skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When educated people like doctors, lawyers, managers, etc., ask for "interpretability," what they mean is, "what are the 'key variables' we can control that will help produce the outcomes we want?"

Simpler statistical models, and particularly linear models, provide easy-to-grasp "answers" to that question -- for example, "to get more of y, we need more of x1 and x2, and less of x3."

An entire generation of leaders and professionals has been trained to think this way by statistics professors and teachers who have been rigorously trained to think that way too. (For background, I highly recommend Leo Breiman's now-classic paper, "Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures:" https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/100921372... )

Alas, there's no going back. Simpler models do not work for complicated tasks like, say, predicting the next best move in a game of Go, for which there are no 'key variables' in the traditional sense.
This type of tech being used by politicians is kind of scary if you think about it.
Agreed. It doesn't sound like any practical application is ready with this approach.
You would be hard pressed to find rentals that have the same monthly payment even for 2 years, let alone 30.

I remember distinctly in 2008-2009, even as the housing prices were crashing, our rent went up by $90/month (outpacing inflation by 7%), and that's when we made the decision to buy a house (the $8000 first time homeowner credit/subsidy helped also)
I think there is such a feature. In most languages, these are called "functions".
That helps but doesn't necessarily solve the problem. There is a similar situation in real estate. The broker's main financial incentive is to ensure the deal happens.

Keep in mind, if you're getting paid a commission only after a deal happens, would you want to make a deal that day for 5% of $1mil, or wrangle for months and risk the deal to close at $1.1mil?

Now sure, 200k vs 1mil is a big deal, but that kind of difference isn't that common. Typically a recruiter would prefer to get a higher salary for you, sure, but not if it entails far more work or risking the deal.

There is, of course, reputation to consider - a real estate agent who develops a reputation of closing deals far too quickly in order to get a quick payday may start to have trouble finding clients.
The intent of the ordinance is also "to prohibit nuclear reactors." [1] No person shall operate or build a nuclear reactor the City of Berkeley, and that would probably include this project.

That's not to say I agree with it. Berkeley has long been a hub of unhealthy NIMBYism, and this law is a leftover from the Cold War. I'd like to see that change.

[1] http://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Berkeley/cgi/NewSmartCompil...
Bay area startup with 100+ employees. Expected hours are 10am to 9pm, plus a little less on Sundays.
Is it multi-armed bandit type of testing?
> are mostly linked with terrorist activities

All of them!?
The Financial hub in Frankfurt will likely attract the more serious and large businesses in the banking industry.

As for myself, personally, I was already abroad when the ship sank so all I have to do is not return. Come to Sweden my fellow expatriots! lots of tech!
Consider Berlin, besides being very cheap, it is a great place for startups. It also happens to be easy as everyone speaks English.
How about Amsterdam?
But one day our skill in "controlling explosions" (bad logic) may be as good as our skill at doing so in a Volvo, where we can get the power, with the efficiency and predictability.
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Thanks, I'll have a look.
Also probabilities:

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Ask HN: How does HN's Algolia search by popularity work?
While trying to find an article via HN's Algolia search (and failing at it), I started to do a broader-term search on Stories only, filtering by Popularity and Past Month.

I did several searches like this without finding what I wanted until I started scanning results a bit closer and found that sometimes Stories are listed without any order relative to popularity (which I assume is upvote count).

For example, searching for just the term "error" with the previous filters, I get the following three results (shown in order of appearance):

https://imgur.com/GgrH6UK

- Elon Musk Teases Second Part of ‘Top Secret Tesla Masterplan’

3 points Errorcod3 8 days ago 2 comments (https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/11/elon-musk-teases-second-part-of-top-secret-tesla-masterplan/)

- Here comes the Pokémon Go malware

1 points Errorcod3 8 days ago 0 comments (https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/11/here-comes-the-pokemon-go-malware/)

- Errol Morris's Secret Weapon for Unsettling Interviews: The Interrotron

141 points prawn 8 days ago 42 comments (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663105/errol-morriss-secret-weapon-for-unsettling-interviews-the-interrotron)

If you look closely, the last story has 141 points, and even though they were all submitted 8 days ago, it shows stories with 3 and 1 points first.

So now I am having doubts about how can I trust that the result order is really correct?

Is there anything else going on here related to the "Popularity" filter metric? is it maybe something other than upvotes? It just strikes me as very odd that a story that is clearly popular (141 upvotes, 42 comments) is rated lower than stories with 3 and 1 upvotes and 2 and 0 comments respectively.

I'm sure the search engine works fine, so it's probably my lack of knowledge on how to fully use it. Are there any guides on how to do good searches on Algolia?
Of course not, this is a political purge. Think Chile '73.
As an artist, im the first guy to defend freedom of speech. i guess i wasnt ready to see this with my first morning cup of tea after a nice warm meditation. Or maybe it's my parental instincts finally kicking in.. but something feels wrong here.

side-theory : i bet if someone posted the exact same video of a mock Hillary Clinton execution.. it would be banned faster than Zuck can tell Merkel 'dont worry we wont post anti-immiagration content in germany'

..mic dropped.
Sam Manekshaw (India's Chief of army staff at the time) is quite an interesting person. If anyone's interested, take a look at his wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw

Here are some of his choice quotes:

On the military knowledge of politicians: "I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter."

A 'Yes man' is a dangerous man. He is a menace. He will go very far. He can become a minister, a secretary or a Field Marshall but he can never become a leader nor, ever be respected. He will be used by his superiors, disliked by his colleagues and despised by his subordinates. So discard the 'Yes man'.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Your comment is a dose of realpolitik.
No, I'm not. It's just totally lame, like "how I changed a US for a UK plug" or something
It's like Germany, only everyone speaks English, not the < 40 :)
Agreed but the best route isn't a matter of choosing the right leader in other countries but staying out of other countries elective processes IMO. You can have voluntary diplomatic relationships of varying degrees, but this idea of influencing foriegn power players doesn't sit well with me. I'd rather their power came from local sources and therefore is incentivized to benefit the local population and local economic interests.

It's not just the US either, so much of the middle easts problems is the willingness for half or more of the countries to be proxies for the bigger states wishing for hegemony. Both sides end up losing more often then not. Just like Yemen and Syria.

A bit off topic but I often wonder what Iran or Iraq would be like today if they didn't engage in their awful war in the 1980s. They'd be much nicer places to live and most likely in far better economic shape and without the baggage of war (growing up with dead relatives/fathers and stories of violence as examples of greatness). But they would also have much larger militaries and I'm curious if their proxy wars would have just been even more prevelent then it is now.
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Yes, a long monolithic block is hard to read. But he's suggesting using comments and braces to visually separate it into blocks, so the end result is a happy halfway point between monolithic and broken-down functions.

The intro suggests that he agrees that pure functions are an even better solution.
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I cannot imagine what you think "paving the way" is supposed to mean.
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Yeah, I need to get on the letsencrypt train and automate cert updates, but I don't have any pressing need. My site is pretty low traffic unless I'm actively sending out resumes (1-10 uniques/month). Most leads come from github/linkedin. A few minutes saved won't fix that however, I'll need a good weekend to get back into that mindset of server administration.

That said, I would gain as much time by parking closer to the entrance of the store as I would by not putting in transactions. It really is negligible time spent at this point. The largest time sink is the one night/month to reconcile all accounts and allocate for next month. The better I am at putting in my transactions at point of sale, the quicker that process goes too! In theory I still have 29 days a month to send out resumes.

Edit: Within the top 10% by household income according to http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-p...
Physics deals in fuzzy things, both theoretically (quantum mechanics and the associated uncertainty) and experimentally (noise is unavoidable and all conclusions require statistical reasoning). But I agree there is a vast amount more "fuzz" in the social sciences, but that seems like a reason to study it more, not less.
That doesn't change the fact that exactly the reason that the US backed Pakistan was as a foothold near Central Asia to counter Soviet regional influence. The particular time and place at which that later became useful, obviously, was not predicted in detail at the time, but the concept of the need was.

Now, whether the cost of supporting that regime is justified by either its actual utility or the reasonably anticipated utility at the time the decision was made are different questions, but you can't really fully discuss the decision without considering its actual rationale.
Or Germany February, 1933.
Thousands is correct. A magnetic hard disk has a bandwidth of well over 1 Gbps.

Long-term stability (and this would only be any good for long-term storage, at that rate!) is a pretty tall order. Even current storage methods can't really manage it.
Cambodia, Rwanda, China....

Doctors are next
Wow with this title you won't get any female customers interested, good luck with that.
EasyEda looks interesting. Is there a story behind it's development?
Relics of the Soviet era
Well, you're right. Although we'd like to help companies to increase their income. :S
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Looks like a '\n' is missing there.
Unit tests aren't really about testing (in the validating sense) software. They in fact are quite deficient in that role. No integration tests, no end-to-end tests, no fuzz testing, etc.

Unit Tests are foremost a software development tool. They force (in order to be unit testable) separation of concerns, definition of interfaces (i.e. the "contract" with function's users), etc. Mechanically, they also enable validating that internal refactoring has not violated that contract.
"One person could overview all code." Not sure that's true. Imagine reviewing the code of the Apollo Guidance Computer, just to take an example from the 60's. The stack of paper containing the source code printout is more than five feet tall: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/31602/is-this-a-...
How do you mean they show them correctly? Perhaps you are right but I often see them attributed to std::function::operator() in the header <functional>, because someone has assigned the lambda to a class member field or function argument of type std::function. When the function has more than one caller it can be a nuisance trying to figure out which caller's lambda is the one being called. The only way I know of to identify them is to examine the full template expansion which is often a kilobyte of metaprogram gibberish.
This does not bode well for Turkey. It is unfathomable how 21,000 teachers were directly related to the coup attempt.

It makes me think that the coup was Turkey's Reichstag fire moment.
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> My feeling is that we've been giving our wealth away for trinkets.

If you want a great example of this, look at post-USSR Russia and what happens when you trade wealth for trinkets.

Massive regional concentrations of wealth, hopeless money-losing industries that are technologically behind by 25-30 years, massive brain drain, absolutely stagnated sciences, rising nationalism and censorship of the press.

But hey, at least gas is semi-cheap and everybody has cars and iphones.
As the saying goes, crap in, crap out. It's just as easy to write crappy unit tests as it is crappy code.
Exactly. It is part of the process that both parties need to accept. If the outlay/risk is too high for the company then it is not the candidate's fault, the candidate does not dictate the interview process.
and I was quite surprised at how often copy-paste-modify operations resulted in subtle bugs that weren’t immediately obvious.

I noticed this quite some time ago. This is also a major source of bugs that I write. That is, until I decided to stop copy-pasting more than a word at all, and retype everything character by character when I need it again. Interestingly enough, this saves a lot of time because the bugs I would generate otherwise cost way more time than a bit of typing.
You missed the point. In that same 100 hours, spending 15-20 hours applying best-practices has universally resulted in actually getting more out of that 100 block. The 100 hours spent on the spaghetti mess has always produced less, provided fewer insights, and often exactly nothing that can be soundly iterated on.

This is because the friction and pain of technical debt doesn't wait until the end of the 100 hours to create problems. It's biting you every second of every minute of every hour and dragging down your productivity and velocity as you're just plowing forward soaking the noodles.
Keep to the Kelvin.

20 times room temperature that is 300K is 6000K, as hot as the shining Sun.
Why was everyone screaming democracy when they never had one in the first place?
This sounds reasonable, however that subsidy/gain is already paid for with the employee's labor, which cannot be recovered. Paying taxes on what is essentially a guaranteed gain sounds reasonable, but when it is a gain earned by putting in labor over several years, I'm not sure this is the best solution.
21,000 teachers and 1.5k deans. This is the kind of thing that pushes the education system and thus the country back a decade.

How are they gonna find replacements? How are the students gonna cope without teachers? What is Erdogan trying to do..
Counting calories is much harder than counting money. Also you have to count them while you are hungry - never a good time.

At the end of every month, you have a precise measure of your expenses estimation error. Just take a look, if it's too far from the expected, look for the reason and recalibrate your counting. But there's just no way you can do this with calories.
I dunno. Might turn off men too. I remember the part in "Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay" where they say "If we escape we might get killed, but if we stay here they might make us suck their dicks"
I'm very active in Frankfurt and the attention we've been getting for the past few weeks is insane. Frankfurt as a FinTech Hub is already being shouted from the rooftops here, but with Brexit it seems that Investors start to actually believe that in droves. Crazy Times for me.
This is a fascinating & scary bit of history:

>Indeed, a Soviet naval task force from Vladivostok consisting of a cruiser, a destroyer and two attack submarines under the command of Adm. Vladimir Kruglyakov intercepted Task Force 74 in the makings of a deadly Cold War standoff. Kruglyakov gave a rousing account in a T.V. interview of “encircling” the task force, surfacing his submarines in front of the Enterprise, opening the missile tubes and “blocking” the American ships.

Also, the eyewitness account (from the OPs link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQchmaC5-q8&feature=youtu.be...
It's starting to seem like they had these lists made up ahead of time and have been waiting for the right time to start cleansing the ranks.
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Could you store energey in ice cubes?
Could you store energy in vertical glaciers? You partially freeze Water, and coat it with temperature isolation, and pile those cubes up, if you have a energy surplus. If you need energy,you unleash this vertical dammed storage lake and voila?

Where did i go wrong?
You don't know history and don't respect the history
It isn't listed in the article, but I wrote about this in my blog also: http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/05/deep-wizardry-stack-unwi...
In a competitive twitch shooter, 10 ms lag is an important handicap. And that is less than one frame at 60 FPS.
I always thought that Linux was actively avoided in embedded systems such as ATMs, Medical or Industrial Equipment, because the GPL forces you to release your source code.
There is no morality in international relations. The international stage is ultimately an anarchy, and it's a dog-eat-dog world. Countries which make decisions based on morality rather than self-interest lose out to countries that focus on results.
How Turkey could possibly still be in accession talks to join the EU is baffling and appalling to me.
"We'd like to join the EU now."
I know this might sound ignorant but can you not stay in the UK and just trade with the EU? I mean I buy stuff from European countries and I'm in the US. Why can't you?
Might be 'cheap' compared to London but Berlin has seen considerable year-on-year price increase every year for the past 5-10 years.

Real estate here has probably never seen such high & sustained price increases in modern (post WW2) history- in many desirable neighborhoods prices have increased by 10%+ YoY every year for a decade, which was previously unheard of (Germany has traditionally had a very stable real estate).
This is a somewhat compelling reason why people don't use URLs like they do addresses (that plus the fact that physical locations are "discoverable", so if you know something is in the general vicinity of 40th street you can probably wander around a bit to find it).

But I don't know if it explains why people don't understand URLs. Physical location addresses are no more complicated than URLs (with the exception of URL-encoded blobs in URLs, which are not usually human-readable). That said, I don't usually talk about this stuff with non-tech types, so maybe the average person does understand URLs more or less.
Could to into more detail about what techniques NASA specifically used to achieve quality software? I'm honestly very interested. I feel like you didn't answer the spirit of the question "How did NASA build highly reliable software" while pigeon holeing on "without unit tests".
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You can voice your frustrations and offer ways to improve the organization without volunteering the information that you are interviewing.

When it comes to interviews and dealing with my current employer, I have 2 rules: never tell that you are trying to leave, and never accept the counter offer when you give your notice.
It's hard to unit test large functions.
> Not trying to refute your point but rather to suggest that there are other ways to get n the door aside from leaning on your degree.

I guess I didn't articulate myself well- I think we're in accord here.

The degree seemed to hamper me-at best not help-in getting a CRUD gig in smaller cities.

I'm 'coming around'- started looking into work in Kansas City or St. Louis. Those are probably as large a city as I can handle.
What's a decade when the aim is for XVI century.
I think you misread me completely. I am not saying that it's hard, but this is the best we can do, so we have to do it. I'm saying it's hard, but it turns out to be worth doing despite that. It just turns out that using the scientific method and using sound statistical reasoning from data is a really effective tool for learning about things, even when you cannot make bulletproof true/false statements. Think of it in a bayesian way. A small-medium experiment still moves your belief distribution, despite the fact that you remain relatively uncertain.
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Only a decade? More like decades. He's doing what all despots do.
Indeed. They contacted me to provide technical review on a Chef book that was factually incorrect in so many places that I could see no way it could go to print.

After turning in the review of the first chapter I was told this wasn't the kind of feedback they were looking for. Far as I know, the book was published - factual inaccuracies and all.
I wonder how they compiled the list of political undesirables. Local informants? Targeting ethnic groups?
Turkey's civil service is not going to be in good shape after this purge. It seems hard to run a modern society in a very precarious neighborhood with undermanned services and not risk your own citizens getting angry or outsiders using the opportunity to strike.
Replacement? Why not clerics? He is trying to turn the country to an Islamic state with him as the Sultan.
Betcha they're all Kurdish.
This is exactly what's going on. As bad as the putsch is, in the end the wrong guy is in power if you value democracy and freedom of religion.
There's commercial solutions that use ice as energy storage as part of air-con systems.

Ice Bear and Ice Bank are two brand names.
> If the US had completely abandoned Pakistan, it would not be able to use it as a proxy base for war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

You mean, we wouldn't be able to fund the radical Islamists that went on to found al-Qaeda and the Taliban, contributed to inspiring (and later more directly assisting) fellow Islamists elsewhere, including those who later became al-Qaeda in Iraq before becoming the Islamic State in Iraq (then the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, then simply the Islamic State.)

> You should not be moralistic in thinking about international relations, because that is not foreign policy makers think.

All decisions about priorities boil down, at their root, to moral preferences.
Starting? That was clear when they purged the first few thousand.
It's really interesting how English -> Emoji doesn't get criticized as much as Emoji -> English.

Compare to Dango:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11870283
Everyone who has had one of their tests and a health issue will sue them. How can they survive? Is their war chest that big? I can't see them getting any more money.