skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the sun rises in the east. At least in Indo-European cultures, which were once reliant solely on agriculture and transhumance, the sun was extremely important. Without a compass, it's also extremely convenient, being the easiest celestial body to spot. As such, ancient Indo-Europeans stood facing east when performing religious rites. The reconstructed proto-Indo-European words for "north" and "south" are also the words for "left" and "right" respectively, because the north is to your left when you're facing east, etc.
20 different operating systems would have shown the necessity of a common open protocol for the filesystem being it, and would have given much more space to creativity on the computer.
This isn't a Tesla thing, it's an automotive industry thing (as alluded to in the article). You often see this with foreign car companies, or more specifically, with foreign-based contractors.

Just a little background, first. The car manufacturers often times aren't the ones designing the machines that build their cars. They come up with general plans for the layout and process and then they hire various engineering companies who specialize in that particular manufacturing process. Obviously they work closely with those companies to ensure that the designs meet their requirements.

Those engineering firms will then design, build, and install the equipment. Some of that work is done by sub-contractors. If the engineering company is based outside of the US (in this case, German-based Eisenmann), they are likely to have local workers (nationally or continentally speaking) that they are used to hiring for their projects (because they're familiar with their work, already have contracts set up, have the language issues more or less worked out, etc.). When they get contracts for the US, they are going to want to use the same group of people instead of the more complicated and risky option of trying to build a local team. This is especially true for physical labor (e.g. installation, setup) because you need those people onsite.

So, often times when there's a big automotive construction project you have lots of foreigners happening to show up to the area with tourist visas. The engineering firm provides housing and vehicles so they don't have to worry about that. And they pay them in the country they're based out of.

The manufacturer probably knows it's going on, but they don't ask questions. And I don't think it should necessarily be their responsibility. Sure, if they were held liable they would pay more attention. But you could say the same thing about the contractor as well. From the article, "The company overseeing Tesla’s expansion project — Eisenmann, a German-based manufacturer of industrial systems — also denied in court that it had legal responsibility for Lesnik." Unless someone (anyone in the chain, really) is fined or punished, no one is going bother worrying about it.
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One thing that's very hard to translate comes from my native language - Slovenian. The grammatical number 2.

The same way most languages have singular and plural, Slovenian also has dual. It's much handier than always specifying "two somethings". Very few languages still have this feature. English for instance only has residual traces left.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)

You can translate it, of course, but it's going to look and feel awkward.
I was mostly talking about the destruction that was the Battle of Okinawa, and the controversies that have surrounded the US military presence there since[0]. But to be fair, the Japanese military wasn't much better to their own people, starving, torturing and encouraging mass suicide.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forces_Japan#Con...
If the Internet pushes English enough to get every digital citizen to learn it, that would be one of the most compelling reasons for its social good.

I always hate all the talk about multilingualism as a good thing, when the consequence of language diversity is, one, people are wasting time in their youths learning languages for other peoples benefit, ie, those that want to "preserve" it, when the marginal utility of having excess languages is at best questionable. And two, if you do not know the primary language used for, you know, communicating with other human beings, especially English, your potential economic mobility is catastrophically crippled on a global scale.
I rather think most people learn a particular set of language because they have to pick it in school. For me it was English, Latin (hated it) and French (as third language I also could have chosen Russian (would also have interested me) or ancient Greek).
I think what the above poster was referring to was the cultural connotations that are immediately invoked by a word or phrase that isn't really transmissible to someone not familiar with the language and its culture. The example of "bouquet" was likely to touch on the idea that the literal translation of the word would be more akin to their example of "bunch of flowers". Since the word has now integrated into English, there is an immediate understanding that you're not just referring to a bunch of flowers, but something meant to be aesthetically pleasing and usually to signify an event of some importance. I suppose the English language did handle the word, but it did so by just integrating the word, not by translating it.

The response to the parent comment was more to debate that there are a lot of words, concepts, and idioms that may carry an actual translation or similar concept in another, but the translations fail to capture the immediacy of the idea conveyed by the original word or phrase. It's not to say that there is no way to understand or interpret these bits of language unless you're a native speaker, it's that in many cases you lose a lot of the meaning without the cultural context surrounding it.

Culture and language are pretty inseparable; it's why transliteration is often frowned upon when doing translation works, and localization is considered important to helping the audience understand without imparting too high of a burden of knowledge of their part. Sometimes this burden of knowledge is simply unavoidable. But the ability of a word or phrase to evoke a specific idea/image/feeling in one language and to not do so in another is not impossible. If you know anyone for whom English is a second language (and has not spent extended time in the US), try to explain why "cut the cheese" is funny in English. They may understand conceptually that there is a rude meaning to the phrase, but I'm willing to bet they'd be more than happy to tell you that they'll cut the cheese in the kitchen.
English isn't very complex, but it is highly irregular and it has an absolutely massive vocabulary. It's easy to learn enough to be able to scrape by, but difficult to learn to speak fluently.
The old resource curse. Oil drives out investment in anything else, and when oil drops you are fubar
Note: this is code actually intended for doing astronomy and cosmology, don't try to base your start up on something you found here, even if it has a cool name like "Shadowfax".
Unless you are also switching pairs frequently, then this is not paired programming.
Interesting article, I hadn't considered the potential impact of health policy on UBI, there may be some merit in that line of reasoning.

That said, I don't agree with the whole article, especially the part about government enabling companies to cut wages. If people can survive without a job, companies are going to have to make it worthwhile to take up a job with them. So long as people keep their financial commitments low they'll be better placed to negotiate a better starting salary.
The DAO represents, at this time, an altruistic profit driven organization. That organization is comprised of people who have combined their financial resources to facilitate the autonomous expansion and decentralization of goods and services for the purpose of providing equitable financial benefit to all members (DAO token holders). Anyone can become a member by contributing Ether to the DAO during its creation phase or purchasing DAO tokens from someone who has them (an exchange). The DAO prides itself on transparency, collaborative engagement, and the focused wisdom of the crowd. The DAOs capabilities are strictly defined in computer software that executes on the Ethereum blockchain, and is deterministic based on its interactions with its members and other smart contracts. Fundamentally, the DAO facilitates collaborative financial interactions between its token holders and the entities it funds in a largely trustless manner. I say largely because it is still under active development as its community is constantly working to optimize its autonomy and decentralization.
Members vote on proposals that decide on how the organization will spend its money. Generally, active member participation is(not?) required for a proposal to be successful. A member can, at anytime before a proposal in which they do not support is approved, withdraw all remaining Ether sans the Ether previously approved for the funding of a proposal (a process called splitting). In return for funding proposals, DAO members are issued "Reward Tokens" which can be used to redeem a proportional amount(their contribution) of the DAOs profits.
Where did it come from?
The DAO's development was initially lead by a German company called Slock.it (former members of the Ethereum foundation) but it is now being adapted and evolved by the community that has risen around it.
The Intellectual War on Race
Just installed, love it. Thanks!
Languages are incredibly complex and information-intense things to learn, store, and maintain in ones brain. It almost feels aggressive for high-tower liberals to talk about how important it is that minorities preserve their languages, when there can be real costs to their economic prosperity associated with having to divide their childhoods between a "native" tongue that is for practical use worthless, and English. Even worse when English proficiency is harmed in favor of a less useful tongue.

And that is not to say English is in any way a good language. It is dreadful. But language is not valuable for how well it pleases a gramaticist, but for its ability to facilitate communication, and right now English is so far and away #1 globally in that regard doing anything but trying to press every civilization to teach their citizens it is almost condemning them to poverty for some upper crust and downright selfish ideals of cultural diversity.
For computer parsing the language, this might matter. For humans learning the language, it accounts maybe one percent of the total effort to acquire it.

We humans all have the same hardware processing language. If some spoken languages were _actually_ more complex or too complex for that hardware to process, they wouldn't be spoken.
Probably a small number get a license plate number, because having license plates discourages hit and runs in situations where there are enough witnesses that's it's likely that one of them will do that.
Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones
I think it's a status issue.

Actuary is respected profession. There is lots of responsibility and they have higher median salary than programmers.

Programmers are dime a dozen. Only top level architects have status. If programmer is highly valued, he usually has some other title than programmer/developer.
You say that as if people don't remove tests while 'refactoring'. Better coverage = people ignore tests as they always fail. Worse coverage and they ignore tests because the tests must be outdated.
Bizarre that both Greely and Ball seem to be unaware of iterated embryo selection, which is far more mind-boggling than anything else covered in the article.

> Intelligence runs in families, but there is no guarantee you’ll get a good dose. While putative “intelligence genes” have been sought for years, so far all we have found is a handful of genes that collectively account for less than two IQ points. Greely thinks this will improve as we get more adept at gene-hunting. I am not so sure.

Several misunderstandings here. First, it is unimportant whether you have a few or many SNPs which pass a thoroughly arbitrary threshold of p-values. P-values are not posterior probabilities are not effect sizes are not utilities are not profits are not decisions. What matters here is the fraction of variance the full polygenic score can explain. Second, already out of date - Okbay et al 2016 has increased the number of genome-wide significant education hits to 162: https://www.dropbox.com/s/my9719yd8s5hplf/2016-okbay-2.pdf Third, this will go up monotonically as sample sizes increase, as it has already gone up as sample sizes increased, as has happened with other traits where GCTAs confirmed substantial SNP heritability. Fourth, one selection step may be unimpressive, but many will be much more impressive, bringing us back to iterated embryo selection, which is the true importance of the mentioned breakthroughs in gamete<->stem-cell conversion techniques...
Great article. And what a great game! I bought it recently on steam and tried it. I must have had significantly more time to play games in my youth because I just could not make it terribly far (just a bit beyond the part where you find the chamber to re-energize the pistol). Still, it was a great game.

I never knew it used a VM. Sounds remarkably uncommon for games at the time.
You must work in IT?
Newspapers have consolidated over the years, these days there's one per metro area. One reason why Warren Buffett bought part of the Washington Post.

"If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station — I'm talking of the past — you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference."

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/warren-buffett-good-busine...
Slippery slope argument, but I think its pretty convincing. I'd argue that we wouldn't see it surface directly in any UBI bill, but rather we might start seeing UBI being used as an argument to get other restrictive bills passed.

Like: present case study which says that low-income individuals are at the greatest risk for tobacco dependence -> low-income families benefit the most from UBI -> anti-tobacco politician can now make the case that the government is subsidizing their tobacco usage -> argument from guilt that tobacco sales should be further restricted universally, not just with basic income.

We've seen dumber things happen on capital hill.
If someone said "let's go communist", you would have to argue with them why it was a bad idea. A reasonable proposition that turns out not to be a good idea.

If someone said "let's kill the Jews", you would probably slowly and carefully walk away from that person because they were nuts. An unreasonable proposition that you probably don't want to bother arguing against (because what kind of person would even say that?).
US government makes it legal to reverse engineer code
Please don't promote cubicles. I hate sitting in a little box the whole day. It feels like prison.
MS took a paid for product in the market and used Windows to drive it's price to $0, basically killing Netscape. This was a position where they used their monopoly on the desktop to beat a competitive product that was, at the time, purchased at a store in a box.

For Google, while it does use its position to promote its stuff, it's also the kind of thing where you can avoid it by typing in duckduckgo.com or Yahoo.com. It's not a huge barrier to avoid Google. It's not as if Google has built the only train tracks west of the Mississippi, and is not allowing anyone else to use them. Rather, it's more like they built a balloon you sorta grab outa the air for free as you need it, with the ability to quickly try another balloon from a different manufacturer just by grabbing at the string next to it.

If Google was restricting Web Searches of paid-for items to only its stores, or making it so you could only read the NYT by paying Google to access that site's news, or some other thing where they were gatekeeping with a toll, they'd be acting as a monopolistic corp. But since you can always just type in another URL within a few seconds and be at another search engine, I see it as a fairly cut and dried sign that competition exists and is accessible, it's just shittier than Google.
You may be speaking of unexpressibility in a different sense, but the word "ineffible" literally means something which cannot be expressed in words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineffability.
I don’t feel any more grounded or less erratic than I did when I was 20, but I certainly am dumber. I am not saying that wisdom is not a useful tool (how many time do you really need to make the same mistake), but that I would be more than happy to give it up for my youthful brain.
Don't all countries have basic income programs in the form of 'jail'?
Or they'll say what's happening in Venezuela is due to some American scheme to take down their government (like some have ridiculously claimed about Brazil).

The life of Latin American wannabe dictators is so easy. When things go wrong, just blame the imperialists.
For me having admin rights is the only way to get things done.
There are definite upsides though. For example people can't get away with illegal behavior so easily. There's an interesting fiction book called "The Circle" that explores the consequences of having cameras absolutely everywhere.
So, hold on, everyone already has the government involved in their financial lives. It's called the Tax department. They already can meddle in our lives by playing with these taxes. So, no real difference other than they are giving out money. It's important with UBI that U = Unconditional. It's not that BI is dangerous, it's just we have to setup the correct legal frameworks when implementing it. Seems way less dangerous than Tax to me where government gets to take whatever share it feels fit from what you earn :)
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The whole point of a basic income is that it is a rejection of the idea that social welfare programs should direct spending.habits or lifestyle: in fact, it's sold as a replacement for existing programs that do that precisely to remove that feature. The article is literally ignoring existing programs that do exactly what it tries to scaremonger about which UBI is opposed to and designed to replace to try to paint UBI as dangerous because it might someday become what the programs it is designed to displace already are. It's FUD designed to prey on ignorance.
I work at a life insurance company in NYC. Feel free to ping me if you're interested
Europe wants to achieve anything in common

It's unclear if "Europe" wants anything of the sort at this point, and you seem to assume that English would be the common language, which is not unreasonable since it's the one currently being used, but it's not politically acceptable, and it'll be worse if the UK finally decides to leave.

Note also that Europe is probably the part of the world where minority languages are in better shape.
E.g Catalan is spoken by 4 million native speakers, which is more than all of the native american language speakers combined.
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Scientists Seek to Bring Dead Brains Back to Life
> I'm not aware of any basic income proposal that includes such measures

YET. You've actually summarized the actual text, not the important subtext. The subtext is that under a UIB, the government can effectively tell you how to behave and almost directly, control your choices from a new orthogonal legal standpoint. Hey, the US isn't barring Pepsi from a free and open marketplace, but if you buy a Pepsi produce we'll revoke your UIB. Who? That birthed organization that's a cross between the TSA and the IRS to administrate the UIB which is necessary "to prevent abuse". Fraud will run rampant in the first attempts. I find these behaviors, embarassingly commonplace, in US programs.
I'm disappointed that this list seems to be made with the intent of describing current practices, rather than how you can actually disrupt the workplace as a saboteur.

The idea of promoting incompetent people still works. That's a gem.

For the small hammer/big hammer, simply choose technologies that are less suited and make them work. Sorry, our CRM is also our mapreduce framework. Make security an afterthought, and the world will do your sabotage for you.
Touring for your primary income is a brutal lifestyle, especially if you're not in your 20s and unattached to dependents.

I don't think it's reasonable to say "oh, if you want to make money with music, you should just spend 6 months of the year living in a van traveling the country".
So would this be a way to circumvent W^X? I'm still not understanding what situation is made more vulnerable from this that isn't already entirely compromised.
Uninflected languages usually have a more complex, constrained syntax, whereas inflected languages are more free.
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Pick vendors that ship patches to their enterprise software as a 705 megabyte SQL file that must be run and files that must be manually placed on the machine.

You might think I joking, but I'm not.
This seems to be an ad to get people to sign up for a panel discussion:

"For answers to these questions and more, take part in a live panel discussion with experts on 17 May 2016 at 1 p.m. Eastern, where we’ll discuss the impact of the Internet of Things on cybersecurity."
I had the same epiphany. For the long time, I regarded computers deeply magical, and didn't understand why some programming languages had the features they had, and some don't. (At the time, I only knew Python and some superficial C.)

Then I read a book that explained how assembly works and how a compiler would implement C's features with assembly. It all clicked since then. Too bad I've forgotten the name of the book.
National Security Agency and Machine Learning
The Scala Effect
In the US, radio royalties only go to the songwriter, not the performer/artist or recording owner.
http://blog.songtrust.com/publishing-tips-2/what-you-didnt-k...

If a radio play goes out to 50,000 listeners, the total paid is less per listener than YouTube.
It wasn't that uncommon - most of popular adventure games (and probably others too, but I just happen to know about this genre) worked as VMs or interpreters (SCUMM, AGI, SCI). Helped a lot with portability, which was desirable at that time when games were being released on various platforms like IBM PC, Apple, Amiga, Atari, Commodore 64, NES...

And thanks to that we have ScummVM now.
Be sure to read down the Twitter stream as the creator documents its maiden voyage to a gas station.

Maybe someone can make a partner app that buys you an outfit of random items and tees up a random date. Then live stream each meet up.
Article doesn't make sense to me. UBI is less prescriptive than many other govt benefits.
For me the same. Funny, as Friedl does barely discuss the ERE and awk (DFA) implementations at length. It is a shame, as the `more interesting` NFA implementations have performance issues under some circumstances. I had hoped the dilemma and engineering decision between features of NFA and guaranteed performance of DFA would get a more realistic discussion.
You could change the phone's time settings to match the computer's. TOTP doesn't require precise sync anyway, it usually works as long as the two clocks are within 30s of each other.
Here's a free one I found in the event anyone else is curious:

https://services.math.duke.edu/~rtd/PTE/pte.html
It's also a little irritating that a couple of commenters focus on minority/diversity hiring as a way to commit sabotage.

In my experience, people who might be called "minority" or "diversity" hires tend to kick ass, possibly because they have put up with so much cognitive bias about how they supposedly don't belong.