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I had a CCNA, it helped me zero (maybe hurt me in the long run).

In my experience interviewers for software engineering positions at large companies view certifications as a negative signal.
Well, I wasn't sure either, but have you seen Waymo's current state-reported stats for mean miles driven between human takeover incidents? If not, look them up, they are very impressive.

If you still disagree, please elaborate on _why_ you think this
The most famous recent study used Iceland [0], which is about as homogeneous as you can imagine.

[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/114/5/E727.full
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Hi All! I wrote down a few things on improving Redis performance based on some of the things I've seen helping companies. Submitted to proggit as well, but HN often provides better tech feedback.

What can be improved? What did I miss (excluding persistence)? I hope this is helpful for other companies/users of Redis, so add your thoughts!
Shadows of the constant "shortage of engineers" threads on HN. There are parallels if you look--the same dichotomy: Companies saying they lack employees, high turnover, job hopping, yet employees say they are dis-satisfied, have little power over their working conditions, their office situation, the terms of their employment, etc. because there's always someone willing to take their spot.
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
It's a politically-charged question, so people tend to be very careful to ensure that whatever they say is correct. It's probably difficult to give a convincing argument in the space of an average HN comment.
The parent comment, though I didn't see it, seems to have sounded incredibly toxic. But to address your sentiment, this is not a permanent career move necessarily and I don't want to sound like I'm taking a career in software for granted. This is part of my attempt to go back to basics, things I missed, things that might help me become better at working in general but also give me some perspective on this field from the outside. Really the simple question could be framed as "Hey I've got this resume that's filled with a bunch of frameworks and other software experience I have. How can leverage some things from this experience to apply at jobs the most people would be getting as their first job." -- or something
Honestly, probably two weekends of Elm give you such a head start in learning Haskell. (https://www.elm-tutorial.org/en/)

You can get through the Elm tutorial in about a day. And the rest, is just playing around with the language in a trivial app.

Two weekends of Elm, followed by the the UPenn Spring '13 Haskell course are the smoothest Haskell learning plan I've seen.
Maximum intelligence yes. But you don't need maximum intelligence to improve your station in life.
This thread is full of so many Google employees. Please when you are employed by Google and critical of the DoJ suit or the Guardian article, keep this in mind. I understand HQs desire to fight this and put it under the rug, but at the same time, they should have complied with the records request. Saying, "just trust us, we are google." Isn't Googley. Numbers are Googley. A best faith effort is Googley.
The source isn't particularly meaningful. Restaurants need to be cheap or great. No middle ground survives. The 3.5 star restaurants, who are generally dead men wakling anyway just hasten the their exit.

It's better to look at similar localities where there are constrasting costs. There are still stores in Philadelphia and Trenton even though sales tax is 0% in Delaware. Likewise, counties or adjoining states with higher wages than neighbors are still able to compete.

I worked for a retail chain in college and saw the regional numbers. The marginal differences in wages between stores in different jurisdictions was insignificant. Our stores had about 100 employees -- a $1 delta was a few thousand bucks... peanuts that barely registered in the bottom line.
This is cool. Do you have a youtube channel or were you watching them to learn?
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No, the reasons for the policy might be sound.

The enforcement is stupid (both the previous hack and now the block). For me this actually would be a sign that the workplace isn't quite the right fit for me, if the basic assumption is that I ignore the policies anyway - because that's what this seems to indicate?
Excellent resource. Just follow the lectures and assignments.

http://cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html
since it's at more or less an all time high you would have to have had a series of spectacularly poor trades preceding it to not have made a profit.
Quite right!
And one of my favorite old blogs! https://33bits.org/
I'm not assuming they are less philanthropic. I'm assuming that their philanthropy will be skewed towards benefiting Chinese people the same way the philanthropy of American billionaires and millionaires is skewed towards benefiting American citizens. You're reading malice into a statement where there is simply economic self-interest since I live in America.

I don't care if there is economic unrest in China nearly as much as economic unrest in America. Do I wish economic unrest in China? No, of course not. But if I had to choose between economic unrest overseas or in my own backyard, overseas it is.

I only use China as the example here because they are the only ones actually executing an economic game plan that is competitive with taking economic gains from America and Americans.
As a member of the public that has to share the road with these monstrosities, I'm eternally grateful truckers' work hours are strongly regulated.
is the Solution architect cert more valuable compared to developer? I was thinking of taking developer cert since i'm more leaned towards that
Or just use something like twig where the whole point is to have your view data sorted BEFORE you get to templating, which IMO, is the real source of clutter. Template systems should be boring, stupid, and clean. Making all of the things JavaScript has never been necessary. Definitely better than React or most anything else that's popular though.
> The decision overturned a 2016 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a Washington-based patent court, that said patent suits are fair game anywhere a defendant company's products are sold.

Why didn't companies stop selling in patent troll friendly districts to avoid lawsuits? If you sell on the Internet, couldn't you just put a list of territorial exclusions in your terms and conditions?
It is hard to imagine a motive for these actions that is not nefarious.
Construction does also fall into this category. Simply slipped my mind when writing the question. I haven't found that smaller "hip" IT companies hurt my soul, but everyone's experience may vary. Body yes, but I have a fairly high tolerance for it.
The fact that a Kizi game has done well makes it more likely that the system will be a success as there is money to be made by publishers so they will hopefully put more money towards making games for it on http://kizifan.com . I am just looking forward to trying out the X-wing mission and more of the same for Star Wars Battlefront II, now that they have said there will be VR support.
The greatest gift Facebook gives to governments and police is tagging for the purposes of facial recognition. Basically everyone's identity and facial information is available now. And even worse, childrens' identities are on there already. Children who don't know that they want their privacies preserved are having their privacies squandered for the purpose of a few Likes. Those children who eventually grow up and become spies, police officers, etc, will have no chance of escaping identification at this point.
If these are all standard security concerns, doesn't that make this a standard security pastebin?

I think the point is that it's an extraordinary claim with unextraordinary evidence.
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>view certifications as a negative signal

I wonder why that is; maybe because they associate certs with IT-specialists vs developers​?

Although now that many companies are going "devops", maybe IT certs in addition to a development background could be a positive signal.
The expectations do differ that is absolutely true. The question was more about how to take the experience that I obtained first, and work in reverse to form a body of experience that would work on a resume for a "jobby job" company. More about ideas and how than if I should.
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The minimum wage is there to prevent abuse of workers.

It's pretty obvious why when you look at the near slavery conditions that abused workers doing things like picking tomatos in Florida are subjected to. Shitty businessmen get away with nasty shit when workers lack protection.

The difference between today and 75 years ago is that we now import second class humans again who lack access to basic rights and import goods manufactured by peasants abroad.
How did the Neutral Milk Hotel legend get so out of hand?
There are no useful programs that require Turing completeness. That's basically by definition. Turing completeness is what allows programs to have non-productive infinite loops. Any system that guarantees productivity isn't Turing complete. All useful algorithms are productive. The only thing you can do with a non-productive algorithm is convert electricity to heat.
Umm, isn't it impossible to actually cash out of Bitfinex?
ShopRunner is also free, forever, if you ever sign up for one of their free trials - I think they tend to happen around Black Friday.

I signed up for a free 1 year trial 5+ years ago, and it's still active. I don't know if they're desperate to goose their user numbers or what, but I've never heard of anyone's trial expiring.
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Most of the trouble in the Eastern District of Texas was from one law firm, and one lawyer.

A problem with weakening patents is that now, everybody wants to keep their technology secret. That leads to messy problems, such as the Waymo/Google lawsuit, when secrets leak. It also encourages overreaching employee non-compete agreements. With patents, what's proprietary technology is out there for everyone to see. With trade secrets, nobody knows what's going on.
Relying on philanthropy is a terrible way to provide for the public good. Instead of a democratically elected body, accountable to the electorate, you leave it to a handful of rich people (who answer to nobody) to choose who benefits.
A) How would you characterize the differences and similarities between AlphaGo and the best human players?

B) How has human play style changed since AlphaGo's introduction?

C) What is the answer to the question you most want to be asked?
>I'm simply not willing to cut people out of my life

I've never understood this reasoning

If you require Facebook to keep people in your life are they really in your life in the first place?
Remember devops is considered to be a "cost saving measure", I just keep the certs off my resume and just put the skills I learned.
Exactly, and that's what I'm surprised about.
People who pass the test. Also there is demand now since Amazon recently mandates AWS certified partners carry certified employees.
In Amazon terms a 4,5 is positive, a 3 is neutral and a 1,2 is negative. Anything other than positive is bad so essentially it means 4,5 and good and 1,2,3 are bad.
Please. Everyone who has their entire life on Facebook put it there voluntarily. You are completely ignoring the people who put and small amount of information on Facebook and retain a large amount of privacy. And despite your not so subtle implication that you are smarter than anyone who disagrees with you, you have completely failed to defend your premise that using Facebook is fundamentally incompatible with privacy.
I hear what you are saying. I am challenging the assertion that intelligence has 'types'. The 'type' of intelligence (or in my terms, the more dominant expression of your intelligence) is largely geared by your early upbringings and what you were exposed to. I believe fundamentally we all have the same brain and same capabilities. Strictly speaking, the brain is an organ, but operates more like a muscle, and as such can be trained and improved just like any other organ or muscle in our body. Every single human being has the potential to be an Einstein, so to speak, in my opinion* we have just done a horrible job at a. figuring out what exactly is the right combination of training, motivating factors, and environmental influence to push more towards that direction, b. what it actually means to be an 'Einstein'

In any case, since most people have not had the fortune of having the good experiences that most of us here have, I think it is merely a common service to our fellow man and woman to treat them equally no matter what and provide equal opportunities for employment -- and that includes whatever the en-vogue measure of intelligence is out there today.

* to be fair to me: I formed my opinion over years long soul searching and embellishment in countless self-help and pop-sci books on self-improvement, finally forming opinions around sound science and not junk science. But I am also a human after all, and admit my understanding of the current literature can be flawed.
I've seen the HN community respond really well to developers looking for work (Who's Hiring threads come to mind) and seen us really respond well to the plight of older people in our workforce. I have no doubt that if you posted something like this, you'd find people who would be interested in reading your resume.
I just took a regular license test, and it had headphones providing narration accompanying on-screen animation. Someone who can't read could certainly pass it with no trouble at all. It is probably designed that way.
"But all of these genes together account for just a small percentage of the variation in intelligence test scores, the researchers found; each variant raises or lowers I.Q. by only a small fraction of a point.

'It means there’s a long way to go, and there are going to be a lot of other genes that are going to be important,' Dr. Posthuma said."

Indeed. This result is fully predictable from the several previous GWAS studies on IQ that have been done. Any gene that influences IQ in the general population has at most a small effect, and the variance among human individuals in IQ is the result of interaction of hundreds of genes and the environment the individual lives in.

Here's a link to a lot of good writings by one of the leading researchers on human behavior genetics, for more details. I especially like one particular article I'll link just below the link to his collected writings.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/vita1_turkheimer.htm

Turkheimer, E. (2000). Three laws of behavior genetics and what they mean. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 160-164.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...
I wish they would not keep panning the camera away from the explanation though. Google hired some pretty piss poor horrible camera operators. It really really sucks.
> With patents, what's proprietary technology is out there
> for everyone to see.

No, not in the modern era, and not for anything that relies on software. Disclosures in software patents are worse than useless.

In the software realm the only thing that gets patented are obvious improvements on the state of the art that anybody familiar with the academic literature would stumble upon were they facing the same business problem. The real secret sauce is always in the implementation, which much of the time can't even be _divorced_ from the implementation because software is so complex. No company in their right mind would voluntarily disclose their implementing software. Even when it does leak it's usually difficult to repurpose and integrate anyhow.

Reliance on trade secrets is going to become increasingly common because of the nature of the technology, regardless of patent policy.
The big problem here is that if you're at the terminal waiting on a load, you're "on-duty, not driving." This is a specific status as it relates to federal motor carrier regulations that govern the hours a driver can operate. Once you've hit 14 hours of "on duty" time for the day you can't drive any longer.

Some major carriers will ask drivers to fudge this, although the rules are actually pretty strict about this. Notably, Wal-Mart has come under a lot of criticism in the past for asking drivers to mark time waiting for a truck to be loaded/unloaded as "off duty" instead of "on duty, not driving."
We have managers and dispatchers to take care of that.

The real reason is that it pushes off risk. Why would a trucking company pay a guy to sit in traffic? WTF is the guy going to do anyway... he's sleeping in the truck behind a gas station somewhere in Armpit, PA.
[offtopic]

This struck me as being very similar in goals to Aadhar and projects like GSTN and NCIL (all private entities) being pushed by its promoters in India: "mining every aspect of human life, for serving 'customers' better".

This is offtopic and political, but it's perhaps also a reification of the fears that many have for when a state entity merges with such corporates from SV.

US definitely has a better constitution when it comes to fundamental rights, but with the likes of NSA slowly chipping at it, backed by a lack of understanding of the tech in Congress, "legality" is not exactly a bulwark it was hoped to be.

Anywho, in India's case, we've a Quasi-Governmental entity (backed by private promoters) which came into being without a legal charter. Has ramrodded ("charmed") its way through two administrations. Illegally pushed for making it mandatory for access to state services, and has now made the case (via the state) that "Indians have no right to privacy or their bodies" as an argument in the Apex court (!).

Usha Ramanathan speaks in length about the play in play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJe986ADPE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6cPIkn48M

The tech (in contrast to SV) however is terrible, but it hasn't stopped them from getting the state to make it "mandatorily voluntary" for every single aspect of life.

The technocrats have even gone to the extent of requiring "aadhar-fingerprint" authentication so that little kids get their free meals at schools, and the poor (and I mean Indian poor) have access to food (aka "subsidies are not wasted").

These biometric identifiers are known to barely ever work, since many are involved in manual labor. A lack of authentication means lack of subsidies dispatched - these being counted in typical corporate-speak as "savings".

How Orwellian is that ? Some democracy.

Perhaps other countries can learn from India's case, and succeed in realizing how dangerous it is for corporations to be running a country, or be in charge (without adequate checks) of critical infrastructure, or indeed to have a corporate sponsored legislature.
Why would you want bearer assets for that? What inefficiency is there in the current system that would be solved with more decentralization? Why ethereum instead of something like namecoin or counterparty?
People who are more related tend to be of similar height. Also, people who are related tend to have similar IQ. But that doesn't mean height correlates with IQ because they're not necessarily the same genes.

And similarly for other traits you might notice.
If and when it is for sale, I wonder how many problems with the hardware and drivers customers will face over the years.
How about when 9 in 10 become unemployable?

Human nature is not ready for this world. We are dogmatic puritanical beasts obsessed with the idea that a person's value must be inextricably tied to one's economic output. We're more likely to see a worldwide make-work program where 1/2 of the people are paid to dig holes and the other 1/2 paid to fill them in, than we are to see something like universal basic income.
What inefficiencies are closed by using ethereum for prediction markets?
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-arc...

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15 Top Paying IT Certifications In 2016: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Leads At $125K
The consequence to the employer for missed maintenance on a truck is damage to the asset or loss of use when the truck is pulled off the road by DOT inspectors.

The consequence to an employee getting stuffed is that the driver has less time to sleep or jerk around in the back of the truck.

Guess what the company doesn't give a shit about?
Yeah I didn't find out the cost of this thing until sometime after I'd commented.

I guess if the tablet used leap motion like sensors for gestures that might work otherwise you'd have the issue of messy hands (common state while cooking).
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Exactly. Some kind of proven cryptosystem implemented with great UI on untrusted, online storage. Options to do it over various transports with HTTPS a default that most users can tolerate. This one does all this fancy stuff which has so much complexity in its trusted computing base (TCB) that it's likely to get smashed somehow. That's assuming the protocols and interfaces are correct which is often not true.

Plus, the "world's most secure" would probably use HSM's at some point with real ones at server and smartcards w/ open standards at user side. I know a guy working to commercialize stuff like that. Stuff running on a vanilla stack w/ unvetted code and non-tamper-resistant hardware isn't most secure anything.
That may not be real liquidity. It may be the same money going round and round. The famous "flash crash" of 2010 happened when a big mutual fund did a real sell, for cash, underestimating the real liquidity of the market. "Between 2:45:13 and 2:45:27, HFTs traded over 27,000 contracts, which accounted for about 49 percent of the total trading volume, while buying only about 200 additional contracts net." - SEC report.
It's worth pointing out that even if it's true that environment may not increase someone's measured intelligence (as evidenced by someone's performance going up when in a controlled, artificial environment, and then going back down when removed from that environment), it's certainly possible for someone's measured intelligence to decrease due to environment (lead poisoning, other substances, repeated head trauma).

Where that point gets political is if people believe that the "environment" commonly surrounding certain socio-economic populations is the natural baseline for that population, or instead an environment that is depressing their likely natural performance.

Like, if you move someone from their status quo, then is that putting them in an artificial environment that ultimately will not help? Or is that removing them from an artificial environment that is artificially depressing their performance, thereby giving them a permanent relative boost when you move them?

Where it gets even more political is when people believe that certain disadvantaged environments are "natural" specifically because the intelligence of that population leads them there.
PostgreSQL is the overall recommendation.
Does anyone remember when the phrase "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" was used regards to truly extraordinary claims? Like room-temperature superconductors. Or cold fusion. Or that aliens were responsible for the birth of human civilization?

This is not an extra-ordinary claim. This is the claim of "I made secure software, and I reckon it's pretty good" wrapped up in the extremely ordinary common English-language hyperbole of calling something 'the best' when there is no way to know if it is, or prove it one way or the other.
Or just knocking out risk areas using proven solutions in ways similar to past within parameters the cryptographers state instead of new, fancy stuff. Plus one for a memory safe language low-level enough for preventing leaks. Works more often than the new, fancy stuff.
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