skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithms are usually statistical which by definition makes them prejudiced. Targeted ads only mean targeted to some group that they believe you belong in. Maybe some day each person will be exactly profiled but it's not the case right now.

The other issue is that humans are much more permeable to their environment than we would like to admit ourselves. We are influenceable. Ads invade our environment constantly for that reason, their goal is to influence us into buying something. They can take us to directions that we want to avoid. What if a fat person is trying to lose weight ? Ads have measured that this individual is likely to buy cake and present him with delicious assortiments everywhere he goes. It's beneficial for the companies but what about that individual ?

The algorithms
can only be accurate to who you are, not what you want to become.
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I do think ancestors did stretch: nobody ever learnt me to stretch yet I've been doing it when waking up before getting out of bed since I can remember and I'm definitely not the only one, on the contrary. Some other animals do so as well. I know these are mere observations and no hard evidence, but I would be surprised to learn I'm wrong on this point. Whether they did actual stretching exercises is another thing though. I would guess they did if they were able to figure out by experience stretching had positive effects. Also sort of depends what you mean with ancestors, i.e. how many centuries ago.
I don't know why nobody seems to put information like "warning: this phone's UI in <your local language> is total and utter crap".

Anyway, what you wrote is exactly why I stick to using all software and webservices - OS, text editors, Facebook, et al. - in en_US instead of my native pl_PL. Because translations are always crappy - even for big players. Lack of context is the key here - translated text often feels out of place, because there usually is some overarching idea behind them that isn't communicated to translators. Then there is lack of consistency. Words in original text often have some site-specific meaning, which tends to also be somehow lost in the translation process. For example, on Facebook the word "like" talks about a well-defined thing, not about the dictionary meaning, so it's totally not ok to randomly replace it with synonyms during translation [0].

I realized at some point that I often look at a crapy translation, guess what was the English original, and then in my mind translate to what it should be in the first place. Because for some strange reason I, the user, have the context, and the paid translation team has not. I guess I'm going to put that into my "Translation issues" file in the "Mysteries of capitalism" drawer, right next to "how on Earth multi-milion media companies can't do a movie translation that isn't a total crap" file. I mean, seriously, you're better off looking for pirated subtitles even if you bought the original because pirates at least seem to have watched the movie they're translating.

</rant>

[0] - I wish more translators would use the approach Jehovah's Witnesses used when doing their own Bible translation. Since it was designed to be studied and analyzed, they preferred accuracy over aesthetics - therefore one of the translation rules was "as much as possible, let's have any given word in original text be always represented by the same word in English". Adhering to that single rule would eliminate like half of the "context missing" problems with software translations.
The Russian demo does not work. Must be 1 котёнок, 2 котёнка.
and eyes hurts after looking for my targets. Isn't it like Archery sports.
'The paragraph you're quoting from is in a section that could have been titled "Fuck It, It's A Regressive Tax But It's Still Good".'

(Sorry it's been so long since I replied last, I hope you notice this.)

That's exactly right, 'regressive' is not necessarily bad. The top 10% of earners right now pay something around 70% of all income tax: http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-inco.... Is that 'fair'? What is the 'correct' number? Food for thought.

At any rate, the reason the Fair Tax's 'regression' isn't bad, is the estimated increase in tax burden for the middle class is around 2-3%. HOWEVER, the estimated wage benefits of the Fair Tax total 5-10%. So, even though the middle class is paying a higher share than now, its net income would go up 2-8%. That's a win, plus the entire IRS and income tax apparatus is gone - another huge win.

Given the political abuses the IRS has facilitated lately, it needs to go. We don't need an American Gestapo.
What problem are you having exactly? Works fine here.
If the advertisers and your ISP are cooperating there's nothing you can do. They can easily just redirect all IP packets going to their advertising partners through some encapsulation that encodes your customer id out-of-band, encode it in to their NAT scheme, or just provide customers with static IPs and partners with regular dumps of the database.
This only addresses the ordering of parameters, not the fact that you need two different counters.
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I don't think that's a good idea. Yes the ad based business model has gone completely off the rails with their aggressive privacy violations and disgusting deception schemes. I think they should be stopped, if necessary by regulating them off the face of the earth.

But personally blaming and shunning regular employees of corporations that break the law or some ethical standard has far reaching ramifications. Bitter ideological battles would take over the personal lives of people who have no say in whether or not their employer decides to use a particular marketing scheme or do business in a particular country.

I think personal blame should be reserved for decision makers. If an employee knows about serious crimes committed by their employer they should simply report it to the police.
> A professional translator makes sure to check the context of the translation, it doesn't go blindly translating sentences and words without context.

From my experience with both software and movies, that's exactly what a professional, paid translator does (or is forced to).

Amateurs at least watch the movie/run the software before translating things, which is something I definitely cannot say about "professionals" translating movies and software to my language.
accel != sens
It's the normal plural, but 3 and 4 take the nominative, while other numbers take the genitive plural.
It's not always about your history - it's about your profile, and the history of people who have similar profiles to you, as determined by the rules of the algorithm.

For example, it's a fact that on average, women drivers (at least in the UK) are less of an insurance liability than male drivers. As a result, if a man and a woman both applied for the same insurance with identical driving/insurance history, and otherwise identical profiles, the woman would get cheaper insurance. This was ruled illegal by the European Court of Justice in 2011.
The Google Translate app (and Word Lens, I believe - it's been a few years since I played with it) do use augmented reality to overlay directly on the image.
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That was on Windows, now I'm on Linux and it's the other way around. It won't start on Chrome, and it runs at 4 FPS on Firefox.
Another thing:

"Are you sure you want to quit?" in Slavic language will have gender of the user embedded. You need to know it to adress user correctly.

You can do stilted "To the person that uses this program - are you sure you want to quit?", but that's insane. So everybody just use male version.
Am I the only one that gets confused on what the menus and other things on a non English computer or device actually mean when translated.

This coming from someone doesn't speak English as their first language.

I speak Romanian, Hungarian and English perfectly but my devices are always in English since it would be harder to figure out what they mean otherwise unless you have the structure memorized already.
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And if you count that staying home + work everyday of your life watching TV is inactivity, then most people are just slowly dying doing nothing
true that, best coffee in the world [jealous]
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Pretty sure the financial information would have come from the NSA's surveillance of financial institutions.[1] They are tracking global bank transactions and the IRS doesn't necessarily have the juice to get info from other countries.

[1]http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-nsa-spied-on-credit-car...
As an example of the current exchange imbalance, the top of the line 13" MacBook pro is:

- 1799€ -> 1845CHF (->$2110) on the French Apple store.

- 1949CHF -> 1900€ (->$2228) on the Swiss Apple store.

The kicker here is that the VAT is 8% in Switzerland and 19+% in France, and yet the laptop is 100€ cheaper in France.
This library has been written by Polish Mozilla localization team, so it handles complex grammars pretty well.
I used to ride the Leeds to Bradford canal to work, was beautiful and just the right distance (about 40 minutes).

Watching the seasons change, seeing the migratory birds come and go through out the year, the calves appearing etc

Good way to unwind after a long day as well <thumbups>
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Makes me wonder why anyone would ever design a translation system that doesn't have the ability to reorder placeholders from the very first version. Perhaps if the author doesn't know anything about languages andn their differences, but in that case they probably shouldn't write such a library ...
The L20n library handles all these cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892273
mmmh... Aluminium in excess inhibes enzymes, can cause colic, lost of memory, desorientation, kidney damage and even is claimed to cause dementia at long term.

So (unless this fish can float?) I understand that you are also scratching the bottom of the pan with the iron chunk and this should release a lot of more AL than before because this metal is soft.

I wonder what are the efects of using the fish in the aluminium intake of these people. They did some research about it?.

Maybe a better solution could be to make pans with some iron embedded (ring?, bottom?, cover?) but not mobile pieces.
In the UK, use http://www.cyclestreets.net/ it can highlight non-traffic routes so enable you to plan a more pleasant ride.

Of note, don't just assume it gets it right. In my case, it put me at the front of the train station, rather than at the back. This caused the routing to take me out of my way. Always worth exploring an area/talking to people to work out if there is anything out there that has missed.
Better take the hit now than later when it could be a lot more painful.
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distance irrelevant in miles or km.
around 50-60 minutes by two commuter trains and a tram (I live in Paris Area)
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There is also the 10% Apple adds to their stuff sold in Switzerland just because they can and people are stupid enough to pay it.
Monmouth canal (Newport to Cwmbran) is unused (no boats) so has way more wildlife than I've seen on any other canal path. I've had to face off against a swan, a rather large number of ducks and the odd suicidal moorhen. Recent wind meant I was climbing through fallen trees :D

To be honest it makes for awesome office banter.
Part of knowing what college a person went to is a proxy for knowing their likely SAT scores which is a proxy for an (illegal) IQ test. So it's a moderately effective workaround. Of course, college can be gamed in a lot of different ways (family money, connections, hustle) that do not relate specifically to IQ or to job performance (and others that, of course, do).
Very useful - thanks! :)
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That's incorrect, that interrogation particle (for making the question in your example) is か. ね is different.
> Perception can easily outweigh facts for a lot of people. If we could find a way to trick people into vaccinating their kids we would use it.

Maybe we should try using vaccine syringes shaped like funny animals?
Great summation. Especially the island part. That is exactly what it's like. Living on an island. The surrounding desert is the ocean. Three hours to get anywhere (and it's not much of anywhere when you get there). 8 hours to a real cultural center like Denver, Dallas or Phoenix.
Yes, 49.9M people each month visit MySpace after discussing old, washed up websites with their friends and saying, "Does MySpace even exist today?"

The other 100K are juggalos and pedophiles.
So you're saying that nobody would be obese if it weren't for benefits programs? That is utter bunk. There are plenty of obese people that work for a living.

More likely culprits:

* The "cheapness" and accessibility of junky food.

* The inaccessibility of heathy food in poor neighbourhoods (which may only have a corner store that primarily sells processed, packaged foods and no fresh veggies).

* The creep of sugar/HFCS into everything.

* The optimization techniques used by junk food companies to determine the right balance of taste so that people don't do things like eat in short bursts, but get sick of the flavour fast. [They basically run a ton of focus-groups on a bunch of small variations of the formula until they get one where people can -- for the most part -- just keep eating and eating it without getting sick of it.] If you liked potato chips, but got sick of the flavour after a single "serving" then you would eat fewer chips.
the PF available on FreeBSD is woefully out of date. If you use FreeBSD regularly and don't mess with pf, learn ipfw. it is quite powerful and much more performant.
I've been obese while I worked out a lot. I know others in the same situation, and these train MMA, submission wrestling, and brazilian jiu jitsu, several times per week.

Eating more than required caloric intake is amazingly simple, if you're used to it. The calorie count in alcoholic beverages, fast food, candy, chocolate and potato chips is amazingly high.

In addition, the extra amount of calories you need to maintain weight when working out, is not a lot.

/r/fitness has links to a lot of details on everything: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/getting_started
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35 minutes on dry roads, one way.

If it is snow and ice time then that could be double. Yesterday it was -9F when I left for work but the roads were dry so it was all good.

I can and do work remote at least 1 day a week or more. I love the flexibility I have, but the job is boring as all get out.
This looks quite nice and powerful and indeed an elegant way of solving the problem with multiple plural forms in a string. The only concern I have with that syntax is that it's yet another DSL, or markup language and translators need to know it, or could get it wrong. Granted, a program for helping translators might do automatic linting (much as Qt's Linguist already warns if you omit placeholders from the translated phrase that are there in the original).

Another thing is that the mini-language grows complex enough that the resulting text can be quite hard to read and understand:

{people, plural, offset:1 =0{No one went.} =1{{user1} went.} =2{{user1} and {user2} went}.} other{{user1} and # others went}}.

is just a single (or two) placeholder and it takes a while to even parse how it's supposed to work.
- The Swiss firms exporting products might get hit, since their products are now more expensive to foreigners (that was the original point of pegging the CHF to the EUR in the first place - so they could export more).

- The Swiss firms importing products will get a benefit of being able to import for cheaper. This goes for consumer goods as well as raw materials.
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I will assume the last part is just a generic statement and is not directed towards me. You are a Java dev I presume?

As for app-level locking, I am talking about sacrificing performance, not safety. We just make sure that some piece of code runs exactly once. Since the need for this is very rare and the places are not performance critical, we can live with that. So no, we have no need for additional transactional guarantees on DB level.
As far as I can tell, the best tool for localisation almost nobody is using is http://www.grammaticalframework.org/. Licensing is a mix of GPL, BSD and MIT pieces.

It's a high-level functional programming language with a dependent type system specialised for operating on language ASTs. It's resource library, to quote "covers the morphology and basic syntax of currently 29 languages: Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Italian, Latvian, Maltese, Nepali, Norwegian bokmål, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sindhi, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Urdu."

In essence, once it has the language-independent AST, it can produce output in all its supported languages with the correct tenses, genders, inflections, etc.

It also seems to have tools for assisted parsing, so you could have an english document and interactively parse it into the correct AST. In addition, the text can be parameterised semantically, so if you changed the gender of a person, that could propagate to all the correct locations and update the translations as required.

While it seems the upfront cost may be quite high in having to learn such a complex system, I think the benefits of having reproducible, high-quality outputs into n languages for free could make this highly advantageous in many applications.
Because that would require translators to become programmers.
Is this the actual defence plan or just some rumour on the net?
Unfortunetly I have :-( I used to work in house as a consultant for a big publisher and unfortuntly most of the devlopers wher in the lower two quartiles and required a rediculous amount of handholding.

BTW I was "banned" from writing any code that would go into production as a condition of my director being allowed to employ me.-
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The Lenovo N5902 isn't too bad, but I don't think I'd want to type extensively on it. For short messages, URLS, etc. it works ok.
You're missing at least one additional point :)

- The Swiss firms importing products will save money on imports, enabling them to either lower the prices of their products, increasing company profits (which increases investor profits), or both

That's the inverse or your "The Swiss firms exporting ..." point.

With every price move, including prices moves in the foreign exchange market, there is a winner and a loser. The seller of the good with the increased price (in this case CHF) realizes a gain, and the seller of the good that decreased in price (EUR) takes the loss.

Swiss companies sell CHF, which just means they buy goods (concrete, steel, wheat, land, labor, etc.) with CHF. Euro-area companies sell EUR, which means they buy goods with EUR.
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It's psychological.

Of course; eating exactly the number of calories that are required to maintain your weight, and then you start to exercise - yes, you will lose weight.

But people don't do that. They think "hey, I need a post-workout meal", and suddenly they're eating that in addition to everything else. And then it's the weekend, and they feel they deserve something extra because they've worked out a lot. Or they're already getting too many calories, and working out just makes them get fatter slower.
I'd like to take exception with your assertion of the best food, if I may :)

I spent six months working in and around Naples (which, I know, is perhaps not entirely representative of the country, but is the third largest city in Italy) and the food was basically pizza or pasta. Often, not even particularly good pizza or pasta; I suppose when you don't have to compete with a variety of interesting foods from around the world, you can lower your standards.

Locals approved - approved! - of their local councils refusing to allow foreign restaurants. We gave up on getting a decent curry locally and we flew in someone from the UK to cook a curry for us because we just couldn't find anywhere. The attitude to food that wasn't Italian was disconcerting and depressing.
No, he's referring to back before Congress told private businesses that they weren't allowed to refuse to serve black people. When Congress took away the right of family owned restaurants to exercise their freedom of association with only white people.
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Anyone that talks about how much the top x% of earners pay of federal income tax in isolation -- especially without talking about their share of income, but not only then -- is either ignorant or dishonest. The federal income tax isn't the only federal tax on income, or even the most burdensome for most workers (federal payroll taxes are.)

And it doesn't eliminate the need for a tax collection and enforcement apparatus, as all other existing consumption taxes demonstrate, so saying it eliminates the need for that is inaccurate.
Yes, that seems to be where sama is coming from. On the other hand, I suspect that this is again one of those truisms that may not really be true at all.

Consider that in Europe (and to a lesser extent also in the US), mainstream academic economists have essentially been begging politicians to spend more, as that is what the macroeconomic models have been advising them to do for the last few years. And yet there has been a lot of austerity.

This really clashes with the idea that elected officials simply give in to demands by voters. The story is obviously more nuanced than this simple truism.

Add to this that it is unclear what "living within their means" even means. If you look at it in terms of physical goods and services available, then of course they are living within their means, because living beyond means at the level of a society is physically impossible.

You could then clarify your definition to encompass something like "being on a sustainable path into the future", but again, if you evaluate that in terms of physical reality a fair evaluation is probably that democratic states are on average better at preserving resources etc. than states with other forms of government.

The cynic in me would say that the whole "democracy and low growth don't go together" is really code for "democracy and low growth and the kind of unequal society I like don't go together",[0] because of course democratic voting outcomes will demand fairness in the sense that if a belt-tightening across society is necessary, the belts of those at the top have to be tightened the most. So: democracy, low growth, unequal society: pick any two out of three, but you can't have all three at once.

[0] Though I assume most people talking about these issue are not consciously aware that there even is a distinction.
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And if there is NO other alternative, what are they free to do? Many, many, locations have only one option for broadband service. Here in Baltimore, our only option is Comcast. (Verizon chose not to deploy FiOS in Baltimore, and won't sell you DSL anymore in Baltimore, although they have some legacy DSL customers).

The suggestion that having competition which is 'crappy' somehow encourages worse service than having a monopoly with no competition at all, seems bizarre to me.
"primary type array"?

Do you mean primitive type array? Because in that case, a bunch of arrays of primitives does not have the same layout and cache locality as an array of structs of primitives.
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