jmngomes

Totally understand your pain :| They've recently added some very hard to find prog albums there, like Planet X, Andy West, Liquid Tension Experiment, Mahavishnu Orchestra, etc, but that obviously depends on what you like.

I dislike renting in general, especially something so important like access to music, but the only reason I do it in this case is indeed the availability of some hard to find rarities.

I see user skills and the fact that the tool is drag and drop as two different issues, in this context.

A fluent Python developer that doesn't understand basic ML concepts can easily use something like Scikit to code and build "wrong" models. By "basic concepts" I mean standard tasks like data preparation for specific algorithms, sampling, evaluation methods, testing for bias, or just generally how to properly execute most ML tasks like the ones prescribed by something like CRISP-DM.

Someone with basic coding skills - e.g. knows SQL and some imperative programming - but with a solid understanding of ML tasks, and how to execute them properly, probably has a better chance of coming up with better results than the former, using something like IBM Modeller or RapidMiner.

Note that I'm not saying that a drag and drop tool is superior; you could build a flow-based GUI for Scikit, so a tool like this is always, at most, an interface to some code libraries (Scikit, in this example). Having full access to the actual lib, or just better libs, is likely to be less constraining, and more apt for more sophisticated approaches.

Agreed, this is actually demonstrated by Anscombe's quartet, a set of "four datasets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics, yet appear very different when graphed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet)

Farmed fish spend their lives in overcrowded and filthy enclosures (too much fish defecating and feeding in the same cubic meters of water). Their feed is ridden with chemicals and antibiotics.

It's the same issue as "normal" poultry vs "aviary" poultry.

I personally prefer to eat less fish and meat than eating animals that are bred and raised in awful conditions that optimize for revenue; the quality of the output speaks for itself.

- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/farm-raised-fish-...

- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/01/is-farmi...

- https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-fa...

- http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1663604,0...

- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/10/scottish...

It turns out that in many cases there is no " net profit (...) regardless of subsidies"

In fact, in some cases the jobs that the subsidized company 'creates' are move expensive to taxpayers (due to subsidies) than it would be to just pay the same people to not work, or work on something else that is actually productive for society at large.

Here's a good analysis of the issue: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2018/jul/0...

Perhaps you could partner with https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ , they have different benchmark data for major providers.

In some industries, you may get those levels of CPC on a high value web property, but a parked/error/empty domain will not be valued by a reputed ad network in the same way as an Alexa Top 10000 website would, the CPC/CPM will not even be close.

On the other hand, it's a rather diminute investment, the benefit being that if you ever have to sue someone for infringement, you can unequivocally state that the infringer had been put on notice that the content was copyrighted, thereby helping your case. A meek help, true, but the benefits seem to far outweigh the "investment" of adding a copyright notice to a document.

Actually, IE and iOS Safari are lagging but other major browsers seem to have support for SRI for quite some time: https://caniuse.com/#search=sri

Or an enterprise platform with actual enterprise customers: https://www.outsystems.com

That's (fortunately) not the case everywhere: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

For anyone wondering why/if orangutans are a threatened species:

- Dramatic decline in Borneo's orangutan population: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/15/dramatic...

- Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/10/palm-o...

You can use acme.sh to automate certificate issuing, installation, verification, renewal and some server configuration: https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh

Do you mean Soren Kierkegaard, the philosopher who lived in the 1800s?

This is cool, but it's not very clear to me what is the benefit of using this over autossh.

autossh detects and restarts broken tunnels and uses aliases and tidy config files: https://www.everythingcli.org/ssh-tunnelling-for-fun-and-pro...

I understand this may not be an issue in your case, but vSwitches won't encrypt your data in transit between servers, unlike a VPN or ssh tunnel.

I was considering using autossh to create a private link between servers, because in my case it's only a handful of servers.

Can you comment on how stable a Wireguard tunnel is? Did you manage to get the link/VPN to stay up permanently with little to no maintenance?

Well, it seems like you are conflating two very different issues, but anyway, that's not how I behave, personally. I buy more expensive products less often, provided that those are produced in a humane way (e.g. no sweat shops or animal cruelty involved).

A "better product", in my view, is radically different from a "cheaper/cheapest product". The same goes for professionals.

The problem is that "better workers" is usually defined by most companies as "smallest possible salary".

Indeed, or at least certainly more worthy than a writer (clearly doesn't sound like a real journalist) that drops lines like "going on to publicly bite the hand that fed him"

I wouldn't discount the fact that a lot of great STEM students elect to work in finance as opposed to science or R&D roles: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-rent-seekin...

Exactly. Same for Jack Daniels', etc. I don't get the "surprise!" tone of the article. It's a food item exported and sold around the world, just like so many others have been for decades... :S

In that particular case, it seems that the problem is with how the regulation was implemented, rather than the regulation itself.

It's not the case at all in most, if not all, EU countries.

You have access to healthcare for small fees, and you'll generally get better care than in the private sector; you'll just have to wait longer if it's not urgent.

I know for a fact that in at least two EU capitals private hospitals often forward patients they are unable to handle (e.g. complicated births) to public hospitals, who are more skilled and experienced.

What I read in such a statement is something along the lines of 'The people of the world do not act for my benefit and as I wish, therefore they are lame'.

The hubris is as disgusting as the person's end game is obvious.

This narrative actually reminds of https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/despot...

> Why would a company want to encourage people to make complaints in the most public way possible?

I think the topic here is that customer support only/mainly replies in a constructive and interested manner when the issue is brought to public, e.g. on Twitter, because now they are being publicly called out for their behavior. Appalling, but appears to be true.

On the other hand, when using private channels for customer support you'll get responses that range from being passed around by call center operators that are powerless (and thus useless) to solve your problem, to downright being lied to.

Private support channels, namely those operated by real people, are costly, making Support a constant target for budget cuts rather than actual, professional management (that "investment" you mentioned). Plus, these channels are known for their hostile/toxic environments and meager paychecks, so it seems unfair to expect high quality professional customer support from the "official" channels; but the bean counters made the budget work, hooray!

Perhaps creating an account for Youtube only and/or browsing it inside a Firefox Multi-Account Container [1] would already go a long way.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Something that puzzled me:

"the majority of hiring managers say they make no distinction between bootcamp vs. college graduates"

While the bulk of work at a lot of enterprises (banks, telcos, etc) are CRUD apps with some BPM, I did not expect a (hiring) manager to be unable to make such a simple distinction.

Hopefully it could be the case that 'we don't discriminate based on that' is simply the polite/legal thing to say, especially considering that the article goes to say that "48 percent have not filled any positions with a bootcamp graduate"...

Much in the same way as europeans. It's a universal behaviour, hardly specific to asia...

Or by banning the source, especially repeat offenders.

I find that using a combination of nginx's limit_req and fail2ban over nginx logs is an easy measure that already goes a long way in handling basic types of DoS, like clients producing an abnormally high volume of requests.