skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The functionality changed dramatically and extremely visibly. If you are intent in completely ignoring the obvious changes, both to the aesthetics of the functionality, and to the actual behavior, that's your prerogative. But you can't turn around and claim Apple is behaving badly when you intentionally blinded yourself to the numerous ways that you could tell something is different.

And besides all that, apparently this issue doesn't even affect you. If you launch Spotlight, type "it", and hit Return, in order to launch iTerm, to the best of my knowledge, Spotlight won't have even sent your query to Apple. It had a local application result to deliver, and you accepted it without waiting for more results. From playing with it myself, and from watching patterns of network traffic, it appears to me that it doesn't even initiate the search unless it thinks you don't want the first result.

The only thing dirty here is your desire to publicly accuse Apple of bad behavior when you blindly installed a brand new major OS upgrade without reading anything about it, ignored the blatant message they gave you, ignored every single visual cue about how the functionality you were using has been radically changed, and then read on the internet that there was a possibility that your search queries might be sent to Apple and freaked out.
Yup, we create three cert files for every purchase:

www.example.com.crt - the certificate by itself

www.example.com.chain.crt - the intermediate certificate

www.example.com.chained.crt - concatenation of the certificate and the intermediate certificate

Most software, including nginx, takes the .chained.crt file. Apache takes the .crt and the .chain.crt file as separate config options.
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I know this is probably a common question but are there any student discounts for sublime text? I write nearly all my code in it and I love the editor and want to give back but $70 is way way out of my price range, especially for a text editor.
Well maybe all those other suckers are playing the slots just with their dumb luck, but the operator has a totally infallible system that got him where he is - and you too can use the system to make it to the top!
It's an interesting world we live in where Reddit and Hacker News users are the ones doing investigation into the truth of claims journalists publish.

With real-time feedback and real-time coverage, it's almost inevitable that our news sources will become increasingly less investigative and more reactive. The first to report wins the traffic, which creates pressure to get stories out the door. Unless you take The Atlantic or New Yorker approach, it's a race, which leaves users users to do the fact checking. We can be cynical about the state of online journalism, and maybe it's partly warranted, but this is definitely where we're headed.
Yes, but that's not the issue being discussed here. This is specifically about information that exists only on the phone itself.
It coexists pretty near perfectly, since vim and emacs keybindings are usually non-overlapping.
They will need to put a knife on my throat to buy that Apple sucking nightmare. But, definitely a cool fix if you're unfortunate enough owning one:)
For those who hate PDF's, their actual website is pretty nice:

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms
"Verification is required.

Please click Billing Info to approve your billing information for use in the iTunes Store. If you cancel you will not be able to buy until you have approved your billing information."

For a FREE upgrade?
I'm sure Apple has data showing that people with a credit card on file are more likely to buy paid apps/songs/etc, but this is fucking annoying.
Real Question:

Does anyone consider OS-native search that queries your local computer AND the web to be useful?

As the default in ubuntu, it is actively confusing, and distracting. At least from my point of view, if I'm searching for something using my OS search, that means I want to find something ON MY computer. If I want to find something online, I will look online (google, etc.).

The workflow from OS -> OS Search -> Browser -> Search is often slower than Alt-tabbing to the browser that is already open, pressing Ctrl+T and typing your query.

This approach of combined search might make sense on mobile, where cloud storage is the norm, but on a personal computer, it is an insane default.
The problem with telling people to run this for themselves, is now they have to trust both you and apple.

If you really want to educate people, why not also provide directions on how to do it via the UI? Are you trying to scare people?

The privacy disclosure and instructions are perpetually available in spotlight settings by pressing the giant button labelled 'About Spotlight Suggestions & Privacy', which is probably the largest button in the entire OS.
That actually sounds a lot like Smalltalk.
It begins with assumptions that pretend to take the whole view into context, but do not, as you suggest with the WWII comparison. The side effects are pernicious and systemic.

I think the important thing to remember about PTSD and other mental illness - numbing and desensitization are not the same as healing. Whether these things occur as preparation or as treatment; I am not so certain this matters as much. The events still occur. The thoughts and memories still exist.

Just because a person can not visibly show an emotional reaction or feel one, does not mean the emotion has vanished, been extinguished, or that the person has somehow been protected. The idea that this is effective preparation can lead to further confusion, both for the individual affected and those observing.

I agree with learning a certain kind of preparation up to a degree. I believe doctors need a certain amount of preparation and experience in order to act during crisis. I wish people would put more effort towards creating peace, rather than assuming that war and violence are permanent conditions of the social psyche.
It doesn't go to (Not Responding) mode if you use Chrome canary with OSX Yosemite
You admit you didn't even see the message, so you're engaging in pure speculation as to how you think it behaved, and then criticizing Apple for it.

> Changing what it's supposed to do

What it's supposed to do is provide a good natural language search of any and all information it has available to it. This is what millions of customers use it for, and this is what Yosemite enhanced. Now it has more information available to it. Just as I can ask Siri "what is planet of the apes?" and she'll tell me about the movie, now I can ask Spotlight for "planet of the apes" and learn about the movie. This is great! It's bringing functionality from iOS back to the Mac, in a form that's generally easier to use (speaking to Siri is not always convenient), and doing it in a way that seamlessly integrates with the existing functionality.
Chrome Canary is good on Yosemite too
Well it represented that there are a number of people willing to pay $50 to have a "set it and forget it"[1] tool to enhance their privacy. One might think of that as a validation for the product space. No doubt you could actually build these things now and sell them (although you would want to do a better job of marketing them)

[1] Yes, I'm fully aware that this is not a security conscious point of view but a lot of people just want someone else to solve the problem in an 'ok' way for them apparently.
Docker is not a virtualization layer.
That is completely incorrect. David (the CEO) was one of the original cofounders from the spring of 2012, before they got into TechStars. He came up with the idea from seeing all of the companies in TechStars go through the same challenges and decided to do something about it. Kelly joined him before TechStars started. Don't spread misinformation.
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It shows me Expired SSL in red under the SSL options, even though I have a free account and the Flexible SSL option, which doesn't seem to work. Is that supposed to happen?
The entire OS changed how it looked. Shifting Spotlight to be a window instead of a dropdown doesn't imply a change in functionality. Do you stop and frigging gawk at every change in an OS?

And I don't know what they're not asking me to opt into sending. That's the fucking problem. You can play with it all you want and fiddle with it however you like to determine you're okay with it, that's fine. I am blanket not okay with remote services receiving local anything by default. I got pissed when Ubuntu did it, I'm pissed when Apple does it.
A flippant response to a flippant response. But thanks for the hyperbole there.

Really, this thread just looks like a bunch of paranoid conspiracy nuts, thinking Apple is out to steal your searches. I get it, privacy is important. I don't disagree. But you're* acting like they installed a keylogger on your computer (in point of fact, someone on IRC accused Apple of making "something that sends all of their local query keystrokes to Apple", which is a pure fabrication).

* that's the plural "you", not you personally
Yes, and most if not everyone who uses a computer understands that Google searches the Internet. Spotlight was mainly for local search, so they would not expect that their queries for local files be sent outside of their computer.
I am not sure that people really comprehend what "the rule of law" means, because the FBI's use of the phrase betrays a fundamental misunderstanding.

From the Oxford English Dictionary (also used in the Wikipedia entry): "The authority and influence of law in society, esp. when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behaviour; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes."

"Rule of law" is more of a procedural guarantee for the citizenry than an assurance the people will abide by laws.
Yep, it's the Vumi.org one -- they tweeted that it was great to see themselves moving up ThoughtWorks radar;

https://twitter.com/vumiapp/status/430605363360960512

But ThoughtWorks describes them a bit different than your synopsis:

> Vumi facilitates SMS, IM and USSD interactions between companies and their clients, health services and their patients, governments and citzens, and more. Vumi integrates with telcos and allows you to build apps on top of it easily. You only have to pay for carrier charges.
Really? This is terrible, did not know that.
they are always the 'good guys' until they are coming after you.
I can imagine, a time when government would have requested comms from the Occupation movement. The problem is that they get to determine who the current enemy is. We all agree that the extremes are negative (i.e. ISIS, Narc Terr etc.) but what if a government is elected that decides that reproductive rights, equal pay, race equality, pot legalization etc. are an issue...Are you still ok with back doors? There would have been a time in the very near past that these things would have been a very powerful weapon in the authority's arsenal that would have stifled our culture's advancement (imho).
> I had a regression due to eating too much fat (fat bombs, sour cream, heavy cream, butter, etc.)

I went through this phase too - at one point I was eating things for breakfast that even Ron Swanson would have thought was disgusting :)
Good question. When I saw the @jit decorator, I thought it was a numba clone.
Have you actually even looked at Spotlight? You seem to be claiming all they did was move it around on the screen. It pretty obviously changed a lot more than that. That should be especially obvious the first time you actually get a Spotlight Suggestions result.

> And I don't know [...] * That's the fucking problem*

Yes, that is the fucking problem. You're arguing very loudly about something you don't know anything about.
I certainly maintain a distinction between the two, and definitely never want queries for local files to leave the machine as they can contain sensitive information. Apple mentions that the local results of queries won't be sent, but the query itself will.
Holy shit, we live in the future!
I guess people are wealthy enough to spend this kind of money on a collectible (or get worn out if you actually use it.)?
This is why I love the web – Lots of handy resources
iMac with Retina 5K display teardown
I understand where the pics are coming from when they have a signed warrant from a judge demonstrating probable cause, so I understand can can feel for both sides of the argument. It isn't a simple issue.
not at all, most express different concepts. Of course there is overlap and you can get by using the same concept in different languages and ultimately they boil down to asm, but you need to think differently about the interpreter. It's the same with related natural languages.
Appeared recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411846. Since there wasn't much discussion, we won't call the current thread a duplicate.
Behind the App: Flare 2
That would be fantastic. If it could hook up to LighTable OOTB that would be a fantastic way to introduce people to it.
I don't use a bookmarklet - but this handy snippet just grabs the title...

javascript:prompt('',document.title);void(0);
Your argument makes it sound like you're advocating that people who violate the law shouldn't face punishment.
There is lead styphnate in primers though I think there are lead-free ones now.
To be fair, you can't expect journalists to have the depth individuals in the online community do, it's just now that everyone can have an influential voice.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=rental+america#!/story/forever/0/r...
What is your point, then, exactly? First of all, it's clear the original post wasn't talking about "lobbying" as you've quoted its definition but not its actual usage. So why bring it up at all, if not to discourage those who support campaign reform simply by browbeating them into submission?

Seriously, why discuss trivial definitional disagreement when it only serves to muddy the waters and decrease the SNR of the conversation?
Tesla S teardown reveals it's more like a smartphone than a car
It may be confusing to people today. It will be expected behavior by the next generation. The real issue is what is "local" and what is "remote" is blurring. We see it with things like Google Docs, where they are "my" documents, and I want something like Spotlight to be able to search them, but they aren't local.

What we have today is two problems: First, we are in the middle of the transition. People are needing to learn new behaviors. That's always hard. Second, it isn't seamless yet. While I haven't tried it, I highly doubt my Google Docs would show up in the my Spotlight search. The fragmentation increases confusion.
"We believe in telling you up front exactly what’s going to happen to your personal information and asking for your permission before you share it with us." [1] -- Tim Cook, CEO Apple

[1] http://www.apple.com/privacy/
I think the idea of time that does not exist, is one that is like a river, that has flowed past and can never be revisited.
It is an interesting, if perplexing, capability. My guess is that they are using it basically like a refuelable reconnaissance satellite. That way they can task it to various hot spots, keep its orbit changing so that folks won't be able to predict when it will be overhead, and yet not lose the hardware once it is out of gas.

I note that a Falcon Heavy will be able to toss it into a GTO :-) That is when you can use it to be really mean to people if you choose.
Many of the "investigations" on Reddit..actually result in Internet mobs destroying the reputation of a company or individual..even if they've done nothing wrong (besides offend the anti-capitalist hive mind).

It just happened to have worked out in this case, but this is the minority from what I've seen in the past couple of years.
Frédéric Harper leaves Mozilla
Suppose I am listening to Les Claypool's bass work. What olden stuff am I hearing?
Thanks for your reply, smt88. On my own I've enjoyed the end-to-end nature of developing iOS and Android apps, but I also think it'd be really fun to be on a bigger team working on a larger scale challenge. So, I guess I am excited to go either route. Perhaps I'll see if I can begin contributing to an open source project this year as a way to experience the larger scale development.

In my reading I've come across some people suggesting that smaller companies are great because you'll get to wear many hats and can learn quickly this way, but I also understand that an all-hands-on-deck startup might not be a place where the senior developers would have the time to help me develop my craft. On the other hand, a bigger company might want me developing expertise on a smaller number of frameworks, but might also have deliberate structures in place to help driven new grads increase their skills to rise up the company's ranks. So, this is a main confusion I am trying to puzzle through at this point.

Thanks for your comments. I will take them with me as I continue my research!
Sounds promising. Please create a website or other citable URL that others can use to promote it in advance of December.
The poster above is trying to one-up the OP. Of course a notational cheat sheet is not the same thing as a rigorous intellectual foundation, but the phrase 'music theory' is the most common term to describe the traditional notation and grammar for the western music corpus by a mile. That's what most people want when they search for 'music theory'. It's not a good use of the word 'theory' but the context within which it is embedded is widely familiar.

One can be a western musician in, say, a jazz tradition, understand theory, have theories and play music and have never used the system of notation explained in the otherwise awesome comic.

True, but it's pretty unlikely. Most people who play music pick some up theory (in the sense of this submission) along the way if only so they can have meaningful conversations with other musicians.
Yep if you're on Canary then that should happen. Otherwise it goes to full-screen and you see the ending dialogue.
I was at work today and decided to buy the new Halo game that comes out in three weeks. Paid in two taps, and was notified that my Xbox at home would be turned on immediately and the game would begin to download. Sure enough I got home and all 65GB had been downloaded.

I paid for a game that will be released in the future and it got to my house before I did. What?
It’s not “fixing” anything. It’s changing a preference people can have different opinions about.
D'oh, so it does. My apologies for being blind and/or stupid. Thanks!
How's this compare with Aquamacs (http://aquamacs.org)?
To each his own, but I just want to point out that your examples of web searches and email require that SOME third party be involved because they are, by definition, attempts to reach a computer somewhere else on the internet.

In contrast, searching the local files on one's own computer or launching applications on one's own computer are private, local events that need not be shared with any third party.

Inherently private stuff just happens to leak out into the world now because Spotlight does web search too.
I kind of enjoy to intellectually "know" (or think I know) that there is no free will -- certainly not to the degree our consciousness often thinks there is -- and still to appreciate and say yes to the illusion. I don't know why, but I still do :) Such is the power of the mind. You can know there is no free will and still believe there is, and you can know that belief to be false and still allow it in, like a dirty old dog you let sleep on the couch because its your favourite dog and you love it deeply. We can do that, and I find that beautiful.

Also, from http://www.einstein-website.de/z_biography/credo.html :

> I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

But I don't like that translation too much, so here is my own very slight variation on it:

> I do not believe in the freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's word: "Man may be able to do, what he wants, but he can't will, what he wants", accompanies me in all situations of life and reconciles me with the deeds of mankind, even though they are quite painful to me. This realization of the unfreedom of the will protects me from taking myself and my fellow human beings all too seriously as acting and judging individuals, and from loosing my good humour.
Vine Compilation October 2014
It amazes me that the new Halo game is 65 GB.
I have a debit card with plenty of cash in the account backing it, but Stripe keeps rejecting it. This is probably the first time I've tried to use Stripe - not impressed. I will contact Wes for the PayPal information.
> It's a tad depressing that some scientists are telling him he's doing it wrong

They should lie to him because he's just a child?
My 2 cents : sure the initial description of the project was misleading BUT after all the noise the people who were still funding the project KNEW what they were getting into.

I think they should have the right to risk their money.The project sounded FISHY they knew it,well their problem now. Noone's going to cry if the project turns south. Noone's ever care anyway.
Idea
[no url]Years later, apple will tell you that a phone is a computer and a computer is a phone.
I've been at the company since Fall of 2012. David was a techstars mentor since the first techstars class in 2007, but after seeing every startup waste time and resources with office space he wanted to create a better solution. In the spring of 2012 he started PivotDesk, and was accepted into the summer 2012 program along with Kelly and one other co-founder.

He continues to mentor for techstars while also being the CEO of PivotDesk
So at first I was wondering why it was python. Then I saw that you could import Foundation and directly edit settings. Needless to say now I'm intrigued and kinda want to write an ansible plugin for this as I already use ansible to set this junk up as it is.

Thanks for the awareness!
...how many have there been?
"a jazz tradition"

What system of notation do you think jazz musicians use? I don't think you'd have any luck trying to find employment as a jazz musician since at least the 1930s unless you could at least read music, and be fairly good at sight-reading as well. And as far a composing and arranging? Those guys not only knew tons of theory, but very consciously developed their own extensions to it. They were very familiar with Western classical music, as well as Blues.
What could be the problem using public WiFi while pushing out SSL? I assume one would use SSH to connect to the server to push and configure SSL on it.
I used vim for 10 years; now I prefer Sublime Text. I have a need to use a text editor a lot in Windows and never liked the experience that vim for Windows gave me so I gave Sublime Text a try. I quickly fell in love with the multi-cursor editing and ability to auto-recover unsaved files when I close and reopen the program. From there I discovered new awesome features including vim mode which lets me use vim commands within ST if I so choose. I am really happy to know vim because it's installed on every linux/unix distro ever and when I'm sshing into servers that's what I use, but for the bulk of my coding, ST all the way.
As with most applications, it could be a lot smaller. But storage is so cheap and abundant that size is no longer really a constraint. Consequently, engineering for size is no longer a priority.