skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Last year, the project trained about 5,000 students in AI technology and 50,000 digital marketers.

I feel like Taiwan represents a talent opportunity like no other. I dream of starting an engineering company there that is literally a clone of some upcoming business model, and doing nothing but capping the work week at 40 hours and guaranteeing 4 weeks vacation. I could snipe the best talent on hand in the country, which is at the very least equal to some of the best silicon valley has to offer, at nearly half the rates. Lord forbid we target foreign contracts and the company can pay near US rates. I'd pilfer everyone's engineering department ;)

Overworked, underpaid, extremely competent was my experience of Taiwanese engineering. Google is good to step up in Taiwan - I believe it will pay dividends for them. I wonder what the Google work culture and salaries are like for their Taipei 101 office engineers? Last I checked it was about 2,000$/month for entry level.
Google Earth Pro is now free, and has an export high res image function
> What can the average founder, employee, and person do in the face of this news?

Make sure your finances are in reasonable order in case you get laid off:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics

Not all economic downturns are as bad as the Great Recession was.
> The software industry would look like the airline industry, the world would be a less fun place.

Yes, but the point is that the airline/aerospace industry exists, as do many other industries and profession that require expensive tooling. Heck, the software industry existed and produced a variety of successful products in the late '70s to early '90s before FOSS started taking off.

Paying for tools is not an insurmountable obstacle.
> What you are saying goes beyond software, should all books be in English? Should all content on the Internet be written in English?

Yes.

> In my opinion it would create a really sad mono-culture... Each language carry part of its history and culture that can't be translated at all.

That history and culture is only relevant to those who are interested in history and cultures, not to everyone. I am not against this, nor against other languages. People can still use English as a second language, i am talking about having a common language so we can communicate with each other, not a single language.

> It would also prevent a big part of the population to access any content. Even if you apply it to software only, it means that a big part of the world wouldn't be able to use any of those.

My point is that that population should learn to at least read English so that not only they will be able to use the software, but also read the texts from other people outside the silo that their own native language creates.

> Now, if the software that you need to use to be able to learn English are in English, that becomes even more of an issue...

No, the software to learn English can be in any language. In fact i'd rather see all the effort that goes into internationalization and localization to be placed instead into creating better software, tutorials, documentation and other materials for software that teaches people English.

> Also, why English in particular? For a huge amount of the world population it requires to learn a new alphabet. It becomes a much more complex requirement.

Because it is already used as i mention by a very large number of people, especially around computers.

The alphabet isn't a big issue, as i wrote above, i had to learn it myself and English has one of the most compact and easy to learn alphabets.
Probably never? Google already has a significant number of employees in Taiwan (partially because they bought part of HTC).
NVC is often taught in a quite cerebral way which indeed may result in “proper nvc structure” conversations which are unfortunately emotionally disconnected and thus patronizing because they lack emotional alignment.

When I teach NVC I focus on finding a sincere space of care which always starts with self empathy. I was taqught as a language practice but I find it most productive to teach it as a body/emotional/somatic/language practice as the language becomes fake without full alignment.

Empathy as defined by M.R. In his nvc work is “I know what’s alive in you and you know that I know.” That’s it. There’s no other outcome.

Many business use fake empathy as manipulation. There’s no sincere interest in understanding, just a technique to try and make people less mad. South park’s skit on Comcast workers was spot on with this.
There's something like a million people in the entire world subject to that edge case. 0.014% of the world doesn't have a solar noon for at least one day a year. I'd say that's not enough to avoid fixing timezones for the other 99.99%.
>This is what NVC calls an evaluation. The other person can simply disagree about it undermining the authority.

>There's a reason negotiations books (not just NVC) emphasize talking about how you felt. It is because few ordinary people would deny your feelings. The cofounder is not going to jump in and say "No, you did not feel embarrassed". It is, however, very easy for them to say "You're overreacting. People know you're the boss. Nothing is being undermined."

It's true that people are less likely to openly disagree with your feelings but that doesn't mean they agree with you. So yes, a person is unlikely to say "No, you did not feel embarrassed" but that doesn't change that they're actually thinking "You're overreacting. People know you're the boss. Nothing is being undermined". It depends on what your goal is. In a negotiation you want them to sign the deal and you don't really care about their true feelings. With a co-founder relationship you want them to express their true feelings. The point isn't to manipulate them into doing what you want. The point is to get to the root of the issue and resolve it.

>So after a few weeks, instead of expressing frustration, he said he noticed many people weren't attending, and inquired as to why.

So he didn't do what the article said he should do:

"I am frustrated because, as a team, we have a need for efficiency."
They've had floors of Taipei 101 for about a decade now so I think this is unlikely.
Yeah, back in the day it seemed like Mumble and TeamSpeak dominated the gaming market that's now been completely swallowed by Discord.
yet nothing in the reform prevents laws which base the fines on missed revenue.
The non-democratic EU is not the problem? The people having the real power in the EU are not elected (the European Commission).
LFO are also top draw stuff
Jeep Problem
Try some albums of the following artists: Biosphere, Boards of Canada, Forest Swords, Kink Gong, Johann Johannsson, Park Jiha. Hope you enjoy it!
Spain was in GMT/UTC+0 until march 1940, when Franco's desire to align the country with Axis powers led him to change the clocks to CET. France was in GMT (as it is obvious given that its right below the UK) until the same year, when it was moved into German time following the Nazi invasion.
I wouldn't be so hard on yourself. The family is in a very difficult spot right now and people all cope and behave differently.

I'd recommend the book Never Split the Difference which was written by a former hostage negotiator. From what I learned from that book, anchoring his emotions and asking How questions might have helped you. Why questions are accusatory and put people on the defensive, often leading to escalation.
How to get rid of Apple censorship, or an open letter to Spotify
Producer Playbook: Guidelines, best practices for producers and project managers
In 5 days:

"whoops nevermind"
> and that my view of the web is exactly what Google wants my view of the web to be

How so? As far as I know, the bubbling is based on your input only, not Google's. So their desires as a company are not involved in what you see.
He is not joking. The speaker mentioned in the talk. Peptides are not stable substance to be put into capsule. And the Bioavailability of NGF make it not effective even by injection let alone put pills in mouth. Nasal spray and sublingual are two other ways to absorb supplements but eye drop probably is the most effective one.
Reporters Without Borders: “China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order”
Buy if you need/want to buy. Refinancing a mortgage after a rate decline is fairly easy and you’re likely to get a better purchase price in a (locally) high rate environment and carry that lower purchase price into your refinance. The diff in purchase price likely more than covers your refinance costs.
>is it democratic for most elected governments to keep pushing for legislature again and again, waiting a bit between attempts? Repeat it ad nauseam um 'till people get bored of protesting.

Yes. This is how slavery was ended in the British empire and how the civil rights act passed in the US.
For a credit card, yes. That's lower than any of the cards listed on NerdWallet's "Low Interest Credit Cards" page.
I think the law precludes such agreements; i.e., publishers are forced to claim license fees for their work whether they want to or not.
Link got messed up: https://musicforprogramming.net/?fortyfive
There never was something like a European Youtube before, the closest we ever got was 'dailymotion' and that suffered greatly from France's idiotic policy of handing out money with strings attached to be able to veto exits to US companies.

Youtube became as big as it did whilst massively supporting copyright infringement, if not for Google they would have surely been killed. The bulk of the content on Youtube does not infringe copyright.
The only possible values of a cube mod 9 are 0, 1 and 8. (If you expand (9n+r)^3 you'll see that all the terms divide by 9 except r^3. So the value of a cube mod 9 depends only on its own mod 9 value. So we only need to check that 0, 1 and 8 are the only values achieved by the first 9 cubes.) If you add three of these values the only possible answers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 mod 9.
Unlocking Alternative Data: One of the Biggest Challenges in Quant Finance
It's unfortunate because Mumble is great, secure free software with interesting features. I used to be a linux distro package manager for Mumble. Once my friends discovered discord no one wanted to join my mumble anymore. I think the biggest problem was setting the damn thing up on the client side.

Murmur server is free though. It even runs great off of a home internet connection if you have the technical know-how to open the ports and set up a dynamic dns service.
This sounds like a good addition.

It happens quite often that we get a bug report with "We got a NPE". Our users often attach a screenshot, just showing the standard "NPE error" message, which does not really help.
All of the framework is still open source.
> If I'm not mistaken, the last update was in like 2017? Is it even in development any more?

A 1.3.0-rc1 was tagged 9 days ago (17 March 2019): https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/releases/tag/1.3.0-rc1
But it does look like the previous stable release was in January 2017.
Life on the wrong side of China’s social credit system
PRC can dream all they want but they have no authority on the island.
Yeah, I guess I’m not a great reader. :)
I found this book very helpful in several difficult conversations over the years - https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-...

It has quite practical advice as well as a framework helping one navigate.
Meanwhile, for as long as I can remember, Visual Studio could easily jump straight to the offending null variable when debugging C#.
I think it politicizes the early internet too much to call it a revolution in the political sense. The early internet was a place of experimentation with new communication, but I think it goes way too far to call it a 'movement'.

By its nature it attracted a bunch of people with particular political persuasions. But it wasn't only people of those persuasions, and neither was the entire thing an instrument for those people and their persuasions. Technology allowed for newer and richer forms of communication, and things just happened from there. And this is where we are now, sadly.
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolved_English_parliament
I recognize that this is probably an unpopular opinion but I live for the days when the sun sets at 9pm.

DST really factors in quite well for night owls like myself. I'm aware there is a strong degree of detraction in terms of complicating time keeping and body clock adjustments.

It makes the daylight stretch into what we conventionally consider the night. In the winter, I'm always somewhat a little sad that the sun sets before I even leave the office (~4-4:30pm), but I'm always in a much better mood in the summer when I leave the office at 5pm and still have hours of daylight left in the day.
Very well:

There was a large-scale poll, who cares what the small-scale polls say.

Of course, referendums aren't really polls. Polls have no official effect, you can freely refuse them and lose nothing.
> Longevity shouldn't be too much of a concern: Lockbox is effectively a client for Firefox Sync, and Sync is a core Firefox product offering.

Yeah, but Google sunset a mail app last week so... You never know.

Now I wonder what does lockbox bring to the table because my passwords I already shared between mobile and desktop through sync ?

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492386

Ah, I see. Google chrome gets access to it.
Have you already forgotten the "weapons of mass destruction" fiasco? The one that NYT apologized for:

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...
API and ABI stability look nice on paper, and really useful in some circumstances, however, it creates two problems, so Linus opposes it (and I take Linus' side).

First of all, it allows hardware vendors to be lazy. If a driver compiles, unless there's a grave bug in the driver, the vendor won't do anything. Because it doesn't hurt their bottom line much (nVidia has some serious bugs with their closed source driver, and they play the deaf, but that's another issue). When the API is not stable, something will change/improve inevitably, and the driver will break. A non-compiling driver is guaranteed to wake the vendor up, and maybe they'll fix some of the smaller bugs while they are at it.

Second, it hampers kernel development. You have a killer feature you want to implement, and it needs new API calls to be a first-class implementation? No, you can't do that because the API is stable, you can't change it. You need to work around it, tuck it behind more generic calls, add overheads, etc.

Fuchsia's API stability mean that a vendor can write the driver once, and send it to integrators once. Unless someone complaints enough, they won't need to touch the code. When the ABI is stable, you can just distribute the .o files, and forget all about it. The driver is working somehow, the integrator is happy, the vendor is making money. This is the dream of commercial software. They can implement once, and deprecate once and for all. Hooray!
Very surprised there is not a front page thread on Article 13 on HN.
Glad to see someone else with the same issue. I've never thought about "putting on" a bit of stress as a way to calm her down. I suppose it's because they feel like they're in the wrong for being the only one who is expressing stress/excitement?
Agreed, by playable I was meaning by two hands.
When I visited last AWS was planning to open a large data center near taipei with similar AI ambitions. It's a small island and it's interesting to me that these two giants are both headed there with similar projects in mind.
The headline implies a claim that I don't see any support for: that degree of yield curve inversion is related to likelihood of recession. While that seems plausible, I've never seen analysis that being more inverted is a stronger predictor than simply being inverted at all.
>Why are they so concerned with copyright protections?

Is the way this legislation got through because of nasty lobbying? What if it was brought in to stem the tide of American tech companies destroying more European businesses by hiding taxes and dodging copyrights.

>Europe isn't exactly a content powerhouse.

Europe has plenty of 'content powerhouse' companies. They just don't wear their nationality on their chest when they sell to the US.
And a lot of real-world implementations will use the asymptotically-inferior algorithm when the (sub)problem is small, for exactly this reason.
This would be good, but I'd prefer that Java have something like the null operators that C# has.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Yes, the Internet caught many "corporate and political powers" by surprise. But now they're getting it locked down.

> I think many will stop seeing the darkweb as a place of CP and drug dealing, and more of an internet free from regulation.

You mean Tor, I presume. But Freenet is still around, although it's too risky to use it, except via Tor. And there are other overlay networks. Some basically just use VPN connections (such as tinc).

And they were always about being "free from regulation". It's just that hobbyists, activists and people into recreational drugs and CP were early adopters.

If you haven't read Vernor Vinge's True Names lately, I highly recommend it.
I'm a bit torn on this because I always avoided having too many method calls on the same line. Code Complete recommended this a long time ago.

However now I see just about everyone stacking this method calls one after the other. Is this just acceptable now?

state = stateFromPostcode(customer.getAddress().getPostCode());
Sounds like she was using it as a technique to calm you down/try ad change how you feel (best intentions manipulation) vs a way to understand you and be close with you.

The words by themselves can feel empty and patronizing.
I really appreciate Mumble's dedication to lowering latency.

Latency is a silent killer of conversation quality. When it's relatively small, you don't notice it's there, but it makes conversations more stilted because everyone's responses are just a bit less immediate. You chalk it up to the person or situation, rather than the software.

I'm not seeing anyone make significant attempts to solve or reduce this problem. To my ears, 2010-era Skype had lower latency than any VOIP software in mainstream use today, including Skype. And of course, latency over POTS was fantastic, albeit with terrible audio quality.
you send a mail to the displayed address and it will parse the incoming mail and analyzes the message headers. the headers contain valuable information about the authenticity of the mail. If a mail looks authentic to the spam filter, it will be marked with a lower spam score.
> It's very easy to implement GDPR compliance, and A LOT of websites opted for blocking their content in Europe instead of working to make their services compliant.

"A LOT". I live in Europe and the number of website inaccessible due to GDPR is not even one for one thousand... And most of the "non-compliant" ones are insignificant.

Only big companies or lawyers makes GDPR a big deal...
Are you sure it was so insprired? Early IDM artists have sometimes admitted never hearing their forebears (Stockhausen, Steve Reich, etc.); they just reached similar concerns independently by noodling with electronics.
Well they seem to be slightly better with humans instead of bots, but yeah both stores seem to be awful.
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Website in 2019?
k, I fixed it, thanks.
Show HN: Career assistance to PhD candidates – current / past
Hi everyone, it's Maxim

I frequently see and feel that recruiting processes generally could make people unhappy, so decided to try a series of little experiments and dedicate some of my time to try to use thoughtful approaches for that.
Disclaimer: I'm not an industry expert or anything, just some random human who may be of some use.

There are clear areas that overlooked by companies and even more so by headhunters - junior/entry level people, PhDs and more so dropouts trying to enter the job market outside the academia and so on.
Please leave your ideas and feedback in comments, I'd be happy to learn more.

It may be easier or harder for STEM and humanities, US and Europe, a whole lot of the other differences.

So, for every candidate, I'll try hard to help them land a truly fulfilling career and figure the general principles of the problem I'm sure worth solving completely free.
With a 10-year bond, the investor receives that interest rate over the whole 10 years. With a 6-month bond, the investor receives that interest rate only over these 6 months, and then has to find another bond to buy. If all available bonds then have a lower interest rate, the investor would have received more for the 10-year bond.

(What might be confusing at first is that interest rates are usually "annualized", that is, presented as if they were for a single whole year. You won't actually receive 2.49% of what you paid for the 6-month bond; you'll receive something like 1.24%, and you have to invest again for another 6 months to reach that 2.49%. If that investment is no longer available, you might not be able to do that.)
I once clicked on a Torrent for a Disney movie. A day later, I received a notice from Comcast that I have 1 out of 5 strikes of accessing copyrighted content, and if I hit 5, my internet access will be terminated.

ISPs will be forced into doing more of this if piracy becomes large scale decentralized, which it will.

Copyright enforcement is about ambulance chasing. Small time channels, like game streamers, who happen to have captured a game that has a music soundtrack, have received DMCA takedown requests.

What we're witnessing here is a misplaced "I hate big tech, so therefore I support anything I perceive as targeting them" resulting in collateral damage that makes every one else's life harder, benefiting mostly rent-seeking big publishers.

The decentralization-will-fix-it cryptoanarchy workaround is a pipe dream. Every so often people imagine an unbreakable piracy distributed darknet will circumvent laws and make piracy safe and convenient for everyone, but the reality is, as soon as it becomes the dominant form, the powers that be will turn their attention to it, and the attempts to crack down on it will be far far more invasive and surveillance heavy.

Just ask Napster, LimeWire, Scour, Kazaa, Grokster, Madster, and eDonkey2000, all of which were brought down by injunctions.
Link: https://xprmntng.com/
“CoW Vigilantism” in India (2018)
Looks like a lot of them would not have happened, if they had used Rust in the First place!
It should also be noted that there is a delay between and inversion and a recession, with an average of about a year:

* https://seekingalpha.com/article/4250934-yield-curve-inversi...

This means it will probably occur in the middle of next year's US presidential election. :)
So now that we've deciphered it, the content demonstrates that our efforts to do so were an entire waste of time? Did we learn anything of value during this process? Or was it totally pointless?
I love having a better front end for my Firefox passwords.
Does anyone know of a useful application for this fact? Serious question.
Any conversation involving appreciation or a request can benefit from the principles of nvc which can be made in natural language.
Multi-stage Docker builds for Python: virtualenv, –user, and other methods
Thank you for that. I'm very interested in people's stories when migrating to OCaml. Do you have more?
Yes, but the elected body approved it. So (to the extent that the European Parliament is democratic) "more democracy" won't fix this.

(Yes, something like direct democracy would fix this. But exiting the EU wouldn't get you that)
I think that is x million _OR_ exist for at least x years, where x is 10e6 € resp. 4.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Mandate-R...