skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. NASA's TESS telescope just completed its first lunar flyby this morning on its way to its final orbital path. ESA PLATO mission launches next year. As well as JWST. All with open calls for citizen scientists!

Mikulski Archive For Space Telescopes

https://archive.stsci.edu/tess/

A review on Asteroseismology

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.07604.pdf
What if law enforcement knew? What if this was an intentional backdoor for law enforcement to abuse? I know, you can apply that on any vulnerability (what if X knew), "don't assume malice [...]", merely hypothetical but still.
"We used to live in a society where webmasters' rights to the fruits of their labor weren't trampled on by inane regulation"

We still do. Nothing has changed on that front.

"Now if you run a website in the EU, any user who signs up to it has control over the contents of your servers and you have to ask in extremely specific detail to do anything with some of that content, and that "consent" can be revoked at any time."

As it should have been from the beginning. Having the standard being that the company hoovers up all your data all the time without telling you what they're doing with it or why they need it was a terrible, terrible thing.

"The EU has shot themselves in the foot and more and more companies are going to refuse to do business with them because of it."

I highly doubt it.
No there's no cultural difference (or perhaps there is, but it's not on display here). It's not out of the ordinary to comply with regulations and laws -- businesses often change to do so. However, it's also not out of the ordinary for businesses to go out of business due to legal situations. Both are signs of a functioning regulatory environment.
Evidently I didn't do a good job of supporting my claims, so here is a follow up with some of the examples of teams based out of countries that traditionally do not raise significant venture capital, able to get funding for high-quality projects, thanks to cryptocurrency:

OmiseGo: a Thai-based project that received $25 million worth of cryptocurrency in their token sale to develop a decentralized exchange and payment network.

They've led development on multiple scaling initiatives, including vanilla Plasma and Plasma Cash, as demonstrated by their GitHub:

https://github.com/omisego/

Golem: a Poland-based project that received $8.6 million of cryptocurrency in their token sale to develop a decentralized market that enables people to sell their unused computing resources.

They launched on the Ethereum mainnet last month, and all of their code is released open source:

https://github.com/golemfactory

Request Network: a France-based project that received $33.6 million in cryptocurrency to develop an open payment request network and protocol. They launched their DApp on the mainnet in March, and like the others, everything is open source:

https://github.com/RequestNetwork/

I could easily list off a dozen more, but I don't have the time to do the write up for that many. My point is, the market for raising funds through token sales has become extremely competitive. There are now over 84,000 ERC20 token contracts, and 749 tokens with enough trading volume to be listed on coinmarketcap.com.

The projects raising the most funds are all more than just a whitepaper nowadays. They all have significant substance backing them. And unlike traditional venture capital, they are globally distributed, unlocking the potential of people who as a consequence of geography, would historically have had a lot of difficulty raising the necessary capital to pursue these projects.

There's still a lot more room for improvement in terms of quality, but the trend is clearly in the direction of improving quality, if you compare the top token sales today to those that were raising millions a year or two ago.
I work in tech and quit the perfect job
Google's in a lose lose here, if they relent and identify the businesses the press will descend on them to get quotes about how they feel "getting tricked" by a bot and so on. But if Google hadn't left out the identifying information in the first place the businesses would have been inundated by callers and Google would have been criticized for letting a small business get "doxed" like that. And finally if they don't release any info there will be more stories about how it's fake.

I guess they could have the bot call Dan Primack at Axios and clear it up...
He is a 1 person team. Given him a break vs. being so aggressive in your comment. There is a cost associated with trying to figure out GDPR regulations, finding a lawyer, vetting their feedback, acting to hire folks, changing UI to give user an opt out, implementing that in the system etc. All these things don't drop from the sky.

And they are a business. And as a business they have decided to get out of Europe as the above costs weren't worth it to them.
Would any of that actually be illegal in "meat space" as long as it didn't qualify as harassment?
The geniuses at AMC managed to lose over $480 million last year.

You need to learn to read investor reports...The "loss" was entirely driven by tax law changes that changed how they accounted for certain items on their books.

"Included in the net loss for the quarter was approximately $310.0 million of tax expense in our U.S. markets related to the impact of the change in the U.S. enacted federal income tax rate from 35% to 21% and the impact of a full valuation allowance on our deferred income tax assets."

They may in fact kill MoviePass by refusing to budge, but they would be shooting themselves in the foot doing so. Who else is generating demand for movie tickets at this scale?

Not MoviePass. Last I checked, the movie studios spent a few hundred million dollars on promoting movies in the US alone.

There's no point in bringing in more MoviePass subscribers if they're losing money per ticket due to splitting the revenue 3 ways (i.e., adding MoviePass into the cut) if those viewers don't also buy enough concessions to make up for the lost revenue. So far, it appears they don't.

That being said, AMC has a subscription pass coming out (or is already out in some markets) which is like the original MoviePass: a sustainable price that brings in viewers and incentivizes them to purchase concessions (and additional tickets).
Gah! Yes. The other one is:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044438
There is coarse and fine location.https://androidforums.com/threads/question-regarding-the-cou... -- generally you will get a coarse location. Carriers can often get a precise location by querying the phone and enhancing the coarse (cell tower triangulation) with a GPS reading. Fine location is not going to be available on all handsets. It will be accurate to like 30 meters. Older handsets or those on 3G may not provide fine location.
You are talking about a very narrow set of legal reasons that need 10 years of archiving. This has nothing to do with the GDPR and these archives should really not be created from normal daily/... backups. If you fall into that category you need a lawyer even without the GDPR and this lawyer will tell you exactly what and how to archive. "Nobody really knows" does not apply here because your lawyer knows.
Amazon and ConsenSys' Startup to Offer Simplified Blockchain – Viral Docks
I don't like government, but companies sucking up everyone's data for sale right now certainly seem like mustache twirlers to me.
Investors splashed out $1B on scam ICOs
I get the same thing, but it only kicks in once the fall is long enough that you know that your character won't survive.

What's interesting is that after far too many hours of WoW, that fall distance is so ingrained that I get that feeling at the same point in other games, even if they have a longer 'safe' fall distance.
App Store Optimization Metrics Guide: Measure What Matters
Just the .cpp code, not counting the .hpp code (which is full of code, including lots of memcpy's) in the node/ subdirectory of this repo is something like 4x the entire size of Linux WireGuard. The crypto protocol is undocumented, but the maintainer is playing games with things like the Salsa round count (which is fine, but I mean, speaks to a mindset). I might poke at it for sport at some point, but I don't see how I could ever recommend it.
You can be fined if there is international or bilateral law or if somehow else the fine can be domesticated. There is no international regulation (not even consensus) on privacy so the law is not directly enforced here. However you are also not required to apply another country's law to all your customers, and if you don't want to you should (but are not really enforced to) block the EU.
How would you recommend getting into the field?
In a well-configured machine second-level domains for .localhost are also supposed to loopback, per the RFC.

(It's useful as a development tool as you can Virtual Host project1.localhost and project2.localhost to different in development sites if your OS and server support it, which tend to be in similar ways to how they generally support Virtual Hosts.)
If a presentation layer API (=HTML) provides developers with the convenience of composing UI elements by concatenating markup with remotely sourced input, and at the same time allows inline scripts to be eval'ed when merely present in particular markup attributes, and additionally sometimes hooks up un-sandboxed native APIs with full access to $HOME, it has really laid down the groundwork for a client-side can of worms that makes sql injection and php evals a run for its money.

With the prevalence of XSS and CSRF vulns on the regular sandboxed web, it's pretty brave to take that model into unsandboxed fat clients..?!
which converts it to binary. You really haven't made a point in the thread. You think JS is special and you like it. Don't pretend that means something.
It’s alarming that you don’t realize how insane this argument is. Now murder and keeping notes about someone you see in public are the same? You’re headed towards thought-crime with this; it’s basically murder to continue to hold an opinion of someone that they disapprove of, because “privacy”. Ridiculous.
> These are oftentimes costly to implement.

Yes, but then again: if you don't implement them society as a whole will end up holding the bag. Polluter pays is a very good principle.

> All regulation costs money to implement.

Yes. But that's called the cost of doing business. And most software based businesses have insane margins anyway because of their ability to scale.

> Even if each regulation by itself is cheap, these things add up -- it's death by a thousand cuts.

That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that it levels the playing field between those that ride roughshot over their users rights and those that try to be nice.
It used to be that Signal required reading the code from SMS and didn't work with Google Voice. But they listened to complaints and changed it to allow entering the code.
Someone who is a solipsist believes that the external reality doesn’t exist, e.g. other people are just a figment of your own imagination. Think ”The Matrix”, except you aren’t connected to other real human beings. You never wake up either.
They would have to exploit this consent bypass flaw. So, if they were willing to exploit this but, nothing.
Slow down people it’s a parody
The first request is to "requesttype=statusreq.json", returning a JSON object, and the second to "requesttype=locreq" returning XML. On a whim I decided to try and get JSON location data out (I like JSON better anyway), and found that the two formats did not exhibit identical behaviour. On exploring that further, I found the consent bypass bug.
I was ghosted by an employer after sending them a "few days/hours" technical homework assignment (kindly assigned before any kind of interview). Granted, I sent it to them near the deadline and it was barely complete, but it still took an afternoon. If I have a chance to deliver karma in their direction I probably won't hesitate.
I've never heard anyone complaining about it give a reason why they feel that it belongs to them.
Oh no, as an individual, I cannot. But a 1,000 engineers looking at it, even if they don't understand it in full, they'll be able to tell if it's fake or not.
Could similar reasons br behind why men seem to love trains at a much higher rate than women do and also why men are over-represented in software development?
Doesn't this go against the numbers that facebook put out in its most recent quarterly report?
> People knew where babies came from way before the internet.

I think you missed the GP's primary point. Just because someone in the entire world had the requisite knowledge might mean nothing at all to another someone a mere few hours of travel away, let alone on the other side of the world.

That's why written language was such a huge invention[1]. Then the printing press. Then the telegraph, radio, and telephone. Finally, the Internet. I'm sure I missed a few, but you get the idea.

[1] A moment of silence for the Libary at Alexandria, please
Can we get 100 percent of our energy from renewable sources?
yeah i don't mean the violations. i mean it's a regulation that must applies to all software equally regardless of when it was written.
1 does indeed require predicting the future, but if we can all agree that full autonomy is a tractable problem that will eventually be solved, then it stands to reason that progress will be made toward that goal, barring some catastrophe. How steady that progress is remains to be seen, but I think we can reasonably take assumption 1 as a given, even with a generally skeptical view.
Yeah, I was going to say. I know two women who are really into trains. One is my wife, who was devastated at the news that her father, who is an engineer, was not 'that' kind of engineer. The other is the office manager at my former workplace, whose garage was like a magical model train emporium, much to her husband's chagrin. Her husband was a salesperson, she was a total geek.
How big a rock you’d have to drop in ocean to see sea level rise happening now
Computation has had two effects in astronomy.

Unprecedented data-analysis capability, sure. The other affect that I have seen is how new telescopes can be built, literally out of digital electronics. Radio-telescope arrays, CCD sensors for radio, infrared, visible-wavelength astronomy.

Sure, particle physics sensor data is getting a similar boost there, but those instruments have to make things go boom.

At the current state of the art, maybe telescopes can scale up faster than particle accelerators?
Targeted ads hardly qualify as abuse to me. Getting to use a website for free in exchange for your browsing data being analyzed is a great deal and a win/win for everybody.

Surely anyone who disagrees with your feelings on this matter must be a sociopath, though.
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That is the OPs exact point. Did you read the article? He mentioned that "The days of someone making something, putting it on the internet and offering it to the world seem to be over". And here you are talking about knowing the laws while the OP sits in a different country trying to run his business.

You might be from Europe and to you it may just seem sensible but 1-5 person companies often have to make tradeoffs like this. It is not right to say just comply with the law - it is so easy! The company, here, has decided that the cost is too high and that they are out.
If FB categorized posts with some ML algorithm and allowed people to filter things out that they don't like (politics), it would be a far more pleasant platform, but then I doubt they'd want to give users that kind of power as it could interfere with addictiveness.
Title edited from "Here’s how big a rock you’d have to drop into the ocean to see the rise in sea level happening now" to fit title length limit.
> Given him a break vs. trying to me so aggressive in your comment.

The article is spreading FUD and inciting others to spread it even further in the comments.

> There is a cost associated with trying to figure out GDPR regulations, finding a lawyer, vetting their feedback, acting to hire folks, changing UI to give user an opt out, implementing that in the system etc.

The GDPR is online, and has been for a long time, you don't need a lawyer but if you feel that gives you more comfort then fine, you don't need to hire anybody, that is just plain nonsense, and changing the UI to give users an opt out: that should have been done two years ago.

> All these things don't drop from the sky.

Indeed, this did not drop out of the sky. It has been in the works for years.

> And they are a business. And as a business they have decided to get out of Europe as the above costs weren't worth it to them.

That's fine with me, the way in which it is presented is not fine with me.
I'm sorry, but I cannot buy the argument that this is in any way, shape, or form related to "free speech".
> I guarantee you that I've been compliant with the laws as much as I'm aware of them.

All the laws, worldwide?

Are you in compliance with anti-blasphemy laws? Laws that forbid insulting the monarch? The tax regime of every country in the world?

The creator of Monal has decided the easiest way to be compliant with another country's laws is simply not to do business there, and I think you're underestimating the difficulty of the alternative (trying to comply with every country's laws).
They should have asked Elon to toss it in the back of his roadster.
Thanks for clearing that up - I can't stand people who think they are above the law. Here in France and Germany, this law is creating a lot of jobs too. I hope more laws like that in the future so that even more jobs can be created. I love the EU :-)
Perhaps having legitimate purpose for data collection in the first place helps.
I wonder if a discord for HN would be better?

I've been keep track of HN related things people have built and added this also

https://github.com/keithn/HackerNewsCommunity
There are a dozen variations of this question already for TGIF.
Actually it seems like the iPhone demos are pretty natural. The last one Craig had an issue with unlocking using faceid so he had to switch to a backup. Seems pretty authentic to me.
Maybe we just misunderstood each other a bit: My point about the 'federal crime' is not to judge gambling as more nefarious, but to simply point out that the violated law in this case is a completely different type of law (criminal).

As you correctly note, the GDPR is an EU regulation that will be enforced by national regulatory bodies through warning letters and fines. Unlike for criminal offenses, there simply is no way for it to be enforced by a police force or through arrests.
There is nothing coming out of the EM-drive, it just creates a force, which is why it would be awesome.
From the article it appears phages were championed in the former Soviet Union purely because it was an approach that was not used by the West. Antibiotics apparently were easier to commercialize and phage research dwindled but did not completely die off as the solution phages discussed in the article were found in two separate US facilities (combining the work of others worldwide), at the Navy and Texas A&M.
Well, no - the idea is that the delegated authority is simply "you may make regulations without prior approval of the legislature for the sake of expediency, but it is subject to veto so you can't use it as an end-run around the legislature".
Thats usually not needed. Towards the end of the breastfeeding session when the baby has drained much of the milk, mothers will often massage the breast to push more milk towards the end. That can make milk squirt out, but it isn't the purpose. Really full breasts can definitely leak milk without any suckling, but most of the milk comes out as a result of the baby suckling.
Or as I call it, the thousand-thug encyclopedia. Every significant page has a minder with a motivation.

This might actually explain a personal removal or two - an ironic removal - I noted war crimes factoring in a battle, and this was removed since an editor concluded I was talking about American troops. I wasn't. In fact the war crime I mentioned was the use of human shields by the other side.
I had an argument with one guy who would fire you for "lying in an interview" if you didn't tell him you had a degree, or list it on your resume. His position was that people with degrees would work for him until a better job came along and then just move along, wasting his time "training" them. (Basic laboring work.)

He didn't understand that he was just hiring the lowest common denominator because he wouldn't run a workplace that people wanted to stay in. I've long wondered how many exceptional people he's cast off because they didn't fit his employment profile of "no hope, minimum wage."
> And here you are talking about knowing the laws while the OP sits in a different country trying to run his business.

I also have to be compliant with US laws if I deal with US citizens. What's the difference?

> You might be from Europe and to you it may just seem sensible but 1-5 person companies often have to make tradeoffs like this.

Not the ones that want to stay in business.

> It is not right to say just comply with the law - it is so easy!

But it is easy, he's just making it seem as though it isn't. There is so much factually wrong in that blog post that if that's the level of thinking that goes into the decision making then there most likely are other issues.

> The company, here, has decided that the cost is too high and that they are out.

Probably good riddance. But for all the wrong reasons.
Cannot agree more strongly with you here. Anything that makes it harder to read/reference/share these materials is a small but common irritant.
More or less ya that is about right. Now that would still only be part of the overall calculation as I think that assets such as loans and smart contracts should be considered in the calculation. The money from loans and such is in use by people on the network but its owner should still be able to claim it for staking purposes.
This site claims that a single Nano transaction taking 0.112 Wh vs a Bitcoin transaction taking 950kWh. (note Wh vs kWh) https://isnanogreenyet.com/

Check Nano's FAQ regarding "Is Nano vulnerable to attacks?" here https://nano.org/en/faq
Oh, man, what a missed opportunity to make the average Joe Sixpack become aware of cellphone tracking and surveillance. If the researcher had queried every single cellphone number in the United States (for as long as the API kept working) and then published the location of every cellphone in the USA, then laymen might care. When someone can query the list and see his own personal information being broadcast, they will understand. When they can look up any cellphone and pinpoint the location of their wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, children, or neighbor, they might get an inkling that privacy isn't such a stupid thing to worry about.

I guarantee that by next week, this whole thing will be forgotten and nothing will have changed because privacy and surveillance are too abstract for most people -- they need to see all their personal information that's being collected. I admire the researcher's integrity for exposing it the right way (reporting it to CERT and the company itself), but going full Snowden would have had so much more impact on getting better privacy-preserving laws and technology.
That's the law in the EU, I think it's natural to have a hobby that doesn't break any laws.
Ask HN: What is the intrinsicMatrix for an iPhone X's rear camera?
I'm looking for the camera calibration matrix from an iPhone X (and I don't have one to use).

| fx s x0 |

| 0 fy y0 | = K

| 0 0 1 |

Hoping someone here has done enough iOS with ARKit to help me out with this - many thanks in advance!
Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses
With the recent replication crisis in psychology, I would want to see this repeated to see whether it holds up to scrutiny.

It just seems "too good to be true", and with a sample size of 29, it could be.
Its a different approach to HLS. Arguably much better than the Vivado approach