skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing about Apple is the positive bias they always get on HN. In these comments:

> Is there ANY evidence that Apple is collecting data.

> I'm not sure it's a contradiction either, more of an omission, he doesn't specifically address search data in that interview

> Doesn't seem like a data collection initiative. It seems more like a complementary search engine

> Do they do autocompletion suggestions like Chrome? That would seem like a good reason to collect this data.

> I actually personally don't mind sending my search data to Apple

It's just amazing. When Microsoft, Google or anyone else does it, it's EVIL and there's no other way to look at it, but when Apple does it, it's somehow perfectly OK, because, you know, they are the good guys.
Yeah, Spotlight privacy options. He didn't touch Safari's; I did, and I got the same as cmelbye.

To be honest, I feel like Landon found something that confirmed what he already suspected, and ran with it, rather than taking a moment to look at what he had (which is wrong). That makes me wonder about his goals, since I've been watching his work play out over the last few days. Why is the sky falling, again?
Dorian Nakamoto's Legal Defense Fund: Legit or Fake?
All web servers I've seen open the key files before dropping root privileges. These should never be readable by anything but root.
Nope, it's definitely cost. Bunker is still very very cheap.
flash malware can auto-redirect or do all sorts of other thngs if the IP address matches. also don't forget, they can buy a small range but invoke the new behavior for an even smaller range. so sandboxing won't help either.
devices to play media would be very useful.

rtsp://foobar.net/pictures/pic.jpg

rtsp://192.168.1.15/Public/video.mp4

And I know at least mpris2 exists as a standard media controller API. I don't think it has file picking though.
You're absolutely right there. You can purchase adult DVDs with Mastercard/Visa at brick and mortars. Once it's online, that's when you get hit with not only the higher rates but the strict yet frustratingly vague content restrictions. Which are applied inconsistently across industries and companies, might I add. For example, as an adult app store, my company can't sell any apps that reference drugs, but you can buy GTA on Play.

Banks are quick to penalize merchants for CB fraud. I wish they would take more action against the individuals who commit it.
I thought Netflix used FreeBSD? https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonials
Q4 is not a walk in the park but it's better than overnights and at least within micu comes with a resident. My point was why say that you are doing 48 hrs shifts?
Yep that looks to be spot on based on tcpdumps, although it would be nice to be made aware of this change in the release notes maybe.
It's always been that way. Yet all of us who learned in public schools in the US still managed to change the world.
Yeah, but why is that okay? I can somewhat see a rationalization in the case of sewage, and much less so in the case of garbage, as a public health issue. I don't per se agree with it, but I can see it as rational. But what compelling civil need is met by forcing residents to use the power grid and not use self generated power, other than "you're costing us profits"?
Oh, that's far from being a US-only problem. Japan is all about passing stupid tests as well (and studying really hard to be the best at it, because, you know, it's important to be the first at nonsensical things), with little regard to actual professional prospects.
OK...my wife and I discussed your app over the weekend and turns out she's a fan. She had never supported a KS campaign before, but said she would yours.

I am not a KS marketer, nor do I pretend to be one. What has been your marketing outside of KS? Did you try to promote within Kellymom or any of the "new mother" facebook groups? Is it bad form to purchase ad space for a KS campaign?

I did a blog post last spring where I asked several people I know about the campaigns they ran. Feel free to take a look: http://michalsen.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/kickstarter-how-it...

I think it would be pretty cool to do a follow up blog article on re-imaging a campaign. Let me know if you are interested.
I bought a copy of the original from Will when he was still in his apartment. What an amazing thing to see in those days.
It's not at all inaccurate.

Might be alarmism, I don't know. But I think it just demonstrates the ways in which users' expectations about privacy are mismatched with the products they use. For example, your average non-tech-savvy user would never realize that an important privacy setting is in a search setting marked "suggestions".

It's hard to say more without seeing the text of Apple's Privacy Documentation that is referred to at the top of the article.
Is Fat Making a Comeback with Endurance Fiends?
A free, real-time settlement system to send payments frictionlessly.
Cannabis can be consumed in various forms. For instance in Europe, most people mix cannabis resin ("hashish") with tobacco, whereas in North America people smoke weed pure. Other ways include vaporisation and ingestion. Mixing with tobacco is probably the worse way as nicotine is highly addictive and we all know the health problems associated with tobacco.

So no, I don't think they should be authorised to sell their tobacco cigarettes with cannabis inside! Actually, I hope that legalisation will give the opportunity to inform people about this.
Who's assuming something nefarious is happening?

I find it odd how quickly Apple defenders jump to "let's not assume they're evil" in these cases, when no speculation on motivation is presented.

I personally don't care about motivation. I'm not even sure that a large company like Apple can meaningfully have motivations the way that we as individual humans think of them. All that matters is what they do.
We did fractional reserve banking w/ the gold standard. There is no reason you couldn't do fractional reserve banking on top of bitcoin, with the bitcoin replacing gold.
Fear of this sort of "DRM lockdown bullshit incompatibility" is what stops me from buying devices like Chromecast. I have a high-end receiver and a high-quality mini-DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter. If I plug these together, iTunes hangs (sometimes requiring a reboot of the entire Macbook!) when I start playing a movie I paid for, seemingly because of the DRM lockdown bullshit. I then have to connect the HDMI cable to the TV directly, which prevents true surround sound from working (because most TVs cannot output AC3, only stereo).

All this happens despite all my equipment being about the same age (2-3 years). It all says "HDMI" on it, it all supports DRM to some extent, and yet it doesn't work together.
If you're concerned about your privacy, you should look at System Preferences > Spotlight > About Spotlight Suggestions and Privacy

The problem is that even after disabling it there, Spotlight still attempts to phone home. Here's a screenshot with "Spotlight Suggestions" and "Bing Web Searches" disabled in System Preferences with a Little Snitch window showing an attempted connection while searching: http://imgur.com/w09aNpz
After deeming the academic science career path too exploitative and fraught with landmines, I decided I wanted to being a transition into the tech industry as a software engineer. Only trouble was... I didn't have any of the necessary modern web development skills to actually get hired and it would have probably taken me over a year working 'on the side' to gain them. Having just completed a PhD, I was not in the state where I could have justified going BACK to school for a masters in computer science either. So for my level of experience, place in life, and motivation, the coding bootcamp I attended (Hack Reactor) was the best thing I could have ever hoped for. I worked hard during the program and got a great job as a software engineer only a couple weeks after graduating the program and have been happily employed in my new role for ~7 months so far.

I'm torn on this issue though, because even though I feel that Hack Reactor was worth every penny, I can acknowledge that the "coding bootcamp" space could potentially be littered with shysters and people trying to make a quick buck, taking advantage of students by promoting false hiring stats. I'd welcome for a light to be shined on those programs, but would lament if Hack Reactor specifically gets thrown under the bus or that the tech industry sours on grads of good schools like Hack Reactor because they are labeled as simply "bootcamp grads".
Maybe he did touch Safari's, but foolishly only looked in the "Privacy" section of Safari's preferences, rather than in the "Search" section where any normal person would know the privacy-related settings are actually found.

OK, that's highly sarcastic, but I just went looking for these options and was gobsmacked to discover that no relevant options were present under Privacy.
That question would make me really curious about interviewer and I would ask him why he asked that.

I would also ask how he interprets the answers.
You could pose that question to the GP as well, that's the point. Your sarcasm-detector failed.
> For example, your average non-tech-savvy user would never realize that an important privacy setting is in a search setting marked "suggestions".

Is this not clear enough?

http://i.imgur.com/i1Zq3E4.png
If true, this is worth noting, but I don't think it completely redeems Apple. "We're going to make you untick as many boxes as possible, scattered through several dialogs, if you want to feel secure in the knowledge that your data won't be phoned home, no matter which particular place you're entering them."

(Disclaimer: I'm generally anti-Apple and haven't used this version of the OS.)
Hint: GNU Octave or Scilab are open-source equivalents.

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

http://www.scilab.org/
Just a guess but OSHA probably isn't more involved because they're looking at how the NRA has, for example, carpet bombed the Surgeon General nomination because the candidate had the temerity to suggest that gun violence could be addressed as a public health issue. OSHA leadership probably just said "fuck it...if gun owners want to poison themselves, have at, but we're not going to put ourselves in that crosshair".
>You can't have an electrical cut-out that doesn't cut-out certain components.

Nonsense. Even the old mechanical ignition switch simply engages a number of relays and other electrical/electronic controls.

>The reason you need a complete electrical cut-out is for safety reasons (eg fuel leaks into engine bay).

Fuel cutoff relays exist and have been in use since, not long after electric fuel pumps were put into use.

>The ignition switch cutting all power has worked without incident in every other brand for many decades.

In no way is that statement predictive of the efficacy of such a simple scheme going forward with more advanced electronic controls.

>The issue here is GM's incompetence,

No arguments there.

>If anything I think this is an argument that power steering should be limited so that average drivers don't lose control of their vehicles if it fails (I've lost power steering in motion due to an engine stall, it is very scary).

It is limited. It's more properly called power assist. It shouldn't be scary. Power steering is most useful only at low speeds.
Trouble in Paradise with ClojureScript and React.js
Yeah, there are certainly a bunch of people running FreeBSD in production. I just didn't think Twitter was one of them.
> Reading the memory of another process is not allowed on modern OS for precisely that reason, so this would be another exploit.

both Linux and Windows allow processes to read the memory of other processes running as the same user, via ptrace() and /proc/pid/mem on Linux, and via ReadProcessMemory() on Windows.

(how else could you ever debug anything?)
Pandas 0.15 has been released
Truth is most doctors don't know the difference between the theory of relative risk and theory of general relativity.
I'm the co-founder of MiKandi, the adult app store. Adult games are a top search term in our store. If you're making adult Android or HTML5 games, I'd love to get in touch. We just made our first game, Fap Ninja. It was challenging but so much fun to make! If you're looking for artists, I recommend looking on deviantart, hentai foundry, furrafinity, and pixiv.
Reminds me of the scene in iRobot where Sonny (the robot) draws the scene from his dream.
Why do you assume that I assume that you are assuming something?

Where did you get that?

Why do you label me as an Apple defender?

Tell me how would Apple provide this feature without sending data back?
It's worth remembering that the number of women in the tech industry tracks pretty well with the number of women in the tech industry training pipeline.
The article is about an Indian drug company operating in India. Why the specious attempt to make this about the US?
Ethics aside, shoplifting is always your best shopping value.
AWS Bucket w/revisions enabled connected to PictureLife.com. Amazon raises invoices directly to me for storage usage and if PictureLife shuts down (hopefully not) then there's no need to export data because I own/control the data. ie. AWS provides the hosting and PictureLife provides the product on-top of my hosting.
MATLAB is more than an app. It's an entire language.

Points for the buzzfeed style headline though.

I applied with Google, didn't even hear a "thanks but no thanks". As someone who has hired and been hired, that kind of behavior always chaps my hide. If someone takes the time to apply for a job, a courteous email saying " no", is the least that is owed. Make it automated if need be, but a reply is the least a company can do, especially if they are "desperate" for talent.
What on earth are you talking about ?

The preferences aren't scattered through several dialogs. It's simply open Safari, goto Preferences, click on Search tab and uncheck the requisite Smart Search feature.
Further, the political parties are not homogenous. My local party, a legislative district representing about 140,000 voters, has its own platform. We disagree often, strenuously with the state organization, various campaigns (which are completely separate from the parties), the caucuses. From our point of view, other state's orgs (of the nominally same party) are more or less lunatics and the national party is a complete tool of the dual party corporatist war party.
From what I've seen of bootcamps, they can be very useful for someone with a decent amount of software and computers already under their belt. For someone completely green, it's dicier.

That said, either way the real tests come later. Things like adapting to new technologies and new ideas, or self-teaching all the theory that bootcamps inevitably skip over.

Is your average bootcamp grad who had no real experience going in able to have a normal software engineering career trajectory? There's no good data, and there won't be for a while, but I have my doubts.
What has happened to journalism?
I've been thinking about the same thing! It's a pity the video is in German.

I came to the conclusion that at a societal level, competition is almost always harmful as soon as it's outside the confines of a game (i.e. when people stand to win or lose something tangible from it).

I believe it makes all large organisations extremely inefficient and dysfunctional. As another example, it results in a lot of redundancy in the context of R&D.
Why would you look under Privacy ?

Sending my search term to Apple which then simply does a back end aggregated search and returns the results does not invade my privacy. Unless of course you have some evidence that Apple is collecting those search terms.
You said, "But let us not assume something nefarious is happening."

Why even bring that up unless you think somebody might assume nefariousness?

Why do I label you as an Apple defender? Because... you're defending... Apple.... Is this a trick question?

How would Apple provide this feature without sending data? I don't see how that's a relevant question. You imply that it's OK for them to do this as long as it's necessary for the feature. I disagree. The feature doesn't have to be implemented. It doesn't have to be turned on by default if it is implemented. And if implemented and turned on by default, they could do a much better job of telling you about the implications and telling you how to turn it off.
FTA: In Yosemite, all Safari web searches are sent to not only the search engine you've selected (e.g., Google, DuckDuckGo), but also to Apple, even if you've disabled "Spotlight Suggestions"
How does hashing prevent anything? It just makes it a bit harder, as you've got to try a bunch of inputs and look for a desired output. Big deal, especially if they have plenty of time before publishing. It's not like it is hard at all to come up with a really truly random seed to use, one that would not allow such speculation.
Scientists want to fight the Ebola outbreak using robots
You can have my steering wheel when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
That raises the question of whether a central audit log counts as a blockchain.
How do I ensure that they'll remain when I expire?
I guess thats the key, I never really have my phone closer than 12 inches from my face. I still think we'd be better off with better batteries than trying to pack more pixels into a window.
For about the same price, I feel the Raspberry Pi provides much better value in tech. It's way more versatile.
Exactly. The Next Big Thing in tech is disrupting sex. :) #sextech
Agreed. With so much free porn online, everyone has be come a connoisseur. What stands out is experience, quality/niche, and convenience. I found this reddit thread on who pays for porn and why an interesting read.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2i5cf6/redditors_...
OpenBSD Passes 300,000 Commits
Ask HN: I can't delete GitHub account why?
here the button url if you click delete account
https://github.com/settings/admin#delete_account_confirmation
Granted, though it's a compounding problem. Even if they get out of College they end up with that type of hurdle.

You think that may be contributing to the issue with women in the college pipeline at all?
Shoplifting is risky, which is a type of non-zero cost. But a sleepwalking child could probably safely torrent a movie.
It's because the author is completely wrong.

Disable the Smart Search features in Safari and it won't send anything to Apple.
I can't really speak for everyone, but I don't give a damn about a developers' StackOverflow profile or their personal projects. Certification looks good on the company resume, but doesn't mean a person can code at all. Bear in mind that there are very few really good programmers. There are even less 'great' programmers. Programmers are just like any other group of people - they must fit together to be a strong team. Some people are better leaders, while others are better at banging out back end code. It's a cliched metaphor, but putting together a software dev team is not much different than putting together a pro football team - you won't win with 50 quarterbacks, even if they are all Pro Bowlers. When I interview, I am looking for people who can get things done, but in the context of a team, and I am really looking for how they think.

I need to know how they solve problems, are they self-motivated to produce great software, how dependable they are, and can I count on them under pressure.

People under pressure is the key aspect that is the hardest to solve when hiring, or when finding a business partner, or anything where there is a shared responsibility and goals.

When I interview, I don't really ask questions that someone could answer by doing a Google search. I want to know if they will actually do that Google search and move on.
I recently stumbled upon a theme for Sublime Text called El Capitan[1], which matches the visual style of Yosemite very well, save for a few minor differences.

If you are partial to the new dark menu bar and dock, you might also want to check out Gravity[2], which is almost as successful in making Sublime Text seem at home.

[1]: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/Theme%20-%20El%20Capitan
[2]: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/Theme%20-%20Gravity
Had deleted my original comment because OP mentioned "all use of Spotlight Suggestions", so I assumed that OP did uncheck the Safari Preferences box. But apparently OP only unchecked the System Preferences one.

As noticed elsewhere in this HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8480173), unchecking the Safari Preferences box fixes the issue.
List of hunts for foreign submarines in Swedish territorial waters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_submarine_incidents

One ran aground in 1981: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363
Yeah, hopefully a 5ghz version will be released soon. 2.4ghz is awful in dense areas.
Given that the gender gap is observable in high school, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the language in job postings doesn't affect the decisions of your average sixteen year old girl.
There are a lot of men in the industry who come from an alternative training pipeline. Brash men without CS degrees (like me) have no problem applying to listings having "CS or equivalent" as a requirement.
> Wow so in other words feature with privacy violation or no feature at all? I.E. if you need search engine suggestions you have to give your search queries to Apple then? How is it not problematic?

How the hell else would you expect it work? It's like saying you expect to drive your car forever and never need to refuel.
No, it isn't. No amount of saying that will make it true. It is a database that is missing vital functionality, and which considers data integrity not to be important.
Feedback:

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Create a favicon. It's still showing the BlueHost icon.
You are shoplifting a physical product from a store, which prevents another person from buying the product and causes a loss of material.
And yet the net percentage of women tracks pretty well with that in the training pipeline. So perhaps that doesn't skew things as much as you might think.
A college representative for Durham University in the UK told me the entire British system is more focused on test scores than the US is, which is why for an American applying to UK schools much more weight is placed on SAT scores and AP tests than extracurriculars, essays, recommendations, and qualitative achievements compared to US schools.
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Interesting idea. I think my father might be interested. Every time he flies on a plane (not often), he lets me know where various financial information is and the passwords to get at it.

The pricing seems really strange to me. Wouldn't only messages be sent when someone is dead or severly disabled? A model similar to life insurance makes more sense to me where the customer pays a small amount of money on a yearly basis. And there wouldn't be a free tier except for maybe a trial.
> In Yosemite, all Safari web searches are sent to not only the search engine you've selected (e.g., Google, DuckDuckGo), but also to Apple

It would work perfectly fine if Apple only sent the search query to the search engine I have configured. Just like Chrome and Firefox do it.
That seems interesting, but what exactly is "pop"? And why is there a photo of a SODA in the article?

:P
I have a friend who interviewed at iRobot a few years ago, the guy is brilliant, best coder i know by far. He may not be the most social (tough culture fit), but he can get work done. He went through the rounds, nailed the interviews, and eventually got an offer. If i'm remembering correctly it was about $5k more than he was currently making, but would require moving to Boston. If you factor in the cost of living (coming from Michigan) he would be losing money. He advised them that the offer wouldn't be worth it for him and they didn't even counter, just said, 'ok well thanks for inquiring'.
And then where would the Maps suggestions come from? The App Store suggestions? Have you used the feature at all?