skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is a bit ignorant, typically one provides just a rough area and a phone number so the courier can call and drop it off to you at home or at work.

This is why you just need a suburb or area and your cell #. You need to be available to sign for packages in African countries and they typically cannot just be dropped off on the porch.

The problem with buying online is just the availability of things is poor, you don't have an Amazon-esque level of availability & websites that do basically buy from Amazon and sell it to you after an extenuating long timeframe.

Ordering from abroad is a hassle because of customs and duties and ridiculous charges such as the SGR levy (for Uganda and Kenya) because of the new rail line (even though the rail line isn't really used for your package). If you order something small like shampoo its likely to cost triple and a minimum of $30 from abroad.

The only great experience I've seen is from takealot. Jumia not so much. Kudos to those guys who run Takealot.

For someone who has lived in Africa the address system, or lack thereof is just something people are used to - it's still possible to find places without an exact numerically marked address. It's likely a dedicated courier who is very knowledgeable on the local areas & landmarks is to drop the package over a postman so it makes little difference.

It's a bit of a shame when these type of articles come up once in a while that distill a "sort of issue" into the prime issue on why it doesn't work. It's not to say proper addresses would help alot, but it's certainly not the reason e-commerce hasn't really taken off. The last time it was a discovery on how a small fan can get rid of mosquitoes - obviously not the reality either.
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“The document, which was written in 2016 and shared publicly this week, provides a striking counterpoint to allegations made by former Google employees James Damore and David Gudeman in a discrimination lawsuit filed against their former employer.”

These two actions by Google are not necessarily in conflict. It’s possible to discourage both opinions without showing any kind of biased agenda.
I guess in some Asian places the Z coordinate is also required, like Floor 24
One thing I'm completely ignorant of is how to people from countries where non-latin alphabets are write code? Eg if you're Chinese, Arabic even Russian do you have to do everything in English and English characters?

I'd hope there is a Unicode mapping into other characters - is there any language that supports this? Even for libraries would be nice.
Spices were far bigger initially. Black pepper, cloves, nutmegs and mace were the real money makers. Cloves and nutmegs especially, since they only grew natively on a handful of the Molucca islands, and a succession of bloody and exploitative regimes maintained a monopoly on production and export almost into the 19th century.
I've had ideas of where we abstract the syntax of a program language in a way that there would be multiple 'views' of the code.

What if you could run a program that would translate Bato programs into Ruby and vice versa? The variables would be a hard part so maybe it would hint you at a translation of it or you could add a hint yourself.

Or what if you had a language that had a javascript like syntax and a lisp like syntax. You would run a program that would translate it from one syntax for the other. You could add or subtract syntactic sugar.
Yes, I'm sitting there now. You can also ask for a "cup of splosh".
Completely not trolling, nor ironic.

Now: I’ll be very clear that I don’t agree with these policies. They are terrible.

And obviously if I had anything sensitive I wouldn’t travel with it in the first place! But if I landed in Miami tomorrow for a holiday and someone asked me to unlock my phone so they could look around - would I? Yes! Because I know that not doing it leads to somewhere worse.

The point I was trying to make was that I don’t have the luxury of standing up for principles at the US border. Best case it will take a few hours of me being difficult while my family waits. Worse case I’m on a plane home again.

So the end result is that if I’m reluctant to show device data at the border, it’s because I realized that something on my device would be found a more serious issue than my refusal to show it.

Do not take my previous post as me subscribing to some form of “it’s no problem if you have nothing to hide”. That’s not what I was saying. It is a problem, and I just don’t have a choice.
Very Interesting read. I'm someone who has been reading some self-help literature for the past year. Topics include Mindfulness, Buddhism, Stoicism, Social skills, Positive psychology, Habit forming, Assertiveness. I'm in my early 20s, and I justify this phase as un-learning the coping mechanisms/bad habits I formed in my childhood/teen years. Well intentioned but highly critical parents damaged my self-esteem; I also suffered from loneliness. And self-help books have helped me. I don't see myself continuing to regularly read as much self-help as I grow older. But I think it's important early on in your life trying to unlearn bad habits and learn good ones.
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It seems to me that one reason you are able to sit down and just get shit done on Friday is because you've been in the office Monday - Thursday to get context, discuss implementation strategies, understand the business goals, and ask/answer any questions. Then by the time Friday comes around you're ready to sit down and bang out code.

But whether you're in the office or not while writing that code is completely orthogonal to whether you have the context & requirements to do it. A good organization that's built for remote workers can communicate all of that without people having to be together in person. Likewise, a bad organization will have bad development & requirements practices whether you're in the office in person or remote.

The big difference is that it's easier to ignore distractions when you're remote so once you have your work (mostly) defined then it's easier to get into flow when you're by yourself.
Yeah, it's very circular and as a Christian I find it the most challenging component of faith.

Salvation by faith not works. But the act of faith, if you believe in free will, is the ultimate work.
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Reading your comment I'm a bit confused about what your point is. Even in English tea doesn't necessarily mean a drink brewed in tea leaves, which you presumably know since you yourself say:

> e.g. barley tea (大麥茶), ginger tea (薑茶), golden oats tea (燕麥茶), etc. all of which translate to tea

You call all of these things tea (and I would call them all tea too), so I'm not really sure why you say that cha doesn't necessarily translate to tea.
The way I read these categories is:

Academic = mathiness

real world = no mathiness
OK enough people are replying this way that I'm wondering if this is maybe an American-English vs British-English thing. When you say "find a good reason for <thing-Y>" ... do you mean "Why does <person-X> justify doing <thing-Y>"? If so then we're all talking at cross purposes and misunderstanding each other - but I'd really suggest phrasing because BOY that original version sounds so bad.

We are in agreement re the media angle. This is clearly "Teacher asks dumb question" not "Teacher brainwashing kids with racist propaganda" and is in no way (inter)national news.
I'm glad you like it :)
I'm suggesting NPM integrate Github's authentication API into their publishing process, to validate that the author owns a namespace if NPM doesn't already do that (I don't know, I don't use NPM.) If Bitbucket allows the same, then that's OK. The point is to have authors control namespaces, and NPM control package names but only validate namespaces. If namespaces are just another string that NPM controls and that can be handed out, revoked or taken over like package names then using them doesn't solve the intended problem at all.

Since NPM uses a centralized registry, though, some limitations would have to be imposed, and allowing multiple sources would mean allowing for conflicts between github:google/package and bitbucket:google/package. Ideally, namespaces should be unique and canonical, and the simplest way to accomplish that is just to allow publishing to a single source.
I'd like to see the equivalent map for 'coffee'.
I read about isomorf yesterday... it might be kinda like what you're looking for?

Possibly relevant blog post from Brian McKenna, too: https://brianmckenna.org/blog/polymorphic_programming

[1] https://isomorf.io/
I found the email and tried logging in. It prompted me to upgrade. However there was no secret and public key shown. I upgraded and got the email.
But now I don't know how to login as I never copied the secret key.

Any ideas?
Given enough time you can find a shortcut instead of having to follow every redirect.
She's referring to the Rhode Island School of Design, her alma mater.
I think what the article is saying is that marijuana tends to be grown frequently in the feeding grounds of owls, more so than other non-marijuana crops. In addition, the unregulated nature of growing marijuana means the regulators can't track what's going on, or punish infringement. Overuse of poisons by mainstream farms is a problem, but a different one.

That said, I couldn't see any real data here. I don't know whether this is a bigger problem than people using rat poison in general, or putting slug pellets around their lettuces.
"Varieties remains for most believers a powerful defense against Karl Marx, who criticized religion as the opiate of the masses"

That's not what Karl Marx said. He said: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"
Why doesn't the opinion piece link to the youtube video it talks about?
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Maybe the "Great Filter" is the acceptance of insignificance by technologically intelligent lifeforms:

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. - George Bernard Shaw.
I don't own ripple, but you don't need a ponzi scheme to see that kind of growth in speculative value. For example, you may have seen the same thing if Uber's valuation was liquid during it's early days.

Of course Uber followed a traditional funding model that restricted access to the top 1% of wealthy Americans. All VC-backed startups do. And many of them follow this curve, it's just not visible to us.
Many CPUs are vulnerable to Spectre, but Meltdown is much more severe and far easier to exploit. Meltdown is fairly specific to Intel.
To play a little devil's advocate, while he didn't specifically say this, I think he was referring to police shootings.

Interestingly enough Walter Scott was killed less than a month after he posted this. Someone I'd argue could be a bit of a martyr. While he had committed a crime, it still wasn't justifiable in any sense. Of course, the offending officer was also convicted to 20 years in prison.
Economics 101 says supply equals demand at all price levels. So there is no one "what it's worth."

Baking in (no pun intended) externalities into the price is better than just shuffling it off into the wastelands of government deficits.

The market and I are not obligated to make a profit for Subway just because conditions have changed. If their entire value proposition was to be the lowewt cost food provider, that's on them.
There were yellow smiley faces all over forums and chat apps, but IIRC they were just conversions of emoticons ;-) to images in proprietary ways -- they had nothing to do with the actual Japanese set of emoji.

iOS was the first place I was ever exposed to real emoji (in the US), and actual desktop OS support for Unicode colored emoji in any application seemed to be a reaction to the popularity in SMS.

But I'm no historian on this... anybody correct me if this is wrong?

Edit: timeline from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#History

> The emoji keyboard was first available [on iOS] in Japan with the release of iPhone OS version 2.2 in 2008

> The emoji keyboard was not officially made available outside of Japan until iOS version 5.0 [2011]

> Apple first introduced emoji to their desktop operating system... in 2011

> Google added native emoji support to Android in July 2013

> As of Windows 8.1 Preview [2013], Segoe UI Emoji font supplies full-color pictographs.
I don't understand, here is my news feed right now:
- A beautiful video from Patrick Seabase (person that I follow)
- A post from a friend asking a question I don't know the answer to, but already 8 comments.
- A post from The Economist (that I follow). This article is not relevant to my interest but sometime they are.
- A post about about a comment that one of my friend left on another post (this the kind of post I don't want to see)
- A friend posted a video of something funny happening in my home town.
- A post from my mayor telling us that the snow removing in the street is nearly done.
- A post from CityLab relevant to me.

So on and so forth.
If your feed is irrelevant, it's your fault...
An emoji isn't really a shorthand for a word or phrase, using an emoji has its own unique meaning. Responding to something with (heart-eyes) is interpreted differently to anything verbal, like "I love that." In the same way, you can't substitute facial expressions and vocal tones with more words. It used to be that you'd have 10-30 emoticons directly representing facial expressions, the only thing that's changed is that now people pair multiple emojis to create emoji-phrases that can represent more elaborate gestures and actions. A lot of the weirder "why is that a thing" emojis are there to enable that. Stuff like rolling-eyes + gun-to-head, ‍️blank-stare + man-fleeing, raised-hand + crossed-arms (time out), etc. If your SO tells you they're picking up pizza on the way home, pizza + heart-eyes, pizza + orgasm, partners + pizza = love, etc have different meanings and vibes to stating "I love pizza."

It's interesting because it's no longer just filling a gap in textual communication, but using textual communication to express a thought or joke that you can't really express with the same interpretation in any other conversational medium. Responding to "and Dave will be there" with blank-stare + man-fleeing expresses something you could only really express otherwise by drawing a comic strip on the spot and handing it to someone.
I don't know, for me as a non-native speaker the words in a programming language are just memorised tokens, they could just as well be symbols or emojis. The bigger deal is libraries and documentation. For instance Microsoft is attempting to localise all their SDK documentation, and at least for German it's a nightmare, either the translations are done by non-technical people, or algorithms, sometimes the information is twisted in a way that reads like correct German, but doesn't contain any useful information, or is even plain wrong.
Actually, you don't. See the bit on "zero width joiners" in this article. https://blog.emojipedia.org/fun-emoji-hacks/ That's how skin tone and gender are applied in many cases.
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Although I don't speak Mandarin I am quite familiar with Oriental culture and my impression is that it means "brew". They have a bewildering variety of infusions, more often than not medicinal, and sometimes I have the impression it means anything with hot water. In fact, its common to just have plain hot water.
I kind of have both experiences. I have frequently contacted my state and federal legislators, leaving messages with their staff, and have never gotten back any message other than a form letter or email stating that they are going to do exactly what they were planning on doing all along. But I'm also reasonably certain that their staff do keep a tally; just that there's plenty of stuff in their political calculus (demographics, gerrymandering, campaign contributions) that means they don't have to pay attention.

The biggest irony is that shortly after I contact any legislator telling them how I oppose their policy position, they start sending me mail asking for campaign contributions.
At my school days in 1980s we used to write programs using RAPIRA (russian: РАПИРА) programming language on AGAT microcomputer. RAPIRA was an original programming language with Russian keywords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapira
Sounds like it's time for decentralized trademark enforcement.
Yes, it is a very US-centric view, because we're talking about the US.
Masala means "blend of spices" "Garam masala" is a blend of hot spices, "chai masala" is meant for making tea, In the US, Chai usually refers to Indian style tea with milk and spices. Source: I've worked with a lot of Indian people.
> Except that they might have addresses.

This reminds me of how when the German zip codes were unified in the 1990s, they forgot about one district.

> Although the Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald is officially uninhabitated, two people inhabit and operate the Tillyschanze restaurant, next to the observation tower of the same name above the city of Hann. Münden, located in Lower Saxony. The border between the states of Hesse and Lower Saxony runs between the restaurant and the observation tower. The territory has no postal code as it was forgotten about when the postal codes were assigned in 1993, as such no mail is delivered to the inhabitants.[2] The official address, as given by the authorities, is Tillyschanze 1, 00000 Reinhardswald.[2]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutsbezirk_Reinhardswald
What does that actually mean?

It means that most of the laws that are passed by the EU are done so at the behest of big industry. All laws are proposed by the unelected EU commission, and they are lobbied heavily by the industries.

High tariffs on imported food are intended to protect the farming industry. Laws banning DIY are intended to protect the trades. Laws promoting green energy (read: noxious diesel gases) are designed to provide a ready market for German car manufacturers.

If you're British then you'll know about HS2, the high speed rail network nobody wants and many are protesting against. Everyone seems to agree that it will be a waste of money but the govt are determined to go ahead with it anyway.

Presuming this has nothing to do with TEN-R [1], which I doubt, you would think that the British govt might want to spend British tax-payers' money on British workers to build the trains, to help the economy and stuff, right? Well maybe they do, but they are required by law to put the tender out to the whole of the EU, so British companies actually make up the minority of bidders for the contract [2].

I googled for this, and the only reference I could find
was Mail and Express articles, so I suspect it's not true.

It is true. A friend of mine manages a charity shop and makes homemade jam, which she used to sell at the counter. She was forced to stop selling it after the legislation came in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European_high-speed_rail...
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hs2-reveals-bidders-in-ra...
eating, fiddling with things, kicking the back of their desks, typing too percussively, sniffing...
> they could just as well be symbols or emojis

I'm sure they will...
They started with a small screw-up. (Favoring the widow in order to close an investment account). Then let on with a slightly larger screw-up (Favoring the children in order to get back at the widow for closing that account). Then made the huge screw-up of trying to break the law and force the widow to sell the house.
Then they made the gigantic mistake of using up the estate to fight both sides in court.
Then they made the mind-blowingly huge mistake of indebting the estate to themselves to keep that fight going.

It's just one long series of someone screwing up badly and thinking "wait!? I can fix this, I've got a crazy idea that just might work", then proceeding to fuck up even more.
Though with the lengthy timescale it would not at all surprise me if someone got promoted several times for the (prior to the verdict) "great" handling of the afairs. Whoever went to the boss saying "yea, we drained the entire estate into legal fees for our-selves, and now we're even indebting it while keeping both sides fighting" would have at the time been seen by them as a candidate for employee of the year.

The 8 billion is outrageous and far too much, but I would love to live in a world where they actually had to pay that amount. Maybe not all to the victims, but most of it to some charities and non-profit organisations fighting for citizens rights against banks. It would seriously send a signal that all this kind of just horrible behavior on the part of the banks isn't profitable in the long run, and could potentially blow your entire organisation out of the water. Making things like moral codes and proper training actually matter to them. As it is, they'll likely just pay a couple of million and scrug it off as an ok attempt at stealing from their clients. The 99 other cases where it actually worked will foot the bill for this time when it failed.
How ironic that op didn't get that exactly those containers are the primary target for Meltdown and Spectre attacks. We can only hope for a Darwin award for this poor fella.
I feel internet shaming is the wrong answer as it's a different side of the same coin. As much as these people are trying to tear down and essentially bully people with words in a negative manner -- those who shame those people end up doing the same thing back, and often take it to extremes where punishment is vastly out of touch with the "crime".

By shining a light on these groups you attract others to it. This is why (I personally feel) the extreme right and extreme left exist today in politics. When you highlight (even to shame) a group it galvanizes them and brings other loonies to their cause.
Tagalog speaker here. Yes, it is.

edit:

Bato -> stone.

Ang 'Bato Programming Language' ay isang scripting language sa wikang Filipino. -> The Bato programming language is a scripting language in the Filipino tongue (T/N: or more specifially, Tagalog).

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More interestingly in the following section:
Bakit Bato? -> Why call it Bato?

Ang 'bato' ay hango sa Ruby Programming Language na may Filipino sintaks. Ang kadahilanang ginamit ang pangalang 'bato' ay dahil ang Ruby ay isang uri ng bato. -> Bato is made with Ruby using Filipino syntax. The reason to use the word "Bato" as a name is because Ruby is a kind of stone.
Paperwork Reduction Act is an attempt to reduce paperwork. Customs and immigration questions are not paperwork, despite how systematic they are. Consider if they have an OMB number for "Citizenship? Duration of stay? Purpose of visit?", the questions nearly every traveller gets asked. They don't. Of course they don't. They don't need one.
Specifically in Poland: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh

Translating the article:
Pu-erh (chin. 普洱茶, pǔ’ěr chá) – a kind of tea that is classified as red tea in Poland (black tea in China since the Chinese classify the tea according to the colour of the brew, as opposed to Europeans who classify tea according to the colour of dried leaves).
Not sure if this is still the case, but when I was a kid I loved getting the occasional Canadian quarter because it would respond to my magnets (where as US coins wouldn't).

So what Canadian quarters lack in currency value, they make up for in entertainment value.
I’m not saying this is common knowledge, but it’s not a new idea: https://archive.org/details/FEMAEmergencyGassifer , https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/3022.pdf . Then again, the fact that the article focuses on WWII cars says it’s not a new idea.