skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "very few experts saw it coming" claim is patently false. "Very little media and popular attention was paid to the warnings from experts -- coming from several different economic approaches -- that saw it coming because there was lots of financial interest of lots of powerful people in not having people concerned about it" would be more accurate, but kind of undermine the idea that new models are a solution.

Which is not to dismiss the value of "big computing" and agent-based modelling in economics, just that the Great Recession wasn't a failure of experts to see where the course led that can be mitigated by having better models.

In any case, if you want to proceed that agent-based modelling can do better for macroeconomic modelling, than, well, we don't need long advocacy pieces, we need published research. There's sort of an aside in the article that seems to suggest that the authors think that economics research funding is inadequate, which, if it's a real issue the authors are concerned about, is probably a more fruitful subject for a long advocacy piece than "we need this particular kind of model for this domain, even though we can't point to a model of this type that does better in the domain than existing models, just some good models in related-but-distinct domains."
Since python3 is not backwards compatible with python2, why didn't the python devs leverage the opportunity for creating a more performant non-GIL runtime for python3?
At that level, I would actually guess that it's more likely that an assistant would prepare the documents to be rubber stamped. It's not perfect, but at least something has to be done.
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Do you have any opinion on GYP, as used by Node.js and (last time I checked) Chromium? It seems to be particularly good at producing a large binary made up of a complex graph of static libraries.
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I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me the difference between governments and stationary bandits.
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It's absolutely possible but just a matter of available time/resources to support additional architectures. Prior to the latest release it was x86 only. The components of the desktop environment are fully portable since a lot of it is interpreted rather than compiled and the Mezzo desktop does run well on the rPI.
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Radiation for one, but apart from that, in 2015 we don't even go beyond low earth orbit and we'll just have to wait and see but I'm guessing that no one will ever go to Mars.

No actual people have gone to Mars because its prohibitively expensive but also so incredibly unbelievably hard technically it will never happen.

Also undesirable. Why the heck would we want to colonise Mars? It's a desert where we can't live without life support. It's just sci fi to imagine we can or that it would be of value or sustainable. Earth is our home and will be forever.
Bah. Paywall.

And yeah, I still play video games. And I'm a scientist. Actually, video games probably helped develop my scientific mind. I wish video games wouldn't be equivalent to drivel in the eyes of casual observers. There is so much more to gaming.
I think of long ago when people would put in countless hours on projects because they had less distractions. But I've also found people will still put in countless hours on projects. Including grinding on xbox games, but also electronic and web / digital / app building feats. Even if we have less scientist types and more distracted types, we have a way to instantly connect the ground breaking scientist / builders so that their work can be modified by us less gifted distracted losers.
Indeed. To take an example close to my own pocket book, consider the epipen (400%+ price increase in recent years) : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-23/how-market...
Hint: there's a link just under the title labelled "web" that does the same thing.
For evolution, what is important is that you survive and have good health long enough to have offsprings. The vast majority of people, even in modern times, have their children before 50 years old (because women have this hard limit in their fertility). So there was never an evolution pressure to make our body function propertly after that time.
Stripe Checkout. Simple to get started and implement. But you are going to have to build/host the pages.
Overcompensating by treating animals well isn't a valid rationalization for anything which comes next, regardless of benefit.
So what you're saying is that not trying hard will leave them starving, posdibly dead? Sounds like pretty strong incentive to try hard ...
Absolutely. Right now I am heads down to get the new rewrite released in January. Then the focus will be back on building the community, bringing on some more volunteer developers and putting together good documentation.
I've never worked with MBAs before, in all my tech career, which included stints as a programmer and then a long period as a manager/director where I was in a much more business-oriented role. I always had a preconception that "MBA" essentially meant "management consultant", those high-priced guys who were paid to support bad news the CEO didn't want to seem came from himself. Restructuring advisement is certainly a valid role business consultants fulfill, but it's definitely not the only one, or even one of the more common ones.

I joined Google this summer and I have 2 ex-consultant MBAs in the team I'm managing, along with a third employee who is ex-BCG-but-no-MBA. They are awesome. They freaking rock at analysis, and are highly skilled at asking good & pointed questions to help nail down business opportunities & good/bad ideas. Two of them have technical BSes (EE & CS) and are fantastic PMs: well organized, analytical, strong communicators, outgoing, and perhaps most importantly, they know when they're weak in an area and how to recruit complimentary team members.

This by no means should be considered advice that everyone needs an MBA, that all MBAs are equal, that all tech PMs need an MBA, or even that all Google MBAs are good at their jobs, but MINE ARE, and they'd be much less proficient if they hadn't spent that extra two years in business school (along with tech internships both years). Just like everything else, people need to set goals and work appropriately to achieve them. For some individuals this will suggest an MBA; for many others, not so much.

Honestly, the biggest piece of business school advice I'd offer anyone is that if you can't get into or afford a top tier school, don't bother paying a school at all. Just try to DIY it the best you can. The gap between what students get out of the tier 1 programs and everything else (with a few notable exceptions) is immense.

I'm not counting exec MBA programs at all. They're specifically targeted at people who are already execs and just look to amp up certain skills (M&A, international development, etc).
> more performant non-GIL runtime for python3

Because making one of those those is a huge amount of work, may introduce more serious backwards incompatibilities (like C extensions), and not everyone has the knowledge of how to do it so they'd need to either learn from scratch themselves or find people interested in doing it for them.
This scientist was raised in the Nintendo/ TV age, but with parents who limited my time at such activities. Spending time outside was mandatory. Boredom followed by inventing games/tearing stuff apart was frequent. There's certainly no 100% foolproof method to raising a scientist (and I think that'd be a terrible parenting goal :), but there may be things to learn here.

It would be fascinating to have a study of current 25-35 year olds occupations and parenting rules. Perhaps it's been done? (a few rules that could be asked about "limited screen time", punishment (e.g. spanking, timeout), being sent "outside", etc...).
Removing the GIL is a difficult problem: http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/...
It is about how you get old. Keep in shape and your brain sharp and you will be fine.
You are very likely onto something, but most antiques, the mid-range mentioned in the article, typically aren't that expensive.

I've been on a quest to replace my bookshelves with stackable, glass fronted cases. Antiques are both cheaper and higher quality than modern, new furniture. (I also have too many desks at this point, but that's mostly a personal problem.)
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As a non-hardware backer myself, I'm not hugely bothered.

But many of us did a non-hardware-tier backing to receive the cool technical updates, which will now be scaled back or discontinued.

Personally, I'm hoping we get a discount voucher when the hardware ships.

Regardless, I'm happy enough. I just wanted to support their vision. CastAR has an interesting origin story, going back to Valve getting Jeri Ellsworth to effectively build a Valve hardware division.

AR/VR is an exciting field for a spectator, and it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.

Edit:
http://castar.com/kickstarter-faq/

>In addition, many of our Backers were excited by the high level of technical communication we initially provided. However, as the project moved out of R&D and into commercial hardware development and production, that level of communication was no longer possible and the amount we communicated to our Kickstarter supporters had to change. We are sorry that the intense level of information is no longer possible, but we do still want to keep a channel open. Regrettably it can no longer be at the former level.
"And it was tragedy."

That sounds quite positive compared to my experiences with code generated from UML.
I recommend a hand-crafted configure script, which provides the same usage interface to package builders, without Autocrap:

E.g.:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/configure
Is there a way to do it? My understanding always was that removing GIL means that the code that runs single-threaded (which is like 95% of Python code out there) will get a performance hit.
Isn't blocking a form of communication for millions of citizens also a gross infringement on freedom of speech? I don't know what legal rights the Brazilian Constitution reserves for its citizens vs the U.S., but blocking a service individuals use to communicate with others on seems to fall within that realm.
Possibly ironically, here was the comment above the previous implementation

https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/2755c5a1b1cf7fc4c5...

//
// This class is used to generate a stream of pseudorandom numbers. The class
// uses a 48-bit seed, which is modified using a linear congruential formula.
// (See Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3, Section 3.2.1.)

It's still not entirely clear why this particular algorithm was chosen (it'd been cool if some explanation had been given in this blog post). I suspect the reason was related to the fact that, in javascript, you can only multiply two 16 bit numbers without fear of loss of precision (without doing a fair amount of gymnastics), and they wanted something they could easily port into pure javascript to be used as a optimizer test. As partial support for that theory, the new code has now been put back almost entirely into the C++ layer.

Then again, the author might be looking at that commit and wondering "Why did we pick that algorithm?" :)
I'm sure in no small part that is due to the fact that often teacher pensions are based on the last several quarters/years of pay, and without a teacher's union pumping up teachers' salaries based strictly on age and tenure as opposed to skill, it was get out now or risk a lower pension payment in the future.
Wow. No. Just no. This comment is so wrong, to remotely compare any of these things to smoking and drinking. And even if we stipulate (even if, since the science is poor) that these are contributing factors, nobody thinks they increase risk enough to make a dent in the statistics we're talking about here.
OSes don't guarantee exactly how rand() behaves, do they?
I don't agree that the only value of space exploration is as precursor to sending people.
I'd also add that loss aversion's supposed "reference dependence" is addressed by a more fundamental concept, a cognitive bias: anchoring[1].

It's interesting how these (especially pertaining behavioral economics and behavioral studies in general) create compound ideas from combinations of various fundamental ideas. Sometimes, it adds value. Other times, it simply obfuscates the truth.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
I think that too.

The ones who pledged for hardware will get a fair return from their investment - free glasses or they will get even if CastVR still fails to deliver.

Other supporters also managed to succeed as it looks like CastVR got a good traction.
Some simple things like compiling a single file with specific options quickly get needlessly complex, IIRC.
Hm, you're right, largest chunks are said to be several meters in diameter. They'd probably have to drag the rings with a ginormous net to achieve the same volumes.

For propulsion, I would go with a solar sail. Use it to get the craft to the rings, then it becomes a net to scoop up the water ice, and the craft could harvest the water for fuel to get home.

You could get a whole army of these things flying back and forth, and within a century or so, Mars could, as you suggest, become terraformed.
This article lays out those failures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
> I know nothing of Brazilian law, but in America, criminals have rights, including the right to privacy.

I think your post rests on uncharitably interpreting what he means by absolute rights. Your post itself is a demonstration that the right to privacy is not absolute - if the criteria you describe are met, a wiretap can be permitted. He was talking about the fundamental question of whether or not a state has the right to set and apply those criteria (at least, within reasonable limits) within its borders.
BUT it makes for pet chimpanzee super smart and and ruins human civilization, setting up en epic battle between apes and men.
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Autotools works for Windows and Android NDK builds.

No idea about iOS.
Thanks for this! This post flew under my radar, but I've been essentially writing my own es query constructor because of the sorry state of elastic.js. I'll definitely keep an eye on your project.
I think Sheryl might be missing the point that it depends with where you're coming from. Career paths differ and I think it's hyperbolic to reduce it to one "true" way and discredit some things from a privileged position.

A lot of top execs do have the credentials often dismissed so I'm not personally sure they'd be there without that kind of education.

The value of attending business school (assuming it's a top school) might be more related to "outside" factors such as more opportunities, tapping into good networks and of course, involvement in different disciplines with all the resources you need to grow your thinking and expertise.

What I am concerned about is that some statements can easily be taken the wrong way by people who honestly would benefit from MBAs. Facebook not choosing or using an MBA as main criteria is fine, but Facebook is not the only company that matters and i'm sure having an MBA does also not discredit you in their eyes.
You're missing the point.

- I didn't steal your money

- I didn't steal your money

- I didn't steal your money

- I didn't steal your money

- I didn't steal your money

In each case, there is an implication that is missing in the flat, no stressed version.
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The hatred is not really cargo-cult-like - you can understand it and still not be happy with it. That said, thinking about what it would take to replace it helped me come to an admittedly somewhat grudging acceptance of it. The testing alone...
> We have decided as a team that a change as big as unicode/str/bytes will never happen so abruptly again. When we started Python 3 we thought/hoped that the community would do what Python did and do one last feature release supporting Python 2 and then cut over to Python 3 development for feature development while doing bugfix releases only for the Python 2 version.

I'm guessing it's not a coincidence that string encoding was also behind the Great Sadness of Moving From Ruby 1.8 to 1.9. How have other mainstream languages made this jump, if it was needed, and were they able to do it in a non-breaking way?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162122
>The society where "elders" were regarded as wells of wisdom probably never existed.

Historically, the Greeks (as one example) respected the opinions of wise elders,

"Monarchies in ancient Greece were not absolute because there was usually a council of older citizens (the senate, or in Macedonia the congress) who gave advice to the King."

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece

From my own experience, I always sought adults that I felt I could learn from. Even as a kid, I remember thinking some older people gave bad advice and some showed great insight and used this to focus my attention. My own kids seem to echo similar sentiments to my own at the same age.
Compared with other established democracies. It may not be easy to see superficially, again, if refer you to Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy.
Me too. I played tons of xbox in high school (Halo 2/3 CoD 4), but when I went to college my gaming time went essentially to zero. However I decided to pick up CS because I thought it would be really cool to understand how computers and game systems worked.

I just recently graduated and picked up the new xbox since I have some free time now. I ran into an issue playing Halo 5 where I kept getting disconnected from the game, and it turns out it is a bug in the networking software in combination with the "instant on" feature that was causing it. My networks class gave me a decent enough background where I can actually understand the bug is. I thought that was pretty cool!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=931438
It seems to me that defaulting to a non-CSPRNG these days is a premature optimization: for many purposes a decent CSPRNG (e.g. Fortuna) is fast enough, and avoids all the pitfalls of a non-secure or poorly-random generator.

Maybe it's time to have Math.random and equivalents call a CSPRNG, with a Math.insecurerandom when performance matters?
He "refused to explain exactly what products and applications ...for fear that a big company like Google might gain an advantage".

Does this actually happen, or is it baseless paranoia?
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A slightly unrelated question; are there any companies out there that are working on a replacement for mouse models in disease research?

I'm think more in terms of computer simulation?
Why not just keep calling it (the popular definition) "loss aversion", and name the other concept with the more precise "reference dependence"?
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> One trip to Houston or Minneapolis

Uh, okay. How about rural Georgia where I grew up?

Dollars to donuts that Houston and Minneapolis have much higher subscription rates to the New Yorker than zip codes from elsewhere in the state.
A superior ranked judge ('desembargador') just revoked the ban. And said (my translation):

"In face of the constitutional principles, it does not seem reasonable that millions of users are affected in result of the company (whatsapp) inertia"

In portuguese:

"""em face dos princípios constitucionais, não se mostra razoável que milhões de usuários sejam afetados em decorrência da inércia da empresa"

The judge also said that a fine would be more appropriate.

source (in portuguese): http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2015/12/whatsapp-just...
try selling a ring in a poor area, people don't care anymore
That's also what Steve Jobs said in his commencement speech. He talked about the DTP industry not existing before the Mac, but by adding greatly designed fonts to the system a whole new market was created. And Steve got the fonts idea back from his college years, when he followed a calligraphy class at Reed college [0].

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA&feature=youtu.be...
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Well, looks like he is a judge.
He owns https://github.com/feliperaul. The guy who owns that vacation website he mentioned is named "Felipe Raul Benali", from Maringa, and he uses the same nickname (pqdbr) in some other websites.

There's a judge named "Felipe Raul Borges Benali", from the same city, and crossing https://medium.com/@felipebenali , http://jus.com.br/313522-felipe-raul-borges-benali/publicaco... and his linkedin account, looks to be the same guy.

He got the position last year, http://noticias.r7.com/sao-paulo/juizes-federais-tomam-posse... and the picture from medium website looks like the guy in the middle of this the news report.

So, yeah, there's a good change that this guy is actually a judge. Feels nice to have a judge with technical skills.
> One you remove the need for PoW they are barely any more inefficient than a master-master DB with the combination of immutability and known entry ordering.

Once you remove the PoW - it's no longer a blockchain. That is what a blockchain is. If you believe that blockchain's don't require PoW - then off the bat you have major security problems. But in addition to that - your definition of blockchains would mean that we've been using blockchains since the 80's
This mentality is what causes tech companies to all adopt the myopic "We only hire 'A' players" hiring policy. I totally disagree with this. With the right coaching, feedback, and practice, B players can definitely become A players. I've seen it happen over and over throughout my career. Gates is usually right about this kind of stuff but I can't agree with this one.
Actually you might be rightful to expect something as they do not plan to commit fully to their promise: You will continue to get news and updates, just not at the level of technical granularity as before. but as they actually did not specify at the beginning what the level of updates would be, then yeah, I think it is a fair game to not receive something.

Edit: And if it does help - personal thanks from me for your support. I am not the backer but I think it is a very cool idea and Jeri is very a wonderful person.
I disagree.

If you come by and swipe a quarter off my desk, I'm going to be way more pissed than if you came by my desk and left a quarter.

The delta of my being pissed is way bigger than the DMU of +/- $.25, or my feeling if I'd parted ways with that $.25 in a variety of other manners.

I don't know if what I'm experiencing is or isn't "loss aversion". But it's not "just DMU".

This is an important distinction. In my experience, people equate "loss aversion" with "unwilling departure of money" and "windfall" -- i.e. being unwilling to be swindled or ripped off.
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Al Capone was thrown in prison for tax evasion. The charge that sticks is not always what the public is mad about.
The unlimited texting plans came after whatsapp in most countries. In Sweden seemingly nobody uses Whatsapp. Here in Germany there are many people with unlimited texting, but it's far from everybody.
Not necessarily. Bipolar disorder and/or narcissistic personality disorder and/or sociopathy could account for it too. Or all of the above including coke
Reminds of a rumor about the CEO of a BigCo. He wanted to buy a news paper company, so he went to them and said "Do you want to work for us or against us?"