skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will speak with a point of view from Indonesian with Javanese ethnicity.

Most of Indonesian peoples can speak at least 2 languages. Our local or regional language and national language.

Me myself can use 4 languages: Javanese (native), Indonesian (native), English (intermediate), Japanese (beginner), Arabic (beginner). For the Javanese language there some tiers of politeness but the usage in society can be generalized to polite Javanese (kromo) that we use when speaking to elders and rough Javanese (ngoko) that we use with our peers.

I have read some articles that speak about language effects on mind or point of view. But since I was small I learned more than two languages I cannot really differ them. Something a kin to the expression of "asking a fish what is water".

Based on my own feelings and experiences there are some nuances that accompany each language that I have known. I cannot describe them with words yet, but a language would be appropriate on different settings, medias, and intended audiences.

There are some language usages that are not appropriate when used in a different settings but sometimes of course there are some usages that would also help exploring the meanings
I am a native English speaker, and only a beginner learner of Mandarin (early primary level plus a set of technical words related to my work).

Are you sure you are not conflating monolingual Chinese speakers with the rural or less educated Chinese demographic? Going purely from my own experience of learning the language and interacting with educated Chinese in the major cities, both the language and the people are perfectly capable of abstract ideas and concepts. It is also uncommon to find an educated yet monolingual Chinese speaker.

In fact, there are studies that the tonal nature of the spoken language as well the complex structure of the written characters improve the ability to learn abstract concepts such as occur in mathematics[0].

Finally, regarding classical versus modern written Chinese, while someone who is fluent in modern Chinese can read the individual characters of classic Chinese, unless they have studied it seperately, they will be unable to make much sense of the sentences. Classical Chinese is extremely concise and relies much more on single character words, rather than the multi-character words used in modern Chinese. A lot of the characters in classical Chinese also take on archaic meanings no longer actively associated with that character.

[0] http://languageboat.com/2013/09/07/scientists-claim-learning...
For the first question, no. That has happened twice and they both seemed upset but weren't going to budge.

As for the second question, yes I always say what our budget is if asked.
If they invest as much in marketing as they did, yes. Just look at the success of mongodb.
As long as the work is pro-bono (which I assume it would be), I welcome this kind of ambulance-chasing. I see it as a checks and balance mechanism against police power abuse.

On the other hand, tax payers are always the losers because they have to pay for both police salary, prosecutor salary, and any legal settlement money for lawyers.
Privilege theory generally asserts that everyone has some privilege in some situations. It's just that there's a lot of imbalance between groups in terms of how often and how much your personal privilege benefits you.

I think you're attacking a strawman here. I'm sure there are people who say that women have no privilege ever and men have all of it all the time, you shouldn't judge the entire concept based on the angriest 15-year-old Tumblrers.
Well, for one, the notion that it was 'write once run anywhere' wouldn't convince too many people - after all, everyone's already got a language called LiveScript in their browsers and that's turned out to be good enough for 90% of use cases.
So this is why my wifi absolutely sucks after I switched to my Macbook Air.

How do I fix this? I need my Macbook for work, but I also don't want my internet experience to suffer for it.
Anyone want to take the plunge and post a PCAP afterwards?
The only connection between Java and JavaScript is that JavaScript stole Java's name as a marketing ploy for Netscape scripting. (I would call JS a competitor to Java applets, but it wasn't even that. It was a complementary technology.)

And "mainstream" only referred to marketing budget. Perl and Python and Tcl had already launched (Perl and Tcl quite popular for the era.)
Java's main novelty was the relatively strong cross-platform story due to the VM and GUI bindings.
OO's death has been exaggerated. Take a language like Scala, which has really powerful OOP constructs in the form of mixin-style traits (at least on the static side of object innovation). Not to mention many of the strongtalk people are now working Dart.

Objects will rise again (if you think they've fallen, that is).
Mine was almost as old, but it developed an odd symptom where the back button who register as double click.

Seems like a known defect with this mouse which is a shame, because it was otherwise perfect.
Not really, and I say this as a fan of C++.

These things protect against one part of the problem - deletion of the vector, but not the other part - mutation of the vector, causing a new internal allocation, and leaving references to any elements of the previous vector invalid.

It's possible to make sure this isn't happening in C++ if a) your code base is small enough and b) you are careful, but the point of the article is that with Rust, you can make the changes and be confident that the compiler will fail if you do anything dangerous.

With C++, you can make the changes and through careful checking be reasonably confident everything works (perhaps only to find out later that you were wrong). It's very different from having the compiler verify that you are not doing something unsafe.
https://www.sling.com has HBO Now as well.
Luckily I haven't experienced any of the WiFi issues people have with 10.10.*, but the last update was still toxic, for a different reason: I had to disable all third party kexts or I would get kernel panics every 10 minutes or so. Incredibly frustrating.

PSA: If you use VPN software, Smoothmouse, or Hamachi, consider not updating to 10.10.3.
What edit? My second comment?

That was my original point regarding logic errors and not caring - yes, it may well be that Rust gives you much more confidence that you don't do invalid/wrong things. But that excludes logic errors (it may well reduce the possibility of logic errors, but it doesn't prevent them), and there's still room in large code bases for things to break even with very good static type checking.
I would consider being able to think about and change ones goals/purpose would be a reasonably important in regards to deciding if a machine was intelligent.

Note that I think Bostrom is referencing the section on the paperclip thought experiment in his book, which goes into a bit more detail than this article and to me characterises the paper clip optimiser as an example of above human level intelligence.
Were you asked to actually solve new problems you hadn't seen before in front of the class?

> would ask us to present a topic to the class, and/or ask questions about it.

This is common in the US as well, but presenting on a prepared topic and solving novel problems are 2 completely different things.
I agree somewhat. You can also find object models in plenty of other places where many don't realize it (e.g. in many practical implementations of actor model concurrency). Those are all relatively small and indirect victories though. Who knows - maybe pure message passing languages might become the next fad soon enough.
Ack! That explains it. Had to root around for a 25-ft. cable...
Isn't the whole idea of a massive company producing software for a very small restricted set of hardware that this sort of thing isn't supposed to happen? Random bullshit like this is expected with systems like Windows that aim to support a whole mess of possible hardware configurations, that's not really the case here.

What went wrong? Have they grown complacent? Cutting corners on QA?
Cops are crooks !
Well and Java evolution stalled for 5 years during the Sun to Oracle transition, while the rest of the world passed it by. Java 8 should have launched by 2010.
Open Tech
I have a dream I'll one day be asked to interview someone, and get to try out my unconventional idea... (Or have it done to me one day.) I hate standard coding exercises, and I expect the candidate to have already been vetted for being able to code by either having some open source work or if none is available being given a take-home fizzbuzz-ish problem. My idea is to pick a problem off my own personal list of things I'd like to explore, things I'd like to reinvent code for from high level descriptions if I had more time/discipline (for example drawing voronoi diagrams), and do this alongside the candidate, so together we can attack the problem with a whiteboard and a shared computer or two for wikipedia/pseudo-code/real-code/etc. We may not get very far in just an hour, we might not even get to code, but it will be good information for both myself evaluating the candidate and the candidate evaluating me about how we collaborate on a problem neither of us knows the complete solution to in advance.
I had to turn off my Bluetooth to get my wifi working normally. That resolved the majority of the issues but strangely it was only on my older laptop. Macbook Pro Mid 2012
People nowadays like to use the word "utopian" as a snarl-word for someone who hasn't gotten the memo that people are So Totally Over This Whole "Progress" Thing.
I've got the problem of OSX filling up gigabytes of space with no rhyme or reason. One minute I'll have 10gb fee then I'll have 900mb free. Then it'll free up again.
Download an older OS. Like 10.10.2. Link: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1786?locale=en_US
Do you mean originally written in my language? As coming from post soviet block, most of our fantasy is a bit different in a sense that from the beginning it doesn't involve epicness of Tolkien, Malazan, Black Company scale. From the beginning books focus on different things.

I would like to read some of them in English to see how's the difference in perception.
It's probably still worth reading the book if you're interested in a philosophical view of super intelligence, but if you're looking for a detailed look at the philosophical issues concerning artificial general intelligence (which I thought it would be), it's probably not the book for you.
Java was the original Web Scale.
There seem to be one big issue with this voting system. It allows variable number of votes per individual but how does an individual choose how much cost to take and exactly how much to vote? I think it is a fallacy to assume that individual would set the number of votes depending on how important they think is the issue. Instead they must speculate how others would vote and optimize their cost accordingly. For example, an individual may depend on wrong information to arrive at conclusion that everyone is in agreement with him/her sentiment and decide to spend less even though they deeply care about specific outcome. Mean while a small group might be secretly conspiring and spends huge sums to win their desired outcome. I would suspect that this voting system would promote speculation based market which can be easily manipulated by either asymmetric information or incorrect information by a small group.

Another thing to think about is too many small minority groups. So for instance, assume there are N questions to vote for and for each of these questions, we have a significant minority group that deeply cares about specific outcome. At some point, because of required increased expenditure, wouldn't votes for all questions favor minority sentiment?

I think we have to understand that while there is a dark side to "tyranny-of-majority", there is an important bright side too: It shields from scenarios where small group of radicals take over the system because they deeply care about their ideas that are not good for majority.
Not quite compatible with a recently released vulnerability affecting 10.10.2-. Like a choice between eating and being eaten.

https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-...
My early 2011 Macbook Pro isn't suffering from/causing anything related to this issue as far as I can tell. Is it possible it's only happening with certain wireless chipsets?
Kind of sounds like a time machine issue.
HDD space or RAM?
I'm using iStat Menus5 and Little Snitch, and am not experiencing the same issues. My MacBook Pro is the penultimate 17", and although I still lose Wifi randomly (under Yosemite and Mavericks) my machine's running acceptably, although the stable seems to have steadily degraded since Snow Leopard, which has been my favourite iteration of OSX so far.

Really not impressed with Apple as of late.
i've been on the 10.10.4 beta and its been much better.
Relevant: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394743/its-time-take-p... And more police-union goodness: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380455/tax-funded-unio...
10.10 has been failboat full steam ahead for wifi since the public beta. I'm not sure why, but their testing and QA seems to be terrible in this arena.
I respect that things need to be done, but I couldn't breath through the stench of an agenda/propaganda while reading half the article.
It's very cool. Rust guarantees that at any point in time there will only be one part of the code that can modify the contents of some data, and will fail to compile if it detects a situation where this is not the case.
You could also use a USB wifi dongle, or ethernet. Obviously neither are ideal.
> Have they grown complacent? Cutting corners on QA?

Based on 10.10 and iOS 8, I think the answer's a pretty clear "yes".
https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=mac+os+x+update+breaks+wi...

Super irritating how often updates have broken wireless on Mac. You'd think someone at Apple could focus on that since it happens so frequently.
> Java will be too slow/unpredictable. Real-Time Java is kind of sketch in my opinion (I could be wrong there).

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_Java

* http://www.rtsj.org/
It's almost cliche at this point, but I must ask: who this type of shit be happening if Steve were still alive?
"Mythical man-months" aside, Apple really has no excuse for putting out such low quality software, considering their resources.
For all we know actual neurons are just implementing "simple narrow statistical algorithms", just really big and highly tuned by evolution. Based on what I know about neuroscience I strongly bet that's the case.

Define "programmer directed". There are neural networks that can do reinforcement learning and play video games which are very general.
Jobs no longer screaming over their shoulder has made them lazy.
Where can the 10.10.4 beta be fetched from?
To further that point, JavaScript is more similar to Scheme if anything.
"To speak another language is to possess another soul" Charlemagne

“We inhabit a language rather than a country. “
Emil Cioran

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse." Charlemagne

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Wittgenstein
Imagine if you lived in the 19th Century and you communicated by letter, and your grandfather suffered a severe injury and couldn't and read or write you letters anymore, and instead they were dictated via scribe who wasn't a fluent speaker of the language. That's what a degenerative brain disease is like.
I disagree with you. Unions are a way to balance the corporate power. I understand unions can become corrupt but there are ways to battle corruption on both sides. If the unions decide to be corrupt? Well, tank the business. I understand this isn't ideal but it opens up discussions. Demands for higher productivity is a management desire. Demands for better work-life is a worker desire. There is room for both sides to win. Letting management have free reign is more evil than the counter.
Yeah, it's true all biblically derived names are to one extent or another Middle Eastern or Mediterranean. It's so ingrained, it's easy to forget. It can be said that a great part of modern European thought is based on middle eastern philosophy --as well as ancient Greek philosophy. Of course some indigenous aspects survive despite the total immersion due to pervasive spread of religion throughout Europe.
You're running out of memory and OS X is swapping to disk.
> I was more talking about the overall not caring theme.

Not having to care about memory management gives me more mental energy for caring about the other parts of my program. The lack of anxiety about memory semantics is one of the most compelling reasons for me to use Rust.

> Are you saying Rust can find and prevent at compile
> time logic errors as well?

In some ways it certainly can. Its type system guarantees at compile time that your code cannot contain data races, making massive concurrency and parallelism much easier to introduce. You can also push the type system to do things like check units for you, such as is done in Servo: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/06/23/static-checking...
Also, this is why you should donate to quality organizations like the EFF. They're not just nerds. They're nerds with law degrees.
So glad I don't have to deal with this kinda bullshit anymore. Clear skies on Windows 8.1.
I have already downgraded to mavericks 3 days ago because of the countless problems 10.10 has currently.
I've had to do both, but presenting on a prepared topic was much more common. I don´t recall ever being graded on a novel exercise presented to the class, but I certainly have had to solve them.
You don't have to guess. While unarmed blacks have been killed by police at a disproportionate rate, in absolute numbers more unarmed white people are killed by police in the US.

These are indeed largely ignored outside of local news, after perhaps one or two brief mentions nationally.

What seems to generally happen then is that they are investigated, and the killing is found to be somewhere between clearly justified and criminal, so there are no criminal charges but a good chance of a successful civil suit for wrongful death. That will often get a brief mention in the national news.

Another large group of deaths that doesn't get a lot of attention, in either the press or on the streets, are the ~20 mostly young blacks killed per day by homicide. While some of these are due to criminal gangs attacking other criminal gangs, many are innocent people killed by mistake. It's sad that they are largely overlooked.
But note that memory is a highly creative act, neurologically. Memories are strongly influenced by physical and mental context of each instance the memory is recalled and recommitted to memory.
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There hasn't been time and people are still in shock. A statement has been issued though: https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/dave-goldberg-statement-surv...
I think the public employee benefits/pensions crisis will be a flashpoint for conservative millennials. The law and order tendency is going to be tempered by the fact that they're going to bear increased taxes while getting fewer services to pay for skyrocketing police pension and benefit costs.
Totally subjective opinion, but it seems like since ~10.8 the reliability of OSX has gone down substantially. I remember 10.5 and 10.6 being rock-solid on a hackintosh, and now I have wifi / bluetooth issues all the time, sometimes the graphics go all 16-colors-only, consisting of bright red + black-only or a weird mix of like green, purple, orange (it's kind of trippy, but it requires a reboot to fix).

Display mirroring / resolution switches goof up my jazz sometimes, unlocking can take up to ~ a minute (from just the lid shut state), browsers eat RAM like it's their job, etc etc.

If this is the best we can do in a $2800 (late 2014 15" rMBP maxed out) computer where the company produces the hardware and software, color me unimpressed.
Seems more likely that the opposite would be true. Small group of people, with zero-external oversight/review. They are far more likely to miss something.

I guess the fact that the hardware set is very tightly controlled helps, some, but still.

I'm not at all claiming that Open Source software doesn't have bugs - it obviously does. But you have a much larger test group, and many more people reviewing the code (usually).
Great so I will enjoy bread, and when I turn 80, I will stop eating bread, and enjoy a miraculous recovery of brain function.
I've had professors that like to require writing on the board as well. But as in your case the key difference is, they weren't graded.

That being said, a professor student relationship isn't analogous to an employer employee relationship. Hopefully an employer wants to make the interview process as enjoyable as possible to attract as many qualified applicants as possible.
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course
I sort-of disagree.

If you aren't judging whether they get a correct working solution (i.e. passes some unit tests after running it through the compiler/interpreter), and actively engaging them on their thought process while they attempt to find a solution, it can be a useful tool (esp. in early filtering with really trivial problems). Interpreting the results, and picking the coding problem, are not easy tasks.

That said, I've certainly found myself in the position described by the story, and all I can say is that I'm glad I've never actually needed to find a job in my career (new opportunities have always come from people who already know me and my track record). You may (though I wouldn't bet on it) get fewer bad "hire" decisions by doing a code interview like the one in the article, but you also get bad "no-hire" decisions. I'd love to see some empirical data on the subject from someone who knows how to design an experiment.
I think it's only cliche because it's highly pertinent.
I think the point is the frequency.
What are the other assumptions in this hypothetical scenario? Does C# exist? Does Scala exist? Does F# exist? You could argue that none of these would exist if Java didn't.

What might we have instead? C/C++ of course, Python/Perl/Ruby and friends too. QBASIC is older than Java and Visual Basic was just a cleaned up QBASIC, so we'd have that. Borland's Pascal-derivative Delphi was a decent language; maybe that would've done better without Java.

Would Haskell and the MLs have done better? Perhaps, because at the time it came around Java was quite a productive language. Or maybe I should say, it was a nice language before everybody and their uncle discovered the design patterns book and started implementing AbstractFactoryInterpreterEventLists willy-nilly. Without Java, I think it's plausible that the design pattern craze - a lot of which is just attempting to shoehorn functional programming into an OO language - would never have happened. And people might've discovered actual functional programming earlier and the state of the art might've been closer to F# than C#. So back to the original question, in this scenario, Java wouldn't make it, because honestly, although Java is a decent language but F# and friends are way better.
um... who do you think makes fighter jets ?
It's thought to be a combination of colloquialisms + the Indo-European ablaut system, wherein vowels would change depending on conjugation.

Consider how many English irregular verbs follow a pattern. Sing, sang, sung. Ring, rang, rung. These are ablaut conjugations.
Oh yeah? I have looked and looked for it but been unable to find any reference to how to do so. Would you mind linking a resource to me?

edit: Nevermind I found a few. When I looked for this a few years ago I just kept hitting dead ends.
I had a similar issue with Creative Cloud spamming the log files with a few TB of garbage. Worth a quick check at least.