skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually a little more curious about the specifics. What data is transmitted? Because spotlight can search the web, so that's going to transmit data to 3rd parties. Is the data associated with the user or is it anonymously transmitted? Also, I can't remember because it's been so long since I installed the beta, but is there an option during setup that asks for permission to collect usage data as in iOS (which would be checked in a default installation? If so, does that preference include this data?
The difference between the two examples you cited and the one from the article is that both condos and education are investments that are likely to have a positive ROI, whereas renting a couch and taking on debt for other day-to-day necessities will not.
Yes, we do resell and that's just how certificate authorities price things.

If you have fewer than 10 hostnames to secure, definitely go with individual certs and use SNI instead of a wildcard cert. Support for SNI is quite widespread now, and SSLMate makes managing lots of certs easy.
Non-poor people don't pay nearly as much interest as poor people, and as such, generally wouldn't even pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa even if they did decide to take out a loan to pay for it.

That's actually kind of the point of the whole article - that poor folks are unlike other people in that they have no way of mitigating their risk in the form of lump payments to creditors.
I think it can be remotely true. You could say they could go to a garage sale, and they may find something acceptable at a reasonable price, but what if they don't have a vehicle large enough to transport it or people to help load and unload it? Most RTO places offer delivery, and most garage sales don't. It's more or less the same case with Craigslist; while your chances of finding someone willing to make delivery may increase, you only have a crappy photo taken with a potato to try to decide if you want it or not.

Compare to buying a couch like a normal person at a normal furniture retailer. If you have the income to sustain the payments and know that you'll be paying more in the long run, it's a tradeoff some people are willing to make. Most of the time, you can pay off rentals early.

The same kind of shenanigans go on with any financial instrument when one is considered "high risk". Credit cards charge ~30% APR until you have a well-established credit history. Car loans cost 15-20%. In any of these cases, you're a fool if you let the full term run out at those rates. You could say that someone doesn't need a car to get by, but it sure helps a lot, and so does a decent bed if someone is trying to get a good night's rest and be functional for work the next day.

RTO does serve a legitimate purpose. It's just expensive, but sometimes that tradeoff can be reasonable.
If you bring up the Spotlight search window it will even tell you:

"In addition to searching your Mac, Spotlight now shows suggestions from the Internet, iTunes, App Store, locations nearby, and more. To make suggestions more relevant to you, Spotlight includes your approximate location with search requests to Apple.
You can change this in Preferences. Learn more…"

Clicking on "Learn more" also tells you how to disable it. The python script is neat but a bit exaggerated IMHO.
I admit I'm well below the mental capacity to confidently state something as bold as "time does not exist", but I'd like to offer my thoughts. When thinking about Schrödinger's cat, [1] I imagined that the cat remained dead (and in every other possible state) even after the observer had confirmed the cat was alive. Every unobserved state did not collapse, but became inaccessible by means currently understood. Those states could still be observed by the same or another observer from a different perspective (i.e. revisiting the event). We just have to figure out how.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat
America may never have a draft again but is still punishing for not registering
Do you think an ethical pay day loan business could exist? I tend to think anyone with ethics wouldn't touch the industry in the first place.

> mostly because you charged them too much

Why don't you think both parties share the blame?
Especially when you can do the same thing by going into system preferences. What a click bait title that leads people to run a script.
I think all the people comparing this to buying house are kind of off base (though maybe less so in the Bay Area).

In most of the USA housing is a choice between spending $500 to $1500 a month and building equity or spending the same amount while not building equity. Obviously building equity is typically better even at a loss than spending the same amount for nothing assuming you don't plan to move frequently, etc.

This is in no way, shape, or form comparable to a couch. A shelter must be had. A couch is 100% a luxury, and there are loads of substitute goods, like bean bag chairs, or just plain cushions on the floor. Not to mention that all of them are mostly worthless used (unlike a house).
The blog you linked to is full of conventional music theoretical discussion such as:

"The blues is based around a very different set of harmonic expectations than the ones underlying classical music. In the blues, major and minor tonality are freely intermingled. Dominant seventh chords can function as tonics. Tritones need not resolve."

Although the blues uses devices not commonly found in classical music, the language being used to discuss it is conventional, main stream music theory: "major", "minor", "tonality", "tritone", "dominant", ... No surprises!

Someone looking for basic music theory will not get into this at all.

Secondly, parallel major and minor does occur in classical music. So do dominant sevenths functioning as tonics: at least secondary tonics.

Moreover the people who came up with the blues tradition (and jazz) were not completely isolated from hearing classical music.

Lastly, there is orchestral music that doesn't consist of "powdered wig" scales conforming to cycle of fifths progressions. Let's see what comes to mind: Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", or Ravel's Boléro, ...
Apple’s Jony Ive in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter [video]
The nails are already there, what you're describing is just tapping them in a little further.
If the uncle arrives and you hide in the bathroom, it was different for me.
am i the only one wondering what MENU_OTHER is?
How is it unbelievable that someone would pay $800 for a couch? If your $550 couch isn't the best couch in the world, then maybe there's a reason other people with different sensibilities and means would pay more than you would for a couch.
If you are in doubt, just submit the request and will let you know if it can be done or not.

It sounds like they are manually writing scrapers for each request.
I would certainly consider species counterpoint and harmonic analysis to be "theory", although the first sections are clearly notation and not theory.
Ask HN: Please donate to Doctors Without Borders to help fight against Ebola
Doctors Without Borders (DWB) revealed today that nine of its staff members who had risked their lives fighting Ebola in West Africa have died.

DWB is the first to respond to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in March. It currently operates six centers in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, with a total of 600 beds. Its personnel on the ground have grown from about 650 at the start of August to about 3,000 currently.

They are doing important work on the ground. Please donate to Doctors Without Borders to help fight against Ebola in Africa.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/our-work/medical-issues/ebola (clickable below in comment)
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/our-work/medical-issues...
Took a second to realize that the headline wasn't a joke.
Ruby on Rails vs. Node.js
Hey guys! I've been wondering which framework/language is better between Rails and Node. what about Job outlook in 5-10 years? Will Node.js become better than Rails once it matures and more versions are released? Ive seen a lot of Ex-Rails sites like Groupon and LinkedIn change to Node.js. What do you guys think?
"music theory" is the widely used and accepted term for "music jargon and notation systems" and their related concepts.

It is not a "scientific theory", as, say, Thomas Kuhn might have used the term.

"Music theory" uses the word "theory" as the colloquial antonym of "practice".

As in the adage, "In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice, they aren't".

Music practice means strumming an axe, blowing a horn, banging a drum or tickling ivories, and so on, whereas music theory is ... any study related to how to do these things, away from the instruments.
The FBI Is Wrong: Apple’s Encryption Is in the Public Interest
Not anymore—all videos can be viewed in Chromium as well (except those with special DRM).

They’re using DASH with small .mp4 snippets. It’s also the reason why videos don’t load completely anymore and why audio and video sometimes go out of sync. Also the reason why nothing works as expected.
Something like these?

http://www.mymoney.gov

http://www.pfeg.org/

http://www.financialliteracy.gov.au/

http://www.condusef.gob.mx/Revista/index.php/usuario-intelig...

http://www.finanzasparatodos.es/

Most of the governments have financial education programs in place. They just don't seem to be that effective. My guess is that the answer to this has to come from the private sector. A company that somehow creates the incentives for these people to save instead of borrowing.
I worked in a CPV(Concentrated PhotoVoltaic) start-up. We used Fresnel lenses printed on cheap, rigid, inflatable substrates to focus highly concentrated light on very high efficiency multi-junction cells(with real-world efficiencies of >40%), using high precision independently tracking platforms.

A few points:

* Simplicity is success, the more complicated your process is, the more likely it will fail. Our rig was complicated, but your proposed solution is much much more so.

* CPV is the leper of the solar industry, nearly every player in the CPV space is dead or dying, and most VC's avoid it like the plague.

* With any high concentration CPV system, you will not generate power and potentially melt/destroy your rig if you do not have an accurate tracking system, which are expensive and often require constant maintenance.

* Quantum dot solar cells basically don't exist outside of theory. The highest efficiency I've heard coming lab examples is somewhere below 10%. Multi-junction cells, although expensive, do exist and are obtainable(spectrolab, etc).

* Every time light reflected or otherwise interacts with a non-vaccum medium, it loses energy. CPV system should be designed to interact with the light as little as possible, while the above design seems to maximize interaction.

* Module costs are in constant decline and unpredictably so, it is extremely dangerous to build any business module based on current 1-sun panel prices (see solyndra).

* There are massive infrastructures in place to deliver electrical energy, while very few to deliver light energy, and none at all to deliver this sort of high energy light. In short, it would be far more technologically and economically efficient to deliver power to areas remote from the generate site by converting it to electricity.

* In reference to your comment related to shifting the light to a specific frequency: It is very difficult to shift the frequency of light, and there are losses and limitations ( see raman shifting). If you could design a system to shift wide band EM radiation to a single band, cheaply, without significant losses, you would have revolutionized no just the solar energy sector, but a great many other industries as well. I have seen prismatic systems which split light into different bands, each which are channelled to a solar cell with a matching band gap, but once again, the cost and loss made this approach uninviting.

* In short: How does this unit track the sun, as that's the first hurdle to handle with any CPV solution. Then what are your optical losses? What's LCOE can be expected from this sort of design and how does that compare to a 1-sun type module bench mark. What are the benefits of this design of current designs? If you are looking to build a product, you should define a MVP: a simple demo that can demonstrate value to somebody. If you are trying to assist the world in general with intellectual philanthropy, I would better define how this system could be expected to perform, and how is it better/cheaper/whatever-er than the current systems.
Running miscellaneous second party code is also becoming increasingly problematic from a privacy standpoint...e.g. Windows 8 and Android [with Google services installed] also want to phone home.
Watching Adrianne dance brought tears to my eyes. I play wheelchair basketball and know many amputees who deal with fairly primitive prosthetics; I can only hope that further development and funding makes this technology available to everyone.
They put the open hardware logo beside a commercially purchased product they claimed "we designed" at least part of. Lastly the bottom of their page is clearly worded in reference to manufacturing... with "backup suppliers for parts". I just can't make the same leap in acceptance that it was a wording error.
I use Alfred... http://www.alfredapp.com/
I found it interesting that it lands at ~300mph, which is twice as fast as a commerical airliner and faster than the Shuttle which lands at ~220mph. The benefits of being unmanned.

There is also no way the primary mission is deploying additional payloads. No reason for it to stay in orbit that long unless it's being used as a steerable intelligence platform.
There is a war on going in search. You can see it in Google's quarterly results where this last quarter they spent nearly a billion dollars on paid distribution (aka people they pay to send them searches that they can monetize rather than people who just show up at Google.com or one of their properties). It stuns me that Apple hasn't bitten the bullet and built a search engine yet since they could make more on it than Google is paying them to send queries there way but that is just Apple. But the spotlight 'net search' like Ubuntu's Unity search box gives those folks something to sell to Google and Google is buying. It is perhaps easier than building your own search engine but not as profitable once you get above a few million queries a day.
Although I'm a very scientific / sceptical type of person, I've come to the conclusion that dualism is the more correct way to see the world and that something like free will exists. The reason for this belief has more to do with consciousness (see hard problem of consciousness) than time.
I actually clicked the learn more, and it took me to a help site that somehow didn't exist. Failed to load.

Then I manually went into Spotlight settings, and was presented with a bunch of checkboxes that offer zero indication as to privacy implications. How am I to magically tell that the "Movies" option won't send my query to some Apple IMDB proxy?

Sorry, but this script is spot on. This should not be enabled by default, and the privacy implications need to be spelt out in every single detail. It should be a legal requirement, really.
I think that headline is misleading. In the article, they say it was $1500 for a sofa and loveseat, which isn't bad if the material and construction is high quality (who knows, Ashley Furniture is probably crap next to actual craftsmanship).
There's always the danger of this attack, as well: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
The truth is, almost everybody ends up financing something and paying a lot more for it in the end than the sticker price. The trick is figuring out how to either avoid financing if possible, or minimizing the extra that you pay when you have to.

Even when you aren't explicitly financing something, people throw away huge sums of money all the time when there are cheaper alternatives. For example, how many of us pay rent for housing?

For non-optional things like shelter, this is harder to navigate. What makes people scratch their heads about a sofa is that strictly speaking, you can get by without a sofa. It's an optional purchase. It sucks not to have one, but there's no "sofa" in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. My parents in law come from a culture where sitting furniture is a completely optional item for example (Korea) and most people sit and sleep on the floor perfectly fine.

I remember when I was first married, my wife and I were really desperately poor, for at least a year we didn't have any furniture at all. Even after we stopped being poor I don't think we bought a sofa for the first 4-5 years of our marriage and then it was a triple discount coupon holiday sale sofa. 10 years later we still have that sofa and have no plans to get rid of it any time soon.

Money's great, it can almost instantly eliminate all sorts of inconveniences, and easy access to more money than you can effectively manage is a real problem. Even relatively smart people, given absolutely free money (like lottery winners) don't know how to deal with it.
At a certain level things like these ask the question what it is to be human, and should we tamper with it because it is perceived as an impediment to our political goals. Perhaps, one shouldnt be getting into these unnecessary wars in the first place !

A telling anecdote might be the following: before mass extermination had been perfected, a method that used to be followed by the WWII Germans was to machine gun the victims packed in a pit. There have been several letters found to have gone back and forth among the higher ups concerned with the emotional reaction of the underlings doing the actual machine gunning. They considered their emotional reaction to be the principal problem and sought out alternatives, not that the concept of mass extermination itself was the one that was questionable, quite preposterous !

Lest anyone jumps at it, I am by no means making a claim for moral equivalence here.

@PavlovsCat Wholeheartedly agree with everything you said. Strange as it may sound coming from someone who harbours anti-war sentiments, I for one support mandatory military service for the reasons you mention. Without it, it is easier for one set of people to encourage war with little risk or cost to them. Or even better, those who are in favor of, or vote for war should be required to take up proportionate risk. But exactly as you said, thing are not simple, there is a thin line between what I proposed just now and war profiteering at a national scale.
The false bow wave camouflage on the destroyer is especially subtle and cool
Ask HN: How do I get people interested in my open source project?
I have been working solo on a fairly niche open source project. I would love to get some sort of community started around the project, or at least a couple of people complaining via GitHub issues. Any ideas on getting at least a little interest? I would love a second set of eyes.

Thanks.

EDIT: As requested, the link.

https://github.com/marshallford/www-start
Thanks for pointing that out; I didn't mean to imply that only people with serious advantages get left behind

"you might just come from a social/family background that encourages you to take a job as soon as you finish high school and you get stuck at you minimum wage job."

Not only that, but before finishing high school as well. A lot of people forget that 15% or so of adults (25 or older, I believe) don't have a high school diploma or GED.
Why an Ebola Flight Ban Wouldn’t Work
Well, maybe the recent approaches to duckduckgo and their reaffirmation on user privacy are hints at the future of Apple and DDG... just a thought
You might start by including a link to it in the text above.
You can't save money you don't make. There's a lot more to poverty than just weak-willed people.
Ebola Czar Ron Klain Was a Fannie Mae and Cigna Lobbyist
I'd love to be using Java 8 but I can't because we deploy to an app server. The latest version of the app server has some critical bugs that prevent us from upgrading and we can't use Java 8 until we upgrade. We also can't switch to a different app server because the app server dictates which implementation of JPA you use and we wrote a lot of code tied to the implementation.

This makes me wonder if Java EE app servers have ever been marked as "Hold" on any of the previous ThoughtWorks Tech Radars. I certainly wouldn't recommend them.
Shouldn't Psychology be categorised as a science, rather than other?

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
The same could be said of natural languages. People spend a lot of time talking about similar things in every language.
I recommend "hard problem of consciousness" on wikipedia, I think it's at the core of all arguments against the non-dualistic, materialistic worldview.
Who said anything about looks? I'm talking about how it feels. Very important distinction, and not something that seems fixable for a cross platform app. I'd been using TextMate since 2006, and I was extremely proficient with it. I only gave it up because it was so outdated (main thread find-in-files, e.g.).
None of the CVE's listed affect the current version of Firefox.

Many of the vulnerabilities fixed are discovered by Mozilla's security team as well as community members, so while there may have been a vulnerability in the browser and it was fixed, it does not mean the vulnerability was known or used maliciously previous to being disclosed.

This is why you cannot judge the security of a product based upon the number of CVE's published. If the vendor in question has an open security program they will publicly disclose all security vulnerabilities they discovered internally. This is a common practice will most (all?) of the major browser vendors.

For example, look at the history of Google Chrome CVE's. You will notice huge spikes in the number of vulnerabilities. A little research, and you will find that was when the Chrome Security team started heavily fuzzing their code and fixing vulnerabilities before most of them were discovered by outside parties.

What you have to worry more about is vendors who don't publicly disclose security vulnerability information, so the only CVE's you see are the ones that independent parties published.
And it would burn your hand if you held it too long :-). It really was pretty amazing cramming what was essentially a SPARCStation II+ into something that small. When the group showed the cable companies the environment they could have it got good reviews but it ran on a SPARCStation 10. They said they might spend $150 on the settop box hardware that year. (think Z80s + CRTC chip). Now, 22 years later, $150 actually gets you something with similar capability to the SS10 which could no doubt run the demo app just fine.
Could this be considered overthinking it?

A domain, a python script, to effectively achieve tapping a couple toggles in sys prefs? And this is quite difficult for the average non terminal using person.

> This site _criticizes_ Apple for certain privacy-invading features of Mac OS X and teaches users how to fix them. So, obviously, the site is not approved by Apple.

Snark!
Is there a way to undo? Let's say I run this script, but don't like the results. How do I undo and revert to a previous system state?
Clickable: https://github.com/marshallford/www-start
Hehe because I don't subscribe to monotheism? ;) I prefer vim's modal editing mode and have been using it as my primary for as long as I can remember. For clojure/lisp, I found that the vim tooling was just not as elegant/efficient as emacs (fireside et al arent as nice as cider/swank), and decided to learn how to use it. It's not that much of an "antipattern" because the keymaps are very different. I don't like using vim mode within emacs either - for some reason I find myself thinking in emacs mode when editing lisps. I do think that I could be more productive in emacs if I invested more time in the tutorials, but so far it hasn't been an issue. To me, it's more like needing to know how to use Eclipse or IntelliJ to program in Java since their tooling is so great.