skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think the author(s) of this site are any of those things, but I also know that Yosemite as a whole is not designed to take away 100% of your privacy, which is what the title implies. This is also what turns me off about a lot of FSF propaganda, and most politicians regardless of their beliefs.

Are your referring to the title of the HN submission, "Mac OS X Yosemite – No Privacy, by Design"? That text does not appear on the website. The website refers to "parts of Mac OS X which are invasive to your privacy."
Just modify these lines in the dict/list:

{'enabled' : True, 'name' : 'MENU_WEBSEARCH'},
{'enabled' : True, 'name' : 'MENU_SPOTLIGHT_SUGGESTIONS'},

And re-run.
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Actually, the biggest benefit of disruptive camouflage was that it made it more difficult to get a range reading on a ship using a optical range-finder.

Here's how an optical range-finder works. You have two horizontal periscope-like devices arranged so that they are several feet apart, or more. They come together in single eye-piece split in half vertically, so one eye-piece provides the top half and the other the bottom half. This is basically stereo-vision on steroids.

Hold your finger out in front of your face at arm's length, and alternate looking at it through your right and left eye. It'll jump back and forth because of parallax. If you could tilt one eye in slightly you could get the finger to stop doing that. Well, with an optical range-finder, that's exactly what you do. You tilt one of the periscopes in slightly until the top and bottom halves of the image match up. Then you measure the angle and use basic trig to find the distance to the object.

Disruptive camouflage made it harder and slower to match up the top and bottom halves of a ship in an optical range-finder. If your enemy gets their first shot wrong that's a huge advantage.
> I applaud them for publicizing the implications of the default privacy settings for Spotlight, but hyperbolic titles like the one used here hurt their credibility unnecessarily.

That particular title seems to be an editorial flourish on the part of the submitter -- that phrase does not appear on the actual site.
Right, so I'm not sure yet if there was intent for deception. Sure, the product needs work - like default password, etc. - it should be fixed before it can be reasonably considered a security product, and that's all valid points, but that is not a fraud - it's just a product needing some work, not an uncommon thing on kickstarter. Now if they did claim they built it from scratch then it would be outright deception, and that changes the picture completely.
This is literally the first I've heard of this, and I upgraded yesterday. I didn't see whatever warning supposedly appears on the first use of Spotlight because--as I always do--I hit it and started typing.

The idea that having a button in the bowels of a preference menu is sufficient is...I don't want to say "nuts", but I'm thinking it pretty hard. I'm not happy. Not unhappy enough to subject myself to a Linux desktop, but Apple is making it closer and closer with every release.
Plus, a modern OS can sensibly manage it's own memory. If a lot of your memory is buffered, the OS will deal with it. If it's all taken, well, no additional application is going to help you with that.

I think this panic started with Windows Vista where there was no distinction between actually used memory and memory used for caches and buffers. Hence the complaints about how Vista was so inefficient, it didn't have enough memory even when freshly launched with no apps open.
What is in public interest is that these people must be fired from their jobs. Worrying about "rule of law" while wasting taxpayers money.
This captures the fact that what is inside your head is not always in everyone else's head. I struggle with this, when things seem "obvious" to me but are completely missed by others. Sometimes checking in and asking how folks see things is a good way to figure out what the team is seeing versus what you are seeing.
Intelligence agencies != law enforcement agencies

The NSA != your police officers

Just because encryption is a good technique to use against the NSA's surveillance that doesn't mean it's in the public interest in terms of law enforcement.
Ah, let's see: Here in the US we have a
Constitution. Now I remember, once
I downloaded a copy. Right, here it is.
Hmm .... Okay, how about this part:

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon
probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Note: I added the emphasis. Maybe I'd wish
the emphasis would be letters 10 feet high
with two pounds of black ink each, but I'm
not seeing a way to do that on HN.

Seems pretty clear to me.

Now when I lived near DC, as I recall, the
FBI HQ was not far from the National Archives
with the original copy and also not far from
the Supreme Court where, maybe, the FBI could
get some eighth grade civics tutoring on
what that part of the Constitution means.

To me, what the part means is, in simple terms,
keep your filthy, sticky hands the F off my
stuff. That is, unless you have one of
those warrant thingies. And I don't even own a mobile device.

I sound pissed off? Right: A lot of really
good people fought and died to give us the
freedom to write and adopt that Constitution.
To track mud all over it now is, in a word,
a bummer, and that's putting it very mildly.

The FBI needs to return and repeat eighth
grade civics.

I know; I know; apparently some people in the
FBI would say that
the Constitution was written
long ago, and now the FBI has much, much, much
more important things to worry about than
those old fuddy duddies who wrote that old
piece of paper and, besides, they didn't
have smart phones then. Some people might
say such things, but I don't go along, and
we do have a way to get an answer -- that's
just what the SCOTUS is there for, in this
case for a reading comprehension lesson
in eighth grade civics.

That text I
emphasized above is difficult to read and understand?
Ah, now I get it, for some in the FBI, easy to
read and understand but difficult to accept and
easy to violate.
Interesting article. Ventilation is one of several reasons I strongly prefer shooting at outdoor ranges.
Show HN: A Good Friend Made an iOS Game About Unicycling
Doing this without actually bothering to let people know in an up-front, opt-in way certainly doesn't make the user experience better. While there's some conceivable value to the feature, turning it on without even letting users know is pretty bullshit and you're perturbing a lot of electrons in this thread with your defense of a really shitty default behavior.
I'm hoping that the Mac OS X build (http://emacsformacosx.com) will soon link with libxml2 so I can use the eww browser. :)
Disclaimer: I've been in some pretty intense situations in my life.

At some point, no amount of VR can get past "this is not real". I suspect you would need something that supercedes the psychological barriers in place which keep telling a person "this is not real". For example, MDMA-assisted VR therapy. Additionally, this seems just another form of what's called "prolonged exposure therapy", which is why they state "That’s part of why VR therapy doesn’t work for everyone". At the risk of downvotes, I think the real silver bullet here would be to create and enforce stronger barriers to going to war in the first place.
Yep. I could be wrong here, but I thought that HN had a policy where the titles used are taken verbatim from the page being linked to, unless they're so completely terrible that an alternative title is needed. If the HN title doesn't come from the site, then my apologies to the authors for harping about this.
These "misconceptions" don't come from religion. That's a huge strawman, as if you have to believe in a Great Flood to be curious about the nature of consciousness, beyond declaring it a property of entropy as if that answers anything at all.
Good luck! Here is my own iOS language learning app (Japanese): http://itunes.apple.com/app/id492005575

It seems like it's difficult to make much money unless you are one of market leaders. Check out mindsnacks if you haven't already.
Nice approach. The way Snapchat works I could see myself opening a lot of these - even if just for a couple of seconds - to see what it is. If advertisers get value from it I don't see why it would annoy consumers at all (it's not disruptive, it's not creepy/targeted, it doesn't change your experience).
I might not be so much about the language but about the paradigm. Certainly going from Java to C++ might not be that different but through in something like Haskell and you almost have to entirely rethink your solution.
Bypassing Android Root Detection in Three InTouch
Not yet, but the shilling will begin soon.
Tabs imply a certain fingering, which may or may not be optimal for the music - is there any way around that issue with those programs?
I prefer smex for M-x command matching (which is self described as Ido-style).
It is complete snake oil and in the vast majority of cases will result in a net performance loss.
Failure to preserve data isn't some inherent right just because you deem it to be an important issue to you unfortunately.
World first as Hong Kong surgeons transplant single liver into second patient
I recall once seeing a link on HN for music theory for physicists and engineers, but I didn't bookmark the URI at the time - anyone recall this, and how to find it?
Did you do an in-place update? I've had no such problem with Yosemite but I always clean install.
> Google is not to be trusted.

> I'm not suggesting it's google...

The issue isn't that you're not allowed to suggest anything. Far from it; but you're flinging strong accusations over an icon pack without any particular references to back yourself up.
Has anyone successfully done the escrow thing? That would also only be available to the very largest customers.
Is there a reason you don't use the Homebrew version of Cocoa Emacs?
This gets repeated incorrectly every time this issue comes up, but data you hand over to third parties isn't black and white and is subject to access from other entities.
Yeah, it looks like the API to twitter is up, although the API and even API documentation has been taken down everywhere else. If you click on the link in that tweet, it doesn't show the photo.
Quite amazing to think that a single liver has helped three people.

"Hong Kong surgeons have performed a double world first with a transplant from one Hepatitis B sufferer to another of a liver that had already been transplanted once 11 years ago.

Bodybuilder Wong Wan-shing, 37, received the graft at Queen Mary Hospital from a 60-year-old donor identified only as Mr So, who died of a stroke on October 1.

...

A daughter of the donor, giving her name only as Miss So, said she hoped her father's donation would make people more aware of the need for organ transplants.

"My family benefited from an organ donation 11 years ago. I understand the feeling of having slight hope in the midst of desperation and of being reborn. It is not only a rebirth [for the patient] but also for a family."
> If you want real understanding of music in a useful way for real people, I recommend Bob Snyder's book "Music and Memory: An Introduction" which was actually written to teach creative artistic people about how music actually works rather than how aristocratic European music notation works.

Thank you! I've long been suspicious of so-called music theory for exactly the reasons you outline. I always wanted to learn more about music and why it "works" as you say, so I assumed what I wanted to learn was music theory, but then when I tried to learn it it didn't seem to explain any of the things I was looking for. I'll have to check out that book.
Hey, this is great. Thanks for your work. Site and code are easy to read and they do a great job. Thanks again.
I think he basically got fired and then wrote a blog post about it to make it sound like it was his decision.
Here's a great teardown on the N64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScicrgZwvg4
> If this is true, this problem transcends Airbnb. If the building doesn't comply with those does, it doesn't matter what it is being used for.

Incorrect. Its based on usage. Using it for short term tenancy has different requirements.

You really didn't read the OP so I'm done talking to you.

> So if hotels produce the same kind of externalities, why are the regulators only focusing on Airbnb?

...because AirBNB's hosts are not playing by the rules intend to curb the problem. For instance, zoning? Hotel taxes? Following fire codes for short term tenant buildings? Etc?

Hotel taxes don't just magically disappear when the government gets them. They are used to fund city services. City services everyone who comes to Airbnb uses and isn't paying for. They are also increasing the risk of damage to city and their neighbors property. Zoning controls the size of the short term housing and commercial property stock. Etc.

Do you really not understand what these things are for?

At this point I'm just taking the downvotes because I think the underlying issue here is...people on HN really don't understand that these things were created for very valid reasons. Oh well.
How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F
So, the profits aren't enough to warrant changing names? The profits aren't enough to be worthy of a buyout - or even letting others foot the bill for backups. Not to mention there's someone out there who is dealing with multiple levels of suck right now.

It might be a better path for people to reach out to help the guy WITHOUT offering to offload the value proposition of what he built.

Also, any sort of agreements between people who uploaded content and Twitpic can't just be sold off to the first person to show up with a hard drive or offer to pay bandwidth costs. That would be a set of legal costs, etc. etc.
They did let people know. You should really research this a bit before going of half-cocked, accusing Apple of doing something shitty, and me of defending this shitty behavior, when they're not actually doing the shitty thing you think they're doing.

The first time you initiate Spotlight after installing Yosemite, it gives you a very big message, explaining how Spotlight changed, explaining that it now sends search queries to the internet, and providing a big "Learn More" link that opens the built-in help document on the subject (I think it's https://help.apple.com/machelp/mac/10.10/index.html?localePa..., which I found via the (?) button in the Spotlight Preference Pane, but since I've already bypassed the warning I'm talking about I can't double-check).

Not only is the message very obvious and blatant, but Spotlight itself looks radically different than it used to (among other things, it's now a floating window in the center of the screen, instead of being attached to the magnifying glass button in the upper-right), so the risk of someone thinking it's exactly the same Spotlight as before is pretty low.
If information resides entirely on a phone which I own, which third party am I handing it over to?

Am I handing over information to Moleskine when I write in a notebook I purchased?
Apple knows what they are and what they aren't and they aren't going to leave their circle of competence. It's why they aren't trying to "disrupt" credit cards and banks with Apple Pay and why they're partnering with IBM in order to sell to enterprise (even though they could extract more value by doing it themselves) because it would mean becoming an enterprise company.
The Best Way to Explain Refactoring to Non-technical Boss
A quick fix would be to add wu.apple.com to your hosts file with an address of 127.0.0.1 - not long term and certainly not an overall fix.
Good question, reflective code emission won't work on some platforms. We think this will only be an issue for eval. In the future we'll probably have options for disabling eval while retaining macros for AOT.
Counting the time spent in line and the efforts to re-sell them, is it really worth it?
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Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders
>no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

with encryption such Warrant becomes impossibility while their unquestionable loyalty to Constitution would protect your unencrypted data from Warrant-less access. Such position would play very well in public mind, and i kind of pessimistic here in the sense that i expect that compromise with escrow master-keys would probably be struck here, a compromise that we'll learn about only very long time after it happens.
That's just it: It does. Line for line, character for character (even space for space, which is important in Python). I wouldn't say what I did above without having diffed the file against the code displayed first.

I just don't get the mentality here sometimes; someone creates a helpful script, puts the source code on their site for you to read and study, and the first instinct is to assume they have malicious intent before even taking a few minutes to read over it first. Hell, I'm no programmer but I know enough about the basics to follow exactly what the code does. It took me all of five minutes to decide that it flips two switches and nothing more. That the programming gods here can't or won't do that is telling.

I get being paranoid about random scripts, but this one is on display for all to see before running. There is literally nothing hidden, yet you all act as if the author is trying to secretly take over your machines. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
To each his own I guess but I'll never understand the appeal of this.
> Letting my week fill up with sales, finance, pr and exec team meetings and not leaving myself enough time for deep product focus.

i would posit that no single person in a company with more than one person should be working on all these things in a primary capacity. they're all over the spectrum in terms of complementary skills. even in a two-person team, you need to split those roles up so that one person "owns" each of those things. there are exceptions to this rule but you don't see it often.

moving further down the timeline, one of the things i learned quickly as a founder is that if you hire someone to do a job, you have to let them do it. you can't do it for them, and you sure as hell can't micromanage them. mistakes will be made, there will be misunderstandings, but that's just part of working on a team. you just have to accept it.

if you are operating with a decent staff (~10+ people), and are a co-founder and find yourself doing all these tasks, the problem is you.

it sounds like this guy just would insist on working on other peoples' workloads, while skipping out on a lot of company meetings, and they eventually started resenting him for it. you can't wipe that away in a week.
On Heroku you can use the ExpeditedSSL addon and we will even update the certs for you as the security standards change.

https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl
I'm the founder of https://commando.io. We provide a way to write scrips (in bash, perl, python, ruby, go, or node.js) and run those scripts against servers. This saves you time, but also provides a repeatable way to install packages and configure services on servers. Perhaps we can help you.
Increasingly, single livers are helping two people at the same time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_transplantation#Living_do...
Some thoughts on asking for a raise
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Relatedly, for his masters thesis, artist Adam Harvey developed CV Dazzle to camouflage from face detecting computer vision algorithms.

http://cvdazzle.com/
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If the potential user doesn't understand what the script does, they have no business running it in the first place, so it's a moot point.
Not that I don't think the PDF is awesome, but this link is actually to 'How Old Is The Shepherd', an essay on mathematics education in the U.S., dated 2006.
> I thought that HN had a policy where the titles used are taken verbatim from the page being linked to, unless they're so completely terrible that an alternative title is needed.

It seems that's the intent expressed in the HN Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
...
Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."
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I noticed iOS 8 has been doing this too via api.smoot.apple.com
Nobody here is talking about a "right". Criticizing bad choices and poor business practices has nothing to do with any "right" except free expression.
The smart criminals, the ones we truly want to catch - like sophisticated terrorists, organized crime, hackers, are already encrypting their communications. Default encryption on ios8 now protects the digital trail of an otherwise lazy criminal who is more than likely leaving breadcrumbs elsewhere and is largely involved only in petty affairs. Law enforcement just needs to go back to more traditional investigative tactics instead of invading everyone's privacy for the purpose of making their jobs a little easier.
You immediately ran a spotlight query, despite Spotlight itself looking radically different, being in a different place on the screen (floating in the middle, instead of anchored to the upper-right), and didn't even notice the message it tried to tell you? That's pretty impressive.

> in the bowels of a preference menu

This is not the first time you've resorted to hyperbole in order to try and paint Apple in a bad light. It's not hidden anywhere. The moment you go to the Spotlight preferences, you see it.

What's more, the first time you see a search result that came from the internet, a) it should be obvious that means that your query must have gone to the internet, and b) the very first place you'd go in order to disable this behavior, the Spotlight Preferences Pane, is the same place that has this prominent button that gives you a detailed explanation.

> Not unhappy enough to subject myself to a Linux desktop, but Apple is making it closer and closer with every release.

It sounds to me like you're trying to invent reasons to hate Apple. This is a widely-advertised major feature of the OS (it was even in the WWDC keynote IIRC), with a very prominent warning explaining how Spotlight is different in this version of the OS and making it very easy to find out how to disable this behavior, with a very prominent button in preferences called "Privacy" that, again, explains what's going on and how to disable it. And yet you're trying to insinuate that Apple is trying to stealthily sneak in the behavior that sends your queries to them, without letting the user know, as if that was something they'd even want to do.
Helm by default ands the query terms. Notice how he typed the second word first. Ido searches linearly. Helm is also much more ambitious in general