skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithm is the "spiral rule".

http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
There are a few other places in WA with fiber, too -- looks like Chelan County is one. They also have super-cheap electricity and are somewhat lower crime than Spokane, from what I can tell (which is the main drawback of Spokane; it's pretty nice in a lot of other ways.)
If police have a proper search warrant then locking the computer will not matter, because the police will have a warrant to compel the company to turn over the specific evidence in question.
It most certainly is a crime if it's done with foreknowledge of what the central office will then do, which is clear-cut obstruction of justice.

And from all reports, employees were specifically trained to do this, and they knew why. Open and shut case.
Ah yes I forgot about Bridgewave. Agreed on all points for infrastructure needs. I would only add that when I read the OP (of this thread)'s comment I imagined using very very short/inexpensive 60Ghz links from neighbor to neighbor to create a kind of mesh. Possibly not what OP had in mind but it's the way I interpreted it. For that use the MikroTiks might actually make a lot of sense. (Very cheap and low range.)

Edit: Also since you're obviously knowledgeable about this stuff and I don't see a way to contact you on your profile - I've been running a matrix chat room around some of this stuff and would love to have you join! https://riot.im/app/#/room/#startyourownisp:matrix.org
>> How does Spanner stay competitive with other NewSQL databases?

Good question, but... what other NewSQL databases we are talking about here? That is, NewSQL databases that offer strong consistency, and multi-region replication. I do not see many of them.
https://www.google.com/search?q="we+were+watching+the+Democr...

I can find the article this person is referring just by looking at a string of it. So the article _is_ indexed. Not sure what he is referring to.
One more vote for Leaflet. Just started using it for one of my side projects (my long term get rich plan) and it’s super easy to create custom maps exactly how you want them. There are also many plugins allowing you to further enhance the functionality. Now, if only I could find some extra spare time to work on it...
Another article from Bloomberg that speaks on this [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-se...
Thanks, this is really interesting to me.
>If police have a proper search warrant then locking the computer will not matter, because the police will have a warrant to compel the company to turn over the specific evidence in question.

Wrong. Compelling them to do so does not mean that compulsion will be successful. Encryption exists.
My two cents in Rust2018
You're correct on price, you're very wrong on the actual infrastructure and its performance.

The US has caught up and surpassed Europe. It is in fact questionable if the US was ever behind, it has had faster speeds than Germany, Italy, Russia, Poland, Spain and France for 20 years. Have you seen how slow average speeds are in countries like France and Italy? They're far behind.

The US average broadband speed is faster than all but five or six small European nations currently. US broadband distribution above 15mbps is also greater than all but a few small European nations.

You're also generalizing to about as great an extreme as you possibly can (Scandinavia is not all of Europe), given how far behind broadband speeds are in the majority of Europe compared to the US.

If the US approach failed so miserably, how come the vast majority of Europe is so slow? Once you get outside of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and Finland, speeds begin to collapse.

There are ~750 million people in the European Union, about ~710 million of those live in nations with slower average speeds and lower broadband distribution than the US.

If we're comparing something more like US states versus small European countries, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Rhode Island have avg broadband speeds on par with the fastest small countries in Europe.

Countries the US beats on average speeds and 15mbps distribution: France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, Ireland, Spain, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Greece, Romania, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania
I’d imagine the employees aren’t told why they’re paging the number, just that they should.

The page might also trigger other processes such as alerting council, that they have the right to do.

So possibly not as risky?
AWS tries to cover this strategically with Aurora (as well as Serverless Aurora) and DynamoDB.

Serverless Aurora can autoscale up and down based on usage, and Aurora has powerful replication functionality, but this is a far cry from Spanner's multi-master horizontal scaling.

DynamoDB can autoscale (crudely), and they just added multi-region multi-master. It's non-relational though and requires more capacity planning than Spanner.
Have you seen a dermatology textbook? They're the thickest books on my shelf. And as a pathologist, I'm only seeing the stuff that merits "I'm not exactly sure what to do here, let's get a biopsy and see if that provides us more information."

Then I, as the pathologist, provide some hedgy answer that's not in the textbook, because the patient's disease didn't read the textbook. And we have to jam that all into CPT codes, SNOMED codes, LOINC codes, ICD9 and ICD10 codes, complete with conversions between major and minor releases of those code lists, etc, etc.
I completely agree that highlighting code with regexps is almost useless, but if emacs is not capable of doing more than that (or its language modes usually do not do more than that), I think that emacs is at fault here, not syntax highlighting.

In sublime text, for example, the syntax definitions are basically stack machines (if I'm not mistaken), and can therefore parse any context-free grammar. This is clearly powerful enough to handle all the edge cases you mention.
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Can't they simply include adversarial examples in the unreleased test set?
I don't understand, Google uses ECMP in Maglev [1]. Is there something specific about Maglev that makes their usage of ECMP viable while the scenarios that you encountered were poor fits?

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub44824.html
Personally, I just keep scaling up the springs in my switches. Started standard, then went up to 85g, sitting at 180g with 250g switches waiting to be put into a board. No gentle typing required and I never bottom out strongly while typing.
Pushing this way of thinking about it, you could also say that a raid from the police is useless in general since a judge can simply send a request compelling the company to turn over the evidence in the first place.
Interesting that since the official stance of the US government is they won't disclose capabilities that this puts a wholesale ban on US Navy ships. I did not know about that. Although, it does seems to be 'thawing' [0].

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-18/new-zealand-to-end-sta...
Not to mention that the central office is in the US, and this seems to be used to lock/wipe computers in other countries, so much harder to prosecute them. However, if the person alerting the central office can be shown to have known the expected effect of their alert, then likely they'd still be guilty of obstruction of justice.
> Deliberately hiding or destroying evidence

Is this what the on-site employees were doing though? According to the article they were:

> they’d been trained to page a number that alerted specially trained staff at company headquarters in San Francisco

Depending on whether they knew what the "specially trained staff" was "specially trained" to do, this seems logical and harmless? If the police came to my office I would probably text the company owner to find out WTF is going on.
That's one way of looking at it -- another way is to look at something like the Mafia as being analogous to an early form of law and order (albeit arguably a tiny bit more openly violent, ruthless than your average developing world police force). Something still lacking today in most countries.
This is definitely a thing. Many sites when they update take down old content that was getting few views. Many times that content is irretrievably lost.

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.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16063946
If the authorities had a warrant, why wouldn't they just take all the locked computers with them back for further investigation? Then they would have been able to have a judge order Uber to unlock the computers for forensics.

Uber's actions are similar to shredding evidence of tax evasion, which in the case of Arthur Anderson during the Enron scandal, resulted in federal obstruction of justice charges, and a strengthening of federal powers for charging of similar actions.[0]

Note: I am not a lawyer, nor a resident of Canada, so I am not sure if my proposal above is legal within that country. But it would seems to me that actions similar to the above have taken place in the USA in the case of tax evasion with probable cause.

[0] https://blj.ucdavis.edu/archives/vol-5-no-2/document-destruc...
Sure, but I already spent a whole day trying to write said tree traversal, and failed miserably. Eventually I had to give up and find another way to solve my original problem, which annoys me to this day.

If anyone can help me find a way to convert a tree representing a C data type into a string with a syntactically valid C declaration for it I would be very grateful. I suspect that it should be possible to do this via a clean recursive algorithm, but the only implementation of this I could find so far was cdecl's LALR-based one.
We use it as an insert only db for now for incoming webhooks which allows us to de-duplicate events and significantly reduce writes to the main PG db. We're running it on GKE which has been much easier to setup than PG.

There is also TiDB which is similar in some ways to CRDB: https://pingcap.com/en/
The forensics team may have been able to brute force the PIN, depending on the settings, if I'm reading this correctly:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/there-are-ways-the-f...

(Please use direct links rather than amp links.)
> You're asking the wrong question,

You only say that because you don't like the answer, as it demonstrates that statist barriers on the market are the true causes of this problem, and a free market economy would render this issue entirely moot.

As the history of all communist states demonstrate, state-impose barriers to market creates all sortes of economical,social and criminal problems. Drug trafficking is one of them.
The A350 is more of a competitor to the 777 (it's base configuration is larger then the base configuration then the 787). It basically is in the space between the 777 and the 787.

However, it does compete with the a380. Every time you see a seat on a flight between Denver and Narita, realize that it's a seat that isn't on a A380 flying between San Fransisco or LAX and Japan.
Seems like a reasonable way to prevent overly-broad fishing by law enforcement. If they have a warrant they can request information through legal channels.

The raids are just theatre.
I seem to recall an article where a guy had spent 30 years locked up for a crime he didn't do.

When he went in, there were few to any mobile phones and virtually nobody talked about the internet.

So when he got out he had to learn how to use all that tech we take for granted in our daily lives.
I would not be surprised if google still has the data. Not sure how google handles things internally. However, google needs to pull up the results fast. So they might have 4 billion results with the word "water" in it. They only make tiny portion of that available. So if I type the words "Hot water" google it looks at the subset of pages with words "Hot" and the word "Water" So google must pull the pages that have both words quickly. So the number pages in these subsets "Water" and "Hot" must be small enough to quickly be merged/intersected. There are other things that could be done to speed it up, but I think you get the main idea.

However, what I am getting at with that simple example is for the searches to be quick google keeps these lists small. So there is a limited space due to time-constraints. So google must decide what is relevant for the available portion of their index.

However, that does not explain why other search engines don't have trouble with older sites/links. I suspect it's more of business decision than a technical one.
I didn't know it was also called "asperand". Seems like some variation of "ampersand"
> they typically pay doctors a specific amount for a specific procedure.

No, they only pay specific amounts for specific procedures.

> In my youth, I worked in a drug store

Do you realize pharma is only 10% of the problem?
Rectfest, a new reactjs conf launched in london
> It has everything to do with being a new plane with new technologies

That's true, and I still am looking for a chance to get on a 787.

Although I don't think anything can replicate the smoothness of the A380, it's just so big.
Despite all the problems with AMP that have been discussed elsewhere, the real zdnet page hijacked my browser, redirecting me to an ad page with no way to get back. In cases like this, I think AMP would be preferable.
I don't see any links to https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/03/13/Rock-n-Ro... in those search results.
If the police have a warrant for the data on that machine, then remotely locking it down will not matter.

All this protects Uber from is fishing expeditions where the police hope to come across an "unlocked door" so they can sift through everything hoping to find something.

I get that we don't like Uber, but I support this type of action and think it should be standard operating procedure for every organization.,
I agree that cartels can't just "pivot to meth" and make the same total profits. There's not enough American demand for meth. I was trying to explain why, for supplying the demand that does exist, meth smuggling is profitable despite the relatively low barriers to entry for small-scale production of meth inside America.
Democratic != good.
So you say investors pay for it? Very generous on their behalf.
Or with a different spin.

Locking your computers that are no longer in company possession is a common Enterprise control. They take protecting your data seriously!

If the authorities need the data on the computers the will surely present a properly scoped warrant!
I still agree that it could be any other reason the one that led google de-index that website and therefore not indexing it again.

A good review would show more profs than just websites behind the same one domain.

Interesting though, let´s see if there´s more news on this.
I'm by no means a fan of Uber, (and I'm not in Canada) but keeping information from plain sight != hiding evidence.

Come back with a better warrant.
That only gives me http://inessential.com/2008/11/, not http://inessential.com/2008/11/04/that_new_sound.
People leap straight for the heart surgery example as if to imply it justifies the lack of price transparency for routine medical procedures where the patient is fully conscious. Why is that?
I'd do it as a monthly check or electronic payment to every american over the age of 18.
There are plenty of journalists with conflicts of interest. It's not ethical, but they do. Financial columnists sometimes don't even admit their conflicts, it's crazy.
This article is very resourceful (I'll be returning to it again and again) but no no no, its opinion is fundamentally flawed.

Ignoring the fact they obviously have a strongly-consistent product to sell, which therefore informs their view, the flaw is that the article is the cliche "I have a hammer therefore everything is a nail".

Honestly, if you go back to the beginning of the article, their first quote sums it up "better to have programmers deal with performance problems ... as bottlenecks arise" admits to the fact that this is the inevitable outcome of strongly consistent systems!

If physics is against it, you're asking for trouble. I've given tech talks around the world on this, just don't pick a fight against physics or else YOU WILL LOSE FAITH in any/all database systems you use: http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html .

That is what these strongly consistent database systems run off of, faith (religion) that the database is their god that will solve all their problems. You only need to take a look at http://jepsen.io/ to be proven that basically every single system out there (except for like RethinkDB and one or two others) fail miserably at being strongly consistent even when they are suppose to be.

But hey, they need an excuse to get people to buy into Cloud Spanner - and nothing sounds better than "Hey we're Google, let us manage your data for you, because you aren't smart enough to deal with consistency."
If you adjust that $30 unlimited figure for Serbia's per capita income at the median, you get something closer to $250 to $300 in the US.
The Gamecube edged out in certain aspects like lighting and color accuracy, and the Playstation 2 won out in other ways. It was definitely a beefy GPU that stood toe-to-toe with Sony's... ATI did a good job.

Unfortunately, Nintendo thought it was a good idea to barely increase GPU performance between generations and with the Wii we basically got a Gamecube V2 instead of a console that actually competed with the new generation on a hardware level.
That result is just the blog's page for November 2008, not the article page itself. So while that page _does_ have the article text on it, it is not the article itself.
> If the authorities had a warrant, why wouldn't they just take all the locked computers with them back for further investigation? Then they would have been able to have a judge order Uber to unlock the computers for forensics.

If I had to guess: Very little data is stored on site.

If all of your local office computing platform is basically a thin client, confiscating the local equipment with a warrant doesn't do much. You can take it away to a forensics lab and image its disks, but you're not going to get any usable data off it without a network connection into the corporate WAN, crypto keys, sending subpoenas to specific people for their login credentials, etc.

I know nothing about Uber's internal software architecture and network topology. But I would be very surprised if most of their day-to-day operational systems like ticketing, customer service, recruiting, finances, were not operated through TLS1.2 connections in a web browser to a set of intranet servers, located thousands of km away from where the branch offices are located.
The post states that any new features including something as simple as a CSS property will now require a secure context, regardless of whether the new feature exposes more security risk or not. This is a marked departure from the declarative markup vs imperative scripts distinction that you make, or any other risk analysis which has guided which features require a secure context in the past. It doesn't distinguish between simple web pages and web applications. Instead it is a blanket policy that if you don't encrypt, you will not be able to use any modern web standards, period.
I really hope some law enforcement agency will someday classify uber as a: "organized crime group". I don't mean the drivers --- but management is doing absolutely everything to obsruct law enforncement (for example --- making it virtually impossible for transport inspection to call Uber vehicles).
Not saying it's not stupid, but FWIW I noticed ACRush (competitive programming legend) is behind that startup - at least it should mean it's not a full-blown scam.
The only open and shut cases are when the accused is a minority with a public defender.
Airbus has never hit a single one of it's sales projections or traffic demands for the a380. They were supposed to ahve sold about 1500 frames by now.

They wont in the future as well. Boeing kept the 747-8i alive to try and see if the traffic would eventually start shifting back to the super-jumbo, and it never did.

If the traffic does eventually shift there, it will be the big twins (777/787/middle-of-the-market plane Boeing is working on now) and the A350 that benefit from it.
Your point is irrelevant to whether or not pricing transparency has value for customers. It's like saying that it doesn't matter at all if mechanics provide pricing transparency because you could break down in the middle of nowhere in the desert somewhere, and then what good does that do you?
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And rightly so, the quote is from Brent Simmons' article.

However, you're right anyways: you can't reach Tim's article by searching quotes.
Actually this is pretty common, I use names from my favorite movies in code all the time. Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. Especially when it fits the project or functionality.
The difference is law, software, car repair, home remodels, etc, are all man-made systems. Medicine is dealing with a system that I think we can all agree man did not make.
Possibly an obvious comment, but reading your post it struck me that any way you slice it, you're more or less building a garbage-collection system, with all the various tradeoffs those entail. Different performance issues since it's S3 buckets rather than RAM, but still very dependent on who has references to what, and when you check for it. Your two examples sound to me like: You can have some set of known exhaustive roots and periodically delete anything not still reachable from them. Or you could have a lifecycle option, analogous to arenas (region-based memory management). Etc.
Its possible that by linking to his article he triggered a re-indexing of it? I wont pretend to know how google works but seems plausible to me.
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Since 2015... wow. I never bothered to check because I haven't been using it much over the last 2-3 years. That's great news!
I wouldn't discount Tesla:

1. They already have cars on the road, albeit Model 3 has production delays.

2. The people who buy Tesla cars are the same ones who are willing to adopt self-driving technology faster.

Waymo has no brand recognition outside the tech community; GM is old-fashioned, and tailors to alike customers; Volvo and Toyota -- same issue as GM.
Fair enough, but does that make someone an asshole for describing them fairly aptly, and generally in a positive light, based on what they appear to do?
Uber has already been seen to act adversarial to law enforcement, raids are utilized to try and limit Uber's ability to conceal information. I have no doubt in my mind that Uber would willingly fail to comply to requests for information.
Even if that is true, a company will be successful in the degree they can do this more than the other companies in the same space. I don't think laws like this effectively lower the cost, because first of all, a good chunk goes to lawyers and patient advocates.

Also as the system gets itself more expensive, the mechanics that make it more expensive can also become more worthwhile! Its a spiraling costs issue.

Man healthcare in the U.S. is so broken.
In the US at least you can be held in contempt and jailed indefinitely for not providing the decryption keys. Presumably other countries have mechanisms to deal with this beyond, "Oh gee, you password protected it, guess you get to go free forever."
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And shredders. Let's not forget Enron :D
Access to free healthcare does not result in better health outcomes, at least in the US.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/05/rand_health_ins.html
Yours doesn’t discuss the timing or police raids, so it’s not as simple as saying the OP is a spin.