When I read the Black Swan by Taleb the crucial point was to realize how weak we are when we rely on financial experts. Be careful, bad regulations can be opening the door for new creative thinking. For example in Spain the new accounting system gives more freedom to imagination when giving value to assets.
I think a hacker Questionnaire should be more appropriate here. But this is not new, for example there is "my road to Lisp" that explains the motivation and context when learning Lisp.
HN is like an evolving Questionnaire filled with the technology news that shape the future of technology and start-ups.
Sorry to say this, but "A tale of two cultures" is a very glorious title for something like reddit and digg. Humanistic and scientific cultures, the profound debate about how we marry them and how to control complexity and compartmentalization of science and research is not comparable to the other two "cultures". What term should you use for describing those "cultures" in a precise and respectful form?
The elevator fallacy follows. If you put a lot of sensors in a city you find many weird things, as there is not a prior hypothesis about what you are testing what you see as weird is not so much. In order to say that "people use the left elevator more than the right one" you should start a new experiment for testing it not using your data for making the hypothesis.
