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AWS Access Keys Leak in GitHub Repository and Some Improvements in Amazon Reaction
AWS access keys leak via public code repository is a quite known security problem. So common, that popular version control systems offer for free a dedicated service, which looks for hardcoded secrets. Specifically, I refer here to GitHub secret scanning service. Without a doubt, it’s awesome that such a service was released, however, in this blog post I want to answer the following questions: how quickly attackers will detect the key leak?
How to Own Your Side Gig
The psychology of the side hustle and creating meaningful work. Photo credit: Mateus Campos Felipe It’s my least favorite part of parties. The dreaded question. “What do you do for a living?” Most of us don’t have a simple answer. We are accountants, writers, parents, jewelry makers, consultants, nurses, makeup artists, and more. Marci Alboher calls this “The Slash Effect.” Long gone are the days where people stayed in one profession their entire lives — or even stayed in one profession at a time.
This Burgeoning Field Can Breathe Life Into Your Sustainability Startup
Biomimicry casts the natural world as a library of solutions to human problems. But it’s not without its downsides. Image by Frank Winkler from Pixabay Sustainability startups are not like other companies. To begin, they’re more critical than ever. While the clock ticks down to climate catastrophe —according to the UN, just 10 years away—a vision of a future in harmony with nature pulls you forward. Sustainability startups make you feel like you’re on the right side of history.
Nikola Is Another Wake-up Call for Investors Aiming for the Next Big Thing
How not to get tricked by bells and whistles. Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash If you are an avid watcher of the stock market, at this point you may have heard about what happened to the EV truck manufacturer company Nikola. The drama started on Tuesday, September 8th, when Nikola stock ($NKLA) jumped by 41% in one day. The reason behind the surge is the news on Nikola’s just finalized partnership with General Motors (GM).
Is Virtual Reality the Future of Productivity?
How machine learning algorithms can improve virtual reality—and our ability to WFH. Photo by stephan sorkin on Unsplash Recently, Facebook — a leader in virtual reality systems — teased a video of a virtual reality headset emulating a new work-from-home experience. In the 8 second long video, Facebook showed off their vision for how people could work from home using technologies such as Oculus and Passthrough.
3 Fatal Flaws of Uninspired Executive Coaches
How to avoid wasting time, energy, and money on sessions that won’t provide lasting results. Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash Despite the ongoing global pandemic and a corresponding 9.6 percent decline in industry, the estimated market size of business coaching is currently $11.6 billion in the US alone.
Why Sleep Is the Most Underrated Tool for Good Health, Longevity, and Productivity
It’s a non-negotiable necessity, not a luxury. Photo by Gregory Pappas on Unsplash “Men who sleep five hours a night have significantly smaller testicles than men who sleep eight hours or more” This is how Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Matthew Walker kicked off his speech to employees at Google.
Data Cleaning Using Python Pandas
A comprehensive guide to using built-in Pandas functions to clean data prior to analysis Photo by Stan Y on Unsplash Over time companies produce and collect a massive amount of data, depending on the company this can come in many different forms such as user-generated content, job applicant data, blog posts, sensor data and payroll transactions.
A 3-Tier System to Unleash the Productivity Monster Within You
1. Find your high-value task “Focus on signal over noise. Don’t waste time on stuff that doesn’t actually make things better.” — Elon Musk The first step to creating an effective productivity system is finding your high-value tasks. But what defines a high-value task and why is it important? According to Cal Newport — the best selling author of Deep Work: If you want to go high on the ladder of achievement you have to consistently produce high-value results. But here’s the catch.
How Should You Talk About Race at Work Without Alienating Your Black Colleagues?
5 ways leaders can tackle tough topics and support equality in the workplace. It’s hard to believe it’s been over four months since George Floyd was murdered. And with our nation’s attention span bombarded by a truly bizarre, unprecedented news cycle, leaders may be distracted from the Black Lives Matter movement. However, as Black people in the workplace, we don’t have the choice to put these human rights issues on the back burner.
How to Not Fail Your Brand Epically
Remember the one, simple ingredient that many companies forget. Image courtesy: Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash In my nearly 20 years working with brands, I’ve come across many seasoned marketers who’ve treated marketing as a delicate art to master. Then there are those who would tell you it’s more of a science. Yes, marketing is both an art and a science. Yet why is it that brands fail, sometimes at an epic scale?
Quantum Machine Learning for Credit Risk Analysis and Option Pricing
Exploring existing financial mathematics problems where quantum amplitude estimation & algorithms are useful. In recent years alone, Wall Street titans, such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, generated a cumulative revenue of half a trillion dollars. Quantitative analysts — or “quants” — have been instrumental to this tremendous success. Not only can they predict the expected payoff of financial derivatives using classical algorithms, “quants” are also able to estimate the level of financial risk.
How to Go from Complete Beginner to Writing for Major Magazines
While running a full-time company. Getting major press and media attention on your business or personal brand can create tremendous value. It can immediately boost your credibility, bring you waves of traffic, and give you opportunities to create more revenue and new relationships. (It can even be a decent side income if you already have an established career or business.) But if you have no background in journalism, no writing abilities, and no connections, how do you rise the ranks?
How Blockchain Can Help Solve the World’s Agriculture Problem
By utilizing blockchain in the food industry, consumers are able to verify the source and safety of their food in seconds. Photo by david henrichs on Unsplash Just as natural resources shaped the Industrial Revolution, big data is the driving force in the digital revolution — which has changed the ways we perceive, share and interact with that data.
How to Strengthen Your Marketing Skills by Curating, Coaching & Listening
Marketers must evolve to meet the needs of today’s overinformed consumers. Photo credit: Clay Banks A few decades ago Fuller Brush salesmen still toured their neighborhood, selling their utensils and body care products to their regulars. Taking advantage of the poorly informed households of their time, they easily persuaded them to buy additional goods for the sake of convenience.
Why Participating in a Startup Accelerator Will Help You Raise Capital
Get help with fine-tuning your pitching skills and capitalize on investor introductions. And yes, angel investors are watching. Photo by Jed Villejo on Unsplash Have you considered participating in a startup accelerator? Is it worth your time and effort? Will participating improve your odds of successfully fundraising down the road? These questions — and so many more — should be considered before deciding if an accelerator is right for you.
What Features Contribute to the Listing Price on Airbnb?
Visualize Seattle Airbnb data through Tableau & Seaborn Author: Jerry Yan Starting from the mid-2000, Airbnb has become an essential part of our everyday traveling. Demands are enormous in the OTA business nowadays. But have you ever stop and wonder what factors contribute to the listing price? Image by Author The above graph shows the density plot of the average listing price on Airbnb. There is a considerable price difference across the city.
Want to Become a Stronger Writer? 7 Lessons From One of the World’s Best-Selling Authors
Tips from author Stephen King. Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash Stephen King became a published author in 1973, and since then, he has sold over 350 million copies of his books worldwide. Although he writes mainly fiction, my personal favorite has to be his memoir,“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.” In it, King shares his approach to writing. Of the many rules and instructions in the book, seven of them stood out for me.
How to Perform Fast and Powerful Geospatial Data Analysis with GPU
A tutorial on efficient and quick spatial joining for a large dataset. Photo by Rafael Pol on Unsplash Recently, I thought back to a few years ago, when I tried to process a large geospatial dataset with Python. You can only guess how it ended. My laptop refused to cooperate and froze spectacularly without failing. Frustration ensued. Fast forward today, I was experimenting with RAPIDS AI Suite and came across the same dataset. I immediately knew what to do. So I jumped into coding.
How Marketers Are Capitalizing on Your Immaturity
Take it from Freud: many of us can’t help falling for the same traps. “Once we have an experience, we are thereafter unable to see the world as we did before.” — Daniel Gilbert At critical moments in our early lives, we are forced to confront the cold hard truths of existence and life. Including and not limited to: Unfairness is a natural part of life. Something else must die in order for us to live. There is no meaning to our existence, except for the meaning we create ourselves.
How Well Do You Know CSS?
13 weird and amazing tricks for working with CSS. Photo by Maik Jonietz on Unsplash Love it or hate it, CSS is still one of the foundational building blocks of web applications, and there’s no way to get around it if you want to create a nice looking page. As I worked more and more with CSS, and as my understanding of the language grows past flex-box and grid, I start to discover what CSS is really capable of beyond setting width and color.
Can We Just Turn Off Dangerous AI?
The most common misconception about AI safety. Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash There’s this meme out there to make people who care about artificial intelligence safety look crazy. It goes like this. If AI ever starts doing something that might destroy humanity, we’ll just shut it off. AI requires power and computers to function. So, if machines start building nuclear weapons of their own free will or turning everything into paper clips, we’ll have no problem. We’ll just pull the plug.
How Your Brand Can Prepare for the First COVID Holiday Season
Nearly a third of consumers plan to start shopping earlier this year—start planning now. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” Truer words have never been spoken. Christmas is just around the corner, and it is just one of many holidays that bring good cheer and begets positivity. Holidays are dedicated to spending time with loved ones, and the best part of all— you get the perfect excuse to indulge in retail therapy.
If You Want To Be a Solopreneur, You Need Permissionless Leverage
A crucial concept for coders and content creators. Photo credit: Sam McGhee The concept of permissionless leverage is simple: You build it once and sell it forever. It continues to create value for you without you needing to ask. In 2020, media and code are the principal examples of permissionless leverage. They’re also a major reason why being a solopreneur is more feasible than ever.
You Can Build a Viable Brand Yourself - 7 Powerful Lessons to Keep in Mind
Understanding these concepts will make your business more successful long term. Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash We gathered around a circular table in a Northern California bungalow. In the middle sat an empty bottle with a hand-pressed label on it. This wasn’t just any bottle. It was our bottle. It was our first ever product. We hadn’t launched yet, so we were going back and forth on the label design. It was minimalist, but the side panel featured a jarring “Meet Your Edge” slogan.
Why Founder-led Companies Are Skipping Traditional IPOs
At the end of the day, it’s all about control. Photo credit: Austin Distel As more well-known tech companies get listed without an IPO successfully, more buzz grows about the shiny process that allows them to do so — direct listing. Unlike in a standard IPO, in a direct listing, the company sells its shares directly to investors without investment banks acting as intermediaries in the process.
Four Things That Scream ‘You Want to Work Here’
How to master the imperfect science of choosing a good employer. Source: image purchased via iStock Interviews can be like strange, anthropological missions into new worlds. Were Darwin to explore corporate settings, he’d find us very curious creatures. In the pressure to be professional, people on both sides of the interview table present themselves in unusual avatars.
Apple’s Founding Engineer’s Advice for Young Entrepreneurs
Steven Wozniak has brilliant insight for building your startup. via Wikimedia Commons We often dub Steve Jobs as the prodigal visionary who’s creativity brought Apple to life. That being, so long as Apple exists, Steve Job’s name will forever echo in the spotlight of history. In actuality though, Job’s actual job was using his charismatic personality and imagination to sell the vision of Apple to the public with nothing to do with the engineering behind Apple’s innovative technology himself.
No Country for Old Developers
The truth behind ageism in the tech industry—and strategies for overcoming it. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay When you leave school or university and start to look for a job you may worry that your lack of experience will impact your chances of landing a position. Because you are young, employers are looking to see if you have the right attitude and character to fit into their company. They can see you as a blank canvas that can be trained and molded to match their culture and ethos.
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Freelancing
Everything you need to know to launch and grow your business. Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Freelancing is an interesting option to break away from the usual 9 to 5 job and can grant you unprecedented freedom in what you do, who you work for, and how much you earn. Another advantage is the low bar to get started. For a regular job, you often need higher education or prior experience in the field you’d like to dive into.
UX Tools to Build Customer Trust
To cultivate loyalty, it’s crucial to show users that there’s a human on the other side of the screen. Building trust online is a challenging task. In the face of—well, not having an actual face you can show to your users, it‘s challenging to get a user to feel continually satisfied with the experience of using your product. The crucial factor missing from the digital-only relationship is that invaluable human touch.
Python Singleton Design Pattern
In this article, we’ll go over what a singleton pattern is and how to implement it using the example code written in Python. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Design patterns represent the best practices used in software engineering. They are tried and tested solutions to common problems that developers face and can be seen as a guideline to follow. There are a few categories that make up design patterns: Creational Structural Behavioral The singleton design falls into the Creational pattern.
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