skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>... Additionally, the pain of correction can lead to a dampening in overall demand compared to what it was before.

I went through a scenario much like this. Company had a single customer that is dominant, and that customer was over optimistic about the level of demand it was seeing from it's marketplace. Orders grew to large levels, company expands, etc...

Then reality hits. That customer has a ton of inventory and wants relief!

Worse, they could just order nothing and do a sell off for a time to recover, but that may destroy a valued partner, who didn't really do anything wrong, other than supply what they could have seen as too much. Long term, that is expensive for them as they would lose a valuable part of their product line.

The solution ended up being sharing the problem with both parties running very lean while inventory levels drop.

Now, coming out the other side, both parties are far more conservative. Risks are seen as bigger than they really are, and overall run rate business just isn't what it should be based on the data from before. Inventory, sales, and some other data is more closely tracked to answer the questions of "what DO we make?", and "Will it sell?" by both parties, who share the impacts of those answers.

Hysteresis, in the sense being talked about here, could arise from artifacts of an event like this. When things were running high, expansion came either at the expense of capital held by the company, or debt, and both of those have impacts on the risk appetite of the business. It's all moderated now.

That moderation is both real, in terms of hard data, cash, etc... and human, in that raw fear of another instability causing everyone to lose gains had since that last one...

It's been an interesting journey. The reality is a took a very considerable time to reach a point where meaningful risks make sense again. About two years. This, despite the problem itself resolved within 6 - 8 months.

Turns out, the motivation to take some new risks and make reasonable investments is being driven by a slight downward trend in sales. It's not much, but it's not growth. The additional "hysteresis" impact appears to be felt through the marketplace. That big event seemed to dampen way more than one would expect at first glance.

I believe that slight trend is the change in risk / value perception as well as the market seeing the brand fluctuate and that resulting in a loss of confidence, or a crack where competing brands gained some ground. This is hard to resolve though. There isn't enough data. I've made some changes in marketing in an attempt to get it, and or just correct for the trend in an obvious, measured way. Jury is still out on that.

Having production satisfy demand is very important in the vast majority of cases. Overproduction either tends to create instability, or a reduction in value as too much is out there, or high inventory costs that tend to marginalize the value of an overproduction event. Exceptions can be, say an overproduction to insure supply during a planned downtime, or expansion, but that can be expensive money and resource availability...
Both Chrome and Firefox use a star icon as a shortcut to bookmark a page. I find it more surprising that you don't think people still bookmark websites. What do you use to remember links to pages you might want to visit again in the future?
I believe a plugin system was in the works, so paid plugins and the like might be a possibility. There would without a doubt be a lot of work to do on it, it's been over a year, and Node itself has changed dramatically not to mention ember.

As I've mentioned to other people in the thread, if you throw me an email at the address in my HN profile, I will gladly forward it / your questions.
And you think this will work in practice?

Hint: They'll just rip out your code.

I know it may be shocking, but companies are going to do what they want. Replacing the code of even hundreds of contributors, given a bunch of full time engineers, is just not that big a deal.

This is even more true when, as here, the project almost entirely made by a small group of engineers (which is the case for a lot of projects).

Legal infrastructure will not solve these problems for single projects.

Additionally, even companies that have "good" CLA's find ways to be evil.

Doing things like threatening other companies over the "compilation copyright" they claim they own on the work, etc.

So yeah.
Bottom line:
CLA's, no CLA's, whatever, none of it is loophole or problem free, and there is no simple solution to these problems.
the company that payd $1m for the exploit can make multiple sales of the same exploit to various governments and agencies. The hacker collective either dont have the connections or dont want to deal with the NSA, US Govt, GCHQ et al.

Would you want to end up on their list of interesting people?
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I bookmark all of my work documentation from different sites. Saves me if I ever clear out my browser history, I'm not struggling to find links again
First: watch the rap battle. Avoiding (or urging the avoiding) of contrarian ideas is how you perpetuate ignorance. If Keynes is worth is weight in stimulus, he'll be able to withstand the counter argument and win the day: if not, then there's even greater reason to see other perspectives.

Sorry, but not buying your argument. If anything we can attribute a greater length of the Great Depression to the Keynesian inspired policies, not a repair (assuming that is the "fixed" economy attributed to Keynes). For some reference on this consider: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-D...

WW II ended the Depression insofar as its impact on employment, but it also destroyed (literally) massive amounts of accumulated capital. Global quality of life was greatly reduced: a failure by any rational standard. I suspect the necessary economic restructuring for war, and the later return to a peacetime economy, has much more to do with the repair of the economy that anything Keynes ever conjured.

Later we have substantial numbers of completely unimpressive Keynesianesque experiments, including our own current "recovery". For Hayek (or similar) you are correct: there are really no instances of his policies repairing an economy... but could you tell me how many times approaches like his have been tried? There's some argument for the Depression of 1920, but on the whole reduction in Government intervention during an economic downturn is just not how bureaucrats roll. So I count no attempts. To suggest there are no Hayekian successes because Hayek fails is simply deeply flawed thinking; there are no successes simply because those approaches have never been tried. I think the closest you can see are in certain emerging economies where, at first, no one cares to regulate because there is nothing of worth there from a political power point of view (e.g. early Hong Kong, much of the early U.S. even).

And yes, I do consider the "Road to Serfdom" a good book :-)
From my experience, favorite seemed to be used more as an "interesting, but not interesting enough to pass it on to other people" button.
I suppose he refers to information collected with the Signal app alone. The thing is that all information that is sent via Google is encrypted, so it's not of much use. I only wonder how the connection between two clients is setup, and if Google gets to know which Google user talks to which other Google user.
> people still bookmark websites?

What? Who _doesn't_ bookmark websites?
It's a little terrifying that this needs to be said. We are now operating under the assumption that if you are white, then your life can't be bad in any way and you have money to burn.

I guess the propaganda has worked.
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Now I wish there was a cos button on my HP-12C!
The only thing to discourage it would be the better sense of the people in the community. Presumably there are better ways to stop Starbucks than throwing bricks. You have to convince enough people that the place needs to be shut down, then go in and confiscate the coffee beans.
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My assumption on any changes Twitter makes is that it's powered by the hope of future ad revenue.

I see that potential for ads in Moments.

I would guess Hearts will get tweaked in the future to behave in a way that will make them something of value to brands (at least, Twitter hopes).

Similar to brands spending money for Facebook Likes (and thus getting their logos in people's feeds), I see Hearts as a first move towards a similar feature/concept.

Personally I like this change (as it is now) because I've only ever used stars as a "like" button, knowing people on the other end see that in their timeline. It's a very useful social tool for acknowledgement.
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I wouldn't call it recent per se, it's been unsupported by research since perhaps the 1970's. Anyway, I just meant that the support groups lack the backing of research.
If you're worried that she will keep a copy:

"People are worried that I will take your
passwords, but in reality I won’t be able
to remember them ... I don’t store them on
any computer anywhere. As far as I know
there is only one copy of your password."

As she reminds customers on her website:

"The passwords are sent by US Postal Mail
which cannot be opened by the government
without a search warrant."

Interesting article, interesting idea, it always comes back to: just who do you choose to trust.
If you're interested, there is plenty to read on private courts on mises.org and similar websites.
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I 100% agree that is problem is most evident in the US. I think that this is a key insight - since a lot of people will argue that the problem is universal and not cultural. It's like the US is the perfect fulfillment of the biopolitical regime.

Someone else commented that our culture is broken - I agreed.
I think it is very fair PAY, but they specifically said cost of living.
Now days I'm experimenting with client-side nested composition with HTML includes. But I'm also giving ASP.NET MVC 6 a spin.

However you go about generating the HTML that a visitor sees, you still have to content with how to create tooling that satisfies content authors. My position has always been "use whatever tools you want - I'll figure out an automated scheme to convert it". I think that with static site generators it is easier to have that separation of authoring and publishing.
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"Chinese Characteristics. We should set our footing on the practical situations in China, leverage on the whole nation's strengths andwisdem, and bring into full play the political superiority of the socialist system which is capable of concentrating all of its resources in achieving great things."
No, because that's not what the word means, nor what it is generally held to mean by prior precedent.
You have literally no evidence of this?
A former drug abuser starting over at 50 has a fighting chance at finding a "place in society" when that society cares more about how you contribute your time than about your accumulated wealth.
No, many people would initiate a single lawsuit against many farmers. What makes you think a lawsuit can only have one defendant?
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It gets tricky when you have a family member that is in a spiral. You are trying to do anything you can to keep them going long enough in the hopes they will wake up one day and be ready to come back. Not the most rational thing in the world. Eventually we will be able to "vaccinate" people to wipe out the addictive channels in the brain humans will be in a good spot.
I wonder who wrote the survey question [and why] - "What object does this look like?". Underpants aren't considered to be an object, hence they score low; the question "What does this logo remind you of?" would perhaps fair quite differently.
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and then there's FOOF

https://web.archive.org/web/20150825171826/http://pipeline.c...

(Webarchive since original seems down)
That's been happening for a while now. My understanding is that there was a major wall many go AIs were stuck on prior to the invention of monte carlo tree search (essentially, a way of evaluating a better play objective function) and they're improving now again. There appears to be reticence to evaluate the strength of go programs, though.

Here's a chart of current ratings of popular engines on online forums. The rating system is one of "kyu" and "dan" going from 25k to 1k to 1d to 9d.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSBotRatings

Informally there's another rating system the "pro" rating system which is a bit ceremonial but also broadly assumed to be often higher than the amateur dan rankings.
Wait, seriously? Dude.
Microsoft is definately flexing it’s muscle on “tenants”. They are very aggressive upon renewals now, and even large early adopter tenants who got price concessions are now getting hit with big price escalations. Microsoft wants MSRP pricing.

You need to remember that any “XaaS” arrangement is a services agreement, you are a tenant. Just as you must be prepared to not have a long term affiliation with your apartment, you need to be prepared to split when the landlord gets obnoxious. You have no perpetual rights, and need to plan accordingly.
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Hey Wes. You mentioned there is a student discount. How much are the packages after the discount?
Unless you pay me in USD or double the CAD salary (aka be Google or Ubisoft), I won't be working for your abroad company when I can work for locally based startups and tech companies.
You might want to find a better way to describe the death of a person who was brave enough to risk their life to try to save other people.

Hint: these are people.
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Last I looked, no, but the immediate cause of nondeterminism I saw was the zip entry timestamps in the apk. I didn't bother looking further down the chain.
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I'd argue most people were using it as a "like" anyway.
Can't you just keep it open source for non-commercial use and require license fee for commercial use? Or is that too hard to enforce? (i.e. companies use the open source version for non-commercial use).
So now it's like Tumblr. Now they only need to remove 140-character limit and there will be no differences at all.

"The heart, in contrast, is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones."

I don't really buy it. Many countries have stars in their flags/coats of arms. There's no such unified symbolism for hearts. For example Chinese pictogram for heart is 心.
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I really wish that the whole Rat Park experiment this video relies on had been true, and a cure for addiction was that easy, but as I understand it the scientist behind the Rat Park experiment falsified the data to spark a public debate.

The idea was great, but further studies failed to reproduce the original results and all major science journals rejected the paper.

We are not making it easier to handle this big issue of addiction by relying on fals or unreproducible data.
Infinity ward didn't make Call of Duty Advanced warfare, it was Sledgehammer games. Everything else seems to check out though. I'm a Sledgehammer employee that worked on the Daily Challenge feature.
Davinci Resolve is what Company 3 uses (The Martian, Spectre, Jurassic World, etc). It's available on Mac and Linux, but the big shops use the Linux version as they can expand it allowing for more real time nodes.

Baselight is another major platform for color grading that runs on Linux.
There was a huge improvement in the period of roughly 2005 through a few years ago, at which point programs seemed to be making only slow, incremental progress. At the current rate, it looks like we're talking at least a decade to reach full professional status.

I guess Facebook is claiming they're upending that, but that remains to be seen.
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I'm not sure how to square those sentences with each other. If they have the intellectual tools, yet they frequently pretend the externalities are minimal or non-existent, doesn't that point to them not really having the intellectual tools, or worse the ability to interpret the what the tools say, in most cases?

If your screws never stay in after you hammer them then maybe, contrary to expectations, you don't have the right tools.
Well, except that FPGAs and ASICs use the same process as general purpose chips, so they're susceptible to the same problems.
Planet Money had a recent podcast titled "The Onion King", where someone took physical control of onion futures, and why that is the one type of future outlawed by congress.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/episo...
In the past, Twitter didn't send notifications to anyone about what you favorited. They do now, which is weird when trying to use it as a bookmarking tool.
I don't know, I remember seeing that Blacks and Hispanics were hit the hardest during the recession.

I found an article about this:

http://business.time.com/2011/07/26/great-recession-drives-f...
nope it isn't. Kodi is more customizable.

Plex is easy to install, but Kodi is much more advanced and powerful. Atleast it is for my fire stick and home network
I don't have evidence either way, that why there's a "maybe" there.

Politicians lie, humans lie, and politicians are humans. Unless there's some strong evidence, claiming that politicians lie more than the average human makes no sense.
special purpose hardware follows the same rules as Moore's law.

Last I checked, number of cores attached to large memory, on Intel chips, is still going up, and that's what affects throughput on embarassingly parallel jobs, which is what these are.
> This is like saying we'll give matches to children but build more fire stations.

By that analogy, does that mean that you want to throw children in jail for using matches?
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Agree. But I don't think that mutual lack of trust between employers and employees can be fixed, primarily for one reason - executive compensation (which has multiple repercussions):

Many executives are incentivized to maximize short-term "results" at the cost of long term strategy. Once the reality bites (stock is falling, due to lower revenues, due to outdated products), they quickly come up with a "turnaround plan". The stress is on "quickly", so there is no time to re-train existing workforce, which is fired and new people with required skills come in (at a huge price of recruiting costs, ramp-up time, etc).

Executive compensation should not be tied so much to the stock price, as it leads to pump-and-dump tactics, killing companies in the long term and doing a lot of harm to employer-employee relations as well.
I mean "nobody" in the sense that it doesn't scale and people like you, god bless, do not replace ads for the vast majority of websites.

At least not until some sort of shift happens in how we pay for content which I think is imminent.

> Ad blockers mean one isn't prepared to pay for your product.

Perhaps rather: "Your product is not worth taking out a credit card and paying for" which applies to most websites. There are massive barriers to explicitly paying for things, even just psychological.

In an abstract sense, ads are like vignette windshield stickers that let you cruise past tollway checkpoints when the alternative is to have to stop at a tollboth even if it's just to pay 10 cents.

People have tried to create services that replace ads in that abstraction, but so far nothing has stuck. I think the post-ad solution needs to be just as mindless as ads if it's going to replace them.
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kodi has pseudoTv too.
Implementing a Go player using neural networks and reinforcement learning is really fun and taught me a lot about how said techniques work. I only covered the (much easier) 9x9 board, but would recommend it as an exercise to those interested :)
Also, Fedora 23 was just released today with native Google Drive support in Files (from Gnome 3.18.)