skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know of any empirical evidence, but the story normally goes: There is a new Java exploit, and recommendations to remove/disable Java hit the wild. Then while people try to find out how to disable "Java" Find "Disable Javascript" and assume it's related. Perhaps this would be solved by renaming it "Disable Ecmascript" however.

I really have no idea how common this is, but have seen it once, from a user that's technically savy enough to be diging in options and worried about security, but not savy enough to know the difference between Java and Javascript.
I worked at a multinational bank just last year and all these new efficiency procedures are lightyears away. I think in large companies, management philosophies really will need to start at the C-level executives in order to ever be implemented.
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't; you're right." -Henry Ford
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Crowd-investing doesn't solve the question of business development, one of the other things VC do in addition to "lending" money.
"Advanced settings" dialogs tend to indicate poorly-thought-out interface design.

Rather than demonstrating careful attention to what features are useful and important enough to ship, they become dumping grounds for "something someone asked for once".
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But about:config voids my warranty.
Actually, you're in a rather unique position. If you don't mind, what do you think drives valuation inflation?

What's the competitive pressure for VCs/funders to invest at higher valuations?
Indeed. Plus general communication problems, language problems, time zone problems, and lack-of-shared-intellectual-culture problems. It's a lot to overcome to save a few pennies.
My 40 minutes includes that calculation already. If you plan accordingly, you don't need to wait for the train... just arrive on time. I bike to the station so that I don't need to pay for parking at the station.

On a side note, BART is probably going on strike this week, which means that an hour BART commute is soon going to turn into a 4 hour commute when the traffic on the highways double.
You might chill the RAM, reboot, read out the encryption keys, mirror the disks, verify that you can decrypt it -- and then leave the server off -- mail the customer a notice saying the server rebooted due to a power glitch.

At this point you have pretty much everything on hand to help you fool the customer into believing everything is ok (eg: replace the whole physical machine with a vm...).

Come to think of it -- if you know the hardware in the machine, you probably could replace the machine with a vm anyway -- just mirror the disks and go.
Meanwhile student loan rates double tomorrow...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/education-debt-mini...

...and the US Government is making more on student loan interest than Exxon profits.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/obama-student-loans...
30 years ago when I started I knew everything , now I know a little :-)

life sucks ...
Wouldn't this usage fall in the "better mouse-trap" model?

Instead of having your car driving around, it would be much better to have businesses' trucks and vans going to customers. This way, companies get a better distribution process, parking lots become a thing of the past, you get to reduce your car usage... and perhaps this even makes it viable to have car-sharing companies working in the suburbs.
I am pretty sure putting "disable js" option into advanced tab would be enough.

There are plenty options that can bug your browser or leave you unable to surf, why remove this particular one?
'Pocket Spacecraft' Kickstarter gives backers control over a tiny space machine
Yes. I think there is no question that people like PG have a vested interest in taking patterns that favour them and socialising them into the wider industry as a descriptive account of an ongoing trend, rather than a prescriptive self-fulfilling prophecy. Any good marketer-pundit will do that. :-)
fair enough. should have stated "there just aren't enough cars on the market that match what consumers want". Some people want a car like the Model S, true enough. That's because Elon Musk has the vision to produce what (some) consumers want - an electric car. There's a market for the Model S. I'm sure there are lot of other types of cars that would have waiting lists, were they available. Give the owner back more control over options, add-ons, individuality, there's surely another tranche of people for that. others likely too.
The key is enjoying it. From there, you'll naturally dedicate the time necessary to kick ass. Because you'll enjoy having that power to create.
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How do you know that you're not logging in to a vm, with all the data mirrored from your physical server?
What about chatting with fellow passengers? What happened to simple human interaction?
First come, first serve? I don't really know, but I reacted similarly to you.
I know it has a great deal to do with this city, but since I moved to San Francisco, I've found myself using my car so rarely that every time I pull back into my garage, I need to disconnect one of my battery terminals, or I'll have a dead battery the next time I need to drive somewhere.
Los investigadores del MIT pueden ver a través de paredes con wifi,el 'Wi-Vi'
Each different sharing outlet provides a unique level of anxiety, ease of sharing, ego, and focus. The reason I like the concept of Medium is that it encourages non-attention-seeking people to write publicly about nearly any topic. The categories are a good structure, and the focus is on the content rather than the person posting it. It's not your blog nor your servers to maintain. It's a public feed and you're just a small fish. The barrier to entry is low, and the stats are nice to see.
Then ask for a refund.
Yes. Knowledge > Degree.
It's unfortunate that the rule of law bifurcating in this country - swat teams and militaristic police for us common folk and the ability to lie to congress, etc not being punished for the rulers. Hopefully a committee will be started to investigate these crimes and people will involved will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
So well thought out interface design is ignoring subsets of users and unifying everyone to one common set of behavior.

Imagine if Excel employed this philosophy. It wouldn't be useful to anyone.
You don't have to put all that pretentious stuff in your writing. Other than that; good article.
(Replying to self)

Found this survey article: http://www.nber.org/papers/w13982

Their findings are that labor's share of overall income hasn't declined, but that wages/salaries have gotten much more unequal within the sector of employment-based income. Some of the factors they point to are: a greater polarization along skill lines; a decline in high-wage, skilled blue-collar labor; and a rise in the pay and number of high-end salaried jobs such as investment banking and C-level officers.

It's a bit long, but worth at least a skim.
Sometimes it helps to use the Search tools | Verbatim option to keep Google from drawing unwarranted conclusions about a page's relevance.

They used to allow you to mark required terms with a +-sign, but unfortunately they took that feature out a while back.
Have you tried taking one out to the car and shining it up on the windshield during the day? Without any special windshield coatings you'll get a double-image, but at least you can get an idea of how visible and focused it would be under normal driving conditions.
Frankly, I don't notify users in any way of a dependency on cookies or JavaScript. If you go disabling features fundamental to the functionality of the web, I expect that you know what you're doing and don't, in fact, expect most of the web to work. The web apps I build simply aren't going to function if you disable JavaScript or cookies.
Chrome bug: lookupSetter/lookupGetter don't return native setters and getters
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What if I would tell you money is not the purpose of life?
Who is waiting for LTC to get traded at Mt. Gox?
So on the one hand we schools that cost too much and complain about that, and on the other we complain when the money from the government that enables those high costs gets more expensive - this is crazy. The only way to lower the cost of universities is to dry up the credit available to students.
"Should vision-impaired users who use TTS systems be shut off because your framework of choice thought that Javascript should be used to replace functionality that is built into the browser?"

Unfortunately, that's about the scope of options most organizations entertain. If there's any degradation, it tends to lack grace and is on a par with a screenreader.

While I "like" javascript (OK, I like dynamic sites), if my machine seems slow, a cursory look at my running process will show a chrome or safari process that is inevitably getting dry humped by a page using js for a carousel or something equally banal.
You know in Firefox you can hold shift and right click and it will bypass any event handlers on the website. It will just give you your FF context menu.
You're basically me when I started programming seriously at ~25. Get at fast as you can to a point where you can mingle with other programmers to talk and have your skills assessed by others and also get as fast as possible to do client work, even if you do bad work and screw some clients at first (you can start feelancing with sysadmining, then web-programming then whatever you're good at and you like...).

Now to be fair, I learned some C++ in high school (nothing beyond algorithms and solving math problems by coding though), and I think I learned HTML in 7th grade and also touched Javascript in high school, so I had a "base start", but then went on to a whole different field and turned back to coding about 8 years later.

EDIT+: And there's no reason you won't create the "next Facebook or Twitter", at pre-scaling stage they were both very simple technically speaking, what one could learn in a couple years starting from absolute zero, no need for Stanford level CS knowledge here... if you have a great idea (99.9...% of people don't, even if they think they do!) you can turn it into a prototype and then turning the prototype into a real business can be more about business skills not coding skills, because an interesting idea that brings profit will always be scalable because you will be able to hire smart people to scale it for you. And at the end of the "day" it will be your choice whether you'll decide to play on the business side or coding side more.
I have yet to see it work successfully in a startup context - I am sure it can be done and there is certainly empirical evidence out there - but I have yet to see it work.

The feedback loop is frequently difficult to get right. Communication barriers don't help (fwiw I grew up in India so have some sort of limited advantage but not by much). The time zone difference does actually slow things down a tad bit more.

You talk about 2 rather different milestones in your comment - building a lo-fi MVP is certainly possible with an offshore team. But lo-fi MVP != product/market fit on any reasonable definition of p/m fit (Sean Ellis' formulation of 40% of users/customers) being disappointed with your disappearance, say). Getting to p/m fit may require lots of rapid experimentation, iteration, brainstorming and so forth...and that's when you can run into trouble with offshore contractors.
Or just dump the plaintext data.

If I tell you a secret, and you tell someone else ... there's not a lot I can do a about that. If you don't want a third party to be able to hand over your plaintext (or store it) -- don't give them your plaintext (or a means to access your plaintext).

Similarly, if I send you a PGP encrypted email, I can't know if you decrypt that and hand it over to someone else (willingly or unwittingly).
Ask HN: How well protected are SSL certificates?
I'm no expert in this, and I'd like your input: How well is the SSL certificate infrastructure protected? Could the NSA obtain the SSL certificate of let's say, mail.google.com? Or, even worst, could they get their hands on the certificates of a CA? If so, they could intercept almost any communication over HTTPS by using a man-in-the-middle attack, right?
I think public transportation culture can't die soon enough. It's a ham-fisted solution to poorly designed cities. Even in "good" cities like New York and Vienna I think it's awful. I despise public transportation in almost every conceivable way.

The good news is that the future is a fleet of self driving cars. Everybody wins in that world. Safe, efficient, clean, and fast. It's gonna be great.
It's fascinating how much of this is a reinvention of classic meeting technique.

"Define the objective of the meeting" --> Have an agenda.

"Identify who is driving" --> Have a Chairman (Chairwoman, Chairperson, Facilitator, whatever).

"Assign someone to take notes" --> Have a Secretary.

"Summarize key action items, deliverables and points of accountability" --> Publish minutes of the meeting.

I used to be involved in student politics. Mastery of meeting procedure is a tactical weapon in that sphere, but even when they are being abused, Rules of Order are effective at keeping ... order.

Having an agenda and attentive chairmanship go together. The role of the Chair is to ensure that the meeting proceeds according to the rules and doesn't stray from the agenda. This often means not contributing.

A key reason to stick to the agenda no matter what is given in Tom DeMarco's amusing novel The Deadline. If you don't stick to the agenda but still make binding decisions, then everyone has to attend every meeting to guard against the possibility that a decision affecting them will be made in their absence.

If there is an ironclad guarantee that agenda will be followed come hell or high water, then only folk who are required at a meeting will show up. That saves a lot of time and breeds a lot of confidence.

To learn more, you can join Toastmasters or The Penguin Club. You might also join a political party, a professional society, a union, community groups like Rotary, Apex, Lions and so on. There are many good books on meeting procedure, they're worth reading to get the basics down.

This guide is brief, but gives you a taste of classical meeting technique works, in the context of incorporated associations:

http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/associationsguide/Content/06_M...
If you interpret the right to privacy to entail never having foreign intelligence agencies, you take a position that almost no government in the world actually follows, because almost every national government has foreign intelligence agencies. Holding up Germany as a counterexample on this issue is, in your words, factually wrong.
Ah, ok. I see what we're doing here. We're retroactively re-interpreting your argument to try to close some of the holes.

An entire market of buyers is being ignored

If the entire market of buyers you speak of consists of 3 people, it should be ignored. I am a fan of manual transmissions, and nearly all of the vehicles I have ever owned are/have been manual. But I have no delusions- I realize & accept that the gross majority of Lexus customers, for example, have absolutely no desire for a manual transmission.

As best I can tell, automakers are not campaigning against the manual transmission and trying to "shut it down", or any such bullshit. They are simply reacting to market demands. This is most apparent looking at trucks. Base model trucks with manual transmissions can be found with ease. Top-trim trucks of the same model are very difficult to find in manual. As the two examples are identical models (but different trim), they are directly comparable and we know both varieties of transmission are available. The market speaks, however; the buyers interested in the top-trim trucks want automatics. The buyers interested in the base model trucks want manual. This is clearly evident in the scarcity (but not absence) of manual transmissions in top-trim trucks.
Ask HN: what is the size of your Google Reader export?
My mother-in-law emailed my wife a one line message today asking why she's seeing ads on Facebook that she hadn't seen before.

You are on the mark.
Mine is 163.4 mb.
How Matisse and Picasso iterated towards perfection (2012)
Not me. Most of my life I lived in cities with very good public transport systems, but I know that once I am done getting educated, I will live in a city that one can't live in without a car.

Public transit and bikes are cheaper and cleaner, I agree. But goddammit, they are so inconvenient. Public transit is annoying because it's never close to where you live or work - your destination gets averaged with everybody else's destination in the area and therefore involves walking to subway, waiting for subway, going places, getting out, walking to work... ugh. Biking is annoying due to whether (both winter and summer is super annoying) and security (locking bike, unlocking bike, findign place to lock it...). you can just leave a car somewhere and press a button and be pretty sure it won't be stolen.

I much prefer a world with big garages, big roads, lots of free parking spaces, spread-out low-rise cities, driving to huge stores for shopping (walmart, costcos, home depot) instead of malls and little shops.
Sure, there's a browser for power users. It's called being enough of a power user to install extensions that do what you want.
What makes you say "Advanced settings" dialogs mean poorly thought out UI? I think it's a very good way to tell novice users, "don't open this panel if you don't know what you are doing". And if they still do it and something wrong happens, they'd immediately know the reason.
Just last week we offered a job to a guy that has spent time as a CFO (among other things), and lately decided to switch to ruby programming.

If you're willing to come in as a "junior" developer then you will quickly progress based on the other experiences and value you can offer.
I quite like Geoffrey Miller's theory that the human brain is primarily the result of sexual selection rather than natural selection - the hominid equivalent of the peacock's tail.
Clapper admitted on national TV that he responded in the “least most untruthful manner”. I've been trying to understand exactly what that means. Doublespeak indeed.
This article is frankly kind of silly. Just because the boomers were alive and working during all these trends doesn't mean that they were responsible for them.
Please tell me what the "pretentious" stuff that I put in my writing are, because I am a bit confused at the moment.
Health care was clearly more important. So at least Americans got that.
not only in USA
Actually it has seemed like this is the primary point most of these stories have been making for a while.

"The percentage of young drivers is inversely related to the availability of the Internet, Mr. Sivak’s research has found. Why spend an hour driving to work when you could take the bus or train and be online?"
(from the article)

"...[A]lmost everything about digital media and technology makes cars less desirable or useful and public transportation a lot more relevant."
[from May 2010, http://adage.com/article/digital/digital-revolution-driving-...]
A self-printing program that opens its source code file is an example where there's no disregard for anyone's well-being, and where a programming trick is used; the trick, however, misses the point of writing a self-printing program - that point being the use of a different kind of trick.

My point was not to say that drug use is immoral because you cheat, just that our goals generally aren't to observe a signal but rather to achieve something of which the signal is a symptom. Perhaps printing out the wrong account balance on your home printer and happily staring at that, without hacking into the bank, would have been a better example.
Youtube needs either Flash or HTML5, do you think it's worthless?
I miss Google from ~5 years ago
There is never too late to get into programming. It's a wonderful field that welcomes anyone and everyone with open arms. :) Don't worry about degrees or anything. Just get your hands dirty and you surely don't need to quit your day job either. You still need to eat and pay bills.

Don't get into thousand things. Start with basics - HTML, JavaScript and one of the scripting languages - PHP, Pearl, Ruby - anything. Pick one and stick to it. All are equally good. Then start making small projects. Make a tic tac toe game in JavaScript. See what difficulties you face, ask for help and solve the problem.

Register on sites like eLance and oDesk. See what kind of projects people post. You don't have to bid - you will probably won't win a bid against a full time pro developer. But see what people are looking for, try to build it as your side project. Try to find an idea where people will pay.

Make a simple todo list app - almost every programmer makes one in his/her lifetime. Release it as a free web app. See the traction. Add features and you will learn more. Some day you will come across an idea that you think you can build and people will pay for.

Polish your programming. Don't worry about using the latest framework or knowing everything about a language. Just get the shit done.

Get started from today.
Or offer good education for less, but I know that's not the American way...
I'm not sure either. But I know that you can do crazy things with unicode, and I'd bet that if you treated treated unicode as a sort of low-level compile-to target you could then design a high-level language from which to write math text. I'm not sure of the practical benefit and maybe this would be even more inaccessible to people... but still, I think JS is great, but wouldn't pure HTML and encodings be even cooler?

Food for thought: http://shapecatcher.com/ 🍏
Hybrid Theory: Reconnaissance nanobots are dispatched to the planet which is to be disassembled, soaking up every piece of data imaginable. The planet is then converted into computronium, which as a background thread, runs one or more simulations of that planet's hypothetical future, in order to extract any possible scientific value from the developments of the native species, or just as a simple curiosity.

If this is true, we were likely destroyed a long time ago, and we now live in one of those simulations. Any cosmic activity outside of our solar system is a mere fuzzy approximation, and even if we develop interstellar travel technology, we'll hit some sort of "Truman Show" wall if we try to leave our imaginary sandbox.

Makes you curious to keep watching the Voyager probes, does it not? :)
You seriously think that UI is what is holding Siri back?
Coursera is starting an Algorithm course July 1st if anyone wants to join: https://www.coursera.org/course/algo
Yes, hello, I am interested in this topic and I've been saying something like this for a little while now. Negative real interest rates have had to have an impact in how we've been allocating money.

Do we have a way for measuring how much money has been funneled into the funds? What about the whole, firms now stockpiling cash?
Skobbler's GPS navigation at Android
What Android GPS navigation app do you prefer?