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Useful to whom? Often times the police aren't really there to be helpful to minorities. You'd think Miami Police would know a bit of Spanish just out of sheer necessity but in reality very little do. I'm not surprised at all that more Israeli police don't speak any Arabic
Spanish speaking people are definitely _not_ a minority down here in Miami hehe.
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I would consider obvious it'd be enormously advantageous for Israeli police to have, at least, a basic understanding of Arabic. It's like a Miami policemen without any Spanish/Portuguese knowledge.
A lot of them do, it's very common for Israeli's to be fluent in Arabic. But not all of them obviously. And in this case, considering what someone with evil intent and a bulldozer can do, I can understand arrest first, figure out what's going on second. It's not like arresting someone after the fact - in that situation you can take some time. Here it's before the fact, and seconds count.
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In the US which has freedom of speech laws. But which country has arrested users for Facebook posts other than authoritarian countries? Particularly for such a relatively innocuous post.
People have been arrested over facebook in the US, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/facebook-com... http://www.businessinsider.com/people-arrested-for-facebook-... AFAIK most of the countries have had arrestations over facebook posts, those who have not are following this global trend.
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In what country can you never be arrested for a Facebook post?
In the US which has freedom of speech laws. But which country has arrested users for Facebook posts other than authoritarian countries? Particularly for such a relatively innocuous post.
Given how ridiculously common the phrase "Good morning" is in Arabic, (I mean, look at any Arabic 101 textbook, the Sabah Al-khair / Sabah al-noor exchange is one of the first things they teach you), it's puzzling why Facebook's translation algorithm didn't see that as a fixed phrase, rather than trying to translate it word by word. So much for machine learning.
Most sources for machine translation from Arabic-English pairs are data from US Army / anti-terrorist data. So the data are learned to translate terrorist messages very well, as well as army terms. However, it doesn't translate day-to-day use that well. Machine learning is only as good as the source data - and Arabic-English language pair specifically has data from US military complex, that loves translating terroris…
Interesting! This is HN, where's the source?
> I cannot give you exact sources
I find your claim hard enough to believe but this seals the deal.
Given how ridiculously common the phrase "Good morning" is in Arabic, (I mean, look at any Arabic 101 textbook, the Sabah Al-khair / Sabah al-noor exchange is one of the first things they teach you), it's puzzling why Facebook's translation algorithm didn't see that as a fixed phrase, rather than trying to translate it word by word. So much for machine learning.
Most sources for machine translation from Arabic-English pairs are data from US Army / anti-terrorist data. So the data are learned to translate terrorist messages very well, as well as army terms. However, it doesn't translate day-to-day use that well. Machine learning is only as good as the source data - and Arabic-English language pair specifically has data from US military complex, that loves translating terroris…
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In what country can you never be arrested for a Facebook post?
In the US which has freedom of speech laws. But which country has arrested users for Facebook posts other than authoritarian countries? Particularly for such a relatively innocuous post.
This is scary and 1984 ish. A man was arrested because of a bad translation.