skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in astrophotography, when asked how to get into the hobby, most astrophotographers will tell you, "don't".

The setup that he's got in the picture is very conservatively $10,000 worth of equipment. Not to mention the time spent in setup, planning, extensive postprocessing, etc. Personally, with a day job and living in a city (light pollution), I find it difficult to get time for visual astronomy, and astrophotography takes a lot more time and dedication. All that for something that the big scopes are going to do a lot better.

Not trying to dissuade anyone who's passionate about it. If you're up for the fun and challenge of it, you'll get some nice results for the rest of us to enjoy. :)
Facebook, Google and Twitter to change TOS to make them compliant with EU rules
It's beautiful country with good wine!
Interesting. I work for a direct GS competitor and compensation is nowhere near FANG level, not even with bonus accounted for
Political science is interesting and important, but it's not science in the same sense as physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, and so forth. The President needs a team of skilled people advising him on issues related to science and technology.
Despite their claims to the contrary, RethinkDB also released and claimed 'ready for production use' a version of the product that was pretty broken. I used it heavily and hit numerous serious bugs. The RethinkDB devs did do a very good job of tracking down and fixing them. Software is hard.
> For example, a scrum master is supposed to ensure a team follows agreed processes

Ok.

> in direct contradiction with one of the four values of the agile manifesto:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

But its not in contradiction. Agreed processes are the outcome of individuals and interactions, not dictates from authority external to the team. The individuals and interactions are superior to, and directing, the processes and tools; that is consistent with the line quoted from the Agile Manifesto, especially when considered with the line everyone forgets that immediately follows the "X over Y" statements: "That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more."

The Manifesto is not calling for rejecting clear, well-defined processes in favor of chaos. Its calling for making process serve the team rather than vice versa.
When I enabled Enterprise trial on Google apps to change the domain on my legacy free account, they called me to see if there was anything they could help me with. There was no canned responses at the time, they actually answered the couple of off-topic questions I had at the time, and were quite friendly. That may have changed since, or it may be an Enterprise-only or new-customer thing, though, and I've never actually called them up myself.
If you don't get updated textbooks, how do you deal with all the changes to the cosine function or the pythagorean theorem? /s
Alzheimer's Disease Is Completely Reversed by Removing Just One Enzyme
Any lawyer in the house? Is it illegal to say "I'm going to be a professional school shooter" ? I doubt it...unless you mention the school, have pipe bombs made and other things that suggest a plan to carry it out.

So FBI opened a file and could do nothing. If someone wants to do something, they'll do it, unless the intended target has Papal or POTUS style security.
F U HACKER NEWS for finding the ONE guy who could have possibly answered this question.

I love (f) U
I realize this may be a silly question, but how do I follow your blog? Is there an email subscription? Do I need some app to access your RSS feed?

I feel like this should be easier to solve than it is. (:
Men certainly are driven away from early childhood education.
For me, email is just a repository of order and shipping confirmations. I can't even remember the last time I sent an email, or I even read one written by a human.
So they are going to create websites ... inside an email client! Do I even have to say that it's nonsense?

I really feel like the kiddos have lost all real connection to what the internet is and what it can do and what purpose it serves. You would not see half the nonsense we see these days if they did.

It's as if people are just running out of ideas so they have to try and create derivative nonsense from solid foundations. It's like postmodern art of technology ... can't created real art? No worries, drop a boulder on a car or splash some paint on something and call it art. It's all relative, things are what the mod declares them to be.
I've been "coding" full-time for two years now and I use Windows as primary operating system, the biggest issue/pains that I've experienced is:

1) Most of the tutorials online are written for linux
2) installing dependencies on windows is a bitch sometimes (75% of time I can get stuff to work on windows other times I give up because of lack of availability of certain packages and compiling issues).

It's my opinion that you will eventually need to learn how to operate in linux, so what I'd recommend you do to help with learning:
- Install Hyper-V if you have Windows Professional, this way you can install various linux distros (start with ubuntu, then debian, then centos possibly).
- install Bash for Windows
- install docker for windows

http://www.evernote.com/l/AUkyLCQy0YJFQYIxEsVqV1nD1fUEpd4Uqf...
^ how to turn on hyper-v and bash for ubuntu on windows
What?

GDAX is one of the best companies out there in the field.

Note to others: a portion of the internet seems to relentlessly attack Coinbase because they listed Bitcoin Cash (BCH) months ago
Really pretty much every company is a tech company in 2018 at some level.
I think when people refer to Facebook they mean the social networking site, not a product of Facebook Inc.
No. Many smaller financial firms derive their advantage from technology. There are many areas of finance aside from high frequency trading and they all benefit from significant force multiplication from technology. Even in the lowly area of operations automation there are firms that achieve significant scale with a small number of personnel through technological advantage. Granted this is sometimes achieved with a combination of in house and commercial technology packages, and sometimes the overall system design is done by non-technical people who just manage grunts to do all of the work, to say that these companies are not benefiting from force multiplying technology is foolish. There are very few financial professionals left who are not technology people in some sense of the word.

Many firms benefit from better data. All that data needs to be acquired and managed. Many firms benefit from better analytics and models. Those models need to be tested and implemented.

Your number is low.
How Physics Keeps Figure Skaters Gracefully Aloft
> You can only influence which branch it takes, you can't force it to jump to an arbitrary place.

Assuming you've mitigated spectre v2, right?

If you are vulnerable to v2, I can take any other indirect branch in your program (which may appear after some "y" I can control as an input) and have it speculatively branch from there to this "temp &= ..." code, leaking the value of "y".

If you are not vulnerable to spectre v2, then I agree, the paths are much more limited and tied to speculative execution that is related to attacker-controlled values.
Looks like the answer is yes- I haven't done desktop developing, so I wasn't sure how it worked in these Javascript-wrapped-as-native apps.
That's one thing I keep "hearing". The default configuration now is a WriteConcern of 1 - meaning at least the primary has to have written it successfully. You can choose 2 or majority among others.
Funny seeing Matt Levine's column on HN. He's one of the only financial commentators who consistently has something interesting to say.

It's an interesting time to be in the markets. The steady decline of interest rates has helped keep asset prices high, but now interest rates are starting to come up again. That coupled with newly created wealth from developing countries trying to find a safe place to get a decent return has pushed future expected returns down so investors are struggling to find investments that will give the the returns they've been accustomed to.
What is up with Apple quality of late?
Wow. In v3.6 they started supporting complex joins and in next major release ACID is also coming.
It would make it most flexible database ever.

I would love to see RocksDB as storage engine instead of WiredTiger in their future releases.
100% agree. My wife works in private banking, and her descriptions to me of the IT/software environment they have to deal with are absurd.

Recently, the integration of a new loan management system was badly botched and several clients have been hit by it. Bills not going out, therefore not being paid, therefore money being taken forcibly from their accounts without notice. And these are customers with millions each in the bank. This has been ongoing for a couple of months now. The client managers themselves are irate--they've been cultivating these relationships for years, and it's all been jeopardized.

How can so many banks be so blind to the fact that everything they do depends on getting the technology right?
My comment was in response to your initial point that "“Many girls decide at around age 12 ... to get a husband that will do all the heavy lifting". I don't think it's because they're "smarter" because in the long run it costs them opportunity, power, wealth, etc that people in the workforce acquire over time. There might be an element related to a partnership at home, but as Sandberg points out in Lean In, this should affect women's decisions in their 30s, not their decisions about their college major when they're 18.

I'm a female founder who majored in CS and left my PM job at Google to start a company, so I have "observed the choices" of many young females considering engineering. It's not enough to say that "women are just choosing the wrong thing" - we need to find the underlying cause of those choices if we want to shift the demographics.
Unless something changed recently, I believe that $95bn of advertising revenue makes them the biggest advertising company in the world :)
This is a great tutorial but it will give you zero hints if you get stuck.
They're not supposed to be related. It's a columnist's newsletter. He just writes about financial topics he finds interesting. Each topic under a different heading is separate.
I can't read the article on the website.
Do software and data products advance biology more than papers?
Thank you!! I tried deleting the conversations through the settings and no luck. Will try these now
if you're thinking of some bank's propensity to ask for specific characters of passwords (rather than the whole thing) meaning they can't have hashed it, it's worth noting that many protect the passwords with symmetric encryption and then store the keys in an HSM to mitigate the risk of unauthorised access.
I didn’t know we’d already centralized. Thanks.
Researcher: "I've found that this rhinovirus is devastating to certain kinds of tumors when injected into them... in mice. We need to do more testing, and in humans."

Company: "But that's a naturally occurring virus, we can't patent that so we're not interested. Do something else, or find a way to 'make it better' so we we can patent it and make money."

True story. Now imagine this:

Researcher: "I've found that this rhinovirus is devastating to certain kinds of tumors when injected into them... in mice. We need to do more testing, and in humans."

Oncologist at major center: "We've seen a number of terminal patients with that type of cancer, current treatments don't work especially at stage 4. We could test that virus on a number of people if they were willing to try it."

Cancer Patient "Sign me up!"

There has to be a way to make this work, and it should cost far less than the current approach. I'd argue that it would cost the government less to fund the studies than to pay medicaid costs for the patented treatments. Sure, change would need to happen but it would happen fast, and in the mean time nobody would eliminate current treatments - they're already established and profitable.
I don't know, but Wikipedia has a good example of a NLJD countermeasure introduced in the 60s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector#Co...

(specifically the CIA's SRT-107: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/ec/srt107/index.htm)

As an aside, the entire website for that second link is pretty interesting.
What if we replaced the word "hostility" with "frustration?" Hostility places blame, but I sense frustration all around by people who all think they're standing up for an important cause (and both sides are).

Also, to clarify, I don't think people in this thread are frustrated at/by women. There's no "hostility" there. You may be seeing frustration at a social-justice-movement that they think either A) goes too far or B) debates unfairly by making it "un-pc" to make certain points they consider important to the debate.

If you think having this debate itself is "hostile" to women, well then that's the exact type of behavior that gets interpreted as B above.
> NYTimes is primarily ad supported, of course they were paid to publish it.

This is not true.

"The company said on Thursday that it added 157,000 net digital-only subscriptions in the fourth quarter of the year, pushing overall subscription revenue to more than $1 billion for the year. Subscription revenue now accounts for 60 percent of the company’s total revenue."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/new-york-times-c...
It would have helped if somebody actually posted examples of toxic viewpoints held (as in present tense)by Thiel. Nothing like that has been produced so far here.
Two to four year lifespan?

I happen to know that the design life for the Ford EEC IV, the ignition control system for 1980s Fords, was 30 years. That was achieved; many 30-year old Fords are still running with the original electronics.
Self described liberals. What happened to "live and let live"? At some point using too much violence turns even this into a thinly veiled religion with witch hunts.

The cure is measuring impact and the results of interventions accurately.
I think there is some semantics here. A CTO at all levels needs to have an understand of their (1) current stack of technologies and understand how it improves the business (2) a future stack of technologies and how it may improve the business in the future.

Specifically this could mean as minuscule as "We're using RoR for our website" to more broad like "We need to have sensors in every food package we ship to manage our supply chain and we use IBM IoT platform to do this". The point is have a defined vision with subsequent technology choice behind it. Whether or not you have a Lt that helps drive those decisions is moot.
Probably WPP or Omnicom.
I'll be okay if the price increases moves at the same rate as inflation, but the price is increasing much faster.
how do they make money? aka, am I the product? :D

Saw this in the website:

> Note: All current functionality will remain free.

> Premium functions are available with a monthly or yearly subscription.

> With SoYouLearn premium you will be able to learn even faster and better.

edit: add the free bit from the website and formatting
While MongoDB might be a decent document store, I found that Elasticsearch is better at this job (as a secondary datastore). Its aggregation capabilities are juste far better than MongoDB's with the added bonus of being really good for all kind of searches.
...You're going to have to back those aggressive claims up with some sources or reasoning on HN.

> the amount of different currencies they accept is also very limited

They cover the 4 primary ones. I'm not sure as a business I'd want to accept any other ones... besides maybe ZCash and Monero for privacy reasons.
>I don't know what you mean by the "domain of valid blocks".

Blocks are considered valid by a consensus set if they have certain attributes. Consider each attribute an axis in a multi-dimensional space. One axis for the block size [1], one for the type of PoW function it has[2], one for the sign of the R S values used in an ECDSA function[3], another for the required difficulty[4]

For example, Bitcoin went through a soft fork when the domain of valid blocks was reduced in BIP66 to decrease the number of domains DER signatures could exist in [3]. Bcash /increased/ the domains in which blocks would be considered valid in their chain by changing the difficulty-retargeting algorithm used in Bitcoin[4], 8X'ing the blocksize [1].

As a result, if you turn on a bitcoin node running ~0.6-.7 it won't sync to the bcash chain but will sync to the bitcoin chain (with implementations such as Bitcoin Knots, bcoin, Bitcoin Core) because bcash is a hard fork of bitcoin.
> I despise patent predators, née trolls. But MPEG-LA isn't a good example for me to work with because I think they're actual companies that do stuff – make movies, Blu-ray players, TVs, etc. Some of them invented DVD and Blu-ray probably, and evidently they invented MPEG-2, which I remember was viewed as pretty slick and technically awesome when it came out (as were DVDs – I remember VCRs and boy did they suck).

To a certain extent, I agree. If license fees for MPEG codecs have kept codec researchers in jobs, then that's a good thing.

But take a look at the MPEG-LA HEVC patent list [1], keeping in mind that includes but a small portion of the HEVC-related patents. From what little I know about codec development, I expect that HEVC's advantage over AVC is from a few large changes and many small changes. However, it's difficult for me to believe that there are literally thousands of substantial patentable improvements over the state of the art in HEVC. How many of those companies are paying for cutting-edge research and how many just got a patent that mentioned coding so they could get a part of the royalties?

I have neither the time nor the expertise to go through that list and tell you which are "worthy" and which are "trollish", but its farcical to suggest that all of them are so valuable that the owners deserve to rent-seek the entire video industry.

1: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Pages/PatentList.as...
It's the same junk cartoon network has been peddling for years. Netflix has been spamming geek series nonstop, and it's all been crap. All of it. It's just popular crap at the moment, and they were lucky to catch the wave at the earliest rise. Iron Fist and Inhumans were what happens when they ride it too long.
Fascinating, this seems like a nice solution for "Where is this pole?" sort of questions from the back office. I wonder if they combine that numbering system with other IDs such as "Which circuit is this pole on?" tagging.
That is exactly what happened with my wife when she was a developer. She only likes coding and solving technical problems, the problem was her entire team was women and promoted this "yay sisterhood" groupthink, even to the point of openly talking about how they hired my wife so they could keep the team devoid of any males...she hated it so much and ended up going to a more technically-inclined and less sexist team before leaving the tech industry for good. She always said the "women-in-tech" groups did more harm than good and thinks its just one big "women/POC-in-tech industry" that unfortunately won't be going away anytime soon since there is now so much money involved.
While I can agree with maintenance, I usually find debugging the most exciting part of software development. Problem solving is the essence of this job and I don't really understand what keeps people that hate it in this field.
But the title is "When Everything Is Too Safe, Add Risk". The stories below are completely unrelated to that, and it just seems really odd
Because it's a (typically) masculine Japanese name. If the chosen pseudonym was "Steve", would it be unreasonable to assume it's a male?
Source is I work in this field. There are positions with big data and data management that pay well. But the ones paying 350k+ are way harder to get than working at a top tech firm. Theres a quant trading firm called engineers gate that has a bunch of ivy league programmers, the top of the top. They havent made a nickel off their technology. They have a had a huge outflow of talent to Google and FB. People do get paid 500k+ to manage a firms data, but thats because the firm makes so much that the money splashes around, not because its a huge component of their profitability.

Even at Two Sigma, the engineers are second class to the quants.
Au contraire yourself. Your statement that this is the only thing we can talk about, does not contradict the assertion that talking about it is pointless.
> Funny seeing Matt Levine's column on HN. He's one of the only financial commentators who consistently has something interesting to say.

I'm addicted to his writing and I generally hate financial markets. Reading his stuff is enjoyable, educational, unbiased and entertaining. I highly recommend any techies here who want to understand the financial world to read his stuff.
Since this is a better source than the space.com article, I'll repeat this here:

For those interested in astrophotography, when asked how to get into the hobby, most astrophotographers will tell you, "don't".

The setup that he's got in the picture is very conservatively $10,000 worth of equipment. Not to mention the time spent in setup, planning, extensive postprocessing, etc. Personally, with a day job and living in a city (light pollution), I find it difficult enough to get time for visual astronomy, and astrophotography takes a lot more time and dedication. All that for something that the big scopes are going to do a lot better.

Not trying to dissuade anyone who's passionate about it. If you're up for the fun and challenge of it, you'll get some nice results for the rest of us to enjoy. :)
> ignore the fact that tuition is over $50,000 in many institutions

At what California state institutions is the in-state tuition anywhere near $50,000 (unless you mean for the entire degree program)?
U.S. Bancorp to pay $613M for money-laundering violations
This is cool! I've been (very) slowly designing a self hosted solution similar to this!

I have far too many things ranging from professional to personal to menial that I need to jot down. A lot of it I want to remember, some of it I just want to be able to look up, but ultimate there's just far too much information in my life and I need a personal Google.

I'm not sure this product is my exact needs, but I'm really happy to see more people thinking about personal knowledge/data retention. It seems so important to me!
I've heard good things about online telescope rental [0] - sure you don't have the pleasure of seeing through the eyepiece, but for expensive imaging equipment it makes sense.

[0] http://www.itelescope.net/
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/20/16803326/5g...
Bootstrapping a site builder to $6k in monthly revenue
If you don't like re-fried beans, then you might be out of luck, since taco bell commonly uses it as a cheap filler. Maybe the bacon-potato burrito doesn't have it? I think you can ask for the burritos without the beans.

While I like taco bell, I also like Chipotle's barbacoa burritos
How to get over the fear of the job search
I assume you already avoid google products, because they know where we are all day regardless of video.
I doubt a startup could become a bank. But if Google wanted to start a banking subsidiary? They could probably throw whatever money it takes at the problem and get it done.

The real question is, would they care to do it?
ugh I'm not allowed to use my username that I've been using for many other website because it might be offensive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15190097
LTE is the next generation technology for both 3G (3GPP) and CDMA (3GPP2). Said another way: the merge already happened with LTE. So there's one continuation now, NR (New Radio) within 3GPP.