skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this makes sense to me according to my experience of people's perceptions of loaded words. When a word may seem like it has e.g. five or six meanings

- it conveys more bits of information

- plausible deniability -> capacity to retroactively compress the word's meaning

- people 'analyze'/recognize simpler words (only one meaning, i.e. GitHub) differently than they do loaded words (multiple meanings, i.e. dream)

- people take their own personal uncertainty (over which meaning is the correct one that they need to interpret the word as) as a sign that if they share their recognition, it's more likely to make them look like a fool in public

Observers realize that the original speaker's (e.g. Trump or Stalin) plausible deniability is a kind of insurance policy against audience members calling them out
Are the pushdown problems you're experiencing with postgres, or something else? If with PG, I'd very much welcome you to report them. While we know about some weaknesses of the predicate pushdown logic (some more complicated group bys, lateral + subqueries), it'd be good to know about more of them.

FWIW, to me pushdown doesn't sound at all like a field where ML would be helpful...
Could be Mount Yōtei, a Hokkaido mountain known for its resemblance to Mount Fuji:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Y%C5%8Dtei
Glue the QR code onto an old boarding pass and keep it in your photo album... then stick a broken yubikey into your grandmothers coffin for plausible deniability.

- the latter is a joke ofcourse! :)

For plausible deniability it's a lot less controversial to mix a broken yubikey in concrete and cast it as pavement.
> What if you want to type an abbreviation and expand it when you escape from insert mode to normal mode?

I press space or tab or enter or actual escape if I need an abbreviation and it happens to be at the end of what I intended to insert... I pretty much never rely on escape to do the abbreviations though because it's not at the end of what I want to insert anyway.

I also don't use visual mode enough to need to have an escape for it. you can certainly change the timeout on visual mode and add a visual mode mapping for that too if you want to do that. It seems you have a the attitude of this is the only "correct" way to do it. I don't really care if you use it or not... I was merely providing an alternative way to do what you want with the added benefit of it giving you an extra modifier key that you can bind other things to. You can also map it globally or for each of the handful of modes you want to escape from using it.
> If I don't know a feature exists, clicking around through dozens of menus isn't going to get me anywhere.

I find that clicking around through menus often teaches me about great features I didn't even know I wanted.

Regardless of the cause, in practice, I find that it's much easier to get basic functionality out of a new-to-me GUI app than a CLI app. That may not be a fundamental properly of CLI, but it certainly is how all significant CLIs are written.
[EDIT: to all the people downvoting this, what do you think is incorrect about either of the two points I made?]

> the WiFi actually has 3 states: ... Most people have experienced all 3 states, but it seems Apple is under the impression that users are too stupid to know the difference between them.

...

Of course, the majority of iOS users have nowhere near that ability to memorise how this "automatic wireleas control" works

Hypocrisy much? It sounds like you're trying to seize any opportunity you can to bash Apple.
I'll play devil's advocate: it's easy to benchmark, but it's hard to demonstrate that the outcome is significant, accurate, or even meaningful. And for whatever reason[0], misinformation tends to be stickier than truths. If I were Oracle, I'd get tired of dispelling bad benchmarks real fast, so much so that I'd go as far as prohibiting publishing benchmarks in the ToS, just to avoid dealing with it.

For example, APFS vs. HFS+ (filesystems are a kind of hierarchical database, so it's not that big a stretch). Multiple secondary sources, citing the the same outdated benchmark from months ago, declare that APFS is slower than HFS+. Here's one from HN[1], with some back & forth arguments and further ad-hoc measurements. Yet nobody bothered running or even mentioned fio.

Or the "ZFS will eat your data if you don't use ECC memory" meme that refuse to die.

[0] Maybe it's because in order to refute "X is bad is wrong", it's hard to not state "X is bad" first, and biased / less astute audiences tend to stop paying attention after absorbing "X is bad"[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384774

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJD1Iwy5lUY&t=46s
The Politico article is clearer.

A White House spokesman said Kelly hadn’t used the personal phone often since joining the administration. This official said Kelly relied on his government-issued phone for official communications.

The official, who did not dispute any of POLITICO’s reporting on the timeline of events or the existence of the memo, said Kelly no longer had possession of the device but declined to say where the phone is now.

Kelly has since begun using a different phone, one of the officials said, though he relies on his government phone when he’s inside the White House.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/john-kelly-cell-pho...

"often" makes all the difference.
I meant that the buttons communicate what they do, not the Apple effectively communicated that they changed what they do.

That’s all.
70-mile-wide wave of butterflies shows up on Denver weather radar
I don't even get why they would. It's not like the time I have to type code is my limiting factor on productivity.

Past a certain point, I'm not solving issues -- I'm creating them. On any horizon over a week, I'm better off sleeping, eating, exercising, etc than trying to smash every hour into working. Keeping my brain on a routine and properly nurtured is more productive than crazy hours, by a wide margin.

But I guess looking busy can be as important as results.
Right, I feel like this is a bigger issue than the privacy angle too.

For privacy/security, I feel like it's only really going to help to turn off all radios (airplane mode).
...So you agree? I'm confused.
That's not the iOS behavior. Toggling "off" just disconnects you from your current network, you will still connect to the next known network you come in contact with.
One plausible reason is that they’ve already released a 10.13.1 beta, announced features and API changes coming in 10.13.1, and started revising documentation to reflect changes introduced in 10.13.1, so branding today’s update “10.13.1” would result in a nontrivial amount of extra work and confusion, in exchange for...what, exactly?

The updated version does come with a new full App Store installer and build number (17A405), however, so it’s as easy to install and identify programmatically as a new “point release” would be.
Because neither group has all the power

About 45 years ago there was a chance that they might, but Nixon saw to that by inventing the War on Drugs.
I would still disagree with that, but I suppose we’re getting in to circular opinion waste of time territory now...
40%? Wtf? No.

You probably won't even get anything and they'll just steal your ideas. Just string them along and try to figure out who their clients are and go to them directly with something that they want.

You can make it happen.

Just my 2c.
Is there any phonological rule that can help tell? For the last name you can check "-ov" vs. "-ova", but what about given names?

In school I knew a boy named "Misha" (so assuming I am remembering his nationality correctly) it would seem that "-sha" can go with either sex.
There is no way to 3D touch the bluetooth and wireless radios all the way off in iOS11. You have to manually go all the way into settings.app now which takes quite a bit more effort not to mention longer than the old control center
So are you saying he shouldn't have been jailed for armed robbery and kidnapping? That seems unreasonable. Or are you saying that the Goldmans shouldn't have been happy he was in prison? Maybe so, but that's got nothing to do with the criminal justice system.
I'm a bit late, but I watched the announcement for this feature and they explicitly said that nothing was sent to that cloud to determine what song it was.

I remember this stood out to me, because that was a large concern of mine when I first heard about the feature. I respected that they went out of their way to make this point.

She said that it is based on machine learning, and something like a database of "audio samples". it uses the samples to figure it out, I guess.
I don't believe there's any way to turn off the wifi from Control Center, even with 3D touch. You must flip the toggle in Settings (TFA seems to say the same thing). Happy to be wrong here, I just couldn't figure it out while fiddling with it.
hey cheers. here is my music too :) https://soundcloud.com/decklyn
Theres a server wide option to turn off auto-truncate for MySQL, which I believe is on by default, at least on ubuntu
If you mean right in the legal sense: Because of freedom of speech? If they think they have something to say about someone, and be it the leaders of my country, then they have the legal right to say it.

If you mean right in a moral sense, I guess my question still is: Why not?

If you are negatively affected by the actions of a leader of a foreign country ... why should you not have a right to criticize that?

If you have some constructive criticism as to how the leader of a foreign country is doing their job badly and how they could to it better ... what would be the use of not saying so out loud? Couldn't that possibly even be a contribution to their country?

I really don't see why having contributed to something would have anything to do with whether you should criticize it or not?! I can see how maybe you don't get a direct say in who gets to be the leader, but that's quite different from criticizing them, isn't it? I haven't contributed to Equifax either, but I still don't see why I shouldn't criticize their leadership?! Or should I? Why? Why not? And how is a country fundamentally different from a company in that regard?
Sounds like WHCA's purview.
Is it to farfetched to say that this may have lead to a decrease in performance and battery life that I've noticed on my iPhone 7 plus? I mean... the phone feels... sluggish now. I don't know how else to say it.

Interesting time we live in friends.

It seems like you have to observe every application, every update, and monitor everything if you want your software to do what you expect it to do by using it. Passing it down to the user I suppose.

I used to assume that options and controls meant something for the user.
"The IT department concluded the phone had been compromised and should not be used further, according to the memo."

I'm going with it wasn't then and you'd be stupid to think it was without more info.

Given the sensitive nature you'd hope it'd be passed to experts for an accurate diagnosis, not the IT department.

OT: Politico seems to just spurt out bullshit but I'm seeing more and more articles from them, not sure why.
I would be OCONUS for the majority of the 5 years, and in DC for one year.

All of the discussion around TS/SCI clearance is very good knowledge. I'm new to the field and am feeling all this out.

If I have a successful background check, but don't take the position, do I get to keep the clearance or no? I'd assume not...
I'm not trying to be a smartarse or anything, this is a genuine question: what makes a book like that valuable to you? If it's very unpleasant to read, and captures an experience you are already familiar with, why are you glad that you read it?

It seems to me that the value of unpleasant art is usually that it teaches us something: perhaps it helps us to empathise with people we previously didn't understand, or gives us a new perspective on a topic we care about, or makes us care about a topic we had previously neglected, etc. But if The Unconsoled precisely captured a feeling you were already familiar with, all I can see it doing is giving you a sense of connection: ah, yes, someone else really does get what my nightmares are like; I'm not alone. Which is not worthless, but seems likely to be outweighed by the unpleasantness of the reading experience.

Am I just wrong on that last point, or have I missed something else entirely?
I disconnect from Bluetooth daily because my TV soundbar or wife’s car in the driveway picks up my audio output. I’ve never intended that action to disconnect my Apple Watch. iOS 11 is an improvement for me in that regard.
IKEA buys startup TaskRabbit: What’s the next BHAG startup deal going to be?
Do you have a link with more information? Sounds very interesting.
I see a lot of you recommending Lenovo. Only 2 years and all is forgiven[1]. Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...
Why don't you persuade us?

If you diff Moldbug and a harmless eccentric, which areas are concerning?

If you diff Moldbug and a harmless eccentric, which areas explain his greater audience?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding but isn't trades being anonymous an issue itself? There are tons of regulations that you couldn't enforce (like insider trading) if you never knew who traded
Is Shopify really $11B valuation? We're screwed...
My biggest questions, after reading the information on this page (thanks everyone!), are for my partner rather than myself. She's a current government employee and there are no job guarantees w/r/t placement. She has a particular skillset and would definitely not be able to work remotely. She definitely requires the external structure of a job to be happy, so it's a big deal for her.

In addition, we'd have to get married. We are cool with that, but the greater problem is economic. We have about the same amount of student loans, but if my salary is effectively halved that would definitely be a hardship for us in the future.
s/bigh/high
How AI might take over the world
In an article[1] about it, it clearly says you can disable it :

>> This isn't going to sit well with everyone, and thankfully Google included a way to disable the feature, it's just a bit hidden.

Settings -> tap on the Wi-Fi -> tap on the menu button in the lower-right hand corner and select "Advanced", Uncheck "Scanning always available"

So sure, it's "a bit hidden" as the article points out, but , at least at the time the article was written, it's possible to disable this.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/how-to/stop-android-4-3-from-always-sca...
> I'm still a little confused by the OP's assumption that he's a "tech-illiterate old guy".

I'm not confused by that, I just plain disagree.
That was enlightening. Thanks for sharing!
They actually have some features that aren't available in other clouds (well, AWS/GCP/AZ) -- if we weren't so locked into AWS, we might've tried them for that reason. We wanted to know if we could run our own hypervisor in their cloud and access VT-x instructions. (And there were other companies at their talk that were definitely hitting up sales for trials; the "baremetal" aspect intrigued a lot of people with compliance reqs or complex cloud appliances. Dedicated bandwidth was another.)

I think later clouds have advantages and not just missing/worse features -- they got to design their architecture after seeing others try, and definitely learned some lessons.
>> this is a far better setting considering how many people have run up ridiculous cellular bills because of bad Wi-Fi and forgetting about the setting

>> I’m not sure there’s a need for normal users to actually turn off Wi-Fi. The only real case would be something like airplane mode which already has its own setting

This exactly matches my own opinion. Nearly every single user has no legitimate reason to need to turn off the Wifi adapter (short of Airplane mode). Those who need this functionality (such as dev testing an app whereby Wifi is not available) will know how to fully disable it. The only real argument I'm hearing is this overly sensational concern about privacy. The counterarguments are stretching so far to find any reason to complain about the product, that these are either Android users trying to drum up drama, or coming from legitimate wearers of tinfoil hats.

I'm a professional software developer. I'm intricately aware of the tracking potential from walking around with Wifi enabled. It just DOESN'T MATTER. You're only blocking stores from gathering analytics, if that. Your phone provider (and therefore the government) can already track you by cell towers. If you're the type of person who is so concerned with tracking of your Wifi adapter, you're not worrying about the right things. You need to disable Wifi, Cell network, and bluetooth - and then trust that there's nothing else built in to track you. Anything less means you're not serious about your privacy. Such people should probably not even own a cell phone to begin with.
It reads like "The Jungle".
Might want to put what the coin is for on the front page you are linking to. Or maybe I should buy some coins for your attention to this problem.
Also the keys can be any random secret...

Meaning you could use PBKDF2 of your favorite passphrase as your private key, then keep it in organic memory.

Personally, I would love to see a strategy for generating a private from an analog picture.. But I don't see a good way to do it reliably.. Maybe one could generate it from error correction bits in a QR code.
Can you buy a car from them?
I find it more useful to think in terms of information theory and the related results in machine learning, signals, and computational theory. For example, I claim that 'linguistic relativity', AKA the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, is an informal intuitive restatement of some of the consequences of Kolmogorov complexity and other parts of algorithmic information theory and machine learning. Put simply: Different languages are differently efficient for expressing and therefore working with a given piece of information. The hypothesis space you explore is defined by the language you use to express hypotheses and a hypothesis space that is smoother and cleaner in the region of the "true" or "target" function will give more correct results more easily.

In this case, confusing the meaning of the words that describe hypotheses near a particular target concept can force the use of a language that lacks terms that efficiently represent that concept, which dramatically hinders computations involving that concept.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110997
Perhaps if we tried prosecuting most of the people who commit large-scale financial abuse, instead of throwing the book at one guy and letting the rest off with a wink and a nod.
Oh hey! I created something similar with Flask and Docker. Except you POST the html content and receive a PDF document back. It uses wkhtmltopdf, so it's pretty fast.
https://github.com/halfnibble/pdf_service
Is that really a concern anymore? (Anecdote alert) I roll over several gigs a month that I don’t use ...

This feature has been driving me NUTS because I’m surround by about a 1000 google Starbucks and TCWifi hotspots at home and at work and I connect to them magically and suddenly my phone stops working because I haven’t logged into their service.
> I'm not certain if that scheme is done for fraud prevention, or if it is done for convenience in order to have fewer employees.

Well, it sure stops both the indecisive idiots and the morons who can't unweld themselves from their phone.

One of my favorite moments was at a Superdawg in Chicago Midway. The standard, high-maintenance indecisive Californian was at the head of the line: "Well, I don't know. Maybe the <blah> but ..."

The enormous lady at the counter brandished a HOLY GODDAMN FUCKING HUGE ladle right under the Californian's nose with a relatively normal volume, but forceful, "Look, ah gots payin' customers lined up. Git outta da line, and come back when ya know what the hell ya want. NEXT!"

I guess you don't have to really shout when you wave around a ladle that big.

It brought tears of joy to my eyes. I wish customer service would do this more often.
Another variation of set that recently came out. Pretty challenging and my 7 year old always wins.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zort-4/id1288184054?mt=8&ign...
Ask HN: CBP broke Global Entry enrollment site
Hi HN, I've been trying to apply for Global Entry status. I completed my application late September 2017. I've been checking frequently on the status of my application since then. Today, when I tried to sign into the DHS/CBP's GOES site to see where my application was, I was completely unable to access my previous application or even login.

Apparently, there's some new login.gov regime they've switched to on Oct 1. I think of myself as a fairly competent computer user and software developer, but am totally lost. Is there anyone else dealing with this issue of being unable to login and check the status of Trusted Traveler Programs (Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI etc)?

I am very frustrated and am reaching out to see if anyone else on HN is dealing with this problem. I am used to incompetence from our government but am hoping someone has the inside story on wtf is going with this login.gov thing as I've seen US Digital Services reps posting on HN before.

The normal GOES/Global Entry application site: https://goes-app.cbp.dhs.gov/goes/jsp/login.jsp

The new site: https://ttp.cbp.dhs.gov

The new login regime: https://login.gov

Half the links don't do anything, it's a clusterfuck.
In general, iOS isn’t very friendly to users who favour 3G/4G over WiFi. I’ve got unlimited data on my LTE plan but very shaky WiFi at home. I can’t start an iCloud backup without WiFi and can’t download apps or updates over a certain size. And now WiFi miraculously turns itself back on after I turn it off in Control Center (as I’ve done for some time). If I want it off I’ve got to dig through Settings.

Changing defaults is bad enough, but not giving users a choice to change them back is incredibly frustrating, especially for a device with such a diverse range of users and use cases.

Apple (and Google, in their own way) seem to think they can push users towards a lowest common denominator use case. It just doesn’t work.

Take “Do Not Disturb While Driving” for example, which kept activating when I was taking the train. I don’t drive. I set the option to manual yet it still continued to activate whenever I moved above a certain speed. I feel like the folks at Apple have decided “well, since we all drive, it’s probably true of most people”.
You can turn on Airplane Mode then turn back on the services you want (except cellular data)
Note, however, that if[1], and apparently only if[2], you’ve downloaded Sierra from the App Store in the past, you can install

https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

and then use the command

mas install 1127487414

to download the latest Sierra installer from the App Store.

[1] It worked for me.

[2] Or so I’ve heard.
This is by far the strangest presentation I've seen by someone who controls hundreds of billions of assets. It has a surreal sensibility.
So, a window?
Adding #wrapper {margin: auto} centres it and makes it look better IMO. Great article!
Just an opinion but, jobs are jobs, and relationships are really whats most important in life. Don't leave this human you care about for the potential of something better career wise.
There is a difference between paying people to create content in a desert and allowing anyone to monetize their audience. In every current social network there are people profiting from the content that they share or create. About good content, I think it's more a question of the tools offered to discover, selection and moderation of what is created.
Something like this does exist, and is used by USG:

1. https://www.verizonwireless.com/biz/security/wireless-privat...

2. https://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/business-program...
Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?
That's not quite what the article is saying however.