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Location: Washington DC metro area Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Link analysis tools, basic database skills, basic data visualization and GIS skills
Résumé/CV: Looking for new challenges and opportunities - note, I don’t have a traditional HN dev background, but I suspect more than a few companies on this board intersect with my world...

Knowledge/Skills:

- Strong background in navigating and managing the US government contracting process from both sides of the table as both a federal manager and a government contractor

- Experience and insight into working with the US National Lab complex

- Demonstrated success in managing globally distributed teams that bring multimillion-dollar projects in on time and on budget with a high degree of quality

- Successfully negotiated security agreements and contracts with dozens of foreign government agencies

- Proven history of building diverse, deeply integrated teams, with diverse skill sets (security, intelligence, science, logistics, engineering, IT, and communications) to design solutions to complex problems in very challenging environments

- Subject matter expert on multiple NSC working groups, consultant to INTERPOL, office interlocutor with IC, DOJ, and DOD elements

- Familiar with both executive branch/department level/OMB and congressional authorization and appropriation process

What I do now:

- Program Director working in a National Security field holding an active Q/TS/SCI w/ poly

- Manage a ~$100M+ annual budget w/ oversight of 150+ FTEs organized into distributed teams working on complex projects in 30+ foreign countries across the globe

- GS15 equivalent with both a policy and program implementation background at senior USG leadership level

Previous work includes: physical and political risk assessments for clients operating in potentially dangerous environments, sub-contractor as a national security subject matter expert for multiple US National Laboratories, sub-contractor for Palantir sub (back when they used to use other companies for forward deployed), research analyst at a policy institute on defense and intelligence topics, other interesting stuff…

Email: JayCeeJobOffers@gmail.com
It’s a great Swiss-army-knife of a terminal. One annoying thing that I’ve lived with for years is that it won’t start on my second monitor. I always have to move its window after starting it. I tried to file a bug years ago, but couldn’t find a way to do it on their website. Maybe it’s time to look again.
>2A is absolutely not about individual rights. No Founder ever talked about it in this way. It's about militias.

Absolutely untrue.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776

I don't need to refute it any further with additional quotes., it's a ridiculous statement.

Furthermore the mentioning of the recent Heller case in the Supreme Court is not an appeal to authority. Read the majority and minority opinions, they are comprehensive in every argument for and against the individual/collective interpretation of the right and arguments for your position are handled expertly by the majority.
After his release from prison, in October 2017, Gui Minhai has been under strict surveillance, living in a flat in Ningbo. His access to the internet and communication with the outside world has been limited, despite assurances from the Chinese authorities, on a number of occasions, that he was a ”free man and that the Swedish authorities could have any contact they wished with their fellow citizen”. Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, made a statement saying that providing consular help to a Swedish citizen in need of medical care was ”perfectly in line with basic international rules, including the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations”.

[0]: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/02/21/enough-forced-confessi...
Out of curiosity: why is China not mentioned in the article's title, when the first sentence states a "Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation"?
I definitely support civilian ownership of self-defense robots. But for them to be affordable (or maybe even possible), there needs to be substantial production of non-defense humanoid robots like robot maids to build up the supply chain. Even then humanoid robots have a lot more moving parts so they'll never be as cheap as today's civilian drones.
Just turn on the procrastination monitor. I did it and with my reading habits, I can only post something like one or two comments a day.
I wish the actual body of the email was available and published. I’ve only read Yegge’s account of the note and didn’t see it in any of Bezos’ books.

I suppose it’s nice that the email, or really any amazon emails, has not been leaked.
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It's not often I use such strong language on HN, but you're talking complete bullshit.

There's a lot of evidence for overwhelming consensus on the science of global heating.

Starting point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists%27_views...

Papers rejecting AGW are in an extreme minority.
I just saw their Show HN this morning. Pretty cool tool
> biggest upcoming global problem after climate change?

maybe, but climate change is around number 20 in that list for me.
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Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic Primary Challenger Wants Your Bitcoin
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I don't necessarily want to rely on brands to use the jargon of the article to facilitate informational exchange.

As a user I certainly am interested to exclude the brand wherever I can, because it is a security flaw and allows for countless attack vectors.

I know about the current ambitions of identity providers and I make use of them because I am lazy too and don't know enough about security to match their services. But it is still a concession.

I think keeping the logistical perspective of key exchange can work for new ideas, while this perspective obfuscates ambitions the brand could want to see realized.

Quote from the link in the text:

> User-centric designs turned centralized identities into interoperable federated identities with centralized control, while also respecting some level of user consent about how to share an identity (and with whom).

... "while also respecting ~some~ level of user consent" is the issue where legislation for informational self determination is needed.

Again, if this problem is transparently presented, I would have less issue with this new perspective.

You can already upload everything to Amazon beanstalk and use Amazon cognito as an identity provider. Hacked together but very usable. I already sold my soul countless times but there is still one problem: Amazon.
I think it goes beyond mercury but more generally about the always evolving state of brain research:

- on one side you have old, relatively low-quality studies proving vaccines to be safe.

- on the other side, recent studies forcing us to re-think what we thought we knew. For instance, aluminium was previously thought to be eliminated via urine but has been proven to be able to migrate to the brain via the immune system where it can create chronic inflammation.

I think that we will quietly move away from aluminium-based vaccine for safety reasons. So this is terrific news if it offers another path for vaccination.

Vaccines are obviously "statistically" safe, but our knowledge on the matter is still evolving. And it's best to keep an open, scientific mind on the subject.

Some recent research papers on aluminium and the brain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/search/advanced?qs=aluminium%2...

A blog post from a parent that really helped me understand the POV of some "smart" anti-vaxxers: https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2018/4/1/international2018
Direct link to 3:30: https://youtu.be/cIQ36Kt7UVg?t=206
Oh right, because women can't decide for themselves how to live, so thank god a man like you can step in and prevent them from making the horrible choice.

You gave up on rational discourse the moment you decided you knew best for women.
What happens when I make a post with satirical content? (guessing: ban-hammer)
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When have you ever been cpu-bottlenecked on your SSH session?
I first hit the lack of LF line endings support at around age 11 on Windows 98. It’s genuinely pretty weird to realize it’s finally fixed
Over the air broadcast TV provided great value to consumers (and still does -- lets me watch local TV without needing to buy cable). The problem with broadcast TV is that the technology at the time meant that the spectrum had to be dedicated to TV and can't easily be phased out for other uses -- the cutover to digital TV was a huge ordeal. That's no longer the case, different users can share the same spectrum today.
Precisely. I remember hearing him in his debates years ago and the jokes about "well it's not like he's a brain surgeon...what!?"
Oh this is great read, thanks!
This is bad, but the US should not intervene. Never have I ever seen an "intervention" help. If you can name one I'd love to hear it.
My ideal arrangement would be going to office once a week, hang out with the team, hear the latest gossip, play some foosball/table tennis get some drinks and do focussed work the other 4 days. I am completely remote, so really miss out on the social aspect. But, that being said I am productive atleast 80% of the time, the rest when I am not , I don't pretend to work, am doing other things. That being said when compared to onsite work , where I was probably productive only 50% of the time, this is a massive improvement.not to mention all the free time I've for - kids,gym, sports and reading.
Saturn Cloud secures 4M in funding to build DataBricks for Dask
How can you even claim that "Facebook" is deeply democratic/liberal? You could say the same about HN, and I've seen quite a few sharply pro-conservative comments posted here.

Anecdotally, the amount of far-right loose-with-facts garbage being posted to Facebook was the primary reason I stopped using it.
A simple introduction to computer vision
Install Stylus or another css extension and then add this style filtered to news.ycombinator.com:

.pagetop {
visibility:collapse;
}

.pagetop * {
visibility:visible;
}

.score {
visibility:hidden;
}
And, it imports PuTTY sessions seamlessly. A wonderful upgrade.

Another consideration is that the free version is licensed for commercial use, which is why I freely recommend it at work and with a clear conscience.
After climate change? I have always feared totalitarian governments more than climate change. The death tolls are a hundred million higher.
The 2nd amendment made sense when the enemy was a group of people across the ocean (the British), and other groups of people from across the ocean that they hired as mercenaries (the Hessians). Keeping the common people armed to be used as foot-soldiers in case of foreign invasion is not a bad idea if invasion is a serious concern; Switzerland still does this to this day.

For protecting against your own government, it really doesn't make that much sense. Your own government has to have support of your own military, which gets its members from the population: the military is made of your own neighbors. If your military is committed to the government and doesn't mind shooting their own family and neighbors, then you have a problem that arming people with small arms isn't going to solve: the rebels just aren't going to be that numerous. More likely, the military isn't going to support this action at all, and will mutiny and either implode as different factions within the military fight each other, or the military will stage a coup and take over the government (this has happened before many times, in other nations). In short, if the military supports the dictator, the armed opposition really has no chance of winning. If the opposition has a chance of winning, they don't need weapons because the military isn't going to support the dictator.
I think caring about that kind of validation is a separate issue from the content itself, and requires self-discipline regardless. At least discussion on interesting and educational topics is better than sharing yet another batch of vacation photos.
Is it time for Elon Musk to create self driving boring machines to put the electrical grid completely underground? Mostly joking but not entirely.
An exemption for satire makes sense. There's even an existing legal framework for it, as it's an exception to defamation. Opinion, however, seems much more difficult. How do you handle an opinion that relies substantially on a provably false assertion?

The example in the article seems like it could be handled:

> That op-ed argued that global-warming climate models have been inaccurate and that the risks of climate change is overblown.

Included in that sentence are an assertion of fact (yes, climate models have been inaccurate. This is not controversial, and it's also not really as useful to the argument as the author thinks it is) and an opinion that, while I disagree with it, is still an opinion. For purposes of discussion, assume the article contains no other information. There shouldn't be any kind of "false" designation assigned to it, because nothing in it is provably false.

However, imagine the article said something like "Atmospheric CO2 has declined since 1978, global-warming climate models have been inaccurate, and the risks of climate change is overblown." The first statement in that sentence is provably false, yet the article would still constitute an opinion piece. Is there a framework for handling that?
In this context, the rationale was little more than this being the last version in which "John" had done significant day-to-day programming, and therefore felt informed enough to interfere with on a daily basis. My personal take was that a lot of the negative behaviour was being unable to "let go" and accept no longer feeling like the best programmer in the organisation.
> And if s/he did not have the support of the Armed Forces, it would not be a very effective dictatorship and you would not even need guns for a rebellion.

Unless they don't have the support because of the rebellion's guns.

If anyone wearing a uniform is being shot by their neighbors, military support for the dictatorship is going to dry up quickly.
If we were to apply your argument equally, Nazis and Communists would both be deplatformed

I disagree fundamentally with your definition of communism as presupposing mass-murder. Also your comparison with Nazis as somehow equivalent is extremely troubling.

That extreme communist states have indulged in mass-murder (like many christian states, democratic states, tyrannical states, etc before them) doesn't mean it is an ideology of mass-murder, and it's extremely disingenuous to suggest it is.
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I think it would have to grow (or die) virally. Like GMail in the early days, moderators would get accounts by being invited.

Although there probably is a way to pitch it as a parental control, I think other demographics could enjoy it too. As you say, the moderation basically ensures no creepers or d*ck picks. That will probably encourage more female users to trust the platform, which would certainly help to boost overall numbers.

It could be a means of chatting to strangers, where the moderator chooses 2 people to pair up. That could get interesting. The idea is still pretty half-baked, but I'd like to explore it more, and maybe use it as a testing ground for decentralised chat technology.

For people who are unsure about social norms of chatting to people, such as those with Aspergers, autism spectrum, or who are just plain shy, I think being a moderator would be a great way to learn how to have an ordinary conversation. I'd also want to make the website fully accessible, with text readers for the blind, and automatic language translation so that people can make friends in other countries.
The thing that makes this so much harder is that there's still an algorithm between you and your FB feed. Even if you feel you're good the check in once a week, you still don't see the "important" posts and there's still mindless noise in your feed. I don't know if there's a way to curate this, but I've found that FB is all or nothing for me (and I feel better with nothing)
My company increasingly understands "platform" to mean "codebase to build your feature into" rather than "API to consume from your own codebase."
It's actually a simplified 2-layer skip list implementation.
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It might be even more vulgar than you described, depending on regionalities. In my experience, 'año' indeed means year, while 'ano' literally translates to anus. It's that extra bit of specificity that kills me.
"Je suis rassasié"
I also recommend the book "The Company", by Bob Littell. Overall it's fiction, but has the feel of realism.
Portable means something else. Portable would mean that I could ship the virtualenv. Python missed the forest for the trees.
And what if violence had broken out? How do you think that would play out?

Some counter examples are the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) or possibly even the Kent State Shootings (although there it was the State causing violence).

No matter where the violence comes from, the message tends to get lost from the reaction to the violence. Sure, even Gandhi talked about needing the capacity for violence for non-violence to work, but the moment things break down; the message may still get across or it may be totally drown out.
In a website or an app, there are specific affordances i.e buttons, dropdowns, gps and text boxes that bound the input and steer the user input to help the user achieve the task.

For the speakers like Alexa and Google Home, voice being the only input allows user to say whatever they want hence making the task space infinite. But the voice recognition and NLP is not in a place where it can recognize everything the user has said. This creates a less than stellar experience with the user having to repeat, rephrase or even worse abandon the task. I think this platform will blow up when NLP/AI is able to detect user intent with near perfect accuracy and is able to make the interaction with the user as fluid as with a well designed app. It doesn't hurt for Amazon to have a large installed base ready to use the platform if/when intent recognition becomes par.

Of course it will never replace phone/desktop as there will be things which we cannot say over voice (secrets) and where it is not possible (loud places) or just not courteous behavior.
Germany is paying other countries to absorb spikes. Anything that creates value instead looks like a win to me.
I've used a combination of tampermonkey type scripts and "ublock origin" block elements to remove all karma from here and reddit. I find it a lot nicer.