skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you sort of prove my point, that it's a political thing, about the unity of the country.

Here's what linguists say:

1. From "Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems" by John DeFrancis:

"Chinese [...] is an umbrella designation for at least eight present-day varieties of what are usually called "dialects" but, since they are mutually unintelligible, might better be considered parallel to the various languages that make up the Romance group of languages."

2. From "Asia's Orthographic Dilemma" by Wm. C. Hannas:

"some eighty million or more people living in China [...] speak non-Chinese languages written in alphabetic or indigenous systems. [...] If we ignore this inconvenient phenomenon and focus on the speech of China's Han population, we find a collection of at least seven or eight mutually unintelligible varieties that in any other context would be called "languages," but which are "dialects" in China, in part for political reasons and in part because of a problem with the translation of the Chinese term fāngyán. The political motivation for claiming that these distinct varieties constitute a single language is fairly obvious: it is easier to govern a country in which the majority believe they are speaking one "language" (whatever the linguistic reality) composed of several "dialects" instead of several related languages.

[...]

Most linguists familiar with the classification problem acknowledge that the major Chinese varieties differ from each other at least on the order of the different languages of the Romance family.

[..]

We have seen that the Chinese languages differ not just in pronunciation but also in vocabulary and grammar, and that these differences are realized through unique morphemes (or unique uses of shared morphemes) for which characters do not exist at all, do not exist in Mandarin, or are used with different meanings and functions. Consequently, character texts in Cantonese and (where available) in Taiwanese are largely unintelligible to Mandarin readers. Many characters are completely unfamiliar; others are recognizable but make no sense in context. This occurs where conventions exist for writing the non-Mandarin variety in characters. Actually, most of these languages have no established writing system and hence lack even the possibility of being understood by readers of other varieties.

[1] http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/visible/index.html

[2] http://pinyin.info/readings/orthographic.html
@dang -- please remove this parent comment. It's wrong.
Bash shell script: using pipes → « cat MonFichier | while read LaLigne ; do echo $LaLigne ; done »
Yes, but without knowing what the total number of prescriptions is... it could be 50%, or 0.005%

By the way, props to your nick :)
> Their written form are all the same.

Regional languages in China have separate writing system when you need to write what is actually spoken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese#Vocabulary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzhou_dialect#Writing_system

Easiest way to see this difference is watch the news in Cantonese -- it is mostly 书面语 (standard) mandarin but pronounced as Cantonese, whereas day-to-day spoken Cantonese is completely different in structure and vocabulary. What do you think gets written in HK movie scripts? Definitely not standard written mandarin.
Is this so radical? There's ample evidence that our healthcare bureaucracies are NOT working. And there's ample evidence that free markets are more efficient at providing value, when held to a legal framework that maximizes freedom (for everyone, consumers and proprietors alike). I'm not even suggesting a fully 'free' market -- just reducing the size and scope of our bureaucracies which have gotten out of control, and see how much prices drop/ health-care improves before we commit ourselves to eternal government-quality care with minimal innovation.

Just ask any veterans relying on the VA how satisfied they are. On a tangent, universal health care is not 'great' anywhere, and the bigger the country, the less compelling the evidence (diseconomies of scale -- see Canada/England vs. Switzerland for example). And our country benefits from another order of magnitude of diseconomies of scale/bureaucratic bloat in trying to institute such a program.

So, moral of the story is that if it somehow did not end up making our healthcare system significantly better than universal healthcare countries, then we could still let states that lean a certain direction handle the bureaucracy of a universal healthcare system with slightly more efficiency.
What about using Mirah ( http://www.mirah.org/ )? Performance should be the same as Java.
They said they might have video of the deployment, but this was interupped by the loss of ground tracking. Anyone know if that video will ever be available?
Except there's a huge difference between organs and blood plasma. Plasma donation is basically risk free, it regenerates, and has no long term health effects pretty much the exact opposite of any organ donation which are really risky and invasive and also leave the donor vulnerable to long term health risks. Equating them is pretty ridiculous.
Separation of church and state doesn't apply here. The original founders didn't want church to control the state. Maybe you need to think about this a bit more, since your understanding is faulty.

As for being a Christian, fine, but my faith defines how I think. It doesn't mean the church controls my way of thinking. Just influences it. That in no way has anything to do with the separation of church and state. ESP for founders that were all very religious.
I'd assume this is why they have qualification requirements on the investors.
I highly doubt that, seems like you'd get a lot more name collisions if you make something commonly used as a variable (such as index or length) a keyword instead of the seldomly-used underscore.
> 2nd, my family will have to live with the results of my earlier decision to not include mental health in my coverage. Decisions have consequences. The government shouldn't force me to pickup coverage just because they think it might be a bad decision to forgo it.

You must be wonderful to have as a family member.

Mother: Hey, crazy cousin virmundi is coming to stay with you because he does not have mental health insurance and there is no government social safety net!

Me: Uh, what!?

Mother: Can you clear the guns and knives out of your house?

Me: Uh, what!?
Who's going to stop an investor from pushing you out from a central role in operations and hence kick you out of the country? All this after 2.5yrs put in the company, working your best for those years.
Pinyin is very well-adapted for (Mandarin) Chinese. It isn't specifically designed for English learners, but if you understand phonetics and learn the sounds first, that shouldn't matter. The alphabet is originally from Latin and is used in a variety of ways in different languages, e.g. Turkish c sounds like English j, German j sounds like English y, so the foreign accent problem exists generally.

There are two bilabial stop consonants, called p and b, in many different languages, with different sounds, e.g.

Mandarin English French
unaspirated voiced - b b
aspirated voiced - - -
unaspirated unvoiced b - p
aspirated unvoiced p p -

though there is, as you point out, an unaspirated unvoiced allophone of p in "spade". Other stops (t, d, k, g) follow a similar pattern.

English speakers using English p and b in Mandarin will still be understood even if their b sounds foreign, but French speakers might not be, because French p sounds like a Mandarin b.

The only change I'd like is replacing Pinyin -ong with -ung.
The Line of Death
Given the amounts we're talking about, it's likely the founders would still have complete control of the board.
Actually it's not, because it's a hypothetical question being used to illustrate an idea. Instead of looking at the idea being illustrated, you are getting tripped up on the details of the particular hypothetical, that could easily be swapped out without changing the point they serve to illustrate. In this case, the question is whether Tesla would notice or care about unusual patterns of energy use.

A real answer that didn't miss the point would be along the lines of "Yes, here's a news article showing that Tesla has algorithms that check energy consumption against mileage, or against a set of expected patterns." Another real answer would be "No, they don't. Here's a comment thread where Telsa users have talked about their experience with charging stations where they didn't run into such limitations." A point-missing answer would be "hey, bitcoin mining isn't that profitable!"
Is this really news, not known? I did it and so did most people I knew back in college (the ones who didn't were too heavy drug users). It was one of many sources for "minor money". Which when you have NO money, is pretty great.

It's one of a host of shitty things we force poor people to do cause as a society we have this stupid fucking idea that you have to work for everything, that you don't deserve the necessities of existence unless you spend 40+ hours making someone else rich.
Leftist believe they are never wrong and everyone who disagrees is Hitler and makes them literally shake.
I'm in film industry. Everything is baked onto LTO tapes. Everything. Three copies, three locations for backup. Always.
You can donate hair, milk, sperm or oocytes as frequently as you like without affecting your health. This is not the case for organs or plasma.
No, but you can do it any time you want.

I don't ever want to change the tires on my car, but I think it's essential that I have the ability to change the tires on my car.
I have seen this company slowly mature over my past 6 years living in Corvallis, Oregon (original location for NuScale). I was excited when I first saw the design and started to look at employment opportunities at the company. At the time, they only were looking for experienced engineers (15+ years) with knowledge of the Nuclear Regulation Commission (NRC).

Even after 6 years, they just now have submitted the application to NRC. It is depressing how much Nuclear has been over-regulated.
Yes, yes, absolutely.

My point is that written Chinese is much terser than spoken Chinese (particularly classical Chinese, of course) and that this is enabled by the disambiguation inherent in the characters. That is, where in spoken language you'd use a two-character word, when writing it would be sufficient to write just one character to evoke what's meant.

Now, if you were to write in some sort of alphabetical script, you'd just write the full two-syllable word.
> Open vs. closed source is an orthogonal concern to verifiability.

The evidence you have presented does not support this conclusion. All you've shown is that it is possible to reverse-engineer object code, but this was never in doubt. It is still an open possibility (indeed it is overwhelmingly probable) that it is a hell of a lot easier to audit code if you have access to the source. All else being equal, more information is always better than less, and, as I pointed out earlier, the constraints imposed by some languages can often be leveraged to make the verification task easier.
The status is iffy and still no easy path to a permanent residence. They recommend the usual route of O-1A or EB-2 and no adjustment of status either.
"bytes" is the type for bytestrings on both Python 2 and 3.
The same way they always did before the ACA.
Obama has decided he would rather lie about the pardon power than actually own any decision around pardons - both around Snowden ("I can't pardon before trial") and around DACA ("I can't pardon en masse"). There is clear precedent for both, historic and recent. I can't imagine he's unaware of this, I don't understand why he'd choose to lie so flagrantly, and as someone who has supported him a bit more than not it really makes me wonder what else he's been lying about.
Because I still have insurance even when I'm healthy. It already exists.
You are idealizing the reach of "spies". And no, an asset/source is not necessarily a "spy", and there is no incentive to become and stay a "mole".
Snowden never "infiltrated" the NSA. He got access to some data he shouldn't have had.

Again, I have no idea what this discussion of terminology has to do with anything. I'm using the plain English meaning of 'spy'. It's not really that important. Although Snowden specifically sought a job to gain access to data and social-engineered passwords out of coworkers. It's not like he was finding files people had forgotten in bathroom stalls and then bumped into the Russian Naval attache at Starbucks and they got to talking.

You also assume that the Russians didn't get the data, either before or after his flight.

Where did I assume that? And again, how is that related to anything?

This fits perfectly with the goal of shaking confidence in western democracy. For this it makes perfect sense to give the data to journalists and come up with a simple and untainted origin story.

No. It doesn't. Snowden's impact has been extremely limited. His value as a source at his job would far, far outweigh any imaginary 'influence operation'. You're essentially saying that the most important thing to Russian intelligence is not actual intelligence but making the west look bad. You haven't answered the zillion of simple questions that arise - why on earth would anyone cultivate a source with such valuable access only to blow him on some completely ridiculous sideshow that could have been accomplished much more cheaply. And, of course, you'd have to do it perfectly - there is nothing the US would like to do more than to discredit Snowden as a Russian spy. So one slip, one little bit of evidence and not only have you wasted this invaluable source, your 'confidence shaking' operation is discredited. Nobody would do that. Your theory has to provide some sort of rational motives for the players and it doesn't - it just piles on improbable things. I'm not trying to defend Snowden. I'm trying to defend common sense. If you think he's a spy, try explaining his actions, his motivations, the motivations of his handlers, etc. I don't think you can.
sigh...another H1B hole so startups can enjoy the same benefits of cheap indentured labor as the big consulting agencies.
>A randomly generated number in CSS

Uses Javscript. Yeah, ok then.
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It's unconstitutional, because it requires you to have health insurance. Try again. Government mandate equals wrong.

Healthy people already sign up for it. Go look at the math before the aca.
> So I will refrain from that arms race.

You're right - there's data to show cameras can make some intersections safer and make other intersections less safe. It isn't simple. There's also some pretty clear cases where the cameras were strictly a cash grab. Cities have been caught shortening the yellow light duration when they don't meet their revenue numbers.

So I don't think you can start with the assumption that traffic cameras make us safer. If they don't necessarily make us safer AND the criminal process is unconstitutional, it gets easier to oppose the way they are used.
> McGough says the company envisions the modules also could be used in other ways. For example, he says, they could be installed near wind turbines as backup when the wind isn't blowing. Or they could be used by the military to power bases that need electricity even if the grid goes down. About a dozen clients in the U.S. and abroad are looking at the technology, he says.
Right. So stop the state regulation. Mission accomplished and welcome to my way of thinking!
Cool idea. Though, wouldn't such a ship-based system be vulnerable to, say, hurricanes? If you're tethered to shore and suppling a population with (their expected) power - you can't exactly maneuver out of the hurricane's path without interrupting service(?).

This clearly isn't an everyday occurrence.
> Those who verify software have access to the source, open or not.

That's not true. Black hats are essentially verifiers, and they generally do not have access to closed source.
Ironically, Germany is quite strong on privacy laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz
For what it's worth, you should _always_ be using triple-equals in Javascript unless you have an overwhelmingly good reason not to. Many of the weird Javascript-isms people like to complain about are due to surprising type coercions, which don't happen with triple-equals (which behaves as you would expect- value equality without type coercion for primitive types and reference equality otherwise.)
Oh, and here we go: All 400 syllables of standard Mandarin in Bopomofo/Zhuyin Fuhao, Wade-Giles, and Hanyu Pinyin:

http://pinyin.info/romanization/wadegiles/basic.html
Maxtor! Now, those were bad drives. I just went on to see the state of the industry. Didn't realise Maxtor bought Quantum (Fireballs were big back then) and then Seagate bought them. It's basically consolidated to Seagate vs WD vs small fishes (Hitachi, who else?). SSDs bring in IC vendors into the game.
lol. you should test your theory in e.g. japan or hmmm saudi arabia.

one might even say that there are countries that follow the law ... religiously.

non anglophone countries also include most of europe. please put a little more thought into your racism. you get a point for originality but it's not nearly as entertaining when it's so weak logically.
fascinating observation. I never noticed this until now...
Derp, you're right. I'm an idiot.
Be skeptical. I am too. Especially when it comes to statistics coming out of China things where details can be very unclear and the skeptics have been right a lot lately.

We can debate what the actual literacy rates are or how to define it. But it's pretty clear literacy in China has gone up in recent decades however you define it. More so, we can debate how big a part simplified characters were to the change in literacy, but my comment above was trying to clarify any confusion pinyin played that big a part in literacy improvement. Pinyin is taught in schools very recently but it did not play this big part in improving the % of the population who can read and understand Chinese like the article suggested. You do not need to know one letter of pinyin or even have heard of pinyin to read Chinese fluently. In fact, the push to teaching younger students pinyin and the roman alphabet in recent years may actually slow down a bit learning to read Chinese (pinyin is needed to use computers and mobile phones and helps when eventually learning English and is worth teaching early even with such a tradeoff).

Also, memorizing of thousands of characters is not the major problem. Firstly, you don't need to memorize thousands of characters. Words are multiple characters. You can read and understand +90% the Chinese you encounter on a daily basis, involving thousands and thousands of Chinese words with less than a thousand characters. Yes, it is harder to memorize a few hundred characters compared an alphabet with a couple dozen roman letters, but characters are not all that difficult once you understand the system behind it (radicals, components etc). I know a few hundred million people who seemed to have done it just fine.

Lastly, government policy alone could have improved literacy even without simplified Chinese characters. It wasn't a necessary step. And many Chinese can read and understand the gists of texts written in traditional Chinese characters even though they were never taught them. (similarly if you know English but were never taught Latin, go spend an hour reading about Latin and etymology you can probably start understanding a lot more Latin than you realize. errare humanum est)
Russel Conjugation: Why We Oppose a “Death Tax” but Support an “Estate Tax”
It is even better; the ‘b’ is ‘bits’, not ‘bytes’.

700 bits/sec = 700 * 60 * 60 / 8 bytes/hour = 315,000 bytes/hour, or slightly under 308 kilobytes per hour/154 kilobytes for that 30 minute podcast.
> When I was a teenager, I got a Dreamhost account and learned web development by uploading PHP scripts and refreshing the page until I got what I wanted. The world of transpilers and SPAs has robbed beginners of this simple experience.

This is the thing that makes me angry the most. We started with interpreted languages with fast feedback loops and then "real" software engineers got into the game and turned all these interpreted languages with fast feedback loops into "compiled" messes with nightmarish debugging experiences.

Fast feedback loops and obvious debugging trails should be a feature that more people pay attention to and the more layers you add the less likely you are to have either one.
For me:

https://canhazip.com/ returns: 2601:645:8104:b920:905c:9243:77f4:d57

https://myip.rest/ returns: { "ip": "24.7.88.203", "about": "https://myip.rest/about/" }

Why the difference?
Yes. It's a bit as if French, Spaniards, and Portuguese would all correspond in Latin, and then say, see, it's one and the same language :-)
What makes you think it's more than necessary given the consequences?
Could you donate sperm 100 times per day without affecting your health? I'm impressed! (Edit: assuming you're an sperm producing individual.(I was going to say 'man', but I don't want to risk offending anyone again.))

Seriously, egg donation seems to affect your health more than plasma donation. According to wikipedia:

Birth control pills are administered during the first few weeks of the egg donation process to synchronize the donor's cycle with the recipient's, followed by a series of injections which halt the normal functioning of the donor's ovaries. These injections may be self-administered on a daily basis for a period of one to three weeks. Next, follicle-stimulating hormones (FSH) are given to the donor to stimulate egg production and increases the number of mature eggs produced by the ovaries. Throughout the cycle the donor is monitored often by a physician using blood tests and ultrasound exams to determine the donor's reaction to the hormones and the progress of follicle growth.

Once the doctor decides the follicles are mature, he/she will establish the date and time for the egg retrieval procedure. Approximately 36 hours before retrieval, the donor must administer one last injection of HCG hormone to ensure that her eggs are ready to be harvested. The egg retrieval itself is a minimally invasive surgical procedure lasting 20–30 minutes, performed under sedation (but sometimes without any). A small ultrasound-guided needle is inserted through the vagina to aspirate the follicles in both ovaries, which extracts the eggs. After resting in a recovery room for an hour or two, the donor is released. Most donors resume regular activities by the next day.
I'd venture if you asked a bunch of teens what an ethernet cable is I imagine it'd be similar to the number that knows what a rotary phone looks like.
Yeah but maybe we should let linguistics and science decide what a language is or is not, and not bend the truth for political reasons?

I mean, 90%+ of Chinese people were taught and speak Standard Mandarin anyway. Language is not a reason for separatism today.
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The /370 vision of a single chip mainframe was realized, I think the article ends prematurely. The first card I've actually seen as such is the P/370 and that may have been a productized version of this chip. There were some other skunk works projects that might predate that http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#4.

As others pointed out "real" S/390s also switched to CMOS microprocessors in the 90s. There's some good reading in http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohlandl/P390/s390_i-o_continues.txt on the evolution of the I/O subsystems because I/O is what makes mainframes interesting :)
And maybe replace yu with yü, etc., for consistency.
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Aka cool story bro
https://youtu.be/7WimRhydggo?t=2145
That already happens here in California. Three(?) strikes in a two year period and your license is suspended. At the same time, you still have to pay for the ticket.