skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a nice website with a clean UI called 'Music for programming', put together by a guy who curates playlists designed to compliment anyone who wants to buckle down and do deep focus creative work for a while. I've been through each of his 53 playlists several times. 'Asiatsana' is one track in one playlist, but the music overall is very much in keeping with the mood and tone of Asiatsana.

https://musicforprogramming.net/?fortyfive
Autechre are my Phish.

Their live shows are these kaleidoscopic tours through the sounds (but not songs) of their various albums, recognizable only in passing, in fragments. Their albums are each distinct, but immediately recognizable. Most people can't stomach their music, but those who can swear by it. They aren't afraid to stretch out and take an hour+ for a single song.
again, democracy is how elections are held, how elected officials work, and how the transfer of power occurs without problems, how legislations are passed, how rules and regulations are created/maintained/updated/destroyed.

Democracy doesn't mean Utopia.

Feel free to disagree and say that India is not the best democracy on earth. But it'd sound credible if you can tell which country is the best democracy as per your data/facts/beliefs, and probably share that too.
Well guess what, almost half of those beepholes again voted pro acta today.
Well the bond market thinks that the interest rates will be lower in the future than right now. And one reason that interest rates could drop is a recession.
Does anyone know if there is a conjectural characterization of those numbers which can be expressed as the sum of three cubes? The article mentions not being congruent to 4 or 5 mod 9 is a necessary condition. Is it (conjecturally) sufficient?
Your choices are "it's coming at some point" and "this time it's different".
About the Security Content of iOS 12.2
Can someone ELI5 what the issue is with numbers that have a remainder of 4 or 5 after being divided by 9? I'm assuming it's something simple that I'm just not seeing, and having trouble googling for it.
Honey bees in the US are economically important despite not being a natural part of our ecosystem. But they're no more threatened in that role than CAFO pigs are. At its peak, "colony collapse" was (apparently; there are experts on HN who can break this out with precision) associated with low double digit overwintering losses, no meaningful increase in the price of new queens, and normal fluctuations in the price of pollination services.

It's also worth remembering that if your concern over bees is environmental and not economic, honey bees compete with native bees and also transmit pathogens to them. They're not entirely benign.
I don't know why i find this so funny but it's definitely something that would be greatly appreciated!
10-15 years ago there were a lot of stories about teenagers getting sued for ridiculous sums for sharing a song.
If it's your own blog, you are basically responsible for your own stuff. If you document where you got your assets from, I think every court will give you a pass, if someone wants to get you with the laws resulting from this directive (though the existing copyright-laws still apply to you).

Youtube is the target of this law and as they earn money with your video, they have to comply with European law, if they want to be active in Europe.
Something like Bitcoin mining difficulty?
CloudFlare UK is returning the same results. This is not good.

Edit: It is a known misconfiguration at archive.is nameservers: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
Coming from Dutch, I found English easier than German. Some people say German is so close, it's mutually intelligible with Dutch: not only is it not, I even find it much harder than English.

At least from my perspective, someone who knows a language very close to another and still found English easier than this other language, English is easy.

Pronunciation is indeed quite a lot of learning by heart, but it's not hard to get used to if you got the rest down. Of course, this might be much harder for Chinese, I wouldn't know.
You can choose what to sync.
As someone who has never heard of NVC, I recall echos of such tactics in the language a former teammate employed at work. However, nobody found him sincere or honest. Instead, he cam across as mechanical even though it was clear that he was trying to foster a transparent and open environment. There was always a disconnect between this noble goal and the hostility he made everybody feel when he talked with them.

I think this proposed quote from the article represents it well:

>To a teammate: ‘You arrived 10 minutes late to the last three team meetings.
>I am frustrated because, as a team, we have a need for efficiency.
>Please, could you help me understand what’s happening?’

This comes across as very aggressive. First off - they are peers. The author makes a power grab by immediately painting the coworker in a negative light. I don't put a lot of stake in hierarchies, but I am sensitive to power dynamics. If I were witnessing this, I would immediately see that author conquered the high ground. This puts the coworker on the defensive from the get go.

Second - it's fair to assume the coworker simply had back-to-back meetings. But now the coworker has to explain this in the author's terms.

The conversation feels hostile and I don't believe the author has his peer's interests in mind.

Instead the author should trust that peer has a good reason for being 10 minutes late and talk through a strategy that can help the peer arrive on time. But the author needs to give something away.
How long until the office is closed as a result of PRC protestations?
"3 numbers were inaccurate" (great job, that's way below average)

"3 numbers were inaccurate" (just an FYI for next time, no big deal)

"3 numbers were inaccurate" (and I am annoyed that I had to deal with the consequences, please ensure it doesn't happen again)

"3 numbers were inaccurate" (but I understand the pressure you were under and the volume of work you had, so I don't see it as an ongoing problem)

"3 numbers were inaccurate" (and I see it as part of an ongoing, worrisome pattern of sloppy work coming from you, and I expect you to correct it)

Sometimes the recipient of the message really does need the speaker's evaluation, not just the bare factual observations, to put the message in proper context. "My order took 4 days to arrive" is a lot less useful than "Thanks, my order only took 4 days to arrive" or "I had to wait a whole 4 days for my order to arrive".
Just to clarify - all European Parliament elections (not member state elections) have to use proportional representation. What exact type they use varies.
Generative.fm was shared here last week, spawning a number of interesting discussions. If you enjoy the comments here, I suggest checking out that thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19397817
This isn't a law that serves multinationals; quite the opposite.

The proportionality requirement in the text of Art. 13 is more onerous to larger corporations. If you're a tiny blog with a banner ad or two, you're not getting slapped off the internet for having a comments field, because it isn't proportional to require cost and complexity increases of multiple orders of magnitude to police your comments section. Unless someone comes up with Compliance.ly & Co. which does the work for you at a price-point that is reasonable, in which case we've just opened up a new industry which hopefully results in Content ID going the way of the Dodo.

After some litigation occurs in which the boundaries of proportionality are set, we'll be in a better position to analyze the impact of this law.
> I’m not convinced this is a recession signal, as much as it’s a reflection of the new normal for worldwide central banks.

3m/10y curve inversion has proven to be a reasonable signal for upcoming recession in the USA for the post WW2 period [0]. If the Federal Reserve were to factor this signal into its decision making processes (as ECB and BoJ do), its predictive power would likely decline (can't recall the episode of the podcast Macro Musings at present for citation).

> Put the 10 year in context: in Japan and Germany and other stable countries yields are negative. So you have to pay to lend those countries money, because the central banks are pushing yields negative.

You can earn positive (nominal) yields on JGBs [1] and Bunds [2], so not all yields are negative.

> But in the US you can actually get a modest (but real) return on the ten year, so it’s quite popular. This popularity has pushed the price lower.

You're comparing outright duration to curve risk. These are distinct. When discussing curve inversions, you are comparing the spread between two points on a curve, precisely to eliminate any parallel shift component. In this case, the comparison is between a 3m investing period and a 10y investing period.

> And while recession may not be in the cards for the US in the next few years, ten years is a whole different story

On what basis do you assert that recession isn't possible in the US over the next few years? Fed funds futures currently imply a 63% chance of easing by the end of 2019 [3], indicating expectations of deteriorating economic conditions.

[0] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

[3] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...
Sorry, I was sure I read somewhere that ASUS themselves had requested the cert to be revoked but I can't find that site I read that from now to cite other than "ASUS are no longer using that cert" with Kaspersky are saying.

ASUS are using a new code signing cert though, but it is dated from earlier today so maybe it was "ASUS are due to revoke the cert".
The Brexit affair can hardly be called "democratic". The topic of the referendum was a vague question without any specifics, and it was a slim majority, while also disenfranchising a vast number of people.

A democratic approach would be to conclude that a 1.8% majority is in the error margin, and then carefully listen to both sides and try to work out something that many people on both sides can live with. That way you can get a solution that appeases 70&, 80%, or more. That's real democracy, in my book.

It's not an easy path though, especially not in the face of what I call "chest-beating politics". The Brexiteers have not proven to be especially easy to compromise with on pretty much any issue.

There are many better ways to enact more direct democracy, by the way. For example, you can have a randomly chosen subset of people (maybe 50, or 100) vote on every proposed laws, more or less the same as jury duty. The difference with a general referendum is that these people will actually get the time to properly inform themselves and have good-faith discussions (instead of idiotic Boris Johnson spectacle bullshit "discussions").

There are many variables you can tweak, and other possible systems as well. Reading up on e.g. Athenian Democracy might be a good start, if you're not already familiar with it.
They can't because you won't be allowed to upload anything that doesn't pass the content filter, or anything at all for that matter.
where can I get the lists of names and how they voted for this specific bill?
What if, you had a worldwide mesh network of internet satellites, too many of them to take down...?
Some additional links:
Sander Huisman's 2016 paper about solving the three cubes problem for 74, using a supercomputer in Lyon [0]. The approach for 33 is quite similar, just augmenting the range searched (and some additional tricks to further reduce the search space).

Andrew Booker's paper about 33 [1].

It's quite funny how Numberphile inspired these searches.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07746

[1] https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maarb/papers/cubesv1.pdf
I don't see that many NPE in kotlin these days but pretty sure that on java/Android I get a useful error message.

Is that an ART/Dalvik feature ?
> Elections are coming up pretty soon, if they really didn't then the vast majority of them are getting voted out in what will surely be the greatest upheaval in the history of the EU; which of course won't happen because hundreds of millions of us do feel that we're being correctly represented.

Hundreds of millions? Surely not. I am sure that there isn't even one hundred million EU citizens that know and/or understand what this is, let alone feel good about it. That's why nothing will change, I agree on that with you, but that changes nothing about how bad and wrong this is.

> Because you decided they didn't?

No. It's because every trustworthy organisation that cares about open Internet actually says (contrary to their usual silence) that this is alarming and have done everything they could to stop this. I really don't understand why you don't listen to them, I see no logical reason not to - everything they (e.g. Wikipedia) say is true and objective. There is a middle ground that we could try to find.

On top of that, every single author/content creator I know is against it and says that their work is doomed because their platform won't accept it or will end. Because of how much of that content is educational, this is definitely something that goes directly against interests of every EU citizen, much more than any copyright-related bullshit.

In this case, foreign corporate interests (EU produces a minority of worldwide content) were more valuable to our representatives (that we can't even choose because our country is too small - we have less than 3% of the EP) than our own interests, and that's why I don't think democracy is working, not because I got outvoted. On top of that, in this case, my country is caught in the middle of a German-France political deal that we can do nothing about (again, less than 3% seats in the EP). It is literally against all interests of all citizens of my country, approved to serve German/French interests - that is totally undemocratic. There literally is not a single subject (person, company, etc) that would benefit from this in my country - every content creator here is small.

Protip: Just that it suits you doesn't mean that hundreds of millions of people are happy with it, especially if most nonprofit AND commercial players agree it's wrong.
Where does it say that, could you cite the legislation in this please?
I haven't made up my mind yet. Just thinking out loud for those who don't know what to think yet.....

An upload filter would be good for the internet because.....

-It prevents copyright holders from being infringed upon and having to produce paperwork to enforce their copyright.

-It could possible prevent harmful material from being uploaded before it can be reviewed.

-It puts liability on the tech companies to account for their platforms.

-It protects content creators.

An upload filter would be bad for the internet because.....

-It raises the bar for entry into the tech market.

-It increases the amount of work a new-comer in the market must do before launching a product.

-It adds a lot of localized complexity to the internet.

-The internet was not made to satisfy the requirements of sovereign nations each imposing their own arbitrary laws.

-The internet was supposed too/has the potential to be a globalist resource that transcended political borders.

An upload filter would be good for my business because.....

-It requires me to perform some due diligence on user-submitted data that I otherwise would probably overlook.

-It reduces the likelihood that I'll receive a DCMA takedown request.

-It will increase public trust and perceived security.

-People like to see compliance with regulations, even the ones they don't agree with.

-I could roll out the filter to all users and market it as an added layer of protection.

An upload filter would be bad for my business because.....

-It greatly increases the amount of time I must spend processing simple uploads.

-The user must wait for the file to be processed before they can continue using my service (assuming they want to use their file right away).

-It will cost time and resources to design, test, and deploy a filter.

-It adds complexity.

-I will need some frame of reference before I can determine if a file is original or copyrighted.

-I cannot trust the user to tell me if they own the rights to an uploaded file.

-I could try and geo-fence Europe so I don't have to filter non-European files but what if the copyright holder being infringed is in Europe?

-What if a file I filtered out has a copyright holder in the US who has no rights in Europe?

-Technically OSS is copyrighted. A file licensed under MIT might not be infringing anything although a file licensed under GPLv3 might be infringing.
Depends yes.

But even if it plays a restrictive tune, what if we use /robots.txt to explicitly tell if the website or specific contents can be freely indexed & linked to?

It smells like an opportunity to reboot the Web in a less centralized fashion.
There may be deep-seated and long-standing resentments playing out here, due to insecurities and perceived differences in status. It's possible your brother-in-law has also never held a position of power or authority. No amount of conversation on your part may fix it as a large portion of the problem is the source (i.e. you). It may be best to back off and let your wife handle it. He's her brother after all. Work through her to get your message across.
Let's be honest here, I have much bigger fish to fry. I like a free Internet, but it's low on my list of concerns, way below affordable housing, much stricter control of my country's borders, better support for entrepreneurs, more security and better police, etc. I'm not going to vote for a "pirate party" as if that was the most important thing in my life.
I like the idea of referendums. It shows how much people care about important issues. Internet polls are useless since they can be cheated and petitions suck because they don't measure how many people are opposed to the petition.
Are you saying every single EU website will have a filter for all uploads?
Discord has pretty much completely eaten Mumble's market. Free servers and a way better chat system ate Mumble's use case.

TeamSpeak is still used by milsim/flightsim communities because it support plugins which integrate the in-sim radios with the VoIP system.

EDIT: Got Vent and TS mixed up
You can find writings going back as far as the 800s deploring the disproportionate wealth they had accumulated to the detriment of the clergy and the peasant class [1,2]. This led the Carolingians to outlaw usury all together [3], arguing that money shouldn't create wealth out of itself, and that charging interest put the most pressure on the real wealth creators (farmers). As an example, they were so prominent in commerce that some markets had to be closed on Saturday in Lyon (one of the major hubs at the time) and other major cities for religious reasons.

It's not an "idea". It's a fact as reported by historical documents. There is nothing wrong in pointing that out.

[1] Saige, Les Juifs du Languedoc, pp. 8, 42

[2] Bédarride. Les Juifs en France, en Espagne et en Italie, pp. 73

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulary_for_the_Jews
> Where the laws don’t apply is if your service is to host user content and you have the size to circumvent justice.

I haven't looked into it too closely, but isn't it the case that they do apply if a platform doesn't have the size, but is more than three years old?
no, because it's using the data themselves to make even more money out of you. When once one agency collected data, sold it to advertisers, which sold ads to companies, which bought space in papers, YT is collection-agency, ad-agency and paper all in one – which should be kind of scary for any regular user.
I don't remember getting any useful error message, but I've been using Kotlin for 3 years now, so I might not remember correctly. Can you post a stacktrace of what you're referring to?
> I don't see that many NPE in kotlin these days

Nice humble brag. :D
I've used my nose to hit individual notes in the middle of the keyboard while using my hands at the extreme ends.

I didn't listen carefully to the whole track, but I think you could handle what I did hear that way. Not certain that would work here, just thought I'd point out that there are options beyond your fingers for pushing keys.

J. S. Bach is reputed to have held a stick in his mouth to have an additional note on tap - much more practical and playable than my stupid nose trick. If you used a forked stick or a crafted tool you could easily get more than one note, for that matter.

http://www.storycompositions.com/2008/07/rare-stories-about-... (see section "His Music Is Terrible")

(I've also used my face to move modwheels while holding dense chords with both hands, but that's not really relevant to piano technique.)
Texas schools are insanely well funded. The high schools here are better equipped than my college back in California. They get a lot of endowments from private sources. It has nothing to do with the kind of garbage "No Child Left Behind" created. It's all just having enough money to do the job.

My public high school in California's Inland Empire was a lot like a training camp for prison. Learning how to survive while crowded with the violent and insane. Riots happened almost every other week. Just too many kids in too small a place, and no funding to handle the problems from so many poor and broken families. You can't put 3000 kids in a school for 1000 with funding for maybe 1500 and expect anything else.
Apple isn't any better. They arbitrarily ban apps too.
> none of the campaigners knew what they were arguing for

Case in point would be Owen Patterson, a prominent brexit campaigner, who wanted to

1) Invoke Article 50
2) Negotiate a new deal which looks very much like the EEA plus CU, but witout any closer integration
3) Offer the public a referendum between that new deal and staying in the EU

However now that's "remoaner loser talk"
I really could not have said it better myself.

I find these "loser" websites incredible as they are in sense sanctuaries for those who have been casted as lepers. I know these sites have helped me before and many others. It just comes down to the 1% rule that can so outlandish that it tarnishes things for others.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. It's a legitimate option.
The curator of Music For Programming [0] (which is fantastic, yes!) also put together the very silly collection of mixes called Businessfunk [1], which are also great coding music.

And if you try Businessfunk and decide you have the stomach for it, I recommend following up with the Komputer Cast mixes by Com Truise.

[0] https://musicforprogramming.net
[1] http://datassette.net/businessfunk/
[2] http://comtruise.com/kc/
I get that you're trying to tell a morality tale in order to determine who the bad guy is, but there wasn't "a bad guy" causing the last recession. "Retail banks were on the front lines making the liar lones".... and millions of creditless idiots were buying houses they couldn't afford.

You don't need the ball when the chain wraps around the whole world.
The issue is that each term n^3 equals +1, 0 or -1 mod 9. (Test the numbers 0-9). When you add three of these values, you can't get 4 or 5 (mod 9). Thus, you can't get a result that equals 4 or 5 mod 9.
I have been wondering for a while: will this decision trigger any significant work to make software compatible?

Or is it "just" a timezone library to update and voila?