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Technologies: Python, R, SQL, NoSQL, and others

Resume/CV: https://github.com/Omarh90/Resume

Email: Omarh90 (at) gmail

Hi there! I'm looking for a Data Science or Backend Dev position. My background is in math and quantitative sciences, including 5+ years' scientific programming. I'm a quick study (typically take on a new stack for each major project), and have a track record of solving longstanding technical issues in each place I've worked. Currently in SF, and a US Citizen (Fully authorized to work, etc.). Feel free to reach out!
It's just filler really. I don't think I've ever said "yeah nah" without adding on something else afterwards to clarify which one I mean.
Shutting 8chan down is a terrible idea from a strictly pragmatic perspective. It currently serves as a window into the psyches of violent extremists, and a means to potentially reach them and change their minds. Shutting it down won’t make violent extremism go away, but it will remove one of the best tools we have to combat it.
Not in Singapore. Nuclear weapons that it was used against Japan, but not cold-war developments in that respect.

Maybe it's because it makes the militaries of non-nuclear states feel small.
Terminating Service for 8Chan
> As society, we seem to be ok with millennials fresh out of college making hundreds of thousands of $$$ a year for a bunch Javascript that allows people to share pictures of their butt with their friends BUT we are not ok with doctors who literally - save lives - getting paid according to their responsibilities?

That is once again a US-centric view. The rest of the world doesn't overpay their programmers to nearly the same degree. It's a comfortable wage. Upper middle class. But the equivalent of "entry-level six figures", not "six figures, then a couple times over beyond that for good measure".
This is off topic for HN. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

There needs to be an intellectually interesting aspect for a story to be on topic here. Not just rage-bait.
Except at this point humans are unquestionably the apex predator. What animals are we going to need nukes for? This is humans fighting humans.

Unless your argument is that there’s a distinction between classes of humans comparable to that between species, which is a... problematic position, so I hope that’s not what you’re claiming.
Seems like a honeypot for surveillance.
No matter what your sexuality, it's not appropriate to bring it up in an interview.

Nor in the workplace. That's how sexual harassment happens.
Typically I'd agree that the latter overrides the former, but if I ask:

> You're not going on Wednesday?

I think it completely throws that rule of thumb out the window. Both "Yeah, nah" and "Nah, yeah" would seemingly be affirmative. To disagree would require a longer response.
They're "selling as fast as they are being made", but Facebook isn't releasing the numbers, so it's still impossible to say. The big question is whether there will be an ongoing demand as the months go by, or whether initial sales were all from a burst of interest that simply hasn't been satisfied yet by the number that have been made.
While this is about the largest nuclear bomb ever produced, I also find the stories of the smallest interesting. Project Orion was a classified effort by the US to produce minituarized nukes for use in dropping out the bottom of a spacecraft to accelerate to insane top speeds.

Wicked pollution but I think they could also get to Alpha Centuri at like 10% c or something like that. Human-lifetime achievable. Project was cancelled for a number of reasons, the top likely being the Atmosphere and Space Test Ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Like this?
https://www.inkl.com/
>Unless you presume that you know the salt your comment is utter nonsense.

Usually the attacker will also know the salts in a breach of this type, unless the company did something clever with the salts (doubtful since they used MD5).
Yeah nah that's true some of the time I guess but 'yeah' isn't yes, it's an acknowledgement that I've heard your prior statement and considered it.

Rephrasing it as yes, 'actually no' makes it sound like the speaker is indecisive which yeah nah does not communicate. It's a a social nicety to smooth over hurt feelings.

That of course is until you use it with an affirmative 'yeah nah yeah you're right' or similar.
Just because the law says so doesn't make it right or moral. Just legal.
"Don't Look Back" is one of my favorite music docs :*(
While I don't agree with the way he spoke, was C# one of the de facto or explicit in-house languages of the company, and Ruby was not? If so, he may have been referring to the fact that the company already had many libraries in C# that you could use. Plus, if C# was one of their areas of expertise, it's typically best to use that as opposed to a new, unfamiliar language unless you're explicitly testing out a new approach.

Also, in general, for programming in the large, many experienced programmers, having worked on multiple large-scale software projects, tend to prefer statically-typed languages. We've found by experience that in such large-scale systems, major refactorings are much, much smoother and feasible in statically-typed languages (although unit and integration tests are certainly still needed). And a whole class of errors are eliminated.

I don't think RoR is trash, but if you were starting a large program that would be used across multiple departments whose in-house language was C#, it was probably the right call to suggest switching to C#.

Please note: I'm not a C# programmer, and have never done any work in C# (although I've worked many dynamically-typed and statically-typed languages, and have a clear preference for the latter for large-scale software projects). So this isn't something I have any personal investment in.

Finally, I do get it, working for these types of companies is misery for most programmers. I've worked in such companies. But in this case, the senior may have had a good point.
>>>Of course Japan didn't know that.

Neither did the Russians. I've repeatedly read that dropping the 2nd bomb on Nagasaki was partly to make Stalin think we had the ability to mass-produce these weapons and it wasn't just a one-off capability, in order to deter any Soviet conventional military aggression. The RKKA was overwhelmingly the largest and most capable land army in 1945.
This is primarily to help with offline conversion tracking and impact of FB ad spend.
I feel like trying to sue someone for linking to Facebook would go down extremely poorly.
Another way to view this would be, "Cloudflare ends support for mass shooting early warning system."
> Drop file system cache

It's mentioned in the text, but... This should be "consider the impact of fs cache". Sometimes you want a cold run, sometimes you want to explicitly get a warm run. The only case you never want is mixing them up.
RFC of http protocol allows body content on GET.
People that re-use passwords should be considered negligent. There is no reason to do so for anything but the most trivial logins.
I thought they had just stated they weren't going to end suport:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20607945
Went to New York city public schools and nope
For one, because we don't tax to "punish" (e.g. use of local resources) or to encourage, but to create a pool of money our governments can use for country-wide works, defense funding, and so on.
Only a very narrow definition of politician would exclude generals and theocrats. They rise to power through politics too.
Well, people were doing that with horses and natural resources like wood, sperm oil and others for centuries before us. I do love our modernity but as far as being sustainable, there is no way on earth we are not going to destroy this planet with all the plastic packaging and the short-term throwaway mentality of modern electronics. All-electric from renewable sources is such a small part of that equation that it is mostly lip service. After all, you will still need batteries with all the pollution that implies.
I'm surprised that an article on the use of negation in French forgot to mention anything about "si", an interjection used to negate a negative question. [1]

Example from Wiktionary: [2]

Tu ne m’aimes pas, n’est-ce pas ? — Si !
You don’t like me, do you? — Yes, I do!

[1]: https://french.stackexchange.com/questions/848/differences-b...

[2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/si#Interjection
I think there is the other more sarcastic case too - being "I could, but I'm not". Especially the case if the "yeah" is drawn out.

Shall we help Dave move his fridge up four flights of stairs? "Yeah.... nah".
WASD Code Keyboard, V2. 87-key version.
The non-password data was not encrypted, so is definitely a breach of California law.
Tech giant supporting the suppression of speech they find to be disagreeable?

Fortunately, for the good of history phone companies didn't take a similar tact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism#Micropredator

> A micropredator attacks more than one host, reducing each host's fitness at least a small amount, and is only in contact with any one host intermittently. This makes them suitable as vectors as they can pass smaller parasites from one host to another. Most micropredators are hematophagic, feeding on blood. They include annelids such as leeches, crustaceans such as branchiurans and gnathiid isopods, various dipterans such as mosquitoes and tsetse flies, other arthropods such as fleas and ticks, vertebrates such as lampreys, and mammals such as vampire bats.

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/58169/why-is-a-m...

> A mosquito is a biological parasite, it is not a medical parasite.

Plus, it's a figure of speech talking about the fact that they kill a lot of us humans.
>The big difference is that the elite here invent crazy-useful shit like online-shopping or iPhones or map-reduce.

No elite ever invented any such things. Engineers working for the elites (and getting shit all for their invention most of the times) did. Same way the Pharaohs didn't built the pyramids themselves...
The store's. I put the hat on while I continued shopping. I had every intention of buying the hat, but apparently the paper fell out. The employee came to me fist-clenched, with a fighting tone. I'm sure you're skeptical and think there's two sides to every story, but I don't want to expand too much on the story for privacy and retaliatory concerns. I invite you to come to SoHo, NYC and visit a few stores if you have any doubts.
The Hashicorp suite vs Docker/K8s will be a big one. My first impression was that containerizing everything was just the obviously superior approach, but then I had to actually deploy a job to K8s and I discovered that the technology has serious stability issues. I still like the idea, but when I’m being paid to write and deploy automation that just works I can’t afford to “follow my heart”, so to speak.

To be fair, I’m in a situation where I can control the entire stack if I go with Terraform, whereas the K8s clusters are controlled by a different team. Still, the K8s cluster node was the point of failure. (It suddenly stopped being able to resolve AWS service endpoints.)
One caution: pesticides like DDT are more effective at first, before the local population is selected for resistance. The big anti-malaria campaigns in the 1950s tended to report resistance being a significant impediment with a decade: http://gladwell.com/the-mosquito-killer/
This. Having this content out in the open means we can monitor it. I totally get why Cloudflare would not want to do business with 8Chan, but every step towards pushing 8Chan and it's members underground is less visibility into the kind of people who operate on the site.
Yeah, the NSA reads all of our internet traffic but they don't pick up on this?
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They state in the notice that 8Chan will likely just use a Cloudflare competitor, so you're in luck I suppose.
People can change their minds. Looks like they did.
Has a mass shooting ever been prevented due to 8chan?
No, we should aim for people to live their authentic lives. If people cannot live their truths then society has failed.
In Venezuela as part of the universal history subject that starts with the Greeks all the way to the modern age, there is no mention of specific bombs but nuclear bombs overall and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I do remember that at the time they had a picture in the book of a nuclear submarine and I thought, sure it has nuclear weapons therefore a nuclear submarine :)
This sounds flippant, but in all seriousness: Has that been working out?
At least one. On balance it would be hard to argue 8chan being easily accessible reduces violence, though.
People pay for 5 different streaming services
Thread: https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1158188641946165248
> the fact that they had engaged in a speech act, was itself unpleasant.

I obviously think the author has the right to say whatever the hell she wants to say, but I'm against the content of her message.

I could write a really long argument to say why she's wrong, but in short: Because freedom and justice are the most desirable values to have in a society, even when people can use that freedom to say disgusting things.

Why is freedom desirable? Because it's the only way that an individual can develop their own life, chase their dreams and be happy in a manner that respects the freedom of other individuals. (My definition of freedom is that you can't physically attack other people or steal their property. Trying to expand freedom to things such as "freedom from being insulted" (i.e. censorship) is a contradiction, so the only logical way of defining it is around physical actions.)

Additionally, censorship implies that someone has to decide what speech is acceptable and what isn't, at that point, things become really arbitrary. What would the author think if her opinions were labeled as "hate speech" and people made posts wanting prohibit her from posting them? Where do you draw the line of acceptability? It's arbitrary and unjust.
My main device used to be a cell-enabled Galaxy tablet. I would make calls over cell internet with Google Hangouts. It's big but it fit in my back pocket so I loved to just randomly pull it out and pretend I was taking a call. People who hadn't seen it before we're usually astonished, "Holy shit dude, that's a huge phone!"

I guess not everybody had seen a tablet at that time, circa 2013 or so, and it worked almost every time. That was my party trick.
Could Chicago exist if this were the law of the land from the beginning?
Warnings are only effective if people act on them.
Its important that a company distances themselves from this type of behaviour but even slightly spinning it as action against something is disingenuous at best. So much more needs to happen to really address these problems and Im fairly confident a cdn isnt the make or break for shootings in America.
Thanks! I'll look into it, I'm curious about the Freedman doctrine.

I also hate it when people do rationalize this, but at the same time not really. It depends on the perspective I have at the time. I switch in it. The rest of my comment shows how.

As a member of the public, consumer and human being I'm pretty mad about this and I don't like this type of analysis because it looks like a justification.

As an employee and in some cases as a consumer, I'm not mad about this and it's not a justification, it's just as I simply see how the world works. Companies are tigers, they kill other organisms. It sucks, but alright that's the state of the world. Humanity is driving other species extinct. Alright, that sucks, but it is the state of the world.

In all this confusion of perspectives, I do know one thing. If one doesn't dare to look at how they see the world is, that's when things go even more dark than they already are.

Which is why I'm simply stating how I view what I believe to be the self-interest of a global giant corporation: which is making profit.

It sucks, but it is how it works. I don't want it to work this way, but I don't have enough of an incentive to change it. Do you?

At least you pointed me to a new source of knowledge to look at, so I suppose that's something. If I had knowledge that would wield the power of change for a better world, I would've used it.
Having it out in the open also attracts the users in the first place.
Keep it simple and just use a POST. Sure, you're read only, but using a request body with a GET is "weird" and non-standard.
Right now there are 14 Ohio class submarines in the water, each with up to 24 ICBMs, each missile with up to 14 warheads of 100 kilotons.

As of 2014 there were 488 cities in the world with over a million people. If somehow even half of that arsenal was unleashed: 7x12x7=588 city centers (2 mile radius) could be wiped out instantly.

It's scary to think about anything that possibly can happen, will happen.. eventually..
assume this exchange illustrated my orignal point...
On the one hand, I like the idea of a free, open, and distributed internet, where no one company or government has the power to control what is distributed or discussed. As the great John Gilmore said, more aspirationally than accurately even then: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

On the other hand, we don't live in that world, and I don't know how well it would work in practice if we did. In this world, corporations and governments have enormous power. Cloudflare has made it clear that it will use that power in a fairly limited and restrained way, but it will use it as it sees fit.

Given that, this seems like a reasonable exercise of that power, and that's about the best we can hope for.
I stopped subscribing to universal human rights, at least as defined by the UN, when the lobbyists got a hold of them and began adding things like IP protections as "human rights."

We now need DRM and can't have fair use because it violates the new human rights....
> we draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design

What does "lawless by design" mean?
Less visibility for those not already on it looking to join in too though. If it gets forced so far underground that law enforcement can't figure out a way in I don't see how some disaffected youth somewhere could either.
Yes, but Cloudflare needs talented engineers, and talented engineers don’t sign up to serve clients like 8chan. Software doesn’t run on one person’s contrarian politics.
I was told regarding my previous position, but it was a very small company that contracted me to do one big task
Seems like Cloudflare CEO can't decide whether he wants to truly be content-neutral.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-...

Obviously not supporting these sites, but I think an argument can be made for at least being _consistent_ about whether or not you're going to allow only things you find morally reasonable on your service.
Yeah, I’m a Yank and I think it’s kind of gross that we don’t wash after every bowel movement. But taking that a step further and not even washing your ass while showering is just foul.
I've lived in NYC all my life and am familiar with the scene.

Did they ask you nicely (initially) to pick it up? What was the tone of your response? These are two missing clues on how this might have gotten started.
You say that as if it's not males enforcing stereotypical toxic behaviour.
It’s just a Wordpress site using ancient defaults. It’s not exactly a technology business.
> Removing 8chan from our network takes heat off of us, it does nothing to address why hateful sites fester online.

It’s not your role to address the “why”. As a platform you’re only obliged to deal with the “what” and the “how”.

They now have one less platform to choose from, and their ability to do whatever it is they do is reduced. That’s a win, because wins don’t need to be absolute to count.
> What does "lawless by design" mean?

It's a euphemism for sites that are not censored and still allow free speech. Matthew Prince used to support freedom of speech but he's abandoned that concept a while back.
"the speed with which tech cos change after a bad PR cycle seems like solid proof that none of this is abt principles but abt trying to keep from making hard choices as long as possible. earlier today they argued that keeping 8chan within its network is a “moral obligation”"

https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1158193462459506693
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As is overwhelmingly the telco that delivers those bits to screens/devices. Whether wireless or wired. Very expensive infrastructure in fact, as with electricity (generation, delivery, reliability).
Their codebases must be clean. They say "no" too all the features and random ideas people come up with.
Except the warnings are anonymous, and don't mention who, when, or where.

What's really going on is similar to what we saw with radicalization in extremist Islam forums. A large group of young, usually lonely and frustrated men, disconnected socially, often with no hope of financial status advancement, find solace and community in online forums with like people, and then act to self-reinforce some of the community's worse inclinations, blaming their predicament on other types of people, dehumanizing them. The irony with these forums are, some people on those forums are not racist or pedophiles, but edge-lording on purpose, but other people can't discern the difference and are swept up and manipulated by other people who get off on manipulating people.

When I was a teen in the 80s, I nerdy and disconnected from school, but back then, if you used a computer, you were fairly involved in hacking, and a lot of community revolved around constructive activities, so whatever loneliness or ostracism geeks felt, it was often distracted by optimism and excitement over technology.

It seems these days, you have the online community in these forums, but it is mostly consumptive, not constructive, or rather, what is constructive is memes and racist, xenophobic, extremist screeds.

I really worry about what's happening as more and more people are made idle and out of the labor force, rather than seek face to face community activity, will eventually retreat to their online bunkers?
The person from the talk may have a github repo with the text editor he wrote shown in the talk.
That's a pretty warped view, 8chan is the support system for radicals which in all likelyhood gives them the motivation to commit mass murder since they have an audience to play to and support for their demented views.

As the article states, it's very likely 8chan is just going to use a competitors service so it's unlikely to cause them much disruption, but at least Cloudflare isn't going to feel terrible for providing Internet services to the cesspit that formed the mind of the next radical that's going to commit mass murder and announce it there.
Why does Cloudflare feel the need to take action here? Only a minority believe that 8chan is the culprit in creating these gunmen, and fewer people have called for Cloudflare specifically to shutdown 8chan.

By staying idle the conversation would've moved onto gun control, but now they're going to make this round of shootings all about online community policy which IMHO is a futile scapegoat.
Political *chan culture drives mass shootings in the first place by radicalizing antisocial people more. You'd likely have fewer mass shootings you'd need early warning about in the first place.
Cloudflare wasn't hosting them. NT technologies was, and still is.
It's not that it would go too underground for law enforcement to find it, it's that it would be limited to terrorist cell networks that mass shooters don't even post in.
Then they get into I dustry and get told that getting stuck in the weeds of security isn't something which generates value
Like I stated here[1], it seems a bit hypocritical for them to cancel service to 8chan when some of the large sites have been complicit also.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20607635