation kernel switches between partitions. It's called "periods processing" in the literature.

2. If no shared cache, then we can keep Security Domain A running on Core A, Security Domain B on Core B, etc. There can be multiple, concurrent VM's on each core so long as they are in same security classification (trust each other). Take the penalty of separation when it matters.

3. Partitioning and/or real-time caches. In real-time caches, you lock the cache for determinism. That determinism might be used to aid covert, channel mitigation. The other mechanism is stronger whereby you design the cache itself to know mutually-distrusting processes are using it. A combo of the CPU, cache, and/or separation kernel might wall off parts of it, erase parts of it, replace parts of it, and so on. There's quite a few prototypes in CompSci of this. Maybe some commercial implementations but my brain is too tired to remember.

4. Asynchronous, randomized execution to throw off timing. I came up with this one independently studying the problem probably with inspiration from others randomizing timing in asynchronous way. More importantly, another person did the same concept implemented on a prototype CPU.

5. Run with no cache. Very painful. Barely a solution. It's been done, though.

I'm sure more of this can be combined in interesting ways with randomized storage in caches w/ randomized timing and/or that controlled by separation kernels. It's mostly a hardware problem, though, like software safety against code injection. Most in high-assurance have moved on from separation kernels to other tech, esp modified CPU's, to solve the problem bottom-up like Burroughs B5000 did for some things. Last efforts I looked into were Cambridge CHERI processor w/ CheriBSD, SAFE processor at crash-safe.org, and Watchdog[Lite]. Gotta add cache protections, IO/MMU, RAM cryptosystem, TRNG, and so on.
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"Don't Be Evil" was basic PR: figure out what you're most hated for, and loudly, repeatedly insist that you're the opposite of it. Delta promises comfort and ease in coach, which should only remind you of how hellish that experience can be; Google bragging that they weren't evil should've been an instant red flag.
That's another consideration, but I think that one could go in the job's description, whereas NATIONAL REMOTE / GLOBAL REMOTE would be very helpful to include in the listing heading itself.
Isn't this essentially the concept behind Brave?
I have this same experience with dreams at least a few times a month. For example I'll have a dream where I'm recounting a real-life story to a friend or family member. Later on, during my waking life, I'll tell the story again to someone and I won't be able to tell if I've told the story to them before or not, regardless if they are the person from the dream. Sometimes, I won't even remember the dream and I have the same feeling. I usually catch myself while telling them whatever I am sharing, and ask "Have I told you this before? No? Ok...". It's supremely weird, and I've just learned to either ignore it or catch myself.

Also, with the same frequency, can't distinguish if something (realistic) actually has happened to me or if it was in a dream. Something as simple, for example, as going to the beach and playing volleyball with my friends. I will catch myself going through a memory of something, only to realize it actually was from a dream. The memory is as real as any others I have - vivid detail, feelings attached to it, etc. I have to think back on what I've done that week to see if it actually happened or not.

Observing the inner workings of memory and the brain as symptoms is one of the oddest things in life, in my opinion. I've learned not to be scared of it and instead enjoy it as part of the human experience!
Those are terrible. The grimace one wasn't terrible; so I thought, "hmm, this is likely the worst of what is a totally trivial problem". The problem is trivial but it went down hill quality wise. I would say honestly, a new user or user of any platform other than Samsung is going to have some awkward and confusing exchanges.
Firefox/SeaMonkey, NoScript, uBlock Origin. It's pretty cozy over here.
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Our eyes could get 2-dimensional projections of any more-dimensional world, actually, if it was available. The light-sensitive outline of that little guy in the video could accept photons from any 4-direction, and not only photons floating in his current 2-plane.

Ofc it is abstraction, I know that physicists aren't happy with heterodimensional settings at human scale.
This is dumb. Even if I admit a lot of these ads annoy me.

Back in the day Google would just lower the ranking of sites with banner ads. That sort of makes sense. They're a worse result, so show them lower. Fine. We should still decide this with traffic, but hey we can debate that.

To give Google/Chrome broad authorization to block people from seeing content that Google doesn't like scares the hell out of me, even if it's under a thoughtful banner.

Random made up example- what if next time Google picks a consumer advocacy group that says PayPal is a bad service, and blocks ads on sites that use PayPal? (Google offers Wallet)

I would grant them blocking ads that activate Android vibration- I consider that borderline malware. I grant pop-up ads, opening a new tab I didn't ask for is also arguably malware. I do not grant them blocking a wide variety of types of content just because marketers are abusing it. That's bad precedent. Rank them down, warn the user, heck put a "click to play Flash" lock on it. But don't take control away.

Google also hints at services that would let a website lock down when it detects ad blocking and force people to pay or otherwise engage to get access to the site. I think that's already one trojan horse. Google can stop you from trying to generate revenue off users, oh by the way we sell a new system where you can pay to get that back.

I don't like anything about this, even though I agree that screw those ads.
"I wonder how they formally verify that. "

They might be using a different definition of formally verify than you think. SPARK is one of the "lightweight" methods that tries to automate a lot of stuff with the rest hand-proven. They might just mean it's formally verified to not have all the common code injections since SPARK can do that with a good deal automated vs manual proof. Full correctness of that operation would be something different they might need a proof assistant for or considerable effort.

An example of one doing full, formal verification of all kinds of components is CertiKOS at DeepSpec:

http://deepspec.org/

http://flint.cs.yale.edu/certikos/
stats to back that up: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=flow-bin&package=ty...

(the weekly view is easiest to parse)

Looks like flow downloads have been declining week-on-week for the past 6 weeks.

Note that flow is likely underrepresented, since many people install it with brew (or apt-get, or whatever).
The 2D->3D analogy made sense to me -- only being able to see the cross-section that is visible in a current dimensionality -- but I got to wondering if you couldn't use some of techniques from information visualization techniques to show a representation of that extra dimension in the current dimensional landscape (ie fading the object as it gets farther away from the current dimension).
To within certain limits, yes. Glass knives should help as well.
It's right below the table:

> For example, using Base64, up to 105 bytes of binary data can fit in a Tweet. With Base65536, 280 bytes are possible.
That wasn't just an idea. People have used Twitter for exactly this purpose for a long time, because it skews user numbers. I'd also assume that overhead is very low for c&c botnets, since its ultimately just a little pubsub message queue, so there's even less incentive to shut them down. I get at LEAST three followers a day with "buy RTs, followers" in their profile on my personal Twitter.

Spam botnets ain't nothing new. They'll ways be around.
Location: Pittsburgh, PA or remote
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes, to PGH
Technologies: DevOps/SRE/SysAdmin: git, ansible/puppet/chef, python, bash, centOS, RHEL; Networking: Cisco, TCP/IP, Traffic analysis, F5 load balancing; Virtualization/Cloud: VMWare, AWS, learning Docker & Kubernetes; Soft skills: Documentation, Team Leading, Requirement distillation, some Project Management; Software Dev: Python (prefer 3), Flask, BeautifulSoup; Some: JS, PHP, HTML/CSS
Résumé/CV: https://jake.achee.com
Email: see resume.
GitHub: https://github.com/jachee

As a well-rounded and successful professional with over 18 years of progressive industry experience, I believe that my skillset makes me an excellent candidate for a development-driven engineering/infrastructure position. I'm a highly-motivated, experienced, intuitive Linux Systems Admin with a strong Networking background, solid scripting chops and DevOps/Cloud-facing sensibilities.

I'm currently looking to relocate to Pittsburgh, but I will also consider remote positions, as well.
Something like Google Contributor, which was just relaunched today?

https://contributor.google.com

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14467702
walmart and target pay the same wages.
Treat information as the public good it is.

Pay those who create it.

Allow free access to public information.

The entire advertising market worldwide is $600 billion, which works out to roughly $600 per man, woman, and child among the 1 billion inhabitants of the US, EU, Japan, CA, AU, and NZ. (Or OECD states, if you prefer, or G-7.)

Total media spend (print) is on the order of $200/year. Cable + broadband on the order of $1500 - $3000 per year (content and connectivity).

Seems to me there's some streamlining potential possible.

Piecework is actually a tremendous distraction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...
It was superseded by "Make money first".
I will never forget reading Sandkings in Omni as a kid. I couldn't sleep that night
The EU doesn't seem shy in that area.
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But you're just sidestepping my point.

In the case of an actual planetary threat the argument you describe about letting poor countries catch up would be incoherent and insane. Let's change the scenario here and make it more extreme, imagine instead of CO2 our industry released lead and we knew over time the whole world would get lead poisoning and all humans would get sick from lead poisoning and die out if we continue on our path. In such a scenario, would we

1) Have rich nations stop emissions out lead but still allow developing nations to have lead emissions cause, hey we may all die, but it's only fair, I mean they should enjoy the same standard of living as us

2) Have everyone stop putting out lead emissions because, as crappy as it is, everyone attaining a western standard of living is not as important as preventing human extinction.

I think we would all agree that option 2 was the only option. Option 1 would be incoherent and insane. The only case in which we would even consider option 1 is one in which there is no real coherent planetary threat.

Now climate change proponents may not be suggesting human extinction but you are suggesting widespread, possibly civilization ending catastrophe. This leaves scenario 1 as the only real choice and scenario 2 as incoherent and stupid. Yet climate changers still advocate and openly push for scenario 2 . . . which would lead any reasonable person to question the sincerity of their belief in planetary environmental catastrophe.
It's a competitive market.
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