skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example in C-528/15 (http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...)

"As regards the wording of Article 2(n) of the Dublin III Regulation, a purely textual analysis of the notion of ‘defined by law’ cannot determine whether case-law or a consistent administrative practice are capable of coming within that concept. In the different language versions of that regulation, the term equivalent to the term ‘loi (legislation)’ has a different scope. Thus, the wording used, for example, in the English-, Polish- and Slovak-language versions is similar to the concept of ‘droit (law in the general sense’), which can have a wider scope than ‘loi (legislation)’. Certain other versions, for example, the Bulgarian-, Spanish-, Czech-, German- and French-language versions, have a more restrictive scope.

32 Where the various language versions differ, the scope of the provision in question cannot be determined on the basis of an interpretation which is exclusively textual, but must be interpreted by reference to the purpose and general scheme of the rules of which it forms part (judgment of 26 May 2016, Envirotec Denmark, C‑550/14, EU:C:2016:354, paragraph 28 and the case-law cited)."

As already mentioned this is often just one part of a bigger ruling and the translations are often good enough so that it's not necessary to dissect the whole text like this.

By the way: I think it's an interesting challenge to translate the Treaties (and regulations etc). You don't want to have too much divergence between the different language versions but sometimes it can be very difficult to translate something exactly without using a lot of words.

One tactic that is used in European law in this regard is to start the regulation with a preamble "definition" section (similar to writing a program) where you define all the important words/phrases.
This is a very good book, fairly mathematical:
https://archive.org/details/ofmathemahistory00todhrich

Ian Hacking has two books, he is a philosopher, accordingly they have a broader outlook:
"The Taming of Chance"
"The Emergence of Probability"

Stephen Stigler's "The History of Statistics" seems to be the most popular history of statistics.
Just like chess. One can study openings, end-games as deep as possible, try to grasp the dynamics of positions but there is always the human element and that's very hard to study.
Most real-life goals can't be easily expressed with few "easily trackable" metrics. Take example from the article, customer satisfaction. That's half of the problem; the other half is that metrics can be gamed, and they'll end up being gamed accidentally or for profit if you're not careful. Like, the easiest way to make a system stable is to make it so painful to use that people don't use it - and if they don't use it, they can't break it. Or, the example of return tracking from the TFA.

I read a lot about how data-driven companies measure this and that, often through questionable, privacy-violating measures. What I don't read about is how do these companies ensure the metrics are actually valid - that they're correctly sampling the population[0], or that they're measuring what the authors think they're measuring, or that they're not being misreported or otherwise gamed (very common if the value of a metric impacts someone's career or even workload).

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[0] - e.g. voluntary surveys usually don't, telemetry increasingly doesn't either as more and more people are aware of it and disable it.
>which "amazingly" is reported by an array of different companies, often using the same verbage

If the sun was turning purple, wouldn't an array of different companies use the same verbiage to describe what was happening?

To me, this quote reads like you are assuming consensus means conspiracy.
it's ridiculous for a DMCA to be Avenue A. they could have simply picked up the phone and talked to us first or sent a nice email. then at least we wouldnt have to deal with a 96 hr deadline and be forced to take down our own content (along with theirs) for 2 weeks.

in addition, how do you show a potential buyer installation diagrams of a technical product without risking your own version being wrong (and not UL-compliant) vs the one in the approved manual?
This reminds me of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

It seems like in the case of employees at a company, just knowing that a parameter is being measured can result in it implicitly becoming a target even when there is no explicit focus on it (especially if it is the only or one of a small number of metrics that is discussed).

I have observed that in general most humans are very bad at considering the incentives created by rules and rewards they impose or seek to impose.
Yes, frustration of people going through previous versions is definitely a thing! Let's recall not only the infamous drop of JS FFI (for Ports), but also things like ditching custom operators. Let's see how >0.19 will go.
We don’t know exactly how the 12 members of the FOMC will behave.

Oh, if only dim policymakers behaved as economists tell them to! Wouldn't the world be a wonderful place then?
Applicants are not necessarily qualified. There could be thousands of unqualified people applying for a job and at the same time a shortage of qualified applicants.

There are two reasons for that wide distribution:

1. Lack of preparation/expectation management. I have seen people apply for development jobs with no skills or experience thinking the job is there to train them. It is no surprise (except maybe to the applicant) that they are quickly disqualified. It is absurd how commonly this occurs.

I have also seen college educated computer science graduates get a job and completely struggle. There is some expectation among some of these guys that they deserve an awesome job, because they went to an awesome school, and everybody has always showered them with praise. The worst is when one of these guys get a job writing JavaScript only to discover it isn't anything like the Java they were taught at school. Instead of accepting reality it is simply easier to blame the language and do everything possible to make it behave and look like Java. epic fail.

2. Selective bias. How do you define competent or qualified? This is completely subjective and varies by organization. I have encountered several organizations where the developers cannot read code. They compensate with assertion testing, frameworks, external packages, layers of tooling and so forth. The unwillingness of a candidate to accept that stupidity is certainly an incompatibility and can be seen as a lack of competence. If the interviewing party likely struggles with literacy it is not something they are likely to test for, for example.

In my experience under-confident hiring teams always want super competent applicants until they see what super competence actually is. It sounds absolutely fantastic in theory until they see it in practice. Then the insecurity sets in. What is really tragic about that is not that incompatibilities happen, but that insecure teams often don't see it until far after they have wasted people's time or after they have hired the applicant only to wish they hadn't.

My recommendation for experienced developers is to always identify these incompatibilities as early as possible. Unless equity is attached this is so much more important than compensation.

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In a perfect world people would learn to read and write code before applying for jobs, which implies literally reading and writing (not tooling or dicking around with layers of abstractions). We don't live in a perfect world as evident by many applicants and employers.
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
I had no idea who this guy was. Quick excerpt:

> Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens had a net worth of $500 million.

So, it seems, a "financial" predator, possibly of the worst kind. Not a lot of sympathy for these kind of people.

Edit: to be clear, "late" philanthropists are a nice thing, but as Ricardo Semler [0] once said, "If you need to give away money, you took too much in the first place".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
Right! Sorry.
Curious, thanks for the answer!
> great TNW talk by Stefan Molyneux

You know that Stefan Molyneux is basically a nazi, right?
What all this amounts to is that there is no theoretical understanding of the the social interactions that constitute the economy, only fitted relationships to the actions of aggregating entities like companies.
Credit card numbers are a great example of an attacker being able to modify the state of a system. The whole implementation is broken beyond belief.

Why doesn't a purchase require a password, at the very minimum?
Distance between countries is not measured in km, but by the price of the airplane ticket.
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India has 3x the population density of European Union. Surely the problem starts there.
5. Torrents are more convenient.

I was happy to and still do pay for Netflix. But occasionally something comes along and I’m sure as hell not subscribing to 5 extra streaming services. One or two? Maybe even three? But now you have Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, Apple TV along with the other regional streaming services if you want to get content legally. And there’s more services to come.
>But is it not the case that the original Shor algorithm was specifically about using periodicity for integer factorisation

Periodicity is discrete log.

Discrete log is defined as given a mathematical group G, a generator g in G, and an element h in G, find the power of g that gives h. This is a logarithm, over a discrete set, a finite group. This is equivalent to finding the power of h so h^r = 1, since given either, the extended euclidean algorithm gives an efficient way to get the other number. This number r is called the order of h, and there is no (in general) known classical efficient algorithm to do it.

This can be easy or hard, depending on the group.

Shor period finding is taking a the integers mod N (which is a group, called an abelian group, about the simplest class of groups), and an integer a, and finding the power r of a that is so a^r is 1 mod N. This is exactly the discrete log problem. You found the order of the element h.

Shor is a special, easy case of the more general problem - he solves it efficiently for Abelian cyclic groups, but it has been extended to many, many other groups.

In fact, researchers realizing this was exactly the general problem Shor solved is why all discrete log problems are vulnerable to QC. His method of using a quantum Fourier transform (which has a nice generalization to groups) to find period (which FFT does nicely) is directly applicable to any group. Shor is not some odd outlier algorithm; it is exactly the core (and almost the only) algorithm QC is exponentially faster at.

>But the overwhelming majority of PK crypto in use today (TLS, PGP, the vast majority of E2EE systems) is not secure against quantum attackers. Can we agree on that at least?

Yes, but that is a far cry from your original claim. We only use those systems because they are not widely broken, and like all crypto, if one gets broken, we simply replace. This is not new.

Each is easily replaced by algorithms that quantum cannot touch (unless classical can too), so much so, that many places already use QC resistant algorithms to prevent nation-states messing with them.
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Well, the guy is the most successful hedge fund manager in history, so perhaps he knows what he's talking about, since he was betting on the outcomes of such events for the past 50 years. And of course it's simplified.
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HackerRank (YC S11) On Raising $60M to Remove the Resume from Developer Hiring
Truly hard to say. I can say that I like the way things work in Japan. Even though I have no kids, people often ask me if I would put them in Japanese schools. I'd practically insist on it. However, I know several expats who hate these things.

One of the things I've come to realise is that one person's dystopia is another's utopia. I've often felt that living in Japan is a bit like living in a real life "Leave it to Beaver" or "Andy Griffith's show" (especially out in the countryside where I live). I see Japan slowly getting more and more Westernised and it fills me with dread. I lived for nearly 40 years in a society that I really disliked and when I moved to Japan, to my surprise, it was like coming home to a home I had never known. It's 12 years later and I am just getting more and more Japanese.

Japanese people, in general, also like Japanese culture. If you ask a Japanese person why they don't litter, I will lay pretty good odds that the answer will be, "Because I am Japanese". That's really the only answer. You're very unlikely to get an in depth answer about it being good for the environment, or a socially responsible thing to do. People really enjoy this identity. It's one of the reasons that there are relatively few Japanese people who live for long periods abroad.

I guess the thing is that most people are happy in Japan, in the same way that most people are happy in other first world countries. Some people are very unhappy, of course, but I can't really point to a country where that isn't the case. Some things are screwed up, but most things work very well -- just like any other first world country. I should point out that I've lived in Canada, the US and the UK for long periods of time as well, so I've got a pretty good basis for comparison.

Could there be a middle ground between how Japan works and how countries like Canada and the US work? Maybe, but I think you would have a lot of struggles to find the balance to make it work. You would also almost certainly lose very, very good things on both sides and I'm not sure that you would find very, very good things to replace them with.
If we can believe Star Trek, transparent aluminum foil is the way to go!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_materials#Tr...
The article presents that economic research was causal in these wins (poverty etc). There is no justification given for that in the article, it is pure dogmatic belief.

Said another way, how do we know these macroeconomic improvements are not in-spite-of this research?
Time to fork W3C standard, and make our own HTML, without Javascript and all that crap.

Furthermore, to really empower the users, we need to ditch HTTP as well, a master/slave protocol where we are all enslaved. IPFS or Torrent might be good candidates.
Facebook goes down all the time
Shell scripts also win "simple" in ease of deployment. (well assuming the author has paid attention to platform differences)
Seriously, look at the packaging of anything that California thinks causes cancer nowadays. Chances are it notes it, specifically because it's not worth the money to print different labels.

And those are labels, we're not talking about a car, which is obviously going to be more expensive.
The 10,000 number was true at the time the article was written, it’s since fallen even lower than 20 downloads a day last I checked.
Never Again
I have been divorced for 3 years now. To be honest my life has been in utter shambles since then. I have to share the custody of my child with an half wit of a man.
I don’t see women the same way anymore. I get very irritated with the smallest of things. Have not been in any other relationships since my divorce . Friends and families have tried persuading me into getting another man but they dont know the brutal effect the previous one had.
i used to be the jovial one. The person every other person loves to talk and relate to. I’m scared the break up has ruined every possibility of me having any affection towards any woman. I pray to God everyday to help me through the phase. In as much as I try to wear a smile everytime I’m really hurt inside.
to be honest, I feel like God isn’t with me no more cause of the way I used to find out I had a cheating spouse. I always felt like sorting after the services of an hacker (Cybertroll3 @gmail )was a bit too much but if I didn’t I would still be in a relationship with a cheat and a liar. I’ll sincerely make the same decision if I had to again cause I believe if she’s capable of cheating she could take my life too
We use another firewall solution and it happens just as frequently with some sites getting caught up in our malware filter. The initial bad sites lists are originally crowdsourced, I believe.

I've used Meraki, Aruba, Ruckus, and Cisco Aironet and have had no problems with any of them. They all have a duty cycle and radios don't last indefinitely. Usually what I find is someone brings in an old Linksys G-band AP and that squelches an area, the older radios are a lot noisier.
OCaml 4.09.0 Released
You don't have to replace the full toilet. There are plenty of options that fit on an existing toilet. You can get simple ones that are just spray all the way up to seat replacements with deodorizers and warm water (they require an outlet). It's easier than replacing your floor and not horribly expensive. Your butt and the environment will thank you.
> the rainy season hasn't even started and we've already got almost 6 months worth of rainfall for my city.

I presume you're in Tamil Nadu because TN's rainy season is mostly due to the NE monsoon which hasn't started yet. Rainfall in the North-Western regions like Punjab really has been insufficient in past years. In many regions in Punjab it simply doesn't rain in the 'rainy season' anymore. Even in Tamil Nadu, didn't Chennai experience more than a 50% deficit in 2018?[1] When I visited Pondicherry a few years ago, everyone I spoke to said it now rains very little compared to the usual. This year's SW monsoon has seen heavy rains but it seems to be an outlier compared to the past few years.

You are correct that there is gross water mismanagement and unplanned urbanisation. Ironically, Chennai's National Institute of Ocean Technology -- one of whose jobs is to prepare impact assessment reports on 'the implications of constructing on waterbodies'[2] -- is itself constructed on a paved-over former catchment area (and gets flooded as a result).[3]

[1] https://weather.com/en-IN/india/monsoon/news/2018-12-23-hist...

[2] https://qz.com/india/563396/chennai-floods-are-not-a-natural...

[3] https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/natural-disasters/why-ch...
It makes sense to say backup early, backup often. Commits in a version control system that's meant to keep track of development history aren't really meant to be used as a backup system. Just as a backup system isn't really meant to keep track of development history.
A classic case of privileged people thinking that the rules don’t apply to them. And if they don’t like the rules someone else made, it is their right to break them and make up some BS justification.
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It seems obviously true that the majority of people from tech are white.

Beyond that it isn't much of a stretch that the 'average' experience of a white man from suburbia is different from that of a black man from suburbia.
This is obvious weasel wording. during the writing of the resolution it was made clear that it meant all the territories.

This is how it was phrased:

>(i) Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;

any native enlgish speaker can read the declaration and see from the contest that it clear that all territories taken during the war are meant.

The Israelis came up with this facetious excuse to try to encroach on more land.

indeed, when one says "Dogs must be kept on the lead near ponds in the park."

it does not mean, for any sane person that some dogs shouldn't be kept on the lead near ponds in the park.

Also:

"it is an accepted rule that the various language versions must be considered together, with the ambiguities of one version elucidated by the other"

Plus, the reason that Israel must give back the territory is the prohibition of acquiring land by force.

If you can't acquire land by force. you can't acquire any land by force. it's illogical for the rule to only apply on some but not all land taken by force.
Sounds cool, but the scratch your itch advice isn't for everyone. Most everything I would want as an app, maybe 1% of the population would every even consider using, and that's assuming they knew about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_computational_econ...

I don't know that they've managed to produce the sort of general results that older economic theory.
In high school, I wrote a program that drew a realistic picture of our login screen, with two real inputs for username and password. No matter what you typed in those boxes, my program would save it to a text file in my home directory, and then log me out, which would instantly display the real login prompt.

I didn't have any real reason to steal everyone's credentials including the teacher's, but it was fun. And I would have gotten away with it, if I wasn't storing the output in a file called stolen_passwords.txt!

I got busted, and the teacher said I could either take 23 saturday detentions, or help him fix the login screen so that my attack wouldn't work anymore. I made an honest effort at the latter, and he let me off.
Who said anything about a rich person, though? Most authors aren't.
Wow. They got offered over 7 Billion dollars, in the face of a looming recession, strong industry competitors, and an uncertain IPO. They're willing to gamble their future, just because they want more than 7 Billion dollars. I guess when you're offered that much money, it's hard not to get greedy.
My LG TV webOS YouTube app, generates some hard to hear sounds when menus and content is navigated. Even thought I am not logged in in YouTube app, I suspect they can be captured by an Android device nearby and correlated with that device user. The apps that have the login data already can share whatever they like. There was a story some years ago when even shared local media names were shared by some TVs. If you have a device connected to network, you can be sure it will share whatever it can, malice intent or not.
I've heard it said that there is a line of business wherein you buy a software company, cut costs as much as possible, and start milking existing customers. The company you buy will not grow, or be expected to last many years, but the years that they do last will be highly profitable. Enough to cover the cost of buying the business and make a nice profit along the way.
Regular vim has tabs and you can bind any key you want to switching them (I use F2/F3). The default is :next and :prev or gt/gT. I’ve been using the feature for years now.

You can also open a list of files in separate tabs with the -p argument. So “vim -p CppFile.*” will open the .h and .cpp in separate tabs for example. You can then Y/p between the two buffers.

It’s so useful that I always “alias vi=vim -p” in my .profile.
Not to hijack, but do you or your spouse have an opinion on the WSJ story about companies intensely curating their reviews (maybe even paying/threatening the employees and/or Glassdoor)?

I noticed a local company I follow had fluctuating review counts between 30-45. I wrote a web scraper to see if reviews were being taken down, and for this company, over 20 1 or 2 star reviews have been taken down, but any new 5 star reviews stay.
Corporate freedom, not individual freedom. Make your shite without government getting in the way with pesky regulations about adequate safety, working conditions, environmental impact and a living wage, etc. Move to somewhere else if you can make it a dollar cheaper. We're already seeing places lined up to replace China for cheapest production. Those opportunities might turn out to have been fleeting.