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Is there a HN thread discussing these reports? I'd love to hear folks' opinions about them... Interesting facts to me in the latest report [1]:

- Page 44: "Our economy has grown at a steady rate despite changes in economic policy". I expected to see a lot more fluctuation on this data.

- Page 30: "There have been more suicide gun deaths than homicide gun deaths every year since 1981". This is crazy to me given how much we hear about gun homicide being a problem in this country.

- Page 29: Crime rate has declined but "The number of incarcerated persons has increased by 330% since 1980".

[1] https://static.usafacts.org/public/resources/USAFactsReport2...

Crimes are/ might be more likely to be committed by blacks, in some countries. Being black doesn't make you more likely to commit a crime.

Disagree. I think this is like saying Einstein shouldn't have been vocal about the Bomb. I think scientists (and scientific institutions) should use their visibility to make a social point, and that shouldn't at all undermine their scientific credibility.

"And does anything get cooler than this to avoid parking tickets?"

Seriously? No wonder so many people in Palo Alto / Bay Area hate Tesla drivers...

We did. Our customer had a bucket shared to a role they created, we spent a week back and forth trying to mount such bucket in our instance using fuse. Mounting with gcsfuse took 5 minutes (although no role used, so perhaps an unfair comparison). In general, I found Gcloud a lot easier to work with.

Same here.

Same here. We have spent 2 days trying to create instances and migrate images just to figure out later they can't start.

Right when I convinced our project to get migrated from AWS...

Location: Palo Alto / San Francisco

Remote: NO

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: Keras, Python, AWS, Docker, Mathematica, C++, Cuda.

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/214YZM

Email: pablodamasceno@gmail.com

I am a physicist turned data scientist looking for interesting problems to work on. Currently I'm in charge of the machine learning pipeline for part of the Radiology department at UCSF, developing predictive models for neurodegerative disease propagation in the brain.

Incidentally, the list is similar to what Google (re)-discovered when researching what makes teams succeed [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...

Also moral tribes, by Joshua Greene. These 2 were the best books I read this year.

People in silicon valley tell me everyone is going to move to the mountains / beach once self-driving cars can bring them to town any time, while they can do whatever in the comfortable commute. My belief though is that most people want to be able to walk to the pub, to bike to the park, and to be a short drive from work... I don't see self-driving cars changing that

Is there a recommendation system within Blind? It seems it would be the obvious solution to remove 'undesired content' to the user..

I know you said read but I found the Internet History Podcast very enlightening and fun to listen to: https://pca.st/miqr

Another theory (possibly complementary) is networking. Golfing / frequenting private clubs can greatly improve CEOs visibility among other CEOs.. I believe Mark Newman's network theory book mention exactly this example.

Care to suggest some? I've tried truereddit and even truetruereddit but they've become mostly politics

Agreed. With the enourmous cuts in science funds nowadays one can make a big difference by, for instance, fueling cash into research in virtually any area. The achievements can still be watched within a lifetime.

Yes but with a caveat.

Many of the artists I discovered via Spotify / Google Music make pennies from these sites. The truth is that unless you're buying an album (1) or other merchandise, you're not contributing significantly for the artist's survival.

I was chatting with Brock Van Wey last week (aka bvdub, my favorite choice of background music when programming) and he was describing how challenge it is to stay in business nowadays. I naïvely thought these apps were helping those folks...

I for one will try to buy more albums, even if digital, of the bands I listen to all the time.

(1) directly from the artist (e.g. via bandcamp). Google Music, at least, doesn't really give you the mp3 but only a protected file that can solely be played in their software.

Just a suggestion: your guys would benefit from a "who are we" section in your website. =)

(Sorry if it's there and I missed it.)

oh god! I guess that's what 10 years in the states did to me! -ashamed face-

It's horrible if you're coming from languages such as Portuguese in which "puche" literally means pull!!

Almost 10 years in the states and I still have to think before every single git commit.

Didn't know about SafariBooks. Any course / material you really liked or recommend?

Nice. Friends with the authors here, I'll try to bring them to answer questions.

Hi. Nice job there. Like others, I was interested in the network architecture. Is the code open source / available somewhere?

"if you're trying to say that disorder is a confusing term, then that's true. "

Yes, that is what I mean. The number of microstates can increase and yet make it look, to the eye, like the system is more ordered than before although entropy is increasing.

" This randomness is equated with the thermodynamic quantity called entropy — a measurement of disorder "

So sad that even such a nice article, with so many smart people from the SFI to proof read it, still described entropy as disorder.

Sigh.

PS: before I get downvoted: [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_force#Hydrophobic_f... [2] http://glotzerlab.engin.umich.edu/home/publications-pdfs/201...

Actually it seems so. I'm no geologist but a quick google search for Gutenberg–Richter plots show that this 'kink' can have a very specific physical reason:

http://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/233038/fbuil-02-00...

My point was that maybe for high mag quakes the power law is invalid... Or at least I dont think we have enough data at this end to be certain of what is going on.

Here's another plot, this time from UK seismic frequency, where again the frequency for high magnitude earthquakes seem 'under' the expected curve. Yet, again, these are 2 plots...

http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/hazard/Hazard_UK.htm

Most likely, since building a facility to survive a 2.5x stronger shake would surely be a lot more expensive.

I was also curious about how the data in the past few years did not follow the same trend as before. Does anyone know if that is what geologists call to be 'overdue' to an earthquake? Like California is supposed to be for a while?

That's the exact reason why I hate wearing and even worst ever being forced to wear one.

Is that also true to HN, since most users can't downvote?