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metalacorn

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About metalacorn

Ken Montanez currently lives in the center of the universe. Ken is a Software Engineer in the Contribution Profit group for Amazon.com. At work Ken builds and maintains stuff to calculate profit margins for tanks on *nix systems. He enjoys spending his free time reading, riverboarding, playing guitar, and listening to the radio. Ken often competes in judo tournaments all across the west coast. Various forms of public transit provide him with almost all the mobility he desires. Ken is involved with many projects, groups, and organizations.

Recent public activity

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    Amazon & IEEE Data Science Competition

    Amazon’s Information Security organization is providing this non-confidential access data set to enable testing of academic models against real industry data.

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    Amazon Access Data Samples Donated

    Amazon's Security Platform Team is getting smarter about the way permissions data is leveraged. This is an anonymized sample of access which was donated to UCI Machine Learning Lib…

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    Ask HN: Bioinformatics - the search for the hacker chemist

    I was chatting with my chemist friend and he mentioned the great need for people in the bioinformatics field that can not only do the programming but can also back-up their underst…

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    Comment #901301

    I think one gem was overlooked... Paul Graham: In order to have a liquidity event, you need to have a liquidity event. ...priceless.

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    Comment #650677

    Well, for a "normal" company, I'd say charge no less than $125 an hour, and negotiate from there based on your need/desire and keeping in mind the state of the economy. Still, unle…

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    Comment #584189

    i was homeschooled for a year in middle school as my family made the transition from private to public schools. the year of homeschooling allowed my parents to save some more money…

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    Comment #550314

    first time applying and first rejection. i am a little disappointed, i feel very passionately about my idea and was hoping pg+co would be too - but ah well, it's going to happen an…

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    Comment #524263

    from what i am reading it seems you can either be 'free' or 'not-free'. in my opinion there is nothing wrong with free, it's doing 'free' for ever that I think brings about the con…