skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jupiter is so cool.

Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s.

Jupiter also is believed to be a gravitational shield that protects us from asteroids and comets.

Jupiter is also Home to some of the coolest Moons in our solar system, my favorites being Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (the Galilean moons), in that order.

One question I’ve always had and hope to learn one day: what the heck is Jupiter’s “surface” like? I know it’s believe to be essentially layers of metallic hydrogen, but what the heck does that even mean? What would it look like? So interesting.
Investors want to replicate the massive success of overseas bikesharing companies. Ofo has over 60m users, Mobike has over 100m users. These companies are worth billions and do over 50m trips per day. Helmets, legality, and legislation haven't stopped these companies. Take Uber, they were illegal from the start & were always 'one city council vote away from being squashed' but that never stopped them.

I don't think there's anything similar to overseas bikesharing in US, and I can understand why VCs want to invest.
Anecdotally, my sense as a Santa Monica local is that the helmet requirement is no longer being enforced in Santa Monica. I've ridden by cops several times in the last few days, no issues.

So I think it has somehow been negotiated with the authorities.
The second judgement is final. No appeal.
He not only lost it, he lied and said he did not lose it and that their money was safe and sound. Big difference. When you fabricate numbers and lie to people who have given you money, you're committing fraud, regardless of your ultimate intentions or if you manage to recover the money through other means.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, I think you're making valid points. Paternalistic laws definitely have upsides and downsides (upside of safety, downside of lacking autonomy).

I think your idea might work in cities that have designated bike lanes or bike-only roads. For example, in Santa Monica, we have some bike-only lanes, so it might work here, but like in downtown LA, it would be a shitshow and I can basically guarantee that people will die at some point. And then you have to deal with that mess.
Ah. I didn't see anyone recommend giving up on innovation.
Linux for example, overcommit memory.

Not if you tell it not to. This is a common configuration on servers and other applications where requiring overcommit to function is considered a bug.
Nobody is actually following him as you describe. Most of people that side with him do so because they are amazed at the unfounded witch hunt that he received and at the amount of people who demonize him 95% because of the Daraprim drama and 5% for his actual conviction. And of that 5% - 0.5% might have an idea of what they are talking about.

See his videos. You wouldn't stand a chance debating him unless you were a lawyer or pharmaceutical exec.

You are coming from emotions rather than facts. Really. His troll persona is only a small portion of his character.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2018/03/09/you-ha...
Photogrammetry seems to have advanced since then. Would you agree?
I've got a TS-520 sitting on the desk next to me. It sounds great on receive but things get intimidating when it comes time to TX... so far I've only TX'd on my TS-570S.
I'm as glad as anyone else to see Equifax getting what's due to them, but is anyone else bothered by the surreal quality to this story?

It sounds like the rules and procedures being applied were vastly different than what Equifax's highly paid lawyer expected. Is their $1000-an-hour lawyer just incompetent, or is the pro tem judge here allowed to make up the rules as she goes along?
All good hypotheses.

> Github has been served with a confidential court order, warrant etc that requires this.

I thought of this, but figured since the account was essentially bare of public activity it was low probability.

> Github has a confidential contract with a large company or government entity and they are requiring this as part of that contract.

An interesting idea!

> A piece of existing malware in the wild points to this address for a possible command and control server or verification that it's in a VM or whatever, and they want to deal with it, like that guy that registered those nonsense urls.

Very possible, although putting 'malware' in your CnC endpoint name might not be the brightest of ideas :)
Just because it didn't work for Shkreli doesn't make it any less of a reasonable argument in general.

In Shkrelis case the judge dismissed this argument specifically because he only paid his investors back after they had already became suspicious, had he done so before that his behavior would have almost certainly been viewed differently.

It is absolutely normal to take things like this into account during sentencing.

And since it seems to be terribly difficult for some people here to understand, I'm not defending Shkreli and nor do I think there's anything wrong with his sentence.
It also raises a bunch of issues around:

- Kessler Syndrome, a la "Is the plotline of Gravity inevitable with increasing commercialization of space?"

- Weaponization of space. If you could get 4 unauthorized satellites up on a launch that was forbidden because "they're a danger to other satellites", could you do the same with satellites that are intentionally a danger to other satellites? Could a private company knock out the U.S's spy satellites at just the moment they are most needed? Could it set up its own spy network?

- How about ABM defense? Could a private company create a network of smart space junk with the purpose of stopping a potential nuclear war before it starts? (Incidentally, such an organization could end up in the position of both saving humanity and opposing U.S. national interests, given that the U.S. has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on Earth, which should make Americans wonder if U.S. national interests are aligned with humanity. Crimson Tide was a great movie.)

- More generally: nation states have traditionally had a monopoly around certain technologies. Spaceflight, weaponry, cryptography, communication networks. That monopoly is fraying, or in some cases, has already frayed beyond repair. What does that mean for the power balance on earth, and for social organization on the planet? There are some private organizations that are arguably more powerful than full nation-states nowadays.

21st century sorts of problems indeed. At least the 21st century looks like it'll be exciting, if somewhat scary.
E-Skateboards are street legal [1], why are e-scooters different?

1: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
>You are suggesting that transparency must pre-exist a free market, I am suggesting that a free market pre-exists transparency, and when necessary transparency will be demanded by the consumers.

The issue, I think, is that we have a different definition for a free market. A free market, by the definition I am using, functions at peak efficiency and is free from monopoly and large stakeholder or government intervention/regulation. For that to occur, the kind of transparency I'm talking about must theoretically be present.

If transparency came afterward, what happened prior would not be perfectly efficient and would be vulnerable to monopolization, intervention or unbalanced deals and so would not, by definition, be a free market.
Trying to make it in the space industry of all places with the government as an adversary is suicidal. In many commercial space ventures, the government (through its many arms) is often one of your largest customers.
youtube, netflix and all should do the same?
Musk says he fears AI. I hear that since it was invented. And still most robots that fell cannot get up.

In terms of my life and future of my children, I am not afraid of AI, Mr Musk. I am afraid of you launching top secret government payloads, one after another.
While true, you'd think they wouldn't throw out the case if all they have to say is "We tricked him into running some weird JavaScript". There may be some deterrence benefit in making people think the government has an uber-secret exploit, but I don't know if they'd throw out all the charges on a high-level suspect just to create that sentiment (since there will surely be other times to posture about that kind of thing).
Certainly, it's early stages, which is why we (Mozilla Research / Emerging Technologies) are investing in it.

We're seeing a lot of industrial use of AR in manufacturing and industrial settings, though consumer use is still less common. If you have't come across it, this HBR article is one of the best public materials:
https://hbr.org/2017/11/a-managers-guide-to-augmented-realit...

VR is certainly still emerging as a platform and trying to get out of its hardcore gaming and training/corporate silos. We really believe from early user data and some more advanced markets (e.g., China) that standalone VR headsets and great cross-platform social experiences will help it reach more users.

All that said: I don't personally know what the "instagram of VR" will be, though I certainly wish I did :-)
“Rodenticide” with the Seiko DPU414 Tape Printer
Well, I just left one, and was expecting a few weeks of hunting, but as a contractor sometimes things turn up on literally the last day in the job. I said yes. I guess either would have worked.

A couple of notes

- a job hunt is a full time beast and waaay easier to manage when not having a full time job

- lots of people I respect say they never do the agency / CV / resume thing, they use their "network" - i clearly do this wrong as it never works for me

- I am going to start doing the network thing (actually keeping in touch with people) - my only idea so far apart from phoning people which seems rude, is http://hackermews.org

- Networking seems to be two different things - having a marketing presence, blogs, talks at conferences, self promotion etc. This is something many / most people who have successful networks seem to do

- but they also seem to have a lot of repeat business - so I suspect they are you know actually good at the job. which is a problem as far as i am concerned :/)

So the only way i find work is the traditional job through agents / ads approach. I want to expand my presence and keep in touch with people in case that works, but let's be honest - an ad on a job site is a qualified lead. A guy you worked with three years ago is just "brand awareness" (or being friendly. but who has that many friends)
> A lazy person with a high IQ will probably not get very far in the world, neither will one that suffers from crippling depression or anxiety.

These factors seriously decrease the quality of IQ's predictive power, IMO. If you need to attach asterisks to an IQ assessment for a weakly-performing individual ("high IQ but lazy") then I wonder if IQ is the right measurement for that kind of criteria. Yes there is correlation between high IQ and hardcore nerdy professions but that does not mean the two are conclusively, 1.0-correlation linked.
In the North, it seems the interstates and highways tend to get cracks across the entire road at relatively even intervals. I suspect they form where they lay down the rebar supports/holders. It makes sense to me that cracks/"potholes" would form there as it seems that at that point compression of some sort would occur from the weight of vehicles causing the asphalt/road to crumble. While more work to initially build and lay... What would happen if they laid the supports and rebar down like elongated tile or vinyl siding on a house... Never having adjacent pieces ending near each other?
The system is flawed, it will always be flawed. some innocent people will be imprisoned, some guilty people will never be caught. Since its impossible to change this i think the system should be designed with this in mind;

what we would like to do with the 'guilty'? what would sit right? this is not the question we should be asking about a flawed system as we can never be sure who is guilty.

Instead take a look at someone innocent, your daughter, wife, your son; And ask what you would be willing to put them through if it was their turn to be the innocent people imprisoned? i'm sure the list would be short, the necessities, remove; freedom? ok. But access to education? entertainment? social interaction? protection? What would sit right with you knowing that your loved ones risked this existence every day?

This is the reason i hate the death penalty, forced labour, solitary, and all inhuman, cruel and dehumanizing things that our prisons employ.. These things don't protect us, they exist only due to vindictiveness; And they ignore the inevitability of mistakes.
The fact that they are offering a bit of money is a good sign that they respect the process.
“A Guide to Marketplaces”, Second Edition
Who said I'm outraged? If you read the post I made, and the emails I sent, I do believe I come across as measured. At most, slightly frustrated.

This doesn't outrage me in the slightest.

> Github don't owe you an explanation for asking to change your username for whatever reason (even though it is obvious in this case) on a free service that you have been using.

Of course they don't owe me an explanation. But does that stop me from trying to figure it out with a public blog post?

And what if I had been a paying user for the `malware` account? Would that suddenly make this forced name change not okay? I've paid Github probably north of $1,000 over the lifetime of my personal account. Would that make a difference?
Sealabs pose novel engineering challenges, could provide experiments in sustainable enclosed habitats, wouldn't risk microgravity or radiation, but would risk high pressures.

They'd also help species survivability in the event of some extinction-level asteroids, climate change, or interstellar radiation.

I think it's an even money bet whether it'd be easier to build a comfortable habitat for x people underwater or in space (for most definitions of comfort, x, and space).
The law requiring wearing a helmet makes no sense to me. I think Bird is great.

The helmet law seems to have something much closer to a Vespa in mind. And while a Bird can move along at a good pace, it's slower than a bicycle at speed. I believe they lowered the max speed after launching.

You aren't required to wear a helmet on a bicycle if you're over 18, and I think bikes are much harder to control in low-speed contexts.

The law should change.

However people should definitely not ride Birds on sidewalks (although a majority of people do).
In the course of the last month a few different electric scooters have descended on downtown San Diego, this being one of them.

I dunno, they're all over the place and people seem to love them. For getting around a city center they're more convenient to rent simply because most of your destinations won't have a good solution for storage. You can pull up right to where you want to go and when you're ready to leave can usually find another one within a block or two.
For one, if personal mobility sharing services becomes a real estate problem (i.e. the footprint that docks or dockless bikes occupy), it makes sense that those with the smaller footprints will achieve better unit economics and be able to place their stations in more spots. Also it's way more efficient to move a bunch of scooters to a high-demand location than it is a bunch of bikes.
”On the roadway, it must be operated in the bicycle lane, if there is one. On roads without bicycle lanes, motorized scooters may operate where the speed limit is 25 mph or less“

Seems pretty limiting to me. Street legal in a VERY constrained set of circumstances. Only roads with bicycle lanes or a speed limit of 25mph or less. And probably varies wildly based on jurisdiction.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_...

Edit: Downvoting? That’s cool, but please explain where I’m off base. Do you not think that “has bike lanes or a speed limit of 25mph” is pretty limited?
Never understood this either, the law says its only for < 18:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_law_in_California#Bicy...

https://www.tracy.k12.ca.us/sites/bes/Documents/Bicyle%20Hel...

http://losangelesbicycleattorney.com/bicycle-helmet-laws-wha...

I wonder what they are getting ticketed for
I have read a few hard analysis papers over the years and the gist is “it depends”. If things went bad, a worst case Kessler syndrome cascading failure. It could take upwards of a year or even more to actually impact the majority of space assets.p, remember “space is big”. And in addition to the time the events would take to unfold, the time they will continue to affect the availability of safe orbits will depend on the altitude of the orbits and the mean particle density. Less dense objects at lower orbits will be more affected by the thin air drag and decay sooner, gradually clearing the orbits over a period of years. Meanwhile the higher orbits will continue to have collisions and junk orbiting for varying degrees of forever.

Overall the situation is best modelled with a pretty messy set of differential equations combining the differing rates of debris creation and decay by altitude alongside the rate of impact events that cause gradual reduction in the mean particle size and orbit.

As for the risk, it’s sort of a chaotic breakdown threshold, hard to model. And unfortunately also hard to predictively put risk estimates on.
Yeah, I live in SM and cops are pretty lenient -- the bike-only lanes (on Broadway/Santa Monica Blvd./etc.) I'm sure also help reduce risk of accidents. UCLA is a different story though.
I would've thought Uranus would be deeper...
I think you're going for the low hanging fruit by judging HN that way. The more interesting thing is that the majority of comments are shocked by the 7 year sentence rather than the minority who think he was "an ok guy."

I keep seeing this naive understanding of the law over and over again in tech circles. The justice system is made up of several people with a ton of leeway on how laws are applied. The letter of the law is just a small part of what "illegal" means. Being clever or cute about only breaking the spirit of the law will not save you in court, in fact many times trying to only break the spirit is what will get you convicted on the letter of the law. I hate to say it but I think Aaron Schwartz fell victim to this fallacy and in recent memory so did those flight sim guys who put a keylogger in pirated software.

I've spent a lot of time around lawyers and judges and I can tell you they have absolutely no tolerance for the kind of "well, actually" smart-asses that the tech community excels at churning out.

edit: I just want to add this exchange from the movie Blow which I think really sums up how I feel about the whole thing.

>Judge: George Jung, you stand accused of possession of six hundred and sixty pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute. How do you plead?

>George: Your honor, I'd like to say a few words to the court if I may.

>Judge: Well, you're gonna have to stop slouching and stand up to address this court, sir.

>George: [stands] Alright. Well, in all honesty, I don't feel that what I've done is a crime. And I think it's illogical and irresponsible for you to sentence me to prison. Because, when you think about it, what did I really do? I crossed an imaginary line with a bunch of plants. I mean, you say I'm an outlaw, you say I'm a thief, but where's the Christmas dinner for the people on relief? Huh? You say you're looking for someone who's never weak but always strong, to gather flowers constantly whether you are right or wrong, someone to open each and every door, but it ain't me, babe, huh? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe. It ain't me you're looking for, babe. You follow?

>Judge: Yeah... Gosh, you know, your concepts are really interesting, Mister Jung.

>George: Thank you.

>Judge: Unfortunately for you, the line you crossed was real and the plants you brought with you were illegal, so your bail is twenty thousand dollars.
Maybe it's like Earth's liquid iron mantle?
People will chop them up. I've seen homeless people with multiple Ford Go Bikes hooked up to their shopping cart. I kind of doubted they were doing Ford a service by relocating these bikes to higher demand locations...
Uber could become the Uber of electric scooters by adding the option. Risky territory.
It could also be from swelling of the rebar from salt and melting ice
Up here in Canada, I've universlly seen them grind up the very top layer of the old asphalt before laying down the next layer. I presume that's to improve adhesion. Can't say I've seen many places where obvious delamination of the layers happens. Are they not taking that step in florida?
Aside from all of the interesting jurisdictional points ITT, this piece reads like a media hit. If that's right, it might imply the founders are either confident they're in the clear legally, or looking to establish a precedent that they hope to use to defeat regulation.
Hiring a $1000/hour lawyer for your small claims case is like hiring an airplane mechanic to work on your car. There's a pretty good chance that this is the first time Equifax's lawyer had ever been involved in a small claims case.
Is it possible the pro-tem judge wouldn't have known the intricacies of small claims court?

Perhaps the attorney thought they could befuddle both the author and the judge.
Thanks, that makes sense. It's less of a it broke these specific laws" and more "can you prove intent" (IIUC).
I can tell you have they have absolutely no tolerance for the kind of "well, actually" smart-asses that the tech community excels at churning out.

Or perhaps it merely attracts them.
There seems to be lot of questions about exactly why is this in FCC's jurisdiction. In fact the authority for authorizing commercial satellites and allocating their orbital positions is ITU, but you don't deal with ITU directly but through it's national member organisation, which in US in this case is FCC (for some other things you might want from ITU you would have to go through NIST or maybe even GSA).
They're not really that cheap to rent, although they're competitive with bike share prices.

If you, say, used one to get to & from work on a commute of a few miles you'd break even on buying your own scooter pretty quickly.

The big advantage is not having to deal with storing or charging the scooter, ever.

In Santa Monica & Venice there is usually a Bird or two within a block of you at all times.
Am I the only one thinking VR for consumers won't happen for the same reason 3D television didn't happen 5(?) years ago?

It's too clumsy. If you aren't gonna walk with it then it's 360 display that makes you vomit, and if you are gonna walk with it not every consumer has huge empty room where that's feasible. Most of us have couch or desk at home where we consume media, not empty warehouse. I predict whatever Mozilla thinks they are doing it will fail for the same reasons Google Glass failed spectacularly or why after years already spent on VR I don't see anybody outside koolaid-drinking techies owning one set.

Mozilla has one good consumer project that can realistically be completed (browser in type-safe language) and getting the team behind it bogged down with tech that's immature and doomed to failure is unfortunate.
Looks similar, except they recenter as well.