skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Mail one is probably the least alarming, and I would assume that Outlook does the same thing. When you first set up a mail account, it sends your email domain to https://mac-services.apple.com/iconfig/dconf and, provided Apple has a match for it, it will return auto-configure POP/IMAP/SMTP settings.

If you enter your email as @apple.com, it returns back:

<domain>
<name>apple.com</name>
<service>
<hostname>mail.apple.com</hostname>
<port>993</port>
<protocol>IMAP</protocol>
<ssl />
<requires>MACOSX</requires>
<authentication>PLAIN</authentication>
</service>
<...>
</domain>
If you like the title of this post, you might like this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/titlegore

edit: all right, jokes aside, the title is horrible and unparseable for many reasons:

"Yosemite" without stating it's OS X Yosemite throws you off with the first word. It "Sends Spotlight" (comma). All right, sends spotlight what? Is sends a verb, why is it capitalized? Let's move on... "Safari Searches", Safari searches what? Again with the random capitalization of searches? Or I guess it was a verb and "Spotlight, Safari" is a list. The fact that both are also common words doesn't help - it would be more obvious that we are talking about products/brands if "searches" and "sends" weren't capitalized. Continue... "to Apple" - yeah, this makes sense (first time in this sentence). Even "to" is not capitalized (but it makes you question your decision about sends/searches). Comma. Third parties. What?!

Seriously, it's awful.
Leaded solder has better wetting properties, it can be soldered at lower temperature and it's more reliable for joints exposed to any mechanical stress, including from vibrations and thermal stress. Any way you put it, it's superior to lead free solder and it's still widely available everywhere, including in the EU. No reason not to use it for stuff that isn't going to be sold.
What happened to it, why would it get pulled?
I suppose you could visit your 'local' American Airlines page and book via that.
Good luck with that. I sometimes think I'm the only person left on the planet who knows the difference.
Actually Om's undo is very powerful, my framework Coils allows playback of sessions, which is very useful for customer service to know how a customer uses a webapp:

https://github.com/zubairq/coils

:and a demo here:

http://connecttous.co/connecttous/connecttous.html?playback=...

:and here:

http://connecttous.co/connecttous/connecttous.html?livedebug...
Can't tell if this is supposed to be sarcasm.

I think the coverup or moral dilution at GM stands to be pretty damn awful.

engineering a failure situation and not playing out how it's most dangerous scenarios might end is pretty bad. I don't think anyone would drive a car over 20 mph if they knew it would shut off and literally have to "cope" with the stress and impending accident and hope to manually steer the car to safety.

I'm shocked you don't hold manufacturers to a higher standard.
I find it excellent in production, and it's one of the backbones of Python as a 'data science' language. Being able to leverage dataframes in the same environment you build the webserver that serves the results is a really powerful thing. There have been times when the documentation has been difficult (mostly when it comes to already difficult to search for operations though).
Banksy revealed – is this the end or merely the beginning?
Did it kill somebody? Did someone at GM know it could potentially kill somebody, but ignore it?

What do you think you're defending, then?
Google News Redesign
Yes, people that knows the difference between local searches and online searches are probably upset about it.

As a HN user, I'm in that category of people. However, I was surprised, when using my phone that I expected Spotlight to search both locally and online. The difference is that I never use spotlight on my mobile, I just don't have that much stuff to look locally, so I had fresh user expectation: "cool I can make search anywhere", so when spotlight did not do it was a bit of a let down and since then I have never used Spotlight on IOS again, I just open the browser.

Not saying that Apple is right or anything, but the reasoning may simply be "if I have a global search button not looking online by default, will regular user not think of that as a bug"
What I meant with explicit was that they are explicitly described in the text that is shown on clicking the button called "About Spotlight Suggestions and Privacy."

If one would never even open Spotlight preferences, then yeah, it is not possible to see, enable or disable those preferences. But then one should also not complain that it is impossible to enable or disable these preferences. By that logic, every application that does anything with any privacy implications should have it's primary interface littered with preference toggles to make it completely obvious how it's functionality can be altered.
I think DJB works hard enough and it's a bit much to expect him to not only work on his passions but also figure out how to get his work and ideas adopted. We're all good at some things and not others.

What I'd like to see is a way for others to support his efforts.

How can I, for example, currently working as a software developer working at a reasonably 'high' level (currently I'm mainly a consumer of libraries and frameworks) push for better quality in the crypto that I depend on, knowing that DJB has at least partial answers to some of the problems?
Back in 2002, in Argentina, I had a similar problem (I was living in Brazil at the time). I purchased flight online in Spanish while in Buenos Aires and got a great price relative to the price quoted on the English version. However, when I went to pick up the ticket, I was told that I was given the wrong price and that the price I paid was only for Argentine nationals. They basically wouldn't let me get my ticket unless I paid the original price.

I don't remember the exact figures but it was something like $60 for Argentinians and $200 for foreigners.
well a current search result on the term "Cyber Dildonics" returns a lot of "sex toys" and "virtual sex" results. So if your business isn't about that, I suggest you might wanna pick a different name...
OpenBSD is not one program though. It's a collection of many programs, large and small, some independent, mostly not.
Recruiters Are from Mars, Job Seekers Are from Venus
I think, then, that you mean "Intelligent suite ..."

I for one, baulk at the term "intelligent" in this context. It's over-used, over-hyped, and invariably under-delivers.

However, assuming you actually have something useful and interesting, might I suggest that you either get a copy-editor or proof reader to help hone your text. Your copy is your display window - if people see "mistakes" then the message can get lost or ignored.

A good article with specific examples will go a long way. Generalities don't sell - a story that resonates with your intended market is what sells.

Finally, I can't respond to the call to

"Share your views on this product of mine."

because I haven't used it, am unlikely to want it, and can see no reason why I should invest my time to investigate it. You need to convince me that it's a trivial investment of time to be able to assess it enough. That's your challenge.
How Many Wild Animals Are There?
I recently replaced Alfred with Spotlight when I upgraded to Yosemite.

Alfred feels like it was very much an "inspiration" for the new Spotlight but as is often the way with little helper type apps, if it's good enough, sooner or later it will get rolled into the OS.

The business model Joel Spolsky referred to as grabbing nickels from the path of an on-coming steamroller.
I remember reading about companies offering different prices based on your browser's user-agent - the argument was something like "Mac users are more willing to spend more". Maybe you'd get discounts if you make them think you're using an extremely old machine... like IE6 on Win98SE or thereabouts.

on the fly

I see what you did there.
For South Korea E-Sports Is National Pastime
Really? You found the documentation to be lacking.

FWIW, there are over 1500 pages in the docs including a short-over view, tutorials, extensive feature coverage, and interaction with other tools: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.15.0/pandas.p...

The docs may have some issues, but they certainly can't be characterized as lacking.
Didn't the other article claim that it still continues phoning home even if you disable these?
Here the reddit thread about this article, from 2 years ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/y74vn/robert_harper...
I think one thing we could be doing is making more educational software. If you have a budget of $100 million then you could make a bunch of small prototype software to help tackle each class.

I am still convinced that a lot of my critical thinking skills came from the Jump Start series I played as a kid.
Adsense and other networks have been used for this kind of thing for a long time. I consulted for a company a few years ago that was losing ~$100K/mo through a similar technique. They happened to use Adsense on their pages, and also had an affiliate program. Rogue affiliates would display an ad through Adsense targeted only to their site, and use a flash banner that surreptitiously loaded their affiliate cookie for the site onto the user's browser after they were already there. The site would then dutifully pay commission on all of these sales, even though the affiliate had nothing to do with getting the user there. I helped identify and plug this gaping hole in their profits.

Ad networks really need to take more responsibility to monitor both landing pages and the ads themselves more carefully. Enabling drive-by malware installs, affiliate fraud, and all other manner of schemes - even unwittingly - is bad for everyone involved.
Just in case someone else was trying to figure out, the New Nintendo 3DS sports 256MiB of RAM. Wikipedia in English, Japanese, Spanish, Catalan, etc doesn't tell for some reason (in Chinese it does say though).
* Thinkpad and personal computer division sold to Lenovo
* HDD division sold to Hitachi (now Western Digital)
* Server division to be sold to Lenovo
* Cell Processor production halted

In the meantime the IBM strategy seems to focus more and more on online services as the latest batch of acquisition seems to be mostly software and online services, for a complete disinvestment in hardware:

* Kenexa - software solution for HR
* SoftLayer Technologies - hosting/cloud
* Lighthouse Security Group - security around cloud hosting solution

The only significant hardware purchase seems to be of Texas Memory Systems, a SSD manufacturer. Which makes sense for server oriented business.
I hope this had nothing to do with the Carl Ichan skype crap, but I suspect it may have.
I'm one of four directors in a company with 25 employees. If one of my colleagues wanted to look for another job, I'd want to help them. That might be by making them happier in their current work, or it might be by helping them find another position in our company, or, as a last resort, helping them find a position they're happier with in another company.

Absolutely I'd want to keep them, but sometimes that's not possible. Even if they leave, I'd help them remain productive, plan their exit, and control the hand-over.

If finding another job is the path they'd take, I'd find a way to let people take calls and attend interviews. Obviously we'd discuss either longer hours to make up the time, or a reduction in pay, but we'd find a way to agree how it would work.

If you can't talk to your current boss, moving out is the best thing to do, but the least you can do it talk to them first and give them the chance to make things better, or help you transition to a job where you're happier.
CSS tips and tricks #13–Design accordion menu in CSS without JavaScript tutorial
Caring about Animal Suffering
Thunderbird has a similar service, but you can click on Manual Config and input that by hand.
Typo in the title - easy to miss on multiple readings. It would be nice to have a friction-free way to put things in your "I can fix this quickly" queue. Q: how to avoid abuse?

Tricky.
Expecting OS level stuff to work without network data at year 2014 seems somewhat bizarre. This is like complaining that apt-get leaks info to home, telling about the packages you install.

No, the difference is that people do have a general idea about whether things should be done locally or sent out into the Internet, and searching files stored locally does not belong in the latter category.
I think a basic warning, information or other type of system making a user aware, that all their searches are being shared with 3rd parties is not an unreasonable demand.

Having people go to two preferences dialogs just to find out that contents of search box are being sent to USA datacenters is a dangerous dark pattern.
Show HN: Restful-todo a Restful Todo App in Python/Flask
End of the PIN? ADCB to launch voice recognition service
You do what everybody else does, and keep trying. What kind of work are you looking for? In my industry (software development), it'd be incredibly rare to have a job interview without some kind of technical component / test. If you can demonstrate via your CV and application that you've got the goods, then hopefully you'll get an interview and the whole experience thing won't matter so much.

Basically just tailor your CV to highlight what you've got to offer, and then just keep applying. If you're a good fit for the role and can demonstrate that, then few places are likely to hold hard and fast to the experience rule. Experience is only a general 'easy' way of assessing somebody's suitability, but there are enough terrible employees with decades of experience under their belts to prove that it's not a guarantee of quality.
Disclaimer: I am building the mentioned app.

Pagehop (https://pagehopapp.com/), a launcher targeting only the Web, doesn't send your search queries to any server of ours, and allows searching in many different sources (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, StackOverflow, YouTube, even some very specific sources such as jQuery's API documentation, the Mozilla Developer Network or the NPM archive). You can add sources (recipes) yourself.

We don't use a central server, instead the app taps into free web services (where possible) or scrapes the sites (where not).

It basically is a pack of many horizontal and vertical search engines with a single UI and the ability to use tools for post-processing of web results such as Regexes and Fuzzy Matching.

Pagehop queries are a simpler version of executing commands in the Terminal and you can pipe tools, one after another, just the same.

You should check it out (or not) - it has an unlimited, free and fully functional evaluation period (nothing is locked, just like SublimeText).
Verhoog je weerstand met pompoensoep – Jouw Gezonde Recepten
I couldn't find the author name on the page, but this choice of words seems to indicate that (s)he has a French background. "Insoluble" and "Déconfit" are french words, and "Insoluble" is a relatively common word.
The storyline involving the young, ambitious, and I'd say mostly 'well-intentioned' politician Tommy Carcetti in season 3 of The Wire gives an interesting insight in how difficult it (probably) is to join the government apparatus without turning into the thing you meant to fight.
In my eyes, you both make a valid point: yes there's plenty of documentation but sometimes I just can't find what I'm looking for. I like how the book[1] is structured, it really helped me but it isn't complete.

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for all the work and I know I haven't contributed much but I think the online could be improved with more examples and recipes.

Edit: There really is no excuse, getting started is easy[2].

[1]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do

[2]: http://pandas.pydata.org/developers.html
"people do have a general idea about whether things should be done locally or sent out into the Internet, and searching files stored locally does not belong in the latter category."

The irony of your comment, of course, is that this is a brand new feature that allows spotlight to include web content. So no, you don't have a general idea of what the feature does.
Clojure's success, I believe, is due to retaining Java's semantics (preserving library compatibility) while overhauling its syntax. Fighting the semantics of your host language/VM just makes work and causes trouble. Therefore, if you want a "Clojure on Python" that preserves the benefits of the original, you need to give it Python semantics, not Java/Clojure's. Hylang is that project - it uses Clojure syntax where sensible, and is fully compatible with Python.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure-py-dev/HbeNE...

http://hy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Also its spiritual successor for our post-911 world, The Thick of It.

Veep was an adaptation for the American market, but it kinda lost its satirical teeth.
Airline pricing is such a racket - I can't imagine any other consumer facing business with such dirty pricing practices. It woulsnt surprise me if the only reason paying in USD or EUR is more expensive is simply because typically people paying in those currencies are just more likely to pay a silly high price.
This is a repost by Business Insider: it would be kinder to point to the original article at http://maphappy.org/2014/06/use-point-of-sale-to-get-cheaper...
It's not sarcasm, I'm just very surprised that everyone's opinion is so one-sided about this.

I think if you put yourself in the engineer's position, he probably didn't believe that having a switch that was a bit easier to turn would lead to anything more than mild inconvenience.

I think if GM honestly thought this would cause even one death they would have changed the lock barrels. Even if you ignore the human side, the potential costs damages from something like this would totally outweigh the cost of changing them.
It's long enough ago that a lot of the technical information has dropped off the web (or in some cases been DMCAed offline by Apple[1]), but the short answer is they started authenticating the iPod Nano music database using a cryptographic MAC with a per-device key derived using a secret algorithm. Without the key, third-party software couldn't add or remove songs. They've got more aggressive about it with each generation too; for the 5th gen iPod Nano the code to generate the key had the same kind of obfuscation as their actual DRM code[2], and there's no open source support for the 6th gen because it's just too hard to reverse-engineer.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/11/20/201246/apple-dmcas-ip...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20080901013029/http://www.bluwik...
Bula
There is nothing insulting in the bit you quoted. It describes someone from a rural background who turned a teenage racing hobby into not one but two careers. Maybe you're so sensitive to country folk getting shit that you think just mentioning his rural background must be done with a snicker and a sneer, but I don't. It's the plain facts.

And "grease monkey" is not an insult. It's more of a compliment, if anything.
Its called price discrimination[1] and is fairly common practice. It can only really be maintained for a longer time if resale is impossible, and restrictions are added to ensure that market segments buy in the booking class range that has been established for them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Spotlight is no longer a tool for searching local files, and is now a search tool which combines local and remote data.

You can disable this feature.
Now you only need to match your name with a brazilian with the same name. This assumes the airline doesn't require an ID card with that same CPF to board.
Ah, that would make a lot of sense. Both words can be used in their context, they just stood out to me.
I don't think these environments are very amenable to kids or complete n00bs. This other thing is something that is made with that demographic firmly in mind instead of an afterthought.
RefactorCop
So apart from stop buying from Amazon, what else one common citizen of Internet can do?
I thinking swinging for a homerun may be the wrong strategy. Tumblr was a solid double, maybe a triple. Yahoo! is a media company looking to sell advertising, having a large breadth of singles, is just as valuable as a big homerun. Similar to AOLs strategy, but maybe with more technical chops and more consumer by-in. AOL is essentially a collection of blogs where Yahoo! has greater user engagement where users are creating at least some of the content on Yahoo!. That's how I see it anyway.
Otherwise you get Skynet.
Monopoly usually follows monopsony. I do not expect book prices to be kept low by Amazon, if Amazon manage to kill off the major publishing houses. And their willingness to make exceptions for politician's books in their corporate spats is outrageous.
Distribution channels are important, and editors will have to adapt to these new means.

I wonder if there was a way of cutting the middle man and selling the books directly from their website in a way that is readable in all e-book readers, hummm
Ask HN: Where to get Finnish math books
I have a kid with severe ADHD, currently on 20mg medikinet and psicopedagogical treatment. He has some problems getting abstract math concepts and memorizing "hard" facts (multiplication tables). I have tried everything, but nothing seems to work. After reading this article [1], I think I could give it a try, but I haven´t found these books online.

I would appreciate any pointer that can help me get these books. I guess they are only edited in Finnish and that´s ok. I just want to check the methodology they use to teach math concepts to kids.

My son is 9 years old (4th grade here in Spain)

Thanks so much.

[1] http://yle.fi/uutiset/pupils_in_italy_excel_after_using_finnish_maths_book/7527106
Yeah, we can buy elsewhere, but they charge more for shipping and oh yeah, your CC is not working here...
so Skip Amazon? But all users won't go to each publishing company's page to check for their new releases. That's how Amazon is sandwiched in the middle.
I'm sorry, but any theory that has "I think the American people are deluded" as an important point should have a lot of other evidence to it. This article is lacking that.

One thing the theory seems to gloss over is that it assumes dishonesty of current and past presidents. If the president wielded no real power, wouldn't at least one of them have said something about it? Out of 44 men elected for their vision and mentality, not one was brave enough to break the cycle of lies? And why would some, like Teddy Roosevelt, stand up for a second term after a hiatus if they didn't have any real power to change policy?

There are better explanations for the continuity in policy and the differences between candidate-Obama and elect-Obama. One is that they base their viewpoints on different information. As president, Obama has to base policy on classified information, secret dealings made by predecessors and staff, corporate interests, and in general "the big picture". As a campaigner, he wasn't burdened by any of those and could provide an idealistic view. At least we have evidence that all of these exist.
'apt-get remove unity-shopping-lens' hardly consumes a lot of time, particularly since you make it sound like you installed Ubuntu often enough to make it onerous - that often, and you'd remember the command without having to web-search for it.
EPUB, PDF, the web. All good options.
Interesting game, and nice little "success" with the amount of concurrent players. Any ideas how to monetize something like that?
Little tangential but Amazon is expecting this and preparing for antitrust lawsuits. [1][2]

[1]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/06/h...

[2]https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000023883
Why not an open-source one something like where everyone has power? something like Reddit or Bitcoin?