skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That would mean Southwest strongly believes the lack of "AOA DISAGREE" caused the crashes

No, that only means that they believe this will improve pilot's situational awareness. You don't need that feature to override uncommanded trim.

Until the FAA says the aircraft is unsafe, your opinion of these airlines is misplaced. They went beyond what's legally required and added an additional safety feature.

Southwest exclusively flies 737s. They have one of the largest pilot corps for that type. The airline has good safety and maintenance records.
Sounds ok to me. I think the consumer would be very happy with 200 dollar PCs that were comparable in quality to thousand dollar machines.
I also run a XMPP server for some friends. It works quite well. It's also nice to have my own domain to use.
yeah, there was nothing about a rights grab in that letter from Hacker Noon at all, wtf.

I've seen links to HNoon semi-regularly here on HNews for the past couple years, fwiw.
This is looking at Alexa, most likely in smart speaker or some variant form, as the endgame which I don't think it is.

My guess is that it and its competition is more or less a MVP to use audio for input and output and to understand how users interact with this "new" form of input. In a similar way to how Google Search and the various add ins they implemented for it along the way informs Google Assistant, so too I think these are stepping stones for something else.

So I don't think the expectation is to have a runaway hit app, but rather to have a product that users will actively engage with. And considering they're making huge pushes into smart home product integration with Alexa, I really don't see how any of it could be viewed as cautionary... from Amazon's viewpoint anyway.
well gosh i hope you're not running queries on the command line on a production database.
Fun fact: A story about Harold Bluetooth is also the likely original source of the apple shooting portion of the Wilhelm Tell story.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell
I think it's clear that Lopp was seeking privacy from swatters and is well aware that privacy from the government is a moot discussion.
Your comment is the first I'm reading about it, all the news articles I've seen have been focused on the actual issues. So...
That's the kind of money poor people who think they're rich donate to schools.
This is a real risk, though it does require bribing a DMV person and someone at one of the ALPR firms.
general sentiment of many here is,

A) a private university can set any criteria they want for admissions.

B) a private, federally accredited, university can set different criteria of admission for different people

C) If a parent donates large amount of money directly to the school, and their children get accept with lower criteria -- it is perfectly ok.

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Are there conditions, that would not make this line of thinking not ok ?

Is donating 'sexual favors' ok ?

Should the same principles be applied for job promotions in private corporations ?

Is it ok to do similar differential treatment, for different students, for their grades throughout the study, and not just initial admission?

What does it mean to be an 'accredited university'? Does accreditation implies any form of fairness?
Is that legally enforceable ?

Will the deans of those universities be responsible for lax rules, eg.. looking the other way?

… aren't those kinds of behaviors, that are then breading the 'financial services execs that 'look the other way' and caused financial crisis of '08?
HackerNoon is a bit of a scam. They started by requesting hundreds of people post on their publication through a Medium feature that has since been removed.

They would take sponsorships, and have made some significant cash built on the back of people publishing their content on HackerNoon for mediocre exposure.

HackerNoon broke a lot of stuff laid out in the TOS. There is a big battle going on with the whole Medium + Publication sphere which I have some inside knowledge of.

Overall Medium is a whatever platform, and HackerNoon just is just making money off other peoples content.
Reduced fuel is done with an upfront investment. Which always makes me wonder, since every penny of the investment money goes to researchers, facilities and material which themselves aren’t more economic in emissions than fuel itself, then does it really save on emissions...
Couldn't agree more. Anybody sitting down to start a _serious_ project should spend some time possibly researching and definitely planning, which would hopefully lead to the right decision here.
You can use the Nutrino FoodPrint app to measure it
Incrementing all letters : "nginx" => "ohjoy"
We have some idea of a crash rate for safe airplanes. Something like: P(Crash|Miles Flow & Hull Age)

If we assume this airplane is safe, we can apply that probability to it and then ask P(2 Crashes|N Miles & 350 New Planes).

You would then have a probability for this just being bad luck, and compare that against your prior that this is a safe plane.

I haven’t done the math, but my gut says it would point to grounding the plane.
Sure enough -- it works in a private window. Is there a known fix for this, or do I need to create a new profile?
It could also happen while resetting after a late missed approach.
I certainly hope that Mozilla can/will detect and punish this sort of abuse.
Pg_tuid – UUIDs Prefixed with Timestamps
Nope, airfares bounce around and have been going down for the last 8 years.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SETG01

Partly as fuel prices go down:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eaB3
The SubtleCrypto portion of the API is slightly less supported in that it appears to have spotty/non-compliant IE and Edge coverage.[1]

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...
> "the plane is safe to fly with additional training, when given"

Here's the thing. The additional training is not strictly necessary. The same procedures pilots are already trained for in previous models should have saved the aircraft. Unless investigations turn up a new problem.

Of course, one could argue that, by disclosure changes to the system, that the pilots would be able to react faster. But that's not really for us to decide.
Need to bump this.
I hate JS.
Freedom comes with a price.
> If you could get into USC with a ~1000 SAT score like Huffman's daughter, would you even want to go? I wouldn't. It is shortchanging the achievement, and really missing the point of what admission to such a university represents.

Many people are happy to take advantage of these unfair "bumps" that happen to be in their favor. Simply look at elite school admission rates by race and LSAT/GMAT/SAT/ACT scores [1]...you'll notice that it is a lot easier to get in if you're Black or Latino compared to Asian or White...Maybe they feel like they don't deserve it, maybe they do, who really knows?

> ...which is not a sustainable approach to life when you get into the real world.

The real world if full of unfair advantages metered out by race/gender/alma matter/cultural background/etc...Some people are fine taking advantage of it and some aren't...In the Navy they have something informally called the "Filipino Mafia" which basically means that there is an overrepresentation of Filipinos that kind of control things and give out good deals to fellow Filipinos...as a Filipino I sure as hell took advantage of this...I got the good assignments and the poor White kid with no racial support system in the Navy got stuck swabbing the deck...that is just how it goes...There are "good old boys" clubs, there are "diversity hires", as well as many other kinds of unfair, unjust, and undeserved rewards. That is the real world, racial groups sticking together, genders sticking together, rich people sticking together, etc...

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/10/17/harvards-gatekeeper-reveals-sa...
The neat thing is, an app using Service Workers doesn't have to be an SPA. You can use a Service Worker to just cache HTML as delivered from your server. E.g. I've seen blogs having a small service worker that just cached the last 5-10 accessed articles and added a custom error page saying "sorry, you are not online right now, but you can read the following articles from cache:"
I would think the software is relatively simple and that the fix, as it's described, is more smoothing inputs and limiting outputs. Or course the combined software that flies a plane is enormous and incredibly complicated, but I'm talking about a relatively small component of that whole. The program reads sensors and actuates surfaces to correct what it incorrectly registered as an abnormally high angle of attack but was, in reality, a misbehaving sensor. The new program, from what's described, tries to figure out the right value even if the sensor disagrees, and limits the output to avoid large corrections. Along the programs, they also need to write new documentation, operating and maintenance manuals, issue corrections for flight simulators and so on.

It's also not the first plane to crash because of software reading bad data from bad sensors. Or the last.
Thank you! I had no idea that iOS required the pattern="\d" attribute. Those inputs require a decimal, so that pattern won't actually work (something like pattern="\d\.?\d*"). If I can get my hands on an iPhone to test that, I will deploy it shortly!
Banned for using "Tyler Durden" as a pen name.
(Apparently) unpopular opinion: literally everything in this article is good for everyone except the farmers themselves. More production from fewer cows is good for the environment, particularly the carbon intensity of milk production. Lower prices are good for consumers. Even the author benefited by not being roped into working on the family farm, instead using his skills more productively in the software business.
A lot of people didn’t understand it then.

Text messaging, in the pre-iPhone era, is what killed IM... and then it “came back” so to speak as a contentious feature of mobile phones (iMessage, Hangouts).

Text messaging won because everyone had a phone number and smart-phones/data services were seen by the masses as unnecessary or a luxury. When most people send a “text” they’re sending an IM be it over WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Hangouts (or whatever google’s is these days), Slack, etc so it really does suck we’ve gone full circle ended up where we started.

From the sounds of it, looks like it’s time for some work on making XMPP sexy.
Show HN: Chalkscore – Glassdoor for Education
Yes. The Jargon File[1] lists it as a synonym, though note that Wikipedia[2] calls this usage outdated.

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/trap-door.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_(disambiguation)
Which can test blood sugar and ketone levels - I've never heard of strips for insulin levels.
Most universities primary function is research, and tuition doesn't pay for research. Most funds from research (should) come from grants and donations. The research into a cancer cure doesn't come from Jimmy Undergrad paying tuition.
The same way backup services and email servers deal with encrypted data. They have no way of knowing.
Funding it wasn't a problem. It took a weekend to build and was dirt-cheap to host. If people started using it enough to increase the server costs I would've stuck an ad at the bottom.

Honestly half of why I took it down is nobody was really using it. I didn't work terribly hard to market it, as I had no aspirations of getting rich and it would've been tenuous to monetize at all. I just told friends about it, etc.

I didn't imply there was a "hard part" to it. Just a neat idea. No need to dump on it.
MDN already has a bunch of courses on css:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

If you are already familiar with basic CSS skipping to the middle is fine. A lot of modern CSS is just discovery of what you can do since none of it is really all that intuitive, but I generally end up googling "how can I do X effect in CSS" and seeing what the consensus is.

Just as some examples, you can do responsive bars that move all over the page, change their contents, have togglable collapse menus, have dropdown menus in those menus, etc all in plain CSS, but you can't have multiple columns of arbitrary sized elements in left to right top to bottom order.

Learning CSS is really just learning the contemporary limits of what you can do and then ruining your lovely responsive grids and flexboxes with absolute positioned px garbage when you have to support IE as penance for your crimes.
"people just need to pick the right tool for the job" is utterly useless advice, just as "you should do the right thing" is an utterly useless answer to an ethics question, because it doesn't help you decide what the "right" tool/thing is.

There are lots of considerations in answering that usefully. Fit for the particular problem domain is one of them, yes. But so is familiarity. And ease of hiring. And performance, stability, maturity, state of tooling, community, training resources and a zillion others. How do you balance all those? Wait, let me guess, "correctly".

Sorry about the snark, this has just been a personal peeve of mine ever since the Slashdot days, when any word salad whatsoever would get upvoted Insightful provided it contained the magic phrase "right tool for the job".
The contractors involved would be gone long before realizing anything. The decade(s) it takes to make a new plane is much longer than any tenure.
It would help Firefox if you filed a bug report.
I really like the fact that they acknowledged the problem with a name like "PAN" is that it becomes impossible to search for on internet.

It can sometimes be a problem with names like ".net" or "go", certain use-cases become unsearchable.
> Government subsidies are what enabled the huge agribusinesses to take over the market.

That might be so, but that's not what the article discusses. The word 'subsidies' is only mentioned once, and it's not in a context that supports your assertion. I'm not an expert on farming and I'm not sure if you are either, so I hope I can be forgiven for trusting what's in the article instead of commentors on this thread.

If I were to paraphrase what went wrong with american agriculture, based on what's in the article, I'd say that the root cause was a policy change enacted during the Nixon administration:

> the farming landscape changed dramatically in the 1970s when President Nixon promoted agribusiness lobbyist Earl “Rusty” Butz to USDA secretary. Butz had a reputation going back to at least the 1950s for lobbying for dramatic modernizations to farming at the expense of small farms. “Adapt or die; resist and perish…

The change removed regulations from the FDR era, regulations that were explicitly in place for environmental purposes:

> Before Butz, farming practices were ruled by FDR New Deal-era controls on production, when memories of the Dust Bowl and destruction of the land through overproduction were still vivid.

> Butz became a pariah to everyone but the big farmers as small farmers went bust under the continual tightening of the efficiency noose

> only farms with thousands of cows, that can use their size to cut costs, are able to operate in the black:

So, either you go big, and sell your dairy for the lowest possible cost, or no one buys your dairy and you go out of business. when I said "small farms are being outcompeted by large farms", that's what I meant.
> There was nothing stopping Mozilla from making a “Firefox phone” and having a fully integrated experience. Well they did try and failed to execute.

The whole issue is that you shouldn't have to succeed in the phone market before you can operate an app store. Tying the phone to a specific app store is the problem. "Integrated experience" is the argument Microsoft failed to convince with when it tied Internet Explorer to Windows.

> If app makers don’t think the trade off is worth it, they are free to only target the other 80% of the phone market.

In other words, Apple has a monopoly over 20% of the app customers, in the same way that Charter may have a broadband monopoly in 20% of the country even if there are other providers in the other 80%.

Notice that this isn't the same thing as saying that Walmart has a monopoly over its own shelf space, because customers can trivially switch from Walmart to Amazon or vice versa at any time but to buy a $1 app from Amazon or Google Play instead of Apple you would first have to replace your $1000 phone. To reach the same position as Walmart, the issue isn't that they control what's in their own store, it's that there are no competing iOS app stores.

Moreover, the problem with the App Store isn't just that Apple takes 30%, it's that they can reject your app for entirely opaque reasons without recourse, explicitly including because it competes with one of theirs.
I posted this thing on Twitter, but just to be clear about what's going on here: they've replied and said their terms of service were not really intended to be harsh, they don't want your content, and that they'll revise them (https://twitter.com/ow/status/1105462220517969920). One day when Twitter actually implements tweet editing, these types of threads can start with a bit more clarity.

That said: Medium, as an independent writer, has supported me more than any news organization ever has. They currently pay top-of-market rates, on time, and pitch me stories/opportunities regularly. I haven't had a positive relationship with a media company like this in a long while, and it really seems like the work they're doing is making positive moves in the community/content you see as well.

It's hard to know who to side with here, because betting on a platform as a business is a really bad idea, and Medium has pivoted _a lot_ in the past, but at least they're trying to build a better model for both the reader _and_ the writer of the content.
Anecdote: There was a brief time when I took a break from tech project management working for software development companies, and did a brief stint as a project manager for a small handyman startup in the real estate business. I ran my own handyman company for beer money in college, sold it after college, and have seen the handyman services industry grow and evolve with technology. It's been very exiting to watch.

The work itself was a cakewalk. Dealing with property managers, contractors and laborers was less of a cakewalk, but still manageable.

Where I saw an opportunity for the RE business I worked at for two years (because of business decisions now even the owner has admitted were not just stupid but "f--king stupid") was to try doing exactly what Latchel is doing for property managers. We had all the resources, we had the people, we had the market and we had the local reputation to actually get two management groups with over 20 buildings interested enough to say "Show us your proposal and we'll take it to our owners".

That idea died because of someone high above and their ego, and even though I eventually returned to tech[1]--I still wonder what it would have been like had I pursued this exact idea on my own.

Good luck Latchel, as other comments are showing here: this is definitely much needed, and if you do it well, congratulations on your future riches, heh. The demand for this is HUGE.

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[1] Me, returning to tech after two years in real estate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5nV9aKthU

Edit: If you ever start operations in Chicago, or plan to, I can likely make some introductions to a couple of large property managers I have a good, personal relationship with that may be interested to at least hear your pitch.
Did you test to see if the download could be resumed?

In an ideal world, partially-downloading the file would expire the link, but the server would still allow the file download to be resumed (but not restarted).
Honestly I thought Hacker Noon was a first party Medium product, especially when it constituted approximately all paywalled medium articles I saw.
This isn't as useful if webviews in iOS don't have the same apis enabled.

It is very annoying that other browsers on iOS probably wont have access to these features and updates.
Как Protonmail блокируется в России
Why figuring out what’s behind a big gender paradox won’t be easy (2018)
It was a good discussion thanks. We had some different definitions of words and terms. But we're probably broadly on the same page on about 80% of the matter.

I hope we don't have to wait 18 years, I hope we can work out how to help children with gender dysphoria sooner without harming trans kids and non trans kids in the process. Coercion is never a good thing, and I'm sorry you had that experience with your parents.
100% agreed. I had much better real personal conversations on the "old" Internet. Facebook and smartphones killed it. Nowadays a lot of people are only available via SMS, and I don't have the patience to type out long messages there. Calling someone up and chatting is better.

I loved the IM era and it's a huge shame it's over. I don't have as many personal connections with people now as I did then. AIM, ICQ, and later Gtalk were all amazing.
Legally you have to retain this type of information for at least 90 days. That sucks but it's the law.
I meant underfunding high schools so the candidate pool of kids are not well prepared.

For example California's public school system is one of the worst schools in the nation; even top schools like Palo Alto are pretty appalling compared to what I got on the east coast. And Palo Alto's schools get all sorts of "private" donations from PA residents, not shared with other schools. But almost all the high school and middle school students also receive private tutoring after school to make up for the crummy public education.
> All of the people I know with the most "willpower" are just those with great habits; they're not actually exercising willpower 95% of the time we think they are.

Exactly. Willpower and motivation are fleeting. Real change comes from building habits with self-discipline. This is also why when I want to make a change I do it every day and/or on a very fixed schedule.

People ask how I get up every morning at 6am and workout. I have been doing it for so long I don't really have an answer. It is just what I do. Do I always want to get up and workout? Not really, but what I want doesn't matter. I get up and do it anyways.
Two tips for a Show HN like this:

(1) You should add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction.

(2) On HN it's a bit of an antipattern to have your username be the name of your company or project. It creates a feeling of using the site for promotion and of not really participating as yourself. Better to have a username that represents you as a human being, which of course need not be your real name. (If you want to change your username, email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll help.)

Good luck!
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concessions_in_Tianjin
What do you think are the most significant issues re: scaling the model?
IDK how things are in your sphere, but in the context of where I live, I have watched overseas travel go from bougie luxury to something everyone can do over the last 20-25 years.