skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen comments every which way about "Collapse", so I looked for something that was a bit more directly from the literature and found http://www.yale.edu/ycei/arcticworkshop/background-reading/D... . Quoting first from p.7 then p.6 (emphasis mine):

> The development and expansion of the trade in dried Atlantic cod around 1100 AD was to have widespread economic impacts throughout Europe, which probably did not work to the advantage of the Norse Greenlanders who did little if any fishing. ...

> Details of these Norse strategies of caribou and common seal
conservation in Greenland are unclear but we may speculate that it was
part of a conscious effort to conserve resilience and flexibility by
underwriting the farming economy based on imported stock and the long
distance Norðursetur hunt for trade goods. In late medieval and early
modern Iceland elements of resilience thinking in a context of
recurring labor shortage may be embedded in restrictions on sea
fishing. In order to undertake fishing, farm ownership was required,
and the development of fishing camps unsupported by agriculture was
legally discouraged. The rationale was that fishing alone could not
ensure a certain livelihood, and when it failed there would be a
burden of poor relief on the wider community if those fishing did not
have farming as well. In other words; specialization that could
produce a greater short term yield was discouraged because it could
potentially compromise the resilience of the wider community through
burdens of support during times of fishery failure. Similar rationale
may have stood behind the apparent absence of specialized sealing
stations in Norse Greenland and the failure to develop substantial
fisheries. Despite the growing role of seals in subsistence, even
small farms maintained substantial flocks of sheep and goats and at
least a few cows- this was a multi-stranded economy which spread risks
and coordinated labor on a community scale rather than specialized,
individualized subsistence system. Its major limitations were in its
inability to accumulate multi-year surplus in the absence of cereal
agriculture and the resulting recurring problem of matching high
seasonal communal labor requirements with year-round provisioning
limits.
In this case the CEO had been on a million-plus salary for a while, so he wasn't risking anything except the future performance of his staff.
reminds of http://www.raizlabs.com/graiz/2006/09/25/ten-reasons-why-css... (note the poster's name)

and what he suggests reminds QML a lot, btw :)
Implementing an RNN with Python, Numpy and Theano
I extracted the data from the two figures and made a plot: http://s21.postimg.org/8it9wt9ut/Cort.png

At least the 2013 Control and 2015 PBS (the control for the current study) should be similar. They need to explain why the results are so different and figure out what is required to get reproducible results before they conclude the treatment is responsible here.

Also, in the supplemental methods they write: "Data greater than 2 SDs above each group mean were removed from analyses". That is not a legitimate reason to drop animals from the study. It appears they dropped four mice only to create the impression of less variable outcomes (and to help get "significance").

I am not confident this effect would replicate in an independent lab, they seem to be playing games with the analysis.
Finding a taxi in a big city is very easy and has always been very easy. I don't use Uber because they charge $10 for a car seat and I've never waited more than 10 minutes for car when I just call. When my company needed to send people 30 miles round trip every day for 2 weeks, a car service will give you a deal, Uber won't. Uber also has virtually no competitive advantage over Lyft. I think that all this startup analysis is giving way too little credit to the benefits of being lucky.
This was my initial thought as well and why war of this nature is so difficult. Let's say you know where a known terrorist is located. Do you send a drone or risk US/coalition soldier lives? You decide to send a drone and when its in range there are 20 other people around the area of the terrorist. Are they soldiers? Officers? Technicians? Drivers? Cooks? IT/Infrastructure engineers? Innocent bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time? If you don't take the known terrorist out, are you willing to wait another 6-12+ months for another chance?

Who's responsibility is it to determine and separate the supporters from the innocent? The attacker's push is to label them enemy, while the defender would label as innocent. It's impossibly hard to do this at a distance, so therefore, are you willing to send troops on the ground and live with US casualties? Or are you willing to let the terrorist go and risk increased turmoil in the region?

Let's remember this is an extremely difficult task and job, and in the current state of affairs, I don't think there is a right answer.
Vulcanized rubber – Spock's birth control
"Stop writing frameworks" by Joe Gregorio [OSCON 2015] is a nice intro to html imports, shadowdom and other aspects of web components, although his knock on frameworks goes too far for me, especially since some frameworks can use web components as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMWAHzXQnNM
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's co-founder, already tried to make a site using atomic facts. It was called Infobitt, and lasted about a year or so before he closed it down a few months ago. The problem with using the fact as the smallest data unit is that it invites fact checking, which slows down the news reporting. Ironically, if sanger had actually used his system to create Wikipedia pages, it would probably have had more success. Wikidata is not going to work. It suffers from the same issue, as well as having problems relying on Wikipedia's "facts".

As for Twitter, I doubt they can do it either. Their "Moments" initiative shows how little they understand curation.
Those sound like good ideas, but I'm not sure they solve the key challenge of there being more value in the connection itself.

That is, once a service provider has a customer, that customer represents the overwhelming majority of value to be had by the service. Likewise, for a customer who is happy with and trusting of a cleaner, discounts would likely have to be unsustainably large to move them.

Finally, with the middleman in the transaction, discountability is actually eroded. There is really little economies of scale to be leveraged at the cleaners' level and customers would probably come out better if cleaners simply passed the Homejoy cut to them.
The future of news is not an article, nor video, nor particles, nor arbitraging the cost of a page view from advertisers vs the cost of paid distribution on Facebook (yes NYT does this) — it is finding a business model that actually works and that people want to pay for.

Let's go over some of the points brought up with that in mind:

Would you as a reader pay for more for a service that had "enhanced tools for journalists"? No.

Would you as a reader pay more for "summarization and synthesis"? Probably not, Wikipedia and Google already do this really well.

Would you as a reader pay more for "adaptive content"? No.

Newspapers (including the New York Times) are in serious trouble, and instead of playing catch up to look like a mix of every tech service, they should focus on delivering an experience that people actual want to pay for.

There is no future of news without figuring out the next model for news.
(Speaking as someone who worked on the Polymer team for a year, and has been writing React at a separate job for roughly half that)

> The componenty composability of React definitely seems real to me, whereas I don't have such optimism about Web Components.

Web components have pretty much the same levels of composability as React, but have promise for even more. The main reason I say this is that the components specs attempt to formalize a surface area for all web webcomponents libraries to interoperate with each other - though we're not to that point yet.

Many of the Polymer core components are a great example of composed elements (sometimes overzealously so). Shadow DOM and insertion points (<content> or <slot>) do wonders for this. (Yes, Polymer 1.0+ backs off from this a little bit)

React really only composes well with elements written in React. It can talk out to native components (and custom elements), but it's awkward enough that you tend to build wrappers to expose a more React-y interface (value, onChange, etc).

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> I just want an inline iframe, which I know is like saying I want an "inline inline frame". ;)

Assuming that you want these inline frames on a per component basis, we're talking about a ton of overhead per component:

* A new JS VM context (for the sandboxed global and security mechanisms)

* A new render layer (and the the synchronized painting you mention)

* All the other browser bits that would need to be built up

---

DOM is a problem, but it's not the biggest problem, and performance-wise, there have been tremendous improvements in the last few years (Try running your benchmarks again).

However, imagine a world where all elements are defined with a set of public APIs like web components. No more crazy special cased properties, magic methods, etc. Imagine how much cruft the browser vendors could remove from the DOM. Imagine how much faster things would be.

Imagine all of HTML implemented purely in JS, and the browser only exposes the primitives needed to do that.
Novelty man. People will always go after the new and shiny things, even if they're just redefinitions of old ideas.

I've been spreading the merits of the semantic web for years. People just ignore it. I've never been able to tell whether the idea is flawed, or if people simply don't get it.

I regularly go as far as to claim that the lack of semantic web is the cause of all the world's problems.
I am sure the system was designed to resist intentional manipulation by intermediates, but what about plain old telephone-game mishaps? If LAUNCH and LUNCH TIME are represented by one-time-pad blobs that are right next to each other on a list, it doesn't matter how many two-person-locks or feet of steel prevent the operator from learning which blob is the LAUNCH blob because an off-by-one mistake is still easy to make as ever.
I was pro-Apple and anti-Tandy back then, so I looked down on the CoCo and didn't realize how cool a computer it was until later. Now that I'm older and wiser (?) I realize how silly technology partisanship is. Each device and technology should be evaluated on its own merits and not by which camp it comes from.
Deflation is bad because

- you earn a rate of return on simply sitting on money. Doing nothing competes with investing. If deflation is 5%, why bother making an investment that could return 5%? Why does a rich person deserve to earn a rate of return on their wealth for nothing?

- deflation incentivizes non-spending. People will delay purchases if they expect prices to decrease in the future.

- deflation necessitates nominal pay cuts. People are psychologically unwilling to accept pay cuts. This leads to layoffs, strikes, labor unrest.

- deflation necessitates a decrease in nominal aggregate income. Your savings growing by 2% sounds nice, but most people's cash savings is a tiny fraction of their future income. Your income will go down. Own any stocks? Those could decrease in value every year.

- deflation increases the cost of debt. How would you like it if your credit card debt or student loan debt grew by 2% every year?
Video: Cop Violently Attacks Peaceful High School Girl as She Sits at Her Desk
It's funny, but I would have said the exact opposite. Not sure what part of Europe you've lived in, but I found the UK to be very segregated compared to New York. There's a sense that anyone was welcome in Britain, but immigrants could never really be British.
I think the difference is that the times potentially has the ability to execute. Semantic web was a cool idea but failed to catch on even with all the grassroots efforts. NYT already has tons of content with tons of metadata and they have the readership. Maybe they can pull it off.
Depends. The main point the author in the OP doesn't seem to understand:

Know your audience.

"Dumb down" your writing, but only if it will help you communicate with the person (or people) you're targeting. Else there's no benefit to it.
Actually there are potentially some large breakthroughs in fusion power depending on how the new Wendelstein 7-X does when it is turned on later this year. Stellarators are pretty cool and if they prove viable could lead to a big shift in the field away from tokamaks which have stalled in efficacy improvements.

Here is an article about it:
http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/10/feature-bizarre-r...

And here is a great video showing the design in amazing detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqt6u5_sHA
In Europe, capitals tend to have a much less racist behavior. If you go to Paris or London, for example, then I agree with you and it's true that you have less segregation and a tendency not to have strong racism (but even then it depends of which minority you're part of... Muslims tend to have a harder time even in capitals compared to all other minorities)

However, if you go to the small cities, then racism is very prevalent. My wife is asian and when we're in small cities in France (Nantes, Rennes, Rouen, Toulouse, ...) it often happens that people speak to me but behave as if she were transparent. They just completely ignore her as if she weren't there.

It also shows in term of votes with smaller cities tending to vote for parties like the French FN.
I hadn't heard of Prometheus before. We use nagios for alerting/alarms, and graphite/grafana separately for metrics. Would you recommend looking into prometheus as an alternative?
If you ever get the chance, checkout the canal museum in Casco Viejo in Panama City - it has tons of the original surveys conducted that have alternate sites for the canal.

Here's what I wrote after my visit [1]

The number one attraction in town is obviously The Canal and before visiting I make a stop at the museum in Casco Viejo which is amazing considering the tiny $2USD admission price. My engineering background means I’m fascinated by the surveying work that was undertaken before construction began. One map in particular shows proposed routes through Tehuantepec in Mexico, through lake Nicaragua, through a couple of different places in Panama and finally one using a river mostly in modern-day Colombia. The decision didn’t actually come down to the “shortest” distance to dig as you might think, but primarily on how the mountain range through Central America would be dealt with. The final location chosen meant it was possible to create a huge in-land lake and use locks to elevate the ships 28 meters to that level.
One French guy proposed digging deep enough to eliminate the need for locks, though it was decided this would be too great a task.

The museum is so good I went back two days in a row.

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-panama-canal
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a PR calculation made weeks in advance.
"We droned some folks."
I actually think within the next 5-10 years companies that require scale like Google, Facebook, etc. will be possible at very low cost. Low enough even that the project can be bootstrapped without funding.

They of course won't start out at that scale, but given the ease with which one can scale cloud products (or have it done automatically for you via things like Elastic Beanstalk) and how cheaply it can be done, I will be surprised if within 10 years there won't be legitimate competitors to all of those companies that were formed in the hypothetical garage startup scenario.
Your understanding of business models is flawed.

Over is the time where people would pay for content. The new model is for service providers to provide content whose call to action is in their best interest.
The world is more complicated than "the establishment" vs "not the establishment".
These questions come to mind immediately:
1) why is the gender of Matt relevant to the complaint at hand?
2) why is the gender of your other coworkers relevant to the complaint at hand?
3) why is the sexual preference of any of them relevant to the complaint at hand? (note that later the writer states explicitly that she does not know Matt's dating life).
4) "majority-dominated"? Aren't females the majority?
5) why do you find only female comedians funny?
6) comments like, "dumb basketball game" and categorizing sports are "Rapey" (!) are indicative of bias to an overtly inflammatory degree. Even if the writer thinks she never voices such opinions, I'm guessing that they "leak out" all over the place,

Here's a key example:
"... most importantly and egregiously, pretend to accept and tolerate conversation and ideas that I find degrading, disgusting, and sexist."

Did such conversation actually happen with these specific coworkers, or does the writer just assume such by lumping all Heterosexual. White. Males. into one rotting bin? ?

Explicitly sexist (let alone "rapey") conversation in the workplace is actionable. There is very low tolerance for behavior contributing to a hostile workplace pretty much everywhere in the U.S. nowadays (for legal exposure, if nothing else) -- the author gives no indication that she ever initiated or pursued any report of inappropriate behavior to H.R. or superiors.

Anyway, a narrative riddled with comments like, "bro-bots", "rage-y, racist white dudes", "straight male rage against women", or "vast and exasperating patchwork of male insecurity" indicates zero interest in constructive, rational dialogue.

In closing, she includes, "I vented relentlessly to my girlfriends and my gay friends...". I found it unsurprising that she lacks straight male friends with whom she feels capable of candid conversation.
The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
If you just went to that thread 15 hours ago, you did not read the original answers. It was vastly different before it was edited. It was unreadable for me.

68 words in the opening sentence for one of the replies.
One of the major problem with Wikipedia is that it acts like a book on the web, rather than a database. It is impossible to search the content of articles and meta data on the actual content is practically non-existent. This means you can't sort or filter the pages. The live-streams you have read so far are very messy -- as they should be due to the nature of breaking news -- but there are other hybrids that fit between Wikipedia and news that can work well for most readers.
The harsh reality of our society is that as your earning capability increases as a male, your pool of potential partners increases dramatically.

I don't buy the whole (no pun intended) "get a hobby, start improving yourself" mantra either, because I know that the sexual marketplace is just as rational as any other.

Nothing makes you more attractive to a woman than the double which represents your bank account balance. There are of course external signifiers which communicate this information.[0]

Or, to use the vernacular:

"I ain't saying she a gold digger, but she ain't messing with no broke niggas"[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption

[1] http://genius.com/Kanye-west-gold-digger-lyrics
I don't think deflation has to drive wages down actually. Deflation simply means that your dollar (or CHF) can buy more tomorrow than today, and hence unless you can invest in something that appreciates faster than that rate, you would keep the money in cash rather than spending it, unless your expense is really necessary (say food). Inflation then of course means that your money is worth more today than tomorrow, and therefore you are more likely to spend it (and more investments become attractive, as long as they perform better than the currency).

Will wages come down, over time in a purely deflationary economy probably yes. But unlike most inflationary economies where it is usual to have a x% salary growth y/y, I think the barrier to sign a contract that says: "your salary is X, and will decrease by z% per year" is a lot higher. So, if a country has only mild deflation - like Switzerland - the real value is actually likely to go up.

> wages go up (people like that)

That's also not a given, its likely to have a raise in contracts, but if I promise you a 2% yearly raise with inflation of 3% you are not really getting a great deal, are you?

> [..] major demographic issues

True, I see inflation as a great way to equally tax 'old money', and in a way that is almost impossible to escape.

In the end inflation is good for those with debt (governments/corporations are first in line), deflation is great for those with cash (but not necessarily other assets, those will probably adjust to the new price level).
Strong and _Diverse_ leading roles.

Traditionally, the only lead roles afforded to Asian males are either 1) nerds or 2) mystical martial artist
I know neural networks are fashionable these days, but come on.
Note that hydrogen sulfide is in the realm of hydrogen cyanide in terms of toxicity. (Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't have comparable LC50 times for humans, but for H2S we're talking 600 ppm for 30 min and HCN is 357 ppm for 60 min.)

We're unlikely to see high-pressure H2S lines running through residential neighborhoods any time soon.
PuzzlePhone Launches Indiegogo Campaign on November 3, 2015
How technology will change education for the better
Building low cost municipal housing within commuting distance to large cities would be significantly more productive as a long term economic and city/nation infrastructure investment than the BI alternative of low income citizens being forced out of city centers and into undesirable real estate areas.
>These people are going to be competing directly with you for jobs

Okay, and? There's already a lot of competition out there for jobs. A little more won't hurt. Being a programmer is not like being part of a religious order. We don't need to weed out those who speak orthodoxy to the preisthood.

>probably also lower quality software (due to bootcamp grads being incompetent and only in it for the money)

Do plumbers that go into it for the money necessarily produce inferior work product? Do mechanics? There are a whole set of professions that have to deal with this already, and there's no evidence that it produces inferior product.

>And you think this is great?

I think anybody doing what they want to, so long as it does not harm themselves or anybody else, is great.
BL> Would an internal-combustion engine dilute the Tesla brand? Maybe, but everyone said Porsche could never build a front-engine car, and look how that turned out.

What front-engine Porsche car was a major success? The Cayenne saved the company, but is surely not a car and arguably barely a Porsche.

Seems odd that he wouldn't use "water-cooled" as the Porsche Rubicon.
Funny, I just read this in the book The Logic of Failure by Dorner:

> The information a newspaper-reading citizen receives about economic developments or the spread of epidemics, for example, lacks both continuity and constant correctives. Information comes in isolated fragments. We can assume that those conditions make it considerably more difficult to develop an adequate picture of developments over time.

Maybe this is the answer?