skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pardon the thought experiment, but how far does that apply in your opinion? Suppose it's your job to execute the children of political prisoners (I know this is an extreme example) - would you still say that despite it being your hands doing the deed, culpability would lie elsewhere, as the order to do so did not originate with you? Or is there a line?

Also... who is a manager, exactly? Is it the guy who does the strangling's boss? His boss? His boss? Where does the buck stop?
> What would a world look like should "computer programmer" become a recognized profession as the article suggests? Will non-professionals be forbidden from writing code?

No.

> Will we have state boards deciding how and by whom computer programing may be taught as they do law schools?

No.

> Would hardware with open firmware be sold only to licensed professionals as we do with medicines?

No.

> That's an absurd world.

Yes, because you've tried to make it sound absurd. The reality is that in medicine, engineering, and law, restrictions are based on knowledge, skill, and ability, which is reasonable and would also be reasonable to apply to software.

I can buy some medicine at the store, like Advil. I need a prescription for others, like Oxycontin. And some medicines can only be administered by professionals, like chemotherapy.

Likewise, anyone can teach in medical school or law school. They just need to demonstrate that they are qualified to do so. And there is plenty of medical training that does not have to meet that standard, like CPR, basic first aid, even EMT.

How would similar approaches for software be absurd? Some software is more critical than others, just like some engineering, medicine, and law is more critical than others.

Here's an example of something that is actually absurd: the physical systems of a car are engineered by professional engineers, to comply with known safety standards and regulations. Meanwhile the code controlling those physical systems can be written by someone with no training, and is held to no standards whatsoever.
I thought the point of "autonomy" was being able to ignore the whole mess? If I'm constantly worried about how the car is driving, I might as well be a child with my mother driving. How would that be less silly than worrying about the performance of e.g. train engineers and airline pilots?
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>If you ask a 5-year-old child, they will accurately remember things that happened to them when they were 2

That is news to me, but then again I find it hard to ask a 5 year old about anything.
I have a 4 TB external USB hard drive split in two equal partitions. One is dedicated to Time Machine backups and the other has full-disk disk-image backups made by SuperDuper!. The partition with disk images on it also has installer files for programs that I can't redownload on a whim.

Since I can only hold a few disk images on a 2 TB drive, I copy these disk images to a ProLiant MicroServer with a raidz3 (I've since heard this is a bad idea compared to mirror sets) to give me access to older backups in case my external drive dies.

I also use Backblaze; it backs up everything on the iMac and the external drive.

The laptop pretty much doesn't get backed up, but I don't have much state on there that can't be recreated with `brew install` and `git clone`.

Dropbox syncs some things, but I use SyncThing for syncing large files between my iMac, MacBook, and Windows machine. I also use a second SyncThing shared folder to keep my 1Password vault in sync between my iMac and laptop.
A template is a WordPress installation, so you do not have to touch low level stuff like docker configs.
You will basically get a freshly installed WordPress site (the template). Then you do all your WordPress settings as admin and save the state of the template. The demos will inherit this state, but still be completely separated.

You can test it for free, go to wpdemo.cloud and check it out. Feedback is highly appreciated!
My advice would be that if you really want to learn something then you have to do it. The book is a reference but there is no substitute for on hands training. Unless all you want to learn is facts like an encyclopedia, which I guess is ok but I find it hard to see as a good method to learn something deeply.
Remember when Obama was elected? Businesses were complaining ever more strongly about double digit percentage increases in health care insurance costs for their employees. Saying, 'we can't stay in business, compete, if this keeps up.'

The Affordable Care Act was not proposed as some "left", "socialist" initiative. Mainstream America as a whole -- including the "conservative" side, business, etc. -- was clamoring for some sort of effective control on health care costs.

Then, the Republicans made it a political issues. They "lost", and they weren't having any. All their rhetoric and obstruction, not of a "liberal", spendthrift proposal, but of a middle of the road plan that would provide, per their worry, a perceived "win" to the "other side."

Once the ACA was passed -- in its further compromised form -- they did their best to kill it via the budget process / spending, which is a separate activity under control of the legislature (House and Senate). Facets written into the law, such as adjustments to control insurance losses during an initial, transitory period (the demographics and so costs of the newly enrolled not being known in advance), simply were not funded.

That America doesn't have fair, cost-effective, productivity enhancing health care, is a function of political self-interest. And, in a Democracy, said politics are tied back to the electorate, however imperfectly.

Republicans lied about health insurance. People bought the lie. Now we are living it -- ever more.

P.S. Not to mention, blocking actual cost-controlling measures at every chance.

By the way, for all the complaint by insurers about their "losing money" on the ACA, as I understand it, they've seen significant savings due to the ACA in their traditional, employer group plans. Are those mentioned and factored into the rhetoric about the ACA?

Health care in the U.S. is indeed in crisis. At this point, it comes down to a simple trope: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

The ACA bashing pols are simply part of the problem. Witness their inability to offer up an alternative of any substance.

P.P.S. In other words, I don't give a flying f-ck whether you are "left" or "right". You make progress towards solving the problem, or you don't.

And, I see it both as a economic and structural problem, and as a moral problem. A "moral" Right that is content to leave its fellow citizens suffering when resources and remedy are at hand (and this country can certainly afford them, in the dollar amounts estimated, if it makes the decision to), is not moral. It is merely hypocritical -- at best. I might contemplate using the word "evil".
You make a good point, however the real threat isn't "Our Walmart" but "R Walmart" "Are Walmart" "Our Target" and so forth.

I have faith that the app market is so hypersaturated that any scheme that doesn't epic fail immediately spawns hundreds of clones.

"Our Walmart" is probably legit, although probably a smaller harder to defend target and the problem is going to be inevitable clones and scams.

There is also the meta-threat of normalizing sharing employer information. Sure maybe 99% of people who ask for my IP address or a list of ciphers my sshd permits are really not up to anything bad, but it would be bad to get in the habit of telling rando requesters anything they ask. So, among others, I allow aes256-gcm in my corporate sshd config... and what possible good could come from people answering questions like that ?
That's largely a myth, at least in the US. Everywhere I've lived really needs a button or the "Walk" cycle is skipped to give longer turning times for cars. But because of the myth, you get infrequent pedestrians who believe in the myth and just wait until somebody on either side actually pushes the button.
Uhhh... "facebook can't query user data"? Facebook even has the current occupation and location data of users, so of course they can find out at what specific store you work!

Facebook has a larger user base with richer data on them, than the app in the story. None of that data is E2E encrypted, and all of it is available to (some) FB employees.

I think your FUD is unjustified here.
Ugh. I almost bought a Blu because they're super cheap and I thought I would need to bridge a 10 day gap between a phone dying and the replacement arriving.

It's really past time for Google to take control of Android and stop crap like this.
I got two MRIs and those had to be approved by a doctor working for the insurance.
You need base stations to receive the signal. Governments could potentially limit access to those.
I should point out that your link doesn't work for me. I should also point out that it is unwise to claim absolute authority in science, especially the biological sciences.
> I'll also bear the consequences and not whine like a baby.

You are using a throwaway account. Clearly you are not willing to be beholden to your words online despite advocating for us to do us.
Not to mention the fact that Twitter will censor views that it does not agree with. Don't support companies that engage in censorship.

There's already an alternative available, and it's growing: https://gab.ai

It doesn't solve the problem of giving your data to a company, but it's a hell of a lot more open and inclusive than any other platform.
A PAM Module for Authentication with Touch ID
> High-risk venture investment is not what it should be used for. That's what private VCs are for. And if VCs wouldn't want to touch it with ten-foot pole, maybe there's a reason for that.

VCs are glorified gamblers. I think you need to take a good look at how advanced science and technology has been done since there is science and technology; you'll quickly realize it always has direct or indirect government backing - because market itself doesn't exactly favour anything more long-term than your next quarterly report.

> effectively taxing owners of all other cars to their advantage

If that was true, I'd actually be pretty happy about it - about time someone made polluters pay for the externalities. But this isn't true, in fact it's government who decides that certain areas of technology (like green energy, green transportation) should be developed further, and offers loans and grants as a way of incentivizing companies to work in those areas.
I started with a manually-packaged Python function and credstash [1] to store credentials for non-AWS services. It gets invoked nightly by CloudWatch and has been bulletproof for months. I recently built a microservice [2] for Election Day with Flask and deployed it behind API Gateway with Zappa [3]. Lambda isn't for every use case, but for those it is, I'm bullish.

[1] https://github.com/fugue/credstash

[2] https://topics.arlingtonva.us/2016/11/voter-registration-sea...

[3] https://www.zappa.io/
They don't really push Sync. Most people are unaware of it.

I disagree with many of the concerns over Pocket as they are alarmist and overblown. The Pocket code is MPLv2 (open-source) and it isn't "spyware". This is trivially verified by looking at the code.

Mozilla used to have a partnership with Google that accounted for 85% to 91% of their revenue. Mozilla needs funding to survive, and Yahoo! provides some of that funding.

It is a false equivalence to suggest that the way Microsoft or Google pushes their services is anything like Mozilla's actions. Mozilla has always pushed for an open web and strong privacy protections. Google only implemented Do Not Track after Firefox did. Mozilla just released an ad-blocking browser for iOS to go along with their ad-blocking add-on. Comments like these only push that false equivalence.
Its cheap indentured labor as simple as that. H1B is supposed to be speciality based positions for skills which are not available locally. Tell me why all the junior developers are H1b. Don't you feel if americans are given the same opportunity for these positions they will not do well.
Things are getting so bad out there these days that most jobs are never advertised but they pickup H1B by default so no US citizen ever gets a chance to apply or even compete for these jobs.
I can no longer edit my post, but wanted to comment that I just received an invite. Thanks! :)
I'm not sure it's an either or scenario. Personally I've had my lawyer draft up a comprehensive Master Service Agreement but I'm not sure that it replaces E&O. That said, the provision in my document is about work being done in a "workmanlike manner".
Not any topic in particular. Things in my own field I can judge myself and I don't really get to chose anyway but I'm talking about general reading.

Most lists just tell you which books are popular. I'd be reading nothing but Harry Potters if I followed those lists. I'm talking about choosing a book I will like. Not you, not the critic, not the public. Following these kinds of static lists doesn't really fair better than looking at the cover.

There needs to be some algorithm that can be applied to my books which is what I was hoping goodreads would do for me but their recommendations are a joke - they just recommend whatever goodreads author they're currently promoting regardless of what you like.
Flagging this for obvious, one-sided political bias. The bunny trail from Trump being elected, to "fake news on Facebook" story being perpetuated in the press, to this editorial, is just straight laughable to me.

Maybe I made the wrong call, but I'm happy to start flagging nytimes articles with the same judiciousness I'd flag a Breitbart article with an innocent-seeming but obviously-politically-motivated conclusion at hand.
I have all kinds of dotfiles I'd hate to recreate from scratch. Mostly application configuration stored in ~/Library or /usr/local.
A couple of months ago I got a new phone. I had a fairly short list of needs:

1. Micro sd slot

2. Supports sprint in the US

3. Supports cyanogenmod

4. Given those, it should be powerful as possible

To my surprise, none of the 2016 flagships were acceptable. The Nexus line did not have a micro sd slot. Samsung s7 did not have cyanogenmod. Oneplus 3 did not support sprint. Most other phones were just not powerful, slow processors, etc.

I ended up settling for a 2015 moto x pure (style in op). Still disappointed that I couldn't get one with an 820 processor. Are my needs that exotic that nobody cares about them? Or have the phone companies just dropped the ball?
Management has the ability in case of war to even diffuse that responsibility. So who fries for the execution is the person who gave the orders. In a hierarchical system, the person who gave the order and all his higher ups are responsible. That's how it works in the military. There is a chain of command, and those who are doing the commanding are the ones responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad#Blan...
>IMO there is no such thing as a 'Pro' laptop. I've owned MBPs, XPSs, MSI Gaming Laptops, and they all fall short.

You bought what I would all consider consumer laptops, and thusly feel 'pro' laptops dont exist? What you are describing are business laptops. Thinkpads, Latitudes, Precisions, Zbooks etc. You want a new wireless card, you can swap it in. Different screen model? if you venture outside the consumer market, there are varying levels of upgradability.
Granted "dozens" were a bit too much, it was 10-15 over the course of 5 years.
Maybe you'll find more answers NOT with words but an inside talk, drugs are the faster option (or maybe you're dancing with diamonds and demons right now) but LSD aren't the healthier solution to a fast mind-expanded release... can be really traumatic without the right dose and life-style.

Have you ever seen those movies where UN-connected people being connected at the end?

"Enter The Void" by the director Gaspar Noe brings you an ancient idea or theory of how is death after live and the circle of life like Tibetans see, and one or maybe the most close-to-reality theories of death. At the beginning and before the chaos start (no important spoilers), a third actor says whats gonna happen in the all movie just by describing a resume of the book "The Tibetan Book of The Death" and this give you some interesting toughs about how para-psychology works.
http://archiwum.radionafali.com/books/The%20Tibetan%20Book%2... [The book translated]

Shamanic drugs like Ayahuasca and magic-shrooms are really a powerful guide with to understand how life works, "para-psychology" after that seems like a fancy word to something too normal.
Give a quick 30min read to this, the culture reading are so marvelously interesting... https://archive.org/details/SchultesHofmannPlantsOfTheGodsHe... [Schultes, Hofmann (the same as the bike LSD squares!) "Plants Of The Gods"]

[!] You don't have to use drugs, drugs are so magical but so special and hard to control that you can have a really happy and wise life without them and just by informing yourself and open your mind every day a little more. (everything can be real.. )

Out there are more theories, the matrix, solipsism, you been your own good and everything is a reaction of your-self, etc.

what you're looking for are so beautiful, but be humble with the knowledge and careful.
I've heard a lot of people complain about all the shit on the streets of San Francisco. For such a clearly visible and obviously unwanted problem, I'm shocked and puzzled by the lack of action to provide more public toilets.

Why is it so hard? If you don't want shit on the streets, the obvious solution is public toilets, no?

Instead, most of the people complaining about the shit on the streets blame it on homeless people, as if it's their fault that there's nowhere for them to shit except on the streets. What are they supposed to do? Hold it in?

One group of people has the wherewithal to solve this problem, and it's not the mentally ill homeless people who can barely take care of themselves.

You'd think one of the wealthiest countries on the planet would have gotten basic sanitation right by now.
This was before AWS introduced aliases and versioning, think back to summer 2015.

Aliases are still a half solution to this problem though, you would still need logic in your code to say "if alias == PROD then ... else ..." for configuration, something I'd rather do without.

EDIT: by configuration I mean configuration that's specific to an environment. Imagine you had a Lambda that wrote data to an S3 bucket, you wouldn't want to accidentally mix TEST/LIVE data in the same location, so you would use a configuration property to inform the Lambda where to write.
There's a line, definitely this side of executing children, but probably the other side of quitting your job at Subway because the six inch sub is only 5 inches long.
Searching on resolution doesn't work

The CPU model is way to indirect a comparison to be useful

I want AMOLED

Aside from that a reasonable attempt at a solution
To give some context to the cost - between my employer and I, a family plan (the options are single or family) was $14,400 for 2017. That's a high deductible plan that requires us to pay the first $6,000 before insurance pays anything.

Back in my native New Zealand, the total income tax for an average household is about $6,000 USD. $14,000 just for insurance vs $6,000 for "free" healthcare and all of the other infrastructure a country needs.

The US healthcare system is a joke. A joke that wastes money and costs lives.

I took my kid to the doctor recently and a 15 minute appointment was $250. It doesn't cost $1,000/hour for a doctor to do a routine exam.

Part of the problem is the US is that the actual cost of insurance is buried in your benefits so people think that the $200/month they pay is the cost of insurance.
This is the same company that shows employees videos that are equivalent to "Unions = bad, yuck, gross, not even once" during training.

They have every incentive to prevent unionization. If workers have room to negotiate, that means they could negotiate for fair compensation. Reminder that our country's labor history is rife with straight up mass murder of workers because they demanded fair pay, safe working conditions and anything but 12hr work days all week. Even the suggestion of possible unionization would leave innocent people dead.

Walmart has done nothing to be given the benefit of the doubt and to do so is to be willfully ignorant of our past and present.

> for what they pay, their employees are satisfied to an outsized degree

Weird that Walmart relies heavily on the state to subsidize benefits and compensation through welfare, Medicaid and food stamps that they should be paying out to their employees from their massive profits.

They refuse to give people enough hours for full time employment to avoid their duty to their employees, despite people begging for more hours.

"Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance" http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
> Walmart is pandering to fears without actually identifying real concerns.

What part of their concern do you not believe is real? If I were Walmart, I would certainly be concerned about others trying to gain intelligence on me.

> like legal advice and concerns specific to employees

Well, that certainly sounds like a really good way for information, that Walmart may not want just anyone to know, to leak. Maybe the intentions of OUR Walmart is nothing but pure, and hope for nothing but the best for Walmart, but I don't see what benefit there is in being so trusting? Security is about always mitigating the attack vectors, after all.

Besides, why should we believe a service named "OUR Walmart" does not want to know anything about Walmart?
I still have a few memories from when I was 2.

Nothing from ages 1,3,4. I can actually recall things from every other year.
Well, it hardly works. If you want to find a doctor who'll give you Propofol so you can sleep, you can find one. There are enough doctors who'll also recommend you for a medical marijuana licence without actually diagnosing you with a condition that requires it. The rampant practice of advising you to get tests you don't need is also a sign that restricting supply does not mean doctors adhere to their ethical principles.

Don't think I have a vendetta here against doctors. My parents are both surgeons, so trust me when I say my general feelings about medical professionals are overwhelmingly positive. Your argument just strikes me as disingenuous.
Nor any mention of AWS spot instances.
"The sky is blue."

That statement isn't untrue, it is objectively observation with one's eyes or using spectrometers in the case of an individual who is colorblind. It isn't binary, statements can be rated on a range of truthfulness from false propaganda to very objective...and, arguments that are isomorphisms of "all sides do it" are harmful because they essentially justify parties who benefit from such propaganda.
No it means "loop" as in "topological" as in : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-loop_Feynman_diagram
I used to use Arq but i wanted to pull a single 1KB file off it from a computer sitting next to me and the ETA I got was around 90 minutes. I deleted Arq and its backups after that.
The source is hosted on GitHub; there's a commit log (for each file and directory): https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs/commits/ma...