skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait. wait.. if everything is "remote" (on Uber's cloud) then why all this drama of shutting down/locking machines? Just log everyone out and deny login attempts.

My other question is, if all the data is in the cloud in SFO, wouldn't the data technically reside in the US?

Looks to me like the Canadian police were hoping to get lucky. That some user wouldn't have enough time to log out.
If kernel_task is using a large percentage of your Mac CPU
I've been wondering what would cause my new MBP to start crawling periodically with super high kernel_task usage (600%). Is this kind of throttling common practice for Windows or Linux? To me, this echoes what's been happening with iOS slowdowns and feels to me like compensating for poor cooling on the MBPs.
Huh? That's a very normal looking swimsuit. It just has the word "sexy" in the description. Sometimes children even swim naked! I think you're being too puritanical. It's not child abuse to sell children's clothes.

I should add that peadophilia is a sexuality, not a crime. Not all peadophiles abuse children and we should stop painting them all with the same broad brush as child abusers.
You're being exceedingly rude and we're done here.
“Rate payers” is U.S. regulatory jargon for “user fees charges for use of regulated services.” Typically, electric, water, or sewer. In the US, the cost of these services is not paid for with tax dollars, but recovered from fees charged to those who use those services.
That's really not relevant to this article. The author is not talking about crawling and indexing the entire web (although he mentions the "whole web" once, that's clearly not what he means). He is wondering why old pages -- pages that used to be in Google's index -- are no longer showing up in SERPs even when using appropriately-targeted long-tail queries.
What's the difference between a "Prius type hybrid" and a "918 type hybrid"?
You've never been through the family court have you?
Another whack opinion from Hacker News, coming off as facts. Get a clue.
The whole point of the warrant was that the government suspected Uber of hiding evidence. Allowing them to pick and choose the data they unlocked from the servers would be counter-productive.
So you gave up science and searching for truth, for manipulating people/lying to them (I guess by "telling people what they want to hear" you don't mean the truth) and self-promotion? Sigh.

More to be gained? What's more important in life, what you give or what you get? We make a living by what we get, but a life by what we give.

Sounds like some kind of category mistake, or a few. Science isn't as totally impossible as you make out. Evidently. It sounds a little like the crises ex-christians have about the world, dizzying and demoralizing themselves with similar grandiose dramatics. (existentialists, Bergman etc) That biochemistry crisis sounds like a Zeno's paradox, stultifying oneself with the abyss of the infinite. "There was no way he could ever know which theory was right" - isn't that absurd exaggeration?

But sure, I guess you mean, you realized a life of science wouldn't perhaps be a wonderful bountiful one, but a hard, thankless one, maybe ending in total failure. But why blame science or philosophy if science doesn't guarantee you a pleasant life? Or to be beloved. Well, maybe it's only for the cantankerous few, those mountain goats crazy enough to love the solitary labour (in science, philosophy, mathematics etc) for its own sake. And it's good to realize such a life wasn't for you.

In the sequel Lila (although not sure if recommending Pirsig to people is a good idea) there's a lot against academic anthropology, but even more presenting what he evidently sees as objectively how the world works, (societies, cultures, people) what could be called sociology I guess. And it's very interesting and insightful stuff.

Ok sorry about that ramble.

To this day, my whole philosophy totters after an hour’s sympathetic conversation with total strangers: it seems so foolish to me to wish to be right at the price of love, and not be able to communicate what one considers most valuable lest one destroy the sympathy. – Nietzsche, letter to Gast, 1880
Don't forget he was a major contributor to BeNews (as was I, full disclosure) one of the major Be news sites of the time...

It's a shame all of the BeNews content was lost to a database failure, though you can still find bits and pieces in the Wayback Machine..
This is the correct perspective. It seems that, Reddit style, many people here comment just the titles, don't read the articles.

Polio is on the way to complete eradication all over the world. AFAIK the only place where it remains endemic is Baluchistan in Pakistan where the warlords are suspicious of vaccination agents.

Victory on polio is a fantastic story that doesn't get the attention it deserves.
I'd also add that being homeless in some states seems like a far more untenable proposition, out in those middle states where the climate gets extreme.
The thing that's weird to me is that an economy the size of Japan would even keep track of such a thing. The Japanese government could find that kind of money in the couch cushions in the name of humanitarian aid.
>Not sure about the SNES. Sega Genesis/Megadrive just exposed the cartridge pins directly to the CPU's address bus, I think.

The Genesis/MD and SNES work the same way. Expose an address bus and data bus via the pins and let the cartridge handle any sort of mapping.
It's also the 7th largest country in the world, and proportionally one of the poorest in the world, with almost 200 million people living there. Being the 6th largest oil exporter along-side the global political impotence, corruption, and poverty of the government and its people doesn't mean a huge amount.
It seems unlikely that logging out doesn't destroy the data stored on that system. Of course, the data still exists somewhere, but that particular raid is likely thwarted. If it were any company other than Uber I'd say this would surprise me. Usually companies rely on a auto logoff timer, but this is an active method in response to a raid. It looks awfully like obstruction of justice to me. The digital equivalent of flushing your weed down the toilet.
Can you point to a specific case where a defendant was coerced into decrypting some data? As far as I understand it, the 5th Amendment protects a citizen from such coercion.

If you have a physical device such as a Yubikey that unlocks your laptop, the court can order it to be given over, but the requirement that you produce the key from your own memory seems to be a different story.
Details on the specific warrants are scarce in the listed article, but if the police had a warrant for specific data, it seems strange that they would be raiding satellite locations. Moreover, with a properly scoped warrant, my understanding is that authorities may seize locked devices and compel Uber to unlock them.

While I am loathe to defend Uber, these measures appear designed explicitly to prevent police fishing expeditions, which I am fully in favour of, and to serve little further purpose.
If I was homeless I would either go to Florida or California. At least you won't die in the winter.
This article boils down to one point: that the basis of the LA Times article's claim is California's sky-high real estate prices. If it wasn't including house prices, poor Californians would be doing 'just fine.' That's like saying a laptop works perfectly fine if you ignore the fact the screen is busted.

Why shouldn't housing prices be looked at when determining how poor a population is? Obviously it's a significant component of cost of living, which directly impacts how much purchasing power individuals and families have.
I think you're raising more topographical/philosophical problems, but

https://github.com/serverless/serverless

has allayed a lot of my gripes with lambda.
Having a warrant doesn't mean that it's a valid warrant for the what police say it is for, nor does it mean that anybody at Uber's montreal offices is qualified to make that call.

Locking down the computers until Uber's lawyers have had a chance to verify what the warrant covers and what access the investigators are entitled to seems like a fairly prudent security measure.

If somebody showed up at your office with a piece of paper saying they were allowed access to everything on your computer, would you unquestioningly give them that access? Personally, I'd hope any services that I trust my data to wouldn't give up access without some verification that it's a legitimate request.
I've found if I put the keyword in double-quotes then it makes the keyword required in the search
> I think, though, it's only fair.

Oh, I agree. Things like "pest control" are really damn important to people living around you.
Project Veritas? Really?
> This shows the value of actually grabbing content that you plan to use or hope to refer to in the future, rather than merely bookmarking it. And it also underscores the value of the Internet Archive.

Yes. Everyone should install the Wayback Machine plugin and click the "save page now" whenever they find something useful or interesting:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machi...

I hate hitting an unarchived dead-ends when doing research, so I'm trying to do my part to prevent it. Many page I've archived had never been archived before I saved them.
CEO of communications company here. We send/receive millions of messages with Twilio. It is our go to solution because it is the most reliable in our experience. Plivo is their most direct rival in my view. We've considered them but again Twilio is reliable so we are sticking with it for now but remain open minded.

FYI Short codes don't interchange well internationally. Also sending MMS has all kinds of challenges/limitations. If I can be helpful at all I'm... dave @ sendsmart.com.

Cheers
Semantics is important here. Which is why things like your completely incorrect statement are even worse.
VNote is great for managing and editing plaintext md files. All data is plaintext and you could even use any editor to edit your notes even after VNote is obsolete someday.
PowerShell Comes to MacOS and Linux. Oh and Windows Too
A 3y interval without cases in any member countries is what's required for the WHO to call a region "polio-free". [1]

[1] -
http://www.searo.who.int/immunization/topics/polio/eradicati...
I hate to tell you this, but when a judge issues a warrant, denying (even through this method) is clearly obstruction of justice. That's right, if you work for Uber, and you help them do this, you can, and will go to jail - are you willing to go to jail just to protect Uber from potential legal problems?
Ugh, I knew this was gonna be some "lolol JavaScript" shit. Christ.
It’s effectively like a compromise between big telco and the government: “we’ll open access to broadband, if you allow us to consolidate at the top of the market.”

Yet the cost is simply shifting to cellular data plans, a market with equally high barriers to entry dominated by even fewer players. Incidentally, the cellular company and broadband company are often one and the same, thanks especially to recent consolidations.

Most of these telecoms realize broadband is a higher cost investment for lower return than cellular. So with their left hand, they’re opening up broadband. But with their right, they’re strengthening their hold on cellular. Really they’re unloading a cost center onto the public, as they attempt to move beyond the past and optimize for the future.
I would be surprised if it has not been reindexed thanks to the link from this article.
Obviously there was something in the way, maybe bad blood between Japan and Nigeria. Who knows? Who cares?

If the Gates Found. is engaging in a bit of 'dollar diplomacy' here, that's even extra value, IMO.

This is high-test, globally impactful philanthropy, and deserves none of the cynical, socio-economic scrutiny it's receiving here.
Because they're not keen on people whose business model is: "having laws is a cost we don't need to pay".
Migrating from Monoliths to Microservices
I'm excited for Go on Lambda because the only other viable statically-typed language supported by Lambda has been Java, which suffers from crippling cold start problems. This will let me have Python-speed cold starts, faster-than-Java sustained throughput, and static typing, in a relatively simple and easy language.
For the same reason 'Joe Infinity page 1234567' would not be found anymore. Google thinks its not relevant enough to keep it indexed. Yes, it is debatable what is relevant enough and what isn't. But everyone who indexes 'the web' has to decide what to keep and what not. Nobody can store 'everything'.

Also it's not as easy as just keeping everything that ever was in the index in there. Then searchengines would link to noexisting urls most of the time. Most URLs have a short lifespan. Links rot pretty fast.
> If the authorities had a warrant, why wouldn't they just take all the locked computers with them back for further investigation?

Don't mind. If the police has good evidence, they will show up later and take some of the Uber's servers that hold the relevant data.
Banks use eventual consistency for your balance. You just don't notice because it's usually really quick.

The reason the ATM has a limit is because it's eventually consistent. It's possible you just went to another ATM and drained your account, but that hasn't reached the main office yet.

They are limiting their risk by allowing you to defraud them of up to $500 (or whatever your limit is).
Try opening multiple long md files and switch among them?
If they really wanted to cripple the cartels, they would impose a tax on all drugs sold by the cartels. This can be done without legalization. If caught with drugs and no tax stamp, you get charged with tax evasion.

This would also raise needed revenues.
A hospital is a very man made system and most tools they use are man made too. Most procedures are pretty standard too. There is no reason that they can't publish numbers other than that it's beneficial to them to keep them secret. Insurances have these numbers too but they don't want to publish them either. Everybody knows the pricing, the only participant being kept in the dark is the customer, aka patient who eventually has to pay.
Not to mention, polio spreads! If you can eradicate polio in a country for a paltry $100 million, it's in other countries' interest to do so, even if some of the money gets stolen. This is the difference between traditional charity evaluation (which seeks honest management) vs effective altruism (which seeks good done per dollar).
I really hope justice is served one way or another. This action by Uber feels really shady to me (much worse than Google's tax evasion loopholes).
What would be the consequences if something like this happened in a European country such as Germany?
> but they're dwarfed by pot sales

I doubt selling pot is more profitable than the rest of their activities combined. Take The Knights Templar as an example, they operated within a single state and made around a Billion USD in 2013 from Iron ore alone.

https://nypost.com/2014/03/17/mexican-drug-cartel-moves-from...
According to this,

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/18/wsj-nigerias...

Nigeria charges $4.11 per barrel in taxes. So I guess they get that $4B in tax revenue. 1.9% of oil tax revenue is not negligible, but I would think Nigeria would have more national pride than accept. Like Bolivia with Bill Gate's chickens.

Anyway, by GDP, Nigeria is 27,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
As a Californian from the coast I feel your pain, but seriously compare this state to opioid country and we're doing great. Most of the people I knew from high school have had to leave because they can't afford it here now. But these are signs of a good economy and low poverty.

We are doing fine if you take out housing prices, and we are doing not great if you include them. Which is why everyone throughout the state is talking about the housing crisis. Unless you have some brilliant ideas like draining the SF Bay[0], housing is hard to do while simultaneously worrying about the environment.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reber_Plan
Would you recommend a book on the planning?
Maybe Talkyard is a bit different? It's new forum software, threaded, inspired by Hacker News: https://www.talkyard.io. (I'm developing it)

With improvements over HN: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-...

Hmm I think threaded discussions, make the more sense, the more people join the discussion. If 999 people talk about something, they're going to split up into smaller groups, each group talking about a sub topic = thread. And everything laid out in a flat way = a huge mess. But if just 5 people talk about something — then they can stay focused on the same thing all of them. Flat = more ok.
Google Sticker on your GitHub profile
OK, changed. Too late for this one to matter but if it gets reposted we can change it again.
One of the best things I ever learned in school was from my German teacher in junior high school. I have no idea what we were talking about, but she said, "You can prove anything with statistics." I'm 41 years old and that has stuck with me all of these years.
I used "only when". It's a necessary, but not sufficient, condition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
If you haven't read the recent NYTimes article on the topic of cryptocurrencies, you should check it out: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaire...

At the end of an article is an anecdote about an older (for Silicon Valley) woman who states "And maybe I’m going to lose [my investment of $12k].. Maybe I’m going to keep cleaning houses. But something is telling me I can trust this generation."

My worry is that (1) people like this woman who don't understand markets, let alone cryptocurrencies, will get burned by this, and (2) some small set of people who do understand markets will take advantage of those who don't.

This could result in a situation in which techies are blamed, like Wall Street, for causing lots of people to lose money (and -- let's face it -- lots of people will lose money, if not now then at some point).
They abuse them already.
Because the warrant was obtained for the information. Judges generally frown upon cuteness used to try and be 'technically correct' regarding their orders.
Hi all, no Jeff Barr post for this one, but here is our launch post on the Compute Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-f...
Blog post with more details:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-f...
That's backwards. The large energy requirements are exactly why trucks will electrify earlier: as far as useful energy goes, electricity is usually MUCH cheaper than diesel. The more energy that is used, the greater the benefit of electrification.
This explains a number of times I've been unable to find old articles/forums/what have you, even when fairly certain I recall most or all of their titles. This may finally be enough for me to move to DuckDuckGo, as the quantity of information published longer ago increases, and the information I may wish to reference becomes increasingly difficult to locate.
Ironically for an official Google blog... it renders fine on Firefox for Android, but not Chrome.
tomrod used the term "anarcho-capitalism", which is a specific strain of political anarchy, and that is what I was responding to.
if you do it that way, the sum ends up being so small as to be of no consequence.
Ronald Coase: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess."
There is a 500ms delay after the content change before parsing syntax. It could be tuned and optimized. Thanks for your feedback.
There are at least two Californias. 1. LA and Bay areas. 2.The Central Valley. One is rich. The other is poor.

I grew up in the central valley. The central valley is agriculture, and is disproportionately populated by generally hard working migrants (or 2nd/3rd generations thereof) of Mexico. They pick our fruit and our vegetables, but they are dirt poor. I grew up along side them, land of dirt and chicken coops. They were my neighbors and my friends.
SO the penalty should be death, then?

edit: you dropped that "Sure, they abuse them now". I saw it.
Right. Now to drive it from $14,000 to $100,000.

To the moon! /s
And for the cases where a decision is needed mid-surgery, the patient should have someone standing by to represent their interests and make those decisions on their behalf.
Did you read the link? The suit WAS for fraud. And that quote was from the judge's ruling, not from Pepsi's lawyers. Here's a link to the actual decision, I suggest you read it: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=140108835179928... . It goes through the conclusions of the case and quite thoroughly explains why the claim of fraud is wrong.
In your work, do you champion short term solutions?
VNote does support MathJax. Check the screenshots. I plan to support plantUML, too.
Not if your PIN is 1234
That is basically the ideal editor I have in my head. It would be messy, but in the way that Emacs is also messy, which is what makes it so great :). It significantly shortens the distance from my brain to running code.
Look, Nigeria is swimming in money yet remains a shithole. The Gates Foundation "donation" is only a replacement for tax money that went into somebody's pocket instead of being used for what taxes are meant to be used for, whether paying loans or building a healthcare system.

I never said they were in the pocket of the oil tycoons. The oil tycoons aren't the ones embezzling the country's entire national budget.
My impression is that using statistics to say CA has the highest poverty rate is just a good use of numbers to get attention for a headline. I highly doubt if you carefully considered the philosophy of what it is to be poor and used that to come up with scientific methods to measure it, you wouldn't find CA at the bottom. If someone thinks it is, they probably don't have a very good view of the rest of the country. (and really, I don't think it's very helpful to rank states. economies, regions, and populations within a state and how they're doing is an actually useful metric, 'poorest state' is too far disconnected from solutions)

And if we're talking about solutions, the top point should be disabusing people of the thought that the world owes them the right to keep their standard of living while staying in the same place despite economic climate changes. All of my ancestors moved to America and around America rich and poor, were driven largely with economic motivations. I would think that most people that ended up in America (and especially California) ended up there in search of opportunity. Many of CA's economic problems can be largely solved by a population from the top to the bottom more willing to take advantage of the competition for talent, labor, and cost of living from around the country. The artificial imbalance of people and companies that just don't want to leave is causing the absurdly high prices of things near the coast.
Spectre mitigations in MSVC
> ... up and down the hilly Tasmanian terrain...
> How much range am I going to get?

For the same energy-cost, you'll get a LOT more range out of the electric ute. Electric trucks make MORE sense in hilly regions due to regen braking making a much bigger difference than flat regions and due to the lack of brake wear.
Q: What's the difference between amnesia and Alzheimer's?

A: I don't remember.