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Can't imagine driving one of these into battle. Seems like it'd be a giant "shoot me first!" announcement.
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Exactly my thoughts too.
Sure, but all that comes at the huge disadvantage of throwing away the ability for someone to just grab a JSON library and access your data adhoc. Now you have to fiddle with stripping away tildes and cache references and such.

At the same time, I don't see how you can do anything sensible with Transit except throw it in to a hashmap/dict alongside runtime type information. This is natural for dynamic languages, but, without a schema, you're left to write you're still left to write your own error-prone structural validation, and can't fully leverage the efficiency of static languages. MsgPack has this problem as well.

Optimising the JSON representation just doesn't seem worth it to me. Avro for example encodes enums by exposing the type names as JSON keys. It sucks, and it's something I'd change, but at the end of the day you're building on a poor transport. Caching reminds me a lot of DNS label compression, or a poor mans preset zlib dictionary.
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Not everyone can join the military, and there are a lot of people that shouldn't.
Me too. Why for example did they use an sapply for column means when they could have just used colMeans with na.rm=T?
In general, I welcome the day when universities get what is coming to them for this kind of stuff (see also: Marvell vs CMU for 300+ million, reduced from 1.5 billion on appeal, etc).

In particular, given how much industry funds them, collaborates with their professors, etc, what is going on now is a remarkably stupid approach mostly driven by tech transfer offices that want to prove their value.

Which will be "zero", once the tech industry starts cutting them off.
US Military Doctrine is fundamentally tied to the Myth of Progress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_of_Progress#Myth_of_Progr...).
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I am a Civil Engineer and I see a problem in the industry so gaping wide, even CEOs of the industry claim the industry is ripe for "disruption."

This industry is so old yet the innovation is really behind. Technology (?lame word?) should be speeding things up and making things more accurate and less error prone, but instead it seems to be delaying the time work gets completed.

Some promise is held in Information Modeling like BIM or CIM, but they are not trickling into the industry at the pace required. And further, many of the present day engineers are not in a position to understand this stuff.
> And it's really hard to beat ggplot.

To be honest, matplotlib seems a good contender to me (http://matplotlib.org/).

Also, what's wrong with comparing R to Pandas/Numpy ? They can only be used from within Python, right?

Edit: just realised from another comment that Pandas/Numpy can be accessed from R, too.
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"She swore to obey?"
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UK uses miles on road signs, pints in pubs, etc. Many people still use stones and pounds for human weight, even if they're in a medical setting.
A recent Marketplace podcast discussed this as well. Affordability was a large factor in why the suburbs are still popular.

“There has been an increase in college-educated young adults living in very dense
urban neighborhoods — smart young things living in Brooklyn, in downtown
San Francisco,” said housing analyst Jed Kolko at U.C. Berkeley’s
Terner Center for Housing Innovation. “But it’s not true of that generation
overall. Only about one third of 25-to-34-year-olds have a college degree.
Today they are actually less likely to be living in urban neighborhoods,
as opposed to suburban areas, than that same age group was in 2000.”

1. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/young-buyers-want-...
Transcript of that talk: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
I, along with many other people have come up with the idea of Nextdoor.com and probably thought of this problem too. Because opening up a site for comments... Well, it seems that Nextdoor doesn't have a solution either. What is the purpose of the site if they are hurting the community more than helping it?
What is the level of accuracy they are aiming for? If it entails have some uncertainty over the precise number of atoms in the silicon sphere, then how did they choose this level of accuracy?
Sure, if there is evidence beyond the victim then I can see the case moving forward. But I'm deliberately speaking of situations where often the only evidence is from the victim, which is often common with rape cases. Which is what started the whole thread and my initial question. It's just that I keep getting hypothetical cases outside that original context.
I was comparing HAproxy to Squid a while ago and could not figure out what's haproxy's advantage over squid? I ended up using Squid but still am very interested in HAproxy, would like to learn more about it.

Squid remains to be the only one that can deal with SSL proxying(yes it's kind of MITM, but it's needed sometimes), and it's also the real "pure" open source. HAproxy might be better fit for enterprises that need support?
For every buyer there is a seller, and the seller is divesting themselves of that real estate. So, every time someone sells a house is a real world example.
These processors have a lot of advanced features for big-time computing users (warehouse scale, super computers, etc). You can't just look at frequency or cachesize or number of cores for this chip. There are reliability features, quality of service features, and overall capabilities that consumer grade processors don't have.

Also I don't recommend you try to outfit your startups server farm. I dont know your needs, but you should find someone who can figure out what you really need.
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I strongly agree with you. To patent an idea with no definition of execution seems too broad to me.

An easy example is to patent an "opening mechanism that requires force" (door). Yes, that's an idea but can have different ways to execute, sliding door, regular opening door, suicide doors.

Now a patent on the hinge that performs the operation seems more concrete. The exact execution of said idea.
I suggest giving a range but with a twist. The lower end should be what you ideally want so even if the employer gives you that amount, you will be ok. Now the point in my opinion is that you come off as "Flexible" while giving a range giving an impression that you can be negotiated with. But if you stick to a fixed number, then it sounds a little rigid. I think it is more psychological than anything.
Awesome, maybe the Brewers need a new stadium too.
When I see examples of that my nature is to immediately question the validity of the story.
Because that's a lot harder. At VWO we do exactly this in our new SmartStats tool - we believe Bayesian stats are far more intuitive to the end user. But we've got a whole compute cluster running these calculations 24/7. For comparison, our old frequentist calculations were done in PHP at page render time.

A formula that can be easily plugged into Excel does have value over a formula that requires someone to write a python script and do a monte carlo simulation.

Evan's method is also nice in that it doesn't require a lot in terms of knowing your (possibly very small) conversion rate ahead of time.
One example in the section titled "Split into training and testing sets" would be to use the createDataPartition() function from the caret package for creating training and testing sets.

He says "In R, there are packages to make sampling simpler, but aren’t much more concise than using the built-in sample function" but using caret is more concise.

Added: Later in the section on random forests he says "With R, there are many smaller packages containing individual algorithms, often with inconsistent ways to access them." Which is why you want to use the caret package as it makes accessing many machine learning packages consistent and easy.
This is exactly the kind of thing they would have put in old hacker movies like Sneakers that I'd always laugh at. I live in the future.
I don't know what fundamentally sets the accuracy, but it's definitely a lot coarser than the number of atoms in the silicon sphere. G is known to 4 or 5 significant digits, while atomic accuracy would be 26 significant digits.
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Thanks for your explanation. It seems my ability to communicate is getting worse every year :-/.

What I meant to say was that I helped my wife during her master thesis (~6 months) with R, in addition to spending an hour in one of the classes.

Her teachers also were novices of both R and Excel, and we had several issues with everything from how R processes csv:s, to just figuring out the proper syntax to have R do what we wanted.

Sorry if my comment wasnt helpful, i was merely attempting to add some reflections from personal experience to the discussion.
I don't know, man. Consider 1 Corinthians 14:34-35:

Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
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So what's the star called? Even if it's just a boring numbers-and-letters name it'd still be nice to know.
The "cheat sheet" comparison between R and Python is helpful. The presentation is well done.

The conclusions state what we already know: Python is object oriented; R is functional.

The Last Word appropriately tells us your opinion that Python is stronger in more areas.
I noticed eventually, but I figured my message served just as well to reinforce yours as it did to argue against what you weren't actually trying to say.
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> Who measures softness/fuzziness of a field?

There's an absolutely unambiguous distinction between the "hard" and "soft" sciences

Social scientists hold themselves to fundamentally different standards on things like repeatability and predictive power and methodolgy than other fields. And whenever that difference can be quantified (e.g. statistical results), "different" means "lower". It's just a fact, and it's one most sociologists will freely admit, for example. You simply can't get the same sorts of results on humans that you can get on e.g. chemical reactions.

Unfortunately, soft/hard comes along with a value judgement that's not necessarily appropriate. But pretending like there isn't a clear difference between what are now referred to as the soft and hard sciences is disinegenious.
I wouldn't "claim obedience" from anyone, but I definitely think that (masculine) integrity inspires (feminine) loyalty. I'm not just talking about sexual loyalty, but loyalty of support and confidence. I have on multiple occasions thought about this dynamic and find it really interesting (protection/nurturing).

I think it has something to do with women's superior empathetic qualities. It seems to me like (often, in my own relationships) a woman wants to be inspired by/confident in my aspirations and judgement.

Obviously this doesn't encompass all relationships or people and I probably tend to attract women who reinforce my own qualities, so YMMV, but it's interesting to think about.
Great read! Moringa School is surely a great way to get more tech talent in the market and help solve the unemployment menace while getting more and more people excited about coding!
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Not really. There is a niche of social companies (twitter,facebook,google search engine) that make money from ads. There is a niche of media companies (youtube) that make money from ads. There is a nice of startups which make money from Funding/IPOs. These niches are a focus of HN and get talked about way out of proportion of their representational percentage.

Most most tech companies make products and get funding from sales (netflix, amazon, apple, ibm, microsoft, 99% of the Enterprise and 99% of small-medium market).
Lots of great advice here I would just add to do your research and know what your skills are worth and what others in similar positions are being paid. I would not add that you're flexible right off. As someone that hires people I prefer people that confidently tell me what they're worth and what they expect. Most hiring managers will go for the low number once they see you're nervous or immediately offer that you are willing to negotiate after naming a number. It really is best to have a number - definitely higher than you will settle for but not so high that it puts you out of the consideration set.
However, those are explicitly defined in terms of SI units for use in the UK in that directive.

The question of GGP was, whether some countries use other metric systems which are not SI. I don't think such a country exists.
The spark workflow is 10% cheaper (24.36 vs 21.88) over 3 years. Is that really worth having to support a non-mainstream architecture? I doubt it.
Except one of the tenets of project management is "what happens if the cost of my raw materials spirals?"
This is sort of a depressing precedent. Do we really want to turn our universities into patent trolls?
I don't think it's that they weren't interested as much as it was that the team they had was relatively small and their compiler needed a massive refactoring to get there. MSVC never even built an AST for processing!
If you allow cropping, you can always do this.

Suppose the tiles are T1, ..., Tn. The "self-tiling" property means you can tile each Tk with smaller copies of T1, ..., Tn. Or, equivalently, you can tile a larger copy of each Tk with copies of T1, ..., Tn.

So: pick one of the tiles. Tile it with smaller copies of the tiles. Tile each of those with still-smaller copies. Tile each of those with still-smaller copies. Etc.

Now pick a region in the original tile that's the same shape as the thing you're trying to cover. This process covers (the whole original tile, and hence in particular) that region with finer and finer copies of the tiles.
If the only concern was that your GPS receiver could fail, then you could rely on your backup system. Either a second receiver, or some other system. (TACAN, INS, etc.)

Their concern seems to be, "What if none of the electronic systems can be trusted?" That wasn't as much a concern when the sextant courses were dropped, but they are now, which is why it seems they're reinstating them.

Curiously, INS (inertial navigation system), which uses gyroscopes, is often turned to as a backup for when GPS can't be used, or is otherwise unavailable. (Many guided systems now can use INS as a backup if the GPS signal is jammed.) Most ships have this as well. Presumably this would be an adequate fallback.

That being said, if my ship were dead in the water with no electrical power, this seems like a no-brainer.
I agree. Once you incorporate the other necessary work and preparation, a well-documented, object oriented language is a better way to go.
Hopefully he got the same willingness to put the family ahead of the self back from his spouse.
Problems with celestial navigation almost caused WW3 during the Cuban Missile crisis - a bright display of the Northern Lights caused a U2 on an air sampling mission over the Arctic Ocean to get lost and stray into Soviet territory at a rather unfortunate time.
Apparently it's just KIC 8462852, unfortunately, also known as TYC 3162-665-1 and 2MASS J20061546+4427248. Snappy names.

The paper says it's 12th magnitude so it's way, way dimmer than is visible to the human eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852
I was a bit more concerned then amused.

Having worked with some folks who do these high precision measurements, it's concerning that they never found the cause for disagreement. Pinning down systemic error is really, really, really hard.

As Feynmann pointed out in reference to the oil drop experiment(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment):

"We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that..."
I wanted to know this as well and looked up the research paper. It's called "KIC 8462852"
HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP load balancer, so the entire perspective of the software (from configuration to feature emphasis) stems from that.

Squid is a caching HTTP proxy, which began with forward proxying but also supports reverse proxying. I wouldn't regard it as relevant to modern, dynamic architectures as HAProxy or Varnish (another caching-focused project).

There's no real difference in open source purity between any of these projects, unless you dislike the stewardship of a company. HAProxy has existed for a long time without such stewardship (as has Varnish). Indeed, Squid's lack of commercial backing might be a hint as to its current relevance.
I remember the announcements back in May, but I still don't see an offering on their site. Can one really get a Linux instance on Power by the hour / month in SL? Even better in my case would be just a VPS, as a build node does need a monster server.

At the same time, if they are "using it behind the scenes", yet not offering it to customers, that would be very bad for brand image. Isn't the crux of the selling points server consolidation? Which of course is the same exact thing "cloud provider".

I still haven't tried it, but siteox.com has it though.
Similar experience here - I have some "old fashioned" ideas but also a lot of progressive ones, I don't think they need be mutually exclusive.

One thing I've realised over the past few years (I'm 22) is the importance of feeling masculine. Not in the generic socially prescribed sense necessarily, but in my own way, that took a lot of contemplation about "what makes me feel masculine?" and obviously the specifics will be different for every man (and I equally think it's important for women to feel feminine in a way which empowers them), but it has made me feel so much more confident and empowered as a human being to be more in touch with my roots so to speak.
>My only slight suggestion is that rather than inlining all your mnesia calls, you ought to isolate them into a separate module or modules or something with an interface. But, that's not really because of Mnesia... I tend to recommend that anyhow.

+1 also nice to have a module per-table because you can have a behaviour for your mnesia tables so that things like initializing tables are standardized (i.e. they all export `init([node()]) -> ok | error').
I'm constantly surprised by the casual racism displayed on DC's ubiquitous neighborhood mailing lists and discussion forums. But at this point maybe that says more about me than my neighbors :/

Beyond the terrible impact of racism itself, I think racially profiling people with dark skin is unlikely to address rising crime in a city that is majority black.
I wonder if any of these tile sets could work in a Tetris-like game.
If they are trolling other patent trolls, then why not?
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> what's wrong with comparing R to Pandas/Numpy

Absolutely nothing.

I was referring to the article title that is was an R vs. Python comparison. Python is so much more in terms of a general purpose language than R is. Similarly, R is much more in terms of stats (built-in) than Python. I just thought that it would be more accurate to call the article an R vs. Pandas/NumPy comparison.

Even though both of them need an extra plotting library to make publication quality plots. Matplotlib isn't bad by any means - and it's gotten better over the years. But R/ggplot2 produces nicer plots (IMO). I'm not sure that I'd export data from Python into R just for ggplot, but I might.
I disagree with R being more useless without r studio. I'm not a fan of R overall, but I run everything in tmux+vim and R is the same way. I prefer it to Rstudio. It's popular, because it makes a few choices which are different many programming languages to be geared towards writing scripts for statistics. (e.g. index 0, assignments)
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That prize isn't needed, as evidenced by the overwhelming gender imbalance in chess.
I find that sort of comment to be extremely counterproductive, because it's totally off the original topic and it seems to be the result of searching for some link to controversy and then pouncing on whatever's found.

I don't really like clicking on the comments for an article about the economics of a chess tournament to find somebody whining about a prize for women players that isn't even mentioned in that article. It's just uncouth. Even if such prizes are a bad idea, there's not worth derailing the conversation, and it's rude to track down some nitpicky complaint to jump on.
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I wonder how accurate a modern INS system is. I'll bet it's pretty good.
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Nah, I'm sure Europe has their own flavors of injustice against its people. It's just the nature of governments.