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The one thing that sometimes gets overlooked when people decide whether to use R or Python is how robust the language and libraries are. I've programmed professionally in both, and R is really bad for production environments. The packages (and even language internals sometimes) break fairly often for certain use cases, and doing regression testing on R is not as easy as Python. If you're doing one-off analyses, R is great -- for anything else I'd recommend Python/Pandas/Scikit.
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In any negotiation:

[1]. Learn as much as possible about the other side. Information is power.

[2][3]. Salary isn't the only thing. There's a lot more that goes into an employment negotiation. Don't get stuck on an issue, come back to it later.

[1] I knew I was getting a pay cut, and I was OK with that, different company and environment, I was getting more of what I wanted. But I made it a real sticking issue, and was sure not to get too much of a cut, including references to where I was 2-5 years ago as if to anchor myself to. This made HR really uncomfortable as they had no bargaining point, I was the high ball and I knew out of range.

[2] As salary, but flexibility and essentially "50% time" (in Google lingo) was my goal I had it written into contract but not binding on my side. It was true 50% time with no penalty, only upside. I knew what they needed to deliver, and could do this on the existing 50%. Risk on my side if I couldn't.

[3] You may be handed the unexpected in the meantime, as they thought you thought it was valuable, but to them it's cheap (for example, holiday). Exasperated at my calling my wife over every clause (an ultimate hard negotiation style), or having a 'breathing time' break every 10 minutes, and my constantly deferring actual wage talks, they just gave 10 extra days holiday per year. They said I mentioned it, perhaps from a previous contract I mentioned off-cuff, and had no impact on my decision on final agreement. While at the same time constantly signalling a win-win to HR, graciously appealed body language, etc. And then back to calling my wife for every other clause.

I highly recommend Harvard's Program on Negotiation: pon.harvard.edu (I think). It opened my eyes to looking at other ways to discuss things, and how being non-single issue focused really wins the day. Subscribe to their newsletter, lots of case studies and examples shared, all free. Probably not easy to learn in a day. For others reading, it would be a really good experience to gather together some of their exercises (really low prices, around $2 per copy) and practice some similar role-plays together. Sally Suprano, Eazer's Garage and The Consultant most immediately recallable in contract negotiation.
Isn't the GPS signal fairly low-power, and thus, trivial for an enemy to jam?

Or would they have to get their jammer close enough to be in range of the ship's guns (and presumably its loud radio broadcasts would give away its position)?
The point of this article is for a different usage of the Chromecast.

The Chromecast can display webapps (Chromecast apps) and this could transform any TV as interactive screen. Imagine you have a store, you can create an app which display the new products. But instead of having to type the URL on your phone to have more info, the web app could use the Chromecast API to broadcast a URL via NFC.

And for more advance stuff, it could implement something like Liwe. It's a service to use smartphones as remotes for web apps (>> liwe.co).

The problem right now is the Chromecast is only known for broadcasting video and audio while it can do more then that.
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You may be able to distinguish between mood-noun "affect" and influence-verb "affect" by pronunciation. I place the emphasis for the former on the first syllable, just as in "affectation" whereas the emphasis is on the second syllable in the latter. So they are homonyms, but not exactly homophones.

I never liked the verb sense of effect. It always seemed to me to be too much like a managementspeak verbizating torturement of the ordinary noun sense of effect. Obviously, the verb sense means "to produce an effect", but are you really gonna diss the perfectly cromulent already-existing word that has meant that for longer--"affect"? ~

In condimentarius scriptor apostrophe delenda est.
I am also very hopeful for organizations like AEC Hackathon, which goes around the world trying to get people to adopt stuff like drones to scan 3D as-builts.
"pure" opensource doesn't exist: There is open source and there is closed source.
HAProxy is open source, products developed by HAProxy Technologies are also open source for our customers!!!

on the other side, you have varnish plus and nginx plus which are closed source, which means their clients can't have access to the source code, they don't know what they run.
> In our society we're seen as weak if we cry.

Isn't this the case in most societies? My sense from history is that is only acceptable for men to cry at extreme events -- such as death of a wife/child/brother, or the loss of a kingdom. The other common trope for crying is if a peasant or low-level official is begging the forgiveness from a king who is about to terminate him. But in the modern society such tragedies happen less often. I cannot think of a time in my own adult life when crying would have been justified.
If this is life, in a life-as-we-know-it sense, then it tells us that there are two species within a couple of thousand light years in about the same stage of evolution; which suggests that life's going to be everywhere.

Assuming one civilisation within a sphere 1000ly in diameter, that makes 16000 in our galaxy alone!
The only surgeon for 1000 mi^2 isn't that far apart. It works out to be 15.8 miles for squares and 17.8 miles for circles. Make it 10000 and its only 50 and 56.4. I would expect places in the continental US to be that far from a surgeon.
There's a discussion of why the story seems iffy here http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/target-predict-teen-pregnan...
Facebook made it, so even though they are using an RDBMS they aren't doing any joins. They use MySQL just as you would a nosql datastore in that to "join" data they are doing multiple queries and stitching the results together manually.
R is certainly a unique language, but when it comes to statistics I haven't seen anything else that compares. Often I see this R vs Python comparison being made (not that this particular article has that slant) as a come drink the Python kool-aid; it tastes better.

Yes; Python is a better general purpose language. It is inferior though when it comes specifically to statistical analysis. Personally I don't even try to use R as a general purpose language. I use it for data processing, statistics, and static visualizations. If I want dynamic visualizations I process in R then typically do a hand off to JavaScript and use D3.

Another clear advantage of R is that it is embedded into so many other tools. Ruby, C++, Java, Postgres, SQL Server (2016); I'm sure there are others.
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G doesn't matter if you use dual-pan balances, and they do.
The 2 verses you quoted have a specific context in chapter 14 and in the rest of the letter to the Corinthians, within which they must be understood (not speaking/reading/praying in general).

If anything, the Bible has always been counter-cultural in promoting the equality of men and women, and the countless greetings and references to prominent women in the early church in the various letters reflects the critical contribution they made.
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I thought that too but, if it's too bright to look at, you can't hit it. Or maybe you have retreat beyond your weapons effective range just so you aim at it.

Though I'm sure the enemy would have eventually found some welding glass or even oil-smeared glass
R being single-threaded internally may also result in performance hits.
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Eh, projects that finish on time don't exactly get a lot of press.

Just as an example, the NJ Turnpike recently finished a project widening it from 6 to 12 lanes for a 35 mile stretch, and came in on schedule and $200M under budget: http://www.njturnpikewidening.com/
I don't think a planet would be an inefficient way to make real estate. Look at the benefits we get from living on a planet: free gravity, free protection from UV radiation, free life support, huge storage of water. I would assume that a civilization capable of constructing huge light collectors would also have no problem escaping the gravity field of a planet.
One interesting side effect of learning celestial nav is you can't avoid learning some astronomy and keeping up to date on the night sky.

Another side effect is its a filter on people who can't handle math or can't handle complicated written procedures. Its unclear how important that is, but it is clear its a very good filter if you value those skills for other reasons.

With respect to situational awareness, its very easy to own a GPS while confusing that attribute of ownership with understanding where you are, but its very hard to mentally do celestial nav without understanding where you are, what are the present sea and weather conditions. Also there is a difference between merely owning a (possibly GPS accurate) clock or chronometer and understanding what time it is. "I own things that could provide accurate 4 dimensional situation, were I to actually understand the outputs" is a lot different from "I can perform extensive labor and calculations with the result of being deeply aware of my 4 dimensional situation"
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The article author actually wants a Physical Web beacon. The range of BLE better suits the use case.

https://google.github.io/physical-web/
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Luckily, patents aren't granted for ideas, but for specific executions. Granted, the execution is generally defined at a higher level than, say, "this exact chunk of silicon". But it's at a much lower level than the "idea".
It must be wonderful to be so highly educated, so highly skilled, and so highly experienced that you can have any job you want.
[I guess I'll chat up Microsoft on the computer]

[SWEET MOTHER OF JESUS]: One of the updates was for the NVidia card. Now my screens are blank. No idea what is going on, since I can't see the chat application.

[Live update] More optional updates. Hour mark 3 today.

[Live update] Looks like Skype is one of the required optional updates. Now we're checking for more updates.

[Live update] Twenty minutes and the optional updates have completed downloading. Is hoping a technical approach?

[Live update] Apparently there are "optional updates" that needed to be installed. Their download has been stalled at 97% for fifteen minutes.

I probably should mention here that the machine also has two monitors. When the tech opens a new tool. Sometimes it shows up on the other monitor. Then I have to move it.

The techs also like to open Windows update in full screen. This obscures the chat dialog.

[Live update] New tech is running upgrade via windows update. Another 2.8 gigs. Almost three hours today. Five or six hours overall.

[Live update] Something else didn't work. Required reboot. Now with a different tech...or maybe it's the first.

[Live update] The second pass at installation failed with the same error code. The tech is going to try something else.

---

The Black Beast is a Dell Precision T7400 with 2x E5405's and four hard disks [0] It boots via Grub2 [1]. For Windows, it then boots to the Windows Bootloader and to Windows 8.1 or XP Professional x64 [2]. I'm upgrading as I type this on my laptop, for some definition of "upgrading".

I've been fooling with the upgrade off and on since Sunday. Right now, Microsoft is remoted in and rerunning the update...something I've done more than half a dozen times already. They did some mild Powershell fu first.

And it failed with the helpful 80070002 "Windows Update ran into a problem". Now the tech has restarted the install...it's 2.8 gigs of download every time because the installer doesn't cache the files.

I will say that Microsoft is trying. We're already into an hour and a half of tech support today plus a half an hour or so yesterday. And that machine is certainly a corner case.

[0]: Two are hardware mirrored via the motherboard.

[1]: There's Ubuntu Studio 15.04 and CentOS 6 on their own partitions.

[2]: The Windows 8.1 was an upgrade over an existing 8.0 upgrade to OEM Windows 7.
This is interesting to listen to, b/c Eno is well-known and has some interesting observations and ideas, but as far as his main idea, that art is play, he seems tragically unaware of the sexual implications of "hair styles, boob jobs, music," It's not merely play, it's demonstrations of reproductive fitness. Even when he talks about two females on a bus "synchronizing." How can he be so oblivious?

It's ironic b/c he begins the discussion invalidating the idea that art is an "industry," in order to enable it to merit value under contemporary economic systems, but then spends his time constructing an alternate view in which art has value as "play." And this definition of culture as a collection of rituals has already been thought by people hundreds of years ago. Rituals are a subset of culture, not an ersatz.

I'm only halfway in so far...
Life might be common but intelligent life might be rare. Of all the countless species on this planet, only a handful (if even) have developed the ability to control fire and construct tools; considering how expensive it is on the organism, it might not be a generally successful evolutionary mutation. We might be an extraordinarily rare aberration.
People who are there just for the paycheck are going to make up the majority of employees all over the world.
That's a fair point. I was thinking cameras usually use a raw format, but that's not true of many devices.
Instead of making your TV a smart TV, it lets your smartphone be smart on a bigger screen.
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Please don't try to tell me what I do or don't need to feel.
YES! Too! This would be awesome if it was implemented into the Chromecast. But I guess it's not the market that Google is targeting.
Perhaps. Still a good article and a most intriguing find.
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>The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university

So it's a university [mainly] funded by the tax-payer. How can it be that the research of this university isn't in the public domain? The public paid for it, the public should reap the benefits without paying again.

Sure, Apple tries their hardest not to pay taxes, but the patent isn't limited to them.
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That's not practical.

"I haven't received my package!"

"Well, we sent it 2 weeks ago"

"What address did you send it to?"

"Don't know"

EDIT:
Also, "Why does this shopping website require me to re-input the shipping address every time I want to buy something? Why can't it remember it like every website used to?"
Not that much of a problem for defensive positions. They can be fortified, and successfully attacking a tank is difficult either way, especially for an amphibious force with limited munitions and firepower available.

And without night vision gear (prototypes were only available by 1945), the only options are flares (which would aid attackers as much as defenders), or search lights (which are much harder to destroy this way).
NFC is unnecessary for what the OP is talking about. The chromecast can advertise itself to mobile phones with inaudible audio or with a hidden QR code on the screen.
I wonder if he feels slightly foolish right now. In fact I wonder if there's anyone (other than Private Eye in the UK) who make a point of calling famous\influential talking heads on their bullshit long after it'd otherwise be forgotten
> There are many talented developers in R but it's not quite a deep open-source ecosystem and community yet.

Every language has third party packages that are primarily the work of one person.

I'm sure your statement is true for some definition of deep but I don't agree.
The possible accuracy is limited by uncertainty over mass of IPK(International Prototype Kilogram), which is 20 ppb. You cannot measure the number of atoms in a kilogram of silicon better than that, because a kilogram is defined by IPK.

20 ppb translates to uncertainty of about 10000 trillion atoms. The number will be set to a round number, because any number within trillions is compatible with the legacy standard.
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I agree, it will be truly sad if it never happens.
So why is it no longer in use? Seems to me that emitting an extremely bright flashing light is a great way to disorientate enemy infantry in close quarter combat scenarios.
> Though I'm sure the enemy would have eventually found some welding glass or even oil-smeared glass

You don't exactly carry either for an amphibious assault. And once beaten back, there likely wouldn't be a second attempt.
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That "bike friendly" apartment block looks extremely pedestrian hostile
I wonder if modern fighter pilots still need to learn old NDB and ADF radio beacon navigation? In a modern jet, I assume that if your computer-aided nav systems are non-functional, the plane is probably non-functional as well?
Agreed. People make more of a deal about this than it is. If you are actually doing business overseas or own an actual operating business corporation overseas employing people (depending on the country), US paperwork looks relatively benign.

The real harm for business people overseas is that opportunities may be closed for you to invest in other businesses or to join a board or something because your status as a US Person causes a burden for others. At the 100 million dollar level I imagine this is not a big deal but at the startup and smaller growth company level it seems problematic. This reduces the opportunity for soft diplomacy and representing the brand of America to foreign people of means and substance.

I would be curious to know if you have experienced or anticipate experiencing this. Perhaps where you are is more closed to foreigners but there are countries where foreigners do lots of business. Have you been invited to invest or participate in boards?
It's really a blast to see the old cars, and the adult race is fun because then you can see some really great adult designs.
You need 15 triggers to go from 32768 Hz to 1 Hz. Existing circuit uses 4 triggers to divide 60 Hz by 10 and another 3 to divide by 6. You can repurpose those so you only need 8 extra triggers. Two transistors each means 16.

You can also save 6 transistors from existing dividers because all divisions are by 2. So net total is 10 extra transistors for division, plus at least one in the oscillator itself.
It's true, which is why I don't generally use the term myself. I was just trying to clarify the point.
The only reason I mention the Chromecast is because it's a quite popular device, cheap, easy with an existing ecosystem of apps.

But yes, this would work with anything able to display a webpage (:Raspi..) :)
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Its also one thing, taking a sight on land but a whole other thing doing it on the ocean when the ship is rockin' and rollin'. That takes practice, too.
Yeah it is just getting old. A pedant picks up on a single spelling mistake in three paragraphs of perfectly fine text, and it's a matter worthy of commentary. No matter how politely it's phrased, or how elegantly the correction presented, that's just plain ignorant.

The fact that it got upvoted too just illustrates the commentariat are more interested in style over substance.
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Tell me how. What do you use it for? What's cool about it for you?
What exactly is it about the things you've listed that makes them important? The majority of successful businesses that I've seen launch broke pretty much every point on that list when they deployed their first version, and most didn't fix them for months (and years) afterwards.

If I was making a similar list it'd be something like:

1. Does the product do something useful yet?

As soon as the answer is "yes" then you should launch. That's it.
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> For things like the '__VA_ARGS__ chaos' and 'Elimiated Types' on the other hand there is no fix (that I know of), but I'd argue such constructs do not have a place in modern C++ (or maybe even any C++ for that matter) anyway and they should be avoided by the users and as such should never turn into problems.

The point is that massively popular libraries (Windows SDK, boost) depend on or work around the broken behavior. This attempt to ignore the problem by calling it insufficiently modern is impractical for folks who need to care in the real world.
... oh ffs.
If an enemy has managed to fry or otherwise interfere with the electronics of calculators, you expect that the balls of mostly water will have other, more serious, issues.
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> It really sours the outdoor experience.

Man, this is going to come off as snarky, but that is the outdoor experience. Put your food up, if not for the bears you're more than likely not going to see, then for the raccoons you most likely will. Bear spray? Not unless I'm somewhere that might have grizzlies, and even then the stuff is a last resort when all other precautions have failed (read the label about the usage range: close enough that you're about to be mauled). I've never looked up reports of bear activity; I assume they're always out there.

"Might encounter a predator", but overwhelming odds are you wont. Fifteen years of tromping around the woods of WA, trail running and hiking, I've seen one brown bear that wanted nothing to do with me. I'm sure I have more to worry about from my fellow drivers on the way to the trailhead than I do from bears and wolves.

We all have our personal worries, and one should pack accordingly. Non-human predators are low in my list of things I pack for. YMMV.