skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down" - Adam Savage.

In all seriousness, why can't data science simply be about applying the scientific method in the realm of data analysis? It doesn't need to be conflated with machine learning, BI, SQL, etc. It can just be about approaching data analysis with scientific rigor.

My opinion is that the term data science evolved when we started needing cross-functional people who are a blend of:

- domain experts;

- numerical/quantitative specialists (such as statisticians, mathematicians, physicists, STEM people);

- business analysts, business intelligence; and,

- those who traditionally deal with data management, platforms and tools.

That confluence of people was needed amidst the related trends:

- increased government funding for STEM education and brain research;

- marketing from companies such as IBM ("Watson"), the democratization of data and increase in the use of data in daily life;

- the big data wave, subsequent interest in "internet of things" and "digital transformation";

- renewed interest in machine learning and AI (recurrent neural networks and other breakthroughs);

- and others of course..

We needed to apply more discipline to data analysis - thus data science was born. A formalizing of what many were already doing, to capture the need and changing paradigm. Or so I like to believe.
The role of politicians is not based on expertise, it's to have views that are representative of their constituency.

Our system was originally designed specifically to avoid professional politicians. The initial articles of confederation included term limits. It was only removed after substantial debate. An anonymous essay penned in response to this decision suggested that people who were elected for long periods of time would become "inattentive to the public good, callous, selfish, and the fountain of corruption" continuing with,"Even good men in office, in time, imperceptibly lose sight of the people, and gradually fall into measures prejudicial to them." It's a shame they did not sign their name to the writing as I think we could label this view as fundamentally and absolutely correct. It's perhaps ironic that term limits were likely stripped from the articles not in good faith, but by those earliest 'special interests' who longed be the first professional politicians. The same interests that perhaps drove those stating truth-hoods to do so under the guise of anonymity.

And that problem is endemic to the whole system of professional politicking. Rather than focusing on 'the mission' politicians end up focusing on themselves and getting elected again. In an ideal democracy that would mean they have to work to appease the people. In reality, most of the electorate is grossly uninformed or misinformed. Generally all that matters when getting elected is money. And where does money come from? Not from the masses, it comes from special interests and top dollar donors. An issue only compounded, though not inherently caused, by the variety of ways to avoid any donation limitations such as messaging through 'independent' politician action committees.
Nice catch, I should edit that but it's too late. I think my point still stands, however...
An article from the NYT before they hired someone racist.
> I wouldn't want prosecutors to get a cut from settlements, because then they could abusively intimidate defendants for profit.

So then prosecutors will refuse to ever settle cases, even when settling is the best choice for all parties except themselves.
I think I agree with the main points, although I didn't read it very thoroughly
People have seemed to formed this evil caricature of Scalia that I really don't understand. Guy truly loved the law and loved teaching it. My understanding is that is why his opinions were so verbose. Also guy was always expansive on 4th Amendment which I'm, and likely a lot of people on here, a big fan of.
Can you expand on why VRBO rather than Airbnb?
Somebody told me that lying and walking is good and that sitting and standing is bad.
The title on CNN‘s main page, from where I copied it, is precisely the submitted title.

Yes, I hate how media outfits use several titles for the same piece. Readable heading vs. HTML title tag (which the bookmarklet uses) is another discrepancy.

But I mostly hate it because you just know that someone on HN will not understand this reality and try to give you a hard time.
The article sites the financial crisis and post-crisis job market as the catalyst for students taking a more pragmatic approach to choosing a major; however, it was a realignment that was probably overdue.

For decades in the US we have largely avoided the debate over whether college should be primarily vocational (income securing) or educational. We avoided the debate because for a long time having any degree served both purposes. Just going to college set you apart and raised your income regardless of what you studied (it still does statistically, but not as significantly as before).

The middle class was sold on college in the US largely on the promise of more income. Even if students in the 60s and 70s said income wasn’t important to them personally, certainly very few of their WWII generation parents would have ponied up the money without the promise of more income or security for their kids.

I don’t necessarily see this is as a crisis, kids really passionate about humanities will always pursue the humanities. The net effect of this is those classes will have fewer kids just there for their degree. This isn’t a bad thing. Better to graduate 100 kids really interested their fields than 1000 just there in hopes of landing a higher paying job.

If you time traveled back to 1980, when nurses were underpaid, but advertising, magazines, and newspapers were hot industries, and told them in fifteen years you’d make more money as a nurse than you would with an English degree they wouldn’t believe you. That’s not the world we live in anymore.
South America is huge. Can you recommend some cities / countries where you can do this?
But he shared the terrible secrets that there are "functions" and "libraries" and different colored words.
Maybe they could, but why would they? Landlords charge rent according to what the market will pay, not what their costs are.
tell us where you're going on vacation

Or tell us where you want to pretend you went and we provide a fake vacay with which to wow your pseudo friends.

Bonus points: You can market your service as "eco friendly" and actively encourage people to admit they used it. There can be footnotes cataloging how much smaller their carbon footprint is for having only pretended to go.
CRUD apps kill one soul at a time.
If the system being modeled is abstract, you might get away with claiming that it is unbiased. If the system being modeled has very much to do with the real world, the modeler is forced to make assumptions about said putative "real" world, because the real world is inconveniently large and complex to fit in memory. However, one of the problems that societies and maintenance programmers encounter is that in the long run these assumptions are invalid.

We've pretty much all read the article "Myths Programmers Believe about Names", and various snowclones. We still write dumb name validation code every day, because there actually isn't a perfect way to do that, and we have to ship something. Even when the concepts are perfectly executed, the fundamental assumptions of the model may change. Having separate classes for "tool" and "weapon" may make sense one day, and the next day you need to write the game Clue. Even if you're working with such boring concepts as filtration, you may have to adjust your model when you discover that water is compressible.

All models are wrong, in many ways, both subtle and overt, both currently and in the future. Some may be useful. I'm not sure that there's any solution to these problems except more and better models though.
Citizens United v. FEC is what changed. Essentially all elected officials are completely dependent on contributions now.

A party, candidate or prosecutor who makes contributors nervous has no chance of re-election.
Good suggestion!

Just to clarify one point, though, Clojure/Script does support OOP, with protocols/records/types, it's just not the first thing we suggest people reach for in the language. As a community, we're much more likely to use boring maps/vectors/functions first, and switch to OOP when we really need type-based polymorphism, or extreme performance.

One consequence of not forcing everything to be OOP (like, e.g., Java) is an honest evaluation of where it makes sense, and where it adds nothing but complexity.
This is a genuine question, I'm not leading here. Do you think this has to do with anti-intellectualism, jealousy or is there more at play here? I wouldn't want an average joe to run the country, I want someone truly extraordinary. Better suited to the role, more experienced, smarter, better dressed and showing it. I don't want the stereotypical truck stop waiter/waitress, you know? It's not fair as they may be just as qualified of course. What is so wrong with being an 'elite' in the political sphere?

How do you think an average middle-of-the-road person would feel if an 'average joe' was promoted to be their boss? I'd guess probably not great...
which single argument?
Save enough money so you can leave your job if you need to. Connect with people that can refer you if you are looking for a job.
In my opinion Dianne Feinstein is terrible compared to alternative politicians CA might elect to the job, but if you live in CA or one of the other states with state-level term limits and you think they are a good idea, you haven’t been paying attention. Pretty much everyone involved in state politics is unhappy with the results of the term limits imposed for the past 10 years (in CA they were enacted in 1990, but legislators didn’t start getting term limited out for a while).

They don’t prevent people from becoming a “career politicians”, they just make it so that the career is less predictable or stable: new careerists are constantly being churned up from local politics and put into important committee chair jobs (etc.) where they have no relevant competence or experience, the top legislative leaders only last for a couple years, and the most experienced legislators get dumped out the top, often to become paid lobbyists. This encourages short-term legislation including bills mashed together that don’t make sense. Civility/comity is undermined, because legislators don’t need to keep working together years into the future.

To compensate legislators have to lean a lot more on their staff (who are the only people around with some clue about the context). The executive branch gains power at the expense of the legislature, because (a) executive officials are often more experience, (b) the executive can outlast an uncooperative legislative leadership by just waiting a couple years, (c) term-limited legislators have a more precarious career and might be looking for an appointment to a next job.
Or the desperate to the well-bufferred.
Arduino realized that people started to migrate to PlatformIO ([1]) that provides a very good IDE (as a plugin to Atom or VS Code, [2], [3]) and command line tools. That's a catch-up attempt. :)

Disclosure: I am not directly affiliated with PlatformIO, but do like and follow the project for a while.

1. https://platformio.org/

2. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=platform...

3. https://atom.io/packages/platformio-ide
There really isn't a McCain party today. He was too conservative for Democrats and too moderate for Republicans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_John_Mc...

He and Kerry considered running together in 2004. It is sad that such a ticket could never win. :-(
Works great until it doesn't.
People who support net neutrality believe that if private corporations are allowed to bill packets based on destination/origin/content instead of treating them all equally, society would be worse off. Here is a prime example of a corporation being extremely petty in a emergency situation when possibly lives are at risk. To quote:

'Verizon's throttling has everything to do with net neutrality -- it shows that the ISPs will act in their economic interests, even at the expense of public safety," County Counsel James Williams said on behalf of the county and fire department.'

How then will a corporation act when the stakes are even lower? Act in public interest or profit seeking?
This reply really exemplifies clear thinking. It is likely you will fit the role of a solution architect, rising above the menial arguments that frequently occur between developers.
It's 7 miles from the Outer Sunset to the Embarcadero in SF.
I think this understates the real problem. As people become professional politicians, their interest becomes more and more about what benefits themselves. It's not about geezers caring about geezers -- it's about geezers who only care about themselves.

You can consider this in a really simple, but also regular and real, scenario. You're faced by a decision. One choice you think is bad for the country but is strongly supported by various special interest groups who will likely run major positive advertising and other positive 'propaganda' for you, if you go that route. The other decision is good for the nation but vehemently opposed by these same interests. You can expect negative advertising and other consequences should you go this route. It's not hard to see which decision a "professional" politician is going to pick, regardless of whether they're 20 or 90 years old.

Ideally this would all be a nonstarter since you stay in office by getting elected. So do what's good and you get elected again, right? But this goes out the window when people are so easily swayed by the media and misinformation. A very large chunk of people don't measure the results of the nation independently, just based on what they hear in the media or by easily exploited emotional responses.
It's about preventing ISP from becoming a gatekeeper and abusing its position as a physical network owner to control information flow (which can commonly be used for fleecing the end user, hampering competition, censorship or whatever other sinister purpose).

To give a more easy to understand example. Imagine a water network company, which can influence whatever they want by controlling who gets water and how, because water is so vital for everyone. That's abuse of their water network ownership. So it makes perfect sense for such entity to be forced to remain neutral to prevent any potential of such abuse. That's exactly what net neutrality is about.
Obviously not, though you don't need to hear the answer nor ask the question.

This comment adds no value. No one would seriously wonder that, nor would anyone endorse it, nor does it need to be discussed because all of that's so obvious.
That is the case for some legislation, such as when is necessary to override a presidential veto. Requiring it for all legislation would pretty much lead to a standstill, or worse - peddling to the special interests of a small coalition (this is my opinion).
What is fun is paying off debt by selling Bitcoin, and students by definition would know more about Bitcoin than the average person.
This advice really resonates with the mellenial in me. The adult in me — however — finds it pretty selfish.
Google incentivizes all kinds of online content to engage in this behavior as well. Articles that rank well are long and filled with keyword-rich exposition. Concise, bulleted summaries of facts don't give Googlebot as much information and consequently tend to show up in fewer searches. (And Google is trying to be your main source for fact lookup anyway)
NPM workflow for ocaml developers
100% agree with this.

When I think of money..I think of freedom...to do what I want to do. When you don't have money or your need to get money then suddenly you have to do stuff that you don't want to do. Even if you have a job you love to do...you are still going to work and taking orders from your boss. It would always be preferable to do the stuff you love to do...but on your terms.
No. Splunk is it's own proprietary thing. They actually work somewhat similarly (in that they're both query engines over distributed data using a map-reduce paradigm) although a closer parallel is lucene/elasticsearch.
when you say “this” do you mean the content in the linked book or linear algebra? because the linked pdf doesn’t have much to do with linear algebra.
If our legal system is working, and there’s adaquate detterances and incentives, then we should expect these cases to go down with time and celebrate that fact. I can’t read the article but I’m not sure if they address that.
I think there's a strong argument that many representatives don't necessarily start awful, but are driven to awfulness in the pursuit of keeping themselves in office. Like you allude to, most voters are grossly misinformed or vote irrationally. And this irrationality and misinformation is very effectively exploited by special interests and monied groups. Consequently the desires of these special interests and monied groups start to become more important than the interests of society when a politician is primarily concerned about staying in office.
Creating fake zkSNARK proofs
Thats the thing about money, nobody ever has enough. I'd even argue having a pile of it makes you more likely to be influenced as the risks of losing your job are smaller. Either way, the more compelling argument to me is politicians are subject to checks and balances.
Solar installations are generally rated for a 30 year life, so ¾ of nuclear isn’t bad, especially when you add in decommissioning costs which are going to be a lot lower for solar
I always felt that this country would have been in such a better position if McCain had beaten Bush in the 2000 Republican primary. When he ran in 2000, I felt McCain was extremely principled, even if I didn't agree with some of those principles. He even had a little momentum until the smear campaign in South Carolina, but once that happened, it derailed his campaign. When he ran again in 2008, it felt like he compromised on some of his principles because he felt he needed to "play the game" to have a chance of winning.

Given how much of a disaster Bush's 8 years were (and we shouldn't let the colossal disaster we're currently experiencing shift our perception of those years), it's a real shame that McCain didn't get his chance then instead of Bush.
> It includes being able to do things like e.g. travel, watch tv, eat a nice meal, surf the internet, etc. -- and that gets costly fast.

by that definition, nobody can have true agency, until a post-scarcity society where provision of services does not require any labour from any human, and is free.
https://dremio.com tries to solve this exact problem. It’s open source too.
The only possible solution is policy changes that force a significant decrease in resource usage among a wide swath of the developed and less-developed population. That solution would be necessary regardless of the level of population increase we're going to see. The population increase is going to correct itself. The resource usage so far does not seem like it's going.

And certainly, populations in less developed areas have done and can quite a bit of damage - but that damage can only be corrected by state policies to prevent poor resource usage.

Also, expecting industrial development to moderate growth rates in rapidly growing populations is iffy.

This has occurred in a fairly predictable rate over the majority of the world's area. India, the Mid-East and Africa are basically the primary areas of growing population in the world.
> What does enterprise-grade support for a kernel look like

Stable mature device drivers for one. You might have petabytes of data connected and want to ensure it is stable as possible. So the vendor makes sure that the right kernel and and right device driver works with exactly your device firmware etc.
> why can't data science simply be about applying the scientific method in the realm of data analysis?

That's what a statistician do.

I've seen these ML and Datascience people. And the majority the time how they tackle data is radically different from statistician and is more of an art than a science compare to what statistician does.

But this could be my bias opinion and just some small data sample from personal experiences.

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Actually my last day of internship I've met a few statistician interns some of them are from Cal (UCBerkely) and they came to the same conclusion (we have a lot of complaints). The ML/DS group is really just doing black magic (nicest way of putting it). I wish statistic is better at marketing. Oh well.
NB, fossil fuel use was doubling every decade or two (3.5 - 7% annual growth) through much of the 20th century. This means that roughly half of all carbon emissions were from the most recent 10-20 years.

As of 2007, half of all emissions dated from about 1987.

http://www.mygreenlife.com.au/media/article-images/au-cumula...
Yeah, people think linguistics is the study of language in the same way that a Spanish class is the study of Spanish. It's just people not really knowing what the field is, but assuming they do because they speak a language of some sort.
> A good first step would be to get rid of Diane Feinstein.

Father Time is undefeated.
The underlying problem is not readers, but writers. Writers being underpaid because of the present economics of text.

Sorry to write such a long article, I didn't have time to write a short one. - Cicero, Pascal, Twain, etc.
It boils down to "If things aren't going well, change something."

I'd wager it comes down to taking control of your life. Even if life is "harder" by most measures after the change, knowing that you have the ability to make a change without the world ending is powerful. A new job, new year, new relationship, etc, etc is a chance to reset and do things "better" this time around.

Even if this particular change doesn't work out for the better, it changes your mindset.
countless good Ramen in tokyo, if you can stand eating a lot of fat, try jiro Ramen.
* >>"Blankfein hired Reid Weingarten, a famous white-collar defense attorney...Weingarten was a friend of Attorney General Eric Holder; his children went to Georgetown Day School with the children of Lanny Breuer, head of the criminal division of the D.O.J. ...Weingarten pestered Breuer, saying, “Close this …case, will ya?” *

Curious: So how much would Blankfein be charged in a case like this? Saved at least tens of millions in lawyer fees and that's if he was found not guilty. Maybe his firm is hired to do legal work for Goldman but that can be problematic. $1 Million if the case dropped + hours worked?
Algorithms cannot be illogical. They just can't.
My bug to 'update from python 2 to 3' was duped to rdar://21398921 (which, based on the chronology of the numbers, would be around June 2015). Were both yours duped to the same?
Thanks. So silly laymen question here, but I assume the 1800 qubits are not all entangled together. Are any of them entangled at all?
> The main leverage prosecutors have now days is you are going to be financially ruined trying to defend yourself.

which is the very epitome of injustice. Prosecution should be about finding out the truth, and finding out parties responsible for a wrong (and force them to make amends somehow).
I found it worth the struggle in the end. One of the most influential books in my life, I’d probably put it as #3.
Totally fair, I guess what I was getting at (poorly) was that OLs has been around for a long time, lots of hype for ML now, but there are plenty of techniques here that have been readily available.
Each book has a different one.
I think its about trust. We believe like individuals will have aligned interests. Elites will serve elites but regular Joe knows what its like for us. 9/10 times the Joe becomes elite and serves himself...