skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly the thing. There is no data to the contrary.
You can't prove that the FAA is wrong, because we don't know why both planes crashed.

We have assumptions, and there's a public perception - but it may not be correct.
I thought Google had retired GTalk sometime in their move to Google+, Hangouts, etc.? Is it still working via XMPP?
You mentioned "know this is true for Southwest" do you have a source by chance?
You don't seem to know how to do math
You have to know that the problematic Anti-Stall feature was just recently added in the MAX rev 8. The older rev 1-7 don't have it. It might have other stall problems due to being backheavy, but the traditional stall warning should have been good enough.
There was no accident in rev 1-7, none with the improved Southwest configuration (with two sensors) and already two complete losses with the updated MCAS rev 8. They already did two more updates on this (9 and 10), but still not safe enough for modern safety standards.
They're actually better than anyone else I know in terms of their cheap instance (around $5/month).
Well they’re saying there is no data to indicate a systemic problem at this point, which at face value seems fair since very little is known. They tend to not jump to conclusions since they’ve had some pretty bad experiences in the past doing that.
We don't have any "issues" in the sense of things that will kill us immediately, with the possible exception of an out of the blue regulation, so I try to spend time on Capitol Hill from time to time to make sure they know the good we're doing.

But really it's just that things take time. Two years ago we didn't exist. Now we have over 1,000 concurrent students, 60+ full-time employees, and 120+ contract technical mentors. And mostly we think about product and how to make everything better as quickly as we can.

We want to continue improving everything as we 10x the number of students and open up opportunities to more people, all while improving our outcomes (https://lambdaschool.com/outcomes). It's just hard to do.
I think i'll need to add more informal and causal conversations in our chat rooms to multiply fun element.
max crash aircraft - what a headline
Long answer since I have been thinking about this since my school days.

Somewhere in the mid 90s, there was a boom in the IT sector in India - jobs in IT paid 2-3x more than other jobs. Most people who could buy new houses and cars worked in IT. This lead to a push from most parents to put their children into an engineering undergraduate program. Companies like TCS hire people from all branches of Engineering for IT jobs. They retrain the new hires given that the coursework is terrible in most universities anyway and don't care whether you specialized in mechanical engineering or computer engineering.

Of the 300 that finished high school with me, 50 went into commerce and management related programs, 200 went into engineering. Only 1 high-performer (who incidentally was a girl and thus could, by societal norms, "risk not getting a job since she would get married anyway") took an alternate path - pursuing a top-notch program in social sciences.

For a long time, the only way of getting an assured cushy job was to pick some branch of engineering and getting hired by TCS, CTS or Infosys in campus hiring drives.

This and the booming middle income class who could afford college education but needed a job guarantee at the end of it caused a precipitous drop in the quality of people pursuing pure-science and math programs in the country (very few are still considered prestigious) and an explosion in the number of engineering colleges. When I finished my undergrad in 2010, my university alone had 400+ affiliated engineering colleges, churning out > 10000 graduates every year. Most of my batchmates (B.Tech in IT) couldn't code despite going through a 4 year program.

This also meant that vocational programs like carpentry and plumbing were criminally underpaid to the point where it is now hard to find skilled carpenters and plumbers below the age of 40. Agriculture became a thing for only the poorest. A previous push towards vocational training was shot down as casteist [1] and politicians will dare not even mention it anymore because of that.

Things are making a comeback though, Taxi cab drivers are earning salaries comparable to what junior developers do for the first time in decades thanks to Ola and Uber. Vocational programs are going to become necessary within the next 10-15 years. In the years to come, I predict farming making a huge comeback (though corruption and government price-fixing still makes it unpalatable to most who currently are in the middle class)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Scheme_of_Elementary_...
I have participated in the operations of a voting station in France, and the method you describe would be incredibly risky, unless all the voting station is in (which you can not guarantee).
Also even then, one group never opens more than a few hundred ballots, so the corruption would be limited to a couple ballots or become super obvious.
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That needs a garbage collector to work – the lifetime of String isn't limited, but the lifetime &str's is. That means that the backing storage of String can be deallocated under it's feet. There has been some discussion about allowing Strings to use COW in case of &'static str which doesn't have this problem, but I'm not sure whether that proposal has any momentum at the moment.
Generally airline pilots only fly one type of aircraft at a time. So yeah, when 777 came out some would have become 777 pilots.
I've only seen articles that say Google was going to "explore" adding differential privacy to Gboard analytics [0]. Do you know if the feature ever shipped, and is it the only way sends data to Google?

I'm mistrustful of Google's privacy stance, since they have a history of changing their privacy policy, then misleading users about it. Remember when they implemented personally-identifiable web tracking and sold it to users as "new features for your Google account"? Merging Doubleclick's tracking data with my Google account doesn't seem like a feature to me.

[0]: https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/06/following-apple-google-te...

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...
Email admissions@lambdaschool.com.

Admittedly we're mostly built for folks trying to break into tech right now, but will be modularizing and offering different segments in the near future.
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/southwest-airlines...
Can I ask (as a 39yr-old who's looked at your school as a route to facilitate a career change) whether you filter by age?
The startup potential is huge in India. But somehow nobody wants to be an entrepreneur. Everyone wants a comfy 9-5 job.
In theory, regulators agree.

However, Boeing seems to have marketed this plane under the regulatory fiction that it was the same plane as the 737, and that therefore no retraining was needed.
(I am the author of this article, looks like someone posted it here before I got the chance)

If they were, phishing would be a thing of the past; but it's not. In addition it's a lot harder to filter out targeted spear phishing with spam filters.

Spam filtering is certainly useful – as are other measures such as the malicious website list that most browsers have – but it seems to me that adding extra guarantees such as signing would be a good thing?

DKIM is useful, but also limited. It just detects forgeries of From address and such. Ideally email signing should be like https: if it's not https then you shouldn't trust it. DKIM can perhaps fill this role; but the current implementations don't; they just add some score to the spam-check.
> 1. The equivalents of "going to the website", forking, adding to local git config, are all skipped for the Debian workflow; it is assumed one has already set the project up locally. For a new project, these steps are 100% guaranteed to be more complex for Debian (or any project not on a website with fork-like features).

Naah, you only need to know the URL of the Debian package's .dsc file that you want to patch, and pass it to the dget command, it will download the application tarball, the Debian patches and the dsc file.

You can find the dsc URLs on the Debian packages tracker site: tracker.debian.org
AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber, Skype. There were as many options when I grew up.
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that won't happen because this issue only happens during takeoff, and all the foreign airlines have grounded their fleets already

problem solved we did it America
What is known at this point is that another 737 Max crashed for some reason, which might have been unrelated to the cause of the last crash, while being flown by an airline with a questionable safety record.

If this turns out to have been a terrorist attack or something like that, a lot of people are going to have to eat their words, and millions of dollars will have been wasted for nothing.
Ask HN: RAIK (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Kubes)?
Are we entering a new phase of abstraction above Kube? With the announcement from Rancher of seamless multi-cluster networking[1] it feels like Kube could become THE cloud for some use cases, abstracting away the underlying cloud providers if the clusters are spread among them. Does anyone here on HN have experience or educated opinions on Kube across providers or multi-cluster Kube networking in general? Any good alternatives to Rancher?

[1] https://rancher.com/blog/2019/announcing-submariner-multi-cluster-kubernetes-networking/
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Maybe one reason is because it is a hassle to check the signature of someone you didn't have already in your contact list ?

How do you know it's not a fake signature ? Certainly you have to look at their website and find the key. But what if this person doesn't have a website ?
So the question is what is the feasibility of (a) drastically increase the size of the incoming class in. What happens if Harvard leaned into managed, sustainable growth. At least grow at a rate so that selectivity levels and incoming achievement levels are maintained at historical levels versus getting twice as hard to get in every decade. Why not start a Harvard in Silicon Valley and double the campus and double the power of the Harvard network? That said, I think the key is not to try to double the number of students at an existing campus but instead create a similar physically distinct second campus.

Here's how Wharton is using its SF campus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdxG3kAfCU
I would rather everyone have access to great education rather than the top 1% have access to outstanding education.
That's not even 2.5D.

2.5D started with Doom and it refers to games where you can move on Z axis, but can never be at the same XY point at more than one Z. That is you can't walk under or over some other path.
The average Joey Bloggs is just coming to terms with fake news and how to make their social media pages more private.

PGP is not user friendly though and will never reach wide adoption until it's made easier or someone develops a service for it.
well this would also mean EU authorities are looking after their self-interest too, even if that self-interest happens to mean that it more likely preserves lives.
It’s pretty safe to assume that at this point every fricking pilot out there knows about MCAS and how to deal with it if this specific problematic behavior occurs.
Ask HN: How to Train Tesseract for Handwriting Recognition of Characters?
I can't follow steps in the documentation as here https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/TrainingTesseract-4.00, I am using tesseract in real-time to recognize OCR printed text/ Optical Character Recognition.
But I wanted to extend it further to Handwritten character recognition.
currently, the new version of Tesseract doesn't recognize HCR. but it says we can do it after training dataset?
I know there are many other ways for the same, but I have to learn Neural-Networks for it, and I would need a faster machine.
my GitHub repo is "https://github.com/ganesh-deshmukh/cvkeyboard"

I tried using tensorflow, but I can't pass image correctly so it gave wrong prediction, as this repo 'https://github.com/ganesh-deshmukh/Google-colab-hcr/blob/master/demoHCR.ipynb'

what would be a simple approach for same?
I had a similar experience. My first job was to study the deployment of electronic ballot box in a region in northern Italy.

It's such a problematic process on many levels, and it's incredible how many things can go wrong. Things you cannot even imagine: like finger traces on the touch screen. We just observed an increase of risks, without an increase in benefits. For extra safety, our machine produced a paper trace to every vote as well, but it's just not worth it...

Paper and pencils are still the best technology for elections.

And ofc voting at home, by mail or electronically, like in Switzerland or Estonia, is not democratic enough for me. To make it democratic, you have to be alone in a safe space with maximum privacy: a ballot box. You should not be pressured by family or anyone.

I know for sure that in Switzerland (I lived there), in many households, ballot box of the wife are often ticked by the man, and that's nonsense.
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You just need to timeshift them.
The appeal of the 737 MAX for airlines was that it was intentionally made so that you could take crews with a 737 qualification and put them in.

I.e the airlines could save money on training.

The main design constraint on that bird was that it should pass most of the old paperwork so that Boeing nor airlines would need to go through expensive training and quification.

Yet, they modified the plane quite a bit - but they could not modernize several systems since they would have to then go through rigorous and expensive testing.
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Nobody seems to underline this fact.

I bet that's the actual reason they didn't put the automatic pitch modification system to any documentation - it would not fit on the description of "just old 737 nothing new here hop in".
There's nothing stopping spammers from signing their spam. The pain point with signing and encryption is key rotation.

One problem is that both scammers and banks themselves use domains like paypal.accepournewtos.com or paypal.usersurvey.com and paypal@ourmailservice.randomdomain.com
wait until the mounting pressure makes FAA ground the plane, then buy shortly after
Sure an email from Paypal.com can be signed or encrypted, but so can an identical one from Paypa1.com. How are users more protected in this case? In fact a big "sender verified" message in the email client for the latter email will cause a lot more phishing.
I curse America everytime this inconveniences me, damn globalization of your silly rules..
It's easier for the EU, they don't have many MAX planes. It's likely too early to say something definitive and in times of social medial pressure one conformes if possible.
We need free S/MIME certificates with decent validity periods (remember, you have to keep around all certificates you've ever used!).

Webmail (which a lot of people use) is also not ideal for dealing with certicates. You more or less have to trust the mail provider with your private keys. There are just countless attack vectors.

Finally, it's quite technical to get a certificate, copy it to all your devices that have an email client and configure them.
I've uninstalled and installed Firefox several times during the years, in different machines even (MacBooks between 2013 and current models). Same feeling from most developers working at my workplace (~1000 devs in the building, not one using FF on a Mac ).

For some reason every time I talk about these bugs on the internet people treat it as a weird edge case I'm going through, but talking IRL with people about Firefox everyone seems to know how unusable it is in a Mac - not only in my circle of acquaintances.
I don't use Docker because containers do not offer any benefits / advantages in my use-case. But that isn't because there is anything wrong with Docker. In fact, I would seriously consider using Docker if I needed operating system level virtualisation instead of hardware-level virtualisation.

I wonder whether the folks who shun Docker use some other container-oriented approach or whether they simply, like myself, would derive no benefit from using it.
The university system in the US is shocking. I studied CS in Germany. Paid no tuition (except for 150€ per semester for some fees and a free bus ticket for 6 months), received 550€ every month for 5 years from the state via a program that’s called BAföG, only had to pay back half of it and was like 9000€ total, because I paid everything back at once.

For the US, something like Lambda school seems to be a great alternative. For Europeans, it’s way too expensive at $30k max.

Maybe consider studying in Europe. Good universities, no mandatory meal plans or dorms, no tuition, comparatively low cost of living, great education. Language could be a barrier, but there are international universities afaik.

Edit: This isn’t to downplay Lambda School. I think it’s great to have alternatives to US universities. It’s just to give some perspective what education looks like in other countries and that the US university system is kind of insane.
There are ways to solve this issue with cryptography.
I sign my emails with PGP all the time.

One of the problems I noticed is that the signature ends up as an attachment and that confuses the hell out of many people.

Did you send me an attachment? What was that file I couldn't open it!
It decrease the attack surface. Delay the attacker getting feedback from the system. Attacks take longer and more likely to be uncovered.
PGP doesn't need to be user-friendly just to verify signatures. It's like verifying your Linux distro's package system: all of them sign their packages (usually with PGP) and they get verified on installation, but as an end-user I never see it.

And yes, PGP is hard, but only if I want to add signatures to my emails, or use it for encryption. But that's a different use case than what I wrote about here. I think this is exactly the sort of confusion I intended with:

> Confusion between every-day “random person A emails random person B”-usage versus “large company with millions of users sends thousands of emails daily”-usage.
Generating random dockerfiles using machine learning
With S/MIME the certificate (signed by a known CA) is included in the email.
Some points from personal experience from working at Boeing, family working at Boeing, and a close friend on the flight line for the 737-8;

- not everything is back from the Lion Air incident, but internally there was strong confidence that a lack of pilot familiarity with the adjusted mechanics of MCAS contributed to the disaster

- reproducing these failures has been extremely hard and has required a lot of cooperation with other airlines and agencies, and that has been difficult

- training for the 737-8 and -9 was just short of non existent because in practice, these planes don’t fly differently.

- since Lion Air, Boeing has been in somewhat of a “panic mode” but confidence isn’t that the airframe and engine mechanics are at fault

- Lion and Ethiopian Air are near the bottom when it comes to maintenance and follow up with Boeing

- as of this morning, it sounded like there are more uncertainties with this incident given that the pilot indicated troubles after take off, but I’m find it hard to back up that claim in what’s already been published

This isn’t about greed or the FAA being in the pocket of Boeing, it’s that there were already adjustments made to fix MCAS and the investigation from Ethiopia isn’t in yet.
Pretty sure paid contractors are not necessary, citizen will usually count for free.
"I don't know how to monitor and restart a process. so let me wrap it into a vm and then monitor and restart it"

:)

there are lot of cases for containers. this isn't one (although over engineering personal projects is always fun)
These other nations are staffed by people just like you and I who understand why the US (as in the regulator, head of the executive branch, the states, and the discretion of the private companies involved) would be incapable of doing the same calculus.

They know of the incestuous relationship with the regulators and private industry and its history, just as much as a US citizen is aware of an irrelevant country's corruption and that country's chronic inability to reform it.

So they just make the call: ground it, the US can't, but they will do a comprehensive investigation. Let it play out.
The SAT/ACT is no longer standardized testing. All the determined parents abuse this. They find a sympathetic doctor to diagnose their kid with a nonsense learning disability, then that gets them double the time for the test or more. The test vendor isn't even allowed to disclose this inequality to the colleges; there was a lawsuit over that.

So you may play by the rules, but other students are getting twice the time to complete the test. Some students are more equal than other students.

This pretty much invalidates the whole concept of the test. Unless sanity prevails, the only way for test vendors to fix the problem would be to give an absurd amount of time to everybody.
> You can't prove that the FAA is wrong, because we don't know why both planes crashed.

From an outsider's perspective is the FAA's task to prove that both those crashes were unrelated to each other, because for a very safe industry like aviation a slight correlation (two almost identical planes crashed in a span of 6 months in clear-weather conditions) is often times seen as causation by most of the people directly involved: potential customers, the general public that helps pay the taxes that keep both Boeing and Airbus making airplanes etc.
So true. I used to have Trillian running on 3 or 4 networks, hardly taxing my late 90s computer. Every time I see Slack I get an urge to close the tab because I can almost feel the browser engine groaning in agony.
But it's not s3 compatible.
Pilots will do what the union (ALPA) does. So far I just see condolences. https://twitter.com/WeAreALPA (Edit: We can also see that another pilot union for AA is confident in the plane: https://www.alliedpilots.org/News/ID/6769/Allied-Pilots-Asso... )
I always thought the best webmail would be one that uses PGP in purely browser side javascript with an open source 3rd party library, or you can disable that and do it manually if you are still worried. The fact gmail never integrated PGP shows what a fraud google is.
I think there would be huge demand for such a thing in india, especially in the coming years as the internet continues to reach the remotest (ones who would need this the most) corners of the country. Kudos to you!
Radicale is also the name of a great caldav/carddav server
for S/MIME you don't need this; it's just a CA chain like HTTPS (for better or worse).

For PGP I mentioned some possible options:

> PGP could also be used; we can bypass much of the key exchange dilemma by just shipping email clients with keys for large organisations (PayPal, Google, etc.); like browsers do with some certificates. Or publish the keys on a DNS record. Even just publishing them on your website (or, if you’re a bank, in local branches etc.) so people can manually add them to their keyrings is a lot better than not signing anything at all!
Thanks a lot for going into details. Since then I learned a lot about copyleft, GNU GPLv3, and much more. Maybe mentioning a company name in a licence is not really what I need after all.