skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So where could one carry a laptop, and have it covered in case of loss? Not in checked baggage:

British Airways conditions of carriage:

8f) Fragile or perishable items must not be packed in baggage checked into the hold

You must not include in your checked baggage fragile or perishable items or items of special value such as:

money
jewellery
precious metals
computers
personal electronic devices
share certificates, bonds and other valuable documents
business documents or
passports and other identification documents.

15e7) We are not liable in any way whatever for damage to or loss of items which you include in your checked baggage although you are forbidden from including them under clauses 8c, 8d or 8f, or in the case of permitted firearms you have not complied with the conditions for including them under clause 8d, except as provided for by the Convention. These items include fragile or perishable items, items with a special value, such as money, jewellery, precious metals, computers, personal electronic devices, share certificates, bonds and other valuable documents, business documents, or passports and other identification documents. In the event of any claim for damage, delay or loss, we may avail ourself of all defences of contributory negligence specified in the Convention.

https://www.britishairways.com/en-us/information/legal/briti...
Show HN: RealWorld – A Collection of Exemplary Front End and Back End Codebases
Google… I don't understand the praise of it's search engine.

For example, when I search for my App name, pirate sites come first, and when I search for functionality keywords, 2011 blog posts from Apps that have been disappeared off the map appear first.

When I was writing my thesis, Google Scholar offered no help. Engineering Village did everything.

Google emphasises too much on blogs and other ephemeral content, which as we all know, is often written in a careless manner, rarely maintained, and even just completely made-up. Google doesn't understand that, and I don't think it's accidental.
In his defense, you can say that about a lot of contemporary art, including the successful stuff.

Part of the problem is the need to be "original": true originality is almost impossible to recognise, because by definition we only recognise (re-cognise) what we already know.
What happens when I arrive and my MacBook is gone?
I would argue that beyond that traditional college bound paths should transition to more of a vo-tech (which is a bad term in academia) path. Look at CS curriculum or anyone learning anything with a semblance of Security. Most of the talent there is lacking hands on experience, instead students spend 4 years learning a text book methodology only to find out that in the real world the text book method isn't always possible or right.

I'm seeing more and more of my peers care less about a degree and more about quantifiable experience. I'd rather have a mid talent coder that's flexible and understand the larger problem set we're solving than someone highly skilled in algorithmic design (which is something i've seen).
Is it possible to extrapolate from the recorded reduction in accidents after the introduction of autopilot and work out if fewer people have died as a result of introducing when they did?

Here's an article which describes a 40% drop in the accident rate:

https://electrek.co/2017/01/19/tesla-crash-rate-autopilot-nh...

The NHTSA's figures show a drop from 1.3 crashes per million miles before Autosteer to 0.8 crashes after Autosteer.

Would any of those crashes have been fatal? I don't have the numbers to answer that but I posit that introducing Autopilot has prevented more deaths than it has caused.
How do you avoid being rear ended at a stoplight?

There may be ways to avoid some of the other types of accidents, but those ones (which have happened several times) are difficult to escape.

The real question is what's the safety threshold - safer than median human? 90th percentile? 99th?
At this moment, is there a general consensus or definition as to what is a "fake news" and how and who decides upon it?
>> Some will say mainstream press is biased and has an agenda

The people that say that are generally conservatives (or a subset of conservatives). Liberals generally don't complain about the mainstream media being biased. I'm just pointing out that the idea of the mainstream press being biased and having an agenda is itself biased and has an agenda.

>> so-called mainstream will answer by proposing more fact-checking.

Fact checking is supposed to be automatic. When a mainstream news outlet gets caught reporting false information, it's a big embarrassment. The NY Times had the Jayson Blair incident a few years ago and it really stung. The Times also apologized for over-hyping the Iraq War[1].

>> Is striving for neutrality something the press should do? Or should it work on clarifying how biased it is, and why?

High quality news outlets already strive to do both. "Honest news" isn't a new idea; it has always been a part of journalistic ethics.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...
In 2010, two bombs concealed in laser printer cartridges were found in freight planes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_planes_bomb_plot
Let's ban knives. So many deaths would be avoided.
That's exactly how it is in the US. A number of major car rental companies won't even rent to drivers who are younger than 25 years old.
You answer your own question when you state:

"The upper & middle class is more likely..."

"More likely" is the key term here. How much more likely? If they are very, very, very likely, then you might be correct.

However, if they're only slightly likely, then the social safety would be useful in catching those who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

There's issues around the direction of causality too. Why are the upper and middle classes likely to produce innovators?

Because of their upbringing?

Could part of that beneficial upbringing be the implicit social safety net they enjoy from their parents?
It needs to be attacked from all angles.
With that level of paranoia, I'd be more likely to Fedex my laptop overnight, inside a ziploc bag with evidence tape covering it - since I believe that the TSA is allowed to open and inspect any luggage, whereas Fedex/UPS/etc doesn't open packages in transit (as far as I'm aware).
Microsoft Expands Its Search Rankings to Include Relevant Results?
Information the rich don't want you to see.
If tuitions were increased for the purpose of increasing administrators, then yes, the later caused the former.
Is Waymo clear about what the end goal is? I can't tell if they plan to launch an Uber like service, or a direct-to-consumer lease type service, or just to be suppliers (whole vehicles, components like lidar, software) to companies like Uber. Or maybe they are leaving all of that undecided for now?

I'm not sure this rider trial thing strongly signals any of them. You would want real world end-customer experiences regardless, I would think.
Aphyr.com is a big mass of custom Ruby+Sinatra running on a Linode. Jepsen.io is a Clojure site, running on Skyliner. The articles are written in Markdown and preprocessed with Pandoc. There's a lot of LaTeX in my life, come to think of it.
I've noticed that Economics professors seem to often do stuff like this.

I had to take an economics statistics course my senior year due to some confusion over the then-newish AP Statistics exam -- I received credit, but couldn't apply it to my computer science major. The class was ridiculous, it was basically statistics 101/102, but used the first few chapters of the professor's Econometrics textbook, which sold for $150 circa 1998.

He handed out the assignments at the beginning of the semester, and you didn't need to show up except for the tests. The test used textbook questions, and asked questions that referenced passages in his stupid book, including charts in chapters that weren't covered as part of the actual class.
How and when to use private money in infrastructure projects
How prototyping in real-time can elicit software requirements
I highly recommend it; definitely worth the time. Just be warned that you might just fall in love with Jesus. I did.
In light of how little we know, it's great to see that there are philanthropists supporting oceanographic research, specifically a shout out to Eric & Wendy Schmidt, https://schmidtocean.org.
hi! who is this for? the people. who is paying? my enterprise and soon google ads. web hosting enterprises started to use the unlimited concept but it is merely a marketing strategy. we want to offer the same as they for free. it is limited to the server capabilites and what this means is that there are no limits for the account.
edit: please comment as opposed to downvote -- HN's value is civilized debate and information.

I value privacy and support VPN use, but for some reason this seems different to me. Maybe something to do with a VPN being a company using servers to create an obvious layer of identity protection that police can generally subpoena when of importance.

By running a Tor exit node, this individual was consciously allowing his IP address to be used for potentially malicious purposes. Why can't it easily be compared to someone making a cover for or assisting a criminal they don't know the identify of, which would be a crime if committed in person? Investigations lead back to him because he put himself in that position.

analogy: VPNs seem like concealing your ID from everyone, however police can sometimes work to see it if a court deems it justifiable and necessary. Individuals running Tor exit nodes seem like being given someone else's ID instead, with no trace otherwise.

Untraceable VPNs (ones unaffected by subpoenas) are somewhere in the middle, but the primary issue I see with this is the Tor system's use of someone else's ID rather than hiding your own (investigators are aware when they find a VPN service's IP).
it's interesting that the dried leaf formulation was more potent than the extract alone:

...dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant delivers 40 times more artemisinin to the blood than does the drug based on the chemical extract of the plant.
A couple things:
1) While AT&T was not the only provider left standing, it was the largest and had scale advantages against its competitors. The Kingsbury Commitment was designed to halt AT&T's expansion and ensure that those competitors were able to compete. However, it failed: AT&T was able to continue to improve its dominant position by selling subscribers in certain areas while purchasing competitors in more strategically advantageous areas.
2) One of the reasons for "natural" monopoly regulation is that we do not want telephone wires, railroads, and pipelines running everywhere. Building a utility requires gaining access to rights of way. Society subsidizes all private utilities by creating rights of way and infringing upon the rights of property owners along the route.
3) The scores of companies running railroads everywhere were subsidized even further. At least in the West, the federal government gave land along the route to the railroad companies for construction. [1] In some ways, building a railroad was more about land speculation than private construction of transportation infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts
Ask HN: What do you use to write project plans or timetables?
I use google docs at the moment which is fine for most of the things. Would like the plans to look a little nicer though.
Does anyone use anything to create project plans? Set deadlines, produce Gaant charts, assign tasks? (trello is good, but it's not easy to see the whole roadmap for the year).
That's bad news, because not only is he a crook, he is an ivory tower economist who is going by gut feel (i.e. useless opinion). In the real world, prices are not just set by cost - actually most of the time it is set by what the consumer can pay. Cost is just a lower bound, but that's still bad news for the professor since car companies already enjoy plenty of economy of scale. Similarly, publishers a captive market like student textbooks are not going to lower prices. Printing is not the cost - it's not novels sitting on a bookshelf with no idea whether it will get picked up or not.

tl;dr The guy is both a tool and an idiot.
I guess I'm not thinking of it as a product to monetize but a data problem to solve.

I choose my weather services based on presentation, because they all basically rely on the forecasting from NOAA [in the states, at least and from what I can tell].

In my imagination of Google, they could slurp up all the public weather data and make it better and more relevant and more present than other websites.

But the incentives are probably not there and my imagination is probably out of touch with the difficulty of chaotic systems.
Who decides what is and isn't fake news? Surely an enormous corporation whose leaders are active in only one political party will be a fair and impartial judge.
They should just rebrand it as the ministry of truth already.
At San Jose State we used "Mastering Physics" which we could only purchase a licence to by buying a new unopened textbook. It was an infuriating piece of software that would mark your answers completely wrong unless they were EXACTLY right.
WeChat sees bigger spenders as China goes cashless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1XLqc5IUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYav3_7miIc
I took a look around the web site to see what MoveWith is and one thing jumped out at me right away - the photos are almost all of women (e.g. https://www.movewith.com/collections/getsweaty). It doesn't bother me, but it's also clearly intentional and I'm wondering what the reason is.
Why do you want an app with bugs?!

But on a more serious note, I would appreciate that as well, but it might be harder to take a good picture of a bug by which it is identifiable?

I'm always impressed by these type of apps though and would love making one myself
Do you have any tips for where to find open source X12 specifications? Seems like EDIFACT is nicer from this perspective.
That's a tricky one. Avoiding an accident for which you are not at fault could easily cause an accident for which you are at fault. Human drivers have a pretty bad record with that particular situation.

Also, there are some network effects at play here, the higher the percentage of self driving cars the more rare that situation should become.
How does the author of the text claim to "not receive any royalties and have no economic interest in the text"
Gee I wonder if the 10'000 "raters" will have a bias. I have no problem with such an idea in concept, but I know the process and what is being driven down will be opaque as possible.

I wish they would change their search engine to how it worked years ago instead. The search results now are so packed with nonsense that I had to stop using them.
> a data set is not completely worthless if it showed a null result.

A null result is not worthless. A data set is not worthless if it showed a null result. Nobody is claiming a null result is worthless. Even the original article gives a good reason for publishing a null result.
No. There's not even a good definition of what "fake" and "news" is as separate terms. Not trying to be contrarian here, but the "news" of a Bill Cosby's rape allegations, as disseminated by a shaky bootleg YouTube video of an old Hannibal Burress routine would have been considered "fake news" by many standards of newsworthiness: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-hannibal-buress-and-why-d...
The library in question would be uWebSockets?

https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets
I went ahead and added more options there:
in addition to 6 months (previous lowest) I added 3 months, 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week. Would that be it?
If there were so many deaths of innocent people with knives involved as there are deaths with cars involved, and if there were a safer alternative to knives, sure.
Yeah if that's the case I'm guessing 100% of the donations are going to go towards shitting on Trump.
1)Mailing lists.

2) Personally calling up/emailing up with a few dozen people I thought were a good fit, and then always asking them "Who else do you think would be interested in this?", even if they thought it was a bad concept.
Really skeptical about the false positives/negatives. The ML they are using around "rich snippets" is pretty lousy. I can find lots of bad autogenerated answers in just a few minutes.

Or would this use some approach radically different, and more accurate[1], from what's driving rich snippets?

[1] well, as much as you can be accurate for subjective measures
If it's from alex jones, it's fake news.
Get a rower at home. Put a screen near it and enjoy some shows your gf does not want to watch while exercising.

Start with short sessions and lengthen them a little each week.
Why code reviews are crucial - an explanation for non-techies
I seriously doubt this. People do care if their car gets stolen. Unfortunately most (if not all) built-in electronic systems for protecting modern cars from being stolen are crap and thieves somehow get around them. Many of these systems (e.g. Keeloq) used "roll your own" insecure cryptography based on security by obscurity, despite availability of much stronger algorithms at that time.
> So where could one carry a laptop, and have it covered in case of loss?

In a box, to your local Fedex office.
My wife and I have been using Plated and HelloFresh for over a year now. While the services are not cheap, I have found that it's a much better and cheaper option over the course of a week. The food tastes better than the things I would attempt to cook, but more importantly, I end up saving money on meals because I don't end up wasting ingredients or throwing away leftovers.
Sounds like your seo game needs some work.
I just graduated from a very large university and the number of professors assigning homework this way was alarming. With prerecorded video lectures, assigning homework like this, and using questions from test banks for tests, professors are getting paid to do next to nothing.
The Lyft team cover the comparison in their docs [1].

1. https://lyft.github.io/envoy/docs/intro/comparison.html#id7
For Googlers out there: Envoy is basically GFE
How Swat.io migrated from MySQL to PostgreSQL in 2 years
How does lower or higher tax changes the amount of accountants you need?
What if he or she passed on their property before they died, as gifts?
There was a very interesting talk at Google Next in March that described a way in which the Kubernetes open source team is bringing this sidecar architecture to Kub. In fact I think they are working with the Lyft team. The whole talk is interesting but I've added a time offset to skip to the bit where they talk about sidecar/service mesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3quCoi5YHz4#t=27m59s

Also, there is https://istio.io/ but it's a placeholder site at the moment.
I think I can see your perspective now, though I don't agree.

> If you find the map straight to a goldmine, why should you share it?

It's not that you should share it. It's that the risk of people flooding to your strategy and ruining ROI is low, so if you want to share it for some reason (e.g., contributing to the community, being nice), I don't think you should worry.

Your example is artificial. In attempting to justify a fear that I find overly common, you've provided an imaginary scenario where that fear might be justified. I don't think it addresses the argument well. Plus, even in your example, I think the risks are low. Lots of people have to read your comment, believe you're telling the truth, and most importantly, be set up to quickly use the information to drive traffic to their own site. Chances are their products aren't exactly the same as yours, and the conversion rates might not be so high for them. Many will anticipate this and not even try. Everyone else will just extract the higher level "insight" from the keywords and move on.

I'll share a story. There is a very successful company called Ravean, they sell coats and sleeping bags with heated linings. They've done several million on Kickstarter over the past few years. The founder of Ravean did some interviews and explained his ad strategy. He said initially he tried advertising with keywords targeting camping and outdoor consumers. Eventually, after burning up 7 or 8 grand, he erased all his keywords and targeted crowdfunding enthusiasts with keywords like "Kickstarter", "Indiegogo" and "crowdfunding." He claims his conversion rates jumped way, way up. In the interviews, he says "I should charge for this advice." Now he does charge for it:

https://ravean.com/crowdfunding/

So, even though there is a freely accessible interview, online, where this guy gives away his knowledge, he still makes money selling the same advice to other people. There is such a sea of information out on the web that any one thing is very likely to get lost.

The Ravean advertising trick is as close to the scenario you mentioned, and here I am, sharing it with HN. But how many people will really read this comment? How many will be doing crowdfunding campaigns in the near future? How many will immediately jump on the advice? Will it move the CPC needle? I doubt it.
Agree, as if "fake news" is full of absolutes.. Sarcastic, parody writing, should be buried but could be full of actual facts.

Poorly researched facts could surface if from a reputable source.
Tesla have stats saying their autopilot, for all its limitations, is already much safer than a human driver: https://electrek.co/2017/01/19/tesla-crash-rate-autopilot-nh...
This is a good point. My assumption is that Google's algorithms have less bias than Google's employees. To me this is better than allowing fake news to spread.
With respect: after literal decades of the right wing using its stranglehold on talk radio to inculcate some awfully racist, awfully homophobic, and downright untrue things into members of my family (who I love very dearly despite it), I'm pretty okay with the shoe being on the other foot with regards to literal fictionmongers like Alex Jones on the Internet.

I'm sure, if The Market cares that much (and the right wing loves The Market), then there will be a thriving Conservoogle that will rise to provide unskewed results a-plenty where InfoWars and friends can cavort at the top of the SERPs.
Also theonion
Are there any alternative search engines? I would rather decide what's fake.
> If a computer crashes, you can identify the software or hardware flaw that caused the crash and fix it once and for all.

Right. Except that 40 years later computers still crash. The more complex a system the harder it becomes to debug and there is no complex software system without bugs. It's like rocks in a field, you'll never get the last one out even if you think you did.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14193687 and marked it off-topic. Please don't violate the guidelines by calling names like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That sounds like a pain in the ass for their employers. An incompetent person with a college degree makes life more difficult for recruiters (directly), and for competent people looking for jobs (indirectly).

Interviewing a bunch of incompetent applicants to find the competent one is not cheap.
I don't have the time, but if you're really interested in this question I highly recommend taking a look at various indexes of innovation. I had the same question myself a few years back and I was impressed with how innovative other countries are when you actually try to quantify what you're talking about.

The US doesn't necessarily come out on top all the time - or even most of the time.

The US excels at a lot of consumer-facing innovations, so I think that led me conclude that the US dominates in innovation. But there's a lot more to innovation than just consumer facing software.

The US also benefits from a history of massive government investments in R&D, mostly through the DoD. So that may be covering the any innovation deficit we have due to a weaker social safety net.