skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good thought, but I disabled that too.
Edit: Twitter discussion regarding one of these issues. Note that Spotlight is doing this despite all relevant settings disabled (spotlight suggestions, bing, privacy, and logging).

https://twitter.com/marczak/status/481818945318428673
How about yi (https://github.com/yi-editor/yi)?

I hope some day an editor, written in Haskell, allowing to emulate Vi and and Emacs behaviour will become more appropriate for Haskell programming than any other editor and offer you to either the Vi or Emacs style.
For free will to exist, there must be something capable of non-deterministic behavior. In absence of that it seems prudent to view "free will" as a useful but ultimately inaccurate model.
Major headache for Twicsy! We now have to delete about a billion pictures from our index. Which isn't trivial... such a shame. We reached out to him several times over the past few weeks to see if we could arrange something, but he never responded.
Just like Magic cards, I guess.
Can you show us the math you used to argue your point? Maybe using 3–5 years instead of 10.
Mysterious US spaceplane returns to Earth
Executing random scripts from the web is far, far worse than anything Spotlight is doing.

Oi vey.
Another interesting early tablet story: Go Corp.

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/books/thepowerofpenpoint/cha...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GO_Corp.

http://www.amazon.com/Startup-A-Silicon-Valley-Adventure/dp/...
Not yet - Recently, I have mostly used my laptop while plugged in except for relatively short unplugged intervals.
Have you tried Helm in Emacs? For me it binds to M-x, and I can find a "lost" command by typing just bits.

For example "M-x tree undo" show me "undo-tree-visualize (C-x u)".

Now I use Helm all over the place: (recent) file opening (within the current project), buffer switching, grepping, etc. It really changed how I interface Emacs.
I have to imagine that $150 blows the SS10 away massively (yesterday's Nexus Player is $99 with Bay Trail silicon with a solid GPU...) -- the speed of commoditization of hardware this cycle has been pretty amazing.

The SGI guys had a similar experience when Nintendo bulk produced the N64 and sold it for $200. It was most of a $5000 workstation with better graphics hardware!
Here it’s even worse because you don’t see the content of the script you’re executing.
Don Ross comments on U2's free album
It's for unknown filetypes that are matched by your search query which don't fall under any of the other categories.
How Colors Matter More Than Size and Visuals
Funny how everyone was doing the General Magic-style UI (where you had to navigate down the street to the post office to send email) back then.
Did this on my 2008 MacBook, still running Snow Leopard. The speed was immediately noticeable when browsing the web.

I'd recommend it if anyone else has noticed a slow down at all.
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I'm a sublime text 3 user too and I've been trying out slap: https://github.com/slap-editor/slap
I would bet that there is a good answer for that besides the simple one that they are "just shitty people" that many are jumping to though.

For example, maybe they don't think much about the future because they feel they have no good future regardless. So they take the hit to ease a little bit of the struggle. My point is that I suspect a lot of the "haters," so to speak, in this thread have never experienced hopelessness in their lives before.
I'm fine with anything that isn't deceptive.
Wait, isn't "Memory Clean" just one of those apps that allocates a huge chunk of memory, forcing the OS to page everything else to disk? Those things are snake oil, they don't improve anything and in fact are often worse than doing nothing at all...
I vote for TextMate. It just upgraded from alpha to beta and it added Yosemite-style tabs which look much nicer than the old ones.
I wonder if we just need words/abstractions that narrowly identify some of these things.

So if we could very quickly call something an attack on in-out group psychology (you know, like aggressive branding, or professional sports, or so called amateur sports, or much of political discourse or ...), maybe it makes it easier to sway people to resist it.

I guess if you figure out the right package, you do better than when you wave your hands around and mumble incoherently.

For financing, a first step is to point out that the real cost is often hidden in the length of the contract.
Spreadsheet Mistake Costs Tibco Shareholders $100M
It's missing a default value for "DEVELOPER" (whatever that is)
Stackless Scala with Free Monads [pdf]
Why Anything but Games Matters
Recall what Paul Graham wrote:

"Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast... Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of accumulating money slowly by being paid a regular wage for fifty years, I want to get it over with as soon as possible. So governments that forbid you to accumulate wealth are in effect decreeing that you work slowly. They're willing to let you earn $3 million over fifty years, but they're not willing to let you work so hard that you can do it in two. They are like the corporate boss that you can't go to and say, I want to work ten times as hard, so please pay me ten times a much. Except this is not a boss you can escape by starting your own company."

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Elsewhere, he wrote that while he was working on Viaweb he had no time for romance.

This is a strange thing to say:

"You will burn out and you will destroy relationships on the way down that you cannot repair."

The opposite is more true: you will make amazing relationships and build a great network. I had my own startup from 2002 to 2008, and it was a good experience for me, even though the company eventually failed. But I met many amazing people who I am still friends with, and the bulk of my business connections come from that era.
We do more good for more people when our beliefs reflect reality, rather than what we wish were true. If it turns out that the cognitive science research showing that some people are smarter than others is correct we might decide that merely educating poor people will not convince them to act like less-poor people.
Can you tell me more about why cider > fireplace? I'm a clojure developer working in vim, I've considered moving over to emacs a few times, and I'd love to hear what you see as the advantages.
Besides ads. And Google is first and foremost an advertising company. Don't hold your breath for that to become the default in Chrome.
From what I've read at just the level of
Wikipedia, I'd guess yes. But nuclear
physics just is not my field.

I wanted my Ph.D. in mathematical physics,
but all the physics courses I could find
did the math in very sloppy ways, and my
hope for any research progress in physics
wanted to do the math with full care. I
did get much of that math, but by then
I was occupied with my money making work
and didn't get back to physics. I'd like
to, maybe, someday! Then maybe I'll be
able to give you a solid answer.

For now, some of the discussions claim that
a lot of neutrons will make a metal brittle
but don't go the next step and explain just
why. Before I'd say anything about what
neutrons do, if only as a check on the level
of understanding, I'd want to know why.
What's the advantage of Helm to Ido?
Just to note that Internet Explorer does this slightly differently, using VBScript to call the local crypto API as it doesn't support <keygen>. It's functionally equivalent though.
Feels like Apple is the new Sony. No more MBPs for me.
I used and loved it for years, but when MobileMe died and Yojimbo languished I moved on to Evernote, for better or worse.
”stop using public WiFi”

What kinds of threat is it that you’re concerned about?
What is vumi? Google top 2 results:

vumi.org - mobile phone-based voter registration system.

github.com/praekelt/vumi - SMS messaging engine, active, but 164 stars only, no where near the other "adapt" platform of Hadoop 2.0's popularity.
Based on Apple's past history, they do not want to sell your personal data. That's Google's modus operandi, and common for other companies too, but Apple has demonstrated time and time again that they are focused on the user.

To that end, there's 2 things going on here:

1. Apple added functionality called Spotlight Suggestions, which pulls in data from the internet, including things like iTunes and App Store results, wikipedia results, movie showtimes, etc. It's basically a form of the specialized search results you get in search engines (such as Google, Bing, and, yes, even DuckDuckGo) where it tries to extract semantic meaning from your query and give you the result inline. This is generally considered very useful for search engines, and Apple decided they wanted Spotlight to have this behavior.

I think this makes sense. Spotlight is basically Sherlock 2.0, so this finally restores behavior that Sherlock (and Watson before it) had (although Sherlock/Watson required you to explicitly search the various providers, whereas Spotlight decides when to do the searches based on its own interpretation of the query).

The privacy implication here is that searches used with Spotlight Suggestions are sent to Apple, so they can improve Spotlight Suggestions. This is something that web search engines already have, and is important for making the functionality behave better. This data is not shared with anyone else, sold, or monetized. And yes, I believe Apple when they say that.

Also to note, this is basically exactly what already happens with Siri. Your Siri queries are sent to Apple (so they can actually be answered), and that information is used to make Siri better.

2. The second part of this is Bing Web Searches. It appears most queries don't even go to Bing. I tried a random sampling of queries and never saw any search results. The Privacy button states that "Searches for common words and phrases will be forwarded from Apple to Microsoft's Bing search engine", which makes it sound like Bing only even sees the search if Spotlight determines that it can't handle this query with local data or Spotlight Suggestions.

Which is to say, this does not mean that Microsoft sees every search you do. It seems they only see some searches, which are for "common words and phrases". Also, according to this, "These searches are not stored by Microsoft", which suggests that Apple's contract with Microsoft puts restrictions on them regarding how they can use the search.

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Ultimately, Apple only cares about what makes the user experience better. They're in the hardware business. That's where their money comes from. And they're successful precisely because whenever they're given the choice between something that might make more money, vs something that makes the user experience better, they choose the latter every single time. And monetizing searches does not make the user experience better.
We have customers that try to run exits from time to time. We can usually tell pretty quickly, because the abuse complaints start coming in within a few days.

It seems that if you don't run the limited exit policy, you'll be hit with DMCAs pretty much instantly.

If you do run the limited exit policy, you'll get hit with abuse notifications (you hacked my site, you're posting spam, etc) pretty quickly.
Is it? I think instead of funding a superPAC I'll start a news organization to cover the election as I see fit.
"bad educational system"

Indeed, and bad in the sense that it generally doesn't teach this sort of thing. Or prepare individuals sufficiently deal with a lot of life situations.

But at least they know trigonometry! (If they even graduated higschool)
The last part makes sense, it's similar to a game where they introduce more and more unfamiliar symbols to you as you progress to higher levels, the more unknowns you have to deal with the more you slow down. Eventually, if/when you learn them well you get most of the speed back. I guess most people learning 2nd languages don't learn them well enough to know the 2nd language really well; technically, if you know both languages equally well, the speed penalty/overhead will be minimal, similar to expanding one's vocabulary in the same language (as long as you don't exceed some threshold of mental capacity).
"Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four."

Or, 90% of the time, you run out of money at the end of year four and get to keep doing this nonsense in four-year chunks until you die at your desk.
Lurker app for Reddit
Breaking news: searching on Google sends your query to a third-party server! FILM AT 11!
Yeah, me too. I remember the feelings I had right after the bombing and seeing some interviews with her. I was really struck by the feeling that "she'll never dance again" and how sad that made me.

Watching this felt like a little piece of joy just lit the world up again.
And that's pretty much why Google built Google Web Designer[0] - because advertisers are going to want their media to run on all browsers, even ones without Flash.

[0] http://www.google.co.uk/webdesigner/
It might be difficult comparing even python and c but what about lisp and c or prolog?
So cheaper just to post them 120tb worth of hard disks?
I had no idea how far we have already developed artificial limbs; pretty amazing and really worth watching the TED talk.
The only scenario where the number of pages has any meaning is when the book is meant to be read cover to cover. Otherwise, as is typically the case with dev books, it's really meant as a reference. It seems to me that the page count is irrelevant is in this case. We should be talking about something like the "useful topics count".
This seems to explain much of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_effect

Whatever production process partially relies on arranging the crystal structure of the metal to arrive at desirable properties, the neutrons disrupt it.
Brianna Wu and the human cost of 'Gamergate' [pdf]
I think you raise a good point, and IIRC during WWI and WWII there was also the issues of some troops finding themselves unable to fire even at enemy soldiers. I agree with you that this is a healthy reaction that should be furthered; but I just mention it because there is no need to fear the Godwin hammer (which is kind of a foam toy anyway).

But on the other hand, for therapy, and to help overcome traumata and phobias, I find this interesting. It's another one of those tools that can be used for good and bad, unsurprisingly.

I think that yes, killing should hurt, and it should mess people up. But this also goes for the fact that soldiers get messed up for the actions they were enticed or even forced to do by civilians who were mislead by politicians. This should also hurt, and it generally doesn't seem to. I know I did my fair share of blaming soldiers for showing up for wars, but it's just not that simple..
> Sure, people can spend money on tools for speech, but that's not what causes problems.

That is what PACs do. The problem is that people are spending too much money on advertising for candidates. Any solution in which people can spend unlimited money on tools for speech has not drawn a line between money and speech.
wu.apple.com is an address associated with location service requests. If you've disabled location for spotlight, it's possible that it was something else requesting the location.

No idea about that smoot thing, though.
Picosong – upload an audio file, get a short url to play it
Shen Under BSD – Pledge Drive
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.

I know some people think that using hyperbole for effect is a thing. They tend to be very young, smart people who are starting to realize what they're capable of but are still trapped on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger curve. The most common defense people give is that they assume the reader or listener knows that the hyperbole shouldn't be taken literally, and that they're really trying to convey how strongly they feel about their much more reasonable actual opinion on the matter.

However, to me (and, I would hope, to most people), hyperbole in technical discussions means that the person is either immature in a way that makes them less credible, or that they are lying to me and assume I'm dumb enough to believe them. Or it's clickbait, or all of the above.

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.
has the NSA commented yet?
Cartoon of the Week – is Salesforce ready to surf the Pipeline?
Updatable WebView in Android 5.0
Yeah that's true. It would only work if you already left the previous job. Then I will switch that to a full day. You do a concrete and well-defined task that the team will review.

Not ideal but probably much more useful than the current interview formats commonly used.
Have no idea. What I have done so far is search for small project on ex. twitter. and then go through them to see what makes sense or not.
And a nice attack vector
Yes, maybe he doesn't care about preserving user data. That's kind of the point...

I have serious doubts that here have been any actual Twitpic employees for a while. If there were, that seems unwise of both them and Everett. Twitter announced the doom of third-party photo sites in late 2010. Twitpic basically went silent a couple years ago. Meanwhile, Everett says he's been working on Pingly for over a year[0]. Note the timing of that article -- not even a month before the announcement of Twitpic shutting down.

No matter how much he wants to try to make this about a trademark dispute, it's clearly not some sudden collapse. By all appearances, he's moved on to other things and has finally realized it's time to shut down an old project that's been on a long and probably inevitable downward spiral. This is understandable, failing to preserve data is not.

[0] http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140810/PC0313/140819...
Surely it would be more appropriate to say a mistake almost cost Vista Equity Partners $100m. Tibco shareholders had no entitlement to the inaccurately-calculated higher sum.
but mostly for diagrams, not to write code I suppose? Because in the interview they can ask you to do a 20 lines of code in a whiteboard (happened to me).
So, reading up a little on the premise, has anybody ever tried running a game of Diplomacy where each territory has spectator "citizens" that the players have to answer to, ie. holding a press conference between each turn to give a "State of the Union" address, laying out what the current party line is on alliances and axes (and having to spin stabs to not come off as evil)?
mdutil -a -i off

Or, 'man mdutil' if you would rather not type in commands suggested by random people on the Internet. :)
I carelessly worded my question... I meant the strength of the trend itself - are companies still asking for it?
I do recall what Paul Graham wrote. I recall thinking "what a weenis!"
I'm not sure that's it. I need to preface this by saying that I'm working from really dim memories here, but from what I recall they were using a definition of 'bilingual' that people who learn a second language after a certain age don't fit, and the tested bilinguals should feel at home in both languages.

Rather, it seems that having more than one language active in the brain concurrently (which requires them to be similarly well developed and in regular use) requires the brain to do more active selection work. I'm not sure this actually makes sense or is just my reading of it, but basically it can't jump to one thing immediately, but has to eliminate the alternatives first. This gives the bilingual brain an edge in tasks that benefit from being well-trained to do that step (and seems to help stave off dementia, where inhibitory control goes out the window, which is a necessity for this selection process to happen), but slows it down in other tasks that would benefit from not having to do the extra work.

In other words, if you're asked to sort or bin a list of English words, it seems to help if your brain doesn't have to wade through a soup made of multiple languages. But if you're asked to do something that exercises similar muscles as wading through this kind of soup (maybe "process strained analogies"? - I kid), it gives you a different sort of edge.
I used to be the CTO of Twitpic (I left about 2 years ago).

It sucks to see your work crash into the ground like this.

Just so it's clear, there's just Noah (and his parents) that are left running the company.
Previous discussion (earlier today) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471877
Cs4fn Magazine: Computer Science for Fun
Exactly. The cited essay is advice from a casino operator to spend all your time playing the slots, so you can cash out and enjoy your life on easy street. It's great advice if you can follow it.
Ha, apparently the HN de-duplicator failed to fire because one URL is http and one is https. :)
Howdy. Author here. By way of introduction, I'm also the author of PLCrashReporter (https://www.plcrashreporter.org/), ported Java 6 to Mac OS X (a.k.a Soylatte), and -- this might lower some folk's estimation of me here -- started the MacPorts project almost 15 years ago at Apple, along with co-workers Jordan Hubbard and Kevin Van Vechten.

That slightly snarky disclaimer you quoted actually has a serious backstory; the language came from https://fixubuntu.com (whose AGPL code was used here), and it was added after Ubuntu sent a legal demand that "Ubuntu" be removed from the fixubuntu domain name and website:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canoni...

I actually toned down the snark -- just slightly -- from the original disclaimer.

It's remarkably easy to miss Spotlight's privacy disclosure in Yosemite -- the instant you start typing in the Spotlight search box, the disclosure disappears, and seemingly stays gone. There's no single "local search only" toggle, and you have to cross-reference the documentation provided in System Preferences against the list of "Search Results" to figure out which of the options actually sends your queries to Apple.

I wanted something simple, that I knew worked, and I could just tell family to run themselves, so I put this together. It's a convenient way to apply the settings, a jumping-off point for a more involved effort to resolve some of the other remaining privacy issues on Yosemite, and a handy way to get the privacy message across.

If you're interested in chipping in on the OS X privacy front, there's a lot more to look at than just Spotlight; my next goal is to get https://github.com/fix-macosx/sslsplit transparently capturing traffic in a Yosemite VM so that we can start nailing down exactly what is being sent from the myriad of daemons (and spotlight!) that are sending data outwards in a default configuration.

I'm very sympathetic to the "random internet code" issue, so I struck a balance by:

1) Displaying the source inline in the page (of course, there's no guarantee that it matches the downloaded code, but the goal here is to highlight the important of knowing what you're running).

2) Making the actual script URL a clickable link, so that folks that don't blindly execute curl scripts (myself included) can easily download the script and examine it.

3) Used a variation of the usual pipe approach (curl -O … && ./…) so that anyone downloading it would actually have a copy of what they just ran.

4) Serve the whole lot over TLS.

Cheers,
Landon
Recommended tools? I've gotten by for a while on Little Snitch. Good enough for a single user on a home network?