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This is almost my favorite tool, barring a couple problems. Its very easy to use, and makes very readable, pretty reports/dashboards. Sharing via a URL is nice, but I really like just exporting as a PDF and emailing them. Here is an example report that took <10 minutes to make [1]. The big problems though:

1. Beta version. You can't use this in production, send reports to clients, etc. when this tool is in beta. A client gets this report and expects all future reports to be this pretty, but Google might just kill it off or it could break.

2. Limited to 5 reports. The majority of agencies/brands can't afford the $100k+ a year for premium G suite. 5 reports per account kind of sucks, and I've had to use old google accounts to get past that limit.

3. Design. Most people simple aren't good at design, so you need a designer to create a good number of templates. Users cannot stray away from templates unless they know what they are doing. While its easy to use, its easy to make things look bad too.

4. You can pull from a Google Sheets, but updating that sheets doesn't play nicely with data studio.

Side ux notes.. changing pages resets the date range which is annoying. Choosing custom colors for some charts doesn't always work.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/1SCUNu1.jpg
I've really thought about this as well, I'd love to work a couple hours in a coffee shop on a weekend. It's mainly the fact that you get to interact with somebody, make them something, and see them enjoy it immediately.

Sometime's it's difficult for me to get motivated to push out code when it's just for myself.
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It's always interesting to think about what is going on in the world versus what people are writing about. It would be a shame to have this ship be basically unarmed (although in time of war the government could just order the delivery of the rounds and figure out fair compensation later) But for me the really interesting question is "What if this is a ruse?"

The gun that is supposed to be on the Zumwalt class cruisers is a railgun (http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21174/navy...) which we last heard about in June of this year. Since that time there hasn't been a whole lot of news, except we did get the Zumwalt commissioned. We also saw some discussion about the Navy's 150kilowatt laser (http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post...) which would also be an excellent fit for the electrical capacity of the Zumwalt class.

So what is the chance that LRPS was there to throw others off the scent of what the real ordinance load of the Zumwalt might be? I agree its pretty low but the Zumwalt is one heck of a power plant to be driving around with guns powered by explosives.
> It is the same for the engineering profession.

In some countries it is that way. I know Canada is very strict about who can be called an engineer.

In the US, it is not that way. AFAIK, there's no legal definition of an engineer, and anybody can call themselves an engineer.
I'd argue that the majority of people are supporting legacy rather than building something new, or something that has been built in the past couple years.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-139

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1476

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6235

You'll hit this bug when your model size is larger than 2GB.

BTW, Recomputation of RDDs may result in duplicated accumulator updates. So please do not use accumulator in your trainer for gradient summation. They know that, but they said they will not fix that.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-732

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5490
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I'm mildly insulted whenever they play a spanish ad. They've been doing this more and more lately. I don't speak spanish but I'm glad they seem to know I'm hispanic.
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Requires google analytics premium which is effectively enterprise only ($100k+/yr), which I'm sad about.
It's odd how the first thing that pops up on google is a 2-month old reddit post with the exact same title as the paper, linking to some NASA community forum talking about a paper being published - but the title is not actually mentioned on the NASA forum.

Even better is how the subreddit in question is very active, lots of posts, plenty of comments and replies - except every one of them is by the same user..

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics_AWT/comments/4ztoqq/measure...
Well the Oculus Rift VR quality is better than Vive and it has a lot better apps, so I wouldn't conclude about VR based on the Vive.
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Oh god the dashboards in GA are so awful, I cringe whenever someone requests one.
I once met a guy in a Starbucks in New Delhi. He asked me about my job.
Me: "I am a software developer."
Him: "Oh no! You are not one of those Indian guys who keep on sending Skype messages to everybody asking for projects and selling services? Are you?"

LOL. I agree, a lot of people engage in spamming others like that in India. A lot of people do just this (sending unwanted messages to "leads" on Skype , email, slack, whatever) as their day job to make a living.
Fun fact: this is basically what Tutum did before they were acquired by Docker and became Docker Cloud
Except I've not once seen anyone use a surface in any configuration but "laptop".

And plugged in, always plugged in, is battery life really that bad on those things?

I recall a fellow consultant in the field whipping his out mid-day at a job and it's totally flatlined.
Online voting is such a bad idea. It's too vulnerable to hacking.
Have you seen Power BI?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12883616

Also, title is editorialized.
After a particularly terrible period at a large e-commerce company that comprised of endless and useless meetings, stupid product plans to nowhere, psychpaths galore, brutal waste of shareholder vale, and enough process to make Hell seem desirable, I decided that maybe I was not cut out for the original passion of my life, i.e. development. I started to take evening classes in accounting etc. with the aim of getting a CPA. I also left the above corporate Hades around that time and found a situation at a quirky startup, where I realized that software development is truly what I love, particularly when unencumbered by process feces. Off by the wayside went the CPA plan and I went on to learn more things in a year at that startup than I had in many years at other places. I also realized that leaving something that I have loved and lived since I was 13 is a little difficult and that the things that were causing my disillusionment were not related to my passion but to various unfortunate diseases that have come to afflict my industry.
Can this be discussed with respect to its technical aspects only? Leaving politics aside? Actually not very much technical information in the article.
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Let's do it the otherway round and mandate label of non-gmo food instead. Same effect in allowing consumer to make their choices, what do you think about it?
I believe this is the correct link for this paper the last time it showed up on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12396595

Nothing new here I believe.
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A human can do a better job, but they are actually pretty good.

I had one about five years ago, and so long as I pressed the "clean" button every day when I left my flat it was good enough that I only manually cleaned every two weeks or so.

My place was ideal though, all on one floor, with no steps, and polished wooden floorboards + thin carpets only.

I expect modern ones are better in terms of suction, battery life, and I know that you can schedule them so that removes the element of having to remember to press the button
An alternate from Microsoft is Power Bi. Much more mature. https://www.powerbi.com
The idea of "healthy weight, good blood levels, get your nutrients" is the goal of every diet I am aware of. But as for what goes in your mouth to achieve it, there is a plethora of conflicting ideas. I totally agree that the bulk of nutrition research is crap, which is why I put a barley and chicken diet, vegan diet, paleo diet, and Soylent diet in the same "beta testing" category.
This election isn't Liberalism vs Conservatism, it's Corporatism vs Populism.
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That seems pretty reasonable - if you can see that someone else can do something you can't, and you don't know how, then there's no harm seeing what they do differently to you and trying that just in case. Correlation doesn't imply causation but it does suggest the possibility.

I know I prefer a much more muted colour scheme now than I used to. I still like my syntax highlighting but it's more hinting than glaring RGB confetti.
You should make this happen! I ended up getting a part time over the weekend gig at a San Francisco coffee shop - it was super satisfying to be on the other side.

I made the effort to befriend the baristas since I see them every day anyway. Eventually asked one of them to teach me during slow hours and I started to make my own drink each time I came in. One of them baristas ended up referring me to a different cafe (allowed me to avoid the awkward conversation of a weird looking resume) and I passed the interview by making decent drinks.
I actually want it for gaming but I'm pretending it's for work. ;)
That might depend on the type of promotion. It's actually becoming shockingly common these days (at least in the US?) to not give raises on promotions anymore.
Unfounded claims about the GMO industry's unfounded claims - not very useful.
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Has anyone gotten YouTube Analytics to work? My authorization did nothing, and sadly that's what I'd like to generate!

Edit: Nevermind, I left the page, came back and things worked(?)
Don't they have the same resolution?
A cube sat is planned to be tested in space with the EM drive:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a22678/em-dri...

... and apparently the US and China are already testing a couple of them in space:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/space-race-revealed-us-china-test-f...
What's the Plural of 'Virus'? (1999)
IIUC it needs to transcode videos into chromecast supported codecs locally, burning cpu on the way (if not hw encoder present).
It would be fascinating to try training it on some HRC and Trump speeches. I am doubtful most people would be able to tell the difference between generated remarks and the real thing.
In a small town there is less of an age barrier to working as a barista or waiter or similar service jobs.
The Google case showed that they had the right to implement the interface - legally, but that doesn't mean it's not Java.

Syntax = Java
Standard Libs = Java
3rd Party Libs = Java
Fully interoperable with Java
Java IDE's
Java Toolchain

= It's Java.

There can hardly be a pragmatic argument against this.

The Google case is a weird one that ultimately involved the nature of APIs and if they can be copyrighted, but by any reasonable definition ... it's Java.

Note that they don't give it 'another name' - so what programming language do you use for Android?

Ask 1000 developers and they will say 'Java'.

They won't say 'something that is exactly like Java, but not actually Java, and which has no name'.

If they deviated the syntax, used a totally different set of core libs, wasn't interoperable with other JVM's and libs ... then I think we could say 'it's not java'.
What sources do you recommend and trust on this topic? On others?
Hangs in Firefox mobile on s7.

Google, you of all can do better.
Generally I play somewhat niche strategy games (paradox generally) that are absolutely not mission oriented or particularly violent (most of the violence is abstract). Every time there is a community poll it turns out that only about 1% of the community are female, which is way below the average of the games you're talking about.

So I very much doubt it's the mission orientation, guns/violence or sports that are putting women off games.
I agree... HRC is a corporatist conservative and Trump is a populist conservative.
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I sort of went the other direction. Went to school for mechanical engineering, near the end of it I realized that software development was kind of fun too. As much fun as it is to work with free body diagrams and simulate control systems in Matlab (SimuLink), the development and iteration cycle with physical product is a lot longer, and you end up spending months designing eg a ball bearing. On the other hand, with software, you can get a lot further a lot faster, and it becomes a constant cycle of near-instant gratification.
Tried retiring. Opened a brewery (beer & cider) and going to run a bar/restaurant; brewery runs well but I just like programming too much. Combining them works well and keeps me fit.
> Your entire first paragraph reads just as well without the word "Christian". One-word proof: Nickelback.

Well no, my point is that when a work is primarily created to service an ulterior agenda (in my example, theology, but it could be any agenda), rather than for its own sake, the result is generally kitsch. I don't even mean that in a pejorative way, most entertainment is kitsch, and it's fine, people are entertained. Many (not all) "art" games tend to end up being kitschy because they're designed to signal and appeal to an elite in-group's values rather than being a true expression of ideas of their own. I think a piece has more artistic merit if it reflects ideas and truths the artist discovered for themselves, drawing on influences, instead of ideas that are designed to appeal to a certain set of people while signaling adherence to group values.
I saw an early video and the assembly line was completely manual. It looked like a person went around the table and added a scoop of each ingredient to his container. With such an imprecise process i can't imagine how they control consistency or quality.
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Ludicrous. Bayesian Regret results for instance show Approval Voting doing quite well even with 100% strategic voting.

http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html

There is even a theorem that, under plausible models of voter strategy, Approval Voting will tend to elect Condorcet winners (i.e. candidates who beat all rivals by a head-to-head majority).

http://scorevoting.net/AppCW.html

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https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/23554
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/4077
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/27526
world war 2, also korea. I guess you could count vietnam if you think of it as a proxy war between the US and russia (same with us supporting the afghans back in the 70s). Oh, also the iraq war in 1991. The second one not so much. Afghanistan post 9/11 was probably needed, although we messed it up.

but overall warfare isn't really about the price of the tools used, especially when the US spends more than the next 5 countries combined. Our strategy is and has been to outspend our enemies and maintain military advantage through sheer economic attrition.
No, they are in different games basically.
Like some dozen others here, if it weren't for the money.. sure, I'd run a bike shop, with a frame building shop in the back room.

As careers go though, what we do is interesting, ever changing, and an exercise in learning almost every day. Oh, and the pay kicks ass. So, yeah, I've thought it. Lots of us think it all the time, but really, we've got a great job, so while the grass may be greener over there, it's pretty green here too.
Discovery and curation of crates is one of the near-term goals of the Rust team. At least they said as much at RustConf.
Not sure if it fits what you consider 'old school' but The Economist has a very nice digital edition with non-intrusive ads and professional audio for all of their articles.
ha ha! doesn't count ;)
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interesting choice!
see: the ruthless domination and assimilation of bernie sanders, the populist-socialist, as indicated in wikileaked emails.

my feeling is if trump wins, it's because of jilted bernie supporters. what happened to all his campaign donations? hmm.
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I think labelling one side of this debate as "pro-science" and the other as not, is disingenuous.

Science at its core is about scepticism and degrees of certainty - never about absolute truth (see: inductive logic, etc.). Using "science" as an appeal to authority to end debate is the opposite of scepticism.

I personally do not have strong opinions about this debate, but I think it is completely acceptable for someone to take a 'wait-and-see' approach, especially considering the number of times "scientific consensus" has been wrong in the past (see: smoking, fats, etc.).

Moreover, it seems to me that there isn't any immediate danger from people who are "GMO sceptics" since all they do is pay extra for organic products. Market forces will regulate this behaviour if any shortages occur; which I don't think is likely.

So overall I find the "pro-GMO" attitude (such as that displayed in the article) to be strangely insistent on influencing the choices of individual's, dispite such low stakes.
Well, increasing the beta-carotene also makes the rice kinda orange-y and obviously it costs some energy from the rest of the plant. Though that's maybe not quite what you mean.

Lots of genes only seem to do one thing. HERC2 seems to only affect eye color. If you're asking if it's possible that maybe we don't have a 100% perfect understanding of genetics, then of course it's possible. It's always possible there's something we don't know. Science does not deal in perfect certainties.

Would I be correct is following your logic to the implication that there's a significant possibility for effects we didn't anticipate and don't understand in genetic engineering? Of course that's possible. That's why GMOs are tested.

Is it possible that there's some obscure, subtle side-effect we won't notice for a long time to come? Yes. Is it likely? As near as we can tell, no. Can this doubt ever be fully assuaged by science? Not reasonably on anything more complex than the simplest of yeasts.

Is this a special threat, uniquely applicable only to GMOs? No. The same potential is present - even greater, due to number of mutations - in selective breeding.
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Good call on the 2012 not 2010 date. I missed that. GPU are not requirements of deep nn. Hinton's pseudo-bayesian + ReLU approach was the last piece of the deep neural net functionality. CNNs dated back to 1995-1998 with LeCun and Bengio. Although GPUs do accelerate deep NNs enough to be feasible on image data (thanks to Ng).
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Did the MBA thing, didn't manage to land an MBA job so I'm back in tech, six figures poorer. It's not a slam dunk by any means, and yes the opportunity cost stings as much as the sticker price.
Surely this is electoral fraud?
Programming is a creative art, and when I say that to my non-programmer friends, they laugh it off, but if you think about it, it is true.

Just like artists, the programmers, coders, developers all design and create new things that didn't exist before, and no 2 programs or applications or completely functioning code will be identical for anything other than a fizzbuzz type test.

So it is natural for the creatives to experience burnout and falsely interpret that as having lost interest in our craft / art. I went through this too at a fairly young stage in my career as I had accomplished a lot in 5 short years. I had the pedigree and training -- internship at Magnum Photos in New York -- so I tried being a War photographer like my Grandpa and traveled to Iraq in 2008. 1 week in there and I came running back. It was a fairly freaky experience.

You think you are there to document something big and consequential to the world and initially it is exhilarating leaving the cube and CRUD applications, but all it is for most part is an online newspaper or blog paying you a few $ per shot. Totally not work the risk. Plus the Radical Islamic Jihadis (ISIS) crossed a new line and started kidnapping and beheading journalists.

I also realized I didn't truly have the stomach for it. Imagine actually being on the scene at 1 of these photographs, and having the courage to shoot, only to find out the media (AP, Reuters) won't publish it. => http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the...
( When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture.)

Like someone else has stated here, we have it really cushy indeed. So don't get used to it and "itch" for something else. Just work on your side-projects, or learn a new language, or simply stop by to smell the roses and live a little.

Your passion will soon come gushing back and you'll start to wonder why you ever thought of leaving this creative, immensely satisfying craft in the 1st place!
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Interesting, could you share how your views have changed after this experience please?
Sega needs to bring it back via Nintendo new classic preloaded with certain games.

Was hoping article was about this...
oh yeah! Thats a vortex you cannot escape!
my thoughts of other work are often fanciful, I keep thinking cancer cures are taking too long and I'm sure my debugging experience would sort that field out. Nuclear Fusion power reactors are taking far too long to sort out, and I'd kind of like to get stuck into that problem.

Then I sometimes wish I was a full time philosopher.

Other times when I've moved between countries and thought I'd take a break from programming to refresh myself.... I end up thinking about ideas around coding and end up coding anyways. So I think I'm a lifer. Not quite sure what role I'll take if there is a zombie apocalypse though, however I have played through a lot of computer simulations of such events and I seem to be a kick ass warrior

... as I said, fanciful ideas of other jobs :)
This is the reason why I am reluctant to dive into the android ecosystem. And i wonder why not more people are?

Your phone becomes basically a giant google-keylogger, with geo capabilities.
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All described in the guidelines.

Post useful stuff, make useful comments.
I'm gathering the data from the official sites, so I'll probably send it tomorrow.
See the guidelines for details, but in particular be civil and substantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Sounds a bit like my story, although I suspect I'm a bit older. I wanted to bail for several years and then one of the recessions led to my department being downsized. Took the opportunity to move abroad. Missed some of the tech work but having a hardware background made it hard to do much where I live. Then with the rise of MOOCs I was able to pick up software skills and do some projects. And now with so much cheap hardware and components coming out of China with free shipping to my location I can do all manner of hardware + software projects. Currently into creating robotics projects for young kids.