skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get the CISSP and are a good manager you will most likely end up triaging bugs and not actively testing. This is a compliant I have heard from new members on our team. Security isn't always sexy, and people actually get pissed off at me for breaking shit and halting releases. At the end of the day too, no one gives a shit if I break into a box, they just want me to tell them it's secure enough today. It can be a thankless job sometimes.

You don't need a SANS class, they can teach you a lot but there are places for newbies that get more for much less. It's better to get a job and see what they need you to do on a daily basis, then choose a SANS class to get better at that specific skill. I'd just put your resume in now as a sysadmin and see what happens. We hire plenty of people with devops/sysadmin backgrounds and teach them as we go.

Certifications are pretty much not required. Some are seen as a joke and will actually get you weeded out if they are on your resume.

Compliance is very... very dull and is seen as a joke to serious security folks because the bar is set very low. I would say avoid this completely if you want to enjoy coming to work. (Sorry for compliance folks out there)

Six figures is common for a lot of people on here. Security makes more than some software devs depending on your skill level and company. I don't know what you do now, but you would most likely be matched or higher depending on how strong your skills are.

I'd say the hardest thing is you always have to learn new technology and keep up to date with the latest trends. CI/CD pipelines, containerization, blockchain (rolls eyes), cryptography, different cloud environments, smart phones, cars, etc. You will almost definitely encounter something you have never seen before and need to learn as much about it as possible in order to secure it.
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It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.
When I think I am working hard, I watch folks like this, and I know I have it easy.
I am aware that Bitcoin is not the same as the myriad of altcoins. Faith in the cryptocurrency market as a whole can affect all prices, and that's half the point. Besides, it's only been what, not quite 10 years since the first Bitcoin implementation, and there's still plenty of ongoing work. I'm sure the developers take their job very seriously, but even so, there's no promise of impenetrability this early. Maybe in another 10 years.

Volatility induced by technical failures in the cryptocurrency market should be just as concerning, particularly when people expect / expected the price to stabilize following the surge in price in 2017.
Listen to music and power through. Remember computers make you depressed (knowing is half the battle). Walk around and focus like crazy. You want to win so don’t give up. But do take breaks. Remember everyone is crazy - it’s ok
It’s almost as if there are multiple users on this very website.
I like laying in bed with comfy blanket and air-conditioner with temperature set to simulate Swiss winter while working.

I've no desire to sit or stand.

Dell XPS running Debian works fine in this environment.

Unfortunately, office can't provide me this. So i am working remotely now.

My brain is lot less efficient in other environment probably because I've high amount of North European genetic material and my brain is most efficient in low temperature, maybe there is some evolutionary reason behind this.
Using Python via IronPython and trying to get C# to talk to Python sounds like it could have lots of issues. I would go with a Python HTTP(S) API that gets called by the Winforms or WPF UI.

This has the added benefit of forcing you into a more decoupled architecture and allows you to easily add a different type of UI (web, phone app, etc..)
It is substantially better per transaction. Insert card, wait a few seconds, type pin. Vs fumble for check book, find a pen, write all the details and sign it, then because most business have fraud issues with checks. run it through a third party processing to verify the check is valid. I'm guessing debit vs check is probably at least 3 times longer for check. Also the merchant has to pay the additional fees that are higher vs debit.
I mean, he's not really from Silicon Valley, so I guess we should take his viewpoint with a grain of salt ;)

> I have friends in Silicon Valley who refuse to watch the show because they think it’s just making fun of them.

But yeah, it's good to take a look at satire of yourself once in a while. Often they can tell you stuff that you may have overlooked, and generally they're not too hurtful when doing so.
But it's true anyway
I love the running joke that the main characters work on fake technobabble, but the background companies (particularly the TechCrunch episode) are babbling about stuff that sounds fake but is real tech. “Making the world a better place through Paxos distributed consensus!”
This is excellent advice and I seem to do it on a subconscious level in the form of hyperfocus, where an activity will consume me for hours if it strikes the right balance of serendipity and intrigue.

Maybe when I am ready to start a family, raising children will fill this void organically?
Most of the people I know who went to trade schools ended up with 7-10x as much student loan debt as I have for my BS and are now working in jobs that require only a High School diploma.
Hmm. This implies there is accountability on the CEO's part that is imposed at a level below state judicial action. This obviously isn't true for founder-chairman-CEO dictator like Zuck.

In these cases, is there an accepted and agreed-upon standard of behavior for such a dictator in these cases? Because this looks a lot like uncharted territory which makes the journalist's claim look like mere grandstanding.
Wow, I had no idea about the mismatch between supply and demand.

On a French wine label, the appellation is often the second biggest text on the label. IIRC on olive oil 'extra virgin' is the second biggest.

Maybe the appellation should assume EVOO and work from there?
I can't be the only one that imagined that these people were in a free fall at terminal velocity and screaming.

But from the sound of it, there were many extra cables, nobody was in danger, and it seems like even the people didn't even fully realize that the elevator was going much faster.

This is as much a story about amazing elevator safety as it is about cables snapping. But hey, I don't write the headlines.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to ask why someone would use a version language that is going to be deprecated in just over a year, when newer versions are readily available.
A typical GUI is a state machine (though not always a finite state machine).

Much of what a typical React + Redux app does is implementing a state machine.
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For example, the colloquial knowledge that hugs make you feel better. Everyone knows this, that's why you say "I need a hug" when you're having a bad day. But this is not "scientific knowledge", because it wasn't produced by scientific methods, and cannot be acknowledged as valid knowledge by science (i.e., suitable basis for further scientific inquiry, or more precisely, a citation source in a reputable scientific journal) until it has been re-demonstrated that way. This translation of knowledge proceeds at the sometimes slow pace of scientific curiosity, and also at the limit of empirical methodology, which might struggle to reproduce what seems elementary knowledge ("hugs are nice").
Is there better evidence in favor of the 1 mph treadmill desks?
Funny, if somebody had told me they only accepted mail documents I would ask for their email. Not to be annoying or whatever, but because today I assume mail means e-mail, not snail or physical mail.
I think Mike Judge is the difference here. He strikes me as a genius when it comes to understanding human behavior.
This is true, it’s why you go to your doctor and say, “my back hurts I want a standing desk,” then the doctor writes you a note which says “Jim seems to have back pain and a standing desk would help.”
I took a double take at that. T1? For video?

Does that still happen?

I remember the massive boost getting a T1 at work was, in 2001.
It means everyone can have an RT or Alex Jones sort of news channel. None of this stuff of replacing people with robots is positive, it's just wishful thinking that any of this stuff in the long run is good for society or people in general.
This Venn diagram always gets me.

https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8291744000/h3159FC59/
Cool stuff! Do you have plans to expand this further? Would you accept pull requests? :)
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I recently tapered off a dosulepin, a tricyclic antidepressant.

Holy christ, I was not prepared for the 2 weeks of absolute hell that ensued - intense vomiting, headache, small visual and aural hallucinations and malaise like I've never felt before. I barely got out of bed for the first week, and ate nothing. Several times I was on the edge of going to hospital because I felt like I was dying. Honestly, possibly the worst 2 weeks of my life.

I later learned that it seems it's actually well known amongst patients that coming off of antidepressants can cause withdrawals - tricyclics, SSRIs, SNRIs, NRIs, anti-convulsants, all of them.

The thing is, out of ignorance a lot of doctors simply deny it's possible. This kind of thing infuriates me - when doing pharmaceutical trials, the manufacturers must have come across instances of patients going through withdrawals upon cessation, but somehow that information never makes it to the papers, the leaflets or the doctors.
Hindsight Devalues Science.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WnheMGAka4fL99eae/hindsight-...

Would you really have been surprised if the study's conclusion had been the opposite, or would you just rationalize that obviously there are a lot of introverts out there, and hugs stress them out disproportionately?
I am confused why this story was posted here
I can't think of many subjects that can't be written in the same manner.

"Research, however, suggests that warnings about smoking are overblown, and that not smoking is an overrated way of improving health."
I should have included that, thanks :)
Sure, and its useful as an opener to the discussion of when to specialize and when not to. But it isn't an answer to the discussion.
> There are plenty of well educated, hard working, intelligent people outside of major metropolitan areas. And there are plenty of lazy idiots in cities.

I never said there weren't; the question is which what is the net internal migration? Do more smart people move out of cities and have more kids, or do they move into cities and have fewer?

> let's not forget that California is near the bottom of the list for average IQ

My point was about cities, not states. California has 3 large major cities, some minor ones, and a very large rural area.

> which is a ridiculous measure, anyway

IQ is not everything, but it's strongly correlated with a host of positive outcomes (longevity, educational attainment, income, cooperative behavior, etc).
>I'm going to put out a guess and say that most of the department with the nice desks have "Manager" or "Director" in the title

not exactly. It is just "nicer" departments like legal, etc and more important/cool/key projects as the top management see.

>It's like the bit about open-plan offices. Management knows they're shit and you can't get work done in them. That's why they have offices of their own.

oh yes! The most fresh hot-off-the-pan "open" office plans that we've recently got don't repeat a foolish mistake of the open office plans they implemented just a few years ago - the few years ago they put everybody including directors (and sometimes even low ranking VPs) in the "open", while now it is like the old typical cubicle farm where cubicle space for plebs was surrounded by private offices for managers, etc. - only minus actual cubicles (for better inter-plebs collaboration and communication :). Full panopticon for the plebs.
Mike Judge, one of the show runners, was in the valley during the 80s so it makes sense that there would be some truth.
King of the Hill has also resurfaced on Hulu recently after not being available to stream anywhere. Mike Judge has a real talent for nailing essence of a culture.
SSRI withdrawal can present new symptoms not existing before, such as the feeling of "brain zaps" and body temperature increases, so a friend has described.
I concur.

> the group had just left the Signature Room restaurant on the 95th floor when they heard noises and experienced a faster and bumpier ride than expected

> fire officials said it wasn't an unsafe situation, even though two cables broke, since there were many other cables still attached
So what exactly happened here? Clearly they didn't fell down 80 floors, because then they'd be all dead and no elevator cabin to be found. Also, for a cabin to free fall, not only do the cables need to snap but also the automatic brakes need to fail as well.

TFA says only two out of many cables snapped. Did the other cables slip, causing unintended cabin descent?
> Big Bang Theory

Oh how I loathed that show, especially at height of its popularity. I got so tired of smiling and nodding (or rolling my eyes, depending on who it was) as non-technical people at work and even my mother-in-law made it clear they thought of me when they watched that show (simply because I was the "smart engineer", so obviously a huge nerd with no social ability). None of these people were my age though, they were all signficantly older and Silicon Valley would have likely been much too sophisticated for them.
Wow that is the most egregious, sensationalized headline I’ve ever seen. It might as well just be plain dishonest.
Mike Judge is really great at capturing Americana. Bevis and Butthead was great at capturing the 90s MTV youth, King of the Hill for Texas/country/southern stuff and Silicon Valley has been laugh out loud funny for me.
I once interviewed at a biostats shop where the interviewer kept using the word "responses" to refer to feature values. I could not pin him down on the problem statement. Pretty sure that dumbass thinks I'm a dumbass.
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The title is about "organs", but the article apparently refers to tissue transplants? No small feat, don't get me wrong, but isn't it a little misleading?
Not to mention how he used to work in Silicon Valley.
Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?
Elevators are actually safer than people think, with multiple redundant fallback mechanisms. Free-falling elevators aren't really a thing these days.
Not when people are coming in 10-15% over ask full cash. You cannot compete with that using a mortgage.
If all the cables break the automatic brake kicks in.
I mean, it would be kind of odd if the show's writers came up with something novel and instead of rushing to patent it decided to make a TV show out of it. Meanwhile, it's OK for the other companies to work on things that already exist–it adds to their run-of-the-mill-ness.
https://clarifai.com/developer/guide/search#search does something very similar as a service; it allows you to ingest numerous images, then feed them through constantly-evolving models and have any number of model-based indices over those images that can answer similarity queries based on previously-unseen inputs. Great to see that there's open-source competition, and that they're focusing on developer productivity (via the tight coupling with Torch) rather than prematurely adding layers of abstraction.
Mike Judge predicted how democracy turns to idiocracy 10 years ago. i wonder what he thinks about the future of tech
My parents recently (2-3 years ago) started their old generator, probably bought after the massive ice storm of 1998, and the gas that was still in it was enough to start it.

They do have gas problem every year with their snow blower, it's systematic, they just don't put enough care about it.

Is there anything about the generator that could have helped? Is there's fuel stabilized that can last a decade? We were pretty happy to see it start such "easily" and be able to plug our essential stuff on it without having to go buy gas.
And the solution is hampered by the privacy of given companies. I work in biology, and networking opportunities happen multiple times a year in different international conferences. You present your work and look at everyone else’s in your field, effectively networking with the entire field at once, multiple times a year. There doesn’t seem to be an international community like this in computer science, and I don’t know that there will be beyond academic conferences just because of the secrecy of research in tech. There’s a strong anti collaborative sentiment in technology that hampers joint innovation because everyone just wants to get profitable before anyone else. Even in biotech, employees have chances to present their work in conferences.
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It works completely contrary to what it pretends. There is no creativity and creative collaboration happening here. Everything I draw is turned into a predefined shaped. Everything unique is translated into something generic. I think there is a serious misunderstanding about the value of creativity happening here, and I very much hope this is not the future Google is imagining for us.
I always like to compare Silicon Valley to The Big Bang Theory. TBBT seems like a parody of the stereotype of the people they are parodying while SV is a true parody. I'm always thinking "haha, that's so true" when watching SV, but never while watching TBBT.
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> No real work gets done on slack. Call each other.

I just spent the last two hours helping a dev on my team write some code in an area of the project he was unfamiliar with. We did it all over Slack, with liberal use of code snippets. I can't imagine how a phone call would have helped.
Glad you made this comment as well. Mike Judge is one of the best at capturing culture and Americana specifically.

The voice for Hank was based on some redneck guy who kept calling MTV and complaining about Bevis and Butthead.
IMO, state machines are becoming a "big deal" because front-end developers are finally realizing that there is a name (and strict formalism) for the patterns that they've been using to manage complex UI behavior. Not only is this standardized (SCXML), it's been heavily researched for the last 30+ years and has numerous applications in many different areas of tech.

I'm working on articles for using XState in various frameworks, such as React, Vue, Angular, etc. It's already being used in production in places like vaultproject.io, tipe.io, serviceworkies.com, and more.

You can use the interpreter or create your own. An XState machine instance has a pure .transition() method that takes the current state and event, and returns the next state (+ actions, etc.). This can be used anywhere you would determine the next state of your application (or any of your app's constituent parts).
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I wrote my own quick benchmark: https://gist.github.com/coder543/8c1b9cdffdf09c19ef61322bd26...

The results:

1 switcher: 14_289_797.08 yields/sec
2 switchers: 5_866_478.94 yields/sec
3 switchers: 4_832_941.33 yields/sec
4 switchers: 4_604_051.57 yields/sec
5 switchers: 4_268_906.99 yields/sec
6 switchers: 3_982_688.58 yields/sec
7 switchers: 3_799_103.41 yields/sec
8 switchers: 3_673_094.58 yields/sec
9 switchers: 3_513_868.07 yields/sec
10 switchers: 3_351_813.00 yields/sec
11 switchers: 3_325_754.64 yields/sec
12 switchers: 3_150_383.56 yields/sec
13 switchers: 3_037_539.31 yields/sec
14 switchers: 2_435_807.77 yields/sec
15 switchers: 2_326_201.72 yields/sec
16 switchers: 2_275_610.57 yields/sec
64 switchers: 2_366_303.83 yields/sec
256 switchers: 2_400_782.51 yields/sec
512 switchers: 2_408_757.26 yields/sec
1024 switchers: 2_418_661.29 yields/sec
4096 switchers: 2_460_257.29 yields/sec

Underscores and alignment added for legibility.

It looks like the context switching speed when you have a single Goroutine just completely outperforms any of the benchmark numbers that have been posted here for Python or Ruby, as would be expected, and it still outperforms the others even when running 256 yielding tasks for every logical core.

The cost of switching increased more with the number of goroutines than I would have expected, but it seems to become pretty constant once you pass the number of cores on the machine. Also keep in mind that this benchmark is completely unrealistic. No one is writing busy loops that just yield as quickly as possible outside of microbenchmarks.

This benchmark was run on an AMD 2700X, so, 8 physical cores and 16 logical cores.
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I'm not necessarily making a criticism, just observing a deficiency in the structure of the scientific apparatus. Scientists have constructed themselves and their polity in a fashion that does not allow them to merge knowledge from other sources. That is, to use your phrase, they have made it none of their business. This might have certain advantages, if we believed that scientific methods yielded unequivocally superior epistemological outcomes; but I don't think this is true across all kinds of knowledge. In this case, I think what's being demonstrated is that sometimes, those methods go through ponderous effort to demonstrate what can be learned efficiently through other means (viz., getting a warm hug when you need it).
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This does not look good though, deleting critical forum posts or facebook posts and only keeping the nice ones, I know companies do this but from my experience the posters are contacted and the company support will try to solve the poser problem.
I've seen:

* .net product with embedded ironpython for scripting ;

* desktop client talking to a backend server that happened to be implemented in python ;

* desktop application implemented as a collection of command line tools for batch processing, with a windows desktop frontend. Some of the command line tools were implemented in python and bundled using py2exe, other command line tools were written in other languages

these were all proprietary things with varying numbers of enterprisey customers, apologies, no sample code.
This is why I personally value and respect leaders/supervisors who don't try to hide behind data: because they're personally invested in their decisions and actually demonstrate that they're in control with their hands on the steering wheel of their organizational unit (be it team or department or facility or company).

My previous supervisor (current coworker) was/is excellent about this. Yeah, of course the actual data will be front and center in the decisionmaking process, but he always makes a point to actually validate that data (through hands-on / direct observation or through his direct reports), knowing full well that there's no such thing as perfect data (there's always a missing metric or an unreliable source somewhere).

More importantly, he's willing to put himself behind his decisions, and always encouraged the rest of us to do the same for our own direct reports (and while I don't and didn't have any, I still took his lessons to heart): if you need to rely on / appeal to external sources of authority (be they higher-ups, data, "corporate policy", etc.) to assert your own authority, then your own authority is illusory, at best. By all means explain your reasoning, of course ("transparency is a dependency of trust" applies to any kind of computational system, including the kind that sits between our ears), but it should be clear that it's your reasoning, not someone (or something) else's.